Hey, back again. I've been itching to work on this story. I was actually thinking of drawing it in manga style as well. I'll let you know if I decide to or not. Thanks for the ideas and hints on characters. If I use an idea or use the help from one or more of you, I will give credit where it is due. Thanks for the reviews as well.

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Rajan's tail twitched violently as his pupils widened while watching his prey. Tanner calmly stood beside him, imagining the destruction that was bound to unfold. The heart lay at the center of Sly's gang and gently beat, mixing with the sound of the waterfall crashing into the river. The Contessa walked towards her guards and stood beside them, smiling broadly at their catch.

"Rajan." She beckoned out to him. He did not flinch.

The Contessa sighed, "Rajan I need to speak with you concerning Katie." At the mention of his daughter's name, he took his eyes off of his targets and looked at Katie, bound with webs. A worried emotion crossed his eyes. Tanner looked disgusted.

Katie squirmed against the webs, trying to get fresh air. The feathers and talons of the vultures were suffocating her. "Father!" She cried out.

Rajan started to growl and kept his attention on the Contessa.

"I want to take your daughter to my new faucility. There we will teach her what it is like to be a normal citizen and not a petty theif. Once we are done with the process, you can have her back to train her in the ways of being the princess she truly is." The Contessa reasoned with Rajan over the care of his daughter. "We just need your okay in order to do so." Katie looked at her father with pleading eyes. He kept flashbacking to the days of her youth, when she only used that face in order to get another scoop of icecream.

Rajan stared blankly at Katie. His shoulder twitched and Katie shut her eyes, knowing what was going to come out of his mouth.

"Take her." He declared while he pounced onto Murray. The pink hippo grunted and landed on his back. Rajan growled and tried to claw at Murray, but he punched Rajan in the face.

"You heard the tiger." The Contessa motioned to her guards and they dragged Katie off towards a Gyrocopter, fully armed. Katie let them take her away, not wanting to be near her father's presence.

Sly kept darting his eyes from Katie to the attacking Rajan. He closed his eyes tightly and ran towards Rajan, tackling him off of Murray and onto a lower level of bricked floor. He swung his cane around, tempting Rajan to come near. A painful cry forced its way through Sly's mouth and his paw grabbed onto his shoulder. Carmelita crouched on the platform above them, holding her pistol, smoking from the shot that hit Sly's shoulder. Murray bounced onto the ground, disorienting Carmelita and Rajan. The both staggered and Murray punched Rajan in the stomache.

"Where did she take Katie?" Murray bellowed out at Rajan. The tiger growled and pounced passed Murray and towards Sly. He got into a defensive position, but Rajan flew over his head and ran off.

"What the-?" Sly uttered out, before Carmelita dropped to the ground, a web wrapped around her. Sly quickly looked around, but hit the ground hard when a whip wrapped itself around his ankle. Neyla stood on the platform wherew Carmelita had been. An army of spiders and vultures stood behind her. The Contessa watched the scene from Neyla's side. Her paw fanned out three pictures of Carmelita and Sly dancing at the ball.

"I told you Carmelita is a traitor." Neyla said through a smirk. Spiders shot out hundreds of strands of webs at Murray. He struggled but finally got subdued and lay still.

Carmelita growled, "I didn't know it was Cooper."

Neyla laughed, "As if. How many raccoons do we know, Carmelita?"

"Be careful what you wish for. We're taking you to Katie so you can get the same dose of treatment she'll be getting." The Contessa said haughtly.

Tanner stepped from the side, "Do I get my payment?"

"Yes, courting Katie was a neccesary part in our plan." Neyla tossed a brown bag tied together with rope at Tanner. He caught it with one paw. "You will get the rest of your payment when we're done altering her."

Sly struggled at those words. More webs shot out to keep him completely paralyzed.

"Take them in the second Gyrocopter." The Contessa ordered as the vultures jumped from the platform and grabbed Sly, Murray, and Carmelita.

Bentley peered over the platform suspended high above the ground. It swayed with the winds that penetrated the jungle.

"What am I going to do?" During the fight Bentley had climbed to higher ground to test out his new and improved sleep darts. After the blueprint-stealing catastrophe, he wanted something stronger to knock out Rajan. But now everyone was captured and heading to the Contessa's correctional faucility. Bentley stared at the safehouse and made a break for it when the coast was clear. He jumped onto each platform, a bouncy mushroom, and ran through the door of the safehouse. He grabbed his laptop and furiously pounded the keys.

Once he go the coordinations on the Contessa's whereabouts, he packed up all the items they dragged through the jungle. Bentley ran out of the safehouse and found the path that the gang and Katie had traveled to get the the temple. He pulled out a blade and made his way through the thick jungle, looking for Murray's car.