AN: Hey guys! New chapter new day! Whoo! I'm writing this level because I felt gypped by the fourth game in that respect. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the fourth game, but I felt that the circus could have been used more. So I'm writing my own! Enjoy!

Josephina hated the circus. Every fiber of her being hated it. If it wasn't the amount of exposure caused by being in the ring, it was the clowns or the music or the gaudy costumes or the so called freak shows. She also wasn't particularly fond of the elephants parading around one of the practice rings. The twins however seemed to be enjoying the experience immensely. Nat and Nate raced past on a pair of horses, or rather standing on the backs of two horses. Josie watched them bounce through several positions and guide their mounts through a series of obstacles.

"They bonded with those horses rather quickly... where did-" Josie asked Bentley as he joined her.

"I have a connection who has a connection."

"Ah." She smiled and watched the pair remount their horses properly, racing around the ring. "At least they're enjoying themselves."

"Are you Josephina?" A thin pretty terrier woman asked with a small smile.

"Yeah that's me."

"Great, the other acrobats are about to start practice."

"Fantastic. I'll be right in." The terrier nodded and walked off towards the big top. "Anything you need me to do?"

"I've got Sly working on recon outside the tent and in town, while you're practicing see if you can get me some intel from inside."

"Can do." She winked at him.

Josie quietly made her way around the center ring, watching the other acrobats go through their routine. She watched several clowns walk past and repressed a grimace. The ferret settled down as she looked up at the top of the tent where Sly and the other trapeze artists were swinging over the large net. Sly though the air with the Harlequin Brothers with ease and skill, as if he'd done it every day of his life. Josie watched them spin and fly as if with no concern, snapping pictures of the routine for Bentley.

She turned her attention back to the ground level, snapping a pic of the electronics controlling the lights.

"Those look fairly easy to manipulate. If I can hack into them when no one's looking..." Bentley trailed off with a small hum. Josie quietly grabbed several shots of the acrobats performance, then a few more of the ring, and one of the various Clockwerk weapons stashed around the tent. "Those weapons are probably used during the performances. This'll be a tricky one."

"Like you don't enjoy the challenge." Josie said with a roll of her eyes.

"Just get the last pictures." Snickering Josie aimed her camera at the strong men practicing a ring over. Murray grinned and hefted a rather large weight over his head with little trouble.

"He's a lot stronger than he looks..." She muttered with a frown.

"He's always wanted to pull a circus job. Personally I can't stand the circus..."

"That makes two of us... You got everything you need?"

"Just waiting on a few pics from Sly and I'll be ready to cook up a plan."

"Great. I'll be practicing."

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, the Harlequin Brothers are proud present-"

"For the first time in the ring, The one. The only. The amazingly mystic. Bits 2 Bytes!"

"I don't know what's worse folks, the name or his looks!" Josie watched the Harlequin Brothers announce Bentley to the empty tent with a small grimace. The pre show run through was bad enough, but to hear them belittle Bentley was worse. The only good thing was that the turtle was going to be taking control of all the mechanics inside the tent that he could get his hands on. Of course he also had to preform.

A flash of fireworks and smoke went up around the ring, and when they cleared Bentley stood with Nate and all the tools a magician would need, including some cleverly disguised computers. Sly smirked from his place back stage.

"I don't know what's worse about those two... Their jokes or their circus." He whispered to Josie, earning a giggle.

"Well once we get those weapons away from them it won't matter. Though their jokes are pretty bad."

"Tell me something... we've been running together for a while and I've been meaning to ask. Where are you from? I mean I know your file said France but..."

"I'm from England but I moved to France after a couple bad jobs. Why are you asking that now?"

"Curiosity. It popped into my head." He shrugged.

"Alright..." She frowned at him with slight worry. "Is he sawing Nate in half?"

"Relax he'll be fine."

"It's a really old trick... pretty much everyone knows how it works... why bother?"

"Bentley's a bit old school sometimes. Besides its the only he could think to get the receiver into the ring."

"Oh..."

Bentley nodded to Nate as he closed him in a disappearing box. They were almost finished getting through the firewalls protecting the circus' system. A few more tricks and he'd be good to go. Opening the now empty box he grinned at the imaginary audience, bowing for a moment before closing it again and spinning it around. Nate stepped out with a grin bowing with Bentley. The cat nodded at him and Bentley raised his hands, the cue for a silver and green confetti to be released with smoke so they could make their exit.

"Did you get it?" Josie asked as they made their way to the back area.

Bentley nodded with a smirk. "It took a bit longer than anticipated but we're in the system. Meet back at the van, we've got to discuss the plan."

Bentley had the projector up and the plan laid out in a matter minutes, a small smile on his face.

"Alright gang, we've got two days until the show goes up. We'll need all that time just to get things set up for the heist. Murray, seeing as you're the new guy you'll need to make yourself a rising star, get the Harlequin Brothers attention. In order to do that you'll need to make challenge the current star for his place in center ring. Sly the Harlequins are already accepting you as a fellow trapeze artist, see if you can't them to let you perform with them." Sly and Murray nodded. "Nat, Nate, the clowns will steal your spotlight on the horses with their own horse tricks. You'll need to take out the competition by upstaging them, and making sure they won't be in the ring during the heist. Josie you'll be working in town to get the last pieces we need for our costumes." Josie nodded. "That's it, lets get this ball rolling. I for one would like to be out of here as soon as possible."

There you go guys, until tomorrow! Leave a review if you're enjoying so far!