I own none of the characters in Sly Cooper or it's sequels.
I only own 1 OC in this fic, her name being Tilly the Rabbit (who is now, at this time, 14 years old).
I will let you know if a new OC will come into play at any point during the fanfic.
With this out of the way, let's begin.
Ch36
Though statistically improbable, I had to face the facts. Neyla had betrayed us, my friends were captured, and I only had 3 allies on my side now. Carmelita decided to walk with myself, Kiri, and Rojo out of the jungle and back to our only way to reach our friends. The team van. "To think that Tilly is that honorable, saving me, a cop, from being wrongfully taken into prison... I think I see now why your gang does these things the way you do them," Carmelita frowned.
"It's about time that we tell you how our clan works, Miss Fox," Kiri smiled in her innocent voice. "We only steal from other thieves and, when we do, we always make sure to give some of our money to those who need it the most. I stole money from corrupt cops and businessmen before I was killed by Clockwerk and I always gave it back to support the town I lived in along with my parents. And from what Tilly told me, she does the exact same thing, only she gives it to her neighborhood and her family. We also have a rule about us. We are to never kill anyone unless they tried to kill us. The only exception was Clockwerk, who doesn't really count as a person and more like a monster," Kiri explained.
"And what about you, young one? How did you get caught up in the Cooper gang?" Carmelita asked Rojo as we reached the halfway point, right about where Murray got stuck in the quicksand. "I'm Rajan's son, but I know Tilly from her vacation in Florida. I was there at the time and I had my sandwich stolen by a big bully at the beach. So Tilly used a fishing rod with a magnet on it and stole the lunchbox the bully put it in, gave it back to me and, when the bully tried to steal it again, she went invisible and punched him in the crotch," Rojo explained to Carmelita. "So in a sense, you admire her, huh?" "Pretty much, especially since she can use all those awesome moves! I mean, levitation, invisibility, and now she has the ability to turn into a giant?! She is awesome!" Rojo gawked.
"By the way, how did Tilly get the ability to turn into a giant?" Carmelita asked me. "When we stole the Clockwerk tail feathers from Dimitri, she landed in a bat of radioactive goop produced by the tail feathers being engraved with money prints. The result was her gaining a power to change size at will, all that she has to do is say the word and she grows to that size," I explained as I sighed, wondering how they all were doing. After all, nearly all of them were taken into prison, so I had to figure out how to get them out.
"If you want to know where Contessa is taking the others, it's to her criminal rehabilitation center in Prague. They're going to be in a program that will try to brainwash them into not being thieves anymore... and as much as I like the idea of Cooper in a cell, those bitches need to pay for what they did to all of us! Especially that backstabbing Neyla. So once we reach your van, we got to get over there and free them all," Carmelita told us. This was rare for anyone who was an officer to do that wasn't Felicity. Carmelita was going to help us out, despite her being an officer and us being thieves? It felt all too surreal to be happening, but it was. And upon reaching the van, our resolve was hardened. We needed to save our friends. But first... "Um... does anyone know how to drive a stick shift?" Bentley asked. "No," the others said. "W-Well... h-here goes nothing," I gulped as I began to try and teach myself how to go stick shift. The road was definitely going to be bumpy, that much was for sure.
Our group was all shackled up and we were all put into a helicopter that was going to some kind of prison, but we still had no idea as to which one we'd be taken to. "I'm scared, Tilly..." Henriette gulped as she looked around with a nervous twitch. "You're not afraid of prison, are you?" I asked Henriette. "N-Not so much p-prison... but tight spaces? Yeah, I'm scared of them things..." Henriette twitched nervously. "It's okay, Henriette," I sighed at her. "We'll be fine. After all, we have 4 allies that can still help us, as well as a couple of people to help us from the inside out," I smiled as I noted that I still had my whistle on my person. I'd even hide it in my mouth if I had to, but I was going to get Diggs to bust us out if push came to shove.
Once we touched down, I looked outside the windows and saw just what hell we'd be in for. The prison we had been taken to was the absolute most secure prison in the world, the Contessa's criminal rehabilitation center. "This is going to be horrid," I gulped as the helicopter door opened up and the Contessa greeted us with a sickening smile. "Well now, never would I think I'd see the day. Not only would I have Sly Cooper and the Kitchen Kid under lock and key, but now I have a whole bunch of past Coopers as well! Oh what a glorious day," Contessa cackled at us. "Bite your tongue, bug," Slaigh spat at her, which made Contessa growl at him. "So let's check off to see which Coopers you all are," Contessa smiled as she motioned us outward and looked at us with a frown each one she looked at.
"Hmm... First up, Old Sally Cooper, master of the Raccoon roll. Let's see you rolling around in my prison for long, old lady," Contessa insulted Sally. "Peh. How the youth of today is ten times worse than the youth in my day. Back in my day, the younger people treated their elders with respect. You are just treating all of us like pathetic lowlifes," Sally growled as the guards took her away, Contessa not seeming to get hurt from the response she made. But I could see it in her piercing red eyes. She looked hurt by that comment. "Next up, Bruce O Coop, the master of computer hacking. Too bad for you that there aren't any computers in our prison for prisoners to use," Contessa smiled at him. "Like I'd need a computer to stay hip! I'm still the coolest, raddest Cooper in town, no matter what you and your stupid feline accomplice say," Bruce scoffed as he got taken away to a different cell. I made sure to look at which cells they were being taken to by the numbers and letters on their doors.
"Now we come to Slaigh MacCooper, the strongest of all Coopers. Let's see your strength help you in a laser grid cell," Contessa smirked at him. "Like I said before, bite your tongue, bug," Slaigh scoffed once again, the guards taking him away to cell D. "Karin Coopergiwa, the master pickpocket. I'm sure you'll love to get your hands on some of the other prisoner's stuff," Contessa smiled. "Can't control what I get and what I can't. Having the Coin Magnet technique pretty much makes it impossible to NOT steal anything," Karin frowned as she was taken to cell C along with Bruce.
"Henriette 'One Eye' Cooper, the swashbuckler of the 7 seas. I take it you're the one that wrecked that gondola in Paris, then?" Contessa asked. "Very astute of ya, wench. They don't make them boats like they used to," Henriette frowned. She was then taken to cell B to be with Sally. Then, after all the Coopers were gone, came the last 3 of us. "Sly Cooper, the master thief, and the one who defeated the Fiendish Five. Let's see how you like being the the hole for... one or two months," Contessa smirked. "You wouldn't dare!" I exclaimed at her, finally getting mad at her insults to us Cooper clan members. Her insulting my hero was the last straw.
"Don't test me, Kitchen Kid, or I may just make it 4 months in the hole," Contessa hissed at me. I immediately shut up after that as Sly was taken to an area that was completely fenced in and was placed into a metal entrance into the ground. The hole. "Hmm... I never really got your name, fat one. What's your name?" Contessa asked. "The Murray will not be brainwashed by a no-good headshrinker like you!" Murray growled as the guards came by to take him to cell D.
"And finally, the coupe de grace, The Kitchen Kid. So great at thieving that not a one has seen her face? Let's see what your face looks like now, hm?" Contessa smiled as she took my mask off and I simply sighed. "Hmm... I certainly don't recognize your face, Kitchen Kid. Tell me, what's your name?" Contessa asked me. "Good luck in trying to get that out of my, spider veins!" I scoffed at her, the insult from me making her get very mad, as she slapped me across the face and the force of it made me tear up. "Police brutality is a crime, you know?" I growled at her. "Peh! Like you have any say in that," Contessa frowned. "By the way, what's in your backpack? You wouldn't mind if I had a peek, would you?" Contessa asked. "They are pictures of my family. They are my most cherished belongings... I beg of you, just let me keep my backpack..." I sobbed at her, hoping my tears would be convincing enough.
Contessa looked at me with a different look than before, especially when I collapsed onto the ground and started to cry, the realization hitting me that this was jail and I was now in jail. It wasn't where 14 year old girls belonged! I was supposed to be at Juvie, yet here I was at an adult prison! "Hmm..." Contessa sighed as she then picked me off the ground with a frown. "Fine, keep your damned backpack. I have no use for petty pictures anyways," Contessa scoffed as the guards came and took me to the exact same prison cell as Murray and Slaigh. The one with the lasers. Cell block D.