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.
Ch38
Once our group made it to the castle estate, we saw that the place really was a war zone. The Contessa's castle had searchlights in front with souped-up armor-piercing bullets on them and both sides were full of tanks. Neyla's tanks emitted a blue searchlight and the Contessa's tanks had red ones. We found a secure Safehouse on Neyla's side of the conflict, but we made sure that we didn't alert her troops or her to our location. How were we able to do this? The answer was obvious.
"Okay guys, we set up shop in a shoe selling house, so when people come by, sell them the shoes in stock with disguises on. We'll have to wear disguises for our whole stay here, so we might as well start now," I said to everyone with a frown. "Lucky you guys, I've got a bunch of 'em to go around," Felicity smirked as she pulled out her suitcase of many disguises, which she still had on her for some reason after being in prison for a whole week (yeah, that's how long she was in the hole!).
Everyone soon got on their disguises so that we all looked different than the other. Us Coopers donned trench coats and different hats for us, while Murray dressed into a more domestic look of a brown sweatshirt and baggy sweats. Bentley dressed himself up in a mustache, a small cowboy hat on his head, and matching vest to put over his shell. And Carmelita got on a tube dress (tail hole not included), some fake glasses, and she did her hair in a ponytail that looked very nice, which I could tell made Sly a bit love-struck. (Yeah, I still had no idea why he was all over Carmelita. Was it her looks? Her voice? What did he see in her?)
"Now that we're in disguise, we should go over what we're supposed to be doing," Bentley said as he looked at our group. "We're going to need some recon photos of the area. Tilly will be in charge of taking photos at the re-education tower of the Contessa's estate while Henriette and Sally handle taking photos of the stuff around the area," Bentley said. "Check. Just point me in the direction of that tower, and I'll be right there," I said with a smirk.
Once we exited the door, I went invisible and went directly into the Contessa's side of the field, my invisibility proving the searchlights useless against spotting me! I then noted that the estate had tons of guards that were from her prison and also had smaller spiders crawling around the upper parts of the estate. It looked incredibly scary, but given that I tangoed with literal ghosts and zombies when dealing with Mz Ruby, I'd say it wasn't scary in the slightest.
I began to jump up the estate's many bridges and towers until I came to the one that Bentley marked for me to go to. It was the tallest tower in the whole place and it was very spooky at the very top of it. I didn't dare use the front door and I instead went around the back to see if there was another entry point. And sure enough, there was in the form of a wooden window.
I silently opened up the window and jumped into the estate with no sound at all, my invisibility still holding strong. I looked inside and saw something nightmarish. The Contessa had done the exact same thing that Clockwerk did, only worse. She had my family members in a cage of iron and steel and my mother was set up in a strange torture device with her ankles and wrists shackled to it. And the worst part about it? It looked like the Contessa had a strange array set up with a strange Clockwerk part that looked a bit weird. But it was then that I realized what it was. It was Clockwerk's beak. And judging from mom's body having tons of bruises and blood on it, I knew that I had to act fast. If she wasn't freed from this torture chamber clearly set up to try and get my name, she was going to die!
"Now, tell me, Mrs. Gilley. What is the name of the Kitchen Kid, hmm?" Contessa asked with a sick, twisted smile. "Why are you doing this to me? I... I'm completely innocent..." mom sobbed loudly, which seemed to please the sick, twisted bug. "Wrong answer," Contessa smiled as she hit a button on a strange machine and the beak suddenly was sent flying at mom's stomach and bit down right in the center, leaving a large gash from the sharpness and mom to screech in agony. "THAT'S IT! ! !" I exclaimed with absolute fury as I broke down the bars that were standing between us with a burst of electric rolling and immediately smashed the console that the Contessa was using with my cane, making sure that it was completely and utterly destroyed before finally setting my sights behind me and to another threat. Big guards with army hats on them and semiautomatic rifles.
"Kill her!" Contessa commanded. I immediately executed time stopper just as they would've fired a bullet at me. I then moved the guns to point at the guard's unprotected crotches and then ran towards Contessa and hit her across the face with a weapon I hadn't used in awhile. My boomerang. Then, time stopper ended, all three of the guards exclaiming a high C and falling to the ground, completely deposed of. And Contessa's face started to emit green slime, as she was a bug and that was probably her blood. "Now... LET MY FAMILY GO! THEY HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG!" I exclaimed at Contessa as I pinned her to the ground by landing right on top of her backside and forcing her bloody face into the ground.
The Contessa collapsed on the ground and pressed a button, the cage being lifted up off the ground and my mom's restraints finally being loosened. "MOM!" I exclaimed as I simply hit the Contessa in the abdomen one last time to prevent anymore resistance, and immediately ran up to my mom, who was so bloodied up that she needed a hospital fast! "Bentley! Change of plans! I'm going to be a bit late to getting you the pictures! I need to save my mother!" I exclaimed at him as I then picked up mom and went to the door with my family already on their way out. The guards, meanwhile, had all passed out... except for one member that was reaching for their gun and aiming it right at my mom's head! Before he could even think about pulling the trigger, I threw mom to the ground and rushed towards the guard, who fired at least 3 shots at my body before I finally took the gun and smashed it against the baddie's head.
Only then did I clutch my stomach in absolute pain from the bullets and I hobbled over to mom with a groan. I needed to go to the hospital just as much as her now. "B-Bentley?... C-Change of plans a-again... I need a escort to the h-hospital too... get Murray to d-drive us..." I gasped as I then walked to mom, picked her up with defy gravity (so I wouldn't have any issues with hurt body parts) and zoomed out of the tower to meet my family, all of them grabbing onto me as I zoomed the rest of the way back to the ground. "T-Tilly... y-you've been shot!" dad gasped when he saw this. "I know... but you guys were in danger... I... I needed to save you..." I gagged as I then started to cough, tons of gunk coming out of my mouth, including a small bit of blood. Murray then drove the van out into the open and I piled my family and myself inside with the last bit of strength I had. "H-Hospital..." I gasped before I finally fell unconscious.
When I went unconscious this time, I thought that I was dead for sure. Why did I think this? Because, all around me, were Coopers. Coopers that were all from the pages I'd collected (minus the ones that were now alive) and even a few that I didn't recognize. The two I didn't recognize were a tall raccoon with a scar on his right eye, a monocle in the other, and a small tobacco pipe in his mouth. He also had 2 obvious scars on his body that went the whole way around his torso horizontally. And the woman was a Cooper with long, flowing hair of purple, wearing a very nice dress that looked very beautiful, and had a large gaping hole in her head, about the size of a bullet.
It was then that I realized who these two mystery Coopers were. Sly's parents. "A-Am I... dead?" I asked in shock. "I can assure you, Tilly, that you are still alive. You just fell unconscious from the amount of energy you exerted," said the father, who had a very calm and caring voice on him. "My name is Conner Cooper. I am Sly's and Kiri's father," he said with a smile of duty. "And I am their mother, Delia Cooper... though you may not believe me, but I actually knew about you before you even died," the nice woman said. "How would you have known?" I asked her. "Because... I'm your mom's cousin... and she was pregnant with you on that fateful night," Delia smiled at me.
Now I knew something I didn't before. I was actually distantly related to the Cooper family! "So... is that the reason I'm able to use these powers? The powers of the Cooper ancestors?" I asked with confusion. "It is. Not only that, but it is because I convinced Conner to have both of our souls be connected and sealed within your body before you were born. We didn't dare try to communicate with you until Conner said that he found honor within you. And just now, what you did back at the tower. Taking a bullet for your mother that would've ended her life. That is the straw that made Conner honor you," Delia smiled at me.
"So what happens now? Will I survive the trip to the hospital?" I asked with sincere concern in my eyes. "You will definitely survive. We both have an amazing ability from each of us to share with you. Conner, if you would be so kind as to demonstrate yours," Delia smiled. "Of course," Conner smiled as the scenery suddenly changed around us so that we were now in a room with 3 different lasers in it, including a laser that shot downwards, one that slid horizontally, and one that was on a downward slope. "My technique is the laser grind, laser walk, and laser grab ability," Conner explained as he then demonstrated his ability.
And when he did... he looked awesome. He walked along the laser without getting burned once, he slid on another laser, and he actually wrapped his arms around the vertical one and began to climb up it, stealing a small treasure from a hanging box in the meantime... probably a part of the demonstration, but it was so cool I didn't care! "And my ability is the instant-heal ability," Delia smiled as she changed the scenery to that of a meadow with a small, injured bird on the ground. One that wasn't sentient like we were and that had an obvious broken wing. "I just hold the baby bird, and you hum this tune," she smiled.
"Hmmm hmhm... Hmmm hmhm... Hmmm Hmhmmmm HmHMMM!" she hummed the last note in a high pitch, the bird then being wrapped in a soft blue light and the wing being repaired in the blink of an eye. "Amazing..." I gawked. "However, my move has one fatal flaw. It can only be used once every 3 hours. So you'll need to choose who gets the immediate help at the hospital. Your mother, or yourself," Delia frowned. "My mother's injuries are far worse. Mine are just small bullet holes that only ripped into my stomach area... right?" I asked. "Correct. It only injured your stomach and your small intestine, both of them being easy fixes," Conner said. "Then when I wake up, I'm using it on mom," I smiled.
And soon enough, I did wake up.