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Hello everyone, here is the first half to the Anatomy for Disaster chapter: where Sly and Neyla infiltrate Arpeggio's main blimp for a recon mission...only to make a horrifying discovery and witness...an unexpected and grisly transformation regarding a certain hated corrupt vixen.

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Chapter 25: Anatomy for Disaster, Pt. 1

'There we were: traveling east over the Atlantic Ocean as stowaways on a giant airborne fortress.' Sly mentally stated, as he and team sat down in their new temporary 'safe house': the now useless Northern Light battery they had rendered inoperable during their flight, which made it worthless to Arpeggio's master plan.

'Though time was short, we went over all the information Neyla had provided us about our mysterious and unknowing host: Arpeggio. While attending a prestigious boarding school as a child, he had excelled at all subjects intellectually and was at the top of his class than his classmates...but could never keep up with the other boys physically. Sadly his wings, due to their small size...made them completely useless for flight.' The raccoon stated in his mind, as he and his friends went over all the information that his tigress lover had given them, both from the flash drive and Neyla herself when she was actually served her former 'master': how the British parrot had attended an elite boarding school as a child and although he had exceeded at all school subjects due to his highly intellectual mind...but failed to keep up with his classmates physically, as his body stayed small and inept for flying while the other students grew and their wings became perfect for flight.

'Furious at his feeble body, he focused his powerful mind to search for a cure...which he found in the ancient works of the Italian Renaissance Masters. Their notebooks provided the springboard for this sinister young genius...along with his obsession with Clockwerk himself, as Neyla had told us that Arpeggio had spent the last two years studying up on the robotic owl.' Sly mentally stated as his tigress lover had told him, Murray and Bentley how her former boss was furious at his own body: being denied the ability to fly and became focused on discovering a 'cure' to obtain his deepest desire...which he found in the ancient machinery designs and blue prints of the Italian Renaissance Masters and more importantly, being strangely fascinated in the ancient owl who stalked and hunted his family line ever since the Ancient Egyptian era.

'Arpeggio, who isn't just the leader of the Klaww Gang, but is also the chief inventor and according Neyla...he was the one who repaired the Clockwerk Parts for Dimitri, Rajan, Contessa and Jean Bison to use for their demented schemes...and now this mastermind is in possession of all the parts. The raccoon mentally added, as he and his team learned from Neyla that the British parrot was not just the leader/founder of the Klaww Gang...but was also their chief engineer: how he had repaired the parts they had stolen from the previous Klaww Gang members and now had all the parts in his possession!

'It'll only be a matter of time before he puts them back together and when that happens...well, I'm not going to let that happen.' He mentally concluded with a strong look of determination on his face, showing he would not allow Arpeggio to reassemble his family clan's arch rival/enemy for his mysterious grande scheme.

While Murray and Bentley had rearranged a few number of items in their temporary 'hideout' and began setting up the briefing table and slide show projector, Sly and Neyla had exited the safe house and the raccoon stared wide-eyed from what he and his tigress had saw before their eyes: how Arpeggio's 'blimp' was an incredibly gigantic fortress: being built by modern day hot air balloons, propellers and other 15th/16th century aircraft pieces deigned by the Italian Renaissance!

"Damn...this is a blimp?" The raccoon asked, as he couldn't believe his own eyes after he and his feline lover stepped out of their hideout and onto the large aircraft, as it made the blimp Contessa owned look like a mere hot air balloon!

"Indeed Ringtail. Arpeggio had...let's say invested a lot of time and money to obtain his deepest desire." Neyla answered, while not really surprised how her former 'master's' base of operations looked like...due to her time traveling on the airship while actually working for the Klaww Gang and how the 'blimp' served as a surrogate means of flying into the sky.

"I'm pretty sure that is the understatement of the year." Sly muttered softly while shaking his head, stating that the British parrot was taking his obsession with flight way too seriously, with his lover nodding in agreement.

After swiftly recovering from the shock of seeing Arpeggio base of operations, the raccoon knew he and his tigress needed to hurry...as her former boss had no doubtingly began putting the ancient robotic owl together from his artificial organs and body parts. Fortunately for the two lovers, the airship had plenty means of gaining higher altitude: pipes/ropes to climb up and walk/run across, propellers and more importantly...large towers for them to deploy their paragliders to get across the 'blimp' much faster. Thanks to the alternate methods of sneaking past Arpeggio's incompetent Toucan guards and their athletic abilities, Sly and Neyla had managed to navigate around the gigantic airship and reach their designated RV point, which was located on top of a port cabin on the upper deck of the stern. Once the two lovers approached their RV point, they had pulled out their Binocucoms.

"Sly, my instruments have detected large magnetic fields radiating from the inside of that blimp. If Arpeggio has already started reassembling Clockwerk, that's where you and Neyla will find him." Bentley stated as he informed his raccoon and tigress friends that his computers had picked up abnormal activity coming from Arpeggio personal blimp, which he fairly guessed was where the parrot was no doubtingly rebuilding Clockwerk.

"Sounds good, we're on our way." Sly stated with a strong determined look on his face, alongside his tigress lover as she placed her hand over his: showing she was with him all the way till the end.

"We can't afford any mistakes on this one Sly. In order for us to form a plan, we need to know how close they are to reviving Clockwerk." The turtle replied back while reminding his friend and leader that this recon mission was their only shot at discovering how close Arpeggio was to reassembling the ancient robotic owl for his twisted master plan.

"There's no need to worry to Bentley. Sly and I will get you those recon photos, we promise." Neyla answered, reassuring her turtle friend that she and Sly had the situation under control and promising they would get him the reconnaissance photos he needed to form a plan to destroy the Clockwerk Parts once and for all before they broke contact.

"Ready for this love?" The tigress asked softly while turning to her lover, as this was their only chance at discovering how close her former 'master' was to rebuilding the ancient robotic owl.

"Born ready my beautiful tigress. Let's do this." Her raccoon answered with a casual smile, which she warmly mirrored before they leaned in and locked lips in a sweet passionate kiss: wishing the other to be safe once they sneaked inside the blimp.

Once they were mentally prepared for their confrontation with Arpeggio, the two lovers had climbed up the balloon tether anchored to the roof of the cabin, jumped and deployed their paragliders. Thanks to the steady wind drift, the raccoon and tigress had sailed over to the blimp and landed safely on top of the right wing. After they landed directly on the wing, Sly and Neyla had climbed a rope running up the side of the blimp where the raccoon smashed open a grating to a vent with his cane, which the two lovers crawled through and sneaked inside the massive aircraft.

However...once they entered the British parrot's personal blimp undetected, the raccoon and his tigress stared wide-eyed in shock...as their fears were confirmed: as they were staring directly at a fully rebuilt Clockwerk, being suspended directly in the center of the main room!

'No. No, no! This can't be!' Sly mentally shouted, not believing his own two eyes that Arpeggio had actually rebuilt his family clan's arch-rival and enemy in a short matter of time!

'Bison...you...you stupid greedy redneck son of a bitch! You ruined everything!' Neyla mentally cried out, also not believing that her former master rebuilt the ancient robotic owl and cursed Jean Bison's name, as he provided Arpeggio all the parts he needed to reassemble Clockwerk!

After they recovered from the initial shock, the raccoon and his tigress pulled out their Binocucoms and contacted Bentley.

"I...I had no idea they could reassemble Clockwerk so fast!" The turtle cried out in shock, showing he was just as completely stunned that the British parrot had went straight to work in rebuilding the robotic owl after Bison sold him all the parts they had stolen from the previous Klaww Gang members!

"Calm down Bentley. He might be in one piece...but, he doesn't appear to be...you know 'alive.'" Sly stated calmly, reassuring his shaken friend/tech support that even though Arpeggio had succeeded in rebuilding him...that Clockwerk didn't seem to be sentient, like he was at back at the Krakarov Volcano in Russia two years ago.

"Sly's right Bentley. He appears to be...completely inanimate. How about we stick to the plan and take those recon photos?" The tigress stated, agreeing with her raccoon lover on how the robotic owl seemed to be just like any ordinary deactivated machine and suggested that they stick to their main objective, which was taking the needed recon photos.

"You guys are right. We need to be informed to create a plan of action. Try to take a photo of Clockwerk's head, a Mech egg and one of those spinning magnetic inducers: they seem to important to the procedure...but be sure to avoid those guards at all times! If you or Neyla get caught...we won't have time for a second chance." Their turtle friend stated after recovering from the initial shock of seeing Clockwerk's fully rebuilt body, agreeing with the two lovers and pointing out the three main objects of interest: Clockwerk's head, a mechanical egg and one of the four spinning platforms...and asking them to avoid being spotted by the four Toucan guards patrolling the center of the room before the three of them broke contact.

After the raccoon and his tigress withdrew their Binocucoms, they went straight to work at taking the recon photos that Bentley requested in order to think of a plan to destroy Clockwerk before Arpeggio had brought him back online and thanks to their ninja like reflexes...avoided being spotted by the Toucans mindlessly walking back and forth the center of the room. While Neyla had worked her way across the room, Sly used his Sleeping Box gadget to put the Toucan patrolling up and down the main staircase fast asleep. Once the moronic guard was in dreamland, the raccoon had dropped down from the vent he and his tigress crawled through, drew out his Binocucom and took a recon photo of the mysterious metal egg designed devices.

"My sensors here at the hideout are picking up high levels of radioactivity from inside those Mech eggs. We should avoid contact with those things at all times." Bentley stated, informing his raccoon friend that his equipment was detecting high levels of radiation stored inside the mechanical eggs and advised that they avoided the hazardous devices at all times.

After witnessing her lover putting the idiot lackey to sleep with the Music Box gadget, the tigress had easily avoided the remaining three Toucan guards protecting the walkway in the center of the blimp and climbed up the pipes connected to an archway that led straight to the main office and gave her the perfect vantage point of Clockwerk's head and one of the spinning inducers.

"Clockwerk seems to be completely inanimate. We still might a chance to destroy him!" Her turtle friend stated, after clearly seeing that Sly was right about the robotic owl not being sentient...which meant they still had a chance to destroy Clockwerk before Arpeggio could somehow literally bring him 'back to life'.

"These magnetic inducers seem to be holding the Clockwerk Parts together." He added, as he could that the four electro-platforms rotating around the room were somehow the key to keeping Clockwerk's lifeless body intact.

"Sly, Neyla. I'm picking up two voices coming from the front of the blimp...I think it could be Arpeggio." Bentley stated, informing his raccoon and tigress friends/teammates that he had detected two different voices originating from the front of the blimp and identified one of the voices as Arpeggio's!

Surprised to hear that someone else besides them was also on the blimp, Sly had easily sneaked past the three Toucans guarding the center of the room by using a trampoline and landing directly on Clockwerk's lifeless robotic body. After he landed on the back of the ancient owl, the wily raccoon had tossed out a single alarm clock that sent the three idiot guards running towards the far left corner of the room. Once the clueless guards were easily distracted, much to Sly's and Neyla's amusement, the two lovers had walked up the ramp underneath the archway and stopped...as their eyes widened from a combination of anger and shock after seeing whom was in the main office through the pink tinted glass: Arpeggio with none other than a much hated and corrupt vixen, Carmelita Fox!

"Carmelita...she's here?!" The turtle cried out surprised, as they had no Intel to suggest that the vixen would also be on the British parrot's blimp!

"Of course she would be here! Arpeggio no doubting commanded that backstabbing bitch to be present for whatever he has planned with Clockwerk's body!" Neyla softly rebuffed through their team ear radio's, claiming that her former 'master' wanted Carmelita to bare witness to his twisted master plan...that obviously involved the newly reassembled robotic owl before she and Sly drew out their Binocucoms once again.

"There he is guys, Arpeggio: the evil mastermind behind this highly sophisticated aircraft, founder of the Klaww Gang...and source of all our problems." Bentley stated with a deep sense of contempt detected in his voice towards the British parrot, as he had rebuilt the robotic owl whom had stalked and hunted his friend and leader's family clan since Ancient Egypt for his own mysterious and sinister goal.

"I can't believe it Sly...and to think she was once an honest cop." He added after the raccoon had taken a photograph of Carmelita with a hint of disgust in his voice: as she started out as a decorated cop who swore to uphold the law...and spiraled down a dark path and allied herself with the Klaww Gang simply because he fell in love with Neyla.

'Carmelita...you used to be one of the best law enforcement officers in the entire world. We may have been on opposite sides of the law the day we first met...but I always respected and admired your dedication to the force. What the hell happened to you?' Sly mentally stated while shaking his head in both disgust and disappointment, as he could never understand how the vixen he once had romantic feelings for could go from being a dedicated and honest cop who swore an oath to protect and serve to a sadistic and coldblooded traitor simply because he chose Neyla over her.

Once he and his tigress lover had taken the photos of Arpeggio and Carmelita inside his office, they swiftly turned around and glanced directly at Clockwerk's lifeless body dangling above the center of the room.

"I don't need to study those photos to interpret the writing on the wall: obviously Carmelita has conspired with Arpeggio to revive Clockwerk...and they are dangerously close to realizing their goal." Bentley stated, claiming he didn't need the recon photos to clearly see that both the British parrot and corrupt vixen had decided to work together to reassemble the ancient owl...but for own their separate goals, as they instantly remembered Carmelita stating back in Canada that she had a plan of her own that involved around all the parts.

"Look Bentley, I know this isn't your style...but Neyla and I need a quick plan of attack. Try to think of a way...any way to stop Clockwerk from being reassembled!" Sly stated in a calm but firm tone, knowing that rushing into a situation without having all the facts wasn't his friend/teammate's style...but asked for a quick plan of action to prevent his family clan's arch-rival/enemy from being brought back into their world!

"Well...this might be a long shot, but...those magnetic inducers seem to be holding the parts together. If you and Neyla reverse their polarity...it should pull Clockwerk apart." His turtle friend suggested, as he could tell right away that the four electro-platforms spinning around the center of the room were somehow keeping the Clockwerk Parts in place and explained to his friends/teammates that if the magnetic force emitting from the inducers were reversed...it would no doubtingly disassemble the inanimate robotic owl!

"But unfortunately, the inducer speed control station is locked down tight. You guys will need to pickpocket the four patrolling guards in order to get at it." The turtle added, informing his raccoon and tigress friends that the computer console connected to all four platforms was locked down and how they needed to relief the four idiot Toucans walking directly underneath the ancient robotic owl of their keys to gain access to the controls.

"Consider it done Bentley." Neyla stated, as she and her raccoon understood that reversing the polarity to the inducers was their only chance to prevent Arpeggio and Carmelita from reviving Clockwerk before they broke contact.

Lifting the keys off the useless and idiot lackeys was extremely easy for the two lovers: as Sly had tossed out another alarm clock that blared and skidded right in the middle of the walkway...which sent all four Toucans running to investigate and cawed in confusion after only finding fragments of the clock. Once all four clueless guards were together and glancing around the source of the loud ringing...the wily raccoon had winded up and tossed out a music box right towards their direction and smiled as the Toucans slowly drifted off to sleep, alongside his tigress before they approached the sleeping guards and relieved them of their keys. After they had obtained all four keys, the two lovers had used the trampoline on the left side of the room to jump/land directly on top of Clockwerk, climbed up the front cable holding up his left wing and deployed their paragliders, sailing towards the locked down control station.

Once Sly had unlocked and removed the padlocks off the control panel to the magnetic inducers, he allowed Neyla to pull down the main lever which caused all four electro-platforms to slow down.

"Great work Sly. Now that the inducer decks are spinning slower, this is your and Neyla's chance to reverse the polarity of each platform." Bentley stated through the team ear radio's, congratulating the raccoon and tigress on unlocking the controls to the terminal and instructing them to climb up the cables in order to reach the inducers.

'Please...let this work.' The raccoon mentally begged, praying for their plan to work as he couldn't bear the thought of the ancient owl to continue plaguing his family line...to orphan his own future children, just like Clockwerk had done to him when he murdered his parents on the night he was supposed to inherit the Thievius Raccoonus.

Not needing to be told twice, the two lovers had climbed the front and rear cables holding Clockwerk wings and keeping the robotic owl suspended in the center of the walkway. While the raccoon climbed up the left/right cables to glide over and land on top of the two electro-platforms in front of his family clan's ancient enemy, his tigress lover climbed up the rear cables and glided over to the inducers behind the robotic owl. After they had reversed the polarity of all four magnetic inducers, Sly and Neyla had landed safely on the walkway...and witnessed Clockwerk's inanimate body land hard in the center of the room, with the wings folded behind his back and his beak opening wide open due to the impact from the fall!

Before they could finish the job, the raccoon and tigress glanced towards the front of the blimp and took cover behind the imposts of the archway, as Arpeggio and Carmelita had stepped out of the main office after feeling and hearing the huge crash.

"What's all this then? The magnets have been reversed?! But...By Jove! It seems to have locked the Clockwerk Parts into place! Excellent!" The parrot exclaimed as he stared completely surprised that the magnetic inducers had been 'mysteriously' reversed, but was overjoyed as the result of the fall had actually prepared the robotic owl's lifeless body for his master plan...while Sly and Neyla had horrified expressions on their faces, as they couldn't believe that reversing the inducers had actually made things worse!

The moment Arpeggio 'wheeled' down the ramp with Carmelita right behind her new boss and they walked underneath the archway to approach Clockwerk's body, the raccoon and tigress had stepped out from behind cover to confront the British parrot and corrupt vixen who reassembled the robotic owl.

"Cooper?! I should've known you and your bitch girlfriend were behind this!" The vixen cried out while glaring hatefully at the sight of the raccoon and tigress, as they were the only ones capable of eliminating the four sentries ordered to keep an eye out for intruders and attempting to destroy the ancient owl!

"Ah, Mr. Cooper...so we finally meet, face to face and Neyla...to say that it is a complete delight to see you again, even though you had the audacity to betray me and our organization to side with the Cooper Gang would be a complete lie." Arpeggio stated while acting like a proper and civilized gentleman, greeting the raccoon who went after his associates to steal their Clockwerk Parts and his former 'protege', whom glared at her former 'master' who only used her talents for his own schemes.

"No doubtingly, you both hoped that a reversal would pull the old bird apart, eh? But it seems to have quite the opposite effect...and I am truly grateful. When fully powered up, I'll join myself to its circuits and be born anew." The parrot continued, suspecting that the two lovers hoped that by reversing the magnetic polarity to the inducers, that Clockwerk would fall apart...and gloated how their plan failed while thanking them, as they had actually set the stage perfectly for the final step.

"All this because you can't fly. You're pathetic." Sly remarked while crossing his arms and shaking his head, calling Arpeggio pathetic while thinking the main reason he wanted to enter Clockwerk's body simply because he was incapable of flying...only to be shocked by the parrot's true reason for wanting all the parts.

"Immortality! Immortality is what I seek. The other Klaww Gang were much too narrow sighted: they were satisfied with using their Clockwerk Parts to drive their various trivial schemes...but not me, no. For I saw them for what they truly were: the keys to life eternal!" Arpeggio swiftly countered, revealing that is was immortality he truly wished to obtain and explaining how his fellow Klaww Gang members were content with using their own Clockwerk Part for their own meaningless schemes while he saw the parts for what they truly were: the keys to unlocking eternal life!

"So that's what this is all about...But if you were disgusted with how Dimitri, Rajan, Contessa and Bison were using their Clockwerk Parts, why split them at all after stealing them from the Natural Museum in Cairo?" Neyla stated as she and her raccoon were stunned to hear what he was truly after and demanded to know something: if the British parrot was disgusted with how the other Klaww Gang members were using the Parts they walked away with...why not just keep them all for himself instead of splitting them.

"Isn't it obvious, my dear? Bison and the others served their purpose with the Clockwerk Parts that I repaired and allowed them to take...which proved invaluable for both our spice shipping operation and more importantly...the long run." The parrot answered, revealing the reason why he chose to split the Parts with the other Klaww Gang members was so they could play their parts in his master plan perfectly: Dimitri financing their spice operation with his counterfeit money, Rajan providing them the spice plants, the Contessa performing her 'experiments' on people who ate food covered in the illegal substance and Bison, whom was in charge of transporting the spice.

"You wanted me and my friends to steal the Clockwerk Parts from the other Klaww Gang members..." Sly stated softly in complete shock, as he soon realized that Arpeggio wanted him, Neyla, Murray and Bentley to steal the parts from Dimitri, Rajan, Contessa and Jean Bison while crippling and destroying their spice shipping operation!

"Guilty, but acquiring the parts was only half the equation. Think Cooper...what kept Clockwerk alive for thousands of years?" The parrot answered, admitting that he had manipulated the raccoon and his team the entire time: having them steal the Clockwerk Parts he had given his associates so he could rebuild Clockwerk and ask Sly a rather dark question: if he knew what kept the ancient owl alive for thousands of years...which he unfortunately did.

"...He was fueled by his hatred for my family." He answered softly while glancing down to the floor, stating that the robotic owl was consumed by his hatred and jealously towards his family line, while Neyla reached for and held her lover's hand in her own, which helped comfort him as he revealed what kept his family clan's ancient rival and enemy alive.

"Splendid, that's right! Hatred! Putting his gears and wires together was mere child's play compared with accumulating that much hatred." Arpeggio replied while somewhat pleased from seeing how disheartened the raccoon was from recounting what kept the robotic owl alive to haunt his family clan for thousands of years.

"But you can't make people hate." Neyla countered, stating that her former master couldn't simply make people hate...which caused him to laugh at her choice of words.

"Oh, you poor naive girl Neyla...my meticulous mind has found a way. As you and your boyfriend no doubtingly know, spice consumption makes anyone whose eaten it both angry and susceptible to hypnosis. The Contessa, hypnotist extraordinaire, devised a means to command her test subjects through the use of flashing lights. I've created this blimp to be a massive transmitter of those precise light frequencies. The only problem I faced was finding a suitable source of light waves." The British parrot replied, revealing that he already developed a means of making people hate while reminding the two lovers of the illegal substance's highly dangerous effects of people: how it made the person who ate it extremely angry and easy to brainwash through hypnosis thanks to the Contessa 'experiments' on her prisoners: as she discovered a method of giving commands to her 'test subjects' by using flashing lights and how the blimp was actually a transmitter to give off the same light frequencies.

"The Northern Lights! You've been gathering Northern Light energy to hypnotize everyone underneath the blimp!" Sly cried out, as he and his tigress stared shocked as they soon realized that Arpeggio was the cause of what they and their friends/teammates witnessed back in Canada: how he had been collecting the energy from the Northern Lights so he could hypnotize people that were directly underneath the aircraft!

"Ah, hypnotize those that had eaten food covered in illegal spice! Thank goodness for Dimitri. Through his nightclub, he got the whole city to consume the spice." He corrected, stating that he only planned to hypnotize people that had eaten food covered in spice...and revealing that Dimitri had gotten the entire city of Paris to eat the illegal substance through his nightclub before his arrest!

"You're going to Paris to unleash a hypnotic light show of hate...you're insane." The raccoon stated after discovering what the parrot truly planned with Clockwerk's lifeless body and calling him insane as he wanted to unleash a hypnotic light show that would drive the people of Paris mad, especially as they ate food covered in illegal space through Dimitri's nightclub before they ended his counterfeit operation and stole the Tail Feathers.

"Not to mention completely cruel." Neyla stated right after her lover, with a look of great disgust towards her former master after hearing what his grand plan was...but they were unable to make a move to stop him, as Carmelita had her shock pistol drawn out the entire time her boss chatted with the raccoon and tigress.

"Cruel, perhaps...But necessary to give Clockwerk his spark of immorality! Ah well...my new body awaits me. Be a dear Carmelita and keep them preoccupied so they can't stop the inevitable. Ta-ta!" Arpeggio replied, not really caring if his master plan was morally demented as it would help revive the ancient owl and ordering the vixen to make sure that the tigress and her lover couldn't stop him from entering Clockwerk's body before 'wheeling' towards the owl's open maw.

However...much to Arpeggio's complete shock and dismay, the corrupt vixen had performed and landed a swift roundhouse kick that knocked his 'birdcage' and apparatus down, much to Sly's and Neyla's bewilderment from this turn of events!

"Carmelita? What is the meaning of..." The parrot cried out, surprised that his current protege had just betrayed him, just like the tigress while she glanced at him with a smug and dark grin on her face!

"You're an idiot Arpeggio. I betrayed my oath as a cop and Interpol so I could have my revenge against Cooper and Neyla...and I will have it. If anybody is entering Clockwerk's body...it's going to be me!" Carmelita coldly answered, belittling her immobilized boss and bringing up the fact that she betrayed Interpol and everything she stood for as a cop for her desire to kill to the raccoon who broke her heart and tigress who stole her criminal from her...before jumping inside Clockwerk's mouth and entering his lifeless body...which came to life after a few short seconds!

"This is preposterous! You're my new protege, not the next candidate to inherit my immortality! I demand that you exit the Clockwerk Frame or...OR...!" Arpeggio cried out, enraged that he had betrayed by another 'student' and commanded the vixen to exit Clockwerk's body...which fell on deaf ears, before the newly revived robotic owl had crushed the defenseless British parrot with her beak!

Both Sly and Neyla backed away in fear, as they couldn't believe what they just witnessed as the parrot's eye glass rolled right in front of their feet: Carmelita had just betrayed Arpeggio and killed him right in front of them as soon as she entered Clockwerk's body and somehow became one with the ancient owl! Once she killed her former 'master', the newly revived robotic owl flapped its wings and spoke in a familiar but now robotic voice.

"Behold...Clock-Lita is born! I'll be back for you and little bitch girlfriend, Neyla, Cooper...and I intend to savor every second of crushing you both with my new body, especially once I become immortal!" The newly created and fused robotic owl/vixen cried out, christening her as 'Clock-Lita' and vowing to keep her promise: to kill the two lovers with her new body after obtaining the power of immortality and took to the air, destroying the glass to the pilot house in front of the blimp and circling the aircraft once outside!

"Not if we can help it Clock-Lita!" Sly cried out, showing he wouldn't let the robotic owl/vixen hybrid kill his tigress lover and his team while glaring hatefully at the abomination that the corrupt vixen had became after she entered Clockwerk's inanimate body.

"Let's head back to the hide out Ringtail. We need to tell Bentley and Murray everything about what just happened." Neyla stated softly before picking up the now deceased Arpeggio's eye piece and placing it inside her leg pouch...even though the parrot was flawed, not even he deserved to die the way he did: being crushed to death by Clock-Lita's beak.

Knowing that his tigress was correct, that their friends and teammates needed to be informed about the current situation...especially after discovering from Arpeggio before his betrayal/death what the blimp truly was and how Clock-Lita intended to become immortal. Without any further discussion, the two lovers had worked their way back to the hideout: traversing along the cables, climbing up the tethers/hot air balloons and paragliding across the aerial fortress...while making sure to avoid the bombs that the robotic owl/vixen hybrid was dropping on the blimp without any warning!

"Oh, crap! Neyla, watch out!" The raccoon cried out as he glanced up to the sky above them, seeing that the newly created hybrid had just dropped a bomb and warned his feline lover, whom swiftly dove away to avoid the blast radius of the explosive!

"That bitch! She might have a new body...but she's still the backstabbing traitor and coward we all despise!" Neyla growled underneath her breath, while glaring directly at the newly revived robotic owl whom was once her 'partner'.

After surviving Clock-Lita's last minute sneak attack, Sly and his tigress had made it back to the safe house, where Bentley and Murray were anxiously waiting for them to return and were relieved to see their friends alive and well...as they witnessed Clock-Lita dropping bombs all over the aircraft through the glass from the hide out and feared that they were caught in the blast radius of one of the explosives, but never doubted that the two lovers would evade the bombs thanks to their past adventures, especially during their time at the Contessa's castle estate back at Prague. Once they revealed everything that had happened to their hippo and turtle friends, they took their places around the briefing table where Bentley began a slideshow presentation.

"As we all now, the situation has just made a turn for the worse. Carmelita has joined herself to the Clockwerk Frame and fusion has produced...Clock-Lita. She's out and free to terrorize the world. This blimp is still in motion to Paris and we can fairly assume that Arpeggio's autopilot will activate the hate hypnosis light show. If that happens...there'll be no stopping her. She'll become immortal!" The turtle stated as he went over everything Sly and Neyla told him and Murray, how the corrupt vixen had betrayed Arpeggio and murdered him after she entered Clockwerk's body and had became a much dangerous version of the robotic owl who plagued their friend/leader's family for thousands of years and revealing how the blimp's autopilot function would unleash the hate hypnotic light show that would make the owl/vixen hybrid unstoppable and indestructible!

"However...we still have a chance. In her new form, she'll need to draw a lot of energy from the blimp's main four engines to stay strong. If we can destroy the engines...that should be enough to weaken her to a state in which we can attack!" Bentley added while informing his friends that they still had a fighting chance: if they could disable all four engines scattered around throughout the blimp, it could buy them the time they needed to cook up a plan to destroy Clock-Lita before she became immortal and hopefully before they arrived to Paris.

"Getting at the engines will will require all four of us to work in perfect harmony. We've pulled off some tough jobs in the past...but they were just a warm up for what we'll be facing tonight." He stated while explaining to his teammates that attempting to destroy the engines wouldn't be an easy task, as they needed to work in complete sync...but had no doubt in his mind that they could, especially after everything they went through before concluding the presentation.

"Bentley, could I use your laptop well quick?" Neyla asked softly, which surprised her turtle friend due to her request to use the ThiefNet computer.

"What do you need the ThiefNet computer..." Bentley asked, as he was curious to what the tigress needed his laptop for...before it swiftly clicked inside his head, along with Sly's as he knew what his lover planned to do.

"You're going to contact Jack for help, aren't you Neyla?" The raccoon asked, as he remembered the email Howlett anonymously sent them back at the hotel in the Czech Republic, warning them about Carmelita coming after before they headed out to Nunavut Bay and offered his help, if they ever needed it...and was glad that his feline lover was reaching out to the wolf detective, as they would need his help to put an end to Clock-Lita.

"You guessed it right, handsome. Right now, he's the only person at Interpol we can really trust and we need his help to stop Clock-Lita before the blimp reaches Paris." The tigress answered, confirming her lover's and Bentley's hunch while pointing out that her former training partner was the only cop they could trust and could really use his assistance to destroy the robotic owl/vixen hybrid before she became immortal with her friends/teammates agreeing with her judgment.

"You chaps go on ahead outside. I'll catch up after I've contacted Jack." She stated as her turtle friend handed her the ThiefNet computer so she could contact the wolf detective, to inform and warn him of the upcoming threat Clock-Lita would be once she became immortal.

"Alright. Good luck trying to get a message through to Jack. With the time we have left, we're going to need a lot of it." Bentley replied while wishing his tigress friend/teammate the best of luck in trying to reach Howlett before he, Sly and Murray exited the hideout to search for their designated RV points.

Once her raccoon lover and friends had stepped out, Neyla had gone straight to the ThiefNet chatroom and put together an email that would explain the urgency of the upcoming threat to her friend and former training partner.

'Jack...my friends and I need your help for a very important task. Carmelita...is no longer of this world. She had secretly allied herself with the Klaww Gang, only to double cross the founder, Arpeggio and murdered him after she entered Clockwerk's body. They had somehow...fused together and she's now calling herself, Clock-Lita. Arpeggio had constructed his blimp to emit a hypnotic light show that will drive the people of Paris insane, due to them unknowingly eating food covered in the illegal spice that Rajan grew and sold back in India. Once the light show begins...it will somehow make Clock-Lita immortal, which I know sounds incredibly hard to believe...but it's true, since hatred was what kept Clockwerk for thousands of years. If that bitch becomes immortal...she'll be impossible to stop and no one will be safe. If you need to discuss this with Barkley...I understand, but I'm asking you as my best friend from our years as recruits and training partners...please help us. ~ Neyla.' The tigress had typed down on the laptop, informing the wolf detective that Carmelita had been secretly 'working with' Arpeggio...only to betray the British parrot so she could have access to Clockwerk's lifeless body and fusing with the robotic owl to become the newly fused hybrid she had become and explaining the current situation: how the blimp was headed to Paris to unleash a hypnotic light show that would drive the people who unknowingly ate food covered in the illegal substance that the Klaww Gang grew/harvested crazed by hatred...which was what kept the original Clockwerk alive for thousands of years and implored Jack to help her and her friends to stop Clock-Lita before she became immortal, otherwise no one would be safe from the robotic owl/vixen/hybrid before sending the email to his Inbox.

After sending Howlett the email and hoping that he'd receive it in time before it was too late, Neyla headed outside of the hideout...only to see Sly, Murray and Bentley waiting patiently for her and mirrored the soft smile they had on their faces: as she instinctively knew that her lover and teammates wouldn't head out into the field to pull off their assigned jobs without her there. Without wasting a second, Sly and his team had broke into a fast run and separated to reach their own designated RV points to carry out their job assignments. It hadn't taken the raccoon long to locate his designated RV point, as it was located at the top of the hot air balloon above the starboard furnace, which was not to far from the safe house! After a quick climb up the pole that was right next to the furnace and rope to the top of the balloon, he swiftly drew out his Binocucom and contacted his turtle friend.

"In order to disable that engine room, you and I need to are going to work together." Bentley plainly stated, informing his friend and leader that they would need to work together to destroy the second engine to the blimp to weaken Clock-Lita.

"Happy to have you along Bentley. What do you need me to do?" Sly replied, showing he was more than glad to work alongside his friend and tech support and asked how he could help them get them inside the second engine room.

"I need you to pickpocket the guards keys to the engine room. Once you've got the door open, I'll take over." The turtle answered, instructing his friend to pickpocket the five guards carrying the keys to the engine room and once he unlocked the door, he would take care of the rest.

"Consider it done Bent. You should take your position near the door...It shouldn't take me long to lighten those lamebrain guards of their keys." The raccoon replied, showing he understood what he needed to do in order to help his friend to shutdown the second engine in order to weaken Clock-Lita and instructed the turtle to take his place near the locked door, as it wouldn't take him long to relieve the Toucan guards of their keys before they broke contact.

Thanks to the hooks, pipes and cables that ran underneath the walkways/ramps in the center of the aircraft, he could run along unharmed above the fan blades propelling the blimp, along with the poles and hot air balloons he could climb up and leap off to silently sail through the air with his paraglider, Sly was able to sneak up on the five Toucans without alerting them to his presence. Luckily for the raccoon, locating the first Toucan didn't take long...as he was pacing back and forth on the walkways directly beneath the hideout. After obtaining the first key, the raccoon had sprinted through out the blimp and pick-pocketed the remaining four guards. Once he obtained all five keys, Sly had made his way to the blimp's main upper left stern after running across the fan lift, where he spotted Bentley waiting patiently for him to unlock the lever to the security vent to the engine room.

"Okay Bentley, it's all you. Good luck buddy." The raccoon stated as he unlocked and removed the padlocks to the lever, pulled it and unlocked the vent to the engine room, while wishing his friend/teammate the best of luck in shutting down the second engine as he crawled through the vent.

Once inside Engine Block Beta, Murray contacted Bentley through their team radio's, informing his friend that the lower level of the engine block was protected by a sophisticated security system that Arpeggio no doubtingly himself programmed before Carmelita betrayed and killed him: how he needed to destroy the same set of light bulbs spinning around the lower floor with his crossbow in order to deactivate the security system, but there was a catch - the light bulbs were containing raw electricity that was very lethal and if he destroyed a light bulb that was wasn't above/underneath the one he previous shot...the electricity would kill him instantly.

After he understood what he needed to do in order to reach the upper level of Engine Block Beta, Bentley drew out his crossbow and with steady aim, he managed to blow out every light bulb in the same row without shooting the wrong bulb by mistake which deactivated the security lasers that littered the floor. Once he used a trampoline to reach the 2nd level, Murray contacted him again with further advice: how he needed to bomb the security nodes in order to unlock the security door to gain access and shutdown the engine. After learning what he needed to do in order to destroy Engine Beta, Bentley went straight to work at placing planting bombs to destroy the security nodes, while fending off relentless waves of remote control drones that Arpeggio no doubtingly must've built to protect the engine rooms. Once all the nodes were destroyed and drones were dealt with, the security doors to the engine room slid open, the turtle threw the override switch on the main computer console...which deactivated the engine.

"Great job little buddy. That's one less engine for that creepy Clock-Lita thing to draw power from." Murray stated while congratulating his turtle friend on destroying Engine Block Beta before he headed out to search for his own RV point.

~Meanwhile with Murray and Neyla~

After they exited the safe house, it hadn't taken Murray to locate his RV point: as it was on top of a port propeller motor towards the bow...which was at the right end of the catwalk right near the hide out! Once he approached the RV point by using the trampoline right next to the motor, the hippo pulled out his Binocucom and contacted Neyla.

"Murray, I'm going to need your help in order to get inside that engine room. Sly just told me that Bentley destroyed the second engine, so it's up to us to destroy the first one." The tigress stated, informing her friend and teammate that she required his help to destroy the 1st engine block and revealing that their turtle friend just neutralized Engine Beta.

"I'm always happy to help Neyla. What do you need me to do to help you get in there?" The hippo stated while nodding, showing he was glad to hear that the second engine block was destroyed and asked for his objectives, so he could help his feline teammate take out the blimp's first engine.

"According to Bentley, the door to the second engine room is locked down by five wall-mounted power stations scattered throughout this blimp. I need you to destroy all the power stations and then pry open the door by hand." She answered, informing her hippo friend that the security door to Engine Alpha was powered by five power stations scattered through the massive aircraft and one he destroyed them all, that she needed him to use his raw muscle to pry open the security door to the 1st engine room.

"Consider it done Neyla. Those power station will be history in no time." Murray stated, showing he understood what he needed to do in order to help her destroy Engine Alpha and promised that all five power stations would be terminated in a short matter of time before they broke contact.

As soon as they broke contact, the hippo went straight to work at locating and destroying the five power stations. Luckily for Murray...the first station was attached to the girders of the tower in the central walkways towards the bow and more importantly, there were plenty of objects: TNT barrels, wooden crates/barrels and more importantly, Toucan guards for him to use. After taking out the first power station, the hippo took out his Binocucom to locate the remaining four power stations and a smirk slowly grew on his face as he found them on opposite sides of the cargo deck! The 2nd and 3rd power stations were located on the port side platform while the 4th and 5th were on the starboard platform. After he destroyed the remaining four power stations, Murray worked his way up to Engine Block Alpha where Neyla was waiting patiently for him and he immediately went to work at opening the security door to the first engine room.

"Your turn Neyla. Good luck in shutting down that engine." The hippo stated after prying open the door to Engine Alpha and wishing his tigress friend/teammate the best of luck in destroying the 1st engine.

After she stepped inside, Neyla was surprised to see how well protected the first engine block was: as the ground floor was guarded by both a security force field circling and lasers mopping around the floor! But thanks to experience from their previous tasks back in India and Canada, the tigress had skillfully avoided being torched by the lasers as they strafed left/right across the ground floor and security field until she reached the opposite side of the room, where she used a trampoline to reach the 2nd level...where she would discover a much more complicated security system. After she reached the 2nd level, Neyla's eyes had widened in surprise as the entire safety glass like floor was covered in security lasers designed in a spider web like pattern, with saw blades embedded in slots and much to her utter disbelief, the security field had also reached to the 2nd floor!

However...the tigress was not the slightest discouraged by the highly sophisticated security system, as she carefully studied the movement of both the saw blades and security field. After mentally noting how one saw blade was motionless while the the spun for a few seconds, she began her extremely dangerous feat: ninja spire jumping between the saw blades across the security laser covered floor! Once she made it to the engine control room, the tigress spotted Arpeggio's personal safe and contacted her raccoon to inform him of its location.

"Sly, it's me. I found Arpeggio's personal safe...he had it hidden here in the first engine block." She stated softly, informing her lover that she had found the deceased British parrot's personal vault much to his great surprise.

"That's great work my beautiful tigress. I'm on my way." The raccoon replied, congratulating his tigress lover on finding the parrot's safe and informed her that he was on his way to the first engine block and once inside, it hadn't taken Sly to long to work his way from the ground floor to the control room where he approached the safe and contacted Bentley

"Arpeggio really knew his encryption algorithms. After thoroughly studying all the clues...I'm only 86.5% convinced that the code to the vault is 7-2-5." His turtle friend stated, complimenting the deceased British parrot's high intellect as the clues that Sly and Neyla collected were difficult to decipher and gave him the combination to the safe...while sounding a bit unsure if the numbers he advised were accurate, especially since he blamed himself for Clock-Lita being 'born'. If he hadn't told his raccoon and tigress friends/teammates to reverse the polarity to the magnetic inducers, Carmelita never would've been able to enter Clockwerk's lifeless body and become the hybrid/abomination she had became.

Sly had inputted the numbers that his friend and tech support suggested and much to his and Neyla's delight...the combination was correct, as the door to the safe opened and the gadget resting inside was actually an old family technique that brought a bright grin to the raccoon's face: the Shadow Power gadget! After witnessing her raccoon swiftly snagging the gadget out of safe and replacing it with his family clan calling card, Neyla threw the lever on the main console which deactivated Engine Alpha.

"Two engines down, two more to go babe." The raccoon stated in a flirting manner while embracing his feline lover and planting his lips over hers in a burning passionate kiss, which Neyla eagerly returned with equal passion.

"Did you have any luck getting through to Jack?" He asked softly, wondering if his tigress had any success in contacting the wolf detective.

"I'm really hoping that I did Ringtail. Because if he didn't get my email before this flying jigsaw puzzle arrives to Paris...we're pretty much screwed." She answered truthfully, admitting that she wasn't entirely sure if Howlett had received her email and was really hoping that Jack got her message...otherwise they were all doomed once the hate light show went off after reaching Paris.

~Meanwhile with Bentley and Murray~

After exiting the control room to Engine Beta, Bentley had worked and fought his way back towards the safe house, as his designated RV point was located on the starboard propeller motor, which was parallel to where his hippo friend's RV point! Once he approached his RV point, the turtle drew out his Binocucom and contacted Murray.

"That's the third engine block that needs to be destroyed. I won't lie to you Murray, this job is going to require both of skills in order to weaken Clock-Lita." The turtle stated, informing his friend/teammate that breaking into the 3rd engine room required them both to work together in order to pull them the extra time they needed to weaken the robotic owl/vixen hybrid.

"I hear that Bentley. What do we need to do to get at the third engine?" His hippo stated and asked, as he clearly knew that it was up to him to destroy Engine Block Delta.

"First, I'll need to hack the three security terminals controlling access to the engine room. Then Murray, you'll need to head on inside and use your muscle to finish the job." Bentley stated, explaining that he would need to hack the three security computers scattered throughout the blimp, to bypass the security system to the 3rd engine room and once he was once inside, it would be all up to the hippo to shutdown the 3rd engine block.

"The Murray" will be ready to go." Murray answered plain and simple, showing that he would be ready action once his turtle friend and teammate unlocked the security door to Engine Delta before they broke contact.

After placing the Binocucom back in his shell, Bentley had gone straight to work at locating and hacking the three security terminals scattered through the blimp. Finding the first computer wasn't that difficult...but getting past the security drones stored inside the terminals was not a walk in the park: as Arpeggio had no doubtingly created the security drones stored inside the computers: as they their armor was slightly tougher than the standard drones from the previous security system. Although...the crafty turtle also made a few improvements to his digital avatar: strengthening the armor to his avatar's defenses and having his Hacker Code laser fire bounce off the walls: taking out the enemy drones and clearing the path to reach the security slot. Once he hacked the first terminal, the turtle hacked into the two remaining security computers: one underneath the part cabin, at the stern's upper deck and where was the third terminal? It was directly near Engine Block Delta, much to his great delight before hacking the computer and deactivating the security system and opening the door to the 3rd engine block!

"Make way for the Murray!" Bentley playfully stated, wishing his hippo friend and teammate the best of luck in deactivating the 3rd engine before glancing up to the sky: as they could see Clock-Lita circling above them...as if daring them to run back towards the safe house, so she could kill them with the explosives she continued to drop from her talons.

After he stepped inside the engine block, Sly informed his hippo friend that he needed lift up the multiple plugs dangling directly above the outlets in order to reach the upper level...but needed to be careful, as the Toucan guards would no doubtingly come running if an alarm had alerted them to intruders inside engine room Delta. Once he learned what was needed in order to reach the upper floor, Murray had gone straight to work at lifting up the plugs...while getting into a fist fight with the Toucan guards, who foolishly attempted to prevent the hippo from reaching the 2nd level, only for the pathetic excuse for hired 'help' to lay beside each other and sprawled all around the floor, while cawing/moaning in pain from his insanely powerful fists!

Once the hippo had lifted up all the plugs from the ground floor, he used a trampoline to reach the second level of the engine block, where his raccoon friend and leader gave him further instructions: how Murray needed to perform the Thunder Flop on all the plugs...as the plugs were the primary connection to the security doors to the control room. After learning how the large sized cylinders were connected to the locked security doors, Murray began using the Thunder Flop to destroy the plugs...along with the RC security drones that attempted to stop him...only for the hippo to destroy the drones with a single powerful hook or uppercut, that sent the little drones bouncing up/down across the floor! After he destroyed the final cylinder and last of the drones, Murray entered the control room and threw the lever on the main console, which deactivated Engine Delta!

"Great job big guy! Another engine bites the dust! Just one more engine to go and Clock-Lita should be weakened before we arrive to Paris." Sly stated, congratulating his hippo friend on a job well down: as they destroyed three of the four engines and how the robotic owl/vixen hybrid would be drained of energy so they could destroy her before the blimp arrived to Paris and the auto-pilot activated the hypnotic light show to make Clock-Lita immortal.

~Meanwhile with Sly and Neyla~

After they exited engine room Alpha, the two lovers had paraglided down to their final RV point: which they found on top of a structural joint that was down in the cargo hold of the blimp while glancing through their Binocucoms. Once they landed directly on the structural joint right near their , the raccoon and tigress pulled out their Binocucoms to contact Bentley.

"That's the final engine Sly: Engine Block Gamma. But we've got a problem: there's no door or vent for us to sneak inside...so need to destroy it from the outside." Their turtle friend stated, informing his friends/teammates that Engine Gamma was the final engine they needed to destroy, but revealed they could't sneak inside as there were no vents or security doors for them to sneak inside and the only means of destroying the fourth and final engine was by blowing it up from the outside.

"We don't suppose you're carrying some serious explosives Bent...because that engine room isn't that small." Sly stated, showing he understood how Engine Gamma was the final engine block they needed to destroy and asked if he was packing power explosives...as he and his tigress lover could tell that ordinary explosives would be strong enough to destroy the fourth/final engine.

"Well, today is our lucky day. Arpeggio's crew already have an instantly prepared supply of explosive barrels already on the blimp. All you and Neyla have to do is walk a TNT barrel over to the engine room in order to destroy it." Bentley stated, revealing to his raccoon and tigress friends that the blimp already had TNT barrel chute disposing instantly prepared barrels and how it was up to one of them to jump inside and walk the explosive towards Engine Gamma in order to destroy it.

"Alright, sounds easy enough. What's the catch?" Neyla asked, as she and her raccoon immediately knew that walking a single TNT barrel to the fourth and final engine block wouldn't be enough and suspected there was a catch to their final field job.

"The initial payload inside that TNT barrel is strong, but it won't be powerful enough for the job. If you or Sly could pick up three magnetic chargers, you guys should achieve the necessary fire power to destroy the engine. It should be worth mentioning that the chargers will automatically attach to the barrel you or Sly are hiding in Neyla." Her turtle friend answered truthfully, explaining that the initial blasting powder stored inside the TNT barrels wouldn't be strong enough to destroy Engine Gamma and by only picking up three special chargers, they would obtain the power they would need to take out the final engine!

"All right...let's blow stuff up!" Sly stated, showing he was entertaining the idea of taking out the unsuspecting Toucan guards with whatever TNT barrel he jumped in and also understood that he and his tigress needed to collect three chargers in order to give whatever barrel they jump in the power boost it needed to destroy the final engine block before the three of them broke contact.

"Neyla...do you want to walk the barrel to the engine block? Or do you want to deal with the idiot guards who get in our way?" He asked softly while turning to his feline lover, wondering if she wanted to walk the TNT barrel to collect the chargers or if she wanted to deal with the guards whom would try to stop them.

"You can walk the TNT barrel to the engine block Ringtail. I'll deal with those idiot birdbrains." Neyla answered plain and softly, informing her raccoon that she would deal with the Toucans while he collected the chargers and walked the TNT barrel over to Engine Block Gamma.

"Alright babe. Let's do this." Her raccoon replied before they locked lips in a sweet and tender kiss, before he leaped into the very first TNT barrel that the chute ejected.

After her lover jumped into the explosive barrel, the tigress had protect Sly as they walked towards the 1st booster that was on the port side walkways on the side platform next to the cargo hold. Once they obtained the first magnetic charger, the two lovers had collected the remaining two power boosters and fought their way up the final engine block...but not before cautiously crossing a vector fan lift, especially Sly, because if he ended up sliding off the lift, he'd end up losing both the barrel and boosters. But thankfully, the wily raccoon never fell off the fan lift as he and his tigress studied the movements of the vector fan lifts, as they made it safely to the engine block and placed the fully powered up TNT barrel on the roof of the final engine room! Once the explosives were placed in the center of Engine Gamma, the raccoon and his tigress ran for cover and smiled as the final engine was destroyed and useless to the robotic owl/vixen hybrid.

"Let's see that mechanical bitch Carmelita draw power from this engine." Neyla muttered softly as she and her lover spotted the newly reborn Clock-Lita screeching out angrily...as she clearly saw them destroy the final engine to the blimp!

"Let's head on back to the hide out my beautiful tigress. Tomorrow will be our only chance to destroy that robotic freak of nature before we reach Paris and we need to be 100% for our last fight." Sly stated to his tigress, suggesting that they head back to the hide out to rest up: as tomorrow was going to be their last fight against the hybrid and they needed to 100% ready, both physically and mentally...otherwise, they were doomed once Clock-Lita became immortal after they reached Paris.

Without wasting a further second, the two lovers headed back to the hide out and were relieved to see Bentley and Murray waiting for them. After they embraced and congratulated each other on a job well done out in the field, as all four engines were destroyed which meant...Clock-Lita would be in a weakened state that would make her vulnerable to be destroyed. After remembering that tomorrow would be their confrontation with the robotic owl/hybrid to prevent her from obtaining immortality, Sly and his team laid out the blankets, sleeping mattresses and pillows they had placed in the Northern Light battery after rendering it useless and making it safe to hide in before they lost all their Clockwerk Parts to Bison.

While Bentley and Murray had laid and slept on their own 'beds' in order to catch up on some sleep, Sly had laid down on his 'bed' while holding Neyla close as she rested her head right on his chest and closed her eyes while smiling, as she listened to the steady rate of her lover's heart beating. As he and his family/team eventually fell to sleep, the raccoon could only hope that Jack had received his tigress's email and found them just in time...as he greatly feared that Clockwerk would continue to plague his family line, especially with Carmelita now in control of his body ms she could have her meaningless revenge against him and his tigress.

'Jack...please hurry.' Sly mentally stated, praying and begging for Howlett to find the deceased British parrot's blimp...especially before it was too late and when Clock-Lita became immortal from the hypnotic light show once they arrived to Paris.

A/N: There it is everyone, the first chapter to the Anatomy for Disaster episode. I would like to deeply apologize to my viewers and fellow Fanfic authors for the insanely long wait. I know I promise to have this chapter posted last month in January. I've just...been going through a rough patch the last two months. I've been dealing with extremely hectic shifts at the hospital where I work in the kitchen and struggling to find the time to work on my fanfic stories.

The next chapter, where Jack helps the Cooper Gang defeat and destroy Clock-Lita and Bentley becomes paraplegic when he tries to retrieves the Hate Chip from Clock-Lita's mouth will be posted something next weekend, during the beginning of March.

Until next time, take care and have a good night.