Arthur woke up underwater. He saw a sea of yellow fish in the distance. That meant only one thing: piranhas. Arthur dreaded piranhas. Piranhas are fish that eat people. It sounds like a science fiction story, but it's true. Arthur tried to swim away from the piranhas. The piranhas swam up to Arthur. Luckily, Arthur has the ability to swam very fast. Arthur could see a shore line in the distance. Arthur swam towards the shore. All of a sudden, he felt a sharp stinging in his left hand. He quickly got out of the water. He turned toward the water. The water was blood red. He looked at his left hand. It was gone. In place of it was a bloody stump. It was squirting blood. Arthur screamed very loud. He tried to run. Every footstep felt extremely heavy, as if we weighed 50 tons. Arthur was still wearing his costume. It was night out. He saw the Eiffel Tower in the distance. He walked in an empty train yard. He saw his brother, Orm in the distance. Orm saw Arthur and he ran towards him. Orm was shocked when he saw Arthur's bleeding hand stump. Arthur and Orm both saw an abandoned train car in front of them.
"Orm." Arthur said weakly. He was in a lot of pain. He was losing blood fast. "I want you to see if that train car has any people in it. Tell them to take me to the nearest hospital."
"Okay." Orm said. Orm ran up to the train car and knocked on the door. Arthur's vision was getting blurry. The last thing that Arthur saw before passing out was the train car opening and a raccoon standing in the doorway. He passed out due to blood loss.
"Help. My brother's hand is gone and it's bleeding." Orm said to the raccoon standing in the doorway. "He needs to go to the hospital!"
The raccoon ran over to where Arthur was laying. He saw a horrific sight. in front of the raccoon was a 13 year old human boy, whose left hand was gone and was bleeding profusely. The raccoon grabbed Arthur and dragged him into his hideout. Sly and his gang didn't know what to do with Arthur. They were worried that Arthur might die of blood loss while on the way to the hospital. Sly and his friends decided to heal Arthur in their hideout. Sly brought Arthur into his hideout.
Arthur woke up a few hours later. His vision was blurry. When his vision cleared, he saw a grey male anthropomorphic raccoon standing in front of him, along with a green anthropomorphic turtle and a anthropomorphic magenta hippopotamus.
"Where am I?" Arthur asked aloud.
"You're in my hideout." the raccoon in front of Arthur said.
Arthur looked at his surroundings. The hideout was spectacular. It had 3 bedrooms upstairs, along with a kitchen table with 4 tables. Arthur walked around the kitchen.
"Wow." Arthur said.
"Yeah, I know." said the raccoon.
Arthur turned toward the grey raccoon person. By now, he was used to animals walking around and talking like humans. Arthur wondered if he was ever going to back to the human world. Will he just continue to hop across different time periods in this strange world? Arthur looked at his left hand. Or what used to be his left hand. His left hand was completely gone. What remained was nothing but a bloody stump that was wrapped in bandages.
"What type of creature are you?" the turtle said to the human boy.
"I'm a human." Arthur said.
"Human?" the turtle asked in confusion.
"Yes." Arthur said. "You never heard of a human before?"
"No." the raccoon said. "We never heard of a human before."
Arthur was surprised at neither the turtle, raccoon or hippo had ever heard of a human before. It was mind blowing. Suddenly, Orm came downstairs. He took one look at Arthur and hugged him.
"Arthur!" Orm said excitedly. "Glad you're okay."
Arthur hugged his 5 year old brother back. Arthur turned back towards the raccoon, turtle and hippo.
"This is my brother Orm." Arthur said to the 3 animals.
"Orm?" the raccoon asked. "What kind of a name is that?"
"Orm is my brother's name." Arthur said. "If you don't like it, you can kiss my ass."
Arthur walked toward the kitchen. Orm followed him. Arthur sat down at the kitchen table. He could smell spaghetti cooking on the stove top.
"What's your name?" Arthur asked the raccoon.
"My name is Sly Cooper." the raccoon said. "These are my friends, Bentley and Murray." Sly said, introducing his friends to Arthur.
The 13 year old human's mind raced back to the moment in the helicopter. Arthur was in the helicopter, along with Sly and Carmelita. Sly had previously introduced Arthur. to him. That was shortly before Arthur got drunk and fell out of the helicopter. Could this raccoon be the same raccoon he'd met in the helicopter?
"Hi, Sly, Murray and Bentley." Arthur said. "Nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too, Arthur." Sly said.
He had a bright grin on his face. Soon, dinner was ready. Sly, Bentley, Murray, Arthur & Orm all ate their spaghetti. After dinner, Arthur listened to some Beach Boys records on his portable record player. He began to think about living here. It's already bad enough that he hand only one hand. He stopped the music after a while. He decided to tell Bentley that he wanted to see if he could build him a robotic hand. The thirteen year old boy walked into the turtle's room. The turtle seemed to be hard at work at something that was on his computer. Arthur gently nudged the turtle using his right human hand. The turtle looked up from the computer screen and looked at Arthur.
"Hey Bentley, I was wondering if you could build me a robotic hand for me. I'd hate to be one handed like this forever." Arthur asked Bentley.
"Sure, Arthur. I can most certainly build you a robotic hand." Bentley said to the kid.
"Excellent. I want you to build it for me as soon as possible." Arthur said.
"I will build a robotic hand for you as soon as possible." Bentley said.
The turtle went back to his work on his computer. Arthur walked out of Bentley's room. He was eager to receive his robotic hand from Bentley. He opened up his journal as he sat down on the couch. He began to write his entry.