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Sly jumped from wire to wire. He landed on a nearby rooftop of a warehouse to the old warehouse, Bentley told him that where may be the stolen pages from the Thievius Racconus. He was about commence Operation: Energy Heist, though he found the name to be unoriginal and just plain terrible. He noticed a truck approaching the old warehouse, that Bentley said contained strange energy.

"What are they doing?" He asked himself. As soon as he asked that question, five figures in black cloaks started to appear out from the old warehouse. Workers also appeared, they were a bunch of rhinos holding machine guns, however the five figures took of their hoods to be revealed as: a female tiger, a male lion, a female bull, a male crocodile, and a female pig. Sly used his Binocucom to zoom on what they saying.

The female tiger first spoke, "Master Morbius will be pleased. We have recovered the pages from that stupid Cooper family of thieves."

The male crocodile agreed, "Indeed, Ms. T. Though, I'm not sure how his unrational apprentice Shadowis would feel. He'll just scold us down like we're inferior to him. All because he's from outer space and that we're earthlings."

The male lion then started to speak "I disagree, Mr. C. Shadowis is a insignificant bigot against us, earthlings. But now, we, the Masters of Doom shall rise upon the galaxy and rule it with an iron fist." To that the other started to agree, Mr. C stated "Fair enough, Mr. L."

"Mr. L, did you contact Mr. O? See how he's doing with capturing those heroes." The female bull asked.

Mr. L replied to Ms. B, the female bull, "No, I have not. Mr. O appears to have his communicator broken. He always does that. The clumsy idiot."

The female pig, Ms. P added "Why does he always do that? Is he in another fight?"

Ms. T suggested "Probably, he is. Poor fool, always gets himself into trouble."

Mr. L ordered " Ms. P, go with Mr. C to the communications room and try to contact Mr. Z. Ask him about the Q-Crystal? And tell him that we have collected the pages."

Ms. P complied "Understood." As Ms. P and Mr. C went inside the warehouse, unbeknownst to them Sly was leaping across to the warehouse they were headed. He contacted Bentley with his Binucucom.

(Binocucom Talk)

Sly (whispers): Bentley, you there.

Bentley: Yes, what seems to be the problem, Sly? And why're you whispering?

Sly (whispers): I'm whispering because I've entered the lion's den. Listen to me, I've just found out who stole the pages from the Thievius Racconus. It's our buddies at some truck dropout that they're working from sort of organization known as the Masters of Doom.

Bentley: "Masters of Doom?" Kinda of a cheesy name, don't you think? And I don't I've ever heard that organization before. Is it some kind of a shadow organization?

Sly (whispers): Never mind the name. Apparently, we're also dealing some kind of alien stuff from outer space. They mentioned they work for someone known as Morbius.

Bentley: Wait, aliens? Aliens aren't real, Sly. And Morbius? Sounds like a deadly name. But how can you be sure that this is "aliens" at work?

Sly (whispers): Would you believe me if I said I'm basing this off instincts?

Bentley: Yeah, actually I would.

Sly (whispers): So, do you want me to scout more on these people?

Bentley: No, Murray is going to begin phase one of Operation: Energy Heist.

(End Binocucom Talk)


[Back side of old warehouse]

Murray knocks two rhino guards out, now to ready to commence phase one of the operation. He smashed the backdoor of the warehouse, and shouted "'The Murray' is ready for some action!" A bunch of rhinos were astonished by his entrance. One think set out to shoot him, but Murray lifted up one of the guards and threw him at the one trying to shoot him, knocking him out. Two more tried to attack him, Murray lifted one of them up, and threw one at the other knocking them out.

Mr. C and Ms. P were about to enter the communications room to contact Mr. Z when Ms. P asked "What's all that commotion going on the back?"

"Go check it out. I'll contact Mr. Z." Mr. C ordered.

Ms. P nodded, and went towards wherever the commotion was coming from. She walked for a few steps noticing the pink male hippopotamus throwing her rhino guards around like ragdolls. "Hey! What are you doing?!" She shouted.

Murray looked at her and muttered "Oooh! That's my cue!" He was about to exit the warehouse when he noticed Ms. P flying towards him and taking him up in the air of the warehouse.

"WHOA! How are you flying?! You're only a pig!" He exclaimed.

"There's a lot of things, you don't know!" Ms. P retorted.

She twirled him around by holding onto his left arm and then flung across the warehouse, making a huge boom noise.

Ms. P then started to fly towards wondering where she may have grown the hippocampus at.

Murray groaned for a bit and stated to himself "That crazy pig-lady is freaking strong." Hearing a voice behind him, Murray turned to see who it was, realizing too quick that it was the crazy pig-lady, he decided to do his Thunder Flop. A powerful belly flop that cause an entire shock wave. Murray orients his body parallel with the ground and slay hos arms and legs, then falls towards the for ground at high speed, slamming down to be precise.


[Outside Front of the warehouse]

Ms. T asked "What's that huge noise? What's going on in there?" She was about to enter inside, before Ms. B added "Don't go in now. Shadow was very specific that stupid Cooper and his gang may come here. I'm going to assume Ms. P is probably fighting in there.

Mr. L chuckled "So, they've finally came. Lets greet them after we see what's in the packages."

The back truck door opened to see a huge amount of cardboard boxes distributed one by one with forklifts. Mr. L approached of them with a strange purple symbol of a dragons head, and a red circle surrounding the head. On the red circle, there are words written as "Meisters Von Untergang" (A/N: that means Masters of Doom in German).

He opened the box and saw the object inside the box. He smirked and muttered "Yes. This is what Master Morbius wanted." It was a strange artifact. Ms. T and Ms. B both looked at strangely confused.

Ms. T asked "A glove?"

Ms. B asked "No, it's a gauntlet."

Mr. L revealed "You're right, Ms. B, it is a gauntlet, but it's a weapon of mass destruction." Looking at the object even closely enough, he noticed that it was big, very metallic, with red, blue, and purple lines running across the gauntlet's palm.

"It's amazing what weapons can do." Mr. L muttered as he was about to touch it, the gauntlet's palm fired a blue energy wave with purple streaking out of its palm into Mr. L 's eyes. He screamed horrifically.

Ms. B shouted "Mr. L!"

The energy wave dispelled from his eyes and from the gauntlet. Ms. T and Ms. P looked at each other then back at Mr. L who didn't talk for a few seconds.

Ms. T started to approach her comrade, and asked "Mr. L? Are you alright?"

She could sense something was wrong with him, but she didn't know what it was that just happened him. He turned startling Ms. T and Ms. B who gasped at his sight.

Mr. L had lost his green eyes in replacement of new ones. The new ones were just pure black, pure darkness, and pure evil at its core.

Mr. L had his voice replaced by some demonic one and stated "You can't escape the darkness."

"Mr. L, what is the matter with you?" Ms. B asked worryingly of her comrade.

He repeated what he just said "You can't escape the darkness."

Ms. T added "No, something is wrong with him. He's become pure evil, almost like..."

"Shadowis." Ms. B finished her sentence for her.

"You can't escape the darkness." He repeated his phrase over and over, until he heard noise from inside the warehouse, and started to hover above the ground. The blue energy wave was fired from his hands and purple lightning sparked out from his eyes, looking a demon.


[Inside the warehouse]

After Murray did his Thunder Flop, Ms. P was slammed into the ground. She groaned in a little pain from his Murray's attack.

Ms. P got up, trying to reject the pain, and shouted "You'll pay for th-" A blue energy wave with purple lightning streaking out of it fired at Ms. P across the room, pushing into a wall, destroying the wall, and outside. It was very powerful at least Murray thought, but he asked "Where did that weird energy wave come from?"

He looked to see, a hovering figure (known as Mr. L) approaching him.

"And who are you?" Murray asked, feeling somewhat afraid of this figure.

"You can't escape the darkness." He replied, repeating his phrase to the pink hippopotamus.

He fired the same blue energy wave with the purple lightning streaking out at Murray.

Murray tried to dodge it, running for some cover.

"You can't escape the darkness." The hovering Mr. L repeated again.


[In outer space on a far away planet]

Mr. O kept shouting "Ooooh!" He rolled to his side on the ground and groaned vs n louder.

"What in the name of-" Before Ratchet could finish his question, Mr. O jerked his head towards the heroes and pleaded "Please kill me! Please stop this pain!"

Clank asked kindly "Please, sir. Please don't try to plead into killing you."

He grabbed the little robot abruptly, Ratchet shouted "Hey!"

About to attack Mr. O with his OmniWrench, Jak grabbed his hand, preventing him from grabbing his wrench, and making Ratchet angry.

"But he's going to-" Jak pointed to Clank, showing Ratchet that Clank is fine, and that Mr. O is breathing heavily trying to hold in the pain.

"It's ok, sir. We can allot you to medical services on this...," He looked around and finished sentence, "planet?"

"No, I don't need some stinking medical services. I want you to kill me. Please! Before he takes over my body!" He clearly shouted, while shaking the little robot.

"Whose going to take over your body? What are you even talking about?" Jak asked Mr. O, as he breathed even heavier than before.

He struggled to speak "M... Mor... Morib... Morbius. My... mas-master is Morbius. He's goin-"

"You said before that you may not dare speak your master's name. But you're saying his name like it's like it's nothing to you now. What are you, a hypocrite?" Jak asked threatening Mr. O.

Mr. O was on a verge of losing his breath than his eyes started to turn from blue to just pure black.

His reply to Jak was "You can't escape the darkness."

Jak and Ratchet asked in unison "What?"

"You can't escape the darkness." He repeated as he dropped Clank on the ground, fiercely. Ratchet started to approach, but before he could do that, Mr. O roundhouse kicked him on the chest, the kick was so powerful that Ratchet rocketed off into a nearby tree.

Clank shouted for his friend's health "Ratchet!"

Mr. O turned to see Clank and repeated his phrase "You can't escape the darkness." Mr. O was about to charge at Clank before Jak fired from his Wave Concussor. Mr. O jerked his head towards Jak and used one of his shadow tendrils to swipe away his weapon.

Daxter hid behind Jak's legs, and stated "Aaah! Jak! I'm so scared of this, guy. he went from being a goofball of a villain to this scary psycho!"

Jak took a battle stance ready to fight Mr. O. Just as he did that, Mr. O went past Jak and Daxter, using his left leg to kick Daxter in the face, his left elbow to hit Jak. Daxter fell across the ground and hit a nearby tree. Jak did a handspring on the ground, landed on the ground, regaining balnce on his feet.

"You can't escape the darkness." He repeated his mantra.

"Is that some sort of mantra? Or what?" Jak asked. He's very fast. Jak thought to himself about Mr. O's recent speed.

Mr. O charged at Jak, doing the first punch with a right fist, Jak dodged and blocked the punch with his left hand, Mr. O performs a powerful punch, elbow, kick, and knees Jak in the stomach. Mr. O faces away from Jak, then as he charges towards him to attack, he kicks out backwards and sends Jak rolling away.

Mr. O repeated the phrase, "You can't escape the darkness."


[Back on Earth, specifically, inside at the old warehouse]

Mr. L fired the energy wave again at Murray who tried dodging the energy wave by runni8ng for more cover.

Murray ran towards the backdoor and exited the warehouse, as he did that he noticed the a decomposed body of Ms. P. Her skin is peeled off, only her a skeleton version of herself. However, the hovering Mr. L fired his energy wave through a wall making a huge hole in it. As he exited the warehouse, Murray quickly dashed back inside the warehouse.

As he did that, he noticed Sly running towards him. "Sly!" He noticed Mr. L about to reenter the warehouse, about to fire his energy wave at Sly.

"Wait, Sly! He's gonna fire that energy wave at you! Watch out!" Murray shouted worryingly.

Mr. L fired the energy wave again, but this time at Sly. Quickly realizing what was happening Sly stopped running before he could reach where the energy wave was aimed at him.

Murray sighed in relief and stated "You almost had me worried, pal."

"Sorry, Murray. Anyway, whose our new party member?" Sly asked wondering who this guy was.

Murray replied "I don't know who he is. But he's dangerous."

"You can't escape the darkness." Mr. L repeated his mantra.

"Oh, he keeps repeating that phrase." Murray pointed out.

"Good to know." Sly added as he took a battle stance.

Mr. L was about to fire another energy wave, but before he could he started to saying a different phrase "Yes, master."

He started to fly outside of warehouse, Sly and Murray chased after him, but they couldn't catch him. The reason... he was flying up in the air, or maybe even into space.

How is that possible?! Sly thought.

"Whoa! Did you see that Sly? he flew up in-" Sly finished his sentence for him, "Flew up into space. I know I saw him, too. But... just... how is it that possible?"

"Want to ask Bentley?" Murray suggested while Sly replied with a grin on his face "Yeah. Nice idea, bud."

However, before they could get to Bentley, Mr. C, Ms. T, and Ms. B were holding guns aimed at their heads.

Mr. C ordered "Not so fast, Cooper. We're not letting you go anywhere. it's the end of the line."

Ms. B stated "We have taken your stupid pages from the Thievius Racconus. We've just traded off for our new weapon."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Explain what happened to your comrade who just flew up into space?!" Sly gestured with his index finger to the sky.

Ms. T and Ms. B lowered their guns somewhat, but Mr. C looked at them both wondering what were they doing.

"What are you two doing? Ms. T! Ms. B! Cooper is right there! We can end him! They even attacked Ms. P!" Mr. C shouted at them both who still lowered their weapons.

Murray defended "That wasn't us. That was your friend who just started firing energy waves at us."

"No, we can't." Ms. T said to Mr. C, Ms. B added "The comrade you're talking about that flew into space, he's Mr. L. Our leader of this group. We are Team 3. We were sent here by his apprentice., Shadowis."

"Whose apprentice? Morbius?" Sly asked kindly to Ms. B

Ms. B nodded "Yes, Master Morbius. We were sent by his apprentice who has placed a bounty on heroes from all other worlds. You, Jak, and Ratchet are the most targeted."

"Wait, whose Jak and Ratchet?" Sly asked now even more confused.

"Jak and Ratchet are heroes from other worlds." Ms. T replied.

"Other worlds?" This time Murray asked, feeling confused about what they were talking.

"You seem very vague on this topic. Perhaps, explain yourself without being so vague." Sly mentioned.

Mr. C sighed and lowered his gun "Fine. I'll explain it better. We are the Masters of Doom. We work for an intergalactic warlord who once had dominated all of the galaxy with an iron fist. Unfortunately, he fell out of power when someone defeated him. That someone was the Warrior of the Universe. But that warrior was believed to be a myth. Like he dispelled into thin air. And then one day, another warrior approached the Warrior of the Universe challenging him to a duel. the one who wins proclaims the title of Warrior of the Universe. However, the challenging warrior lost to the Warrior of the Universe. That challenging warrior, becoming enraged, kept training every single day, till his body gave out. He challenged the Warrior of the Universe again. He still lost. Still enraged, the warrior trained again. Challenged the Warrior of the Universe again and still he lost. This went on for two years, every single day he trained and still lost to the Warrior of the Universe. Then on the last day, he lost, he gave up hope. The challenging warrior became so enraged that he came to Morbius's grave. No one was suppose to find that grave. Only the Warrior of the Universe can see it, but since the challenging warrior was so stubborn to win. Morbius's spirit arose from his grave, at least that's what we've been told. Since that day, the challenging warrior was trained by Morbius's spirit until he became the well-known apprentice of Morbius, Shadowis."

"Shadowis?" Sly asked.

Mr. C stated "Good to see you following the story," he continued "Anyway, Shadowis became well-known by his torture on civilians, assassinations and hunting of heroes from other worlds, conquering other planets by his doing, and worshipping Morbius like he's some sort of god."

Sly said, feeling a bit scared from where this story is going, "I... see."

"Shadowis is ruthless, doesn't for others, respects his men, but he hates earthlings. He has huge disdain for us, earthlings. Naturally, due what he heard about us being weak, stupid, and believing we are the only ones in the universe." Mr. C stated.

Ms. T remarked "You have to believe us. I know this sounds insane, just hearing it now. We, once, thought we were hearing some sort made-up sci-fi story. But once we saw Shadowis and for who he was. We didn't want to cross our offer to join the Masters of Doom."

"Who offered you these positions?" Sly asked, now curious.

"It was Mr. Z" Ms. B replied.

"And Mr. Z is?" Murray asked.

"Mr. Z is the leader of all Agents A-Z. We are split into teams. Team 1 is Mr. G, Ms. H, Mr. K, and Mr. E. Team 2 consists of Mr. I, Ms. F, Ms. S , Ms. N. Team 3 is us, aloow us to introduce ourselves." Ms. B replied.

"I'm Mr. C."

"I'm Ms. B."

"I'm Ms. T"

"Our pig comrade is Ms. P and the none who flew up into space was Mr. L." Ms. T explained.

"And why'd you join this movement?" Sly asked.

"Because I was living in poverty." Mr. C answered, not trying to remember his past life.

"Because I had lost my husband and have three children to feed. I needed the money." Ms. T replied sadly.

"Because I had no job and no where else to go." Ms. B replied, looking away from Sly and Murray.

"And if you needed money, why join them if you're going to commit crimes?" Sly asked.

"It's easy living on the streets everyday, asking for some money from other people, you don't even know, just to get some food to eat to fill your stomach. To strive away from hunger." Mr. C replied and continued "I knew what I was getting. And I'll be glad to go prison for it. Besides, aren't you a thief?"

"I only steal from other thieves." scowled Sly.

"Don't get the bright idea that just because we told our information of our organization, doesn't we-" Ms. T was interrupted by the beeping heard from the communications room.

"It's Mr. Z." Ms. B confirmed.

"Of all the time to..." Mr. C muttered, he knew now wasn't the time to call, so he was to order Ms. B and Ms. T to respond while he took care of the Cooper Gang. However, a voice was heard, "I'll answer him." Team 3 jerked their heads towards Sly who was walking to the communications room.

Mr. C annoyed "Wait, Cooper! What do you think you're doing?! You don't know what you're meddling yourself into?!"

"What harm is it that I talk to your boss?" Sly asked wondering what he was so frustrated about.

Murray looked at Team 3's faces, they looked very worried about something.

Murray suggested "Sly! I think you should listen to them."

"Not you too, pal. Listen, I'm only talk to your boss for a few seconds. where's the harm in that?" Sly stated as he approached closer to the communications room. As he entered the beep was still going on and he heard where it was coming from. He moved closer to the computer panel and pressed a green button that stopped the beep, but also a hologram of strange man appeared on top of the computer panel. "Whoa, wish Bentley was here to see this." Sly muttered to himself as he asked a kind hello.

"Hello, to you. Who are you? Where's Team 3? Especially, Mr. C." Sly assumed this man must be Mr. Z, so he decided to answer him, "I'm Sly Cooper. Tema 3 is outside taking of care something."

"Yeah, they were supposed to take of you, hero." Mr. Z stated, sounding annoyed.

"Well, I'm sorry. But can we at least talk?" Sly asked kindly, as Mr. Z retorted "I don't what kind of game you're playing with me, hero. But it's not going to work. I'll have report to Commander Shadowis that Team 3 has failed to capture you. And that the deal is off!" Mr. Z's hologram was shut off, at least to Sly's point of view, and out came a red alert concerning the whole warehouse.

Ms. B muttered "No..."

Mr. C put his hands on his ears and muttered "No way.. he's..."

Ms. T finished their sentences for them "He's going to send Commander Shadowis after us."

Murray screamed "What?! Shadowis is coming here!"

"Yeah, and its all thanks to your stupid raccoon friend!" Mr. C scowled at Murray.

Ms. T shouted "That's it! No more Mr. Nice-Guys! We're going to deal with you,. Cooper Gang once and for all. At least for Shadowis's sake."

Ms. t started to charge at Murray with a punch, Murray blocked and threw across the room, landing on the floor. Mr. C elbows Murray in the stomach and hits him on his legs with his crocodile tail, turning them around. He then double slaps Murray on his back, knocking him away onto the floor.

Inside the communications room, Sly hears the commotion outside and decides to settle in with the problem.


[Back in space, on a far away planet]

Jak was getting tired from fighting Mr. O.

Mr. O repeated the same phrase, which really is getting on Jak's nerves "You can't escape the darkness."

"You keep saying that, but I don't think you know what that means. I don't think you know what you're even saying." Jak stated as he was about to finish this fight once and for all.

However, before Jak could do anything, Mr. o started to say a different phrase than before, "Yes, Master." he then started to fly up into space. Jak was awed by such flight. He could fly as well as Light Jak or with the HellCat, not like this into space.

Jak asked himself "What's going on here?"


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