Middle of the night, Cooper Gang Rendevous Point...

As the Cooper Gang were developing a plan, they couldn't help but hear some commotion outside. Sly peaked his eye outside the door. From that point-of-view, he could see two figures were walking around.

"Hey, so Rossi's preparing something tonight?" A large man with a bushy mustache asked.

"Yeah, apparently he's been working with a group known as the Masters of Doom." The man with a nasally voice said.

"For what?" The large man asked.

"To take down a group of heroes and some guy named Dr. Uoi. Also for whatever reason Rossi is hunting an item here. For some guy named Morbius…" The man with nasal stated.

"What item is that?" The large man asked, as they approached their stop.

"A Q-Crystal. Something about this crystal to control some doohickey drag- whatever." His friend replied.

"Q-Crystal?" Sly muttered under his breath.


Middle of the night, bedroom...

Ratchet was trying to sleep, but he wasn't so his eyes were staying open sometimes. He thought about the dream he had. The one where he meets some guy named Nazar.

'That guy... his name... Ashelin mentioned about some guy named Nazar.' The more his thoughts on Nazar came to him, the more he started to question who was Nazar. He decided to take nightwalk since he wasn't getting any sleep whatsoever. He put on his clothes and started to exit outside quietly. As he exited outside, he started to walk through the darkness of Aopia.

'It's beautiful here in the day, but now it's creepy...' his thoughts dwelled on the aura of fear in this strange town. He wondered what time it was since he knew it was the middle of the night. That beautiful sun rising and bringing a lot of the color to the day, tree leaves flowing with the wind. It reminded Ratchet of most planets he's visited with wildlife, jungles, and adventure.

Next minute he heard something, but couldn't tell where it came from or even if it was his own imagination. He walked until he saw someone walking down the same path as him.

'Someone's following me...' his thoughts engaging in paranoia and reaction. He walked across the street in order to see if the dark figure behind him would follow. The figure did and Ratchet quickly pulled out his wrench as the figure came close.

Ratchet swung it and hit the figure. As the figure landed in a nearby streetlight, Ratchet noticed something familiar about the dark figure.

"Sly?" Ratchet asked noticing the raccoon ring-tail of his new ally and friend.

"Ratchet?" Sly replied appearing fully into the streetlight.

The two stared at each other before Sly broke the silence, "What are you doing here?"

"Night walk. Couldn't sleep. You?"

"Investigating this place."

"Investigating what about this place?"

"Aopia. My gang and I don't think it is what it appears. You believe yourself as well, especially your suspicions about Rossi."

"I see. So what have you found out?"

"Something about Rossi trying to kill us and hunting an item known as the Q-Crystal."

"Q-Crystal?"

"That's what I also said after hearing a few of his men talking about it outside. I was trying to follow but they appeared to vanished. Then I noticed a short figure walking and that's when I saw you."

"Ok... so you lost following Rossi's men..."

"Pretty much. I need to find them quick in order to find this information about the Q-Crystal."

"I'll help you sneak around. But on one condition, we need Jak's help as well."


Middle of the night, Jak and Keira's bedroom...

Sly and Ratchet snuck into Jak's room where he was in a deep sleep so it looked hard to wake him up. That is until creaking noises were heard and loud from Ratchet that Jak instantly jumped out of bed and was about to punch Ratchet with a left hook, but stopped himself as he realized it was Ratchet.

He calmed himself then asked "What are you two doing here?"

They explained the situation and he agreed with them. Quickly, Jak put on his clothes and snuck out to the rendezvous point with Ratchet and Sly.

Cooper Gang Rendezvous Point...

Bentley cheered "Great everyone's here... well almost everyone."

Sly proceeded to tell Ratchet and Jak his gang's plan. It was to recon the main building inside and out in order to see what Rossi's men were doing and to find anything on what the Q-Crystal is. Once the recon is done, they can strike Rossi at his weak point and discontinue his operation in Aopia.

While Jak and Ratchet didn't agree much with the plan, there wasn't any choice but to do it that way due to it mainly being in the middle of the night and possibly alerting Rossi's men to come after the heroes and their friends.

Aopia Main Building, Rossi's main room...

Rossi walked back and forth in paranoia. He kept rubbing his forehead as he's worried about Shadowis coming to invade Haven City. From what he's heard about the guy made his spine crawl. Shadowis was supposed to contact five minutes ago and although he's never his new leader, he's worried about him not being presentable enough.

Enchanta was in the room for a while noticing Rossi being frantic. "Do not worry, Shadowis sometimes has hard a communications line. He'll contact you for sure."

"It's not even talking to him is the problem. It's how he's going to perceive me." Rossi panicked.

"He doesn't care about that. As long as you follow orders from him, you'll have no problem." Enchanta clarified.

"I see. But there's also one situation. He's never explained to me what this Q-Crystal does? The only one who knows is Dr. Uoi and we have him captured and held hostage by my men." Rossi explained.

"In time, you will give him only information you know. Since Dr. Uoi is our best chance of finding the Q-Crystal, we must prepare him for interrogation." Enchanta ordered.

"What is it anyway?" Rossi questioned as Enchanta was about to leave the room. She paused and jerked her head to Rossi.

"It's to awake a dragon hidden on Planet Earth." Enchanta stated and then left the room.

Rossi was left to his thoughts as to what she just said D-dragon?

Above him was a small window in which Sly Cooper was observing the room and took pictures of the conversation. Eavesdropping the brief conversation they had was a lot to take in, especially since now he knows dragons also exist.

Sly leaped across the main building's roof and onto other roofs before reaching the rendezvous point.

"Sly, you're back." Murray cheered as his friend came back.

"Yes, I am. And I have some interesting photos to share." Sly stated.

After a few minutes getting the photos, it was shown Enchanta and Rossi in a room talking.

"So we got pictures of Enchanta looking shipments, possibly of weapons. And she's in touch with Rossi. Rossi appears to not be the ancient leader of Aopia as he presented himself as." Bentley commented.

"That's not all. I also overheard him talking to Enchanta about the Q-Crystal. Interesting information, alright." Sly brought up.

"And what did you find out?" Ratchet asked.

"The Q-Crystal is something that can awaken a dragon on Earth." Sly replied as the Cooper Gang was shocked while Jak and Ratchet didn't know what a dragon was.

"What's a dragon?" Jak asked as the Cooper Gang through usage of imagery (half of of the time was Murray's drawings of a dragon and making roars like one) tried to explain what a dragon was.

Ratchet surmised "So it's a beast from folklore on your planet?"

"Yeah, thought up to be myth." Bentley commented.

"Yeah, that was until now." Sly added.

"So what do we do about the crystal? Find it ourselves?" Jak asked as Bentley pointed that there could something in Rossi's office, clues about where the crystal is, and where to find it.

"That theory might work if it wasn't for the fact that Rossi's men talk about trying to search for the thing. So even they don't know where to look." Sly said.

Ratchet mentioned about how he can distract Enchanta while everyone is fighting Sly could sneak it and find anything about the crystal in Rossi's office.

"Again, not trying to alert anyone to come after us." Bentley pointed out.

"It's our only choice." Jak stated firmly.

Bentley thought about it for a while as he was worried about ratchet fighting Enchanta especially after what happened with Sly.

"Alright, fine. But I don;t agree with much of this plan."

"Not to worry, I also have an idea." Jak stated.


Bedroom...

This time Jak snuck into get his best friend, Daxter. He tapped lightly on his shoulder and whispered his name to wake up.

He did it again. And again. And again. Until he slapped onto him the floor and Daxter got up real quick to yell at the person that slapped him. Instantly, Jak covered his mouth and shushed him. Daxter stared at his friend angrily for a bit.

Meanwhile, Ratchet did the same thing with Clank although it was easier than what Jak's method with waking Daxter.

The two brought them to the rendezvous point and explained everything to them. Daxter slightly falling alseep and whined "Well then (yawn) why don't we do this in the morning day? Why now?"

Clank suggested that they must have extra precautions in this plan of theirs otherwise it will not work. After spending a few minutes detailing the plan and letting Clank and Bentley do the calculations, the plan was set in motion.


Middle of the night, streets...

Enchanta was walking slowly as she was the only guard going around here. Shipments of weapons were being checked every hour which was good as every thing was going into plan. Dr. Uoi was captured when he was asleep and is now tortured in interrogation. Tomorrow was the day the heroes would be killed. The mAsters of Doom never fail in their missions.

That is until she noticed someone walking towards or perhaps running.

"You!" She screeched as the Lombax and his sidekick were prepared to fight her.

"We know all about this operation you're doing with Rossi." Ratchet states as he grips onto his wrench.

Clank gestured at her and firmly demanded "Your reign ends tonight!"

Enchanta stared at them and laughed malevolently. "You think you can stop us!" She dashed towards them with quick speed as Ratchet and Clank dodge it.

"You appear to quite so sure of yourself. Tell me have you ever fought someone that channel Eco before." Enchanta said as she went in for another dash, this time Ratchet fired off his Combustor about three rounds. Enchanta literally punched them with Red Eco in her fists.

"Great..." Ratchet muttered under his breath as Enchanta flew towards the Lombax and attempted to punch him, but he fires off another round from his Combustor at her causing her to dodge it and came from a different direction. Ratchet was going to dodge but the punch from her Red Eco fists fired him across the street.

Clank yelled "Ratchet!" as he tried to run to his friend.

Ratchet coughed and tried to stand up. Enchanta ran at super speed to give the Lombax two more punches to his face and then a sidekick to his chest. He fell onto the ground on his back, laying his arms in cross position.

"Sly Cooper took more of a good beating and gave more of a fight." Enchanta mocked.

Clank yelled his friend's name again and was running towards him, but Enchanta roundhouse kicked him towards where Ratchet was.

Ratchet opened his eyes to see Clank next to him, Clank... he instantly bolted up and tried to see if Clank was alright.

Clank struggled to get up and said "This... this is nothing..." Ratchet immediatley got angry and charged towards Enchanta by throwing his wrench onto her. It pushed her a little bit back but it didn't do much damage. Ratchet charged again with his wrench and parred again Enchanat's hand as she blocked the attack from it.

He took out his Combustor again fired off a round at her. She was pushed back by the blast and fell onto the ground. She bared her teeth in anger, got up quick and mocked Ratchet again "Is that the best you can do?! Come on! Give me a real fight!"

Ratchet stared at her, closed his eyes and saw an image of Talwyn. He opened his eyes and decided to charge at her one more time.

"This is it!" He screamed as he built up speed and swung his wrench towards Enchanta who also charged at the Lombax. Ratchet with his wrench, Enchanta with her Red Eco, they were like rampaging elephants as they both managed to get into their blows on each other.

Ratchet coughed and spat put some blood onto the ground. Enchanta coughed heavily and was sweating a lot.

This guy managed to... beat me... Enchanta fell flat onto the ground. Ratchet took a few steps forward before collapsing onto the ground, nt before Jak helped him up and congratulated him. Jak also was carrying Clank who was barely awake to see anything happen.

Ratchet knew Clank would be alright, after all he could fix him and he only gave a thumbs up for a mission accomplished. Although Ratchet himself was hurt badly he healed himself with NanoTech.

As that was going on, Rossi was back in office looking outside of his window seeing what had just occurred. So Enchanta has been defeated... it's time to bring plan B...

He exited his office and entered into an elevator. It lead to basement flooded by darkness. One of his men turned on his lights and as that was done, the light shined on someone on a chair all gruesome-looking and beaten up: Dr. Uoi.

"It's been awhile Uoi." Rossi stated while having psychopathic look to his face.

"Please... please let me go..." he cried.

"We will not. Shadowis's orders."

"Shadowis is a fool... he doesn't know what he's messing with.."

"Is that so?" A hologram of Shadowis appears walking towards Dr. Uoi.

Staring at him in a cold glare, Dr. Uoi uttered out "Yes, you are a fool."

Shadowis laughed at him and approached him close to his face. "You really think you can stop me. Nazar could barely do it."

"Then I hope whoever defeats you...will make you realize how you weak you are." Dr. Uoi said faintly as he was about to pass out.

Outside of the building, Jak decided to mess up a few guards as that happened everyone entered inside the building and caused a huge ongoing fight. There were guards flung around, shot at, smacked, etc.

Daxter commented "These guys aren't so tough."

"They were just the pawns. The real fight is in there." Ratchet gestured to the office of Rossi which they all charged into only to not find him in there.

"What the?! Where could he?!" Murray yelled.

They went outside only to find more guards comin towards them. Jak fires off a few rounds from his Scatter Gun knocking the enemy out.

As that happened Sly quickly noticed an elevator and went across the room by running on the railings and got to the other side. He gestured everyone to come quick. Everyone entered the elevator and seeing only one button on the panel with an arrow gesturing it only went to the bottom of the building. Sly pressed it and the elevator went down.

In a few minutes, everyone bursted out of the elevator to see Rossi, Dr. Uoi, and the hologram of Shadowis.

"It appears we have company." Shadowis remarked as he turned to see all the heroes standing together.

"Sly... it's been a long time since I've seen you." He said as he started to walk closer, standing next to Rossi.

"You know this guy?" Jak asked Sly as he nodded and told everyone that the person they're seeing in front of them is Shadowis. A grasp of shock occurred on their faces.

Daxter gulped "Shad—-."

"So that's him..." Ratchet muttered as he saw the man that fought Sly and his friends.

"I see this is our first time meeting. Jak, Ratchet. And the sidekicks." Shadowis sneers.

"Hey! Who are-!" Jak grabbed Daxter by the mouth and shushed him.

"So you're Shadowis. We've heard a lot about you from Sly. So you're the leader of the Masters of Doom." Jak anticipates.

"Well I'm more of the commander. My master is the leader. I only obey him." Shadowis corrects.

"And I'm assuming your master is Morbius?" Jak asks.

"Hm, I wonder how you know about Morbius? As far as I recall I never told you about him." Shadowis asks.

"One of your men, Mr. O told us right before he started flying away into space." Jak replied.

"Oh, him. Well that's what happens when you do reveal the name of my master. You see I believe on Earth, the Cooper Gang encountered something similar with a gauntlet weapon that turned Mr. L into a mindless powerful mass weapon of destruction," Shadowis pauses, "You see it's a certain power known as Morbius's Possession. My master's spirit influences the body similar to any user of Eco. Now in regards to about Dark Eco, my master doesn't really need it as he's strong with or without it. So you see Mr. O and Mr. L are in quite care with this power."

"But that kind of power can destroy anything." Jak said looking at Shadowis astonished.

"Hence the purpose of it. After all, Mr. O, Mr. L, and Mr. Z are invading planet Kerwan." Shadowis tells the heroes as Ratchet reacts with wide eyes and shouts "What did you say?!"

The hologram of Shadowis turned into the hologram of giant, slimy creatures attacking Metropolis and people screaming in fear along with words uttering "You can't escape the darkness." Tyhe hologram turned back into Shadowis laughing.

Ratchet closed his eyes and clenched his teeth. "You monster!"

"That is how I've been described by most heroes. However, it doesn't change the fact I will defeat all of you. After all, I will invade planet Earth and Haven City in due time." Shadowis said with a dark smile to his face.

"What?!" Jak, Daxter, Sly and the Cooper Gang shouted at the same time.

"Oh I did forget to mention that." Shadowis said as he continued his laugh.

Jak clenched his fist and pointed out "You will be stopped. You're not as powerful as you think you are."

Shadowis didn't take Jak's threat seriously. "Oh, is that so? Perhaps it is wise for you to make up that threat in a fight, Jak."

"I won't back down. I'll fight you myself if I have to." Jak confidently said.

"Well then heroes... get ready for the biggest fight of your life." Shadowis states as the hologram turned off.