EPILOGUE

Sly Cooper was overjoyed as he returned home from his latest adventure. Once again, his friend Bentley was wrong. The Sun Crystal was in fact real, and Sly had had little trouble in stealing it.

"It's about time you two got back," Bentley said as Sly and Veronica stepped into the hideout. Sly set his backpack on the coffee table, opened it, and produced the Sun Crystal. He then went over to Bentley and held the bright yellow gem in front of the turtle's face.

"So, the Sun Crystal is just a myth, huh?" he said boastfully. "This 'myth' should fetch us at least a couple mil."

"Wow," Bentley said, taking the crystal from Sly. "It's marvelous."

"I believe you have something to say," Sly said, snatching the gem back.

"I was....wrong. You were....right," the turtle said with a pained expression on his face.

"When has old Sly ever steered us wrong before?" Cooper then said as he placed the crystal in a strong box.

"Well, there was that whole F.O.W.L. fiasco," Murray said, emerging from the kitchen with a plate of nachos the size of a station wagon. "You promised us tons of gold, and we come home empty-handed."

"Who asked you, fat boy?" Sly said, flopping down on the couch and placing his paws up on the coffee table.

"Hey! Get your filthy feet off that table!" Bentley demanded.

"What a life I lead," Sly said to himself, ignoring the turtle. The raccoon then drifted off to sleep after yet another eventful night of thieving.

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It had now been four days since Tim Merriweather's friend Sam had left the fox in search of directions and it had finally dawned on him that the badger wasn't returning. "Oh well," Merriweather said, starting up the car. "Even though I've lost my partner, this has been yet another successful adventure for Merriweather the Master Thief." He then slammed his foot on the accelerator, not realizing that his car had been facing the ocean. Tim Merriweather and his green Yugo plunged into the water, and with a loud splash, both sank like a rock into the South China Sea, perhaps never to be seen again.

As his associate was was well on his way to his first undersea adventure, Sam the badger was many miles away relaxing on a tropical beach. "That fox has got to be the most stupid creature who has ever lived," Sam thought to himself as he watched the waves.

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Matt Blizzard had finally gained control over the drill machine into which he and his partner Ross McGraw had been sealed. Unfortunately, the penguin had drilled to the surface just in time for the arrival of Inspector Carmelita Fox, who was investigating yet another Sly Cooper sighting. The fox emerged from her squad car just as Ross and Matt emerged from the Drill Master. "Not you again," she said to the penguin.

"You two haven't by any chance seen this raccoon, have you?" the detective asked the two, showing them a picture of Sly.

"Maybe I have and maybe I haven't," Matt responded.

"Come on, Carm. We don't have time for these two cretins," her partner, a jackrabbit, said. "That Cooper could have robbed this whole city blind by now."

"Consider yourselves lucky," Fox said as she turned and walked away.

"I told you this little plan of yours was doomed from the start," Ross said angrily.

The penguin glared at him. "Let's get out of here."

The two then started off for home.