Danny Rentrix
By VGDude
Disclaimer: Sly Cooper and related Sly Cooper characters are owned and copyrighted by Sucker Punch, Danny Rentrix, Ricco Regar, and Sargeras.
Chapter 2: The Metallic Fire-Breather
Setting: Paris, France-Cooper Hideout
"Dang it, I'm bored." Sly yawned as he reached for some popcorn and put it into his mouth, the master thief and his friend, Danny Rentrix were sitting
very lazily on the couch, it was Saturday, near sunset and both of them were watching a monster movie marathon, it was Murray's idea, but the pink hippo fell
asleep midway through the third movie.
"Yeah I wish we had something to do." agreed Danny, ever since the wolf's arrival, Sly and Danny had been hanging out, going out to cause mischief and
mess with Carmelita Fox. Carmelita found it extremely annoying since she had to deal with nut just Sly, but Danny also. Now the days were dull.
"If I don't find something to do, my head is going to explode." Sly complained.
"Well luckily for me Sly, I've been making a plan for a new heist." Bentley came into the room pushing the slide projector that was used during the missions
against the Klaww Gang.
"Alright, thanks Bentley, we owe you one." Danny jumped up from the couch excited, Sly did the very same thing, only he jumped higher.
"Ah it was nothing, well here's the plan, during my search I found a very rare and valuable artifact, it's called the Baron's Necklace. It was worn by a seafaring
pirate during the 1800s. What purpose did this thing have is beyond me, but I found out that Ricco Regar has possesion of this valuable artifact." the turtle explained.
"Ricco Regar, you mean that crime lord that's been appearing in the news lately." Danny asked.
"Yes it seems Ricco currently has the necklace on sell on ThiefNet but for bogus prices. Nothing is worth that much, so it's better if we took it from him."
Bentley continued.
"Ah, thanks for the history lesson Bentley, but what's the actual plan?" Sly asked eagerly.
"Oh, anyways, I found out that Ricco is currently hiding out in an abandoned warehouse south from here. The plan is to sneak in, we can rely on you to do that."
Bentley looked at Sly and Danny, then he activated the slide projector,"Ricco has many of his goons guarding the outside of the warehouse, to sneak in, we got to
find the right keycard, one of these guards has the right one, so be on the lookout, second we need to cut power to the perimeter's defenses, but we can rely on
Murray to do that, third you need to get me into the central control room where I can hack into the security files and deactivate the defenses surrounding the contained
necklace. If all goes well, we can complete the heist without running into Ricco himself. Let's get to it."
Later, the Cooper van stopped across the street from Ricco's hideout, the backdoor of the van opens up and Sly, Danny, Bentley, and Murray jump out. Each
armed with their personal tastes: Sly with his cane, Danny with his shock pistol and mallet, Bentley with his crossbow, and Murray with his muscles. Sly and Danny went
ahead, they came across the first pair of guards which were German Shepherds.
"Wanna go first?" Sly asked.
"I be honored to." Danny said as he ran forward, jumped and pounced on the first guard knocking him cold, the second guard turned around for just a glimpse
of Danny then he was knocked out by Sly. Danny searched the guards for their key cards, he pulled out two key cards, but then saw the look on Sly's face,"What's wrong."
Danny asked.
"Uh, Bentley never told us which key card was the right key card to gain access." Sly explained.
"Damn that half-blind turtle, he should of told us, let's just grab all the key cards we find and use them and hope one of them is the right one." said Danny. On
the other side of the warehouse, a unwary guard was patrolling when three razor sharp claws came swooping down, caught onto the guard's shirt and pulled up into
a tree.
"Well well, if this is the kind of security Ricco Regar has, this job will be easy." the owner of the claws said, the guard opened his eyes and was looking at
a dragon, just about the same height and sieze as the guard himself, but the dragon was metal, he was a robot, with it's dark black armor plating, blood red stripes
and eyes, and sharp spear point at the end of it's tail, it looked truly menacing,"Now the key card please." The guard weakly put his hand into his pocket and brought
out a silver card key, the dragon grabbed with it's other hand,"Excellent, this key card will gain me access, thank you, but I have no use for you." the dragon threw the
guard out of the tree, where he collided with the ground, 20 feet below, then the dragon jumped and pounced onto the guard, bones could be heard crushing under the
robot dragon's metal alloy, unknown to Sly and the gang, the robot dragon had the right key card, so now the robot dragon made his way to the door.
"Damn it." said Danny as he picked five more key cards,"How many more of these are there?"
"I dunno, but we got a total of 35 key cards." Sly agreed,"But let's take these and try them out at the door." After trying out some of the key cards and found out, they
don't work, Danny had something on his mind.
"Hey Sly, do you believe in what you see?" Danny asked.
"Of course, I do, take Inspector Fox for example, she's lovely and angry, that's why I like her." Sly laughed.
"I was thinking along the lines of Clockwerk, but all well, when I was walking to your place that night we met, I saw something on top of the Eiffel Tower,
it was nothing, but the shadowy outline formed that of a dragon." Danny explained.
"Your mind must of been playing tricks on you, Clockwerk was real, but what you're thinking, real dragons don't exist, just ask Bentley sometime for a
twelve hour long speech of why dragons don't exist. Sly told the curious wolf.
"Um well, if dragons don't exist, then what's that?" Danny pointed to something behind Sly, which made the raccoon turn around.
"Heh heh heh, well if it isn't the infamous Sly Cooper and his cohort, I knew you come, but I didn't think tonight." the robot dragon chuckled.
"And who are you?" Sly asked pulling out his cane, Danny doing the same with his mallet.
"Sargeras, the name is Sargeras, and I must say if you're looking for a fight, you picked a wrong one." Sargeras said.
"And what are you doing here for?" Danny asked.
"Well my first thoughts were to steal the Baron's Necklace, but since you two fellows arrived, I might crack heads instead." Sargeras told them.
"Bring it on, daddy-o!" Danny yelled. Sargeras took flight, then dived down at Sly first, who jumped out of the way in the nick of time.
"Wow, he's fast." Sly said, catching his breath, Danny then jumped up and swung his mallet at the dragon, who avoided all of Danny's attempts to him.
"Pathetic, watch a master at work." His two hands transformed into cannons, and then started firing down at Sly and Danny. The two took cover as the dragon's
shots rained down on the area, Sly recognized the shots as those plasma shots that came out of Carmelita's Shock Pistol, they must be Dual Shock Cannons.
"Hey, Danny, think you can shoot this guy down." Sly yelled to his buddy who was hiding behind a stone wall.
"No problem, just keep him distracted." Danny pulled out his shock pistol.
"Hey you busted pile of bolts reptile, come and shoot me." Sly yelled running into the open courtyard.
"My pleasure." Sargeras said and turned his fire at Sly, the raccoon was only able to barely dodge each shot.
"Anytime Danny." shouted Sly, as he ducked from being hit.
"Gotcha, take this robo.. lizard... boy!" Danny ran behind Sargeras, jumped, did a 180 degree turn and fired at the winged foe's right wing.
"Damn them." Sargeras cursed to himself then had an idea, he lead to inside of the warehouse, then finish them off,"Come and get me, fools!" and he took off flying straight
through a window, Danny and Sly gave chase, climbing up a nearby pole and then rail walking to the window next to the one the dragon flew through.
Meanwhile inside, Ricco Regar was busy prancing around, his guards gave word that a few troublemakers were prowling the grounds, and this worried him. He was a Rottweiler, big and muscular, but unlike
Muggshot, not very brave, more like a coward,"Those id-idiot guards must-must've of c-ca-catched those tro-troub-troublemakers." he stuttered, he walked to the exit, and opened the door, and came face to face
with Sargeras.
"Hello Ricco, I believe we had some unfinished business to take care of." and with a quick swipe, Sargeras grabbed Ricco by his shirt and started taking off for the main room, where he ran into Sly and Danny,
"It's too late, Cooper, the Baron's Necklace is mine!" and then he threw Ricco at them and started to fly upwards, Danny saw that the Rottweiler's clean white shirt was blood red stained, and when he made to pick him up,
he saw three gaping holes in Ricco's stomach.
"Come on, we got to get that necklace..." Sly stated, but was interuppted by Bentley.
"Sly, it's no good, he's already got that necklace, he's fast. You better get out of there, when that robot dragon grabbed the necklace, it set off some sort of self-destruct system. Get outta of there." Bentley yelled.
Sly and Danny felt the ground shaking, and they knew the place would blow up any moment, Sly running ahead first to clear the way, and Danny in the back, holding Ricco's lifeless limp bloody body. They were able
to make their back to the courtyard, where they ran into Sargeras.
"Bravo, I never expect you two to get out." Sargeras was clapping, the Baron's Necklace hanging loosely in his right claw.
"You better wish if you hadn't done what you just done." Sly said with a threat from his cane, and at the moment, the warehouse exploded and went up in flames.
"Well I did, and I like to stay and chat, but I must take my leave." the robot dragon took flight, as Interpol sirens could be heard, then the flying dino flew off.
"Sly get back here, if Carmelita sees you, she'll blame us for what happened." Bentley yelled as the van pulled up, Danny jumped in, Sly hesitated as he look down at Ricco's dead body,"Sly!"
"Coming." he said and jumped into the van, they drove off into the night, hearing the maniacal dark laughter of Sargeras, the robot dragon. The next day the previous nights events appeared in the newspapers.
Crime Lord Ricco Regar Found Dead Last Night!
Sly Cooper Is To Blame?
The newspapers headlines said, below it showed a picture of Ricco Regar's head, eyes closed and face bloody, right next to it was the little Cooper symbol thing Sly used to lay down into vault's after he stole the
vaults secrets.
Hot Latin Chick With Gun Believes Cooper And His Gang Is To Blame!
The next picture showed Carmelita looking grumpy as Interpol officers in the background are leading away Ricco's surviving henchmen.
Whoa boy, Did Cooper really do that, I mean lay his trademark symbol next to Ricco's body, I dunno, but find out, in the next chapter: Storm Of The Dragon.
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