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Sly & the Gang In: Adopting Abandoned Allie – Chapter Seven
Allie ducked and the dagger rammed into the back wall. Then she grabbed Rust Bucket and threw him into the back wall. Just then a figure all in shadow appeared at the top of the building on the right side of the alleyway. It jumped down and with the cane it griped in its hand and swung the cane towards Rust Bucket. Then it stood under a light as it swung at Melissa, revealing itself to be Sly Cooper.
"Back of the lady, okay?" Sly frowned and swung at Melissa again who dodged and back-flipped out of the way. She pulled out a walkie-talkie and muttered something into it. No sooner had she done that, a swarm of vultures and bats (that look very much like Contessa's guards) came into the alleyway.
Allie grabbed Sly's arm and ran out of the alleyway pulling him along. Then she ran down the sidewalk, shoving through the people, and jumped behind a building still pulling Sly with her. She let go of his arm and wrapped her own arms around herself. She slumped down with her eyes wide. She was petrified.
"I don't like the dark. The city is my enemy. I must fear everyone." Allie was shaking and looked to the ground. Her hair was a bit frizzed. It didn't take Sly long to come to the conclusion that she was dramatized. Allie mumbled things to herself that didn't make any sense and were probably in another language.
"Allie… are you going to be okay?" Sly sounded a bit scared (as in okay, she lost it) and kneeled down next to her. He reached out his hand to help her up but she just screamed and backed away on her hands and knees. She curled up with her head in between her knees and she began to cry.
Sly pulled out his binocucom and spoke to Bentley. Bentley, still in the van all the way at where they started in the parking lot, got the message in his binocucom. Bentley looked shocked and worried. He hadn't thought anything this drastic and dramatizing would have happened. Sadly, it did. Murray looked shocked as well.
"She's really that freaked? She was the one telling me to relax before and she's the one freaked! It must have been horrible for that to of happened. Bring her back here if you can… if not, just stay put and let her unwind." Bentley set his binocucom down and sighed. "I really wish I could have known this might have happened! Then I could of helped her and stop this from occurring!"
"Don't take it out on yourself Bentley," comforted Murray. "You couldn't have known. None of us did. I'm sure Allie will be better soon anyway." He pointed to his head and said, "What you've got isn't all up here."
Allie stood up and walked over to a puddle of water that was underneath and next to a dripping water fountain built in the wall. She looked at her reflection and shook her head. "I have to compose myself." She turned to the water fountain and splashed some water onto herself and used the sleeve of her dress to dry her face. "I failed on the job… I'm despicable."
"Don't be so discouraged. It's not like you knew that would happen." Sly nudged her and climbed the pipe that lined the side of the building, eventually reaching the rooftop. Allie was still standing on the floor below. "Where are you gonna head to now?"
"I'm planning on doing a little more work in the town. I'll have to get over that little run in if I plan on coming with you guys on your missions!" Allie fixed her hair so it looked even better than before. "There, now that's the Allie I know." She smiled and put her hands on her hips. "Now move along and head to Bentley for your next assignment while I go do my job. Come on! Move it!"
"I'm going, I'm going." Sly hopped off out of distance feeling better knowing Allie was back to her semi-bossy, semi-trustworthy, semi-comical, semi-giggly self. Sly saw her as someone who grew up with two completely opposite views on life, making this confusing. But Allie did manage to get through life as a clean slated person – no criminal record in sight. But then all of a sudden Allie teams up for a revenge plan and BANG! – She's on the super thief team. Though she mentioned she was doing it to avenge her mother, there seemed to be a bit more Allie didn't want to spill.
Allie darted off to the sidewalk and walked down it along side a bunch of other people. She looked around at all of the signs that flashed neon colors and pulled unsuspecting and innocent people in, turning them into the tainted people that walk the streets with illegal intentions. A crook playing the part of an even bigger crook was something an actress could pull off… maybe. Allie had acted in school plays and always got the lead roll. She thought the time to put that smidge of acting talent to use was now more than ever.
A huge sign that read "King's Palace Casino and Resort" flashed neon green, neon orange, neon pink, and neon blue with white lights going off around it caught Allie's attention. Spinners and lights flashed around the huge doorway with people pouring in and out. Allie walked in and up to a Black Jack table. She pulled a full one hundred thousand dollars out of her pocket and set it on the table. The people around her looked at the money and gasped, nodded, and smirked.
"Come on," Allie began, "give me the chips so we can play the next round here!" And with that the dealer who was a male fox, pure orange and white (kind of like Carmelita but the dealer is MALE) and wearing a dealer tux (white three-quarter sleeved t-shirt with cuffed sleeves and a black vest over it buttoned up all the way except for the last two or three buttons the animal version for guys have no pants) slid Allie her chips after taking the money. Then he dealt the cards out to everyone.
"Well looks like you got some money where your mind is," spoke a scruffy, gray dog wearing a green and purple tux. He had a brown hat with a black ring around it and a white tag that stuck out of the black ring that read "PRESS" though he wasn't any form of press. "Let's see if you can beat this bet missus!" The scruffy dog threw chips onto the table that equaled a total value of eighty thousand dollars.
"Heh, I'm going all in!" Allie put all her chips (which add up to the original one hundred thousand dollars she had) on the table and leaned back, knowing she had already won by the looks on everyone else's faces. Did they think Allie was bluffing or was Allie being serious? The scruffy dog had already looked at his cards and if his bet wasn't a bluff, he must have had a pretty good hand.
The pink cat with long, flowing blond hair and blue eyes wearing a blue mid drift and denim mini skirt and tall black boots had folded, meaning she gave up. Her hand must have been pathetic… either that or she just got freaked by the intimidation on such a big pot (The pot is one hundred and eighty thousand dollars began you combined the bet of the dog with Allie's. The pot is what you win if you have the best hand).
The two rats at the table who dressed alike had both folded their hands as well. They both had shaggy fur and were smoking. They both wore white cuffed t-shirts with blue vest pullovers and black dress pants with blue dress shoes. They both gave a nod to Allie thinking she would win.
"Well scruffy, wanna back down now before we show our hands to see who wins?" Allie tapped her finger tips on the Black Jack table and smirked confidently. The scruffy dog shook his head and coughed. He flipped over his hand revealing an ace of hearts and a queen of hearts. "So you have 20, huh? I guess I'll need 21 to pull this off…" Allie sighed and looked away. The others at the table looked questionable.
"Just give up missus. No need showing your hand if it's nothing but a bunch of rubbish. What are the odds you got 21? They're about a million to one!" The scruffy dog smirked and barked happily. "This'll teach you that I, Giovanni Yoples, am one heck of a player."
"Well, you can play good Yoples…" Allie looked as if she were going to stand up and walk away from the table but then she stood up and flipped over her hand to reveal an ace of spades and a jack of spades. "BLACK! JACK! HAH!" Allie sat back down as the two rats, dealer, and pink cat applauded for her as well as some of the surrounding tables and even the crowd of spectators around the table.
Giovanni growled and walked off away from the table and out of the casino angry. Allie smiled and stood to bow and curtsey for some of the applause she was receiving so much of. She nodded her head and sat back down. "Good playing, lady!" said the pink cat.
"Thank you miss. Now, who else wants a piece of Rebecca?" Allie smiled and took the chips in the middle of the table, pulling them over to her. And spinning a few on the tips of her fingers. She looked super confident and was going to play a bit of games before she was to snoop around and such.
Meanwhile…
Sly walked to the van and sat down next to Bentley. "Now what, brains?" He flexed his fingers and twisted his cane in his hand. He glanced over to Bentley's computer as Bentley pointed to a few guards outside the gateway which lead to Mesa City. "Wait, before you speak, let me guess. You want me to go to this gate, take care of the guards, and sneak in so I can unlock it from the keypad on the inside after pick pocketing the code from that guard." Sly pointed to a random guard on the screen.
"Sly, you've been hanging around me too much," Bentley laughed. "That is exactly what I want you to do. Pick pocket that guard and then get over the gate, input the code on the keypad and the gate will open allowing Murray and me to get through as well after taking some back roads through the city. Allie can get through as well by walking right through it. We're all ready so as soon as Allie comes back with some information, we're off!"
"When is Allie gonna be back here?" asked Murray as he scratched his head. Bentley and Sly gave a shrug and eyebrow curl at the same time and the three of them laughed. "She's a good addition to this team. I can't fully trust her yet but sure, I guess I'd bet my life on her."
"Once she saw the outskirt city, I saw how happy she got. She just needed to know we're not all business and thieving isn't as gruesome as movies make it seem." Bentley typed at his computer trying to hack into a camera at the Contessa's little secret room in her fortress at Mesa City.
"She got the wrong impression of us I guess. She seems to have lightened up and talks to us a bit more…. polite now. She's turned around a lot with her view. That's pretty cool, you know?" Sly whipped his cane at thin air and went into the van to sit down on a seat and wait for Allie to show up.
Two and a Half Hours Later…
Allie came running down the stretch lined with street lamps and straight into the parking lot. She was very happy but Sly, Bentley, and Murray didn't know why. She did a front flip and landed in front of the van. "You so won't believe what happened!" Allie had about ten bags in each hand and a smile from cheek to cheek.
"Hm, I'm sure I will so you can just go ahead and tell me." Sly tried to hold in the laugh from his sarcastic remark but once he saw Allie laugh he didn't both to hide it. He laughed himself and so did Murray but Bentley was too into the laptop to even have a hint as to what was going on around him.
"I, Rebecca- I mean Allie, have won three hundred seventy five million dollars all legally in a casino. I'd like to give a special thanks to the Black Jack and Poker tables as well as the Roulette Wheel and the Craps table. I'M SO JUMPY NOW!" Allie fell to the ground laughing and smiling. "Man, do I looooove the outskirt city of Mesa! Wh00t!" She threw the bags in the back of the van.
"Heh, congratulations on that huge luck streak of yours… but who's Rebecca?" Sly scooted over on the seat and Allie sat down next to him. He was thinking thoughts like, "Oh man… don't tell me she's going to say she isn't even a Baxter! What if she's Rebecca Smith or something? Oh come on! No more lies!"
"Rebecca Miller was my code name in that crazy city. But if I overheard correctly on my way over here, we're going to be going to a gate?" Allie put her hand behind her head and smiled. "I'm assuming you'll be opening a gate which the rest of us will pass through which leads to Mesa City?"
"Precisely, Sly is gonna pick pocket a code and open a gate. Murray and me will be traveling a few back roads and getting through to the gate while you can pass through the city. I need you, Allie, to bug a few people you found suspicious when you head back into the city." Bentley cracked his knuckles and went back to typing.
"Okay sounds easy enough to me. I'm out," said Allie as she began to walk down the stretch again. Sly nodded and jumped up to the street light and headed off towards the city rooftops so he could do his part. Murray got in the driver's seat and revved the engine. Bentley got in the van, closed the sliding door, and buckled himself in.
Allie found her binocucom lying on the ground in a puddle on the edge of a building within the outskirt city once she got there. She wiped the water off it and pushed a button on the side making it change back into a baby blue binocular shaped object. She went into a fashion store and pulled an outfit off a hanger and went into a dressing room. She came out wearing a pair of dark blue stretch pants, a baby blue tank top, and a light gray sweatshirt over the tank top with baby blue and gray sneakers. She gave the clerk fifty dollars and left the store.
All the fancy dressed people passed by Allie as if they couldn't see her. She knew they'd only pay attention to ones dressed like them. She didn't want to be slowed down so she walked through crowds of people without hassle. She placed little bugging devices on Rust Bucket (who she passed without hassle), Giovanni (who she passed without hassle), Mel (who she met at a poker table and passed without hassle), and Esteban (who she met at a craps table and passed without hassle).
Sly had already pick pocketed and taken out the guards and climbed over the gate. He just finished punching in the code on the keypad when Allie walked up. The gate opened and Allie walked in. "Did you see Bentley or Murray on you way over here?" asked Sly.
"No but I'm sure they'll be here any-" Allie was cut off by a vehicle that zoomed by and an arm that came out of the window and grabbed her. The van slid to a stop a few yards away. Sly thought Allie was in trouble and his eyes widened.
"Allie!" Sly darted off to the vehicle and looked at it to see it was the getaway van and that Allie was laughing, the arm belonged to Murray who was laughing at the wheel, and Bentley laughed in the passenger's seat. "Oh ha ha ha!" Sly got in the van through the sunroof and the four drove off to Mesa City to face even more dangers… not just Contessa.