The spirit looked down at the gory mess that was now all that remained of the foolish young summoner, and started to laugh. When the spirit had been "alive," that laughter would have been chilling enough, but now that he was a spirit the laughter sounded even more so. "What a fool... but not so much a fool as Cooper. Did he really think he would be able to get rid of ME that easily? I who stayed alive for centuries sustained by my hatred for his line? Clockwerk is not so easily destroyed... my body may be no more, but now I am even more powerful than ever, and I'll show that to Cooper when I tear him to shreds! Him and that equally foolish Inspector..." "Not so fast chum... I'm the one who's going to deal with Carmelita!"
Clockwerk turned to see who was so impudent and foolish as to say that to him, and saw another spirit. This spirit was that of a young tigress, a ghostly whip at her side. "Who are you and how dare you speak like that to me?" "Come off it... I had a bit of experience fused together with your body after it was reassembled... at least before the Cooper Gang and Carmelita teamed up to destroy it and ME!" Clockwerk was stunned, but he quickly realized that the other spirit was telling the truth; the hatred she was emanating spoke to that.
An hour later, Clockwerk had heard the story of the young tigress, and he realized that she probably would be a better candidate to deal with the Inspector... as she'd make it last a lot longer before finally finishing off the Inspector. "So Neyla, you managed to double-cross Inspector Carmelita, this Klaww Gang, Interpol AND the Cooper Gang? Quite an achievement... if you hadn't forgotten about Cooper's turtle friend, you might have succeeded in your goal." "Tell me about it... Cooper's pal Bentley is also on my list of people to horribly eliminate from the face of the planet. I'd also like to take out Cooper myself, but you've got a bigger claim to that than I do... just don't kill him until I kill Carmelita. I want him to see EVERYTHING that I do to her, knowing that he's powerless to prevent it."
Clockwerk was starting to like this Neyla, and he agreed to hold off on killing Cooper until she finished off Carmelita. It would make Cooper's death that much sweeter, as from what Neyla had told him, it appeared to have been quite a bit more than sentimentality that had nearly gotten Cooper killed in his gas chamber. "Now all we need to do is to find out where Cooper and the Inspector are now..." "Not yet... let's start with Cooper's hippo friend. I heard that he's a race car driver now... stock van class." "Where did you get that information from?" "Some fool who got killed when his sabotage job on the Cooper van didn't end up killing the hippo, and the crime boss who hired the guy lost a fortune betting on the race the hippo was in because of that."
Neyla then went on to drop the bombshell that she'd also heard from the same guy... that Cooper had apparently lost his memory and was now working for Interpol, courtesy of the Inspector! "That's IMPOSSIBLE! How in blazes did he pull that off?" "Two words: Inspector Fox. She's somewhat naive and somewhat besotted by Cooper. She probably hasn't even considered the possibility that Cooper's pulling the wool over her eyes... and nobody at Interpol would be able to believe that somebody would be able to pull the wool over her eyes."
When one spirit of immense hatred manifests in the world of the living, the price the living pay will end up being high. When two spirits of immense hatred manifest, they will almost always fight with one another. However when this does not happen, and the two spirits make a pact sealed by their hatred, the price the living will end up paying is unimaginable. This was something that Sly and Carmelita were about to learn, as before Clockwerk and Neyla were done, much of what was near and dear to them would be gone forever... if not their lives as well.