NOTES- Sly Cooper
and related characters are property of Sucker Punch. Macavity's name is
A.L. Webber and/or T.S. Eliot. Nee owns some stuff, including a
"Legless but Smiling" hat from Nee's holiday.
Once again, many sorries for slithering off to Va-Va Land (Check the
Reviews Reviews) Nee has been busy trying to avoid all the Sly 3
spoilers... Sometimes being a brit smarKs but it's out in a few days so
YAY!
erickdragon101 - Now, now, no reason for language like
that... You don't know that Iain was born out of wedlock. And Iain may
seem like a weirdo to you but weirdo is a relative term, what's weird
to one, may be the norm to another.
Besides, Iain is based on Nee... No way was Iain going to match society's template.
Winged Sence - Yay! That was the reaction Nee was after. Felix, she can hug whoever she deems cute. HUG ON! Plus once you've read this chapter, you may change you views Felix. And as for your last question, you'll probably never know ;)
Heiduska - Nee's glad Nee could make you laugh, sometimes these things write themselves. Just seems the sort of thing Sly would do, and that would probably be Carmelita's reaction.
wheres
my book - Continue Wall-bouncing if you want, Nee does it all the time.
Carmelita's just speaking her mind and that's why we love her... Even
if she's being hurtful to Nee's person sob
As for Murray, he's never
been beaten in a scrap. To have Kofi throw him (Not to mention the van)
around like a ragdoll, to have been beaten so completely, was soul
destroying. Plus Sly's mention of a superhero who gave up didn't do
much to help. Mr. Crawford was just too fun not to bring back. And stop
that toe tapping!
Coriana Raposa - Thanks
DivineGuardian -
And a fantastic review ! Hellraiser is a Horror movie franchise, main
monster called Pinhead. Nee thinks you're talking about Hellsing which
is quite a good anime... Nee's been wanting to use that 'armsdealer'
joke forever and Iain's unknown lisp was inspired by Terry Pratchett's
character, the Duckman.
You're Australian? Cool, Nee has mad respect
for anyone who can survive a country that boasts the top ten most
poisonous everything :D Most poisonous things in England are the School
Kids.
Vanished Paradigm - Yay VP is baaack! How was La-La Land
for you? Nee thinks that place has become too touristy and
commmercialized, so Nee visits the lesser-known place called Va-Va
Land. Thank you for your comments about the humour, plot and madness.
Nee
had noticed that too, does this mean Sucker Punch has read Nee's
work... Oh Nee's Gosh! Anyone from SP reading this, Nee sorry for what
Nee has done to the world you made. Please forgive Nee and let Nee know
you read this.
RatchetSly - Woah! Thanks for all the reviews. I will now try to respond to them in order.
1.Nee
is a Brit and as such can't NOT know about the Queen/Bowie thing. It
was great... But it's a shame there wasn't more collaboration (wow
that's a long word.
2.Thanks. Nee was hoping to get Kofi's Creep factor up to CAPITAL level.
3.Monty
Python does rock, doesn't it? Why do you think Nee is called Nee
Knight? Glad you are insane, sane people have less fun... Nee tried
sanity for a week a while ago... Didn't like it.
4.Probably because Babelfish took the name from Hitchhiker...
5.SPICY SOUP! YES!
6.Well
Sly is always calling himself a 'lady killer' so he's bound to
encounter some... 'unusual' tastes... Moving On, Iain is strange only
because he embodies what you believe is strange. Kofi's name maybe
explained in coming chapters so just bear with Nee... And Nee has read
some of Runaways and Nee likes what Nee sees.
7.Nee did suffer a little writer's block...
chitoryu12 - Glad you like Carmelita, Nee works so hard on trying to get her just right, which is hard to do with so many different Carmelitas running around... Nee just tries not to 'make her' but let her make herself. As for the translation, you're pretty close to what Nee wanted... Carmelita wanted more rude words but Nee got her to tone it down a bit...
Xhavius - ... Have you been reading Nee's notes? Yes, Macavity does employ the best, mainly because they are the only ones who are powerful enough to take him out. Why have powerful enemies when you can make them powerful friends? He's smart and uses those who can help him, but don't be fooled, Chris would kill most of them in a heartbeat...
heistmaster - G'day heistmaster, nice to see you've made it... Yes everyone, Nee has found another who speaks in third person (But Nee was the trendsetter and did it first ) And for your info HM, Nee left quite a few links on the board...
Right now that's done... On with the show...
Ch16 - Turning a Legend to a Myth
The
room was silent as its occupants waited. A few days had passed since
the recon mission, in which time the gang and Carmelita had plotted out
the next phase of their plan and recoopered most of their stength. The
next day was the big day.
With the rest of the Spanish Vixen sat
down ready for the briefing, Bentley made his way up to the DJ's decks
Sly had used when playing the bug to Carmelita. Unlike Sly, the turtle
couldn't simply jump up into the space above the bar from the main
hall, the small genius had to walk through the vast amount of backrooms
the Spanish Vixen hid behind it's doors.
"Are we doing this today!" Shouted the ill-tempered vixen, her tail swaying from side to side in a impatient fashion.
"Almost there, Inspector Fox!" The turtle yelled back before muttering to himself things he'd never have the gall to say toCarmelita's face. For one as smart as Bentley, it was infuriating not being able to understand his friend's fixation on the red-furred irritant. She was brash, rude, always angry and (In Bentley's mind) uncaring and Sly couldn't get enough of her! Sly had been with many many women, who, according to the statistics, were more attractive, more kind-hearted and more patient than Carmelita and he tired of them quickly, it made no sense. After a few minutes, he got to the DJ's station and aimed the projector at the wall in front of the seated members of their happy family. The projector whirred into life and Bentley began the presentation. "Right! First slide is of Iain Legend, Deadman Inc.'s weapons dealer and genius. Born in Mexico, this former child prodigy was kidnapped and taken along with other young geniuses into a research project at the age of four. The project was testing the theory that children would make the best inventors if they had the knowledge to back it up. Which, although experimenting on infants is morally wrong, is an interesting scientific theory. The researchers believed that since the imagination of a child is unhindered by such things as can, can't, right or wrong, they'd stumble upon scientific theories that an adult's mind is to closed to create..."
"Then why is he in Paris making weapons for a crime ring?" Sly put forward.
"I'm getting to that." Bentley said, slightly perturbed with being interrupted. "Now where was I? oh yes. To keep Iain's mind in it's childlike state, Iain was feed Verocks gas which he still uses today, which regresses the mind back to an infant stage. They also hardwired Iain's brain and uploaded information into the snake, so there was knowledge that could be used without learning it's boundaries. Anyway, the project ended when the crime organisation that aided in the kidnappings came to collect the pay it was owed..."
"That would be Deadman Inc, would it?" Carmelita interjected, seeing the connection. 'Daos... What kind of guys are we dealing with?'
"That is correct, Inspector." Although just as annoyed with the vixen's butting-in as he'd been with Sly's, Bentley was smart enough not to snap at her the way he knew he could with Sly. "Foolishly the research team wouldn't or couldn't pay them for a good four to six years and as the next slide shows, found on the internet, DMI sent their resident repo man." The next slide the turtle presented to the gang was a scene of sheer and complete chaos. It look like a shot taken from a Hollywood action film Sly and Murray would watch rather than a piece of security footage from a lab. Fire, blood and billows of smoke were all that were visible, except for a tall dark shape one could just make out behind a wall of flame.
"Kofi..." The soft whisper of the figure's name came from a quite-scared Murray, who had sat behind the vixen and the racoon during the briefing.
"Yes and as you can see he also collected the interest as well. Needless to say none of the scientists were around to stand trial for their crimes against Iain and the other children in the project... Now whereas the other children returned home, Iain's couldn't be found so DMI took Iain in and since the snake had no concept of right or wrong, Iain saw no harm in it when the crime ring asked Legend to make weapons." Bentley paused for a moment. "Tis a shame such a brillant mind had been consumed by madness."
"Yeah, yeah, isn't it sad?" Carmelita said sarcastically, not feeling the least bit sorry for the snake who'd walked with her father's killer. "Point is, that THING is a criminal and like all criminals must be stopped. How about some more info on Kofi or the layout of the airstrip?"
"Well...Well I'm afraid, Inspector Fox, I've yet to find reference to Kofi on both the police mainframe and the world wide web." The pint-size brainbox of the group recoiled from Carmelita's guaranteed wrath at his inablity to find out more about their mammoth monster problem.
"WHAT! THE GUY HAS KILLED ENOUGH CITIZENS TO QUALIFIED FOR GENOCIDE AND YOU CAN'T FIND A SHRED OF INFORMATION ON HIM?" Carmelita stood up and span round to look at the turtle up in the DJ booth, completely flabbergasted by what came from his mouth. "WHAT KIND OF..."
"Hey, hey, hey... Calm down, Carmelita. Bent's trying his best to do you a favour. Now we don't mind you shouting at us on heists, I normally enjoy it but not when we are trying to help you." Sly did not raise his voice, no way was he prepared to shout at the one he loved, but a more serious tone could be heard in his voice. Not one for remaining serious for long, Sly lightened up quickly. "Now do we have to put you in a diaper and give you a time out? Because you know I will." He gave a cheeky smile.
"Just get on with it and give us some info we can use." Defeated for the moment and knowing Cooper would dress her in a nappy and sit her in a corner despite the fact she'd fight him all the way, Carmelita sat down and let up to save herself the embarassment. 'After all Cooper is deceptively strong, he lifted me as if I weighed nothing in that hangar. He could do anything to me if he chose to...' Her mind shuddered at that thought. '...Thank whoever tried instill in him the desire to be a gentleman. You didn't do a great job but at least he knows some boundaries.'
"Where that black panther is concerned, the only intel we've been able to gather is 'don't try to stop him by throwing the van at him'..." Bentley continued after coming back out of his shell.
"I'll explain later." Sly whispered to the vixen after seeing her beautiful slender eyebrows shoot up at the words 'throwing the van'.
"... But I have been able to scrape together one heck of a plan. It's a little something I like to call 'Operation Legend Killer'. From the information Sly and Carmelita obtained on site and the blueprints I downloaded off the city's database, I have come up with a way we can completely destroy Iain's weapon supply along with those dangerous 'Infiltraitor 5411's. First off Murray will help us deal with those pesky guards at the entrance..."
"I'm staying in the van!" Murray exclaimed with his arms folded.
"Excuse me!" As Bentley spoke his words everyone looked at the 'ex-super hero'. "Murray, we need you for this one. All you have to do is use your muscle to carry this Sleep bomb I've made up to the gate." Bentley quickly changed slides to show a huge crate, no doubt full of the same knockout gas Bentley had come up with for the crossbow he'd been working on. "The guards from that sector will all fall to sleep, and those from other sectors will..."
"But what if I run into that black monster again? You guys saw how he tore right through me last time... No, I'm sorry but I won't do it!" The pink lug was being very clear on that point.
"Bentley..." Sly sighed, knowing trying to pull Murray out of his funk would waste minutes that were rapidly running out, the 'coon tried to see another way around the problem the hippo was presenting. "... is there any way I could lift it?"
"..." Bentley thought for a few more seconds before the answer came to him. "Sly, we won't be needed your assistance in that area because I just came up with something that'll solve our problems and make sure our prey is trapped." A slide that showed the air traffic control tower appeared on the screen and the sound of the whirring projector faded into the night.