Disclaimer: Sly Cooper and the Cooper gang are property of Sucker Punch and I am just using them to entertain the masses with a good story. I only own the characters that I have personally created and the other elements of the story I have created my self.

Chapter 20

Clockwerk Reborn

A few days after their return to Madrid, the gang got everything they needed loaded into the Sky Serpent. Eclipse once again headed into the engine while the now completed Cooper Gang got belted into the operations car for take off. Outside the train Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, Melody, and Jason stood a few yards away, watching. As the train took off Mr. Fox leaned over to Mrs. Fox and whispered, "Did we get the tracer planted."

Mrs. Fox nodded her head and said, "Yes, as soon as they are over the ocean will take a pair of Interpol copters and follow them. They may be able to do it alone, but incase they need us we will be there." Mr. and Mrs. Fox turned back and watched as the Sky Serpent, the team's base and transportation flew out of sight. Unfortunatly, Eclipse had seen the Fox's place the tracer, and after they were out of Madrid he removed it from the train's interior.

Once the train was over the ocean Eclipse shifted into its speed mode. He then headed back into the operations car and took a seat as Bentley warmed up the slide show projector. Bentley then wheeled in front of Sly, Carmelita, Murray, Panda King, Penelope, Dimitri, Guru, Eclipse and Destiny.

Bentley cleared his throat and said, "All right people, we are currently on course for the island that once contained the Cooper family vault. The Metal Owl Clan has complete transformed the island's landscape, and upgraded its security. The island now looks like a volcano with out the lava. It has steep sides a few feet in from the shore line. It goes up few thousand feet and then levels off. It then dips down into it self and creates a lowered basin. They have changed the landscape like this because it is required by the magic of the Pure Magic Gems if they want to bring Clockwerk back to life. The outer wall that surrounds the island is comparable to the modern day walls of Troy. There is a force field protecting the island from everything that comes from the air. This is the messy part of the operation. We basically need the whole gang to help Sly get up the walk way that leads to the top of the mountain. Destiny will be in here, coordinating the details of the plan. Panda King, Penelope, and I will man the long range firework turrets to help fend off the clans larger and more dangerous members. Murray, Guru, Eclipse, and Carmelita will accompany Sly up the mountain, helping to fight his way to this building. It contains the controls for the islands force field. If you can shut the barrier off, we can bring the Sky Serpent in and help with the attack. Once we have met up we'll head up to the top of the mountain."

Sly gave Bentley a questioning look as he said, "This isn't our usual style Bentley. What's up?"

Bentley sighed as he said, "Unfortunately, while we were in Madrid the Metal Owl Clan decrypted the ancient language on the map to the Pure Magic Gems. They have already collected the gems, and if my intelligence can be trusted, they are planning to resurrect Clockwerk in a few days, once all the member have gotten to the island. We will get there tomorrow night, and we have to do it then. We also have to make this operation quick, if we don't someone might be able to make the wish on the Pure Magic Stones and they will resurrect Clockwerk, bigger and more destructive then ever. Now, to continue, once we have the stones we will make a brake for it. If we are short on time, we will just steal the 5th stone of the Pure Magic Gems. It is the unison gem, and the ritual is useless with out it. If we were just to steal on of the other four, they might still be able to resurrect Clockwerk."

Sly nodded his head and said, "All right guys, we have a lot to prepare before we get to the island. Lets get to work."

The whole trip the gang prepared everything they would need. Penelope used the mars probe software she and Bentley had been developing to give her radio control helicopter some artificial intelligence, enough for it to fly by itself and attack some thugs with its drop claw. Bentley and Eclipse gave the Sky Serpent a complete once over, double checking that everything was in position. Destiny set up a command center that would allow her to keep an eye on everybody with relative ease. Carmelita gave her shock pistol a complete cleaning and upgrade, giving it enough kick to knock someone out for a day. Hopefully it would be enough to get through Clockwerk's armor. Panda King prepared the firework turrets and Dimitri got out his old laser fire ring. He even got Bentley to fix it so it wouldn't back fire after every three shots. Guru meditated the whole trip, and before anybody knew it, they were coming up on the island.

The island's exterior wall came into view, and everybody got into place as Eclipse slowed the Sky Serpent down for their approach. Once they were within range Destiny took the train's controls while Eclipse, Sly, Carmelita, Dimitri, Guru, and Murray got ready. Bentley wheeled up to the front of the operation car where Panda King had set up an extremely large firework. They came within 100 yards of the walls when Destiny turned the train hard and came to a stop. Once the train's broad side was facing the wall Bentley lit the firework and it went flying into the islands walls where it exploded and left a huge hole.

Eclipse created a path of water that was extremely dense, and Sly lead the attack team onto the islands shores. Destiny quickly increased the train's hover fan speed making it raise above the defense walls. Once the Metal Owl Clan members were within range Panda King, Penelope, and Bentley unloaded on them, knocking many of them out with the Sky Serpents firework turrets. The few guards that got threw the rain of fireworks were quickly taken out as Sly and Carmelita who lead the attack team up the mountain side. Sly was knocking guards with his cane while Carmelita covered his back with her shock pistol. Eclipse had pulled his sword out and filled it with energy. He was now using it as a long wipe. With it, he knocked the attackers out with a crack of the magic whip. Guru possessed one of the biggest guards and used him to help Eclipse keep the guards back. Dimitri and Murray worked as a team, Dimitri taking care of any guards with pistols with his laser ring while Murray brawled his way through the many cloaked figures.

The reached the top of the mountain side, and saw it dipped down into a huge basin. In the center a small shrine stood, and several Metal Owl Clan members were rushing toward the shrine. Eclipse pointed as he yelled, "We have to hurry. They are trying to resurrect Clockwerk before we can stop them."

The gang rushed down the side of the mountain, and began running full sprint toward the shrine, but before they could get there a loud sound, like a bomb exploding came from the shrine, and a dark figure shot out of the shrine roof, making the whole thing collapse in on itself. The shadow formed a small ball in the sky, and then began to spill out. Soon, Sly could recognize the silhouette of his enemy, Clockwerk.

The shadow began to recede, leaving behind shining metal. Finally, the shadow disappeared and it revealed the face of Clockwerk. The power of the pure magic gems had increased Clockwerk's already immense size. He was three times as big as he was when Sly beat him the first time. He hung in the air for a few seconds as the fire in his eyes slowly relit itself, and he began to flap his huge wings, creating a huge gust of wind. His head swiveled around a bit before he spotted Sly and said in his cold mechanical voice, "Sly Cooper, you will meet your end at the claws of Clockwerk."

Clockwerk readied to swoop down when a barrage of fireworks came out of nowhere. Everybody spun around to see the Sky Serpent charging over the landscape. Destiny stopped it right beside Sly and the others. Bentley popped his head out of the window before he said, "Hurry Sly, Carmelita, all of you. We have to get away. We can't fight Clockwerk like this."

Eclipse shook his head as he said, "Yes we can. Bentley, have you finished the special project I asked you and Penelope to work on?"

Bentley nodded his head and said, "Yes, but we still need a power source."

Eclipse just shook his head as he said, "Just do it Bentley. I will handle it."

Bentley looked around the group a second before he said, "Fine, but hurry. Everybody get to your sleeping cars. We are launching emergency program, "Sky Warrior"".

Everybody piled in except Eclipse who turned and began to look Clockwerk down. When everybody got to their rooms they saw a chair had appeared for each person who used the room. They all sat down in the chairs while Bentley wheeled up to the engine and typed a few things on a computer. Soon, they all felt the train lurch. Eclipse, which was still outside the train, held up his sword and yelled, "Clockwerk, we make our stand here."

With that the Sky Serpent separated into its individual cars and each car began to fly high into the sky. All the cars disappeared into the some cloud cover and Clockwerk was thoroughly confused until a large object came crashing down from the sky. From inside the train the entire Cooper gang was sitting in a command room of sorts, all the chairs facing a large front window. They realized that they were standing at eye level to Clockwerk, but it was Murray who said, "OH MY GOSH, WE HAVE A GIANT FIGHTING ROBOT. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, THIS SO BEATS MY VAN."

It was true, with Eclipse's designs and Bentley's programming genius they had made the Sky Serpent able to transform into a giant fighting robot. The operation's car and living car attached themselves to the sides of the engine. The engine tops opened up and an attachment platform came out. The dinning car and one of the bed cars became the left leg. Two other bedroom cars formed the right leg. The last two bedroom cars attached to each side to become most of the arm while the garage car the housed the Cooper gang van split in half and became the rest of the left and right arm. Finally, Murray's van transformed, because of the little magic device Eclipse had Murray install, into the robots head and attached to the top, completing the robot.

The robot stood motionless as Clockwerk looked down this new enemy. Clockwerk then chuckled as he said, "I must admit Cooper, that is impressive, but I am not going to fear a transformed hover train, especially when it doesn't have enough energy to even move." Clockwerk was about to laugh when he noticed Eclipse was glowing. Eclipse then began to float and he entered into the robots power core in a few seconds. His feet rested on two electrodes while his hands grasped two others. The robot then came to life as Eclipse used his magic to power the great metal titan.

Clockwerk then knew he needed to get serious, and he lunged at the robot with his claws ready. Sly, who had been put in charge of the simple movement control, got the train to dodge to the left. Murray and Panda King controlled the left and right arms which they used to grab hold of Clockwerk as he went by. Carmelita, who was in charge of the trains vast arsenal of fireworks and lasers fired a laser beam through the pointer finger on the right hand, blowing a hole in Clockwerk's wing. Bentley, Penelope, Guru, Destiny, and Dimitri, who monitored the many functions of the robot, watched on their independent monitoring screens as Clockwerk went flying into the side of the cliff walls, a decent sized hole in his wing.

They were about to cheer when they saw the hole in Clockwerk's wing heal up, and he turned and laughed evilly. He then turned to the robot as he walked on the ground and said, "You fouls, I have the Pure Magic Gems. As long as I have them, I am truly immortal. Nothing you can do can destroy me, or even harm me for long.

Bentley chuckled as he said, "We prepared for the Pure Magic Gems magic. Sly, press the button on the far left labeled "Cane".

Sly did as he was told, and in a few seconds a cane of pure magic materialized in the robots right hand. It was a cane exactly like Sly's if it were to be blown up to those titanic proportions. Murray quickly grabbed Clockwerk's wing while Panda King swung down the robots right arm. They left a deep gash in Clockwerk's wing, and Clockwerk had to hobble back.

They continued to deal some damage to Clockwerk. It went in the pattern of them catching up to him, Murray grabbing hold of him while Panda King slashed at him with the giant energy cane. They were about to win when Clockwerk got a lucky shot in with one of his wing mounted cannons, and hit them right in the power core. With their power distribution system damage the robot lost power, and fell back. Bentley quickly disengaged the team van and it transformed back to its usual form. Murray quickly took the wheel and got them clear of the falling robot.

Murray wheeled around and drove back to the robot. They gang piled out while Clockwerk tried to take off to get away long enough to let his wounds heal. He had just taken off and was about to get free of the island when he struck something and came crashing down. The gang began to look around and Panda King saw Eclipse standing beside the fallen robot. He had used his magic to bloke Clockwerk's escape. The whole gang ran over and Destiny got close to Eclipse before she asked, "Eclipse, are you alright?"

Eclipse nodded his head as he limped out toward Clockwerk. The others stayed put and watched at he got further away. Suddenly he stopped, turned around and said, "Why are you still here? You must leave now."

Sly shook his head and said, "No way, we aren't leaving you to fight Clockwerk alone."

Eclipse sighed as he said, "You must understand, I am the only one who can harm him while he has the Pure Magic Gems. There is nothing you can do."

Panda King shook his head and said, "No, if I have learned anything from Sly Cooper, it is that there is always something you can do."

Murray nodded his head and said, "Yeah, we aren't leaving anybody behind."

Eclipse sighed and said, "You don't understand."

Carmelita shook her head and said, "No, you don't understand."

Dimitri nodded his head and said, "Yeah cool wolf dude. Nobody here, not even me, will leave you to that coo coo Clockwerk."

Penelope nodded her head in agreement. Eclipse was touched by the gangs will, but he just shook his head and said, "I am sorry my friends, but this is something I must do."

Eclipse turned to leave, but Destiny ran up to him and wrapped her arms around him. She held tight to him as she said, "Please Eclipse, don't go alone. I don't know what I would do if you got hurt."

Eclipse sighed and a tear went down his face as he said, "I am sorry Destiny. I wish it could be different, but it was predicted that sooner or later the guardian would have to face the Pure Magic Gems. I have to destroy the gems, and to do that it will take the ultimate sacrifice."

Destiny let go of Eclipse in shock as she said in a barely audible whisper, "No."

Eclipse let one more tear stream down his face before he quickly spun around and used his magic to teleport Sly, Carmelita, Destiny, and everybody else to the edge of the mountain top basin, to far away to even have a hope of reaching him in time.