Into the Blue
Sly pulled up alongside the van at the warehouse. Figuring the gang was in there; he banged on the back doors. Penelope opened the door.
"Alright," Sly said, his face serious in anger. "Where did that bastard take Carmelita?"
"Bentley knows," Penelope said.
"He's about to leave in a new gyro-copter," Bentley said. "I think if I can shoot an uplink dart into the side, I might be able to briefly take control and safely land the thing."
As Bentley explained, McBride was already ready to take off. He yanked Carmelita into the helicopter, but with help from Jean Krakow.
"Okay," Jean panted. "This ride should take us out of French airspace and to Tunisia."
"Who said anything about we?" McBride asked.
"Wha?" Jean asked.
McBride pulled out a Beretta and shot Jean in the head. "You didn't fulfill your end of the bargain of eliminating Cooper!" he said, and then spat on the body.
The helicopter took off and up through the large opening in the warehouse. But Bentley was ready. Perched on a series of stacked containers, he aimed and fired and uplink dart into the side. "Alright Penelope, it's yours!"
Penelope acknowledged with her ability to successfully fly the chopper. She managed to bring it down close enough to the roof of the warehouse so that Sly could jump in.
"What the hell!" McBride yelled as the helicopter violently jerked. He didn't even have time to react when he saw Sly's cane whip at his face.
The blow knocked McBride to the floor and his gun slid forward from him. Sly whipped the gag off Carmelita and untied her.
"I'm sorry Carmelita," Sly said, his face was now filled with sorrow. "I deceived you."
He kissed her and threw her out of the helicopter and onto the roof.
"Sly!" Carmelita yelled. "Watch out!"
Sly turned around and managed to dodge McBride's swinging axe.
"Very crude, I know!" McBride said, with a twisted smile. "But I'm sure my dad would be proud none the less."
He swung again and again, only slicing air as Sly slid away and jammed his cane into McBride's stomach. The helicopter was now high above a beach, just near the warehouse. Sly smacked McBride hard enough in the wrist that he dropped the axe. The helicopter tilted to the side, so sudden it was that Sly grabbed on to both sides of the doorway to keep himself from making that fatal fall to the ground. He looked up and there was McBride, holding his Beretta, smiling. And then the gun went off.
Sly fell the long way down. The bullet passed into his chest, but it didn't exit him. Carmelita, running after the helicopter saw Sly fall out. She stopped and watched as he hit the ground, creating a crater in the sand.
"Got ya Cooper!" McBride laughed. "You're stealing no more!"
Suddenly his happy faced turned to shock as he saw the object where Sly's hand was. Bentley had given Sly a new explosive that was only the size of US half dollar. It beeped.
"Shit," McBride muttered to himself. It was the last thing he said.
The helicopter was engulfed in flames as it tumbled down into the sea. Interpol had arrived at the scene, but everyone just stood there watching Carmelita cradle Sly in her arms.
"Come on Sly," she cried. "Don't die on me yet. Please don't die, just don't. I don't care if you fooled me. I don't care if you are still a thief. I love you!"
Sly stirred, he was trying to say something. But he seemed to have trouble passing those words through his blood soaked mouth. But he opened his eyes and stared at Carmelita.
"I love you too Carmelita," he said. He sounded as if he was in pain but still fine.
And then the two's lips connected, and it seemed to stay like that for a long time. And then the Interpol officers, not knowing how they should react, began clapping and cheering. They all smiled. How could they all possibly bear with separating a cute couple? They were made for each other.
The team van pulled up, and Sly and Carmelita got into the van. But instead of Interpol trying to stop the van, they all just backed out of the way. Officer Tanner appeared.
"See ya 'round, ringtail!" Tanner smiled. "I'll see ya both some time."
And the van sailed off into the blue.