Day of Defeat

The next day, Carmelita began checking their database for Sly's ex. Robin, the technician, who was also what his name suggested, was under the watchful eye of Carmelita. They both searched Interpol, but to no avail.

"If you ask me," Robin said. "She must have been from before the Cooper gang had begun their life of crime. In fact, she probably hasn't done anything illegal to put her on the database."

But Carmelita was sure there was at least one record for her. In fact, her mind kept floating back to that last photograph she saw. 'That plane they were in front of, THAT WAS A UNITED NATIONS CARGO PLANE!'

"Try searching the UN Military forces database," Carmelita said. "Try looking under pilots beginning from around maybe seven or so years ago, around when Cooper was eighteen."

"You're on to something Inspector," Robin smiled. "Got IT!"

The same picture of Angelica appeared. And so did her file. There was little information on her though.

"It seems to me Inspector," Robin noticed. "It appears that this Angelica Laughlin used to live at the same orphanage as Sly Cooper. But it doesn't say whether she is on active duty, or if she's retired…"

Robin typed some more, until a red band appeared over the picture. In bold white letters, they read DECEASED.

"Well, that's it," Robin sighed. "Whoever she was, your not gonna find her 'cause she's dead."

"Thanks for the help," Carmelita said as she left the room to go to her office.

As soon as she entered, the chief's voice came up on her intercom on her desk. "Fox! Need to see you in my office."

"Alright," the chief said. "We've apprehended the three members of the Cooper gang, right where you said they would be. The only thing is that we can't keep this Guru weirdo behind our bars because he hasn't done anything illegal, or at least anything directly related to the Cooper Gang jobs. We can keep the lizard Dimitri because he hasn't finished his sentence back in Italy, when Cooper busted him out, but we keep him anyway because of his connections to the gang, and it's the same way with Panda King. Good job Inspector."

"Thank's sir," Carmelita said with a smile on her face. "I found the location of where the rest are hiding, and I need a task force to help on the raid."

"Already done that Inspector," Chief said. "Your raid will begin at five o'clock sharp!"

A few hours later, an Interpol SWAT team suited up, among them was Carmelita herself, and an ex UN Military Field Officer by the name of Unum. The team jumped into the vans and headed for the hideout, but not before Carmelita noticed something. 'Why does Unum give me the creeps? He is after all, a retired military rank.'

The gang was eating Chinese take out for dinner and didn't notice anything suspicious until it was to late. There was an explosion in the garage.

"WHAT THE HELL WA THAT?" Sly yelled.

"MY BABY!" Murray cried.

Suddenly, the door to the garage was busted down and in came a bunch of men toting guns. Serum guns to be in fact.

"Run!" Bentley yelled. Suddenly, one man ran up and kicked his wheelchair over and kneeled down so that Bentley had a cop's knee on his throat.

Another banged into Penelope, thrusting her into the wall, where she was handcuffed. Murray on the other hand had the cops running for their money.

"IT'S PAYBACK FOR WHAT YOU MUST HAVE DONE TO THE VAN!" Murray yelled, cloths lining and cracking skulls of any cop who where dumb enough to try to take him on. And then a tranquilizer dart was fired into Murray's arm. "YOU THINK THAT CAN STOP ME!" and before he knew it, he was getting pinned with darts. "Yeah rig…" And then he passed out.

Sly ran for his room. But before he jumped out of his window, he ran back for a picture on his desk. As soon as he grabbed it, he was tackled. Sly tried to reach the picture that was just out of his reach on the floor. He kept squirming. He managed to get free when a burly otter appeared. 'He looks so damn familiar.' He was then followed by who appeared to be a woman, but she was disguised. The otter pulled out a dart gun and emptied it into Sly's back. Sly continued for a short way down the road before he finally gave in. It was the end of the Cooper Gang.

Carmelita pulled off her mask and punched Unum. She saw everything.

"I WANT TO PUT THEM BEHIND BARS, NOT IN A MORGUE!" she yelled.

A physician came up to her after inspecting an unconscious Sly. "Excuse Inspector, there is a matter we need to discus. You see, that attack was practically the definition of excessive force. The turtle guy will be hurting every time he talks, that mouse lady needs to have her arm in a sling, that brawny hippo guy doesn't seem to have any damage though, and that Cooper fella, well, mister overkill over there," he pointed to Unum, "pumped him with too much nerve agent, so now we have to watch to make sure he doesn't go into cardiac arrest for the next forty-eight hours or so because otherwise, the doctors are gonna have one hell of a time trying to resuscitate him."

'What have I done? This IS the end of Cooper!'