Thanks to Heiduska, the only one to review but me.
Chapter Three:
Fiendish Plans
This chapter is in Stryker's point of view.
I hitched a ride on a plane to Moscow, Russia, where I had learned that the Fiendish Five would be meeting in four day's time. Whatever they're planning, I need to be ready for it. During the ride, I thought back over my conversation with Bentley. To exact my revenge… Revenge for what, I asked myself. Sly's injury? My injury? Sly's and mine friendship being shattered? Sly's parents' death? My parent's death? After I thought about this for a while, I thought about my past. Growing up, I was the inheritor of an enormous fortune… The Asculd thieving clan fortune. My ancestors were responsible for several thieving heists over the years, improving the Asculmandi and making several moves to rival the Cooper clan's. My ancestor, Hyrogichi Asculd, was a friend and partner of Raoichi Cooper and made a move which could let you jump onto something, and then immediately jump a great distance over to something else. A great combination with the Ninja Spire Jump, it was passed down through both clans over the years. However, eventually the Cooper clan grew to think we would betray them to their enemies, and refused to have contact with us any longer. However, we kept using Cooper clan moves. However, Sly's parents were different. They trusted us and let Sly and I become friends. My parents were approving of this friendship. However, it was because of this friendship that my parents died. One night, the night before Sly's birthday, a gang came to our house, demanding to know where the Cooper family lived, and they lived right down the road. However, my father, sensing danger, and also seeing the robotic owl behind the various other members immediately said "We know no Coopers and do not wish to know." The members, not believing him, attacked and attempted to destroy my father. Although he fought bravely, wielding the Asculmandi to great effect, his wounds soon became too much for him to bear. As they went, he came to me and said, "Son, soon you will have to wield the Asculmandi. Do not be sad, Sly's father is a great warrior and will defeat the Five. Be brave, my son." I clenched my fists at the thought. The Five were going to pay for destroying my life if it's the last thing I do! However, the Cooper gang got to them first. They had waited less long and honed their skills less. I, instead of going to an orphanage, immediately took the Asculmandi and the book of moves and ran away. I first stole for food, then, when I was older, stole from a museum and, selling the painting for $21,000 (barely 10 of what it was worth), rented a cheap apartment and moved in with my few belongings. I went on to bigger and more dangerous heists, and, once, stole a multi-million dollar item, a diamond that weighed nearly 200lb. and was worth nearly 500 million. Eventually, I found and recovered my family's fortune, almost $995,000,000,000. My thoughts were interrupted by the plane landing. I got of and booked a taxi. I drove to a hotel and got a room. After that, I went outside and looked around. I saw a suspicious man hopping to …wait... hopping? I immediately followed him using the rooftops. He went into an old warehouse and stopped to order some guards: "Don't let anyone in." I laughed softly. Like that would stop me. I jumped across the rooftops and opened a hatch in the window. "…And that is what you, Muggshot, and you, Mz. Ruby, will be doing," a gravelly voice said coming through the hatch, undoubtedly Clockwerk's. I silently berated myself for not being there earlier. However, I listened on. When Clockwerk congratulated Panda King, saying "Good job, Panda King, you succeeded were the rest of us failed. Now that Sly Cooper is out of the way, there is only one more problem we have to attend to. Do you remember the house we went to for directions before going to the Cooper house? "Yes," Muggshot answered. "Apparently, the kid in the house survived, creating new problems. So that is what we are doing while Muggshot and Mz. Ruby are doing their job. The child must die!" I had heard enough. I jumped over a few buildings until I stopped. A cruel laugh erupted from my lips. Bring it on!
As always, review!