A Chance Meeting
Sly and Alexia pulled up to a block from the park in Sly's car. One day, Sly found a '69 GTO convertible sitting in his parking space at his apartment. On the windshield was the Cooper logo and a note. Sly remembered during a heist in the United States that he purchased a dark blue with white stripes '69 GTO 'The Judge' convertible. While Murray had his van, Sly had his GTO. Apparently during the night, his old gang had left him his car and a note that read:
Just a little something to get around in,
Cooper Gang"It has to be someone who bears a grudge," Alexia said. "How many people do you think hates her?"
"About everybody she busted!" Sly said. "But I'm guessing Muggshot, for getting busted twice by her; or Neyla, for ruining her plans to become immortal and rule the world, though I'm sure Neyla would've taken me out too."
"How do you know about them?" Alexia asked in a suspicious manner.
"I've been looking through the police archives," Sly said. 'Phew, nice save!'
They reached the park, and sure enough, there was Carmelita's convertible. They walked around a bit, sticking to the trees and bushes until they finally heard that familiar voice from the phone call.
"Ahh, Carmelita, good to see you," said a suited fox. "We've missed you."
"I know that guy, he's…" Sly started.
"…Tybalt Longbow, heir to the Longbow fortune, and supposed heir to a supposed mafia crime ring." Alexia ended.
"What do you want Tybalt!" Carmelita yelled. She was obviously pissed. "You've ruined my life already. My future was secure, I had a man, and I'm pretty sure he might of proposed to me sooner or later had you not have butted in!"
"Actually, I was thinking about that but I was too nervous to pop the question," Sly whispered.
"Like I said," Tybalt began. "You thought that you could hide from your destiny? You thought you could escape the inevitable? At first I thought it possible, until that last week when my brother Mercutio got into a fight with the Mediums. Fate made it happen. You arrested him and in turn, you blew your cover. You came out of hiding. Even if you were to get married to your Cooper, I would have personally ended it before you had a chance to say 'I do'. Think Carmelita, what made you think that I won't find out?"
"I didn't think scumbag!" Carmelita said. "But right now, the only reason I don't come up to you and beat the living hell out of you is because of your guys sitting in the trees with their Bullpups!"
"But I trust you came alone?" Tybalt said in an amused sense. But he didn't give Carmelita a chance to answer, because there was a loud crackling noise as Alexia accidentally stepped on a stick. "Of course you didn't! Whoever came is hiding behind those bushes."
Sly gave Alexia a dirty look. Suddenly, two guys appeared.
"Shit, run!" Sly whispered.
The two made a mad dash for outside of the park. Sly was pretty fast, but Alexia was faster. If only they could make it to the car. But their train of focus was interrupted by the sound of bullets whizzing through the air. They managed to dash in and out of alleyways until they reached the car.
"Alexia get the car started, I got some skulls to crack!" he said.
The two guards appeared, but without warning, the first was tripped by an unseen object. The second tumbled over the first guy. Suddenly Sly came out of his invisibility trick and kick both guards in the face. The second guard went down in an unconscious heap right away, but the first guy got up and swung at Sly. Wanting to end this fight quickly, Sly delivered a bone smashing blown right into the guy's groin. The guy toppled over, writhing in pain. For him, everything would become a pain-induced hallucination.
Sly jumped into the driver's seat.
"If we're gonna take on Longbows," Sly said. "Then we're gonna need some back up."
"Alright, we need to tell the chief!" Alexia said.
"No!" Sly yelled. "Interpol can't know about this. "Chances are that the reasons that Longbow wants Carmelita will probably land her in prison."
"Then who are we going to turn to?" Alexia asked in a pissed manner.
The car stopped in front of building. 'The old safe house.'
"Some old friends," Sly said with a smug grin on his face as he knocked on the door front door.
The door opened and there stood a wide-eyed pink hippo. "YOU!" the hippo yelled.