Backstage Terror

The night of Blast From Da Past's concert, the gang hung out backstage.

"Gibberish" Guru said, he had a sense of uneasiness.

"Guru senses a malevolent force," Panda King said, catching up with Bentley, who was talking techno-geek to Penelope. "It wishes harm. He senses three of them to be exact!"

"Oh geez!" Bentley hissed between his teeth. He pulled out his binocucom.

"What Bentley? I'm busy," Sly said.

"You can make out with Carmelita later, we think Tybalt's here!" Bentley wheezed.

"WHAT! You sure?" Carmelita yelled.

"We don't know," Penelope said. "But it'd be best to be on the lookout. He must have brought his brothers."

"Okay, but Mercutio can't be that hard not to notice," Sly said. "The guy must be missing half his face!"

"Watch out. Over," Bentley said, turning off his binocucom.

Sly holstered his binocucom and looked back into Carmelita's eyes. "So where were we?"

"This," Carmelita said, kissing Sly.

Meanwhile, Bentley started getting a weird signal reading on his laptop.

"Something's not right, there's a signal coming from within the stadium," Bentley said. "WAIT! It's right under out feet!"

Murray quickly punched a hole through the floor. There was something down there, and it had a remote detonator.

"My word!" Panda King yelled. "That's a Komodo 3000! Enough concentrated firepower to make Hiroshima's ground zero look like picnic!"

Meanwhile, Sly noticed him. Mercutio. He was staring at Sly from above.

"Mercutio!" Sly yelled, alerting Carmelita. "Get the others quick!"

"What about you?"

"I'm getting the bastard, I told them to leave us alone," Sly growled. "I don't want you come to any harm."

When Carmelita wouldn't move, Sly pushed her and yelled at her to get going.

"Okay Mercutio, let's end this!" he muttered under his breath as he climbed a pipe to the catwalks above.

Back at the green room, Bentley had ordered that everyone be evacuated, while Penelope tried disarming the detonator.

"Everyone left Bentley, you need to get out of here too!" Penelope ordered.

"Listen Penelope, I'm not leaving you." Bentley said. "If this bomb goes off, I want to go with you, together forever like we promised."

Penelope couldn't help but let a tear streak down her cheek. Together forever like they both had promised each other.

Sly on the other hand broke out into a fight with Mercutio.

"I told you to leave us alone!" Sly growled.

"After what you've done to me? No way, I don't think so. The same goes for Tybalt," Mercutio smiled.

He just managed to block a head directed blow from Sly's cane, only to get brutally kicked in his bad knee. It gave out a disturbing cracking noise, indicating that his cracked kneecap had been shattered. He gave out a loud shriek of pain as he fell. He then felt himself being lifted up by his collar by Sly's cane.

"I am going to give you a second and last chance to leave us alone before someone gets killed, suggestively being that you'd be the first!" Slay said.

Sly began to thrust Mercutio's neck into the railing. Suddenly, a shot rang out. Tybalt had missed. Sly released his pressure on Mercutio and hooked a bucket with his cane and flung it at Tybalt. He missed too.

"I think it's time that I help you join your family upstairs!" Tybalt said, upper cutting Sly in the face.

Penelope concentrated hard. She had narrowed the wire to two of them. A blue wire and a white wire. She just couldn't figure out which. She settled for the blue.

"Bentley, I want you to know that I love you," she said, tears welling up.

"I love you too Penelope," Bentley cried, putting his arms around Penelope.

She clipped the wire. They opened their eyes and smiled and sighed.

"This bomb won't be going off anytime soon," Bentley sighed in relief.

Carmelita managed to navigate her way through the throngs of people trying to escape and it had taken this whole time to get to Bentley.

"Sly's gone after Mercutio!" she yelled. "We need to help him! He could be bait to lead Sly into a trap!"

Suddenly, there was the distinct sickening sound of scraping metal wires snapping as the catwalk over the stage collapsed

Tybalt, Sly, and Mercutio plunged down onto the stage. Tybalt's gun disappeared among the twisted mass of lacerated steel, as did two foxes and a raccoon.