"Okay, now for the next few jobs. We're going to need to have Penelope tail El Jefe with her RC Car to listen in on whatever he might say. And then we'll need a team to go out to the fishing caves and get some special bulbs from a plant called the Spiky Wall Climber. We're going to need it for the heist." Bentley said.
"Ah, I see. You wish to use the guards' love of my sushi against them. Very devious, Bentley-san." Rioichi smiled.
"Such an ingenious invention! Wheels powered by electricity!" Orochi said as he inspected Penelope's RC Car with interest.
"In the meantime, I'm gonna go and stand by the geisha house in case El Jefe goes in that direction. Given that he likes Madame Geisha, he may kiss me by the hand, giving me an opportunity to steal anythin' he may be carrying." Ben pointed out as Neyla scowled jealously.
"That mangy tramp better not try anything with you..."
"Relax, babe. I can take care of myself."
Penelope set out her RC Car after seeing El Jefe heading for the prison. Using Murray's old chicken hat in order to disguise the car, she kept a close ear on everything the Tiger Terrorist said.
"Ah, even this magnificent prison pales when compared to my new statue fortress!"
"New statue fortress? That must be where he's hiding out all the time..."
El Jefe laughed. "Nobody would guess the Palace Gate switch is actually under the bridge!"
"Oh, you're messing with the wrong mouse, buddy~," Penelope said with a smirk as she continued tailing El Jefe, who stopped next at the entrance of the Sashimi Caves.
"Aah! Fishing caves. Good thing I sealed them! My Dragon Gates are invincible. As long as that lazy guard doesn't get distracted by sushi!"
"Very interesting! I think we can probably help that guard out." Penelope giggled mischievously as Brie babbled cutely as she played with a butterfly while strapped to a harness on her mother's back.
"Even if those fools get to the Dragon Gates, they'll never figure out the switches are inside the dragon mouths!" El Jefe laughed as he continued talking.
"Keep flapping those big fat lips, sucker. We're getting everything."
Penelope got her RC Car close to El Jefe, who noticed something was off and turned around. Luckily, Penelope used the chicken hat disguise to ward off his attention as he scoffed, believing his ears were playing tricks on him.
"Now I just need to find that blasted Rioichi, so I can deliver the package to the boss!"
"That doesn't sound good..." Penelope said as she recalled her RC Car and began heading back as she saw Ben disguised as Madame Geisha greet El Jefe and lead him to the Geisha House. The Tiger Beastkin kissed Ben's hand, allowing him to snag the map he had before leading him inside, El Jefe slapping Ben's ass as he yelped before giggling like a traditional geisha.
Neyla sniffed as she was pickpocketing some of the guards for treasure and her eyes narrowed.
"I don't know why, but if I go up against that El Jefe...I'm going to SKIN him...ALIVE."
Rioichi and Jing King had gone to collect some Spiky Wall Climber bulbs. Rioichi had much to teach Jing King, not only his Ninja Spire Jump but also the Leaping Dragon.
"Heh, El Jefe really believes these puny traps can stop a ninja?" Rioichi chuckled as he collected the bulbs easily with Jing King's help.
"We must hurry back to your restaurant. If we are to prepare this special sushi...provided my darling Murray doesn't end up devouring them first. Not even he could withstand the sleep-inducing toxins." Jing King pointed out as Rioichi nodded, the two began heading back to the Sushi Restaraunt.
"Alright, we have all the intel we need. El Jefe has played dictator for the last time, and it's time to bring him down." Bentley said as he set up his slideshow. "First, we need to open those dragon gates. Thanks to Rioichi's special sushi rolls, the guards are out for the count. Sly, Neyla, you'll both need to gain access to the switches in their mouths. Next, we'll need to open the palace sword gate. However, the bridge is crawling with guards, so we'll need to create a diversion. Murray, you, Ben, Jing King, Carmelita, and myself will need to distract the guards. Once they're occupied, Rioichi can make his way under the bridge to the switch and open the gate. Once we get that gate open, there's nothing stopping us from taking the palace and putting El Jefe in his place. Viva la revolución!"
"Viva la revolución!" The Cooper Gang all cheered as they set out to do the big operation. Sly and Neyla moved stealthily into the statue fortress and opened up the dragon mouths after unlocking them with keys swiped from the sleeping guards, pulling the switches and allowing the others to reach the interior of El Jefe's fortress. However, they were greeted by a giant blimp rising in front of them
"Whoa..." Murray said in disbelief. Quickly, the gang made their way to the bridge to find El Jefe waiting for them.
"End of the line, Cooper!" The Tiger Terrorist laughed as he took a drag of his cigar. "Get them, you fools!"
Several of the same guards from the museum heist descended from the blimp, all of them chuckling evilly as they readied poison gas guns, cattle prods, and one tall muscular human guard even had a chainsaw sword!
"Okay, you all know what to do...Time to kick some butt!" Bentley cried, throwing his fists in the air.
"My favorite time of the day!" Murray cheered, punching his fist into his palm.
"Let us endeavor to leave them in smoldering shame!" Jing King said, lighting her hands on fire.
"They're not ready to face us~." Neyla giggled, readying her whip.
"I should have known..." Carmelita muttered to herself as she recognized the guards' uniforms while loading her shock pistol.
"I've got you in my sights, gang! Don't worry, I'll help in any way I can!" Penelope said as she drove her RC Chopper from a safe distance.
"Outrageous!" Orochi cried as he readied his sword.
Rioichi quickly snuck off to under the bridge in order to flip the switch and open the gate so the gang could make it to El Jefe. Ben smirked as he twirled out his revolver and loaded in special stun rounds.
"Let's do this!" Sly and Ben said at the same time as they charged at the guards. Jing King used her Flame-Fu to cover herself and Murray in a barrier of fire as they barreled through the guards while Carmelita shot a round of shock blasts in a 360 spin while Neyla jumped off her shoulders and struck her whip several times.
Sly used his cane to throw Ben into the air as he fired a single powerful revolver shot that generated a shockwave that knocked several guards off the bridge, one of them letting out a very familiar scream.
"WILHELM!" Cried a guard as he watched his friend plummet to his doom, only to be knocked over to join him by a sneak attack from Bentley.
As the gang continued fighting, Rioichi snuck under the bridge and then made it to the switch, which he turned, allowing the gate El Jefe retreated through to be opened up as everyone had just finished up the last of the thugs.
Once the gate was open, the group charged in...only for El Jefe to leap down from above the gate, pinning Rioichi to the ground before swiping his cane.
"Ha!" he declared dismissively. "It's mine!"
"My cane!" Rioichi called out desperately.
Before anyone could react, El Jefe drew his twin swords and dragged them through the wooden bridge as he raced to the other side, collapsing most of the bridge and leaving the remaining sections on fire.
"You lose, Coopers!" El Jefe called out. "I need to deliver this puny stick to a new owner!"
"Not if we have anything to say about it!" Ben said as he grabbed Neyla by the waist and fired his grappling hook from his bionic arm, Sly jumping on his brother's shoulders as he turned to Rioichi.
"Don't worry, Rioichi. Watch after the others. I'm gonna kick some tiger tail and get your cane back!"
"What kind of friend would I be if I stood back while my friend's prized possession was being taken?" Orochi said as he followed after Ben, Sly, and Neyla, using his own patented Dragon Leap to get across the gap and join them in chasing El Jefe.
Making their way through the halls, the group of four arrived at a throne room of sorts, where El Jefe was waiting for them.
"Hahaha! Hey Cooper, what do you think of my statue?"
Everyone looked up to see a giant half-built statue of El Jefe in the background. Sly smirked as he shook his head and faced the tiger terrorist.
"Looks like a real pigeon magnet."
Ben and Orochi laughed in amusement as El Jefe narrowed his eyes. "Bah! I hope you and your little friends can fly like pigeons, Cooper. Otherwise, you'll never catch me!"
El Jefe then used a rope and cut it so that it pulled him upward. Orochi took out several kunai and threw them into a nearby wall to make a makeshift stairway, which he climbed with the Ninja Spire Jump as Sly and Neyla followed him while Ben simply used the old-fashioned grappling hook to carry himself up.
When they reached the top, they saw the full face of El Jefe's statue, the Tiger Beastkin cackled as he appeared on top of it.
"A magnificent likeness isn't it, Cooper? Almost as handsome as the real thing!"
"Huh. Yeah, Looks almost big enough to contain your over-inflated ego!" Ben called out as Neyla laughed before narrowing her eyes.
"I also need to skin you and make a nice fur pelt out of your hide. Because I know you did SOMETHING to my husband."
El Jefe took a drag of his cigar before crushing the stub in his hand. "Take a nice, long look. I want you to remember the one who CRUSHED you!"
"A Shigura never says surrender! You're going to give back Rioichi's cane or suffer a severe thrashing!" Orochi declared, aiming his sword at El Jefe, the Tiger Beastkin just cackled.
"Sticking up for the family, eh? Too bad you'll never see any of them again!"
"Take that back RIGHT now!" Orochi growled angrily, El Jefe pretending to rub away tears in a mocking tone.
"Oh, you've all climbed so high, and now..." He leaped off the statue and slid down the side. "...You're gonna fall!"
Sly, Ben, Neyla, and Orochi charged through El Jefe's onslaught of fireball strikes before making their way to a platform big enough for all of them as El Jefe was waiting, his back turned.
"You know something, Cooper? You and your friends are actually starting to annoy me."
"Oh, don't worry. we have that effect on all cowardly crime lords." Sly said as El Jefe turned around, baring his teeth before gasping as Neyla cracked her whip near his face, drawing a bloody scratch on his cheek.
"Bugger, I was aiming for your neck."
"And El Jefe, what does that name even mean?" Orochi laughed. "Does it mean 'Big Baby' in some foreign language?"
"Bah! Enough of these stupid games!" El Jefe barked as he drew his swords and let out a ferocious roar to the heavens. Much to the quartet's surprise, he created three shadow clones of himself.
"One for each of us, how sweet!" Ben said as he rushed towards one shadow clone and sprouted a sharp blade from his bionic arm, clashing against the clone's own swords.
Neyla wrapped her whip around her clone's neck and pulled it close before kneeing it in the stomach. The two then began duking it out with their firsts as Orochi clashed swords with his own clone.
Sly took on the real El Jefe, katanas clashed with the family cane as the two fought like traditional samurai warriors. El Jefe pulled out a few tricks, such as conjuring lightning from the sky and sending out waves of fire, but the Cooper Gang was too quick for him and soon, Sly had knocked him onto his knees and began beating him senseless with his cane.
El Jefe's shadow clones dissipated as Ben, Neyla, and Orochi all landed fatal blows on them at the same time. They then saw Sly knocking El Jefe onto his back before aiming his cane at his neck.
"It's over El Jefe," Sly said flatly. "I have no personal quarrel with you. Give me back Rioichi's cane, and you can leave."
"What?" El Jefe demanded angrily. "Why would you let an opponent leave without crushing them?"
"Because I'm ruthless, not heartless," Sly stated flatly. "Just like you."
El Jefe's eyes widened in shock. He then chuckled darkly. "So I was tricked then too, was I? You think you can identify with me after tricking me-"
"I was Madame Geisha in disguise and I got to reading you pretty well," Ben said, much to El Jefe's shock as the human boy spoke. "What motivates you, El Jefe? What drives you? What is in the present so important you'd take a job to conquer the past?"
"...some distance south of the Panda King's lands, there is a dojo on a mountaintop," he explained softly. "It is run by an ancient tortoise and a wise red panda. Most of the money I make goes to keeping that dojo and the community built up around it running...because I entrusted my daughter to their care, and I want her to have a future I could not give her."
The four stared in shock. "What do you mean?"
El Jefe chuckled darkly. "A mercenary who overthrows countries for the highest bidder...what kind of father is that? Especially when the mother was a nameless slave I dallied with after overthrowing such a country while waiting to hand over the country to the bidder? She does not know this of her origins, and as far as I am concerned she never will! Better she has a clean slate and a safe place to grow than what she would have if she knew me!"
"I thought I could hate you..." Orochi said somberly as he put away his katana. "But inside you is a heart...somewhat. Perhaps there is a way to change for the better."
El Jefe growled and got up, readying his katanas. "I will not yield, Orochi! I have too much at stake!"
The Tiger Terrorist rushed at the Shigura Ancestor, whose eyes only projected sadness and disappointment. In the blink of an eye, he appeared behind El Jefe, who gasped as he coughed up blood before slowly tipping over the platform and plummeting into the abyss.
"Tiger, tiger, burning bright..." Orochi softly spoke as he sheathed his sword again. "In the forest of the night..."
"Come on, let's get back to the others," Ben said, having managed to swipe Rioichi's cane from El Jefe beforehand.
After returning Rioichi's cane, the Cooper Gang prepared to head to the next part of Time that needed fixing, which just so happened to be the Wild West. Luckily, Brie had a toy sheriff's badge that Penelope put in the machine, and thank the gang's lucky stars it would bring them to where they needed to go.
"Thank you, for all you have done," Orochi said as he shook Ben's hand while Rioichi shook Sly's. "I shall tell tales of this amazing adventure, though the good people of our village will find it quite hard to believe."
"It will be a truly great tale that will stand the test of time for eons to come," Ben said to his ancestor as Rioichi turned to his friend with a smile.
"Come to Orochi, what say we celebrate? Sake at the Moonshine Bar?"
"You read my mind!"
The Cooper Gang smiled as the two friends headed off before Murray punched the ignition and speed into the timestream, the gang's next destination; Old Wild West!
Next Time: Go West Young Raccoon
The part of El Jefe being related to Tigress from Kung Fu Panda comes from 'Dressed to Steal, a MLP/Sly Cooper crossover on FimFiction I highly suggest you read.