"Ben, relax, they'll be fine!" Sly said, trying to reassure his brother as he paced back and forth worriedly with his hands behind his back.
"Dammit, I just can't help but worry, okay?!" Ben retorted before resuming his pacing. Jing King was bouncing Brie on her knee while Murray noticed something amusing.
"Man, Ben! You've been pacing so much that you've dug a groove in the floor! You think that'll have an effect on the timeline?"
"I don't know. Maybe it'll end up being of historical significance!" Penelope guessed as Bentley wheeled in, deciding to help get Ben's mind off Neyla, Annie, and Tennessee's mission with some missions of their own.
"Okay, while Annie, Tennessee, and Neyla go through the mines, I think we'll have a team go to the local pub and casino of the town."
"So what's the pub and casino joint got that's important?" Carmelita asked.
"Toothpick's office is somewhere in the upper levels of the saloon. To find out what he's planning, our best bet is to plant a bug. Needless to say, we must remain undetected. Conveniently, I discovered they're looking for a new bartender, so I'll go in, undercover, and control the situation by introducing the patrons to my special home-brewed sarsaparilla."
Brie giggled and clapped at her father's plan, causing the rest of the gang to coo at her adorableness.
"What'll you have us do, Bentley?" Sly asked his friend as the Turtle Beastkin went over the plan.
"Sly, you'll need to enter through that window and make your way to the ventilation system. Meanwhile, Ben and I'll have the goons inside so juiced up, they'll be seeing double until they crash. Hard. Once you launch Penelope's RC Car in the vents, She'll take control and guide it to Toothpick's office."
"Well, let's get to it, Bents!" Ben said as he and Bentley suited up as Wild West Bartenders, complete with snazzy fake mustaches. Sly smirked as he looked at his two brothers' phony facial hair.
"Your mustache looks...bigger. What have you been feeding it?"
"Hardy-Har, Sly..." Bentley said with a roll of his eyes while Ben subtly flipped his blood brother off, which only made him laugh in response as Jing King covered Brie's eyes.
"Please, not in front of the child, boys."
Ben, Bentley, and Sly snuck into the local saloon. While Sly went through the vents, Ben and Bentley sauntered in through the front door.
"Greetings! I've been informed this establishment is in dire need of an expert tap jockey."
"We've got sarsaparilla! Best brewed in the county!" Ben said in his best bartender voice while twirling his mustache. The guards all gathered up as Ben and Bentley began serving up mugs of sarsaparilla to all their thirsty customers.
"Whoooo! That's good drinkin'!" Howled a Bull Beastkin Guard as he promptly passed out soon afterward, followed by a burly Human Guard with a thick beard. Soon, almost all the guards were down for the count while some were merely tipsy and drowsy but not out.
"Whoa! Some of these guards are still awake." Sly said as he observed most of them from his position before making his way through the casino area. Thankfully, the people in the establishment were quite rowdy, so they didn't hear Sly sneaking around above them.
"Okay, now to get to that air vent. Time to go invisible," Sly Smirked as he used Slytunkhaumen's Invisibility Technique and made his way to the air vent, proceeding to let Penelope's RC Car into the place with the bug attached to the car's new growing-arm attachment.
"I've got this from here, Sly!" Penelope said as she steered the car through the hole all the way through until she saw Toothpick on her Binocucom talking to some guards.
"Alright, listen up! My pardner's got an ace up his sleeve, and we're about to go all in! This trump card's going to crush Cooper and the rest of his claim-jumping gang! We is going to learn 'em you don't yank a rattlesnake's tail least yer lookin' to get bit!" The Armadillo Beastkin laughed. "Then, we are going to finish loading up the train and haul our sweet, little keisters outta this one-horse town! Once we get that loot back into the present day, I, Toothpick, going to be worth millions!"
As soon as he finished, Toothpick accidentally shot one of his guards in the stomach, knocking him down. Penelope wincing as she saw this through her Binocucom.
"Uh...Oopsie?" The Armadillo Beastkin awkwardly said before turning to his still-alive Human Guard. "By the way, Johnny, you an' the other boys? Yer doin' a fine job of fittin' in with the crowds of this timeline, same with all my other associates. Just make sure you find that no-good Tennessee and do him in for good. We need that parcel for the skunk after all."
"You got it, boss man!" Johnny said with a smile and a salute before picking up his compatriot and moving to get him urgent medical attention. Penelope smirked as she placed the bug just as Ben, Sly, and Bentley returned to the hideout. Fortunately for them, Tennessee, Annie, and Neyla were back, safe and sound.
"Oh thank god, you're okay!" Ben cried in relief as he and Neyla passionately embraced and kissed. Tennessee chuckling while Annie couldn't help but whistle.
"Who knew my Grandson from the Future would get so feisty with a kitty cat~! Woo!"
Tennessee ribbed his partner with a smirk as she grinned teasingly while Jing King hummed.
"Well, now that we've planted a bug in Toothpick's office and retrieved Tennessee's cane, what do we do now?"
The answer was all said when the radio in front of us began to speak with Toothpick's voice.
"Oh, what's that? You actually found that two-bit sheriff girl, ey? Hehe, I've always wanted to send a criminal to their demise by having them ride in a carriage off a cliff. That's my favorite part in the cowboy movies. Only this time, nobody can save ya, Montoya! HAH!" Toothpick said from the radio. Tennessee and Annie's eyes widening in horror upon hearing that.
"T-They got mah girl! They're gonna kill her! They can't do that, she's pregnant! I'm-a comin', my lady!" Tennessee exclaimed as he then leaped from the clock in the tower and went off to the location, Ben, Carmelita, Annie, and Sly following him as well.
"Tennessee, wait up! Yer gonna get yourself killed if you're not careful!" Annie called to her brother in all but blood as Ben turned to the rest of the gang before following after.
"You guys get the van for a quick escape! We're gonna rescue Sheriff Montoya!"
The gang nodded as they got their van ready while Ben, Sly, Carmelita, and Annie followed after Tennessee to the gorge and arrived just in time to see Sheriff Montoya being tied up. She actually looked like Carmelita if she were in her 20's, only she wore cowgirl attire, and instead of a shock pistol, she had a chain on her waist.
"Ooh, I am only too happy to get rid of this one. Her tongue is sharp enough to cut leather," Toothpick said as I saw Tennessee was invisible and was nearing Toothpick and the group of guards from behind, him aiming his gun at them from only ten feet away without them the wiser.
"Filthy cowards! Afraid to take these ropes off of me and fight me like men?! And you! Declaring yerself the sheriff when AH did all the work of building this bluff from the ground up! You should be ashamed of yerself! You're not a sheriff! You're an outlaw!" Montoya yelled at Toothpick, him snickering at that.
"She sure sounds like me if I were in her shoes." Carmelita said.
"Guess the apple doesn't fall to far from the tree in your time, eh?" Annie teased as Carmelita rolled her eyes at her words.
"So I stole all the gold and framed Tennessee for the crime, no harm done. But you know way too much. Boys, send her on the trip of a life-" Toothpick was about to finish before he felt the thing touch his back. Tennessee's gun.
"Hands up, armadillo. Let go o' my girl or Ah'm puttin' you down like the rabid rattlesnake you are."
Toothpick instinctively put his hands up as Tennessee told him to. Annie then flipped out from cover and fanned the hammer of her revolver, beaning all the guards with knockout rounds that sent them sprawling.
Ben headed over to Sheriff Montoya and unsheathed the blade in his bionic arm, cutting her bonds as she regained her bearings before turning to see Tennessee, who she ran over to and embraced tightly as Annie rushed in and joined the hug as well.
"Yer safe, Sis! Lands sake, yer safe!" Annie cheered as Tennessee and Montoya kissed happily. Toothpick tried to make a move but Jing King flew in with a flying kick, knocking him down.
"You will not harm them, you scoundrel!"
The rest of the gang drove in the Cooper Van. Ben smiled as he looked to Annie, who turned to her descendant with a smile.
"Make the Shigura Name proud, son!"
"I'll promise you that, Granny!" Ben said as Annie stuck her tongue at in response to that as Tennessee tipped his hat thankfully to Sly and the others.
"You know, I knew you were a Cooper the second I laid eyes on you."
"And we'll take out this garbage for ya!" Murray said as he picked up Toothpick before locking him up in the trunk of the van, bound and gagged as Bentley began typing in the coordinates for the next point in time they needed to go to.
"Murray, you still have that bone necklace the Guru gave you?"
"I never leave home without it!" The Hippo Beastkin said proudly as he showed his old necklace. Bentley put it in the time scanner before setting the coordinates...for the 100,000 BC.
"My Chronoton Anomaly Detector indicates that we need to go to Prehistoric Times next! Hang out, people, this is gonna get crazy!"
The Cooper Van warped through the timestream, heading for its next destination as Tennesee, Annie, and Montoya bid the gang farewell while preparing to round up Toothpick's gang to send to jail.
"Wait! We still need to help Tennessee get his gold back!" Ben pointed out. Bentley sighed, stopped, and then went back to the Wild West Era, surprising the Wild West Ancestor Trio when they returned.
"That was a short trip!" Tennessee said as Ben dragged Toothpick out of the trunk.
"Alright, buddy! Tell us where you hid Tennessee's gold so he can steal it back! I'm going to start slapping you until you tell me! The slapping will commence in two seconds!"
"GAH! I GIVE UP! IT'S ON THE TRAIN GOING THROUGH TOWN! JUST HAVE MERCY!"
"There, was that so hard?" Neyla said before delivering an Axe Kick to Toothpick's face, knocking him out as he was thrown back into the trunk. Tennessee smiled as he once more tipped his hat to Ben.
"Good job, pardner. Good luck on your travels. As for me and Annie, we gotta train to rob!"
Montoya chuckled. "And I'll give you two a ten-second headstart. Just because of all the crazy stuff that's been going on."
"Aww, yer too kind, sis!" Annie giggled as the gang once more got in the van and went to the Prehistoric Era for real.
Next Time: Clan of the Cave Raccoon!