Sorry about the wait. School needs to die.
Erickdragon101: You are awesome. The Stalker was a work of art, so if you think this is good, it must be continued!
The Dragon Warrior: Glad you like it. You and 'Skip' keep reading, it's gonna get better.
Heiduska: Sorry, I guess I kind of blew the ending to Sly 3. Take your time reviewing.
Alhandana Twyblade: Being related to me does not give you the right to threaten me (though nice Octavio reference…..)
Demontheif: Ummm…thanks.
SmashQueen: (smirks back) Okay then. Presto Descripto! (waves wand around while nothing happens) Fine, I'll do it the hard way. (sulks).
Invisible Cloud: Ohhhh, don't worry. I have plans for her! (snickers).
Xhavius: I am willing to put up with any complaints you have, but as you can see, waving a wand does not description make. I'll have to work on it by hand.
Disclaimer: Cooper isn't mine, and I'm not saying that again unless someone complains.
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Bentley telling cooper gang what to do via slides
Sly monologues
Aaaaand, on with the fic!
Using the information that the Guru has given us, I have determined the secrets of Ziggy's 'Nightmare spirits: They don't exist. Apparently, he's tapping dreamtime energy using that staff he carries around. However, that lunatic is constantly surrounded by guards, making a frontal assault impossible. However, I think I know another way this can be handled.
The power of the staff comes from the three masks that are on top of it. The Guru has determined that the only way this is possible is if there are three other masks powering the three on the staff from close by.
Thanks to Penelope's reconnaissance, I've located the first mask on one of the nearby islands. We may have some trouble getting through the guard ships around the island, but not much. Then, it'll be up to Sly to get through the deathtrap tunnel in front of the mask. Sly, once you have, grab the mask and get out of there. Now, here's the most important part of the plan: When Sly brings the mask back, I'll hook it up to a Bad Mojo generator I just got from Theifnet. When all three masks are on, it'll blow Ziggy sky high. Then we can get out of here.
Murray lumbered out to the shore of the tropical island and looked out at the sea. Its peaceful surface was devoid of waves and calm as anything that he had ever seen.
"Boooring!" he yelled. "When do we get to blow stuff up? 'The Murray' grows impatient!"
"Hold your horses, big guy." Bentley said via binocucom. "Our first objective is to reach the first island, not start a fight with the entire cult."
"Yeeah, I don't get that." Said Murray. "None of us can swim, and the island the mask is on is so far away. How is Sly, or any of us, gonna get there?"
"Murray, Murray, Murray." Bentley said. "You didn't really think that I had forgotten the need for sea transportation, did you? Look at the edge of the island."
Murray nodded. "Okay, but I still don't see-"
And then his jaw dropped opened.
Of the edge of the island came the pirate ship that they had stolen from Lafwee, but if Murray hadn't been on it for so long, he would not have recognized it. It had heavy armor plating, what looked like energy turrets where the cannons had been, and a motor on the back in addition to the sails. Had the sails not been there, it would have looked more like something out of WW1.
"So, Murray, what do you think?" Bentley asked. But there was no response. "Murray? Murray, are you there?"
Murray watched the ship with tears coming to his eyes. A single word escaped his lips.
"Nautical."
After the Cooper gang got Murray to stop staring at the pirate ship gone giant world war one death machine and drive it, they set sail for the first island. Bentley was busy going over his plans for braking into Atlantis, Murray was singing an unintelligible song as he piloted the ship, Penelope was below deck working on some new RC gizmo, and the Guru was sitting cross-legged on the deck, meditating.
Only Sly was miserable. He thought abut the last few years he had spent with Carmelita. Soon, as he recounted the last time he saw her, his misery turned to rage. At that moment, he realized that it wasn't enough to get the Thevius Racoonus back. Dr. M would pay.
As soon as they reached the first Island, Bentley noticed a pair of problems.
"As you can see, the crescent shape of the island makes only one part of it accessible, and it's blocked by a heavy metal gate. Also, there is a pair of guards on the walls with magnetizer guns, so if we get closer with the ship they could shut the entire thing down. However, the guns are akin to shotguns in that they don't shoot up very well, so I think that Penelope should take them out with her RC chopper."
"Roger, handsome." Penelope said, and began assembling her chopper for battle.
Mike, one of the geckos on the entry gate, was worried.
He had no rational cause to be, even if there was a giant, metal pirate ship on the horizon. He new that he and his watch partner could magnetize it before it got into firing range, but he couldn't shake the uneasy feeling that something was about to happen. Suddenly, he heard his partner scream.
Penelope was in some trouble. She had no difficulty getting over to the gate-she probably could have gotten there without her monitor-and hooking the first guard was a cakewalk. But she was experiencing some 'technical difficulties that kept her from diverting her attention to the other gunner'. In other words, the pincer on her tow hook had frozen up.
"Bentley, help me!" She screamed. "I can't let go of this guy!"
"Try shaking him around. Maybe it'll come loose!" he yelled back.
Penelope began furiously wiggling the joystick on her controller. Then two things happened at once. The first was that in the flailing of the chopper, Penelope had crashed the gecko on the end of the hook into the other one. The second was at that moment, the pincer decided to unfreeze. The combination sent both geckos tumbling into the sea.
"Well….that works." Bentley said. "So, the guards are down, now how to deal with the gate?" His eyes scanned the sea for a while, and then lit up. He turned to the Guru.
"Hey Guru," Bentley said while pointing out to sea. "Do you see that spray coming up from the water?"
"Akka? A, Hizibaza cazas a hadadada." The Guru replied.
"Precisely, a humpback whale. Now, I've calculated that something that size could probably break the gate down if it collided at ramming speed. So I'll need you to take control of the beast and slam it into the gate. That should provide us with an entrance to the island's center." Bentley explained.
"Jump into my arms, master. If there's one thing 'The Murray' is good at, it's chucking stuff!" Murray yelled.
The Guru, looking incredibly nervous, hopped into the position for Murray to throw him. True to his word, Murray was good at throwing stuff. The Guru landed almost perfectly on the whale's back. He then began taking control of his mind. Once he was finished, he prepared to ram.
Joe had been sent out from the center of the island to investigate what had happened to the guards on the gate. He never found out, but he did get the surf of a lifetime as the gate crashed down.
"Okay, Sly. Now that we're in, your gonna have to go on alone." Bentley said via binocucom.
Sly looked around him. They had put him down on the island in front of what looked like a huge temple/cave. The entrance looked like a giant lizard head with it's mouth open.
"I'm going in." Sly said evenly.
As soon as he entered the cavern, he new that Ziggy didn't expect anyone to get this far. The only obstacle was a gaping pit between him and the mask. Impassible to most, but as Sly noticed the large rock spikes coming up from the ground, he realized that it wasn't, to a Cooper. He Ninja spire jumped along the points, grabbed the mask, and headed toward the shore.