A/N: This will be a Sly Cooper and Goosebumps crossover that will tie in with the events with A Human's Descent into Madness. This will take place during the events of Sly 3. The events of this story will take place during the fourth episode of Sly 3 entitled: A Cold Alliance, where Sly and the Gang have to recruit an enemy from the past named Panda King as the demolitions expert for the Cooper Vault heist. The Goosebumps story I will be crossing this over with is Goosebumps #53: Chicken Chicken. To give you a brief synopsis, Chicken Chicken revolves around a 12 year old ginger haired girl named Crystal and her brother Cole, who live in a small Ohio town called Goshen Falls.
One day, while shopping, Crystal, Cole and their friend Anthony accidentally bump into a witch girl named Vanessa, spilling her groceries in the process. Vanessa curses both Crystal and her brother Cole who wind up turning into chickens. I won't try and spoil too much, since I've yet to reach this point in A Human's Descent into Madness. This will use my OC Harley Keener. This is a story about how an obsession with a children's book series can take things too far and lead to disastrous consequences.
Harley Keener P.O.V.
Have you ever made a decision that was so bad, you'll start to wonder just how on Earth you came up with the decision in the first place? A decision so bad that it can lead to very bad consequences when it's all said and done. I have. This is the story of how one of my fantasies ended up taking things too far and ended up cancelling the Cooper Vault heist. You can thank my obsession with a children's horror book series named Goosebumps for the events that are about to transpire. Goosebumps is an insanely popular series of children's horror books that just about everybody in the universe had either read or heard about. It's an anthology series where various 12 year old children face off against monsters, or other supernatural threats.
The Goosebumps series was written by R.L. Stine, a relatively popular author. It goes without saying that I am a massive fan of the Goosebumps novels. They're so damn addicting. One of my all time favorite Goosebumps books is book number 53, titled: Chicken Chicken. It revolves around a 12 year old girl named Crystal and her brother cole, who after accidentally bumping into a reclusive withc named Vanessa while shopping, are cursed. They start to turn into chickens (I'm not kidding). Chicken Chicken is one of my favorite Goosebumps book because it features a strong protagonists: Crystal. You get to feel her horror as she and her brother start slowly turning into chickens, Animorphs style.
I was in the Cooper Gang hideout. It was shortly after me and the Cooper Gang had won the ACES competition in Holland with a mouse girl named Penelope. I was in my bedroom, reading my favorite Goosebumps book, Chicken Chicken. I had a movie playing on TV. It was a John Wayne move called The Conquerer. It was about the life of Genghis Khan, one of China's most bad ass rulers during the Ming Dynasty. I liked Genghis Khan. He was an interesting historical figure. I was eating a dish of General Tsao's chicken from a local Chinese restaurant nearby. Emily was downstairs in the living room, playing video games with Sly. Bentley was currently researching plans on how to break into the Cooper Vault. Penelope was messing around on my computer, she was on 4chan, a secret site that had forums like Reddit.
While I was reading my Goosebumps book, I had this crazy thought in my head. I had a picture of this Chinese warlord rooster wearing battle armor, a small black Fu Manchu and a gold helmet with a feather. I looked at my Chinese food and my book and thought to myself: Wouldn't it be cool I could merge the character of my Goosebumps book and Genghis Khan together into a badass Chinese warrior that could take over mainland China. That would be awesome! I'll name the Chinese chicken warrior General Tsao. That sounded like a badass name.
"I wish I could merge Crystal and Genghis Khan together into an epic ruler of China." I said quietly to myself. It was nighttime. I read a couple of pages from my Goosebumps book before turning off the TV and going to bed. Little did I know that my wish of merging a fictional character who turns into a chicken and a ancient Chinese ruler into one would be the biggest mistake I'd ever make. A decision that tear the Cooper Gang apart in a huge way.
Crystal P.O.V.
My name is Crystal. I'm a 12 year old girl with dark red hair. I'm a human. At least I used to be human. A witch named Vanessa cursed me and my brother into being chickens after we'd accidentally knocked over her groceries. She pointed to me and my brother Cole and said, "Chicken Chicken" to both of us. I was scared. I opened my eyes. I found myself to be in some sort of bedroom with fancy decorations. The ceiling was high.
I got of bed. My body felt weird. My skin felt like it had feathers on it. I got out of bed. I walked to the nearest bathroom. I couldn't find my brother Cole anywhere. I went into the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror. The face staring back at me wasn't my own. I was a a white-feathered chicken. I was wearing a gi and had a golden plate around my torso. I also had a beard about my chin. I had an ugly yellow beak where my lips should've been.
I didn't know whether this was real or if I was still dreaming. This had to be a dream. There was no way I was a chicken. I splashed my face with some water in my face. It was then I realized that this was no dream. I'd somehow woken up as a giant chicken creature. I was scared. I hate chickens. I couldn't believe that Vanessa's spell had worked. I hadn't expected her curse to take effect that quickly. I exited the bathroom. Someone was waiting in the room with me. She was a purple panda like woman who had purple and white fur, and blue hair that was held up with chopsticks.
"General Tsao. Are you sure you want to marry me?" the female panda woman asked me. Did this woman seriously consider marrying a minor girl like me?
"Who's General Tsao?" I asked the panda woman. The voice wasn't my own. It sounded man like. Nowhere near what a 12 year old girl's voice sounded like.
"Why would you ask such a silly question like that? You're General Tsao." the panda woman explained to me.
"I am?" I asked. "Where am I?"
"You're in China, obviously." the panda woman asked. I sprinted past the woman out of the room and down various halls before eventually reaching outside. All of the houses looked like buildings you would see in a Chinese themed viilage. It was then that I freaked out. I screamed at the top of my lungs. I had just woken up inside somebody else's body halfway across the world!
