"Jack?" I was stunned to see a familiar face. It was my brother, Jack. My brother looked at me and was shocked to see me as well.

"Nolan?" my brother started to tear up.

We hugged out of shear joy of being reunited, "Oh my god. Jack, it's really you. It's really you. I can't believe it." I started to cry tears of joy of seeing my younger brother.

"Where have you been, bro? I went to visit you, but you weren't home. Then all of a sudden I was in this ship and was brought here by talking walruses and this frog was threatening me and and and..." Jack was talking as if he went mentally crazy but everything that happened was true.

"Look, you can explain to me how you got here later. Right now we need to get out of here." I explained as Sly was in the vault under Raleigh's throne and grabbed the pages and a few jewels that were in there. Jack noticed Sly and he started to freak out again.

"What's going on? What is that thing?" Jack freaked out from seeing a human sized raccoon with a cane.

"He is not an 'it', Jack. This is Sly Cooper. He helped me adjust to this world." I introduced my Brother to Sly.

Sly got what he needed and came up to Jack with his hand out, "Nice to meet you. The name's Sly."

"Uhh... Jack" Jack was hesitant to shake Sly's hand but he did it anyway.

"Okay. Now we're done with introductions, let's get the hell out of here." I suggested.

We all got out of the blimp, but as soon we got outside, the police were here. And so was Inspector Carmelita Fox in the scene. The three of us tried to sneak away from the vixen cop by going on the rooftops. I try to help out my brother climb up but once he got up, he made a noise by causing a few pebbles falling over the roof. This caught the attention of the Inspector.

"Freeze!" she pulled out her shock pistol pointed up on the roof where we were standing.

The three of us froze with our hands up. I whisper to Sly, "Sly you go on ahead. We'll meet you in the van. I've got an idea." Sly nodded as he ran while Jack and I stood in place. Carmelita got up to the roof and got a closer look at me.

"Well well well. If it isn't the hairless monkey." Carmelita gave a stern look on her face.

"Look Miss Fox, there's a good reason why I'm here." I stated.

"Really? Well you can tell me once your behind bars. And so is your accomplice." She noticed Jack who was next to me but noticed something else, "Where's Cooper?"

"Sly and I split up. I only helped him so that he can help me find my brother. He was kidnapped by Raleigh the Frog, so I needed Sly's help to rescue him. I am no longer a part of his gang. If your gonna arrest me, don't arrest my brother. He has nothing to do with Cooper. He has been through enough. Please just let him be." I acted all emotional after finding Jack. It was half the truth about my brother being kidnapped but I wasn't really done with Sly.

Carmelita look towards my brother who acted all scared and to confuse. "Fine. Your brother can go. But as for you, you're under arrest for being an accomplice of Sly Cooper." Carmelita pulled out a pair of handcuffs and was about to place them on my wrists behind my back. As she was about to place the handcuffs on me, I was about to do something stupid that I never thought I would do back in my home world.

"I'm sorry for this Miss Fox." I apologized in advance. I committed a sweeping low kick that lead to Carmelita to lose her balance and fall off to the ground. "Run!" I shouted to my brother. Carmelita was pissed.

"You bastard! Come back here!" Carmelita was furious as she pulled out her shock pistol and started firing at us.

We were running for our lives while being shot at by balls of lighting. Once we got out of the ship, we managed to lose Carmelita after jumping into the water and started swimming to get across to land. Jack followed me to where the van was located. I found the fan with Sly waiting outside. Sly opened the back doors and I called out on Murray, "Drive! Drive! Drive!" Murray punched the gas and we all managed to get away.

Here's a brief description of me and Jack. I am the older brother, but Jack stands at 6'3 while I stand at 6 feet. We basically weigh the same at about 190 pounds, but Jack is more muscular than me. Jack has dark brown, curly hair. I have short, brown hair but not as dark as Jack's. We share the same eye color of dark brown eyes. We practically look similar with each other and we both have light tan skin.

During the drive, Jack started explaining to me on how he got into this world. He mentioned earlier that he went to my apartment to go visit me, but I was no where to be scene. Jack thought I was out on errands or something. He went to play my PS5 while he was waiting for me, or so he thought. Then all of a sudden, the TV started to do the same thing that happened to me on to Jack. "And that was the last thing I remembered. One second I was at your living room. The next, I was teleported on a ship with human size Walruses and Squids, and tied up in that crazy frog's throne room."

"Well you're here now. I still can't believe it's you bro." I kept hugging my brother, "I thought I wasn't gonna see you again."

"Me too, man. Me too." Jack hugged me back while crying tears of joy.

"Uh-hem." Bentley pretended to cough to grab my attention.

"Oh right. Sorry. Jack, I like you to meet the rest of guys he helped me. This is Murray and Bentley." I pointed out to the Turtle and Hippo to introduce to my brother.

"Hey there." Murray waved.

"Salutations." Bentley lifted up his glasses while pushing the bridge to his nose with his finger.

"Hello. I'm Jack. Nolan's brother." Jack was more calm than before. I guess with me around he felt more comfortable.

"We heard a lot about you. Nolan mentions about you all the time." Bentley explained.

"Really? Well I'm glad that you know me." Jack smiled.

"Okay. Now that we got introductions out of the way, what say we take a little vacation. London anyone?" Sly suggested as Jack and I looked at each other and smiled.

"Hell yeah." I shout with excitement.

Next Day

We made it to London, England after fighting off Raleigh and stealing back the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus. Once we got there, Bentley stopped me and Jack for a little surprise. He showed us what we thought were regular watches.

"Now we don't want to create any commotion and have you two stand out with the locals. While you were out on the field with Sly, I took the liberty of tinkering on to my new invention. Go on. Give it a try." Bentley offered as Jack and I put on these watches. "Now turn that dial to your right." Bentley commanded.

We turn the dial and something crazy happened. We both turned into wolves. It was like some kind of holographic disguise for me and Jack to to camouflage in without freaking out the people of this world. We played around with the watches as Jack turned to a tiger, a chimpanzee, and a bat. I turned into a fox, a bear, and a raccoon. After playing with Bentley's new invention, we changed back to wolves.

"This is crazy. We can transform into different animals." I was impress by Bentley's genius for what he did.

"I also need to mention that there is a time limit on these holographic disguises. You two have approximately six hours until the effects wear off." Bentley mentioned the important detail to us as Jack and I set our watches to six hours.

"Okay you two go have fun. Meet back here once your done." Sly said.

Sly, Bentley, and Murray went off to another area of London. As for me and Jack, we went on to have some fund just the two of us. We went down to find some clothes for Jack. Sly gave me a couple thousand euros to pay for our expenses. Jack and I walked around the streets and it's just like the London we knew from our world. Only with bipedal animal people.

"It feels weird having a tail." Jack complained as he looked behind his back while his "tail" was wagging.

"Well it's not like we have actual tails. Come on, let's get some new clothes for you." I said as we walked into a shop nearby.

We went to this clothing shop in the area to pick out some clothes. Jack got himself a couple of shirts and hoodies, a couple pairs of jeans, and three pairs of converse. I got myself something I thought that was cool. I got myself a dark blue suit with trousers of the same color, a red tie, a brown trench coat, and red converse.

Jack look at me, "Really? That's what your going for?"

"What? It's cool. This is the first time I'm in London, well... this London is different than ours. Come on, Jack. Let's keep having fun while we're here. Allons y!" I acted out like the Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who after saying that while I was wearing my new outfit was was inspired by the Tenth Doctor. Since we were in London, I wanted to feel like the London I knew back home. After clothes shopping, me and Jack went to a instrument store to buy ourselves some guitars. We've wanted to something do keep us busy when we want to relax back in the safe house.

The store owner was old Scottish Terrier, "Welcome mates." We gave the old hound a nod to greet him as he was reading a magazine in the counter.

The two of us looked around and noticed that the brands were different than the ones we knew from our worlds. There were Gibsons, Fenders, vinyl records, and equipment that can be seen in a regular shop from our world. The first guitar I see is a black Fender Stratocaster. I hooked up the amp next to me and started playing. I started playing a couple songs I knew from our world.

I started playing songs such as Sunshine of Your Love, Pride and Joy and Life in the Fast Lane. Eli grabbed an acoustic and started playing some oldies like Ohio by Neil Young and a couple Beatles songs like Blackbird, Yesterday, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The old manager leaned forward from the counter and was impressed by our playing.

"I see you boys have good tastes." the manager complimented.

"Yeah. Well we grew up with that kind of music." Jack smiled at the owner. I guess there are still music artists that we're familiar with in this world, too. I then started noticing around the shop that there were posters of British artists like The Beatles (all four were pugs with their signature haircut), David Bowie (golden retriever but his name was "Bow-ie" like a dog bark), Freddie Mercury (a tiger), and Eric Clapton (a wolf). I didn't think that this world would have the same celebrities as ours.

"We'll take these. Also that amp, a couple of capos, a pack of picks and that Gibson there." I pointed out all the equipment we want to the owner. The shop owner gave us look that he thinks we couldn't afford that much guitar equipment.

"You two got the pounds for that?" he raised his brow as I pulled out the cash Sly gave use early.

"Would cash be okay?" I asked at the old dog as pulled out a couple stacks of euros that was over a thousand and dropped it on the counter.

The owner raised his eyebrows out of a surprise. Jack was just happy that he can have a guitar with him since we were home back in our dimension. I called up Murray to pick up our equipment to the van. I told the old shop owner that a friend will pick up our gear we just bought. As we just bought our guitars, Jack and I headed out and wanted to take a walk.

"Uh-oh." Jack jumped.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It's that fox cop." Jack explained as looked at the direction Jack was looking. Sure enough, it was Inspector Carmelita Fox asking around the locals. The both of us turned away with our backs facing the cop.

"Dammit. How'd she get here?" I wondered.

"She's probably looking for you after escaping Wales." Jack theorized.

"Okay. Let's just walk away and hope she doesn't see us." I whispered as the both of us started to walk at the opposite direction from the fox but...

"Excuse me you two." We froze after hearing Carmelita's voice and stopping us from walking away. We both slowly turned around and hoping she doesn't see through our wolf disguises.

I was so nervous that I started speaking in a fake accent that was basically an impression of David Tennant, "Yes. Hello?"

"I would like to ask a few questions." Carmelita asked as she pulled out a pocket notebook and pen, "I'm from Interpol and we just found a lead on a gang wanted for theft. Have any of you recognize these three?" she pulled wanted posters of Sly, Bentley, and Murray.

I acted all innocent and pretended I never seen them before, "Nope. Never seen them."

"There is also another fugitive that's a part of the Cooper gang, but we don't have a photo of what he looks like. Honestly, I don't know what he is. He claims to be a 'hairless monkey', but I don't know what he is. He has a weird looking face." Carmelita described me as if I'm some kind of freak.

This made my face twitch a little, "Oh well... I think that's a bit rubbish. You make it sound like he's some kind of thing. You'll probably hurt his feelings if he heard you." I try to convince Carmelita that I'm not weird looking without raising suspicion. She kinda raised an eyebrow at me which made me nervous a bit from the way she looked at me.

"Hurt his feelings?" Carmelita started to raise suspicion on me.

"Well, just a guess, I think. It's not like he's in front of you or something." my voice started to crack a bit.

"Anyway, thank you for your cooperation mister..." Carmelita was asking for my name.

"Uh, Smith. John Smith. And this is my brother Matt." I had my arm around Jack as I "introduce" him to Carmelita.

"Ello there." Jack greeted nervously in a fake accent.

Carmelita put away her pocket book and said, "Well Mr. Smith, if you see any of these thieves or any suspicious activity around, let Interpol know." she handed me a card with Interpol and her number on it.

"I'll let you, ma'am." I said in a slightly nervous tone and finally breathing from holding my breathe.

Carmelita walked a few steps at the opposite direction, but she turned around and asked me, "Have we met before?" she asked.

I tried to remain calm thinking I was done with her. I answered, "I don't think so."

"Strange... Somehow, you seem familiar to me." she noted as she came in closer to me and stared at my wolf-like face.

"Well... I have that affect on a lot of people, I guess. I travel around a lot. Maybe we ran into each other before." I try to smooth talk my way out.

"Maybe... It's like we somehow met before." Carmelita took a step back and started heading off, "Well again, thank you for your cooperation and if you see any of the Cooper gang or the strange monkey, please notify me at once."

"Will do, miss..."

"Fox. Inspector Fox." Carmelita introduced to me but we actually met before. Just not in my persona that is.

"I'll let you know if I see anything, Inspector." Carmelita walked and we started breathing heavily after that encounter.

"Oh my god. That was to close." I said.

"Yeah. We should head back to the others." Jack suggested.

"Yeah. Your right." I replied. Thanks to Carmelita ruining our vacation, we head back to the van and met up with Sly and the others. We turned off our watches to turn from wolves back to humans. The two us gave a grim look and Sly noticed our look.

"What happened?" he questioned.

"Carmelita. That's what happened." I said in a annoyed tone.

"She was here?!" Bentley got worried when I mentioned the Fox's name.

"Yeah. Luckily she didn't recognize us in our disguise but she had a suspicion on me earlier. I think we should cut our vacation short and get out of hear before she finds us." I suggested as the five of us got in the van and got out of here.

Next Day

We made it back to the safehouse after being in London. Sly was started reading the sections we stole back from Raleigh. The section that Sly found in Raleigh's throne was one of my favorite Cooper ancestors in the series, Rioichi Cooper. I've always enjoy playing Rioichi in Thieves in Time. I sat next to Sly to get a little peek on the page.

"That one of ancestors?" I questioned even though I knew who it was.

"Yeah. Rioichi Cooper." he answered.

I notice that the page was written in Japanese kanji and hiragana. Luckily Japanese was one of my minors in college back in my world, "Would you mind that I can translate it for you?"

"You can read that?" Sly was surprised.

"Yeah. I had a degree in linguistics and a minor in multiple languages back home. I can speak fluently in Japanese, Spanish, German, Korean and French. Also a little Chinese as well, but only a little." I mentioned all of my linguistic skills that I learned back home.

"Wow. I got to say, that's impressive. Go ahead." Sly handed me the pages. I looked at the photos on the page I was holding and the other pages on the table. I noticed a bird like shadow figure behind every Cooper in the photo. I instantly knew who it was. Clockwerk.

I read the kanji and hiragana of Rioichi's section of the Thievius Raccoonus and started reading a loud, "Kinzoku o Fukuro ni tsuchi o kudasai."

"What does that mean?" Sly questioned.

"Beware of the metal owl?" I acted like I didn't understand what it means but I knew. I picked up Henriette "One Eye" Cooper and see the same shadow figure of Clockwerk behind the female raccoon's ship. Sly started looking at the other pages and notice the owl's shadow in every one of them.

"Sly I think we should be prepared on what's to come. Possibly facing the last member of the Fiendish Five." I warned Sly as I got up and head to bed to recover before we head to Mesa City to find Muggshot.

I thought to myself, 'Should I tell him the truth about me and Jack? Or should I keep this to myself until the time is right?'