Gamelover41592- Oh trust me, Duncan has no idea what's coming.

So here's the second half and the boss fight with Mz. Ruby. This will be a special one because Duncan and Sly will be together for the entire chapter. Let's begin!

After dropping everything off at the van, Duncan and Sly made their way over to the gate that was blocking the Ghost Production Facility.

"Wait, so how are we going to destroy that barrier blocking the ghost making place?" Duncan asked as they put the keys into the gate, unlocking it.

"I don't-" Sly began to say, only for him to stop as he saw something rapidly approach. "Duncan! Get down!" He grabbed his son and pulled him onto the floor just in time for a huge serpent to leap out of the swamp and rammed the barrier. It then dove back under the water.

"Wha-what the heck was that!?" Duncan asked. He was hyperventilating.

"That was the beast," Sly said, also hyperventilating.

"So, wanna go find another key?" Duncan said, clearly trying to take his mind off of what he just saw.

"Let's just go before we both pass out," Sly agreed as they set off together to find the next key. They quickly found a hover blaster.

"We get the coolest things to ride on in these jobs!" Duncan cheered. Sly smiled as both of them jumped on. It was a little tight, but they figured it out and started off.

Job 1: A Ghastly Voyage

"This is the creepiest place we have been so far!" Duncan whined once they arrived. Sly wasn't going to say it out loud but he agreed wholeheartedly.

"That makes sense, this is the most haunted place in the whole swamp!" Bentley explained to them.

"Great," Sly mumbled as he moved the hover blaster onto a rowboat that started off as soon as he stepped on it. As if on cue, several ghosts started popping out at the. Using the blaster, Sly shot them down.

"Why do we need the rowboat? If this thing can hover, why can we just hover over the swamp?" Duncan pointed out.

"I really don't know," Sly replied before turning his attention onto some fire shooting turtles hidden behind some wooden barriers. This continued until the boat reached dry land.

"What's this weird looking goop?" Duncan asked as he pointed to a soupy mix running through the swamp.

"According to my paranormal scanner, that flowing soup is really highly charged ectoplasm! It's just got to be the source of power for those headstone generators!" Bentley chimed in.

"Okay," Duncan said. Sly began to move the hover blaster around the swamp. It was mostly just blasting more ghosts and turtles. Finally, they reached the end, only to find it overflowing with ghosts.

"Hang on, Duncan!" Sly ordered. He began moving around very quickly, blasting as many ghosts as he could still trying to hit the headstones they were spawning from. Finally, he managed to destroy all three causing the ghosts to stop spawning. Duncan jumped off the hover blaster and grabbed the key with a cheer.

"Woo hoo!" He said as he jumped back on the hover blaster. Sly smiled as they sped off.

Job Complete

"Okay, so where to next?" Duncan asked.

"Well, I heard Bentley is working on making a deal with one of the ghosts here for a key, so let's see how that worked out," Sly said.

"Okay!" Duncan said. With that the duo headed off.

Job 2: Down Home Cooking(AKA the job no one likes)

"Why does this place stink!?" Duncan whined as he covered his nose.

"Okay, you two, I managed to cut a deal with one of the ghosts via my specter-wave radio. See, he wants to make a pot of gumbo, but he's afraid of the bomb-toting roosters-" Bentley began, only for Sly to cut him off.

"I'm sorry, but BOMB-TOTING ROOSTERS? Really?" Sly asked. Duncan was having another giggle fit over the name and Sly was having a hard time keeping from laughing.

"Laugh all you want, but they are really a thing. Anyways, he needs you both to kill fifty chickens. If you can do it in ninety seconds, he'll give us the key," Bentley finished. As soon as he finished, the chickens began to come out, along with the bomb-toting roosters.

"Huh, they are a thing," Sly noted as he whacked some chickens with his cane.

"I still don't get what the time limits are here for," Duncan said as he extended his cane. Using it, he swung a rooster into a few more chickens. (For those of you who forgot, Duncan's cane is extendable. He just doesn't like to have it extended out too far because it's hard for him to use.)

"Again, if I knew, I would tell you," Sly said as he dodged another rooster. Even with the roosters, the duo quickly took care of all the chickens. The ghost flew off, grabbing the dead chickens as he dropped the key, which Duncan grabbed.

Job Complete

"So do we have a plan to actually get to Mz. Ruby?" Duncan asked.

"Hmm...what about that egg beater?" Sly asked. It was clear he was talking to Bentley. "If we unlock that lid, we ruin the production and we could build enough steam power to launch us into the skull temple,"

"That could work, but you'll need all seven keys. There should be one more around here somewhere," Bentley said.

"Then let's go get it!" Duncan cheered. With that, he and Sly headed off for the next key.

Job 3: Descent Into Danger

"Oh my god! A green waterfall overflowing with bones and body parts. I'm telling you, the health department's going to come down bigtime on this dump!" Bentley ranted once Duncan and Sly reached their destination.

"This place was already pretty gross," Duncan pointed out.

"Still, that is making me physically sick," Bentley said. While Bentley continued to rant, Duncan and Sly began their trek through the area. It was a big mess with random things floating in the water and a bone rail.

"Okay, this is getting a little morbid," Sly admitted as he slid along said bone rail. Then, it was shimmying under a platform with guards to doge.

"Attention to all my voodoo guards, there are some bad mojo people running around. I want them sent to the spirit realm as soon as possible! Oh, and one of those bad mojo people is…...special," Mz. Ruby said over the loudspeaker. Sly flinched. She knew about Duncan, that was very bad.

"Dad! Move!" Duncan whisper-yelled. Sly realized he had stopped and finished crawling across. He ran over to the guard and took him out while Duncan grabbed some more clues.

"THERE YOU ARE!" A fire turtle yelled. He tried to attack, but both Coopers dodged and Duncan took him out by using his cane to knock him into the swamp "water".

"Okay, that was a little brutal," Sly said as they started making their way around a statue.

"Hey, he started it!" Duncan protested as he took out a spider on the statue's arm. They then swung over some suspended wooden platforms(Sly had a good chuckle over Duncan's tarzan yell). After continuing on, they found an area with dozens of spotlights.

"This must be the place where the green goo used in the ghost production facility to create Mz. Ruby's ghost rat army!" Bentley realized.

"Explains why this place is such a mess," Sly noted, causing Bentley to start ranting again. After laughing, the Coopers made their way across some chandeliers. Lasers then greeted them, but they dodged with ease. After getting around, another room of fire turtles and spotlights greeted them.

"Hey dad, how can the turtles through their heads and light them on fire and still be okay?" Duncan asked as he whacked another of said turtles.

"Voodoo magic?" Sly guessed. They let that sit while they jumped over some floating platforms. Duncan then smashed the siren while Sly took out a water rat guard. Up ahead were some fire nozzles that had to be spire jumped on. Thankfully, both were able to time it pretty well and got across with no burns. After getting across, Duncan grabbed some more clues while Sly took out the guards and large candle. This caused a vine to appear. The duo began to Sly down, but jumped off at a smaller platform where the clue was.

"These codes are nothing before my righteous analytical ability! The combination has to be 5-7-1!" Bentley said. Sly punched that in and pulled out what was inside. "Mind-bending! It's Matthew de la Coopeur's Perpetual Slow Motion technique. With this move you can slow down time whenever you want, not just while jumping!"

"Cool!" Duncan cheered.

"Let's grab the final key," Sly said. They slid down the vine and reached the key.

Job Complete

After dropping the piece of the Thievius Raccoonus off with Bentley and Murray, Sly and Duncan headed back to the egg beater. Using the keys, they destroyed it.

"Let's go take down Mz. Ruby," Sly said. Duncan nodded and they hopped onto the lid. Sure enough, the steam pressure launched them up to Mz. Ruby. She seemed to be waiting for them.

"Ah, Sly and Duncan Cooper. I thought I felt some bad vibes running around my base," Mz. Ruby said.

"Well, We're here to kick your butt!" Duncan said as he and Sly began to spire jump towards Mz. Ruby. It was a little tricky, seeing as the mouth of the crocodile kept closing down every few seconds and then rising up. But they still made and hit Mz. Ruby with ease. However, before they could hit her again, she teleported away.

"Come back here! You can't run forever!" Sly ordered.

"Quite true. Quite true. Why don't I have my servant, Chumley, escort you both over here?" Mz. Ruby offered.

"What's the catch?" Sly asked.

"Oh not much. I just want to say how well you pay attention," Mz. Ruby replied.

"Huh?" Duncan and Sly both said.

"Well, I'll unleash my mighty mojo magic upon you. If you repeat what I do, you'll dodge it just fine. If not, you'll get zapped!" Mz. Ruby explained.

"A little voodoo Simon Says, eh? Sounds easy enough. Duncan, get on my back," Sly said as bent down, allowing Duncan to jump onto his back. Sly then jumped on Chumley, who started bringing them towards Mz. Ruby. The mystic began firing out voodoo blasts at them, but even with Duncan on his back, Sly dodged with ease. This continued with Sly spire jumping up poles and riding on a giant mosquito. After all that, Mz. Ruby finally went down.

"Well done Cooper, you've got a lot of rhythm," Mz. Ruby said. She then turned to face Duncan. "You've also done a great job raising this little one."

"Actually, Muggshot told me something about you and the Panda King. You didn't know what you were really going to do my father?" Sly asked.

"Yes, our boss only told Raleigh. When we asked about it afterwards, he said we didn't have the hate to know about it. We didn't plan to kill your father. But our boss...he did," Mz. Ruby admitted, tears in her eyes. Sly could tell she was serious.

"Thanks for telling me," Sly said. He was happy that he was getting some more information.

"Bye!" Duncan called out as they left.

Sure enough, Carmelita showed up. While she wasn't able to find Sly, she did bag Mz. Ruby, who was surprisingly willing to surrender. As she was cleaning up, she found another note, much like Muggshot, claiming Mz. Ruby was reformable. Once again, Carmelita trusted the note, because she had a feeling the source knew what they were talking about.

Okay. This is done! Mz. Ruby was smack dab in the middle for me. She had an interesting back story, a cool design and powers and some of the jobs in her chapters were fun. However, the other half of the jobs weren't fun, with Piranha Lake and Down Home Cooking being some of my least favorite jobs in the series. And of course, the biggest problem with her, her BOSS FIGHT! I had the "pleasure" of playing this game on the Sly Collection and for those of you that don't know, her attacks weren't in sink to the music, so it took me nearly TWO YEARS to beat the first Sly game(I finished the second and third game first) because I kept rage quitting against her. Anyways, I'll see you guys again in the mountains of China where we take on the Panda King!