Gamelover41592- And everyone was expecting to go wrong

Shadow Joestar- One more chapter and we will be at Thieves in Time

Matt(Guest)- It's not a villain who attacks him….

So here's the boys ages

Duncan- 20

Hunter/Maverick- 19

Buck- 17

And well, let's just say Duncan is going to have a rough time in this chapter

"This may be the easiest heist we have ever pulled," Duncan said as he snuck around the guards. On a tip from the Panda King, both Cooper Gangs had headed into rural China. There were a few special villages that preferred to distance themselves from the outside world and the technology advancements that had come with it. Duncan felt like life couldn't have been better in the four years since his parents got married. Sly had regained all of his memories and got right back into thieving. It was actually Buck's idea to combine the two gangs and to celebrate, they had gone off the Panda King's tip. A bunch of warlords had taken over several small villages while the local protectors were busy. While their armies were impressive, their lack of modern security like spotlight meant it was easy to knock them all out, steal everything, return any family heirlooms to the villagers and get out just in time for Carmelita to show up. Throw in Duncan's creation of an improved invisibility technique(He could now run while invisible), as well as his necklace being able to block magic, it was almost perfect.

With one glaring problem.

Penelope had gone missing. Her and Bentley had been working on some top secret project that none of the others could know about. Then, one day, she had just vanished. It had been about a month and Bentley was worried sick. Duncan hadn't said much, but he was just as worried. He and grown very close to the mouse in the seven years since she joined the gang and he had been planning to ask if he could call her Aunt Penelope, but she disappeared before he got the chance.

Life was cruel with fate sometimes, wasn't it?

"Here we are," Duncan said as he stepped into the treasure room. The latest and last warlord had taken over an area called the Valley of Peace in the absence of the local protectors. As far as Duncan knew right now, Murray had just smacked some sense into him, literally.

"Much not," Scruffy noted. (Not much). It was true. Most of the artifacts had been cleaned out already, leaving Duncan with roughly a bag's worth of coins.

And that was a bag he was taking!

No sooner then after he had kneeled down and started to shovel the loot inside the bag, Duncan heard someone come in behind him. "I don't suppose you're here to try and stop me?" He asked. If it was a guard, Duncan knew he could take them.

"That was my plan," The voice was female and definitely not a guard. Now curious to see who's ass was getting kicked, Duncan stood up and turned around.

And nearly dropped his cane.

The girl standing in front of him looked to be about 18 if he had to guess, but she looked like she was the same species as him! But she looked different compared to him. Her skin was very pale and her hair was the color of moonlight. She walked barefoot other then footwraps and dressed in what looked like black silk pants and a green Chinese vest with flower patterns.

"W-why the hell do you look like me!?" Duncan demanded. He wanted answers and he wanted them now.

"I see you have yet to discover the truth, Duncan, but I will show it to you," She told him. Before Duncan could question how she knew his name, she was on him, Scruffy was hiding in the bag of loot and her hand was on his temple.

And the memories came rushing back.

For what felt like hours, Duncan could only watch helpless as memories of a former life returned to him. A life with an emotionally abusive father, a mother that just stood by, several trips to juvie over stupid pranks, a crappy game show, blowing up a mansion of an asshole, jail. Finally, he saw himself, this warrior girl, the girl from his dreams and roughly a dozen or so others looking up at something. Next thing he saw was the thugs cornering him and Sly saving him. In a scared rage, Duncan gripped his cane and swung it at this girl, knocking her off. Now he knew exactly who she was.

"WHY THE HELL DID YOU SHOW ME THAT, DAWN!" Duncan roared as he walked towards her. He was grateful he now knew her name, he could freak her out now.

"I didn't know that is what you would see!" Dawn protested. "I'm sorry you lived that life, Duncan!" Duncan wanted nothing more then to let his rage out on Dawn. He had a happy life, blissfully unaware of how he had lived. Now he could see parallels between his old life and his new one.

Scruffy's name? Name of his old spider that Harold crushed.

Appeared to be asexual? He was dating that girl from his dreams…..Gwen at the time.

His love of his family and freak outs if something happened to them? A subconscious desire to keep a loving family.

Even his new goatee and earring were just like his old life. The only difference was that he had a stubble surrounding the goatee. Duncan raised his cane, but let it clatter to the floor. He couldn't bring himself to hurt Dawn, even as much as he wanted to. Instead he crumbled to the floor, just letting his tears flow. He barely even noticed Scruffy crawl onto his shoulder. Then Dawn forced him to look her in the eyes.

"Listen to me, Duncan. When I returned your memories to you, I could see them as well. Both of your lives. Your current, and clearly preferred one was one that I latched onto. You have a family that cares for you. Focus on them, and use your old life to better yourself," Dawn spoke warmly and Duncan could tell she wasn't lying. He pulled her into a hug.

"Thank you," Was all he said. They stood up and Dawn turned away.

"I saw nothing," She said. Duncan knew what she was implying. He quickly finished shoveling his loot into the bag, pulled out his Cooper card, quickly wrote something on it and jumped out the window.

"You had it rough!" Hunter exclaimed as Duncan finished his story. After his delay, his family had quickly asked what had happened to him and Duncan explained the best he could, explaining nearly everything.

There was just one thing he didn't know and it bothered everyone.

"Are you sure you don't know why you are here?" Bentley asked.

"Yeah, last thing I remember from that old life was looking up at the sky at….something," Duncan said. "But I don't care! All those memories did was make me love you guys even more!" Duncan quickly found himself pulled into a group hug started by Murray and found himself crying yet again.

So Duncan doesn't exactly have as many good memories as Gwen did. His dad being abusive is a headcanon I have. Not physically as it was emotional and fantasy forbidding. But he understands something now. That he has a real family. But I know what you are shocked about most. Dawn showing up was something I had planned from the start as I wanted to have two characters from different stories interact(before the finale anyways). Owen and Brick were considered, but I could write Duncan and Dawn meeting up easier. Plus, it's kinda a teaser for anyone who didn't see the announcement on what Dawn's story is. Anyways, next time, we begin Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time! Peace out!