Soul Rider: All right! Second chapter of crossover. Let's go!

Part 2: Sly

"What weird gizmo are you building now, Bentley?" Sly asks his friend in a wheelchair. Bentley has been tinkering with a device for hours. It's small like one of his bombs, but it is more metal looking.

"Well, Sly, this little ticker will be a knockout flash grenade," the turtle answers. "Once set off, bright light and ka-blam! Instant knockout! And now, it's done!" He holds it up in his hand to show off. The grenade is flashing blue.

"Hm, pretty interesting. How does it set off?"

"I made it so it does the second on impact on anything. Much quicker."

"I think you're growing too close to explosives, pal. Maybe we should try that grenade out later."

"Hey, guys, where are spices?" Murray asks, walking into the room. He was making lunch in the kitchen.

"They should be in the spice cabinet where they've always been. Did you check?"

"Yeah. No spices in the cabinet."

"Uh, I used the last spice to give the flash a little more… flash," Bentley admits. Both of his friends stare at him incredulously.

"Bentley!" they shout in unison. The turtle nervously chuckles. Unfortunately, the grenade rolls out of his open hand and drops to the tile floor. Sly tries grabbing it in a slight panic, but misses and is caught in the sudden light.

"SLY!" the raccoon hears his friends scream.

"GUYS!" he screams, jolting up in a sitting position. The raccoon pants for breath. After calming down, Cooper looks around. The room is dark, but as a raccoon, he can see the details. It isn't his room, or Bentley's or Murray's. It looks like a normal teenage boy's bedroom, including several posters on the walls.

A sharp pain goes through his head. He yelps and places a hand over where the pain came from. The raccoon feels a bump, surprising him. "A bump? Where did THAT come from? Where am I, anyway?" Looking at the close nightstand, he sees his hat. Picking it up and placing it on his head, Sly gets off the bed and walks toward the door. He opens it slightly, just in case it is booby trapped, and peeks through. "Bentley? Murray?" His response is a strange woman with yellow eyes, a cat nose and purple hair in a witch hat suddenly appearing in front of him.

"Well, look who's up from his cat nap!" she exclaims happily. Sly yelps loudly and fumbles backwards, landing on his back. Sitting up, he rubs the sore spot. The woman fully opens the door, letting the light in the other room come in. Sly has to shield his eyes to the sudden light. Standing in front of him is a pretty woman that seems to be a near hairless ape. Her skin is pale. She's wearing a skimpy black dress under a navy blue jacket. On her feet are knee high, leather high heels. Plus, she's got on a sly smile and her buns are being too over expressed in that dress. If Sly had not seen Carmelita, he'd have a nosebleed.

The woman gets on all fours on top of him, really freaking him out to the point of sweat dropping with wide, freaked-out eyes. Her face and his muzzle are barely half a foot apart. "Mmmm, your eyes look like the sweetest chocolate," she says in a voice of delight. The cat woman then places a soft pale hand on his cheek. Now, Sly is on the edge to screaming and hyperventilating. "Your soft fur of grey goes so well with them. And you have such a lovely voice. What's your name, hot stuff?" She moves in closer by an inch. Sly is about to faint when…

"Blair, get off of him! You're going to make him unconscious again!" a younger female voice yells from behind them. The woman of said name Blair turns her head to look, relieving the pinned raccoon from the thought of the girl kissing him.

"Aaaawe, Maka, you fun spoiler," Blair pouts.

"You're scaring him. So get off." Blair gets off of Sly, but not before pecking at his cheek, making him freeze with a shocked look. He falls back on his back, mouth agape in shock.

Another female figure approaches, looking down at him with wide eyes. She looks "normal" to Sly, with two corn silk colored ponytails that hang on the sides of her head. Her skin is a tad paler than Blair's, as well as having a flatter chest and looking younger, and her eyes are a calm jade green. The young girl is wearing a long, flaring black jacket with a mahogany plaid skirt. On her hands are formal gloves. She reaches out a hand to Sly.

"You all right?" she asks. "Sorry about Blair." The raccoon takes her hand and she pulls him onto his feet. 'Wow, he's as tall as Tsubaki,' she notes in her head, looking at how tall he is for a raccoon.

"Yeah, I'm okay," he responds.

"I'm Maka Albarn." Maka glares at Blair. "You've already met Blair." Looks back at Sly. "What's your name?"

"It's Sly. Sly Cooper. And I hope you don't mind me asking but, what are you?"

"You've never heard of a human?" Sly moves back a bit in surprise and looks at her features again. "What?"

"I've heard of humans, but where I'm from, they're just in fairytale stories. Also, they said that they were creatures that look like gorillas but with lion tails." Maka looks stunned by his description of humans. Both of them can hear Blair laughing in the other room. The Meister begins to crack up a bit, too, though she tries to contain it.

"Th-that's quite the false description there. We're nothing like that, however." Cooper gives off one his flirting smirks, though the girl who is so unfamiliar towards him doesn't understand.

"I can see that. A real human's prettier, too." The human girl gets a tint of blush.

"Well, thanks."

"Hey, Maka, why is Blair laughing like a maniac?" shouts a male voice. They look to the living room where a boy with white hair, pale skin, and creepy red eyes is on the couch, picking in one ear.

"Oh, it's nothing, Soul, our guest just woke up," Maka answers him. She leads Sly into the normal room. "Soul, this is our guest, Sly Cooper." Glancing at the thief, she gestures to her partner. "Sly, this is my official roommate and partner, Soul Eater."

"He's just called that, right?" Sly questions. Maka chuckles.

"Yeah. The academy won't let him use his real last name, so he had to change it."

"Did you have to tell him that?" Soul asks his partner in agitation. They both look at him. "So, it's Sly, huh? Typical name for a raccoon." Cooper starts getting aggravated himself as a tick mark appears and his eyes narrow to a glare.

"Excuse me?" he retorts. "Well, 'Soul' isn't exactly something you would name anyone, either, is it?" Soul gets a tick mark. He moves his head up.

"Watch it, you overgrown squirrel!" the Weapon yells. Sly moves in.

"I'm starting to think that you're an abominable snow monster because of your stupid white hair and beastly features!" The boys' foreheads touch as they growl at each other with rage in both their eyes.

Soul then gets a Maka Chop from Maka and Sly is hit with another book's flat cover at the same time. They both back up to rub their sore heads. Well, Sly fell backwards and lands in a sitting position. "Will you two knock it off? And Soul, did you have to say that?" an angered Maka shouts at the white-haired boy. "That was very rude!"

"It was also rude that you slammed a book with such a hard cover onto a guest's head," Sly groans as he rubs the two sore spots that are now on his head. The blonde girl looks down at their guest with a sweat mark and the look you get when you realize you did something unneeded.

"Oh." Nervous chuckle. "Sorry, Sly." Unknown to the raccoon, his whole arm suddenly transforms into the hook of his golden cane. When he notices scratching, he looks at his arm. With a yelp of surprise, his arm returns to normal.

"Wh-what just happened?"

"You didn't know that you're a Weapon?" Sly glances up at the brains of the apartment.

"I'm a what?"

*after 10 minutes of explanation*

Sly stares at the three with a stunned look, mouth agape. It was all too much to take in. Creatures called "Kishins"? Hundreds of REAL witches? People who can transform into things called "Death Weapons"? But biggest of all… The Grim Reaper REALLY EXISTS?! Carmelita would say that that all is loco and straight out nuts. But, Sly isn't Carmelita, and he's nearly the exact opposite of her. So he has to believe what his hosts are telling him, especially when he looks at his arm and lets it transform.

"You're still unsure about all this, huh?" Maka asks with concern. The raccoon looks at her, then down to the floor.

"Yeah."

"Well, I can't blame you. You're from another world and it will take some time to let the knowledge of this world sink in." A question suddenly pops into the thief's mind. His gang. What happened to them? If they got caught in the same space rift he did, they might have landed in different worlds or, by some luck, only landed in this one. He turns his arm back to normal.

"Well, also, I had these two friends of mine before I was sent here." He looks up with concern and worry in his light brown eyes. "Was there anyone else with me when you found me?" Maka lowers her head with a shake of disappointment.

"I'm sorry, Sly, but you were the only one I found." The raccoon's own head lowers and his ears droop in his own disappointment to look at the ground again.

"They can be anywhere, then. Maybe at home, somewhere on this world, or not here or there at all. So where are they?" Feeling even more sorry for her new friend, she kneels down and places a gloved hand on his shoulder.

"Hey. If there's anything we can do, we'll help you find them." The thief makes eye contact at the young DMWA scholar.

"Do you mean it, Maka?" The human girl smiles.

"Of course, Sly. You're our friend." The raccoon smiles.

"Thanks, you guys."

"Hey, just to point this out," Soul begins, making everyone look at him, "shouldn't we tell someone about this?"

"You're right, Soul," Maka responds. "We can use all the help we can get. However," she glances at the anthropomorphic raccoon, "I don't know how other classmates will react with a raccoon walking around the academy." Soul smirks.

"Well, if we can't afford people to see him in his normal form, then let's have him be in another form."

"Uh, Soul, where are you going with this?" Sly questions with uncertainty in his voice.

Soul Rider: Ugh! Finally, I'm done with this chapter! I'm sorry it took more than a month to post the next chapter. I'll try to shorten the wait on the next one.

Short Note: This takes place after Sly 5, whenever that will be.