A/N: Sly Cooper fans will know that during the climax and ending of Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Constable Neyla was possessed by Clockwerk and became Clock-La, a being whom Sly Cooper and Inspector Carmelita Fox defeated. What if Neyla wasn't the only person that Clockwerk possessed? What if Clockwork and Neyla possessed both the bodies of Harley Keener and Bentley? What would Sly Cooper do to defeat Clockwerk and Neyla without harming or possibly killing both Harley and Bentley? You're about to find out what happens when two bodies get possessed by two evil beings at once. This will be a standalone part of A Human's Descent into Madness that I have yet to write about.
Harley Keener felt like a hero in this moment. The teenaged human boy just finished defeating a metallic owl creature known as Clock-La, a.k.a. Clockwerk, an evil archenemy of the Cooper Clan. He stood at the wreckage of the being that was once Clock-La/Clockwerk. Harley's left human hand was horribly mangled by Clockwerk's beak crushing it to pieces. Harley was trying to help Bentley retrieve the hate chip that would obliterate Clockwerk forever from the inside of Clock-La's metallic beak, when suddenly, the beak crushed Bentley's legs along with Harley Keener's left human hand. Harley's hand was in an indescribable amount of pain. Harley's hand was so mangled that he could barely make a closed fist with it. It was bloody and ruined.
Harley wasn't sure if he would ever feel any sensation from his hand ever again. It was bad enough Harley lost his right hand in a accident involving super glue a few years prior that resulted in Harley's right hand being amputated because he thought it would be a good idea to super glue his hand to a table in his garage while doing a wood shop project for school. He had to get his right hand replaced with a prosthetic bionic hand, while his left hand was okay. Only one of Harley Keener's hands were bionic. Now, it looked like his right was going to be replaced with a prosthetic and hopefully bionic right hand.
Harley Keener's little sister Emily was beyond mortified when she saw what happened to Harley's right hand after it had been crushed by Clockwerk's beak. She was standing beside Harley. Harley's hand tingled fiercely like it was stiff. It was like the burning sensation you would get if your limbs became stiff and you tried to move them, only it was worse. It felt like his hand had been lit on fire. An Interpol helicopter landed behind Harley. Inspector Carmelita Fox of Interpol emerged from the chopper. She saw a human boy who looked to be around the age of 16 or 17 standing there motionless in front of her. The vixen cop walked toward the human boy to see if he okay or if he was hurt. Carmelita stood beside Harley.
She looked at Harley's right hand and saw it was crushed and mangled. Harley's hand looked like as if it had crushed by a combination of a wood chipper and a hydraulic press all at once. She felt upset about what happened to the boy's hand. Harley turned around to see a anthropomorphic vixen with azure wavy blue hair wearing a jacket and a bustier (a wearable bra that women often wear) with dark blue pants and knee high boots staring at his broken right hand.
"My hand feels really numb." The human teenage boy said out loud. "It's tingling. Almost like the sensation you would feel if your limbs went stiff and if you tried to move them."
"Can you make a fist? Are you able to move your fingers?" The raccoon asked Harley. Harley tried to see if he could move any of his fingers of his right hand. He could move only his index finger and part of his thumb. Every other finger was unmovable. It was painful for Harley to move his index finger and thumb. This was worse than the time he accidentally superglued his left hand to the table in his garage and he couldn't remove it from the table. At least his left hand wasn't in a tremendous amount of pain when it happened. That was nothing compared to what his right hand had felt when it was crushed by Clock-La's beak along with Bentley's legs. Harley was fortunate that Clock-La's beak didn't break his wrist.
Suddenly, Harley saw Clockwerk's damaged eyes lock onto his own eyes from a distance. They were glowing brightly and flashing slowly. Harley suddenly felt like he was in a trance like he was hypnotized or had drunk three whole bottles of Jack Daniels Whiskey in one go and had a hangover. Harley started to feel dizzy. He slowly walked toward the glowing yellow eye of Clockwerk. He began to walk slowly toward the metallic owl. Sly noticed his friend in a trance and was walking toward the Clockwerk eye. He tried to stop Harley from going near the damaged remains of Clockwerk. He yelled at Harley to get away from Clockwerk. Harley didn't hear Sly's comments as his hearing was drained out with white noise. He suddenly began to hear in his head the main chorus of the Ween song: Mutilated Lips.
Harley continued to walk closer to Clockwerk's eyes. Sly and Emily tried to drag Harley away from Clockwerk's eyes. They weren't able to touch Harley's body. It felt like his entire body was covered in some sort of invisible impenetrable aura. Once Harley was close enough to Clockwerk's eyes, Harley was forced to drop to his knees in front of Clockwerk.
"HARLEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GET AWAY FROM THERE!" Sly yelled at the top of his lungs to Harley. The raccoon and vixen sprinted toward Harley. Suddenly, a voice was heard from inside Clockwerk's damaged form.
"No! You cannot interfere!" The voice said. It was Neyla's disembodied voice that spoke out to them from inside their heads. Sly and Carmelita stopped dead on their tracks upon hearing Neyla's disembodied voice come out from Clockwerk's damaged form. Harley touched the glowing yellow eye of Clockwerk. His body felt cold. Not ice cold like he was dead but the kind of cold your body would get when the temperature was in the single digits in the winter time. Harley felt like a vacuum was being forced inside of him and was sucking his body out like the Dementors from Harry Potter when they sucked the happiness from the characters mind and body away from them.
Vivid random images flashed before his eyes. Visions that were other worldly, like he was high on angel dust or purple microdots. Harley continued to stare into Clockwerk's eyes. The human boy was at this point feeling like he was struck with intense vertigo. It felt like hours to Harley. Time seemed to stop around him. Carmelita took Clockwerk's hate chip and snapped it in half like it was a twig with her bare hands. The Clockwerk eyes stopped glowing. Clockwerk's body deteriorated rapidly with age. It withered away to nothing.
Harley started to close his eyes as he began to pass out. Sly, Emily, Murray and Carmelita gathered around Harley's unconscious body. Neither Sly, Carmelita or Emily knew what to do with Harley. They didn't know what caused Harley to go over and touch Clockwerk's glowing yellow eyes so sudden. In a matter of minutes, Harley went from having his hand being crushed and mangled by Clockwerk's beak to him being hypnotized and compelled to go toward Clockwerk's eyes. The police soon arrived at the scene. Carmelita and Emily drug Harley Keener's unconscious body into the passenger seat of a nearby police squad car. Carmelita told the officer at the wheel to drive Harley to a nearby hospital.
The officer, who was a female mouse took one look at the human boy's unconscious body and his crushed right hand and drove to the hospital with the boy. Sly hoped that Harley would be okay. Little did anyone realize that destroying Clockwerk would be the least of their worries as Clockwerk successfully transferred his soul into the human body of Harley Keener, while Neyla's soul occupied Bentley's unconscious body.