The Cooper X Gang
By Mutitoon90
Chapter Thirteen: Beware of Dogs, Day Two.
Austin, Texas, 3:00 a.m.
On the rooftops of the city, Rad and Sam were on recon on the Mugshots.
"So, this is recon?" Sam asked.
"Yep." Rad answered.
Then, the two were on the building were the Mugshots were supposed to be at.
"Here we are!" The raccoon announced.
"Good!" The cat giggled, "I was feeling strange about this."
"I felt the same way on my first time." Rad said.
"When was that?" Sam asked.
"The first time my parents took me to work, although I wasn't suppose to be with them." Rad admitted, blushing a little bit.
"Sounds like something I would do." The cat laughed. Then, she cleared her throat and said, "But we need to get back to work."
Rad laughed and found an air vent.
"It's good to see you're still working." Sam laughed a little.
Rad rolled his eyes and entered the vent, and Sam followed.
The two crawled around the vents until they found the room where the Mugshots were.
"Here we are." Rad whispered.
Sam shook her head at the raccoon as they started the recon.
"Hey, guys?" Belle's voice rang from the communication device in Rad's ear.
The raccoon hushed the mouse as Sam took pictures.
"Sorry." Belle said before she disconnected her end of the communication line.
Rad removed the communication device from his ear and place a listening device in the other.
"The boss wants her and now!" Connie said; fear consumed her voice.
"Yeah!" Blyde agreed.
"That girl is the only thing to stands between us and the boss' fury."
"Yeah."
"Well, except jail."
"Yep."
"What are you doing?"
"Agreeing."
Connie stopped and pondered for a small time before speaking again.
"Good point."
Meanwhile, the eavesdropping duo was confused.
"'The boss?'" Sam asked, a little scared.
"'Her?'" Rad asked.
Then, a weasel came in the room.
"Boss!"
"What!?" The Mugshots demanded in unison.
"Some of us saw two figures on the rooftops!" The weasel informed the siblings.
Connie and Blyde looked at each other and said the same thing.
"The Cooper X Gang!"
Hearing this, Rad and Sam saw that it was time to leave. Once outside the vent, the two ran and jumped.
"There they are!" A thuggish weasel yelled, exposing the team.
The other weasels, both thin and thick, attacked and chased Rad and Sam. Rad managed to keep some of the weasels at bay by using his shock rifle, but Sam shot fireworks, scaring the rest of the pursuers away.
"Good thinking, Sam!" Rad complimented as the last of the thugs dashed away from the fireworks.
"Thanks!" The cat responded, "Fire has frightened others since it's discovery, so I use it whenever I could to defend myself."
"Okay…" Rad said.
Back at the mansion, Rad and Sam reviewed the pictures and recording of the conversation between the Mugshots.
"Here's Connie and Blyde." Sam said, pushing the photograph to Belle.
The mouse examined the picture for a moment and placed the picture on the desk.
"Next."
Rad laughed a little before he showed the tape recorder.
"Here's the tape of them talking."
"That's good." Belle exclaimed.
"But there's isn't much." Rad added.
Belle shook her head and said, "Oh, well."
"Come on!" Sam eyed the mouse in a suspicious manner, "You 're up to something."
"It's to gather more information." The mouse replied.
"Tell, Belle." Rad said with a superior tone in his voice.
"Well…" Belle started.
"You've got to be kidding me." Luna said as she approached the building, wearing a skin-tight red dress.
"Quit complaining!" Belle said via communication device.
Luna groaned and accepted that this was for the good of the team and entered the building. In the lobby, there were weasels all over the place, smoking or playing cards.
"This is gonna be easier than I thought." Luna quietly mused to herself.
"Hey, going my way?"
Luna turned and saw a very big weasel.
"No thanks." The she-wolf quickly replied and went off until she was in the ladies restroom.
With a sigh, Luna was feeling less confident than she did when she came in.
"Boy, did I make a mistake."
Then, she heard footsteps and she hurried into a stall.
"What a day!" Connie said as she entered the restroom.
The dog looked under the stall doors, but Luna stood on top of the toilet to avoid being seen. Once seeing that she was alone, Connie pulled out her laptop from her large purse, placed it on a sink, and started it. Luna, fearing that she would be seen, stayed hidden, but she was listening for anything unusual.
"Connie, do you a good reason for contacting me?" A new female voice said with fury wrapped around it.
"We have a problem, boss." Connie reported, "Both Cooper teams are here."
"Is that so?"
"Yeah. Some of the boy in the inside the police offices have informed me and Blyde that Inspector and Constable Cooper are there. And just a small time ago, Rad and Sam were spotted by one of weasels."
Luna, having removed her high heel shoes, placed her feet on the floor and pressed her against the door to hear the conversation better.
"I want you to continue to do whatever you and your brother are doing."
"And the girl?" Connie inquired.
"Don't worry about it. I'll make sure that my sister's daughter is all right."
Luna heard this and said quietly, "'Sister's daughter?'"
"Who's there?!"
Luna covered her mouth at the realization of her talking out loud, which was about to expose her to Connie and the unknown leader of the Fiendish Claws!
"Get out of the stall now or I will shoot you out!" The she-dog yelled.
With no response from the stall, Connie went to her purse, grabbed her gun, and shot at the stall until the magazine ran out.
"Come out now." Connie growled as she grinned evilly.
The dog reached the torn stall door and pushed the door to reveal that no one was in the stall.
Luna was outside of the building, walking to the pick-up point. Her dress was torn from crawling through the air vent, but she was grateful to be alive, because she heard the gunshots to the bathroom stall. As she walked to the spot, she felt the feeling of being watched, and she did not like the feeling. Then, she reached the pick-up point, the feeling was stronger.
"Hey, babe."
Luna turned around and saw the weasel, who tried a pick-up line earlier, coming at her.
"I'm not in a good mood." The wolf growled, but the weasel was not going to leave.
"I can fix that." The weasel grinned lustfully.
Then, an opening door hit the weasel. The giant mammal fell to the ground as the car that hit him drove up to Luna.
"Madam, your ride awaits." Justin said, with a smile.
Luna, relieved at Justin's timing, said, "Thank you."
Back at the mansion, Luna was in her bedroom, changing out of the torn red dress and into a black T-shirt and blue jeans, while the rest of the gang was waiting for her report.
"What's taking her so long?" Belle asked impatiently.
"Wait just like the rest of us." Sam said, annoyed by the mouse's impatience.
"For what?" Luna asked, coming out of the bedroom.
"Finally!" Belle said at the sight of the wolf.
Rad intervened.
"Belle, give Luna some time before she could speak."
"Yeah," Luna agreed, "but if you want something to do, you can check the dress for bugs."
Belle was upset, but she knew that she could not help change the facts.
"Okay." The mouse answered before she inspected the dress.
After receiving some rest Luna was ready to talk.
"I heard some thing in the ladies' restroom." The white wolf started.
"Connie, do you a good reason for contacting me?"
"What?" Luna asked, hearing the voice.
"We have a problem, boss. Both Cooper teams are here." Connie's voice rang out.
Then, Mar revealed cassette tape in a cassette tape player playing.
"Is that so?" The first voice said.
"But how…?" Luna asked, very confused about the whole thing.
"We hid a recording device on you." Rad admitted.
"And here it was!" Belle announced, holding the small, bug-like device with tweezers.
"Where did it…?" Luna asked, but she saw Sam give her a 'don't ask' look.
Seeing that the cat would not joke around when it came to matters that involved the words 'don't asked' or 'you don't wanna know,' she decided to heed Sam's warning and advice by saying, "Okay I wouldn't ask, but I will find out about it sooner or later. Remember that, Sam!" By saying that, all she really did was make Sam and the others laugh at her words.
"You don't have to worry." The cat said.
"Back to the recording, please." Mar said after stopping the player.
"'Kay." Sam and Luna said nearly in unison.
The group settled down while Mar started the tape again.
"And the girl?"
"Don't worry about it. I'll make sure that my sister's daughter is all right."
Sam stepped back with a loud gasp. Hearing this, Mar stopped the tape and looked at the cat along with the other members of the Cooper X Gang.
"What's wrong, Sam?" Rad asked, truly concerned about the cat.
"Yeah." Another voice rang into the room.
The gang turned to an open window and Sly Cooper.
"What are you doing here?" Luna demanded to know, since by rights, it was her home.
"Just checking up on you." Sly replied smoothly.
"Dad, do you recognize the voice?" Rad asked his father, seeing the worried look on Sly's face.
The elder raccoon's face turned grim as he answered, "Yes, all too well."
"What do you mean?" Belle asked.
Sly seemed to ignore the mouse and turned to Sam and said, "Ask Sam whose voice is on the tape."
Sam, however, looked like she had seen a ghost.
"Do you know?" Belle asked.
"I hope I don't." Sam answered fearfully.
"You better answer, so we know if you're right." Sly advised the cat.
"It sounds like the one who murdered my parents." Sam announced.
The others looked at each other, and then to Rad.
"All I know is that her parents were killed." The younger raccoon confessed to the others.
"By the wife's sister." Sly added with the grim expression on his face deepened.
"You mean Sam's aunt killed her parents?" Justin asked, starting to feel frightened, which is not a normal thing for Justin to feel, but it's not very often that an aunt would kill her own sister and brother-in-law and leave a poor orphan alone in the world.
"Yes." The elder raccoon answered.
"Who is it?" Luna asked, sensing Justin's uneasiness.
"Well, Sam's mother was from New Delhi, but by marrying an man from the United States, she became a citizen." Sly said cryptically.
"New Delhi?" Mar asked out loud.
"Isn't that the country that…?" Justin started to ask, but he stopped as he was about to say a name.
Sly was nervous himself, but he knew a question was due to be asked to Sam.
"Sam, do you remember your mother's name?"
Sam thought for a few seconds before she answered.
"Yes, her name was Neha."
"Neha Down was married to Nathan Down, a brown cat explorer." Sly explained, "A year later, they had a little buddle of joy."
"Sam!" Luna realized out loud.
"Right!" Sly confirmed, "For the next eight years, they lived very happily until one night Neha's twin sister came to pay an very unpleasant visit."
"Why pay a visit like that?" Belle asked, frightened, yet willing to listen.
"You see, the doctor believed that both twins were infertile, unable to reproduce children." Sly continued, "So, when one sister, who was condemned to be infertile, had a child, what would make the sister that is unable to give birth feel?"
"Outraged." Luna guessed.
"Right, Luna." Sly confirmed, "Especially if that twin was once called Clock-la."
"Clock-la!" Rad exclaimed.
Belle and Justin were shocked when they heard 'Clock-la.' Mar thought for a moment and spoke to Sly.
"Clock-la? But I thought Clock-la was gone."
"I thought she was gone too," Sly confessed, "but the only part of Clock-la that really died was Clockwerk."
Luna became very spooked and shouted, "Clockwerk!? He was one of the most dangerous creature in the world!"
"Yes, he died a one year before the Klaww Gang reassembled him, and Neyla used it to became Clock-la." Sly said, concerned.
"Neyla!?" Sam yelled at the group.
"You know the name?" Belle asked.
"That's my aunt's name," Sam replied, "and I'll NEVER FORGIVE THAT MONSTER!"
Next Chapter: Operation: Weed out the Mugs.