The Cooper X Gang
By Mutitoon90
Chapter Sixteen: The Big Plan in Paris.
Paris, France, 9:00 p.m.
"So, that's the Eiffel Tower." Sam said, looking up at the structure.
"Yeah," Rad replied, "honey."
Sam frowned at Rad, who was dressed up in a white baseball jersey, blue pants, red tennis shoes, and a blue cap with the bill of the hat to the side.
"Now, Sam, you agreed to this." Rad reminded the cat, who wore a pink skirt that went to her knees, a white formal shirt that looked like it had an ascot on top of it, pink shoes with high heels, a golden bracelet, and a pink purse.
"Don't remind me." The furious feline growled at the raccoon.
Rad just said, "Don't bite off my head about this."
The couple continued to walk to the tower, when a very strange thing happened: a group of bats flew at Rad and Sam. The duo saw this and jumped out of the way as the bats flew down the street, causing chaos for the people on the street.
"That was weird." Sam said.
"Very weird." Rad agreed.
"So, you think." A British voice spoke out.
The duo turned around and saw Neyla, wearing a gothic version of she wore when she was in the K.L.A.W. Gang, and looking like she had not aged a day since her defeat to the Cooper Gang twenty-one years ago!
"You!" Sam growled as her fur stood up.
Rad just glared at the magenta tigress before he grinned and spoke.
"Looks like time wasn't to kind with you, Neyla."
"You don't fool me, Conrad Cooper." Neyla replied with an evil smile appearing on her face, "It was a good try, but I know that you're weaker than your father."
"Funny, Neyla," Rad replied, "Clockwerk said the same thing to my dad, and that owl was destroyed."
Neyla glared at the Cooper, while Sam shot a firework at the tigress.
"This is for my parents!" Sam said as the firework hit Neyla.
The firework burst into flames and engulfed Neyla in a coffin of fire.
"Bull's eye!" Belle yelled, running to Sam and Rad.
The others, Justin, Luna, and Mar, ran up from behind Belle.
"Good to see you guys." Rad said with a smile.
"Don't get happy yet." Sam announced to the group.
"What do ya mean?" Justin asked.
"She's still alive." The cat said, glaring into the fire.
Then, a loud, high-pitched scream rang from the fire.
"What was that?" Mar yelled in fright.
"Neyla's still alive?" Justin asked.
Then, a pair of night black wings flew out of the flames and flapped, causing the flames to be blown out. Where the flame stood was the virtually unharmed Neyla, who flapped her wings and said coyly, "Was that suppose to hurt me?" Then, she laughed out loud and coldly at the group.
"Nope." Sam replied while grinning shyly, "That was a signal."
"What?" Neyla asked, confused.
Then, a series of fireworks, shots, and arrows fired at the bat-winged tigress, who dodged and flew away from the projectiles.
"Here I came!" Neyla roared.
Then, she grabbed Sam and flew off into the night.
"Sam!" Rad yelled, trying to chase Neyla to rescue Sam.
Rad climbed up a building and started running after Neyla, but a group of bats flew at the young raccoon, and Rad was pushed off the building. Rad was lucky that his father, despite his age, was as quick and flexible as he was when he was Rad's age; Sly caught Rad before Rad fell to the ground.
"Whew!" Rad sighed as his father placed him back to the ground.
"You can say that again." Sly agreed.
Once on the ground, Rad was embraced by Carmelita.
"I'm so happy that you're safe!" The mother of Conrad Cooper wept as she held her son very tightly.
"Mom!" Rad reacted through embarrassment.
"What about Sam?" Belle pointed out.
"Don't worry." Penelope said, coming to her daughter's side, "Your father's got that covered."
"How?" Luna asked, while her father nodded in agreement.
Bentley replied to the group by saying, "I can track Sam through my binocucom."
At least an hour later after being kidnapped, Sam opened her eyes.
"What happened?"
The cat took a good look at the room that she was in and saw the room was dimly lit by candlelight. She could hardly tell what items were in the room.
"What a strange place…" The cat said to herself.
Sam saw a door and opened it, which confused her greatly.
"Why would someone forget to lock the door, if they didn't want me to leave?"
Sam saw this as a chance to escape. So, she exited the room and entered a gigantic hallway.
"Whoa!" Sam exclaimed at the hall before she reminded herself that she needed to escape.
A few minutes later, Sam found herself in a dining hall, which was beautifully decorated in gold and jewels.
"Whoa!" Sam exclaimed under her breath, "Mar's place don't hold a candle to this place."
She slowly turned around, but she bumped into a tall, dark figure.
"Aw, crud!" The cat mewed meekly.
"Finally, you are awake." The figure spoke.
Sam looked up at the person she bumped into and saw a tall wolf with night-black fur and white hair. The wolf's attire was of a nobleman, although it was mainly black and red where the white should be.
"Come on." The wolf said, trying to push her to the table, "It is time for dinner."
"I'm not eatin'!" Sam countered, "You know Neyla, and that makes you my enemy! So I don't trust ya."
The wolf just laughed; it sounded heartless and cold, which caused Sam to shiver.
"Do not be so coy."
"Who's trying to be coy?" The fiery feline asked.
The wolf laughed heartlessly again before he spoke again.
"Quite the fire you have."
"Try living by yourself for a few years." The cat growled.
"I have." The wolf countered, grabbing Sam's arm harshly.
Sam struggled, but she could not escape from the powerful grip.
"Let go!" The cat demanded.
"You will not leave this castle." The wolf calmly said.
"Wanna bet?" Sam growled at the nobleman.
It only made the wolf laugh again.
"I'll personally make sure of that."
Then, the wolf's fire-red eyes glowed, and Sam looked into them, losing all resistance to the wolf and fell limp. The wolf's face went to the cat's neck.
"Baron?" Neyla's voice rang out to the wolf, whose mouth sharply backed away from Sam throat.
"What is it, Neyla?"
Neyla appeared from the darkness, saw the baron holding Sam, and asked with a cruel smile, "Am I interrupting something?"
"No." Baron replied, pinking up the limp cat, "Did you have something to tell me?"
"Yes," said the tigress, "The Cooper Gangs are at the outskirts of Paris and heading to the castle."
"Then, let them in." The baron said, grinning evilly.
Neyla bowed and started to return to the darkness.
"Good riddance." The wolf said before he looked at Sam, "Too bad, she won't be at the wedding."
The outskirts of Paris, 10:50 p.m.
The team arrived at the castle walls.
"What a creepy place." Belle exclaimed after the castle, which looked like something out of a horror film.
"Yeah." Justin agreed, staring himself not to run away.
"Big time." Luna confirmed.
"Good thing, Bentley placed a tracking device on Sam." Rad announced.
"And good thing the Guru and Mar were able to get us through that crazy mist." Sly added.
"You rock, Master!" Murry yelled.
Carmelita shushed the hippo.
"Quiet!"
Murry quickly covered his mouth with hands.
"Now, what is the plan?" The Panda King asked Rad.
"Well…" Rad started.
Neyla was on the castle wall, looking out for the Cooper Gang.
"What's taking them so long?" The tigress asked herself; she had wanted for twenty-one years to get her revenge on the Cooper Gang for her defeat.
Then, a firework flew at her from her right. Neyla grinned evilly as she dodged the projectile.
"You're mine!" Neyla announced as her bat-like wings appeared.
Then, she flew off to the direction where the firework flew from to kill the Cooper Gang, but she was so overwhelmed with the thought of revenge that she failed to see that was a distraction.
Rad and Sly quickly climbed the wall and ran into the castle. Once inside, the father and son team rested for a bit, because they had to rush do to Neyla's new powers, which were like a vampire's powers, according to Bentley.
"That was close." Rad wiped his brow.
"No kidding." Sly agreed.
Then, a strange cold wind blew at the father and son team.
"What was that, Dad?" Rad asked.
"I don't know…" Sly replied, seemingly familiar to the coldness of the wind, "but it's like being in an iceberg."
Sam woke up again back in the same room as before.
"Man, what a weird way to get back here."
Sam went to the door and tried to open the door, but it was locked this time.
"Great!" Sam exclaimed, "I can't escape!"
Then, she recalled what the black wolf said about making sure that she didn't escape.
"That guy can keep a promise." Sam said, very surprised.
Then, she searched her person for her items, and then she looked in her purse that she forgot the first time, but it was empty.
"Man!" The cat exclaimed, "They move quick."
Then, the door opened, grabbing Sam's attention and revealing the wolf, holding a black garment in his hands.
"You again?" Sam rudely exclaimed upon seeing the wolf.
"Why must you be so rude, Samantha?" The nobleman asked Sam.
Sam did not flinch when the wolf said her name; she thought that he was helping Neyla, but this gave her an idea.
"Since you know my name, what's yours?"
The wolf smugly smiled.
"Do not think that I do not know what you are up to, but I will humor you"
"What do ya mean?" Sam asked, becoming very uneasy about the wolf.
"I am the Baron Lubos, and I will be the groom of the wedding."
"What the…?" The confused cat asked before she realized what was going on: The wedding was from the baron and Sam!
Meanwhile, Sly and Rad found themselves at the dining hall.
"Whoa!" Rad exclaimed, "Mar is going to flip, if he saw this."
"Yeah," Sly agreed, "as well as the others."
Rad looked around to for a clue, when he saw something.
"It's Sam's bracelet!"
Sly looked at his son as Rad ran to the jewelry.
"Well, we already knew that Sam was here." Sly said.
"Yeah," Rad agreed as he picked up the bracelet. Then, he added, "but she could be in real trouble."
"I think you're right." Rad's father agreed, and then the elder raccoon pulled out his binocucom, and called Bentley.
"Hey pal, can you see this?"
"Of course." The turtle replied, but the others also saw this.
"Wow, the architect must have done overtime to finish the details correctly." Carmelita said.
"Carmelita!" Sly exclaimed, "Get off the line!"
"What was that?" Sly's wife asked in an annoyed voice.
"Nothing." Sly retreated verbally.
"Sly." Bentley returned to the line.
"Bentley!" Sly rejoiced quietly. Then, he asked, "Where's Carmelita?"
"She's talking to a dead line." Bentley laughed mischievously.
"I heard that!" The vixen yelled as her husband as heard her was as the others.
The echo of the fox's yell reached Neyla's ears.
"I've been tricked!" The tigress roared. Then, she flew off to the castle to get her revenge.
Baron Lubos and Sam heard the yell as well.
"Not another rescue team." The wolf exasperated upon hearing the yell as if it was another unimportant thing and started to rub his eyes.
Sam, seeing this as an opportunity to escape, removed her high-heel shoes, remove the tips of the heels, which hid very sharp knives by Sam's request to Belle, and threw them at the Baron, who was hit in the eyes. As the baron howled in pain, the cat made her escape out of the room.
"Made it!" The cat said.
Then, an awful roar rang out to everywhere in and out of the castle.
Carmelita was yelling at Bentley.
"You little-!"
The roar entered the ears of the group.
"What was that!" Luna asked in shock.
"I don't know!" Mar said.
"I don't wanna know." Justin announced.
"I don't wanna ask!" Belle agreed.
In the dining hall, the raccoons heard the roar as well.
"What was that?" Rad asked his father.
"I don't know," Sly replied, "but it sounded like it was in pain."
Then, Sam appeared into Rad's sight.
"Sam!" Rad exclaimed.
"Run!" The cat dashed passed the Coopers, but Sly grabbed her by the arm.
"What's going on?" Sly asked Sam.
"No time!" Sam yelled.
Then, another roar was heard; this one was in fury.
"What was that?" Rad asked.
"I don't want to find out, although I have a good idea who." The cat answered.
"Who!" Rad exclaimed.
Then, a third roar came, and it was closer to the trio.
"I think we should listen to the lady." Sly announced.
"Let's get outta here!" Rad agreed.
The three of them started running as fast as they could, which were very fast. By the time they reached the outside of the castle, a fourth roar rang out, which was even closer.
"That's bad!" Rad said.
"You can say that again." Sly agreed.
"And it's going to get worse." Neyla's voice rang out.
The trio saw the flying tigress as they heard the fifth roar.
"Today's not a good day." Sam groaned.
Then, a giant black wolf-like creature with black bat-like wings appeared behind the raccoons and cat, whose attention was quickly turned to the creature.
"Oh boy!" The raccoons said in unison.
Neyla started yelling to the creature.
"Master, they are plotting against you!"
"What!" Sly exclaimed upon hearing the accusation.
"I believe that you are right about a plot, but not about the Coopers…" The creature spoke in a deep and dark voice. Then, a long spike that looked like a spider's leg came out of one of the wings and stabbed Neyla in the chest.
"What…is…this…!" Neyla asked, gasping between words.
"For the attempted treason against me, you are sentenced to death." The creature replied, before twisting the spike in Neyla's chest, causing the tigress to went out one last scream before she turned into dust.
"Whoa!" Sly Rad, and Sam mewed before turning to the creature.
The giant winged wolf looked at the Coopers and Sam and said in strangely content voice, "The enemy is now gone."
"Huh?" The trio asked.
The creature changed its form to the white haired black wolf that was Baron Lubos.
"You!" Sam hissed at the sight of the wolf.
"Do not worry about me anymore, Miss Down." The baron said, "Besides, it was you who hit me in the eyes."
Sam felt no shame of what she did, and replied, "You're the one with the plan to marry me!"
"I do have a bit of explaining to do." The wolf mused to himself. Then, he turned to the Coopers and said, "You two may summon your friends; I have dinner prepared."
Then, the wolf walked off into the castle, leaving Rad, Sly, and Sam very confused.
Next Chapter: The Truth