Stuff in Italics are Faye's thoughts.

Note: Anyone can get a high score on a game. In fact, multiple people can get the exact highest score on a game. So, no, Faye did not surpass everyone in the fake game mentioned. Oh, and there's a reason Faye adapts quickly in this chapter, but that will be revealed at a much later time. Thank you.

Disclaimer: I do not Sly Cooper.

Edit: Found out that it's "kinetic aesthetic," not "kinetic ekistic." D'oh! ...Well how was I supposed to know? There weren't any subtitles and the word processor didn't help. Also, the 'simple song'...well, I've been able to play a few notes of it...It's supposed to be "Simple and Clean" but I can't really say it since I may get in trouble for it.

Chapter 4: Beginning the Black Chateau

Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!

'When are they going to find Dimitri?' Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Faye thunked her head against the side of the wall near Bentley's computer, being very, very bored.

"Why don't you go on that site you like? Brigand, right?" Sly asked Faye. Faye stopped thunking her head and looked to Sly.

"I've done it all."

"Safecracker?"

"Highest score."

"Thieving games?"

"Finished."

"What about instachat?"

"My only buddy said she's going offline for a while and won't be back on till the day after tomorrow."

"Thiefnet?"

"The only thing I want there is 200 coins which I don't have." Faye resumed thunking her head against the wall. Murray came up to Faye and stopped her from getting a concussion by positioning his hand between Faye's head and the wall.

"Please stop Faye. You're giving me a headache," said Murray. Faye stopped thunking her head and rubbed it. She turned her momentary attention towards the computer. Dimitri's profile was displayed on it.

"How'd you guys get a hold of Dimitri's profile?" Faye asked them.

"I had to call in a few favors to get the goods on the Klaww gang's local operator," Sly explained, "Dimitri, a sort of underworld celebrity; equally at home in high-class art circles and shady back alley crimes. He was once a passionate young art student who worked hard to develop his own visionary style. Unfortunately the art world wasn't quiet ready for his kinetic aesthetic. So he gave them what they wanted and started forging old masterpieces, his way of punishing those with bad taste. Dimitri now owns a nightclub on the west side. The thumping music, the colorful lightshows, and a hint of danger lure in sheik, young patrons from far and wide. And it's here, hidden somewhere, where we'll find the Clockwerk Tail Feathers. What Dimitri wants with the Clockwerk parts is beyond me but those plans end tonight."

"This sounds like something from the Fiendish Five from two years ago," Faye commented as she looked at Dimitri ugly face on the monitor. The Gang peered up at her for a moment, but none said a word as it would have related to her life and she would tell them about it when she was ready to.

"But this time, we're going to destroy the Clockwerk parts for good," said Sly. Murray tightened his gloves, Bentley cocked his crossbow, and Sly grabbed his cane. Faye was the only one without a weapon of some sort. She stared at the ground, disappointed that she would miss out on the fun.

"This came in the mail for you, Faye," said Murray, handing her a square, brown, unmarked package. Faye grabbed the package and wobbled a bit.

"This is a little heavy," she said. Faye put the package on the floor and saw that it was firmly taped shut.

"Let me help you with that," said Sly. He sliced away the tape on the package with his cane. Faye lifted the flaps of the box and peered inside. Her eyes widened.

"This is…the same costume from Thiefnet…" Faye brought out the attire and immediately put it on. She looked just like a stripped orange cat. Faye looked at herself and jumped with excitement. She ended up hitting the ceiling.

"Ow! What the?"

"The costume gives you a higher jumping power I assume," said Bentley.

"That…is…so…cool!" Faye had the urge to jump but instead she calmly asked, "Who's idea was it to get the costume? I didn't even tell anyone about it."

"It was me…" Faye instantly had Sly in a bear hug.

"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Faye quickly shouted.

"You're welcome," Sly managed to get out. Faye had quite a grip on Sly and it took Murray to get her off him. He actually sweated trying to pry her off. Sly dusted himself off and smiled.

"Glad you like it."

Sly exited the hideout and so did Faye. Bentley and Murray stayed behind till they were needed. Sly used his cane to climb the rail to the rooftop. Faye gaped at the height she had to climb. With some curiosity about her new costume, Faye grabbed the same rail Sly did and attempted to scale it. To her amazement, she was able to ascend with ease. She got to the rooftop and spotted Sly with his binocucom out. She crept around beneath Sly's view and jumped up in front of his binocucom.

"Ha!" she shouted. Sly then let out a yelp. Faye had caught Sly by surprise. His scream made Bentley scream and Bentley's scream made Murray scream. Faye heard multiple screams from the binocucom. She burst out into a string of laughs as Sly fell on his side. Faye laughed so hard that she turned red and fell to the ground.

"Ha… I…I got you! I got the Master Thief! Ha, ha!" Faye kept laughing and was turning a slight blue. "Can't breathe…Sides hurt…can't stop laughing!" Faye kicked her legs into the air, still laughing. Sly got up with a little help from his cane.

"That wasn't funny!" came Bentley's voice from the binocucom.

"I'm…I'm sorry Bentley and Murray. I only meant to surprise Sly," said Faye, calming down.

"Come on Faye, we need to do recon for Bentley," said Faye. Sly ran on ahead, jumping to the next roof. Faye followed behind but stopped short at the ledge. She could hardly see it in the dark and almost fell. Faye straightened herself out and looked down. She could break a leg if she missed the next roof and the resulting scream would attract the guards. That would be a bad thing since the guards would most likely kill her. Faye quavered with dread and gulped. She took a few steps back and did a running start before she jumped.

Time seemed to slowdown as Faye made the jump. A warthog guard marched underneath her and stopped to sniff. The adjacent rooftop got closer and closer as Faye plummeted downward. I'm actually gonna make it! Faye saw the rooftop's edge beneath her. Sly was waiting, twirling his cane with one hand below. All of a sudden, the roof was at Faye's eye level and there was no car below her. Faye cringed and shut her eyes, waiting for the inevitable impact of the cement to break her bones. But it didn't come. Faye opened one eye and looked down. The guard had moved on. She opened her other eye and looked up. Sly had grabbed her right arm and hand before she fell. Time resumed its normal flow as he pulled Faye up to the rooftop.

"Maybe you should come back to the hideout," Bentley said through the binocucom. Faye got up and caught her breath.

"No. I hate giving up. I'll keep going," said Faye. She walked forward and hit another roadblock. Oh man!

"Great, the Rail Walk," Sly walked up to Faye and she continued, "The gun slinging Tennessee Kid Cooper's specialty was the Rail Walk and the Rail Slide. Moves perfected through a lifetime of thefts in the old west."

"Now how would you know that?" Sly asked her, raising an eyebrow and smirking.

"I read the Thievius Raccoonus," answered Faye.

'He knows I read it, the sneaky raccoonus. ...So, why didn't he stop me?' Sly gave another inquiry,

"Do you know how to perform it?"

'Oh… Tough question.'

"No, I don't," said Faye. She hung her head low, embarrassed that she knew the move in her world but not in Sly's. The Master Thief ambled over to the rope.

"Let me show you," he said. Sly grabbed Faye's left hand and jumped up to perform the Rail Walk. He spun around once, made Faye a little dizzy, and landed on the rope. Faye also landed on it but not as graceful and lost balance. Sly caught her and helped her balance by placing his arm around her back. He held her steady by placing his right hand around her right side.

After a few moments of losing balance, Sly slowly let go of Faye. She wobbled a bit and finally was able to stand on the rope without any help.

"Now try to walk across the rope," said Sly. Faye put one foot forward and managed to not fall off the rope. She kept walking forward faster and faster until she was running across the rope.

"I know how to Rail Walk! I actually know it!" Faye half-shouted. She ran to the other end of the rope and met up with Sly.

"Thanks Sly," she said.

"Sly! Get a move on! We have to sabotage those satellites!" Bentley was anxious as he communicated to Sly.

"Don't worry Bentley, we'll get to it," said Sly. Faye and Sly raced off across the bridge connecting one roof to another. Sly looked through his binocucom and stared at the satellite on the water tower. It amazed Faye that he did not even touch a holographic marker, though she knew that it was different from the game and Sly already knew what he had to do. Sly took a running jump towards the pipe on the side of the water tower and grabbed it with his cane near the halfway point. Faye decided to take it easy and laid down on the roof across from the water tower and gazed at the stars. An incredibly bright light zoomed overhead, completely blocking out the stars from Faye view. Sly leapt from above and proceeded to the next satellite.

'It's amazing how no one notices the beam of light right above them. Might as well get to the wine cellar for Breaking and Entering.' Faye got up and ran from rooftop to rooftop, but there was a problem.

"Where do I go again? Darn it! I guess I'll just have to follow Sly." Faye quickly found Sly as he sabotaged the last satellite. Before she could ask him where the next job was to take place, Sly was on the move again. Faye just followed him, since she forgot where the next mission was.

Faye and Sly reached the wine cellar and met up with Murray. Faye walked a few steps further than Sly and leered at the rats. Her cat costume's tail swung furiously. She filtered out Murray and Sly voices and flashed her claws. Sly heard her costume's claws come out and looked at them.

"Faye?"

"Let me at 'em," she growled, "I love mindless destruction and this will be the first time I ever take on a guard." Murray put his hands on Faye's shoulders and shook her a bit. With his strength, it had to be a bit

"What?" she asked him.

"No claws," said Sly.

"But…"

"No."

"Then what's my weapon going to be?" Sly looked around and headed over to a barrel then came back with a piece of metal.

"A crowbar? ...Okay," said Faye. She took her new weapon and ran in with Sly and Murray to fight the rats. Faye was the first one to strike and whacked the rat in the shin. The rat howled in pain and Faye finished it off with an overhead whack.

"Way too easy. Yet, I feel a little sorry for him." More rats came into the room. One of them, she noticed, had a flamethrower, one had a baseball bat, and one had a mace. Faye eyes widened,

"I take it back." Murray took the one with the bat, Sly took the one with the flamethrower, and Faye took the one with mace. Murray easily took out the guard with a few punches. Sly jumped up to avoid the flame and thwacked the rat. But Faye was having a little problem. The rat she was dealing with kept swinging the mace and Faye couldn't get close so did something simple.

"Look! Money!" Faye pointed to Murray who was behind the rat. The rat turned and got a double whammy of Murray's punch to the stomach and Faye's crowbar to its head.

"Don't mess with Faytin," she said. Murray, Sly, and Faye walked over the rat bodies to the closed off fence. Murray lifted the gate switch up with ease. Sly double jumped over the fence, leaving Faye behind…but not for long. Faye took a running leap and vaulted over the gate by placing her hands on the rail and jumping over.

"Leapfrog never had a purpose till now," she chuckled. She ceased once she saw what was ahead.

"Lasers. It just had to be lasers," said Faye. Sly sauntered over to the lasers and waited. Faye followed his lead and when there was an opening, the two ran through the brief aperture. Faye looked on a head to see lasers…lots of them.

"A barrier of lasers passing over a table that can make for a tight fit to get past security," stated Faye, "The answer's obvious." While Sly was receiving information on how to get past the lasers, Faye dropped down to the ground and crawled under the long table. Sly repeated Faye's actions and joined her on the other side.

'And it goes on and on like this for a while.' Faye and Sly came across a flashlight guard and several long tables and snuck past the oaf by crawling under the tables. They then came to another guard and passed him with the "Table Maneuver," as Faye called it. Then came the tricky part. Sly and Faye had to pass some lasers then Sly would have to take out a flashlight guard. Faye stayed behind as Sly took him out, then she moved on. The two crawled through a vent and, that's right, came across more guards.

"Crow's ready, Sly!" Faye pulled out her faithful crowbar, now dubbed 'Crow.'

"You think you can pull off the stealth move?" Sly asked her. Faye's eyes widened. If she failed, guard city. If she succeeded, guard city. But she had Sly with her. She had backup. Faye waited as a rat came by, then she snuck behind it. Faye put all her strength into Crow and lifted the rat into the air, barely. Faye hooked Crow into the rat's belt and slammed him down on the ground. The rat didn't move. I did it! Faye was about to strike a pose when she remembered the other four rats.

"Cripes." Faye and Sly teamed up on each rat. Faye would do an Overhead Slam and Sly would whack them with his cane. When all the rats were knocked out, Faye went up to the piano and started to play a few notes to a simple song.

"Knock it off Faye," said Sly.

"I can't help it! I love to play it." Faye wound up Crow and struck the closed vent, opening it.

"Come on Sly," said Faye. She crawled through the vent followed by Sly.

Sly and Faye emerged in the Counterfeit Room. Faye spotted a piece of broken metal on the ground and grabbed it. She started to carve things into the crowbar like: 'Crow's Gonna Kick Your Butt,' 'FTD,' and 'Don't mess with me.' She watched as Sly brought out his binocucom and took photos of the room. Faye put the scrap metal away and stared at Dimitri. He was ugly with a capital "U." Trash looked better than him. Faye's eyes twitched as the lounge lizard walked along the catwalk. Sly took the final picture and said,

"Come on. We've got to go back to the hideout."

"Nah. I'll catch up to you later," she said. Faye watched Sly leave via air vent and got out her trusty friend Crow. Faye paused and waited as Dimitri turned around then threw Crow. Faye kept her eye on the crowbar as it hit the back of Dimitri's head, made him dizzy and fall off the catwalk, bounced off, hit the machine which made it stall, hit several sides of the wall, and landed back in her hand.

"Don't mess with Faytin!" Faye shouted in a deep voice. She quickly escaped through the air vent before Dimitri got a glimpse of her. When Faye got to the other side, she looked at her watch.

"Time for the Contest." She ran off to enter.

Dimitri got up a bit stunned and looked on the side of the machine Crow had hit. In fact, the crowbar hit the counterfeiting machine so hard that it left an impression of the words that were on it. Dimitri read it backwards.

"DTF? What spaz is declared as DTF? You spaz! I'll mess you up spaz!" Dimitri glanced at his digital watch. 9:53 P.M. The competition was about to begin.

"Time is scat," Dimitri muttered and he walked off towards his nightclub.

Chapter four has come to a close! I bite at action scenes. Sorry if was a little boring with Faye learning the Rail Walk, but again I didn't want any plot holes and have her suddenly learn something without any explanation. And yes, Dimitri's lingo was supposed to be messed up. He hasn't learned to 'swing the bat' when it comes to grammar. As I have said before, there will be no Sly/Faye, Murray/Faye, or Bentley/Faye. They are just really good friends and that is all. I don't know if I can stress that enough. And there is a power up for Sly to speed up (not slowdown) time; you just have to find it. Please review! Flames will be ignored and used for lighting Neyla's butt on fire!

Faye's outfit: black shirt and dark blue sweats. Alternate: red shirt with blue emerald in the center and blue denim jeans.

Her cat costume: looks like an orange-striped house cat with first set of above clothing.