Welcome back viewers! Sorry it took so long to get this up. You have no idea how sorry I am. Darn computer! I had…problems. Ahem! And in case you forgot, Faye still has on her cat costume on. I don't own Sly, Sucker Punch does. Faye's first person PoV has been switched to third. Stuff in Italics is Faye's thought. Stuff in bold is stuff said by Faye and someone else at the same time.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sly Cooper or Dance Dance Revolution.

Chapter 6: Operation: Thunder Beak is a Go!

Faye had decided to walk around a bit before going back to the hideout. She needed to calm herself down.

'Neyla is such a dodo head! Why did I let her get away?'

"Darn conscience," she muttered. She sat down on the plaza fountain and put her chin on her left hand. Faye crossed her legs and rested her right hand on them. She watched as a rat guard passed her and scratched his butt. The next thing Faye knew, the ground shook violently as a shockwave vibrated across the Nightclub. She was thrown into the fountain and came up drenched. She jumped out of the fountain with one thing in mind: Bentley had smashed the disco ball. Faye shook herself off and got the rat wet.

"Oh...Sorry," she apologized. Faye ran back to the safehouse.

"Cold. Cold. Stupid water. I had to be next to the fountain when Disco Demolition went down," Faye mumbled on her way there. She ran up the ramp to HQ and bust open the door. Sly and Murray stared at her from the table. There stood Faye, breathing heavily in her realistic, orange-striped cat costume, wearing her yellow shirt with a red heart on it and blue denim jeans, dripping wet from head to toe in the doorway. Sly and Murray kept staring and suddenly erupted with laughter. Murray guffawed and leaned on his chair, almost falling over. Sly covered his eyes with his hands and just kept laughing.

"What…what…what happened to…to you Faye?" asked Sly who kept laughing. Faye looked at herself and said,

"I took an unexpected swim in the fountain." They started to calm down and stopped altogether once Bentley came in. He set up a projector and said,

"Okay fellas, the dominoes are all in place. Time to pull off the big heist. First, Murray will help me break into the old water tower. From there, I should be able to shut down the plaza fountain. Dimitri's sure to send someone out to get the repair truck. Sly, you'll pickpocket the truck keys off this guy once he shows up, then hand them off to me and Murray in the plaza. There will probably be more than one guard out there, so you're going to have to distract them, Faye. We'll go steal the truck while Sly climbs to the top of the Nightclub's peacock sign. When you're in position, Murray will fire the truck's winch line up to you and we'll use it to pull down the sign. If my calculations are correct, the impact should create an entrance to the printing press room. Then, Sly, you jump in, grab the Clockwerk Tail Feathers, and we all get the heck out of here." The projector shut off. Sly grabbed his cane, Bentley cocked his crossbow, Murray cracked his knuckles, and Faye grabbed Crow.

'I actually get to pull off a heist with them! Yes!' Bentley ran as fast as he could with Murray to the old water tower and Sly and Faye climbed to the rooftop.

"Come on chum, let's get to that water tower," said Murray. Faye's costume tail swung back and forth without much enthusiasm.

"Bored already?" Sly asked her.

"Nope. Just impatient," she answered. Faye tapped her foot and said,

"So…how long have you known Murray and Bentley?"

"I've known them since the Happy Camper Orphanage. That would be since I was eight years old."

"The Happy Camper Orphanage? …I get it now. The Fiendish Five incident from all those years ago; I remember it. I found out a thief beat them down. That would be you, huh?"

"Yeah. It was." Once again, the question of Faye's origin had slightly arisen, but remained unspoken.

"Did you get the Thievius Raccoonus back?" Sly looked at Faye.

"How did you…?"

"Know about the Thievius Raccoonus? A good thief keeps her ears open to everything when tides act crazy and Mesa City becomes a dog-eat-dog place, literally," Faye said to Sly.

"Sly, the water pressure to the water fountain should be disabled," Bentley said through the binocucom. Sly and Faye looked up to the fountain. Sure enough, no water was coming through it.

"It's off alright. They're already sending out the repair guy to fix it up," Sly said back to Bentley. Sly and Faye jumped to the adjacent rooftop and followed the guards: one warthog guard and two rat guards. When the guards split up, so did Faye and Sly. Sly went off to pickpocket the truck keys and Faye went after the rat guards.

'So cold…'

Faye jumped down to the streets below and landed in front of the rats.

"Want to catch me? Then come on ya failed lab experiments!" Faye taunted. She jumped onto the nearest car and up to the rooftop with the rats in hot pursuit. Faye glanced behind her to see that the rat guards were still chasing her.

"Is that all you got? I know a mouse that could run laps around you!" Faye laughed at the rats. The rats put more energy into tracking down Faye. They were now near the old water tower. Faye jumped to the streets and saw Murray and Bentley ahead in the plaza. Faye's claws flashed in the moonlight as she turned towards the rats. The rats stopped in their tracks. Faye jumped on one guard and threw him against a wall.

"One down…" Faye looked to the other guard and headbutted him in the adjacent wall with vigor.

"And none to go." She walked off to join the gang.

"It's all you," said Sly, handing the truck keys off to Murray and Bentley. "I need to get in position on top of the Nightclub's peacock sign for phase three." Faye watched from an alleyway close to the safe house as Sly jumped to the rooftop, jump to the edge of the Nightclub, and sidled across to get to the rail. Sly stood on top of the peacock sign and the truck came right around the corner. Murray fired the "tow-harpoon" up to Sly.

"Oh cupcakes!" he said as he missed and the hook went a foot past Sly's left.

"Try a little higher and a little to the right!" called Faye. Murray fired it again and this time Sly caught it.

"Hook's on. Pull away!" said Sly. He jumped and used Rail Slide to go down the rope.

"Sly! The guards are onto us! Protect the truck!" cried Bentley. Faye ran in and helped Sly fight. She clawed at several of them when they got near the truck then someone yelled out,

"So we're failed lab experiments, huh?" Faye turned to her left and saw the two rats she had dealt with earlier.

"Sly, can you handle these guys without me?" Faye asked him.

"Yeah. You go on," he said. Faye approached the rats. Her tail swayed back and forth. Her ears arched back.

"Let's do this," she said and jumped up into the air. Her costume allowed her to jump as high as Sly and she came down onto a rat. Her claws tore into his shirt and she threw him against the other rat. She took out Crow and whacked them across the head. Then she whacked their backs. They were motionless. Faye turned towards Sly. Guard bodies littered the ground.

"Nice work," she said, moving toward Sly. The peacock sign came down and shook the ground beneath their feet.

"Behold the majesty of gravity and inertia," said Bentley.

"That was real subtle, Bentley," said Sly and Faye. Sly gave Faye a weird look.

"Okay you jump in, grab the Clockwerk tail feathers, and we're out of here!" said Bentley. Sly jumped into the hole Bentley made and Faye followed after.

Down below, Sly jumped onto the glass above with Faye behind him. They were below the catwalk when they met Dimitri.

"Gah! So…Raccoonus Doodus - you're like totally bumming my house up and bringing me down. So very uncool. Why can't you let birds and bees be free, bro?" said Dimitri.

"Listen Dimitri - you have no idea what you're playing with - it'll bring more than you're house down…" said Sly.

'His suit sucks.'

"Look, bro. I see that you are a tough cowboy… A man with taste…style…vision…a connoisseur of fine things. Like me. Look, I'm sure that two cats in a bag like us can work something out, yeah? We smoove, yeah? Look… See the money? You like the money? You can take all you want. I can - -"

'His suit still sucks.'

"No deal. You and the rest of the Klaww Gang have to be stopped. Clockwerk will never again see the light of day. Just hand over the Tail Feathers and we can - -"

"What is this with clocks, bro? Have you no vision? Are you hearing what I beam to you? You think you have juice? Don't show me a little mind when talking about such big things… You think you can swing the bat? Show you're bling and let me shine you!"

'The suckiest suit in the world.'

"Dude! I see your mouth moving, but all I hear is blah, blah, blah!" said Faye.

"I have no idea what you're saying," Faye and Sly said together. She knew it was coming. The one line she could never get out of her head. So she joined in.

"And your suit sucks," Sly and Faye said together. Sly raised an eyebrow to Faye. Dimitri screamed in shock.

"Let's dance!" he said and he took off. Sly followed him while Faye climbed up to the catwalk. Dimitri started shooting red orbs of electricity at Sly.

"Careful of those orbs, Sly! If you get hit, its game over, with no continues!" Faye shouted to Sly. Dimitri fired three orbs at Sly who was behind a pillar. Dimitri short-circuited on the fourth and shook his hand in pain. He blew on his hand and looked up to see Sly whack him with his cane. Dimitri was slammed back into a barrel full of green goo.

"Ha! What's the matter Dimitri? Can't you swing the bat?" laughed Faye, pointing at Dimitri. He zoomed past Sly to the other side of the room and looked up to Faye.

"You… You're Des-tan-nay. Why you bringing me down, sis? Is it your destiny?" said Dimitri. Faye glared at Dimitri.

"Sis? I am not your sis. You need to be stopped, and that's my destiny," said Faye putting her hands on her hips and smiling broadly. Sly came in and swung his cane over Dimitri's head, knocking him into a glass wall. Dimitri got up, ran towards Sly with his hand glowing, the gun barely noticeable, and struck him with an electric sphere at close range. Red streaks of electricity ran through the raccoon.

'That never happened in the game!' Sly fell to his knees breathing hard. Dimitri charged up another shot. Faye panicked. Sly would die if she didn't do something. That couldn't happen. That wouldn't happen! The game was called "Sly 2: Band of Thieves" not "Dead Cooper." Faye saw the orb get larger. She could just imagine the whole place in crimson after the next blast. Faye grabbed her crowbar and threw it at Dimitri. It hit his arm and the electricity was directed away from Sly, making a scorched mark by his cane. Dimitri clutched his hand and looked above then to the ground to see what hit him. He picked up the crowbar and his eyes widened.

"Spaz!" he yelled.

"Uh oh. He found my signature," Faye said to herself. Then, Dimitri was gone faster than you can say 'smoove.' Faye scanned the floor and didn't see Dimitri.

"Spaz," said a voice. Shivers went down Faye's backbone. She turned around to see the foul lizard. He punched her in the stomach. Faye stumbled backwards, lost her balance, and fell to the level below. Faye flailed her arms and legs, falling faster to the ground. She turned her body and faced the floor.

'Huh?' A purple cloud of smoke was moving at a swift pace towards her. Curiosity turned to terror as she realized that it was Dimitri. He grabbed her neck with his right hand before she touched the ground and began to squeeze. Dimitri pulled back his left hand with the insane gun and a red orb formed in it barrel. Tears of fear swelled up in Faye's eyes and rolled down her cheeks. Faye closed her eyes and more tears fell.

Thwack! Faye felt Dimitri's grip loosen. She opened her eyes to see Sly back on his feet. Dimitri growled and tossed Faye across the room into a wall. Faye blacked out. Sly watched as Faye hit the wall with a loud crash and fall to the ground. He turned to Dimitri and fought at close range. Dimitri swung his tail then Sly jumped over it and hit him over the head. Dimitri got mad and tried to ram Sly, but he sidestepped Dimitri and hit him several times. Sly could see Dimitri was exhausted and almost had him. Then Dimitri bulleted past Sly and shot a red orb at him, dead on. Sly fell to the floor with smoke coming from his shirt. He held his side and looked at Dimitri. Dimitri walked up to Sly with the face of a madman. A sphere of red electricity built up in Dimitri's hand. Sly couldn't move as the red orb quickly grew in size.

"Don't you hurt him!" screamed a girl's voice. Dimitri was forced forward past Sly into a glass wall. Faye had her hands out in front of her and had difficulty breathing, meaning that she had somehow regained consciousness. Sly and Faye saw Dimitri make a run for the printing press.

"Go for it," said Faye. Sly got up and snuck behind Dimitri. He charged up his cane and hit Dimitri into the printing press. Faye strolled over to the other side of it, twirling her crowbar, and watched as the Lounge Lizard fell into a barrel.

"You take Clockwerk feathers and my counterfeiting operation, it's past tense," said Dimitri.

"I'm doing you a favor. What kind of thief prints money? …there's no honor in that," said Sly and Faye.

"You…Cracker-Boxes! Ahh…" Dimitri passed out. Sly went over and got the Clockwerk Tail Feathers just as Bentley and Murray showed up. Faye dashed over to Bentley and Murray and somehow Sly got in there as she gave them a bear hug.

"We did it!" she cheered. Counterfeit money spewed all over the place as the printing press went haywire. Murray tapped Faye on the shoulder.

"Oops," Faye let go of the team, "Sorry. Maybe I should have hugged Dimitri." The team chuckled but was short lived as police sirens cued their exit.

"Here comes Interpol," said Faye. Sly, Murray, Bentley, and Faye escaped through a hole Bentley and Murray made that led directly to the team van. Bentley and Faye climbed in back while Murray and Sly went to the front. Murray shifted the vehicle into drive and they drove off, leaving Carmelita and Interpol behind.

Faye looked at a large sack in the van.

"What's this?" she asked.

"Oh, I found that before the heist. Bentley said it had 5,000 coins in it. Everyone gets a share of it," answered Murray. Faye hooked up her laptop and went to Thiefnet.

"What are you looking for, Faye?" asked Murray.

"A new weapon. That crowbar can only do so much," said Faye. She clicked on a few icons and a set of weapons appeared in front of her. "Too big, too sharp, not enough features, too many features, too creepy, too cute, …perfect! 'Orange staff with yellow hook for 500 coins.'" She tapped her fingers on her laptop then clicked 'buy.'

"Let's go to Monaco for a week," said Sly.

"Hmm… I could try out my new card counting formula," said Bentley.

"What about you, Faye? Do you have another job to do?" asked Sly. Faye stayed quiet for a while and took off her cat mask.

"I…don't have anywhere to go," said Faye.

"Then why don't you come with us to Monaco?" suggested Sly. Faye looked up. Her eyes were watering and a smile spread over her face.

"Really?"

"Sure."

"I've never taken a break after a heist. I always went on to the next one," said Faye.

"Monaco here we come," said Murray. The van suddenly turned and Faye crashed into the wall. It was going to be a long ride. Faye looked to Bentley. He was relaxing already and going through a deck of cards. None of them seemed worried about anything. Faye knew it wouldn't last. She sighed and logged onto the instachat network. StableKayla was back along with someone else by the name of "T-Rex." They chatted about the Contest Dimitri held. When asked, Faye steered cleared whether or not she had won the contest. Kayla had to go and Faye logged off too, taking a short nap. Boss battles take a lot out of you.

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Journal Log Entry 1: First Heist With Sly and the Gang

Yep! I've finally pulled off a heist with Sly Cooper, the Sly Cooper along with Bentley and Murray. Urge…to shriek…with laughter…rising… Operation: Thunder Beak was a success and I got to fight Dimitri with Sly. Although, it wasn't like it was supposed to be. Dimitri changed his tactics and we almost didn't make it. Inspector Carmelita and Constable "Dodo" Neyla arrived on the scene and we made our escape. Anyway, I also entered a contest and met this guy named Rexus. I won 5,000 coins but I had to ditch them. Later I found out that Murray found them. Right now, Sly, Murray, Bentley, and I are in Monaco enjoying our time off. I beat everyone at Dance Dance Revolution. Yeah, they've got that here too. It turns out that this was a gambling DDR to all major DDR fans. I ended up with more than 2,300 coins and I put them to good use. I bought a blue pack that straps onto my leg among other things. When I checked on Bentley, I discovered that he had won over fifty-two, fifty-two games of Blackjack in under three hours. Looks like his card counting formula worked. I still feel unsettled though. I know it's going to be tough and if you guys are reading this you are in so much trouble! I wonder how the next heist will go? I'll just have to wait and see, even though I'm two steps ahead of the game. On a different note, I got hurt fighting Dimitri. This isn't a dream. I have to protect the Sly Cooper Gang at all costs, try to stop the dastardly traitor that lurks in the shadows, and keep the secret hidden. It's all up to me.

Yes! The Black Chateau is done! … And I still bite at action scenes! Sheesh, it's been, what, six chapters already? I might just stop putting in time fillers. Or something. I'll decide along the way. If you haven't noticed by now, Faye's costume reacts to her feelings. Not to mention the guard bodies don't just disappear. Just thought you should know. Oh, and it will be revealed how Faye got up so quickly later on in another Journal Entry. They're kind of like recaps of what happened after the heist. Please review! Flames will be used as Bunsen burners for Bentley.

P.S. Sorry if anyone was OOC.