Hiya! This is it huh. 9/19/16 start. I am keeping it within Milo and Sly perspective for the most part because writing from a female view as a male is (personally) hard. Sorry if everyone prefers Naiya perspective, but honestly she has become a sort of auxiliary character as opposed to a main character. I have better plans for her in later writings, don't worry. Enjoy~


-Sly

This is it. Preparations were complete and we were nearly at the location that Bentley had theorized Clockwerk was in. Even though it wasn't a guarantee that Clockwerk was going to be there, it was only lead we had, and we needed to take it. I was flipping through the Thievius Raccoonus hundreds of times and studying everything the book had to offer. Naiya had brought up an interesting point before we had left.

Some pictures of my ancestors had a strange dark mass in the background of all of them. It was similar and appeared to be a Eurasian Eagle Owl. It was a giant bird that was said to have completely disappeared a long time ago. They were considered a peaceful species, but Bentley had found reports on some being treacherous and committed evildoing. I looked at the pictures wondering how one owl could have lived from the early B.C. periods up till now.

I looked at everyone in the van. Bentley was focused typing away and researching some last minute information while Murray drove forwards watching out for anything that might be in his path. Naiya sat next to me looking through her bag and loaded up her pistol and made sure she was ready. I had never seen her so serious. She was definitely ready and seemed to come to terms with helping thieves. She was serious now. Milo sat across from me and was looking through a book. It was his family tome as well. From what he had told me, it explained the capabilities of his knives more so than shooting. I'd have to ask him if I could read it later.

Later… I never really thought of later until now. I know it's going to be great, though. We were going to get through this and settle it all right here.

"Sly! It's time, we're here. Get up to the gun, we are going to need you to clear the mines out in front of us so we don't, ya know, blow up."

"Roger" I jumped up to the gun. I could feel my fur standing up from excitement and my tail swaying in anticipation. This was it.


-Milo

This is it. I hear the sounds of nearby explosions and stare out the window seeing robotic falcons swarming around us. The volcano is rumbling slightly but, according to Bentley, it isn't active, although I was not too sure on his logic. Shrapnel was raining down from the countless robo-falcons that were being destroyed. I noticed a giant statue of an owl out of the corner of my eye.

"Um, Bentley?"

"Yeah," Bentley had shouted out of panic.

"What is that thing?" The statue's eyes began to glow."

"Oh no! Sly that statue is a giant death ray!," Bentley yelled out.

"Of course it is, what else would it be?" Naiya said.

The eyes had burst and destroyed a portion of rock, which then began to tumble towards us.

"Sly! You need to shoot those rocks before they damage the van!" Bentley sounded like he was going to have asthma attack he was breathing so hard.

A harrowing four minutes passes by and we are in the clear. There were too many close calls already but we were almost there and we had to keep going forwards. Actually going forwards might've been a problem.

"I don't think the gun is going to fit through that cave… look out!" Sly shouted.

"Oops, Sorry Sly," Murray seemed upset.

"It's fine," Sly grumbled.

"Are those slugs coming out of the lava?" Naiya questioned.

I had a confused look since a slug in lava went against all laws of nature but lo and behold there it was. A slug had come out of the lava and slithered along before returning to its habitat.

"Why are they so big? How does a slug even get that big?" Naiya grumbled something else about how after this whole journey nothing made sense anymore.

"Milo, we are going to need your aim for this."

"What?"

"If you can shoot those computers, I should be able to get information off of them and we can open the door."

"I'm not going to question how."

I aimed out the window and shot the computers promptly causing them to explode. I would've been slightly entertained if Murray wasn't driving like a madman all over the place avoiding the fire slugs. I kept shooting the computers until Bentley told me to stop.

I sat back against the wall of the van and wiped the sweat from my forehead. It was a lot hotter than I had expected. Granted, we were in a volcano so really, what should have I expected. I looked forwards at Naiya who seemed to be loading her shock pistol. Bentley had told her that she was going to help him from the van. I had a feeling that she was going to want to have more of a physical appearance on the forefront. She put the pistol back in her bag and closed it. I was surprised. She seemed to be okay with staying behind the scenes while Sly and I went ahead.

The van had stopped and the back door flung open. Sly and I jumped out. The room we were in was full of buzzing tech and lots of lava. It was fitting since we were in the center of a volcano and Clockwerk was an evil mechanical owl. I looked around at everything and took not of all of the structures that seemed as if they might be important. There was a few ways to get to the other side where I noticed a screaming vixen banging against the glass of her temporary incarceration. Hopefully it was temporary.

Through some unspoken communication, Sly had decided to go first. He jumped onto some rails and climbed along a pipe, then he jumped from ceiling hook to ceiling hook before inevitably making it over to a platform and hopped into a barrel. I wasn't really sure why he decided to walk down a ramp that was created from a piece of metal that had shifted down… perfectly.

"Okay," he began, "I am going to go across this floor in the barrel so the turrets over there," he pointed to two stationary metal statues, "shoot the barrel and not me. When I get to the other side of the room, I can destroy them and disable the turrets and security."

I just nodded at him when he started to walk across the mat and, as anticipated, the turrets shook to life and began their futile attempt to shoot Sly. I wasn't aware that barrels were durable enough to withstand about twenty darts. He was about seventy-five percent of the way through the floor when I realized something. I aimed down my sights and shot the turrets and the security system. I jogged across the floor towards a Sly who was already running ahead towards the fox. The door shut then suddenly everything seemed to go cold. The chill of the mountains crept through my jacket. I couldn't feel anything. There Sly was trapped in the chamber with Carmelita. Sly hit the door with his cane but just bounced back from the recoil of hitting something solid. I shot the door hoping to make some sort of mark but it was no use I could only watch as a gas started to flood through the room and Sly fell the floor.

"B-Bentley…" I switched on the communicator hoping to hear someone give me some news.

"Don't worry! I got it, don't you dare use the glove." He seemed to be in control.

I stared anxiously into the small room. Sly wasn't moving. I couldn't tell if he was still okay or not, but I noticed the gas vents close and it started to dissipate a few moments later. The door opened up and I walked over to Sly as he started to get up.

"You okay? We didn't come all this way to lose it all now." I grinned trying to keep the mood a bit lighter.

"Hmph, I'll be fine," Sly said rubbing his eyes and looked over to the fox. He swung his cane and quickly broke the glass cage she was being held in.

"I'll meet you two outside so you can talk." I gave a mock salute and ran out the door.

I scaled up the wall just outside the door and waltzed around the edge of the volcano breathing in the sulfur. It had a terrible smell, but I looked down my sights as Sly and Carmelita as Sly's cane was swiped away by a robo-falcon. Of course, nothing could go our way.


-Naiya

The van was humming with life as watched Sly, Milo, and now Carmelita go on. Sly's cane was stolen and apparently Carmelita was willing to help him with his task of taking down Clockwerk as payment for saving her. Currently, Sly was running along sprinting from fire slugs as Carmelita shot them before they got too close. It was an adrenaline rush just to watch Sly run through this deathtrap. I couldn't even think straight. I saw some shots also coming from the ridge a little ways away. Milo was trying to cover him as well.

I felt better after Sly was making his last climb up towards the cane. It was weird, but without it, Sly seemed to be kind of helpless. I knew in my head that he wasn't helpless, but every little advantage helped especially against Clockwerk.

A few minutes passed by and Sly was almost at the jetpack that Carmelita had stored on the top of the death ray. I am not entirely sure what her logic was to hide her only source of transportation on a death ray, owl thing, that was really hard to climb and surrounded by lava, but I could respect the choice.

I looked at another screen that had been displaying what Milo could see through his scope. I kept my eyes glued to his screen, he was looking through at Sly as he performed all of his new moves and was trying to get up the last bit towards the jetpack.

I could hear my heartbeat and looked over at Bentley who was gazing almost emotionless at the screen and then to Murray who was biting his nails as he watched. These guys had been growing on me, but I knew it was almost over. Soon, Clockwerk would be stopped and this whole nightmare would be over.

A quick glance at back at Sly let me know he had made it up to the top and was putting the jetpack on. I noted that the double rocket launchers on the side was a bit excessive for any normal cop mission. Then again, this isn't a normal cop mission, and this isn't your normal criminal.

Suddenly, this was it. He was hovering over the volcano with the jetpack when after only a few seconds Clockwerk rose and met him. There was a short moment where everything felt as if it stopped moving as they talked for the first time. Hopefully, these would be some of Clockwerk's last.


-Sly

He was shooting these sonic beams at me. Being suspended high above lava and almost definitely certain death wasn't all that I thought it was going to be. I decided to reason out that this was only less thrilling because a giant eagle owl was trying to kill me. Another beam whizzed past me as I shot his tail when it was vulnerable.

Milo and Carmelita were sitting across the ridge firing shots at vitals areas on the armor. As the rockets connected with the tail, it slowly fell apart from the repeated rocket shots and shock blasts. It was fairly simple at first. Dodge, dodge like the wind and shoot, shoot like your life depends on it. Mostly because it did.

It was time to reclaim my honour and avenge my family. I took one more shot at his head while it was weak from the shock blasts. Clockwerk flailed as the rocket cracked and blew up a part of his armor. He divebombed straight into the molten lava. I stared down at the lava as I heard some people congratulating me on my achievement. Something wasn't right. It didn't feel like it was over.

"That's one tough owl…" Bentley said into my earpiece.

I looked at the monstrosity as he rose from the lava. The armor had appeared to suffer no damage from the molten liquid. His one eye was blinking on and off occasionally as I stared at him.

"I don't get it. You're so familiar with my family - you must have known my father had a son. If you hated the coopers so much, why did you let me live when you stole the Thievius Raccoonus?" I'd been thinking about this for a while now, but I never understood.

"Because I wanted to show the world that without your precious book. The Cooper line was nothing."

"Ah. Well. There's where you're wrong. The Thievius Raccoonus doesn't create great thieves. It takes great thieves to create the Thievius Raccoonus."

"Enough. Sly Cooper! It ends here. I'll finish you like I finished your father. Then the Cooper line will be erased and the only master thief will be, Clockwerk!"

Then he began shooting electric purple rings that shifted through the air. It was a bit nerve-wracking going through the rings as electricity buzzed into my ears. I kept firing as Milo and Carmelita fired more shots at it from afar. It took just a few shots to almost completely destroy one of the wings. It parts were being scattered as I continued to shoot the weak points in the armor. Then, a quick explosion, Clockwerk fell down straight to the lava appearing as if his wings had been clipped.

~This is it

I released the jetpack off my back and I dropped down to a piece of scrap metal and landed on my feet as the metal shook underneath me. I was ready to end it. I hopped across the rails and ran along them before spire jumping across the lava. The air had seemed to lose its chill and the wind wasn't howling in my ears. I ran and jumped over the security lasers and began to climb along an outstanding metal pole. The lava's heat was gone.

Here I am. I ignored the nonsense the owl was screeching and I swung my cane at the head. A shot came from behind me that hit Clockwerk's left eye which flew off, without being cracked, into the lava. I kept swinging as Clockwerk fell apart before me. It was almost done and this curse would be over. One more strong swing. I wound up, pulling the cane high up into air. I noticed a red dot appear on Clockwerk's head. Milo was taking his aim. I swiftly slashed the cane across and a shot rang out and both blows hit the owl's head at the same time. It flew off and the body began to sink into the lava.

I notice a considerable amount of parchment that looked like pages within Clockwerk and I grabbed them and threw them my backpack when I saw a connect to the sinking body from the cliff side next to me. I smirked and began to run up it. It was finally over.


Sorry! Okay, well it's been months. Like, there was literally like a month where i wrote a sentence a day and it was pathetic. BUT It is over… Apart from the epilogue which is not going to be very long. 11/2/16 at 8:35 a.m. I finished it during my IB History class. I was only like 2 months off my projected finished! Also, I do intend on writing a second story and possibly one for every game. Other news, My PS2 stopped working (and there is no fixing it) after 13 years and, um, I sort of lost inspiration when that happened two and a half months ago. I won't give any concrete info on when I am going to finish the epilogue but in a perfect world I'd complete it by the weekend. But the world isn't perfect and I have projects and a musical performance this week and next week. Yeah so I have future plans for this writing so get EXCITED… Okay, too much excitement. I am going to get some parts of the next story done before I post (unless I lose self-control) because I don't want like a three month rut. I will likely only post if I have two or three chapters written in case I fall into a rut, I'll have a backup. I'd write the whole story then post, but that could take a long time because this story is 34,000 words and the next one I write, I might want to double the length which shouldn't be too difficult because the first game is extremely short for a plot, but the second game is very long. Anyways, cya!