Story goes that the champ was once a big time boxing loser, and it was only when he tripped a huge contender that he grew a love for cheating.This slowly grew to him getting people to bet that he'd win, and it wasn't long before he began a small criminal outlet growing to a powerful crime ring. even worse, he forces local slum families to finance his growing empire earnt on winnings, and managed to aquire an amazing brain intellect from his coach turned scientist. With his guard patrolling the slums, I feel worried for murray...after all, it's his home. Time to bring along some cooper and...er...'greasy sweet' pain.
SLY AND THEN GANG IN:
A WRONG TURN DOWN 42ND STREET
"SLY!" sly turned in the direction of the nasaly voice calling to him, and found himself face to face with bently, a huge smile across his face. The turtle rolled up to sly in his wheelchair, dodging the crowded streets of manhattan. Thier disguises were obviously working, as they quickly glanced at a passing officer. They just stood thier, and tears welled up in bentlys eyes. It had certainly been a long time. Sly was so happy to see his old friend, and motioned to him to move out of the crowd. They began to move together.
"it's good to see you pal," said sly, as they neared a local coffee bar,"I...I guess you know about the emblem."
"Of course," the two friends sat at a small table in the far corner, and bently looked the menu over. After deciding there was nothing he liked, he looked up at sly. "The emblem pieces. I've been checking into the first couple of locations of them for a couple of days. I've got a plan, but it'll be useless unless murray agrees to join. Penelope and I have already set up a special camera around the mysterious 'champs' work place, and we've already got a lead on how he's going to use his money. The first cooper emblem piece is going to cost him alot of dollars, and he needs to win the next big match to earn it. so..."
Sly smiled."...so we're going to have to make him lose, and we need murray to take him down." he leaned back in his seat. "this could be made easier after we find out why this champ guy wants the emblem so bad."
Bently nodded to a nearby waiter, and they ordered drinks. After he'd gone, bently looked at his watch, and tapped slys foot as he did so, passing him his binnoccucom. Sly hid it in his bag, and bently sat upright once more. "Sly, I need you to take some reconnaisance photos of the champs factory, and find out what he and his coach are up to."
"just like old times then" grinned sly, and drank his cappuchino. But the door swung open, and a small figure in dark glasses. He had a purple beard, and walked with a slight squat. He headed towards the table that the two pals were sitting at, and began to talk to bently in an unchomprehensible language. "Diksha, hm?" said sly, recognition all over his face, "It's good to see you guru."
The gang took thier seats as the crowd watched the pink hippo get into gear. It wasn't everyday that the public got to see a live recording for a hollywood film. As sly was getting relaxed, a couple began to sit in front of him. This was annoying, as the man who sat in front of him blocked his view completely. It may have only been a rehersal recording, but sly still wanted to see this. He tapped the big guy on the back.
"excuse me sir, but i'm afraid..."
the man suddenly turned to face sly, and sly stopped in an instant.
"panda king? how...penelope?" sly saw the woman sitting next to him wink. So, bently had managed to get the entire gang together...this would mean that the cooper gang had definitely grown it's ranks to those who would from now on stick by it. He only wished he could've skipped dimitri. Murray was just getting into the van, and gave a thumbs up to the director. The guy nodded, and murray fastened his seat belt. And before sly could blink, Murray had launched the van into high gear. The audience was amazed as Murray swerved in and out of stunt cops, over a fake bridge and over a ramp desighned to look like a roller coaster. When it was done, he opened the door to the sound of cheering. once the cheering stopped, the gang came down to congratulate him.
"Did you see thayt bently, how I was all like "I'm gonna run you over," and everyone was all like "noooooooo!!!!!", and,and...SLY!" Murray picked up sly and gave him the ultimate bear hug. Sly laughed.
"Ha, easy big guy. I missed you too. But I suppose you know why we're all here..."
"Sly, before you say anything," murray cleared his throat," I know I've been doing pretty well over the past few months, but it hasn't changed anything. I'm here for you pal. Always."
Sly slipped through the sewer tube and swam. Urgh, he'd always hated sewers. Being a thief he'd spent alot of time in them though. As he submursed, he began to think of why Dr M had turned against his father. He knew bently had been happy to see him, but what if those feelings of being second best returned? He really wanted bently to realise that he really was the person who made it a team effort. He admired bently too much, a fact he'd never dared to reveal to him. But, he thought, maybe it was time he did. He'd always wished he had bentlys smarts, but always treated him as a friend. Because they were. Always would be. Rising to the surface again, he took a look round and got out the binnoccucom. He picked up the signal for bently to talk to him.
"bently, do you copy?" the binnoccucom buzzed into life.
"Roger that sly. I need you to take a few photos of the boss and his coach and see why he wants the emblem so bad. Now, i've outfitted the com with a powerful device that allows you to pick up frequency vibrations, so you can hear from miles away from your target." Bently switched to stand by, and sly watched as the champ entered the factory, followed by his coach, a phirana in a bowl operated by machinery body parts. The champ himself was a fierce badger, wearing red boxing gloves and walking slowly. He began to motion to his coach.
"Ya see this? All this looks too downbeat? And what in tarnation is up with these pots?" He randomly gestured towards an empty shelf, and his coach sighed.
"Oh dear, it looks like you need a bit more brain juice..." And with the flick of a button, the large badger clutched its head and cried out as it's brain intellect went up. The badger got up, and looked round.
"I believe that we are making an inquirery into the purchase of the cooper emblem. Why is it that you want it, leroy?" Leroy muttered something under his breath, and the badger lifted him into the air. "look, inferior, I don't know why I'm blowing ten thousand on some stupid piece of junk, but I know that you make good choices. If you're not going to tell me how it works, you just better hope for your sake it will. And don't EVER forget to increase my brain juice ever again! I'll be going now, so you sit tight like the good little fish you are." The Champ left through a code door, but the small coach began to mutter to himself.
"You may trust my judgement, but mark my words, once I retrieve that piece of the cooper emblem, I shall have unlimited power. Little does he know just how powerful the emblem piece is, as it grants you the power of a thief! I shall use it to destroy my 'champ', and then create an empire for myself! I shall be the victor! A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Bently paced up and down as panda king finally enetered the safe house. He looked up at his team members, and claered his throat.
"Okay everybody, I want you to really pay attention. The first thing you'll notice is that we can't enter the champs base until we take out the security he's set up around a perimeter. Sly, you'll have to go with me as we infiltrate the champs thug house, where i'll goad a few guards ouside. Take thier costumes, and we'll head back. Panda king and Dimitri, I want you to open the other entrance to the factory. Once thats done, I'll have Murray enter himself as the final contender against the champ. If I've done my math right, and I always do my math right, Murray will win and Leroy is sure to try and escape. We'll have to improvise from there."
Sly nodded and everyone scattered to thier positions. Bently an Sly headed towards the thug house, and bently began to think about the Dr M incident. It had been unfair for him to treat sly that way back then. At least he had friends during the clockwerk escapade...M had made it so that sly would have no-one to fall back on. As they finally arrived at the thug house, sly nodded and bently headed inside. He sideled up to a kangaroo boxer and began to deal some cards. The boxer nodded and followed suit, eventually each with thier own hand. Bently yawned and quickly swapped an ace. The boxer saw the cheat and stood up.
"outside, NOW!" he growled and bently headed out. The minute the boxer made it sly flipped him into the air.
"Nice going pal, that took, what, ten seconds? twenty tops."
Bently checked his watch. "eleven point three seconds. Come on sly, I need you to sign murray up and bet as much as you can on him."
Dimitri surfaced inside the factory pool. He made sure the coast was clear, lept out, and punched in the door code. Panda king bustled through, and took a look round. He pointed towards the heavy door at the back. "There is the door the turtle told us of." He headed over and began to size up the door for weak points. Dimitri looked on.
"Bro, do you mind if i ask somethin?"
"Of course, go ahead"
Dimitri shuffled his feet in an embarrassed way.
"are you okay with following racoonus doodus? I only fought him...You killed his..." his words faded away to a mumble. The panda king paused.
"Cooper is a fantastic example of showing us how to be acceptant. I killed his father, yet he still trusts me and forgives. I only wish I had not been pulled in by clockwerks offer."He stopped and looked at Dimitri, and instead of seeing a cool ego-maniac he saw a young, shy boy. "I know you must be feeling the same way with your former boss arpeggio. You have already shown humility through helping his cause. Do not think badly of your actions. now, stand back..." The Panda king and dimitri took cover as the door burst off it's hinges and the two quickly made thier escape.
"So you want to enter this guy?" The door man weasel stared at sly, now dressed as a guard, and then murray.
"Of course, he's the best there is. Do you know how many guys this dude can take out in one go? He could easily take on the champ." the doorman eyed him, but sly kept his cool. "In fact, I'm willing to bet all I've got just to show my trust In him!" The weasels eyes sparkeled with the thought of money.
"Fine, I'll let you enter him. No way he'll beat our champ though." Sly wrote the bet down, and murray found himself being taken to the warm up room. He was absolutely thrilled-back with the gang, just as he should be! He began to try the punching bag when he saw the champ enter. Keeping his distance, Murray eyed his opponents fighting style. It was all set, and Murray thought back to the Dr M incident. How was it that one guy had his friends wig out like that? They'd always been friends, and some moron had come along to try and change that. No way he was going to let anything like that happen again. He suddenly saw the champ fall to his knees and yell in pain. When he got up, he instantly turned to murray.
"Take a hike, inferior, this is my stronghold."
Murray backed off. "sorry man, I, er, didn't know you liked to scream in pain on your own. Like...totally cool with that..."
the champ gave a toothy smile. "new blood, eh? ha, your chances of winning are slim. If I see you here again you better make sure you've got a good excuse." and with that, the champ walked.
With everyone back at the safe house, Bently set up his cue cards.
"Right, It's time for a little thing I've called 'operation takedown'. Penelope, you'll launch your R.C chopper and take out the exits from the ring. I want you to use a grapple cam to keep watch over Leroy, as I know for a fact he'll be preparing a getaway in case his plan doesn't work. I want the guru to hide in the boxing ring as a rug and take on the champ with your hypnosis once Murrays beaten him. Rsm into the champ, with panda king and dimitri blowing up the base, and we're home free."
The audience began to set themselves up in the arena and wait for the match. bets were still being taken and People were all looking at the murray poster. Meanwhile, down below, Leroy was preparing his getaway items. this murray character looked tough, and it was clear the champ would have some trouble. Little did he know that a grapple cam was slowly following his every move. Leroy grabbed a towel, and headed upwards to the ring. Murray entered and a cheer went up, and the rhino announcer came onto the ring.
"In this corner, we have the powerful, the amazing, the ultimatum...It's the MURRRAY!" as the crowd cheered, murray began to flex his muscles.
"OH YEAH, THE MURRAY STANDS TALL! LIKE A FREAKIN TOTEM POLE!"
The announcer continued, " and in this corner it's the undefeatable and all powerful CHAMP!"
The champ growled and the audience cheered even louder. The powerful badger stared evilly at the pink hippo before him.
"I'm going to take your intestine and wrap it round your neck 17.5 times, and then ship you to the arizonas."
Murray grew red hot. "AND I'M GONNA RIP OUT YOUR RIBS, MAKE YOU PLAY XSLYLOPHONE ON 'EM AND FEED THEM TO YOUR FANS...ONE BY ONE!"
" OKAY PUNK, IT'S SHOWTIME!" the battle began. It was clear the champ was winning, as he backed murray into a corner. But just as he threw a punch, murray grabbed his hand a yanked him forward and out of the ring. A random guy rushed over. He gasped.
"Man, that's like the fastest time I've seen anyone get another dude out of the ring!" But the badger got up, pushed the guy aside and got back into the ring. No way was the champ going to be beaten so easily. Leroy began to blubber with excitement and thrash around in his fishbowl. Murray Gave an uppercut, and drove the champ right into the center, and finished with a thunder flop. But the champ was wise to murrays games, and began to juggle him with his feet. Bently noticed one of the guards holding a remote labelled "gravity boot remote" Using his magnet, bently swiped it away and the fight continued. Murray was getting pounded, until just as the champ stuck his foot out, murray ducked and flipped his foot instead. The champ then screamed as bently threw the remote at Leroys brain juice box. The champ squirmed for all he was worth, but to no avail. His face suddenly became simple, and he fell to the ground. Leroy was stunned, but his heart sank further when he saw how the entrance was barred. He ran to the entrance, pushed the guards aside, and rushed out. But the guru had already lept up and taken control of the champ. In one swift move Leroy turned to see a stupified champ hurtle towards him. Leroy escaped, but was hoisted into the air by penelopes R.C chopper. He cried to the heavens.
"You think this is it, huh?" He quickly shot at the r.cchopper and hovered down to a rooftop. Sly was already en route, and confronted the fish.
"Give it up Leroy, only one of us is getting the cooper piece...the other's going to jail."
"Oh really?" lisped Leroy, his mouth quivering, "Well, you must be sly cooper! So that's why you sabotaged my little operation. I'm not going down so easy! You will be the first to witness the full fury of my super powered mechanic upgrade I added! HAHA!" Sly had to duck as the manical phirana laughed like some tortured sprite. Sly knew that there was only one was to beat this guy, and he suddenly faked a trip.
"Oh...No...I'm gonna fall..." And he did. Leroy looked over the building and crowed triumphantly.
"at last, Leroy proves himself mammals better as the fish father!" But before he could finish, he fet his bowl being lifted out of him mechanical frame. "YOU WOULDN'T!" he gasped. Sly smiled and tipped the bowl.
"oh, I would." A boom came from the distance as sly watched the now destroyed factory go up in smoke, and could make out the figures of panda king and dimitri turning tail and running...
Leroy flopped about on the roof as carmelita and the cops showed up. Knowing that it was me who got him, she seemed quite pleased. After all, Leroy had been using illeagal brain enhancers to torture the champ, and had been endorsing the cheating of illegal boxing matches. It 's nice to know that I still did some good.
We entered the sale, got our hands on the piece (with a little haggling from dimitri) and got out of there. I figured the gang could use a break, so we watched murray complete his filming, and even saw some sights. It was a shock to see panda king pulled from the audience we were in at a broadway play to join in. He certainly gave them the best firework show they'd ever seen. I knew i was still not used to this whole big cooper gang, but it was growing one me. Thanks guys. We've made a breakthrough.