At nineteen, Tonya was an extremely busy young woman. Besides helping out in her father's garage, she went to community college, more her dad's wish than her own, but she was doing fairly well in her studies. She also took kickboxing lessons and joined the wrestling club: the girl was still tall and rather slender, but she did have a somewhat muscular build (though not 'freaky' muscular). She had always been extremely strong for her size, probably due to her species. Tonya was also starting in the family hobby: she was the only woman in the local racing circuit and she was doing well, not as good as her dad, but she was still starting out (her dad wasn't too sure about the racing at first, no matter how tough she was, she was still his little girl, but he supported her nonetheless). Tonya had turned out to be a strong independent woman and she owed all that to the love and support from her 'pops'.

By fifteen, the twins had completed their high school coursework and were starting to take some college level courses. They were extremely smart and pretty well rounded, though they tended to be more interested in more 'geeky' subjects such as video games, tech clubs, etc. They both seemed to be taking after their parents as well. Their hacking skills were exceptional for their age: they would continually try to challenge each other, with each one working separately on the same problem/hacking job to see who would finish first. This proved to be a little troublesome for their parents, since they had to keep creating newer defenses for their more 'private' files to keep the twins out. This dynamic duo also had a good handle on RC technology as well: they had built and controlled numerous remote controlled robots, planes, cars, etc. in many local, state, as well as national competitions and did rather well for teenagers (their greatest achievement was competing in a robot battle television show and making it to the semi-finals, they had been the youngest team in the competition and were given the nickname, 'the wonder twins' by the announcers, which they preferred over the one their cousins gave them).

At seventeen, Sadie was finishing up high school and was getting ready to see where her life would take her. As her parents promised, they allowed her to figure out what she wanted to do by herself, though Sadie felt that she could have used the advice. Sadie really wasn't sure of what path she wanted to take after her eighteenth birthday, she had a hard time talking to her cousins about this since they all seemed to have their lives figured out (they were even all taking college courses and Ben and Chelsea were younger than her!). The main problem for Sadie was that she wasn't too passionate about any of the choices she thought she had: college just seemed so conventional to her, she didn't think that she wanted to do anything that needed a degree and she felt that college was something everyone did. Sadie still loved gymnastics and she was good at it due to her parents' training, but she didn't have the drive to go professional. Besides, she was way older than most of the members of the Olympic teams. Sadie felt her best bet was law enforcement: she did enjoy it, but her passion for it seemed to dwindle a little due to the fact that she lived around it her whole life. The one good thing about the upcoming summer was that her parents were planning a family vacation and allowed her to choose where they would go, since she was graduating from high school and it looked like it would be their last family vacation for a while. Sadie had a good idea of where she wanted to go and felt that she might get a better idea of if she really liked law enforcement if her plans worked and she got to do what she really wanted to do on her vacation….

Now twenty, Rick Fuentes was earning a very good reputation within Interpol. The young fox had worked extremely hard ever since he passed his qualifiers almost two years ago and a lot of the officers were noting how Rick's arrest record was starting to match Carmelita's when she started out (luckily, he hadn't met any particular thieves that gave him a hard time…yet). Rick was pretty close to Carmelita and Sly since he considered them as his mentors and occasionally they asked his opinion on some of the tougher cases they were working on, like the Syndicate case.

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Yeah, it looked like everything was going well for Sly Cooper and his extended family, and that trouble had finally let the raccoon live his life in peace

…..though, some things don't ever seem to change……………..

Somewhere on the globe, a dark figure named Spectre looked at the video screens in front of him preparing to begin:

"Africa"

"Present and accounted for," said a deep, commanding voice.

"Asia"

"Hui," said a sharp, curt voice.

"Australia"

"G'day mate," said an earthy voice.

"Europe"

"Yah, we're both here." "Yah," said a pair of nonplussed voices.

"North America"

"Here, my good sir," said an elderly voice.

"South America"

"Aqui senhor," said a cold, feminine voice.

As each voice announced its presence, a dark shadow of its owner appeared on each screen before Spectre.

"Good, now let's get down to business," the frigid, metallic voice of Spectre answered to his comrades.