Lola's POV

Our first job was dropping off those pictures to the police, I didn't have time to look around and helping out the police gave me a weird feeling anyway, I felt like I was betraying criminal kind, but my lust for revenge was greater.

After some time we devised a plan that's sure to work. While Penelope was scoping the town and following the pipes to the pumps she found that Octavio was pumping tar from underneath the foundation of the buildings so he could sink the buildings into the canals with ease.

We can only presume this is to take place during one of his recitals coming up soon, so the town's distracted and he has an alibi.

If no one turns up to the recital then there won't be an audience for his operation. To do this we'll have to destroy Octavio's tar drums around town. Then we'll have to find the underground pumps. Bess can help smash the pumps and stop the tar from reaching the upper ground.

Our first job was to destroy the tar drums, using some bombs Penelope generously made for the cause. The only difficulty being they were timed and I only had enough time to run there and get out of range, if I was stopped by a guard it could blow us to pieces instead.

Penelope would supply the bombs while I sped towards the tar drums, as the distance between the drums became greater so did the time of the bombs, plus the explosive drums drew guards towards it and way from my next target.

Once each tar drum was destroyed I headed back to the van.

The next part of our plan was to find the underground pumps, I took Bess out with me as she could smash those pumps quicker than I could and I would provide back up.

I directed Bess towards the hatch leading to the underground pumps. We needed to get all the way to the other side of town without being detected and it didn't help Carmelita was out on her evening patrol.

I covered Bess from the roof tops unfortunately we bumped into one of the guards, but he wasn't too focused on us he was more focused on Carmelita, who was currently shooting at him. Of course when she realised that we were there a mere guard wasn't her target anymore and she gave chase, I told Bess to run ahead and I tried to lure Carmelita away from our destination.

Once again I was jumping rooftops bumping into guards and jumping across boats to get away, she sure was persistent. The main problem was the town was small and there was nowhere to hide, I briefly lost her, although I could hear her approaching in the distance.

I felt someone come up behind me I spun around to attack but they grabbed my fist, I was temporarily stunned before I realised it was Sly, my anger returned.

"Ugh, if you don't mind I'm a little busy right now and I don't have time to stop." I groaned as I Carmelita's yells became more louder.

"I can see that, don't worry I've got you covered, although what are you doing in Venice anyway?" Sly asked.

"Well I could ask you the same but then again it isn't any of my business." I said and tried to pull away from his grasp.

"Touché, I'll see you around." Sly leapt past me and detoured the oncoming Inspector in the opposite direction.

"Not if I have my way, oh and it's not like I need your help." I said but my cries fell on deaf ears.

I met Bess by a hatch that lead to the underground pumps, if we could break them then the tar wont flow through them and Octavio can't use them to sink anything.

The room was cold and besides the pumps it was empty, as expected, but there were quite a few pumps and I doubt we could burst them without attracting attention. Octavio was smart and he had people employed to cover his tracks.

Bess using her bare strength and bo staff managed to break a couple of pumps, I was quite impressed of course this did attract the attention of the guards in the room next door who wasted no time busting the door open and trying to stop us.

While Bess busted the pumps I took the guards, but there was a lot and I wasn't used to taking this many on at once and Bess had to stop working to lower the amount of goons.

Eventually the last pump broke and we got rid of the guards before anymore came along and legged it back to the truck.

Although we had stopped Octavio from flooding Venice in tar I didn't feel like it was enough, it annoyed me when people appear out of nowhere and just get in the way, it's irritating and I don't take it well. I wanted to be satisfied with my revenge and I needed to hit him hard.

I decided my first task was to follow him for a bit and find out what he treasured the most, although I had a pretty good idea.

Sly's POV

From the information we collected we knew that Octavio was hiding plans for the lungs in small coffee houses which were under constant guard, I had to disguise myself as a fellow guard and, using the secret code provided by Bentley, convince the guard to take a break and while I covered the café Bentley would sneak in and retrieve the plans.

But first we had to defeat Octavio's 'eyes in the sky' if Carmelita found out her mercenaries were under attack shed go in to cover them and hopefully wipe out the Don's air patrol.

I got to police HQ luckily Octavio's men were starting to fly by, thanks to Bentley leading em there, I knocked on the door and tried taunting the mercenaries to get them to leave the station.

"Hey! All you fake cops go-a home, we don't need no more stupid thugs in Venice!" I called and ran to a safe spot.

One of the mercenary apes ran out and confronted the Vincenetti thug.

"I might not be a real cop but I've got feelings pal, and you just hurt them" The ape said pointing his gun to Octavio's guard.

"You talkin' to me fruitcake? 'Cause I don't need a date." The guard replied.

"Eat missile punk."

The guard and mercenary started firing at each other, with this chaos going on it would sure draw Carmelita's attention and hopefully she'd wipe out all the flying guards.

"Good plan Bentley, now to just sit back and watch the fireworks." I said.

"Thank you I pride myself on deviousness these days. With her ape guard under fire Carmelita is sure to arrive and take out the Vincenetti gang." Bentley replied.

We watched as Carmelita stepped out and immediately started taking action she raised her pistol to the guards and started firing shots all with incredible accuracy, that gang didn't stand a chance.

I could hear Carmelita congratulate her team on a job well done; now we didn't have to worry about Octavio's air support.

Once the flying Vincenetti's were dealt with it was my turn to get information on the location of the Clockwerk lungs.

"Octavio has the blueprints to the broadcasting system and the lungs stashed in his legit coffee houses, each one is kept under constant guard. You'll have to go in disguise and convince them to switch shifts." Bentley explained.

"Not very subtle having a giant guard constantly standing in front of the coffee house. While I switch with the guard you can go in and grab the blue prints."

Switching into my disguise I approached the guard, immediately he jumped and turned to me demanding the daytime password. Bentley quickly told me the password and I relayed it to the guard.

I had to say it quick and make sure it was right or we'd be caught and the plan ruined.

"Alto, Alto, Bass, Bass." I said putting on an Italian accent.

"I guess you're the relief shift. Thanks for coming early I got big plans for tonight! Carnival! Good times eh?" The guard said as he walked off.

Bentley approached quickly.

"I can't believe we pulled it off you have the worst Italian accent I've ever heard, no offence." Bentley said.

"Just head inside and get the blueprints while I keep look out, no telling when the next patrol is due by." I said.

From Bentley binocucom I could see the inside of the coffee house, clearly it isn't in use, although decorated with luxury items and furniture, and it was also heavily secured.

"First coffee house I've seen with wall to wall security." I told Bentley.

I should've known Octavio would use an old school method for storing the blueprints, he was using a painting safe, a method my dad was quite skilled at cracking, the painting contained clues to the safe number but required good eyes and attention to detail. I just hope Bentley would find the clues quickly.

It was all clear out front and I waited patiently for Bentley to return.

One blueprint down two more to go.

The second coffee house was the same procedure but with a different code, these guards were a bit odd and dumb but then again I suppose that worked in our favour.

The third house was a little more difficult we had to do a little investigating as the guard Tony B. wanted us to identify him by his nickname. Apparently the guy was famous but turns out it was all in his head.

Plus the final safe was ridged to an alarm Bentley needed to get out quick unfortunately it was too late and the alarms had already attracted too much attention and we ran back to the safe house.

After retrieving all the plans and getting back to the hideout we had a look at what we had, turns out half of the lungs was in the chandelier on the stage and the other half was powering the broadcasting system.

Our final job was tearing down the balloons advertising his recital, but we were already in deep and we were more likely to be recognised and the anchors were tough we would need muscle.

Unfortunately for us out muscle was out of commission, we would have to try and convince Murray to help us break them.

Bentley went out to search for Murray since I had no luck getting through to him.

Bentley's POV

I went out to search for Murray luckily it didn't take too long, now I just had to think of a way to get him to take down those balloons.

"Murray! We need your help." I called.

"Sorry Bentley but I don't travel down that path anymore, I have a more peaceful way of life." Murray replied.

"What if you didn't have to use violence, what if I told you could use a more peaceful method?" I replied.

"Well sure, that would work what did you have in mind?"

"I'm sure your familiar with the 'ball form' right?"

"Yeah I learnt that on my first week." Murray replied.

"Well we need you to use that ball form and small into those anchors holding down the balloons. Do you think you could be able to do that?" I asked.

"Sure keep it peaceful and I'll smash anything!" Murray yelled.

Murray didn't take long in breaking the anchors and then went back to his meditating; however we had one problem one of the balloons was stuck to the tower with Octavio's sign on. Sly would have to go up and knock it away.

"Sly you have to get down here one of the balloons is stuck and you'll have to reach it."

Sly's POV

"Sure on my way." I replied.

I rushed down to the tower where I could see the stuck balloon if I could reach the sign and smash it I'm sure I could get the balloon free.

Climbing the tower seemed difficult but with my experience and skill it was nothing and the balloon was soon knocked away, of course with one problem solved another surfaced, I could hear Bentley's voice over binocucom, he called for help.

Turns out Octavio managed to get him.

I tracked down Octavio but he wasn't prepared to quit anytime soon.

"Ah Sly Cooper… My boy on the inside picked up those pictures you sent to the police nice try but I own this town." Octavio said.

"First of all I don't know what pictures and second put my friend down or I'm gonna knock out all of your teeth, one at a time and make you eat 'em." I replied angrily.

"Oooh that's the toughest talk you got? You're pathetic. Back in my day we had enforcers that would make you pee your pants just as soon as you look at 'em."

"Believe me old timer I don't make idle threats." I prepared to attack.

"Oh I know all about you and your cracked little gang. You ain't nothing without this little guy's brains so I figure I'll just scoop em out real slow and use em to fertilize me tomato plants." Octavio threatened.

"I'm allergic to tomatoes." Bentley replied worried.

Octavio ran while I gave chase and I have to hand it to the old guy he runs fast, it didn't help that he was also setting traps along the way and I had to be sure to avoid guards.

We ran what seemed like the whole town but he soon gave up when he realised I wasn't about to give up and strangely he just gave Bentley back, well threw him at me.

"You want this runt take him!" Octavio yelled coming to a complete stop.

Luckily we were both okay, but now we were more determined than ever to stop Octavio's plans.

A.N

I know I haven't updated in ages but I've had sharp pains in my hands and arms and had to take a break from using my computer but I'm back now and I'm also gonna get back into the habit of updating two chapters at a time so to make sure you don't miss any make sure you follow this story xx

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