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It was an ordinary night in the city of lights. There was no sun shining, which gave the entire city a darkened felling, but the famous street lights shun around and the white moon in the sky gave the streets a shade of yellow and white as well.

The streets were clear and empty of any soul, as every citizen of the town was probably sleeping under the protection of the rooftops at that moment. While most were comfortable with being under a roof, one raccoon which wore a lot of blue clothing and held a golden cane in his hand, was using them as a tool for help in committing crimes.

The raccoon ran on top of few buildings, usually balancing on some ropes that had flags hanging from them, in order to get to other rooftops. As he climbed up and down along the streets of his home town, he stopped before a recently opened museum. He inspected the area, which was heavily guarded by security guards; and who knew what kind of security the inside had.

After a few seconds, he pulled a binocular from a red pouch that he had on his left leg and put it on top of his eyes. "The security is really tight on this place, Sly." A voice came from the binocular.

"I am starting to wonder if this guy steals goods, or security ideas and devices." Sly commented sarcastically on the victim of his next rubbery.

Sly was part of a long running family of master thieves. Being a master thief meant that you are only stealing from other thieves, because what kind of honor do you have by stealing from regular people? Sly had learned that the museum in front of him belonged to a new thief, who stole artifacts from various archeologists and historians, and presented them as he discovered them himself. Surly, he could share a bit of the wealth.

"The best way to enter is through the roof of the museum; once you are inside, the scepter should be in one of the glass containers." The voice from before added.

"Thanks, Bentley." Sly told his friend. "Tell Murray to keep the engine running, I shouldn't be there that long." The raccoon finished his conversation before he started to plan a way to get to the museum roof.

After studying his environment for a few seconds, Sly noticed a flag pole hanging from the roof he was standing on. He also noticed an electricity wire above him, which went past his objective. The thief took a few steps back to gain momentum; he jumped into the air and landed with all of his weight on the flag pole. Because of all the weight on it, the pole lunched Sly into the air, and he used his cane to grab the wire, swinging on it towards his destination.

Sly landed on the roof and started looking for an entrance. He eventually opened the fire escape hatchet on the roof, and since the drop didn't seem that bad, he jumped inside.

The inside of the museum didn't swarm with guards, but it was swarming with lasers; a security device Sly had already tons of experience avoiding. The raccoon tip-topped all the way around the red lasers, until he made it to the glass container that held the promised golden scepter, and all the jewels attached to it, inside of it.

Sly used the sharp end of his cane to cut a hole in the glass, which was big enough to allow his hand through it. He passed his hand through the hole, grabbed the scepter and pulled it out. After he put his reward inside his red back pack, he pulled out a blue and white calling card that was shaped like his family's logo, and replaced it with the scepter.

After the success of getting the wanted item, Sly made it up back to the rooftop. As he looked down at the entrance door, he noticed all the guards guarding it from before were gone. "Surly would have made it easier if that happened a few minutes ago." Sly thought to himself as he was about to contact his friends. "Okay, Bentley. I got the scepter, on my way to the van." He said quickly as he began running in the direction of the rendezvous.

When he arrived however, the van wasn't there like he and his friends planned. After a few more tries to contact them, which ended up in failure, Sly noticed something like a portal appearing on the road beneath the roof. Sly quickly hid, so that whatever was about to come out of there won't see him, only to find out, he knew the one that came out of it.

As he exited the portal, Sonic examined his surroundings to see in what world of that specific universe he ended up in. He recognized the place, as he was there before, helping a friend get back home. The hedgehog was ready to look for said friend, when he heard a familiar voice calling his name.

"Sonic?" The deep voice asked as Sonic noticed a raccoon coming down from a roof to see him.

"Glad to see you're okay, Sly." Sonic smiled at his friend. "Not so glad if your universe is sharing the same problem 2 others do." He added.

"You mean everyone disappearing? I just had the same thing happening." Sly updated him on what just happened. "I and the guys were just about to call this a heist… But when I was about to meet up with them, they stopped answering my calls. Even the security here vanished."

Sonic signed. "I have no idea what's going on here, but I don't like this." He said. "Care to come with me? I and Tails are working on finding out what's happening here." Sly nodded as he was determined to find out what happened to his friends.

As Sonic and Sly appeared in Sonic's home, the hedgehog closed the portal. Before any of them could have said anything, a noise resembling a bi-plane propeller was heard.

Shortly after, Tails appeared at the door with the turtle who spoke to Sonic not long ago. "Hey, Tails. I see you brought Mikey." Sonic commented.

"I see you brought Sly." Tails commented as well as he waved to the raccoon.

The hedgehog and fox made the introductions between Sly and Mikey (Which was a short to "Michelangelo".) and both of them updated the brother-like due on how they were exposed to this new, wired, case of everyone vanishing from the faces of the worlds.

"Okay, we have one more stop to do." Sonic then said.

Tails quickly tapped on a few buttons on his universe jumper and a portal opened. "Are you sure you don't want to try and find Rayman for this, Sonic?" Tails asked.

"It will take us too long to find out wherever he lives." He replied before shrugging. "But who knows, if he is experiencing what we are, we might run into him at some point." Sonic said before the 4 went through the portal to meet up with Merida.

I always knew that when I get to the part I introduce Sly in this story, I'm making it a heist. And man, did I had fun writing that! So far, that was my favorite scene to write(So far... My actual favorite will come later)!

Just to clearfy something if someone is reading this without reading my Sonic/Sly crossover from over a year ago(Damn, time flies), this takes place after "Thieves In Time". How Sly got away from the desert and all is explained in that story if anyone is woundering.

Next chapter, it's happening, everyone is meeting up at long last!

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