Chapter 2:

Operation: Tide of Terror

We arrived on the scene of the island as a huge storm was going off at our arrival. I was standing outside of the tent we had nailed down (nailed, since it flew away too many times _) as the huge wind gusts blew the bottom of my black trench-coat around. "Hmmmm….this really doesn't seem natural."
"What was that leech?" Carmelita called out from inside the tent as I then walked into the tent, my tail soaked beyond all hell, "The cloud alignments….they're not natural. It's as if they're alternated." Carmelita looked up at me with concerned eyes as she opened up the file of Sir Raleigh the Frog. "What can you tell me about this frog Dylan?" I looked down at the picture of Raleigh as I laughed some. "Boy, one of my richest info seekers I've ever had. Raleigh came to me during his early days of piracy. I would give him info of either travelling courses of passing trade ships or info on treasure filled sunken ships." Carmelita had a vein stretch across her forehead. "Is there anyone who seeks info from you NOT a criminal!?"

"Hey, criminals are the ones who need info the most mainly on places that they rob and especially if they're starting out thieves."

"Hmph…." Carmelita scoffed again as she looked back down at the map of the area. "Anything else?"

"Well I also know that Raleigh is a technological genius. This storm is probably a result of one of his mad concoctions."
"How can we be sure?..." Dylan smirked as he looked outside to the storm, "We just gotta get closer."

Walking through the thick forests of the island, I tried to find my way to the small town that was said to be built here. Carmelita believes that's where Raleigh has probably set up his camp. Exiting out of the woods, I finally spotted the town and up above it was a metal blimp that a tornado was protruding out of the top. Heh, seems like I was right. Raleigh created a machine to alternate the weather around here. Looking down in the water, I saw the reason why he made it. There were many crashed ships that had possible loot on them. Smart Raleigh, that's really smart. As I looked over at the town, I suddenly heard a cannon shot as something….or someone was shot up at the blimp and crashed through the plain glass window that was on the front of the blimp. Wh-Who the hell is crazy enough to do something like that?!

I immediately returned back to Carmelita to report my reconnaissance. "You're not gonna believe what I just saw. Someone shot themselves up to Raleigh's storm blimp." Carmelita glared over at me, "Cooper!" She ran over to the radio as she searched for the police station frequency. "Hello! This is Carmelita Fox! I need backup right now! Is anyone there?!" Taking advantage of this moment, I decided to slip out and make my way into the town that Raleigh built as his base of operations. All over the street, there were many of Raleigh's squid and walrus guards knocked out. Over to the right I saw some kind of generator destroyed and straight ahead there was a tunnel that had little sparks short circuiting on the sides. "Well that would explain what that generator powered up..." I crawled through the little tunnel as I spot to the right a cannon. "Bingo…" Inspecting it, I noticed a little piece of fur hanging on the cannon's nozzle. With it, I took out my DNA sampler and placed the fur into it. The gadget of mine beeped a little bit as my AI, "Janice", said, DNA SAMPLE SCANNED. MATCH BELONGS TO SLY COOPER.

"Thanks Janice."

YOU'RE WELCOME DYLAN 3. Being crazy like that Cooper, I placed myself inside of the cannon as it was already aimed at the blimp. Within a brief second, I was shot up to the blimp…It wasn't exactly professional looking… "AAAAAAAAH!" I swooped right into the area where the window was already crashed as I landed into some kind of water leveled room, complete with five metal-like lilly pads and a throne right across from me. At the foot of the throne chair, it seemed like some kind of secret compartment was opened as inside it was Sly's calling card. "Damn…seems like I was a little too late."

"Y-You….help…." I looked over to the side at the new voice as floating in the water was a beaten up Raleigh. "Well well, seems like the Frog bit off more than he can chew. How ya doing Sir Raleigh?"

"D-Dylan! What are you doing here?! Y-You're supposed to be in solitary confinement!"

"Heh, they let me out."

"Good behavior no doubt…" He scoffed sarcastically.
"Actually, more like I scratch their back and they scratch mine. I'm currently working for Interpol at the moment for my freedom."

"So the snitch became a PI. Hah, I would laugh if it didn't hurt when I do." The frog scowled. "Oh yeah, Cooper seemed to have done a number on you my amphibian friend."

"J-Just shut up and help me out!"

"Sure thing buddy, right into the cuffs your slimy hands belong in." I picked him up out of the water as I heard something buzzing around my ear. I tried swatting it away, "Damn fly…" Raleigh's eyes widened as his tongue flopped out, catching the fly, and bringing it back into his mouth. In a brief second, the small guy bloated up to bigger-than-me size. "Now I will squash you!" He jumped up into the air and started tumbling down, planning to squish me from underneath him. However…he didn't count on my stun rod. With one upward poke with my rod's power on, Raleigh was smoked to well-done. He fell right next to me, twitching. At least that means he's still alive…

"Cooper!" Right on schedule. Carmelita jumped in through the window with her shock pistol drew. However, since it was dark in there, she accidentally shot at me. Luckily, I was able to dodge it in time. "Whoa whoa, it's the raccoon who's on your side!"

"Dylan? Ugh, what are you doing?"

"Your job…" I smiled while holding up Raleigh to her by his legs.