Chapter 6

Operation: Vicious Voodoo

Somewhere in South America; Bayou infested Forest

"Gh! Stupid mosquitos! Stupid mud! I hate nature!" I exclaimed, smacking my neck to kill a mosquito. Mud was covered all over my shoes from the long walk I've been going on. "This is exactly the reason why an info dealer like me never leaves his base!" From my ear on a wired ear piece, I could hear Kip's giggling. "Aaaawe come on Master Dylan, complaining never solves anything."

"Yeah, and neither does sitting back at Interpol. I'm sure Carmelita would be doing anything right now to be here." A snake hung down from a tree branch as it bared its fangs at me. Next second it was sizzling on the ground from a good electric baton jolt. "Thank god I have my baby here~." I baby-talked while petting my goody, goody baton. I could swear that Kip had lines over her head. "Sometimes I wonder how you became the greatest info dealer in the first place."

After walking through the jungle for some time, I soon came across a giant swamp. "Hmmm, I wonder how deep it is." Kip rang from my ear. Meanwhile, I picked up an average sized log of about twelve feet as I chucked it, vertically, into the swamp. My uncle Cornwallis from Scotland taught me how to Caber toss, hehe. The toss was shortly lived though, as the log sunk right through, all twelve feet. A sweat drop hung from my temple, "Ngh…that's reeeeaaally deep." I could see some logs that were already floating on the surface as I started to jump from log to log until I eventually began to climb up on the tree branch and inter-tangling vines. Once I started walking across one of the vines, I noticed that the swamp water was starting to become unsettled.

The water burst into the air as staring down at me with two, massive, yellow eyes, was a giant snake. Slithering down on its head was the charred snake from earlier, pointing its head at me. I laughed nervously while sweating a bit, "Ehehe….um…no hard feelings?" The snake roared at me as I screamed, running along the vines. It was nashing it's venomous teeth at me trying to clip my tail off as I was running. "Kip! Where's Ms. Ruby's hideout?!"

"What is it Master?!"

"Not a good moment to explain! Just hurry! I have an idea!"

"O-Ok, according to my research, Ms. Ruby's hideout is just ahead from where you are." I decided to go into full speed now as the snake chased after behind me, gaining up.

Kip was right. Up ahead was Ms. Ruby's hideout, hidden in an alligator skull. Fitting…Taking my chance I jumped off of a tree branch and on top of the giant snake's head as it crashed right through the walls of Ms. Ruby's ground base. Holding on tightly, I waited for my moment to jump through the skull's eye socket while the snake finished up tearing through the rest of the ground base.

Hmm…dark in here much? Other than a couple of lit candles, there was no other light source in sight. I was only barely able to get through the narrow passages until a bright, green glow could be seen ahead. In it was a lifted platform that was surrounded by that swamp water beneath it. In the middle of it was a knocked out Ms. Ruby and ahead was an opened up book with a cutout holding in it. Inside of which was Sly Cooper's card again. "You've gotta be kidding me!" As soon as I yelled that, Ms. Ruby coughed behind me. In anger of having Cooper slip away, yet again, I jumped on her stomach and gripped her throat. "W-Wait please! I've already gotten a'thrashing from that Coop'a boy!"
"Where did he go Ms. Ruby! Tell me and I won't make your black and blue include red!"

"O-Okay okay! H-He should be in China going aft'a the Panda King!..." I dropped her to the ground as at that moment I could hear the sound of helicopter propellers overhead. The top of the skull was cracked open as Interpol's Ape SWAT dropped in with their pointed at both me and Ms. Ruby. "Stand down men! That man is a PI!" Carmelita exclaimed, dropping down. "Whew, nice to see your face again Carmelita…" I sighed. Right next to Carmelita though, the Contessa dropped down, "Keep your guns on him men!" The Contessa ordered. Carmelita was certainly not up to speed with her superior, "What?!"

"Perhaps you don't remember what I said back at Interpol Inspector. This was the leech's last chance at getting Sly. Now he will be put back into custody and I will now take charge with you in the search." My hand slipped behind me as the Contessa was arguing with Carmelita. "Darn it Contessa this is not the time to be keeping a self-titled presence for Interpol at this point!"

"And now isn't the time to be back-talking to your superior! Learn your place Inspector! Take the leech!" As the SWAT's guns pointed back up at me, I threw a clotted ball at the ground as smoke dispersed from it. Everyone, including the Inspector and Contessa were coughing. "Fire! Shoot him!" Contessa ordered.

"No! Dylan run!" Carmelita yelled out. The men were firing blindly into the smoke they were surrounded by. I quickly patted something onto the back of Carmelita's belt as I smacked her rear at the same time. "Ah!"

"Catch ya around Inspector." I winked at her as I shot my grapple gun at the top, shooting out from the smoke, evading the SWAT…for now.