Chapter 7
After Voodoo
Outskirts of Paris; Dylan's Base
Darn it….darn it, darn it, darn it! How shameful it is to even be sneaking back into my own base. The police have searchlights all over my base of operations. Thankfully though, they could never put those blasted search lights in the sewers. Right beneath my base lies my underground entrance and escape route from the secret room that Kip is in. Let's just hope no one was able to find that room. Or if they did…I just hope they weren't able to get Kip.
As if the bloody Arachne could read my mind, which barely anyone could do, there are two guards stationed in the sewers in case I had any funny ideas, possibly. Thankfully it was only two. If it was three, then I may have had to actually think. Rolling down towards the guards was another clot ball I had. It hit one of the officer's feet, getting his attention. When he looked down, the ball exploded into a green smoke. I could the hear the two coughing inside the smoke cloud. As soon as it cleared, I was happy to see the two cops taking a little nap on the job. Down the hall a little, I could see a brick poked out, a good disguise for an imperfect sewer line. Pressing the brick in, the wall opened up to a small, narrow passage where at the end was a ladder that led up. Up above was a lid that led straight into the secret room. I opened it up, only to be greeted by a thick, wooden thwack on the top of my head. "Oh god! Master Dylan! I'm so sorry!" Kip quickly pulled me up, throwing a bat to the side. Fully stood up, a giant, red bump was swollen on my head, my eyes glaring at my "lovely" assistant. Soon the pain went to embrace as Kip was hugging me tightly. "Master I was so scared you wouldn't return! I-I-I just heard that the police have a man hunt on you a-and that they were to shoot you on sight if they couldn't bring you in alive!..." For the first time ever, I saw Kip cry into my chest as my arms wrapped around her. "Kip, I know that you're feeling this way, but I need you to help me locate someone." She stood back from me as she looked up with red eyes from crying, "A-Are you still looking for Sly Cooper? Even after you escaped from Interpol?! Master you're a free man now!"
"Not truly free!...As long as Interpol is searching for me we will never truly know freedom." Kip wiped her eyes as she went back over to her seat. The sound of keys clicking filled the room as multiple data was appearing all over the screens. "Ok, give me a few minutes and I'll have Sly Cooper's location."
"No Kip."
"Eh? Then who are you looking for?"
"The people that Sly is working with, information handed to us by Carmelita herself."
"Well that's going to take me a little longer to find. Info like that wouldn't be just lying around."
"Then maybe you should start with looking through the right places." I clicked on something as four pictures came up of the three bases that belong to Raleigh, Muggshot, and Ms. Ruby, all with a shot of the area around for thirty miles. "M-Master I don't understa-"
"Watch Kip." I clicked again as a search began in all three pictures for something that can be found in all three. After a couple seconds, three shots came up, one from each pic, as each shot showed a blue van. "There we are."
"Master?"
"This here is where our Cooper and his friends hold up each time." Kip smiled at my brilliance, "I indeed have a lot to learn from you still, Master Dylan."