Chapter 10- A Friend in Need

The private jet left the ground sleekly. It was like a silver bullet, zooming through the clouds. Inside, the Cooper Gang relaxed. The guy that let them use the plane was an old friend of Bentley's. As they flew, the London house was being ransacked by suited men. Unfortunately for the gang, The Man knew of Bentley's connections. And this guy was no different.

"Sir, the turtle is calling in a favour from that buffoon McSweeney," reported Dimitri. Yes, thought the Man. McSweeney. Had to remember to eradicate him too. "Apparently Bentley busted McSweeney out of the life sentence. Got him transferred to a corrupt prison and according to our inside man, bribed the warden. Since then, McSweeney has made a prosperous business selling antiques. Antiques probably collected from his thieving days." The Man nodded.

"Thank you, Dimitri."

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Murray was enjoying the flight greatly. He had never been in a jet quite so fancy. It had a private bar, plasma TV, some great food, but best of all it had video games! He liked to look out the window and at the delicate clouds. They were so frail. Behind Murray's macho exterior, he was a gentle giant.

"Everyone buckle up; prepare for landing," crackled the pilot from the intercom.

"All right!" exclaimed Murray. He liked the jet just fine, but he couldn't wait to get back to the pavement.

They all buckled in safely and looked out their perspective windows. The clouds were still pretty thick. Murray could see himself imagining them as big grey monsters, but more importantly, him beating up the big grey monsters. Soon the clouds started to thin and the gang looked down eagerly. Below them was the airport, stretching out for a mile. The jet landed a little shakily, but the flight had been pretty much all smooth sailing. The jet drove into the hangar where the gang got off.

"Thank you very much," Bentley shook the pilot's hand. "Tell McSweeney I send my regards." The pilot nodded.

"Will do, Mr. Bentley." The gang walked out onto the large hanger. They didn't know that they were being watched by cold wolf eyes. Sly was the first to notice something was wrong. As he stretched he saw a small metal canister rolling towards him.

"Get down!" Sly shouted as he jumped away from it. But the canisters surrounded them. Sly actually jumped on top of another as they exploded. Acrid gas flew up into the air, clogging up their noses and filling their lungs.

Sly remembered waking up once or twice and falling back down. Finally he got up shakily.

"Come on buddy wake up!" Murray was shouting at Bentley. His stronger system had probably fought the gas best. Sly was second; Bentley and Penelope would be waking up last.

"Hey buddy," Sly said weakly.

"Oh good gods! Man I thought I was the only one that survived or something! I was hollering at you for hours!"

"Hours!" shouted Sly, shocked.

"Well, maybe just half of one, but still," he replied sheepishly. Sly chuckled.

Sly looked around the hangar and found a tape. There was a little sticky on it that said WATCH ME.

"Will do," he muttered.

"Oh thank the gods!" Murray shouted again. Guess Bentley's up, thought Sly.

"Okay guys; let's get to the safe house."

"Safe house?" said Bentley weakly. "They probably know where that is too."

"Exactly," said Sly. "But if they wanted us, we would be dead right now."

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They slid the tap into the VCR. The screen crackled a little, before showing a dingy little room with dirty tiles and matching floors. Whoever was filming wasn't exactly a pro, as the film shook a lot. Suddenly the camera turned to show a lizard chained to the wall.

"You really need to relax, guy," said the lizard weakly. "This isn't cool. And you're messing up my silky-smooth suit." A large wolf hand came out and gave him a good smack.

"If you ever want to see your friend again come to…" But Sly was totally zoned out. All he could see was one of his old enemies turned friend being tortured because of him. He was going to save Dimitri. No matter what.

A/N Sorry again short chapter but next one's going to be good! So I'm finally going to start the heists! :D