Chapter 12- Double Dimitri

This room wasn't exactly his style. It smelled bad and there was some filthy puddle collecting in the corner. Little bugs would crawl out of cracks in the walls and flutter around in the little shafts of light that shone down from the roof. The room itself was tiny. A cube of white tiles (or at least they were supposed to be white) except for the roof which was made out of bars. Probably 2x2; it was more of a closet than a room. They would hang a little bird feeder of some sort from the bars so it was always right in front of his face. Excruciatingly humiliating.

He himself was chained right up to the wall, spread-eagle. There were chains on his wrists, ankles, and neck that hurt very much when he got too tired and let himself go from the wall. He almost killed himself like that when the chains cut off his air.

Dimitri was not pleased.

The large metal door flew open and the wolf entered again.

"Ah, just who I wanted to see! Hey, loosen up these chains, will ya? It's kinda hard to breathe when I try to sleep; you know what I'm saying, brother?" He got a smack for his troubles.

"Shut up, you stupid lizard. My men sighted your friends at the Brasilia airport. Looks like they're coming to rescue you, you lucky worm." He filled the bird feeder and made his leave again. Dimitri uttered some profanities at the unnecessarily cruel wolf and tried to readjust himself on the chains. They had better be coming, or he was going to bust out himself and kill them for being so tardy!

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"Definitely," said Sly assuredly. The crack looked like enough room for him to squeeze through.

"Okay, excellent. I am currently downloading the blueprints for this fort. It was made in 1868, during the Paraguayan War. It was simply a small fort to house the soldiers while they recuperated from battle injuries. It wasn't made to stay for a long time. My guess is they were forced to abandon it at some point. All your reconnaissance images show ruins around the fort. Those are probably crumbled walls. It's very fragile, so Murray will probable be able to smash his way out, should anything go awry."

"Excellent!" he cried out. Penelope giggled.

"Love your enthusiasm," she laughed. Sly smiled despite himself. Since they were going to get Dimitri back, they might as well track down the rest of the gang and find out who was behind all this as a team, right?

"Sly, that crack will get you into the armoury. As far as I can tell, you should head down the western corridor to the staircase. From there you can get to the third floor and head to the northern side of the fort. The control room should be there. Open the gates and try to keep them open." Sly chuckled slightly at Bentley's subtle "keep them open". That left an awful lot of breathing room for him to come up with some creative ideas.

"Penelope, I'll need you to drive in with your RC car and locate the nearest computer terminal. No need to sneak around. They'll know we're here as soon as those doors fly open. Hack in and find out where they're holding Dimitri. I meanwhile will have set up several small explosives around the premises. Murray, under Sly's direction, will find and bust out Dimitri. Let's hope it'll be smooth sailing."

SLY AND THE GANG IN:

DOUBLE DIMITRI

A/N Sorry for the delay yet again! Now things will be really heating up. I'm going to introduce my heist chapters and really get this story going! This chapter was an introduction of sorts to the heists.