Disclaimer: I do not own nor did I have anything to do with the ownership and what not of Sly Cooper and other related characters. I just use them. The song used is also mot mine.

Fox Trapped

The early morning sun beamed its rays of light into Carmelita's bedroom. Its warmth feel onto her face as the fox stirred in her bed.

"No, not morning already!" She growled and pulled her pillow over her face. "Ah!" Carmelita was tired, really tired. The past couple of nights she and the Cooper Gang had been all over the town. They would spend from dusk till dawn out, just doing anything. Carmelita had not gotten used the same hours as Sly, Bently, and Murry. As the Cooper Gang did not have fixed hours, like Carmelita, they could sleep for two hours and feel refreshed as if they had slept eight hours.

TAP! TAP! TAP! Someone knocked at her bedroom door. Carmelita responded by throwing her alarm clock toward the door where it hit with a loud thud.

"Carm, are you awake yet?" Sly asked in a low voice from the hallway.

Thud! Carmelita had thrown something else at the door, this told Sly to go away. She was still in no mood to wake up.

Sly turned around to his friends. "It looks like it is just going to be the three of us today. Carmelita needs her 'beauty sleep'." Bently and Murry both chuckeled at this little joke of Sly's. He grabbed his cane and headed out of the hideout. "On second thought." Sly took a step back into the apartment. "I better leave my cane here. Can't go attracting any unwanted attention today." After Sly locked his cane in his bedroom, the three of them left the apartment for the day.

Murry and Bently followed Sly as they headed across the rooftops. This was one of those rare occasions they all traveled vie rooftop to their destinations. With a new inspector, the only way they could travel during the day without getting noticed was on the rooftops. Their plans for the day was a simple day out, not too much that would draw any attention to themselves. Lunch and maybe a movie, the usual. Their first stop was a little hole in the wall restaurant the gang visits frequently. The three rommed building was dimly lit and the dining room was filled with both lining the wall and tables in the center. This was a place where it did not matter if they were wanted criminals, for most of the customers were.

The gang found a booth at the far end of the left side of the entrance. Within seconds of taking their seats, a waiter appeared, waiting to take thier orders.

So far, their day seemed to be going exactly as planned.

Carmelita had finally forced herself out of bed. She put on a pair of blue denim jeans a white knit top. After she pulled her hair back, Carmelita left her room and made her way into the kitchen. She rumaged through the fridge and there was notihng to make a decent meal with.

"We need to go out and pick up some groceries." She said to no one with her head still in the fridge. "So cleaning supplies would not be bad either." After she did not hear a reply, Carmelita straightened herself and peered around the room. No one was there. "Hello?" She asked trying to see if the rest of the gang was there. Nope, no one was in the apartment. This was the first time she was left at the apartment by herself. "I wonder why they did not wake me up?" Carmelita shrugged her shoulders like saying whatever. "I guess the day is my own." She picked up her keys to the apartment and left. After she exited the apartment building, Carmelita walked casually to the cafe on the corner of the street. Once there she ordered a breakfast meal and took her time eating it. Though the 'her time' time was great, she wished she had her friends with her especially Sly, but absence makes the heart fonder after all. She finished her meal and left her money on the table. Carmelita tilted her face away from the crowds of people around so she would not be noticed. She strolled the streets stopping in at many of the little botiques along them. As she exited one of the shops she heard shouting in a nearby alleyway. She dashed to the scene of all the comotion to find a male calico roughing up a black owl.

Carmelita's shadow blocked the sun from the alleyway, the calico stopped his attack.

"YOU!" Both Carmelita and the calico shouted. The calico released the black owl and dashed after Carmelita.

Carmelita turned around and ran from the alley, the calico was right behind her. Elle drew his shock pistol from his hip and fired three warning shots at her. The last shot caught her tail and burned a significant amount of fur off of it. The chase continued into busy streets, bystanders were every where.

"I cannot let anyone get hurt." Carmelita thought. She climbed the stairs of a nearby building and continued the chase on the rooftops.

Elle did not let up his pursuit on his target. He followed Carmelita over the buildings, noting her new techniques for getting along the rooftops. "You've got new moves." He shouted to Carmelita who was now not far from him.

"Thanks!" Carmelita shouted back at Elle while she kept her focus on her jumps. Each leap onto a new rooftop put more and more stress on her legs. Carmelita had not stretched before all the running and the pain was immense. The fox knew she could not keep it up for too much longer.

Sly, Bently, and Murry had left the local movie theater, they were feeling a little uneasy.

"That was a waste of two hours and ten minutes of my life!" Bently shouted.

"Not to mention ten dollars." Murry added. The movie was awful, bad dialogue and a weak polt did not make a great or even mildly decent movie.

"Those characters were totally unbelieveable, the film just makes me mad." The little turtle was angry. "I will never get back those two hours of life."

Sly walked over the rooftops, just silently listening to his friends. It was now five o' clock in the evening and they headed to a music store to browse around the shop.

"Well, the acting was top knotch, the money you paid with was from a larger stash of cash, and we would have just wasted those two hours doing some equally as pointless." Sly explained upon entering the music store.

Bently and Murry shrugged their shoulders as if saying whatever. They scattered around the shop, each went to a different genre.

"So, what are you looking for?" Bently asked Sly from across the room.

Sly was digging through rows of compact discs, looking very hard for something.

"Well, I was just thinking, that maybe I can pick up a gift for Carmelita." Sly managed to say while his face was in a stack a compact discs.

Both Murry and Bently stopped what they were doing and raised an eyebrow in suspicion.

"Yeah, I know her birthday won't be until next month, but I just have to find the perfect music for her party." Sly went to search another pile of compact discs.

Murry took his index finger and moved it in circles on the side of his head, signaling to Bently that Sly was crazy. Bently laughed.

"I know, I know." The two cracked up little little children.

Thirty minutes of chasing had already past, Carmleita was soaked in sweat. Her legs were sore and growing heavier with each passing minute. Elle was still chasing her and he did not seemed the little bit phased by the excercise. He fired off another round of blue energy blasts, Carmelita dodged each one, but just by milimeters each. Elle knew she was tirering out, soon she would be in his custody.

"Ah!" Carmelita almost slipped on the wet rooftop. The pebbles that covered the roof did not help her either. During their chase sprinkles of rain fell on them, making the condition on the roofs worse. Carmelita prepared to jump a long gap to the next building. She quicked her pace, prepared to leap, and jumped towards the next building. After pushing herself off of the ground she slipped on the wet and slippery pebbles. Her head collided with the rooftop leaving her unconscious and at the mercy of Elle.

The calico crouched next to his prey and handcuffed her.

Sly, Bently, and Murry now arrived back at their apartment. Their was no sign of Carmelita and not one of them said anything. They already knew she needed her sleep and would not bother her, but as the next few hours passed, there was still no sign of the fox.

Sly flopped on the sofa. It was two twenty in the morning and everyone was awake or waking up. He looked around the appartment. "Murry and Bently, but where is Carmelita?" Bently washed dishes as Murry started to cook.

"Have any of you guys seen Carmelita?" He now stood behind Murry smelling the meal Murry was preparing. "She went out yesterday to pick up some things at the store and I haven't seen her since."

"Did you try knocking on her door?" Bently asked sarcastically.

"I am not about to get yelled at. She is probably sleeping in today." He sat down at the table and started to read the paper. Sly tried not to think to much about it, after all Carmelita was not a morning person.

"Wait, she went out two days ago to get those groceries!" Sly now knew something was seriouly wrong. He rushed to her room and knocked on the door, Murry and Bently followed him. There was no answer from her room. Murry voluntered to open the door and rammed into it. The door popped right open and the trio stepped in.

"She's not here." Bently concluded after they briefly scanned the room.

There was no sign of her binocucom. Bently knew that her binocucom could lead the to Carmelita.

They hurried to the apartment computer and Bently opened his binocucom tracking program.

"What's wrong!" Sly demanded. There was no response from her binocucom.

'There must be an interference where she is at or someone is jamming the signal." Bently tried to calm his friend.

BEEP! The sound was faint, but they head it. Carmelita's binocucom was giving off a signal. Sly grabbed his cane and stormed out the apartment. They were heading to where Carmelita was, they were heading to Interpol. Things were not looking good, one of two things could be happening. Carmelita could be back at Interpol as their employee or as their captive. Sly knew, as well as the rest of the gang, that Carmelita would not want to go back to her old, routine life. She was happy with her life and they knew that. Wasn't she?

Thanks for waiting. I know, over a year's wait for this chapter! I had a lot of things going on, but as I have said before, no matter how long it takees I will finish all of my fics. Please review and tell me what you thought. Good night!