AN: Well folks, looks like I'm back. Internet is lagging so I thought I would write the next Chapter. We left off with Shadow making his appearance in Tokyo, a city over run with giant robots! Can anyone else feel the mecha shows radiating off of me? LOL. Well, if anyone remembers the plot before he showed up, Sly is on his way to Tokyo. But what about the barrier that is preventing anyone from entering the city or leaving it? Well, I have my ways... activate DUES EX MACHINA! Also, keep Anime Ja Nai playing in the background. And now, Fanus Obscurus proudly presents:
Sly 5
Return of the Thievious Raccoonus
Ch 7: Enter the Thief
July 23rd, approximately one month after The Time Warp
Location: Outside Tokyo
Sly's POV: Well, here I was. After a month long boat ride aboard a freighter, here I was in the Land of the Rising Sun. All seemed peaceful enough, birds were singing and Sakura trees were everywhere. Until I got to the city, it looked like you typical postcard. When I got to the city, all that was associated with having one of the densest populations on earth came rushing at me. Millions were walking the streets and and the traffic was by far exceeding Manhattan. But I could feel it in my bones that something was wrong, and the ACES AI agreed with me.
"Sir, a unusual energy field is surrounding the city, in a dome that stretches up to 10 miles tall. Also, a pattern similar to what I detected when we arrived in Paris is now showing up on the scanners." Well, that was new. I had had a month to get accustomed to the suit and test out some of its functions. The scanners could detect a single ray of light at a mile and give me the source of it, or detect any power being feed into a line and from where, down to the inch. But we had yet to see anything like that again.
"Do ya think it will affect us when we enter the city?"
"Not certain, data insufficient to answer. Recommend not entering." Like that was gonna happen. That mysterious mad woman, Li-chan was in this city. That was all that I new about here. Very little info was on the net about her, save a rumor here and there. She was some kind of tech genius, so why go to crime? I should be careful, the thing in one document about her touch being lethal was burned into my mind.
I decided to tackle the city now, as I was already near the barrier. As I approached it, I could see a faint pinkish-green glimmer, like something from a cheap movie pretending to be energy. As I got closer, a unusual feeling began to crawl over me, my fur crackling with static. I looked at my hand and saw a green aura surrounding it, then it went to purple, then yellow, pink, then back to green. The energy reacted to this phenomena, and arcs reached out at each other. Green and pink met and canceled out, but the purple and yellow off of me disrupted the field. As Strange pull jerked me in before I could contemplate what had happened. Images flooded my mind as I passed through, of two strange creatures locked in battle. They were tall, one that I assumed male being 6"11, the other, I guessed female, being about 6'3. They lacked any kind of fur covering, but had patches of hair on their heads. The male had a head of brown hair, with a light coat of blonde mix in with it. The female had long hair, about 6 inches of it flowing past her shoulders, if it were all undone from her ponytail. The male was dressed in a solid black one-piece suit that covered his massive muscular frame( I guess he was around 340), with plates of red, white, and blue metal with some yellow edges over it. In his hand was a massive katana, bigger than most cities, or even countries for that matter. I then realized the scale that we we on. The earth hung in the background, with the two people being of an equal size. I then turned to the woman. She had a similar outfit on, but the plates were black and red with purple edges. She had a similar sword, and a purple bazooka that looked like the moon would fit into it. The two took turns, swinging at each other, neither giving into the others blows. It looked like an eternal stalemate. But then they began to speak.
"I will win eventually Light. Even with me being trapped in the Verse, I will be able to defeat you evil ways." The man's voice was full of hope and bravery, like a lone knight, waiting to turn the tides of battle
"Hehehehhe..." I didn't like the sound of that laugh. It sounded like someone truly insane and evil,just waiting to get their hands on anything to do harm to the world with. It frightened me to my very soul, almost as much as the monster in my flashbacks had. "Shadow, why talk with the formal names? Then again so am I. I will admit, even with you trapped in the Verse, you are still a thorn in my side, you and the rest of the Hoppers. You thought you could hid the SRW Project, you greatest weapon from me. Well, I have found the World, and you know it. Time for the war to rage on." The words echoed with a malice, but a faint air of respect could be seen, like a victor over a worthy foe.
What were these titans? What was this Verse and World that they spoke of? I Thought I might ask them, but the two began to glow, the male with all the colors of his armor, and the female absorbing all the rest of the light, and the two turning into streaks that arced away in a blinding flash.
I snapped back into reality. It was definitely one of the weirdest things I had ever seen. It seemed to last four hours, and was so vivid. I looked at my on board clock to find that a full minute had passed. Whatever happened when I went through that field had definitely taken some amount of time. I then turned to face the city...or the ruins of it. Desolation covered the area, like something from a documentary. But instead of black and white, it was in vivid living color, like a postcard from hell. Bodies were scattered everywhere, and fires raged like the cauldrons of hell in some places. Explosions could be heard and gunfire from guns of abnormal size echoed throughout the area. How could no one notice this? I turned to the barrier and saw people going about their business like it was normal. I tried to walk trough again, but the dome was solid, ungiving. Not even my katana which had sliced through everything in its path would scratch it. I turned back and saw one of the things that had done this to the once beautiful city.
It was a machine, 40 ft tall. It looked like an armored green cyclops, with a single pink eye recessed into its skull. Its body and limbs were fat and rounded, but I could tell they could break ships in two with ease. What looked like a respirator was connected to its mouth, but for no obvious reason. The shoulders were balls with four spikes sticking up out of them, and a large rectangular shield was attached to its left arm. It wore what looked like a Greek hoplite's skirt around its waist, covering part of its fat rounded legs. On its hip was a large tomahawk with a faintly glowing edge, and numerous drum magazines for the mammoth gun in its right hand. Over all it looked like it had fallen right out of an anime.
Most people would have fled in terror. Many would be racking in a fetal position at the sight of the city. Others would be curious about the machine. Some would even try to approach it to find out more about it. I did none of these things.
I grabbed my sword and charged it, screaming at the top of my lungs.
Sly Cooper in:
ANIME JA NAI!
What has happened to the city?Who were
the people that Sly saw when he went thru
the shield?What is the Verse that they
spoke of? How does the struggle of
these two relate to our hero
and thief?All we be answered
in time, as it will always
slowly move on to the
conclusion of what has
been laid out to be.
AN: For those wondering, no, I was not on anything crazy when I came up with what happened when Sly went through the barrier. Those two are very important to the plot of this fic. Just to be clear here, if LightBlueLightning is reading this, you have arrived on the scene of battle. And who is the person known as Shadow? All in due time readers, all in due time. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a katana to practice wielding, heheheh. Fanus Obscurus, signing off once more! Sayonara!