AN Mysterious Voice: It is my sad duty to inform you that this has been canc-
Me: -BREAK! (giant drill comes up out of ground with shredded metal on it) Alright, who buried me? Wait, how did you get out of the fan fic?
Li-Chan: Oh snap! RUN AWAY!
Me: Alright, run if you want, where did I... there it is. Hey Sanger? I need you to go chase this crazy woman and get her back here. Huh? Yeah, use DyGenGar. Okay, now that that has been resolved, time to continue the insanity. Fanus Obscurus proudly presents-
Sly 5: Return of the Thevious Raccoonus
Part 2: Anime Ja Nai
Ch 10: A time to play, a time to steal
Setting: A less destroyed part of Tokyo, most of the buildings intact, but twice as over run with mechs.
Sly's POV: "Alright Shadow, I'm near the building. Awful lot of those Zakus, don't you think?" It is an odd thought, stealing from someone with giant killer mecha, but something in me told me I had done weirder. "Not really Sly," came Shadows voice over the com in the ACES suit. "If Li really knew just what she had, there would probably some kind of flying battleship parked out here."
Shadow's POV: "Oh come on Shadow, it is an electric guitar. What can it do? More importantly, why do you need it? Can't you just get another?" If he only knew what it could do. " Well, lets just say it will make our chances of winning a fight against Li go up from about 10% to around 90%."
Sly's POV: "What, does rock drive her nuts or something?" Would be a funny way to defeat someone, kill em with rock.. "Well, forget why Sly, now do you have that new bit of gear I put on your ACES suit?" I looked at my waist at what I could feel was one of the weirdest things I had ever used on a heist. It was two boxes hooked up to my legs, each with an open side pointing in front of me, with a dart pointing out of it. Very weird weird, unless one was starring at a giant robot. " Now Sly, I call it 3D Movement Gear (AN: Yeah, I've been watching Attack on Titan). Basic, it provides two anchor points wherever you fire it to allow for increased acrobatic ability, and better maneuvering at high speeds, as well as being awesome. Use it to swing in around behind the mechs to get to the upper floors of the building. It should be where Li is keeping it, if my readings are correct, as they always are." Something flashed before me, a conversation with someone, saying something similar, but in a high nasally voice. It sounded so familiar...
Shadow"s POV: "Sly, ya there?" I could here a jerk on the other end. She really made these things sensitive. " Sorry, zoned out for a sec. It felt like a memory coming back to me, something in what you said." Well, it is good that some of his mind is coming back, I just hope not at the wrong time. Must have been the similarity to what Bentley always says. "Well, just try not to zone out while using the gear, the smear that was you may not like it to much."
Sly's POV: " What, you don't think I'm careful?" I could hear a bit of a chuckle. "Well, I just don't want a dead coon on my hands." With that the connection cut off. Time to see what this movement gear can do. Running start at 150mph, fire the gear, and whip around like that Spider Guy in Manhattan. Easy enough.
Third Person POV: From the ground, it looked impossible. A streak of blue moving at impossible speeds, whipping around between the buildings like he was latched on to them by a wire. But the streak was. It was a bit on the risky side, but effective at the job it did. Sly was able to use his innate abilities and augmented ones of the suit in new manners. One moment he was latching on to a hook with his can,, the next, running along the side of a building at high speeds. It was the ultimate parkour stunt.
Shadow's POV: "THIS IS AWESOME!" Well, I knew from my research that he was a bit of an adrenaline junkie. I knew I was, and I loved the 3D gear. I just hope he doesn't need to use it in combat yet. He might have the innate skills to use it, but to fight with it is another story. There was a slight beep on my wall of monitors, and two windows opened up. One was a video call, the other a file of schematics. "Hang on Sly, got something I need to look at." "Okay Shadow, I'm going to get up to the building." I said to go ahead, and turn to the call. It was a good friend of mine, over at he main base. Seeing the schematics, and the cartoonish Mole, I knew what this was about. "Password conformation, Deus Ex Machina. Hello, Mole. I take it that this concerns Unit-03 and the Path Unto Infinity?"
Sly's POV: After Shadow cut off the link, I made my way up to the second highest floor of the target building. Peeping in a window, I saw numerous Armor units, but of a different type than the Zaku's I had fought earlier. The build was the same, but these were blue and had a shield attached to their left arms, and a coil around their right arms. Shadow had installed a IFF database of Li's robots onto the suit, and it quickly brought up everything on my adversary, the Ground Operations Oriented Fighter (GOOF). They were 20% faster than a Zaku , had 50% more armor, and the shield had a quad 75mm automatic cannon in it, backed up by an electrified whip on the right arm, and a superheated sword on its back. Tough to fight up close, but my pistol should deal with them. But this was a smash and grab, and I don't need attention. The guitar should be about a floor up. Looking at the GOOFs, there was a path that they weren't watching that I should be able to run along. Taking my chances, I darted out when they had their mechanical backs turned. Looking around at where I was I saw the stairs leading up to the next floor. I went up them and saw an odd sign bolted on a bank vault door. "Warning, energy concentrations to high for autonomous mechs below class SR. Immediate overload of reactors will occur." Huh. Well that is an odd sign. I wondered if I should be careful, but Shadow hadn't said anything. But why was a guitar behind a vault door? Oh well, time to find a way around it. Fortunately, there was a vent nearby that lead into the room. Crawling through it, I could feel my fur stand on end, like some kind of massive electrical force was flowing through the air. As I went further through the vent a small meter that I couldn't see on my HUD was rising. A small meter that read SE readings. And it was about maxed out. There was a reason I couldn't see it, but I didn't know it yet. Further in, I could see the air begin to take on a green hue, and move like there was a fire in the room. I thought I was just seeing things again, so I ignored it. Finaly the vent opened up and I saw my prize. Or at least, I hoped the briefcase that was a foot thick had it in there. Not wanting to alert anything I was there, I decided not to contact Shadow. I turned to leave, but stopped when I saw something near the case. Two small cases of flash drives, one label Project SRA, and the other Project RAPTOR. They looked valuable, so I put them in my pack and made my escape. After placing the demo charges like Shadow asked of course.
Shadow's POV: " Alright then, so the parts for the combination are suffering delays. Unit-02 is safe with me. I should soon be able to reacquire Unit-01. And the Path should be coming in to the Verse soon?"
"Yeah Shadow, it will be here in time for the projected battle. I just hope we don't have a repeat of a certain incident." Mole replied in his Puertorican accent.
"Look Mole, it was an accident. I though we had worked the kinks out of the TEAM cannon. I really didn't think it would be that over powered."
"You wiped out a solar system!"
"Accidents happen Mole." Another window popped up. Sly was nearly back with the guitar, and the charges had detonated. With any luck, Li would be pretty busy when she got word of this. "Got to go Mole. Looks like we are about to get the key back."
"I hope it goes well out there. We will be ready to move operations into the sealed sections of Alaska base so he won't be able to see everything. See you soon, FO."
Meanwhile, at Li-Chan's flying fortress of doom...
Li's POV: I darted awake from what had to be the weirdest dream I had had in awhile. I was being chased by some giant mecha samurai and... what is that note by my bed? I picked it up and read the short message on the note.
"Li, if you try and bust out of the fic again, I'm throwing Sanger in there with you."
It wasn't a dream?
With package in hand, our
hero returns. But what is
so important about a guitar?
What are the files? What about
this, escape of Li's? Who is
Shadow? Find out soon, as it
all flows along the path it takes.
AN: Thanks Sanger! I would have chased her myself, but I left my stuff in the... Oh wait, this is the AN? Whoops! Ignore everything you just read or heard! After the story of course! Well,m sorry it took so long, had a few issues. I honestly want an opinion on just what you all think of Shadow. And before you ask Mole, yes, I have base an associate of Shadow off of you. Not for any reason...maybe. Well, got to go. Fanus, signing off!