"Come on dad, we need to go now." Sly quietly says. Despite all of these close and intimate moments, they are still in the bowels of Interpol.
"I need my lasers first." Connor says, desperate to get his babies from the wall.
"Take as many as you need." Sly answers. Connor goes along the walls and picks off all of the lasers from the walls and puts them in Sly's thigh pocket.
"Do you have a cig?" Connor asks Sly as he picks off the lasers.
"I don't smoke." Sly replies back.
"Damn it, they're not going to be happy if they face me while I'm cranky." Connor says while he puts the lasers in the thigh pocket. "We need to get back my stuff, they took it away from me and secured it in one of these rooms but I don't know which one. Your 'friend' might know, she probably put them there." They don't have to go far to find the contents of the box because once they re open the door, said box is sitting at the door. It contains his clothing, which are a very dark blue shirt with long sleeve all the way to the wrists unlike Sly's, which only go just past the elbow. He grabs the belt and a pair of skin-tight shorts of the same colour as the shirt and finally grabs his mask and ties it around his face. Just seeing his dad in this kind of gear is empowering to Sly. Having someone like his father in his childhood would have advanced him in his thieving techniques by many years but he wouldn't have the gang or even Carmelita.
"You ready to see how real thieves do it?" Connor explains as he picks up the cane from the box and twirls it around to make sure he's still got it.
"I'm ready." Sly says as they both sneak out of the room and go towards the main room. There is no sound ahead of keyboards clattering or machines whirring apart from the whooshing of the fan as it spins around. They turn to see the room is devoid of any analysts. All they can see though is Penelope dragging one of the bodies across the room and into a rubbish compactor. She presses the button to make them splat and turns around to see the two of them standing across the room.
"Sorry, you're a bit late for the action." Penelope shouts across the room as the muffled sound of body parts crumbling under the force of the compactor breaks through the metallic compartment. "I thought I'd take the initiative."
"I was looking forward to a fight." Connor says to her.
"Look, we need to get out now because the director is coming back on his plane and he will surely come back for us."
"You didn't need to do this." Sly explains. "They had nothing to do with it."
"Some people just get in the way." She says as the sound of the compactor shutting off finishes. "Don't worry about the computers, I've run a program that creates fake leads, right now you are sitting on a beach in Baja, Mexico."
"You know computer programming as well?" Connor asks.
"Yeah, but we need to go now." She says running up to the stairs to get them out of there.
"I don't know where you plucked this one from but she is a gem." Connor tells Sly as they run up the stairs.
"She's not my girlfriend." Sly explains. "Long story short, she's a Cooper as well."
"So you aren't on drugs then, well I guess your friend is a gem anyway." Connor tries to politely complement Sly on his new finding as they bundle into the elevator. Penelope presses the button quickly and repeatedly presses the 'close doors' button in an effort to hasten their progress. The g force kicks in as they rise out of the subterranean bunker and reach the main building. The elevator pings and Sly readies himself to check for people outside.
"Wait here." He says as he goes invisible. Connor is stunned by the use of the shadow power, no one has been able to perform that move since the technique to do it was lost in biblical times. He wants to find out more and turns to Penelope for answers but she isn't there as well. He certainly believes it now. Sly walks into the main area with all the cubicles and sees that they are half full with returned agents and returned analysts. More are coming through the door every second that passes by. The Director must be close by, the only other reason they would be there is that they have found out they are there, which has definitely not happened. Sly returns to the elevator and presses the button for the top level. Once the doors close, they both become visible.
"We can get out through the top then, the director isn't here so if we escape via the roof, they shouldn't notice us." Sly explains.
"The perfect time to show off my laser slide technique." Connor notes as they reach the top floor. The elevator pings to reveal nothing but a perfectly clean office, like it has just been renovated.
"This way." Penelope announces as she runs out and turns a corner down a narrow corridor. They follow her towards the stairs at the back of the floor, which they climb to get to the roof. A door opens them up to the morning skyline of Lyon, nothing much out of the ordinary for them. The one thing that catches Sly's attention is a fast moving helicopter that is coming straight for them.
"It's him." Sly says as he points out the helicopter in the distance. They all get on the other side of the buildings pyramid shaped roof in order to be out of sight. They look towards the river, it is their only way they can escape without being seen, but they would have to pass a main road. People would surely recognise them as they crossed either by foot or by laser. Anything that would be considered open or visible is out of the question. Their only option is to wait in one of the gaps in the roof to be out of sight until the helicopter has landed. Sly must protect his dad at all costs until he is safely back in his own time or Sly would cease to exist. They wait in silence as the sound of the helicopter blades becomes louder and louder until they are only about 30 metres away. They hear the slight thud as the helicopters skids land on the newly constructed helipad on the roof. They wait until they can hear themselves think to try to look up at the presence above them. Sly can only peak his invisible head above the parapet in this hole but he see what is against them. Guards are stationed on every corner of the roof. He can hear the directors booming voice across the roof.
"You get every man and woman back here now, we've been duped." The director says as he rushes into his office via the stairs. "Get GIGN on the line." He says before the door shuts behind all of the following entourage that he has.
"Any ideas?" Sly whispers in the cramped hole they are stuck in. But out of nowhere, Connor pulls out an alarm clock. Such a classic technique pioneered by the Coopers. Connor sets the clock for 5 seconds and throws it onto the centre of the roof. The outward facing guards see nothing. He counts out the time with his fingers to the others and they hear the burst of ringing that comes from the alarm. They see the guards walking so close to them with guns drawn at this disturbance. Suddenly, Connor makes a quick burst at one of them and defeats him while the others are distracted. The quick hand combat of Connor is mesmerising for Sly to see. The body is not flung off the building because that would attract unnecessary attention. Sly gets out of the hole closely followed by Penelope. They stay as low as possible to the ground to remain hidden. The ringing stops and they all turn to the outside of the building. Connor gets behind cover and gestures to Sly and Penelope to go around the other side and take the rest out. They understand this and go invisible and rush to flank the group of guards. They enter the unsuspecting group of guards and take them out before they know what hit them. All of them were confused at their comrade's fall to their knees at the sound of the cane connecting with them. They have no time to reach for their weaponry before they are all down. The two of them rush back to Connor who is already setting up their escape. He positions a laser aimed at the ground in the park.
"So you are good fighter then." Conner acknowledges.
"And you're a good thief." Sly says back, realising that the lasers were in his thigh pocket and he has one of them out. They wait as he positions it at the right angle.
"Okay, follow me." Connor says as he jumps onto the beam of coherent light and slides down towards the green grass of the park. Sly follows behind with Penelope being last, she was the most hesitant about doing such a thing. She didn't think it was possible before she saw it just then. They pick up considerable speed down this incline with the wind rushing in their faces. Connor jumps off the laser beam before he hits the ground and lands safely with a forward roll. Sly does the same and Penelope jumps off buts falls over having failed to stick the landing. She picks herself up however and gets ready to run.