"What is this trick that you are pulling on me?" He says, angrily and yet puzzled at this occurrence. He releases his arm from the force and when it moves away the force goes as well. "You've got mind powers or something? Something that you forgot to tell me?"
"Don't be silly. Now you're just paranoid." Penelope argues. Alarms ring out in the building, the howling sound designate that the gang have reached Interpol and that they have breached the perimeter.
"You stay right here, I'll be back." The Director shout as he runs out of the room and through the safe door, forgetting to close is as he makes his run for the elevator. He doesn't look back, if he did, he would see that Sly has escaped and is no longer tied down in the bed. But standing next to Penelope, protecting her. Once he is out of sight, Sly goes back to his normal state and uses the scissors to undo the zip ties on Penelope then cut the three strips away, which release her from her torture. Penelope uses her free range of movement to cut sly from the zip ties. They are now free, but they need to get their stuff back again. Sly doesn't want to be seen in a teal hospital robe and Penelope feels the same way in another fluoro orange prison jumpsuit.
"Where did you grab the stuff before?" Sly asks, referring to the clothes she got for his dad.
"I'll show you." Penelope says as they run out of the room. They run along the dark and empty hallway towards the elevator. She presses the button and they wait for it to reach their level.
"Can you try to help me smooth things over with Bentley?" Penelope asks Sly as they both staid either side of the elevator.
"I can't give you any promises." Sly answers. "Last time I saw him he was planning of ways to kill you."
"Sounds like something he would do." She replies. They go quiet and invisible just in case anyone walks out of the elevator or is in the elevator. They sneak inside of the stainless steel insides of the elevator and press the button. Sly feels almost naked in his teal hospital robe, the thin sheet of cotton flings about everywhere, the looseness of the fabric to his body is not good for being a thief. It could snag on something. They descent into the war rooms again, the eerily quiet room is only broken by the sound of the indifferent whirring fan that still spins, regardless of what happens underneath. Penelope runs down into the main area, devoid of any life thanks to her, and runs straight into the corridor. They run down the winding hallways, they seem like they are going deeper and deeper into a dark and mysterious maze. Going ever further into it's grasp and further towards wherever Sly is blindly following Penelope.
They reach a very desolate and isolated corner of the underground maze, it is a set of filing cabinets and shelves. An evidence locker. Penelope switches on the fluorescent lighting and that flickers on it's white light, showing the extent of this room. It is like a warehouse of evidence from crimes of all shapes and sizes. Row after row of industrial shelving holds items that are tagged and bagged, ranging from pieces of cloth and bullet casings to entire vehicles. Penelope is not interested in them but Sly is certainly looking at all of these items. All of these crimes going on to have this much evidence are mind-boggling. The room expands along both sides like it merging to a point, only showing the extent of all this evidence. Penelope is already running along the central aisle when she notices Sly is not following.
"Come on slow poke." Penelope jokes. Waving her hand to coerce Sly forward. Sly shakes his head to clear his mind and follows Penelope down one of the aisles, these shelves are reinforced and have steel safes and locks on them to protect this very valuable evidence. It is a section marked Cooper.
"This is all the evidence they have of me?" Sly asks. He didn't realise how many pieces the authorities were picking up after him.
"It seems like the correct amount for someone who has been doing this a long time." Penelope replies.
"Do you have a paperclip or something to get inside?" Sly asks, ready to pick locks.
"No, Sorry. How about you try to unlock those safes and I'll find something to use." Penelope suggests.
"Sounds good to me." Sly replies back as he presses his ear against the safe door to hear for the subtle clicks to reveal the code. His ears so finely tuned to the precise frequency and his hands so finely controlled to turn the dial the correct direction at the right time. The safe unlocks and it reveals his clothing. It is only a small one so he doesn't expect anything else to be inside. Sly rips off the tags and stickers that adorn his clothing and puts on all the clothes he can without taking the top off like his boots, mask, cap, gloves and thigh pocket. Sly takes a look around for Penelope and listens for her footsteps. He hears nothing so then proceeds to hastily take off the hospital robe and put on his shirt. Penelope just appears, leaning on the side of a shelf. Sly has the shirt off and Sly notices her. He is a little embarrassed but considering his physicality, it is not because he is unfit. More that he has to show Penelope instead of his preferred Carmelita. Sly quickly and clumsily puts on the shirt. Penelope lets out a small chuckle; He is so cute when he is dumb. Sly puts on the shirt finally and ties up his red neckerchief and turns it around then he puts on his backpack and ties on his belt. The outfit is complete. Penelope walks over to Sly as he is changing and shows the paperclip with a small bloodstain on it.
"It's all I could find, I hope the blood isn't much of a problem, I tried to get it off but…" Penelope explains.
"It's fine." Sly answers as his fingers automatically fix the paperclips metal wire into the correct shape. He sticks it inside the lock and works his magic to get it to open in under 2 seconds. The sound of all the drawers unlocking in this section is heard consequentially. 16 to be precise. If these are all the files on Sly Cooper's thefts and criminal activities, it has grown exponentially since the first time he saw his file on that early morning in Paris all those years ago. 9-3-7, that was the code he remembers. Sly opens the top drawer of the first filing cabinet and sees all the files with the dates labelled on the tab of each crime that he did. There are photos of the scene from every angle, papers that indicate no DNA present and last but not least, the accompanying calling card. He picks up the one that he placed in that safe back in Paris when he stole his considerably smaller file. He takes a look at it it's perfectly smooth edges, no colour has faded or edged crumpled. It's like it is brand new. Sly places it all as he left it back in the file and opens up each other drawers to reveal more of the same. Some files are fatter than others and some are just one sheet of paper but the files add up to a number over the hundred mark.
There is one thing missing from the picture. "Where is my cane" Sly asks himself as his eyes dart around at the other safes that hide various items. Sly choses a long and thin case that is up higher, too high to reach up. Sly uses his ninja spire jump to stand on the dial of the safe below and opens this safe no problem. The Cane is there, just leaning against the side of the safe. Sly shuts it again and returns to ground level with Penelope who is dressed back in her usual yellow tracksuit combination.
"You're all set then." Sly comments.
"Let's go then." Penelope says.
"No, wait. I need to get my dads stuff." Sly interjects. Penelope understands why he would do this but she would rather get moving before they are trapped inside like mice. At least one of them will be.
"It's got to be here somewhere, help me out quickly." Sly says as he shifts to other drawers and safes. Penelope just strolls up to one and points to it as if she knows all along. Sly is unsure whether to be grateful or suspicious, he goes with it anyway and opens it up to reveal the clothing of his father.
"How did you know it was there?" Sly asks.
"The label on the front helps." She replies, Sly takes a second look. It is really there. Sometimes he tries too hard to find a solution. Sometimes juts taking a step back is the best way to solve a problem and just finding the easiest and simplest way is the best solution.
"Let's get out of here." Sly says
"Already ahead of you." She says as she turns to see Sly holding the tub containing the items of clothing for Connor, as well as the cane. They rush down the central corridor of the evidence room but out of the shadows a red flashing and beeping object clings to Penelope's leg. The Beeping escalates until it can go no faster. Penelope takes off her pants and jumps as far as she can as the explosion rings out around the room.