Ch7: Mafia Mutts
After I'd made we made our way into the casino plaza, we decided it best to split up again. I chose the casino while Sly went to the area where he'd protect Murray with missiles. I entered the casino and flipped the switch, opening the glass sliding door. "Nice job breaking in," said Bentley, "but look out for those guards. Muggshot's got those machine gun-toting dogs working like a pack!"
Knowing that guns would tear me apart, I picked the dogs off one by one, making sure to knock them out in the skull first. Of all of the ones I knocked out, however, I noticed that one of them had a pistol in his pocket as well as a holster. "Heh. This could be useful..." I smirked, bending down and picking the pistol off the pooch. I soon started down the casino route, making sure to loot the slot machines as well as collect the clues. When I made it to the area with the two dogs and the drink stand, I froze up, recognizing the ugly purple mug of Muggshot any day. He hadn't noticed me yet, so I decided it best to hang low.
'Good thing no tracking devices have hit for a while...' I thought to myself, checking myself again for them. Nothing. Good. "An' I told youse boys that I want dat cat gone just as much as dat scrawny dude you keep mumblin' about!" he growled, making my fur stand up. 'Crap,' I thought. 'If he sees me, I'm a dead woman for sure. Especially since dogs have an affinity against cats...' "Hmm?!" he growled. I could hear his nose sniffing the air and I then heard his fists pounding the ground.
Almost instinctively, I placed my claws against the wall, climbing up without so much as a sound. 'Just like Caveman Cooper!' I thought, hoping Clockwerk couldn't hear my thoughts. "Huh? Guess I must be gettin' old..." Muggshot grunted as I snuck past him, carefully picking up the clue bottle and jumping behind the two mafia mutts, knocking them both out with two bottles. I immediately regretted it, however, as I heard Muggshot shooting at me as I ran for the chandeliers. "Git back 'ere, lil' RUNT!" he growled as I placed my cane on the rotating dog house, getting the jackpot.
"No! My precious loot! Youse're gon' pay fer dat!" Muggshot snarled as I grabbed the bottles. I knew I was safe so long as he couldn't swim. I ran behind cover as he started firing as he actually took out his own mafia dog. "Can't ya hit a moving target poochie?!" I mocked him, running down the floor lasers to Muggshot's signage of himself. "Don't you dare!" he growled. I smiled and knocked the legs out, making him retaliate by shooting at me from afar. He couldn't hit me worth shit.
"Yo! Lazy mutts! Git yer tails over to da casino and catch dis no good pussy cat! If I don't have 'er in my penthouse within da hour, you'll all be payin' da price!" I sneered and ran onward, arriving at the area that had the roulette wheels and electrified water. "Git that puss!" growled a mongrel from behind me, the dogs running after me having machine guns. "Now's a good time to show them I ain't no normal kitten!" I smirked, shooting at the dogs as the ran at me, making sure to cripple them in the legs. They howled in pain as I ran and collected the last of the clues.
Now I knew there was only one way to have them stop pestering me: I shot at the chandeliers that led me here and destroyed them, allowing me to enter the code Bentley gave out. "Okay! Judging by the way the picture depicts the move, my guess is that this is the dive collection technique. Right Bentley?" I asked. "Astonishing! Not only are you able to outrun guards left and right in these areas, but you can also decipher the old school language of the pages?!" Bentley asked, shocked by my 'guess'. "I was pretty into mythology as a kid, so I know a lot of the big words used in these pages... so yeah." I smiled, climbing up and onto the giant roulette wheel.
"Hmm... too fast to jump around to the right... maybe try jumping the other way?" Bentley tried to sound smart. I could tell he was still recovering. "Never woulda guessed! Thanks Bentley!" I smiled, trying to make him feel happy. I did just as he said, managing to land in the green slot all three times. "Boom! Treasure Key!" I smiled, snagging it and getting warped out by Bentley. "Hey! Sylvia! Over here!" Sly said, pointing over to the car. I smiled, seeing that he already had three keys and had unlocked it.
"Want to break down the door?" he asked. "Well... YES!" I giggled like a maniac, hitting the car jack switch, sending the car to collide full force into the building. "Let's go. If I'm right, we'll need all seven keys again," I said, smiling and pointing at the lever to the left of us when we entered the casino. "Good eye! I'll go to the left... can you handle the right?" I smiled, knowing that it would lead to Carmelita. "Of course!" I giggled, jumping above the guard and landing on the platform without using the spire jump.