Ch55: The Failed Rescue
Who would've thought that it'd be me, Sylvia Martin, that was taken hostage instead of Carmelita? Apparently no one, since this part of the story was messed up by all means possible. "You realize that you're not getting away with this right?!" exclaimed Neyla from the eye. I wished that I could give some two sense from my mouth as well, but Le Paradox had gagged me with a strip of towel while I was tied up and unable to move. And we were right now in the room of the blimp that would lead us to the time tunnel, the devious device that would've sent Sly back to Ancient Egypt.
"Oi... you don't know when to shut up, do you miss eyeball?" Le Paradox asked angrily to Neyla. "If you don't let us go right now, I'll fry you to a crisp right where you stand!" "Oh shut up already," Paradox groaned as he pressed a switch and we soon found ourselves trapped inside of a giant glass dome. "Hmph! He's not going to muffle me that easily!" Neyla growled as Le Paradox began to take off in his blimp to the present time.
It was just a good thing that Neyla told everyone where we were via Binocucom WiFi, otherwise they'd have no idea where to find us in present day! She also gave detailed descriptions that they were to get the ancestors on the blimp to retrieve their canes. "Watch this, Sylvia!" Neyla smiled as the eye began to glow a bright red. Neyla then began to send a laser through the glass, melting a hole large enough for her to yell at Le Paradox. "Oh sweet silence," Le Paradox said as the hole had been made. "Not going to silence me that easy, Skunkweed!" Neyla yelled at him, making Le Paradox jump as we entered present day from the warp tunnel.
"Oh my fucking god! Don't you know when to give up?!" Le Paradox swore loudly. "You've already lost! The fat lady has sung! I now rule the world!" It was then that a channel came on the nearby television in the room and we all looked to see what it was. What Le Paradox, Neyla, and I all saw was none other than a cartoon called The Misadventure of Cyrille. "Eh, must be a coincidence," Le Paradox smiled. That was until he saw that it was a cartoon that depicted him trying to chase after a cat (me) and falling to his doom via a canyon. It was just like the old Looney Tunes show back in my world!
"N-No... zis can't be!" Le Paradox exclaimed as he grabbed the book from the nearby shelf and actually looked in it for the first time. When he saw all the funny drawings in there that I made of him, he began to shiver in anger. THAT was how mad at me he was. "You... Yooouuuu... YYYYOOOOUUUUUU!" Le Paradox shouted loudly.
"Say goodbye to your 'master plan' Cyrille. Cause you just got beat by the Mystery Bandit!" Neyla laughed in his face as I used my claws to begin cutting free from the ropes around my waist. I managed to cut through the ropes just as we heard a gun shot from behind us and the glass dome around us shattered into a hundred pieces. "You filthy Cooper!" Le Paradox exclaimed as I finally jumped from my holding area and out of the reach of the madman's robotic arms, which punctured the time tunnel just as before.
"No! That madman just ripped a hole in the space-time continuum!" Bentley exclaimed as the blimp began to fall apart. "You guys all go! I'll settle the score here!" Sly exclaimed. "Sly!" Carmelita frowned. "Don't worry, Carmelita," I frowned as I looked at Opal. "Warp us and the van out of here Opal. Let Sly handle this," I smiled. Opal sighed and did just that.
Before anyone could even question me, I immediately jumped up from our current position and began to fly off in the direction of the falling blimp. "Sylvia! Are you insane! Get back here now!" Bentley exclaimed in the Binocucom. "Don't you know me already?! I'm going to save my boyfriend whether you like it or not! So get used to it!" I exclaimed back into the device.
"Oh no you don't! Opal! Take the wing powers away from her!" Bentley frowned. "I-I can't do that while she's that high up! She'd fall onto the ground and die!" Opal exclaimed back at him. "Don't you dare take away these wings, Opal!" I frowned as I neared the burning blimp. "I'm saving Sly and I don't care if I get killed in the process! Now I wish you good luck team! If we don't make it back, I am sorry. Goodbye!" I exclaimed.
I cut the communications on the Binocucom and I finally landed on the end part of the blimp that Sly and Le Paradox were on... or just Sly as Le Paradox had already stolen his paraglider pack and was now falling because he got hit by a plane. "S-Sylvia!" Sly exclaimed as he ran for me and we both hugged right there on the blimp. "We're getting off this thing now!" I exclaimed. "Time St-" before I could execute the move to help us off the ship, the unthinkable happened. Both Sly and myself were hurtled into a warp tunnel!
"NNNNOOOOO!" I exclaimed as I held onto Sly and the blimp's front with my talons in a death grip. I shielded the both of us with my wings as well as both of our Binocucoms in between our bodies. "I won't die here... I WON'T!" I exclaimed as the warp tunnel finally ended and we both landed on the ground hard. We flew for at least fifteen feet until we began to roll about, our death grip still holding strong. When we finally stopped, we laid on our sides in the sand. "Sylvia... you... you saved us..." Sly said as he hugged me back rather than the death grip I gave him.
"Um... guys..." Neyla said as she looked around the definitive area with her scanners. "I don't think we're in Paris anymore... or the present..." "What do you mean?" I asked, hoping that this sand wasn't too much of a hint. "I think... we landed in Ancient Egypt..." With those words, we looked up to the distance and both Sly and I saw what she meant. In the distance we saw none other than a great Pyramid as well as a small town at the base of it.
"Crud... did the Binocucoms survive the ordeal?" Neyla asked us. Both Sly and I got our respective Binocucoms and were so relieved to see that they worked! "Okay. Let's try and contact our friends," I said. "Bentley? Carmelita? Opal, Penelope, Murray, Jefe! Do you hear me?!" We waited for what seemed like forever, even though it was only a whole minute. We tried again. "Anyone in the Cooper Gang. This is Sylvia Martin, the Mystery Bandit! Do you read me, over?!" I exclaimed again.
This time it only took at least ten seconds for someone to answer. It was Penelope. "Sylv... th... you?" she asked, though there was terrible static. "Penelope! There's terrible static! You need to get here." "Wh... is here?... can't... det... radar..." "We're in Ancient Egypt. ANCIENT EGYPT. Get an artifact and get here ASAP!" "Anc... Egy..?! We're... our way... be care... save... yo..." it was then that the communication went dead. "I hope they got the message..." Sly frowned at me. "I think they did... we just gotta wait here until they arrive..." I frowned as I hugged Sly in the desert sands.
It was then that I noticed something on the ground. Something that I knew from before. It was a small cane. "Um... this isn't ours..." I frowned when I picked it up. "Then who's is-" Sly began to say until he saw the distinct wooden fabrications of it. "Oh no... Slytunkhamen II's cane?" "Nope. This is part of it. He had two of them," I frowned as I put it on my back. "I don't think our time traveling days are over just yet, Sly," I frowned. "Oh joy... who else could be messing with my ancestors?" "I don't know, but I don't think it's gonna be pretty..." I frowned at him.