Hi, Hyena King here! This chapter about wraps up this chapter of the Sly 2 game, so hold onto your seats and enjoy. So, without further ado, here's chapter 22!

Lord Malice smiled as he beheld what was in his hands currently. Several light threads, each one a different color, were grasped in his hands, whose source was the center of Thunder's chest. releasing the thread tell there was only two in his hands, He raised the knife in his left hand and held it underneath the threads, a blue and pink colored one.

"These first." Malice said, looking like the only thing he was missing was a big tub of popcorn as he slowly drew the knife across the threads slowly severing them in half. Thunder howled in pain as Malice did this, thrashing about like a fish on land, his chains rattling.

Malice had almost cut all the way through the threads when the Contessa suddenly appeared.

"What is it now?" Malice growled, clearly annoyed at the interruption.

"Our friends have arrived, and I don't think your little helpers are up to snuff." The Contessa replied, just as the sounds of approaching footsteps reached them both. Malice hissed in anger, then released the threads. Without any warning, they shot back into Thunder's chest. The vicious alicorn demon went up to the now unconscious Thunder and patted him on the cheek.

"To be continued." Was all he said before he and the Contessa went out through a side exit. A moment later, Rarity, along with a tentative Fluttershy, entered the room.

"This "Contessa" has really horrid taste in decor." Rarity, ever the fashion critic, said.

"Shouldn't we be focused on finding-?"

"Thunder!" Rarity cried, interrupting Fluttershy.

"Yeah, that's what I mean-"

"No, he's right there!"

Fluttershy looked to where Rarity was pointing and gasped as he saw Thunder's unconscious form. "What's happened to him?"

"I,m not sure, but I think we should get him down and bring him back to the others." The two mares quickly unlocked the chains from Thunder, (Courtesy of Rarity finding the keys on the wall.) and together they carried him outside.

Outside, Sly, Murray, Bentley, and everybody else was in the fight of their lives. Sasha, Maria, and Yukie's fight with Devitra and shade had attracted the attention of most, if not all, the guards in the faciluty, and they made it their primary mission to capture the cooper gang.

The way things were going, their mission might be successful. Murray, Rainbow, and Applejack kept the guards back with punches, kicks and bad-flankery. Twilight helped them by blasting away at the guards with her magic, while Pinkie blew away whole battalions with her party cannon. Bentley took shots at the guards every now and then with his sleep darts, while Sly took out multiple enemies with his cane.

But they were outnumbered by a large margin. They were slowly getting pushed back against the wall, surrounded. It looks like this is the end for...

With a series of honks, the van suddenly appeared from behind the guards. The van didn't slow down a notch, running down any one who didn't get out of the way in time. The van came to a screeching halt in front of the group, (It was parked on several guards.) And Sasha poked her head out the window.

"Get in!" As soon as she said that, Maria and Yukie opened the back doors of the van, knocking over two other guards in the process. Without argument, the gang quickly entered the van, which shut closed, then raced off, running over more guards as it did so. They found Rarity and Fluttershy with Thunder and loaded them in.

Then, without the slightest hesitation, they sped out of there as fast as they could.

There you go! The good part's coming up next! R&R please!