Hi! Hyena King here! This is the next chapter. What, did you expect me to say something grand? Sorry to disappoint. So, without further ado, here's chapter 31!

The next part of the job went like this. The gang worked made quick progress throughout the base with ease, the guards not being able to stand up to the might of Sly, and the gang, because I'm too lazy to write the rest of our heroes down.

There was a huge incident with Neyla, who had returned and attacked from a helicopter. After a brief battle in which Thunder and Bentley teamed up to fight her, they ended up driving her away, with only a few burns to show for it.

They proceed to get the other Clockwerk Lung, the the stomach, from the next couple of raids, then Jean Bison retreated to his lumberjack camp further into Canada, where he was using the Clockwerk Talons, (He has an awful lot of Clockwerk parts.) to clear away large tracks of forest land. All in the name of Jean Bison's idea of "progress."

This was not good, as you can imagine. So the team continued on with their crusade. They dealt with bears, well, Karen dealt with them, but that's beside the point. They also competed in the Lumberjack games. The problem here was, they didn't stand a snowballs chance against Jean Bison at his own game. So they had to cheat.

Bentley, along with Sly, Murray, Thunder, Lightning, Sasha and Karen marched straight up to Jean Bison.(With Sly in the back, so the bison wouldn't recognize him.) As the bison turned to them, Bentley, in a horrible accent, said.

"Excuse me sir. We humble lumberjacks would like to participate in your lumberjack games."

"Think you got what it takes to win the Clockwerk talons, eh?" Jean Asked with a raised eyebrow. "Well, I'm sure enough gonna let you play...so long as you pay the entrance fee."

"Entrance fee?!" Karen was about to get into Jean's face before Lightning tackled her to the ground.
"Much obliged, partner...We'll, uh, just take our positions for the competition."

"Enjoy the moment while you still got a chance." Jean responded. "It's the closest thing to winning that you're gonna get."

They walked away, gently tugging on Sasha's pant leg and whispering. "'Did you sign up the guys for the competitions I asked for?"

"Not a problem." Sasha held out a piece of paper. "Got it."

"Where's Twilight, by the way."

"Oh, that..."

Sasha had sent Twilight and Applejack, who had been with them, back to the van when they started this part of the mission. Her only explanation was that something didn't feel right. Twilight and Applejack where not happy. Niether were the rest of the mares when Sasha locked them all in the van. Sasha had assigned Maria and Yukie as a security force, which the younger sisters agreed to with eager salutes, despite Sasha's failure to explain herself.

Which she failed at more when she just turned around and walked away, leaving Bentley more confused than before.

The first event was a power chopping contest. Murray tried his hand first, doing a pretty dang good job, but ultimately falling short of beating Jean's record. Then Thunder had a turn. He was told by Sasha earlier to use his thunder booms to give his swings even more power, but he had refused.

"What do you mean you won't do it?"

"I,m a hero. Cheating is dishonorable. I'll not do it."

"You won't win if you don't! Besides, it's your natural talent, you wouldn't be cheating...Technically."

But Thunder's mind was made up. He did just as well, but was unable to beat the record.

Then it was Jean's turn. Just as he was preparing to swing, Bentley and Sasha poofed right behind him and planted and eagle egg right in his pants, then poofed away. No sooner had they done that an angry eagle mother swooped down and attacked Jean. After that passed, the judges gave him zeroes...that was, until Jean 'Persuaded' them to give him tens.

"Alright, so your pink and black friends know how to handle and axe." Jean said, looking up the ice wall that was part of the next event. "Let's see how you handle a vertical wall of ice!"

Sly went first in this event, climbing the wall and, thanks to his cane and natural climbing ability, made it to the top within the time limit. Lightning went next. The white Pegasus was actually encouraged not to use his wings, as that kind of cheating was a lot more obvious. He made it to the top in only half the time Sly had, but he made it nonetheless.

Jean came next. As he climbed the wall, several outhouses, (They looked like out houses.) exploded, leaving three grappling hooks in their wake. Sasha, Karen, and Murray, fired their grappling hooks at the same time, hooking Bison and pulling him off the wall. The judges gave him another set of zeroes, only to be 'persuaded' once again to give him tens.

"Looks like we're tied with only one event to go. Unfortunately for you, I,ve saved my best event for last-the spinning log competition."

"Looks easy enough, I just need to stay out of the water." Bentley said, climbing onto the spinning logs. Despite the logs constant spinning and dunking, Bentley made it out OK. As Jean was about to compete, Murray stated an obvious fact.

"This is crazy, Jean Bison's got those judges so intimidated, there's no way he can lose!"

"You're right Murray." Sly agreed. "Those guys need to go...Ok, I'm just making this up on the fly, but...what if I were to lure the judges one by one, into that cave." 8He pointed to the cave next to them. "Once inside, you two will knock them out and take their clothes."

"Ingenious!" Bentley agreed. "When all three judges have been restrained, we'll be able to don our disguises, and take their place at the judges table! Sly, you can-"

"Guys?" Thunder said. "I think Lightning, Sasha and Karen are already on it."

The above mentioned trio did indeed have it. Only difference between the two plans was that they knocked out the guards and three them behind a boulder before anyone could blink. They also slipped on the disguises at the same speed, taking their places at the judges table.

Jean Bison had just finished his event when they did this. The trio smiled at one another, then presented zeroes for him to see.

"What!?" Jean said in confusion. "I thought I warned you judges about the consequences of 'Incorrect' scores!" Jean then did a double take. "Wait a second...you're not the judges I hired! It's the scrawny raccoon's annoying friends! Well if you want the talons, why don't you just take em!?"

He then threw the staff that had the talons attached to them. The staff was about to hit them, but Sasha blasted it with magic. It went flying backwards...and struck Sly on the head, Murray after that, Bentley, Thunder, then somehow boomeranged back and struck Lightning on the head. All the victims were knocked out cold.

"Oops." Sasha said, looking guilty.

There you go. Sorry for taking so long! R&R please!