Harley Keener and Sly both felt cramped climbing beneath a tank in order to break into the Contessa's maximum security prison. Harley felt uncomfortable underneath the tank. He was crawling ahead of Sly underneath the tank. Bentley, who was inside the tank, fired a cannonball in the prison door walls. The doors burst wide open. Sly and Harley got out from underneath the tank. Harley accidentally bumped his head up against the edge of the tank. He silently hissed in pain. He and Sly were now fully outside the tank. The door was blown wide open by the cannon.
"Okay, you're all clear. Head inside and I'll be right behind you." Bentley said to Harley and Sly.
Harley and Sly went inside the prison facility. The prison looked spooky and terrifying. Neither Sly nor Harley had ever been in a prison like that before. Sly, Harley and Bentley made their way toward the solitary confinement area of the prison. It looked like death row. It made Guantanamo Bay look like a playground for school children! Up on the observatory was Murray. The hippo, who was usually jolly and pretty nice was acting all twitchy and angry.
"Ooh, that looks bad. I've never seen Murray like this before!" Bentley exclaimed.
"He's all twitchy and bug-eyed!" Sly said.
"Holy Jesus Christ! How long has he been like this for?" Harley asked the raccoon and the turtle.
"I don't really know how long he's been acting like that for." Sly said to Harley.
"You said Murray was being forced to eat spice right?" Bentley asked Sly.
"Yeah, he said he was feeling "weird"." Sly said.
"I've seen some crazy shit in my time. This takes the cake for me!" Harley said.
"Well, he's weirded out alright. I doubt he even knows we're here. Clearly, we're going to have to lure out of that cell the hard way." Bentley said.
"The Hard Way?" Sly asked.
"Those hypno-boxes are designed to heighten the effects of spice... and he's already in an agitated state. So if we turn them all on at the same time, Murray's sure to become wildly hostile and probably break down the door." Bentley explained.
"How do we turn on the hypno-boxes?" Sly asked Bentley.
"The power switches are all defended by laser barriers. When you get close, I'll hack the laser system from my terminal down here. That should give you guys access." Bentley said to both Harley and Sly.
"Are you sure luring Murray into the hypno-boxes is such a good idea? What if it doesn't work?" Harley asked.
"It has to work, Harley." Bentley said.
"Let's do it, anything to help out ol' Murray. He's looking really bad." Sly said. He and Harley proceeded to the upper levels of the prison. Harley had a built in grappling hook built into the palm of his left bionic hand. He aimed the grappling hook at the railing. He used a mechanism hidden in his wrist to launch his body up into the railing. The grappling hook was located in the index finger of his bionic hand. Harley and Sly came across the switch that would activate the hypno-boxes. The switch was covered by a laser field. Bentley hacked into the laser field. A few minutes later, the laser field was gone and Sly and Harley activated the hypno-box switch. It made Murray freak out.
"What's that sound?! Angry... Get... gone!" Murray said. Sly and Harley made their way to the second hypno box switch, which was covered by another laser field, which Bentley got rid of. Sly activated the switch to the second hypno box.
"I'm a little teapot, short and stout... tip me over and I'll smash up everything! Arghh!" Murray said angrily. Sly and Harley went over to the third and final hypno box switch. Bentley deactivated the laser field and Harley activated the switch that activated the final hypno box. Murray got very incensed. He got so mad that he smashed through the window of his cell and landed on the ground below. He was in total beast mode.
"Heads up, Sly and Harley. The hypno-boxes are too strong for you to destroy with your cane. Try using Murray's attacks to take them out. When they're all offline Murray should be jolted out of his spice rage. Watch out!" Bentley warned his friends. Murray was blinded with spice induced rage. Sly led his hippo friend into the hypno-box. Murray destroyed three out of the four hypno-boxes. Harley was by the last hypno-box. Murray pounced on the human boy. He started to beat him up. A surge of energy courses through Harley's body. There was a big, bright flash of electricity that emanated from Harley's body.
Murray was violently thrown back against a wall with astonishing speed and distance. Harley was shocked by this. He was even more shocked when he looked down at his hands and saw that electricity was flowing through his hands. Murray regained his senses. Harley destroyed the last hypno box with his electrical powers. Harley, Sly and Bentley all ran over to Murray to see if he was okay.
"Uhh, my head. Who? What... is this heaven?" Murray said groggily.
"Sorry, pal. You're no angel." Sly said to Murray.
"Or Belinda Carlisle." Harley said. "Sorry for knocking you out using my powers. I didn't mean to. I wanted to stop your rage."
"That's okay, Harley." Murray said to Harley. "It worked pretty well."
"Just take a few deep breathes and try to center your thoughts." Bentley told Murray.
Suddenly, the Contessa goes into the outside of the room. "What's with all the racket?! My conscious mind is a wreck. I ought to... The weak-minded Hippo is free, and he's got friends! Hmm! Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate some life choices." The Contessa said to herself, surprised to see that Murray was free of the spice hypnosis. Harley turned his head toward the spider lady.
"The Contessa's here! Get her before she gets away!" Harley alerted the Cooper Gang.
"Murray, lift those crank bars, so we can chase after her." Sly said. Murray lifted up the gate crank bars of the gate. The gate was opened. The Cooper Gang went after the Contessa.
Meanwhile, at the Cooper Gang safe house, Emily Keener was drifting in and out of consciousness because of the poison that was coursing through her system. Emily staggered out of the chair and made her way to the front door. She opened the front door with her right hand. Her vision was extremely blurry. She felt like she had vertigo. Her body was swaying back and forth. She could barely walk straight. The human girl located the Cooper Van. She opened the back doors of the van. She climbed in the back of the van and closed the doors of the van behind her. Emily took out her iPod and put on a Rihanna song. The song: We Found Love by Rihanna played through headphones as she began to lose consciousness and she fell on her side to the floor of the van as her heartbeat started to gradually slow down.
"You lousy, no good head shrinker!" Murray said to the Contessa.
"Oh, come now, Murray. We were making such progress during our sessions." The Contessa said.
"Your "sessions" involved driving Murray insane with rage. You're not Aleister Crowley or Sigmund Freud! You're trash!" Harley said to the Contessa.
"Such unfortunate choice of words, my dear boy. One of these days, Murray is gonna go down a dark path. He'll eventually want to leave your gang of thieves in an attempt to go off on his own." The Contessa said to the Cooper Gang.
"Murray will never leave the gang. You're talking out your ass!" Sly told the Contessa. The Cooper Gang chased after the Contessa. The spider lady was too fast for the Cooper Gang to go after. She eventually escaped on a blimp. The Cooper Gang were too late to stop her from escaping.
"Ghahh! She's getting away!" Murray cried out.
"Don't worry, pal. We'll find her. With the three of us back together, she doesn't stand a chance." Sly assured Murray. The Cooper Gang headed back toward their van. They were excited to be back together at last. They found the van, which was parked beside the safe house. Harley and Bentley entered the safe house to let Emily know it was time to go to the van. Emily was nowhere to be found in the safe house.
"Emily?" Harley called out. "Where are you? We've freed Murr-"
Harley's statement was soon cut off by a cry of astonishment coming from the van. Harley and Bentley headed over to the van to see what was going on. Inside the backseat of the Cooper Van lying down was a human girl with long blonde hair with bangs and glasses who was lying on her side. The girl was wearing a Hello Kitty long sleeved T-shirt with jeans. Harley immediately recognized the girl in the van as none other than his little sister Emily. Emily looked like she was passed out. Ear buds were in her ears. Harley, Sly, Bentley and Murray all had a look of horror upon seeing the girl passed out in the backseat of their van.
Harley immediately entered the backseat and put his body over his sister's body. He leaned over to check to see if she was okay. He felt her pulse. It was slow. Harley felt something poke his knee. He looked down to see a dart had been next to her body. The dart had the instantly recognizable skull and crossbones sign on it. It meant only one thing: Emily Keener was poisoned. Harley broke down in tears upon realizing that her sister was poisoned. He screamed very loud in anguish. It was bad enough losing his mother in an unexplainable genocidal event that wiped out nearly half of everybody on his Earth. Now, it looked like he was going to lose his sister too as well. Harley Keener's world was shattered. Everything was dark.
A/N: I'm not going to be on here for possibly a very long time. I have relapsed into my harassment of an author. Not going to reveal who the author is, as it pains me to reveal the author that I've troubled. This story, as well as any future updates of my other stories will be put on an indefinite hiatus for the time being. Sorry for all of you who followed and favorited this story.