Evil Frog in the Eye of the Storm
A few days later after the police headquarter heist, the gang is on the road head to a location where one of the members of the Fiendish Five is hiding out as Sly and Catra are looking at the file about the guy.
Sly: The road trip gave me and Catra the time we needed to study up on Sir Raleigh the frog.
Catra: Which is a lame name for a supervillain and needs to see a dentist.
They look at the picture of Raleigh. He is a green frog with brown eyes. He wears no clothing except for white gloves white shoe spats over his feet and a distinctive blue top hat made of metal. He has yellow crooked teeth.
Sly: Bad dentil hygiene aside, he used to live in the luxury rich life as a young man but grew bored of that life and decided to try out pirating on a whim.
They see pictures of Raleigh standing on a small pirate ship fill with tons of gold coins and jewels as two other ships are on fire and sinking into the ocean while he grins and holding a class of wine.
Catra: Not to mention this guy is good with engineering, working with machines and stuff, which made him dangerous as he got addicted to crime and getting himself recruited into the Fiendish Five as their chief of machinery. Talk about tuning his gear to madman.
Sly: I think it tighten those gears in his head too tight. The last reported sighting of this mad machinist was off the southern coast of the Isle of Wrath, a small island uncomfortably situated in the middle of the perilous Welsh Triangle.
The Cooper van is seen driving into the swamp-like forest making their way to Raleigh's hideout as Catra looks outside seeing dark clouds covering the sky.
Catra: I hope it's not raining there. I hate the rain.
Thunder sounds erupts and raindrops start pouring heavily from the sky as Catra groans in annoyance of the rain.
(Outside of a Cave Entrance to Raleigh's Hideout)
"Okay Catra, you ready for to crock this toad?" Sly asked twirling his cane around a little.
"You bet I am." Catra excited.
"Are you sure you wouldn't want to stay in the safety of the van?" Bentley asked worry for Catra going out in the danger with Sly.
"Don't worry, Uncle Bentley, I promise to stay close to Sly and I'll call to let you know how I'm doing." Catra said holding up her own binocucom that Entrapta made from Bentley's design.
"Besides, the kid needs to learn on the field once and a while to know how the Coopers operate." Sly said.
"Okay, just make sure BOTH of you come back alive." Bentley begged.
"Do not worry, father. There is a 79% chance that they'll come back to us without a single scratch." Entrapta mentioned.
"I'm liking that odd." Catra smiled.
"And don't forget to see if you grab some cool on the way, maybe like a cool cape." Scorpia wondered what kind of cool stuff this frog guy has.
Sly and Catra exit the van and made their way through a cave tunnel that was only about twenty-foot-long as they found the front entrance to Raleigh's hideout, then they get a call from Bentley.
"Hey guys, I just spotted something that's going to complicate the mission." Bentley alerted.
"I'm guessing it has something to do with that big, nasty-looking gate." Catra looked at the gate.
"Correct. It blocks the only road leading into Raleigh's hideout." Bentley nodded.
"No problem, we'll just climb over the gate." Sly said.
"Okay, just be careful on climbing as there are certain thi8ngs you can climb on." Bentley reminded.
"Like that latter over there? Relax Bentley, I live for this stuff." Sly bragged.
"And I'm going to learn how to live in that." Catra added.
"Yeah, that's what worries me." Bentley exclaimed.
Catra and Sly jump down and made their way to the latter, but Catra stop as she saw a big beaver guy with a large wooden hammer and three bottles hanging from his belt.
"Hey dad, I don't know why I'm getting the feeling those bottles that guy has might be important." Catra pointed at the beaver guy.
"Then let see what the guy holds." Sly grinned.
Sly and Catra sneak their way behind a big rock as they see the beaver guard being on the lookout for anyone trying to get near him, then Catra got an idea as she picks up and rock and kicks it high and lands on the wooden floor behind the guard getting him to turn around for a moment. The beaver guard saw nothing and thought the noise was his imagination and turns back around patting his waist, then he got worry patting his waist again and look down seeing the bottles he's been carrying are.
"Yoo-woo." Catra called out, getting the guard's attention to see her holding the bottles and unaware Sly is behind him and knocks him out-cold.
"Nice work." Sly said.
"Thanks, now let see what's so special about these bottles." Catra opened all three revealing to be papers with numbers on them.
"Entrapta, Uncle Bentley, we found something with lots of numbers on them." Catra reported.
"Oh, I think they might be clues to something important hidden around Raleigh's hideout." Entrapta theorized.
"I believe you're right, but this looks incomplete. See if you can find more clues and then we'll crack this code." Bentley said.
"Roger that, let's go." Sly pointed his thumb at the gate.
They climb up the latter and made their way over the gate while finding some more clues along the way then they got a call from the van again.
"Better be two, those searchlights aren't like the normal ones as upon contact from one of them will make you go acute combustion. As in KABOOM! You're both dead." Entrapta warned.
"Shouldn't be a problem." Catra said a little cocky.
"Oh, and father launched these signal repeaters throughout area to checkpoint your progress." Entrapta informed.
"Nice." Sly nodded.
Sly and Catra started sneaking their way through the searchlights, getting some clues they can find, and took out a guard who does throwing gold stars. Soon, they found a large ship docked near the shore and they also see a blimp right above the ship too which seems to be letting out something from the pipe on the roof.
"According to my Amphibia-Positioning System, that blimp is where Raleigh is hiding out." Bentley informed.
"Guess he likes the high class more on ground level, but doesn't that blimp seem weird to you?" Catra asked.
"I think you're right; it looks more machinery-looking." Sly noticed.
"And she is right, dear Uncle. That blimp is actually a flying-mobile storm machine creating those cirrostrati releasing them into the sky and comes the harsh rain which explains why this weather never stops." Entrapta explained.
"That explains all the wreck ships." Sly looked to the wreck ships as he heard that sailors have came back injured and all.
"But why would Raleigh want bad weather at his own hideout 24/7?" Bentley puzzled.
"Maybe it's to scare away anyone from coming here." Catra guessed.
"Well, rain or shine, I'm going to steal my family's book back and if Raleigh gets in my way. Game on." Sly determined.
"Then let's rain on that guy's parade." Catra punned.
Sly and Catra ran fast and sneaky while taking out a few guards, they stumble upon a gate though not as big as the first one and saw a hook at the top and they swing on the hook to get over the gate and collecting more clue bottles too which they found all the clues as they come across a large vault.
"Okay, the clues you found lead me to believe that the code for this vault is 7-9-2." Bentley said.
Sly turns the dials and open the vault revealing to be a paper, and it's not just any paper.
"Whoa, a page from the Thievius Raccoonus!" Sly smiled.
"Really, but it's only one page." Catra pointed out.
"Yes, which means that Raleigh must have more pages of his section around his fortress." Sly believed.
"Well, this page teaches old Drake Cooper's FAST ATTACK dive move. It shows you how to attack your enemies from the air like an incoming fast bird." Bentley explained.
"Sweet!" Catra excited to try that move out.
Sly and Catra spotted what Sly calls it a Treasure key and they use it to unlock the gate and made their way to the boat where Raleigh's blimp is floating above. Sly and Catra took out their binocucom for Bentley and Entrapta to see.
"That blimp looks like the most secured location on this boat. If Raleigh's really as smart as the police file suggests then that's where we'll find him." Sly stated.
"Wonderful idea, but your plan is flawed." Bentley warned.
"It can't be that hard to get in." Catra said.
"More like impossible to get near him. The only way to get close is to go through the high-voltage power tube which will electrocute you unless you can take out the power generator, but you will first you will need two more treasures to get pass those metal bars." Entrapta pointed out the tasks in front of them.
"Interesting, so when are you going to get to the impossible part?" Sly joked.
"This man doesn't fear much, does he?" Entrapta asked Bentley.
"I fear that attitude will be his downfall one of these days." Bentley sighed before hanging up.
Sly and Catra start making their way each area of the ship to find a treasure key while sabotaging his machines along the way, and finding more clue bottles for vaults to unlock and some of the rooms have tighter security to get through. They also managed find more pages from the Thievius Raccoonus: Old Sally Cooper's FAST GETAWAY RACCON ROLL, Deu Cooperinda's SLOW MOTION JUMP, and Christ Cooper's DIVE COLLECTION (an extension of the dive move), and found the blueprint to Raleigh's entire operation.
"Whoa, dad! Look out!" Catra alerted as a guard is coming up to Sly from behind.
Catra quickly runs up a wall and jumps performing the fast dive move knocking the guard out on the head.
"Nice work, Catra. Knocked out on the first try." Sly said petting on her mane.
"I just felt like I wanted to protect you." Catra mentioned.
"Then you have a bigger heart than you realize. Now let get these treasure keys to that generator." Sly said and the two runs together.
They use the treasure keys to unlock the bars to the generator and Sly destroys it with his cane which causes the electric current in the power tube to shut off, leaving a clear way for the two thieves to get in and arrive to the other side. They check with Bentley and Entrapta.
"Astonishing! All my calculations led me to believe that you would fail to knock out that generator!" Bentley cheered.
"Math was never my strong suit." Sly shrugged.
"Guess even smart guys want to believe in faith, huh?" Catra chuckled.
"Like how I believe we would escape that island and it came true." Entrapta smiled.
"Anyway, Entrapta and I did some analyzing and carry two, and there is only one way up to that blimp and I'm afraid it is doom to failure." Bentley informed.
"You're not saying we have to shoot ourselves out of that cannon?" Sly asked a little frighten.
"Affirmative." Entrapta nodded.
"Cool, now this something I can look forward too." Catra excited.
"Okay, now you're scaring me like Sly." Bentley scared.
"Must be the Cooper vibe flowing into her." Sly said proudly.
"But in order to use that cannon, you will need all seven treasure keys." Entrapta informed.
"Doesn't matter how many keys we need; we'll crock that frog for taking something precious from my dad." Catra determined.
Sly and Catra started making their way through other areas of the ship like one where they have to drive a submarine to get one treasure key and blasted some crabs away while taking some sunken treasure for themselves. They found another page from the Thievius Raccoonus, this one features Karin Coopergiwa's COIN MAGNET TECHNIQUE which Catra likes the most, she tried it on some coins around as they are pulled towards her.
With all seven treasure keys found, Sly and Catra unlock the cannon and launch themselves high into the air and crashed through the window of the main bridge where Sir Raleigh himself is there.
"Anyone order some flying thieves?" Sly joked.
"How delightful, we have a couple of guests. The only thing is… I Hate unexpected guests." Raleigh yelled.
"Listen Raleigh, wipe out my family and steal what's mine, you better expect company." Sly said.
"Yeah, no mess ruin my dad's life and gets away with it." Catra hissed.
"Dad? It would seem that you have gotten busy, Sly Cooper, I knew we were sloppy of not snuffed you out back then. So, I will correct that mistake by bloating to gargantion size and squishing you both like the insignificant bugs that you are!" Raleigh declared.
"Bring it on." Sly dared.
Raleigh caught a fly with his tongue and his belly grew a bit bigger than Sly hopping on one of the floating platforms, he towards Sly and Catra as they dodges him and avoid his long tongue like it's a whip. Catra manage to jump over Raleigh when he jumps over to her and land on his head, she pulls his hat down cover his eyes and jumps off for Sly to whack him in the head, then Raleig shrunk back to normal sizes and Sly knocks him away with his cane and Catra jumps going for a swing kick to the face knocking down. But the evil frog wouldn't go down so easily as he got back up and got big again, and Raleigh had some of the platforms go down to lower the chances for the two as Catra almost drown.
"Got ya!" Raleigh launched his tongue at her and quickly react by slashing her claws on the tongue.
"AAAAAHHHH?! I precious tongue!" Raleigh screamed.
"Didn't anyone ever tell you it's rude to stick your tongue out on a little girl?" Sly asked sarcastically before swinging his cane down hard on the head.
Catra hops from one platform to the next and threw a punch with all her might right in the face knocking Raleigh down into the water.
"Blast it all, you've beaten me!" Raleigh shocked.
"Well, gloat all you want, Sly Cooper and you little kitty brat." Raleigh mocked.
"The name's Catra Cooper." Catra introduced herself.
"Doesn't matter there are two Coopers. You're no match for Muggshot, my villainous cohort in Utah. You both will see that Mesa City is so well-guard, a snake couldn't slither in without setting off alarms." Raleigh bragged before falling unconscious.
Sly and Catra made their way to the final vault where the last page of Raleigh's section of the Thievius Raccoonus.
Catra: Man, that frog wasn't hard to beat than I thought. So, what's that page of the Thievius Raccoonus said?
Sly: Well, Catra, this page held detailed instructions on how to perform my ancestor Rioichi Cooper's Ninja Spire Jump, a technique he developed while sneaking into the thickly fortified castles of Feudal Japan.
Catra: Wow, and glad were able to get out of there when Carmelita suddenly showed up with her police friends.
Catra and Sly are seen hiding under a bridge right below Carmelita as they careful sneak their way out of the ship and back to the Cooper Van.
Sly: It wasn't easy, but at least she didn't leave empty handed as she busted Raleigh and his gang which stopped the weather machine. The storm lifted for folks to sail the waters again and the mystery of the Welsh Triangle faded from memory.
The scene shows the storm clouds are drifting apart letting the sun shines on the place.
Catra: Not to mention we got enjoy a little fun in England, seeing the famous sightings, and getting some souvenirs from certain places.
Sly and Catra are sneaking on top of a little house-thing on a wall stealing some jewels while Bentley, Entrapta, Scorpia, and Murry are pretending to be tourist to distract some guards.
Catra: It was a blast, and I can't wait to see what our next heist will be like!
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Catra got to experience first-hand on what is like to go on a heist on bad guys, taking things that isn't rightfully theirs and destroying their operation to get them arrested by the police and she loves it along with Entraptra and Scorpia. And hope you enjoy Catra and Sly doing the narrating together, thought it would add a nice touch as Catra and the girls will learn to grow strong together to help their dads reach Sly's goal to avenge his family as Catra will avenge her family too since she is a Cooper as well.
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