Teach the Gangster Dog to Behave Hard
Catra still felt bad about leaving Carmelita drifted away on that giant balloon after the little chase and hope she gets another chance to talk with her, and maybe hang out with that Adora girl she met back at the police station in France hopefully to become good friends with her. But Sly told her the policewoman is going to be fine, Carmelita has survived worst things than being drifted away by a balloon as they make their way back to the hotel.
"Hey you two, Murray and Scropia just found a treasure close by to the van and they're thinking about getting it themselves." Bentley informed.
"Huh, guess the race they did must've given them some confident boost." Catra said.
"You're probably right, Murray always has the bigger heart. Let's go see if we can back them up." Sly suggested and made their way to the location.
Some sneaking around from here to there, Sly and Catra arrived a good viewing point where they spotted Murray and Scorpia at one spot and they see the treasure on top of a building, they also notice the path to the treasure key is through some trailers and some goons around as well.
"Oh, if only Catra can see me now!" Scorpia excited.
"I can, you goofy stinger." Catra chuckled over the binocucom.
"Catra, where are you? Are you here?" Scorpia asked looking around and under Murray's foot.
"No, silly. We see you guys from where we are and want to see if we help you two." Catra explained.
"Okay, Murray and Scorpia are in position to make a run for the key. Scorpia's tail will be a big help to knock out some goons that get in their way." Entrapta said.
"But there appears to be more than we thought, so it's a good thing you two came." Bentley added.
"How do we help them?" Sly asked.
"Provide some covering firing with that blasting station." Bentley answered seeing the blaster next to them.
"Sweet." Sly excited.
"I bet we can blow away Muggshot with this baby." Catra grinned.
"Focus on this task for now, Catra. Only fire when there appears to be too many of those gangster dogs around for Scorpia and Murray to handle." Entrapta instructed.
"I'll do my best." Sly nodded as he gets in position with the blaster.
"Okay, this is it, Scorpia, you ready?" Murray asked his adopted daughter.
"You bet you jolly belly I am!" Scorpia answered.
"Then let's go!" Murray shouted as Sly blasted the wooden wall for him to start running while Scorpia rides on his shoulder.
Murray got scared when two goons came out of a house about to punch him, but Scorpia's instinct kicks in with her tail striking the two scary men knocking them out with the paralyzing stringer. The two saw two unconscious thugs surprise that they were taken down each by Scorpia's stringer and felt a strong courage bubbling up from within their souls, like they can take on the whole world together if they put their minds to it.
"Wow, did I really do that?" Scorpia asked smiling.
"You did and it was awesome!" Murray cheered.
"Focus, you two! You did got to get that treasure key." Sly reminded them of the mission.
"Right, let's get going!" Murray started running again.
And so, Murray and Scorpia continues making their way through the path not stopping for anything to finish the job for their friends though they also keep running into some thugs, it wasn't easy as they kept popping out where they lest expected but they didn't stop no matter what. Three thugs try jumping at them as Scorpia managed to take down two while Sly took down the other with the blaster, soon there were more gangster dogs coming out of their hiding place and Sly fired away clearing a path for them.
However, they soon reach a dead end of the path.
"Oh no, we can't go any further now!" Murray worried.
"This is bad!" Scorpia scared.
"Hold on, I think you can still keep going if you take that lift over there to the rooftop of the buildings.
"Good thinking, Catra, maybe I can get it to work if I fired at the switch right." Sly said seeing the switch for the lift crane.
"Good thinking, Sly. We'll do just that." Murray nodded and made his way to the lift platform.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" A gangster dog shouted in rage.
He charges toward the two as Scorpia was about to use her stringer again to knock him out, but Murray moves forward and threw an uppercut strong enough to knock the guy out.
"Wow, that was cool, dad!" Scorpia amazed.
"Thanks, I do some exercising too." Murray said before getting back on the lifting platform.
Sly shoot the switch for the crane and it lifts Murray and Scorpia up to the rooftop to continue running for the key, then they ran into some gangster dogs in black suits and holding machine guns in their hands ready to send those two to the afterlife.
"Dad!" Catra alerted.
"I'm on it!" Sly quickly fired at the guard dog knocking him out.
"Go, I got your back!" Sly called out.
"Thanks!" Murry thanked and ran again.
Murray keeps moving forward while Scorpia hide behind on his back since she couldn't use her stringer on the guard dogs with guns, Murray has to be brave for his little claw girl as he runs and runs straight for the treasure key while Sly helps with taking down from guard dogs that gets in his way. It was a rough mission for Murray and Scorpia, but they finally reach the treasure key and dance together in joy as Catra and Sly, Bentley and Entrapta all sighed in relief that those two are okay.
"Man, I'm sure not if I can take being worried like this." Catra said.
"Does this happen a lot before we came to you guys?" Catra asked curiously.
"No, but you got to admit, those two have hearts stronger than their muscles." Sly chuckled.
"Yeah, you got that right." Catra nodded.
Soon, Murray and Scorpia met up with Sly and Catra handing them the treasure bringing them one step closer to facing Muggshot.
"So, that leaves with only one treasure key left, right?" Scorpia asked.
"That's right, then it's off to take that Muggshot to dog school." Catra excited.
"Good luck, you two and bring us back some snacks if you can." Murray said as he and Scorpia made their way back to the Cooper Van.
"We'll see what treats we can find for you, big guy." Sly nodded.
Sly and Catra made their way to find the final treasure key somewhere top on Muggshot's penthouse as they climb their way through pipes and ladders until they made their way to the rooftop finding the treasure key inside a glass case.
"Huh, well, that was easy to find." Catra commented.
"Muggshot really should have thought about hiding his loot away better, making things easy for thieves like us feels like an insult." Sly stated.
"Then let's crack this case wide open!" Catra joked as she took Sly's cane and raised it above her head.
"No wait, Catra! The glass case is actually…" Entrapta tried to warn Catra, but it was too late as the cat girl slams the cane on the glass case hoping to smash it to pieces only to be shake rapidly with a bang sound.
"Really hard." Entrapta sighed.
"N-Noted." Catra talked with her voice being shaken up as Sly helps her stop.
"Okay, so we can't break the glass then." Sly said as Catra gave him the Cooper cane back.
"Not even with your combined strength, you can't. But perhaps you two can use something very heavy like that giant whacking ball to smash the glass open for you." Bentley suggested as they see the wrecking ball above them.
"Great idea." Sly nodded.
"But won't the ball smash the treasure key too?" Catra asked.
"Then we'll just have to make sure the whacking is close enough to smash the glass case open and the treasure key doesn't get destroy." Sly said.
"Then you got the plan, move it!" Bentley saluted.
Sly and Catra started climbing their way to for the whacking ball while fighting a couple of guards along the way, they even found some more clue bottles to open another vault that is next to the control panel of the whacking ball as they crack it open.
"Ah, it looks like you found the blueprints for Muggshot's operation in Mesa City. Very interesting which I'm sure a certain female officer would like to have." Bentley said.
"Great, now let's get that key." Catra nodded as she climbs up and hang onto the whacking ball while Sly works on the controls for the cane.
"Okay, just move to the left… a little more, now go forward just a tiny bit, wait go to the right now and… stop!" Catra helped position the wrecking ball at just the right angle for smash the glass case and not destroy the key, while smashing on Muggshot's sign.
"Is that good?" Sly asked.
"Yeah, time to let her go!" Catra shouted and slash the rope with her claws letting the wrecking ball fall.
The impact on the rooftop caused the glass case to shatter into little pieces and making some big cracks on the rooftop, and hops on the wrecking ball and grab the key.
"Let see if Muggshot got insurance for that." Catra smirked.
"Nice, now it's time to face Muggshot." Sly said.
Sly and Catra made their way back to the Muggshot hotel to final face the big boss though they quickly made a slight detour after discovering one more vault they haven't open, finding all the clue bottles they vault contained another page of the Thievius Raccoonus about Suzame Cooper's note pertaining to water safety which should come in handy if they go to any heist involving water.
Now, the two have made their way to the hotel and use all of the treasure keys to open the secret door behind the counter for the elevator switch, once pulled the giant Muggshot face opens the mouth revealing the elevator.
"I hope Muggshot gave that mouth some breath mints." Catra mocked.
"I think the smell of defeat will be even worst for him." Sly smirked as they enter the elevator going all the way up to the penthouse.
They waited in the elevator while listening to a boring music that almost put Catra to sleep until they reached the top floor and charge in facing the big dog man himself.
"What? My boys have been yapping about some two mysterious dudes running around cracking skulls and… and this is it? You're the monkey wrench in my operation?" Muggshot asked.
"I'm not really a big fan of monkeys, but if it means to face off that stupid mustache off your ugly face then yeah." Catra insulted.
"Why you little! Do you really think a stupid little kitty cat and scrawny rat with a stick… huh, wait a second?" Muggshot narrowed his eyes to Sly's cane.
"I've seen that stick before." Muggshot realized.
"Maybe when my father knocked your block off with it." Sly mentioned.
"Your father? Wow, you're a Cooper?" Muggshot shocked.
"And I'm his daughter, Catra Cooper!" Catra smirked.
"No way, another Cooper in front of my eyes! You know, that Thingus Raccamagoocus had a lot of nice pictures, but WAY too many big words." Muggshot mentioned.
"Then maybe you should just hand it over and go back to elementary school." Catra insulted.
"A wise girl, huh? Do you two think you can just break into my place, steal my stuff, trash the joint, I feel transgressed and violated." Muggshot angered as he slams his fist on the arm of his chair.
"Oh wow, the big doggy actually knows some big words." Catra rolled her eyes.
"That's it, now you got me mad! Let's rock!" Muggshot brought out his guns and walk towards them.
Catra and Sly quickly take cover to dodge Muggshot's bullets trying to think of a plan to take him down and his guns out, then the little cat girl trip and spin a mirror around until it stops reflecting a light right at Muggshot in the face.
"Hey, that's too bright!" Muggshot complained.
Sly decided to take this chance and run Muggshot whacking him on the head with his cane and kick him away, the big dog man got angry and fire his guns again forcing Sly to take cover behind a mirror as he turns it around reflecting another light on Muggshot's face. Catra took this opportunity to run toward him from behind and slash at his butt causing the dog boss man jump screaming in pain, Sly steps in whacking him with his cane again and knocked one of his guns away too. Catra decided to turn more mirrors around to blind Muggshot and preventing him from shooting more bullets again as Sly smacked his hand knocking the gun out and Catra kicks it through a window.
"No, my beautiful guns!" Muggshot winced.
"Ready to surrender now?" Sly asked.
"Don't think I'm not through squeezing the life out of you, I still got my spare onesupstaris." Muggshot went to his chair, and it went up.
Catra and Sly follow him through the other lift to go up to the second floor facing Muggshot with guns in his hands once again, they dodge his bullets while turning some mirrors to reflect the light against him again and Catra make a swift move to scratch Muggshot's hand to take one gun away. Sly charges at Muggshot before he could point his gun at him and whack it out of his hand crashing into a mirror and fall to the lower floor.
"Damn it!" Muggshot made his way to another lift to get his final third spare guns.
Sly and Catra went after him and this time they are standing on some narrow space as they are on top of some chandeliers.
"Eat this!" Muggshot fired some bullets.
The two thieves would have to be really careful in this battlefield as they have to balance themselves on while turning the mirrors pointing the light all at Muggshot while he tries shooting them down, but all the lights reflected from the mirrors blinded him. Catra leaps strong to knock away both his last guns and Sly jumps high to knock him down with his cane, ending the fight.
"This is impossible! Two little pipsqueaks like you beating a big, strong bruiser like me, it ain't right!" Muggshot complained.
"Kinda like how it wasn't right to turn away your mom and sister when they were trying to help you during your time as a kid getting bullied." Catra said.
"Oh, so you know about my past…" Muggshot growled.
"I can also tell that you have a caring mother and sister who tried to help you, but you turned away from them when they were there for you the most. I bet they must've felt really hurt when you became a crime lord." Catra said which stings Muggshot's feelings a little.
"Whatever… just take all that stupid picture book. But if you want the other pages, you're gonna have to go down to Haiti and cross path with M. Ruby. And believe me, you don't wanna be you." Muggshot warned before going unconscious.
Catra: Well, Muggshot was certainly a hard dog to train, but it was all worth when we got our hands on the next Thievius Raccoonus page explaining about the western Cooper named Tennessee Kid" along with his Rail Walk and Rail Slide techniques.
Catra and Sly look at the Tennessee Kid Cooper page together.
Sly: Yep, he uses those very moves to commit a lifetime of thief in the old west, but I doubt he had a hard time getting out of town like we had to.
Catra and Sly are seen on the rooftop looking over Carmelita and some policemen arresting some of Muggshot's goons and the big man himself, they quietly sneak away while the Inspector woman got Muggshot all tied up and the calling card they left behind.
Sly: That was the end of Muggshot's gambling empire, Mesa City's citizens soon return home never having to worry about that mad dog ever again.
Catra: Next best thing was the stay in America, enjoying the "Free Country" feeling around us and the goodies they have.
Catra and Sly taking some golden stars on the Hollywood sidewalk of stars, Murray and Scorpia are tasting some of the good food and Scorpia hugged a big, cute mascot, Bentley and Entrapta just went for a little sightseeing with some history lecture to each other.
Sly: Once we got home, we prep ourselves ready for the next heist.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Muggshot has been defeated making two members of the Fiendish Five down with only three lefts, I made the boss fight with Muggshot different than in the game as most who have played the game didn't think it made any sense about his guns being destroyed by light.
Next up is facing a creepy gator woman named Mz. Ruby and hope they don't mind the smell of where she lives.
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