Hey everyone, awesomeavenger here with a new story. This is a rewrite of my story Sly Cooper Vengeance Against Thieves. This story won't be split into separate books like the original. Also in my original, most of the chapters were jumbled together so in this one, I managed to fix it. Anyway, here is the first chapter of my story and all Sly Cooper characters are owned by Sony and Sanzaru. I own nothing. Also another announcement is I will also be rewriting Star Fox Restoration of the Heart. And furthermore, I will be adding another Star Fox story. Anyway, enjoy the story.

Chapter 1

Painful Separation

Mid- Atlantic Ocean…..10:21am

Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, a private plane was flying high above the water. Onboard, two figures sat apart from each other. On the left was a Siamese cat dressed in a red dress and high heel shoes. On the opposite side was a purple tigress in black cargo pants and crop top. The Siamese cat was Maria Delgado and the purple tigress was Natalie. Maria was the head of the Delgado crime family born in Columbia and based in Miami. Natalie was a former British special forces now discharged due to collateral damage but her expression was an upset look.

"Tell me Ms. Natalie, are you comfortable?" Maria asks breaking the silence.

"Oh I'm comfortable if you count being kidnapped comfortable?" Natalie sarcastically replies.

"Yes and I'm very sorry about that. But, why don't we get to the matter at hand."

"I couldn't agree more. Let's start with who the hell you are and why I'm here!" Natalie demands.

"Oh yes of course, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Maria Delgado, perhaps you've already heard of me, Natalie."

"As a matter of fact I have. You're family is the most powerful crime syndicate to specialize in shipping drugs, smuggling weapons and even people into other countries. Is that right?" Natalie questions.

"Of course. You guessed right, Ms. Natalie." Maria says impressed. "Do you also know why you're here?"

"Uh no. That's the part you never told me about."

"Of course. The reason why I brought you here is because I would like you to work with me."

"Really? You want me to work with you?" Natalie asks taken aback. "And why would I do that?"

"Because it has come to my attention that you're searching for the person who killed you're twin sister. Well, for your benefit, I have a contact within Interpol who gave me this information along with this." Maria says passing a brown envelope to Natalie.

Natalie opens the envelope and pulls out a picture. The picture revealed a grey raccoon wearing a blue shirt, hat, gloves and boots and holding a cane with a golden C shaped tip. Next to the raccoon was a turtle in a wheelchair and finally a pink hippo wearing a red mask, red gloves, and light blue shirt.

"Who are these three clowns exactly?" Natalie asks.

"That is Sly Cooper, Bentley, Murray. They are the infamous cooper gang." Maria explains. "You see, Cooper is a thief descended from a long line of thieves in his family. In fact, they live by a code of honor to steal from other thieves because it's no fun stealing from ordinary people."

"And where do the turtle and hippo come in?"

"Well as it turns out, the three met and grew up at an orphanage after Cooper's parents were murdered by a robot owl. Anyway, to make this short, these three were somewhat involved in your sisters death. Now are you in or out?"

"Alright, you've got a deal, Delgado." Natalie says in agreement. "But, under the condition that any and all resources are under my control and my control only."

"Excellent. You have complete control over everything."

"Good. Because one way or another, Cooper is going to pay for Neyla's death."

Paris, France…...11:23pm

Meanwhile, late on night in Paris, the city of lights, all was silent as it citizens were asleep. On a rooftop not far from the museum, a shadow with a C shaped cane walked toward the edge of the building and looked toward the museum through a binocucomm. This was Sly Cooper, master thief and leader of the Cooper gang. After a few minutes, he contacts Bentley.

"Sly, do you read me? Over." the turtle asks.

"Loud and clear, Bentley. What's the word?"

"Well, I've managed to disable most of the security in the museum but some of the laser systems are still online. I only hope you still got it, Sly." Bentley reminded.

"Don't worry, Bentley." Sly reassured. " I can handle any lousy laser. Just have Murray ready with the team van when I come out."

"Will do, buddy."

With that, Sly heads out for the museum via the rooftops. He jumps across many gaps, climbs up pipes, and walked across ropes until finally arriving to the museum window. He opens it and looks inside, seeing that the room was completely dark. Sly pulls out his binocucomm and sees the lasers throughout the entire room. He takes a moment to come up with a way to get through and sees several small points throughout the room thus giving him an idea.

"Hm… this looks like the perfect opportunity to brush up on my ancestor Rioichi Cooper's ninja spire jump. All I have to do is jump and hit the circle button. Just like old times."

With that, Sly jumps into the air and manages to land on a narrow point. He continues to ninja spire jump all the way to the other end of the room and enters another room. He looks inside and sees several museum cases containing many artifacts. But, he looks at the case at the end of the room containing a necklace with an emerald heart. He approaches the case, opens it and swaps out the necklace and puts his trademark calling card in its place.

"Good work, Sly. Head to the docking bay out back. We'll meet you there in the team van."

But before Sly could get out, a familiar feminine voice gets his attention saying, "I cannot believe you lied to me!"

Sly turns and sees that the source was an orange fox with blue hair, blue top and miniskirt, yellow jacket, and finally combat boots. This was Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox, and Interpol officer assigned to capture Sly Cooper. But, it was after the Cooper Vault job, she and Sly decided to start a relationship due to him getting amnesia after taking a blast from Dr. M in order to save her. Sly saw that the expression on her face was a mix of anger and betrayal. Sly was in complete shock and asks, "Carmelita, wh-what are you doing here?"

"My job." Carmelita replies coldly. "But this isn't about me. This is about you, Cooper."

"Okay, Carmelita, just let me explain."

"Explain what?! You lied to me! she shouts and turns away form Sly. "I thought we had something?"

"We did, Carmelita."

"Yeah well, it's obvious we didn't! You lied to me! Used me! Face it, Sly! You'll never give up following your family name!"

"Alright now hold on, Carmelita! That's going to far! Leave my family out of this!" Sly replies raising his voice a little.

"And why should I do that, Cooper?!" Carmelita exclaims. "Is it because your father and everyone in you're family was nothing but lying, greedy, money grubbing, honorless criminals who stole from innocent people?!"

"THAT IS ENOUGH!"

Sly's outburst echoed throughout the halls of the museum. On the other end of Sly's communicator, Penelope, Bentley, and Murray were listening in on Sly and Carmelita's argument and were in complete surprise at his outburst to Carmelita. Even Carmelita was in complete surprise that she had her hands over her mouth because she knew that she went to far.

"Sly, I…." she said trying to speak but Sly interrupts her saying, "I'm not done yet. First off do not ever take my father or my family in vain like that! We are honorable! We stole only from other thieves, not from innocent people! But I guess you and I are different because you're just like every other cop!"

"What are you saying, Sly?"

"What I'm saying is you are black and white inside and out, Carmelita! You don't know the first thing about honor! In fact, I was willing to give it up to be with you! But now I see, all you care about is the badge! And since we couldn't make it work at all, we're back to playing cops and robbers again. Good luck trying to catch me." Sly says coldly.

With that, Sly pulls out and throws a smoke bomb between him and Carmelita, engulfing the entire room and causing her to cough. Eventually the smoke begins to clear and Carmelita saw that Sly was gone. She looks over at the display case and saw that the necklace was back where it belongs. But, all she had on her mind was the horrible things she just said to Sly. Meanwhile, out at the docking bay, Sly jumps into the team van and they van speeds off. Inside, Sly saw that his gang were staring at him. He says, "Listen guys, I'm sorry you guys had to hear that." But Bentley stops him saying, "Don't Sly, it wasn't you're fault. She had no right to insult your family like that. You and you're family are honorable no matter what."

"That's right, Sly. You're awesome now and forever." Murray says jumping in.

"I agree with them, Sly. You are truly an amazing thief. Never give that up." Penelope added.

"Thanks, guys. Well, looks like were back to the old ways again. But, it's all worth it. Hit it, Murray.!"

"You got it, chum!" Murray said pressing on the gas, causing the team van to speed up more.

Later back at her apartment, Carmelita was dressed in a light blue nightdress getting ready for bed. She place her shock pistol on the nightstand but she notices that the drawer was cracked open. She opens it and digs around in it, trying to make sure nothing was stolen, but instead pulls out a rose and another cooper calling card. She turns it around and sees a written note on the back.

She reads, "'Carmelita, these past few months have been my happiest. I'm really glad that we were able to get together and put aside our professional differences for a change. But, I can't keep lying to you forever. I've lied to you throughout our time together and it's time I told you the truth. I loved you with all my heart even if it meant giving up my family name. But I guess some things can never die. So that's why, I'm going to be pulling a heist with my friends soon. It'll be my last heist hopefully. But if not, all I can say is I'm sorry and that I hope this rose can make up for it. Love, Sly.'"

By the end of the letter, Carmelita was tearing up because Sly did love her for real and that he was willing to give up his family legacy for her. She eventually broke down and began to cry, covering her face because now she'll never be happy again. "I'm so sorry, Sly. It's all my fault." Meanwhile on a rooftop not far from the apartment building, Sly was watching her through his binocucomm and couldn't help but cry as well because of his mistake for her lying to her. "I'm sorry, Carmelita." Sly says. "I should never have lied to you." With that he puts his binocucomm away and hops off the rooftop.

Back in Carmelita's apartment, she regains her composure and looks down at the rose Sly left her thus turning her expression into seriousness because she had a new mission now: find Sly and ask for his forgiveness.

"Sly, I should never have hurt you like that. But I promise, I will make things right between us no matter what."

Afterwards, she places the rose on her nightstand, climbs under the covers, turns off her lamp and eventually fell asleep. And her new objective was clear.