Sly 5: Line of thieves CH8 (End)

SLY 5 LINE OF THIEVES (8)

CINEMATIC CUTSCENE (SLY)

I already knew Clockwerk was obsessed with proving himself superior to my family, his jealousy and hatred getting him to seek immortality to make sure he sees the end…now using his skills in magic and alchemy from his own time, and several forms of modern tech he creates the body that was immortal. If Le Paradox never happened, we might had not been to the past to inspire Kaluk to take this dark path…or if I didn’t want to make sure Le Paradox was down for good, instead choosing to let him die in the blimp I might have not been flung back in time…it doesn’t matter, all that matters is to stop Clockwerk, and make sure he never hurts anyone ever again.

SLY COOPER AND THE GANG IN: END OF TIME

Sly and the others had tracked Clockwerk down through time using the remains of the hate chip to track his signature. They weren’t exactly in any timeline, just a void of purple, black and blue, with floating rocks and landscapes. A pocket dimension. Sly saw his ancestors: Slaigh, Harriette, Slytunkhamen, Thaddeus, Otto and finally Connor and Mary, all frozen in crystal…Clockwerk wanted to destroy them all at once.

Clockwerk: You dare enter my domain. But now you’re here, I can do what I wanted to do all along and wipe you all out at once!

Carmelita: Sly, save your ancestors, I’ll hold him off.

Sly: Are you sure, he’s powerful.

Carmelita: No bird can hold me down. Once your ancestors are okay, we can gangbang him.

Murray: I’ll stay too, I’ll show him what the Murray can do!

Robin: He’ll taste the metal of my arrows as I pierce his metallic skin!

Bentley: We’re a gang…a family, we look out for each other. We got your back, now do what you have to do!

Sly: Thanks guys…you’re the best family I could ask for.

Sly had to navigate from small rock to small rock and from island to island without falling in the abyss below. First his normal skills were put to the test. He had to grind rails, spire jump rocks, cling to walls and sneak across ledges. There were various guards from previously visited timelines patrolling and there were lasers and searchlights.

Then he had to put each of his suits to the test: first he had to climb across an icy wall with the Wall Climb Suit, use his Thief suit to navigate past fast, spinning rocky platforms, the Tiger pelt to leap long distances, the lightfoot costume to navigate on some thin ice safely and the Highlander costume to navigate through some laser puzzles. But once those were done he came across the first ancestor, Slytunkhamen, and smashed his crystal prison.

Slytunkhamen: It seems that Kaluk took me by surprise but I’m free now, and ready to face the beast.

Sly: You got to help me release your descendants first so we can unite against Clockwerk.

Slytunkhamen: Good idea, leave the next rescue up to me.

Meanwhile, we cut to Murray, who was engaged in an all out brawl with several guards who were summoned through time. He fought six waves of foes, each wave being foes from a different timeline. But Murray persevered and knocked all the foes down.

Slytunkhamen was the next to navigate through the islands in the sky. His invisibility and intangibility were put to the test as he had to become invisible to avoid searchlights and phase through certain walls, but he made it to Slaigh and destroyed his crystal prison.

Slaigh: Aye laddie, I’m free and ready to kick some can.

Slytunkhamen: Son, may I suggest you break out our relatives first so we can, as a whole family, participate in the ‘kicking of cans’?

Slaigh: Sure, nobody puts my family in crystal prisons! Freedom!

Next we cut to Bentley…normally he wasn’t a straightforward fighter, but using his bombs, arsenal and wheelchair he fought off a wave of enemies just like Murray has done before.

Then it was Slaigh whose turn it was to navigate. Except for standard Cooper moves he had to smash his way through walls and platforms with his Atlas Smash, but he made it through and release Harriette from her prison.

Harriette: Finally, it was getting stuffy in here, now who wants to get some swaskbuckler style?

Slaigh: Feisty little girl, you’re a real Cooper all right! Now, are you going to help us save the rest so we can all have a piece of the bird?

Harriette: Leave that to me!

Now Carmelita was fighting off robotic falcons Clockwerk has summoned. It was first person shooting at its finest, but Carmelita didn’t miss a target, blasting off every attacker out of the sky.

Now it was up to Harriette, who had to navigate over chains that were very breakable, but with her ability she made it over them in time. Sometimes she had to use her gold scent to dig up golden keys to open gates, but she passed right through and then busted out Otto from his crystal prison.

Harriette: Ahr, matey, you’re free now!

Otto: Oof! I hope to never go through zat again…but now I’m free, I’m ready to soar through the air, inside my metal eagle! (Otto hops in plane and flies off).

Harriette: What beast did hatch a bird like that?

Now it was up to Robin to do some first person shooting herself and shoot out any robo-falcons from the sky.

Now Otto, in his bi-plan navigated to the next island, dodging pieces of rock that flew around and blasting any robo-falcons in his way. He shot through and shot apart the crystal prison that held Thaddeus.

Thaddeus: I salute you, my high-flying relative! Now, let’s see if I can bust out some relatives as well.

As Sly has seen how his ancestors were helping one another out, he himself took some action as well and like Bentley and Murray did, also fought of several waves of enemies too. After six waves he was done.

Thaddeus took action just like the rest of the ancestors. He had to use some disguise skills to get past some puzzles but manages to make it through as well and freed Connor.

Connor: What’s this? More relatives I don’t know off.

Thaddeus: It’s confusing, I admit…even I don’t completely understand it but what counts now is that we band together and defeat that bloody bird!

Connor: Got me there, but don’t you mind if I break out my girlfriend first? She might want a piece of the action too…

Connor then navigated over lasers a second time to get through to Mary, whom he once again released from a tight prison.

Mary: Why you keep coming back for me Cooper? Wouldn’t it be easier to leave me and go around robbing unhindered?

Connor: That’s the easy way, but not the right one. I’m a thief, but I’m not a rat. Besides, you are too much fun.

Mary: Don’t know if I have to feel flattered, but I’m going to blast that bird out of the sky!

Connor: After you.

Sly now jumped in, on a huge island in the middle, where Clockwerk hovered closely.

Clockwerk: I hate you Coopers, I’ll destroy you, I’m eternal, I’m the alpha and the omega, I’m Clockwerk!

Sly: You talk too much!

Clockwerk swooped in, Sly diving to the side to dodge. Clockwerk stuck out his rear and fired his tail feathers as missiles. Sly dodged them and jumped over the shockwaved they produced as they impacted on the ground. This was when Murray and Slaigh appeared, throwing chains at Clockwerk and wrapping him up, before they pulled hard and grounded him. Sly picked up one of the tail feathers, held it like his cane and used it to bash Clockwerk with it, since it was made of the same material as the rest of his body it damaged him greatly. Sly did this until a quarter of his health was down.

Clockwerk flew up again, this time staying out of reach of everyone, firing one energy bolt after another, Sly having to keep dodging the blasts, some creating shockwaves he jumped over. Clockwerk grew tired of not being able to hit Sly and flew closer, only for him to be pelted with Carmelita’s shock pistol, Mary’s gun and Robin’s arrows. He wasn’t grounded, but he floated next to the island Sly was on, dazed. Sly spire jumped from his wing to his shoulder joint and whacked his face until another quarter of his health was down. Clockwerk knocked him off.

Clockwerk now went on the laser tour, firing lines of lasers which were far less easy to dodge but Sly still managed. Sometimes he charged up an attack that couldn’t be blocked and homed in on Sly and it required some tricky dodging. As Clockwerk was occupied, from two islands above him, Thaddeus and Harriette jumped on top, planted their canes in their wing joints and Clockwerk was forced on the ground again. Sly rushed up and whacked the bird again up until another quarter of his health was gone.

Clockwerk flew up again. This time he brought it all out: homing blasts, lasers, fireballs, electric blasts, shockwaves, summoning minions, the lot. Sly really had to put it all to the test to dodge it all. After some masterful dodging, Otto’s plane flew by, fired some bullets, dazing the bird, before Bentley, also inside the plane tossed some bombs to knock Clockwerk out of the air. Sly then whacked him several time again until another quarter of his health was gone.

Clockwork roared as he dropped himself of the island, into the void below, to escape.

Clockwerk: If I can’t destroy you, I’ll take this whole pocket zone down with me, and you all in it.

Sly: No freakin’ way I let that happen.

Connor: Here kid, take this! (tosses his cane, so Sly now has two)

Sly: Thanks. (jumps in the void after Clockwerk)

Connor: Good luck…son!

Now the second part of the fight begins, Sly going after Clockwerk in freefall. Sly could slow down his jump or fasten it, in order to get to Clockwerk closer or to brake down in case Clockwerk summoned obstacles or energy blasts. Sly had to get to Clockwerk up to four times and ram him with his double canes, each time one quarter of his health going down. The fourth time Sly hits him, something happens…

The player has to press X several times over, filling up a gauge…once the gauge is full, time suddenly rewinds and Clockwer and Sly fly back up, to the island they originally fell from…then all of a sudden, spiritual versions of all of Sly’s ancestors, ones present and none-present appear and shoot at Clockwerk, slashing with their cans. One push of the Square and Sly uses his double canes to lay a final blow on Clockwerk.

Clockwerk: NO! I am supposed to be the biggest master thief! (shuts down)

Sly: He’s not dead…he’s just in self-repair mode. But I can still end it here.

Connor: Please son…don’t! Yes, I know who you are, your friends told me everything.

Sly: Then you know what might happen to you in the future.

Connor: Yes, I’ll die, but to protect you! And if you respect the sacrifice I made, you lay down the canes.

Sly: But I can prevent this from happening, making sure you all do not die prematurely, you all lead long and happy lives.

Slytunkhamen: Our lives weren’t long, but they were happy. We’ll die knowing that we brought justice and stole back what was unrightfully taken, and knowing the next generation will pass on the tradition.

Slaigh: Who wants to die like an old man anyway? If I go out swinging, I die happily.

Harriette: Besides, none of us are meant to live ordinary lives, because we’re far from ordinary. If you managed to take out Clockwerk where we couldn’t, it means you’re special.

Thaddeus: A thief by birth like all of us, but you’re the only one who get to learn without the Thievius Raccoonus, to get the chance to earn it, a thief raised by tragedy…the one who has taken him down in the future.

Otto: You fought a war and you wan. It was you who ended the threat of Clockwerk in the future and makes sure a new generation of master thieves can live on without an era of strife and fear.

Connor: Besides, no one has been as close to his gang as a family. If you contributed anything to the Cooper line, it’s the value of family. So please, don’t change the past. It’s sad I have to go yes, but you got a new family that need you more then we do…

Sly: (turns to his team, who nod in approval) I guess you’re right, the past isn’t meant to be changed…in that case, we’ll just drop this relic of in the past, where he’ll suffer the greatest punishment: defeat at the hands of a lineage of thieves for thousands of years before it ends into nothing.

Bentley: Let’s bring these Coopers home…

Mary: If this is a gathering of ancestors of you Coopers, then what am I going here?

Connor: It’s best that you find out for yourself.

CINEMATIC CUTSCENE (SLY POV)

Clockwerk lay defeated at my feet…at one point I considered changing the timeline by ending it. But that would mean everything my family did may never get to happen. My ancestors were thieves but they also stand for justice and they would die happily knowing they did good…who am I to show disrespect? We dropped his broken body off in prehistoric times, where he would wait and last thousand of years, but only to suffer humiliation after humiliation at hands of my family.

I brought my ancestors back to their own timelines, and even did a cleanup of small details from this and the previous adventure (insert clip of the Coopers picking up Toothpick, in a full body cast and dropping him off in present day prison) or to bring others home who have been misplaced (insert clip of Jean Bison brought back to the past, during the Gold Rush).

Once that was over with, when everything in the timeline was back as it should be, the question was: where would that leave me and Carmelita, and the gang? We knew we couldn’t be a gang of thieves forever, though we’ll forever be family…but Carmelita and I are on opposite sides of the law. However, as we might have still not figured out the answers, we decided to vanish of the radar for a while, enjoy the time we have with each other until the calm is over and the inevitable next storm will brew…

We picked up Penelope, who after a long time of therapy was back to normal. That made the gang whole again. Though we laid low, everyone still did what they did best. Penelope and Bentley went back to inventing, this time not selling any plans to any crazy rich criminal mastermind.

Murray entered the wrestling circuit again, also being part time champ at the demolition derby, but this time he doesn’t drive alone…as soon as he had learnt Robin how to wrestle and to drive (more or less) they were the undefeated champs of the tag-team wrestling matches and the demolition derby team class.

As for me and Carmelita…we’re no longer on the police force but we still serve justice in our own way, we both have started a private detective agency. That way we could still serve justice, though on our own terms. Though at times I still relapse…it has become more of a hobby then a real job. Carmelita doesn’t really approve but at the same time she doesn’t do anything to change it. We have a complex relationship…though there’s no denying we’re happy with each other. We’ll enjoy the time we have, because I’m certain that Clockwerk isn’t the only one jealous at my family’s success…

ENDING CREDITS

Dimitri has reopened his nightclub, only this time without illegal spice or art forgery. He still goes deep sea diving once in while, and he plans to bring out a new line of beach fashion ware. He has hired another misguided soul, namely our old friend Grizz, as a DJ. Later the nightclub was converted in a nightclub/ice skate ring hybrid.

Slytunkhamen continued to steal from the corrupt nobility of his time. One day he stumbled upon the Pharaoh’s daughter…and they eloped together. He finished his first draft of the Thievius Raccoonus and the Cooper Vault, which would be two of the most important parts of Cooper heritage.

Slaigh McCooper started to organize the yearly McCooper games, where he would challenge other clans into a friendly competition every year. Though the McCoopers win every year, it’s all in good fun.

Harriet One-Eye Cooper’s crew started to steal from pirates again, but also started to plunder the royal fleet once they learned how the Queen of England has put up extra taxes to fulfill her own greedy desires. Not on her watch.

Otto Von Cooper continue to be a war hero. Once the war was over, he became a professional stunt pilot.

Thaddeus eventually settled down with Maria and started a family. Though Maria still continued her career as an opera diva. And Thaddeus continued to listen, though from the VIP seats this time.

My father had made a name for himself as he had stolen world’s biggest diamond. My mother continued trying to arrest him, but eventually both gave in to their feelings and settled down…good thing to, or I may have not existed.

McGuffin fled Scotland in shame. Unable to gather any more followers to rebuild his clan, he instead started a traveling food chain, though foreigners didn’t exactly warmed up to his haggis recipe.

Blackfeather was left on an abandoned island for the rest of his. Though he has grown used to his diet of coconut and crab.

Totenkopf was jailed for his war crimes, spending the rest of his days serving in the cafeteria of a maximum security prison.

Le Paradox Sr. was jailed for his crimes, though he had an illegitimate child. That child wanted to become like his father but failed miserably, and we know where that led to…

The Fiendish Five eventually reformed, with General Tsao and Le Paradox as the newest members, as did the Klaww Gang, who now have initiated Toothpick and El Jefe in their ranks. Each group had set their sights on conquest of respectively China and Brazil…Not if we can help it!

Octavio declined invitation due to enjoying his popularity in jail as a singer, and so did Ms. Decibel as she was close to being released early for good behavior and start as a music history professor at a music academy.  

SHORT CLIP

Carmelita and Sly were back on the balcony they were a long time ago, where Bentley has spied on them at the end of Sly 3. Sly bowed down on one knee and pulled out a box with a ring inside.

YES, YES!

That was what sounded through the air that evening as the two lovers embraced.

THE END