Lost: Disaster
Coco waited worriedly and impatiently as her family slowly stirred. Sly and Carmelita were the first to awaken, and seeing Coco nearby resulted in the first action being a tight hug. It took Coco a few minutes to calm them down, and by then the others had awakened and everyone was staring around at their surroundings. The pyramid, the oasis, the desert...
"So...what now?" Bentley finally asked, standing on his own legs as the mechanisms of his wheelchair hadn't survived the transfer. He would have to salvage the components later. Penelope gently braced him to help him stay upright.
"There's a hidden cave by that oasis down there," Coco explained, gesturing. "Someone's waiting for us there."
"Who?" Murray asked curiously. "Who would know we were here or want to talk with us? I mean, pretty sure this is ancient Egypt, right?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," Coco answered ruefully. "She told me, and I'm not sure I believe it."
"Who, Isis?" Penelope joked playfully.
"Given all I've seen of the Thievius Raccoonus and our trip through time, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a God was getting involved," Carmelita pointed out with a smirk as she fanned her jacket to try and cool off. "It's about the only thing that would top everything we've been through."
"Wadjet, actually," Coco pointed out, feeling somewhat relieved.
Carmelita turned to stare at her in shock. "...I was being facetious..."
"Well if there's one thing I've learned from love, it's that you don't keep a goddess waiting," Sly told Carmelita playfully. "Let's go."
It didn't take the group long to make their way down to the oasis, and from there they could see the cave Coco had mentioned...somewhat. It only seemed somewhat there, like a mirage but far too close. "Are you...sure that's really a cave?" Bentley asked worriedly. As he spoke, the cave entrance seemed somehow to become less real.
"I'm pretty sure now that it's a place of divine origin," Sly spoke up, the cave starting to become more real. "It's only there for us if we genuinely believe it is there." Confidently, he stepped up to the cave entrance and vanished.
"Dad!" Coco called out worriedly, racing in after him.
As the group followed, they found themselves in a massive cavern, pleasantly cool as two wide rivers flowed through it, one upon the ground and one across the underside of the roof. The one upon the ground flowed straight and true through the cavern, slowly shrinking from a wide river to a shallow stream and beyond as it stretched out into the distance. The river on the underside of the roof was anything but placid, twisting and turning in on itself as eddies, rapids, and snarls caused it to endlessly divert and spill out of its banks, odd protrusions causing distressing blockages.
As everyone took this all in, Murray spoke up. "Is anyone else thirsty?" he asked, pulling a mug from somewhere and reaching towards where part of the river above arced along the wall near him.
"If you drink from that river, you will be dussssst in mere moments," Wadjet spoke calmly as she slithered down from the ceiling, the mass of her body filling a good portion of the cavern. "That issss the River of Time, and I am itssss tender...amongsssst other thingssss..."
As everyone stared in awe, Murray slowly lowered his mug. "So...what about the other one?" he asked curiously.
"That is the Divine River, birthplace of the Godssss," Wadjet explained softly. "I watch over it, and tend the Godssss that emerge from it until they are ready to asssssume their fated rolessss. If a mortal drinks from it, they will have great power for a few weeks and then die as their life force issss burned out." She glanced worriedly at a murky part of the River, then turned back to the group. "Have you told them what I showed you, Child of another World?"
"I wanted to get them to shelter first," Coco explained. "Dad and I are the only ones who have mastered the technique to regulate our body temperature relative to our environment, and none of the others are really built for this climate. I was worried about heatstroke."
"A good choice," Wadjet observed thoughtfully. "You will have time to adapt, though not much. Allow me to-" She paused, then reared up until she could touch the roof. Part of the River of Time frothed and spun, a whirlpool trying to breach its boundaries. Watching carefully, Wadjet lifted the tip of her tail and inserted it into the center of the whirlpool, twisting the other way until the torrent subsided. She then slowly lowered back to the group. "Forgive my rudenesssss-"
"Your duties have to come first," Sly agreed readily. "And I'm pretty sure a whirlpool in the River of Time is very bad for the space-time continuum."
"Untended, it would unravel time itssssself," Wadjet confirmed. "It takessss all my power to contain the dissstortion that hasss been brought to time, which isss why I cannot act against the one who hasss causssed it. The other Godssss are in ssssimilar sssituationsss, ssstruggling to maintain the balance of the world againsssst the workingsss of thisss one. When you fell uncontrolled through Time, I plucked you from the River as the only onessss who could lend aid in thissss time, before the eddiesss could erasssse you all."
"Is that why the Staff of Moonfire and the Mask of Dark Earth are unstable?" Coco asked worriedly.
"That...and the Sssstaff hasss not yet been desssstroyed in this time," Wadjet confirmed. "You will not be able to usssse them while in thissss time, Child of Another World." She turned to the group at large. "Cooperssss and alliessss...will you help resssstore what hasss been undone?"
"We will," Sly agreed readily as the others nodded their assent. "What's happened?"
"The one you call Ssssseft fell out of time and landed in the Divine River," Wadjet explained worriedly, glancing towards the murky portion again. "Mosssst mortalssss would have panicked, drank, and been little threat to Time. He did not panic. He remained within the River longer than mosssst could...letting it wash away his mortal impuritiessss as it flowed into an old wound. He hassss thusss become a Fell God, a divine that should not have exisssssted. And hissss firsssst act when he left the cave was to track down the grandfather of Slythunkamen I before he could have children and sssslay him."
Everyone gasped as they heard that. "But...but he's the one who started the Thievius Raccoonus!" Penelope gasped out. "If...if he was never born-"
"That issss the leasssst of our concernssss at the moment," Wadjet interrupted insistently. "If Seft continuessss, the chaossss he sssspreadssss will unleash Set upon the world. If that comessss to passss, Apep may awaken assss well. Then all issss lossst. The chaos Seft createssss must be contained and sssstopped." She turned to Sly. "When you firsssst met Sssseft, you were unhappy with yoursssself because you went assss an assassin, and not a thief. I must asssk you all to do ssso again. I mussst asssk you to kill a God."
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So, the only reason Sly still exists at the moment is due to Wadjet, right?
Something tells me that slaying a god will sit better with him than mundane assassination.
Welp. Guess in addition to being a demigod-level thief/voodoo shaman/ancient magic wielder, Coco will be gaining the title of Godslayer.
To be fair, it was the only logical next step.
No pressure, right?
What camel left behind is about to hit the fan. BIG TIME.
Now I wonder if Sly will somehow become responsible for creating the Assassin Brotherhood?
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That was made very clear, though aside from her pulling them out of the flow of time would be only one reason since they are currently in a paradox only supported by the entropy seft has created and the goddess's own intervention. Now since in the games at this point sly would be completely missing creates another paradox where his timeline would normally end or be redirected to another point in time and space showing this will probably be their last adventure in sly's world before Coco ends up back in equestria with the rest of her family as most of the other series have done, with the exception of the megaman/megamare sets that took three stories where the two halves finally converged back to their origin point. Though once Coco is back in equestria she will probably brake twilight if she shows off the magic she has learned and the artifacts she gets to keep.
Now that I brought up that final part Tats if you see this I think many of us want to see Twi have another break down trying to make sense of the otherwise impossible like she did with pinkie
Well.... No pressure, then!
Great, now Coco can practice on how to handle Discord and Tirek.
Oh, boy. Egyptian Ragnorok.
Hmm, well, if you want to learn how to kill a god, talk to KRATOS!!! Or Pinkie Pie.
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... and whole fucking shit, not a lot of people get into Egyptian mythology deep enough to know what their Armageddon is.
THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T FUCK WITH TIME!
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All things being equal, stealing his godhood and going full Alicorn seems more likely.
lmfao, the fucking cheeeeeeeeese.
Good show man, good show
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I'm kinda a fan of Egyptian mythology.
If the gang can beat Seft knowing this truth then that'd be a Sly way to really be Godlike. Least we know Murray is drinking all this in quite well.
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I must say I love it when I catch your puns on a chapter. Keep them up good Sir!
Sounds good to me this time around.
Alicorn Coco by the end of the story! Calling it now
8657690 I can imagine Slythunkamen forming the Assassin Brotherhood instead of the Cooper Clan.
8657747 Yay. Egyptian Ragnarok.
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To be fair, anyone who's watched "The Librarians" would know the name Apep.
The only reasons, the ONLY reason Sly and company even exist at the moment is because Wadjet removed them from Time. The paradox of their existence can't currently reach them.
Currently.
This is gonna get worse before it gets better, isn't it?
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Read up on Egyptian Mythology.
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I didn't know you were a fan of "The Librarians."
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I used to be. But we cancelled TV for a while sometime after the resolution of the Apep situation, and since we got it back I've been completely lost and can't get back into it.
8658053
Or read the Kane Chronicles.
...deicide... Coco's gonna have one hell of a resume after this.
One of the works I follow had a character convicted on three counts of attempted deicide. When asked to defend herself, her only argument was that she'd succeeded in the third case, and that they couldn't prosecute something thought impossible.
Getting a chance to kill the bastard that stole his daughter from her original home and planned unspeakable horrors upon her. If Sly doesn't jump in head first Carmelita will, both will later deny the perverse pleasure they had ripping him to pieces.
Wow what is next all the time lines merage and every brother and their mother is an alicorn
oh god &celestia please don't let that happen.rainbow dash is not I repeat is not alicorn material.
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True... some are but not a whole lot to have them put it into fanfics correctly. :(
8658053
True... but who watches the Liberians at a moment's notice and absorb all it's interesting little things?
Question: Does he bleed?
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I did back before the cable got cut.
So Seft will unleash Set.... why am I not surprised.
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Already immortal, if that's your concern. As far as extra appendages goes... we'll just have to wait.
Now Coco can add killing a god to her resume
Agreed
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M.O.D.O.K quote against Galactus from Marvel vs Capcom 3
8660332 One of his only good lines next to "I just killed a raccoon. SCIENCE!"
Okay. I’m enjoy this so far, but this is getting a little out of hand.
Is this turning into assassin's creed origins? cause i suddenly got that idea
Wow. Penelope was half right!
I’m kidding. If you sent Isis on this important mission, the battle would be just as disappointing as “Star Trek: Discovery”, “Star Wars 8: The Last Jedi”, and learning that your doctor lies about your condition.
I mean... I guess you could make a great Michael Bay film... Whatever constitutes as such these days.
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If there’s a furry Assassin’s Creed series hidden underneath this Sly Cooper series... well, I dunno. I haven’t done anything with AC since AC 4 Black Flag.
Is Assassin’s Creed still good?
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You just made me want to see a Desmond vs Sly Cooper fight.
I bet most of the Assassins are birds.
EDIT: Do monkeys exist in Sly Cooper? I bet Desmond could be a chimpanzee or a spider monkey.
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I would prefer a Sly vs Ezio fight.
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Like Old Ezio or 2nd game in his trilogy Ezio?
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Brotherhood Ezio.
Don’t worry I got the music ready