Turf Wars
With the gate open, the pair made their way through a short tunnel to the rest of the city. Once on an overlook, they moved along until they were able to get a view of the central building, with a neon sign reading 'Muggshot' at the top of it, along with a giant inflatable character of himself - a large gray bulldog, tall and muscular - floating over the roof. "Well, he's certainly not shy..." Coco muttered dryly.
"How are we supposed to find him, though?" Bentley asked through the Binoc-u-comm. "Mesa City's a big place."
"Maybe the big building with his name on it?" Coco asked speculatively. "Don't dogs like to mark their territory?"
"And that would explain the giant fire hydrant on the roof," Sly added, focusing in on the named structure.
"Logical," Bentley admitted. "You still need to find a way to break into the base of the building."
Sly shifted the lock on, noticing a crimson convertible held in place with three Treasure Locks. "I think I've got something..." he purred softly.
"So more hunting Treasure Keys?" Coco asked quietly. "This should be fun."
The first Treasure Key was at an old building on the edge of town, out of reach for any attempts Sly or Coco would make to retrieve it. Fortunately, that wasn't the plan. "Here's the deal," Sly explained to Coco. "Murray's going to be making a run for that key, and there are going to be guards and the like along the path. We're going to cover him from here-"
"I can't throw my needles that far!" Coco squeaked out in shock. "Well...not with any accuracy, anyway..."
"That's why you're going to use this blasting station we've commandeered," Sly continued, pointing to the terminal in front of the mounted gun turret. "You're the better shot, so you're going to be scanning ahead of Murray and clearing his path. "Can you do that?"
Coco nodded slowly. "I...think so..." Walking up, she checked the controls and smiled. "Yeah. I don't need thumbs for the buttons. I'm ready."
Nodding, Sly lifted his Binoc-u-com. "We're ready to go, Murray."
"Got it Sly!" Murray replied. Shortly thereafter, he became visible on the trail.
Coco focused on and through the turret before her, taking out locked gates and charging thugs with equal alacrity. Once she saw that thugs came out of garages, she focused on each garage as Murray approached them, taking a shot as soon as the door started to open and taking out the thug inside before they could even start rushing. She also made sure to take out the explosive barrels that lined part of the path well before Murray got in reach, so that the explosion didn't injure him.
Within a few minutes, Murray had reached the Treasure Key, taking it back to the van to be transferred to Sly.
As Sly and Coco began to explore again, they got a brief message from Bentley informing them that Murray had gone to grab a snack and somehow come back with a second Treasure Key from winning a race. After chuckling together a bit about that, the pair made their way into one of the larger buildings, a casino by appearances. As they approached, they knew defenses would be high as Muggshot announced over loudspeakers that 'a cop was sniffing around', and ordering a high alert.
"Mommy must be coming," Coco whispered happily, her eyes beaming.
"Hope not too soon," Sly whispered back. "We still need to get the Thievius Raccoonus pages and take out Muggshot before she gets here. Otherwise things get dicey."
Once inside the casino, Sly cut the power both to open the front gate and to give them shadows to hide in as they made their way inside. They made their way over the top of the slot machines, carefully avoiding the machine gun wielding guards. Coco couldn't carelessly knock them out with her needles, as seeing one of their fellows drop would put the others on high alert.
Once the last of the guards were down, Coco hopped off Sly's back. "I'm gonna take a look forward-whoops!" Slipping off the slot machine, she caught hold of the arm, tugging it down as she slowly slipped to the floor. "I'm okay!" she whispered as the tumblers spun. When they stopped, the bells started ringing as coins started spilling out, burying Coco. "...still okay," she mumbled from under the massive pile. "Bentley provided a super tough fabric for me to make my thief suit out of."
"That's...different," Sly mused, hopping down. Picking up a handful of the coins, he tried a few other slot machines...only for them to constantly come up with mismatched symbols that gave nothing back. "And this is why I don't gamble-"
Another series of bells and whistles called Sly's attention to another slot machine, where Coco was once more being buried under a jackpot. "I was just curious," she offered contritely.
Rolling his eyes, Sly pocketed the coins. He'd have to trade them on the black market for a major discount before taking Muggshot down to get any value out of them, but it would still be a profit. "In that case, we won't go to any casino until you're of legal gambling age," he concluded firmly, scooping her back to his shoulders.
Continued exploration of the casino proved exceptionally frustrating, as the lower levels seemed to be flooded, with the craps tables and roulette wheels turned into floating platforms Sly had to jump across carefully with Coco clinging to his back. On top of that, the vault was on one of those floating platforms, making Coco nervous as she rolled the tumblers, and she gave them an extra spin just to make sure she'd heard them click right.
Inside was another page of the Raccoonus, this one covering B.F. Cooper's meditation technique that allowed one to maintain absolute focus in times of inactivity, making it seem as though the world around the user was moving faster than normal. With the page memorized and pocketed, they went on to the giant floating roulette wheel where the Treasure Key was protected. The security was disabled by leaping onto the green space three times, letting the pair grab the Treasure Key.
"Four down," Coco murmured softly. "Think it's going to be seven keys total like last time?"
"We'll find out," Sly replied as he took them back out.
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knew
Nice work!
THAT LAST TECHNIQUE IS SUPER HOT!
http://superhotgame.com/
Time moves only when you move.
Looks like Coco's got a few lucky horseshoes.
7674652
Actually, it's more like a fast-forward button. Only really handy when things aren't happening very fast.
Bingo, Sly and Coco hit the jackpot. Well, technically more Coco but hey, at least she coined it.
7674703
Technically, it would be 'specist'.
7674683 ... SUPER HOT!
SUPER HOT!
SUPER HOT!
Good to know, but still going to chnt tht.
7674723
Although considering this is a world of antrhopomorphic animals and normal animals...it's entirely possible it's not racist or specist. It could be documented fact that canines have an instinctive compulsion to mark their territories, and the more civilized have replaced weeing on buildings with putting up big, colorful signs.
Sly's fire hydrant comment is still a bit much. Then again, he's 18 at the time, and has only had Murray and Bentley in his life since he was about six.
7674776
You understand right. And it would be more along the lines of "all Japanese people eat sushi".
7674776 I'd say it's more of a black people and watermelon tier comment
I'm itching for things to pick up.
7674714
And now all I hear is Jacksepticeye exploding my eardrums chanting "SUPER!!! HOT!!!" over and over again...
Also, the casino level is probably my favorite level out of all the games. I've played through this level SO many times just for fun... so many coins! And shit to destroy/explode! Definitely a fun way to farm coins for lucky horseshoes
7674714 please don't... I am sick of the hot comments I was reading about 70 weeks ago until 34 weeks ago
Hahaha, awesome. This is going nicely, nice job man.
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
7674699
7674663Do I need to break out the spray bottle?
I wonder what would happen if you put Celestia with Doctor Who in this stories of yours?
7675219
So you spray, we pray?
7674985 Fair enough.
7674858 I love those kinds of freebie levels.
holy crap, what is Coco's Luck Stat?!
Very good chapter, I can't wait to see Carmelita's reaction to Cocco's gambling luck.
7675999
...well, Coco's value just increased from "magical talking pony battery from another world" to "expert gambler magical talking pony from another world".
Seven again? How grand.
7678351
You forgot ninja.
So she's an expert gambler magical talking pony ninja from another world.
7675387 Celestia is going with Picard.
Also, it's THE DOCTOR, not Doctor Who, and there would be some rather severe problems stemming from the fact that The Doctor has lived for over 1000 years and has had about 13 different bodies with distinct personalities exclusive to a body.
Then there is the problem of so many early episodes having been erased by old BBC policies on tape storage to the point where many early story arcs have been entirely lost...
Then there is the matter of which media to include as the comics bear their own share of problems regarding both continuity and canonical status, and that's not even counting the Big Finish audio dramas that make up 90% of the adventures of the Eighth Doctor.
There is simply no single pony that would fit here and FAR TOO MUCH RESEARCH TO BE DONE ON THE 50+ YEARS THE SERIES HAS EXISTED!
You're asking for one story that would take over ten years to complete even if it was going at a rate of one chapter per day in the 1000-ish word chapters. The Sparkle in his Eye would be SHORT in comparison!
7682695
Unless one specific Doctor was chosen to be a parental figure to a pony.
7682719 That is true, but then you'd have fans of every other Doctor upset that their favorite wasn't chosen. You'd have fans of certain Companions angry that their favorite was excluded. You'd even have fans of certain ENEMIES put out if they were excluded by the era that was selected...
It seems like a distinctly lose-lose situation to me.
7682743
Unless I went with the Doctor everyone seems to connect to Time Turner. Then there's full justification.
7682777 But that presents it's own problems as well. While you'd get the benefit of having a ton of recent seasons to work with you'd also have to figure out just how to present Blink in a decent way since people will be unhappy if the Weeping Angels are outright skipped.
7682695 YES The stories will last FOREVER
Ps. of course I know that it's 'The Doctor', but not everyone does and it's hard to find something in the internet, if you don't know what you are looking for.
I love you and your stories I just have one problem with you and another author Kudzuhaiku you both are just so damn good that I have to add every story that grabs my attention by you guys and ya'll are the reason I have almost 11000 unread chapters
Luck of the earth ponies, or something like that.
7888461 4 me it would be luck o the irish. im irish
why are tables made of energyless objects called poo?
A lucky gambler I see.
8494902
Haha, no, "craps" is a type of gambling. You know, with the pair of dice and the long rake-stick?