Monsters and Men
Once Coco was out of hearing range, Sly looked Panda King right in the eye. "You said you'd give me answers?" he asked calmly. "Here's my first one. What did you think would happen when you went after my father that night?"
The Panda King shrugged. "Clockwerk told us the plan was to break both legs and his dominant arm as a message to stay out of our business. It seemed logical at the time. The five of us would be able to overpower him, a Master Thief would never go to the police, and no matter how well the limbs healed he would be out of action for years, if not forever. The Cooper Techniques only work if you have full command of your body, after all. Badly healed old injuries - or fresh ones - would make most of them quite difficult...or so Clockwerk told us."
"Clockwerk?" Sly asked intently.
"The one who gathered us to do it," The Panda King explained. "It was only when we arrived that we discovered his true plan. When he went for Conner with beak and talons rather than other weapons...we knew we had been used." He lifted his head. "And then I made the only choice I could accept...when I saw Conner shove the son we didn't know he had into a closet, a son the same age as my own daughter, Jing. I moved to the closet...and closed it all the way, standing in front of it as I watched what Clockwerk did..."
Sly blinked in shock. He remembered being pushed into the closet, staring out at the shadowy figures that had attacked his father until the door slammed shut on him. He had long thought the shifting of furniture had saved and protected him...
"He did not come to wound, or even to kill," The Panda King continued, his voice sounding ill. "He came to raven..."
Sly's eyes went wide as his face took on a greenish cast. "You mean..."
"Clockwerk is an ancient owl, who has replaced nearly his entire body with metal, keeping himself alive on pure hate," The Panda King continued. "Hate...for the Cooper Clan. Your father was not his enemy...but his prey. And that is how he will see you when he learns of your existence."
"He'll find this prey isn't so helpless," Sly growled, clutching his father's cane tightly.
"Which is why I fought you," The Panda King pointed out. "To be sure that, now that you've entered this world, you will be strong enough to face him." He put one hand over his face wearily. "When I took you to that orphanage, I had hoped I could protect you from this world, as I protected Jing by keeping her out of it."
"You took me to the orphanage?" Sly gasped in shock. He could just barely remember the shadowy figure that had picked him up and packed his things when he'd been found crying in the closet, carried to the orphanage in silence.
"Yes," The Panda King continued. "Chosen carefully. Prosperous enough you'd get three squares each day, but isolated enough that it never entered any news...and close enough to your father's destroyed home that it would be the last place Clockwerk would look for you if he suspected a Cooper Heir had been hidden from him. When I reached there, I saw two other children being dropped off there in your age group...a turtle and a hippo. I placed you with them in the hopes you would also find friends, and in that way seek normality, and then faded into the shadows." He chuckled softly. "Imagine my surprise when years later I learned that not only had you instead brought them into this world...but that you were able to meet Seft in battle without the skills of your legacy. Truly, you have grown strong."
"I owe that to my friends and family," Sly stated firmly, thinking on Coco, Bentley, Murray, memories of his father, and...
"And the Inspector?" The Panda King asked teasingly. "That hut is in direct line from my telescope. Quite an...energetic warm up." He gave a paternally evil chuckle as Sly's cheeks turned red. "Oh, to be young and in love again. I remember what it was like when I first met Jing's mother...oh what a whirlwind..."
"So that's everything then?" Sly asked quickly, trying to get past the embarrassing situation.
"Yes, that is everything," The Panda King concluded. "You will find Clockwerk in the Krack-Karov Volcano in Russia. Now that I know how strong you have become, I can give you this knowledge freely. Good luck. You will need it to purge this monster from the world."
"You've seen my daughter," Sly responded readily. "You've seen my Gang. And you've seen Coco's mother." He smirked cheekily. "A good deal of her, at that, from what you've said. I think good luck is something I have in great supply."
"Pray it hasn't run out," The Panda King concluded as Sly left, sitting back to wait for the Inspector to come arrest him.
Dad never told me what happened during that conversation with The Panda King - or TPK, as I came to think of him - but he seemed more pleasantly disposed towards him after that. He also knew exactly where to go next, but he felt a trip home to plan and collect our thoughts and recover our energy would be a good idea first.
It was just after we got home that I asked Dad about what he and Mommy were doing in that little hut on the snowy mountain that they had to take their clothes off. That led to a different side trip...
(1)
Carmelita groaned as she dropped her jacket over her chair and flopped into it. Processing The Panda King had been exhausting, physically and mentally. Not only had there been more legal loopholes to jump through than she'd thought even to get him locked up - in the same wing Muggshot and Mz. Ruby were locked up in, since Coco had recommended all three of them as redeemable - just dealing with those involved had been frustrating. On top of that, The Panda King had kept shooting her knowing, paternal smirks. When she'd finally demanded to know what he found so funny as he was leaving her custody, all he'd said was, "Telescopes on mountaintops spy many windows."
She was very, very glad her shift had ended immediately after. She was going to kill Sly for not closing those curtains...
A knock at her door drew her attention. Groaning, she got to her feet and went. Opening the door, she was surprised as Sly shoved Coco into her arms.
"You need to give her the birds and the bees talk!" he said quickly before leaping off the building and swinging away.
Coco looked up at Caremlita with a warm, loving, confused smile. "What does he mean by that, Mommy? I didn't see any birds or bees in the hut back on the mountain..."
Carmelita felt her cheeks color yet again. God damn you, ringtail... she growled silently.
(1) This scene inspired by Kenshinryuu
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Snrk, bahahahaha!
PFFTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fucking perfect
Luck? No. At the moment, I'd say his luck has hit rock bottom.
But then again, you know what they say about hitting the bottom.
This was a good day...also, goddamnit Sly!
I thought the Panda king's hideout was in China or Tibet
HA, SLY!
Why do I feel like the owl is going to try to eat Coco with how small she is?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm half asleep, but that brings the term Total Party Kill to mind. Which is what his explosives do to the enemy.
Still want to see Jing and Coco meet. Also, maybe have Coco visit the redeemable members in prison after Clockwreck is defeated??? I can see her being escorted in by Carmelita for her magic lessons with Ms. Ruby.
Poor Carmelita. But yay for humor and Coco adorableness.
7778755 Key word is try.... Sly and Carmelita will WRECK his shit if he gives even the slightest hint he wants to eat Coco.
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Fixed. Now says "on the mountain".
part 1:
first off, I hope that Coco gets to meet Jing someday: I could see those two becoming fast friends; secondly, I guess you could say that the Panda King knows a thing or two about honor...
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...among thieves...
part 2:
is it me, or is Coco becoming as good at reforming/befriending her adversaries as the Mane 6?
soooo, I have some theories on how the next chapter's going to go: what do you make of them, George?
part 3:
should've seen that coming...I don't know what Raven is
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Raven, used as a verb, basically means to "viciously devour".
Guess the Panda King properly scoped out the situation with Sly and Carmelita.
Hopefully the Panda King didn't smirk her perfect records with his answer.
Man Sly you just blirded out what Coco wanted to know and you just made a beeline for the exit.
7778843 Thanks dude. I was scratching my head at what that meant.
Hahahahaha! Panda King is one of my faves before I read this chapter now he 'is' my fave! So cool, Kind, and funny.
TPK, huh? Sounds perfect.
So, he helped Sly in the end, and even got him to the orphanage, huh? You've really outdone yourself with the redeemable qualities angle.
7778755 I don't think it'd be because of her size, since he can easily eat SLY with how huge he is
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Kinda freaky how Tatsurou made Clockwerk even MORE of a monster than in canon...and considering this is the guy who kept himself alive for centuries out of sheer jealousy and hatred, that's saying something.
No problem.
7779070 that's what happens when your not trying to sell to kids only. You turn everything better/worse in canon.
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To be fair, Sly Cooper in canon CAN get unexpectedly dark as far as I can tell...
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
7779112 that's true. You don't realize that they are creating zombies from corpses until you think about it.
Hahahahah!
I adore this version of the Panda King, he's funny and awesome, yet wise as fack.
I also enjoyed this chapter quite well, nice job man!
Hahah
TPK... now I want a post-game interlude where Coco visits them and gets invited to see him earning the nickname.
"Why do we even let you DM!?"
"Because you can't sucker anyone else into it."
Why do I get the feeling that directly after the incident both Ruby and Muggshot just barely managed to hold there stomachs long enough for Clockwerk to leave while Raleigh and Panda King adulted up the frog washing his proverbial hands of the entire thing while Panda King did what he did.
7779070 No kidding. Jeez. Well I can't wait to see more.
so... the moral of this chapter is... always close the curtains?
And this just goes to show one thing... Sly and Carmelita have a strange love/hate relationship, then again... maybe that's because of their lifestyles and jobs, but MAN I wonder after all this, how the second game will start since-
(this contains slight spoilers to the second sly game. Read if you wish, or already know of the second game)
Neylah or whatever her name is with Carmelita when sly attempts to get the clockwerk parts... especially considering the scene where sly cleverly disguises himself to dance with her.
But we'll have to see.
Awesome story, so far.
What does that mean, though?
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To devour ferociously, like how a raven consumes flesh.
Wow, Clockwerk is even more of a monster here, although it could be that the Panda King misread the situation somewhat, in the original he deliberately left Sly alive to prove a point, that without the family book, the coopers are nothing, it is possible that Clockwerk knew that Sly was alive and what Panda king had done, but simply didn't care, it still served his point.
7781668 Oh.
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I would have fallen out of my chair from laughter, but i was in a papasan at the time a little caged
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7781668 So if you can't beat them; consume them?!
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...Wow...I, i can't believe this...Not even the most monstrous creatures can do something like that especially with a child around, except those who are absolutely nonredeemable.
Yeah, I definitely like the Panda King. Based on the comments from a few previous chapters, I'm looking forward to seeing what goes down with his daughter.
Finding out the full family history between the Coopers and Clockwerk should be interesting too.
hahahahahahahahaha LOL
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Hence why Clockwerk has always been one of my favorite villains of the gaming world. He was a pain in the ass to fight in the first game, and the connections held into the second were equally difficult to handle.
Staying alive for generations, just to wipe out another's family line and legacy... There's no way to truly describe the hatred behind such actions. Clockwerk was beyond a monster. Him and Seft, they're irredeemable. Perhaps, if someone were to prove truly superior to him in skill as both thief and predator of the thieving world, maybe Clockwerk could be at best made into a neutral party. But, really, nothing could truly redeem that owl. He pretty much sold his soul to the deepest, darkest abyss.
The talk every parent dreads.
Good stepdad panda king 😂
It makes sense that panda king is the most redeemable. In canon he is the only member of the 5 to actually work with sly and show good in the series