It didn't take long for Sly and Coco to make their way through the field of lasers as they slid along the beams. Carmelita lagged behind, forced to rely on carefully controlled bursts from her jetpack to conserve enough lift energy to make her way through, barely managing to find a few landing points where she could slowly recharge. This meant that Sly and Coco reached the center of the Vault long before Carmelita did.
The center of the vault wasn't a place of wealth, however. It was a display of old vehicles constructed by the various Cooper ancestors, used in their heists. This was a hall of memorabilia. "This is...overwhelming..." Sly murmured as he stared around, his eyes going to an ancient airplane. "How did Thadius make a flying machine in the eighteen hundreds?"
"Very well, it seems," Coco marveled as she got a better angle. "Looks like it still works!"
"Oh, it's absolutely operational, I'm certain," a deep, gravelly voice declared, calling their attention.
Dr. M was a bright purple mandrill with large hands, a red face, and on odd helmet that hooked into a spider like carrier mecha that he'd ridden in on, with a well protected power core rising up from the top as the legs spread around him to lift him off the ground. The light of madness was in his eyes as he glowered down at the pair through his glasses. The legs moved as he approached the pair.
"Dr. M," Sly greeted coldly as he approached. "So glad you could make it. I know you were looking forward to seeing all this."
"Looking forward to all this..." Dr. M confirmed. "And your death!" He braced his machine, but paused as he noticed Coco's expression. "What?" he demanded irritably. "Is there something on my face?"
"...I'm just wondering what the M stands for," Coco responded playfully. "Mojo, by any chance?"
Dr. M let out an angry snarl as the spider-like metal legs lifted him up higher. "I am going to crush you!" he roared out.
"And the crushing shall be the most terrible crushing that has ever been crushed, for this is the crushing you most assuredly will bring upon me?" Coco teased wickedly.
The metal legs minced and stomped in response to Dr. M's fury. "Do you think this is a game, that you can get away with such taunts?"
Coco tapped her chin, her eyes glancing to how Sly had used her actions to slip around behind Dr. M. "Upon reflection," she mused idly, "this is most definitely not a game. But I do know what it is."
"Oh?" Dr. M hissed, his eyes narrowed in nearly inarticulate fury. "And just what is it, then?"
"A distraction," she replied brightly as she rolled to the side.
Before Dr. M could react, Sly had used the mirror he'd placed in the hook of his cane to reflect one of the laser beams around the outside of the chamber's central platform to sweep up Dr. M's back and across the machine, managing to damage the power core enough to cause a few errors. Dr. M roared in pain, spinning to face Sly. "So you stab me in the back, just like your father!" he roared out angrily.
"There's another way I'm like my father," Sly pointed out calmly. "I never fight alone."
The mandrill's eyes widened in realization, and he spun around just in time to get a face full of 200 year old flying machine, the engine roaring as he was driven into the side of the chamber. "What do you know?" Coco asked as she hopped out before impact, landing lightly on her hooves. "It does still work." She glanced at the dust cloud from the crash. "Or...did?"
An inarticulate roar of rage heralded Dr. M using his mech to lift the flying machine off of him and throw it to the side. "WHY?" he roared at the top of his lungs. "Why are you so determined? Why are you able to best me so easily? Why does that pony fight as well as you?"
"For the same reason my Dad broke up his Gang," Sly stated firmly. "For my family." He moved to stand beside Coco, both posing with their canes.
Dr. M's eyes narrowed. "Is that so...?" he murmured as he saw Carmelita entering the chamber. "If that is your strength..." A massive energy discharge focused in his mech's power core before launching straight at Carmelita, who lacked the energy in her jetpack to dodge.
"Carmelita!" Sly yelled out, lunging forward. The blast slammed into him, sending him flying at an angle due to his own momentum to slam into another wall. He dropped from there onto a rocky shelf, his cane clattering to the side as he slumped, seemingly lifeless.
"Daddy!" Coco screamed out in despair.
Dr. M started to laugh. "Your strength seems like a weakness, Sly-"
"Shut up!" Carmelita snarled, yanking out her stun blaster and charging towards the mandrill.
Dr. M laughed as he raised up on his mecha's legs. "You think you can-"
Carmelita grabbed hold of an odd extrusion on her gun and yanked, pulling an electric sword out and slashing the legs off the mandrill's mecha before plunging the sword into the power core, which began to spark like crazy.
"What have you done?" Dr. M yelled in fear. "The core's barely stable as is! It's going to explode!"
Carmelita seized him by his lab coat. "You're the genius," she snarled angrily. "You'll figure it out!" With that, she tossed him off the edge of the platform and into the seemingly bottomless pit below.
"Mom!" Coco called out from her place beside Sly's limp form. "Come quick! I think he's still breathing!"
Carmelita quickly leapt up to the shelf, staring down as Sly slowly stirred. As she saw his eyes open, she let out a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness you're okay," she murmured in relief. "How are you feeling?"
"Ugh...my head hurts..." Sly murmured softly, sitting up to rub the back of his head.
"That's not good," Carmelita murmured worriedly. "Bentley said your head's still banged up from fighting Dr. M's first monster, and another hit to the head..." She leaned in close to check Sly's eyes.
Sly stared back at her, a confused expression on his face. "Who's...Bentley?" he asked carefully. "And...Dr. M? And who are you?"
Carmelita's eyes widened. "Sly...if this is some kind of scheme, it's not-"
"Sly?" Sly asked worriedly. "Is...is that my name?"
Coco shivered, tears forming in her eyes.
Deep below the mountain, an explosion was heard.
"We can talk about this later," Carmelita stated firmly, marshaling her emotions as she helped Sly to his feet. "This whole place is about to fall apart..."
..... Oh dear.
Dr M just had to throw Sly down that Dark Descent... Amnesia.
I think Coco learned how to pilot from an ancestor, Crash Bandi Coop.
I think Dr M didn't get the memo, probably best if Coco repeats, reiterate and recites over and over again until she is clear, concise, to the point.
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That second one, just....AAAAGGGHHHHH! I want to like it, but it hurts so much!
So, I guess the question is is this real, or just like the game?
So... this time the amnesia is real.
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He already has Carmalita, he doesn't have a reason to fake it.
Oh boy... Sly's lost his memories. Wonder if whacking him again would snap him out of it? Then again, it may only make things worst...
Still, that Electric Blade... It was able to Slice Doc M's mecha's legs clean off... When did Carmelita get a High-Frequency Blade?!
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Bentley and Penelope made it for her.
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Odds are real but temporary, since in the game it was an act to let him have a life with her but they are already a happy family so coco ready to cry would have made him stop
And then they used magic and everything's better right?
Right?
And now he lost his memory for real....I think.
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Hope to god your wrong mate.
That would break Cocos heart.
This should prove to be very interesting
Y'know Dr M isn't dead right? Body still intact and thrown into a chasm with an off-screen explosion? No-one ever dies from that.
Hehehehe, I saw what you did there~
Also, Oooooo... poor Coco and Carmalitia... this is gonna be depressing... mm...
Good show
Mojo Jojo is the Mojo of Jojo that did ever Mojo.
I think that he is not faking this time.
I get the feeling that the next game will almost be all Coco.
Sly has actually amnesia? This outta be interesting.
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I think he did in canon, but recovered after a short time. He played along to remain close to Carmelita, not knowing how else to be with her.
I think. I read a lot of fan fiction, so it's entirely possible I have mixed up facts.
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Nah he faked it in the games.
Well tell me if the island is still standing because it doesn't sit right with me that the island of the cooper clan just sink into the ocean never to heard from again in the game
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Most likely actual amnesia this time around.
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He kills himself when the island explodes. Unless Tat changes that, he still does.
That Powerpuff Girls reference.
Also, oh crap.
Nice Powerpuff Girls reference!
Someone has been watching Batman, because that is just the kind of thing he would do with his gadgets.
Dang, Sly loosing his memory... but I think it would be good to have everyone move into a large house or with Scrooge so Sly can recover around people who care about him and spark his suppressed memories.
Also, we need to see Panda King twerp sweating Murray before allowing him to date Jing.
oh no. not good. please tell me its an act?? please!!
PPG reference. I approve.
"Although it is based on one. Also Darkwing."
"Darkwing? Wha--" *Lazer*
"Sorry, I meant 'duck'."
I was wondering about the amnesia. This'll be fun. And by fun I mean horribly sad and potentially catastrophic.
I'd like to say that is not my usual definition of 'fun', but I'd be lying.
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To be fair, I always thought that the amnesia was real at the beginning, but he regained his memory rather quickly. We'll just have to see how the author intends to take things moving forward.
8225188 All I know is that a certain author better make it clear quickly, or we shall riot, won't we lads!?
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Oh... this ain't good.
You know, I know that this is the "Canon" end to Dr. M, but I can't help feel that he may still show up later... After all, they haven't' even looked for his body and Carmelita just tossed him into a bottomless pit... It would hardly be the first time an annoying prick like him made a comeback from those circumstances...
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Tats' update schedule is fast enough where you won't need the pitchforks.
Now that would've made the fight better.
You kept the "Sly loses his memory" part?
The only reason Sly faked the memory loss in the game was so he could have a life with Carmelita on the right side of the law... he pretty much already has that, so faking amnesia would do nothing more than cause his family completely unwarranted sadness.
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He might not be faking it this round.
Bad tidings... very bad...
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So I wasn't the only one who noticed that!
I always disliked how the Cooper Vault was destroyed...
Scrooge could really refill his gold vault after the new show trailer.
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yea, but there's still enough to give it a quick band-aid fund.
ha ha yes i enjoy all of the old cartoon shows yet im still scared of negaivity ducks being the excat opposite to how they should be excited