Time Out: The Old West
With my new Uncles in tow, I was certain we could handle anything. Sadly, Mom managed to convince everyone that fixing the timeline was higher priority than hearing more embarrassing stories of her rambunctious youth...if only just barely. Uncle Bentley and Uncle Razor started going into all sorts of technical discussion of how they could rewire the time machine to take both the van and the Turbokat...only for Uncle T-Bone to render the entire thing moot by lowering the Turbokat's crane to pick up the van. Direct contact meant the time field would extend to cover both vehicles, especially with the Turbokat providing the necessary velocity.
"As if one brainiac over-thinking things wasn't bad enough," T-Bone had joked, only to get punched on the arm by Razor. I like these guys!
With the sheriff star, we made our way back to the 1880's, in the pioneering days of the Old West. We were specifically looking in on what was happening to Tennessee Kid Cooper, who had made his name by pulling off some of the most infamous heists. On arrival, however, we discovered that Tennessee Kid Cooper...was in jail. Some new sherrif - an armadillo named Toothpick - had managed to arrest him somehow, and had celebrated by posting posters of himself all over town.
We knew we were going to have to bust Tennessee out of prison. However, we had...differing ideas on how to best do so...
"Are you crazy?" Carmelita screamed at T-Bone.
"Commander Feral sure seems to think so," Razor joked playfully.
"After hearing your partner's suggestion, I'm beginning to think he's on the right track!" Carmelita snapped back.
"What's so crazy about it?" T-Bone asked defensively. "A couple stinger missiles in the right place would blow that prison wide open. That ought to make fiishing Tennessee Kid out rather easy. Just swoop in, snatch him, and get out before anyone even has a chance to react."
As Carmelita started to yell again, Sly put his hand on her shoulder. "Why don't you let me talk to them?" Sly offered gently. "I speak the same language."
"Insanity?" Carmelita snapped irritably.
"Testosterone," Sly corrected playfully. "They're closely related, though." That managed to get everyone laughing, and quickly defused the tension the discussion had built up. "T-Bone, I'll be the first to admit your plan has...a certain visceral appeal, but it has a few flaws."
"Really?" T-Bone asked in surprise. "Seems pretty straightforward to me."
"Alright," Sly allowed. "Where do you fire the stinger missiles?"
"Like I said, in the right place," T-Bone repeated.
"And what's the right place?" Sly pressed. "Presumably somewhere that Tennessee Kid won't get hurt by the explosion, right?"
"Well of course!" T-Bone agreed. "It'd defeat the purpose otherwise."
"And just where is Tennessee Kid in the prison at any given time, so we can be sure you aren't shooting him?" Sly asked pleasantly.
T-Bone opened his mouth to reply, but no sound came out. He then slumped in on himself. "Okay, so there may be a couple technical issues with my plan."
"Like the possibility of killing a key Cooper ancestor before he has kids?" Bentley pointed out dryly.
"So we find out where he is in the prison first," T-Bone concluded. "Then we use a couple stinger missiles to blast him out. A quick overfly of the prison-"
"We're facing tech-using time travelers," Razor pointed out. "Do we really want to tip our hand of what resources we have available before we have to?"
T-Bone crossed his arms and grumbled irritably under his breath.
"So how do we find out where T.K. Cooper is, then?" Carmelita asked curiously. "Get someone on the inside? It could take weeks to get someone hired as a warden-"
"Or hours to get someone arrested," Sly suggested impishly. "Though I'm not sure how I feel about someone other than you slapping cuffs on me."
Everyone turned to stare at Sly in shock. "So the big plan is to have two of you to rescue?" T-Bone asked in surprise. "And Vix called me crazy."
"It's actually a valid plan," Bentley pointed out. "According to information, they're already rigging a noose for Tennessee Kid Cooper. We need to do something to delay that immediately...and Sly getting arrested is the quickest way to deal with this."
"And why can't we just fly the Turbokat in from above, locate him that way, and blast our way out?" T-Bone demanded.
"Because we don't have time to find out if they've installed steampunk anti-air turrets," Razor countered flatly. "You're not taking the Turbokat into a place like that blind."
Uncle T-Bone grumbled irritably about the plan for a bit - as did I, I didn't like the idea of Dad in jail again after last time - but we eventually accepted the plan. Dad didn't wait for that, not that he could with how close time was snapping at our heels. All we knew for sure was that Tennessee was in the Maximum Security Wing of the prison...but we had no idea which part of the prison that was. So Dad had to go out and make enough mischief on his own - and be seen doing it - so that he'd be named an 'Outlaw' before getting arrested.
The tasks Uncle Bentley deduced to get Dad declared an Outlaw were specifically chosen to piss off Sheriff Toothpick, although they were...somewhat questionable overall. Defacing posters? Stealing candy? Crashing a party? ...then again, I suppose that just made Dad more a political prisoner than a criminal one.
Once Dad was locked up, I went out to scout the area. Once you've seen one Old West town, you've seen them all - seriously, it was indistinguishable from a convincing movie set, except for being dirtier - so it wasn't very memorable. I did have an easy time blending in, though. I just left my outfit back in the hideout and hid my camera in my mane, and I was mistaken at every glance for a wild animal once I'd rolled in the dust a bit. The look on Uncle Razor's face when I pulled it out was priceless.
I managed to get a good picture of the prison tower, a munitions dump, and a hole in the back wall we could take advantage of. All that was left was some signal from Dad in the jail that he'd found Tennessee Kid, and letting him know a way out.
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And so we come to my favorite Cooper of the game; the one that's not complete crap in a medium to long-distance fight. I can just see him swearing up a storm when he finds out Coopers don't have many long distance techniques in the future to balance out their close-up stuff.
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Except Coco has her needles. Those are All-Range.
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...Something you need to work in when he meets her then... you know that bit in some older cartoons where one guy throws a coin in the air and shoots a hole in it, then the other guy throws a coin in the air, shoots, and gets back pennies instead?
Tennessee: How'd you do that?
Coco: I... don't know.
Im kinda torn between which cooper I like the most. I definitely loved playing as sir galleth and TK. But Riroichi was fun as well. I guesss bob was the weaker one in terms of gameplay. I seriously hope theu make sly 5.
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Well, yeah, but the book never mentions a skill, or Cooper, that deals with long range techniques. Rioichi's jump is a fine support technique, but it hinges on the ninja spire jump, which is admittedly only really applicable in restricted situations. And the high jump of the Knight Cooper is only a faster method of climbing. Sly's archer outfit is only used as a means to explore or interact with the world, so I don't really count that.
Coco's needles are relatively recent to the Cooper family line. Tennessee Kid Cooper is likely the last Cooper, before Coco, to employ the use of a distance weapon and technique. That's what I meant, in that T.K. will wonder why most of his family after him didn't make more use out of distance weapons or skills.
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My guess? The answer is that as weaponry became more advanced, it became harder to have middle to long range non-lethal weaponry.
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Yeah, I guess that would be a good point. T.K. Cooper lived in a time when gunfire didn't bring the army crashing down on your head, so he could specialize in more "loud" heists, like train and bank robbing.
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Wow, I completely missed the non-lethal part... Yay for being as oblivious.
Yep, these two be separated for some weird reason again.
Guess T-Bone got stingered for his plan.
By the time the gang is done with the Sheriff, they'll need Toothpicks to pick up the pieces.
Becoming an Outlaw in that old west is like stealing candy from a baby.
Hehehehe, wheeeew... this is gonna be good
Also, some things.
Methinks you hit enter by mistake.
Good show Tat!
And why not do the crazy thing and have someone snipe a tight rope somewhere to cause a distraction or to save the cooper kids life
Still rolling with just a tablet, so further promotion of the Swat Cats revival will have to wait.
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I have no memory of that gag. Please, enlighten me. Preferably with a YouTube video.
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Not enter. Accidental double space. For some reason, the site turns the first space into a line break whenever that happens.
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I would if I could find it. I don't remember any specific cartoon where it happened.
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I remember the gag... Looney Tunes, I presume? That or it's from one of the Hanna-Barbera shows.
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Ahhh, that's odd.
Welp
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droopy dog
I cant remember the exsact name of the episode though
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I know that one. That was one of Tex Avery's Droopy episodes. I forget the name, but it was the one where Droopy was herding sheep into cow territory.
T-bone's plan:
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T-bone:
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you and me both brother!
Ay-oh!
Yep
hahahahahahahahahah