Author's Note

I decided to write this before I lose my Sly Cooper spirit. Hope you enjoy this more than Pony Park.

Return to Paris

Chapter 1: Return to Paris

I should probably just start at the beginning. My name is Sly Cooper, and I am a thief from a long line of master thieves. After my father’s death, I was dumped at the town orphanage, where I met my best friends and parents in crime.

Bentley, the brains of the operation, and Murray, the brawn and getaway driver. Together we pulled off some of the greatest heists in my family’s history, and we more like a family than a gang.

Recently, we faced our biggest challenge in Cyrille Le Paradox, who also came from a long line of master thieves. He once tried to wipe out my family history by time traveling, but we managed to stop him.

However, two years ago, he tried to wipe out a dimension inhabited by talking ponies. He turned into a mechanical monster known as Le Paraclock. With the help of our new friends we managed to destroy Le Paraclock, and his entire empire.

Now, we are about to get the Le Paraclock parts from a new art dealer. I knew that this was going to be a tough job, so we called in a few friends from another dimension. With our skills and their friendship, we were going to get rid of Le Paraclock once and for all.

It was a nice night in Paris, and it was a great night for a heist. A mysterious figure snuck into the local museum, and revealed himself to be… Sly Cooper.

He then activated his binocucom. “Breaker alpha, this is the Wizard. Are you in position, sitting duck,” said Twilight Sparkle, who was still getting used to Sly’s technology.

“This is peking Duck, I read you, blizzard,” said Sly, sarcastically.

“No Sly, you’re Sitting Duck, and I’m the Wizard,” said Twilight.

“I hear you, Lizard,” said Sly.

“No I’m… forget it, you’re not this seriously,” said Twilight.

“Yeah, I’m not. Look Twilight, I know it’s been a while since you’ve been here, but I need you to stay focused. If we’re gonna get to those Le Paraclock parts we’re going to need all the help we need,” said Sly. He then snuck his way to the door and opened it, allowing Bentley and Twilight to come in.

“Thanks Sly, now let us disable the security system so the guards don’t get suspicious,” said Bentley, as he and Twilight made their way to the security computer.

“Red to red, blue to blue, and… done. You’re all set,” said Twilight.

“Thanks guys, for your first time back in the field, you did pretty well,” said Sly.

“Thanks Sly. Murray and Applejack will be waiting for you at the rendezvous point,” said Bentley, to which Sly nodded and made his way to the rendezvous point.

Once he was there, Murray thunder flopped through the ceiling with Applejack on his back. “Greetings citizen, I hope you weren’t harmed by our massive entrance,” said Murray.

“Don’t worry, I kept at a safe distance,” said Sly.

“Great. We’ll clear the way for you and you make your way to the Le Paraclock parts,” said Applejack. She and Murray then used their combined strength to throw furniture at a window in the warehouse they were targeting.

“Great job, thanks guys,” said Sly.

“No problem. You’ll meet up with Rainbow Dash over in the warehouse, we’ll meet you back in the van,” said Murray. Sly then used the (conveniently placed) telephone wire to get to the warehouse, where he met up with Rainbow Dash.

“What’s up, ring tail,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Hey Dash. Let’s get those Le Paraclock parts, and then get outta here,” said Sly, as he managed to pick the lock on the warehouse gate. Once inside, Sly and Rainbow Dash realized that the Le Paraclock parts were missing.

“That’s weird, the parts should be here,” said Rainbow Dash. “This isn’t right! Let’s get outta here!”

Suddenly, Carmelita Fox emerged from her hiding spot. “Freeze, Cooper!” said Carmelita.

“Inspector Fox, as beautiful and unpredictable as ever,” said Sly.

“Long time no see,” said Rainbow Dash.

“I see you brought help when you returned to the scene of the crime, typical criminals,” said Carmelita.

“Crime? We haven’t stolen anything… yet,” said Sly.

“Quit playing dumb with me, I know you and these ponies stole the Le Paraclock parts,” said Carmelita.

“You mean someone already stole the Le Paraclock parts?!” said Rainbow Dash.

“Well we love to stay and chat, but we gotta get outta here,” said Sly, as he and Rainbow Dash made their quick exit. “Well, that could’ve been better. By the way, where are Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy?”

“They should be in the getaway van since they’re done with their distraction,” said Rainbow Dash, as she avoided Carmelita’s shock pistol blasts. The two then jumped into the getaway van, along with everyone and everypony else, followed by Murray putting the pedal to the metal and drove off.

“Where are the parts?” asked Fluttershy.

“Somebody beat us to the punch, they were already gone,” said Sly.

“Are you sure you’re not kidding, cause this is a very serious situation to make a joke. And coming from me, that’s something,” said Pinkie Pie.

“Who would do such a thing?” said Rarity. “I know that they’re shiny and impressively advanced but I don’t know anyone who would do this.”

“Don’t worry, I managed to hack into the security system and found footage of the culprit,” said Bentley, as he showed everyone the footage. “It shows a masked figure sneaking into the warehouse and making off with the Le Paraclock parts.”

“Okay, that answers who stole the parts, but we don’t know where the parts are,” said Applejack.

“Leave it to me, after all, those parts give a magical aura that I can sense with an easy spell,” said Twilight, as she activated the spell. “I’ve located the Le Paraclock tail. It’s West of our location.”

“Then it looks like we’re going West,” said Sly. “Punch it, Murray.” Murray then stomped on the gas pedal, as he drove off to the western side of the European area.

So here we were. Le Paraclock’s parts were all over the world, and we had to find those parts and destroy them once and for all. Luckily, with our Equestrian friends, we can find those pieces of Le Paraclock and finally rid the world of the Le Paradox family for good.

One thing that stands in our way is that mysterious hooded crook. We may not know who they are, but one thing’s for sure, we’re not the only ones who are after those Le Paraclock parts. We’d have to watch our backs if we were going to destroy the Le Paraclock parts and fix the damage this person has done.

Twilight mentioned that the only catch with the spell was she could track down the closest Le Paraclock part. We knew from our first heist of the day that our first stop was Belgium. Funny how magic works sometimes.