Sly Cooper: Count The Medals

Disclaimer: I don't own Sly Cooper or Kamen Rider OOO, and the OCs belong to Kitty Petro

Sly Cooper and the gang in: Count The Medals!

                                                 Episode 1: Awakening Desires

Nighttime. The perfect time for couples to spend time together. At this time, a certain couple was standing atop the roof of the newly opened museum, The Kougami Museum. Sly Cooper, the infamous master thief was in the middle of another heist. By his side was Carmelita Fox, a former inspector from Interpol. Now, as we all know, Carmelita used to spend her nights chasing down Sly, but about 5 months ago, she had decided to quit working for Interpol for two reasons. The first, being that Interpol was just becoming too corrupt, that she had had enough of it, and the second, being that after all this time, she had finally admitted her feelings for Sly. Needless to say, she had decided to join The Cooper Gang, and after 2 months of training, had become a master thief, and Sly's partner in crime (they both played the role of thieves for the gang), and she had never been happier.

Getting into position, the both of them put on their Binocucoms, and prepared themselves. "Alright Bentley, we're all set. How's the situation down there?" Sly asked through the Binocucom.
Back in the Cooper Gang's van, Bentley was busy reviewing the pictures he had gotten from the security cameras he had hacked. "Okay, now I knew this wasn't going to be too hard, but..." he started, almost sounding surprised.

"What's the matter? Did they add some new piece of security?" Carmelita asked, curious at his reaction. It wasn't very common for him to act this way, especially since it was just a simple heist.

"Erm, no. It's just that there is only one guard watching the security cameras, and he's well...he's asleep," Bentley finished, with a large sweat drop on his head.  

"I've heard about sleeping on the job, but this is ridiculous," Carmelita commented.

"Well, at least it makes things easier," Sly commented, as they quickly moved to the open skyline, before jumping in (using a rope of course).

Quickly making their way through the museum (which was surprisingly low on security), they found their target. Laying on a display case was their target, The Beasts' Bracelet. It was really just a simple golden bracelet, but what made it unique, was the four ornaments that were present in four sides of the bracelet. All four of them were circular, with a golden side, with each depicting an animal in a single color. One ornament depicted a green Mantis, while another depicted a yellow Cheetah, while the third ornament depicted a gray Gorilla, and the last ornament depicted a blue Octopus.

Smiling slightly, the both of them walked over to the case, whilst noting the nearest escape route (an air vent), since they figured they were going to need to hurry out of their real soon. "May I, querera?" Sly chuckled slightly, as he readied his cane.

"You may," Carmelita playfully replied, as Sly smashed the display case open.
The two of them were expecting an alarm to go off, but oddly enough it never did.

"That's strange, you'd think the alarm would have gone off the moment you smashed the case," Bentley remarked, as he hacked into the security system. It wasn't long before he found the reason.

"Here we are, it looks like someone already disabled the security on the display cases, but they didn't disable any motion detectors or anything like that, but judging by the fact that only one of the security cameras has been disabled, I'd say that someone else is robbing this museum as well," he stated.

"Wait, you're saying they disabled the security on the cases, but didn't disable anything else, other than 1 security camera?" Carmelita asked, quirking an eyebrow in surprise.

"As a matter of fact, I did," Bentley replied.

"Sounds like your average wanna be thieves. No need to worry about them, since that type usually only manage till they get the loot, but then they get cocky, trigger a security system, then get caught," Sly commented, as he and Carmelita climbed up the air vent after snatching their target, and leaving their respective calling cards. Just because some wanna be thief was going to get himself/herself caught, didn't mean that Sly and Carmelita were about to take their chances.

As they crawled through the vent, they came across the storage room, which actually had quite a few valuable artifacts as well. The two of them would have continued on silently, if it weren't for someone suddenly shouting "This treasure is ours!"

Looking down through the gratings in the vent, they noticed 2 Hyenas in security guard outfits, very comically trying to ransack the storage area, but the problem was, they seemed to be grabbing more than they could carry.

"What did I tell ya?" Sly said, with a small laugh, as Carmelita joined him with a small laugh of her own, as they watched the two amateurs try to figure out how they were planning on hauling off the loot they obviously couldn't carry. They had even decided to show Bentley and Murray, using the binocucoms, which both of them found amusing, evident by the laughter they heard on the other end of the binocucom.

Their moment of amusement was cut short, when Sly noticed something near a corner. "Wait, guys, check that coffin out over there," he said, as he pointed his binocucom towards it.

Carmelita followed his lead, and gasped. "Madre y Dios, what in the world is that?" she gasped at what she saw. On the coffin, softly making a jingling sound, was a hand, which looked like it was made entirely out of coins. The hand slowly moved to the small, odd looking stone box on the center of the coffin's lid, before it grabbed hold, and started to turn it.

With a click, the stone box came off, and the coffin started to glow brightly. Suddenly the alarms went off.

"Crap! That thing must have set off the alarms," Sly said, as he and Carmelita immediately continued down the air vent, neither of them planning to stick around for long.

Back with the two amateurs, they had only just noticed the glowing coffin, just as it burst, turning into thousands, if not millions of silvery coins. The two of them could only stare in shock, as the coins began to collect, and formed four figures, each completely made of coins. Suddenly, the masses of coins glowed in colors of green, blue, yellow, and gray, respectively, before they turned into four frightening beings.

From left to right, the first being was the insect-like monster. It was mainly colored black and green with chitin-like chest armor which had a yellow circle in the centre of its chest with green surrounding it, making plates that looked like muscles. From its shoulders ran long antennae not unlike a grasshopper while its arms were covered with black armor with a pair of long serrated blades coming from its right wrist. Its head was round with a long green visor which had round ends and a silver mouth plate which had the look of mandibles. Its final look was the horns which grew from its head that looked like stag beetle horns. What did seem odd was that its legs didn't seem to have any sort of covering and instead looked like ancient bandaging not unlike what a mummy would have.

The second was the cat-like monster. Its face was certainly feline, but made of black steel with metal studs on the forehead. Dark yellow cords not unlike dreadlocks came from the back of its head while its lower jaw was made of gray steel. Its torso was covered with more black armor with a yellow orb in the centre with a silver strip coming up the middle. The pectorals of the armor were covered in more metal studs which matched its shoulders. The monsters arms were covered in large black gauntlets which ended in sharp metal claws and once more covered in silver studs like the rest of the armor. However, it was missing something, in this case, the armor for its legs. Rather than some covering like the rest of its armor, the monster's legs were merely brown and black bandages not unlike a mummy.

The third was the fish-like monster. Unlike the rest, this one was clearly female. Its head seemed to have a helmet that looked like the body of a shark/whale hybrid of some sort that ended with her bright blue eyes. Her face was silver and had a rigid covering over her mouth. Her shoulders were covered with a dark blue cape that ran down her back almost regally, but her torso and arms were covered in black and brown bandages. Her legs were trim and smooth, colored silver as they ended in high heel boots. Down the front of her legs were studs which made her legs seem almost like octopus tentacles.

The fourth was the Elephant-like monster. Its legs were powerful and covered from head to toe in tarnished silver armor which spoke of power and endurance. Its feet seemed more like an elephant's rather than a humanoids. Its head seemed like a helmet with a small black visor with a short horn coming out of its forehead. On either side of where the jaw would be was a pair of tusks with a small trunk sticking out where the mouth would be. However, like its comrades, it too was missing something. Where torso and arm armor should have been was simply a humanoid torso and arms covered in black and brown wrappings, again, like a mummy.

The four of them didn't look like they were paying any particular attention to the two hyenas, but rather just kept walking forward.

                                                                  -Count The Medals-

Outside the museum, a squadron of bikes had assembled. The leader of the squadron lifted up a radio to his ear. "This is Shintaro Goto. Foundation's Ride Vendor 1'st Brigade. The medals have awakened. What are your orders?" he said.

"Eliminate them," was the order that came from the other end.

"Ryokai. Commence attack!" he ordered, as they pulled out several rocket launchers, and even pulled out remotes to detonate the bombs already planted on the building.

What they didn't realize, was that hidden from their view, was the Cooper Gang's van. Noticing all the commotion, Bentley and Murray decided to take a look. Their eyes bulged in barely contained horror, when they watched the riders pull out the rocket launchers. It was obvious, that those men planned to bring down the museum, and they didn't care who was inside.

Bentley immediately pulled on his headset, and urgently contacted Sly and Carmelita. "Sly! We've got a big problem!" he practically screamed into the communicator.

"Bentley? What's the matter?" Sly asked, surprised at the tone his friend was using. He knew that Bentley always was a bit paranoid, but right now he was downright terrified.

"What's the matter?! An entire platoon is about to demolish the building! Get out of there now!!" Bentley practically exploded.

That got the attention of the two master thieves. Not wasting any time, they immediately darted down the hall leading to the back door.

"Dios! If this is some crazy scheme to try and catch us, those higher-ups at Interpol have finally lost it!" Carmelita grumbled, as they heard explosions hit the walls of the building.

"I don't think it's them. Interpol might be getting desperate to catch us, but I don't think were worth this much trouble," Sly replied, as they continued making their escape, but not before passing the security room, with the guard still dead asleep.

"You've gotta be kidding! He's still asleep?!" Sly exclaimed in surprise. He knew some people (him included) could really be dead when they slept, but this was ridiculous.

"Hey! Wake up!" Carmelita urgently said, as she shook the sleeping guard, but he didn't stir. All the shaking managed to do, was shake off the hat that covered his face, revealing a young falcon with dark brown feathers and messy neck length brown hair.

Any further attempt to wake up the sleeping guard was put on hold, when the roof started coming down. "Oh well, guess we don't have any other choice," Sly sighed, as he and Carmelita quickly picked up the guard, and carried him out along with them. If the Cooper Gang was anything, they were definitely not the type to just leave someone to die, so with that being said, they made their escape, with the sleeping guard supported on their shoulders, though neither of them noticed the coin that had fallen into the guard's shirt pocket.

                                                           -Count The Medals-

Meanwhile, back at the storage room, the four monsters didn't seem at all worried about the explosions. Instead, they simply reverted into masses of coins, before flying out of the building, completely unharmed by the explosions.

Outside, the platoon had already readied their guns and rocket launchers, prepared for anything. When the smoke cleared, a mass of coins flew out, before reforming the four monsters. They seemed to laugh for a moment, before turning into masses of coins again.

"After them!" Goto ordered, as the brigade gave chase, not knowing they were only racing to their own doom.

                                                          -Count The Medals-

Meanwhile, a middle-aged figure was busy preparing a cake. By his side was a record player, which oddly enough, was playing a song to celebrate a birthday. The figure continued to prepare the cake, as he sang along with the record player, whilst his own men were losing their lives at the hands of the monsters.

(For the next few lines, the song, and regular words indicate what is happening during the song)

Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you.

Two soldiers were in pursuit of a mass of coins, as the coins formed the insect monster, which jumped on their bikes, before throwing them off. The two of them tried to scramble back up, but the insect monster fired green lightning down on them and their bikes, killing them in the explosions. The insect monster seemed to smirk, as he smugly walked away, almost pleased with his handy work.

Happy Birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you.

Two more soldiers had followed another mass of coins into a tunnel, just as the coins reformed the female fish monster. The oncoming soldiers didn't seem to bother her. Instead, she almost boredly raised her hand, before letting out a torrent of water. Her would be attackers were sent flying back, as they were washed away. The only thing that stopped them from going any farther was when they were slammed into the walls. The fish monster kept up her attack for a few more moments, before stopping, as her attackers slumped to the ground unmoving, both dead from either suffocation, or head trauma, or both. She let out a small girly giggle, as she walked away from her two victims.

Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you.

Two soldiers charged at a mass of coins, which formed the gray elephant monster. He just stared at them dumbly, as they were about to collide with him. However, at the last moment, the elephant monster grabbed hold of their bikes, before effortlessly flipping them over his shoulders. The two flew through the air for a moment, before they landed hard on the ground, followed by their bikes, with the ensuing explosion leaving them as little more than 'graffiti' on the walls and road. The elephant monster just scratched his head like a monkey, before he walked away, almost like he was looking for something else to do.

Happy Birthday, Happy birthday, happy birthday to you

Two of the last three soldiers charged at the mass of coins that had just formed the cat monster. Firing madly, they emptied out round after round of bullets. The cat monster on the other hand, easily dodged the attacks, and as they got closer, he immediately jumped forward, and seemingly defying the laws of physics, began spinning in a rapid pace, with both of his claws connecting to the soldiers' chest, just as he slashed at their bikes as well. The force of the impact sent them flying back, before they hit the wall, followed by their bikes. The cat monster just laughed, before walking away, almost seeming bored.

Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear...

The music stopped for a moment, as the middle-aged figure, revealed to be a fox, with brown fur, and dark colored hair. He wore a red suit and an apron was putting the finishing touches on the birthday cake he was making. Squirting some chocolate on the cake, he wrote down a name, as he continued the song. "Greeed..." he said, as the music continued. "Happy Birthday to youuuuu," he finished, as the song came to an end.

Back with the four monsters, they were calmly walking away from the wreckage of the bikes, almost without a care in the world. After all, they had all the time in the world, and after being sealed for 800 years, the Greeed walked the earth once again.

                                                                 -Count The Medals-

The Cooper Gang drove off, heading back to their current hideout. Earlier, Bentley had shot hidden cameras to the bikes, letting them see what had happened. Needless to say, the team had seen everything, and now, they almost wished they hadn't.

"What in the world were those things?" Bentley commented, still trying to get the pictures of what those creatures did to the riders, out of his mind.

No one replied. Instead, they decided to just focus on getting back home, and worry about their new 'guest', the sleeping security guard. The four of them spent most of the trip in silence, not noticing that they had picked up a 'hitch-hiker'.

On top of the Cooper Gang's van, a monstrous red arm clinged to the roof. It was predominantly red with wing-like protrusions coming from its forearm armor. Its hand was scaled and had black nails not unlike what would be found on a bird. It wore rings on some of its fingers, but nothing gaudy or unnecessary. "That's mine! My core medal!" the arm thought angrily, as he waited for the ride to stop, intending to take back what was his.

Author's note:
There. Episode 1 on a new fic I just thought up. Hope you like it. This story is set somewhere in between Sly 2 and Sly 3, with noticeable differences. In fact, I made the setting based on the fanfics of author: Kitty Petro.