Board Thread:Sly Cooper series discussion/@comment-25071111-20140616200723

This idea for a Sly Cooper 5 in which the series ends with the fifth installment. This is my absolute favorite series of all time, but if the fifth installment is the last one, then this is the best possible way that I think that the series could end.

Possible prologue where Bentley and Murray steal an ancient Egyptian artifact (After seeing a new page from Sly appear in the Thievius Raccoonus), for use in the time machine. Penelope could interrupt and steal it for her own use.

It starts out in Ancient Egypt, where Sly was stranded in the midst of all the wreckage left from Le Paradox's blimp. Penelope is initially the primary antagonist of the game, now mad at Sly for (In her eyes) causing Bentley to leave her, and wishing to end the Cooper line altogether. After Sly helps his Egyptian ancestor with a strange hawk that hates the pharoah, Penelope suddenly emerges in the timeline, intent on pulling up the roots, so to speak.

She meets the hawk after Sly's already escaped with Bentley and Murray (Carmelita might've... turned a blind eye, so to speak, to help them find him, as well), and finds the wreckage of Le Paradox's blimp. She proposes to him the idea of immortalizing him by building a new body out of the wreckage, and thus Clockwerk is born. She leaves him to go on an eternal quest to kill the Coopers over thousands of years, and follows the gang throughout time.

Over the course of the game, she sees Sly and his friends help more and more people, slowly realizing that he wasn't actually forcing Bentley to do anything; Bentley wanted to help him because he was doing good. She begins to regret betraying them, but when she confesses to Bentley, he hasn't yet forgiven her.

At this point, one of her minions (She'll of course have had a whole set of Sly Cooper-esque villains) feels that she's become too weak, and turns on her. Sly and the gang end up rescuing her, and reluctantly accept her back into their group. They still don't trust her, the scar of the Black Knight still prominent in their minds.

Together the group manages to defeat the traitorous minion, but when he begs for mercy and Sly refuses to kill him, he steals the Thievius Raccoonus and puts it in Penelope's old time machine, escaping to the time period just before Sly's parents were killed, with the intent on bringing Clockwerk to the present and killing Sly there. The gang, alarmed at what he might do, uses Sly's cane to follow him.

Once there, Sly meets his father again. Since he's not able to trick him or hide from him, he tries explaining everything that would happen in the future, and as he tells his story, he realizes just how happy his life is, even though he was orphaned and fought many foes. With his friends, he was happy. His father, upon hearing this and knowing that everything will turn out fine for his son, refuses to be flee the time period.

Sly, knowing that he will have to sacrifice the present as he knows it, won't let his father die again. He stands and fights Clockwerk and his Fiendish Five on the night that they were destined to have killed his father, bringing the story full circle as Clockwerk wonders who he is, before finally remembering a stranger from millenia ago in Egypt. The whole gang teams up, and manages to defeat Penelope's traitorous minion and Clockwerk together to save Sly's parents.

Time begins to correct itself, and they all start to fade away. Penelope and Bentley kiss one last time and she says that she knows now why Bentley always stayed by Sly's side, and Carmelita and Sly share one last exchange. Sly promises Murray that everything will be alright as he fades, too, and then turns to his younger self. As he, too, disappears, he tells the younger version of him to remember to visit the nearby orphanage tomorrow and meet a very special turtle and hippo.

Cue monologue as a montage of their new, happier life starts, ending with Sly saying, "After all, I'm sure we'll be fine. Old habits die hard." Cut to the three cheerfully stealing the cookie jar from his mom's kitchen.

As much as I don't want the series to end, I really like this idea. Sly Cooper can't last forever, so I want it to at least end right. Maybe not so soon, though... 