A Battery of Peril
Sly Cooper: Hey Bentley, are you and Murray finished fixing up the van?
Bentley: I'm afraid we'll need a new power source. The old poly-cellular battery has lost its core.
― At the start of the mission[src]
"A Battery of Peril" is a job for Bentley, Carmelita Fox and Sly Cooper in "A Cold Alliance" of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
After recovering the Cooper Van, the gang realize that it was frozen for so long that its poly-cellular battery needed to be changed before they could drive it again. Because the van was also essential to the heist to free Jing King from General Tsao, time was of the essence.[1]
Synopsis
Penelope's aerial reconnaissance has located a potential battery for the team van, and it needs to be decoupled. Bentley has Sly join him on the mission but not for the decoupling process. When Sly inquires about his role in the mission, Bentley assures him that he will be needed for the charging of the battery. After Bentley reaches the battery, Sly meets up with him, and Bentley whispers to him his plan on how to get it charged, a plan so clever that it makes Sly chuckle. As if on cue, Carmelita showed up and chased Sly, who is now carrying the battery. After shooting Sly down, Carmelita turns her back to contact INTERPOL for assistance in extracting Sly.
Bentley commends Sly on faking unconsciousness, as the battery has absorbed the electrical shocks provided from Carmelita's shock pistol, which not only protects Sly from the blasts, but also effectively charges the battery. With Bentley warning that the fully-charged battery will not protect him anymore from Carmelita's shots, Sly gets back up to finish the next step of the process: stabilizing the battery. Once she realizes that Sly has feigned defeat, Carmelita chases him again, while Sly finds a station to stabilize the battery with. Upon doing so, Sly leads the chase to the safe house and locks the battery into the gang's nearby outlet. With the battery fully charged and the van powered up, Sly escapes into the safe house.
Trivia
- In the prototype, Carmelita will lose track of Sly instead of outright always having him in her sights, requiring her, three times, to relocate him, and continue the chase. This was likely removed to reduce the mission length to complete.
- When Sly escapes Carmelita, the guards will be fully alerted as well. Whether or not they're apart of the obstruction unit she requested (for the mission only, as they are General Tsao's guards), they are helping to subdue him as a collaboration or were indirectly alerted from the shots going after him, is unclear.
References
- ↑ Episode: A Cold Alliance; Slideshow #3.