Operation: Wedding Crasher
Tsao: Hear me, Sly Cooper!? My lineage surpasses yours in every way!
Sly: It's not about the family name, pal. It's what you do with it!
― Before the latter battles the Stone Dragon
"Operation: Wedding Crasher" is a job and heist for Sly Cooper, Penelope, Murray, and Bentley in "A Cold Alliance" of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
Background
After immense preparation, it was time for the Cooper Gang to free Jing King, rob General Tsao blind and send him up the river.
Synopsis
Sly makes his way up to General Tsao's treasure temple. Before heading in through the vent, the gang does a roll call to make sure everyone is ready and in position.[note 1] Sly heads inside to let Penelope and Murray in through the front door before leaving for his rendezvous with the Guru and Panda King.
Penelope uses her RC car to sneak past the temple's security nodes to get to the computer controlling the security system. Once the car gets to the computer, Penelope destroys it with the car's turret. However, once she does, the lasers blocking their entrance to the main room do not go away. Murray and Penelope figure out that there is a hidden backup computer somewhere that is preparing to reboot the security system, which will jeopardize the heist. Murray explains to Penelope how he has been in these situations before and learns that whenever things go wrong, the gang always falls back on the golden rule: destruction. Penelope agrees, saying she can use her RC car to blast the security nodes before the computer boots up. Once she does this, the lasers at the entrance disappear, allowing her and Murray to roam the temple. Murray compliments her on her destructive skills. The two head up to the temple's dragon statue, which is where the hatch door to Tsao's treasure was. They open the door, and Penelope headed inside to inspect the treasure room. She said there is plenty of loot, but the temple's foundation is weak and unstable.
After leaving Penelope and Murray at the treasure temple, Sly makes his way to the entrance to General Tsao's palace, where the Guru and the Panda King are waiting underneath. Before heading inside, Sly places a calling card at the entrance. After Sly contacts the Panda King and the Guru to let them know he is in position, the Panda King explains that the vases around Sly are used in an ancient Chinese security technique to detect underground thieves. The Panda King will be using his fireworks to blast their way into Jing King's bridal chamber; the vibrations the fireworks create would shake the building and make the vases unstable. Sly has to prevent any of them from falling and tripping an alarm.[note 2] Once the Panda King and the Guru reach the bridal chamber, thereby rescuing Jing King, Sly enters the palace's living room and informed Bentley that it was his turn now.
Bentley uses his Grapple-Cam to lure Carmelita, who is patrolling the streets, to the front of the palace where Sly left his calling card. Sly tells Bentley to keep his position on the stilt platform just below the temple, as that is where he will need to be to catch the treasure when Murray and Penelope drop it to him. Once Bentley successfully lures Carmelita to the entrance, she notices the calling card and goes inside the palace to investigate. She spots Sly dressing up in a General Tsao disguise and conversing with Bentley via radio about their secret plan, "Alpha", before he leaves out the door beside him. After overhearing that and thinking Sly will steal Tsao's bride during the wedding ceremony with the entire Cooper Gang in attendance, Carmelita decides to take the place of the bride and arrest the gang during the wedding. She goes into Jing King's now-vacant bridal room and disguises herself as the bride. Afterwards, the real General Tsao comes into the living room to investigate the vibrations that are disturbing his meditation. Not knowing his unwilling bride is already freed and replaced, he told her that he will let nothing get in the way of their marriage. He then leaves for his treasure temple.
By the time Tsao leaves, the Panda King and the Guru are waiting in the Cooper Van with Jing King, and Murray and Penelope have just finished opening the treasure room in the temple. Sly exits the palace through the roof and informs the Panda King via radio that Carmelita took the bait. Sly then informs Murray that Tsao is on his way to his and Penelope's position and asks for the progress on the treasure theft. Murray tells Sly they are doing awesome and, unable to contain his excitement and wary of the fact Tsao is coming, Thunder Flopped down into the treasure room. The flop destroys the temple's unstable foundation, which causes Murray and Penelope to fall through the ground with the treasure. As the rest of the temple falls into the water, Tsao runs towards the temple to find out what happened, and Bentley manages to jump out of the way of the temple and onto another rooftop. Realizing what happened, Tsao curses the gang for destroying his family's treasure temple. Murray fires back at Tsao and threatens to break his face for messing with the Cooper Gang. When Tsao responds by saying that he can't be hurt, Murray begs to differ and launches the treasure chest down to Bentley.
An outraged Tsao summoned the temple's Stone Dragon to attack the Cooper Gang. It shoots a humongous fireball near Murray, causing him to jump off the cliff where the temple once stands and break his fall on a wedding firework, before it grabs Penelope. As Tsao proclaims his superiority to the Cooper family, Sly retorts by saying that "it is not about the family name, but what you do with it". As Tsao walks away sure of victory, Sly prepares to find a way to free Penelope. After Murray realizes what one of the fireworks he lands in can do, he has Sly use them to fly up to the dragon and attack it until it releases Penelope. Once the dragon is defeated, Sly paraglides Penelope down safely to the van. An onlooking Tsao boasts to the gang that while they stole his treasure and defeated his family dragon, he still has Jing King and that the wedding will go on as planned... or so he thinks. Sly and Penelope get inside the van, and the gang makes their escape.
Aftermath
General Tsao's wedding ceremony started at the planned time. However, when it came time to unveil the bride, Carmelita revealed herself as the bride and shocked Tsao with her pistol. When she handcuffed Tsao, she realized that it was not Sly in disguise. While she was angry that she had been duped, she still arrested Tsao as his summoning of the undead[1][2] is illegal in China.
Meanwhile, the Panda King officially joins the Cooper Gang. As he promises to aid the gang in the Cooper Vault heist, he requests for Jing King to be dropped off at her aunt's house for her safety. The gang then took a break in Shanghai.
References
- ↑ Episode: A Cold Alliance; Slideshow #3.
- ↑ Episode: A Cold Alliance; Job: Vampiric Demise.
Notes
- ↑ The lines Penelope, Murray, and the Guru use during the roll call are the same ones they used (or, chronologically, would eventually use) during the roll call at the beginning of "The Cooper Vault."
- ↑ Though letting the vases break fails this mission, the vases can be easily destroyed by Bentley in an earlier mission, "Laptop Retrieval."