Black Rose

Ch.28 Bear Traps

"Okay, Sly, I need you to go out and get those radio tags we talked about earlier so that we can set up an array around Jean Bison's house." Bentley told the raccoon.

"Don't get mauled by the bears." Rae said jokingly, flashing a smirk, as she had done before.

"You know, you've been rather snarky recently." Sly quirked.

"Yeah, and?"

"It's just...that's not really your style."

"What can I say? You're rubbing off on me." She smirked with a small gesture before resting her cheek on her fist.

"That right?"

"I guess so."

"Okay, okay, you two can do this later. Sly, you really need to go, we're running out of time." Bentley quickly intervened.

"Alright, alright, chill out, I'm going." He said, making his leave so he wouldn't get chewed out anymore than he already had.

When Sly had exited the Safe House into the cold winter of Canada, he made his way toward his mission. Just as he was nearing a cave, however, his binocucom went off, taking it out to see Rae was contacting him, which made the raccoon smirk. "Oh? So you're filling me in on my mission?"

"Don't get any ideas. Bentley wanted to work on some more plans and I offered to take his place, nothing more."

"Heh... Nice hot and cold attitude you've got there, Vixen."

"I don't even wanna know what you're implying..." She huffed. "In any case, the wild bears in the area seemed to have been tagged with radio tracking devices--"

"Why exactly?" Sly interrupted.

"I don't know, nor do I want to either, now stop interrupting me." The fox huffed again, Sly chuckling.

"Okay, fine." He grinned slyly. "Continue, m'lady."

She sighed, deciding not to argue as she continued. "Anyway, if you can snag enough of those tracking devices, we should be able to set up a receiver array around Bison's house. And before you get any ideas, by "we," I mean "you.""

"Well, I'm always up for buggin' someone's home."

"Before you can do that though, you'll have to crawl into that nearby bear cave to get those devices."

"I'm on it." He sent her a wink before disconnecting.

The raccoon stuffed his binocucom away before heading down to the cave, crawling in through the small opening past the rocks in the way. Once into the cave, however, his binocucom went off again, excited to speak with his beautiful fox. "Okay, so the radio transmitters have been, for whatever reason, tagged inside the bears' mouths. You'll have to sneak up to them and grab the devices while they're yawning."

"Sounds "safe"."

"Just please, be careful..."

"I'm a thief, honey, it's what I do."

"Oh, and stay clear of the thin, crackly ice; walking on it is sure to wake those bears, and I don't even wanna think about what they'll do if you wake them up."