These days in émeraude Town were interesting ones, to say the least. It had all started when word on the streets a dit that there was a rouge team of strangers robbing every bank, every home, every jewelry store. toi name the place, they had every piece of cash that place had. Our story turns to Jake and Cario in their apartment building one morning. It's was Cario's turn to make breakfast, so he strolled into the cuisine and started to make his signature flapjacks. Jake plopped onto the canapé and turned on the TV, and it flashed on to montrer a news channel special report. "Be sure to keep your valuables sûr, sans danger tonight, folks." a dit the spokeswoman, "Because the police have traced the dangerous gang, known as "The Cat-Tastrophies", to the area near our beloved émeraude Town. This gang will most likely stroll into our town, so be sure to lock your doors." And the camera was turned to the weather. A few minutes later, Cario walked into the room with two plates of flapjacks, and set the two plates down. Cario then looked around their apartment, amazed that they were able to get the place to look so nice in such a short time. "Ahem" Cario hinted. Jake took a break from devouring his flapjacks and looked up at Cario. "What?" Jake queried. "You're welcome" Cario a dit with a sly look. And Jake sat there, looking somewhat baffled. Cario explained, "For having enough money to be able to make this place look as good as it is." Jake sighed, "Hey, I could have made enough money myself without your help!" Jake muttered to himself, "If I had a few months to spare..." Then Jake looked to change the subject, "Speaking of tings of value, when are toi gonna montrer me that amazing thing that you've been keeping from me?" Cario grinned, "I'm glad toi asked, because I was saving it for later today. But I suppose I could montrer toi a little early. Now, are toi ready to have your mind blown?" Cario made a drumroll sound with his tounge, and..... "Tada!" Cario yelled, as he unveiled his chaos emerald, the one he used to get to this point in history. Jake stood up and stared at the wondrous emerald. "That's a...a chaos emerald!" Jake exclaimed, "Where did toi find that?!" "A pirate never loots and tells, my friend." Cario a dit with a smug look on his face. (Oh, and in case toi haven't already guessed, Cario told Jake that he was a pirate a jour after they had moved into the apartment.) Jake, despite wondering just how Cario got his feathers on a chaos emerald, decided to let him keep his secret. We now skip to later in the evening, where Jake and Cario are in the kitchen, trying to find the popcorn, when suddenly something crashed through the window! And just as quickly, smoke started to fill the apartment, and our heros started to feel drowsy... Cario falls to the floor unconscious, while Jake is struggling to keep his balance. Then, through the corner of his almost-closed eye, he sees three figures climbing though the window and tries to regain his posture to stop them, but his eyes finally close and he follows the same fate as Cario.......... Suddenly, there seems to be a voice in the unseen distance. Then, the voice starts to become clearer. "Jake.....Jake......Jake" What is this? What is going on? Then, it suddenly starts to feel like an earthquake is going on. Shaking harder and harder... "Jake!" Cario quietly screams. Jake opens his eyes, only to find that he cannot move, and he looks over to his left an sees Cario latched to the wall, but somehow got off the piece of cloth that was covering his beak. Jake looked down and saw that he was latched to the mur as well, and a piece of cloth was tied over his mouth. He looks ahead and sees someone wearing a black jumpsuit and a black mask with big orange-ish ears and a long bushy tail. He ou she is écriture down a liste of some sort when two other characters walk into the room with the same clothing as the first, but one is grey and is bigger and... rounder, and the other is black and quite small compared to the first. The big grey one runs in with Cario's cartable, sacoche and exclaims "Boss, look at what I found in the bird's room!" Judging par the sound of his voice, he was male. The medium orange cat takes the cartable, sacoche and starts digging through it to find his several or doubloons. "Well what do toi know, our little feathered friend has quite the jackpot...." Again judging par the voice, she was female. She then stops and notices something big at the bottom of the cartable, sacoche and pulls it out to discover that it was Cario's chaos emerald! The small black cat was soon bug-eyed and exclaimed "Sis, isn't that what they call a chaos emerald?" Once again judging par voice, she too was female. The orange one was quite astonished at the sight of the émeraude as well, and a dit "Yes, yes it is. And I can only imagine how much it's worth..." "HEY, THAT'S MY EMERALD, toi CROOKS!" Cario yelled, only to find that he had made a terrible mistake, as the three jumped and glared over at the parrot. "Oh great," The orange one sighed, "They're awake." She then glared over at the other two crooks. "You two! Take that back to base! I'll deal with these two shmucks." "Yes ma'am!" The two crooks exclaimed, and ran out of the room. The orange one then glared back over and stare walking slowly towards the unfortunate two. She pulls small needle out of her pocket and inserts it into Cario's arm, then Jake's. Jake tried to fight back, only to start feeling drowsy again... The orange one steps back and smugly says "Night night..." as Jake's once again close. The two wake up some time later back in the kitchen. Cario and Jake stumble to their feet, and feel a slight headache. "Owww..." Cario groans. "What happened?" Jake then notices the window that was broken before the three made it in, and he runs over to it to see if they're still outside. Cario looks at Jake and notices that there was a note taped to his back and walks over to Jake and pulls it off. Jake turns and asks, "What does it say?" Cario read aloud, "Bring 1000 rings if toi want to see your stuff again ou we're coming back to finish the job. -The Cat-Tastrophies." Cario then looks up in realization, and sprints to his room. A minute later, he comes back and yells, "The emerald! It's gone!"





(End of part 1)