Steven Durante + Jules, Emet-Selch, Scorpia, Tyler, Doppio, Steve P, Diego, and London
CURRENT RANK: Steven D is the Beta in charge of the project.
Steve P, Emet-Selch and Doppio are all Privates. Tyler WAS a Private, but Arceus yeets him home between when he does his part of the plan and when it comes time to go to the Admins.
Diego, London, Jules, and Scorpia are Grunts.
REQUESTED REWARD: Jules wants a Shiny!
Scorpia wants to be made Force Captain whatever the bosses think will help her continue to do more/better work for Team Rocket! No really. That’s her actual request. She’s enthusiastic like that. (Steven might whisper to the bosses that she might not be a bad person to promote soon, given how hard she already works for the team. That she’s his protege has absolutely nothing to do with it, of course.)
Doppio, London, Diego, and Emet-Selch don’t have any particular requests, so give them something cool? (Tyler didn't either, but he's gone now, so maybe the admins can make a note for if he ever comes back?)
And finally, Steven D, the ringleader of the project, wouldn’t mind a cash bonus (given that he’s going to need to start paying his own rent now that he’s single again) but mostly he’d just like the admins to remember his consistent good work for the future. After all, with Jack gone, someone will eventually need to become the resident Alpha among the otherworlders.
(Oh right. The two native Rockets grunts that Steven is going to bully into helping out just want to make up for fucking up by letting Armin steal back the Lapras/getting arrested, so helping out on a hopefully successful mission will make the Admins cool with them again, right?)
JUSTIFY THE REWARD:
Right, so! After hearing about the job that Jules pulled on the Celadon Department Store, that got Steven to thinking. Sure, with all the upgraded surveillance and security concerns, that meant they couldn’t do the fun, flashy heists that he’d learned the ways of crime until the heat died down--which didn’t seem to be liable to happen any time soon, unfortunately--but that doesn’t mean there’s no crime left to do.
It would just have to be more subtle crime. Which is fine. Steven can do subtle things if he needs to.
Now, back when Steven was a local news reporter before being subsequently kidnapped by fairies and then Arceus, he once had to do a piece on ATM skimmers. In our world, an ATM skimmer is a device placed on an ATM machine or a credit card reader that will capture the credit card number/information off the magnetic strip. Some of them, in fact, also allow for people’s pin numbers to be captured.
So Steven went to Jules and asked him if he could make something like an ATM skimmer that would work on the payment methods people use here in the World of Pokemon--and also on the bank ATMs of course. To which Jules replied ‘Is the Pope Catholic?’ So Steven got Jules on making some and then he got Emet-Selch on helping out with that so that they could make more of them faster and then Emet-Selch decided to check over Jules’ work because he’s Like That and Jules got So Offended, but it’s fine. It’s fine.
Anyway. Getting those prepared took up a lot of November and meanwhile Steven fell asleep for a week while he went home for six years, but he’s awake now and plenty of skimmers are ready to be put into place and luckily he’s got some volunteers among his fellow otherworld Rockets to help with that. Oh and he’s totally bullying a pair of native Rocket Grunts (Benni and Claude, who’ve worked with us before under Jack’s direction) into also helping place the skimmers, since they’re finally out of jail after they fucked up and lost Armin’s Lapras and are looking for ways to make nice with the admins.
So along with those two losers, Steve Palchuk, London, Tyler, Scorpia, Diego, and Doppio all come aboard to help with the skimmer placing as it goes into motion as soon as Steven gets back from his little nap on Armin’s Island. Now, not all of them are particularly subtle people in themselves, but that’s fine. The people who can’t do sneaky and subtle get to make (non-explosion) distractions for the store employees so that the people who can do sneaky and subtle place the skimmers. (Doppio in particular is really good at faking being an innocent bystander.)
Obviously, all this skimmer placing is to be done in plainclothes. To help circumvent any electronic surveillance, Emet’s flock of Rotoms are messing with nearby hidden cameras to turn them off for a few seconds while the skimmers are placed--and since they turn back on after a few seconds, it’s easy enough to assume that’s just a natural camera hiccup. Tyler is also using his psychic types to push attention off the Rockets placing the skimmers, making them extremely unnoticeable and hard to remember.
Of course they start out placing these in Goldenrod, but if it looks like these are working, they’ll move onto other cities in Johto and hopefully, eventually, Kanto. And once the first slew of skimmed numbers/information comes in, Steven will round up his helpers and bring them to the admins so they can see what good, subtle criminals they are.
Well. Except for Tyler. Because Arceus yeeted him home literally the day after they went out to place the skimmers.
hey at least no one's exploding with this one
Tyler, Doppio, Steve P, Diego, and LondonSteve P, Emet-Selch and Doppio are all Privates. Tyler WAS a Private, but Arceus yeets him home between when he does his part of the plan and when it comes time to go to the Admins.
Diego, London, Jules, and Scorpia are Grunts.
Scorpia wants
to be made Force Captainwhatever the bosses think will help her continue to do more/better work for Team Rocket! No really. That’s her actual request. She’s enthusiastic like that. (Steven might whisper to the bosses that she might not be a bad person to promote soon, given how hard she already works for the team. That she’s his protege has absolutely nothing to do with it, of course.)Doppio, London, Diego, and Emet-Selch don’t have any particular requests, so give them something cool? (Tyler didn't either, but he's gone now, so maybe the admins can make a note for if he ever comes back?)
And finally, Steven D, the ringleader of the project, wouldn’t mind a cash bonus (given that he’s going to need to start paying his own rent now that he’s single again) but mostly he’d just like the admins to remember his consistent good work for the future. After all, with Jack gone, someone will eventually need to become the resident Alpha among the otherworlders.
(Oh right. The two native Rockets grunts that Steven is going to bully into helping out just want to make up for fucking up by letting Armin steal back the Lapras/getting arrested, so helping out on a hopefully successful mission will make the Admins cool with them again, right?)
Right, so! After hearing about the job that Jules pulled on the Celadon Department Store, that got Steven to thinking. Sure, with all the upgraded surveillance and security concerns, that meant they couldn’t do the fun, flashy heists that he’d learned the ways of crime until the heat died down--which didn’t seem to be liable to happen any time soon, unfortunately--but that doesn’t mean there’s no crime left to do.
It would just have to be more subtle crime. Which is fine. Steven can do subtle things if he needs to.
Now, back when Steven was a local news reporter before being subsequently kidnapped by fairies and then Arceus, he once had to do a piece on ATM skimmers. In our world, an ATM skimmer is a device placed on an ATM machine or a credit card reader that will capture the credit card number/information off the magnetic strip. Some of them, in fact, also allow for people’s pin numbers to be captured.
So Steven went to Jules and asked him if he could make something like an ATM skimmer that would work on the payment methods people use here in the World of Pokemon--and also on the bank ATMs of course. To which Jules replied ‘Is the Pope Catholic?’ So Steven got Jules on making some and then he got Emet-Selch on helping out with that so that they could make more of them faster and then Emet-Selch decided to check over Jules’ work because he’s Like That and Jules got So Offended, but it’s fine. It’s fine.
Anyway. Getting those prepared took up a lot of November and meanwhile Steven fell asleep for a week while he went home for six years, but he’s awake now and plenty of skimmers are ready to be put into place and luckily he’s got some volunteers among his fellow otherworld Rockets to help with that. Oh and he’s totally bullying a pair of native Rocket Grunts (Benni and Claude, who’ve worked with us before under Jack’s direction) into also helping place the skimmers, since they’re finally out of jail after they fucked up and lost Armin’s Lapras and are looking for ways to make nice with the admins.
So along with those two losers, Steve Palchuk, London, Tyler, Scorpia, Diego, and Doppio all come aboard to help with the skimmer placing as it goes into motion as soon as Steven gets back from his little nap on Armin’s Island. Now, not all of them are particularly subtle people in themselves, but that’s fine. The people who can’t do sneaky and subtle get to make (non-explosion) distractions for the store employees so that the people who can do sneaky and subtle place the skimmers. (Doppio in particular is really good at faking being an innocent bystander.)
Obviously, all this skimmer placing is to be done in plainclothes. To help circumvent any electronic surveillance, Emet’s flock of Rotoms are messing with nearby hidden cameras to turn them off for a few seconds while the skimmers are placed--and since they turn back on after a few seconds, it’s easy enough to assume that’s just a natural camera hiccup. Tyler is also using his psychic types to push attention off the Rockets placing the skimmers, making them extremely unnoticeable and hard to remember.
Of course they start out placing these in Goldenrod, but if it looks like these are working, they’ll move onto other cities in Johto and hopefully, eventually, Kanto. And once the first slew of skimmed numbers/information comes in, Steven will round up his helpers and bring them to the admins so they can see what good, subtle criminals they are.
Well. Except for Tyler. Because Arceus yeeted him home literally the day after they went out to place the skimmers.