Dirk Strider (and Carly, and Connie, and Steve, and Jack, and Steven...)
CURRENT RANK: Private (Carly and Dirk), Grunt (Steve, Steven, and Connie), Alpha (Jack)
REQUESTED REWARD: Dirk micromanaged this heist down to the fucking second, but all he really cares about is rank and the satisfaction of controlling a bunch of shit to achieve an outcome. Steven wants a promotion from Grunt to Private. Connie, Steve, Carly all want to keep fossils and/or acquire shinies (Carly REALLY likes shiny Pokemon!) (If Steven can’t nab a promotion, he’ll go for the same thing as the others.) Jack is keeping a fossil, but also I'm amazed he even came and then Dirk sidelined him on purpose because he has a control complex.
JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Late one February night, the current contingent of Rockets is hitting the Pewter Museum of Natural History. Carly and Dirk have traded Pokemon temporarily--she has his Smeargle (who knows Transform) and he has her Salazzle (who knows how to be a living blowtorch.) Jack and Carly are on perimetre duty--to start with, Dirk's Smeargle is doubling the effectiveness of Carly's Joltik to short out power to the building, and Carly has been further entrusted with his TriCal Threat (working title, he's also considering the BroPro) to keep a 360 degree lookout for the cops. Dirk, taking Carly's Salazzle and his own Greninja (along with Steven) is doing the breaking and entering. Connie and Steve are team B, following about ten or fifteen minutes after. Partially so that Dirk and Steven can clear the way (rather than using Pokemon against any security, which could be identifying or lead to an actual battle that would eat time and be too much of a liability, Dirk is taking them out physically, aka blunt force trauma by fancy santa... while Steven is going to have to learn to choke a man out on the fly) and partially so that no one gets the drop on Steven and Dirk from behind them. (He's matched Connie and Steve because Steve has powerful Pokemon and battle experience and Connie is quick on her feet, both physically and mentally.)
They're not going for the exhibits, though. That would be WAY too risky. Instead, they're going to museum storage.... Dirk's robbed a museum before (Homestuck just happens) and knows there's drawers and drawers of temperature controlled specimens locked away from the public eye. If he can't get the door open using Greninja or Salazzle, he has a fucking Machoke that he WILL evolve on the spot by trading it to Steven. Once they're in, the four of them will be literally filling bags with the most intact fossils they can get their gloves hands on and then getting the FUCK out of there.
If need be I can get REALLY detailed about how everyone's Pokemon and skills are going to be useful here but I'm trying not to write a short story and if I get MORE specific it'll be literally a blow by blow of the minutes as they occur and that's fucking nonsense. So a rewrite may be required? But Dirk basically improvised his way through Unite, Synchronise at the age of 15, he can probably get four people in and out of a mostly empty museum. Or maybe the whole thing is a fucking trap, maybe Team Rocket's been here before and this is about to be hilarious.
Jack and Carly are literally responsible for securing the perimetre and, if necessary, slowing down the Jennies. They both have well-coordinated, level 100 teams. Carly has 360 degree, unsettlingly blue-eyed vision with a zoom function and a miniature catapult that totally didn't come from Fred, which are armed with nets that she can electrify with her Joltik's electroweb. Jack has himself. It should be fine.<
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They're not going for the exhibits, though. That would be WAY too risky. Instead, they're going to museum storage.... Dirk's robbed a museum before (Homestuck just happens) and knows there's drawers and drawers of temperature controlled specimens locked away from the public eye. If he can't get the door open using Greninja or Salazzle, he has a fucking Machoke that he WILL evolve on the spot by trading it to Steven. Once they're in, the four of them will be literally filling bags with the most intact fossils they can get their gloves hands on and then getting the FUCK out of there.
If need be I can get REALLY detailed about how everyone's Pokemon and skills are going to be useful here but I'm trying not to write a short story and if I get MORE specific it'll be literally a blow by blow of the minutes as they occur and that's fucking nonsense. So a rewrite may be required? But Dirk basically improvised his way through Unite, Synchronise at the age of 15, he can probably get four people in and out of a mostly empty museum. Or maybe the whole thing is a fucking trap, maybe Team Rocket's been here before and this is about to be hilarious.
Jack and Carly are literally responsible for securing the perimetre and, if necessary, slowing down the Jennies. They both have well-coordinated, level 100 teams. Carly has 360 degree, unsettlingly blue-eyed vision with a zoom function and a miniature catapult that totally didn't come from Fred, which are armed with nets that she can electrify with her Joltik's electroweb. Jack has himself. It should be fine.<