REQUESTED REWARD: Honestly, he’s just trying to restore his reputation with the admins from the huge ding it took after the Mascot Heist backfired. And, you know, if increases said rep past the ding it got from Mascot Heist, that’s good too.
JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Okay. So. After Tyler’s week of nightly pokemon theft begins to draw to a close, Steven realizes two things: first, that he needs to get on his own ass in gear to repair his own rep with some sort of large-scale pokemon haul… and second, that Tyler’s strategy of using his birb to psychically lure people off was a damn good idea and definitely something to include in his own efforts. But because he doesn’t want to get in Tyler’s way, he doesn’t want to do his thing in Goldenrod.
Saffron City, however…
Well. Taking an overnight trip with his boyfriend is a decent enough excuse to be there, isn’t it? And a decent enough cover for his activities too. They can do some shopping, maybe go to Silph Co and look at (but hopefully not adopt) some of the Nulls… have an early supper and retire to the penthouse suite, complete with roof garden, of the fancy hotel they’re staying at before it’s even ten o’clock… and given how they’ve been eyefucking each other all night, how they played footsie at their supper out, and the little subtle touches they’ve been giving each other… I mean, it’s obvious to any observer what’s going to happen next, right? Two grown-ass men having wild monkey sex all night, right?
That’s going to happen eventually, actually. But not quite yet.
Steven’s been to Saffron before as a tourist. He’s got a decent idea of where there’s a fair number of dark corners and darker alleyways. Enough of an idea to plan what’s basically a teleportation route of certain alleyways scattered through various neighborhoods in Saffron--basically, all the districts that have anything resembling a night life--with ten separate stops, one that bounces all over the city in a way that can only done practically with teleportation..
So. Once Steven and Jack are alone together in their penthouse suite, Steven will change from his normal date night clothes to a plain all black ensemble and don the gas mask he’d originally procured for the mascot heist, thus completely obscuring his facial features, before heading out to the rooftop garden at ten o’clock.
That’s when Acatl, Steven’s Xatu, will teleport him to the dark alleyway that’s the first stop on his route. He’ll release Miasmagoria, his Haunter, and Skeleton, his Klefki, and the three of them will lie in wait while the Xatu psychically scouts out small groups of people out enjoying the night life--young couples, perhaps, or friends going out to have fun together. The Xatu will psychically lure those small groups into the alleyway, at which point the Klefki locks their movements in place, so they can’t leave and the Haunter immediately swoops in to gas them all into unconsciousness. Meanwhile Steven’s Haunter will also use Night Shade to show their victims an unreasonably terrifying mirage once they enter the alleyway, hiding Steven’s form (even if it won't do damage to them), but even if she wasn't, Steven’s still going to be in an even darker corner of that dark alleyway, with a gas mask obscuring his face, so there’s not going to be any real identifying details for the victims to go with, other than he’s tall and jacked.
Once his victims are unconscious, Steven will quickly and methodically search their bodies, removing any valuables and any pokeballs on them, and then proceed onward to his next stop on his route. Lather, rinse, and repeat nine more times. At bare minimum, he ought to be able to steal cash from twenty people this way and probably net a comparable number of pokeballs. And because he’s doing this quickly and methodically, he ought to be able to get his route done with by one in the morning, if not sooner.
At which point Steven and his team teleport back to the rooftop garden, so he can saunter back into the penthouse suite where Jack awaits him, probably having been watching hotel pay-per-view porn or some other television since he left. Steven strips off his heist clothing, stashes the stolen goods and heist clothing in the false compartments of his and Jack’s overnight luggages, and then, finally the two of them get to have wild monkey sex for the rest of the night. (And post-crime sex is always, always good.)
They leisurely leave Saffron the next morning, like the overnight trippers they are. Once back in Goldenrod, Steven removes the stolen goods from the luggage and packs it up to take to the admins that afternoon. He apologizes to the admins for the trouble he and his crew created via Fuzzle’s kidnapping and says that he hopes that this might somehow make up for it.
Given that he just presented them with the stolen goods of twenty-to-thirty people? Hopefully it will.
ETA: Obviously if things look like they're going south, he's ditching the plan and teleporting back to Jack ASAP. A repaired rep is not worth getting caught.
someone needs to get his rep back too
Saffron City, however…
Well. Taking an overnight trip with his boyfriend is a decent enough excuse to be there, isn’t it? And a decent enough cover for his activities too. They can do some shopping, maybe go to Silph Co and look at (but hopefully not adopt) some of the Nulls… have an early supper and retire to the penthouse suite, complete with roof garden, of the fancy hotel they’re staying at before it’s even ten o’clock… and given how they’ve been eyefucking each other all night, how they played footsie at their supper out, and the little subtle touches they’ve been giving each other… I mean, it’s obvious to any observer what’s going to happen next, right? Two grown-ass men having wild monkey sex all night, right?
That’s going to happen eventually, actually. But not quite yet.
Steven’s been to Saffron before as a tourist. He’s got a decent idea of where there’s a fair number of dark corners and darker alleyways. Enough of an idea to plan what’s basically a teleportation route of certain alleyways scattered through various neighborhoods in Saffron--basically, all the districts that have anything resembling a night life--with ten separate stops, one that bounces all over the city in a way that can only done practically with teleportation..
So. Once Steven and Jack are alone together in their penthouse suite, Steven will change from his normal date night clothes to a plain all black ensemble and don the gas mask he’d originally procured for the mascot heist, thus completely obscuring his facial features, before heading out to the rooftop garden at ten o’clock.
That’s when Acatl, Steven’s Xatu, will teleport him to the dark alleyway that’s the first stop on his route. He’ll release Miasmagoria, his Haunter, and Skeleton, his Klefki, and the three of them will lie in wait while the Xatu psychically scouts out small groups of people out enjoying the night life--young couples, perhaps, or friends going out to have fun together. The Xatu will psychically lure those small groups into the alleyway, at which point the Klefki locks their movements in place, so they can’t leave and the Haunter immediately swoops in to gas them all into unconsciousness. Meanwhile Steven’s Haunter will also use Night Shade to show their victims an unreasonably terrifying mirage once they enter the alleyway, hiding Steven’s form (even if it won't do damage to them), but even if she wasn't, Steven’s still going to be in an even darker corner of that dark alleyway, with a gas mask obscuring his face, so there’s not going to be any real identifying details for the victims to go with, other than he’s tall and jacked.
Once his victims are unconscious, Steven will quickly and methodically search their bodies, removing any valuables and any pokeballs on them, and then proceed onward to his next stop on his route. Lather, rinse, and repeat nine more times. At bare minimum, he ought to be able to steal cash from twenty people this way and probably net a comparable number of pokeballs. And because he’s doing this quickly and methodically, he ought to be able to get his route done with by one in the morning, if not sooner.
At which point Steven and his team teleport back to the rooftop garden, so he can saunter back into the penthouse suite where Jack awaits him, probably having been watching hotel pay-per-view porn or some other television since he left. Steven strips off his heist clothing, stashes the stolen goods and heist clothing in the false compartments of his and Jack’s overnight luggages, and then, finally the two of them get to have wild monkey sex for the rest of the night. (And post-crime sex is always, always good.)
They leisurely leave Saffron the next morning, like the overnight trippers they are. Once back in Goldenrod, Steven removes the stolen goods from the luggage and packs it up to take to the admins that afternoon. He apologizes to the admins for the trouble he and his crew created via Fuzzle’s kidnapping and says that he hopes that this might somehow make up for it.
Given that he just presented them with the stolen goods of twenty-to-thirty people? Hopefully it will.
ETA: Obviously if things look like they're going south, he's ditching the plan and teleporting back to Jack ASAP. A repaired rep is not worth getting caught.