Third Heist: Prologue

--- Joshua Durand ---

The time had come to put his various preparations to the test, to commit his first heist of his own choice and planning rather than the choice and planning of the Malice Doc.

He was just going to ignore the fact that his chosen target had been one of the first places the Doc suggested he rob… as well as the snarky comment he'd gotten back when informing the Doc of said heist.

Instead he was going to focus on the final few details of this heist, namely all of the super intelligent choices that he was going to blatantly ignore because being a smart thief was not the same as being a smart Wonderlander. Otherwise he'd be robbing the mall at night, on a day after the Jr. Heroes had shown up and thus wouldn't be there two days in a row, and using the mall's various access tunnels to get into the back of the store without being seen.

All of which stood in anathema to the fact that his toon self demanded that, (You must be seen! All eyes must be on you!)

Which of course made perfect sense given how (I am the star of this show.)

So instead of doing the smart robbery, he was going to show up in broad daylight, walk in through the front door of the mall he was currently rushing to because he'd only just gotten an alert on social media that the Jr. heroes had shown up. Though he did avoid looking at who specifically it was figuring that his improv skills would be far more entertaining to the adoring masses than whatever pre-planned puns and mischief he may have come up with.

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(Got to keep it loose. Go with the flow. Perform in the moment.)

That said, even if he was purposefully being an idiot to get more attention, he was not going to be a stupid idiot. Which is why he was pulling this heist a few days before his actual deadline that weekend, when if the heroes showed up they'd probably be pulling a double shift together to really milk the crowd. Something that could have gone really well for him given how he'd have twice the show to steal and was able to half-way hold his own against both Power Flight and Terraform. (Before they got serious at least…)

At which point his ass was pretty much handed to him. (At least it was by a pair of cute girls?) (Ignoring that.)

One on one, he was fairly sure he could handle any of the Jr. Heroes he might run into, but he was not going to risk an asskicking he didn't have to if he could help it. (At least when it's not extremely profitable to me at least.)

He may not have been a stupidly greedy bastard, but he was still very much a greedy bastard, thank you.

Otherwise he wouldn't currently be plotting to rob a jewelry store to get as much money and mental resources as he could for him and the Cabaret. Nor would he be thinking about the best way to prioritize the acquisition of said money and resources by hitting the back storage area and breaking out first, or going in from the front and playing the crowd up from the get go. (Then again I can just grab a ton of jewels if I ignore the crowd a bit, but that might cost me a bit on my performance review…)

And of course all of that was ignoring what had to be the most important question of this entire criminal venture! (What are we going to call this episode?)

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