Stealing has its advantages. Sure, there is the threat of being caught, jailed, and always being on the there are : not paying for anything, gaining sparkly things, and watching your enemy be destroyed.
Lifty and Shifty arrived at the museum during midnight: right on time. Hiding in the bushes, the twins studied the blue moose attempt to deliver boxes of priceless artifacts. Mainly by dropping and breaking half of them. Lifty shuffled in the bushes, impatient of the moose's slowness. "Can't we just jump out and mug him or something? It's not like he smarter than a piece of toast."
Shifty gave his twin a dumb-founded look. "We have to wait knucklehead! Do you want to caught?" Lifty folded his arms, upset that Shifty was right.
Lumpy continued carrying boxes from the delivery van to the museum for several more hours, much to Lifty's annoyance. Then, Lumpy carried out the final box, the one that Lifty and Shifty were waiting for. The twins nonchalantly walk from the brushed toward the blue idiot. "Morin' Lumpy, want us to deliver that last box for ya? Shifty greeted Lumpy politely.
Lumpy, exhausted from the hours of work, used what was left of his brain cells to consider the idea. "Okey-dokey!" He happily said as he dropped the box to Shifty. Glad to be freed from his job, Lumpy jumps into the van and into the emerging sunset.
Noticing the morning's rays, Lifty and Shifty hastily run towards their own van to make their grand escape. Dashing, Lifty and Shifty had little trouble with the small, light box. Laughing greedily, they were halfway to the van when a blue blob appeared in front of them.
It was Splendid, their sworn enemy.
Splendid rose his hand, "Stop in the name of the law!"
Lifty and Shifty stared blankly for several seconds before bursting into laughter. "What stupid movie did you get that corny line from?"
Splendid, annoyed by the thieves, sighed. He then notices the squared plain box in their hands. "Tell me thieves, what did you steal this time?" Lifty and Shifty smiled at the question. Before Splendid could even think, the criminals opened the box.
It was a chuck of krytonut.
Splendid gagged and threw up, getting most of the vile bodily liquid on his fur. Lifty and Shifty smiled at their enemy's misery. They got closer towards the flying squirrel.
"Please...stand...back..." Splendid pleaded. Shifty ignored his plead and kicked the hero in the stomach. Tears stinging in his eyes, the hero asked his torturers what they were going to do to him. Shifty took charged and grabbed the hero by the nape of his neck.
"Nothing...for now." Splendid shuttered at the misfortune he might encounter in the future.
"How did...you get...Krytonut?" Splendid whispered weakly. Lifty smiled, but said nothing. Shifty dropped the hero with a hard thump. " Easy, we read that the museum was getting some new artifacts and one of them was a gem, a green gem. So, we figured it must of been krytonut. And we needed a new one since you crushed the last one."
Splendid moaned, remembering how he crushed the krytonut and blew the dust in wind, only to come back to him, killing him. Shifty gave the weak hero one last kick before proceeding with his brother into their van. With the krytonut finally away, Splendid slowly regain his strength. He rub his stomach, grateful to be no longer puking. But he really needed a shower. Sighing, knowing as long as the thieves had the krytonut, he'll be showering a lot more often.
Little did he know that someone had watched the whole ordeal. Someone who'll use what it saw to its advantage.
Exhausted from waiting during long hours of the night for Lumpy, Lifty and Shifty went right to sleep when they arrived home. They had celebrated in the van, laughing at their enemy's knew as long as they had the chunk of krytonut, they can steal and do whatever they want, anytime they want.
Lifty and Shifty slept peacefully,clueless of a stranger's presence climbing into their window. The mysterious figure held its breath as Lifty stirred in his sleep. When Lifty didn't wake up, the figure looked around the room for any clues to where the box was held. It was right in plain sight, on Shifty's night table. If one could call it a night table: it was just a two big boxes on top of each other."These idiots are making it wayyy too easy for me." The figure whispered under his breath. The stranger reached for the box, pausing midway when Shifty mumbled something in his sleep. Making sure the raccoon wasn't awake, the figure quickly grabbed the box containing the gem, making sure it doesn't open. The stranger climbed back out of the window and into the emerging sunset, the box carefully tucked under its arm.
