Don't worry about it. Just know they'd be sufficient bribes for someone from my world.
Team Rocket *does* take Pokemon directly from people, either through pick-pocketing or by making the claiming of the loser's pokeballs part of a battle's terms. That really can't be denied. But otherwise...
Well. Just a list of things I remember Team Rocket doing since I got here, just by going with what got on the news or I heard about later (or in one case I was actually *there* for):
February - Stealing from the Pewter Museum Vaults March - Stealing the Goldenrod Granbulls' Mascot 'Zeus'/Destroying Baseball May - Stealing Lapras from the Wildlife Preserve June - Terrorizing Kurt the Ball-maker and Stranding Him In The Slowpoke Well July??? - (nothing on the news Sento Kiryuu starts claiming there's been a series of single night crime sprees in various cities, like some sort of muggle speedrun) August (Pre-Sinnoh Trip) - Stealing Shinies From A Dog Show (in which I was in the audience) August (During Sinnoh Trip) - The Tricky Bandits Steal From Wealthy People And Set Traps In Their Homes August (End of Month) - Evolutionary Stone Heist at the Blackthorn Mine September (Mid) - Raid on the Fuschia Gym Ends With Them Blowing A Hole In It To Escape The Jennies
And nothing since then, apart from the Christmas market, though I suppose there's been plenty of small scale single individual crime that just doesn't make the news. I mean, don't get me wrong, Team Rocket is a pain and a half, but they're not nearly as terrifying as they by all rights should be.
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Team Rocket *does* take Pokemon directly from people, either through pick-pocketing or by making the claiming of the loser's pokeballs part of a battle's terms. That really can't be denied. But otherwise...
Well. Just a list of things I remember Team Rocket doing since I got here, just by going with what got on the news or I heard about later (or in one case I was actually *there* for):
February - Stealing from the Pewter Museum Vaults
March - Stealing the Goldenrod Granbulls' Mascot 'Zeus'/Destroying Baseball
May - Stealing Lapras from the Wildlife Preserve
June - Terrorizing Kurt the Ball-maker and Stranding Him In The Slowpoke Well
July??? - (nothing on the news Sento Kiryuu starts claiming there's been a series of single night crime sprees in various cities, like some sort of muggle speedrun)
August (Pre-Sinnoh Trip) - Stealing Shinies From A Dog Show (in which I was in the audience)
August (During Sinnoh Trip) - The Tricky Bandits Steal From Wealthy People And Set Traps In Their Homes
August (End of Month) - Evolutionary Stone Heist at the Blackthorn Mine
September (Mid) - Raid on the Fuschia Gym Ends With Them Blowing A Hole In It To Escape The Jennies
And nothing since then, apart from the Christmas market, though I suppose there's been plenty of small scale single individual crime that just doesn't make the news. I mean, don't get me wrong, Team Rocket is a pain and a half, but they're not nearly as terrifying as they by all rights should be.