Who: Karl and Chuuya What: on their way to a jewelry heist Where: Muppet Portal (Istanbul) When: April 22nd Warnings: low Status: g-doc
Karl didn’t particularly care for Muppets. Not that he loathed them or anything, and certainly would play A Muppet Christmas Carol for Nita, but in general? The werewolf preferred to ignore them. However, he couldn’t pass up the chance to visit somewhere else to pull a heist with Chuuya. Something to hold them over until their trip at the end of May.
After reading the list of places they could visit, Karl texted Chuuya to see what he thought about Istanbul. Sure, they may turn into Muppets, but they would still have fully functioning brains. Which meant the pair could pull off a small heist, and Karl wanted to see Istanbul again. Plus, who wouldn’t want to try and pull off a heist in such a culturally important city? Especially when they might not return.
Chuuya knew next to nothing about Muppets. The only one he knew about was the green frog one (Hermit or Kermit?). So when he'd heard about the portal, he wasn't all that interested in it and decided to skip it. But then Karl texted him and suggested they pull off a quick heist in Istanbul. Chuuya thought about it and figured why not.
So they agreed to meet at the portal entrance. He hoped to god they didn't turn into Muppets when they entered. Or that a Muppet would bother them during the heist. But the opportunity was too good to pass up, so he'd deal with whatever risks there were.
He spotted Karl and headed over. "Ready?"
Karl nodded. “As ready as I’ll ever be.” The pair stepped through the portal to the appropriate city. He didn’t know at all what to expect but when he looked down, the werewolf swore. He now possessed brown fur, but at least he still had full functional hands. Muppet hands, but hands. Fuck. He probably looked like Rowlf.
“Okay, well…we tell literally no one about this part.” Karl looked at the loveliness, though, of Istanbul, having a soft spot for the ancient city. At least he had a good idea of one place they could find some jewels and gems for the store.
Chuuya followed Karl. The moment they stepped through, he saw the change immediately and when he saw Karl, he moved to cover his mouth and coughed. But instead of his normal hand, he saw the difference and he looked down and groaned. Yes, he was a damn Muppet. He looked more or less like himself at least, but still.
"No, definitely no telling anyone. Especially Irina." She was the last person he ever wanted to see him like this. He sighed. "Let's just get this over with." The sooner they get the jewels, the quicker they can go home and be un-Muppetized.
Karl nodded and walked at a slightly slower pace than usual while he tried to adjust to his new centre of gravity. “What the fuck.” Apparently a woman they passed didn’t tend to hear Muppets swear, because she definitely looked surprised. Oh well.
“Your fingers are still…fingers, right?” Karl’s worked the same at least and didn’t find anything different in operating them.
“God, this needs to be the fastest heist for us. Ever.” Because Karl still wanted to steal shit, but fast so they could get back to their usual bodies.
Unlike Karl, Chuuya didn't need to adjust to the new gravity. Actually, he could make gravity adjust to him rather than the other way around. So he had less difficulties getting used to this dumbass Muppet body he currently had.
He completely ignored the woman before he wiggled his fingers and bent them before holding up his middle fingers. "If you can call these fingers, but they still work at least." He figured he could still grab things, which would definitely be needed.
"Agreed. Know a place for us to steal from?" Chuuya had been to Istanbul before, but it had been awhile and it wasn't a business trip, so he hadn't been looking for anything regarding mafia activities, including stealing.
Karl nodded. “I do. We need to head East, though, towards the Hagia Sophia.” Even a person with the tiniest passing knowiedge of Istanbul could pick out the famous church. “It’s about two or three blocks away.” At least there seemed to be a solid amount of people, so nothing felt too weird for Karl. So far.
“God, I never realized until now how often I blink, now that I can’t blink.” A weird thing for Karl to think about, but at least it left his mind almost immediately.
"Alright." Chuuya knew of the famous church and were it was. He and Karl headed into the direction Karl pointed out, making their way to the Hagia Sophia.
It was definitely a strange thing to think about, but before Chuuya could respond, another voice piped up. "Can't blink either."
Chuuya turned and saw a crazy looking red Muppet. "What the hell? Are you following us?" he asked the Muppet. He had no idea which one this was, but again the only one he knew was the green frog dude.
Karl turned in the direction of the third voice and lo! Animal seemed to have joined the pair. He nodded enthusiastically and pulled out drum sticks, but no drums at least. “Looks fun!” The werewolf sighed. “Meet Animal.”
Animal did not look like he would be leaving the pair and Karl sighed. But, he resumed walking for now while Animal offered a grunt.
“Well this took a turn.”
Chuuya sighed. He tried multiple times to tell the dumb muppet to go away, but Animal didn't listen and kept following them while waving his drumsticks around wildly. Chuuya had to duck a few times to avoid getting hit.
They finally made it to the Hagia Sophia. "Alright, so what's the plan?" he asked Karl, looking over towards the church, seeing the entrance from here.
Before either of them could say anything or try to stop him, Animal suddenly screamed "Break in! Break in!" before running wildly towards the doors and crashing into the church.
Karl watched as Animal crashed into the church. “I’m happy to report that our mark is a block and a half from here. Let’s get out of here before Animal realizes we left?” Not having a Muppet who kept wielding drum sticks like weapons tagging along sounded good to Karl. Technically, the church entailed items of great historical significance which meant they’d break his deal with Clay. Also, the security there, at least in his version, was tight.
He really hoped, at least, to finish this without Animal, but so far luck didn’t seem to be on their side.
Chuuya might have tricked the Muppet, purposefully stopping at some random church and acting as if it was the one they were planning on stealing from in order to get rid of him. Guess it worked as he could hear loud crashes coming from the building and Animal's voice shouting loudly.
"Idiot," he muttered before nodding to Karl. "Yeah, let's go." Hopefully Animal would be preoccupied long enough for him and Karl to steal from the Hagia Sophia and get back to Madison Valley.