Holiday Plunder
What good would presents, most specifically, Christmas presents, do for pirates exactly. I’d imagine not much, considering most of the goods pirates plundered and raided for either keeping or trade was either newly found and hard to come by spices (which were the big money maker), certain kinds of gold if they were available and… no, that’s honestly it actually. Yeah, most pirates formed huge crews and ships, had their own special code of rules to follow and were always on everyone’s hit list… just so they can travel to another point on earth to grab a couple of items that make specific kinds of food better. They were already edible, it’s just that these spices helped make the food taste 10% better than normal. You think they have to plunder farms to obtain the food for said spices? I know they didn’t use ALL of them, considering that was the main money-maker, but you know they definitely wanted to try them out for themselves when they were bored. There’s only so many enemy ships and rough waters and there’s so much distance from point A to Point B that at some point, your bored mind would just decide “Screw it, let’s make a funny challenge out of how much cinnamon we can lick”.
Now, do these giant festively designed boxes look like they're spices? Not really at all, but Betty isn’t the sharpest buccaneer when it comes to plundering. She finds something unique and it’s ripe for the picking for her. Something her captain ain’t too keen on. Jane wouldn’t really punish Betty for that (I mean, she IS doing her job technically), but she’s more worried about what the REAL owner will do to the crew. Keep in mind, O’l Saint Nick defeated Martians and is close buddies with a being who will willingly drag your pitiful ass into an over-sewed trash bag and make sure you're seeing nothing but pure night terrors for God knows how long. Lord knows what he’ll do to those nut-heads.
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