Disclaimer: I don't own any of the weapons that I use or any of the classes or the Newman race or Pioneer 2, etc. I do own the characters that I use as they are my characters for my PSO file.

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I walked up to the Hunters Guild counter and up to the rather attractive woman behind the counter. "I need a job." I stated flatly. "Yes sir I'm scanning your ID now. Yellowboze ID, RAmar Class, Level 134, age 22, Call Sign Tomahawk. Right?" "Correct" "There are currently three jobs available for A Rank Hunters. From the Depths, for 1500 Meseta, Doctor Montague's Secret Plan, for 9000 Meseta, and Soul of Steel for 8000 Meseta. Would you like one?" "Doc's Plan please." Alright I'll call your client right now."

The woman picked up a small disc and spoke into it. Five seconds later a FOnewm in the standard hat, suit and goggles appeared. "As you can see I'm a Force but I'm also a blacksmith-" He began when suddenly he was cut off by and explosion over in the Shopping District!

I ran over there with my Repeater +45's out. As the doors to the Shopping District slid open I saw a Black HUcast who my read out on my Hunter's Pad told me was CAPRICORN 53, level 200, WHITTIL. It had a Buster +30 out, hacking at a RAcast with blue plating. But the only thing my pad read for the RAcast was nDvee, 6lelv9e, llYewozboe. I guessed that nDvee had gone haywire from his readout, which looked scrambled to me.

The Yellow orbs that served as the androids eyes went black so I could tell that Capricorn had hit nDvee's hard drive. Capricorn kept hacking though so I switched my weapon to my Lockgun +50 and shot the handle of the android's Buster, causing it to go dead. The android turned to me and shrieked, "Why did you ruin my Buster!" Capricorn took out a Halbert and started sucking in energy from the air to power up his weapon. As he swung at me with what I could tell was going to be a killing blow he staggered backwards and fell to the ground unconscious. When he dropped I could see the weapons shop owner lowering the barrel of a sniper from his eye.

I slowed my breathing back to a close to normal rate and scanned nDvee again. This time he read; Deven, level 96, Yellowboze.

I reached down and took Capricorn's weapons so the mad android wouldn't be able to hurt me.

With that I decided the job could wait and I headed back to my apartment. At my apartment I took off my ranger's armor and slipped on some boxers and a tank top. I flopped down on my mattress and just lay there for a while resting. I got up a bit later and ordered pizza then I went back to sleep.

The pizza delivery person woke me up about an hour later. I got up quickly slipped some pants on and walked out to meet them. As the Newman teen came into sight through the slightly parted door I saw that he had a Redria ID disc on his glove. "You a Force?" I inquired. "What do you think?" "Yes." "Bingo."

I leaned back into my apartment to grab my pad so I could scan him. He read: Zan, Level 116, Redria, FOnewm. "Want your pizzas?" he asked sarcastically. "Hmmm. Let me think, yes and one other thing, I was called down for a mission to Ragol by Principal Tyrell, and he told me to get at least two partners. Want to come?" "Sure if it pays good." "500,000 Meseta if it's completed." "YA!!! I'm in!!!" "OK. Now give me those. I handed over a cube of 19 Meseta and another cube for 10 Meseta to him and grabbed my pizza. "OK. Now all I need is a Hunter." I said to myself after he had left beaming. I was contemplating that as I chewed on my meal. Who is good enough for this mission?

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"Let me go!" the android yelled as repairing machines held him down. All of a sudden his head dropped and his 'muscles' went limp as a metallic needle on the arm of a repair bot withdrew from his back and went whirring away to sedate another berserk android. CAPRICORN 53's body might have been deactivated but his mind wasn't. Even then it was working out an escape from the trash pile it had been dumped in.

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Zan arrived panting at his job to find a pair of Hunters waiting for him. "Will you please come with us." The first guard said as he forcefully grabbed his right arm while the other guard grabbed his left. "No." Zan said as his eyes glowed blue and he shouted, "RABARTA!" Four huge mist balls zoomed out of his upraised hand and smashed into the guards, freezing them in their tracks. He looked around frantically and saw about 30 more guards approaching him rapidly. He quickly calculated his chances and ran.