Spike was lounging on the couch staring at the computer Ed had left on, for God only knows what reason, when it started acting strange. The screen went black all except for a blue cursor. Then a message appeared:

Hello Spike.

"What the hell?"

Spike leaned over to get a closer look.

Long time no see.

"I must've drank too much or something, damned computer's talking to me."

Well not having seen each other isn't my fault alone. I wish I could see you again... my Spike.

"This is fucked up." He tried typing but nothing showed up. "Have we been hacked?"

But I'm afraid I can't do that right now. But I have to keep in touch somehow. Goodbye. "By the graves, not in one."

Then the screen went back to normal. "We must've been hacked or something. Wait a sec. 'By the graves not in one.'? It can't be. ED!!!!" He stormed out of the room to find the teenage master hacker and her mutt.

Down on the planet the Bebop was orbiting, in a little town, in a run-down apartment a lone female sat in the dark. The only light was from her black computer screen that had computer code and the messages Spike got.

"Hey Spike." Jet said. "Wanna see the new bounties on Big Shot?" "I'm coming. Hey, have you seen Ed?" "That depends. What do you want with her?" "Edward's right here!" "Anyways there's a new bounty come check it out."

"Hey all you cowboys out there. Today we got a hot new bounty." "Is he cute, Punch?" "Sorry. But we don't have any pictures. Besides he is a she."

"Sounds like my kind of job." Spike mused eating some ramen.

"She's a hacker under the alias Julia."

Spike choked. 'Julia? What the hell?' he thought to himself. 'What would Julia be doing hacking? I mean only she would be smart enough to use her actual name as an alias. No one would think of that.'

"Oh? Did she hack into some kind of government facility?" "No that's the odd thing she's been hacking into personal ships computers. The police think she's looking for something."

"Or someone." Faye said. "Edward thinks Faye-Faye could be right." "Ya whatever." Spike said. 'I'm not about to let them know she is absolutely right or it could even be some ones.'

"Well the only information we got to give is she accidentally gave out that she has long golden blonde hair and the last to report her traced her to Calypso and that was a week ago. She's got a bounty of 5 million woolong."

'That's it?' Spike thought to himself. 'That's all my girl's worth? I'd place one around 500 million minimum! They have no idea how dangerous she is. Even Vicious would do the same.' "Feh. Some bounty." Jet said turning it off. Spike got up and started toward the hangar. "Spike? You're not thinking of going after her are you?" "Well actually I am." "5 million isn't that much of a bounty and you have no leads." "I got more leads than you think I do. Besides, who said I was in it for the money?" "Spike- Spike's not in it for the money?" Ed asked. "Is Spike-Spike sick?" "That'd be my bet." Jet said.