A Bounty Hunter's Vacation

Chapter 1: Cad Bane's Target

It was quite quiet in the depths of space. Soon afterward, a shuttle appeared out of nowhere being controlled by one of the Galaxy's most feared bounty hunters Cad Bane whom was searching for a place to stay while still trying to elude Republic forces.

"Bah, I finally found a solar system with no life where I can stay hidden until I regain my strength back" said Cad to himself.

As the bounty hunter began to scan which planet in the solar system he was interested to spend his time from fleeing from the Republic, one particular, tiny blue planet caught his attention. It was the perfect, yet primitive planet where he could easily spend to hide from Republic forces, or even manage to retire there.

"Ha, perfect, now I just need to land in the middle of literally nowhere so that no one would find out about me" added Cad as he steered the ship toward the blue planet.

Meanwhile, back on the certain blue planet, on a certain farm in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas, Muriel was happily playing ball with Courage. Courage was having quite a fun time with playing the ball and fetching it back. Her husband Eustace had managed to bring his chair outside the house to read his newspaper.

"You know Eustace, you could be kinder to Courage once and awhile" said Muriel as she threw the ball toward Courage whom picked it up with his mouth and then brought it over to him.

"Bah, yuck, I'm not playing with some stinky dog who got a ball all covered up!" cried Eustace in an angry tone, "Get away from me dog!"

"Fine then" replied Muriel as Courage then gave the ball to her, "I'll have fun playing with Courage without you."

As she threw the ball quite far, Courage raced toward where the ball was. It was just then that a certain Cad Bane landed his shuttle near the chicken coop where the ball was located.

"Oh no!" cried Courage as he noticed the shuttle landing.

"This planet is primitive, but I'm afraid it would have to do" said Cad to himself as he stepped out.

As Cad stepped on the ground, he immediately stepped right on Courage's ball which made a squeaky sound.

"Oh no, not the ball!" cried Courage to himself.

The bounty hunter not amused with the sound the ball made picked it up right on the ground.

"Yuck, who's mouth slobbered all over this?" asked Cad as he didn't noticed Courage was nearby.

Cad simply then tossed the ball right up in the air, which Courage had finally hoped he would leave it alone. Instead, the bounty hunter pulled out his blaster rifle and fired it into the air destroying the ball completely. Then casually walked toward the barn was located.

"This should be good enough for me" said Cad.

"Oh no, I better warn Muriel!" cried Courage.

Courage immediately ran toward Muriel and began to beg her to follow him along with trying to detail how a strange being landed.

"Bah, not this again!" cried Eustace, "Stupid dog, leave me be!"

Then typically enough, Eustace brought out his usual scary mask and scared poor Courage away, where the farmer made his usual laugh.

"Eustace, that's not very nice, maybe Courage did see something head toward the barn" added Muriel.

"You know what that stupid dog said?" asked Eustace.

"Just follow Courage" replied Muriel.

As the three headed toward the barn area, as they headed right on in, the barn door automatically slammed itself shut. Courage tried to get out by banging on the door. Then Eustace noticed an odd figure leap down from the balcony of the barn.

"Forgive me for using your facility in this manner" said the strange figure, "allow me to introduce myself, I am known as Cad Bane, and I think you three should treat me as my hospitable hosts."

"You're nothing but a low down hippie, I know what I'm going to do, I'm going to get me mallet to use against you hippie!" said Eustace whom managed to get the door unlocked.

"Oh, I believe you are making the wrong mistake" replied Cad as he set his blaster rifle to stun and knocked out Eustace out cold.

"Eustace!" cried Muriel as she ran to his aide.

"You'll follow my directions if you do not want yourself to end up, he's still alive but I'll be the one to judge that when he regains consciousness" laughed Cad.

"You're a cruel, cruel whatever you are" said Muriel.

"My, my, but madame, I only need to use your primitive housing to elude those Republic elite clone troopers whom are after me" replied Cad, "it should only be, well in your planet's shake about five months tops."

"Oh no!" cried Courage as he screamed.

"Now if you don't mind, I'll be using some of your primitive home's features" said Cad as he continued to head toward the house.

"Eustace wake up!" cried Muriel, "Courage, take Eustace to the basement, we'll have to use it as a temporary main bedroom if this crazy whatever this is wants to occupy our house."

"No, no, no" cried Courage.

"I'm sorry Courage, but if we are to stay alive, we probably would treat him as if this were like a five star hotel" sighed Muriel who knew she was going to have to cook the bounty hunter meals as well.

While Eustace was being taken to the basement by Courage, Muriel headed to the kitchen to cook up some grub for the bounty hunter whom was making himself a bath upstairs.

"Bah, such primitive technology, but if I want those clone troopers out of my hair, I'm going to have to stay here awhile" sighed Cad as he was turning on the water.

Yet as Cad Bane was about to take a bath to relax after a long journey escaping the Republic forces, Courage somehow needed a way to get the bounty hunter out of the house for good. Perhaps his own shuttle that got him there could provide some clues.