So after marathoning Cowboy Bebop a few days ago I decided to have some fun and create an AU where Natsu and Gildarts are two bounty hunters in the Bebop world, hunting people down for bounties. First up is everyones favourite duo Gajeel and Levy! Sorry if it's unpolished, this is a new idea after all and I'm still working out how to write it.

The ship moved silently around the moon Phobos, moving into view of Mars. Aboard there were two men in the main control room of the ship about to discover their next targets.

"What are their names?" The pink-haired bounty hunter stared at the glowing screen, blowing at a strand of hair that had fallen in the way.

"The blue-haired one is Levy. She's a coding master but she's not that physically strong. Don't try to outwit her." The older man looked at his partner to make sure he was listening before going on.

"The second one is Gajeel, more of an ugly brute really. He's pretty much the strength of the group, though there are some brains there as well. Try not to get your ass handed to you on this one okay?" Gildarts smiled.

"Ah come on. That was one time!" Natsu shifted in his white dress shirt. "Besides, we know where they are! How hard could a couple of weirdos be!" Gildarts sighed and looked back at the profile screens.

"They're not a couple of weirdos. These two have been robbing banks for a couple of years now. They weren't that bad and the bounty on them wasn't that large until a couple days ago when they blew up one of the larger banks in Magnolia during a shoot out. They're being dubbed this centuries Bonnie and Clyde."

"Bonnie and who?" Natsu scratched his head and sat back in the dirty brown sofa he was on.

"Bonnie and Clyde you idiot! Didn't you ever go to school?" Gildarts shouldn't have asked the question, knowing the answer he was gonna get.

"Didn't need it. As long as I know how to fight and how to fly I'm good." Gildarts shook his head.

"Never mind then. To put it simply you've only got two choices with them. It's either both of em or neither. I don't have to tell you what that means."

"Nope." Natsu twirled a pointer finger through his hair. "Land the Cornelia down in Magnolia and we'll see if we can get some leads there." Natsu stood up.

"I'm gonna head down there in Igneel and see if I can get any leads." Gildarts nodded his agreement and the two men moved to their respective positions. Gildarts, clunking along with his metal leg, wen out the main hallway on the left and up into the cockpit of the ship where he began to bring her down towards the main Martian city. Natsu had just thrown on his dark green jacket to match his pants when the call came in in from Gildarts over the speakerphones.

"Entering the city limits Natsu. Make sure you're ready to go. And make sure you've cleaned your gun! I don't want you getting shot cause of a jam again!"

"Yeah yeah, shove off old man I'll be fine." Natsu grunted to himself as he hopped into his red ship. Much older than anything else out there, it resembled a small fighter jet from a time long forgotten to anybody in the galaxy. The nose was longer though and the thruster engine on the back spat blue projection flames from the fusion reactor that powered the ship, and then there was also the rather large gatling gun mounted to the bottom of the nose. As he climbed up into the cockpit Natsu felt a sudden nagging in the back of his mind, like he was forgetting about something. Shrugging it off he started up the Igneel and switched on his com-link to talk to Gildarts.

"Meet me down there as soon as you can." He steered his ship towards the opening bay doors and out into the false atmosphere of Mars.

The city of Magnolia was beautiful to say the least. The fake atmosphere was the most expensive and accurate to that of Earths that the money that flowed through it could buy. The crater that the city was named after actually held two major Metropolitan downtown areas, but both were named the same. Farmland spanned the space in between and a large river connected the two together along with the roads and highways, each end forming a harbour near the middle of each downtown centres. Landing on a vacant pier Natsu hopped out and walked down the wood, thumping along in his dress shoes and lighting a cigarette before re buttoning his green jacket. He exhaled deeply and closed his eyes, listening to the waves of the water lap underneath him as he walked along.

"Now where should I start?" Natsu found himself on a large futuristic street walking past fancy looking stores and even fancier looking people living the high class life. Chatter and noise of the city kept his ears busy as he listened around searching for anything that he could find on Levy and her new cohort Gajeel. After going into and talking to a few bank clerks Natsu came to the conclusion that he was not only hungry, but also not getting very far. Stopping at a restaurant he flicked on his communicator watch to phone Gildarts. He was sitting out in the sun on the patio, a finished plate of steak and fries sitting beside an almost empty pint.

"Hey old man you there? I've caught one or two things about these two and something about all the banks updating their security based on her "signature" or something but I still don't know where to find-" Natsu stopped. A flash of blue across the street caught his attention and barely turning his head the young man finally found his targets.

"Natsu? Natsu are you there?" Gildarts' voice crackled in the small earbud that fit snugly into Natsu's ear.

"I'm here. I've found the targets and am about to pursue. Levy is wearing a pair of black dress pants and an orange muscle shirt that shows belly with a black suit jacket. Gajeel is in blue jeans and a silver t-shirt with piercings all over his face, same style black suit jacket. Their pictures are pretty much exactly what they look like in real life. They're going Second Street heading North. Looks like they're going into the..." Natsu's eyes widened.

"Main Bank of Mars. Get over here quick Gildarts, looks like it's gonna be fun afternoon."

"Natsu don't you dare! Wait for me before you-" Natsu turned off the communication and got up from his seat, paying for the meal automatically once he stepped past the hearth of the door. Lighting another cigarette Natsu turned down the street and strutted off towards the bank. The white building shone in the sunlight and Natsu was more than happy to slip through the glass doors into the air conditioned main lobby of the bank. Around him suit-clad men and women walked briskly around the tiled open room, hastily heading to knew meetings and greeting old clients that stood between marble columns holding up the ceilings. Natsu spotted his targets standing in front of an automated ATB, the only thing that constituted a front-clerk in this century. Smiling to himself the pinkette restrained himself from running over to the machine beside them and instead opted for his signature long stride. Moving up on the machine he started doing some much needed banking while taking in the size of his targets. Levy herself wasn't very tall, maybe up to the middle of his chest making her maybe five foot five.

Gajeel on the other hand was about half a head taller than Natsu and built like a rock. Muscles bound his body to the edge of his shirt. Piercings covered his face and seemed to be in places that piercings probably weren't supposed to be as far as Natsu saw it. From the corner of his eye he saw Levy using a small tablet that was very sneakily attached to the ATM. Numbers and letters flew across the screen faster than Natsu could ever hope to keep up with.

"I hope you've changed your signature." At the sound of his voice both tensed up and Levy seemed to lose a little bit of control on the tablet. "I guess the banks have figured out what your signature is or something, I'm not to good with the techno babble myself but I'm sure it means something to you. Might wanna get out now before you accidentally set off an-" A siren blasted three short times above the heads of bank patrons and with one swift movement the computers of the bank all turned off and every banker in the building ducked into an office with their clients, leaving the three alone in the bank. Large metal sheets started coming down on the windows and doors but just before they hit the ground a door at the front smashed in and a very grumpy Gildarts was left panting on the cold tile.

"I swear to God Natsu. This is why I tell you to wait for me."

"Heeeeeyyyy Gildarts! Glad you could make it! Wanna help me collect this bounty now or are you gonna lay on your ass all day?" Natsu walked over to his partner of three years.

"Bounty?! You're bounty hunters!" Natsu suddenly remembered the people he was hunting and turned around to face them.

"Yep! You're already trapped in here with us, so you may as well give up now right?" At that the two bank robbers grinned.

"Yeah right." Flicking their open jackets back the two pulled out handguns at the same time and opened fire.

"SON OF A BITCH!" Gildarts rolled towards a column on his right while Natsu dove towards a brown mahogany desk.

"THIS IS WHY I TOLD YOU TO WAIT!" Gildarts shouted at him over the sound of gunshots before returning fire himself, forcing the pair to duck behind their own columns.

"I DIDN'T THINK THEY'D OPEN FIRE! COVER ME!" Natsu vaulted over his desk and emptied his magazine at the columns to keep Gajeel and Levy from popping out. As soon as he ran out of bullets Gildarts opened fire and moved with him and in a flash the two were at the columns that their bounties were hiding behind.

"Gihi, this is gonna be an interesting fight. You ready darling?" Gajeel grinned at his opponent while calling to his girl behind him.

"Ready babe." Levy returned her lovers call before turning her attention back to her opponent and starting her fight against Natsu with a right hook.

About four punches into the fight Natsu realized that Levy was a relatively fast and dangerous fighter. Her hits were quick and she was quick to jump out of reach of him before charging back in with twice the speed. Four punches and a few kicks later though, Levy realized that Natsu was faster. Punches, kicks and blocks were thrown from both parties with Levy scoring multiple hits to the abdomen of Natsu. The problem for her was when he landed a blow. He was much larger than she was, making every hit count with almost a two-to-one ratio on her and soon the small girl found herself outmatched.

"I can't. I can't keep fighting you like this." She panted.

"Nope! But that's more your problem than mine." Natsu danced to the left and avoided a right jab from Levy, leaving her completely open. With one fell sweep of his right leg he sent the bluenette crashing into the marble where she lay gasping for air.

"That really hurt."

"I'm sure it did but again, that's more your problem." Without another word Natsu swooped down and flicked handcuffs onto the poor hacker. "Now I wonder how Gildarts is doing." The smashing of a wooden desk behind him told Natsu that the fight could have been going better.

The two men were fighting over by the now destroyed desk that Natsu had begun the fight behind. Black jeans on Gildarts with a grey jacket buttoned up clashed with Gajeel's mostly black clothing as the two men threw punch after punch into each other. It wasn't as graceful a fight as the one Natsu and Levy had just finished but in place of that was much harder hitting. Each swing of a fist was met with either the arm of the other person blocking it or their abdomen where the shot was being aimed for. Soon the two men we panting and breathing, their swings becoming slower with each passing minute. Finally, after a couple minutes of this, Natsu watched as Gildarts delivered a final blow to Gajeel and sent him crumpling to the ground.

"GAJEEL!" Levy shrieked from beside Natsu.

"Damn woman I just knocked him out!" Gildarts sat beside the unconscious body and looked at Natsu.

"Pass me a cigarette." Laughing the bounty hunter walked over while taking out his pack and handing one over to the older man. Sitting down on the ground beside Gildarts the young man lit their smokes and drew in a deep breath before exhaling and looking around the locked down room.

"You think the cops are gonna be around anytime soon to let us out?"

"No idea." Gildarts laid down with his metal arm tucked underneath the back of his head as a pillow. Natsu just sighed.

"Damn. Cause I'm really hungry."

Well that's all for this chapter y'all. Reviews are gladly welcome! Thanks!