Okay Folks, here the basic deal. Number One: I don't own Cowboy Bebop. Now that I got the Disclaimer outta the way, let me explain what this story is all about.
This story is a crossover between CB and a short story called "Harrison Begeron" written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in 1961. We had just read this story in my English class on Tuesday, and the really cool thing about it was that the story takes place in 2081, ten years after Cowboy Bebop.
The story is about how everyone on Earth is equal by God and by law, but the only way to make EVERYONE equal was to give them enough handicaps to make them as ugly as they could be. Which meant the beautiful people had to have the biggest handicaps. To make sure that everyone wore their handicaps, they appointed a handicap general. Then the 14-year-old boy of the story title tries to rebel.
It makes more sense to read the story, so if you want to better understand this fanfic, go to this site http://www.bsu.edu/web/acfortner/Social%20Myth%20(1)/Harrison%20Bergeron.htm and read it.
Either way, you'll still like this story because it has Cowboy Bebop in it. But in order for my story to work, this fic is definitely AU (alternate universe).
Instead of being set in 2081, like in the Vonnegut story, my fic is set in the regular Bebop setting of 2071, with Spike being alive and everyone being their usual ages. Plus in the Vonnegut story, Harrison is supposed to be shot and killed, but I made it so that he survived and got on the loose, causing the Handicap General to put a 150 million wulong bounty on his head. Only four people and a dog would be crazy enough to catch him.
Lots of angst is in this story, and there's alot of rhetorical stuff involved as your reading, but I hope you enjoy it. By the way the Harrison Begeron story belongs to Kurt Vonnegut Jr., not me.
Whew!!! I'm done, so read and review alrighty!!!
Fantasy Cat