"Well little man, you filled your part of the bargain out nicely."
"Yeah, well i told you. I know this junk pile better than anyone, baby. I guess you were just lucky i was here."
The bounty hunter smiled his wide smile. "It's getting late" He said "Shouldn't you be getting home to your parents?"
Dandy scrunched up his face into an expression like he was showing scorn for something vile. "I don't live with my parents, i don't live with nobody, baby. I live on my own."
At this Duster gave him a reproachful thoughtful look. "I see" He said deeply. After scratching his chin and looking in the distance for some time he finally said. "Well boy, how would you like to be a bounty hunter?"
Dandy's eyes lit up like a flash fire in the night "Become a bounty hunter?! Like you?!"
"That's right, come live with me and i'll show you everything i know. How does that sound"
"That sounds like you have yourself a deal ."
The old man put out his hand,"Put her there son". Dandy took his hand and shook it as firmly as he could(he was very thin).
[From then on Dandy lived on The Dancing Flamingo as Duster Callaway's personal assistant. He ran errands, cooked, cleaned, did maintenance for the ship and occasionally went out with Duster on missions. Or he would claim that he did these things if you asked him. If you asked Duster you would hear that he was a terrible cook, couldn't clean a bar of soap, and any errand he was told to do was done late, or not at all. As for Dandy helping with Bounty missions… The boy was responsible for the escape of at least 40 high-profile criminals. The first mission Dandy was on he ruined an ambush by jumping out in front of the targeted criminal and giving him a ten minute speech about criminals being the worst types of people in the galaxy. The man gathered from the speech that Dandy knew he was a criminal and made his escape before he could be apprehended. Another time he was told to watch a Bounty head caught in a space bar while Duster was away securing payment. Duster came back to find Dandy engrossed in a conversation with one of the bar's waitresses with a very low cut blouse. The final straw was when he blew up a old spacecraft that had vital information regarding one of the biggest bounty heads that Duster had ever chased. Dandy was immensely proud of his involvement in Dusters missions telling everybody and anybody that he was the deputy of the "Best Bounty Hunter in the galaxy". This continued even after he was banned from going on missions. Dandy stayed with Duster for 8 years before becoming old enough to apply for a bounty hunting license. On his 18nth birthday he packed up all his stuff and left to the the intergalactic law enforcement station to take the bounty hunter exam. There were three parts to the exam. The space weapon accuracy test, the dangerous alien apprehension test, and the intergalactic law written portion. Dandy failed all with flying colors. He actually failed the test so hard, that the examiners referred to him ever after as the bounty bomber, after the way he bombed the test. Dandy took the exam 6 times, and he received lower scores with each attempt. After the 6th failure, Dandy with a crippled pride and a heavy heart gave up on becoming a Bounty Hunter. It was probably the worst defeat of his life. A couple of months after giving up on bounty hunting, he learned of space alien hunting. Figuring that was the next best thing, Dandy hopped a spaceship to the Space Alien registry center, took the exam and passed. The rest is history.]
The Story returns to real Space Dandy time in the next chapter, If you read through up to this point then i give you a thumbs up ~,~b Thanks for stickin wit it homie