Session 3

Drunken Monkey

"Well then," Gene said. "Why don't we go out for a drink to celebrate?"

"Sounds good," Spike said.



"Should we really go out for a drink?" Ural asked. "I mean we are sort alone in this fight against the government, and we don't know when we'll be attacked again."

"And?" Gene asked. "What's your point?"

"I've got nothing to lose," Spike stated. Honestly, he really didn't. To him his life was rotten enough, and couldn't get any worse. "So I'm going. I'll see you later." Spike walked out of the room

"I'm going too," Gene said. "I can't get to sleep now." He left the room, and Ural chased after him.

"Yeah, right," Jet said sarcastically. "I guess I'll stay here and find some clues."



Upon arrival, everyone glanced suspiciously at them. As Spike walked passed he could've swore he heard one of the drunks say "Pity, the fool will die so soon."

"Hey," Spike whispered to Gene. "Did you here what I just heard?"

"Yeah," Gene replied.

"What's going on here?" Spike said. "Something's not quite right."

"What do you mean?" Gene said. "It's a bar of drunks, that's all it is."

"I hope your right," Spike said walking to the counter.



An hour or so later, they begin talking about their life so far.

"So how..." Gene begins. "So what's your life been like so far?"

"Oh, very bad," Spike said.

"Oh really?" Gene asked. "Why's that?"

"Well," Spike started. "It's a long story, but I'll go for it. I'm a bounty hunter from Mars. I was born on 26th June and I'm 27 years old. My blood type is O. My favorite ship is my speedster, the Swordfish II. My preferred gun is a Jericho 941. I'm very devoted to Bruce Lee, and I'm a master of Jeet Kune Do, just like my Master, Shawn Gage. In my youth, I was heavily involved with the Red Dragon crime syndicate, until eight years ago, but I don't want to go into that. Now I live aboard the Bebop with Jet, and we are a little low on funds. I rarely talk about my past, but I have plenty of experience at martial arts and gunfights. And I don't want to talk about anything else, some things are just too personal."

"I guess it's a good thing that I caught you while your drunk then?" Gene laughed.

"Yeah," Spike replied. "I guess so."

"This is really good," Gene said. "Hey, bartender, hit me again."

"Hey Spike," Jet said from the communicator. "We've got a little bit of a problem. Several Kei pirates are coming your way."

"What?" Spike replied. "Why Kei pirates?"

"I don't know," Jet said. "I think they're working for the government because they attacked our ship searching for you. Lucky for me Fey came by, but they're now coming your way. Be careful."



"Arg," Ural said. "I can't believe this, we spent too long getting drunk. We'll never fight them off."

"Ha," Spike laughed. "We can, and we will. Not like I've got anything to lose."

The three of them walked out side, day light was beginning to arrive. In the distance a cloud of dust was being thrown into the air.

"What?" Spike said as they were getting closer. "That was fast."

"Here they come!" Ural shouted. "Take cover."

Ural dives behind a building, but everyone else remains in the open. As the Kei Pirates come even closer, the team opens fire on them. Mysteriously, all the attacks made miss.

"Hey Jim," Gene says into his communicator. "I've got some Kei pirates and could use some help. Think you could get Sazuka to come help?"

"What took you so long?" Jim asked. "Sorry, no can do Gene. We lost contact with her three days ago."

"Just like I thought," Gene said. "Hey guys, should we run?"

"Not yet," Spike said. "I think I can take them."

Spike stood in the middle of the road, and Gene remained waiting for Spike to make a move. The Kei pirates finally came to a stop.

"Your braver than I thought," one of them said. He looked like a lizard-like monster, but artificially made. He had electrical wires all over him. "I'm Kishime, and I'll be your host."

"I'm Kali," the other said. He wore to swords on his back and didn't wear any form of armor other than a shirt and pants.

"And I'm Shou Me Tou," the final one said. He looked like a demon with heavy armor on him. He stood eight feet tall, and wore a big red helmet.

Kishime made his opening attack by charging towards Spike, but Gene jumped in front and fired a caster shell number nine. Kishime was sucked into a black warp, he tried to run, but his speed was no match for the blast.

Kali came second attacking Gene, but Spike jumped in front taking some sort of monkey fighting pose. Kali drew his blade and went to attack Spike, but Spike fell to the ground barely missing the blade. When Kali went to slice again, Spike slid underneath him then kicked out both his knees. Kali collapsed, but popped right back up with a thrust right towards Spike's head. Spike dodged it again, and once again slid underneath Kali. This time instead of kicking Kali's knees, Spike breaks Kali's knees.

"You impress me," Shou Me Tou said. "But you'll have to do a lot better than that to take me out!"

A beam-spear appeared in Shou's hands. He began his attack on Spike and Gene. He made a slash for Spike, but he bent back to dodge it. Shou attempted to thrust the butt of the beam-spear into Gene's stomach, but Gene side stepped it.

Gene and Spike both stepped away from Shou. They nodded to signal a team shot. They both loaded their guns then fired at the same time. Shou Me Tou got hit and fell to the ground.

"Oh yeah!" Spike yelled running over to Gene. "Ha! They can't hurt us."

"No, wait," Gene said looking back on what happened. "It was too easy. There has got to be a catch." Gene and Spike looked back only to find the Shou Me Tou had gotten back up.

"I said you would have to do better than that," Shou laughed.

Gene and Spike only stared in horror, as the monster was still alive. Could nothing stop Shou Me Tou?

(NOTE: There is a Monkey fighting style included within the modern edition of JKD [Jeet Kune Do] taught by the instructors of One Dragon Martial Arts[http://www.onedragon.com] and the Straight Blast Gym [http://www.straightblastgym.com)