Hey, sorry about the end of the last act, I didn't realize I'd don't that until after it was too late. Oh well, oopsies! o



Act Three: Action- In which something big DOES happen



"Vicious…" Spike said out loud.

"Hello Spike, it's been a long time." Vicious said darkly.

"You know him?" Faye asked confused.

"Oh he knows me alright, more then you can imagine."

"What's he talking about?" Faye asked apprehensively.

Spike place his hand on her arm and looked at her gently, if not somewhat sadly. He then turned away, looking at no one in particular. He began to speak.

"A couple of years ago, before I came here, I was a raider in the Bad Lands… along with Vicious. But when the lawmen came after away, and my friend, Lin, was shot up. I turned away and hid myself as a Sheriff. But, Vicious became the leader of a large group of outlaws…" Spike finished.

All was quiet, and no one moved, except for the Bar Tender- who was reaching under his counter for his sawed off double barrel shotgun.

***

Jet reached nodded to Shin and the piano player removed a .22 Rifle from inside his piano.

Jet took out his Walther.

***

Spike looked at Faye. "I'm sorry." He said.

She squeezed his hand and smiled at him. "It's okay."

"Sorry to interrupt this touching moment, but I believe I was here to do something…" Vicious began, almost mockingly. "Now what was it…? Oh yes, I was going to kill you! Well no sense in wasting time." Vicious said as he drew his katana blade.

Spike got in front of Faye and drew his gun and pointed it at Vicious.

The killer smiled and pulled something from his pocket and threw it against the floor in front of Spike.

Smoke exploded everywhere, and everyone covered his or her mouth to try not to breathe any of it in.

Spike fumbled around trying to find Faye, but just as he got to her, a dark silhouette grabbed her by the arm, but then someone fired a shot.

The blur that seemed to be Vicious shot out of the saloon door.

Spike fired a shot, witch missed Vicious and only knocked off his hat.

As the smoke finally cleared, Spike could see that it had been Shin who had fired the first shot.

Spike turned to Faye and looked her in the eyes. "I'm sorry Faye, but I've got to end this once and for all, I can't let him get away and let there be some corny sequel to this story." Spike said sincerely.

Faye looked up at Spike, silently she nodded to him.

Spike looked over as Jet and Shin ran up to them.

"Jet you come with me. Shin, wait here till we get back." Spike informed him.

"Right!" Shin said as he watched the other two men leave.

***

Spike stepped through the doorway and heard a click to his left, he spun around and fired his gun at the man pointing a rifle at him.

"Look out!" Jet shouted as he fired over Spike.

The younger officer looked up to see a man fall off the roof of the building across the street. The man landed in a water trough.

"Thanks." Spike said to his partner.

"No problem." Jet replied.

Vicious listened to them from around the corner of the saloon, he then made his way back down the ally.

Spike turned to Jet. "We need to split up."

"But there's only the two of us, and we don't know how many men Vicious has with him." Jet reasoned.

"Damn, you're right." Spike exclaimed. "You go round up whoever you can find. I think I saw someone go back around the corner, over there." Spike said, pointing to the corner that Vicious had gone past earlier.

"Right." Jet said as he mounted his horse and road off.

***

Waiting made Faye uneasy, she kept hearing gunfire outside and then there was no noise at all. Though, it was some comfort that she had her Derringer with her...

Just then, the back door swung open. Shin held up his rife and shouted. "Look out!"

***

Spike made his way carefully through the alleyway, when he heard gunfire; first it was like a rifle shot, then a loud one… like a shotgun.

"Shit!" Spike exclaimed and then ran towards the back door; it was open when he got there.

Spike stepped into the Saloon and had to fire right away to stop a man from firing a shotgun blast at him.

"That was close." Spike said with a sigh. He then looked around, everyone was gone, and the bartender was slumped over the counter, very much dead. Spike looked around further and saw the man he had shot lying before him and then there was another that he hadn't seen. He was dead too. Spike then saw Shin lying on the floor, holding his shoulder.

Spike ran over to his friend and kneeled down beside him. "What happened?" He asked.

Shin looked up at him. "Vicious came in through the back, then some other guys came in through the front. The Bartender got one of 'em, but then they got him... This guy that came in with Vicious shot me in the shoulder... Vicious took Faye! You've got to stop him Spike." Shin pleaded with him.

"I will." Spike reassured him. "You stay here, help will be here in a minute." He said and then made his way across the disorganized hall of overturned tables and chairs.

***

Vicious looked up as he saw an angry looking Spike walk out into the street and then spot him.

Spike looked over to see that Vicious had Faye's arm-twisted behind her back and he had the razor sharp edge of his sword against her throat.

"Let her go, Vicious!" Spike said flatly, he had his gun trained on Vicious.

"I'm sorry, but I need this lovely little... 'Red Tail' for my revenge." He said with an evil smile.

"Let her go, she has nothing to do with this. It's me you want. Let her go and I'll see to it that you don't get hanged, maybe even you can go to a nice minimum security prison." Spike said sarcastically.

"Sympathy for the Devil, Spike? Sounds tempting, but no thanks, I'm going to stick with my plan all the same." Vicious said. He then whistles and a land speeder pulled up. The door swung open and Viscous got into it, holding Faye closely.

"You'll pay for this, Vicious. I swear I'll kill you." Spike told him darkly.

"That's the spirit. I want you mad like that when you come after me." Vicious said to him, smiling evilly.

Vicious sat down and the speeder then took off.

***

Jet ran up to Spike. "What happened?" He asked.

"Vicious took Faye, he gone now." Spike said.

"What do we do now?" Jet asked.

Spike looked ah his Jericho. He then took out the clip and put a new one in. "We go after Vicious and get Faye back, plus we kill the bastard and get the money for his filthy corps." Spike said darkly; he then looked at Jet and smiled at him.

"Sounds good." Jet replied.

The two then looked out into the distance of sand and cactuses.

"Just one problem." Jet remarked.

"What's that?" Spike asked.

"We don't have a speeder to follow them in." Jet explained.

"Sounds like you two could use a hand." Said a voice.

The two looked over to see Gren walk up; he was holding a pair of keys. "Maybe I can be of some help." At least this time, Gren was in his male mode, unlike that one time where they all… err sorry, that's a story for another time. ~_^

Spike and Jet grinned.

"Gren, you're a life savor!" Spike exclaimed.

Gren tossed the keys to Spuike and they made their way over to the speeder.

As the two got in, Spike turned to Jet as he started the engine. "Hey jet, did you wire ahead to the next town about Vicious?"

"Yep, I sent a message to be careful and to not let him pass." Jet replied.

"Cool, one more thing, who's the shirif of that town?" Spike asked.

"Some guy named 'Punch', I think." Jet replied.

Spike and Gren face vaulted!

Spike got up, a large sweat bead on his head. "Punch?" He uttered, just before the author ended the act!

(Author: Go get 'em, Space Cowboy! ^_^)

~End of Act Three~

So, what did you think of act three, I wanted to insert the more dramatic elements into the story, but don't worry, my faithful comedicaly- inclined fans, there's still a lot more humor to go! ^_^