Chapter 1
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
Spike laid onto the back of the couch in the Bebop's main room. He reached under
the couch where he kept his secret stash of cigarettes. As he reached under, he couldn't
feel anything. Then he felt something fuzzy. His mood changed completely as he made a
face of complete disgust. Dead rat? Dead cat? Dead Faye? He gulped and slowly leaned
down to see what it was. Scared out of his mind, and his imagination going at full speed
trying to target on what it could be, he looked under there. He saw what it was and
slightly jumped. It was Ed.
She managed to bounce out from under the couch with a huge pleased grin on her
face.
"Ed what the Hell are you doing under there? You scared me half to death" Spike
said angrily as he realized he needed something in his mouth "And where are my
cigarettes?"
Ed laughed with her Cheshire grin and gave him a carton of cigarettes.
"Thank you Ed" He said as he opened the box to find little dowels of wood
instead of cigarettes. They all had a smiley face on them.
"Ed..." He groaned
"Yes Spike-person?" She said smiling
"What did you do with all my cigarettes?" Spike asked as his face drooped
imagining all the possibilities of what she could've done with them.
"Ed took them to a galaxy far, far away!" She said as she began to run around the
room with her arms spread out as if she was an airplane.
Spike sighed in annoyance.
"What is it?" Jet asked as he walked in
Spike stood up "Ed launched all my cigarettes into space," He said as he
shuddered at the thought
Jet put his hand to his forehead "Doesn't she know that those things cost money?"
They both looked at her hanging upside down from a pipe with her goggles on, even
though she wasn't using her computer.
They both sighed in disgust and since there was nothing else to do, they sat down
on the couch and watched TV.
Spike had the remote in his hand and began to channel surf.
"News...Soap...News...News...Rerun...Boring...Never heard of
it...Soap...News...News...News..." Spike and Jet said in monotone unison
"Jeez-what are you guys, robots? Turn it to 'Big Shots' and find a bounty for me to
catch!" Faye said with an angry tone in her voice
"For you to catch?!" Jet said with a puzzled look on his face "We do all the work
and you take 60%!" Jet yelled
"Excuse me?! Spike and me do all the real work! All you do is sit around here and
play computer games!" Faye argued
"What?" Jet grumbled as he gave a twisted face "COMPUTER GAMES! If I
weren't here neither would you Spike or Ed!" Jet argued
Ed came up to Jet with Ein in her arms "Jet the bonsai man must not forget Ein
Ein puppy!" She began to swing Ein around while dancing around the Bebop.
The other three sighed.
"Jet," Spike said smoothly
"What is it Spike?" Jet asked not sure if he could bare another problem on his
shoulders.
Spike's face seemed to droop and his voice became pathetic "If I don't get a
cigarette soon I'm gonna die!"
"Kind of an oxymoron don't you think Spike?" Faye asked as she lit one of his
cigarettes
Spike's face lit up "Where did you get that?" He asked unable to control his
emotions.
"Ed gave them to me, but I could sell them back to you for a reasonable price,"
She said as she took it out of her mouth and blew out the smoke and it got in Spike's face.
"I'll give you anything! How about Ed?" He asked as he picked Ed up by her head
Faye gave a pathetic look "I was talking about cash, 50,000 woolongs should be
sufficient to get all of them back" She said then took another puff
He watched her smoke and needed that stuff in his body and then stood up
straight again, ignoring her offer.
"Hey Jet, where's the nearest planet where we can get some things, we need food
anyway don't we?" Spike said with a grin, but then he noticed Ed dancing around while
singing "Cancer sticks! Cancer sticks!" and he made a puzzled look
Jet gave the same look to Spike "I honestly don't know, we're not close to much of
anywhere, but there is one extreme measure we can take," Jet said unsure that he should
have said anything.
"And what would that be?" Asked a willing Spike
"Well, though we're not close to many planets we're pretty close to a wormhole,
though the chances of finding a planet with a store on it are slim to none," Jet explained
"Well, if there is an inhabited planet when we get to the other side, it won't take
much time to get there," Spike said, almost too desperate to get a cigarette by now.
"I say we take our chances," Faye said as she put out the cigarette in front of
Spike.
"Ed and Ein want to go through a worm!" Ed said as she began to dance around
with Ein and putting a "Save me!" look on Ein's face.
"Well, majority wins," Jet said as he went to the control deck mumbling "Can't
win against fools"
Faye, Spike, Ed and even Ein were sitting or standing around the living room of
the Bebop. They couldn't watch TV since going through a wormhole into what could be
another dimension, a parallel universe even, could possibly make the TV explode.
Therefore, they waited around a couple minutes before the ship began to shake and go at
a tremendous speed. Spike stood there with his eyes wide. Faye smoked a cigarette and
took such a long drag you'd think she would have died by now, but she blew out a giant
puff of smoke when the shaking stopped the whole room was filled with smoke.
In addition, Ed held onto Ein as hard a she could and Ein was squashed.
Soon the rumbling stopped and everyone raced to the windows to see what was
out there. No planets were inhabited, but there were many asteroids that glowed with
Neon lights.
Spike almost began to drool when he saw one that was so close he could
practically smell it.
"CRAP!" He heard Jet say from the front of the Bebop and immediately fell out
of his trance
"Spike, going through the wormhole was too much for the Bebop, and two of her
engines blew up, we have one to go on and that doesn't have much life left, we have to
get to the nearest one of these asteroids and get it fixed," Jet explained annoyed
"That one over there looks promising," Faye said as she pointed to a dirty looking
one that seemed to be covered with dust and glowing lights. However, Spike managed to
see the word "Casino" through the lights.
"Yeah," He paused "looks perfect"
Faye knew he had noticed the casino and that's what he was referring to "Hey! I'm
sure they have a shop where we can fix the Bebop, so back off!" She said as she looked
out the window at the change of scenery.
Spike smirked and directed Jet to the Asteroid.
They got there and Spike immediately went to a drug store and got two cartons of
cigarettes, and they were gone in two hours (Someone needs some Nicorette^_^).
Faye got Redtail and raced of to the casino.
Ed and Ein stayed with Jet, just hung around being annoying.
After Spike finished his 2-hour cigarette binge, he joined Jet Ed and Ein in fixing
Bebop.
They called into a store. A young boy's voice answered, "Hello this is Starwind
and Hawking and we fix everything from tractors to relationships, how may I help you?"
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
Spike laid onto the back of the couch in the Bebop's main room. He reached under
the couch where he kept his secret stash of cigarettes. As he reached under, he couldn't
feel anything. Then he felt something fuzzy. His mood changed completely as he made a
face of complete disgust. Dead rat? Dead cat? Dead Faye? He gulped and slowly leaned
down to see what it was. Scared out of his mind, and his imagination going at full speed
trying to target on what it could be, he looked under there. He saw what it was and
slightly jumped. It was Ed.
She managed to bounce out from under the couch with a huge pleased grin on her
face.
"Ed what the Hell are you doing under there? You scared me half to death" Spike
said angrily as he realized he needed something in his mouth "And where are my
cigarettes?"
Ed laughed with her Cheshire grin and gave him a carton of cigarettes.
"Thank you Ed" He said as he opened the box to find little dowels of wood
instead of cigarettes. They all had a smiley face on them.
"Ed..." He groaned
"Yes Spike-person?" She said smiling
"What did you do with all my cigarettes?" Spike asked as his face drooped
imagining all the possibilities of what she could've done with them.
"Ed took them to a galaxy far, far away!" She said as she began to run around the
room with her arms spread out as if she was an airplane.
Spike sighed in annoyance.
"What is it?" Jet asked as he walked in
Spike stood up "Ed launched all my cigarettes into space," He said as he
shuddered at the thought
Jet put his hand to his forehead "Doesn't she know that those things cost money?"
They both looked at her hanging upside down from a pipe with her goggles on, even
though she wasn't using her computer.
They both sighed in disgust and since there was nothing else to do, they sat down
on the couch and watched TV.
Spike had the remote in his hand and began to channel surf.
"News...Soap...News...News...Rerun...Boring...Never heard of
it...Soap...News...News...News..." Spike and Jet said in monotone unison
"Jeez-what are you guys, robots? Turn it to 'Big Shots' and find a bounty for me to
catch!" Faye said with an angry tone in her voice
"For you to catch?!" Jet said with a puzzled look on his face "We do all the work
and you take 60%!" Jet yelled
"Excuse me?! Spike and me do all the real work! All you do is sit around here and
play computer games!" Faye argued
"What?" Jet grumbled as he gave a twisted face "COMPUTER GAMES! If I
weren't here neither would you Spike or Ed!" Jet argued
Ed came up to Jet with Ein in her arms "Jet the bonsai man must not forget Ein
Ein puppy!" She began to swing Ein around while dancing around the Bebop.
The other three sighed.
"Jet," Spike said smoothly
"What is it Spike?" Jet asked not sure if he could bare another problem on his
shoulders.
Spike's face seemed to droop and his voice became pathetic "If I don't get a
cigarette soon I'm gonna die!"
"Kind of an oxymoron don't you think Spike?" Faye asked as she lit one of his
cigarettes
Spike's face lit up "Where did you get that?" He asked unable to control his
emotions.
"Ed gave them to me, but I could sell them back to you for a reasonable price,"
She said as she took it out of her mouth and blew out the smoke and it got in Spike's face.
"I'll give you anything! How about Ed?" He asked as he picked Ed up by her head
Faye gave a pathetic look "I was talking about cash, 50,000 woolongs should be
sufficient to get all of them back" She said then took another puff
He watched her smoke and needed that stuff in his body and then stood up
straight again, ignoring her offer.
"Hey Jet, where's the nearest planet where we can get some things, we need food
anyway don't we?" Spike said with a grin, but then he noticed Ed dancing around while
singing "Cancer sticks! Cancer sticks!" and he made a puzzled look
Jet gave the same look to Spike "I honestly don't know, we're not close to much of
anywhere, but there is one extreme measure we can take," Jet said unsure that he should
have said anything.
"And what would that be?" Asked a willing Spike
"Well, though we're not close to many planets we're pretty close to a wormhole,
though the chances of finding a planet with a store on it are slim to none," Jet explained
"Well, if there is an inhabited planet when we get to the other side, it won't take
much time to get there," Spike said, almost too desperate to get a cigarette by now.
"I say we take our chances," Faye said as she put out the cigarette in front of
Spike.
"Ed and Ein want to go through a worm!" Ed said as she began to dance around
with Ein and putting a "Save me!" look on Ein's face.
"Well, majority wins," Jet said as he went to the control deck mumbling "Can't
win against fools"
Faye, Spike, Ed and even Ein were sitting or standing around the living room of
the Bebop. They couldn't watch TV since going through a wormhole into what could be
another dimension, a parallel universe even, could possibly make the TV explode.
Therefore, they waited around a couple minutes before the ship began to shake and go at
a tremendous speed. Spike stood there with his eyes wide. Faye smoked a cigarette and
took such a long drag you'd think she would have died by now, but she blew out a giant
puff of smoke when the shaking stopped the whole room was filled with smoke.
In addition, Ed held onto Ein as hard a she could and Ein was squashed.
Soon the rumbling stopped and everyone raced to the windows to see what was
out there. No planets were inhabited, but there were many asteroids that glowed with
Neon lights.
Spike almost began to drool when he saw one that was so close he could
practically smell it.
"CRAP!" He heard Jet say from the front of the Bebop and immediately fell out
of his trance
"Spike, going through the wormhole was too much for the Bebop, and two of her
engines blew up, we have one to go on and that doesn't have much life left, we have to
get to the nearest one of these asteroids and get it fixed," Jet explained annoyed
"That one over there looks promising," Faye said as she pointed to a dirty looking
one that seemed to be covered with dust and glowing lights. However, Spike managed to
see the word "Casino" through the lights.
"Yeah," He paused "looks perfect"
Faye knew he had noticed the casino and that's what he was referring to "Hey! I'm
sure they have a shop where we can fix the Bebop, so back off!" She said as she looked
out the window at the change of scenery.
Spike smirked and directed Jet to the Asteroid.
They got there and Spike immediately went to a drug store and got two cartons of
cigarettes, and they were gone in two hours (Someone needs some Nicorette^_^).
Faye got Redtail and raced of to the casino.
Ed and Ein stayed with Jet, just hung around being annoying.
After Spike finished his 2-hour cigarette binge, he joined Jet Ed and Ein in fixing
Bebop.
They called into a store. A young boy's voice answered, "Hello this is Starwind
and Hawking and we fix everything from tractors to relationships, how may I help you?"