While Spike snores away in his bed and let his head hang over the bed's edge, Edward was still on her Tomato laptop hacking through the secret site from the mysterious organization known as Shinra. Even when Edward was wearing her green goggles and setting her eyes on the digitized world, her mind was not completely in focus.

"/Edward? Edward?/"

Edward quickly shook her head.

"Oh, hi, MPU. Running diagnostics throughout the ship again?"

"/That's right, Edward. How is your hacking routine going?/"

"It's going just fine. Edward needs to... I need to really hack deep into this site. Spike needs me," Edward said. After a slight moment of silence, MPU started to speak up.

"/Edward, are you feeling all right?/"

"Yeah, I'm feeling fine. Why do you ask?"

"/Well, since you're hooked onto the computer, I detect that your pulse rate has increased by 15% higher than normal. I hope you're not ill,/" MPU said. Edward gasped, feeling her face flushing.

"/Now your pulse rate has increased by 18%, 20%, 25%-/"

"MPU, CUT IT OUT! I'm not sick," Edward said, feeling embarrassment blanket her.

"... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to shout at you like that. It's... it's about Spike," Edward whispered, hoping not to wake him up.

"/... oh, I see. Adolescence is one of the most precious moments in human history. I congradulate you for reaching such a moment. How does it feel?/" MPU said.

"Well, uh... it's kinda hard to explain. Whenever I'm around Spike, I feel this sensation rush through my body. Then I feel this pull from him, feeling as though he would hook me by the mouth and reel me in. It's so strange, yet so wonderful," Edward said, slowly eyeing Spike in bed through her goggles.

"/I know a way you can tell how you truly explore your feelings./"

"Oh? And what way is that?"

"/Kiss him. They say that a kiss is one of the ways to the truth, the truth based on what your feelings say to you. Would that be preferable, Edward?/" Edward slowly slid her goggles off her eyes and let them rest on her forehead.

"...MPU, I need you to take over the hacking for me. I already fixed the settings, and all you need to do is stay on those settings. There's something I gotta do..." Edward removed her goggles completely and carefully placed them next to the Tomato. After she quietly closed her Tomato, Edward quietly walked to the sleeping Cowboy and slowly sat on the bed's edge, gazing onto the Cowboy's handsomeness.

"When you're awake, you're a walking disaster waiting to happen. But when you're asleep..." Feeling a sensation rush through her feet, Edward gently carressed his face. Edward didn't mind Spike having a patch over his left, dead eye; to her, having an eyepatch kinda made him sexier. Edward let out a big gulp.

"Well... it's now or never..." Edward slowly leaned down and pressed her soft lips into his. Her eyes flashed wide open as she felt a surge of sensation rush through her body like a maelstrom. Her heart pounded like mad, and her stomach started doing belly-flops.

(... he's as sweet as candy...) Edward lied down next to Spike and continued to kiss the sleeping cowboy. Not wanting to let her lips part with his, she unbuttoned his shirt and gently let her hand travel around his bare chest...


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"MAD HUMAN AT 6 O'CLOCK!!" Panda screamed.

"WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO STOP THAT BOMBSHELL?!" Maxwell screamed. For over 5 minutes, the Ham-Ham Clubhouse were on the run from the mad grenadier, Faye Valentine. Through the ham-ham's point of view, comparing Jet to Faye was like comparing a baby kitten to a Bengal tiger!

Chasing the ham-hams, Faye left behind a path of fiery destruction, thanks to her state-of-the-art grenades. She laughed hysterically as she chased the ham-hams down and prepared to blow them to Kingdom Come.

"Ya little #$@&ers aren't gonna get away from me! You're gonna learn the hard way that I'm not as merciful as Jet was!" Faye exclaimed. The ham-hams tried to get away, but Faye was closing in on them.

"HOLY SHIT! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?! It looks like she's not gonna run out of grenades for quite awhile!" Sandy shouted.

"Anyone got any bright ideas?" Stan asked.

"I got one! Let Oxnard take care of her! He kicked that bald guy's ass really good!" Howdy said.

"That's no good, Howdy. Can't you see how exhausted Oxnard was when he returned to his normal state? That's asking for too much," Dexter said.

"Son of a bitch! Hamtaro, Bijou, Cappy and Penelope are so lucky not to be here! It's too bad we can't tilt the situation into our favor!" Pashmina said. Suddenly, a huge light-bulb flashed over Maxwell's head.

"Did you say 'tilt'? OUTSTANDING IDEA, PASHMINA! You helped save the Ham-Ham Clubhouse!" Maxwell exclaimed. Without giving an explanation, Maxwell scuttered away from the rest of the gang and headed down a different hall. In less than 30 seconds, the ham-hams had nowhere else to go, and Faye got them all cornered.

"GHAAAAAHAHAHA! Tonight, we dine on hamsters! Spaghetti and ham-hams, roasted ham-hams, ham-hams on a stick, pizza with ham-ham toppings: the list goes on! We'll leave nothing left but bones!" Faye exclaimed. All the ham-hams screamed for their lives when Faye pulled the pin and was prepared to throw it right into their faces.

All of a sudden, the ship tilted upward, causing Faye to lose balance and slide away from the ham-hams. The Clubhouse held onto each other for dear life, every one of them grabbing onto each other's paws and looking like a ham-ham chain.

"WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON HERE?!" Boss exclaimed.

"HEY, I KNOW! Maxwell found the ship's cockpit and flew this iron bird into the sky! That way, he was able to separate that woman from us! Maxwell, you da Ham!" Panda said.

Eventually, the ship tilted back to normal. On the other end of the hall, Faye laid there, nearly unconscious and holding a grenade in her hand.

"... holy shit... I can't believe the Bebop flew off into space. Those ham-hams are far smarter than I thought," Faye whispered to herself. When she slowly opened her eyes, she saw all 9 hamsters looking down on her. When here eyes weakly looked to the left, she saw Pashmina and Sandy holding a grenade in their paws. With a mean grin, Boss pulled the pin.

"BANZAIIIII !!! Sandy and Pashmina exclaimed. The two female ham-hams leaped into the air and stuffed the grenade down Faye's cleavage. Seeing the grenade in-place, the ham-hams scuttered for their lives. Faye let out a scream and tried to get the grenade out of her cleavage.

"AAAAAHH! I'M NOT GONNA LET THOSE FUZZY BASTARDS BLOW UP MY BOOBS! I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Faye screamed. Faye finally got the grenade out of her really nice cleavage and tossed it away. The grenade went off, letting out a fiery blast, but Faye was nowhere close to the explosion.

"Phew. That was close," Faye said. Her eyes suddenly widen. When she set her eyes to her left, she saw the grenade she dropped.

That same grenade had no pin.

"Oh damn." The grenade went off.


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"WHAT!? The Bebop's in space?? But nobody authorized launching out of Gandymede," Spike exclaimed. When he was about to get out of bed, he realized something peculiar.

"Hey. I don't remember unbuttoning my shirt. What the hell?" Spike said to himself, rebuttoning his shirt. Edward felt a chill run down her spine, afraid Spike's gonna find out. The steel doors open wide, letting Ein drag a charred female body in.

"FAYE!" Spike exclaimed. Spike gently picked Faye up and placed her onto his bed. When Faye was about to speak, she coughed out black smoke.

"Sorry, Spike. They got me, too. You're... you're our only hope," Faye whispered. After saying those words, Faye fell into a deep sleep.

"I'll make those evil munchikins pay! THEY WILL PAY!!" Spike exclaimed. When he reached for his .45 caliber handgun, Edward grabbed onto his wrist.

"Edward! What are you doing?" Spike said.

"Let ME go after them! MPU is doing the hacking for me, and I want a piece of those shit-heads, too! I HAVE to do this! I have.... I have my reasons," Edward said. A moment of silence filled the room. Spike thought it over.

"Okay," Spike said bluntly.

Edward walked out of his quarters, prepared to stare Death into the eye.

"I must do this to prove I'm as tough as any of the others! I must do this..."

Edward started to blush.

"... so Spike won't get hurt. I won't lose Spike to those monsters. I won't...."




.... to be continued.


Oh my! Jet got his ass whooped, and Faye got annihilated! Now it's Edward's turn to test her mettle against the all-powerful Ham-Ham Clubhouse! What does Edward have planned for the Ham-Hams? Will Edward earn victory? Or is there yet another ham-ham who will awaken an inner power to bring down that nutty hacker?? Tune in next time! REVIEWS, PLEASE! :)