"GAME-TIME, BABY!" Edward shouted. The hacker skidded down the ice and whacked all the ham-hams with one swipe of her hockey-blade! After hitting the walls real hard, the ham-hams tried to shake off the attack.

"Hot damn! She's a real ball of energy, and she's fast, too!" Stan said.

"Keep your eyes open, ham-hams! If we don't watch it, we could end up sliced into pieces by her hockey-blade!" Boss screamed.

"Good observation, Boss. But how do we exactly-" Dexter was cut off from Edward's war-cry through her menacing hockey-mask. Dexter and Howdy jumped out of the way, but Boss, Sandy, Stan, Pashmina and Oxnard weren't so lucky. Many of them were knocked into the cold walls, but Sandy and Stan were getting knocked around like hockey pucks. Giggling to herself, Edward dribbled the ham-ham twins around and shot them into the hockey goal.

The goal siren went off like crazy. Edward skated towards the downed ham-hams and whacked them also into the goal. The goal folded in half and trapped almost all five of them. Edward took off her mask and let out a victory cry.

"GO, EDWARD! GO, EDWARD! IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY! IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!" she sung, shaking her booty all around.

"Oh yeah! I'll take all the credit in making the Bebop all safe and..." Edward felt heat rush throughout her whole body.

"...and Spike's not just gonna see me as just some typical hacker.

"Spike and Edward, sittin' in a tree!

"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

"First comes love, then comes marriage..."

Dexter and Howdy were still all right, but the others were too thrashed from Edward's powerful swings.

"Gee willickers, Dexter! What the heck are we gonna do?! We don't have any super-powers," Howdy said.

"How the heck should I know? And... and why in the world are my lenses made out of red ruby lenses?! This doesn't make any sense," Dexter said. Suddenly, Edward skated past the other ham-hams and came to an abrupt halt in front of Howdy and Dexter. The ice dust ended up blinding Dexter.

"Hehehehhh... two more ham-hams to whack! Time for my hockey-blade to taste blood..." Edward raised her hockey blade in the air.

"I'm... I'm too young to die. I'M TOO DANG YOUNG TO DIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!" Howdy screamed. Howdy screamed so hard that powerful sonic waves boomed out of Howdy's mouth. The ice throughout all the halls quickly shattered into pieces. Edward also felt the wrath of Howdy's thunderous voice and got knocked dozens of feet right into her own hockey goal. Stan, Sandy and the others were finally freed.

All Howdy and Dexter could do was blink.

"Wow, Howdy! You kicked that kid's ass by just shouting at her!" Dexter said, trying in vain to wipe all the ice off his glasses.

"I sure did. I wonder how I did that exactly," Howdy asked himself. Mad as hell, Edward shook the goal off of her and glared coldly at Howdy and Dexter. Edward lost her helmet and her chest-armor, but she still had her skates and her blade.

"You little pieces of S#@$! It's time for SUDDEN DEATH!" Edward screamed. Feeling the fury, Edward took off her skates and ran towards the two ham-hams at maximum speed. Howdy was scared as hell, but Dexter was still busy cleaning his lenses.

"DEXTER, WHAT THE FUZZY ARE YOU DOING?! GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Howdy screamed.

"I'm not moving an inch until I finally get to see through these lenses! Maybe next time, I should make myself some contact lenses," Dexter said. Losing his patience, Dexter took off his ruby-lense glasses.

"Now what is it that-" Dexter saw Edward right over him, ready to slice him into three pieces. A nanosecond after having her in his sight, a powerful red beam blasted out of Dexters's eye and collided into Edward, incinerating all of her hockey armor, her hockey-blade, even her clothes! The blast knocked her right through the walls! The other beatened ham-hams limped to Dexter and Howdy, amazed by their newly found powers.

"... wow. Talk about freaky! You guys were amazing!" Oxnard said.

"Hey, guys! Did you see what I just did to that kid?" Dexter said, turning his attention to his friends. Everyone screamed and dodged the red beams.

"DEXTER, YOU MORON! YOU ALMOST COOKED US!" Howdy screamed. Dexter tried to cover his eyes, but his paws got burned from his red eye-beams.

"HOW THE HELL DO YOU TURN IT OFF?!" Dexter screamed.

"SHUT YOUR EYES, DEXTER! SHUT! YOUR! EEEEEEEYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" everybody howled.

Dexter finally shut his eyes, halting the wrath of his eye-beams. Pashmina quickly picked up Dexter's glasses and put them on Dexter.

"Phew! That was a close call. Every human we had to face gets tougher and tougher. I bet the last human's gonna be one helluva fighter," Boss said.

"Aw, let 'em come! Some of us already found our hidden powers. When all of us awaken our sleeping powers, we're gonna clean their clocks!" Oxnard said. Everyone cheered from Oxnard's words.

"Come on, ham-hams! What are we waiting for? Let's get Panda's Master Plan into effect! It should be completed any minute now!"


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A knock came through Spike's doors. Spike woke up suddenly and got up to see who was knocking at his door.

"That must be Edward. I'm coming," Spike said. Spike slowly slid the door open.

"Hey, Edward. I didn't know you came back so fa- WHOOOOAAAAA!!" Spike quickly clamped his eyes with his hand and felt major heat flush through his face. Edward, totally embarrassed, tried her best to cover her nude body. She wasn't doing much of a good job.

"Ehehehehe.... I kinda messed up," Edward whispered, feeling her entire body flush. Edward's eyes dazed, and she lost all balance. Spike quickly caught her into his arms and carried her to another available bed. Still feeling his face blushing, Spike covered her naked body with a blanket.

"Poor girl. Not even she was enough to take on those little monsters," Spike said.

Ein tugged on Spike's pants and let out a bark.

"What's that, Ein? You want to take on the Ham-Ham Clubhouse??" Spike asked.

Ein let out another bark, standing on his hind legs and letting out a whimper.

"You go it, Ein!" Spike strapped a huge cluster bomb on Ein's back.

"KICK ASS, BOY! SICK 'EM!!!" Spike commanded. Ein ran right out of the halls and barked like crazy, ready to kick ham-ham ass. Suddenly, a powerful red beam blasted right past Spike's door. After the beam fizzed down, Ein's whimpers echoed through the halls.

Spike was all alone now. Jet, Faye, Edward, Ein - all out of commission, all in their beds slowly trying to reach full recovery. What's the cowboy to do now? What will this courageous warrior do against the most powerful force in the universe? Will Cowboy Bebop still be on the air after the invasion of the Ham-Ham Clubhouse??

"There's only one thing to do now. It's gotta work!" Spike shouted. Spike picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Hello, operator. I need the best exterminator from Gandymede. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Okay, no prob. So who is this group you're about to send?"

Spike's eyes widened.

"... that's their name?! Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh... okay, if you say so. Yeah, we're gonna stay put. 1:30 a.m., sharp. Okay, bye."

Spike hung up, still wearing that dumbfound look.

"... The Shuffle Alliance? For a group of exterminators, that has got to be the worst dumbass name I've ever heard. For some reason, I got a baaaaad feeling about this..."



.... to be continued.