Author's ramblings: Hi folks. I'm terribly sorry for not updating earlier. School and life kind of got in the way, especially trying to remember how to assembly program a Motorola 6812 Microcomputer (don't worry if you don't know what I'm talking about. I'm studying to be an Electrical Engineer). Anyway, this chapter is very short. Part 2 will be much longer as I tie in Faye and Jet's story into Ed's story. So, you'll have something to look forward to in the near future. I know it kind of ends badly and you are anxious to find out about Spike's sister. But, you are going to have to wait. Other notes: I've dropped the chapter numbers within my story so not to confuse you. Other than that, please read and I will add part 2, which will tie Faye and Jet to Ed, soon.

Back on the Bebop (Part 1)

"Okay Jet. Why am I'm doing this again?" Faye asked annoyingly.

"Simple. We spent our last Woolong patching up the Bebop and we need $200,000 Woolongs for Spike's Funeral and $15,000 Woolongs to repair the Redtail." Jet replied over the intercom.

"I know that already, I meant," as she takes a deep breath, "WHY THE HELL AM I CHASING THIS GUY THROUGH A SNAKE INFESTED SWAMP!"

"Hey, you were the one who shot the guy down into the Venus Everglades."

"Well, if we had used the last of our money to patch up the Redtail, I wouldn't have to use Spike's piece of junk ship to chase this guy with."

"Watch it, Faye. Spike might come back to haunt us with that tone of language."

"I hope he does so I can yell at him for screwing up the targeting system on the Swordfish. I was aiming for the engines and the bullets hit the wings instead!"

"You just got to do what Spike does."

"Which is?"

"Kick it. He told me awhile back that his ship always worked better when he kicked it."

"No wonder you had to fix his ship every time we go after a bounty."

As Faye continued trekking through the swamp, she recalled the circumstances of this ill-fated chase.

[Flashback]

"Jet, how are we going to come up with $200,000 Woolongs plus the money we need to repair the ships?" she asked.

"We get a bounty, that's how we do it." Jet replied.

"Easier said than done. The Bebop's grounded, my Redtail is full of holes, you can barely walk and we only have $5,000 Woolongs in the ship's account. We'll be lucky to buy a metal panel to patch the big missile hole in the side of the Bebop. Let alone be able to go after a bounty."

"We'll have enough to fix the Bebop. If we sell some of Spike's old stuff and some of junk we have around here, it should get us another $10,000 out of that."

She looked around her seeing some of the junk Jet was talking about. There was that video game headset controller that hasn't been used since the time they went chasing after that Londes guy, the VCR that Spike and Jet dug up from Earth a couple of fishing poles, and some other junk. Out of Spike's stuff, there was his clothes including his faded red coat, his signature suit, a white tuxedo, and some undergarments.

"How are we going to get another $10,000 out of this stuff? I wouldn't pay a dime for most of it," Faye commented.

"You'll be surprise how much we can EBay some of Spike's stuff. After the syndicate fiasco, there will be plenty of buyers for some of this stuff. The rest of this stuff we could say Spike used at one time, which is mostly true."

"EBay? There still around?"

"Yeah. Where do you think I got the Bebop from?" he asked.

"Well, I say you got gypped from that site," Faye commented amusingly.

"Ha ha, very funny," Jet commented dryly.

So they EBay all the junk they had and Jet was right. People were willing to pay insane amounts of money for some of Spike's stuff. One of Spike's suits went for $10,000 Woolongs. In the end, they wound up with $25,000 Woolongs. Along with the $5,000 they had before, Jet bought the materials he needed to patch up the Bebop. For the next week, Faye and Jet spent many hours fixing the Bebop.