Disclaimer- Me no own, you no sue.
There's a lot of explaining to do before I start this chappie, so if you don't read it you'll be REALLY lost, and I mean really. *glares at all the people who skip the AN and go straight to the story* Anywho for those of you who are reading, I'll explain.
Okay, first this fic takes place after the end of season one when Vicious and Spike are "dead". I don't know how they stayed alive but hell, Spike survived when Vicious threw him out the window deal so he could survive that. And Vicious, well, I don't know make something up. Next Tanya and Torri belong to my friend and so does Chris, they're making their own fics so if you want to know their story lines read those when the post them. That be all!
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It was a usual night on the bebop, Faye was wandering around aimlessly, struggling with her own thoughts toward their newest bebop member. She walked past Spike, snoring loudly on the "living room's" yellow couch, Ed was sprawled on the floor, doing something with her tomato, Tanya was fast asleep beside her and Torri was staring into space. Faye made her way around the three thirteen year old girls and walked past the bathroom, smelling the aromatic soapy smells of someone having just showered.
The door hissed open and out walked Chris, his dark blue bangs hanging in his eyes, still wet and dripping water on his face. The droplets rolled down his face and splashed onto his shoulders. His dark blue eyes wandered over to Ed, Torri, and Tanya (still asleep) then found their way to Faye.
"Oh, hi Faye." He said, his sultry tone of voice bringing a blush to her face. She was staring.
"Heh heh…" Faye said, holding up a hand and waving lamely. "Hi, sorry about that, I was spacing off." She lied, walking back to the "living room".
"Any new bounties?" Jet asked, appearing out of no where.
"Gah! Where'd you come from!?" Faye yelped, hopping back a step, almost falling on spike. She halted her fall by moving one leg behind her, she thought Spike was going to wake up and freak out about something, like he usually did. He twitched a few times a mumbled something then rolled over on his side and took up his snoring again. Faye stood back up and brushed herself off, pretending that nothing had happened. "I was just about to find that out." She said, flicking on the TV and shoving Spike's legs off the couch.
"Now it's time for Big Shots for all you bounty hunters out there!" Judy said happily.
"Howdy there amigos!" Punch exclaimed just as happily.
"Hey there Punch, what've we got today?" Judy asked Punch anxiously.
"Well for all those big time bounty hunters out there we've got a once in a life time opportunity for ya! This one's got a fifty million woolong reward on her head!" Punch exclaimed. Spike jerked upright, Faye's jaw dropped, Jet's eyes bulged, Torri's head turned and Chris dropped his glass of water.
"Wooowzee!" Judy chirped. "Let's see a picture of her!"
"Take a look at this one, she sure is pretty! " Punch grinned widely as a picture of Cassandra came onto the screen along with the usual information.
"She was last seen on Venus, but I'll bet she's long gone by now!" Judy said.
"FIFTY MILLION!?" Spike yelled, now fully awake.
"Cassandra Havoc, eh? What's your last name Chris?" Faye inquired, even though she knew the answer.
"Havoc." He responded, a haunted look crossing his face.
"She looks a lot like you." Faye added slyly.
"Yeah, well, shit happens. " Chris shrugged, the look now gone. "Genetics," he added, "genes."
"Okay how in the hell are we going to get this one? We don't even know where she's at." Jet said dryly. "Even if we did, this one won't be easy." He added.
"No shit Sherlock." Spike muttered lamely. "How do you suppose she got a fifty million woolong bounty on her head? By picking flowers? " He said sarcastically.
"Yeah Spike, I'm sure." Faye responded just as sarcastically. "Hey Ed!" she called, turning her head in Ed's direction.
"Yeeeeesssss Faye-Faye?" Ed responded, typing a few thing on her tomato with her toes.
"Look this name up, Cassandra Havoc." Faye asked.
"Rodger that Faye-Faye, Ed will look!" The red-head thirteen year old hacker was indeed a good and valuable addition to the Bebop's crew. Tanya and Torri acted just like Ed, except they were weapons masters, give them a gun, sword, bazooka, rocket launcher, you name it and they would have it mastered in fifteen minutes. The two black haired girls had come along about a month ago when Spike literally ran into them and brought them back to the bebop because they each had a 25 million woolong reward on their head.
Faye wouldn't admit it but she had taken a liking to them and they were really useful. Not long after they found another person with a huge bounty on his head, Chris Havoc. He had a thirty million woolong reward on his head for having been involved in the assassination of some big aristocrat. Spike had found him as well bringing him back with his hands behind his back.
Torri, Tanya and Chris's bounties had all been removed when they had been found innocent of their crimes. So they all claimed a spot aboard the now over-crowded bebop.
"This one better be for real." Spike muttered under his breath.
"Oh don't worry, she is." Jet said, having heard some of the things that she had done.
"Faye-Faye, Edward hath foundeth thine informationeth!" Ed chirped, trying to imitate an old English accent.
"Good Ed! Does it say anything about her location?" Faye inquired.
"Nope, don't say squat." Ed replied. "Buuuut…Ed hath foundeth more! 'Tis thou encrypted!" Ed wiggled her fingers and grinned her insane grin. "They can't keep Edward out, nope! Not Ed! Ed will break the encryption!" She started to type away on her tomato, un-encrypting Cassandra's file.
Faye rubbed her temples and leaned back, propping her feet up on the table. "Lemme know when you're done okay Ed?" She asked, dropping her arms to her sides and staring at the ceiling.
"Affirmative captain Faye-Faye!" Ed replied, still typing away at her tomato.
"So Jet, what's for supper?" Spike asked, making a face a patting his stomach. No matter how many bounties they had managed to bring in with the new people they had acquired, they never had good food.
"Vegetarian's bell peppers and beef." Jet said, taking his leave to go make "supper".
"Again? Don't we have anything from that last bounty?" He groaned.
"What last bounty?" Chris muttered, walking over and sitting on the chair across from the couch. It had been quite a while since a good bounty last came up.
"True, we'd better get this one." Spike added dully, "So where should we look? I mean, unless that file has some really cool shit we have no ideas where she is or where she goes. She could be anywhere, it's a big universe."
"Might as well start on Venus, we're right here. Maybe there'll be some smaller bounties that we can live off of until we make it big." Jet called from the kitchen.
"So, Venus It is." Chris muttered dryly, leaning back and putting his arms behind his head.
Faye closed her eyes and started to drift off to sleep when she sensed someone's presence right in front of her face. She opened one eye, the other and found herself staring right into Ed's face. "AAA!" Faye yelled as she attempted to back up but only accomplished backing into the couch some more. "WHAT THE HELL ED!?" She screamed. "DON'T SNEAK UP ON ME LIKE THAT!" She finished, returning her heart beat to below stroke level. "What Ed?" Faye asked irritably.
"Ed de-encrypted the file, Ed thinks that it is a worthless file that it is." She said.
"Oh don't worry Ed, we'll find her." Faye yawned and closed her eyes, drifting off into a light sleep.
*Meanwhile*
Cassandra sat in the dark room, the food that had been given to her sat in front of her feet, still untouched. She had been leaning against the wall for what seemed like forever. Finally she heard the door open and someone step inside, she opened one eye, expecting to see a guard but instead the same guy that had brought her down here stood in the doorway, a little smirk playing its way across his face. "Come to kill me?" Cassandra inquired.
"No, not really. I'll make you an offer…" He started, pausing to see if she was listening.
"And that would be?" She asked, prodding him to continue.
"I'll give you a position in the Red Dragon Syndicate." He stated, stepping into the room and closing the door behind him, almost like he though someone would hear.
"Or?" She prodded, wanting to know the whole deal.
"I'll kill you." He said plainly, like it was something that happened everyday.
"Well, that doesn't leave me with many options." Cassandra muttered. A position in the Red Dragon Syndicate? Her? The only things she had ever been good at were killing, eluding and getting on people's nerves. Perfect for a syndicate.
"So, you want to die or join the syndicate?" He asked again, sitting down beside her.
"I'll join." she said with little or no hesitation. She could almost see his smirk in the pitch black darkness. "So, do I get a real room?" She asked, raising an arm in a gesture to the "room" that they were in.
"Do you think that all the syndicate members sleep in rooms like this?" Vicious asked sarcastically.
"I'll take that as a 'yes'" she muttered in response. "So, any special rules that I have to abide by?" She asked.
"Not really, just don't mouth off too much and you should do alright." Vicious told her, quite pleased with what he had accomplished. He figured that she would gain a spot of power in a fairly small amount of time. What he didn't know was how small that amount of time would be.
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Uh….hello? Are you still awake? *pokes with stick* grrr…. WAKE UP!!!! Sorry, this chapter was rrreeeeaaaalllllyyyy boring, but hey! Next chapter has a lot of odd twists and turns and stuff, cuz its all in muh head. Yup, but I'll make up for this one in the next chapter, so leave a review! *grins widely and runs off to her room to watch Jackass*