Hello! Eurk..please don't hurt me. Been gone for a while. But you know what writing Andy was harder than I would have thought. --;; Then I finally got the hang of him and BOOSH chapter. ^__^

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Well...nervous about this chapter, I hope its ok.


Thoughts are in italics
Small lines __________ mean that I am switching places. Don't get confused.


Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop.



Secret Agent Man Pt. Two





"Huh?"

"Are you going to eat that?"

"Uh, sure you can have it." He speared the item and immediately inhaled it.

The man was talking to...the bounty. But he gave that up! He CAN'T go after M.J. too! We need this! And if Spike and Andy...oh. I hope they don't notice each other...this building might not be here at the end of the evening.

"Spike, Faye I see her." Jet's voice rasped softly over the com.

Spike became alert, "Where?"

"There. By the champagne pyramid, see her?"

"Yea."

"I think that guy with her is a bounty hunter." Spike's eyes narrowed at Jet's words. He looked hard at the man. Faye hoped Spike wouldn't recognize him. He was getting that look. The kind he had on just before he would go fight someone...then he stood up and walked off across the room and around the corner to the...bathroom! Faye put her hand on her forehead.

"Lunkhead..."

"What was that Faye?" Spike asked, and she heard a toilet flush in the background.

"Nothing, just next time you have to do that take out the ear piece." She said. A moment later he came out of the bathroom casually looking around, and when he got back to the table he asked, "Where's M.J., Faye?"

"Uh...over there?" she pointed.

He sighed and slapped his thigh with a hand, "You weren't watching were you? God, you've screwed it up already," he frowned teasing her.

"Hey! You have eyes, why don't you look for her!" She crossed her arms over her chest and put her nose in the air.

"Fine-"

"You guys. I'll keep all of the bounty if you don't get your acts together."

"Yea, whatever."

"Sure," they said simultaneously.

Faye looked out the giant windows at the falling snow and Spike ate more, while they all waited for the chance to make their move. Glasses tinkled and people were dancing and drinking the night away. Yes, these were the beautiful socialites of Neptune and the other planets and moons. The top dogs. And they where here to save these selfish pompous butterflies from being swindled. As if they needed to be saved at all.

About an hour later they recond with Jet who had gotten an update from Ed that M.J. was moving up into the back room on balcony. And the man from before was following her still; he was probably a hunter too.

"Faye, you and I will go after M.J. and Spike I want you as back up incase something goes wrong," said Jet.

"What? Why don't we have Faye as back up?" Spike asked incredulously.

"Well, because you tend to do foolish things, and we want to make this as smooth as possible." said Jet.

"Fine, back up, whatever," he grumbled, severely deflated, as he shoved his hands in his suit pockets.

"Have fun cowboy," Faye winked at him as she glided by him and up the stairs, and Jet followed behind her.

Well. Spike thought sourly. He watched them go up the stairs, and he waited a few moments shifting his weight form one foot to the other. Spike glanced around the room absently, before going up himself.

Jet was casually lounging in one of the chairs, and Faye and the man were both converging on the back room, unaware of each other. Spike discreetly walked a few steps behind the man. He looked familiar, but Spike couldn't quite place him. Faye reached the doorway and was about to pull back the heavy velour curtain and slip inside, but the hunter reached out and grabbed her wrist, "Hey there, where are you going on such a lovely evening?"

Andy.

Spike swiftly moved behind Andy and pressed his gun into Andy's back. "Andy. Andy Von De Oniyate. Or should I say Mushashi?" Spike smiled sinisterly.

Andy stayed perfectly still and calm, "Oh please, call me, Masterson. Andrew Masterson," he moved out go into the room, but Faye blocked his way. "Ahh, Faye. How beautiful you look tonight," he kissed her hand. "Almost as beautiful as myself," He winked at her. "Now if you'll excuse me..."

"I don't think so Andy-Andrew, whatever. We were on this bounty first," Spike said lowly. Andy had once again tried for the back room, but Spike caught him by is collar and pulled him back.

Andrew raised his eyebrow delicately at Spike and carefully brushed off his suit. He turned and faced Spike and they locked glares. They stood that way as if in a high noon show down for what seemed like forever. As some disturbed people walked down the stairs muttering Jet turned around and then nearly fell out of his chair. It was Andy. Andy and Spike duking it out with their eyes. Except for that fact that Andy didn't look like...himself. He was completely re-vamped. Slick hair, Italian suit, and an expensive looking watch.

Spike took a breath to speak when M.J. walked out of the back room, looking smug, and feeling sure that it was another good night. At the sudden soft noise both hunters and Faye all whirled on her and she staggered backwards immediately understanding that tonight was not a good night after all.

Before Faye could take a step Andrew and Spike were running at her trying to trip each other up. M.J. headed straight for the edge of the balcony and jumped off. She landed on a table and rolled off the impact narrowly missing several people. People shouted indignantly and started moving away as she turned around and winked and saluted Spike and Andy, before running off.

With a growl Spike launched himself off the balcony and landed on the same table breaking its legs and rolling down the incline, and took off, dodging people and tables. At the same time, Andrew calmly squared off with the chandelier, raised his arm with the watch, one hand on the face of the watch, aimed, and pressed on the face. A small hook shot out from his watch and wrapped around the chandelier. He took a hold of the small cord, spun the watch to face the other side of his wrist, and jumped out, swinging in a large graceful arc around the room towards the doorway. The light shifted, sparking off mirrors and casting shadows and light in odd places. At the last moment he pushed the face of his watch with his middle finger and landed with cat grace in front of the doorway, blocking M.J.'s escape, as Spike appeared behind her brandishing his gun.

The other benefit goers flooded out the door around Andy. M.J. twirled around to go in the opposite direction of the flying man in the suit, and met with Spike's cold stare and his gun, stopped in her tracks.

Spike began walking to M.J. slowly while Andy stood calmly watching for any attempt to escape. Spike said, "You can make this hard or easy, but either way your coming with me."

"Hey, she's MY bounty, Spiegel." Andy called.

Using their momentary exchange, M.J. whipped a pistol out of her handbag and shot several times at the chandelier. "I'm not going with either of you!"The lights flickered and went out. She turned and ran out around Andy who dove at her and missed. Jet and Faye stumbled down the staircase, while Spike ran and jumped over Andy chasing her down the hall towards the lobby. Andy growled and took off after Spike.

Spike fired a shot at M.J., but she dodged around the front desk and it hit the marble top. Her hand appeared above and squeezed off a couple blind shots. She obviously wasn't a very good shot after all.

Andrew turned the wheel on the side of his watch a few clicks and stuffed his fingers in his ears as a high piercing sound filled the hall, shocking everyone, but him into nearly falling. With Spike momentarily he was free to catapult over the desk and wrestle briefly with M.J.

She fought him, but he pinned her facedown to the floor, and hand cuffed her. He was about to stand and claim his victory, when a flying foot hit him in the chest, sending him sprawling back into the other side of the desk.

"I said, that this bounty was mine." Spike bounced lightly on his toes. Andy growled and hurled himself at Spike who smoothly moved to one side, grasped his extended fist, and flipped him to the ground. Andy jumped up and caught Spike off guard and his fist connected squarely with Spike's jaw.

M.J. tried to run for the door, and past the two fighting men, but Jet rounded the corner and just managed to catch her by the cuffs. Faye walked down the hall, and stopped as Spike teetered over and fell on his ass right in front of her and then got up and ran back at Andy. She shrugged into her coat and gave the cowboy and secret agent a wide berth and waved for Jet to follow her outside.

How come I'm getting an odd sense of deja vu?

"Come on Jet let's turn her in before one of them notices that she's gone."

"Uh," Jet looked back through the doors at Spike and Andy, "Are you sure?"

"No! No, you're not! You'd like to let me go wouldn't you? Wouldn't you??" M.J. begged, looking up at Jet pleadingly and then Faye. "Please?"

"No, we don't," Faye said flatly. She pulled out a cigarette and light it up. She became worried when she heard a window break.

"Yes, I'm sure. They'll be just fine," Just then a police siren sounded and the lights turned the falling snow red and blue.


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Spike and Andy fought their way down the hall. Banging into walls and furniture. Spike punched and Andy ducked and Spike got a fist full of the wall.

"Is that all you've got cowboy?" He asked Spike.

Spike cracked his knuckles and spun on one foot knocking Andy into the same wall. "Is that all you've got...Andrew? At least I don't rely on some fancy trick watch."

"Hey, I like my watch. It tells the time." Spike rolled his eyes, and jumped back as Andy rolled to his feet. They squared off again, staring each other down. They traded blows quickly, and Spike drew his gun to fire at Andy, but he missed when Andy crouched and rammed Spike's arm from below causing the bullet to miss and hit a light fixture above them. Glass and copper wire bits tinkled down on them and they heard a siren.

Andy's eyes widened. He stood up and looked franticly up and down the hall. He started running in the opposite direction of the lights and spike yelled, "Hey! Where're you going?!"

"I...I have to go. It might be my parents...they've been looking for me," He said. Ten regained his composure enough to say, "Next time we'll finish this cowboy. Next time, " And ran off.

"HEY! Damnit." Spike swore as he heard someone coming from down in the direction of the ballroom. He didn't want to let Andy get away. He hid in a dark corner as a man with an ISSP suit walked by waving a small com.

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A tall man with a tag that said 'Lieutenant Seabrooks' got out of the police vehicle and said, "What's going on here? Why is that window broken?" Another man in the passenger said of the car watched them all.

Jet cleared his throat, "We caught this woman stealing people's money in the name of the LWA, and when we tried to apprehend her for her crimes she put up quite a fight." he waved his thumb at Megasa who was hand cuffed to the handicapped railing. Seabrooks pulled a small com-like device from his pocket and held it up to Megasa's face. It hummed and then beeped happily. the man who was in the passenger side of the car got out and stepped carefully through the broken front window. He waved around and spoke into his own com device. Jet and Faye waited and wondered nervously where Andy and Spike were. He disappeared down the hallway towards the ballroom. A few moments later he came out having assessed the damage and spoke quietly to Seabrooks.

"Yea, you got one, but..." started Seabrooks.

"But?" asked Faye.

"Someone has to pay for the damage to Chateau Nartalla,"

Jet clapped a hand to his forehead and almost whined, "How much?"

"80,000 woolongs. The chandelier, the marble top desk, table, windows...various other items-"

"Fine, ok, just give us the twenty-one thousand," Jet sighed exasperatedly."

Seabrooks held out his hand at Travis and Travis stared blankly at it for a second and then ran to the car, came back and dropped a blank card in Seabrooks' hand. He slid the card into the slot on the side and then handed it to Jet. Faye immediately snatched it from Jet and rubbed it against her cheek. She REALLY wanted to gamble some. In fact there was a casino right down the street...Jet snatched the card back, glaring at her and put it in his pocket. She pouted at him. He turned away to uncuff M.J.

Jet undid his handcuffs, and Lieutenant Seabrooks pushed her towards the car and she shouted, "Unhand me you fiends!" Seabrooks opened the car door and she yelled, "NOOO! You'll be hearing from my lawyers!!!" and she twisted and kicked Seabrooks where it counts. Jet balked and Faye had to keep from laughing.

He took and unsteady breath. "Ow..." and fell over. Travis, Seabrooks trainee, hopped out of the passenger seat and grabbed M.J. pushing her into the back seat and then slamming the door shut and leaning against it. She pounded on the door with her fists making Travis jump away from the door.

"Uh, sir are you alright?" Travis helped Seabrooks up.

"Yea," he panted, "I'll be fine...later," he walked very slowly around to the other side of the car, "Have a goodnight," and plopped into the car.

"Does that sorta thing happen a lot on the job?" Travis asked. Seabrooks' reply was muted at he shut his door and drove away.

Jet leaned up against the street lamp, now smoking his own cigarette. Probably reminiscing about his old ISSP days...I wonder if he had a ditzy trainee like that...Faye wondered, as she stepped over some broken glass and peeked behind the front desk.

"Hey! Lunkhead! We got the money, come on let's go!"
A small wrinkly woman walked by and hissed, "SHH! You'll wake up the other patrons! There's already BEEN enough racket around here!" she shuffled off muttering about something. At the other and of the lobby there were several women and men discussing something vehemently. Must be the owners..

She walked down the hallway looking for any sign of Spike or Andy. Well actually there were signs all down this hall. several dents, pictures hanging askew, one light fixture shot to pieces. suddenly a hand reached out and grabbed her wrist pulling her around a dark corner.

"Lunkhead! What is this? Some suspense flick?" she said angrily jerking her wrist out of his hand.

"It could have been," he teased and she frowned at him. "Did we get the money?"

"Yea, we did. We blamed Megasa for all the damage you two did, so it got taken out of the bounty." she sighed.

"Damn..."

"Where IS Andy?"

"He ran off when he heard the siren. Something about his family looking for him." Spike chuckled.

"Come on, I'm sleepy." she turned and walked back down the hall. Spike caught up and held her hand.

"When she looked at him he said. In case anybody asks, we'll still look the part."

She mouth an Oh to herself. she slipped her hand out of his when they got outside and said, "Ok, I got him let's go. I hope you know that I fully expect to still get my share this time because I didn't do anything wr-"

"Yea, yea, how 'bout we don't let Spike eat for a week? then we might actually gain some money." Jet said.

"Oooo, does that mean more food for Ed? Is Bebop done now?"

"Yes, and yes." and they walked in silence with the snow back to their ships.

NFA: Hope you liked it as usual and please review! Feeed meee! So how did everyone like Andy? Telll meee! I'll start going through and editing every chapter as soon as I get them all saved to my Mom's computer, probably today, and they'll all be replaced, especially chapter two, as I finish them.