I'm SO happy! *does victory dance* I got all THREE of my crushes to go to the movies with me along with a TON of my friends! We're going to see the Last Samurai. I already saw It but if THREE of the guys I like are going to see it, I'm most certainly going too!

Well anyway, here's the last chapter! Please read the author's note at the end of this chapter!!! SHORT AND SWEET!

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One is the Loneliest Number

Chapter 16

Under the Sky so Blue

The Bebop was fully repaired and the last touches to the glass replacement in the ship were being finished. The crew lazed around outside as the hired painters finished their work.

Kat yawned. "So you'll be staying here?" She asked Knives.

The plant grumbled his response, "Someone has to free the rest of our brothers and sisters. My idiot of a brother takes over an hour to grow one blade of grass. I suppose I have to stay behind and start my work on converting this planet into something more useful to both species living here."

Kat smiled, "You know you're always welcome to join the Bebop when you're done?"

Knives snorted, "I doubt you'll wait the next hundred and fifty years just for me to return to the Bebop."

"Your spot is always open!" Kat told the plant.

Knives had long since opened up to her. Kat could tell he liked her. She was the only other person he had opened up to. Vash had stood in the way of any relationship though. The slightly older plant knew though that the half-human wouldn't approve if he killed off Vash just to be with her. Kat said her good byes to Wolfwood, Milly and Meryl and was about to board the Bebop when Knives stopped her.

"Spider…" he used the only name he ever called her by, "…Would you fly with me this once before you go?"

Kat gasped as she turned to see massive jet black wings grow from his back. Knives hissed a bit as they broke through his skin. Kat turned to Vash and he nodded his approval.

"I'd be happy to soar as high as my wings allow," Kat smiled.

She shoved off the sandstone surface beneath her and pounded her wings to gain altitude. Knives was obviously more experienced and he grabbed Kat's hand to help her get off the ground. With one beat of his massive wings, they had gained ten feet off the ground. Vash decided to join them and ivory wings grew from his back. He kicked off and paused as a pink feather floated by. Vash looked up to see one of the freed plant angels soaring over him. His sister paused to wave her greeting. Vash grinned back and swooped and dived as much as his wings would allow. When the three landed they were panting heavily.

"Group photo!" Ed shouted.

The members of the Bebop, Meryl, Milly, Wolfwood, Kat, Vash and Knives all gathered in front of the panoramic futuristic camera. They smiled but Ed seemed to be waiting for more people to get in the picture. They looked up and gasped.

'Glad you could make it sisters!' Knives called to them.

'Anything for you brother!' they chimed.

All one thousand one hundred and eighty three freed plants touched down behind the Bebop's crew and landed on parts of the ship. Feathers of all colors floated to the ground below. Kat could hear the many greetings they gave her; she was known to them as their 'half sister'. Ed scrambled over to the large group and sat next to Ein.

Vash kissed Kat just as the camera flashed. 'I love you.'

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Gunsmoke became the most beautiful planet ever to be created. It had only taken twenty years to create the Eden Vash had waited so long to see. All of the plant angels had been freed and now lived peacefully with the humans.

Poverty, hunger and violence were a thing of the past on Gunsmoke. For some reason, everyone was able to get along well. Knives had ended up falling for Meryl and they currently had a few kids. Meryl hadn't been blessed with plant abilities but fate had been kind enough to grant her long life.

All that was left of the original Bebop crew was Ed. Jet had retired first claming to be 'too old for this shit'. Spike had given it up after finding out Fea was pregnant with his child claming that it was too dangerous for his family.

Ed was still a member in her early thirties. Ein was long gone but his kids hung around like bugs to a lamp.

As for Kat and Vash?

They're currently still members of the Bebop to this day. They've made it in history for keeping the peace. They have managed to capture every bounty ever set. Life on the Bebop continued as normal almost dull as there was nothing to do until a bounty came in. Kat had retained her youth and acquired some of Vash's angel powers. She had stopped aging at twenty five and Vash told her that she's be as pretty as she was until the day she died. Her wings had never disappeared even though all plants but her were able to grow and rid of them at will. The couple had been dubbed 'Heaven Sent' and the name sticked. Sometimes on a starry night you may see the Bebop pass your planet forever in search of bounties. But what is written on the side of the ship now you ask? What else but…

See you Space Cowboy… 

~*~OWARI~*~

(A/N: If there was going to be a sequel I would have left off with the group not knowing what the state Gunsmoke was in. I would have said they became bounty hunters and that the group of Bebop stuck together. In the sequel, I would have started off to the group visiting the planet years later to find that the entire thing is in ruins. Knives would sputter his last words… and from there… from there… See?! This is why there will be no sequel! Unless… you guys have any ideas? PLEASE REVIEW!!!)