Part two is ready and rearin' to go! Let the bratty behavior begin! Thank
you so much for the reviews and especially the ideas. Again, if you have
any suggestions, give them to me.
-Randall Flagg2
Faye looked at her teammates as if she had only just met them for the first time. Her innocent eyes wandered back and forth between Spike and Jet, ignoring Ed completely. She giggled happily and jumped into Jet's arms. "Come on! Tell me your name or I'll kick you again!"
"Why doesn't she remember us? Did that thing take her memory as well?" Jet thought. Then the little Faye jumped down and slammed her foot into Jet's beefy leg again. Jet screamed and clutched at his aching leg. All the while the girl giggled wildly at him. Jet gave her the iciest glare he could muster. It didn't seem to frighten her.
"Alright fine! My name is Jet Black and the skinny guy over there is Spike Spiegal!" Jet growled.
"So that's your name? I think mine is better!"
"Yeah? Who made you the judge of names?" Spike asked. Faye only responded by giggling at him. Then she hopped into Spike's arms.
"Are you my daddy?" she asked.
Spike sweatdropped. "What?! No I'm not your daddy!" Faye's laughter stopped immediately. Her eyes began to well up with tears.
"But if your not my daddy... then who are you?" she asked, her voice trembling. Spike opened his mouth to say something, but Jet stopped him.
"No don't worry, he's your uncle, not your father! I'm your father! And that girl over there is your sister Edward!" he said pointing at Ed.
Ed frowned. "Edward is not sister to Faye Faye! Ed is-" Spike gave her a glare that said "play along or else" and she quickly changed what she was saying. "I mean yes Ed is Faye Faye's older sister! Edward is glad to see Faye Faye!" she chirped. Faye's tears instantly came to a halt.
"Oh goody! I'm glad that I'm not alone!" She reached up and embraced Spike in a tight hug. "Hi uncle Spike!"
"Yeah, hi." Spike grunted. Spike's poker face hid away the fact that he was inwardly screaming like an opera soprano. Having Faye onboard was bad enough, but having her as a kid! It was the one thing in life that Spike was secretly terrified of. With Faye as a six year old, who knew what could go wrong? Heaven only knew. Faye let go of Spike and stepped back down to the floor.
"So now what can we do?" she asked.
"Ed knows! Edward is hungry! Time for dinner!" Spike could not agree with her more. Neither could Jet. It was getting close to dinner and all of them were ravenous.
"What can we make though?" Faye asked.
"I'll make the usual. It's all we have at the time." Jet asked. Everybody else nodded in agreement. And so they went off towards the kitchen for that very purpose.
"Ed?" Jet whispered.
"What Jet person?"
"Later, we're going to try to capture that thing that bit Faye and analyze it. When we do, could you see if there's a cure for what she's gotten?"
"Okay Jet person! Ed will check for data!" Ed said.
Down the hallway, Ein was still recovering from the force of Faye running into him. His side ached and beneath his fur, a pair of large bruises were forming. Ein was used to this sort of treatment by now (as Ein knew, the bebop were not exactly what you would call animal lovers), but this time seemed to be a bit worse then the other times Faye had brought her foot down on him. Oh well. He'd just go on with his life and forget about it like he always did. As the dazed corgi rose to his feet, his sensitive nose caught scent of something he had never smelled before. No, wait a minute... it was a familiar smell after all. It was Faye's scent, no doubt about it, but something was different. It seemed... well, younger. Ein tensed, but he did not growl. Not yet anyway. Sure enough, the bebop rounded the corner and Ein's jaw dropped open. Only three of them were still normal. The fourth looked and smelled like Faye, but it was certainly not her body. It seemed to be the body of a younger girl, of about six. Before Ein could decided whether to growl or to allow this new person to pass, the girl squealed and patted him on the head.
"Hi puppy! My name is Faye! What's your name?" she asked. Ein felt all his nervousness evaporate in an instant at her touch. He didn't know why, but he liked Faye better this way. It would be good to have a kid who wasn't wild like Ed. Ein shuddered at the memory of the time Ed had tossed him onto the oven while it was still burning. He still had the burn from the horrible experience.
"His name is Ein. And from the looks of things I'd say he liked you." Jet said. And Ein did indeed seem to like her. The corgi was licking her face gently and allowing her to pet him. All the while, Faye was giggling and rubbing his back. Spike couldn't help but smile at this. It was kind of touching when you thought about it. Then his smile vanished as he remembered he was hungry.
"Well, are we going to cook dinner or not?" he asked. Jet marched to the kitchen, closely accompanied by Ed. Spike followed suite.
Ein gave an affectionate whine and continued to lick Faye's face. Faye giggled merrily and continued petting him. Ed watched this little scene, feeling a little jealous that Faye was playing with Ein. Ed was not normally one to feel such emotions, but in a way Ein was her dog. Mainly at the very least. After all, she was the one who played with him, petted him, and pretty much did stuff with him that none of the others did. And besides, Faye had never been particularly fond of him. Ed knew that in the way there was always something going on between them, and it normally wasn't anything good. So why was Faye so fond of him now? Ed could only speculate. She tried to pet Ein, but her hand was slapped away by Faye.
"Wait your turn!" she hissed and went back to petting Ein.
Ed growled slightly. "Edward wants to play with Ein now!" she said and reached down again. Her hand received yet another slap.
"No! My puppy!" Faye yelled. Ed grabbed the side of Ein's leg and tugged on it. Faye pulled back.
"Faye Faye, give Ein to Edward!" Ed growled.
"No! He's my puppy!"
"No! Mine!" Ed retorted. She pulled on Ein again, this time more forcefully, and Faye pulled as well. Soon, it escalated into a brutal game of tug of war.
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
"Mine!!"
"Mine!!!"
"MINE!!!!"
"MINE!!!!!"
RIIIPPPP!!!!
Ed and Faye went flying backwards in different directions. Both of them landed painfully on their backs. When they got up, they each heard loud howls and realized that they were holding something in their hands. They looked and saw they both had clumps of fur in their hands. Then they saw Ein and saw two bare spots on his legs. Already the bare flesh on his leg was turning pink.
"Now look what you've done!!" they both screamed in unison. Ed lunged at Faye and tackled her to the ground. Faye raised her hand up and poked Ed in the eyes. Well almost. Ed saw it coming and pulled down her goggles to shield her eyes so Faye only hit plastic. With a furious roar, Ed snapped at Faye with her pointy teeth. They began rolling around the room, biting and clawing at each other like a pair of angry cats. The ruckus was heard in the kitchen. Jet and Spike rushed into the hallway and saw what was happening. Jet pulled Ed away and Spike pulled Faye away.
"What the hell is going on?!" Jet roared angrily.
"Faye Faye hurt Ein!!" Ed hissed, pointing at the corgi. Jet looked at Ein and had to suppress a snicker. He knew it was nothing to laugh at, but still it was funny in some sadistic way. Apparantly, Ein must have known he was trying not to laugh because his ears flattened against his head and a low growl escaped his throat.
"Sorry about that Ein. I'll get some bandages for that later." It seemed to work. Ein stopped growling and just stared at Jet impassively.
"What do you mean I hurt Ein?! You hurt him because you were pulling on him!" Faye retorted.
"No, Faye Faye was pulling! Edward just wanted to play with Ein!"
"No you were pulling!!"
"You were!"
"You!"
"QUIET!!!" Jet bellowed at the top of his lungs. "If this keeps up, I'm not making dinner for anybody!" That shut everybody up in a hurry. If there was anything the bebop posse hated, it was not getting dinner.
"Whatever happened, stop it. I'll do a lot more then just pull you guys apart if another fight breaks out." Spike warned.
"Spike! How could you say that?!" Jet scolded. He didn't like kids that much either, but he wasn't for punishing them the way he figured Spike was. That stuff caused way more problems then it solved.
"Now the two of you be good now, you hear me?" Jet said in a much calmer tone of voice. Ed and Faye both nodded. The two bounty hunters walked back into the kitchen to continue dinner, Ein tagging along behind them.
Faye looked at Ed. "Would you like to have some fun?" she asked.
"Hmph! Ed is mad at Faye Faye for hurting Ein!" Ed snorted.
"Please Ed? You like having fun don't you?" Faye's words broke through the hacker's anger like a hot knife through butter.
"Okay. What does Faye Faye want to do?"
Faye grinned like so many demons. "Want to learn how to fly? Do we have any ships besides the one we're on?"
Ed smiled. "Yes. We have Spike person's swordfish II and a few others. Does Faye Faye want to learn how to fly with Ed?" Faye nodded. "Then Ed will show Faye Faye how to fly! Follow Edward!" Ed began to walk down to the hangar of the bebop.
Once inside the hangar, Ed stopped outside the swordfish II. Faye looked at it and giggled. "Do you know how to fly this?" she asked.
"Yes, Edward knows! A little at least! Faye Faye can sit on Ed's lap!" she replied. Ed opened up the glass dome of the swordfish II and climbed in. Faye followed suite and hopped onto Ed's lap. Ed looked downwards and saw with happiness that Spike had made the mistake of leaving his keys in the cockpit. Perfect. That would make it all the more easier. Ed closed the glass dome and turned the keys. The ship began to activate. Faye giggled. This was going to be fun.
"Let's see, Ed thinks that this button is ignition." Ed said to nobody in particular and pressed the button. The ship lifted off. Ed thrust forward on the steering device and the swordfish II flew out of the bebop.
"Wee!! Edward and Faye Faye are flying!" Ed squealed. Faye screamed in excitement along with her. They lifted out of the bebop hangar and began to fly off into space. Everything was going perfectly! As long as Spike and Jet didn't find out, things would be fine.
Then things started going wrong.
The swordfish II suddenly began to do a barrel roll. Ed screamed and felt her head bonk against the ceiling, hard. Faye was also mussed a bit. Ed grabbed the steering levers and pulled up on them, and the ship suddenly did a flip turning them around. It began to spin around rapidly then, bucking and shaking.
"Do something!" Faye whined as she was thrust to the side.
"Edward is trying!!" Ed pressed a button on the side, hoping that it would be of some help to them. Instead, what it did was fire a spray of bullets at the bebop.
Inside the interior of the large ship, Jet was busily cooking bell peppers and beef (no beef or course) when the ship suddenly shook violently. "What the hell?!" the former black dog of the ISSP yelled. The ship shook again, throwing Jet off of his feet. He landed with a loud thud on the ground. Soon enough, the alarm began to sound. Spike and Jet immediately rushed to the control room and looked on the radar.
"So what is it Jet? Who's attacking us?" Spike demanded. Jet said nothing as he looked at the sight before him on the radar screen. Spike took a look himself and a thick growl rose out of his chest. There was his ship, the swordfish II, in outer space. It was firing a stream of bullets at the bebop and showed no sign of relenting. Spike did not need to think for a minute to know who was behind this. "When I get my hands on those two, they are not going to sit down for a year!" Spike snarled.
"If you do that Spike, I'll throw you right off of the ship!" Jet said back.
"Fine then, but don't you believe in punishment Jet?!"
Jet sighed. "Relax Spike, I'll find some way of punishing them that doesn't involve hitting them. In the meantime, we should try to go after them." Before they could get to the other ships however, the swordfish II suddenly sped away from the bebop at high speed.
Back on the swordfish II, Faye and Ed were both screaming loudly as the ship careened out of control. "Do something!" Faye wailed. "We're going out of control!"
"Ed is trying but the ship is naughty!!" Ed pressed another button, but it only made the ship fly even faster. It was soon going so fast that tendrils of smoke began to come out of the engine. And in another short set of minutes, they could see a planet coming up in the distance. It seemed to be Calisto. Ed began to wail loudly. "Edward doesn't want to die! Edward is too young to die!" Faye started crying as well. The wailing girls had given up trying to fix the ship and were now just waiting for the inevitable to happen. As time passed, the ship gradually cruised towards the iced planet. At last, it touched down with a horrible crash.
Meanwhile, the bebop crew had followed the smoke trail left by the swordfish II and they were officially worried. Judging from how much smoke there was, Ed and Faye had really messed things up. Jet was inwardly praying that they were alright. If anything had happened to them, he would never forgive himself. "God, if you're up there and hearing me right now, let them be alright." Jet mentally prayed. The bebop finally descended towards Calisto. Jet and Spike ran outside as fast as they could towards a crowd of people. They seemed to be gathered around a smoking, burning twisted piece of metal. It didn't even take a second for Spike and Jet to know what it was. They hurried forward towards the crowd and made their way to the center. There, in the center, was the swordfish II. Or in this case, what was left of it. It no longer looked like a ship at all. It looked like something out of a junkyard.
"Oh god! Jet, do you think their..." Spike's words trailed off. For what may have been perhaps the first time in his life, Spike felt tears prickle at his eyes. God damn, this wasn't really happening was it? They hadn't really been killed had they? It seemed to be that way. Spike looked at Jet. The man looked as if he were going to cry.
"Yeah Spike. I don't think they made it." Jet choked. The former cop lowered his head and let out a gasping sob. Spike covered his face with one hand. So this was it. Faye and Ed, killed in a joy ride. Spike couldn't believe this had happened. Damn it, if only he had watched them instead of going to help with dinner. But it was too late for that. Spike lowered his head and began to cry softly with his friend. Then a small voice interrupted.
"Why is Spike person and Jet person going boo hoo?" Spike whirled around to find himself looking at Ed and Faye. Their clothes were burnt, but only that. Other then that, they were alright. Not so much as a scratch on them. Both of the girls were grinning.
"Jet?" Spike asked. "I think things are alright."
"How are things alright Spike?!" Jet sobbed. "They're dead and-" Then he saw Ed and Faye. His expression became one of complete disbelief. Ed and Faye alive? Was it true? It had to be. There could be no other explanation. For the first time since he had known them both, Jet ran forward and embraced them in a tight hug.
"Really smooth Jet. I guess you forgot that we're going to punish them when we get back?" Spike asked. The bulky man let go of the girls and began to glare at them.
"C'mon you two. We're going back to the ship. We'll punish you when we get back." Faye and Ed cringed at that word. They were hoping that it wouldn't be what they thought it would be. So the bebop began the short walk back to the ship.
Once then got back in outer space, Jet and Spike sat on the couch looking at the two girls, wondering what to do with them. "Now listen, the both of you. I want you to know that what you did was very irresponsible of you and that we cannot tolerate it." Spike said.
Ed whimpered. "Spike person won't hit us will you?" she asked nervously, clutching her bottom protectively.
"No Ed. We won't hit you, but we're definitely going to make you regret what you and Faye did. So we've decided to send you to your rooms with no dinner." The girls began to cry loudly at that.
"But we're hungry!! I want food!" Faye bawled. Ed also responded with equally agonized howls.
"Sorry you too, but that's the way it's going to go. Now go to your rooms. You can come out if you want to use the bathroom." But they wouldn't budge, so Spike and Jet had to drag them to the rooms. Both of them screeched madly and bit and kicked, forcing the bounty hunters to let go of them every now and again. They fought savagely, all the while screeching like angry parrots. At last, they managed to get Ed and Faye into Faye's room and shut the door. Both girls were howling. Jet sighed.
"You alright? Ed bit you pretty hard from the looks of it."
Jet rubbed the teeth marks in his arm. "Don't worry, I'm alright. I'm sure in a few moments they'll stop." But they did not. Ed and Faye were howling all through dinner, stopping only to catch their breath. It seemed that their two woman tantrum would not stop at all. Then at last, they stopped. Spike and Jet sighed in relief. Thank God that was over. They went to Faye's room and went in. Faye was sitting on the ground, her face tear stained. Ed on the other hand seemed to be back to her usual happy go lucky self. She was giggling and doing handstands.
"I'm sorry Uncle Spike. I'm sorry daddy." Faye wept. "I won't do anything like that again."
Jet smiled. "Glad to hear it. Now there's something else we need to take care of."
"What's that Jet person?"
"You two need baths. You're filthy from the crash." For a moment there was silence. Then...
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
There we go, part two is complete. If you think things are crazy now, wait until next chapter when they have to give Ed and Faye baths. Thank you for the ideas. See you again! -Randall Flagg2
Faye looked at her teammates as if she had only just met them for the first time. Her innocent eyes wandered back and forth between Spike and Jet, ignoring Ed completely. She giggled happily and jumped into Jet's arms. "Come on! Tell me your name or I'll kick you again!"
"Why doesn't she remember us? Did that thing take her memory as well?" Jet thought. Then the little Faye jumped down and slammed her foot into Jet's beefy leg again. Jet screamed and clutched at his aching leg. All the while the girl giggled wildly at him. Jet gave her the iciest glare he could muster. It didn't seem to frighten her.
"Alright fine! My name is Jet Black and the skinny guy over there is Spike Spiegal!" Jet growled.
"So that's your name? I think mine is better!"
"Yeah? Who made you the judge of names?" Spike asked. Faye only responded by giggling at him. Then she hopped into Spike's arms.
"Are you my daddy?" she asked.
Spike sweatdropped. "What?! No I'm not your daddy!" Faye's laughter stopped immediately. Her eyes began to well up with tears.
"But if your not my daddy... then who are you?" she asked, her voice trembling. Spike opened his mouth to say something, but Jet stopped him.
"No don't worry, he's your uncle, not your father! I'm your father! And that girl over there is your sister Edward!" he said pointing at Ed.
Ed frowned. "Edward is not sister to Faye Faye! Ed is-" Spike gave her a glare that said "play along or else" and she quickly changed what she was saying. "I mean yes Ed is Faye Faye's older sister! Edward is glad to see Faye Faye!" she chirped. Faye's tears instantly came to a halt.
"Oh goody! I'm glad that I'm not alone!" She reached up and embraced Spike in a tight hug. "Hi uncle Spike!"
"Yeah, hi." Spike grunted. Spike's poker face hid away the fact that he was inwardly screaming like an opera soprano. Having Faye onboard was bad enough, but having her as a kid! It was the one thing in life that Spike was secretly terrified of. With Faye as a six year old, who knew what could go wrong? Heaven only knew. Faye let go of Spike and stepped back down to the floor.
"So now what can we do?" she asked.
"Ed knows! Edward is hungry! Time for dinner!" Spike could not agree with her more. Neither could Jet. It was getting close to dinner and all of them were ravenous.
"What can we make though?" Faye asked.
"I'll make the usual. It's all we have at the time." Jet asked. Everybody else nodded in agreement. And so they went off towards the kitchen for that very purpose.
"Ed?" Jet whispered.
"What Jet person?"
"Later, we're going to try to capture that thing that bit Faye and analyze it. When we do, could you see if there's a cure for what she's gotten?"
"Okay Jet person! Ed will check for data!" Ed said.
Down the hallway, Ein was still recovering from the force of Faye running into him. His side ached and beneath his fur, a pair of large bruises were forming. Ein was used to this sort of treatment by now (as Ein knew, the bebop were not exactly what you would call animal lovers), but this time seemed to be a bit worse then the other times Faye had brought her foot down on him. Oh well. He'd just go on with his life and forget about it like he always did. As the dazed corgi rose to his feet, his sensitive nose caught scent of something he had never smelled before. No, wait a minute... it was a familiar smell after all. It was Faye's scent, no doubt about it, but something was different. It seemed... well, younger. Ein tensed, but he did not growl. Not yet anyway. Sure enough, the bebop rounded the corner and Ein's jaw dropped open. Only three of them were still normal. The fourth looked and smelled like Faye, but it was certainly not her body. It seemed to be the body of a younger girl, of about six. Before Ein could decided whether to growl or to allow this new person to pass, the girl squealed and patted him on the head.
"Hi puppy! My name is Faye! What's your name?" she asked. Ein felt all his nervousness evaporate in an instant at her touch. He didn't know why, but he liked Faye better this way. It would be good to have a kid who wasn't wild like Ed. Ein shuddered at the memory of the time Ed had tossed him onto the oven while it was still burning. He still had the burn from the horrible experience.
"His name is Ein. And from the looks of things I'd say he liked you." Jet said. And Ein did indeed seem to like her. The corgi was licking her face gently and allowing her to pet him. All the while, Faye was giggling and rubbing his back. Spike couldn't help but smile at this. It was kind of touching when you thought about it. Then his smile vanished as he remembered he was hungry.
"Well, are we going to cook dinner or not?" he asked. Jet marched to the kitchen, closely accompanied by Ed. Spike followed suite.
Ein gave an affectionate whine and continued to lick Faye's face. Faye giggled merrily and continued petting him. Ed watched this little scene, feeling a little jealous that Faye was playing with Ein. Ed was not normally one to feel such emotions, but in a way Ein was her dog. Mainly at the very least. After all, she was the one who played with him, petted him, and pretty much did stuff with him that none of the others did. And besides, Faye had never been particularly fond of him. Ed knew that in the way there was always something going on between them, and it normally wasn't anything good. So why was Faye so fond of him now? Ed could only speculate. She tried to pet Ein, but her hand was slapped away by Faye.
"Wait your turn!" she hissed and went back to petting Ein.
Ed growled slightly. "Edward wants to play with Ein now!" she said and reached down again. Her hand received yet another slap.
"No! My puppy!" Faye yelled. Ed grabbed the side of Ein's leg and tugged on it. Faye pulled back.
"Faye Faye, give Ein to Edward!" Ed growled.
"No! He's my puppy!"
"No! Mine!" Ed retorted. She pulled on Ein again, this time more forcefully, and Faye pulled as well. Soon, it escalated into a brutal game of tug of war.
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
"Mine!!"
"Mine!!!"
"MINE!!!!"
"MINE!!!!!"
RIIIPPPP!!!!
Ed and Faye went flying backwards in different directions. Both of them landed painfully on their backs. When they got up, they each heard loud howls and realized that they were holding something in their hands. They looked and saw they both had clumps of fur in their hands. Then they saw Ein and saw two bare spots on his legs. Already the bare flesh on his leg was turning pink.
"Now look what you've done!!" they both screamed in unison. Ed lunged at Faye and tackled her to the ground. Faye raised her hand up and poked Ed in the eyes. Well almost. Ed saw it coming and pulled down her goggles to shield her eyes so Faye only hit plastic. With a furious roar, Ed snapped at Faye with her pointy teeth. They began rolling around the room, biting and clawing at each other like a pair of angry cats. The ruckus was heard in the kitchen. Jet and Spike rushed into the hallway and saw what was happening. Jet pulled Ed away and Spike pulled Faye away.
"What the hell is going on?!" Jet roared angrily.
"Faye Faye hurt Ein!!" Ed hissed, pointing at the corgi. Jet looked at Ein and had to suppress a snicker. He knew it was nothing to laugh at, but still it was funny in some sadistic way. Apparantly, Ein must have known he was trying not to laugh because his ears flattened against his head and a low growl escaped his throat.
"Sorry about that Ein. I'll get some bandages for that later." It seemed to work. Ein stopped growling and just stared at Jet impassively.
"What do you mean I hurt Ein?! You hurt him because you were pulling on him!" Faye retorted.
"No, Faye Faye was pulling! Edward just wanted to play with Ein!"
"No you were pulling!!"
"You were!"
"You!"
"QUIET!!!" Jet bellowed at the top of his lungs. "If this keeps up, I'm not making dinner for anybody!" That shut everybody up in a hurry. If there was anything the bebop posse hated, it was not getting dinner.
"Whatever happened, stop it. I'll do a lot more then just pull you guys apart if another fight breaks out." Spike warned.
"Spike! How could you say that?!" Jet scolded. He didn't like kids that much either, but he wasn't for punishing them the way he figured Spike was. That stuff caused way more problems then it solved.
"Now the two of you be good now, you hear me?" Jet said in a much calmer tone of voice. Ed and Faye both nodded. The two bounty hunters walked back into the kitchen to continue dinner, Ein tagging along behind them.
Faye looked at Ed. "Would you like to have some fun?" she asked.
"Hmph! Ed is mad at Faye Faye for hurting Ein!" Ed snorted.
"Please Ed? You like having fun don't you?" Faye's words broke through the hacker's anger like a hot knife through butter.
"Okay. What does Faye Faye want to do?"
Faye grinned like so many demons. "Want to learn how to fly? Do we have any ships besides the one we're on?"
Ed smiled. "Yes. We have Spike person's swordfish II and a few others. Does Faye Faye want to learn how to fly with Ed?" Faye nodded. "Then Ed will show Faye Faye how to fly! Follow Edward!" Ed began to walk down to the hangar of the bebop.
Once inside the hangar, Ed stopped outside the swordfish II. Faye looked at it and giggled. "Do you know how to fly this?" she asked.
"Yes, Edward knows! A little at least! Faye Faye can sit on Ed's lap!" she replied. Ed opened up the glass dome of the swordfish II and climbed in. Faye followed suite and hopped onto Ed's lap. Ed looked downwards and saw with happiness that Spike had made the mistake of leaving his keys in the cockpit. Perfect. That would make it all the more easier. Ed closed the glass dome and turned the keys. The ship began to activate. Faye giggled. This was going to be fun.
"Let's see, Ed thinks that this button is ignition." Ed said to nobody in particular and pressed the button. The ship lifted off. Ed thrust forward on the steering device and the swordfish II flew out of the bebop.
"Wee!! Edward and Faye Faye are flying!" Ed squealed. Faye screamed in excitement along with her. They lifted out of the bebop hangar and began to fly off into space. Everything was going perfectly! As long as Spike and Jet didn't find out, things would be fine.
Then things started going wrong.
The swordfish II suddenly began to do a barrel roll. Ed screamed and felt her head bonk against the ceiling, hard. Faye was also mussed a bit. Ed grabbed the steering levers and pulled up on them, and the ship suddenly did a flip turning them around. It began to spin around rapidly then, bucking and shaking.
"Do something!" Faye whined as she was thrust to the side.
"Edward is trying!!" Ed pressed a button on the side, hoping that it would be of some help to them. Instead, what it did was fire a spray of bullets at the bebop.
Inside the interior of the large ship, Jet was busily cooking bell peppers and beef (no beef or course) when the ship suddenly shook violently. "What the hell?!" the former black dog of the ISSP yelled. The ship shook again, throwing Jet off of his feet. He landed with a loud thud on the ground. Soon enough, the alarm began to sound. Spike and Jet immediately rushed to the control room and looked on the radar.
"So what is it Jet? Who's attacking us?" Spike demanded. Jet said nothing as he looked at the sight before him on the radar screen. Spike took a look himself and a thick growl rose out of his chest. There was his ship, the swordfish II, in outer space. It was firing a stream of bullets at the bebop and showed no sign of relenting. Spike did not need to think for a minute to know who was behind this. "When I get my hands on those two, they are not going to sit down for a year!" Spike snarled.
"If you do that Spike, I'll throw you right off of the ship!" Jet said back.
"Fine then, but don't you believe in punishment Jet?!"
Jet sighed. "Relax Spike, I'll find some way of punishing them that doesn't involve hitting them. In the meantime, we should try to go after them." Before they could get to the other ships however, the swordfish II suddenly sped away from the bebop at high speed.
Back on the swordfish II, Faye and Ed were both screaming loudly as the ship careened out of control. "Do something!" Faye wailed. "We're going out of control!"
"Ed is trying but the ship is naughty!!" Ed pressed another button, but it only made the ship fly even faster. It was soon going so fast that tendrils of smoke began to come out of the engine. And in another short set of minutes, they could see a planet coming up in the distance. It seemed to be Calisto. Ed began to wail loudly. "Edward doesn't want to die! Edward is too young to die!" Faye started crying as well. The wailing girls had given up trying to fix the ship and were now just waiting for the inevitable to happen. As time passed, the ship gradually cruised towards the iced planet. At last, it touched down with a horrible crash.
Meanwhile, the bebop crew had followed the smoke trail left by the swordfish II and they were officially worried. Judging from how much smoke there was, Ed and Faye had really messed things up. Jet was inwardly praying that they were alright. If anything had happened to them, he would never forgive himself. "God, if you're up there and hearing me right now, let them be alright." Jet mentally prayed. The bebop finally descended towards Calisto. Jet and Spike ran outside as fast as they could towards a crowd of people. They seemed to be gathered around a smoking, burning twisted piece of metal. It didn't even take a second for Spike and Jet to know what it was. They hurried forward towards the crowd and made their way to the center. There, in the center, was the swordfish II. Or in this case, what was left of it. It no longer looked like a ship at all. It looked like something out of a junkyard.
"Oh god! Jet, do you think their..." Spike's words trailed off. For what may have been perhaps the first time in his life, Spike felt tears prickle at his eyes. God damn, this wasn't really happening was it? They hadn't really been killed had they? It seemed to be that way. Spike looked at Jet. The man looked as if he were going to cry.
"Yeah Spike. I don't think they made it." Jet choked. The former cop lowered his head and let out a gasping sob. Spike covered his face with one hand. So this was it. Faye and Ed, killed in a joy ride. Spike couldn't believe this had happened. Damn it, if only he had watched them instead of going to help with dinner. But it was too late for that. Spike lowered his head and began to cry softly with his friend. Then a small voice interrupted.
"Why is Spike person and Jet person going boo hoo?" Spike whirled around to find himself looking at Ed and Faye. Their clothes were burnt, but only that. Other then that, they were alright. Not so much as a scratch on them. Both of the girls were grinning.
"Jet?" Spike asked. "I think things are alright."
"How are things alright Spike?!" Jet sobbed. "They're dead and-" Then he saw Ed and Faye. His expression became one of complete disbelief. Ed and Faye alive? Was it true? It had to be. There could be no other explanation. For the first time since he had known them both, Jet ran forward and embraced them in a tight hug.
"Really smooth Jet. I guess you forgot that we're going to punish them when we get back?" Spike asked. The bulky man let go of the girls and began to glare at them.
"C'mon you two. We're going back to the ship. We'll punish you when we get back." Faye and Ed cringed at that word. They were hoping that it wouldn't be what they thought it would be. So the bebop began the short walk back to the ship.
Once then got back in outer space, Jet and Spike sat on the couch looking at the two girls, wondering what to do with them. "Now listen, the both of you. I want you to know that what you did was very irresponsible of you and that we cannot tolerate it." Spike said.
Ed whimpered. "Spike person won't hit us will you?" she asked nervously, clutching her bottom protectively.
"No Ed. We won't hit you, but we're definitely going to make you regret what you and Faye did. So we've decided to send you to your rooms with no dinner." The girls began to cry loudly at that.
"But we're hungry!! I want food!" Faye bawled. Ed also responded with equally agonized howls.
"Sorry you too, but that's the way it's going to go. Now go to your rooms. You can come out if you want to use the bathroom." But they wouldn't budge, so Spike and Jet had to drag them to the rooms. Both of them screeched madly and bit and kicked, forcing the bounty hunters to let go of them every now and again. They fought savagely, all the while screeching like angry parrots. At last, they managed to get Ed and Faye into Faye's room and shut the door. Both girls were howling. Jet sighed.
"You alright? Ed bit you pretty hard from the looks of it."
Jet rubbed the teeth marks in his arm. "Don't worry, I'm alright. I'm sure in a few moments they'll stop." But they did not. Ed and Faye were howling all through dinner, stopping only to catch their breath. It seemed that their two woman tantrum would not stop at all. Then at last, they stopped. Spike and Jet sighed in relief. Thank God that was over. They went to Faye's room and went in. Faye was sitting on the ground, her face tear stained. Ed on the other hand seemed to be back to her usual happy go lucky self. She was giggling and doing handstands.
"I'm sorry Uncle Spike. I'm sorry daddy." Faye wept. "I won't do anything like that again."
Jet smiled. "Glad to hear it. Now there's something else we need to take care of."
"What's that Jet person?"
"You two need baths. You're filthy from the crash." For a moment there was silence. Then...
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
There we go, part two is complete. If you think things are crazy now, wait until next chapter when they have to give Ed and Faye baths. Thank you for the ideas. See you again! -Randall Flagg2