I am so sorry for the late update but once again I am running out of ideas.
If you don't want this to end next chapter, then GIVE ME SOME IDEAS!!!
YOU DON'T WANT THIS STORY TO END SO QUICKLY DO YOU?!!!!
-Randall Flagg2
"Found it! Found it! Ed fooooooouuuuunnnnnnd it!!" came the piercing squeal from down the hall.
"Found what?" Spike asked, walking down the hall towards Ed's room. Jet and Ein followed suite. Faye was already waiting with Ed. Displayed on Ed's computer was a picture of a man in a leather jacket and jeans. His face was ruddy and handsome with long brown hair. Ed pressed a button and the information on this man was displayed.
Name: Lance Argyle
Age: 45
Occupation: Architect and hired assassin.
Reward: Two million woolongs
Spike smiled. Two million woolongs was a good deal of money. And what did that mean? That it was time to go bounty hunting again. "Come on Jet. It's time to go hunting again." he said, walking out the door.
"Wait Spike. What are we supposed to do with the girls?"
"I'm sure we can leave them alone for awhile. They couldn't do any harm." Spike turned to Ed and Faye and shot an icy glare at them. "Right girls?"
"Sure Spike person! Ed and Faye will be good!" Ed replied. If she had sounded anymore innocent, a halo might have appeared over her head. That made Jet worry even more. Leaving Ed alone was enough, but Ed and Faye? No, that most definitely wouldn't be good.
"I don't know Spike. I think-"
"Come on Jet! What could go wrong?" Spike said.
"A lot more then you would think." Jet muttered. He didn't trust these two.
"Well what do you propose Jet? That we hire a sitter?" Spike said sarcastically. Jet sighed and conceived to Spike.
"Alright. But if they ruin the ship Spike, you are out on your behind."
"That's getting very old Jet." Spike turned to Ed and Faye. "You guys be good while we're gone okay?"
Ed pouted. "But Spike person, Ed wants to come!"
"I know you want to come but it's dangerous and we don't want you getting hurt. Even more, you're not cut out for fighting tough bounties."
"Well Ed thinks that-"
"You have no say in the matter." Spike said coldly. Ed wanted to protest but Spike was giving her his "disagree with me if you dare" look. With a sigh, Ed quieted down.
"Okay. Ed and Faye Faye will stay behind." Spike's look became warm again.
"Good. Maybe we'll bring you back something." With that, he walked out of the room with Jet towards the control room. Soon enough, the bebop began to descend towards Mars. Within a half hour it had landed and Spike and Jet were on their way out to hunt for Lance.
Atop a building, Lance Argyle was perched on the edge of a roof with a large rifle in his hand. He wore a trench coat and old khakis. Over his eyes were a pair of dark sunglasses. His hair flapped behind his head in the wind. Today was the day. The day he would accomplish what he had been hired to do. Of course it was. It was, after all, what he was hired to do. All he had to do was wait for his target to come into sight and then he would raise the rifle and it would be over. It would be soon. He could feel it. But once that unlucky person got into his sights-
"And what do we have here?" said a voice from behind him. Lance whirled around to find himself looking at a pair of men, one with green hair, the other bald, with their guns drawn.
"Spike Spiegal and Jet Black. Who would have thought?" Lance remarked.
"You know who we are?"
"Anybody with a bounty on their heads knows about you." Lance replied. He lowered the rifle and adjusted his coat. "Well if you want to take me, then you'll have to fight me."
Spike cocked the hammer on his pistol. "Well that can be arra-" Before he could finish, Lance darted at him with such speed that Spike only caught a flicker of movement. One minute Lance was standing not ten feet away from them, and in the next he was in front of Jet. With one sweep of his arm, he sent Jet onto his back and the gun flying out of his hand. Spike threw his gun on the ground and began to spar with Lance, launching multiple kicks at the man's head. But this man was much tougher then he looked. Lance almost danced away from Spike's barrage of kicks and then darted at him again. As Spike threw an upwards kick at him, Lance ducked and brought his fist flying upwards in an uppercut which hammered Spike in the crotch. Spike uttered a thin scream and fell to the ground. Instead of hitting the ground, Spike's landed stomach first on Lance's fist. That was all it took. All the fight went out of Spike and he collapsed to the ground. Lance got to his feet and looked down at the bounty hunter.
"I expected more from people like you. In the meantime, I think I'll help myself to your ship." Spike gasped. Surely this man didn't mean that. Ed and Faye were still onboard! Take Ein maybe, but not them!
"If you do anything to the ship I'll-" But Lance was already gone.
Back on board the bebop, Ed and Faye were becoming increasingly bored. Since Spike and Jet had left, the quietness onboard had become disturbing and they were desperate for something to happen.
"Ed is boring bored." Ed whined as she typed mindlessly on her computer.
"I'm even more bored. I wish we could have come with them." Faye sighed. "I wish something would happen." Just as Faye finished what she was saying, a loud growl was heard from the hallway followed by footsteps.
"Ein must see something!" Ed exclaimed and ran out into the hallway to find herself face to face with a man whom she had never seen before. Ed's smile brightened.
"Who the hell are you?" Lance growled.
"Ed's name is Ed. What is person man's name?"
Lance advanced on her, despite the fact Ein's teeth were bared and that his growling had become a series of ferocious shrill barks. "Who I am is of no importance. I asked you who you are!"
"Name name Ed wants you name!" Ed sang merrily.
"Fine then. My name is Lance Argyle. I'm the bounty your comrades were hunting for! Now get out of my way!" Ed made no move to do so and Lance made as if to strike her. Ein promptly sank his fangs into Lance's legs. Lance screamed.
"You lousy mutt! Let go of me!" Lance grabbed Ein and flung him across the room. Faye stepped out and giggled at the sight of Lance.
"Hello mister! Would you like to play with us?" Faye asked.
"No I don't want to play! Now get out of my way or-" And then it was Faye's turn to bite his leg.
"We'll play dog and mailman now! Me and Ed will be the dogs and you can be the mailman!"
"No I'm not playing your stupid game! I-" And then a loud, deep growling noise filled the room. He looked down to see Ed looking up at him, growling on all fours. Lance tried to say something but could not bring himself to speak. There was something inhuman about the red headed hacker. Something in the way her eyes looked deranged and her teeth as sharp as animal fangs. But what made him so nervous was the way Ed was growling so deeply in the back of her throat. It was like listening to an animal, one that was much bigger then a dog.
"No. I'm not going to run." Lance thought boldly. They were after all, just children. And Lance Argyle was most definitely not afraid of children. But then his common sense kicked in and he decided fleeing would indeed be the better option. They were after all, just little girls. So he turned tail and ran back down the way he came.
The effect on the girls was immediate. They both took after him as fast as they could, both of them growling and making barking sounds. Ein would have joined them, but he had a feeling that they had things under control. It would be one thing if it were other dogs who were going after Lance, but doing it with humans who acted like dogs was just too much. Even more, Ein's instincts told him that if he attacked this man again, he would have been beaten up badly. So he stayed behind and waited for the results of the chase.
Lance meanwhile, had made it to the kitchen for his part. The man stopped to catch his breath, surveying his surroundings. He had changed his mind about fleeing the girls and had decided to fight after all. But what could he use? He had left his rifle behind and there was no weapon within his sight. But then a smile crept over his face as he remembered something important. This was a kitchen, so there had to be knives. He opened one of the drawers and much to his pleasure, found a set of rather sharp looking knives. As if on cue, the girls rounded the corner.
"Catch!" Lance called and hurled the knife forward. Ed and Faye jumped to the side as the knife imbedded itself in the wall. Lance dug into the drawer again and threw another knife. This one missed as well and the wall was decorated with a silver blade again. Ed got onto all fours and snarled bitterly at Lance. Faye followed suite.
"Edward and Faye shall catch the mail person!" Ed screamed. Lance had no intention of letting that happen. He grabbed the last two knives and tossed them in the girl's general direction. Again, both of them missed their intended targets. Lance wheeled around and fled with the snapping girls at his heels.
Lance finally managed to get into Spike's bedroom and lock the door. Ed and Faye stopped in front of the door, knowing that their prey was safe from them now. Now what could they do? Until he came out, they were stuck with nothing to do. So what could they do to entertain themselves now? If only-
Wait. An idea was coming to them. That was it! A wicked smile crossed Faye's lips. She knew what they could do. Just because Lance had locked himself away in Spike's room didn't mean they couldn't play with him anymore. Still smiling, she turned to Ed.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking Ed?" she asked.
"Edward has a rough idea of what is in Faye Faye's head!" Cackling, the girls set to work.
After some odd number of hours, Lance stepped out of Spike's room. It was completely silent. No sign of those crazy girls. Good. That meant it was safe to come out. Lance took one last look around the hallway and stepped out. Just as he did however, his foot slipped on something. Lance suddenly found himself falling onto his back with a loud bang. With a grunt Lance felt around the ground to discover the ground was covered with grease. No wonder he had slipped. Lance got to his feet but slipped again and this time he went sliding across the room. There was a loud crash as he slammed into the wall on the other side of the hallway. Lance got to his feet, this time managing to stand up successfully.
"So this is the best you girls have?! I figured you had more in store for me!" he called. Just as Lance walked out of the hallway, he tripped over a wire. Lance went flying into the ground again. With an angry snarl, he sprung to his feet. And just as he did, a bucket of water fell on him.
Cursing a mouthful of obscenities, Lance got up. He had forgotten about not hurting the girls. When he found them, he was going to kill them no matter what happened. Lance stepped forward again, and that's when it happened. A rope suddenly clamped around his ankle and hoisted him into the air like a pig in a slaughterhouse. Ed and Faye came out of a nearby doorway, both of them giggling.
"Person person has fallen for trappy trap!" Ed squealed. "Now we will have some fun with person person!" Ed stepped up in front of Lance and rolled up her sleeves.
"What are you going to do?" Lance asked nervously.
"Edward thinks person person looks like a punching bag like that!" Ed squealed. Lance realized what was going to happen and began to scream and thrash around. But it was too late. Ed cocked her fist back and slung it forward. Lance felt all the air whiff out of him as her fist sunk into his stomach. Faye joined in as well, slugging Lance in his head again and again. After some time, they stopped. Lance sighed with relief. It was finally over. Then Ed and Faye turned to Ein who had walked in to see what was going on.
"Hi Ein!" Faye said. "Would you like to play with him?" Ein barked merrily and walked up to Lance and opened his mouth. Lance's head was thankfully at ground level with him.
Lance began to scream.
Spike and Jet stumbled into their ship. The beating they had gotten had taken a lot out of them and they were still in pain from Lance's attack on them. Both of them were hoping that he hadn't really gotten on board. If he had, there was no telling what he might have done. It was only when they stepped inside that they heard the screams. Spike and Jet rushed to the kitchen and saw the sight before them.
Lance was quite a mess. His clothes were wet and his face was covered in bite marks. Ein, Ed, and Faye stood nearby. Spike and Jet looked at the girls in awe.
"You guys did this?" Spike asked.
"Yep! We sure did!" Faye chimed. "We caught him!"
"Nice going Faye. Maybe you guys do have bounty hunting skills after all." Jet remarked.
"He was the bounty?" Faye asked. "Who would have thought?"
"Oh well. At least we caught the bounty. Nice going girls." Spike said. Ed and Faye both giggled. Lance was still screaming. Ein seemed to be smiling. In other words, everything had worked out.
And that is part six people. I REALLY REALLY REALLY NEED IDEAS!!!! Thank you. Bye! -Randall Flagg2
"Found it! Found it! Ed fooooooouuuuunnnnnnd it!!" came the piercing squeal from down the hall.
"Found what?" Spike asked, walking down the hall towards Ed's room. Jet and Ein followed suite. Faye was already waiting with Ed. Displayed on Ed's computer was a picture of a man in a leather jacket and jeans. His face was ruddy and handsome with long brown hair. Ed pressed a button and the information on this man was displayed.
Name: Lance Argyle
Age: 45
Occupation: Architect and hired assassin.
Reward: Two million woolongs
Spike smiled. Two million woolongs was a good deal of money. And what did that mean? That it was time to go bounty hunting again. "Come on Jet. It's time to go hunting again." he said, walking out the door.
"Wait Spike. What are we supposed to do with the girls?"
"I'm sure we can leave them alone for awhile. They couldn't do any harm." Spike turned to Ed and Faye and shot an icy glare at them. "Right girls?"
"Sure Spike person! Ed and Faye will be good!" Ed replied. If she had sounded anymore innocent, a halo might have appeared over her head. That made Jet worry even more. Leaving Ed alone was enough, but Ed and Faye? No, that most definitely wouldn't be good.
"I don't know Spike. I think-"
"Come on Jet! What could go wrong?" Spike said.
"A lot more then you would think." Jet muttered. He didn't trust these two.
"Well what do you propose Jet? That we hire a sitter?" Spike said sarcastically. Jet sighed and conceived to Spike.
"Alright. But if they ruin the ship Spike, you are out on your behind."
"That's getting very old Jet." Spike turned to Ed and Faye. "You guys be good while we're gone okay?"
Ed pouted. "But Spike person, Ed wants to come!"
"I know you want to come but it's dangerous and we don't want you getting hurt. Even more, you're not cut out for fighting tough bounties."
"Well Ed thinks that-"
"You have no say in the matter." Spike said coldly. Ed wanted to protest but Spike was giving her his "disagree with me if you dare" look. With a sigh, Ed quieted down.
"Okay. Ed and Faye Faye will stay behind." Spike's look became warm again.
"Good. Maybe we'll bring you back something." With that, he walked out of the room with Jet towards the control room. Soon enough, the bebop began to descend towards Mars. Within a half hour it had landed and Spike and Jet were on their way out to hunt for Lance.
Atop a building, Lance Argyle was perched on the edge of a roof with a large rifle in his hand. He wore a trench coat and old khakis. Over his eyes were a pair of dark sunglasses. His hair flapped behind his head in the wind. Today was the day. The day he would accomplish what he had been hired to do. Of course it was. It was, after all, what he was hired to do. All he had to do was wait for his target to come into sight and then he would raise the rifle and it would be over. It would be soon. He could feel it. But once that unlucky person got into his sights-
"And what do we have here?" said a voice from behind him. Lance whirled around to find himself looking at a pair of men, one with green hair, the other bald, with their guns drawn.
"Spike Spiegal and Jet Black. Who would have thought?" Lance remarked.
"You know who we are?"
"Anybody with a bounty on their heads knows about you." Lance replied. He lowered the rifle and adjusted his coat. "Well if you want to take me, then you'll have to fight me."
Spike cocked the hammer on his pistol. "Well that can be arra-" Before he could finish, Lance darted at him with such speed that Spike only caught a flicker of movement. One minute Lance was standing not ten feet away from them, and in the next he was in front of Jet. With one sweep of his arm, he sent Jet onto his back and the gun flying out of his hand. Spike threw his gun on the ground and began to spar with Lance, launching multiple kicks at the man's head. But this man was much tougher then he looked. Lance almost danced away from Spike's barrage of kicks and then darted at him again. As Spike threw an upwards kick at him, Lance ducked and brought his fist flying upwards in an uppercut which hammered Spike in the crotch. Spike uttered a thin scream and fell to the ground. Instead of hitting the ground, Spike's landed stomach first on Lance's fist. That was all it took. All the fight went out of Spike and he collapsed to the ground. Lance got to his feet and looked down at the bounty hunter.
"I expected more from people like you. In the meantime, I think I'll help myself to your ship." Spike gasped. Surely this man didn't mean that. Ed and Faye were still onboard! Take Ein maybe, but not them!
"If you do anything to the ship I'll-" But Lance was already gone.
Back on board the bebop, Ed and Faye were becoming increasingly bored. Since Spike and Jet had left, the quietness onboard had become disturbing and they were desperate for something to happen.
"Ed is boring bored." Ed whined as she typed mindlessly on her computer.
"I'm even more bored. I wish we could have come with them." Faye sighed. "I wish something would happen." Just as Faye finished what she was saying, a loud growl was heard from the hallway followed by footsteps.
"Ein must see something!" Ed exclaimed and ran out into the hallway to find herself face to face with a man whom she had never seen before. Ed's smile brightened.
"Who the hell are you?" Lance growled.
"Ed's name is Ed. What is person man's name?"
Lance advanced on her, despite the fact Ein's teeth were bared and that his growling had become a series of ferocious shrill barks. "Who I am is of no importance. I asked you who you are!"
"Name name Ed wants you name!" Ed sang merrily.
"Fine then. My name is Lance Argyle. I'm the bounty your comrades were hunting for! Now get out of my way!" Ed made no move to do so and Lance made as if to strike her. Ein promptly sank his fangs into Lance's legs. Lance screamed.
"You lousy mutt! Let go of me!" Lance grabbed Ein and flung him across the room. Faye stepped out and giggled at the sight of Lance.
"Hello mister! Would you like to play with us?" Faye asked.
"No I don't want to play! Now get out of my way or-" And then it was Faye's turn to bite his leg.
"We'll play dog and mailman now! Me and Ed will be the dogs and you can be the mailman!"
"No I'm not playing your stupid game! I-" And then a loud, deep growling noise filled the room. He looked down to see Ed looking up at him, growling on all fours. Lance tried to say something but could not bring himself to speak. There was something inhuman about the red headed hacker. Something in the way her eyes looked deranged and her teeth as sharp as animal fangs. But what made him so nervous was the way Ed was growling so deeply in the back of her throat. It was like listening to an animal, one that was much bigger then a dog.
"No. I'm not going to run." Lance thought boldly. They were after all, just children. And Lance Argyle was most definitely not afraid of children. But then his common sense kicked in and he decided fleeing would indeed be the better option. They were after all, just little girls. So he turned tail and ran back down the way he came.
The effect on the girls was immediate. They both took after him as fast as they could, both of them growling and making barking sounds. Ein would have joined them, but he had a feeling that they had things under control. It would be one thing if it were other dogs who were going after Lance, but doing it with humans who acted like dogs was just too much. Even more, Ein's instincts told him that if he attacked this man again, he would have been beaten up badly. So he stayed behind and waited for the results of the chase.
Lance meanwhile, had made it to the kitchen for his part. The man stopped to catch his breath, surveying his surroundings. He had changed his mind about fleeing the girls and had decided to fight after all. But what could he use? He had left his rifle behind and there was no weapon within his sight. But then a smile crept over his face as he remembered something important. This was a kitchen, so there had to be knives. He opened one of the drawers and much to his pleasure, found a set of rather sharp looking knives. As if on cue, the girls rounded the corner.
"Catch!" Lance called and hurled the knife forward. Ed and Faye jumped to the side as the knife imbedded itself in the wall. Lance dug into the drawer again and threw another knife. This one missed as well and the wall was decorated with a silver blade again. Ed got onto all fours and snarled bitterly at Lance. Faye followed suite.
"Edward and Faye shall catch the mail person!" Ed screamed. Lance had no intention of letting that happen. He grabbed the last two knives and tossed them in the girl's general direction. Again, both of them missed their intended targets. Lance wheeled around and fled with the snapping girls at his heels.
Lance finally managed to get into Spike's bedroom and lock the door. Ed and Faye stopped in front of the door, knowing that their prey was safe from them now. Now what could they do? Until he came out, they were stuck with nothing to do. So what could they do to entertain themselves now? If only-
Wait. An idea was coming to them. That was it! A wicked smile crossed Faye's lips. She knew what they could do. Just because Lance had locked himself away in Spike's room didn't mean they couldn't play with him anymore. Still smiling, she turned to Ed.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking Ed?" she asked.
"Edward has a rough idea of what is in Faye Faye's head!" Cackling, the girls set to work.
After some odd number of hours, Lance stepped out of Spike's room. It was completely silent. No sign of those crazy girls. Good. That meant it was safe to come out. Lance took one last look around the hallway and stepped out. Just as he did however, his foot slipped on something. Lance suddenly found himself falling onto his back with a loud bang. With a grunt Lance felt around the ground to discover the ground was covered with grease. No wonder he had slipped. Lance got to his feet but slipped again and this time he went sliding across the room. There was a loud crash as he slammed into the wall on the other side of the hallway. Lance got to his feet, this time managing to stand up successfully.
"So this is the best you girls have?! I figured you had more in store for me!" he called. Just as Lance walked out of the hallway, he tripped over a wire. Lance went flying into the ground again. With an angry snarl, he sprung to his feet. And just as he did, a bucket of water fell on him.
Cursing a mouthful of obscenities, Lance got up. He had forgotten about not hurting the girls. When he found them, he was going to kill them no matter what happened. Lance stepped forward again, and that's when it happened. A rope suddenly clamped around his ankle and hoisted him into the air like a pig in a slaughterhouse. Ed and Faye came out of a nearby doorway, both of them giggling.
"Person person has fallen for trappy trap!" Ed squealed. "Now we will have some fun with person person!" Ed stepped up in front of Lance and rolled up her sleeves.
"What are you going to do?" Lance asked nervously.
"Edward thinks person person looks like a punching bag like that!" Ed squealed. Lance realized what was going to happen and began to scream and thrash around. But it was too late. Ed cocked her fist back and slung it forward. Lance felt all the air whiff out of him as her fist sunk into his stomach. Faye joined in as well, slugging Lance in his head again and again. After some time, they stopped. Lance sighed with relief. It was finally over. Then Ed and Faye turned to Ein who had walked in to see what was going on.
"Hi Ein!" Faye said. "Would you like to play with him?" Ein barked merrily and walked up to Lance and opened his mouth. Lance's head was thankfully at ground level with him.
Lance began to scream.
Spike and Jet stumbled into their ship. The beating they had gotten had taken a lot out of them and they were still in pain from Lance's attack on them. Both of them were hoping that he hadn't really gotten on board. If he had, there was no telling what he might have done. It was only when they stepped inside that they heard the screams. Spike and Jet rushed to the kitchen and saw the sight before them.
Lance was quite a mess. His clothes were wet and his face was covered in bite marks. Ein, Ed, and Faye stood nearby. Spike and Jet looked at the girls in awe.
"You guys did this?" Spike asked.
"Yep! We sure did!" Faye chimed. "We caught him!"
"Nice going Faye. Maybe you guys do have bounty hunting skills after all." Jet remarked.
"He was the bounty?" Faye asked. "Who would have thought?"
"Oh well. At least we caught the bounty. Nice going girls." Spike said. Ed and Faye both giggled. Lance was still screaming. Ein seemed to be smiling. In other words, everything had worked out.
And that is part six people. I REALLY REALLY REALLY NEED IDEAS!!!! Thank you. Bye! -Randall Flagg2