Up in Gunsmoke
Braids
Blah Blah Blah I don't own Trigun or Cowboy Bebop so don't sue me they belong to other people I just use em and twist em how I see fit. Braids
Chapter 3: The Gate Breaks
Spike leaned against the Swordfish II looking to Feena who had a big grin on her face. "I hate you, I really do, I don't know how you did it but you did, so are you going to share?"
"Sure you scared him out, and well, I just brought him in, so I guess I can share a little." Feena said pulling her card out. He looked to her a bit surprised and handed her his card and the handheld transfer device. Putting both cards in she gave him a quarter of what she had received and then handed the card back. "There you go... Though I guess we should share it with Jet."
"Yeah, if you want to." He said. "I still want to know how you did it..."
"That's my secret to keep." Feena said as she climbed into Peebo. "Let's head back and wait for them there." She told him as she closed the hatch. She took off before he could even get into the Swordfish II, but he quickly took off after her.
Back on the Bebop Feena parked inside Spike pulled in right behind her. Much to Spike's surprise the Hammer, Jet's ship, was already there witch meant Jet was back as well, Spike wondered why. Feena walked inside and found Jet sitting on the couch smoking a cigarette and mumbling something to himself.
"Hey Jet, what's up?" Feena asked as she sat down.
"Hey you guys are back." Jet said brightening up a bit. "You get him?"
"Yup." Spike said walking in.
"I got him, I couldn't find Spike and I had to haul this guy in by myself." Feena said.
"You brought in the bounty?" Jet shouted in surprise.
"Yup, and she's willing to share." Spike told him.
"Really? I hope that includes me." Jet asked looking to Feena who held out her hand for his card. "Oh Spike I got some kind of bad news."
"What kind of bad news?" Spike asked as Feena took Jet's card so she could transfer what ever she was giving him to his card.
"Well, umm," Jet started just then Ed came running out followed by Ein.
"SPIKE-SPIKE!" She shouted as she glomped him for no particular reason.
"ED? You brought Ed and Ein back?" Spike yelled as he looked to Jet.
"She wouldn't leave me alone until I brought her back." Jet told him. Ed smiled and let go of Spike and looked to Feena who was handing Jet his card back. "Besides, we could use her help, and you know what she can do when you say no." Jet pointed out.
"Who are you?" Ed asked as she looked to Feena and letting go of Spikes leg.
"I am Feena Bluesummers." Feena said with a smile.
"I am Edward Wong Hau Peplu Tivrusky the 4th, but you can call me Ed!" Ed said with a smile. Feena nodded and looked down at Ein who was sniffing at her.
"And who's this?" Feena asked.
"That's Ein." Ed said.
"Nice to meet you Ein." Feena said extending her hand down to Ein who looked up at her and then put his paw into her hand. She chuckled softly and shook his paw then gave him a friendly pat on the head. "I see he's a smart dog."
"You can say that again." Jet said wondering who taught Ein to shake hands, but Ein was always strangely smart especially for a dog.
"Ein is very smart for a dog." Ed said with a nod.
"I see that, he seems friendly too." Feena said as Ein sat there and looked to her almost as if he wanted her to pick him up and pet him.
"I got some good news Spike, while I was waiting for your return I found a nice big bounty on Io, ten-million Woolong for 6 guys." Jet said showing him the computer.
"Nice, so we going to wait for Faye to come back before we go?" Spike said looking over the info. Feena looked at it from the other side.
"Hey! I know him!" Feena said pointing to one of the guys. "Oooo he really better not be part of that." She said walking around to read the description.
"You know him?" Jet said looking at her awkwardly.
"Of course I do, that's my brother, he's only 2 years older then me." Feena said.
"He looks nothing like you." Spike said looking at a larger picture.
"Of course he doesn't he takes after my father and I take after my mother." Feena pointed out. "Mom will have his head if she hears about this."
"I wouldn't want to be him but maybe if he got dragged into it he'll get off easy but since he is your brother I'm sure you can use that to your advantage and help us get him and the others." Jet told her. She sighed and sat down next to Spike. Ein jumped into her lap and laid down, and instinctively Feena started petting him and scratching him in all the right places as she muttered under her breath. It didn't take long for her to start calming down and for Ein to take a permanent liking to her.
"Well, let's wait for Faye, and if she doesn't get here soon we=re not going to give her anything, she'll just waist it on the track." Spike said, he was still cranky from not being allowed to have a cigarette and he couldn't sneak one off her. Truthfully though it was actually more his own for getting so badly hurt when he fought Vicious.
It took three hours for Faye to return and five seconds for her to start complaining that she couldn't find one solid lead and then two more seconds to complain about Ed and Ein being back. Feena just rolled her eyes as she sat on the couch with her sketch book and continued drawing Spike as he sleep on the couch. None of them said anything about the money but Jet did tell her that they were heading to Io next. Before the long jump Feena, Spike, and Jet made sure that everything was fueled and running.
Almost four hours later they were eating Jet's famous "beef" and bell peppers, that they all complained about as there was no actual beef in it. Jet promised he'd go shopping once they arrived on Io. With no more complaints they finished eating and headed for the gate. Feena went to take a hot bath, Spike worked on the Swordfish II some more Faye went to her room and, Ed and Ein sat in the living room information on their next target.
Feena slid down under the slightly scented bubbles her arms hurt from dragging Ace to the local police station by her self. The warm bubbly water made her forget her problems for the time being. Smiling as she slid up to her shoulders in the hot water she closed her eyes and just for the time being relaxed. Jet just paid for the gate to go to Jupiter and was waiting to go threw, ten minutes later they went threw with no problem. Once in the gate there was a sudden explosion from the other end the Bebop shook and suddenly seemed to speed up everything around them going white.
"Shit what's going on?" Jet said trying to slow the ship, down but it was useless the gate was folded space that for some reason kept folding sending them beyond where they were supposed to go. "This is not good..." He said as they flew on nonstop to who knows where.
"What is going on Jet?" Spike asked as he came into the cockpit.
"We're stuck."
"In the gate? Oh please don't tell me we're going to be here forever." Spike said as he flopped down into the seat next to Jet.
"I think we've gone beyond the solar system." Jet told him.
"What? Beyond the solar system?"
"Yup, and we're not slowing down yet."
"Great so instead of ending up forever inside a gate we're going to be lost in space."
"LOST IN SPACE!" Ed said loudly from behind them in her best mimicking voice of the old American TV Series Lost in Space.' She'd scared them half to death by popping up like she did so they both slowly turned and looked at her. "What?"
"I'll never understand her." Spike said shaking his head.
"You're not the only one...." Jet said shaking his head neither had ever heard of the show.
"What is going on here?" Faye said as she came in followed by Feena who was wearing large fluffy towel that covered her from her bust to almost her knees.
"That's what I'd like to know, I was almost knocked out of the bathtub." Feena said.
"I don't know." Jet said shaking his head.
"We're going to be LOST IN SPACE!" Ed said doing her impression again.
"I would hope not, at least they could jump from place to place, this ship could barely go from Jupiter to Pluto without the need to refuel at least once." Feena pointed out to Ed.
"Yeah well, what ever is happening is happening and we can't stop it I can only hope we'll slow down sometime soon." Jet said to them. "In the mean time all we can do is sit back and hope we stop somewhere..."
"Great I should have known something like this would happen." Faye said walking out. "I'm too young to die." She said with a heavy sigh.
"Maybe we'll just keep looping until we get back to where we started?" Feena suggested. "Either way I'm going to finish my bath tell me when we get out." She said as she walked off.
"I hope that's what will happen but I got this sudden bad feeling we wont." Jet said.
About an hour later the ship seemed to suddenly stop outside a small red brown planet that looked a lot like Mars but the only difference was, there were two suns and five moons. Jet sat there for a moment and looked to the planet that was in front of them. "Great it doesn't look inhabited." He muttered to him self Spike and Ed had both left so he was left sitting there alone. With a heavy sigh he enlarged the image of the planet and was surprised he saw what looked like cities spotted all around the planet and there were some green areas he also noticed that the inhabitants appeared to be human. "It is... their technology might be obsolete but we wont starve." He mumbled as he approached the planet. He set the ship to do a slow orbit around the planet, after seeing a giant crater in one of the moons he wasn't sure he should land on any of them. Getting up he walked out of the cockpit. "Hey guys, we've stopped moving, unfortunately it seems we're no where near Earth or Mars but there is a planet that seems to be inhabited by humans." Jet said as he walked into the living room.
"The planet is inhabited?" Feena questioned as she looked up at him from the couch.
Jet nodded slowly. "Humans by the look of them, the problem is I haven't seen any ships or anything yet." He added.
"Great so basically we're stuck here..." Faye said.
"Better then stuck in space with what little fuel and food we have." Spike commented.
"Well, I'm into exploring the place. Anyone interested in going with me to check it out?" Feena asked as she stood up.
"I want to go!" Ed said jumping up.
"OK so Ed and I'm guessing Ein are going to go down with me." Feena said looking to the others. "Anyone else?" she asked.
"I'll follow you down." Spike said standing up. He took two radios and then handed one to Feena. "We'll keep in contact in case we get separated using these."
"Got it, what channel you want us on?" She asked as she followed Spike to the bay with Ed and Ein behind her. Ed was excited she was going with Feena down to the planet.
"Put it on channel 4 and if you're taking Ed with you I'd suggest that you keep a close eye on her." Spike told her as he set his radio.
"Don't worry I will." Feena smiled and then opened the hatch to Peebo. "Come on get in." She said letting Ed get in the back.
"Wow a custom built ship!" Ed said as she hopped into the back seat. Feena picked up Ein and put him into Ed's lap before she climbed in.
"Yup, I call it Peebo." Feena told her. "My brother build her from some old grappler race ship. She's got grappler's and a small pulse on the front. Don't touch anything back there because, I don't know what Mashiro put in back there quite yet." Feena admitted as she got ready to take off.
Heading out finally Spike followed her down to the planet below them. Feena couldn't help but to test the speed she could achieve and ended up leaving Spike in a cloud of dust. He obviously took it as a challenge and speed up to catch up to her. Kicking up dust they flew across the desert, anyone who was looking they couldn't see what caused it as the silver and red ship blended in nicely with the sandy red planet. As Feena saw the city ahead she started to slow down, Spike slowed down as well, that was as soon as he caught up to her.
"That ships got some speed there." Spike commented as he pulled up next to her. "Let's land over there I'm sure no one will find and notice them." He said over the radio.
"I'm one steep ahead of you and that old racer isn't too bad. When did you fix it up?"
"Actually Jet had it pretty much fixed up, I did a few tune-ups on her while we headed to Earth. Then some more while we were in the gate.
"I see." She had landed and opened the hatch only to be overcome by a wave of heat. "Oh Jeez this is like a hot summers day on Mars!" She said as she got out. Spike landed near by and Ed and Ein both climbed out, nether were bothered by the heat.
"I think I'm going to leave my Jacket and tie in the ship." Spike said after he got out. He preceded to take his jacket and his tie off as he stood next to the Swordfish II.
"Wow that town is so small, why is it so small Feena?" Ed asked.
"They probably aren't as populated as most cities we're use to, looks like the tallest building is maybe 5 stories tall here." Feena said looking towards the city shielding her eyes with her hand. "I should have changed into shorts or something these Jeans are going to sweat off some pounds I can't afford to lose." Feena said as she looked down to the jeans she wore.
"Oh well come on let's take a look around, maybe we can pawn Ed and Ein off for some money to buy food." Spike said casually as he threw his jacket into the Swordfish II and closed the hatch. Feena looked at him and then shook her head.
"Let's just get going." She said as she started walking Ein and Ed right behind her and Spike right next to her.
Walking in alone from another direction was a young man in a long red trench coat with spiked blond hair wearing round orange sunglasses. Neither group recognized each other even as their paths came closer together to a point where the man in the trench coat was walking behind them. As they entered the town Spike stopped and looked around a bit and waited for the tall man to pass on by.
"We should see if we can bring in some bounties, I doubt they'll take a single Woolong." Spike said to Feena and Ed. Feena nodded.
"The best place to start is the Sheriffs office or the post office like they did in the old days." Feena said feeling like she was in the old days of Earth.
"Huh?" Spike looked at her oddly.
"Like in the old, old days!" Ed shouted as she jumped up and down. "You know the wild west with bank robbers and sheriffs and old fashion bounty hunters!"
"Oh... I was never good in history..." Spike said with a shrug.
"It's OK, I was good in history. Ein don't even think about it." Feena said as a black cat with a head too big and eyes just as big walked by and stopped then meowed at them and walked on. Ein growled and barked at it but he listened to Feena and didn't go any further then that. Watching as the man walked into the bar she smiled as a thought came to mind. "You know Spike why don't you and Ed go to the Sheriffs and look for some bounties, I'm going to go to the bar see if I can get any info of any kind in town." She said headed for the bar.
"Why do you get to go to the bar?" Spike called after her.
"Cause it's more likely that some guy will buy me a drink and give me info if I walk in a single young woman." Feena replied as she flipped her hair over her shoulder.
"Women... Come on Ed let's go." He said walking down the road. He hardly paid any attention as an old fashion car drove by, but he did notice as two men road in on what looked like giant birds with odd armored heads with no noticeable necks they just seemed to be there, and long flexible tails that had spikes on them. "Weird..."
"Ed wonder if they're edible..." Ed said watching them run by.
"Probably not Ed. Hey what do you know Sheriffs office and look wanted posters, kinda crude but I guess it works," he said looking over the images. One in particular caught his eye, a $$60,000,000,000 man, not only did the large amount look flashy but the picture on the poster was of the same man who had just walked into town with them and was now sitting at the bar where Feena was. "Vash the Stampede is it? Well, I think I got my eyes on you." He said with a grin as he picked up the radio. "Feena, tell me that guy who walked into town behind us is still in the bar." He called into the radio to Feena. There was a pause and then some static and then he heard glasses clinking together and soft music in the background before Feena responded.
"Yup, he's here, I was just talking with him."
"Good keep him busy till I get there, he's got a nice bounty on his head." Spike told her.
"All right I'll be waiting." Feena responded.
"Come on Ed." Spike said as he started running back to the bar.
Braids: And that's it here's where most of the action starts
Vash: Look! I made my entrance!
Braids: only kind of... the next chapter you will be in officially
Spike: Hey Braids your not finished Editing the rest of the next chapter. holding the print out coppy
Braids: Shut up Spike! GIVE THAT BACK! trys to take it back but spike wont let her SPIKE GIVE IT BACK!!
Spike: hummn what's this? gets his foot stomped on oow!
Braids: Takes it back No spoiling my work! Until next time See you Space cowboys!
Braids
Blah Blah Blah I don't own Trigun or Cowboy Bebop so don't sue me they belong to other people I just use em and twist em how I see fit. Braids
Chapter 3: The Gate Breaks
Spike leaned against the Swordfish II looking to Feena who had a big grin on her face. "I hate you, I really do, I don't know how you did it but you did, so are you going to share?"
"Sure you scared him out, and well, I just brought him in, so I guess I can share a little." Feena said pulling her card out. He looked to her a bit surprised and handed her his card and the handheld transfer device. Putting both cards in she gave him a quarter of what she had received and then handed the card back. "There you go... Though I guess we should share it with Jet."
"Yeah, if you want to." He said. "I still want to know how you did it..."
"That's my secret to keep." Feena said as she climbed into Peebo. "Let's head back and wait for them there." She told him as she closed the hatch. She took off before he could even get into the Swordfish II, but he quickly took off after her.
Back on the Bebop Feena parked inside Spike pulled in right behind her. Much to Spike's surprise the Hammer, Jet's ship, was already there witch meant Jet was back as well, Spike wondered why. Feena walked inside and found Jet sitting on the couch smoking a cigarette and mumbling something to himself.
"Hey Jet, what's up?" Feena asked as she sat down.
"Hey you guys are back." Jet said brightening up a bit. "You get him?"
"Yup." Spike said walking in.
"I got him, I couldn't find Spike and I had to haul this guy in by myself." Feena said.
"You brought in the bounty?" Jet shouted in surprise.
"Yup, and she's willing to share." Spike told him.
"Really? I hope that includes me." Jet asked looking to Feena who held out her hand for his card. "Oh Spike I got some kind of bad news."
"What kind of bad news?" Spike asked as Feena took Jet's card so she could transfer what ever she was giving him to his card.
"Well, umm," Jet started just then Ed came running out followed by Ein.
"SPIKE-SPIKE!" She shouted as she glomped him for no particular reason.
"ED? You brought Ed and Ein back?" Spike yelled as he looked to Jet.
"She wouldn't leave me alone until I brought her back." Jet told him. Ed smiled and let go of Spike and looked to Feena who was handing Jet his card back. "Besides, we could use her help, and you know what she can do when you say no." Jet pointed out.
"Who are you?" Ed asked as she looked to Feena and letting go of Spikes leg.
"I am Feena Bluesummers." Feena said with a smile.
"I am Edward Wong Hau Peplu Tivrusky the 4th, but you can call me Ed!" Ed said with a smile. Feena nodded and looked down at Ein who was sniffing at her.
"And who's this?" Feena asked.
"That's Ein." Ed said.
"Nice to meet you Ein." Feena said extending her hand down to Ein who looked up at her and then put his paw into her hand. She chuckled softly and shook his paw then gave him a friendly pat on the head. "I see he's a smart dog."
"You can say that again." Jet said wondering who taught Ein to shake hands, but Ein was always strangely smart especially for a dog.
"Ein is very smart for a dog." Ed said with a nod.
"I see that, he seems friendly too." Feena said as Ein sat there and looked to her almost as if he wanted her to pick him up and pet him.
"I got some good news Spike, while I was waiting for your return I found a nice big bounty on Io, ten-million Woolong for 6 guys." Jet said showing him the computer.
"Nice, so we going to wait for Faye to come back before we go?" Spike said looking over the info. Feena looked at it from the other side.
"Hey! I know him!" Feena said pointing to one of the guys. "Oooo he really better not be part of that." She said walking around to read the description.
"You know him?" Jet said looking at her awkwardly.
"Of course I do, that's my brother, he's only 2 years older then me." Feena said.
"He looks nothing like you." Spike said looking at a larger picture.
"Of course he doesn't he takes after my father and I take after my mother." Feena pointed out. "Mom will have his head if she hears about this."
"I wouldn't want to be him but maybe if he got dragged into it he'll get off easy but since he is your brother I'm sure you can use that to your advantage and help us get him and the others." Jet told her. She sighed and sat down next to Spike. Ein jumped into her lap and laid down, and instinctively Feena started petting him and scratching him in all the right places as she muttered under her breath. It didn't take long for her to start calming down and for Ein to take a permanent liking to her.
"Well, let's wait for Faye, and if she doesn't get here soon we=re not going to give her anything, she'll just waist it on the track." Spike said, he was still cranky from not being allowed to have a cigarette and he couldn't sneak one off her. Truthfully though it was actually more his own for getting so badly hurt when he fought Vicious.
It took three hours for Faye to return and five seconds for her to start complaining that she couldn't find one solid lead and then two more seconds to complain about Ed and Ein being back. Feena just rolled her eyes as she sat on the couch with her sketch book and continued drawing Spike as he sleep on the couch. None of them said anything about the money but Jet did tell her that they were heading to Io next. Before the long jump Feena, Spike, and Jet made sure that everything was fueled and running.
Almost four hours later they were eating Jet's famous "beef" and bell peppers, that they all complained about as there was no actual beef in it. Jet promised he'd go shopping once they arrived on Io. With no more complaints they finished eating and headed for the gate. Feena went to take a hot bath, Spike worked on the Swordfish II some more Faye went to her room and, Ed and Ein sat in the living room information on their next target.
Feena slid down under the slightly scented bubbles her arms hurt from dragging Ace to the local police station by her self. The warm bubbly water made her forget her problems for the time being. Smiling as she slid up to her shoulders in the hot water she closed her eyes and just for the time being relaxed. Jet just paid for the gate to go to Jupiter and was waiting to go threw, ten minutes later they went threw with no problem. Once in the gate there was a sudden explosion from the other end the Bebop shook and suddenly seemed to speed up everything around them going white.
"Shit what's going on?" Jet said trying to slow the ship, down but it was useless the gate was folded space that for some reason kept folding sending them beyond where they were supposed to go. "This is not good..." He said as they flew on nonstop to who knows where.
"What is going on Jet?" Spike asked as he came into the cockpit.
"We're stuck."
"In the gate? Oh please don't tell me we're going to be here forever." Spike said as he flopped down into the seat next to Jet.
"I think we've gone beyond the solar system." Jet told him.
"What? Beyond the solar system?"
"Yup, and we're not slowing down yet."
"Great so instead of ending up forever inside a gate we're going to be lost in space."
"LOST IN SPACE!" Ed said loudly from behind them in her best mimicking voice of the old American TV Series Lost in Space.' She'd scared them half to death by popping up like she did so they both slowly turned and looked at her. "What?"
"I'll never understand her." Spike said shaking his head.
"You're not the only one...." Jet said shaking his head neither had ever heard of the show.
"What is going on here?" Faye said as she came in followed by Feena who was wearing large fluffy towel that covered her from her bust to almost her knees.
"That's what I'd like to know, I was almost knocked out of the bathtub." Feena said.
"I don't know." Jet said shaking his head.
"We're going to be LOST IN SPACE!" Ed said doing her impression again.
"I would hope not, at least they could jump from place to place, this ship could barely go from Jupiter to Pluto without the need to refuel at least once." Feena pointed out to Ed.
"Yeah well, what ever is happening is happening and we can't stop it I can only hope we'll slow down sometime soon." Jet said to them. "In the mean time all we can do is sit back and hope we stop somewhere..."
"Great I should have known something like this would happen." Faye said walking out. "I'm too young to die." She said with a heavy sigh.
"Maybe we'll just keep looping until we get back to where we started?" Feena suggested. "Either way I'm going to finish my bath tell me when we get out." She said as she walked off.
"I hope that's what will happen but I got this sudden bad feeling we wont." Jet said.
About an hour later the ship seemed to suddenly stop outside a small red brown planet that looked a lot like Mars but the only difference was, there were two suns and five moons. Jet sat there for a moment and looked to the planet that was in front of them. "Great it doesn't look inhabited." He muttered to him self Spike and Ed had both left so he was left sitting there alone. With a heavy sigh he enlarged the image of the planet and was surprised he saw what looked like cities spotted all around the planet and there were some green areas he also noticed that the inhabitants appeared to be human. "It is... their technology might be obsolete but we wont starve." He mumbled as he approached the planet. He set the ship to do a slow orbit around the planet, after seeing a giant crater in one of the moons he wasn't sure he should land on any of them. Getting up he walked out of the cockpit. "Hey guys, we've stopped moving, unfortunately it seems we're no where near Earth or Mars but there is a planet that seems to be inhabited by humans." Jet said as he walked into the living room.
"The planet is inhabited?" Feena questioned as she looked up at him from the couch.
Jet nodded slowly. "Humans by the look of them, the problem is I haven't seen any ships or anything yet." He added.
"Great so basically we're stuck here..." Faye said.
"Better then stuck in space with what little fuel and food we have." Spike commented.
"Well, I'm into exploring the place. Anyone interested in going with me to check it out?" Feena asked as she stood up.
"I want to go!" Ed said jumping up.
"OK so Ed and I'm guessing Ein are going to go down with me." Feena said looking to the others. "Anyone else?" she asked.
"I'll follow you down." Spike said standing up. He took two radios and then handed one to Feena. "We'll keep in contact in case we get separated using these."
"Got it, what channel you want us on?" She asked as she followed Spike to the bay with Ed and Ein behind her. Ed was excited she was going with Feena down to the planet.
"Put it on channel 4 and if you're taking Ed with you I'd suggest that you keep a close eye on her." Spike told her as he set his radio.
"Don't worry I will." Feena smiled and then opened the hatch to Peebo. "Come on get in." She said letting Ed get in the back.
"Wow a custom built ship!" Ed said as she hopped into the back seat. Feena picked up Ein and put him into Ed's lap before she climbed in.
"Yup, I call it Peebo." Feena told her. "My brother build her from some old grappler race ship. She's got grappler's and a small pulse on the front. Don't touch anything back there because, I don't know what Mashiro put in back there quite yet." Feena admitted as she got ready to take off.
Heading out finally Spike followed her down to the planet below them. Feena couldn't help but to test the speed she could achieve and ended up leaving Spike in a cloud of dust. He obviously took it as a challenge and speed up to catch up to her. Kicking up dust they flew across the desert, anyone who was looking they couldn't see what caused it as the silver and red ship blended in nicely with the sandy red planet. As Feena saw the city ahead she started to slow down, Spike slowed down as well, that was as soon as he caught up to her.
"That ships got some speed there." Spike commented as he pulled up next to her. "Let's land over there I'm sure no one will find and notice them." He said over the radio.
"I'm one steep ahead of you and that old racer isn't too bad. When did you fix it up?"
"Actually Jet had it pretty much fixed up, I did a few tune-ups on her while we headed to Earth. Then some more while we were in the gate.
"I see." She had landed and opened the hatch only to be overcome by a wave of heat. "Oh Jeez this is like a hot summers day on Mars!" She said as she got out. Spike landed near by and Ed and Ein both climbed out, nether were bothered by the heat.
"I think I'm going to leave my Jacket and tie in the ship." Spike said after he got out. He preceded to take his jacket and his tie off as he stood next to the Swordfish II.
"Wow that town is so small, why is it so small Feena?" Ed asked.
"They probably aren't as populated as most cities we're use to, looks like the tallest building is maybe 5 stories tall here." Feena said looking towards the city shielding her eyes with her hand. "I should have changed into shorts or something these Jeans are going to sweat off some pounds I can't afford to lose." Feena said as she looked down to the jeans she wore.
"Oh well come on let's take a look around, maybe we can pawn Ed and Ein off for some money to buy food." Spike said casually as he threw his jacket into the Swordfish II and closed the hatch. Feena looked at him and then shook her head.
"Let's just get going." She said as she started walking Ein and Ed right behind her and Spike right next to her.
Walking in alone from another direction was a young man in a long red trench coat with spiked blond hair wearing round orange sunglasses. Neither group recognized each other even as their paths came closer together to a point where the man in the trench coat was walking behind them. As they entered the town Spike stopped and looked around a bit and waited for the tall man to pass on by.
"We should see if we can bring in some bounties, I doubt they'll take a single Woolong." Spike said to Feena and Ed. Feena nodded.
"The best place to start is the Sheriffs office or the post office like they did in the old days." Feena said feeling like she was in the old days of Earth.
"Huh?" Spike looked at her oddly.
"Like in the old, old days!" Ed shouted as she jumped up and down. "You know the wild west with bank robbers and sheriffs and old fashion bounty hunters!"
"Oh... I was never good in history..." Spike said with a shrug.
"It's OK, I was good in history. Ein don't even think about it." Feena said as a black cat with a head too big and eyes just as big walked by and stopped then meowed at them and walked on. Ein growled and barked at it but he listened to Feena and didn't go any further then that. Watching as the man walked into the bar she smiled as a thought came to mind. "You know Spike why don't you and Ed go to the Sheriffs and look for some bounties, I'm going to go to the bar see if I can get any info of any kind in town." She said headed for the bar.
"Why do you get to go to the bar?" Spike called after her.
"Cause it's more likely that some guy will buy me a drink and give me info if I walk in a single young woman." Feena replied as she flipped her hair over her shoulder.
"Women... Come on Ed let's go." He said walking down the road. He hardly paid any attention as an old fashion car drove by, but he did notice as two men road in on what looked like giant birds with odd armored heads with no noticeable necks they just seemed to be there, and long flexible tails that had spikes on them. "Weird..."
"Ed wonder if they're edible..." Ed said watching them run by.
"Probably not Ed. Hey what do you know Sheriffs office and look wanted posters, kinda crude but I guess it works," he said looking over the images. One in particular caught his eye, a $$60,000,000,000 man, not only did the large amount look flashy but the picture on the poster was of the same man who had just walked into town with them and was now sitting at the bar where Feena was. "Vash the Stampede is it? Well, I think I got my eyes on you." He said with a grin as he picked up the radio. "Feena, tell me that guy who walked into town behind us is still in the bar." He called into the radio to Feena. There was a pause and then some static and then he heard glasses clinking together and soft music in the background before Feena responded.
"Yup, he's here, I was just talking with him."
"Good keep him busy till I get there, he's got a nice bounty on his head." Spike told her.
"All right I'll be waiting." Feena responded.
"Come on Ed." Spike said as he started running back to the bar.
Braids: And that's it here's where most of the action starts
Vash: Look! I made my entrance!
Braids: only kind of... the next chapter you will be in officially
Spike: Hey Braids your not finished Editing the rest of the next chapter. holding the print out coppy
Braids: Shut up Spike! GIVE THAT BACK! trys to take it back but spike wont let her SPIKE GIVE IT BACK!!
Spike: hummn what's this? gets his foot stomped on oow!
Braids: Takes it back No spoiling my work! Until next time See you Space cowboys!