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 6: Ed's discovery
"Feeling better now?" Feena asked Spike as they followed the bleep.
"I'll feel better when we catch that idiot again." Spike told her. Turning the corner they found the handcuffs sitting on a trash can with a little note and the key attached to it. "Aww crap..." Spike grumbled as he saw it. Feena walked over and picked up the note one side was addressed to her the other to Spike a crude drawing of Vash sticking his tongue out and pulling his lower eye lid with his middle finger and written under it was: Catch me if you can!
"Humn kinda crude don't you think?" Feena said showing him the image.
"Gurrr I will catch him just you wait Mr. Vash the Stampede you can't run forever." Spike said angrily. Feena sighed and looked into the distance.
"I say we let Faye and Jet try and catch him." Feena said slipping the note into her pocket.
"Faye's going to want some money before she starts." Spike told her as he made his way back towards the ships.
"That's fine, but you know she'll go down there for the sixty-billion double dollar bounty." Feena said with a smile.
"Yeah and she'll blow all the money in a week on her own." Spike said with a sigh.
"On what? You can't waist that much on clothes, jewelry, or racing, since there is none, I'm sure she could use some of it to buy a house with it's own working well, but I see nothing honestly costing her that much in a week." Feena said. "First she has to catch him and I can't wait to see if she can." Feena climbed into the Peebo and looked to the letter once again, she wasn't sure what he meant by what he wrote but she'd try and figure it out later. Taking off the two headed back up to the Bebop in silence each lost in thought.
"You two are back sooner then I thought." Jet said as they walked out of the hanger. "Hey nice outfit Feena." Jet commented.
"Thanks and, yeah well we came across a big bounty head who's slippery as a bar of soap." Feena said as she walked into the living room.
"How slippery?" Jet asked as he followed them.
"Jet even I had a problem catching him, we had him twice today and he got away, I'm starting to wonder if he's really human." Spike said as he sat down on the couch.
"We had him in cuffs probably 20 feet away from where we could turn him in and someone highjacks Spikes ship so, the cuffs got a tracker in them and Spike swallowed' the key so we figured hey we'll just track him down again.'"
"Wait someone highjacked the Swordfish?" Jet interrupted.
"Yeah but it was actually more of a joy ride that ended up with the poor guy getting beat to a pulp." Feena told him with a bit of a laugh.
"Figures... he's got to get his frustration out somehow." Jet said as he leaned against the steeps, Spike glared at him.
"Anyway somehow Vash realized that Spike didn't really swallow the key so he elbows him as we see Spike's ship fly overhead so he gets the key and leaves the cuffs keys and this little note for us when we got back." Feena said holding out the little crude picture.
"Well, no wonder, so what you going to do?" Jet asked.
"Let you and Faye have a crack at it." Spike said putting down a copy of Vash's wanted poster onto the table.
"SIXTY-BILLION DOUBLE DOLLARS?!" Jet yelled in shock as he read the bounty. Faye's head popped out of the hall way.
"What's going on?" She said with the thoughts of money.
"Really big bounty down there, the guy's easy to find but hard to catch." Spike said as he searched his pockets forgetting Feena had confiscated all of his cigarettes. "Damn it..."
"Don't worry it wont be much longer." Feena said trying to be encouraging. Spike only muttered his response witch was probably not so nice.
"Hey I'm willing to give my hand at catching him." Faye said. "Just think of what I can do with that kind of money." She said, you could practically the double dollar signs floating all around her head.
"I'd try tomorrow, mainly because the guy's probably slipped off to another city and you sure as heck ain't going to find him in the desert by himself." Feena said with a yawn as she put her feet up on the table. "Right now I'm going to go take a nap." She said tipping her hat down over her face. Ein who had just trotted into the room jumped into her lap and lied down, Feena made no attempt to move him. Spike nodded in agreement.
"I'm with her I'll be right here if any one needs me." He said as he laid across the opposing couch and then closed his eyes.
"I guess we'll wait till tomorrow then..." Faye said hoping to get a little more info out of the two later on what they already tried.
Ed sat in the corner of the room searching for any sort of internet connection, she was bored and curious about the sandy planet below them. It seemed as if this planet didn't even have the internet like it did back home but there were some sort of faint signal that she was trying to hack her way into as it was protected. It took a few hours she finally broke in to what seemed to be a large ship's computer system.
"Ed did it... but what did Ed do?" She questioned herself as she blinked.
She slowly searched around but, as she did thought she heard something, it sounded like a woman's soft voice talking or singing, but she couldn't quite understand it or hear it too well. Ignoring it for now she continued to look around the system, everything seemed to be in working order it was just stuck out there hovering in space, she continued looking around she found a long list of names next to them was the same word: Cryostats.
"Strange... why are there so many people in cryostats?" She questioned, she hoped that may be the voice would become clear and tell her but it didn't. "Tell Ed more!" She demanded as she continued searching the ships data base. As she searched the data base she found files on the people on the ship. "That's strange this ship hasn't been contacted in about two hundred and twenty years..." She said looking over the logs, the voice still continued as if it was trying to say it was here it was alive and it was active. "Something is active there... it seems to be talking but Ed can't understand it..."
"The ships talking?" Feena asked leaning over Ed's head.
"Yes, and no, something on the ship is talking but Ed can't understand it." Ed said looking up at her. Feena seemed to be hearing it too.
"It's strange, it sounds like a voice." Feena said closing her eyes to listen. "But I can't hear it either, can't you clear it up?" She asked Ed.
"Ed can try, but Feena hear's it too?" Ed asked.
"Yeah I can hear it too, I don't know why... it sounds kinda lonely." Feena said leaning now on Ed's head to hear threw the headphones. "Where did the ship originate?"
"Ed can find out." Ed said as she went threw and soon they saw a small video of a younger looking earth and ships taking off.
"Pause that." Feena said. Ed paused the image on the screen. "Can you clear up the writing on the side?" She asked.
"Writings, writings tell me what you say!" Ed said in a spooky kind of voice as she cleared up the image, clearly written on the side of the ship was: SEED.
"Amazing, Ed you found a SEED Ship... these people must be from Earth." Feena said.
"But who is the voice?" Ed asked.
"Maybe it's the ship's plant." Feena said.
"The ship's plant?" Ed asked.
"That would explain the large light bulb..." Feena said softly to her self.
"What's a plant?" Ed asked.
"Oh you don't know?"
"No, tell Ed."
"A plant is, umm well it's a source of energy, I guess, no one knows what it really is but it creates energy and it creates air water and food. Each SEED ship had at least two large plants, and several smaller ones in them they powered the ships and kept the people in cryostats. That's about all we know about the plants today, the stations where the ships and the plants were built was destroyed... It's kinda funny I remember my father saying one of his ancestors worked on the ships twins one left on the ship the other stayed here and was killed in the explosion that happened a couple of years later, no one survived." Feena explained to Ed.
"Wow! So Ed was right all these people are from Earth just like us?"
"Yes, technically speaking, they are, but they're not as they've lived here now for probably a good ten generations."
"Wow, how dose Feena know all this?" Ed asked looking to her. Feena Smiled.
"It's just a guess, from what I see these ships crashed here at least two hundred years ago most of the people who came here were adults, their kids here were first generations, well one's that were born here first, so let's say once a generation hit's twenty they have kids of their own. There for in two-hundred years there's at least 10 generations from the original humans who crashed here."
"Ed see now, Feena's smart like Ed."
"I'm not that smart I just like to rationalize." Feena said with a shrug.
"Feena, can people actually hear a plant speaking?"
"There are few people who said they could, but I don't know, plants are living being inside... I think they called them: Those who live outside of Time', or something like that, my father's family helped build the plants, and so my father was always interested in the little left information about the Plants, I can remember him telling me about them."
"Is that how you know so much?" Feena nodded. ""Then maybe Feena can hear them if she was closer to one?" Ed asked.
"I don't know. I have to start dinner maybe later I'll see if I can." Feena said with a smile as she stood and headed for the small kitchen before Jet could get there.
Dinner brought everyone together, Feena had made enough for everyone and even seconds for who ever wanted it, of course Ed had seconds, and Spike kept pointing out to Jet that this was how normal people ate, meat and vegetable not just noodles and vegetables. Jet just ignored him and wondered how long their luck would be with them, this planet didn't seem to be use to bounty hunters like them, and as long as there were bounties they'd have food. After dinner Feena cleaned up with Jet's help, Ed got lost in her new findings and continued to look up information about the SEED Ships that she found. She found several others that were on the planet buried inactively under the sand, and some that were still in space, all of the people were still in their cryostats still. Feena had taken to cleaning the place up some, but didn't get far as she gave up and went to bed and Ed fell asleep at her computer, Faye in her room Spike on the couch Ein under Ed's head and Jet in his room.
Braids: Gomen all I know this chapter isn't that all thrilling...
Vash: I didn't even really show up in this Chapter!
Spike: Quit whining.
Braids: Shut up the both of you. As I was saying, sorry I just wanted to inform some people and give Ed a little spot light time since she may not bee seen much until later.
Vash: What about me?
Spike: Who do you think we're all chasing?
Vash: T.T weep so mean...
Braids: .... OK I'll see about giving you a chapter to your self... both of you though mostly it's been Spike and Feena... The Next chapter is for Faye so until next time: See you Space cowboys!
Kuroneko-sama: Mow!
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 6: Ed's discovery
"Feeling better now?" Feena asked Spike as they followed the bleep.
"I'll feel better when we catch that idiot again." Spike told her. Turning the corner they found the handcuffs sitting on a trash can with a little note and the key attached to it. "Aww crap..." Spike grumbled as he saw it. Feena walked over and picked up the note one side was addressed to her the other to Spike a crude drawing of Vash sticking his tongue out and pulling his lower eye lid with his middle finger and written under it was: Catch me if you can!
"Humn kinda crude don't you think?" Feena said showing him the image.
"Gurrr I will catch him just you wait Mr. Vash the Stampede you can't run forever." Spike said angrily. Feena sighed and looked into the distance.
"I say we let Faye and Jet try and catch him." Feena said slipping the note into her pocket.
"Faye's going to want some money before she starts." Spike told her as he made his way back towards the ships.
"That's fine, but you know she'll go down there for the sixty-billion double dollar bounty." Feena said with a smile.
"Yeah and she'll blow all the money in a week on her own." Spike said with a sigh.
"On what? You can't waist that much on clothes, jewelry, or racing, since there is none, I'm sure she could use some of it to buy a house with it's own working well, but I see nothing honestly costing her that much in a week." Feena said. "First she has to catch him and I can't wait to see if she can." Feena climbed into the Peebo and looked to the letter once again, she wasn't sure what he meant by what he wrote but she'd try and figure it out later. Taking off the two headed back up to the Bebop in silence each lost in thought.
"You two are back sooner then I thought." Jet said as they walked out of the hanger. "Hey nice outfit Feena." Jet commented.
"Thanks and, yeah well we came across a big bounty head who's slippery as a bar of soap." Feena said as she walked into the living room.
"How slippery?" Jet asked as he followed them.
"Jet even I had a problem catching him, we had him twice today and he got away, I'm starting to wonder if he's really human." Spike said as he sat down on the couch.
"We had him in cuffs probably 20 feet away from where we could turn him in and someone highjacks Spikes ship so, the cuffs got a tracker in them and Spike swallowed' the key so we figured hey we'll just track him down again.'"
"Wait someone highjacked the Swordfish?" Jet interrupted.
"Yeah but it was actually more of a joy ride that ended up with the poor guy getting beat to a pulp." Feena told him with a bit of a laugh.
"Figures... he's got to get his frustration out somehow." Jet said as he leaned against the steeps, Spike glared at him.
"Anyway somehow Vash realized that Spike didn't really swallow the key so he elbows him as we see Spike's ship fly overhead so he gets the key and leaves the cuffs keys and this little note for us when we got back." Feena said holding out the little crude picture.
"Well, no wonder, so what you going to do?" Jet asked.
"Let you and Faye have a crack at it." Spike said putting down a copy of Vash's wanted poster onto the table.
"SIXTY-BILLION DOUBLE DOLLARS?!" Jet yelled in shock as he read the bounty. Faye's head popped out of the hall way.
"What's going on?" She said with the thoughts of money.
"Really big bounty down there, the guy's easy to find but hard to catch." Spike said as he searched his pockets forgetting Feena had confiscated all of his cigarettes. "Damn it..."
"Don't worry it wont be much longer." Feena said trying to be encouraging. Spike only muttered his response witch was probably not so nice.
"Hey I'm willing to give my hand at catching him." Faye said. "Just think of what I can do with that kind of money." She said, you could practically the double dollar signs floating all around her head.
"I'd try tomorrow, mainly because the guy's probably slipped off to another city and you sure as heck ain't going to find him in the desert by himself." Feena said with a yawn as she put her feet up on the table. "Right now I'm going to go take a nap." She said tipping her hat down over her face. Ein who had just trotted into the room jumped into her lap and lied down, Feena made no attempt to move him. Spike nodded in agreement.
"I'm with her I'll be right here if any one needs me." He said as he laid across the opposing couch and then closed his eyes.
"I guess we'll wait till tomorrow then..." Faye said hoping to get a little more info out of the two later on what they already tried.
Ed sat in the corner of the room searching for any sort of internet connection, she was bored and curious about the sandy planet below them. It seemed as if this planet didn't even have the internet like it did back home but there were some sort of faint signal that she was trying to hack her way into as it was protected. It took a few hours she finally broke in to what seemed to be a large ship's computer system.
"Ed did it... but what did Ed do?" She questioned herself as she blinked.
She slowly searched around but, as she did thought she heard something, it sounded like a woman's soft voice talking or singing, but she couldn't quite understand it or hear it too well. Ignoring it for now she continued to look around the system, everything seemed to be in working order it was just stuck out there hovering in space, she continued looking around she found a long list of names next to them was the same word: Cryostats.
"Strange... why are there so many people in cryostats?" She questioned, she hoped that may be the voice would become clear and tell her but it didn't. "Tell Ed more!" She demanded as she continued searching the ships data base. As she searched the data base she found files on the people on the ship. "That's strange this ship hasn't been contacted in about two hundred and twenty years..." She said looking over the logs, the voice still continued as if it was trying to say it was here it was alive and it was active. "Something is active there... it seems to be talking but Ed can't understand it..."
"The ships talking?" Feena asked leaning over Ed's head.
"Yes, and no, something on the ship is talking but Ed can't understand it." Ed said looking up at her. Feena seemed to be hearing it too.
"It's strange, it sounds like a voice." Feena said closing her eyes to listen. "But I can't hear it either, can't you clear it up?" She asked Ed.
"Ed can try, but Feena hear's it too?" Ed asked.
"Yeah I can hear it too, I don't know why... it sounds kinda lonely." Feena said leaning now on Ed's head to hear threw the headphones. "Where did the ship originate?"
"Ed can find out." Ed said as she went threw and soon they saw a small video of a younger looking earth and ships taking off.
"Pause that." Feena said. Ed paused the image on the screen. "Can you clear up the writing on the side?" She asked.
"Writings, writings tell me what you say!" Ed said in a spooky kind of voice as she cleared up the image, clearly written on the side of the ship was: SEED.
"Amazing, Ed you found a SEED Ship... these people must be from Earth." Feena said.
"But who is the voice?" Ed asked.
"Maybe it's the ship's plant." Feena said.
"The ship's plant?" Ed asked.
"That would explain the large light bulb..." Feena said softly to her self.
"What's a plant?" Ed asked.
"Oh you don't know?"
"No, tell Ed."
"A plant is, umm well it's a source of energy, I guess, no one knows what it really is but it creates energy and it creates air water and food. Each SEED ship had at least two large plants, and several smaller ones in them they powered the ships and kept the people in cryostats. That's about all we know about the plants today, the stations where the ships and the plants were built was destroyed... It's kinda funny I remember my father saying one of his ancestors worked on the ships twins one left on the ship the other stayed here and was killed in the explosion that happened a couple of years later, no one survived." Feena explained to Ed.
"Wow! So Ed was right all these people are from Earth just like us?"
"Yes, technically speaking, they are, but they're not as they've lived here now for probably a good ten generations."
"Wow, how dose Feena know all this?" Ed asked looking to her. Feena Smiled.
"It's just a guess, from what I see these ships crashed here at least two hundred years ago most of the people who came here were adults, their kids here were first generations, well one's that were born here first, so let's say once a generation hit's twenty they have kids of their own. There for in two-hundred years there's at least 10 generations from the original humans who crashed here."
"Ed see now, Feena's smart like Ed."
"I'm not that smart I just like to rationalize." Feena said with a shrug.
"Feena, can people actually hear a plant speaking?"
"There are few people who said they could, but I don't know, plants are living being inside... I think they called them: Those who live outside of Time', or something like that, my father's family helped build the plants, and so my father was always interested in the little left information about the Plants, I can remember him telling me about them."
"Is that how you know so much?" Feena nodded. ""Then maybe Feena can hear them if she was closer to one?" Ed asked.
"I don't know. I have to start dinner maybe later I'll see if I can." Feena said with a smile as she stood and headed for the small kitchen before Jet could get there.
Dinner brought everyone together, Feena had made enough for everyone and even seconds for who ever wanted it, of course Ed had seconds, and Spike kept pointing out to Jet that this was how normal people ate, meat and vegetable not just noodles and vegetables. Jet just ignored him and wondered how long their luck would be with them, this planet didn't seem to be use to bounty hunters like them, and as long as there were bounties they'd have food. After dinner Feena cleaned up with Jet's help, Ed got lost in her new findings and continued to look up information about the SEED Ships that she found. She found several others that were on the planet buried inactively under the sand, and some that were still in space, all of the people were still in their cryostats still. Feena had taken to cleaning the place up some, but didn't get far as she gave up and went to bed and Ed fell asleep at her computer, Faye in her room Spike on the couch Ein under Ed's head and Jet in his room.
Braids: Gomen all I know this chapter isn't that all thrilling...
Vash: I didn't even really show up in this Chapter!
Spike: Quit whining.
Braids: Shut up the both of you. As I was saying, sorry I just wanted to inform some people and give Ed a little spot light time since she may not bee seen much until later.
Vash: What about me?
Spike: Who do you think we're all chasing?
Vash: T.T weep so mean...
Braids: .... OK I'll see about giving you a chapter to your self... both of you though mostly it's been Spike and Feena... The Next chapter is for Faye so until next time: See you Space cowboys!
Kuroneko-sama: Mow!