After The Real Folk Blues
Session 1: The Real Folk Blues.
Faye lay on the couch, one foot hanging over impatiently tapping the heel of her shoe on the cold metal floor. She was laying, sprawled out, on the couch trying to fight back the tears, and still trying to come to grips with everything that had happened the past few days. She had been crying ever since Spike had left because she hadn't realised until now that she had feelings for him, and now it was too late. Jet was pacing back and forth in front of her, a ciggarette tightly clenched between his teeth, waiting for any sign of life from his friend other than the groan he now wasn't sure he had even heard. He took a long drag on the ciggarette and slowly exhaled. They had to get Spike to someone who knew more about medicene than they did. Jets herbal remedies of dried lizards and milk didn't do much if he couldn't even swallow them, and Fayes... well Faye had no idea what to do when it came to medicene. Both of them knew that they had to find Ed and get her to help them. Ed was definitely the smartest one when it came to many things including medicene and would have easily been able to nurse Spike back to health. Ed, however, could be anywhere on Earth, and they where running out of fuel. While they knew it would be easier to take him to a hospital they couldn't do it. Both because of their lack of funds and the fact that as well as being a bounty hunter he was now a wanted criminal, with a 2 billion woolong bounty on his head for the murders of 52 people. 32 of these where actually Vicious's kills however they where paid handsomely to keep quiet about Vicious so Spike's kills became 52. It should have been 53. But one body was missing. The single person that spike actually cared was dead, the one who he had nearly sacrificed his life to get to. Vicious's body was missing. The headlines where all over the news, A Single Man Assassinates the Leaders Of A Well Known Syndicate. This of course was not true. Vicious had been the one to assassinate the leaders. Spike had just, in turn, assassinated him, and the ones who followed him. After Spike's 2 billion bounty was announced Big Shot was immediately put back on the air. Afraid of missing a chance like this, the whole cast had been rehired. The ratings for Big Shot had shot through the roof after Spike's huge bounty was publicly announced on the show. Everyone now tuned in to see if any new information had been announced about his whereabouts. The only thing people knew about him so far was, 1. That he was incredibly dangerous, and 2. that now one knew a thing about him. Actually that wasn't true, but everyone who knew him was either dead, or to afraid to say anything. The people down at Big Shot however, thought up a few lies here and there saying things like, "We have received new information." Or "We have received word that he is somewhere near so and so planet." While you would think this would discredit the show, it was believed that Spike was just an incredibly smart bounty who managed to keep just out of reach. So people just kept tuning in to find out which planet he was near this time. Unknown to the people at Big Shot, or anyone else he was actually on earth. The Bebop had just landed over a wide stretch of ocean.Ed however knew the instant they landed where they where. While she had mixed feelings about it, because she was now with her dad. Although he was much to wrapped up in his work to take care of Ed, he was still her dad and she loved him. Her connection to the crew of the Bebop, however, was to great to just ignore and she knew they had come there for her. She knew what she had to do but wasn't sure if she should just leave without saying goodbye. If she talked to him about it before she left would he even let her leave? Or would she still want to? About five minutes later, it came to her. She was watching Ein sleeping on the floor of the tank like mobile they used to traverse around the planet and gather new information, when it suddenly hit her. Spike, Faye, Jet, Ein, they where her family, and she knew they needed her more than her father did. That night without a word, Ed grabbed Ein by the collar and with a happy giggle she shoved him out of the tight top hatch of the vehicle and out into the dark night. She had left her father a note by his bed, but knowing her father, she knew he probably wouldn't see it. She had planned for that though and left "a few" by the cockpit of his mobile. As she looked up into the sky a familiar bubbly feeling came back to her, that she hadn't felt in a long time. "Ed Ed coooming back!" She cried happily into the dark night sky. After moving about three steps into the night however she realized she couldn't see a thing and went back inside the cramped mobile to find a flashlight.About five minutes later she stepped again out of the mobile and flipped the switch. Nothing happened. Ed threw the flashlight to the ground and grabbed her computer. She flipped the top up and activated the tracking beacon she had placed on the Bebop during her time on board.
Jupiter:Docking Bay 3
"Come in, unknown ship, this is docking bay gaurd 892. Please identify yourself immediately. If you do not comply you will be-" There was a loud blast and the small ship exploded into tiny fragments of metal and glass. The large black gunship moved with surprising speed through the docking bay,destroying any other ships that got in the way. There was no way they where going to let a little thing like the police stop them. They would rather die. They quickly made there way into Jupiters upper Atmosphere. A voice sounded over the speaker system that was patched to listen in on police conversations. "We have a large unidentified gun ship making its way through Docking Bay 3 towards Jupiter. We need backup, UFO is armed and extremely dangerous. I repeat we nee-." The transmission was lost. The ship was now just more space debris that the gunship, Xialo III, left in its wake.
They sat still, silently hoping for some sign of Spike's life returning to him. After about an hour of nothing Faye noticed something off. Spikes Bangage where different than they where when she had put them on him. "Jet did you do something to Spike's bandages?" "Huh? nope havent touched'em. Why is there something wrong?" But before she had a chance to answer a loud rumbling burst from the engine room and Ed's familiar face popped up on all of the ships monitors one by one. Faye and Jet where surprised by the engines starting and even more so at how badly Eds piloting still was since the time when they had met her. She lifted the ship off the ground with a jolt, and piloted the large ship across the surface of the planet towards the crater where Ed was waiting with a game controller in her hand. "Weeheeheehee! Bebop come to Ed Ed." Unfortunately for her, Ed didn't know that the reason they landed on earth wasn't to pick her up (although that was definitely what they where thinking about) but because they where nearly out of fuel. About half way through their flight to where Ed was happily waiting, Joystick in hand, the Bebop ran out of fuel. Ed, being a hacker and (luckily) not a pilot, had no idea what was happening. She pressed harder on the joystick and rapidly twisted it around trying to regain control of the ship but without fuel there was nothing even the great hacker Ed could do, but to try to keep it straight and hopefully glide the ship at least 1 mile to where she was waiting. About five minutes later she saw the ship barely skim across a tall mountain ,flying, engines completely depleted, towards her. Ed happily jumped up "Bebop Bebop land here." But no fuel meant no brakes. As the nose of the ship quickly turned downward and the descent began Ed realized that the ship was heading straight for her fathers mobile. "Uh oh" she turned around and quickly ran towards the mobile but the Bebop was flying much faster than she could run. She jumped on top of the mobile and threw the hatch open. She tried to jump in but she got caught half way through. With her legs sticking out of the top and the rest of her body half way in the tank she knew she had to tell her father. "Daddy Dad! WAKE UP!" She yelled as loud as she could. Her dad came walking up to her from the small bedroom compartment. "Daddy Bebop Bebop is going to hit us" She said with a wide grin on her face to hide the fact that it was her fault. He looked out the nearest window and stared out at the huge ship hurtling towards them. "WHAT?!". The Bebop was rapidly closing the distance between the ship and them.He ran to the cockpit , stuck they key in the hole, and turned it to the right. It was the wrong key. "Daddy whats happening why aren't we moving?" He pulled the key out and fumbled with the key ring putting in key after key. He held up the final key in the ring. "Heh just my luck." Ed heard the impact of the Bebop outside and the loud crashing and scraping as it plowed through the earth towards them. "Aaah Daddy!" She started wiggling back and forth trying to squeeze through the hole. The noise got closer and closer and the vehicle shook harder, until, it stopped. Ed finally managed to squeeze her way through the hole and than stuck her head back out the top. She came face to face with the large metal nose of the Bebop and grinned happily. "Bebop here! Faye Faye Spike Spike come out!" She heard a crashing and slid back inside to see her father sprawled out on the floor. "Daddy funny". Ed popped out of the top of the mobile and ran to a ladder on the side of the Bebop. She lept up onto the ladder and quickly climbed up to the top. She saw a familiar large brown steel door slowly open. As it did a large pile of food and trash fell out. Faye stepped out completely covered in instant noodles and a mix of garbage and laundry. Faye looked angry but at the same time sad. "You know Ed you could have at least refueled our ship before crashing it this time." Ed scratched the back of her head, closed her eyes in content, and grinned. "Ed sorry." Jet climbed out even more garbage on him. "Well, you completely destroyed half of my Bonsai trees, and i think that the engine is gonna need a hell of a lot of repairs but hey, thats what i get for coming back to this god forsaken planet." Than she noticed something was wrong, she could tell from the expressions on their faces. "Wait... Ed thinks someone missing. Huh? Where Spike Spike?" Ein climbed down from her back, in shock over what had just taken place. He curled up on the deck of the Bebop and Instantly fell asleep with a content smile lingering on the small dogs face.
Jupiter:Science Defence Station
"Activate the automated gun turrets. Get fighters out there now! Where the hell is the backup? What?! Theyre already dead? Damnit!" "Sir, gun turret 3 down." "Gun turret 19 down." "5 gun turrets where hit sir." "Sir We have 3 gun turrets left." "Sir we have no fighters left, and all the gun turrets are destroyed. Wh-What are we gonna do sir?" "Nothing. Theres nothing we can do anymore. The syndicate can not lose." "The what sir?" The Jupiter Science Defence Station has been destroyed.
Session 1: The Real Folk Blues.
Faye lay on the couch, one foot hanging over impatiently tapping the heel of her shoe on the cold metal floor. She was laying, sprawled out, on the couch trying to fight back the tears, and still trying to come to grips with everything that had happened the past few days. She had been crying ever since Spike had left because she hadn't realised until now that she had feelings for him, and now it was too late. Jet was pacing back and forth in front of her, a ciggarette tightly clenched between his teeth, waiting for any sign of life from his friend other than the groan he now wasn't sure he had even heard. He took a long drag on the ciggarette and slowly exhaled. They had to get Spike to someone who knew more about medicene than they did. Jets herbal remedies of dried lizards and milk didn't do much if he couldn't even swallow them, and Fayes... well Faye had no idea what to do when it came to medicene. Both of them knew that they had to find Ed and get her to help them. Ed was definitely the smartest one when it came to many things including medicene and would have easily been able to nurse Spike back to health. Ed, however, could be anywhere on Earth, and they where running out of fuel. While they knew it would be easier to take him to a hospital they couldn't do it. Both because of their lack of funds and the fact that as well as being a bounty hunter he was now a wanted criminal, with a 2 billion woolong bounty on his head for the murders of 52 people. 32 of these where actually Vicious's kills however they where paid handsomely to keep quiet about Vicious so Spike's kills became 52. It should have been 53. But one body was missing. The single person that spike actually cared was dead, the one who he had nearly sacrificed his life to get to. Vicious's body was missing. The headlines where all over the news, A Single Man Assassinates the Leaders Of A Well Known Syndicate. This of course was not true. Vicious had been the one to assassinate the leaders. Spike had just, in turn, assassinated him, and the ones who followed him. After Spike's 2 billion bounty was announced Big Shot was immediately put back on the air. Afraid of missing a chance like this, the whole cast had been rehired. The ratings for Big Shot had shot through the roof after Spike's huge bounty was publicly announced on the show. Everyone now tuned in to see if any new information had been announced about his whereabouts. The only thing people knew about him so far was, 1. That he was incredibly dangerous, and 2. that now one knew a thing about him. Actually that wasn't true, but everyone who knew him was either dead, or to afraid to say anything. The people down at Big Shot however, thought up a few lies here and there saying things like, "We have received new information." Or "We have received word that he is somewhere near so and so planet." While you would think this would discredit the show, it was believed that Spike was just an incredibly smart bounty who managed to keep just out of reach. So people just kept tuning in to find out which planet he was near this time. Unknown to the people at Big Shot, or anyone else he was actually on earth. The Bebop had just landed over a wide stretch of ocean.Ed however knew the instant they landed where they where. While she had mixed feelings about it, because she was now with her dad. Although he was much to wrapped up in his work to take care of Ed, he was still her dad and she loved him. Her connection to the crew of the Bebop, however, was to great to just ignore and she knew they had come there for her. She knew what she had to do but wasn't sure if she should just leave without saying goodbye. If she talked to him about it before she left would he even let her leave? Or would she still want to? About five minutes later, it came to her. She was watching Ein sleeping on the floor of the tank like mobile they used to traverse around the planet and gather new information, when it suddenly hit her. Spike, Faye, Jet, Ein, they where her family, and she knew they needed her more than her father did. That night without a word, Ed grabbed Ein by the collar and with a happy giggle she shoved him out of the tight top hatch of the vehicle and out into the dark night. She had left her father a note by his bed, but knowing her father, she knew he probably wouldn't see it. She had planned for that though and left "a few" by the cockpit of his mobile. As she looked up into the sky a familiar bubbly feeling came back to her, that she hadn't felt in a long time. "Ed Ed coooming back!" She cried happily into the dark night sky. After moving about three steps into the night however she realized she couldn't see a thing and went back inside the cramped mobile to find a flashlight.About five minutes later she stepped again out of the mobile and flipped the switch. Nothing happened. Ed threw the flashlight to the ground and grabbed her computer. She flipped the top up and activated the tracking beacon she had placed on the Bebop during her time on board.
Jupiter:Docking Bay 3
"Come in, unknown ship, this is docking bay gaurd 892. Please identify yourself immediately. If you do not comply you will be-" There was a loud blast and the small ship exploded into tiny fragments of metal and glass. The large black gunship moved with surprising speed through the docking bay,destroying any other ships that got in the way. There was no way they where going to let a little thing like the police stop them. They would rather die. They quickly made there way into Jupiters upper Atmosphere. A voice sounded over the speaker system that was patched to listen in on police conversations. "We have a large unidentified gun ship making its way through Docking Bay 3 towards Jupiter. We need backup, UFO is armed and extremely dangerous. I repeat we nee-." The transmission was lost. The ship was now just more space debris that the gunship, Xialo III, left in its wake.
They sat still, silently hoping for some sign of Spike's life returning to him. After about an hour of nothing Faye noticed something off. Spikes Bangage where different than they where when she had put them on him. "Jet did you do something to Spike's bandages?" "Huh? nope havent touched'em. Why is there something wrong?" But before she had a chance to answer a loud rumbling burst from the engine room and Ed's familiar face popped up on all of the ships monitors one by one. Faye and Jet where surprised by the engines starting and even more so at how badly Eds piloting still was since the time when they had met her. She lifted the ship off the ground with a jolt, and piloted the large ship across the surface of the planet towards the crater where Ed was waiting with a game controller in her hand. "Weeheeheehee! Bebop come to Ed Ed." Unfortunately for her, Ed didn't know that the reason they landed on earth wasn't to pick her up (although that was definitely what they where thinking about) but because they where nearly out of fuel. About half way through their flight to where Ed was happily waiting, Joystick in hand, the Bebop ran out of fuel. Ed, being a hacker and (luckily) not a pilot, had no idea what was happening. She pressed harder on the joystick and rapidly twisted it around trying to regain control of the ship but without fuel there was nothing even the great hacker Ed could do, but to try to keep it straight and hopefully glide the ship at least 1 mile to where she was waiting. About five minutes later she saw the ship barely skim across a tall mountain ,flying, engines completely depleted, towards her. Ed happily jumped up "Bebop Bebop land here." But no fuel meant no brakes. As the nose of the ship quickly turned downward and the descent began Ed realized that the ship was heading straight for her fathers mobile. "Uh oh" she turned around and quickly ran towards the mobile but the Bebop was flying much faster than she could run. She jumped on top of the mobile and threw the hatch open. She tried to jump in but she got caught half way through. With her legs sticking out of the top and the rest of her body half way in the tank she knew she had to tell her father. "Daddy Dad! WAKE UP!" She yelled as loud as she could. Her dad came walking up to her from the small bedroom compartment. "Daddy Bebop Bebop is going to hit us" She said with a wide grin on her face to hide the fact that it was her fault. He looked out the nearest window and stared out at the huge ship hurtling towards them. "WHAT?!". The Bebop was rapidly closing the distance between the ship and them.He ran to the cockpit , stuck they key in the hole, and turned it to the right. It was the wrong key. "Daddy whats happening why aren't we moving?" He pulled the key out and fumbled with the key ring putting in key after key. He held up the final key in the ring. "Heh just my luck." Ed heard the impact of the Bebop outside and the loud crashing and scraping as it plowed through the earth towards them. "Aaah Daddy!" She started wiggling back and forth trying to squeeze through the hole. The noise got closer and closer and the vehicle shook harder, until, it stopped. Ed finally managed to squeeze her way through the hole and than stuck her head back out the top. She came face to face with the large metal nose of the Bebop and grinned happily. "Bebop here! Faye Faye Spike Spike come out!" She heard a crashing and slid back inside to see her father sprawled out on the floor. "Daddy funny". Ed popped out of the top of the mobile and ran to a ladder on the side of the Bebop. She lept up onto the ladder and quickly climbed up to the top. She saw a familiar large brown steel door slowly open. As it did a large pile of food and trash fell out. Faye stepped out completely covered in instant noodles and a mix of garbage and laundry. Faye looked angry but at the same time sad. "You know Ed you could have at least refueled our ship before crashing it this time." Ed scratched the back of her head, closed her eyes in content, and grinned. "Ed sorry." Jet climbed out even more garbage on him. "Well, you completely destroyed half of my Bonsai trees, and i think that the engine is gonna need a hell of a lot of repairs but hey, thats what i get for coming back to this god forsaken planet." Than she noticed something was wrong, she could tell from the expressions on their faces. "Wait... Ed thinks someone missing. Huh? Where Spike Spike?" Ein climbed down from her back, in shock over what had just taken place. He curled up on the deck of the Bebop and Instantly fell asleep with a content smile lingering on the small dogs face.
Jupiter:Science Defence Station
"Activate the automated gun turrets. Get fighters out there now! Where the hell is the backup? What?! Theyre already dead? Damnit!" "Sir, gun turret 3 down." "Gun turret 19 down." "5 gun turrets where hit sir." "Sir We have 3 gun turrets left." "Sir we have no fighters left, and all the gun turrets are destroyed. Wh-What are we gonna do sir?" "Nothing. Theres nothing we can do anymore. The syndicate can not lose." "The what sir?" The Jupiter Science Defence Station has been destroyed.