Bounty Hunters

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Final FF7, CB, or Jordan.

"So what the hell are we doing here?" I asked

"Were on a hunt, big game for a terrorist leader named Ben Andrews." Jet informed.

"You should sit this one out." Faye said.

"I appreciate the concern but I'm alright. You got a game plan Jet?" I asked while putting on my usual suit, was in the middle of buttoning up my shirt.

"Well with our little surprise I've gotta rethink this." Jet said.

"Tell me when you figure this out." I said as I walked off to waste my time somewere else.

"Right." Jet said in a half hearted side tracked tone.

I looked out the window toward the new planet.

"Aeris huh? What a wierd name." I said to myself.

"It was pretty big news, the planet was full of monsters." Faye said walking in.

"Wait...What?" I asked making sure I heard that right.

"Monsters, that planet was full of them, but the people there didn't really seem to mind, if they wore attacked, the monsters wore usually delt with. Guess growing up with those things makes it kind of normal?" Faye said.

"Faye, thanks for sticking by me." I said looking toward the ground. "So what happened while I was out?" I asked, I've been wondering what they've been doing for a year and why I was on the Bebop instead of in a hospital.

"Well... My ship was wrecked so I took Jet's ship. I also strapped on the GX-187 and took you back." Faye said.

"That old relic, that damn gatling gun could've back fired on you." I said

"Yes it could've. Well anyway that's not all...You actually died for a little while." Faye said. She began to walk to the window to get a look at the planet or just to avoid eye contact.

"Died...Well, hah, hah, hahahahah!" I couldn't control myself. For all the sins I've commited I should've died a long time ago.

"That's not funny!" Faye yelled irritated.

By all means I should be dead, all the bullets I've eaten, near misses, surviving by a thread. Guess I'm not the type to die, period.

"I'm sorry, just who'd think after all the shit I went through. That I'm still standing." I said.

"So what? Are you waiting for death?" Faye asked, her tone had grown cold and harsh.

"No, don't really know what I'm gonna do now, guess I'll have to do what I've been doing for the last couple of years." I said putting my hands behind my head and looking towards the ceiling.

"What's that?" Faye asked.

"Just wing it." I said looking down towards her with a little smirk.

"Alright Spike I got it!" Jet yelled.

"Alright, I'll be right there!" I yelled back.

I looked back at Faye and we walked into the living room were Jet had moved to.

"Alright look at this." Jet said infront of our computer terminal.

"Okay, with a little bit of help from an old friend I got the terrorists mock work force since they use an office building as cover, they act as the usual staff, but it's really just a hide out for Andrews. Now what we've confirmed is there is still a regular job." Jet said.

"What job?" I asked.

"Janitor, so we get you in some scraggaly clothes and you sneak in there." Jet said.

"Ahh...Alright, when do we go. Well the next shift will be in eight hours, it'll take some time before we dock in Gongaga." Jet said.

"Gongaga?" I said curiously, what kind of name is Gongaga?

"Yeah Gongaga. Either way we land in Gongaga, from there you two take your zip crafts to the nearest apartment buildings." Jet said.

"Then I pose as a janitor, take whatever equipment I need, sneak in. You give me some kind of gadget to knock out any guard, I get in close and collect the bounty right?" I asked

"...Yeah, also one thing right up your alley. This is a dead or alive, bring some proof that you've finished him, like this ruby bangle he wears and you get paid." Jet said.

It took some time, more accuratly two hours before we docked. I took this time to get a little bit of training in to calm my nerves, I could tell Jet and Faye wore a little skeptical of my abilities and if they should even let me try.

"Alright Spike, you ready? Faye's got your back up." Jet said over the p.a. as I walked toward the garage.

"I feel safe already." I murmured in a sarcastic tone.

I walked into the garage were Faye was waiting.

"Hurry up!" Faye yelled impatiantly.

"Hey...Shut the fuck up." I said climbing into the Swordfish.

"You ready?" Jet asked now over our cell phones.

"As I'll ever be." I said more focused on putting on my gloves. "Hey Jet, meaning to ask you. Why wasn't I in a hospital."

"Oh... Faye wou..." Jet was cut off.

"Don't worry about it!" Faye interrupted.

"Okay...Whatever." I said.

"And launch." Jet said.

The garage door opened to reveal a wonderful blue sky. Clouds drifted lazily through the sky as the city below was alive with car traffic and zip crafts raced about. The engine of the Swordfish roared to life as I launched, I sailed over the ocean at high speeds followed by the Red Tail. I looked over myself, I was wearing some faded blue jeans, a pair of old brown boots, a yellow shirt that was too small for me, and a blue hat. We flew over the tall sky scrapers and high buildings, we saw the the shimmering office building. It wasn't anything special, maybe twenty floors, windows reflected the sun off of them blinding anybody who tried to look in.

"Faye, you picked out a spot?" I asked over the intercom.

"Yeah, look two builings down and one to the right!" Faye yelled over the blarring pop music.

"Right, just make sure you cover my ass if I need it." I said.

I saw a nice looking spot four blocks away, high builings surrounded this one low building that gave perfect cover. I walked four blocks down the busy streets, people walked by talking on cellphones, carrying various items, and the such.

"Spike, were are you?!" Faye yelled over our cellphones.

"I'm almost there." I said. "Don't call me anymore."

"Gotcha, hurry up." Faye said.

"Damn she's annoying." I said to my self.

I stopped just before the building, concrete steps led to the building.

"How the hell did they get a building like this?" I said quietly to my self. "Well then, my shift is up."

I walked into the building. I scanned the lobby area of the building, it was very clean. What looked to be marble floors reflected the ceiling, chandillers hung from the ceiling. Useless being how it was around about 5:00 p.m. though this wasn't the most important thing on my mind.

"Hey." I said as I walked in

The people in the building noticed me the moment I walked in. I pulled the bill of my hat down to cover my eyes, I noticed that all of them kept looking my way in flashes. I walked to the janitors room.

"Hey, you new?" The janitor asked. He was an old man and rather thin, balding though he carried himself rather well, he wore a blue jump suit.

"Yeah, I'm here to help the man who normally works this shift." I said

"Hmm... they didn't announce you. Well whatever James will be here soon, just relax." He said.

"Thanks, hey did my keys and suit arrive?" I asked.

"No...Well here take my keys, just don't lose them." The man said.

"Thanks...Carl." I said as I read his name tag. "I'm Will."

I shook the old man's hand and walked into the janitor's room. It was small and pretty cramped, there was a small TV and a radio. I closed the door and pulled out my cell phone.

"Hey Faye, I'm in. This might take a while, I have no idea where this Ben guy is." I said.

"Well then get to searching." Faye said.

"Yeah and blow my..." I was stopped by James walking in. "Alright pick up some milk and eggs, alright, I love you to, Bye."

"Hey, that the old ball and chain." James said.

"Yeah, Carl told you about me?" I asked.

"Yeah, well. Let's get to work." James said.

I began searching for Ben while keeping my cover, everywhere I walked I was watched. Periodically I would call Faye to check her status, the time passed as dusk came. I walked into a hall in the eleventh floor, I acted to mop the hallway and walked up to two big men dressed in black suites. One looked to be black, the other had more of a lighter brown shade of skin. I walked up to them as they watched silently.

"Hey." I said as I stopped infront of them.

Alright, let's see if this spray Faye gave me works. It was a knock-out spray hidden in two cans.

"Can I go in there to clean up?" I asked.

"No people allowed." The darker man said sternly.

"Oh I'm just gonna clean the windows." I said

I held up the cans to their faces and sprayed.

"Hey uhhhh."

"Wahhhh."

"Go to sleep." I said.

I walked in acting as normal as possible, the room was small but nicely lit, red carpet, a nice view of the city, an oak desk, and a nice little bed.

"Hey what are you doing her?!" A man asked.

"Just cleaning the windows." I said.

"Your not allowed in here?!" He said.

He reached for his desk.

"I wouldn't do that Ben." I said

I drew my gun and aimed directly at him, my trusty glock that I kept hidden in the back waist of my pants.

"Now..." I was suddenly cut off.

"Don't move." A mysterious man said, he had spikey blonde hair, an unusual glow in his eyes, he wore an all black valour suit with red stitching, and was hold a .50 desert eagle.

"Who the hell are you?" I asked.

"Don't worry about it." He said sternly

I'm not letting him take my bounty.

End Spike

It's been a year since what happened with that ship. It turned that humans exist in other parts of the universe. I remember how excited RedXIII was because he predicted something friendly was out there. The small crew that was aboard that ship basically single handedly ended the conflict between the eastern and western continents. They saw this as a more important matter and ended up calling a truce, Eventually more humans arrived as they sent out transmitions and built gateways with the help of Cid and Shera's mechanical discoveries. Cid was like a kid in a toy store when he saw the technology they brought with them and was allowed to tamper with it.

So as more people arrived cities wore built. It all happened so fast but every city expanded till most of the world was covered. There are still some places left to its natural wilderness, a lot of the monsters wore exterminated and we wore intergrated to there government. Gil became wulongs and chocobos became cars and zip crafts, we even took in their culture, styles, ect. Though we recieved the good we also recieved the bad. Drugs, crime, gangs, and all that fun stuff. My squad was no longer needed so we dispanded, I don't know what happened to the guys, but I've become a bounty hunter, mainly since I can go alone. I haven't left the planet yet. I do have a zip craft: Heaven's Cloud, the ship's silver in color though it can change colors, it's shaped as a long point going from large in the back to pointed in the front with a circular shape in the middle for my pod, four beams from that circular point bend back at a moderate angle to attach the halo, a circular shaped part of the ship that holds rear weapons. It uses a knew energy source Shera dicovered, even though I'm the only person I know who can use materia they still haven't lost there power.

It drives its power from the all summon materia, it's almost limitless, but my ship can only take so much before it over heats. It has a GPH-X67 gatling gun, X30 laser cannon, a lift to carry vehicles, and a compartment in the halo in four place for blinders, mines, or any other rear weapon. My friends have all taken different paths, Barret had his arm restored and is starting his career as a professional boxer, RedXIII is working as a lead astronomer in a science facility, Yuffie and her band of ninjas now work as complete mercenaries, Reeves is some kind of political figure, I quit paying attention. Vincent is now an arms dealer, very unexpected, and there's Tifa, I haven't seen her since that day but the nightmares haven't left me yet. I can't risk hurting her, I haven't lost all contact with her, I call and send her money after every bounty hunt which I'm getting a reputation for.

Either way to bring things to the present I now live in Tanza city on the Eastern continent by myself in an average apartment downtown. Facing the busy streets about six stories up, my apartment is basically a gym. I spend most of my free time training my body, and going out. I've got punching bags, speed bags, a mat, mirrors, double end bags, and everything else needed for combat training. I also have a rack for my guns and swords.

Right now I'm sitting here in my apartment doing sit-ups to destroy my boredom. The TV/computer set is sitting on a table in the middle of the room, the mid day sun lit the room fully as the temperature was actually very comfortable.

"What've we got today?" I said walking up to the computer.

At around 1:00 p.m. new bounties are posted up on the net. I surfed the web till I came upon the most recent bounties set.

"Ben Andrews." I whispered to myself.

I decided to take the bounty, it was worth twenty million wulongs. I checked my usual sources to make my game plan, he was hiding out in a small office building. Don't really know how a terrorist could get that, but whatever. I decided it would be best for me to infiltrate while it was dark, I loaded the building schematic into my field watch, grabbed some street clothes, a black valour suit with red stitching from Jordan's clothing line with a red and black pair of Jordans, grabbed my magnetic sword sheath with stealth camo thanks to Cid for that one, my buster sword loaded with my all magic materia and my .50 Desert Eagle, and headed out.

I went into the zip craft garage and headed out on my hunt, I arrived in Gongaga at around 4:16 p.m. and decided to position myself. I landed Heaven's Cloud pretty far away, maybe five miles out, and took a cab to the building.

"Time to work." I said to myself as I looked at the front of the building.

I snuck into the alley ways, they wore dark, poorly lit, trash filled alley, and crawling with guards luckily there was dumpsters. I looked up at the fire escape.

"Alright." I whispered to myself

I watched as a guard walked and turned a corner I made my move, quickly I snuck behind the guard and continued till the next dumpster. The fire escape was still a little ways off and I still had four guards patroling. I pressed my back against the dumpster and crouched low as I heard a guard walk close. He stopped just next to me and then turned back around, I tightened my fist and silently followed step behind him till we came across another dumpster. Quickly I stepped to my right and hid behind the dumpster, he soon stopped and turned back around. I stayed in the shadows as he walked past me, I stopped and listened, foot steps getting louder. Once the steps stopped I prepared to move, the steps started again this time going faint.

Silently I ran diagonally left to the nearest dumpster right under the fire escape. I needed a distraction, I pressed my field watch and accessed Heaven's Cloud. I had it fire a mine into the air, soon a loud bang was heard as the sky lit up from the violent explosion, all the guards looked in the direction of the explosion. I tightened my fist and ran as fast as I could in a crouch till I reached the guard on the other side of the dumpster. I sprung forward and threw a vicious right hook that connected with the guards left temple knocking him out cold. I drug the body behind the dumpster and climbed up the fire escape that was about seven feet above the dumpster to the eleventh floor, I checked the buildings map.

"Only two rooms up there, he's gotta be in them."

I opened the door and silently snuck in, I looked down the hallway that turned left, odds are there's guards there. I looked around then up, there was a vent there, the hallway looked narrow enough. I jumped off one wall and pivoted both my feet on each wall and held my position just under the grate. Quickly I unscrewed the grate and set it aside in the vent and climbed in, I had some trouble manuvering around with my buster sword on my back. The vent had a blue tint to it, the sound of solid hitting aluminum was barely audible. I crawled till I could take the nearest right, I went to the nearest grate I could see. Nothing, next room, I began crawling backwards.

"Wahhhh."

"The hell? shit." Another bounty hunter must be here.

Quickly I crawled to the next room.

"I wouldn't do that Ben." A voice said. Furiously I crawled to the grate and drew my .50

I busted through the grate.

"Don't move." I said.

I hung from the vent with my legs while aiming upside down, the man was holding a glock, he had faded blue jeans, a yellow shirt that was too small for him, brown old boots, and a blue plain hat.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"Don't worry about it." I replied

Your not going to get my bounty.

"To hell with this!" Ben yelled

"Don't do it." We both yelled

Ben pulled out a shotgun from under his desk. Dead it is. Me and the mystery man here both unloaded, the .50 recoiled in my hands, and the room lit up with muzzle fire as bullets sailed toward there target. The bullets tore through his body in mulitple areas, mainly the torso. Blood squirted from the entry wound as chunks of flesh and meat tore away with the exit wound. As his body fell blood pooled around him, I noticed something ackward in his hand.

"Damn." I said.

"What a dumbass." The man said

"Hmm... What's he got in his hand?" I asked

His last breath exited his body as he pressed a red button down from the sleek, black item in his hand. Suddenly a sound could be heard, like something charging, it was then that I noticed a blinking red light as did the mystery man.

"Fuck run!" I yelled as we both figured out what it was

The whole building must have been wired. Quickly we scrambled out of the room into the hallway turning right toward the stairs that was now less lit. Loudly the explosion erupted from the room, the walls and ground seemed to almost shift from below us. I slightly lost my balance along with the guy but it didn't get past a stumble as we quickly made our way to the stair case. The stairs wore engulfed with light as a fiery explosion erupted behind us.

"Holy hell!" I yelled.

Swiftly we hopped down the stairs.

"The hell was that!?" One of the men in the building yelled opening a door to the stair case to see what the ruckus was about. I lept into the air and with my right foot kicked the door back into the man furiously. I could here the sound of a nose breaking along with a solid thud of the door crushing his face, we continued down the stairs while pulling out my .50 and reloading it as did the man.

"Be ready!" He yelled.

"Already know!" I replied

Another explosion rocked the floor we just passed as the door was sent of the hinges into the wall, the deafening sound of the explosion made it impossible to hear any oncoming enemies. Another man barged through the door, I had forgoten which floor I was on. He was packing a sub-machine gun, I couldn't identify what it was during all the confusion and it really didn't matter. While running full speed down the steps I aimed swiftly and fired, three shots was all as they pierced his stomach twice and the left side of his chest probable shredding his heart. He flew back onto the wall and slid down leaving a crimson smear, We hopped down the stairs just in time to avoid another explosion.

"To close! We gotta move faster!" I yelled.

We hopped down another flight of stairs, three men piled out into the stair case. I didn't have time to aim, I holstered my weapon and grabbed my buster sword, it immediatly came into view as the camo vanished leaving charges of electricity weaving through.

"The hell?" One said as I lept of the stair case towards them.

The man shot one in the head causing an explosion of brain matter and skull. Yelling I held my weapon over my head and brought it down with furious intensity splitting a man from his left shoulder to the top of his right waist. His blood smeared the walls as his two pieces fell to the ground still twitching and squirting blood. I turned the weapon up and cut the last man infront of me through his torso in a diagional from the left part of his waist to his face causing blood to spray in my direction. I side stepped the spray and sheathed the buster sword causing it to disappear in the camo and we continued our way down.

"Damn that was brutal!" He yelled over another explosion.

We had been gaining more ground on the fiery death above us. We continued our sprint without any problem.

"2nd floor!" I yelled.

I looked up to see the top of the building collapsing, there was no way we could make it to ground level without being crushed. I ran towards the door and opened it wildly.

"Get in!" I yelled.

He understood the situation and dove in with blinding speed. I didn't even bother looking up as I dove through the doorway and rolled to get my footing. The exit was within reach, just down the escalator. The man jumped on the metal piece between the two escalators and slid down while I just jumped over the railing. I could hear the explosion closing in on us, I didn't look back. I landed and rolled forward to keep my momentum going as the guy landed and we scrambled to for the exit, the explosion was on our heels like a living beast. The glass doors infront of us wore open to reveal the cool dusk world outside, we ran outside and diagonally to our right to dive behind a concrete edge jutting out were the bushes for the building decoration was.

"DAMMIT!" The guy yelled.

"SON OF A BITCH!" I yelled as we dove behind the edge.

As we scrambled to press against the wall I caught a glimpse of the building crumbling. We rested against the wall as the final explosion sounded rocking the ground below us, fire roared above us destroying the bush. The heat radiated against our skin as the street was lit with the flames. We sat there panting and sitting up right, he pulled a box of cigarets out from his pocket. He opened it, took one out, and lit it, he took a long drag from it and blew a puff of smoke into the air. He tilted the box towards me to offer me one.

"Don't smoke." I said waving them off.

"Names Spike by the way." He said relaxing his shoulders.

"Cloud." I said.

"Damn that was crazy, all that trouble and no bounty." Spike said.

After Spike said that an ackward object landed infront of us with a ting. A ruby bangle, I racked my mind for were I've seen that before. Then it hit me, it was Ben's. Me and and Spike looked at each other, whatever friendship we just had died.

I had just began moving, barely past a twitch when Spike slid forward on his right leg and kicked with his left leg causing his body to spin toward me at highspeeds. I brought my left arm up and successfully blocked the strike, but he broke my field watch which ment I couldn't call Heaven's Cloud. I had a five mile run back to my ship and I bet he wasn't alone.

"Faye move in on my position." Spike said into his cell phone.

I grabbed his left leg with my left arm, set my right arm around the same leg and once I got into a crouched position I drug Spike along the ground lifting him a little and throwing him a short distance to my right. I ran forward and grabbed the bangle.

"Bitch!" I yelled.

I ran across the street, now empty into an alleyway. I ran full sprint into the dingy darkness, newspaper was laying about along with other pieces of garbage. Spike had given up all pursuit, but I wasn't going to risk it. He seemed to want the bounty bad and was armed, I drew my .50 and continued into the long alley. I had just reached the exit into another street, this one was full of people and a serious traffic jam. Sounds of an engine could barely be heard but the came closer, extremely fast. I attempted to blend in with the crowd by walking and keeping my head down. Suddenly a bright light shinned down on me, I didn't look up. I still had a distance to cover and I've been found out. I went into a full sprint, the zip craft followed behind in hot pursuit. I continued following the street mainly because the pilot wouldn't dare fire on civilians but the people wore wisening up and getting out of the way. I took a right into the alleyway as the ship followed close behind.

I ran between apartment buildings now lit with people eating their dinner. Some poked out their windows to catch a peek at the events going on outside. Once the zip craft had a clear view of me it began to fire, the vulcan canon on it could have easily tore me to pieces. I dove behind a building at the alley's cross section giving me enough time to cast a speed on myself. I concentrated on myself as a bright light engulfed me, I could feel the new speed coursing through me.

I jumped out from my cover and continued my sprint this time with an unbelievable speed. The vulcan couldn't get a good lock onto me, I heard a sound of something being loaded.

"Shit!" I said to myself.

I knew something destructive would be coming my way. As I heard the recognizable sound of a grenade being launched I dove forward as far as I could. I saw for a brief moment the fiery explosion from the grenade as garbage and garbage cans wore incinerated. The end of the alley was within reach, I blindly ran out into the middle of the street.

Horns honked as I caught a quick look at a pedestrians car coming and me at high speeds on my right. I didn't have time to identify only react, I did a cartwheele to my right pivoting my right hand on the hood. I pushed off and rounded so my back was squared up with the diesel behind me. With my legs already prepared for my next jump I kicked off the roof as hard as I could denting the roof and performed a backlflip with my legs together. I watched the white trailer of the diesel, I had to easily clear ten feet on my jump but I didn't know if it was enough. I watched the metal screamed towards my head as I continued to rise. I barely cleard the trailer as I landed in a crouch holding the handle of my buster sword on my back as I slid back.

Had to be about nine feet easily, I quickly stood up and whipped around to see the zip craft that was chasing me. It had what looked like two grenade launchers and two vulcan canons and a more boxy shape around the sphere. My hair rustled in the wind, it was wet with sweat. I rode the diesel for a couple of miles, before any more touble arrived. The sound of another zip crafts engine could be heard, but this one sounded different some how. As it flew towards me at high speeds I saw that it was red with a sleek design sort of like Heaven's Cloud with two wings and a huge cannon.

"Oh shit, barrier!" I yelled as the wall formed infront of my to block the on coming attack.

His vulcan fired bullets at me at a very high velocity, I put all of my focus into the barrier. I began to feel it weaken in the onslaught as bullets deflected off of it. As the pilot's pass ended I jumped off of the diesel, I was right next to Heaven's Cloud. I ran into the building, adrenaline was pumping through my veins as I ran up the steps to my zip craft.

I boarded my ship and took off a.s.a.p.

"Hey Cloud, still got my ring?" Spike asked

"No, I've got mine." I said.

"Quit being an asshole and give it to us!" A woman yelled.

"Faye." Spike said.

"Why should I?" I asked.

"Because we've got a ship we've gotta pay for!" The woman named Faye yelled. Ship huh, that could be useful.

"Well I've got my problems too, tough." I said.

They both wore behind me at each side. I accelerated as did they. My control panel beeped to show lock-on, I barrol rolled left and dropped low avoiding two missles, I continued to sweep low in a wide arc to avoid gun fire. Barrol rolling I accelerated forward and gained some more altitude, I then turned left and deccelerated to perform a sharp turn and accelerated between them. They turned wide crossing by eachother one going low and one going high.

"Damn, you got some skills don't ya. But don't think I'll miss again like I did on the truck." Spike said.

I ignored him and conintued my flight path. Suddenly I caught multiple lock-ons, I couldn't count how many missle and not to mention the gunfire. They wore about to unload on me, I released my blinders behind me and accelerated. I then turned right to ambush them from the side at a wide arc, they wouldn't be able to see me with their naked eyes. The lock-ons wore disengaged as the bright lights from the blinders faded I lined up with their right side and accelerated. I was traveling at a high speed when the blinders finally faded out, only the boxy craft was there. I fired my gatling gun at it, I wasn't trying to kill whoever it was so I let out a small burst that connected with the engine.

"Dammit! Spike I'm out!" Faye yelled as her craft sailed towards the city below.

"Guess it's just me and you huh?" Spike said with a hint of excitment in his voice.

"Get some." I said.

"Haha. You know that trick you pulled off was nice, but I invented it." Spike said.

Spike came from almost no where at mach speeds. If I hadn't of anticipated the attack I would've destroyed. I accelerated and turned around swiftly to get behind Spike, I opened fire, he rolled right and dropped at and angle avoiding all of my fire.

He went upside down and performed a backflip following me as I turned to avoid but it didn't work. Spike was behind me and again I had mulitple lock-ons. He fired a volley of missles that spread into multiple smaller missles.

"Fuck!" I yelled.

I stopped turning right while spinning, accelerated turning left suddenly ant an upward angle, I jolted right to avoid some more missles I rolled left while managing to turn right and then I accelerated then stopped, turned up for a sharp turn upward and accelerated again.

"Damn!" I yelled as one missle managed to connect.

My halo had taken some damage. I released the three mines I had left at the oncoming Spike. I could tell from the sloppy dodge he didn't expect it. One mine damaged him a little bit.

"Damn, nice move kid. I just had her painted too." Spike said. "Listen we really need that ring, what'll it take for you to let us have it?"

"You have a ship right, not a zip craft... A ship?" I asked.

"Yeah why?" Spike asked.

This was my chance to get off this rock.

Two weeks later.

"Spike can I ask you something?" Jet asked.

"Yeah." Spike said.

"What is it with us and attracting people?" Jet asked.

"Hey, we needed the bounty and the guy's a good pick up." Spike said.

"Yeah, but you know. I always wanted privacy." Jet said.

"Should have guessed by know that'll never happen." Spike said.

They wore in the living room, Spike was laying on the sofa while Jet sat in a chair.

"Just, does he have to move his training equipment in with him."

"There we go, perfect." I said as I installed my speed bag in the spacious room that I took over. It had a beautiful view of space outside.

"Hey, he gave us some wulongs to pay for everything. Ed never did that." Spike said.

"Ahh... I guess." Jet said.

"This outta be fun." Spike said

Late