What's up everyone! Seann here… Now, I know some of you are mad about the cliffhanger last chapter but it was needed… Don't worry everyone! You won't have to spank me, Desmonia! Anyhow, here's chapter four! Thanks for all your support people. !
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"Faye? It's Spike. We need to talk."
Silence filled the air. Faye pulled the phone away from her ear, stared at it to make sure it was on. She put it back near her ear.
"Hello?" She said again, her voice shaking.
"Faye? Is that you?" Hearing his voice caused a tear to well up in her eye.
"Y-y-yes… it is. Is that really you Spike?"
"In the flesh. Now look Faye, I don't have a lot of time to-"
"WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU! YOU HAD ME GOING THAT YOU GOT YOU ASS BLOWN OFF BY VICIOUS! YOU SHOULD NOT TREAT A LADY LIKE THIS! DO YOU KNOW HOW ANNOYING IT IS HAVING TO RUN ALL OVER MARS FOR YOUR SORRY ASS?! DO YOU?!" Faye chest heaved up and down. Her breath came out in growls. She waited for Spike's voice to answer in some sarcastic way but it didn't come.
"Spike?" Static answered her. "SPIKE!"
His voice came to her then, interrupted by static.
"Vicious…dead…Dragon…syndicate…trying…power…I…prisoner…On…" Static hissed into her ear, blocking out the last word. Anger crept up her neck, as well as fear.
"Spike! Spike, where are you?! Can you hear me?!" Only static answered her. Faye slammed it onto the dashboard and put her head in her hands. "Shit." She sighed and pulled her head lazily back up. "Where the fuck are you Cowboy?"
Faye sat there, trying to sort the many thoughts in her head, when the looming shape of the Bebop filled her view. "Great," she wined, "More problems to deal with." After a few minutes, the Bebop grew larger. Faye placed a call to her favorite ex-cop.
"Jet, let me the fuck in or I blow open the garage door and let myself in." Faye laughed a little. She wasn't expecting a reply, but when one came, she didn't show her surprise.
"Could you at least have said please?" Jet's deep voice rang out. Amusement hung on the edges of it.
"And I thought you knew me well!" Without another word between the two, the garage door opened and Faye flew inside.
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"Can you just shut up for two minutes?!" Jet yelled at the woman who continued to talk about morgues and phone calls. He took a deep breath. "Now say that last part one more time."
"I was flying back from the morgue," Faye said this in a tired voice. "When I called you. You were your normal stubborn self, of course, and then you hung up on me. I called you a few things I'd rather not mention when my phone rang. Thinking it was you, I said for you to basically… to go fuck yourself but it wasn't you that answered. It was Spike."
"And what did he say?"
"He said something about Vicious being dead, and some Dragon syndicate trying to get back to power, and him being a prisoner somewhere."
"Anything else?"
"Nope, the static took over."
"Well the only way we're going to be able to find the reckless idiot is to trace his call." Jet stood up and walked over to the laptop. He turned it on and as soon as the screen lit up, he began typing away.
"And how can we track the call from my cell?" Faye walked around the table to his back. He seemed to be on some kind of search site.
"We have to get the best hacker we can get." Jet typed in one word and as soon as Faye read it, her jaw dropped.
"No, You can't mean…"
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"Ed is here!" Ed's ever smiling face was grinning at the pair. "What can Edward do for Bebop-Bebop today?" Faye sighed with exhaustion.
"We need you to trace a call Ed." Jet handed Ed the cell phone.
"Oo… cell phones can be very tricky." Ed examined it for a moment and then put the device in her mouth.
"ED!" Faye smacked the girl in the back of the head. The cell phone popped out and skidded across the floor.
"Cell phones not tasty either." Ed frowned and pulled the goggles off her forehead. With a snap, she placed them over her eyes. "Hand Ed the phone." She said in a misty voice. Faye picked the phone up, placed it in the Ed's hand, and quickly rushed off to the bathroom to rinse off the drool on her hand.
"Ok Ed," Jet cast one quick look at Faye and then turned to Ed. "We need you to find where exactly the call came from. I know it's going to be hard due to the fact the phone is a cell but we need you to try."
"How much does Ed get for worky poo?" Ed looked behind her back and up at Jet.
"Well… ten thousand woolongs. Is that good enough?" Jet grunted at losing that much money.
"And can Ed become member again of Bebop-Bebop?"
"Fine."
"What about Cowboy Woof-Woof?"
"'Cowboy Woof-Woof?'"
"Yes. Cowboy Woof-Woof."
Jet stared at Ed, trying to understand what she was saying. Then it dawned on him.
"Yes, Ein can join again too." Jet smiled
"CALL HIM COWBOY WOOF-WOOF!" Ed yelled in his face. Jet jumped back and nearly fell over the table.
"Ok." He deep breathed. "Just get it done."
"Yes Master." Then, Ed was gone into the cyber world. She hummed a quiet tune as she worked. Faye walked back in the room, wiping her hands on a brown paper towel.
"Has she found anything yet?" Faye tossed the wet paper towel into a trashcan by the side of the yellow couch and proceeded to sit in it. Jet sat down next to her.
"Not yet. You know it takes her a while." Jet placed his feet on the table in front of him. "Ed wanted a lot for this job."
"As in woolongs or…" Faye broke off, hoping Jet wouldn't say what she feared the most.
"And she wants to join the crew again." Faye screamed in frustration as Jet finished.
"We can't have her on the ship again! I can't deal with her forever!" Faye stood quickly and walked over to Ed. With the fakest smile in the world plastered on her face, Faye sat down next to Ed and watched the screen.
"Have you found anything?"
"Almost Faye-Faye…" Ed drifted off again. Faye tried as hard as she could to hold the smile.
"Are you getting cl-" Before Faye could finish, Ed let out a high pitched squeal and took off her goggles.
"Found Spike person!" Jet jumped off his seat and sat down next to the pair of girls.
"Where is he, Ed?" Faye asked anxiously. Ed typed something in and a map of Mars popped onto the screen. A large green dot flashed on and off on the planet.
"Spike person is in the city of Koltran on Mars!" Ed smiled. "Ed found Spike person. Ed found Spike person." She stood up and began to chant it around the room.
"Looks like we better go get him. I'll just take the bebop down when we get there. As for you Faye, I think you should…" Jet turned around and looked for Faye. He only found a prancing Ed.
"Faye!" Jet called. Ed stopped dancing and looked at Jet.
"Sorry Jet person. Faye-Faye's gone. She's off to find Spike person." Ed began to dance again. Jet sat down on the couch and put his head in his hands.
"Shit."
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Ok… there's chapter four. I know the ending kinda sucks but five will be up soon. I will be gone until Friday so… expect it soon after that. Okay… you know the drill… R & R! Ok… Thanks…
Seann