Disclaimer. I do not own cowboy bebop and probably never will. But vash and the other characters are mine.

- Means later or a different location at the same time.

( ) are used to tell you little writer notes

"Spike. Get up spike! GET UP YOU LAZY ASSHOLE!"

Spike sluggishly turned over in his bed and ignored the annoying voice. He was a man that had nothing left in this world and didn't really care. He had half spiked dark blue hair. His eyes were different shades one dark green one brown. He was strong for his skinny stature. The voice then pulled off his covers and pushed him to the floor. He hit with an incredibly thud.

"OW. I am up" spike grumbled as he pushed against the floor to raise himself up.

"God we have alot to do." Faye half yelled at spike. She wore a yellow outfit that had alot of cleavage. She had yellow high heels and very short shorts that were also yellow.

"Oh it's just you." spike said groggy.

"What do you mean it's just me?" she retorted the anger rising in her voice again.

"I thought you might have been jet. "He said

"Well I am not now get up!" she said.

Spike got off the ground and threw on his loose fitting blue shirt. He then headed down the corridor of the bebop. As he walked he noticed a smell coming from the kitchen. Great some of jets great cooking and I thought it couldn't get any worse.

"Hey spike" jet wore his normal grey shirt with the dark blue vest cut off at the sleeves. He was also wearing his metal boots. "You might want to stay clear of Faye you REALLY seemed to piss her off today"

"Ya whate..." just then jet disappeared. No not just jet. Spike, Faye, and the bebop and everything in it disappeared'

"The new troops are on their way my lord you should be able to speak with them soon. "Julia said

"Thank you Julia. You may leave now" vash said

"Yes my lord." Julia turned and walked out of the room.

Vash was once again in his very dark room but not training. This time he was relaxing. He had a mix of soothing and heavy metal playing while sipping on sake. The mix of different music types allowed him to work on controlling his emotions. Then out of his room a large ship appeared out of nowhere. 6 large strong metal cables shot out of his mansion and latched onto the ship. 3 on each side. The cables started to pull the ship down for a crash-landing more or less.

"Ah they are here." vash stood up and walked out of his room into sunlight. The bebop sat there on its side. "You men get a ladder on this thing I want a way in now!"

"Yes my lord." the soldiers replied in unison

Once vash was on the ships deck he noticed that the only way in was threw a hanger in the front.

The bebop and crew felt a sudden jolt as they reappeared.

"What the hell?" jet shouted as he ran to the control room of the ship.

Spike and Faye showed up at the same time "what's going on jet?" they said in unison

"I don't know none of the systems are responding." jet replied

Spike ran over to the window and saw 2 grappling hooks latch onto the ships deck. "Something's pulling us down," he shouted to the others.

"I know but there is nothing we can do!" Jet continued to press the control of the ship but to no avail. The ship then hit the ground throwing all of them into the wall. Faye had been knocked out. Jet had a splitting headache. But spike had reacted fast enough to land on his feet.

"Come on we need to get faye to a safe area and try to fight whatever it is off!" jet and spike then picked up faye and found a good position to fight from after dropping faye off at her room and locking the door.

Vash stood there for a second then pulled out one of his claws. The claws looked like 3 metal blades that were attached to a wood frame with a leather strap to hold it on securely to your arm. The wood had a small metal rod going threw the middle for stability. He then proceeded to slash a perfect circle out of the metal door that blocked his way.

A group of soldiers charged in first. Vash then walked in slowly after them.

"Did u look over there?" the lead officer said as they explored the ship.

"Yes sir we did." Replied the soldier

"Then check down there and remember to be careful it could be a trap." The leader said

Just as he said that he heard some mumbled curses and a scream of pain as one of his men was hit in the face. He turned to see a man dressed in dark blue cloths fighting with his men. "Get him but remember the lord wants them ALIVE." He was then hit in the head from behind and passed out.

"Thanks for shutting him up jet he was getting annoying." Spike kicked another soldier in the gut and then did a spin kick to his head for good measure.

"You got it" he gave a thumb up then blocked one of the soldiers poorly aimed punches. He then grabbed the soldier in a headlock and snapped his neck. The body hit the ground and spasamed a bit then stopped completely.

"I think that's the last of them. No wait I hear foot step. Back to your spot!" spike whispered.

Vash entered the room where all the commotion had been. And saw the squad's bodies laying on the ground some dead but most just unconscious. He let his halfhearted grin appear on his face as he counted how many there were. "This should be fun," he said under his breath. Spike jumped out of a nearby doorway and attacked vash. His hand stopped an inch away from vash's neck as his sword rose to spikes neck. He could feel the cold steel just waiting to taste his blood across it.

"You're good" spike said.

"I know. You might want to tell your friend not to try that." Vash said calmly.

Spike had a confused look on his face. "What are you talking about?" then he noticed jet frozen at the doorway he had been hiding at. He jumped out and had 2 daggers and a rock hurled at him. The daggers split and nicked both his ears but the stone hit him right on the forehead. He fell to the floor and started to gargle.

"Hey Faye nice to see you up so soon after that bump." Vash said

Faye stood about 5 feet behind spike with her pistol at the ready. "Let spike go NOW!"

"Nobody tells me what to do!" vash threw spike against the wall and in the same second had started his charge at Faye. She pulled the trigger but nothing happened. She pulled it again but got the same results. "Piece of crap" she threw the gun at vash. He quickly hit it out of the way with his sword.

He grabbed one of Faye's arms and spun it behind her he then forces her against the wall and pulled her other arm behind her where he then slapped on a pair of handcuffs. The same handcuffs Faye had just had in her pocket.

"There a beautiful pair of bracelets for the beautiful lady." Vash said sarcastically.

Spike stood up and raises his hands over his head. "We surrender. Now let her out of those handcuffs" spike said

"I think I will leave them on for know she can be tiresome to keep in line." Vash said as he twirled the key on his finger. "Now grab your friend there," he pointed to jet "and follow me. That includes you Faye. And trust me I wouldn't hesitate to send in a few soldiers to carry you out.

Once they were back in vash's room he filled them in about how they're guns and ships other then maybe the swordfish II wouldn't work here. It had something to do with the magnetic force of the planet or something like that I wasn't paying much attention. He also explained about the war and what was happening.

"So do you understand why I have brought you here?" vash said

"Ya … as if." Spike replied

"I get it" jet said

"So let me get this straight." Faye said "you want us to work for you kind of like mercenaries?"

"That is correct. I need you to help me or we shale surely lose this war. Our enemies think we have thousands to millions of men left but in all actuality they have more then we do." Vash said

"So what difference can we make? There are only three of us and you said that this is a war. We are bounty hunters not soldiers." Spike said.

"I figured you would say that so I will do it like this. I here by announce a reward of 1,000 pounds of gold for each one of their leaders head." Vash said

The three of them suddenly turned to vash with a dumbfounded look on their face. "How much did you just say?" jet said

"You heard me 1,000 pounds of gold each." Vash responded

They all then gathered into a group and discussed it. (Note this next paragraph is all whispers. You can have whoever you want saying these lines it doesn't matter but I like to think of it as Faye talking the how much part)

"Hey jet how much would that be worth?" jet pulled out his calculator and turned it on. "So that would be 1,000 at the normal sales price would be." The calculators batteries died just as he hit the button. "Aw come on." "I think I say a few numbers in the million!"(Whispers stop here and so do the chose your own character to say what line you choose)

"Wait a sec didn't you say for each head?" Faye said as she leaned back so she could face vash from out of the group.

"Yes I did. For a fact I know they have 3 or more." Vash replied. Once she went back into the huddle he could help but let a smile cross his face. He quickly got it back under control and hid it.

"How dangerous will this be?" spike asked

"Considering you answered that yourself earlier I'll let you decide." Vash said. Spike just gave that confident smirk of his and they took their leave.

"You think this will work?" Faye asked. She was wearing a long brown cloak with a red stripe on the bottom of it.

"Why wouldn't it?" jet replied. Him and spike were wearing the same thing. But spike also had a large straw hat that covered his eyes as he sat next to jet in the front seat. He had one leg dangling off the cart freely. Jet was still having a hard time controlling the horses that pulled that cart along. The swordfish was in the back of the cart. Faye was standing up leaning on the front guard of the cart so she could be almost between jet and spike.

"First of all I think we are kind of suspicious with a ship in the back of our cart. Second we don't exactly look like people from around here." Faye said.

"Wanna bet on that?" jet replied turning his head just enough to see Fayes face.

"100 pounds of gold says I'm right." Faye said

"Your on." jet said, "you want in on this spike?"

"Sure. I will put my money on it works." Spike said groggily

That is when about half a dozen of vash's men came over the hill on horse back with their sword or bow drawn. They were yipping and shouting. Jet looked back to see what was up with all the noise when his calm puzzled face turned to fear induced as an arrow flew past his head. He reared the horses up and they started to gallop as fast as they could with the heavy cart. This sudden jump made Faye fall back on her butt

"Hey watch what you are doing up there." she shouted. Two arrows then landed almost right on where she had been standing.

Spike just sat there calm collected with his leg over the edge the same as he had been before they showed up. Only now there was an arrow sticking threw the very top of his hat.

"Spike get up and do something about them!" jet shouted at him as he tried to steer the spooked animals.

"I already did" spike said as he yawned. Jet had a confused look on his face. Then there was an earsplitting explosion and all the soldiers were either blown apart, injure, or throw off their horses that ran away if they could.

"Oh I see. So the grenades still work. But how did u know?" he said

"I didn't" spike said as he started snoring.