His vision was blurred and he was feeling horrible inside, like a million calisters were going off in his gut. As his vision started to clear he realized that he was on a ship, and when he tried to move he was bound to one of the various pipes that lined the ships interior. Then everything started to rush back.
"Me and my stupid addiction to alchol and women, ARG!"
Thinking quickly, well as fast as he could considering the pounding in his skull, he tried to think of ways he could get off this stupid ship.
"Hey there friend! Ed is Ed who are you? You don't look so good Ed can see! But now Ed must get Faye-faye and tell he scar man is awake."
That little girl's or boy's, he couldn't tell which it was, confused him more than he needed right now but it didn't prevent him from remebering the homing device implanted in his tooth. All he had to do was bite down hard enough and just right...
"There, gotcha. Now let's see how you hold up against my friends slut." He a big smile as the ain nausea took him under again.
Melfina looked to Jim for reassurance of their friends safety, and although Jim was more than sure that Gene got in trouble he would lie to keep melfina happy. Looking up from the glowing computer screen that rested on the table he smiled the most genuine smile he could muster.
"Honestly Melfina knowing Gene I'd say he got drunk and lost in the city somehere and is trying to get back here as we speak. Anyways wherever he is Aisha and Suzuka will bring him back safe and sound. Those are the toughest girls this side of the universe."
Knowing he was just saying that to make her feel better she smiled as if everything were alright, but it was obvious they weren't. True Gene did get drunk alot and was quite careless, but to gone this long without a word while they being hunted by every hunter in the galaxy was unlike him. He promised to protect her and only force would stop him from keep that. "Yes you're right Jim he probably is just fine."
Smiling contently thinking he helped her feel better he turned back to his computer and began checking the news again to see if Gene had been caught and taken in. Thankfully nothing had turned up yet so if Gene was in trouble they still had time.
"Hey you look upset, well I don't really care. Your friend broke two of my ribs, and I intend to return the favor as soon as possible. Anyways we have a problem. In order to claim the bounty I don't only need you, I need your pals too. So you can make this easy or you can make this hard, tell us where they are or else."
Gene started laughing, he'd been tortured plenty of times and had never been broken what did this cowboy think he could do?
"Ok have it your way, hey Ed, why don't you talk to the nice Mr. Starwind for awhile while we hunt down his friends?"
Gene's laughter stopped immediately, if that short converstation earlier was a sample then anything was inhuman.
"No, thats not cool. I didn't do anything to deserve thi... ummmgghhh."
Faye stepped in to cover his mouth with a bit of duct tape.
"Ahhh no you be quiet big boy and listen to what she has to say."
"Hello Scar Man we meet again. Ed likes tomatos, do you? Ed thinks tomatoes are great to go with anything Ed knows. Ed wonders where you got you scars? Ed used to have a scar but it healed. Do you think Faye-Faye is pretty? She says..."
Gene didn't know how he was going to survive this one but when and if he did he as going to gurt Spike really bad.
"I can't believe how hard it is to find that jerk! I'm gunna rip him apart worrying everyone like that." Melfina's heart dropped as Suzuka and Aisha walked in alone.
"I'm sorry Melfina but we could not locate Gene anywhere, all we got were dead ends."
While Suzuka apologized to Melfina Aisha was throwing a fit in the background. Then the unexpected happened.
Beep... beep... beep...
"Guys shut up! That's Gene's tracking device, he finally activated it. It seems... HE'S ON A SHIP HEADED FOR MARS! Everybody we got to go now." Twilight was out the door first followed by Jim and then Aisha dragging Melfina.
"Looks like we're finally getting off this planet, now let's go save Gene. Gilliam get the ship preped we're on our way."
Jim furiously typing as they ran down the hall trying to get to the spaceport as fast as possible. They had to save Gene they just had to.
Well thats it for this chap. You can guess that Im breaking out the ultimate ship battle. Outlaw Star Vs The Bebop. And the next chaps will answer whos the better hacker Jim or Ed? Find out ina while and R&R. Thnx!