Konnichiwa, Watakushi wa… is back!! My nihongo is rusty. But n e ways I got my first review from the 2nd chapter of this fic a few minutes ago (thanx Tiger Tiger2) and I just wanted to start on the next chap right away. You also had some good guesses in that review of yours so let's see if you were right.

Spike and Faye sat in shock looking at the television screen. It was awhile before Faye was even able to pick her jaw up off the floor.

"Our guy today is a fellow bounty hunter gone bad." Judy was saying as the bounty's picture came up on the screen.

"He must have gone really bad to be worth 50,000,000 woolongs." Punch replied, again stating the obvious.

"Jet Black, a formal ISSP officer and later a bounty hunter, is wanted for the rape and murder of sixteen women. He is also reportedly a suspect in the importing and exporting of a new drug that is on the streets, called Déjà vu." 

Spike turned off the television and turned to look at Faye who was still in a shock induced stupor.

"Can you believe that? I mean, Jet, he wouldn't have anything to do with this stuff." Faye said looking over at Spike who was grabbing a jacket and slowly yet determinedly walking over to the Bebop's docking area.

"What are you doing? Where are you going?" Faye asked jumping up from the couch and following Spike.

"What do you think I'm going to do? I'm goin' to catch Jet." Spike said as he prepared to climb into Swordfish.

"You don't really believe he did those things do you?"

"I don't know. But I'm gonna find out." With that Spike climbed into his ship and prepared to take off.

Faye ran back inside the Bebop and grabbed some food to take to Ein. "Sorry boy, I can't feed this to you right now but please eat it." She stated placing the food in front of the lying dog. She grabbed a jacket and the keys to Redtail before taking off toward the docking area to follow Spike. 

Apparently Jet was on Mars and if anyone could find him she knew it would be Spike. After being friends with Jet for so long Faye figured that Spike would know where he would go if he were on the run. She still couldn't figure out why anyone would think that Jet would have anything to do with the murders of these women or the shipping of this new drug.

They had been flying around for a while with no sign of Jet. They were coming up on the docks now, "Ugh, if we don't find him soon… I need to get some gas and I need to go to work in the morning-" Faye stopped complaining as she realized that Swordfish had taken a drastic dip. She knew that something was wrong right away. She jumped to action and looked around at the ground to try to see what ever it was that Spike had seen. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a scuffle happening and someone being drug around a corner.

Spike and Faye landed and climbed out of their aircrafts. Spike already had his gun in his hand and had taken off at a run toward the street that the two people had turned onto.

Faye pulled out her gun and run after Spike. They turned the corner to find a large man dumping a body into the water. Faye ran toward the waters edge and looked to see where the body had been tossed. She saw a few air bubbles and dove into the water to grab the person who had been tossed in.

Spike had the man cornered, gun aimed and ready to be fired. The man stepped into the light of one of the streetlamps and Spike could plainly see that it was Jet. "So, you have been killing these women." Spike stated tilting his head in the direction of Faye who had just pushed the limp body of a woman onto the pier and climbed out of the water.

"You know I have to take you in now old buddy." Just as Spike finished his statement Jet rushed at him planning on tackling him. Spike side-stepped and fired his gun at one of Jets legs. Jet fell to his knees and Spike hit him in the back of the head with the butt of his pistol.

"Is she okay?" Spike called over to Faye who was trying to use what little CPR skills she had to revive the woman.

"I don't think so. We need to get her to a hospital." Faye replied still trying to get a response out of the woman. Spike pulled out his cell phone and called for an ambulance.

"What are we gonna do about Jet?" Faye asked quickly glancing over to the limp body lying at Spike's feet.

"I'm gonna take him back to the Bebop." Spike said before beginning to drag Jet toward Swordfish.

"You're gonna just leave me here with her." Faye asked looking down at the woman before her. She climbed to her feet but Spike was already turning the corner and not paying her any attention.

The ambulance was nearing and the sirens were ringing in Faye's ears as she watched Spike fly off. 

***

"Spike!" Faye called out as she walked into the ship later that night (or earlier that morning since it was three o' clock by the time she was able to leave the scene of the "crime").

She walked into the living room to see Jet sitting on the couch with an ice pack on his head. "What's going on? Why isn't he handcuffed or something?" She asked turning her head to look at Spike who stood leaning against the wall.

"Things are a little more complicated than they seem." Spike replied.

"What's so complicated? You know that woman, she's dead. That makes seventeen women that he's killed!" Faye argued pointing at the silent Jet.

"Faye," Jet said quietly, "Let me expl-"

"You better not say 'let me explain'. I just had a women you killed die in my arms. You are worth 50,000,000 woolongs and I want that money." Faye answered threateningly.

"Faye, do you know about that drug Déjà vu? The one that they say Jet's shipping. Do you know what it does?" Spike asked looking over at the extremely riled Faye. It gives the user an incredible high. But it also causes the user's brain to malfunction, you could say. The user has no choice but to do whatever they were told to do within the first few minutes of taking the drug. In other words it's a mind control agent." Spike finished.

"Take a look." He said while pushing the computer towards Faye.

"So you were told to kill those women? Why? And by who?" Faye asked looking over the computer screen at Jet who was sitting with his head low.

"It was a message. To Spike." Jet stated quietly. "Apparently Vicious had a right hand man who was promised the chance to lead the syndicate if anything was to happen to him. Well, when Spike killed Vicious this guy took over and now he wants revenge. He figured if a large enough bounty was put on my head you two would come after me and kill me."

"How did he know that Spike was alive? I just found out." Faye asked quietly. This was starting to be too much for her.

"There are a lot of people working for this guy. One of his henchmen spotted Spike a few weeks ago." Jet answered. "Look, I didn't want to kill those women. I knew what I was doing, I mean I remember it all I just couldn't stop myself. I guess he figured that if all of Spike's friends were picked off he'd slowly go crazy. Like after Julia" Spike looked over at Jet with an unreadable expression on his face at hat statement.

"I just want to know one thing. Did you try to kill me?" Faye asked sitting down on the old yellow chair across from Jet.

"I was going to. They wanted me to. But I never got the chance." Jet answered quietly. It was obvious that he was ashamed of his actions, even the ones he hadn't committed.

"So, you didn't attack me today?" Faye asked trying to get all the facts straight.

"No." 

"Then who the hell did?"

Hmmm. The questions keep coming. This is where you review… please. See you next chapter. Selena's "I Could Fall In Love With You" just came on my Launch Radio, now I have to go and cry. Don't you guys miss her too…