A/N: Since it took so long to post chapter 5 I thought I should post chapter 6 too.

Chapter 6: Swimming with the Coy Fish

In the sky Jet and Spike took off into the city to Faye's home. Faye and Ed took Faye's car.

"Ed, why did you come back?" asked Faye.

"What do you mean?" asked Ed.

"Why did you come back to the bebop? Your father took you back…what happened?" Faye was curious.

Ed was silent for a moment; she looked out the window and watched as the people passed by her fast. "When my father found me, he had a bounty on his head…and when he took me he still had that bounty on him. I lived with him for about 2 years before they caught him." Said Ed not once sounding sad. "I had no where to go and I had no one but Ein …so I came back to Spike and Jet. Just like you." She said smiling.

"What happened to him?" asked Faye.
Ed turned her head back toward Faye; in her golden eyes Faye saw her answer screaming at her in the face. Ed's silence was good enough of an answer as well.

"I'm very sorry Ed." Faye alleged.

"But its okay you know…I know one day I'll see my papa again." She said smiling to Faye. When Faye looked at Ed, she saw a woman…but deep down inside her somewhere Faye saw that 13 year old annoying, yet sweet girl she once was…just more mature.

Police lights danced all around the neighborhood, bringing nosey neighbors out for a peek at what was going on. Faye pulled up across the street, and watched as the ambulance brought out two bodies covered in a white sheet.

"Faye? Will you be alright?" asked Ed touching her shoulder.

"Yeah…I'll be fine." Faye said snapping out of her shock.

Faye reached into the glove box and pulled out a pair of sunglasses. She tied her hair into a bun and paused for a minute to gather herself together.

Going inside the house seemed the hardest for Faye. She saw people searching through her things and looking at all her personal belongings. She wanted to shout at them to get the hell out of her house! But she kept her cool.

"Hey-hey! Who are you?" asked a detective wearing big aviator sunglasses, he munched down on gum smacking like a horse. He was a large gentleman, looking more like a professional wrestler than a cop. On his badge it said "Powers"

"We were sent by Ben to check things out." Jet said handing him a written pass, allowing them to look around.

"You're bounty hunters, huh? Whatever." He said tossing the slip back to them.

Once allowed to enter the bebop crew walked passed officer Powers. Faye glanced at him through her dark sunglasses, something about him made her feel disquieted. She tried not to be so obvious when she looked at him, yet he caught her glance. Faye looked away quickly but could feel his glare still on her back.

"What a jerk." Said Ed to the rest of the group.

"I don't like these guys…they seem odd to me." Jet said. "Keep your eye out, and don't show what you find to these cops." Jet said just above a whisper.

"This is Powers…they have arrived." Powers said whispering into his radio that rested on his shoulder.

The four split up and began to look around the home. Ed covered the down stairs where most of the policemen were. Jet looked over what detectives looked over; trying to find some clues they may have missed, and Faye stayed with Spike.


Spike looked around the room of Alexandria,and saw family pictures of Faye, Alexandria, and Thomas. Spike gazed upon the face of achild with curlypurple pigtail,and brown eyes. She smiled brightly and had this tender sweetness in her eyes…something that Spike had never known.

Faye saw him staring at the large picture of Alexandria. She walked over to him and rested her hand on his shoulder.

"Is that her?" asked Spike still looking at the picture. Faye nodded and stared at the picture too. "She has my eyes." Said Spike touching the cheek of the picture.

"Sometimes I wonder…if she too can see the present in one eye, and the past in the other." Faye stated. "She's a sweet kid, she has your attitude." Said Faye sarcastically as she walkedaround theroom.

Spike took a moment more to stare at the picture, and suddenly he felt something inside him swell and burst with pride. He kept his eyes locked on the picture and in an instant he could see himself with his daughter.

"Alexandria…"


"Hey whatcha doing?" asked a curious cop to Ed.

"This house has an alarm system…I want to know if anyone triggered it during the night." Explained Ed.

"Seriously, you can do that?" asked the cop.

"Uh, duh." Ed said.

Ed entered the home security database; once she did it asked for the code…she pressed a blue button on her computer and tons of little smiley faces danced around the screen. She hacked in.

"That's funny…the alarm was never set off." Said Ed.


Jet stumbled into Faye's room where Thomas' body was found. Jet walked in when the photographer took a shot of the blood that stained the sheets. Two detectives turned their heads toward Jet.

"Sorry fellas, I just need to take a look around." Jet said holding up the slip of paper.

"Knock yourself out." Said the policeman.

Jet walked around the large room, noticing how large it was. "She did pretty good for herself." Jet stated to himself quietly about Faye. Lightly putting his foot on the ground Jet felt something under his foot make a cracking sound.

He lifted his foot and saw a tiny tube hidden on the white carpet. Jet didn't want to show any evidence to any of the officers. He bent down to the floor like he was looking at something and slyly stuck the tube in his pocket.

"See anything?" asked a cop coming up from behind him.

"Nope…Not a thing, good job." Jet said standing up…towering over the small man.

Jet began to walk out of the room, but he could feel hot stares covering his body. Once Jet had made it in to the hallway, one officer spoke into his radio.

"Go." He simply said.


Jet saw Spike and Faye down the spiral stairs; he walked over to them quickly.

"These guys are really fishy to me…I think we need to get out of here." Said Jet.

"Yeah, lets get out of here…these guys are giving me the creeps." Faye joined in.

The three turned around from their small circle and saw heavy stares from many men in blue. Huddled together the crew members kept caution.

"You boys have done a fine job here. I guess we'll be on our way." Said Jet.

Officer Powers was one man that stood higher than the rest he smirked at Jet.

"You ain't going anywhere." Powers saidcracking his largeknuckles. He swung at Jet, but Jet caught his punch with his metal hand. "Ahhh!" Powers yelped in pain as Jet squeezed his fist tight. Jet pushed the man back. Quickly Powers jumped back on his feet whipping out his gun. Noisy clicks sounded off as the other officers followed Powers' lead. The policeman that was observing Ed's hacking skills, held the gun to her head.

"We don't want any trouble." Said Faye taking a hold of Spike's hand.

"Aw…too bad. You found it!" Powers shouted still holding the gun up.

"What do you want?" asked Spike shielding Faye.

"Vicious was specific on what he wanted." Said Powers. "He wanted your head Spiegel!" Powers shot the gun. Spike pushed Faye to the floor and dodged the bullet. The other officers came charging at them with their nightsticks and guns.

Faye took out her pistol from her boot and began to fire. She took down three cops, but missed several shots, Faye was a little more than out of practice. Jet fought off anyone who came his way.

"Ouch! Let me go dammit!" Ed cried as the officer took hold of her tightly. Ed gripped his arm and with mighty strength she threw the manover her head and onto the floor. Another man came flying after her but Ed dodged his attack. When the cop pulled out his gun so did Ed.

Ed was frozen…it wasn't in her heart to shoot somebody, bad or good. Without even pulling the trigger the cop was shot in the head. Ed turned around to see Faye holding down the trigger.

Bullets flew as Spike and Powers faced off outside on the balcony. Each shot that was fired from Powers Spike dodged, and every shot that was fired from Spike barely missed Powers.

"Who has Alexandria?" Spike growled standing his ground.

"Don't worry that bitch's brat is well taking care of." Said Powers.

Angry, Spike began to shoot more and more. The people outside ducked from the loud ear piercing booms. Spike had backed Powers into a corner and shot his leg.

"Ahhh! Oh shit!" Powers whined in pain touching his bleeding leg.

Spike breathed in for a moment to calm himself down. He walked over to the giant man slowly. With gun still in hand Spike placed the pistol to Powers' cheek.

"Tell me who sent you! Don't feed that bullshit about Vicious either." Said Spike.

Powers hesitated to speak, Spike swiftly lifted his gun in the air and shot it once. Powers flinched in fear, people on their lawns ducked down and screamed.

"Okay! Okay, I'll tell you. The guy's name is Tony. He's Vicious' twin brother…he's been locked up in pen since he was 13 years old, now he's out." Said a terrified Powers.

Spike couldn't tell if Powers spoke the truth, hecouldn't believethat Vicious had a twin brother...Spikejust had to take his word for it.

"Tony's got the kid?" asked Spike. Powers nodded with wide eyes.

"Spike?" Faye turned the corner to see him standing over Powers. Spike kept his brown eyes on Powers. Sirens went off as the real police showed up from reports of gunfire.

"Spike!" Faye cried again. Spike kept his eyes on Powers with a dead look in his eyes. He walked away from him.


When Spike left, Powers struggled to get up. He moved slowly because of his leg. A very skinny man by the name of Keller came rushing to his side.

"Powers? You alright?" asked Keller.

"Yeah, lets get the hell out of here." Powers said limping out of the house and toward his ship.

The Bebop crew took off in a flash, making it back to the dented ship. As she drove back Faye saw a worried look in Ed's eyes.

"You want to tell me what happened?" asked Faye. Ed was silent.

"…I can't do it. I can't kill someone." Confessed Ed. "I'm not strong like you guys, I just can't pull the trigger." Said Ed twirling her thumbs around each other in her lap.

"Have you ever?" asked Faye.

"Once." Said Ed sadly. When Faye saw Ed's eyes getting teary, she dropped the subject. And it was silent all the way back to the Bebop.


Once back on the Bebop Spike searched frantically for a Tony, yet his name was not mentioned in any of the records. Faye sat next to him going over the records as well.

"Nothing?" asked Jet.

"Nothing." Replied Spike.

Jet felt that his side pocket was wet, he reached in and pulled out the test tube he had found earlier back at Faye's home. Half of the liquid was on his pants.

"Oh yeah." Jet said as he just remembered he had taken it from the house. He looked at the test tube and saw slowly decreasing thick clear liquid inside of it. The tube was cracked and began to spill it everywhere. Jet quickly took the tube to the analyzer that was set next to the computer.

Spike and Faye watched from the yellow couch as Jet quickly prepared the tube for observation.

"I found this tube on the floor in your bedroom, I don't know what it is…but I don't think it belonged there. Does it look familiar to you Faye?" asked Jet holding the tube up to her.

"No, I've never seen that before." She said taking a look at it.

Jet poured the fluid into the water container on the analyzer. He punched a few keys on the computer keyboard. Jumbles of numbers and letter sprawled across the screen, creating nothing but a large headache for Jet.

"What is all this?" asked Jet out loud in frustration.

Ed came walking by the frustrated man. She took a look at the computer screen that was filled with numbers and letters all out of order and cluttered together.

"What is that?" asked Ed as she watched Jet stare at it with utter confusion in his head.

"Honestly…I don't know." Jet said in a tired voice.

Ed sat down next to him and put in a password that made tiny little smiley faces come out. They began moving the mixed code around. Ed punched in more numbers and the faces tore away at the code faster.

When the hacking system did all it could, Ed read the final results.

"It's a formula." Said Ed.

"A formula? What's in it?" Jet asked.

"Coy fish." Edsimply stated .

"What?" asked the three.

"This stuff," Ed pulled out the testing tube with the clear liquid. "This is a natural chemical, that comes from coy fish."

TO BE CONTINUED…