The universe is filled with billions of extraterrestrial beings, many of them new and undiscovered! But one man named Dandy plans on finding and registering them all! He travels the universe with his crew and amazing pompadour in search of adventure, excitement, and boobies! These are the adventures of the dandiest guy in space, Space Dandy!

"It's poker night, baby!" Dandy exclaimed, gripping a deck of playing cards in his fist.

Within minutes, the crew of the Aloha Oe was seated at the dinner table, each of them holding a handful of cards.

"Okay, everybody bring their ante?" QT asked. The others nodded.

Dandy put a handful of Woolongs at the center of the table along with a gold wristwatch and a stack of his favorite cassette tapes. Meow forked over his ear buds and a handful of pocket change. Carrie put in a bag of bottle caps, a stack of comic books, and some shiny objects she had collected over the years. Last, QT put in a huge sack full of change he had gathered from the laundry and couch cushions during his daily cleaning routine.

Dandy grinned as he looked at his hand. "I'll raise you guys fifteen hundred Woolongs," Dandy said as he shoved a few poker chips into the pot and placed four cards face-down. "You're up, Meow."

"I'm calling your bluff," Meow replied, laying all his cards face down on the table. "I'll go all-in and raise you two-thousand Woolongs. You're next, Carrie."

Carrie stared at her hand with a semi-confused look on her face.

"C'mon, show us what you got," Dandy told her.

"Nope, go fish!" Carrie chimed. Meow, QT, and Dandy groaned at her.

"For the last time, we're playing poker, not Go Fish!" QT reminded her.

"Poke who?" Carrie asked.

"Pok-er!" QT, Dandy, and Meow all yelled at her.

"Who's her?"

"Poker!" The three of them screamed at Carrie again.

"Okay!" Carrie exclaimed. She gently jabbed QT with her finger and said, "poke!"

"Technically, I'm a robot and don't have a gender," QT informed the Sepian, unamused.

"Just lay your cards down…" Dandy told her.

Carrie did as she was told; she wasn't even playing with real cards. Her "hand" consisted of an old post-it note, an expired Boobies gift card, a half-eaten chocolate bar, and an anchovy.

"Sorry Dandy, but I got this round," Meow replied. He laid down two pairs and raked in a stack of poker chips.

"Sorry, baby but it looks like this one goes to yours truly!"

Dandy through his hand down; he had a full house. Dandy took Meow's stack of poker chips.

"A full house doesn't beat two pair!" Meow objected.

"It does in Andromeda-style poker," Dandy replied.

"No, you're thinking of Polaris-style poker!" Meow yelled.

"Both of you settle down!" QT interrupted.

"I'm telling you, in Andromeda-style poker, a full house is the highest scoring hand you can get!" Dandy argued.

"No it isn't! I got two pairs, so my score is doubled!" Meow argued back.

"This game is boring!" Carrie whined. "I wanna play something else, like fifty-two card pick-up!"

"Shut up! I'm trying to inform this stupid, lazy Betelgeusian that a full house is the highest scoring hand in Andromeda-style poker!"

"And I'm trying to inform this dunderheaded human that the highest scoring hand in Andromeda-style poker is two-pair!"

Dandy and Meow growled at each other, neither of them willing to admit that they were both wrong, because in Andromeda-style poker, the hand with the lowest point score wins.

"QT, which hand won the round?" Dandy asked, both he and Meow glaring at the little robot.

"I don't know! I thought we were playing Galatean-style poker!" QT stammerd.

"Well, let's just play something we all know how to play," Carrie suggested. She snatched the remaining cards in the deck.

"Don't you dare throw those cards!" Dandy yelled at her.

"I'm gonna do it!" Carrie replied, a silly look on her face.

"Don't you do it!"

"Imma do it!"

"So help me, if you do I'll-"

"Too late!" Carrie interrupted.

She threw the deck of cards in the air and yelled, "Fifty-two card pick up!" Playing cards flew all over the kitchen floor as Carrie laughed. "That was fun!"

"So much for our poker game…" QT muttered.

"That's it! I'm tired of you screwing everything up!" Dandy exclaimed. "All you do is break or eat everything you touch! And you're stupid!"

"Nuh-uh! You are," Carrie shouted back, offended by his words.

"You're a freak of nature! I like big boobs as much as the next guy, but damn! Do the galaxy a favor and transfer some of your chest mass to your ass!"

"Oh yeah, well your hair looks funny!" Carrie argued back.

"Hey don't diss the hair! At least it looks better cared for than yours! Yours looks like and Antarian worm-bird's been nesting in it!"

"Big chin!" Carrie yelled.

"At least my chin is smaller than your boobs! You look like you stuffed a couple of planets in your shirt!"

"Oh yeah! Well uh…" Carrie paused for a moment, as she was running out of insults. "You're ugly!"

Dandy's jaw dropped as the word "ugly" echoed through his head. No one, especially not a chick, had ever called him ugly before. Carrie folded her hands under her breasts and blew a raspberry at him triumphantly, believing she had beaten him. Dandy scrunched up his face, both angry and hurt.

"Man, I can't believe you lost an argument to Carrie of all life-forms!" Meow teased, fueling Dandy's rage.

"Shut up!" Dandy screamed at Meow. "All you do is lay around and eat! You're just as useless as Carrie is!"

"As if you're any better!" Meow retorted. "All you did yesterday was lay around and watch TV!"

"Well I'm both the main character and the owner of this ship, so I can do whatever the hell I want!"

"Oh, I'm so sorry, your majesty!" Meow sneered sarcastically.

"Yeah, both of you better be sorry! If it wasn't for me, neither of you would be anything!"

"Oh yeah, well I bet we could make a better series than you could!" Carrie yelled, once again joining the argument.

"For once, that sounds like a good idea!" Meow added. "We don't need Dandy to catch aliens and go on adventures!"

"Well I don't need you either!" Dandy yelled at Meow and Carrie. "Get off of my ship!"

"Fine!" Carrie and Meow yelled in unison.

"Fine!" Dandy yelled back.

Carrie picked Meow up and crammed him in her mouth. "Fine!" She yelled, her voice muffled.

She stormed off the Aloha Oe, Meow's tail hanging out the side of her mouth.

"Good riddance!" Dandy yelled after her.

"Don't you think kicking them out was a little… harsh?" QT asked Dandy. "Also, that puts us two crew members down and with Carrie gone, we don't have anyone strong enough to move the refrigerator when I need to clean behind it."

"Hey, it'll be just like old times, baby," Dandy replied as he sat on the couch and put his feet up. "We got along just fine before we met Meow and Carrie and we'll do just fine without them."

"Okay, but I'm putting their stuff in the cargo hold just in case," QT said.

Meanwhile, Carrie kept walking until she was away from the hangar. She walked into a hallway behind the fancy ramen restaurant a few blocks away and she spat Meow back up, who was still ticked off.

"Ugh, was that necessary?" Meow asked, covered in saliva. "At least we're away from that megalomaniac, Dandy. I thought he was a pretty cool guy until tonight…"

"That name-calling game was kinda fun, though!" Carrie added. "He didn't have to get mad about it, though…"

Meow dried himself off and looked around. "Well, we might as well start looking for a ship." He stuck his hands in his vest pockets and pulled them inside out. "I'm not sure how we're gonna afford one without any money."

"That's why I brought us here!" Carrie exclaimed. "I know where we can get one for free!"

"A free ship?"

"Yup! Follow me!"

Carrie ran down the sidewalk with Meow at her heels. They stopped in front of a convenience store with several vending machines outside the entrance.

"Carrie, you can't get a ship at the grocery store…" Meow muttered, not impressed.

"No, silly! Look!"

Carrie pointed behind one of the vending machines. Meow looked and saw a kiddie ride in the shape of a red space ship with two robot arms underneath it and a big star logo printed on the nose.

"You're joking, right?"

"Nope!"

Carrie squeezed her butt in the seat, obviously too big for the child's ride. She punched the coin slot and the kiddie ride moved slowly back and forth.

"See?"

Meow rubbed his forehead.

"I don't believe this… Carrie, that ship can't take us anywhere! It's just a kiddie ride!"

"It can't with that attitude!" Carrie snapped.

Meanwhile, back at the Aloha Oe, Dandy was on the phone with Scarlett, trying to get a lead on a new alien.

"I'm sorry, Dandy, but I don't have any leads for you," Scarlett told him. "Why don't you go looking for leads yourself?"

"Well I could, but then I wouldn't get to hear your voice, baby!"

Click! Scarlett hung up on the alien hunter.

"Talk about no manners! Wonder what's eatin' her?" Dandy asked QT, who just shrugged.

"Shouldn't you be trying to fill those two missing slots in our crew?" QT said.

"What are you talking about?"

"Remember, you kicked Meow and Carrie out earlier today."

Dandy thought for a moment.

"Oh yeah…"

"They're probably not too far if you wanted to go apologize-"

"Hell no! If I kicked them out, I'm sure I had a good reason!"

"You mean you already forgot why you kicked them out in the first place!?"

"I bet I did it because Carrie ate those little soap things you hang on the toilet again, right?" QT slapped his screen.

"We'll find better crew members! I once met a couple of guys back on my home planet, Earth! There was this guy with red hair and this weird-looking gun, Starbreeze I think was his name. And then there was this dark green-haired badassed guy with a cool name, Spine, or something like that. We could get those guys!"

"Uh, maybe we should call them first," QT said.

"Great idea! Run a search on them."

"But Dandy, all I have to go on are approximate names."

"Well, go through names of people from Earth who have names similar to the ones I gave you," Dandy replied.

"Are you sure you can't remember their actual names?"

"Nope! I was drunk when I met both of them!" A large drop of sweat went down the back of QT's head.

"Why doesn't that surprise me?"

QT went to work sourcing those names for Dandy.

"I wonder how Meow and Carrie are doing?"

Meanwhile, Carrie and Meow were in front of a laundromat. Carrie sat at a bench playing with her flip-flops and Meow stood at a pay phone, talking with someone.

"Yeah dad…" Meow said, replying to the person on the other end of the phone. "Just enough to get us through the week, I guess. Uh-huh, that's right. I appreciate it. Yes, I'll call you if I need anything else, I promise. Okay, bye."

Meow hung up the pay phone. He turned to Carrie.

"Well, my dad said he'd loan us enough money to rent an apartment for a little while, but it won't get here until tomorrow. I hope you don't mind sleeping in the dumpster for a night or two…"

"Nah, it's okay!" Carrie beamed, kicking one of her flip-flops up in the air.

"You know," Meow started, sitting down next to the Sepian, as she used her tail to retrieve her flip-flop. "Now that it's just the two of us, I was wondering…"

Meow pushed his fingers together.

"What?"

"Well, I just wanted to ask…" Meow blushed a little and turned away from Carrie, who was looking at him kind of funny.

"Ask me already!" Carrie exclaimed, shaking the Betelgeusian.

"Okay, okay! I was just thinking, you should be the boss of our new crew!"

"What!?" Carrie shouted. "No! No, no, no, no, no! I don't want to be boss! You be the boss!"

"Ugh, but I don't want to be the boss either!" Meow groaned. "It's too much work!"

"Well I can't take that kind of pressure!"

Carrie grabbed the sides of her head.

"Hey, I got an idea! Why don't we both be the boss?"

"We both can't be the boss, Carrie…"

"No, no think about it. If we're both the boss, then none of us can really be the boss, therefore neither of us will have to be the boss!"

Meow stared at Carrie, trying to make sense of what she just told him.

"Let's just not have a boss…"

"That works, too," Carrie laughed, Meow joining her.

"It's getting late," Meow said, looking at his phone. "Let's find a nice dumpster to sleep in."

"Okay!" Carrie exclaimed. "Maybe we'll find some good stuff to eat in it, too!"

"Just make sure you eat the rotten stuff and we'll be fine!"

"All right!"

Carrie threw her fist in the air as the two of them walked back to the dumpster behind the ramen restaurant.

A few days later, back on the Aloha Oe, Dandy and QT were still trying to find those guys Dandy met back on Earth. Dandy hadn't left the hangar since he kicked Carrie and Meow off of his crew, and had done nothing but eat, sleep, and search records on every known human. Police records, copies of birth and death certificates, and photographs had piled up everywhere.

"Ugh, I can't find anything about these guys!" Dandy exclaimed, falling backwards into a pile of papers.

"Does this guy look like one of them?" QT showed Dandy a picture.

"Yeah, that's the green-haired guy. Where did you find him?"

"It was a local newspaper article. It said he was reportedly killed by some gang member."

"No way," Dandy replied.

QT handed Dandy some paperwork.

"Yup, he was stabbed by a sword and a dagger. Can't get much deader than that."

"Damn," Dandy muttered, reading over the papers. "He was a cool guy, too. Anything on the red-haired guy?"

"Nope, nothing," QT replied. "I'm gonna take a break to recharge."

"All right."

Dandy went back to reading through some papers as QT rolled quietly over towards the phone. He grabbed the receiver and discreetly went into the kitchen. QT dialed a number and let it ring three times, before a familiar voice answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey Meow, it's QT! How are ya?"

"QT? Hey, how's it going?"

"Alright, I guess. Dandy's still been obsessed with finding new cremates. How have you been?"

"Good. I'm staying at the Jupiter Inn with some money I borrowed from my dad. I've got a job interview in the morning and I'm hoping to start by the end of the week."

"Great! What about Carrie? How's she doing?"

Meow got eerily quiet.

"Did something happen to her?

"She left sometime the night before. I woke up and she was just… gone."

"I hope she's okay," QT said. "Have you seen the news? There's some kind of killer on the loose."

"Yeah," Meow replied. "The newspaper says they found the bones of five more victims just a block east of Boobies."

"I saw that."

"So, how's the jerkface?"

"Jerkfa- Oh! You mean Dandy! He's been very busy trying to find new crewmembers to replace you two."

"Really? Has he found anyone yet?"

"Well... he's insisting on these two guys he met back on Earth, but one's deceased and we haven't found anything on the other guy."

"Oh…" Meow paused for a few seconds. "Has he mentioned anything about me or Carrie?"

"Not really. Between you and me, I think he might've forgotten about being mad at you guys."

Meow laughed. "Yup, that sounds about right!"

"Oh, I have to go! If you see Carrie again, tell her I said hi."

"I will," Meow replied. "Bye!"

QT hung up the phone just as Dandy dragged himself into the kitchen. He looked tired and worn out, his pompadour had begun to droop and his clothes were dirty. He opened the door to the refrigerator and a pile of papers poured out on top of him.

"Ugh, QT why is the fridge full of paper?" Dandy groaned.

"Sorry. We ran out of space to put them."

"Why couldn't you put them in the storage container thing down in the cargo hold?" Dandy asked as he dug himself out of the papers.

"The spare engine part we purchased a couple of months ago is blocking the door, and it's too heavy for me to move it," QT replied.

"Oh yeah…" Dandy rubbed his chin. "Why don't I use the Hawaii Yankee to move it for you and we can get some of this paper cleaned up?"

"Because… The Hawaii Yankee isn't working," QT reminded Dandy. "Remember? The transformation cog broke, so we sent it off to get it repaired yesterday."

"Oh," Dandy grunted. He paused to think for a minute or two. "Hey, didn't we have someone living here who could move heavy stuff?"

"Yeah. That was Carrie…"

"Who?"

"Carrie. Five feet tall…blonde hair…"

Dandy stared at QT. "Doesn't ring a bell."

"Ate weird things… large breasts…"

"I think I would remember someone like that."

Dandy thought for a minute more.

"Oh yeah! That was me, wasn't it?"

Dandy flexed his muscles.

"Uh I don't think-"

"I'll have that spare engine moved out of the way in no time!"

Dandy trotted off to the cargo hold, still flexing his muscles.

"Dandy wait! You're gonna hurt yourself!"

QT tried to stop Dandy, but all of a sudden she heard a sickening crack.

"Dandy are you okay?"

Dandy responded by letting out a loud scream. QT waited at the top of the ladder as Dandy slowly crawled back up, his movements very stiff. His mouth agape and back hunched over, he finally made it to the top of the stairs.

"You pulled out your back, didn't you?" QT asked.

"Yup…" Dandy groaned as he collapsed onto the floor.

QT dragged the alien hunter to the couch, cleared off the mountain of paper that had accumulated over the past few days, and laid him on it. Just as Dandy was getting comfortable, the phone rang. Dandy groaned and tried to move.

"You stay right there, I'll get it!" QT shouted as he rolled over to the phone.

QT skidded across papers until he finally reached the receiver.

"Hello, QT speaking… Yes, this is the Aloha Oe. Yeah, Dandy's here, but he's indisposed at the moment. He threw his back out just a few minutes ago. Uh-huh… Uh-huh… Yeah, I'm afraid he won't be going anywhere for a while. Yeah, I can leave a number for you."

QT scribbled down a phone number on a sheet of paper.

"Okay, I'll tell him. All right, bye!"

"Who was that…?" Dandy moaned.

"Someone by the name of Gene Starwind. He said he met you a few years back at some place called Clyde's and he was wanting to know if you wanted to meet up sometime, or something like that. I have a feeling he might've been that red-haired guy you're looking for."

"Starwind you say?" Dandy groaned.

"Yup."

"Nah, that wasn't him…" Dandy shoved over a tower of papers stacked beside the couch.

Meanwhile, at a little rundown tavern called Clyde's Bar on a planet in the Sentinel System, red-haired man wearing a black, sleeveless tank top with shoulder armor stood at a pay phone at the back of the bar. He hung up the receiver, a disappointed look on his face.

A black-haired man wearing a dark suit and smoking a cigarette called out to him.

"You get a hold of him, Gene?"

"Gene," the red-haired man, walked over to the black-haired man.

"No, Spike" Gene answered. "I don't know, guess he changed his number."

"Well, guess we're on our own," Spike said as he downed a glass of booze and laid it on the bar. "Check please."

Meanwhile, back at the Aloha Oe, QT had prepared a hot water bottle for Dandy's back.

"I give up! Why don't we just call it a good run and retire?"

"But Dandy, we can't retire! We don't have any money. Plus, the readers might get angry and riot."

"Screw the readers!"

Dandy forced himself to sit up. He was still in a lot of pain from throwing out his back. As he grabbed the hot water bottle and put it on his back, the ship's doorbell rang.

"Ugh, I'm coming!"

"Don't worry, I'll get it!"

QT rolled over to the door and a man barged in, aiming a laser pistol at him. He was a humanoid creature with dark skin and short, black hair-like feathers on his hair. He wore a grey Galactic Federation police uniform and black sunglasses.

"Don't move!" He snarled, aiming at QT. He flicked his lizard-like tongue as he spoke.

"Whoa, take it easy!" QT exclaimed, very startled. "What do you want?"

"I'm on the trail of the mysterious killer, and I've tracked them to this location!"

The alien police officer flicked his tongue in the air again.

"Aha! She's either been here or she's hiding here!"

"Who?" QT asked.

The officer aimed his pistol at the little yellow robot.

"Quiet you! You're under arrest for harboring a fugitive!"

"What's going on?" Dandy yelled as he pulled himself to his feet.

"Freeze, you!" The police officer aimed his laser pistol at Dandy, who threw his hands up in surprise.

"Wh-who are you?"

"I am Officer Gen Rastler, and you…" Gen pulled out a digital tablet and read from it. "Mr. Space Dandy, are going to answer a few questions for me, or I'm going to arrest you for withholding information!"

"Okay, okay! What do you want?"

"I have been investigating the suspicious killings, and after taking some DNA to the Alien Registration Center for identification, I have discovered that the perpetrator is a Sepian. And the only Sepian living in this area, or anywhere for that matter, is a Miss Caroline AKA Carrie Aston."

Dandy gave Gen a confused look.

"I have no idea who you're talking about. I'm the only living thing here, baby."

"Oh yeah?" Gen questioned as he flicked his tongue again. "I can taste two more beings besides you and the robot. A Betelgeusian…and my perpetrator."

"Wait a minute," Dandy said. "It's coming back to me now. Sorry, I've been in a funk over the past few days and I completely forgot about the two extra crew members I hired several months ago."

"A likely story," Gen replied. "Can you tell me where these two are?"

"They don't live here anymore. We had a bad argument a few days ago and we went our separate ways. We haven't talked since."

"Actually, I just talked to Meow this morning, officer," QT added. Dandy shot him a deathly glare. "He's staying at the Jupiter Inn."

Gen eyed Dandy and QT suspiciously.

"You seem to be telling the truth… I'm going to check the place before I leave, still. Did this, Meow, tell you anything about the whereabouts of the suspect?"

"Well, she was staying with him, but she disappeared a few days ago without saying anything," QT answered.

Gen glanced over the information on his data pad.

"Officer, if it'll help, I can give you the ship's security footage over the past few weeks, but we promise you, she's not here."

Gen holstered his pistol and sighed. "All right, I believe you. Damn, and I thought I was hot on her trail, but it turns out, I'm ice-cold…"

Dandy tied a hot water bottle to his back and stretched.

"Sorry, buddy. I'd offer you something to drink, but our fridge is full of paper right now…"

"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask about that," Gen replied, looking around at all the paper piled everywhere.

"Oh, it's nothing…" Dandy said.

Gen looked over his data pad once more. "Hey, my records indicate that you're an alien hunter, and that you and your crew were the ones who caught and registered this Sepian at the Registration Center. I know you aren't feeling well, but do you think you could lend me a hand catching her?"

"You know what? A good alien hunt is just what I need to snap out of my funk!" Dandy gave Gen a thumbs-up and flashed his trademark smile. "Of course I'll help ya!"

"Thank you, Mr. Dandy!"

"I'm gonna need some help, though. I'm still a person short if I'm counting you…"

"I can help with that," a familiar voice replied.

Everyone turned around to see Meow standing in the doorway. He looked tired and beat-up, but otherwise in good health.

"Meow! What are you doing here?" QT asked the Betelgeusian.

Meow rubbed the back of his neck. "Well… the hotel kicked me out and I kinda lied about the whole job interview thing."

Dandy walked up to Meow with a stern look on his face.

"So you came crawling back, huh."

"No!" Meow yelled. "I just thought my so-called friend would-"

Before the Betelgeusian could finish, Dandy threw his arms around his neck.

"I missed you, ya useless ball of fur!"

Meow's eyes welled up and he threw his paws around Dandy's neck.

"I missed you too, ya big-chinned blockhead!"

"Okay this is getting weird. Break it up you two!" Gen ordered.

"Yeah I agree," Dandy said as he and Meow let each other go.

"Now we just need to get Carrie back," Meow said.

"Actually, she's a suspect in the killings that have been going around lately," Gen stated bluntly.

"Oh, wow! I never thought she'd do something like that."

"Well, when you think about it," QT said, "she's not the most mentally stable."

Gen's data pad suddenly went off.

"Alright, gentlemen and droids, get your stuff together! My sources have located our perpetrator at the unfinished Arkesian Gateway!"

"My ship can get us there in no time flat!"

"Are you in any shape to fly?" Meow asked, noticing the hot water bottle tied to Dandy's back.

"Of course I am, baby!"

Just then, Dandy's back cracked and he screamed in pain.

"No you're not!"

Gen ran to the cockpit of the Aloha Oe and sat at the controls.

"Hot damn, this thing looks like it pilots just like the little cruiser I had back home!"

Gen adjusted his sunglasses and grabbed the handlebars, a huge grin spread across his face. He pressed a button and the Aloha Oe shot out of the hangar and towards the Arkesian Gateway, a check-in station that was under construction just a few parsecs away from their current location. The ship docked in an unfinished section, where a huge alien with a big horn on his nose stood.

"Hey! You can't dock here! This place is off limits!" The horned alien yelled as Dandy and company disembarked from their pulled out his badge and flashed it at the alien creature.

"GFPD sir, I'm looking for Miss Carrie Aston. She's a suspect connected to a series of killings at a space port not too far from here."

"Little Carrie?" The horned alien asked. "You can go talk to her, but I doubt she's your suspect. She's been working for us the past couple of days now. In fact, there she goes now."

The horned alien turned to his right where Carrie was walking away, holding a huge metal beam.

"Hey Carrie!" The alien bellowed.

"What? Is it lunch time, yet?"

The horned alien snarled at her.

"No, it is not lunch time! Put that down and c'mere for a minute!"

Carrie threw the metal beam aside and walked over to him.

"What do you need, boss?" Carrie asked.

"These guys want to…" The horned alien glanced at the top of Carrie's head. "Where the hell is your hard hat?"

"It got itchy so I took it off."

"How many times must I tell you?" The horned alien took his own hard hat off and hit Carrie in the head with it. "You have to wear your hard hat at all times! You know what? You're fired! You don't listen to anything I tell ya!"

And with that, he stormed off, grumbling something to looked after him, looking very confused.

"Okay, bye-bye!" She called after him.

"Don't move!" Gen threatened, pressing the barrel of his gun at Carrie's forehead.

"Okay," Carrie replied. "Wait, are we playing Simon Says?"

Gen shoved his pistol into Carrie's forehead.

"No! Now you're going to tell you where you've been the past three days."

"Okay, let me think…"

Carrie put her forefinger and thumb on her chin and thought for a few seconds.

"Oh yeah! I was staying at this hotel with my weasel friend when I looked out the window and saw this shiny thing. I climbed out the window to get it when I ran into this scary woman."

"Scary woman?"

"Mmm-hmm," Carrie replied, nodding. "She had this mean look on her face and one glowing red eye. I got scared, so I ran away. And then I found mister horny nose and he gave me this job."

Meow sputtered as he tried to hold in a laugh.

"Horny nose," he chuckled.

"I don't buy it!" Dandy pulled his own gun out and aimed it at Carrie, but his back started hurting again. "Ouch! Dammit!"

"Hey, I remember you!" Carrie exclaimed. "You smell weird…"

"Wait, red eye?" Meow asked the Sepian. Carrie nodded. "I remember seeing someone like that. I was heading back to the hotel after my third job interview fell through and I thought I saw someone like that standing inside the big ventilation grate just a block down from the old ramen tavern."

"So far this story seems to be checking out," Gen said. "The only thing that puzzles me is that the DNA sample I found was Sepian DNA. How could it be Sepian DNA if A, Carrie is the only Sepian and B, she was working way out here while the killings were taking place?"

"There's only one way to find out," Dandy said. "Augh, my back!" Dandy winced in pain again.

Gen's data pad went off again. Gen checked it and a look of horror spread across his face. "Shit! There's been another murder, this time just outside of the Randy's Market!"

Dandy staggered up to Carrie, still holding his back.

"Carrie, I know we both said some harsh things before, but we could really use you back on the crew. What do you say?"

"What harsh things?" Carrie asked. "I thought we were playing a game."

"Uh, yeah. We were, um, totally playing a game," Dandy lied. "Now do you wanna come back or not?"

"Okay!"

"I hate to break up the happy reunion, but we need to get going!" Gen shouted as he shoved everyone back onto the Aloha Oe and took off again.

The ship landed back in Dandy's designated docking place and exited the ship. Gen led Dandy and his newly reunited crew to Randy's Market, where they met with a gruesome sight. The front window had blood splattered across it, with a huge pool of blood in front of the main entrance. There was a smear of blood from the blood pool to a nearby air shaft.

"Thank goodness you're here officer!" An alien woman exclaimed when she saw Gen. "Some monster attacked my husband and dragged him away! Please hurry!"

"C'mon!"

Gen, Dandy, and the others ran over to the air shaft. The large bars had been bent out and the trail of blood led deeper into the shaft. Gen pulled out his flashlight and went in with Dandy, QT, Meow, and Carrie following behind him. They followed the blood trail deeper and deeper into the vent until the trail mysteriously vanished.

"Damn, we must've just missed them!" Gen shouted.

"Why don't we try again tomorrow?" Dandy asked, rubbing his back.

As Dandy said that, something lashed out at Gen. Gen narrowly ducked, dropping his flashlight, and saw a long, thick metal tail with a huge, sickle-like metal blade attached to the tip of it retreat into a dark tunnel. It lashed out at him from the shadows and slashed the blade at him again. Gen fired into the dark corner, causing something to let out an evil hiss at him.

QT picked up Gen's flashlight and shined it into the dark tunnel. Cornered between them and a huge, spinning fan was Shusuka. She glared at them, the right half of her face bleeding from where Gen shot her.

"Who the hell is that!?" Gen asked.

"I'm not sure," Dandy answered, drawing his own pistol.

QT rolled to a safe spot and Meow pulled out his phone and began recording.

Shusuka turned around and grabbed the big fan, causing it to stop spinning. She tore off one of the blades and tossed it at Gen, but he leaped out of the way. The huge fan blade stabbed into the side of the large air shaft; the impact knocking QT and Meow away and sending shards of metal flying everywhere. One of them hit Carrie in the arm, cutting her.

"Ow," Carrie whimpered. She rubbed her arm, but suddenly her pupils grew large.

Carrie growled and lunged at Shusuka. Shusuka threw another fan blade at Carrie, but Carrie punched it out of her way and aimed another one right at Shusuka's face. Carrie's fist smacked into the palm of Shusuka's hand, causing shockwave that shook the whole air shaft. Shusuka seemed completely unfazed and picked Carrie up with ease. She tossed the shorter Sepian away, then retreated further into the air shaft. Dandy tried to follow her, but pain shot up his back and paralyzed him. Instead, he fired a few shots after her into the darkness.

"What the hell was that!?" Gen exclaimed.

Carrie sat up, a huge bump on her head. Behind her, Meow was trying to pull QT free from a part of the tunnel that had collapsed in the brief fight. Gen pointed his flashlight down the shaft Shusuka ran off into, but he saw nothing but a seemingly endless tunnel.

"There's no use in going after her now," Dandy said. "These shafts go on for miles, and there are lots of hiding spaces."

"Yeah, and most of us aren't in any shape to fight. Too bad we didn't get a picture…"

"I got better than that." Meow handed Gen his phone. "I got the whole thing on video. As a matter of fact, I just uploaded it on YouVeiw and it already has over six thousand hits!"

Gen used Meow's phone to send the video to the chief back at GFPD.

"This might've just saved my ass." Gen handed Meow back his phone. He then checked his data pad. "Yup! The chief is telling me to head back to HQ. They're going to try and track this person down. He's also calling in the Space Marines to help out."

"Great! Now can we get out of here? My back is killing me," Dandy moaned.

Carrie grabbed Dandy by the waist and tossed him over her shoulder, cracking his back. Then everyone left the air shaft, leaving Shusuka to run free. They all went back to the Aloha Oe.

"Here we go!" Carrie exclaimed, throwing Dandy on the couch.

"Ouch…" Dandy groaned.

"This isn't over," Gen said. "As soon as my meeting is over, I'm going to find out who that woman is and bring her to justice."

"You can't do it alone," Dandy said, obviously still in pain. "If you ever need any help, give me a call!"

Gen smiled and tilted his sunglasses forward a bit. "I may have to take you up on that. I better head back to HQ. Stay out of trouble!" And with that, Gen left.

"He's okay for a cop," Dandy said.

"And slightly insane…" QT added.

"Say, Dandy," Meow said. "I've been meaning to ask, but what's with all this paper?" Meow looked around the ship, stacks of paper everywhere the eye could see.

"Uh…" Dandy was unsure what to say.

"I guess we better get to cleaning," QT said. As soon as QT grabbed the broom and some garbage bags, Carrie passed out on a pile of papers and Meow slumped back in a chair and turned the TV on. "Everything's back to normal…"

Meanwhile, deep inside the air shafts, Shusuka had made her way to the docks. She busted through the metal grate and snuck aboard a small ship that was starting to take off.

She killed the pilot and flew the ship deep into space, where Commodore Perry and his fleet were drifting through space. The ship landed inside the Commodore's main cruiser and the Commodore himself met Shusuka at the landing dock.

"Did you get the information on Dandy and his crew?"

Shusuka's glowing red mechanical eye dilated a bit and the side of her head opened up, revealing a storage unit. Commodore Perry grabbed it.

"Excellent!" He turned to Bea, who was standing right behind him. "Bea, take this to Dr. Gel and inform our men that we're moving out!" Commodore Perry grinned wickedly as Bea left to carry out his orders.