"No animals on board." Spike turns me around by my waist, "No allowance for you." I retaliate, he instantly stops and sighs, "I hate you." He groans, I smile happily and pay for the dog, "Nice doggy." I clip on his lead, "I'll be taking that." I felt a gun to the back of my head, I calmly put my card back in my pocket, "Hands off her." I saw Spike with his gun up, "Or else what huh?" I look back, "Good day Hakim, I'm not really in the mood to have a shoot out gentlemen." I put my hand on Spike's hand and ease his gun down, "Good boy." I tease him, "ARGH!" Hakim flies back after I kick his face, the corgi sprints out, "Hey! Come back!" I chase after him, "Nat! What are you doing!" Spike runs after me, I look back and saw Hakim also running after us as well as a truck chasing after us, Hakim overtakes us and continues to sprint after the dog, "Wha?!" I didn't even realise him disappear from behind us, the dog ran under a table of checkers, Hakim leaps over the table of checkers and the old men stare at him, I flip over, "Shit!" I look back and saw that Spike had completely run into it, I burst out laughing while continuing to run, he runs over a bridge while Spike and I run parallel to him until the dog runs to the next bridge, the three of us facing each other, "So you two bounty hunters?" He pants, "You know you really make me laugh Hakim, risking your life for a dog that's only worth a handful of woolong." Spike grins, "What's it to you? An anniversary present for your girlfriend?" He looks at me, the two of us blush bright red, "NO WAY IN HELL!" The two of us yell, "Grrr! He's mine!" I leap forward and the two of us start fighting, "Not bad Hakim." I grin as I launch a kick at his stomach, he glances down and I follow his line of sight, the dog ran off the bridge and onto an oncoming boat, I jumped in after him and I saw Spike jump in after us, he lands on the tarp but once the dog saw Hakim after him, he bounces off and lands on my face, I yelp and start to fall back, getting dunked into the water, "What the hell?" I realised I was barely underwater, the dog on my shoulders, I look down and saw bubbles coming out of Spike's mouth, he stands up and I realised I was sitting on his shoulders, the dog was barking, "Shut up will ya, I'm not having a great day." Spike grumbles, walking out of the small river still with me on his shoulders.
"Look what the cat dragged in, or should I say dog." Jet saw the two of us walk in dripping wet, Spike held my legs while I was still on his shoulders, "Lemme go you moron!" I thrash around, "Geez, can't you be grateful that I walked you home while you rode on my shoulders?" He frowns, "Um, did I ask?! I told you to let me down a million times already!" I lean back and flip off his shoulders, "Well sorry, I thought I was doing you a favour!" Spike yells after me, "Piss off!" I throw the finger up as I walk to the shower to rinse off.
"If I didn't know any better I'd say you like her Spike." Jet looks at Spike, "Shut up, she's just a nuisance, I can't stand women with attitudes." Spike looks down at the dog, "Sure, and she says you wouldn't let her walk on her own, you're kidding yourself." Jet stands up after petting the dog, "Will you drop the subject!" Spike shouts.
I let the warm water trickle down, "Ahhh~" I sigh in content, I dry off and pull on my black bralette and transparent jacket along with my black shorts and gun holster I fastened on my thigh, "Spike, the shower's ready." I call out as I walk into the main room, I saw him with just a towel around his waist, drying his hair off, "I-I..." I felt myself heat up, "Hmm? Yeah?" He turns around, I look everywhere but at him, I heard barking at my feet, "Oh who's a good boy." I scoop him up and lay down on the couch with him laying on my stomach, "Stupid mutt." Spike walks over, I turn my head into the couch, "Put a shirt on or something, geez." I mutter, "What's that?" He grins and leans over me looking at my face, "I said put a freakin' shirt on!" I yell.
"Why don't you do this?" Spike grumbles, "Hasn't your grandma told you a good boy finishes what he starts." We hear Jet through our phones, "Couldn't agree more Jet." I smirk, sitting on the wing of my ship, "My grandmother died before I was born." Spike grumbles, the two of us were outside, having the dog outside in hopes to find Hakim, two kids walk over and look at our ships, Spike tries to shoo them away, I snicker, "For once Cowboy, just stick to the plan." I lean over and let my lips brush against his neck, I felt him stiffen and I saw the hairs on the back of his neck stand, "You're one funny Cowboy." I hop off the wing and lean down petting the dog.
We were walking around town, "Really great plan here Jet." Spike was walking the dog, I walked next to him, "Well here's another great moment for the great Spike. Famous bounty hunter and dog walker." He mumbles to himself, suddenly our dog stops and his ears twitch, "Spike! You moron!" The leash slipped out of his hands when the dog runs away, I run after our dog, "Wait! Come back!" Spike runs after me, "Jet! He got away!" I talk into my phone, "Huh?! You mean Hakim?!" Jet asks, "No! The dog! Spike let go like an idiot!" I felt an ick mark, "IDIOT!" I throw my phone at his head, he howls in pain and grabs my phone shoving it into his pocket, running after me, muttering curses under his breath, "Has every dog gone crazy or what?" He was running next to me when we saw a whole trail of dogs running after the truck we saw earlier, I felt the presence of a car behind us, I quickly flash a look back, "Hakim!" Spike's eyes widen, he rolls out of the way of the car, "See ya Cowboy!" I set off a high wolf whistle and flip onto the top of the car, I saw him dust off his pants and stomp his foot on the ground as he got smaller and smaller, I waited for Hakim to open the door to grab the dog and he sprayed some anesthesia to make the dog go to sleep, at the last minute when the car door closed I flipped in and kicked him to the passenger seat, "Shit!" I grab the wheel with one hand, his foot still pressed on the accelerator, I grunt as I punch and kick him, the car was swerving until I felt some bashing on the ceiling, I open the window and saw the Swordfish, "Spike?!" My eyes widen, the dog climbed up onto the wheel and pressing buttons with his paws, opening the doors, "Well thanks poochie." I grab him with one arm and finally knocked out Hakim with my last punch, I sprayed him with the aesthesia he used on the dog and waited till we were close enough to the edge of the highway and bailed out over the bridge, I quickly tapped my watch and I saw the unmistakable silhouette of the White Wolf, its cockpit opened up and I fell in, "Ow." I rub my head, closing the hatch, I steady my ship and fly back up, Spike stares at me with wide eyes, I grab my radio, "You gotta keep up Cowboy." I reach into my glove box and grab a red lollypop out, unwrapping it and popping it in my mouth, "I'll see you at home with my eight million." I wink and shoot off into space.
"Hi Amigos! All three thousand forty hundred bounty hunters in the star system! How y'all doing!" Punch smiles, "And now it's time for Big Shots to see all the fugitives!" Judy winks, "The big news is on Arkim! We got our star hunter Natalie who turned him in last week!" Punch nods, a small picture of me flashed in the corner, "Mmhm! She sure did!" Judy agrees, "Turns out he stole a mysterious data dog while was developed in an illegal research lab." Punch informs, "What is a data dog?" Judy looks around, "If I told you that, I'd have to kill you. But seriously, that data is classified but we do know he's a very cunning canine. Collectors will pay a fortune for him." Punch shakes his head, "Wow fancy that! I'd like to own a dog like that!" Judy clasps her hands, "I'm afraid this one disappeared without a trace!" Punch sighs, "Another mystery! Where did he go?" Judy looks at the camera, "Get down! No dogs on the table!" Spike looks at Ein when he hops up on the table, "That's cold!" He yells when Ein shakes the water out of his coat, "Aww." I patronise Spike as I walk up the stairs after washing Ein, "This is why I don't want any stray mongrel mutts in here!" Spike leans on his elbows and looks at me, "But you're the one who brought him here." Jet looks at him, I laugh, "Anyway, we gotta do something about the ticks." Jet pets Ein, "Ticks? Now?" Spike groans, "Let's just salt 'em and eat 'em." Spike flops back down on the couch, "Who's a good puppy Ein!" I heavily sit down on Spike's stomach, he cringes in pain, "You are, oh yes, you are!" I don't get up off his stomach, "Get off!" He thrashes under me, "That's right, you're a good puppy, yes you are Ein." I gush and rub his nose with mine, "Argh." Spike finally gives up and lays back down, covering his eyes with his arm, I grin at him, "Eight million! Eight million!" I stand up and sway Ein around, "Shut up! That should've been mine!" Spike finally shoots up and chases me and Ein around the BeBop, I laugh and couldn't stop laughing, for once in such a long time, laughter ran through me.
