"Ah! My ship!" Spike looks at the red Swordfish all graffitied with green, yellow and white, "Don't tell me it was those three morons." I swipe my fingers on the green pain, "It's still fresh." I swipe it on Spike's cheek quickly and laugh, "Come on," I walk over to a fountain, "What are you doing?" Spike looks at me, "If the paint's still wet it's gonna be much easier to scrub it off loverboy." I take the ribbon out of my hair and soak it in the water, using it as a rag, "Damn it, it was my favourite too." I sigh and start scrubbing the paint off, "Hey, you don't need to do that, I'll do it myself." Spike grabs my wrist, "I'm already starting, if you want to help though." I smile, he goes back into the bar and grabs a rag, the two of us washing the Swordfish down. "Finally." Spike stretches his back, "I swear it's cleaner than it was before." I look at it, "But..." I look at my red ribbon and frown, it was covered with paint, "You didn't need to do that, really." Spike picks it out of my hands, "It's fine." I tie my hair back up with it, "Adds a different twist to my usual look." I look in the glass and saw streaks of green, yellow and white, "Kinda cool actually." I smile happily, "Where you going?" I look at him walking back to the bar, "Returning this." He shows me the rag, "Oh, right." I open the hatch to my ship when I felt a sting at my butt and I yelp, I turn my head and saw Spike grinning with the twisted rag spinning in the air, "You idiot." I laugh lightly and hop into the ship.
We were about to fly off when the Swordfish sputtered out, "What the hell!" He slams his fists on the dash, "Don't tell me those idiots messed with the engine." I walk back to the Swordfish, "Ugh." He couches down and sticks his thumb out as VT walks out of the bar, "What are you still doing here?" VT looks at him, "Hitchhiking, those stooges messed up my starship." He frowns, "You're just a messed up loser Spike." She shakes her head, "And a lowlife bounty hunter, don't forget that." He adds, "Don't push your luck!" She shouts but Zeros hops on his head and meows, "Come on, let's go." She sighs, "Mind if we bring another friend along?" I ask.
"I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU THE SAME THING! SHORT, BALD WITH GLASSES AND SET HIS BOUNTY!" Faye shouts, "Huh! What are you saying!" Spike shouts back, "I JUST SAID IT!" She yells, "UGH! CAN YOU PLEASE TURN DOWN THIS REPULSIVE MUSIC!" She shouts at VT, "I don't think so, when in Rome do as the Romans do." She says, "Huh?" She asks, "And it's not repulsive, it's very soothing. It's called heavy metal by the way." She looks back forward.
"I can't believe they messed up both ships on the same day, and who do they think's gonna fix these." Jet walks into the garage, "I can help." I walk in, "Huh?" Jet looks at me, "I was living alone for a good while, had to learn how to fix my ship without just kicking it." I grab a spanner and pop a lollypop in my mouth, wheeling myself under Spike's ship, "I'll work on Spike's, can you do Faye's?" I ask from under the engine. "Ugh great, another part to be replaced." I place it near my head and it floats around in arms reach, I had stripped my jacket off and picking parts off Spike's ship, "Tell me about it, how did they even do this." Jet groans as he pulls apart Faye's ship, we were working for about another three hours, piecing their ships back together. "This is VT calling, let me talk to those lowlife bounty hunters." I heard coming in from the radio, I push myself to the radio and float upside down in the air, "The Minus Mines?! That's crazy! Stay away!" I shout, "What?" She teases, "I said stay away from Decker! He's hauling high explosives!" All I heard was static, "Hello?!" I shout, "Shit. SPIKE!" I shout up, he runs into the garage in his boxers, tie and singlet, "What the hell have you been doing?" I look at him, "My clothes were drying." He picks his ear, "Well go grab them! VT's got Decker, we're going!" I say, "What?!" He sprints back and had his shirt on his shoulder as he stumbles in, pulling his legs through the holes, falling down the stairs, I snicker, "Jet, open up the hatch." I hop into the Wolf and tighten my flying gloves, "Wow, Jet you did a great job on the ship." Spike touches his dash, "Don't flatter me, thank the woman flying next to you." He opens the hatch, "Huh?" He looks at me, "Thank me Cowboy. The artillery still isn't done yet though so don't pull some crazy stunt." I shoot off into space, "Hey~! Wait for me!" Faye floats into her ship.
"Over there!" Spike points, I nod and I fly in, "What's all this? Isn't this a little risky?" Faye looks at it as an explosion goes off, "Watch your back." I slow down my acceleration and start using small bursts of gas to maneuver myself around the tight corners, "Well there goes my twelve million." Faye looks at Decker who was dead in the cockpit, "Might I add, ever since I joined this hooligan group of clowns, I will say my numbers have decreased rapidly." I read the number on my card, "You're set for life, you don't need to catch another criminal in your entire life and still manage to bathe in gold every night in you wanted." Faye throws a tantrum in her ship, I snicker at her, "VT, are you alive, if you are say something!" I speak into my radio, "I'm okay, takes more than that to get rid of me." She gets up, "We gotta get out of here." I float above her, "Decker was selling enhanced nitro and it's all destabilised now, his ship is packed with it." I explain, "The whole ship? That's enough nitro to blow this place to shreds." She speaks into her radio, "And what's worse is this is an old mining satellite, and all the reactors are unstable." I hear Spike's voice, there were tremors around us, "Crap." I felt myself shake around.
We were navigating around, "How much further till the exit chutes?" Faye asks, "Not far, angle twenty degrees left." Spike says, "There! It's up ahead!" Spike saw a light, "Argh!" Rocks and stone debris collapsed down and blocked our entrance, "Damn it!" Spike slams his fists on his dash, "Please don't break my hard work." I float next to him with a deadpan look on my face, "Ugh!" Faye whips around and saw our exit from behind was also blocked, "Shit." Spike starts shooting bullets at the blockage, I burst out laughing, "You're shooting a popgun. You're never gonna get through that babe." I held my stomach bawling my eyes, "Well excuse me, I have no artillery cause someone wasn't fast enough to fix it." He frowns at me, "Uh! Excuse you if you hadn't broken your ship to begin with. Faye!" I scowl at him, "All I have are these pincers! Alright come on, there must be some way to get out!" She shouts, "Course there is, and it's just waiting for us. Packed inside that freighter." VT looks at Decker's ship.
"I don't like this, it's a delicate operation and I'm not really the delicate type." Faye drives her pincers into the exterior and pulls the wall off, "Alright, then don't be so delicate and just go for it!" VT turns her music on max, Faye got spooked and drives her claw into the side, ramming the wall off, I held my heart and slumped in my chair, "Now grab one." Spike instructs, "Easy for you to say, Mr Perfect." She frowns and accidentally punctures one, "Uh... there's gas coming out." She freaks out, "Probably stabilisers," I say, "Which means...?" She looks at me, "It's touch sensitive," I say, "Come on girl, what's the worst that can happen? Screw this up and we all die." VT says, "That's very comforting... alright." She grabs one of the bombs, "Alright, I got one, now what do I do with it?" She pulls back from the ship, "I'm programming this pod to float to the exit and self explode in forty seconds, so get that nitro in there ASAP we don't have a lot of time Faye." Spike ejects himself from the Swordfish, "Spike... what the hell are you gonna do." I tighten my grip on my levers, "My floating act. Just be sure to catch your damsel in distress." He puts in his earplugs and looks at me, "Shiiiiit." I frantically put in my earplugs as he takes a deep breath, "No, no, no, no." I take a deep breath and slide the hatch door open, I grab on the edge and I saw Spike reach out towards me, I strain as I try to reach out to him, I felt him hook his fingers with mine when suddenly there was a large drop in pressure and everything was floating out of the shaft, my eyes widen when he floated away from me, "SP-" I held my throat and kept whatever breath I had left, his eyes widen and he ricochets off Faye's ship, pushing off and floating back towards me, I grabbed his wrist and pulled him into the Wolf with me, I scramble to close the hatch, I felt Spike lean over me and shut the hatch door, the two of us gasping for air, "Ohmygod." I could barely form words and I flop onto his chest, there was a huge explosion and it flushed out the debris, "It worked!" Faye exclaims, we all flew out, I was just laying on Spike, gasping for air, I felt his hand lazily draped over me and his other hand flying us out, "What the hell were you thinking!" Faye shouts as she floats over, I saw him reach over me, "I just needed to grab a lollypop." He opens my glovebox and takes one of my red lollypops out and puts it in his mouth, "You don't deserve it after what you did." I take it out of his mouth and put it in mine, closing my eyes, "I guess you've got a point." I felt him rake his hands through my ponytail.
