Heavy Mental Queen

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COWBOY BEBOP #7

A space truck flies into a rotating truck stop. Heavy metal blasts from the truck.

Session #7

HEAVY METAL QUEEN

The truck stop. A fat black cat named Zeros and a trucker named VT, check in. VT's friend, Otto, calls her from above.

OTTO: VT! Your shift's up?

Otto floats down.

VT: Finally. How about you?

OTTO: I'm off to Europa now.

VT: That's got pretty good pay.

OTTO: It's nothing compared to yours. I heard you made a round-trip from here to Venus in 4 days?

VT: Three days.

OTTO: See what I mean? Anyway, take it easy.

VT: Thanks.

Otto floats away.

OTTO: Oh, yeah, I forgot. VT!

Otto floats down and puts down two 1000-Woolong bills.

VT: You're still not giving up?

OTTO: Of course not! How much do ya think I lent ya?

VT: Suit yourself...

VT puts down a large stack of bills.

VT: All right. You only get one shot, and you get no clues.

OTTO: Yeah! VT, your name is... Vivian Tillana.

VT smiles.

VT: Nope!

OTTO: Oh, man... This is a bad omen...

VT: You be careful now.

The sidewalk outside Mac's Diner. VT walks by an old bounty hunter and three upstart punks sitting to the side.

OLD BOUNTY HUNTER: Yeah, you know that cock-eye guy that was worth 8 million the other day? Unbelievably, I was the one who caught him!

PUNK A: What do you mean "the other day?" That was 10 years ago you old geezer!

OLD BOUNTY HUNTER: What are you saying, you young'uns! I was the one that taught Terpsichore!

PUNK B: You mean the legendary bounty hunter?

OLD BOUNTY HUNTER: Every bounty cowered in fear just at the mention of his name...

PUNK A: Oh, everyone knows THAT.

VT, Zeros on her shoulder, enters Mac's Diner. The diner is full of bounty hunters. VT sits on a stool at the counter. Zeros meows at the owner, a man named Macho.

MACHO: Hey, Zeros. Welcome, VT. The usual?

VT: Yeah. What's going on today? The place is usually empty.

MACHO: Oh, this? Apparently, a bounty named Decker is gonna pass by around here. They're all bounty hunters.

VT: No wonder they all look so cheap.

The men's room. Spike sits on the can talking to Jet through a radio transmitter and Kate sits outside drinking her juice flavor mix martini, she likes to drink only those carefully.

AMBER: SPIKE! Are you alright in there!?

SPIKE: I'll be fine! What's that, Jet? What was that about "top secret" information? This place is full of our kind. And I got a hangover today, too... Besides, we don't know the face so we'll keep our eyes open. The only clue is a dragon-shaped tattoo... Faye? Like that place is gonna be any better.

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