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#1 "We hate persistent people!" The Prisoners' Troublesome Revolt

Planet Palos -- a mostly uninhabitable place due to the constantly violent atmospheric conditions except for one stabilized piece of land, floating on a cushion of air, which is utilized as a maximum-security prison, currently the scene of a massive breakout. At World Welfare Work Association (WWWA) headquarters, Kei complains that it's her turn to do paperwork while Yuri, in Dr. Kueblestein's laboratory, flirts with his lab assistant. The Doctor asks, "How did my last invention work? It should have caused a big explosion." "It exploded, all right -- on us!" The Doctor sighs and hands her a new invention, a ring-laser able to cut through p to two meters of steel. The Pair is called upon to rescue the warden of the maximum-security prison who has been taken hostage. It is imperative that he be rescued as he is a key witness for an upcoming trial. The Lovely Angel docks with a marine battlecruiser orbiting the Planet Palos. The Pair attends a debriefing session with the space marines, who are mounting an attack upon the planet, even though they will conduct an independent operation. Kei and Yuri "surf" to the prison upon the turbulent air currents. The marines provide an unintentional diversion by performing a frontal assault. The Pair easily infiltrates, locates and secures the warden but before they can remove him to safety he escapes their custody, bent upon revenge against the prisoners, who have marred his hertofore-clean retirement slate. Locked in the control room the warden begins the extermination of the prisoners using various automated security systems. The Pair is determined to recover the warden before the arrival of the marines, who can only complicate their task. Kei attempts to blast down the door with her bazooka. "Must be two meters thick," she says. Yuri recalls the deadly ring-laser upon her finger and obliterates the prison door, along with a goodly portion of the control room. The warden is knocked unconscious by the force of the blast and is successfully transported away from the main complex. In a transport cart, Kei, Yuri and the warden are being pursued by a persistent prisoner also bent on revenge. As Kei is unable to eliminate him Yuri decides to use the ring-laser once more. It misfires and causes a gigantic boulder to drop from their pursuer. Recover and foolishly standing upright in the cart, the warden is knocked flat by a low overhead ceiling beam. He slumps back into the cart. "At least we're taking him back alive." notes Kei.

#2 "Don't involve us..." The Ultimate Halloween Party

It's Halloween night en Elenore City. Several gangs in various outlandish costumes are planning crimes, unable to resist the fortunate convenience of the holiday. Kei and Yuri look down upon the celebration in the streets from a rooftop stakeout. Kei is complaining of having to work on a holiday when they spot their target moving past them in a hovercar. They fire up their flightpacks, pursue and board the suspect's car. Several shots are fired and cause the vehicle's control to be damaged, nose-diving the craft into the ground. From the crash site the Pair contacts Manager Gooley. He is incensed at their careless handling of the situation and is especially concerned about the vehicle's cargo. "What cargo?" they ask, bewildered. Gooley goes into a frenzy and tells them that the suspect was heisting top-secret military hardware and that they had better check into the matter. Kei and Yuri return to the site of the crash. They notice a large hole in the side of the craft that appears to have been made from the inside. The Pair informed that the cargo consisted of an experimental piece of military hardware, a Tactical Robot Weapon, and must have been self-activate by the crash. The robot is currently unfinished and lack the artificial skin which creates an illusion of humanity. Ideally it is designed to blend with a native population and gather information in enemy territory before initiating its lethally dangerous combat mode. The robot will transform exactly one hour after activation. With all the costumed revelry going on in the city the robot has no difficulty in avoiding undue notice. When the pair locates it Yuri tries to persuade it to come along peacefully. Kei mocks her for conversing with a machine and fires missiles at it from her bazooka. The robot, undamaged, manages to escape. The robot leads Kei and Yuri on a merry chase throughout the city, incidentally foiling the various attempted crimes of the costumed crooks. As they finally manage to corner the robot atop a building and prepare for a final assault the clock strikes the hour -- and the Tactical Robot Weapon enters its superlatively equipped combat mode. Fireworks from the Halloween celebration are initiated simultaneously, masking the events atop the roof. In their attempts to destroy the robot the Pair destroys several buildings in the environs. The crowd cheers, thinking the commotion a part of the celebration. The pair runs of ammo without so much as scratching the robot. An unknown number of innocent civilians are killed in the destruction. As a last resort Yuri secures a huge launch tube and packs it with the fireworks stored around them. The robot is destroyed in a blaze of glory as the crowd goes wild. Kei and Yuri enjoy a drink after a hard day's work and idly wonder if the boss will be angry. "We did destroy a lot of things," remarks Yuri. "At least we got the job done," says Kei. As the Pair prepares to enjoy the remainder of Halloween night, a paddy wagon filled with the outlandishly attired criminals speeds by. "Alice" (heading for a prison Wonderland) cries out: "I hate Halloween!"

#3 "We're not afraid of the wrath of God!" The Challenge of God

Kei and Yuri arrive at Planet Hazaal to investigate the mysterious destruction of the city of New Haven and the deaths of the employees of the Jason Hughes Company who were mining the rare ore, Manium. Kei complains about their modest clothes they're obliged to wear because of the planet's strict religion. Kei doubts aloud the validity of the god and draws the attention of everyone in the terminal. Yuri pulls her hastily aside and cautions her to watch her tongue, as everyone on the planet is religiously loyal to its one god. Outside the terminal they notice that there are no rental vehicles and wonder how they're going to get to New Haven. Yuri manages to secure a ride with a good-looking young man who explains the basic nature of the religion and admits his doubts about the recent changes. The man's neck snaps as his head makes a 270x turn, sending the crimson spray of blood through the cab of the truck. An ominous voice is heard over the truck's radio which warns the "blasphemous females" to leave the land as the driverless truck plummets over a cliff. The Pair escapes by means of their armlet/grappling hooks. Kei laments the death of such a handsome man and they walk the rest of the way. They investigate the ruins of the city and wonder at the means of devastation. Wouldn't it be more likely, they think, that a god would send a storm of fire, or a great flood? The Pair runs closer to the sound of chanting and observes the torture of a Jason Hughes Company survivor, whom the Pair rescues. The priest conducting the ritual shears a nearby building with power summoned by a prayer. The Pair eventually manages to stop the priest and soon, Yuri deduces that his power came from a transparent, radio-controlled razor-like object. They return to the wounded man and discover rods of orichalcum (memory-metal) implanted in his body, which enabled the priest to invoke the spectacular "acts of God" seen earlier. The man tells the Pair that evidence proving the god false can be found in the space citadel orbiting the planet. To Kei's great dismay the man dies. She stands angrily and says, "We're going to go arrest this god! No one kills my handsomes!" The pair works their way into the shuttle traveling to the space citadel. The god reveals himself to the selected priest and announces the presence of two blasphemers. The stunned audience beholds the pair in their "naked" uniforms as Yuri tells the god that he is under arrest. The god encloses the pair in a transparent container floating high above the ground and threatens to destroy them. Kei fires upon him, breaking his concentration, which causes them to drop to the ground. The god chases them to a narrow catwalk above an energy storage center. Playing a hunch, the Pair opens fire on the batteries below. The god begins to weaken. The outer casing of the god disintegrates, exposing the human brain inside. Kei contacts Mughi and tells him to bring the Lovely Angel for a pickup. The god cries, "I am undying!" and explodes. As the ship pulls away from the citadel Kei congratulates Mughi and Yuri remarks that the destruction wasn't too bad this time. Mughi points to the chaos on the surface and they remember a weather satellite destroyed on a previous mission. "Wasn't it a storm that lasted seven months and wiped out the entire population?" At WWWA headquarters, Gooley reaches for the antacid.

#4 "So what if they're kids!" Wargames Equal a Firing Squad?

Planet Amega -- location of an energy research station which has just been hijacked by children of high-ranking officials. The Dirty Pair is called in to resolve the situation. Kei wants to know why the WWWA is being involved in the case of children. It's because the station contains the Dimensional Vibration Destruction Cannon, explains Gooley, and if activated it will destroy the planet and most of the nearby galaxy. The Pair arrives at the station confident and unworried. How much trouble can a few kids be? They're surprised to find out just how much trouble as they're greeted with machine guns, bazookas and automate defense systems. The Pair is also treated to the young boys' warm welcome as they're ridiculed and insulted. They leader, Mike, tells Kei that she's not going to get any boyfriends if she keeps yelling. "I don't have any boyfriends because I choose not to have any!" "Oh, is that what it is?" says Yuri innocently. The captured administrator, by now decorated like a Christmas Tree, warns the boys their parents won't let this go on forever. "I know," says Mike. "This is the Dimensional Vibrator Destruction Cannon! As long as we hold this, the military wouldn't dare attack us!" The forces outside the station ask for their demands. They boys begin to shout them over the loudspeaker, including a request for round-the-clock animation shows on TV. They advise the military to go up to their rooms and go to sleep. Kei and Yuri enter the sewers beneath the station and make their way toward the control room. The boys spot their approach and send guardian robots to intercept. The smallest boy walks too close to the administrator, who has managed to free himself, and is taken hostage. The little boy escapes by biting the man's ear and fires once at him in warning but soon loses control of the gun and begins to fire wildly throughout the room, accidentally activating the Cannon. In the sewers the Pair is cornered by robots and escapes into the waters. They later emerge closer to the control room and receive a message that the problem has been solved and the mission aborted. Kei unsatisfied, tells Mughi to tap into the military channels. The administrator, who has escaped, is ordering the military snipers to kill the kids if necessary to stop the Cannon. Kei decides to continue the mission, hoping mainly to get even with them for their disrespect. The Pair has one half-hour before it's too late. A firefight between Kei and Yuri and the boys begins with the Pair gaining control. They try to make the boys realize what's happening but they refuse to believe in the potentially lethal consequences. "It's not a wargame anymore!" says Kei urgently. Mike accuses the Pair of setting up a trick. Kei snaps at them and calls him a fool. "If you can't believe the word of a woman who's putting her body on the line, then stop being a man!" Mike confronts Kei and asks if they are really in danger. Kei lets him know the answer and then delivers an uppercut, knocking Mike unconscious. "I'll tell you one more thing," she says, "boys grow up into men by being tricked by women." kei laughs, feeling much better. As the administrator calls in the final assault the pair calls that the crisis has been averted and the Destruction Cannon deactivated. "Please call us again!" says Kei. Lovely Angel returns home while the Pair bandage each other's wounds.

#5 And Then No One Played

The scene opens at casino station Shangri La. The main attraction is a game involving meteors launched onto a nearby star, Xanadu, while gamblers guess which sector the meteor will land in. A Chinese man smiles arrogantly and gathers in his piles of chips. A WWWA video screen features this man smashing boulders with his bare hands. Li Sui Ryu is a worthy agent, in Gooley's opinion, by the fact that he's never submitted a single bill to be paid. Out of 157 cases, all of them have been solved and he's never had to resort to firearms. Kei wonders how he got hooked on Meteor. It seems Ryu went to Shangri La to investigate a case and never came back. The Pair's orders are to travel to Shangri La and return Ryu from the tables. In space outside the casino, the Pair hides behind an asteroid connecting a control mechanism. Back at the Lovely Angel, Kei makes plans to mingle on the casino floor while Yuri searches for evidence. At WWWA Headquarters, Gooley paces his office and wonders if everything will go all right. A secretary delivers a stack of invoices while Gooley cringes and curses. At the tables, the dealer explains the rules. Kei places her bet and the computer selects the numbers on the asteroid grid. She suffers a few initial losses and is observed by casino security personnel via hidden camera. The size of her bets is noted by the owner. Yuri skulks among the lower levels of the casino and complains that Kei always gets the good assignments. Upstairs, Kei gleefully offers to loan Ryu chips from her by-now massive winnings. Yuri, downstairs, breaks into a room and finds a storage room with an unusual substance in a beaker. Kei loses pleasure in her chips when Yuri one-ups Kei's splashy entrance. Yuri mentions the compound she discovered downstairs -- axonohydroria -- as Kei formulates a hypothesis. Yuri directs Kei's attention to the casino owner and former bio-genetics researcher, Dr. Borkov, who created the artificial lifeform axonohydroria. At the tables, Kei implements a plan to rack up stupendous wins using the remote control device they had installed earlier. Yuri shoots Kei poisonous glances while Ryu orders the casino to bring him all of his accumulated winnings. "Can I be the dealer?" Kei asks. Yuri suggests they raise the stakes to on e game, ten million credits each player. Their table has an audience. Kei launches the asteroids. "Zero!" The second asteroid impacts in the back, changing the number to a double zero... dealer takes all. Kei smiles winsomely. "She cheated!" Yuri accuses Kei of using hyper waves which cause the amoeba-like axonohydroria lifeform to change into energy and detonate the asteroid before it impacts on the star, Xanadu's, surface. The owner, overhearing Yuri's incriminating accusations, quiets her with a gun pointed at her back. "They've figured us out, Borkov!" Kei cries, launching herself at the astonished figure. "We're through!" Kei and Yuri are escorted from the casino by security guards as a scream of fury sounds from Ryu. Using the boulder-smashing technique seen earlier, Ryu strikes the gaming console as the Pair begins their attack. Enraged, Ryu scores of casino employees. The mass driver begins to misfire, launching asteroids at a nearby inhabited planet. The majority of the planet is destroyed under the onslaught. And then ... no one played.

#6 "Are you serious?" The Seaside Surprise Wedding Panic

On the way to an investigation on the island of Sargilcor, Kei and Yuri enjoy the comforts of the large luxury liner. Yuri rebuffs the advances of a forward young man, who offers to escort her on her "studies" of the island's ruins. Kei and Yuri's assignment is to find a counterfeiting factory suspected to be run by the Castino family and to recover a stolen computer disk containing currency minting information. There has been no word from an agent who recently infiltrated the island. Yuri climbs a fence after being denied admittance and finds a marker left in the graveyard by the special agent. Several guards threaten her but the young man previously met on the luxury liner, Kyaline Castino, intervenes and later escorts her on a tour of the island. Daline, Kyaline's older brother and heir to the family "business," orders a background check on this newest woman. Kei is working undercover at a bar and spots Yuri walking dreamily with Kyaline. At an outdoor cafe, Kyaline tells her that the reason no outsiders are allowed in the church is that his father built it to hide his fortune after his death. Kei interrupts, disguised as a flower peddler, and drags Yuri away for a hissed conference. "Dating and working? That's not fair!" Yuri tells Kei the target is the church and with an airy goodbye, walks to meet Kyaline Does Yuri mind that he's a gangster? he asks during a romp on the beach. Yuri says it doesn't matter and whispers something to him before they kiss. At WWWA Headquarters, Gooley receives an emergency dispatch from kei, urging everyone to attend Yuri's upcoming wedding. Madame Barr, a veteran trouble consultant, advises him to prepare for trouble. Back on Sargilcor ... Don, the head of the family, discusses Yuri. If she really is what Daline thinks she is, she's bound to reveal herself by the time of the wedding. Kyaline agrees to take care of her himself if this is so. Kei greets the WWWA entourage, cautioning Gooley that they may be overheard. Yuri formally thanks Madame Barr and Gooley for taking care of her up to now. Dr. Kueblestein rushes in and presents Yuri with a special flower corsage. Kei, dressed as a nun, clubs a watching security monitor with a giant wooden cross. In one of the many viewscreens before her she notices a suspicious building and infiltrates the counterfeiting factory as Yuri begins her walk down the aisle. Kei pounds outside a stained glass window to get Yuri's attention and crashes through. Yuri is covered by gunmen as they accuse her of being a spy. Before Yuri can answer Kueblestein activates her corsage; under the cover of smoke, the entire WWWA party flees outside. Kueblestein throws several grenades at the pursuing gunmen while Madame Bar throws one of the infamous "bloody cards." Kei returns the disk to Gooley but refuses to leave without Yuri. Gooley expresses a newfound admiration for the Dirty Pair. Kei shoots the gun from Daline's hand as he urges Kyaline to finish Yuri. Yuri asks Kyaline to shoot her if he doubts her sincerity. Kyaline cannot shoot. There are only three minutes left until the building explodes. Gangsters pile out of the church as an escape craft rises above with Kyaline, Yuri and Kei. The church explodes into flame. "Won't you come with me?" Yuri asks him. "No," he says, "I can't betray my family any more than I already have." He parachutes from the plane. "What did you say to him when he said, 'I believe what you said to me'?" Kei asks. "It's a secret." "But were you serious?" Yuri only smiles.

#7 Revenge of the Muscle Lady "Is a woman's stubbornness the flower of the ring?"

The lights flash on the two combatants during an illegal caged wrestling match -- Kei, in the green tights, and Mad Bull, a muscle-bound behemoth. None of Kei's usual moves work against Mad Bull, who entangles her in the heavy chains surrounding the ring. Gooley briefs Kei and Yuri on something called "Hard Muscle," or "Hustle" for short, a new drug which unnaturally stimulates accelerated muscle development and causes psychotic behavior as a side effect. A former WWWA trainee, Sandra Guts (remembered by Kei and Yuri as "Sandra the Bully"), is the head of the syndicate that manufactures the drug. The Dirty Pair's assignment is to locate and destroy the Hustle factory. Back to the ring and Kei hanging in chains. Yuri urges Kei over her earring-communicator to use her shock ring. Mad Bull falls over, unconscious, as Yuri exclaims in glee ... the only one in the audience happy to see Mad Bull's defeat. Kei waits in a bar for a contract and speaks in a low voice to Yuri over the communicator. Sandra Guts watches her via hidden camera and orders the relocation of the factory. The bartender offers Kei a free glass of Hustle and advice on how to make even more money as a wrestler. Kei, blindfolded, willingly goes with several syndicate members as Yuri follows at distance from her surveillance point across the street. Kei opens her eyes in a wrestling ring, Sandra descending from above. "Welcome to our party, Kei!" Sandra says. "Since you're here, we're going to spend a lot of time with you." Sandra's initial attack knocks Kei across the ring. "It's a trap!" Kei tells Yuri over the communicator. Yuri runs headlong from the automated defense systems, crashes through a rooftop window, and disables the guards watching the match via monitor. "Why don't you kill me now," Kei says, "if you can." Sandra promises to let Kei rest easy after making an example of her. Yuri uses a gas canister to render several guards unconscious and discovers that the factory has transformed into a giant rocket. Kei escapes from the ring after Yuri's alert and is pursued by Sandra throughout the factory. Sandra has a personal grudge against the Dirty Pair because she was dropped from the WWWA training program during the final testing in favor of Kei and Yuri. She offers Kei a shot of Hustle to ease her pain and make herself strong. After Kei throws it in her face, Sandra knocks Kei our a window. Kei falls several hundred feet before catching herself with a grappling device, but the abrupt stop dislocates her arm. Yuri tries to stop the factory from moving by planting a bomb but before she can set it she is temporarily blinded. Kei swings into action and works with Yuri to detonate the device; Yuri holding and Kei guiding the gun. The rocket explodes, the muscle lady falling to land at Kei and Yuri's feet for one last match. Some quick foot work tricks Sandra into plunging through a window to fall to her death. "When she's under pressure, she loses sight of what's in front of her," Kei says. "There are many types of simple-minded people," Yuri says. Kei loses her cool and chases Yuri off into the distance.

#8 "The girl is an older woman! Perfectly preserved!" Sleeping Beauty

The luxury liner White Swan is suddenly attacked by unknown forces. Before a harried man whisks a young girl from her cabin she watches a tiny object fall from the stuffed doll she is carrying. After the man places the girl into a cold sleep capsule, he is shot by an unseen man and falls to the deck. The girl gasps, as if in recognition, before she is shot out into space. On their way back from a distant mission, Kei and yuri discover the capsule and return the girl to WWWA headquarters. The girl, still a child, still clutching her doll, is a link to a twenty-year-old mystery that even the famous Madame Barr was unable to solve -- the sensational case of the White Swam. Gooley order the Dirty Pair to reopen the case. Kei whispers to Yuri that this is their chance to prove themselves. Madame Barr's files reveal that during the White Swan tragedy, 832 people were gassed to death, one was shot, and one was missing but now is found... the child, Tia. Inscribed on the deck near the large blood stain left by Tia's father Professor Nea is the number 42731. Kei tries to coax Tia into telling her about that night but Tia is uncommunicative. Yuri and Kei bring Tia to talk to her now-closest relative, Bill Jones, president of the J.C. Manufacturing Company. "Do you know me?"he asks her as she cringes from him. "I'm your Uncle Bill!" Kei tells him they'll have to get back to him regarding his request for custody and takes Tia with her and Yuri back to the factory. On their way back, Kei and Yuri decide to go to the scene of the crime. A surprise attack on their car almost knocks them of the road. Once aboard the White Swan, Tia heads confidently toward her old stateroom and retrieves a small microchip from underneath a ledge. After watching Tia insert the chip into her doll and punch in a code to make it talk, the Pair uses Professor Nea's dying massage to activate a recording. "Papa!" Tia exclaims. The trio heads back to the Lovely Angel while listening to Gray Nea voice his suspicions about his assistant Bill. The White Swan rocks from an incoming attack that Mughi on the Lovely Angel was too busy napping to notice. "Somebody doesn't want us to hear this message," Yuri says. Bill is confronted with the taped evidence and blanches as he recognizes his former employer's voice. He lunges to take Tia hostage, confesses to the murder of Tia's father and the usurpation of the factory, and leads the Pair on a wild chase. After fighting off several attacking robots, Kei and Yuri split into separate directions. Kei confronts Bill and Tia on an elevated walkway suspended over a vat of phosphorescent chemicals. Bill disarms Kei, now possessed by only her multi-purpose arm band. At Kei's urging, Tia comes to Kei using a acrobatic move Kei performed during their initial discussion of the White Swan tragedy. Kei snaps her arm band like a whip and causes Bill's gun to misfire, bringing down heavy piping and destroying the bridge. Kei cling to one side with Tia in one arm as Bill tries to hold on to the edge of the bridge, but falls to his death. As the bridge collapses, Yuri uses a rope to save Kei and Tia. Back at WWWA headquarters, Gooley admits that his opinion of the Dirty Pair has improved... slightly. Kei worries over Tia's fate but Madame Barr says not to worry; she'll take care of Tia herself. "I haven't grown old for nothing," she says with a smile.

#9 Red Eyes are the Signal of Hell "Pursue the Slaughter Squad!"

An eerie light shines from the infrared goggles of a five-man commando team as they waste no time in infiltrating and slaughtering an entire resistance camp. One man makes a last stand and fires, managing to injure one of the commandos before he's gunned down by heavy fire. On the Pair's way to meet with the president at the nation's capital, fatuously smiling old man steps out to greet Yuri, who ignores him. "That's Matzoho, a lecherous weapons dealer. It's dangerous to let you guard down around him." When they turn their backs, Matzoho gooses them, laughing. The president tells the Pair it's been thirty years since the beginning of the war, and recent peace talks between his forces and the rebels' have been interrupted by attacks from five mysterious commandos posing as the president's men. The Dirty Pair is asked to locate the commandos to convince the rebel that peace is truly desired. Kei and Yuri set off into the rebels' territory and are soon surrounded. The rebel leader accepts their credentials and provides them with a heavy escort into the jungle. "There's obviously a third party that doesn't what the war to end," Yuri says. In the jungle, a man clutching a family photo impacts on the hood of the escort vehicle and rolls to the side of the road. kei recognizes him as one of the five. As the man begins to talk the transport explodes behind them. Kei and yuri take the man with them as they flee the pursuing four commandos. Kei uses the rear-mounted gun but can't damage the pursuing tank. The getaway vehicle's malfunctioning missiles suddenly reactivate and launch, destroying the pursuing tank. Back at the rebel headquarters, Matzoho sneaks up behind Kei and gooses her again. He tells Blast, the rebel leader, that his order will be filled as soon as possible and leaves. Scans reveal that the captured commando is wired with a mind control device that makes him an automaton capable of obeying only one order at a time. The device is wired straight into the brain and is impossible to remove, so Yuri is volunteered to rewire the device so the commando can bd interrogated. The man's name is McMurphy, a soldier from the Waldtheim army, and he, like the other commandos, has been kidnapped. "I'm going to kill the man that did this," he says before collapsing. The commando team mount an assault against the rebel camp. Kei and Yuri move McMurphy to a bunker. McMurphy tells them Matzoho is responsible for the creation of the commando team and that he has sold weapon to both sides. Matzoho, McMurphy says, is a merchant of death. "That filfthy old man can't be forgiven," Kei says. Before Kei or Yuri can act, McMurphy borrows two grenades from a boy soldier and steps outside the bunker. "Our purpose is not to kill children!" he yells before rushing two commandos into an explosive embrace. Kei and Yuri run after him. A commando rises on a hill before them and aims his gun. Kei trains her sight on him when Yuri suddenly senses someone behind. She whirls around and opens fire on the second commando as Kei destroys the final soldier. "One more thing left to do," Kei says. In space, surrounded y a fleet of ships carrying his weapon, Matzoho gloats. He abruptly stops laughing as he spots Kei and Yuri, heavily armed, coming into sight from behind the Lovely Angel. McMurphy's family photo drifts free and well-lit in the ensuring explosion.

#10 Bad Guys Need Not Say a Word "We're space truckers!"

During what seems to be a routine run, two trucker notice an incoming signal on the radar screen. They barely have time to realize what's going on before their ship explodes. In the bay of an independent space station, Kei and Yuri introduce themselves to the company's owner as two new freelance truckers. The Pair can't be dissuaded from continuing with the planned run even though there have been to date six deaths and four disappearances. It seems that the Universal Company, their rivals, are trying to force them out of the trucking business. Kei and Yuri set off on their own, suspecting that the Universal Company wants the station for smuggling purposes. Matthew and Jade, the owner, pull up alongside and try to determine the Pair's true motives. When the expected attack arrives, Matthew and Jade shift from their rig to the Pair's and watch in amazement as Kei and Yuri fend off the attack by themselves. At the local sector's police station, the chief of police receives a call. "Mr. President? Who are they? I understand. I'll take care of it." Back at the Pair's rig, Jade confesses to killing a man in self-defense during a fight fifteen years ago. He's been an anonymous patron tot he deceased man's family since then, and in only eleven hours, the statute of limitations will run out and jade will be free to leave his self-imposed exile. The police contact them and demand they prepare for a cargo inspection. Kei and Yuri advise Jade to hide with mughi in the cargo hold while they hold off the police. Once aboard, the police plant illicit evidence and haul the Pair and Matthew off to the police station. Matthew informs them that he recognized the personal craft of the Universal Company's president. The Pair uses a ruse to overwhelm their guards and escape their cell as the company president discusses his smuggling plans with the chief of police. If all of the routes in this sector can be controlled, the president says, there'll be no limit to their illegal activities. "What --?" The Pair steps into the room and after announcing themselves as WWWA trouble consultants, accuses both the president and the chief of police of smuggling, murder, and other crimes. One of the chief's men causes a disturbance by punching Matthew and when the Pair turns to look, both of the accused made a break for it. Kei and Yuri give chase down separate corridors, both pursued by armed police officers. they meet at a junction to follow the president and the chief of police into a large bay filled with even more armed and ready police officers. They dive for cover and soon run out of ammunition. "Even if we tried to give up they wouldn't let us," Yuri says. Jade contacts Kei over her earring-communicator and announces he's here to repay his debt to them. The entire trucking fleet launches various cargo at the police station. In the commotion Kei and Yuri escape the secure two large portable cannons and then run to the launch bay. Yuri prevents the president from boarding an escape craft while Kei fires and explodes the chief of police's craft in the launch tube. Back at the space station, Matthew urges Jade to run and hide from the two trouble consultants. But it's too late. "Thanks to your cheering section, the chief didn't get away," Yuri says. They refuse to arrest Jade, telling him there's a ten-hour time adjustment after fifteen years between local Barun and galactic calendars and he's now a free man The Pair congratulates themselves on doing a good deed until Mughi points out their miscalculations: according to galactic law, the time limit should have been figured using the galactic calendar after all. "Clumsy!" Kei yells. "What, do you want to go back?" "By the time we did, it really would be past the time limit?" "You idiot!"

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