Space Strikes

This story will be continued as I find inspiration to continue it.

In a distance section of space, far from our Earth, brother and sister bounty hunters made their way to a distant planet supposedly littered with criminals and spies. Sarah and Gregor Strike always knew where the best places to pick up the best bounties were. They were one of the most well known bounty hunter pairs in the galaxy. As they traveled they ran across the wreckage of a smaller money transport ship.

"Woo! Sarah get up here and look at what your big brother just found!" Gregor shouted over the intercom system.

Sarah shot up the levels of the ship until she made it to the cockpit with her brother.

"This had better be good. I was just getting ready to clean my wea-... is that what I think it is?" Sarah's mouth dropped as she realized what she was staring at.

"Damn straight it is! And I found it!" Gregor boasted. He worked the ship slowly through the debris from the mangled ship. It looked like the ship had been blown up from the inside, which was odd.

"You may have found it, genius, but we are both part of this team and therefore we both get the spoils from this find." Sarah punched her brother in the shoulder. Gregor grumbled under his breath as he rubbed the new injury. Sarah was a lot stronger than she looked and had a habit of using that lovely talent to keep her brother in place. Gregor remembered the last time he had tried to keep a bounty to himself. He had gotten caught in a shootout with the target in a public place and ended up getting arrested. Sarah stood back and watched as he was dragged away by officials. She had bailed him out eventually, but he knew that if he wanted her to help him later on with something, he should be smart about sharing with her. Besides, he hated it when Sarah was cross with him. It made traveling with her almost unbearable.

The two remained silent as Gregor continued to work closer to the body of the ship, or what was left of it at least. A few prayers were said as they passes the captain and a few of the crew members floating through space.

"What do you think happened here?" Gregor asked.

"It looks like space-pirates got ahold of them. Then again, it looks like it was blown from the inside, which isn't really their style." Sarah scanned through the debris, looking for any clue that might decide to pass them by.

Author's note:

This story is based off of the Aesop's fable The Travelers and the Purse. Two travelers are walking down a road when one finds a purse filled with gold. The traveler who found the purse says that it is his since he is the one who found it. The other traveler tries to make the point that they are lucky to have found the purse because they are traveling together. When villagers see the travelers with the purse and start accusing them of thievery, the traveler who found the purse tries to say that they are in trouble and that they are lost. The other traveler tells the one with the purse that he wouldn't share the findings before so he shouldn't even now that he is in trouble. The moral is to not expect to share misfortunes if we don't share our good fortunes either.

Bibliography:

"The Travelers and the Purse." By Aesop and illustrated by Milo Winters from Aesop's Fables. 1947. Web Source The Project Gutenberg.