"Rick" Carmine growled as he saw the lanky human walk around before spotting the now peeved cheetah.

"Oh Carmine, it's great to see a familiar face" Rick said in his ususal carefree manner, but Carmine noticed a hint of urgency in the man's voice, but he didn't really care.

Carmine gave another growl, "What are you doing here, following me?"

"Kind of" Rick said pulling out a hologram with Carmine's picture on it and the words 'WANTED' over it and a very large price tag on the bottom, "it looks like someone wants your head."

"Oh great, I first lose my job to a magician, get shot over here by a clown" Carmine said angry, "and now with that price every bounty hunter want's to kill me."

"Well, they just increased the bounty on my head so I'm as irrisistable as a virgin to some of this lot" Rick said with a chuckle, "not to mention that your little foxy friend is also wanted."

Carmine sneered, "so, the three of us are now wanted, but why?"

"That's what I want to find out," Rick said as he stretched his crooked back, "and because we are both on the run, why dont we team up and work together."

"That's the dumbest thing I ever heard" Carmine blared, "you are just going to befriend me before killing me and collecting the reward money."

"Not really, because there are three things preventing either of us from doing that" Rick mentioned as he counted the reasons, "one, you really can't kill me, not without an army at least, two, I'm not a bounty hunter so I wouldn't be able to collect the reward, and three, all purposes for finding this man are entirely selfish, if you get my drift."

Carmine thought it over, the oddly calm town was helping his thinking. He then decided that...