PeeDee3, Season 1, Episode 2
Cloaked in shadow, a tall figure lurks in a doorway, ducking the weather and a solitary street lamp. A pair of segmented antennae pokes though his faded fedora. Four plated arms are through the sleeves of a weathered trench coat; the collar's pulled up high against the planet's menthol flavored rain. Huge, complex eyes reflect light in a prism of colors. His mandibles click together in eager anticipation. On the mortar wall behind him ink runs from a wanted poster featuring his hard, crusty mug and is signed by Galactapus Caesar himself. A claw slips inside the coat and rests on the handle of his Tek-Tonic's Turbo Tornado Thrust Generator. His mark, a bulbous blubbertoad slithers out of Dante's Hotel Inferno. In a blur of claws the bug draws and fires, four weapons discharge simultaneously and a woman screams. It's another mark down and another fee collected. All in a night's work, if you happen to be PeeDee3, Intergalactic, Insectiod Assassin.
PeeDee3, Episode Two: In Sheep's Clothing
Peedee3 has been hired by a 'Dillo, a dame built like a brick house, meaning she's even tougher than he is. Soon he's traversing the galaxy accompanied by a slippery eel with his own plans. Before the day is over, PeeDee3 will face loss of life and limbs at the paws of a professional cat armed with a SST launched knievel missile. A bug never had it so good.
In Sheep's Clothing is the unplanned, second Peedee3 story, the one that should have never happened, but the bug just wouldn't stay dead...or maybe he did? File under Sci-Fi Noir Comedy Serial.
RiFT is one penname of author Robert F Thompson. His first novel was published in 2001.