THE WAY I DO.
CHAPTER 1: A NEW BEGINNING.
A/N: So, this is my second fan-fiction, and I've decided to write Taz and Up's story from the beginning. I read "And They Thought She'd Never Make It" by HiddenAngelHeart and she had this nice idea of choosing a song that would represent the chapter, so I thought I would do it too since I'm a musician and I relate everything I do to music. I hope you enjoy this, it's probably quite lame but I've just started writing fan-fictions so there's space for improvement. Please review, I would love to hear what you have to say about this :)
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P.S. I'm quite busy with school, so I haven't had time to read it again. If there are corrections to make, please tell me :)
Song of the Chapter:
Running Away - Midnight Hour
So I'm running away I'm leaving this place
Yeah, I'm running away I'm running away
And faster than you can follow me From this lonely place
And farther than you can find me I'm leaving Yeah, I'm leaving today
Tasaria Rodriguez was sitting on her bed. It was 6 o'clock in the morning and she was already awake. She knew it would be a good idea to sleep, but she couldn't. She was too excited. And scared. It was her Quincea era after all.
She didn't want to celebrate, because that would mean wearing a dress. A pink dress. And she hated pink. And dresses. And it was even worse when they were together, sparkly and girly. Damn, she would feel sick. What was the point of wearing a pink dress? Ok, she was becoming a woman, but women hardly ever wore pink sparkly dresses. She wished she could've at least chosen the colour, but her mom had done everything. Taz pulled the hair band out of her hair and let if fall on her shoulders. She couldn't stand her long hair, but her mom wanted her to keep it like that. That was one of the good things of finally being fifteen. She was a woman, she could finally do what she liked. For her mother's sake she decided to keep her hair long just one more day, then she would cut it. -Tasaria?- Her mother was awake. She came in trying not to wake Tasaria's dad and her brother and sister. -¿estas listo?- She said, and sat on the bed next to Tasaria. -No- Tasaria replied, and got up, staring out of the window. -Estoy seguro de que va a estar bien- She said. Damn, why couldn't she leave her alone? Tasaria thought. -No lo har , todo va a salir mal.- Tasaria sighed and turned back to her mother. She looked so tired. They'd spent hours learning to dance for the Quincea era and her mother had been up until late to make sure the party would be wonderful. Tasaria felt bad for not appreciating what her mother was doing. She walked back to her mother and sat on the bed next to her. -Where is the dress?- She whispered in English. Her mother smiled slightly. -In the living room, i was ironing it. I'll go and get it.- She squeazed Tasaria's hand before leaving and walked silently downstairs. Tasaria got up and stood in front of the mirror. She shook her head and sat on the chair next to her desk. She took out a little box, one she'd never opened before. It contained make-up. She opened and stared at the different colours, slightly disgusted.
Why did people wear this stuff? It was disgusting! Her mother came in with the dress followed by Tasaria's sister Mercedes. -Buenos dias- She told her sister, and Mercedes smiled at her, pulling out a brush. Dammit, Tasaria hated brushing her hair. It hurt, and she never did it, she prefered keeping it wild. Mercedes and their mother went to work on Tasaria's hair, brushing it, straighting it and curling some parts of it, so she had beautiful curls around her face and straight hair tied up at the back.
Tasaria stared into her own brown eyes and sighed. This was like a torture. Mercedes took the make-up box and smirked at her. Tasaria smacked her sister's arm lightly and leaned down on the chair, wondering when all of this would finish. The sun was high in the sky when Tasaria was finally allowed to get up and check herself out in the mirror. She looked so un-Tasaria like she frowned, and stared blankly at her reflection. She wasn't saying her sister hadn't done a good job, it was just that all this pink make-up on her face seriously disgusted her. She shook her head sighing again and smiled weakly at her mother and sister. -Aqu est tu vestido!- Mercedes grinned widely at Tasaria and handed her the dress. -Voy a preparar el almuerzo- Her mother said, and left the two girl alone. Tasaria realised she hadn't had breakfast.
She was supposed to be hungry, but there was something in her stomach that made her feel sick. She wasn't hungry at all. Something else was welling up in her stomach, she had a bad feeling.
Tasaria sat on one of beautiful benches that today decorated her garden. She'd already danced with her dad and most of her cousin, she was tired and just wanted to go to bed. That was when everything exploded. Suddenly the garden was full of dust, screams, fire and them, the robots.
They'd got here after all, even if the Starship Rangers were guarding the village. Dammit. -Hijos de puta!- She shouted and ran to look for her knife. She found it under the same stone where she always left it. As soon as she took it out an enourmous arm smashed her against the wall of her house. She felt pain everywhere, but she wouldn't give up. A moan escaped her lips when she got up, but she stood nonetheless and screamed in frustration. The robots came charging towards her. She ducked under their legs and ran as fast as she could.
They were following her, but she wouldn't give up. Suddenly she freezed.-Mama...- She whispered, looking at her mother's dead body. Tears were welling up in her eyes, and she heard the robots come behind her. She took a deap breath and turned around. The biggest robot started shooting against her. She ducked and dodged the lasers, but she couldn't dodge them all. They hit her on the cheek, on the legs and there was a large wound on her stomach. Tasaria decided that she was going to die anyway so she charged against the robots and tried to stab them with her knife. -Robots de mierda!- She shouted, but suddenly an arm lifted her in the air. Tasaria was shouting curses at whatever robot she saw,
but they didn't seem to hear. They carried her to a big tree near her house, and tied her arms together. Then they lifted her into the air again and tied her to the tree.
Tasaria knew she was going to die, but continued shouting curses at the robots.
Suddenly something hit her. -Maldita sea!- She shouted. The robots had sticks in their hands and were using her like a piñata. And then she saw them. The Starship Rangers were here. Maybe she would survive. Almost instantly the robots were all on the ground dead. They had all been killed by one ranger. The others were still staring at him, but he was still staring at her. His eyes were as blue as the ocean, a beautiful blue,
the most beautiful colour she'd ever seen. Then everything went black.
Lieutenant Up and his rangers had just reached a small Mexican village where the robots had attacked. There hadn't been much to save, they'd come too late. The Lieutenant was quite angry, it was yet another village that had been destroyed. The robots were taking control and destroying everything they could find. The Robot Wars had caused already millions of dead, even the Starship Rangers were losing too many soldiers. Up was walking slowly across the devasted landscape, looking at the burnt down houses, the dead corpses that laid scattered around on the ground. Up kicked a stone and let out a small frustrated sound. He'd had enough, he wanted these fucking wars to end. Suddenly, he saw a body dangling from a tree, and he thought that it was the robots playing with a corpse to umiliate humans even more. He walked slowly to them, at least he would kill them! But the body (it was a girl) let out an angry sound as they hit her with a stick. As soon as Up realised the girl hanging from the tree was alive, he started shooting without thinking. She could be saved.
She had to be saved. He started shooting madly, but still with a certain grace in his movements that made him look like he was dancing, like he'd fought a thousand times. Well, he had done it. The robots were on the ground dead in a matter of seconds. The girl was staring at him. She had dark brown eyes. She was wearing a pink dress but it was all teared and she was all cut. She'd been putting up a fight. Up kept staring at her, he was fascinated. It looked like she was twelve, and she'd managed to fight five big robots. Suddenly her eyes became glassy and they closed. Up ran to her and took out his knife. She was so tiny, he catched her easily when she fell.
He lay her to the ground and she started to wake up. -Are...are you okay?- He asked. He felt strange. The girl kept staring at him and didn't reply. Obviously she wouldn't, thought Up, she'd just fought five robots and watched her family die. She was obviously not okay. She slowly got up and took in her surroundings. Up thought she would cry, it wouldn't be strange. After all what was (probably) her family, lay dead on the ground. But she didn't cry. She ran.
Tasaria's hair was flying around her face. The curls had tumbled down during the fight and the make up was smeared on her face. The rangers were calling for her to stop, but she didn't want to.
She knew she wouldn't last long in her condition, she'd fought five robots, been strung up on a tree like a piñata and hit her with sticks. But she wanted to run away, run away from her devasted house, her destroyed family, the dead robots and the ranger with the blue eyes. She fell. Damn. She realized someone was behind her. Somehow she knew who it would be. The same ranger helped her up. -Are you okay?- He repeated. -Do jou really expect me to be okay?- She spat, but let him help her up. The ranger didn't reply, -Can you walk?- He asked her. He had a very heavy accent, Southern or something like that. -S¡.- She replied, and got up to prove it. She fell again. -Come here.- He said.
She glared at him, but she realized she really couldn't do it, so she walked to him unsteadily, and fell in front of him. He cathced her just before she hit the ground. He took her in his arms and stared right into her eyes. -What's your name?- He asked timidly. Tasaria was concentrating on his eyes. She'd never seen blue eyes before, and she was amazed. They were so beautiful. -Tasaria- She replied, and he smiled. -Can I just call you Taz?- -S¡.- She said again, then added: -What about jou?- -My name is Up, miss.- -What de hell kind of a name is dat?- She said, staring at him strangely. He laughed slightly and carried her back to the other rangers. -Where are jou going?- Taz asked the man, when they all started to make their way back, Up stil carrying her. -To our Starship, to see what we can do with you!- He replied, smiling. -I wanna be a Starship Ranger!- She gasped, and the Up stared at her. -Really?- But he was interrupted by another ranger, who said: -You? A Starship Ranger? Ain't you a little bit too small girl?- -Shut up Adams!- Up said, and the ranger fell silent. -This girl just survived a fight against five big robots, I think she could manage it!- Taz smiled, a real smile now. but Up added: -Unfortunately I'm not the one who decides, so we'll take you to the Admiral as soon as we get to the Starship and see what we can do.- Taz asked him to put her down, and walked a bit behind them, taking one last look at her now destroyed village.