Hi everyone! So i'm kind of agreeing with MadHope on this one, but I love Taz/Junior stories and there really are not enough of them so this is mine. I hope you guys review if you like this story because it makes such a possitive difference on my writing, so enjoy!

Chapter 1

Taz stared out of the porthole shaped window of the ship that was transporting her, Up and the rest of her platoon to Starship 7, one of the largest starships ever built. The town it was stationed at was rumoured to be the target of a fresh attack by the robot army. Reinforcements were called in from everywhere.

Taz was glad that they were going to be staying there for a while. Her first year as a Starship ranger was spent running up and down the country, never getting to places in time to fight, only to protect the wounded. Finally the fight was coming to her.

When they started to decend Taz looked out the window again. Tents, for miles all she could see were tents. First aid tents, Armory Tents, Storage tents. They touched down to the ground and Taz grabbed her small backpack that contained all of her possessions and swung it onto her back. As she stepped out of the craft, Up emerged from the cockpit and greeted her.

"Hey Taz! Did you see it?"

Up pointed up to the sky and as the smoke from the ship cleared she saw it. A monsterous, giant machine in the clouds. The Starship. Starship 7.

The group of thirty made their way through the mini city of tents to the drop pods that would take them up to the ship. Soldiers were carrying large crates of explosives and mines along the dusty path that wound through the middle of the camp. Up leaned down and said quietly into Taz's ear.

"There's a secret mission tonight. A group of soldiers are going out of the boundry wall to bury explosives in the ground to make a mine field."

"Those metal heads won't know what hit them" Taz mumbled back. Taz and Up did their secret handshake which went unnoticed by the other soldiers.

Taz could see the boundery wall in the distance where the robots were supposed to be coming from. No sign yet. All that was beyond the wall was a baron wasteland. At least the ship was more impressive. Taz felt dizzy just looking up at it. Her, Up and twelve other rangers boarded the first drop pod.

As they rose through the air they could see more ships arriving at the camp. At least eight hundred extra troops were supposed to be arriving in the next few days. The drop pod docked with the ship and the rangers were greeted by a bored looking soldier whose face brightened up when he saw Up.

"Commander Up!" he stammered "Doctor Spaceclaw is on the video phone for you. It's such a blast to meet you! I'm private Krayond-" but he was cut off when Up walked strait past him to answer the phone.

Taz made to follow but the soldier put a hand on her shoulder. She turned and aimed a punch at him but he ducked out the way quickly.

"Hey wait! I need you to answer some questions to prove your identification before you go further into the ship." he said, trying not to piss her off more.

Taz looked around. The other rangers where talking to similar people with clipboards.

"Fine" she said simply.

"Name" he asked.

"Taz Cortez" she answered.

"Is Taz Cortez your full name?"

"Yes" she said threateningly.

"I have your full name here" he said, "I'm gonna need you to say it".

"Tazia Marie Estella Cortez " she said quietly.

"Age?"

"19"

"Mother and father's names?"

"Thomas and Marie Cortez"

"I have Thomas and Teressa Cortez" he said, confussed.

"Teressa is my adoptive mother. My birth mother died when I was 15."

"Oh ok well that would be all, go on ahead."

Taz barged past him and headed off to find her assigned room. Up had his own quarters on the ship so Taz would had been assigned a room and a roommate. She was wandering down a long corridor looking for room 214.

"208, 210, 212 aha!" she said, relieved.

Taz opened typed in a code in the panel next to the wall and the door shot open. The room was small with three beds being the first thing in sight. Taz stepped inside the room and caught sight of two girls chatting. They looked up at her. One had short, curley red hair and round glasses and the other was tall and had brown hair tied back in a pony tail.

"Oh, you must be Tazia Cortez" the tall girl said brightly.

"Just Taz" said Taz putting her bag down on the free bed.

"I'm Mort. A science officer on the ship and this is Specs."

The red head walked forward to shake Taz's hand.

"Specs. I'm a technition. Um.. are you THE Taz Cortez? Commander Up's deputy?"

"Yeah" she said, feeling slighty proud.

"No way!" said Mort joining in, sitting on the end of Taz's bed "The youngest female ranger ever to be trained by the galactic league?"

"Yup" said Taz.

"Cool" said Mort casually. Taz laughed at this.

The evening was spent with Specs and Mort asking her all types of questions about Commander Up, being a soldier and how she became a ranger so young. Taz told them of how the robots had attacked her town on the night of her quinceañera, her mother Marie had been killed and they thought they were going to die when the starship rangers arrived and saved them. One of these rangers had been Up, who saved her from the killer robots and agreed to train her when she turned 16. He kept true to his word and she entered the robot wars when she was 18.

In the midst of all the questions Taz got to ask a few about them two.

Sally "Specs" Wilson was 20. It was her first year as a Starship ranger and her father had also been a technition in the robot wars. Mortimer "Mort" Bains was 22 and was a Science Officer on the ship. Her very rich parents had put her into the Galactic league Academy when she was 7 years old. Both her parents also worked in the Galactic league.

Taz lay in her bed thinking that this might not be a bad place to stay for a while. Decent roommates, plenty of robots to kill and a place to call home for at least a little while.