Part 1: Through Sickness and Health

Chapter 2: Purple is your Color

Author's Note: I'm Back! Well I hope this chapter is better than the last one. Thank you to all who said they enjoyed it! I got about 20 alerts about people adding it to their favorites! I did not think people would like it that much. Sorry it took so long… first few weeks of high school and I have Geometry homework every night! Any questions about anything (this story, my other story, if you need a beta, need advice, a story idea, about me) write them in a review or private message. It can be stupid like: "Do you think pickles are cucumbers soaked in evil?" My answer would be: "No I like pickles… I don't really consider them cucumbers, either. How are they even cucumbers?" See easy Ok enough about me… to the story! Oh I would like to apologize for my military rankings because they may not be right.

Disclaimer: I do not own Starship.

P.S. the update I made was just changing how long she was sick to 3 months instead of 4.

Three days had passed since the bug battle. Taz had only thrown up twice since that night with Up. Now they were standing in the training center, watching the other rangers.

"Ferguson, follow through when you shoot!" Up shouted to the guy at the shooting range, he then walked to the mat in the middle of the gym and Taz walked onto the mat. Ensign Sanders joined her and they started to circle each other.

Taz made the first move by punching him in the arm. He held back a yelp and went to kick her in the stomach. She grabbed his leg and twisted him and he landed on his stomach. This time he yelled, Taz's hands burned when they touched his skin. He rolled out of the way of her foot as it came to stomp his back. Jumping up and looking around, Sanders couldn't find the Hispanic girl anywhere. Then he felt her arms wrap around his throat and it seared with pain.

He couldn't take it anymore, so instead of elbowing her in the stomach he just struggled to get loose. Taz threw him to the floor and jumped on top of him. Up stopped the fight and declared Taz the winner.

"Great job, Taz." Up said as they walked to the doors of the gym, he then began to talk about something else and Taz caught a snippet of Sanders conversation.

"Why didn't you get her in the stomach when she was around your neck?" His friend asked.

"No, Steve, you don't get it. I yeah I know fights with Taz are hard and you can come out of them in some serious pain, but this was different. When she touched you it felt like she was burning you." His friend was giving him a weird look and Sanders rolled his pants up and showed him two fading red marks. They were exactly where Taz's hands had been.

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Taz was sitting in her room reading a book when there was a knock on her door. She opened the door and was swooped into a hug.

"Taz! I did it! I asked her out! Ow your really hot, are you ok?" Up said putting her down.

"Jeah, I was just working out." She said convincingly. "Promise me one thing: Jou won't go soft on me."

"Promise. Now do you wanna come to the gym with me? I know you just went but that's never stopped you before." He said trying to change the subject. He was not ashamed of being a softie, but he wasn't going down that path again.

"Let me change and I'll meet jou down there." She said as they walked to the door. After he was gone, she ran to the bathroom and took her temperature. She got dressed and checked it: 99.8.

She slipped an ice pack in the side pocket of her cameo pants.

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She was running across the hot dirt and wondered why she kept tripping. Looking down she saw the skirt of a big blue ball gown.

"What de-" Her thought was cut short when the bottom of her dress caught on fire. She dropped to the ground and put the flame out. She hopped up and started running again. Noticing that she wasn't tripping as much, she looked down again to see that the fire had burned the dress up past her knees.

She was out of breath when she spotted the Ranger Pod. Her legs were exhausted and she was breathing heavy, but she wasn't going to stop. All of a sudden, she was yanked up off the ground by her long hair. Before she knew it she was strung up in her favorite climbing tree and staring into the red lights that were robot eyes.

Looking around, Taz saw the bodies of her family lying on the ground under her. One of the robots took her dad's belt off and whipped her legs. Another robot took a branch and hit her torso. All the other robots just stood there with their lasers ready for the final kill.

She closed her eyes and let them beat her. She listened to their robotic laughter or whatever that sound coming out of their mouth was called. She heard rapid zapper fire, but didn't dare open her eyes. They remained closed even when the robots beatings came to an abrupt stop.

She cracked them open when she landed in someone's strong arms. She was staring into the beautiful Caribbean blue eyes of Commander Up, but this wasn't the young 23 year-old Lieutenant that rescued her from her Quinceañera eight years ago. No this was Commander Up after his famous injury.

"Up! Jou came for me!" Taz was disgusted by how helpless she sounded.

"Why wouldn't I come for ya, Taz? Now can you get up or will I need to carry you? He seemed concerned but his eyes said something else.

Taz got up shakily, but her knees gave out. She grabbed for his right shoulder and watched in horror as her hands peeled off his skin. There was his robot side all exposed and he didn't flinch as she gawked. She had only seen him like that once after his surgery. Up then raised his zapper to her face.

"Target in range!" He said and a red dot showed up on Taz's head.

"Up, what are jou doing? It's me Taz!" She yelled.

She searched his face for any recognition and didn't look away as he pulled the trigger.

Taz's eyes shot open to blue eyes.

"Up?" He was the only person with the password to her room.

No these eyes weren't the gorgeous Caribbean blue that his were, but more of a pale blue. The only other person with blue eyes was…

"February?" her voice full of sleep.

"Hey sleepy head. When you stormed out of the mess hall yesterday and slammed your door shut it bounced open slightly. They told me I should make sure you didn't go into a rampage when you woke up. I mean you were really mad when Up cancelled your movie to hang out with Jessica. Specs came to check on me when I didn't come back and I was drifting off in your chair, so she just left me here." She seemed too cheery for the night after sleeping in a chair. "You don't look so angry when you sleep. Did you know that? That was until you started thrashing around. We can talk about that later but we are almost late for training."

Taz jumped out of bed and pushed the blonde girl out of the room. She ran to her dresser and threw on a new uniform. Then into her bathroom, where she tied her red bandanna around her head and brushed her teeth. She ran back into her bedroom and opened the mini fridge. She pulled out the ice pack and slipped it into her side pocket. Then she pulled out the Frogg Togg and strapped it around her stomach. She had lost enough weight that the towel type thing made her look normal.

After putting on her combat boots and slipping on her gloves, she ran out and grabbed February. She was never late for training.

"Stupid fever dream!" She thought as they ran towards the gym.

They ran through the doors fifteen seconds before the clock struck 8:30. February was out of breath and Taz realized her boots weren't laced and her gloves weren't fastened. Everyone was staring at them.

"Taz… Woke… Up… Late." February wheezed out.

Then everyone's eyes were on Taz. They could see February being the late one, but Taz? She was almost always early or walked in with Up. Taz walked over to a punching bag and started working out.

She looked around as she attacked the punching bag. Everyone in the room was still watching her, but looked away when she glared at them. All of her team was there and about 20 other soldiers all of different ranks. Then Up was over in the corner talking to Jessica. Their first date went well and they had been dating for about three weeks. Taz focused on bag and began to tire quickly.

"Dis is horrible! Jou are Taziana Angelina Sanchez-Lopez! Jou are not weak! Get it together! Jou've been sick before! What did jou do? Jou got back up!" She kicked the bag harder.

"Hey Taz. I just wanted to say am sorry about last night but Jessica surprised me." Up said as he came up to her.

"It's fine." She replied stiffly.

"She just wanted-"

"I don't want to hear it. I know jou care about her and want to make her happy." Taz cut him off.

"Well I also came over here to tell you that-" She cut him off a second time.

"I just want to work on dis alone right now." She knew that he wouldn't go and that's what she wanted.

"Taz-"

"Up." She mimicked his tone and gave him a sly smile.

"You goin to be like that… fine then I won't tell you. You can just walk around with your bra showing." He smirked at her.

This got her attention. She looked down and sure enough, there was her bright purple bra clearly visible through her white shirt. No wonder everyone was staring at her.

"Now that you are listening to me, I wanted to make up for yesterday and invite you over to have a Karate Kid marathon?" He was chuckling at her.

"Fine, but jou have to make a good distraction, so dat I can get de hell outta here."

She watched as he slowly walked over to Jessica and she began to get on him about something. She crept toward the door and kept watching. Then he swooped in and gave Jessica a passionate kiss and Taz ran out of the door. She could hear the whoops and cheers and Krayonder's 'WOOOOOAH!'.

Taz ran to her room and threw herself on her bed, fatigue taking over. That kiss was stuck in her head. No matter how she busied herself in her room that day, it was always there.

"Its the fever talking." Taz kept telling herself. She hated lying to herself.

Yay! I finally finished. Sorry about the delay, but school comes first. Next chapter Taz will be sicker. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing to you. Thank you to everyone who reviewed or made this a favorite or made it an alert:) I love ya'll! Here a few things that i want to clear up: When Taz left marks on that guy she was fighting in the beginning, those were partly from how hard she was gripping him and partly from how hot her hands were. She doesn't have super powers. Frogg Togg's are these towels that stay cool no matter what… they are awesome for outdoor sports. Her Quinceanera didn't really go like that, obviously is was a dream. Ok I think that is all that I have to say. See you next chapter3

-Daisy Doodle