Disclaimer: Alas, I don't own Taz and Up.
A/N: For my darling thegirlwhowaited411, whose name I have not mistyped this time. She suggested that I do a drama lesson with Taz and Up, so I did, and it went a little strange. Ah well.
Song of the chapter: Stereo Skyline- A little more us
"A little more rock, a little less roll. A little more new, a little less old.
A little bit of faith, a little bit a trust. A little bit of never giving up."
Taz woke up to find that Up had already left. She snuggled into his bed for a second, attempting to wake herself up. Then she rolled clumsily out of the covers and stumbled towards the door, slightly disorientated. She pushed open the door and wandered out, rubbing sleep out of her eyes.
"You okay?" Up called from the little table where he was eating cheerios. Taz's bleary eyes focused on him and she nodded silently before wandering over to the kitchen area. She pulled the Nescafe coffee jar away from the rest and pulled the top off.
"Mug?" she murmured, looking around blankly. Up smirked and stood up, collecting his mug from the shelf. "Where's mine?" she asked.
"They didn't pack it." Taz scowled at the mug like it was its fault and then dropped coffee into it angrily. Up shook his head slightly and walked back to his cheerios. Taz finished making her coffee and sank into the chair next to him, sipping out of the mug contently as she crossed her legs. There was silence as the door to Sam's bedroom swung open. Sam came out, wearing only his boxers. Taz barely even responded to his lack of clothing since Up was next to her in much the same attire. Sam's eyes focused slowly and he saw Taz and his jaw nearly hit the floor.
"WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING HERE?" he yelled. Taz nearly fell off her chair. She glared angrily at Sam.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" she shouted, putting her head on her hand and yawning. "It's too early to yell."
"WHAT? WHAT THE HELL? YOU SAID- WHAT THE- SHE'S NOT ALLOWED- WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?" Sam raged around like a madman, his hands in his hair and his eyes wide.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE JOU BLABBERING ABOUT?" Taz screamed, slamming her mug onto the table and splashing hot coffee onto her hand. "Meirda," she cursed, flicking her hand around slightly.
"YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED IN HERE!"
"So?"
"YOU'LL GET EXPELLED!" Taz shrugged slightly and drank some more coffee. Up continued to eat his cheerios. "MATT! I THOUGHT YOU SAID- WHY IS SHE EVEN HERE?" Sam screeched.
"She was cold," Up explained. "And her roommates were arguing."
"SO YOU JUST INVITE HER TO SLEEP WITH YOU!" Sam yelled. "I THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T DATING!" Taz lost her temper. She jumped out of her seat and charged round the side of the table and towards Sam.
"SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!" she screeched in his face. "I AM NOT DATING MATT, I AM HIS FRIEND. I SLEEP HIS BED SOMETIMES! GET USED TO IT!"
"YOU AREN'T ALLOWED IN HERE!"
"I. DON'T. GIVE. A. SHIT!"
"Luz, calm down," Up said, grabbing Taz by the wrist and pulling her back. Andi came out of his bedroom then.
"Hey Sam, hey Matt. Oh, you're Luz, right?" he said cheerfully, running his head through his hair.
"HOW CAN BE SO CALM ABOUT THIS!" Sam screamed.
Andi backed away slightly. "C'mon dude. This is only like you and Alex."
"NO! ALEX DIDN'T STAY THE WHOLE NIGHT! AND WE WERE ACTUALLY DATING!"
"Jesus Sam, calm down. It's no big deal."
"IT IS A BIG DE-"
"OH FOR DEAD-GOD'S SAKE!" Up yelled. "JUST STOP YELLING!" Sam went silent. "Thank you. Now, like Andi said, this is no big deal. It's not even like anything happened, or that it would even be illegal if it did! I don't care if it's against the rules. We just won't get caught. And if we do, we get expelled, you don't. Okay, so just calm, the hell, down." Sam glared slightly and walked back into his bedroom in a huff.
"Okay," Taz mumbled and wandered back over to her coffee.
"Matt, Matt, Matt!" Edd called, charging down the corridor towards Taz and Up. Taz looked at Up, a questioning expression on her face as she glanced at the guy who was running towards them as fast as his legs would carry him.
At the sight of Taz he stopped dead around a metre away.
"Hey, Edd," Up said.
"Uh, hey…I was just going to ask about- are you Luz?"
Taz raised an eyebrow, taken aback by the sudden change in subject. "Yeah, hey."
"I'm Edd," he gushed, turning bright red and holding his hand out nervously. Taz shook his hand cautiously. Edd stared at her.
"You were asking me something?" Up asked, sounding annoyed. Edd tore his eyes away from Taz and looked back to Up, nodding his head slightly.
"Yeah, I was just going to ask whether I could copy your Math homework?" Edd asked.
Up raised an eyebrow. "You haven't done it?"
"I didn't have time," Edd said hastily. He didn't go into any more detail and Up left it there, handing over his Math homework without complaint. "Thanks, I'll give it you back in Drama." He glanced once at Taz, obviously debating whether to talk to her again, before turning and walking off down the corridor.
"Hey class, how's it going?" The tall blonde teacher sauntered into the room, wearing a knee length floral dress with brown leather boots. Taz looked up from where she was sat cross-legged on the floor, leaning her back against the wall. The teacher looked around, smiling at the students that responded wishing her good morning, and asking how she was. "Where are the new students?" she eventually asked.
Up held his hand in the air. "Over here," he called.
The teacher turned round, spotting the unfamiliar faces immediately. "Oh, hey! Matthew and Luz, right?" They both nodded. She came over, holding a hand out to each of them. They dragged themselves to their feet to shake her hand. "Miss Riding," she said, as a way of introduction.
She turned away almost immediately, bounding over to her little table in the corner and picking up a wad of sheets that she'd previously chucked there.
"Hey, Miss, what are we doing today?" Jake asked, strolling in and flinging his bag across the open room so it slid across the floor and stopped at the other wall.
Miss Riding looked over at Jake, raising her eyebrow at him. He gave her an innocent look. "Jake, since when do we chuck our bags across the room?"
"Since, now?"
"Go pick it up, please."
Jake groaned. "But-"
"I'll tell you what we're doing."
Jake huffed slightly. "Fine." He walked over to his bag, dragging his heels behind him dismally as he went.
Miss Riding rolled her eyes at his back. "Okay," she said. "Since this is the first lesson back, I thought we could do something a bit different." Jake had come back by this point, walking over to Taz and dropping his bag down before taking a seat next to her. "I've got a bunch of monologues here," Miss continued, flipping the sheets of paper. "And I was thinking that each one of you could take one, and perform one for us at the end of the class. Does that sound okay? It's only a bit of fun, nothing serious."
The class murmured their agreements and Miss grinned, beginning to hand the monologue sheets out to every person, taking time with each person to pick the right monologue.
"Um, Miss?" Taz asked, staring at the piece of paper in her hand with a look of terror on her face.
"Yes?" Miss Riding asked, turning and giving Taz a very convincing innocent smile.
"Jou want me to perform dis?" Taz asked, staring at her with trepidation.
Miss Riding let out a little giggle. "Yes, of course. Is there a problem?"
"It's about a…I'm not a…"
"I know you're not, it's a character, silly." Miss Riding gave her yet another dazzling smile and turned away to give Jake his monologue sheet.
"What'd you get?" Up asked, leaning over to take a peek at Taz's sheet.
Taz shot back, immediately folded it over, sliding forwards and turning so that he couldn't read it over her shoulder as her eyes quickly scanned the writing. "Fuck," she murmured. "Dis has got to be a joke."
"What?" Up cried, kneeling up and attempting to crawl over and see Taz's sheet. She kicked him in the gut, backing away even more.
"I am not fucking performing this."
"What is it?" Up demanded, a grin growing on his lips. Taz looked up at him and glared ferociously. He chuckled loudly.
"Miss," Taz whined. Miss Riding turned and gave Taz a questioning look. "Jou can't make me read dis!"
"Why ever not?"
"Because it's…you know…about a…you know!"
Miss Riding smirked widely. "I'm sorry, Luz, I have no idea what you are talking about."
Taz gave her a vicious glare. A prostitute's monologue. Of course she fucking knew what Taz was talking.
"Oh my dead god!" Jake yelled, snatching the sheet from Taz's hands before she had time to respond. Taz was on her feet in an instant, running towards Jake as he rushed off to the other side of the room, his face a picture of amusement as he read through the monologue. He looked up at Taz, hiding the sheet behind his back, his face pulled into a gape of sheer laughter on his face.
Taz threw herself at him, her arms flailing as she attempted to grab the sheet out of his hands. Jake shrieked like a girl, doubling over and hugging the sheet to his chest so that Taz couldn't get to it. Taz growled angrily before throwing her whole body weight at him and tackling him to the floor. Jake really didn't seem phased by this, rolling over onto his back and opening his mouth wide, his tongue sticking out manically.
"You tell Miss you're not," he giggled loudly. "But now you're practically lying on top of me on the floor." He cackled crazily and Taz screeched, thumping him in the chest and knocking all the wind out of him.
He coughed, rolling himself up into a ball. Taz snatched the sheet from his hand and stood up, kicking him on the back for good measure. She turned and stomped over to her bag, her expression furious. She glanced at Miss Riding as she walked, who just gave her an amused look.
"I don't know what jou're smirking at," Taz growled. Taz glared at her and slumped down onto the floor in the corner.
"What's your monologue on?" Up asked, shuffling over to her. She hid the paper from sight and glared at Up angrily.
"Go away," she growled.
Up gave her a little smirk. "Come on," he said. "Tell me. It can't be that bad."
"It is," Jake called from across the room, laughing breathily as he rolled around, still holding his stomach.
Taz looked like she was about to get up and go and attack Jake again. Up grabbed her arms. "If jou freaking dare, Jake, I will personally ensure jour death!" Taz screamed, which only resulted in Jake laughing louder.
"You're going to have to perform it anyway!" Jake laughed in response.
Taz huffed. "I'm not performing dis meirda!"
"Huh?"
"Oh, fuck off!"
"Jake, what's her monologue about?"
"IF JOU FUCKING DARE-" Up jumped forwards and shoved his hand over Taz's mouth, silencing her. She screamed and attacked him with her fists.
"JAKE, TELL ME WHAT IT'S ABOU-" Taz bit Up's hand, making him yelp slightly and release her.
"DON'T JOU DARE TELL HIM WHAT IT-"
"TELL ME W-" Up intercepted, pushing Taz away before she could finish her sentence.
Taz grabbed Up's head. "DON'T TELL HI-"
"IT'S THE MONOLOGUE OF A PRAHSTITOOTE- ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The last word had come out barely understandable as Taz jumped on Jake and grabbed his hair, yanking it back with all her force so that he ended up screaming in pain. His scream sounded freakishly female.
Up sat for a second, staring at Taz and Jake as Jake attempted to escape from Taz's iron grip, thrashing around and kicking his legs widely. The entire class was laughing, pointing and giggling and asking Miss what the monologue said. Then Up burst into laughter, leaning back against the wall, his whole body racking back and forth with uncontrollable guffaws.
"Oh my dead god," Up wailed, rolling over onto his side and holding his stomach.
"SHUT UP!" Taz screamed, attacking him with her fists viciously.
Up sat up, grabbing at the sheet lamely. "Let me see," he breathed, still chuckling.
Taz sulked for a second before handing the piece of paper over.
Up laughed so much he was nearly crying. Taz glared at him, her arms folded and her legs crossed. Up gestured to the piece of paper, looking at Taz with a manic expression on his face, seemingly unable to breathe properly.
"It say…it say…phahahahahaha!"
"What?" Taz demanded, grabbing the sheet. "What does it say?"
Up lifted a hand and gestured vaguely to part of the monologue.
Daddy taught me so well I can contract and swell.
Around any pipe with all holes, I do it so well.
"Dat is fucking disgusting," Taz growled, throwing the sheet onto the floor with repulsion.
"And you have to perform it," Up cried, throwing himself backwards so he was lying on the floor. He clapped loudly, his legs kicking into the air as he laughed hysterically.
"I'm not!" Taz screeched. "I'm performing it!"
"Yes you are," Jake called. He pointed at Taz with a mocking expression on his face. "You have to!"
"I WON'T! I refuse!" Taz screamed.
By this point Up had grabbed the sheet off Taz again and had proceeded to pass it to Edd and Andi, who were now in fits of laughter, rolling around on the floor in much a similar way that Jake and Up had.
"Do it, please. Just perform it," Andi begged, wiping away the tears that had sprung to his eyes from laughing so much.
"NO!"
"Aw, come on!" Edd pleaded. "Don't be a spoilsport!"
"Yeah, Taz!" Up agreed.
Taz turned to Up with a furious expression. "What's yours?" she demanded.
"Uh…" Taz raised an eyebrow at him. "The monologue of…an onion."
Everyone burst into floods of laughter again, and even Taz had a hard time keeping the glare up, finally setting for a grumpy expression with lips pressed so firmly together that it was very apparent she was hiding a smirk. She snatched up the sheet from where it lay next to him, giving him a tiny smirk before beginning to read.
Hunt all you want. Beneath each skin of mine
Lies another skin: I am pure onion-pure union
Of outside and in, surface and secret core.
Look at you, chopping and weeping. Idiot.
Taz couldn't contain the giggle. "And are jou going to perform dat?" Taz questioned, tilting her head slightly.
Up stared at her for a second, blinking in quite an unnatural manner. "Uh…ugh…um…yeah?"
Taz gave him a look, and turned round to face Miss Riding. "Miss, are jou seriously doing to make us perform these?" she asked.
Miss Riding raised an eyebrow. "Of course I am. What else do you expect to have to do in a drama lesson?"
"I don't know!" Taz cried. "Like Shakespeare or something! He's famous for dis meirda, right?"
"Fine," Miss Riding said, standing up from where she had been sat beside one of the other students. "We'll do Shakespeare's version of this 'meirda'." She gave Taz a little smile, and Taz suddenly wondered whether she'd just made a really big mistake. "Right then, I'd like you to get into threes." The class stared at their teacher with trepidation. "Come on, threes, now. We're going to do a bit of Romeo and Juliet."
"I'm going with Luz!" Edd yelled, attempting to get past Up and Andi. Andi was giving him a weird look, as if to say 'subtle, dude,' whereas Up was just blocking his passage completely, refusing to allow him past.
"Sorry, Eddyboy," Jake said, sliding across the floor and steering himself to the spot on the other side of Taz. "The slots are already filled by me and Matt."
Neither Edd nor Up looked particularly pleased with this outcome. Edd was glaring at Jake and Up with ferocity that Taz hadn't thought the small ginger could produce, and Up was just sulking while silently scowling at the floor.
"Okay. I want you to perform a scene where 1 of you plays Romeo, one of you plays Juliet, and one of you plays Paris-" Immediately people were muttering to their friends about who they wanted to play and why they deserved to play them more than anyone else. "-Shush! It must be a scene in which Paris finds out about Romeo and Juliet and the conversation that is then held between the three of them." At this point Miss Riding gave Taz a very pointed look, before allowing her gaze to drift to Jake and Up.
"This is going to go terribly," Up whispered in Taz's ear. She elbowed him, not wanting to admit that she had been wrong.
"It's going to be fine," Taz protested. "It's better than those god damn monologues."
"I'm not so sure," Up responded warily. Taz shot him a glare
"So, who's going to play who?" Jake asked, leaning round, the grin on his expression unwavering.
Taz and Up stared at him without blinking.
"I was thinking I could totally play Romeo," he continued, giving Taz a wink.
Taz blinked. "And Matt's playing Juliet."
"What?"
"Wai- what?"
"And I'll play Paris," Taz concluding, standing up with a rather pleased expression on her face.
Jake looked at Up for a second, his expression clearly reading: 'Help!' But Up wasn't in a particular position to help, and so Jake instead turned to give Edd and Andi the same expression. Edd glared at him and Andi just gave him an amused look before shrugged and turning around to face his group.
Up had already got up and was heading over to Taz, and reluctantly Jake dragged himself to his feet and joined Taz in the middle of the room, wondering as he walked what on earth he'd just gotten himself into.
Taz waited until both guys were in front of her. She gave them a look that was half-bored, half-expectant. "Well, go on, make out or something." She folded her arms.
"What?" Jake squeaked.
"I have to find jou out, jou know, so jou've got to kissing or something."
The two guys looked at each other. "Do you reckon she's got a fetish for guys making out?" Jake asked. Taz gaped at him in hatred.
"It wouldn't surprise me," Up admitted. Taz threw her shoe at him. Jake laughed, until her other shoe whacked him in the side of the head.
"You could have knocked me out!" Jake cried, throwing the shoe back at Taz sulkily.
"Yeah, the plan didn't really work did it," Taz growled. She flopped down onto the floor. She looked up at the two boys. "Fine, just hold hands or something." Jake pulled a face, looking nervously around the room. He had nothing against this kind of thing, but the rumours would travel around this school faster than wildfire. "Oh, come on!" Taz cried. "Jou're only holding hands!"
Up and Jake looked at each other and Up shrugged slightly, clasping Jake's hand before he even had a chance to protest. They both then looked at Taz, waiting for some kind of instruction.
"Okay…uh…ballroom dance or something."
"I can't dance," Jake said immediately.
"I'll teach you," Up replied, turning to face Jake.
Jake jerked back slightly, his expression horrified. "Dude, what are you doing?"
"Dude, it's only dancing calm down."
"Dude, do have any idea how fast rumours go round this school?"
"Dude, do have any idea how little I give a shit? Now come on, I'm teaching you to ballroom dance."
"No, you're not," Jake decided. Up had already managed to get them both into suitable dancing stances.
"Yes, I am. Now you've got to- are you listening? This is hard."
"No."
"Well listen, or you'll mess up."
Taz sat back, watching as Up pulled the seriously pissed off looking Jake around the room, laughing at his expression and attempting to make him take the dance seriously by poking him in the eye. Miss Riding came up behind Taz, tapping her on the shoulder and smirking down at her. She gestured to Jake and Up, who were waltzing around the room under Up's instruction. "They'd make quite a cute couple, don't you think?"
The entire class was howling with laughter, doubled over with their hands on the stomachs, unable to control themselves. Jake yelped loudly and both Taz and Miss Riding looked over to see that Jake was flailing around madly and Up was just stood there, his head jerked back in a confused fashion and his hands held up.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Up asked, blinking once.
Jake stopped flailing and gestured wildly to Miss Riding, his eyes wide. "Did you not just hear what she said?" he demanded.
"Of course I heard her! She was joking!"
"But-"
"Oh, shut up!" Up yelled, rolling his eyes.
"Are we done dancing?" Jake asked.
"Did we finish the dance?"
"No."
"Oh look, you just answered your own question."
Jake near enough slapped himself in the face.
Taz threw her head back, laughing loudly as Up attempted to grab Jake's hand and ended up only grabbing air as Jake flew backwards and fell over on the floor, cursing like a madman. She looked over at Edd and Andi. Andi caught her eye and frowned in Jake's direction, still laughing. Taz chuckled again and shrugged her shoulders.
She looked up at Miss Riding who was laughing and shaking her head at Jake and Up's argument. "Jou're not actually going to make us perform this are jou?" Taz asked.
Miss Riding scoffed. "Am I hell."
Taz slumped down in her seat, watching Senorita Crawford wrote the date of the test on the board. She cursed, in Spanish. Senorita Crawford turned round quickly and sent Taz one of the sharpest looks Taz had ever seen. The teacher turned back to the board as fast as she'd turned in the first place, and Taz pulled a face behind her back before she could stop herself.
"You really are immature at times," Jake commented beside her. Taz swiftly sent her foot flying out. It connected with Jake's shin with a painful sounding crack. Jake yelped loudly and Senorita turned and glared at them both again.
Taz slumped back in her seat, looking pissed off.
"What's up?" Jake asked.
"I'm tired."
"We're students, it's part of the job."
"Being a student sucks."
"Well, yeah, tell me about it," Jake murmured, sighing.
"I'm also bored, and cold," Taz stated.
"Cold?"
"This is a very cold place," Taz clarified. "I hate it."
"Okay…?" Jake said slowly. "Well you get used to it."
"I've been here a week. I'm not used to it."
"It takes longer than a week."
"Well I don't want it to!" Taz protested, scowling at him.
"You don't really have a choice…"
"Shut up." Taz turned her back on Jake and picked up her pen, noting the date of the Spanish test down in the corner of her notebook.
"Hey, Luz. Don't worry about it, okay?"
"Shut up."
The pair spent the rest of the lesson in silence. Talking to each other only when Senorita Crawford gave them a speaking task, and ignoring each other for the rest of the time. When the bell finally rang Taz was out of her seat in under a second, storming towards the door with an expression on her face that made all the other students move out of her way so that she could pass. She walked out into the corridor, forcefully slamming the door back once she had walked out, probably causing it to hit the next unlucky student in the face. Taz didn't much care.
Taz looked down the corridor, stopping dead at the sight of Edd coming up the corridor towards her. She cursed under her breath.
"Hey, Edd," she murmured, without much conviction. She was expecting the usual, extreme response with a loud, excitable explanation of his most recent chemistry project and a scarily close proximity range that would make Taz step back and probably step on the same unlucky student's toes who she had recently slammed the door on.
Edd didn't seem to see her for a second, taking a double take as he walked past. "Oh, hey Luz," he mutter, looking around, distracted. "Um…I'll talk to you later, okay? I just have to, uh…see you later."
"Uh, see you later…?"
Edd hurried off into the crowds, leaving Taz will a rather puzzled expression on her face. Her eyebrows were raised and her mouth open slightly in shock.
"Don't worry about him," Jake said from behind her. "He does that a lot."
"He does?"
"Yeah, he's doing extra subjects or…something like that."
Taz looked up automatically, her eyes scanning Jake with curiosity. "Why's he doing more subjects?"
"I don't know," Jake replied.
"What subjects is he doing?" Taz pressed.
"I don't know that either," Jake admitted, frowning slightly. "He just barely ever has any free time. He's always at some class or other."
"Oh. Oh, right."
"What do jou know about Edd?" Taz questioned.
Up turned and looked at Taz with a curious expression in his eyes. "What? Edd? What about him?"
"Well, what you jou know about him?" Taz asked again.
Up studied her face sceptically. "You don't think Edd's…"
"I don't know," Taz replied, frowning.
"What makes you think he might be?"
"Jake," Taz said. "He said that Edd's always at extra classes, but he doesn't know what the classes are or what Edd's doing them."
"I would've thought Edd had enough classes with the double major in Chemistry and Physics," Up replied.
"Exactly," Taz said gravely.
"We should tell the Ambassador."
"But what if we're wrong?"
"Then we're wrong," Up replied. "What if we don't tell him and we're right?"
"I'll follow him one time when he goes off to these 'extra lessons'," Taz said.
Up stared at her. "You're kidding, right?"
"No."
"What if you are right, and he sets a load of robots on you?" Up demanded. "You could get hurt, or found out!"
"I won't get found out, Up. I won't let him see me," Taz retorted.
"Taz, don't be stupid."
"I'm not being!" Taz protested. "I don't want to go blaming people until I'm totally sure dat I'm right, okay?"
"There are other ways to find out whether you're right you know."
"Go on, then. Let's here you're amazing idea."
Up stared at her, saying nothing. After a few seconds he sighed and looked away. Taz smiled triumphantly. "Fine," Up growled. "But you're staying on radio to me, so I know what's going on. Deal?"
"Deal."
Taz slid into the corridor silently. She'd just watched as Edd ran out from the Maths room, quickly making an excuse to Andi and Sam about having to get to an extra class, before legging it off down the corridor faster than lightning. Taz had stood up seconds after, sliding out of the door with ease and walking quickly to catch up with Edd as he turned this corner and that corner.
Edd had eventually turned into one of the corridors leading to the old laboratories. These rooms were rarely used now, after the new block had been made, and they were only used as storage rooms and for the teachers who were running extra lessons. Taz felt a pang of worry. What if Edd was only here for an extra lesson? She pushed it back, knowing that would mean she was right not to tell the Ambassador yet.
For half a second Taz considered going back, turning and walking away because it was apparent that Edd was not their target, but then he stopped and looked around, as thought he was checking no one was following him. Taz slunk into the shadows, hiding herself from view. Edd walked left, down one of the corridors. Taz hesitated a second before following.
Taz leaned around the door of the laboratory, dreading what she would see when she did. She had a good reason to dread.
Edd was stood with his back to the door, a video screen in front of him. An image of the robot Ambassador's face filled the screen, its eyes as emotionless as they always were, his expression as cold. Taz spun round, leaning back against the wall, a sick feeling climbing up her throat and making her want to retch. And for a second there she'd been willing to believe that Edd was anything but a traitor.
Taz forced herself to listen carefully, though listening to this conversation was the last thing she wanted to do.
"And the plan?"
"The plan is going great," Edd said, sounding almost what you could call excited. His voice was high pitched, and there was a lot of shuffling, like he was showing the robot Ambassador papers of some kind. "Um…if you see, the production of the Mega-girl unit is going very well, I should be finished within a few weeks-"
"You don't need to give me a running commentary, human. Be quiet for once." Edd trailed off into silence, and the only thing that followed was more shuffling noises from Edd moving things around on the desk. "Do you realise that you are being watched?"
Taz froze, dead on the spot. Her heartbeat quickened and her breathing became ragged. There was a noise, a metallic noise that reminded Taz of the sound when someone picks up a gun. Oh shit. Taz couldn't move. If she made a run for it, she would definitely get seen, and the probably shot, but staying where she was meant that it was impossible for Edd not to find her, and then she would probably be shot. Taz decided that running was the best option. Less likely to get shot, less likely to be discovered to be who she really was. She braced herself.
"What, where?" Edd demanded, his footsteps turning on the spot.
"Not now, foolish human." Taz stopped, her arms falling limp by the sides as she left out a slow breath that she had to quickly control to avoid it being loud enough to be heard by Edd and the Ambassador. "People are beginning to suspect you. Your friends, they are starting to wonder whether your 'extra classes' are all that they seem. You should watch your back, human."
"Okay," Edd agreed, sounding nervous.
"Good. I'm expecting the Mega-girl unit to be finished by the February 16th," the robot Ambassador said. That was less than three weeks away.
"Bu- but that's-"
"There should be a problem, should there?" the robot Ambassador questioned, his tone clearly threatening.
Edd audibly gulped. "No, Ambassador," he murmured. "That won't be a problem, I'll have it done."
The Robot Ambassador toned off without so much as a goodbye and Edd was left in the laboratory, gulping in air and holding the side for support. Taz couldn't help but feel a little bit sorry for him, but she forced the feeling back, he was a traitor, whether he wanted to be or not.
Edd began to walk towards the door of the lab and Taz slunk into the shadows in the next doorway, watching as Edd cautiously made his way back up the corridor the way he had come.
A/N: Yeah, I told you it went weird! Ah well…I don't think it turned out as funny as I wanted it to, sorry…And 37KMV I said you were wrongXP