A/N Sorry this took so long. I really don't have any excuses other than procrastination and slight writer's block… Anyway, it's here now and I figured I should warn you guys, next time I update, I'm going to change the name of this story to "When World's Collide" (Thanks to HP2011, who came up with it =D) Again, thanks to everyone who reviewed because reviews make me happy =) I don't own Starkid or their totally awesome productions!
Taz's POV
"Specs," Up called. "Where did February's com signal come from?"
She pulled out a small device she called her Spectrometer. "According to my Spectrometer, it came from somewhere in that direction." She was pointing towards an area surrounded by gigantic rocks that wasn't too far away. The area was huge and seemed like it might be the only place there was life on the whole planet.
"Well den let's go," Taz said and walked forward when no one else did.
"But it looks scary in there," Tootsie pointed out.
"Yeah," Ron said. "It looks as scary as the scariest place in the world, the Shrieking Shack, or the scariest place in the world, the Forbidden Forest."
"Oh please," Draco said as he walked over to Taz. "It really doesn't look that scary." As he said this, Taz looked at him and gave a slight smile. What she didn't know was that at that moment, Draco was terrified. But he had realized that Taz seemed to like people who were tough, so that's what he was going to be.
"Come on, let's go!" Taz yelled as she dragged Up to the front of the group, where he should have been, since he was the commander. "Everybody, keep jour weapons out. We don't know what's in dere."
"Okay, fine," Ron called. "But if we're going in there, I'm gonna need a Redvine." Once again, he pulled out a pack of his favorite candy and held it up as he said "redvine" as if he was looking into a camera.
When the group, led by Up, Taz, and Draco, made it into the place, Up called out, "Specs! What the heck is this place?" Everyone walked in slowly with their weapons raised; Taz noticed the kids from Hogwarts had those weird sticks raised as their weapons. She had to remind herself to ask Draco what those were. The only person who didn't have a weapon out was Specs, who was looking at her Spectrometer.
"According to my Spectrometer, we seem to be inside a series of complex tunnels. This entire structure seems to be formed out of some sort of secreted resin."
At the word secreted, Krayonder began yelling. "Secreted? Secreted from what, man? We shouldn't have come in here!" Everyone quickly shushed him, as he was yelling very loudly.
"Krayonder!" Up reprimanded him. Taz, who had lowered her weapon slightly to shush Krayonder, raised it up again. "I know that we're all very terrified right now." When Up said this, Taz lowered her weapon again and looked at her friend in disgust, but quickly raised it again so she could be ready if something happened. However, she still registered how soft he sounded in the rest of his sentence. "But we gotta be big boys because this is where February's com signal come from, so this is where we gotta look."
Suddenly, Megagirl came up behind them. She had been lagging behind so she didn't have to walk with the humans. "Why have we stopped? Do you humans need to rest for eight vulnerable hours?"
"Well, actually, I could use a nap. I'm exhausted," Ron called out.
"You're not tired, you're just lazy," Hermione corrected him.
"Shut up, Herman!"
Taz ignored the two of them and told Megagirl, "De only ding that needs to rest are jour jaws because dey are so tired." At this, Krayonder shouted, "Woooooooahhhh" and everyone shushed him again.
Everyone moved forward to look around, except Megagirl, who stayed where she was and said, "For maximal efficiency just use your thermal vision to scan for signs of life. Oh wait; I have mistaken your futility for my utility."
Taz was already angry that she had to take the robot with them on the mission, and now it was making stupid comments like that. She stepped forward towards Megagirl and told her, "One more comment like dat and I am going to wrap jou up in a tortilla and den I will eat jou as a snack, maybe with some pico de gallo."
But Megagirl was not going to stop there; she began making fun of Taz. "Ha ha ha ha. Look at me. Look at me. Ayayaya ayayaya. I am a puny human. Ayayaya ayaya. I must replenish my energy using inefficient chemical processes. Ayayayayayaya. Mmmmm. Now I am slightly less weak."
Everyone there was looking at the robot in annoyance, except for Tootsie, who was still admiring her. But Taz was, of course very angry and suddenly, she exploded. She pointed her zapper at the robot and yelled, "I am going to shoot dis metal bitch!"
Up called to her, "Woah woah woah, calm down there Taz." He put a hand on her shoulder and the combination of that and his voice made her calm down mostly. He was always able to do what no one else could and calm her down. "She's just telling jokes." But Taz was still angry, because even though Up calmed her down, he was just making her angry again. He was defending the stupid robot. The Up she knew never would have defended a robot. Therefore, Taz did not lower her zapper and made a threatening gesture to the robot, which she returned. She didn't move until Up began pulling her away and reminded everyone of what they were supposed to be doing.
"Let's all split up. Everyone look for February by themselves. Come on, Taz." He grabbed her hand and began bringing her to look for February with him. She ignored the funny feeling in her stomach that was brought on by him grabbing her hand and remembered what she had promised herself. Next time he wanted me to do something, I promised myself I would decline, she remembered. So that's exactly what she did. She pulled her hand away from his, ignoring the fact that it felt cold without his palm there and gave him a look that said "what are you doing". Taz almost grabbed his hand back because he looked so disappointed when she pulled away and started saying, "No, no, no." But then, he said, "Good idea," and walked away.
As she walked away, Taz wondered, Why did he seem disappointed? Does he feel someding for me too? No. That couldn't be possible. She pushed those thoughts from her head. Nothing could ever happen between them. Why would he feel anything for her? He's her commander; He was her mentor; There was also the fact that he was ten years older than her. They had been best friends for six years and nothing would change that. He does not feel anyding for me, she told herself.
Suddenly, she noticed Draco was beside her. "Are you okay?" He asked her. She must have let her feelings show on her face. She quickly composed her face and pretended like she hadn't just been thinking about Up.
"I'm fine. Have jou found anyding yet?" He shook his head.
"So, Taz. How did a great lieutenant like you end up with an idiotic crew like this?" He asked.
"Dis was de crew dat was assigned to Up, and I always stay with Up."
"You and the commander seem close." Taz didn't notice the bitterness in Draco's tone when he mentioned Up.
"We've been best friends for six years…" Taz trailed off, thinking of the strange way Up acted when she let go of his hand.
"It must be nice to be that close with someone…" Taz noticed the sadness in his voice.
"Don't jou have close friends? What about dem?" She pointed towards Crabbe and Goyle, who at the moment were standing on the other side of the area they were in, looking lost.
"Well, they're more like henchmen really. I've been kind of friends with this girl Luna since I was twelve, but she takes really long trips all the time with her dad looking for Crumpled something or other, so I was never that close to her. I was pretty close to Firenze the centaur when I was twelve…" Taz was wondering what a centaur was and then remembered that she was going to ask about those sticks the Hogwarts kids carry around.
"Draco, what–" But suddenly, Megagirl began yelling.
"Life signs detected!"
Krayonder yelled out, "What? Where?" as she walked away from where she was talking to Tootsie over to something by where Taz and Draco were. Everyone immediately crowded around it.
"Woah, what is it, man?" Krayonder asked as Megagirl scanned it.
Specs was looking at her Spectrometer and informed Krayonder, "If my readings are correct, this appears to be a mammal, encased in massive amounts of mucus, or boogers, if you will."
Megagirl immediately walked away stating, "If it is not the science officer, then it is inconsequential."
Tootsie wondered aloud, "Why would you wanna cover yourself in boogers?"
Krayonder pointed out what everyone was thinking at the time, "No. I think something brought it here, man."
"Poor little guy," Up began and Taz immediately rolled her eyes at his behavior. "It looks like he's got a tummy ache." Suddenly, something popped out of the mammal's chest and made a noise that sounded like "meemo" and everyone screamed and ran away from it. As they did this, gigantic bugs came out of nowhere and everyone raised their weapons.
Krayonder screamed, "Ahhh! Millions of bugs!" At the same time, Up tried to calm everyone down.
"Alright, everybody! Just stay calm! Ain't nothing we've seen telling us these bugs is here to scrap."
Krayonder, who was panicking much more than anyone else, yelled, "But what about the worm that just burst out of that thing's stomach, man?"
"Dammit Krayonder, that could have been a murderin' lamb that got everything it had comin' to it. Until we know these bugs mean business, nobody shoot, dammit! Nobody shoot!"
Megagirl, ignoring Up, began shooting laser beams out of her hand while screaming, "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Suddenly, they came face to face with the bugs and everyone was shocked, even the bugs and everyone screamed. The crew ran away from the bugs and Taz broke away from the group to look for February by herself.
