Sorry guys this took kind of long, I do somuch extracurricular after school so I hadn't been able to update it... But here's chapter 3! :)
"My name is Commander Trent. What's yours?"
Taz looked at the sleek black haired man in front of her. He looked very Latino but she didn't want to start babbling in Spanish, incase he wasn't and decided she was stupid.
"Taz"
"Surname."
"I don't have one."
"We need you to give one..."
"Hey, I don't have one and neither does Commander Rick!" Up intervened.
"Up? Brother it has been so long!" a grey haired more muscular version of Up appeared. He had a full grey moustache which Taz looked at.
"Nice 'stach Rick." Up laughed and hugged his brother. "This is Taz."
"Ahh, the shoe killer." Rick laughed.
"I don't think I can jou kill with these..." Taz looked down to the pair of Trainers a Nurse at the Hospital had given her. Taz was wearing a red tank top and black sweatpants, her long black hair tied back into a high ponytail. In her Arms was a Cardboard box filled with her few possessions. Rick laughed before turning to Trent.
"Up explained the situation. She's just called Taz." Rick then signalled for them both to follow him. "How earth, Up?" he asked.
"Robots everywhere." Up sighed. "I don't think we'll wi-"
"We will." Taz growled. Rick looked at her.
"Think rationally Taz, you think we can sit by as more people die?" He asked.
Taz Shrugged.
"Here we are." Up grinned at a door. He pressed a code into the door and it opened. Rick held his nose.
"YOU NEED TO CLEAN IT." Rick yelled. Up yelled something back.
"RICK I'VE BEEN GONE FOR TWO YEARS. ALL THE FOOD IN THE KITCHEN WILL HAVE ROTTED." Up yelled. Taz grinned from the doorway, placing the box down before pulling her arm to block her nose, grabbing a plastic bag from the sideboard and dumping the contents of the fridge inside. Rick sprayed a can of Air freshener into the room.
"Better." Taz grinned.
"Your room is in the Cadets area." Rick smiled and Up looked at Taz.
"Its not far away." Up told Taz and the trip began to walk down the hall before taking a left, a right and then down a flight of stairs. A few teenagers were stood around in the corridors but all of them stopped when they saw Rick.
"Your room is here." Up saw Rick type the code in and saw Taz step in. She grinned and then looked about. Placing her box on the side and she began to cram her books onto the shelf above her bed. Up looked around. Rick had gone to yell at a Cadet who was bullying a new recruit the same age as Taz, only he was alot taller. Up turned to Taz.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just tired."
"I know Taz I know. Chin up, enrolment is in two days, until then you can do whatever you like." Up grinned. "See you later." Up added in his Southern Drawl and walked down the hall, yelling to Rick if they wanted to go to the Gym.
Taz woke up to a knock on the door.
"Meirda." she murmured at her clock. 7:30. "Who is it?"
"Uh... Henry."
Taz slid out of bed to open the door. A talk boy of about 16 stood looking at her.
"What do jou want?" She asked.
"Wondering if you wanted to Hang out, Tazzy? Me and Pete were gonna go training and as your the only girl we thought..." he cut of when the door was slammed in his face.
Up grinned as Taz opened the door an hour later.
"Breakfast, young Tazzy." he announced and signalled for her to walk with him.
"Tazzy?" she asked as they began to walk towards the elevator. "Did jou just call me Tazzy?" she asked.
"Don't like it?"
"Hate it."
"Okay." Up sighed as the elevator began to move upwards. "Met any new friends?" he asked awkwardly.
"Some kid called Henry came to wake me up." she shrugged. "Apparently I'm the only new girl."
"Yeah Rick said so." When the pair walked to the table where Rick, Jed and some others were sat, Taz could see no other girl wearing the blue Cadet uniform.
"Up! Taz!" Rick called them and the pair sat on the bench. Taz was wedged between Up and Jed. After brekafast, Taz was going to get up when Rick informed them that most of the new recruits were Docking that day so she had to stay out of the corridor after 12. Taz walked around for a bit and after a while she heard a Southern Voice behind her.
"Taz you should go to the Cadet area now." it was Up.
"I hate it down there."
"Sorry."
"Jou don't understand."
"Tell you what, who dont we watch some movies, you and me?" He asked. Taz shrugged and Up grabbed her arm and dragged her to his room. The pair sat on the Sofa watching Jackie Chan explode about in The Karate Kid. It was fast becoming one of Taz's favourites. After a while the intercom buzzed. It informed everyone had twelve minuets until the first docking, and all Recruits were to go to their rooms immediately. Taz sat up and Up handed her a pile of DVD's to watch.
"Bye, see you in the canteen at 7." he said as they turned into her corridor. As Taz stepped inside her room she heard Up run off.
Twenty minuets passed until Taz heard the first voices. She recognised Trent who was taking a recruit to its dorm. She, by the sounds of it, had a British accent. Trent deposited her in the room across the hallway and left. Taz heard her muffled voice. Talking to herself? What? The next voices to Pass were a Commander and a boy with a Russian Accent. Many hours and nationalities past until somebody was in the room next to her. A girl with an American, slightly Canadian, accent. She was talking to Trent.
"Any one you know joining this year, Freya?" Trent asked her.
"Nope." Freya replied. "They all said I was Crazy. Maybe I am." she added before Taz heard the door open and shut. The kid on the other side was another American, this time a guy named George. Another hour past. Less voices went now. The last one she remembered hearing was a German girl called Gretel. Then she fell asleep.
"Taz!" Up was yelling at her door. Taz woke up on her Sofa. She looked at the time. 9:30.
"MEIRDA." she leapt up and unlocked the door. Up walked in.
"Okay... You alright?" he asked. Taz nodded. Up grinned. "You nearly missed dinner." he handed her a small plate of chicken, rice and vegetables before grinning. "I'll wake you up an hour earlier tomorrow. Miss enrolment and your gone before you can say meirda. What does that even mean?" he asked cocking his head as he sat beside her on the sofa.
"Shit." Taz said through a mouth of Peas. Up grinned.
"Don't swear infront of the Commanders. Rick I can get you out of, but Skyet or Trent? No." He laughed. Taz swallowed the last mouthful before Up tapped her on the head and told her to sleep tight.
"Abercrombie." The President of the G.L.E.E. called. The kid in the room next to her, George, stepped up. He had a pin fastened to his uniform before he saluted and left the stage.
"Bouvier." a guy with thick ginger curls walked from where he was stood at the back.
It went on. Finally it was T.
"Taz." The President called. Taz stepped up to the stage and stood before him. He pinned the badge to her blue uniform and she Saluted. She grinned as she and the rest of the first years were handed their timetables. First she had Combat... With Commander Trent. As she walked into the room she grinned to see Up leaning against the wall, humming a tune to himself. Trent told them all to pair up, however there was an odd number and Taz was paired with Trent.
"I'll go with her." Up called and walked over. Trent nodded and stepped away, still quite fuming from their first meeting. Soon Taz was running laps of the huge training room, the other twelve cadets running alongside her. Trent told them to keep together, but Taz was about four Meters ahead of them all when she finished.
"Cadet!" Trent Barked. "Twenty More!" he yelled. Taz looked at him.
"Yes, Sir." she began to run again.
"Why?" Up turned to Trent.
"She disobeyed me by running ahead, what if this was down on earth in battle? Taz could be dead now." Trent hissed. Six minuets passed before Taz reappeared. Trent signalled for her.
"I want you to partner with Davies on the mat." Trent yelled. One of the Third years who had been using the Gym in his free period with his friends looked up. Taz's heart plummeted. He was 6 feet tall, almost as muscular as Rick. Taz stepped to the mat and tried not to worry about getting killed, Up would help her if it got bad... Right?
