I don't own Taz or Up. Or Space-Claw. Starkid does.

Up grinned and looked at Taz. She was getting better faster than the doctors predicted and was currently translating a song from English into Spanish and back again, out of pure boredom. The walls of her hospital room were dappled with drawings. She tore them up after a while so no more than ten were on the once white (now currently dotted with blue from the bluetac) walls. Taz grinned as Up walked in.

"What's on jour mug?" Taz asked him. Ups fingers traced around his mouth until his fingers brushed around a small wispy moustache. It was only speckled with grey, not like the three-quarters-grey-one-quarter-brown hair that smothered his head.

"Havn't shaved." Up shrugged. "Rick's going down in a squadron tomorrow, so I guess it's nerves about you not getting better and nerves about Rick." Taz looked at him.

"Rick will be fine. And I'm already better!" Taz followed her statement by jumping of the bed only to be yanked back down by Up.

"You still need to rest." Up picked up the notepad and read it. "I'm beginning to wish I took Spanish instead of German." Up sighed. Taz shrugged.

"I'm just hoping they let me continue Spanish." She laughed. Up grinned. Taz started humming the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody. Up joined in and the pair were soon screaming it loudly, in English for Up and a gurgle of Spanish and English for Taz. They collapsed in laughter after a while, Taz on the Bed and Up on the floor.

"What's so funny?" Jed called from the doorway. Up looked up. Jed had a bemused expression on his face. He then walked in and looked at Taz. "You have guests." Jed ushered in the trio of teenagers; Freya, George and a kid Taz knew as Jasper.

"Hi!" Freya yelled and walked towards her, George and Jasper trailing behind her. Up grinned and he and Jed walked off. After about an hour of "O'lark was furious!" "You drew these?" "Is Lieutenant Up your friend?" "When are you coming back" and "Will you still take combat?" They left the room and the Nurse came and discharged her the next day, and they came and greeted her as she left. Taz would have Rather been walking with Up and Jed, but these three were the nicer of all of the Cadets she knew, even if Freya was really quiet and George really annoying. And she had hardly had a conversation with Jasper since the day Davies beat her up, but she knew he was nice. Up was walking down the corridor towards them when he saw Taz.

"Your better now?" He grinned. Taz nodded.

"So shave that of jour Mug." Taz grinned. Up stroked it.

"Nah." he grinned. "I gotta get you used to some of the equipment in Combat, you've missed knife training." Up told her. As Freya walked to Chemistry, the other Four walked to Combat. Taz was one of six girls out of thirty two boys. The other girls made no signal they wanted to be friends. One of them looked at Taz as if she was an escaped murderer. Jasper pointed this out to Taz.

"I think Aliana wants to kill you."

"I can see." Taz growled. As soon as she was caught up to the rest of the Class, Taz was almost in front of all of them on the Leader board. Each year had a leader board for subjects, which was electric and moved continuously. Taz was ahead, behind her was two boys, the Jasper and George and then the rest of the Class. Aliana was the third girl on the list, behind a girl from Japan named Saki. She didn't talk to anyone, but Aliana was always trying to talk to her. Saki shrugged it off. Soon enough, O'lark wanted them all to pair up. Aliana yelled for the girl but Saki was stood beside Taz almost immediately. Aliana shrugged before turning and stalking over to a girl named Rebecca.

"I couldn't believe Aliana's face!" George laughed at the Dinner Table that afternoon. Taz was sat between Up and Saki, who was blushing. Freya was cutting up her food and Jasper was staring at Sami. Up was grinning, Jed and Rick the other side of him. After dinner, Rick would be on a Pod bound for Earth. For some reason, instead of sitting with other Commanders, he was sat with them.

"Shes not even trying to be normal." Freya sighed. "In German she just sat there chatting people up."

"At least you don't share a corridor!" Saki laughed. Jasper flicked a chip at Saki.

"My rooms opposite yours!" He complained.

"You guys don't have to share a corridor with O'lark!" Rick whispered. "At least I won't for a while!" He laughed. Jed grinned and Up shrugged.

"You guys don't sleep near Up, he's a nightmare!"

Up blushed.

"Take care, little Brother." Rick said to Up as he stepped in to the pod.

"Don't kill yourself Taz!" he yelled and the door on the craft shut, and the gangway slipped in. The ship was gone. Up grinned at Taz, who ha stayed up even though the Cadets lights out was over an hour ago. Saki was stood behind her, her black hair pulled back into a plait down her back and she stood in her dressing gown.

Taz had dragged her out of bed because she didn't want to walk back down the corridor alone, even if Up was there. It sounded silly but of Davies was sneaking about, Saki could help if Up had gone.

"Bye!" Up called. His voice caught and Taz looked at him.

"Are jou crying?" Taz mocked.

"No. Just thinking about all those deadgod-damn robots Rick will be Killing." Up said. He made himself sound like one tough son of a bitch. Taz grinned.

"Okay. Well we better go..." Taz said, hearing O'lark yelling something from the other side of the Ship Port. Taz and Saki ran down to the corridor between theirs.

"Bye." Saki grinned.

"Bye." Taz replied and the pair ran off in different directions.

Saki and Taz became great friends. Freya would hang out with them at lunchtimes and breaks but Saki and Taz stayed together throughout most the lessons they had together, as Taz was working to go into the Combat side and Saki wanted to be a field nurse. That meant instead of taking Sport classes, Saki took First aid and during First Aid Class, Saki would be taught with fourteen other people in First Aid Plus by a tall spindly woman who was called . Saki also took French instead of Spanish. But Aliana still didnt like Taz. Not like she cared. In every lesson they had, Alianna would glare at her.

"It's not good to have enemies. You may end up on a starship with Aliana." Up explained when she told him. Taz shrugged.

"Is it good to have a mustache?" Taz grinned. "Are you channeling the Rick look, lately?"

"No..."

Taz grinned and Up grinned back.

Soon it was the Christmas Holidays. All of the Cadets exempt for about 15 of them were leavening to spend the Holidays with their Families.

"Bye!" Freya pulled Taz into a hug as she lugged her case out of her room. Her pod was going to be called soon, and Saki was still asleep. Her pod had left half an hour ago, but Saki had caught Stomach flu and had missed the last pod down to Oregon. So Saki would be going down in the last of all the pods, to California in two days time. As Freya ran down the halls, Taz saw Aliana dragging a case down.

"My family want me home for the Holidays." she smirked to Taz. Taz shrugged as Aliana sped up, the pod to Louisiana would be called a short while after Freya's. Taz ran down to the infirmary to where Saki was sat, spewing Chunks into a bucket.

"Jou okay?" Taz asked. Saki nodded before she hurled again. There was some sort of bug going around but Taz didn't care, she sat patting her friend on the back for a while.

"Taz!" a voice hisses from the door.

"Yeah?" Up asked, walking over. Up ran his fingers through his hair.

"Uh, we got a call from Donna, asking if a girl named Taliciana or Taz was onboard, so they're checking. You may have to go down."

"My surname isn't Lopez." Taz lied.

"What is it then?" Up asked.

"Well it is... But now let's just say its called... Gomez?" Taz murmured. "It's my friends Surname." Taz shrugged. At that moment, Space-Claw came around the corner.

"Taz! Your aunt wants you on the next flight down."

"My name was Tiana Gomez, but all of that-" she waved her arms and spun around once. "IS NOW DEAD!" she screamed. "I am Cadet Taz now. Nothing else. I am not related to that woman."

"My name is not Taliciana Lopez!" she shouted, Lying her head off.

"We'll see." Space-Claw lead them to the radio room, where Taz stood in front of a monitor which showed a video feed to Donna.

"Jou don't look like Taliciana." She sighed.

"No, miss." Taz replied. She tried to make her voice sound different, she added a flair of French every now and again, and German at other times. Donna shook her head.

"Not her." the woman whimpered. Taz was dragged away by Up.