Disclaimer; I do not own any of the characters that appear in the original production of Starship, they belong to Starkid. I am not Starkid. That makes me upset... *sob*

A/N; PREPARE FOR MASSIVE FEELS FEST NEXT CHAPTER. And sorry this is kind of slow, I have a mock GCSE soon, in spanish XD. Hey! I can be Taz and work on it like my calculus cant I? Haha :3

"What the heck was that?" Taz murmered to Up as she drew up beside him in the dock hall. It was where all the different squadrons were meeting at 5:25 am.

"What?" Up asked her quietly.

"Last night."

"Oh... I was Drunk." He lied. Taz nodded.

Space-Claw stood at the top of the balcony stage, where the graduation had taken place. He was reading out from a peice of paper.

"All rookies will be with their mentors, and their names wont be called." Space-claw explained and began to read names.

"Under Commander Green; Lieutenant Sparks, Einsign Jackson, Einsign Leeve, Engineer Yusef, Science officer Ferguson, Ensign Johst-" Taz watched as Freya followed Science officer Ferguson to where Commander Green was stood.

"Commander O'lark." Space-Claw began.

This is it.

"Lieutenant Up, Einsign Moore, Ensign Hodgson, Ensign Rose, Engineer Bently, Science officer Irvine, Ensign French.." Taz and Up walked towards where O'lark was stood with a smirk on his face. Taz felt a tap on her shoulder.

"TAZ!" Jasper grinned as she turned around.

"Hi Jasper." Taz responded.

"Im guessing your with Up?" He grinned.

"Yeah."

"My mentor's Georgia over there..."

"Talking about me?" The Strawberry blonde woman walked over. She was about siz inches taller than Taz, so she was pretty short.

"Sorry." Jasper apologized. The science officer was talking to Up, and when Taz turned back around, she smiled at Taz.

"Hi." She greeted her.

"Hola." Taz replied.

"My names Holly." the science officer and Taz shook hands. "I graduated last year."

"So jour a year older?"

"Yeah, I guess!" Holly laughed. "My Brother's starting next year."

"Cool."

Soon the bell rang signalling that it was 6am, and that pods would be dropping soon. The Squadron made there way to one of the larger pods. There was about 50 people in the squadron. Their pod was headed for Las Vegas, Taz Dimly was aware of the last time she was down on earth, ten days ago in one of the much smaller pods, as it was only her and Up who had gone down. Now she was pushed into a seat by Up, who both sat beside her. As everyone filed into seats, Taz looked around the pod. There was a large gps screen beside a large window, the head Science officers and engineers, including Holly, were sat in seats in the middle. They all had boards infront of them, presumably controlling the Engines. O'lark walked to where a seat was apart from everyone else, a seat with a steering wheel infront. When Taz had gone down with Up, he had sat in a similar one while she sat in the science officer seat, making sure that the gage didnt turn red. Suddenly Up stood up and reached for a sort of Phone on the wall beside the window.

"Squadron 302B7 calling from Ship 23Vesel7, we're ready to depart." He spoke clearly into the reciever. "Over"

"Squadron 302B7 you are clear to depart." came the response ten seconds later. The door shut and Taz felt the pod begin to move. Suddenly they were further into space and then, O'lark hit the Hyperdrive.

"Commander O'lark." A woman with dark brown hair speckled with grey greeted O'lark as the Pod landed. Two other pods were also landing nearby, but theirs was the only one with an open door.

"Commander Frith." O'lark greeted her.

"My Lieutenant will escort your squadron back to the main camp. Meanwhile you can move your pod to the cavern system two miles away for safekeeping, and we'll pick you up." Frith replied and moved to the next ship.

"Lietenant Up." the man stood beside her greeted Up.

"Lieutenant Macey."

" So your a Mentor now?"

"Yes, Taz?" Up turned as he forgot Taz was stood beside him. "Oh yeah, this is..."

"Shoekiller!" Macey laughed.

Taz scowled.

"My name is Taz."

"I'm Macey." he began to lead them across the desert, Taz remembered that this was the same desert Up had been stranded in.

"So we're in Nevada?"

"We have to land ships in Cali for Safety reasons, but we are in Nevada, yes."

"I'm from Cali..." Taz murmered.

"What area?" Macey asked. "I was born in L.A."

"San Francisco, but I was born in Mexico City."

"Cool."

"Meanwhile I was born nowhere near here" Up laughed. "Mongomery Alabama!"

"All de sand is getting in my boots." Taz complained.

"Dont complain. If you complain, I complain." Up shut her up.

Taz's mind kept flitting back to last night. Was she really dancing to a taylor swift song with that man last night? Up was blabbering away with one of the Science officers.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Holly asked from behind. Taz dropped back a little and walked beside her.

"Nothing, just a bit bored." Taz shrugged.

To be honest, while she was bored on the sandy plain, her mind was replaying the events of last night.

Was he really drunk? Was he meaning it? Did he realise if someone found out, he could get kicked out of the Rangers? Rookies were not allowed to be in relationships with Rangers. He knew that.

Soon they were all climbing down some rocks, into a cavern system. They were stood in an underground cave.

"Your squadron will be in this system to the left." Macey pointed down a tunnel. It was rather large, and some small holes cut into the sides of the rock had small fires inside, keeping the path lit. Up pulled a torch from his backpack and was walking down the passage. The small route took not long, but it did move down. at the bottom, the room was filled with camp beds, hammocks and beds carved into the side. Holly appeared behind her, and smiled.

"C'mon Taz!" she dragged Taz to where two of the carved in beds where, one on top of the other like bunk beds. The beds were next to a hammock in the corner. Taz swung herself up onto the top bunk and Holly kicked her boots off and lay on the bed below. Up had reserved one of the Carved beds for O'lark and dragged a camp bed to near the girls where.

"Hi." He greeted them.

"Yo Up." Holly grinned. Taz frowned and stuck her head over the side.

"Since when have jou been one of dem gangsters mi padre hated?"

"Since never!" Holly snorted. O'lark appeared a second later. Taz dropped to the floor and everyone stood to salute.

"At ease." he dismissed them. "Up." He called. Up stood up again and walked over to the man.

"Yes Commander?"

"Lunch is at 1200 hours, dinner is at 1900 hours. Brekfast tomorrow is at 0645 am. Everyone is free for the day while I talk to the other commanders, the Mess hall and Medical room are opposite our entrance." He breifed the twenty four year old. Up nodded and repeated all this information to everyone else while O'lark left to the mess hall. Holly looked at Taz who was sat beside her getting all the sand from her boots.

"You like him, dont you?"

"No..."

"I can tell from your face. Back home in England, the same thing happened with two of my friends." she laughed. "They didnt sign up to be a ranger though, and they probobly feel bad right now. My home town was ripped apart two years ago, but they all sent me letters telling me they survived."

"I have no idea what happened to Mexico City, but San Fransisco was ripped apart the day I joined the rangers." A girl sat on the hammock in the corner looked up.

"We dont have the robots in Farm planet." she sighed. Holly looked at her.

"Your from Farm Planet? Dont you all have awesome names?"

"Yeah, I'm Singning Pasta."

"Thats pretty cool." Holly grinned. "Do you shorten it at all?"

"Just call me Si."

"So I'll be calling you yes." Taz laughed.