Birds chattered and Taz could hear the wind whistling.

It was just a dream.

Taz opened her eyes and stared at the sky. There was blue sky and clouds.

I must have fallen asleep at the lake.

Any second, Up would call her for some reason, or Saki would run towards her yelling about something to do with the medical staff. Maybe Jasper was still alive? She felt something nudge beside her, probably some sort of rock. She reached out and felt a human hand.

She opened her eyes wider, and saw she wasn't at the lake. Tall city blocks erupted from around her. The clouds in the sky was smoke, and the smell of blood was strong. Gabrielle punched her stomach again, something Saki said shouldn't happen yet.

Oh no.

Something was wrong. Maybe she was in labour? No, not for a few months yet. She looked closer at the body beside her, just by tilting her head. She saw the left side of a man. He had strong stocky muscles, a six pack, and was wearing a commander uniform. She reached out and clutched the hand. Her eyes trailed up his arm and rested on his face. A 'tash was formed underneath his nose, light brown with specks of grey. The man's hair was similar, but more like grey snow had landed all over it. Even the eyebrows had some grey in it, resting above closed eyes that Taz knew would be a bright baby blue. Then the body just stopped. It was like someone had taken a picture and cut it in half, there was no guts or anything spilling out of him, just a thin trickle off blood. Her stomach clenched again, and Taz passed out.

Two hours passed.

Up's hand was much colder now, and the pool of blood she was lying in had congealed. Taz felt stronger and sat up, the baby wasn't killing her anymore, her aching heart was.

"RANGERS ASSEMBLE AT BASE." some sort of intercom rang out.

"Come on Up. We need to go back." Taz tried to say, but it came out as squeaks. She sat up and felt the skin touching the pavement tear off from the burns. She held her breath and reached out for up, but then stopped. Her left wrist was broken, and one of her legs was sticking out at an odd angle.

She couldn't move.

What was she thinking? Of course she could.

"I'll get jou back." Taz vowed, it came out hoarse this time, from all the smoke. She saw a burnt out Jeep to the left of them, she slowly began to inch towards the Jeep, clinging on to Up's broken body with her other hand. When she got there, she used her left elbow to pull herself to her small yet full height. She lifted Up onto the Jeep, and started to sob, he was dead. And she could only take a half of him, there were no non burnt out cars nearby, and she would have trouble even carrying this half. She couldn't even see the right half anymore. Slowly, she pulled off one of her tank-top's sleeves and fastened the half of Up to her back, before slowly hobbling back to base, then she stopped. Her Zapper. She wasn't going to die, not after all that Up did to save her when she was 15. She ended up slowly heading back to where the grenade went, and found it in an alleyway. She placed the gun beneath her and began to hobble back to Base, using it as a crutch.

She found the hill towards the base hard to navigate, but she felt some lukewarm blood leaking down her top. Her skin was stinging from the burns, and her wrist and leg were killing her. Suddenly, she saw the small camp that the rangers were calling Base.

"We can only assume that they caused the large explosion, which would mean that they are most likely dead, but we'll send a search party out."

"Taz wont be dead, she's come out of worse. Remember the Casino?" Rick growled. "And she wouldn't let my brother be dead, even if she had to go back in time."

"I guess her luck ran out." Space-Claw shook his head. "We're sorry for bringing you down to earth for such bad circumstances, Commander."

"Ex-Commander. And I'm not leaving until this is sorted"

"You may be waiting a long time." Space-Claw shrugged, and then pulled out a piece of paper work. Silently, he dragged his pen over the pictures of Taz and Up, and scrawled on each one:

MIA. presumed KIA.

Taz sat down silently and stared at Up. She had carried him best she could, but it wasn't working and now she was a half mile up a hill, with the Base another mile up. Dead-god, this was a huuuggeee hill. She decided to rub her stomach to get a reaction from Gabrielle, but nothing happened. Suddenly, she was up and dragging the body faster, because something was wrong. She wasn't attacking her stomach, and she wasn't going to lose the last piece of Up.

"I am sad to announce," Space-Claw began at the addressing of the rangers "That we lost two of our best soldiers out there." Everyone in the room paused, and nobody noticed the woman with a bandanna and a dead body slung across her back enter the room."Commander Up and Lieutenant Taz Gomez."

"I told jou." Someone coughed from the doorway. "Its just Taz."

A/N: sorry this is so short, but it covers some important issues that need to be covered, well, sorta. Thank you to every review, and each one spurs me on to write faster! :D