A/N : SORRY ITS BEEN SO LOOONNNNGGGG

Disclaimer: I dont own anyof the caracters, or this part of the plot.

"ALRIGHT PEOPLE. JOU HEARD IT." Taz ran through the hall way. "DIS IS A RESCUE MISSION. GET JOUR ZAPPERS - SET DEM TO PEW." Taz raised her Zapper and shot a few times to check it wasnt jammed.

"Whoa!" Krayonder appeared silently from his room. "Hey Taz, your pretty tough for a chick."

"I was just gonna say de same thing about jou." she snarkily replied.

"WHHOOOOAAAAA!" Taz thought after teaching him for 2 years, the kid wouldn't be as annoying anymore. She was wrong, of course.

"SPECS!" Taz yelled as the curly haired Engineer ran in.

"Yes Lieutenant!"

"Scan de surface of dis planet." Taz ordered. "I want to know whats going on down dere."

Taz was silently screaming. In a few moments, she would come face to face with Up; during the journey on the pod, she kept her eyes averted from him by reading, and once they reached the main ship above this planet, she had kept her distance by making Krayonder bring her food.

"I'll try Lieutenant, but Gamma Storms are interfeering with my equiptment." Specs brought her out of her silent break down with her nasally voice. "My spectrometer readings are of the wazooooo!" Taz paused at the last comment. Her and Krayonder were rather alike i the fact they would both utter random words. The similarities stopped there.

COUNTDOWN IN 3 MINUTES.

A loud voice yelled out the time, and Taz was dimly aware of something... someone was running down the corridor, making "ooo"-ing noises?

"'Scuze me lil gurl!" He began. Taz frowned. She was wayyyyy older than him! "I'm new here and I was wondering; Whats this?"

"Dats jour Zapper."

"Whats that?"

"ITS A GUN STOOPID. Jou shoot stuff with it." Taz was getting really pissed off.

"Thats not what I've been using it for, sorry. See where I come from, Farm Planet, we don' 'ave or know much o' nothin'. Thats why I joined the Starship Rangers, I mean today alone I found out that this is a gun!" He was mucho estupido. "AND I saw the proof, that science killed God! Its comforting to know he was once alive though, I like to think that when he died he went to heaven abov-"

"HEY! GET OUTTA MY FACE, PEPE. IM PREPPING FOR A RESCUE MISSION." Taz knew this kid would be on it to, so she began to adjust the extra equiptment she had gathered throughout the years; her dog tags, armband and bandanna all got a thorough check.

"Oh Im assigned to the rescue mission to! Hey- My name is Tootsie Noodles!" he held out his hand.

WHAT.

"De hell kinda name is dat?" Taz snarled.

"See where I come from, Farm Planet, your first name's what'ya do, your second name is what'ya like. So I'm called Tootsie, on account of my occasional toot; and Noodles, coz I like 'em. See, where I come from-"

"SHUT UP!" Taz screeched. "What am I supposed to do wid jou? JOU KNOW NOTHING!"

"I'm willing to learn, sir! I must warn you, I'm a slow learner." He turned to Krayonder. "Hey! HEY! Whats this?" He held his Zapper up to Krayonder, who shook his head and whacked it with his hand. Specs was pushing her glasses back up the bridge of her nose.

"So." Taz began. "DIS IS DE RESCUE SQUAD, HUH? LOOK AT JOU! None of Jou have what it takes to serve under Commander Up."

Taz froze. That was the first time she'd said his name since she started training Krayonder. She moved her arm slowly over her abdomen, and patted it; wishing she still had Gabby. Sure, she would have been made a civillian or something, but just to have her daughter she never wanted to have - but never wanted to lose - in her arms would be all she would have needed. Now she has nothing left of Up except memories and the man himself. But that man is the new Up. The old Up would be standing with her now, talking to her and laughing with her. If it wasn't for that Robot, the pair of them would be with Gabrielle in a house somewhere, or on the ship. Infact, she would do anything to have died at her Quincinera.

She was dimly aware of Tootsie and Specs fangirling over Up, when Krayonder said something that made her blood boil.

"Yeah? Well I heard he went soft."

Taz felt like she was going to stab her rookie.

"Yeah, he used to be all that and a bag of Flavo-fives, but now hes like a total wimp. Like the other day, he was in the cafeteria just CUH-RYING infront of everybody."

"HEY!" Taz had enough, rookie or no rookie, Krayonder was gonna pay. "Jou got something to say about de commander?"

"Uh... no... OH I FORGOT!" Krayonder looked extremely guilty. "You guys fought in the robot wars together..."

"YEAH KRAYONDARE." Krayonder looked miffed she'd stopped pronouncing his name right. "Where he saved my life a hundred times.

"Well, yeah! He was like a super soldier!"

"What do jou mean... 'was'?"

"uhhh... NOTHING MAN! I just heard about his injury."

Everyone paused. Nobody mentioned Commander Up's injury.

"I mean... his famous injury that everybody knows about. You know the one the Robots gave to him?" Taz was there, for dead-gods sake! "Man those robots must of really messed him up, coz like I heard this rumour that he had gone... soft..."

Everything froze.

"Put jour hand on dat wall."

"What? Why"

"Put jour hand oN DAT WALL!" Taz screeched. Krayonder ran towards the wall and placed his had on it. Taz pulled out her knife.

"WAIT! OH PLEASE! PLEASE DONT THROW A KNIFE AT MY HAND! OH QUIT MESSING AROUND MAN! THATS NOT FUNNY!"

"Oh? Dont throw de knife?" Taz asked. Krayonder nodded. "Okay."

Max instantly relaxed, and walked slowly towards his mentor.

"NAGAHNAH!" Taz grunted as she lodged her knife into Krayonder's back. It wasnt in a spot where damage could be done, but it would still hurt. "JOU LISTEN TO ME NOW JOU LITTLE FART. UP IS DE TOUGHEST SON OF A BITCH I EVER MET IN MY LIIFE."

"YOU STABBED ME!"

Specs and Tootsie were feeling very awkward and rather frightened of their Lieutenant at this point.

"HE EATS...HE EATS EAGLES FOR BREAKFAST!" Taz was making this all up now. "HE SLEEP ON BED OF FIRE. AND WHEN UP CUTS AN ONION... DE ONION IS DE ONE WHO CRY."

"Im dying!" Krayonder weakly groaned, which wasn't true as Taz had only given him a flesh wound, that weakling.

"SO JOU BETTER UN-FART JOURSELF, OR UP WILL UNSCREW JOUR HEAD AND DROP DE WISHING PENNIES DOWN JOUR THROAT." Krayonder grunted. "Now take a walk off my knife."

Krayonder stepped forwards, and Taz pulled the knife back from his back.

"Ohhh? Does that hurt jou? Well... WALK IT OFF!" Taz proceeded to give herself a few stabs in the chest, none actually going in, but showing Krayonder how much of a pussie he could be sometimes.

COMMANDER ON DECK. DROP DOWN IN TWO MINUTES.

This was it... two years had passed. Up was here now, and she had to be ready; for both of them. No, for all three of them. For little Gabrielle watching from the sky.

"Yeah, Fall in." Taz called, attempting to act calm. All she wanted to do was run and hide from the scary robot shell of Up, but he was still the man she loved so she had to do this. "Jou better pray dat Up likes jour stupid faces, or he may just rip dem off." Krayonder looked petrified. Taz's heartbeat was rising like a volcano, but she still stood firmly.

She turned away as the doors slid open behind them, the same door she had arrived in minutes ago. Taz stared straight ahead as he stompd towards them. She snuck one glanse at him as he withdrew a cigar (since when has he smoked?) and threw it on the ground. Taz kept her scowl on her face, hiding any expression behind her welling-up eyes.

"All right boys and Girls. I'm Commander Up."