Starkid One Shots

Tup- Finding Hope

Another future fic for y'all nice people. Once again, Spanish translation credits go to my roomie Judith and English translations will be in brackets.

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"Alright boys and girls," Up said in his thick Southern drawl, "Suit up and set your zappers to pew, we're dropping down in two minutes."

The whole crew started rushing around, putting on their bullet proof vests and making sure their zappers worked. Everyone except Taz and February. February was carefully applying her blood red lipstick and smacking her lips, brushing out her hair. Taz on the other hand was trying to say goodbye to her children on FaceTime, she didn't blame them. Their oldest was Brianna, or Bree, as she preferred, was seven, and their youngest was Leo, who was three. They were always clingy when their parents set off to long missions, which dramatically lessened due to their responsibilities as parents and rangers.

"Mama, por favor no te vayas (Mommy! Please don't go!)" Brianna begged and shot her mother her famous puppy dog eyes that only worked on her father. Another thing was both Brianna and Leo were brought up with both English and Spanish, so them being fluently bilingual was also one thing that others found scary as the children sounded terrifying when they spoke Spanish.

"No, mi hija, Mama y Papa se tienen que ir (No, my daughter, Mommy and Daddy need to go now)," Taz tried to reason with them, holding her patience in as long as possible.

Leo whined, "No Mama (Noooo Mommy)!"

Up saw how Taz was struggling with their children, he walked over and appeared on the screen.

"Daddy!" Brianna and Leo chorused and reached out for their dad.

Brianna started ranting, "Papa, dile a Mama que no se puede ir! La echamos de menos! (Daddy! Tell Mommy she can't leave! We miss her!)"

"Sweetie," Up also tried to reason with his very persuasive daughter, "You forgot that Daddy doesn't speak a lot of Spanish."

Taz whispered so the kids couldn't hear, "Dey're telling jou to tell me not to go."

"Bree, Leo," Up sat down, "Mommy and I have to go fight the robots, this is important and we want to stay home with you two, but the robots are dangerous. It's a job we need to get done."

At those words, Brianna's face fell, and said quietly, "Okay Daddy... buena suerte, te amo. (Good luck, I love you).

"Yo tambien te amo, se buena (I love you too, be good)," Taz said quickly and hung up, thankful that Up came to her rescue, "Mucho gracias, mi amor (Thank you so much, my love)."

Up gave Taz a quick chaste kiss on the cheek, "Suit up Taz, this is the first time we are facing the robots in a while, and it's the first we are fighting since the injury. No one knows how many robots there are in Minnesota."

Taz nodded, "Quedate a salvo (Stay safe)."

She suited up in record time and strapped her zapper on, and just as she set it to pew, the drop pod touched the ground of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Earth. Up briefed everyone, paired everyone up into four teams and set off in different directions. February and Bug to North, Megagirl and Tootsie to East, Specs and Krayonder to South and Taz and Up to West.

When Taz walked out of the drop pod, wearing her usual white tank top, camo pants, dog tags and red bandanna, she shuddered as the freezing cold air hit her face. The Starship was always so warm and she was born and raised in Mexico, she totally forgot Minnesota was up north and it was November and near freezing.

"You okay Taz?"

Taz huffed in anger, and a puff of air left her mouth, signaling the how cold it actually was, "It's estupido (stupid), hace demasiado frio (it's too cold)."