Untold But Unforgotten (Taz/Up Fanfiction) EDITING PERIOD COMPLETE!

Chapter 10

Taz sat at the table, eating her dinner. She was at the Academy, teaching a combat class. At eighteen, she was the youngest teacher ever at the school. She had also kept her Lieutenant ranking, knowing that she wouldn't be with Up all the time once he started missions again if she too became a Commander.

A guy came up to her. "Hey, Taz!"

"What do jou want, Krayonder?" she sighed.

He kept that goofy grin on his face. "Spaceclaw wants you in the main office right now." Taz sighed and dropped her pizza. She stood up and began walking.

"Why are jou following me?" she asked.

"He wants me too." Great. Krayonder hadn't been promoted from Private status in the three years Taz had known him. Probably because he was lazy, snarky, crazy, annoying, and incompetent. Not to mention obnoxious.

Taz and Krayonder arrived in the main offices to see Spaceclaw on the screen. About a year previously he had been in an accident, and so he wore a full body uniform to cover up his scars. This was the Darth Vader Taz had been looking for the first time she met him. "Lieutenant Taz. Private Krayonder. Good," he said. He had become much more no nonsense since his accident as well. The easy-going man Taz had met was gone.

"What is it, sir?" she asked.

"You two are going to be part of a scouting on an uncharted planet. It is mostly just to see if the planet is habitable, but we don't know what might be there, so it is necessary for us to send some good Rangers there too."

And Krayonder, Taz thought, but kept the comment to herself, trying to be serious.

"You leave tomorrow morning. Go to your rooms and prepare."

"Distress signal! Distress signal! Starship Rangers assemble!" Taz looked up at the flashing red light. She smiled. Yes! She had been selected for a rescue mission. She grabbed the data pad from beside her bed and read through the mission.

She rolled her eyes. Why in the world would those idiotas send an idiota like February down there? And of course she'd be the one to call a distress signal. She probably just forgot how to tie her boots and decided it was an emergency.

Taz smiled, then sobered up. February wasn't that stupid. She knew when to call a distress signal. This had to be taken seriously.

Taz tied back her hair and walked out the door before realizing; she was called into this mission as a Lieutenant. She was Up's Lieutenant. She'd be working with Up!

She had known he was on the ship but hadn't had a chance to talk to him, as this was only their second day out. She walked out to the platform where they'd be meeting and shouted to the group that she knew could hear her. "Alright people! Jou heard it! This is a rescue mission. Get jour zappers, set them to pew!" To enunciate her point she shot a few holes in the wall.

"Whoa! Taz, you know you're pretty tough for a chick!" Great. Krayonder.

"I was just going to say the same thing about jou."

He smiled, unfazed. "Whoa!"

"Specs!" she called, as she had noticed her dorky friends name when she'd skimmed the data pad.

"Yes, Lieutenant?"

"Scan the surface of this planet. I want to know what's going on down there."

Specs pulled out a device. "I'll try, Lieutenant, but gamma storms are interfering with my equipment. My spectrometer readings are off the wazoo!"

Taz headed down the hallway to the Exit Platform when she heard a loud call from behind her.

"Hey! Excuse me, little girl, I'm new and I was just wonderin', what's this?" a guy said. He was pointing to his zapper.