weeks!”
Taz was looking at him as if he’d gone insane.
“Wait for me,” he said. Please. Don’t give up on me.
What if it was you back there? “I’ll be right back.”
He stepped off the ramp and into the insect swarm.
“Dammit!” he heard Taz exclaim, and then she was beside
him, and the rest of the Rangers were fighting too. Megagirl
extracted herself from the fray, and they started to fall back.
Maybe he should have, but Up never expected the robot
to leave them behind.
The planet was disgusting. Sticky. Hot. Buzzing.
Populated with giant insects. Taz had never considered
herself a squeamish person, but this planet just might
change her mind. And the G.L.E.E. were hoping to start a
human colony here?
There were a thousand things she could think to call that
pedazo de mierda robot Megagirl, but none of them were
bad enough. They’d been alternating between running and
walking for hours, attempting to keep out of sight of the
bugs, though they never seemed to be out of earshot of
them. Even good-natured Tootsie was on edge, and Taz
wasn’t sure who was going to kill Krayonder first, her or
Specs. And Up -
It was all his fault. His fault for going back for the robot,
his fault for not being the leader, the man she needed him to
be. His fault for being so – so soft.
Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was Krayonder’s
incessant wailing. But when Up started talking about
expressing themselves through “I feel” statements,
something snapped, and Taz let out a sound that was part
animal and all frustration.
“You want to know how I feel?”
Up straightened and rested his hands on his hips. “Well –