A/N: Any of you remember me?
I've been a lil bit bored of anime lately, so I rewatched Starship last night and after toying with the idea, here's the alternate ending to my first ever fanfiction, a year and a half after I finished it.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own starship
(Same start as the previous one, of Taz running away)

"Mama?" Gabriella called out from the doorway. Taz rolled over to face her.
"Si, my bonita?"
"I cant sleep." she confessed, crawling over to her. Taz sat up and wrapped her warm covers around her.
"What's the matter?" the short woman asked, as she leant back with her daughter clinging to her.
"I keep having the same dream, but tonight it was different..."
"Tell me about it?" she asked, stroking her hair.
"Theres a really tall man, and you're fighting a robot with him." she recounted. "Normally it ends when you see a giant robot, but tonight it carried on." she shuddered. Taz silently kept stroking her dark locks. "T-Tonight the robot grabbed the man and tore him in half. And you were crying and saying you loved the man. Then it grabbed you and I woke up in p-pain." she shivered, finishing. Taz leant down and kissed her on the top of her head. "Y-you used to be in the rangers...right?"
"Si..." Taz confirmed.
"Did that ever happen to you?" the young girl asked, looking up at her mother.
"S-si." Taz choked. "He was the love of my life."
"B-but he died."
"Not then." Taz shook her head. "He became half robot himself, after I carried the half with his heart back to base, countless miles with a broken leg."
"W-where is he?"
"Dead now." Taz sighed. "So I left the rangers to have you." she smiled softly, kissing her head.
"O-oh." Gabby blinked. "I-I'm sorry Mama."
"It's okay, Commander Up will live on with me, and with you. If anyone asks who your parents are, say Taz and Up. Okay?"
"B-but you're called Vi? And I'm adopted?"
"Vi is my farm planet name, silly." Taz chuckled. "Survivor Up."
"Your first name is what you do, your second name is what you love." Gabby giggled, curling up next to her mother asleep.

"Mama!" Gabby called as she got home from school a month later.
"How was school?" Taz called from the kitchen. Her daughter careered into the room.
"Starship Rangers came to school!" she grinned.
"Really? Who?"
"Some man called Krayonder and some other guy called Nord." she grinned. "Oh and a couple other commanders were there but they didn't talk."
"I remember them, I trained Krayonder." Taz smiled reminiscently.
"That explains it!" Gabby giggled.
"Explains what?"
"I said I wanted to be a Ranger like my Mama and Papa, and they asked who my Mama and Papa were."
Taz Froze.
"So I told them, Taz and Up!" she giggled. "And then Krayonder said he wanted to meet my Mama, so I gave him our address!"
"Why did you do that?"
"Because they know us." Gabby blinked. Taz glared.
"Gabby, I havent seen them in 10 years." Taz blinked.
"Well, he said he'd come over tonight." her daughter grinned.
"Well, then go get your homework done now." the older woman instructed.

Krayonder arrived at 6pm, and after looking her up and down he promptly bear hugged Taz.
"We've missed you." he muttered. She nodded.
"Sadly, I missed Up more than you." she smirked, tears in her eyes. Krayonder kept his mouth shut there, knowing the topic was sensitive.
"I know. You should come visit." he added, as she invited him in.
"You know I cant." she blinked.
He joined them for dinner, Gabby excitedly chatting about space and rangers before Taz sent her to bed at 9pm.
"She reminds me of the two of you." Max sighed.
"Yeah, she reminds me of him everyday." she blinked. "I was pregnant with Up's baby once." she smiled slightly. Max looked at her with wide eyes. "But I never told anyone, except Saki. Even he didn't know." her smile turned sadder. "I lost it the same night Up lost his balls."
"Up's alive."
"W-what?" she blinked.
"He did die, but the robot half kicked back into gear when they were moving his body. It pumped acid into his veins, but he wasn't...like a ... human so we didn't tell you. The acid cleared his veins and then blood began to pump again. The metal that killed him saved him, in the end."
"W-why wasn't I told?" she hissed.
"Because we weren't sure what was happening, and we didn't want you to get your hopes up or anything. You left 4 days before he woke up again." he sighed. "And we tried, we went to the adress you left me but you werent there."
"Yeah, that neighbourhood was crap for a baby." Taz murmered. "So H-he's alive?" she murmered, almost in tears.
"Do you want to see him? He misses you like crazy. You should've seen his face when Gabby blurted that you two were his parents. Should've seen Nord's face, that was marginally better."
"H-hes on earth?" she paled. He nodded, getting a pocket reciever out and tapping away on it.
"You're both survivors. But you're like light and dark - one cant exist without the other." he smiled, getting up and opening the door, letting a cool breeze run through the house, and Taz almost froze as she heard familiar footsteps clunking towards them, up the garden. "He's been waiting outside in the jeep for 3 hours."
"When did you get so philosophical?" Taz asked, tears now streaming down her cheeks.
"When he had to put up with my whining, pleading to come to earth to find you." A voice from the hallway rang out. Taz almost fainted at the southern drawl. She launched herself from the couch to him, sprung into his arms and wrapped her body around his, him doing the same, wrapping his arms around her and cradling her against him. "And now that I've found you..." he whispered into the crook of her neck. "I'm never letting you go."