Chapter Nine

Round Two: New Rules, New Arrivals, and New Troubles

Part One

A/N I don't own Avatar or Pandora. Sorry for the delay everyone life is a never ending story with crazy twists and turns.

Aleena's open palm hits Tom with such force; the Na`vi male is sent flying back into shuttle's cargo hole. His body slams on to the metal floor; then the stunned twin looks up at Aleena's burning blood shot ember colored eyes. Tom feels the left side of his face burning as if he was hit with a torch. He holds up his hands to Aleena in pleading position while saying, "Aleena, please wait hear me out…" Aleena takes several steps closer to the down doctor. Tom sees Aleena's fist tighten and ready to strike him again; he tries to crawl backwards away from her while pleading, "Aleena please let me explain…"

"Aleena calm down," Sally orders grabbing hold of her left arm stopping her advance. Sally nods to Tom that she will hold on her to her daughter allowing him a chance to speak.

A second or two pass, allowing Tom to get back on his feet. He looks back at Aleena's to see her head down and her eyes shielded with shadow. "Aleena, I know I can't explain everything right here, but at least let me tell you how this happened." Her head still tilted down and silent; he moves hand to the area that she stuck still feels the burning and stinging sensation. "Just before I was set to depart to Pandora, the RDA AVTR Command called me into embryo lab to tell me something about my avatar, but when I got there they..."

"Why should I even care," she softly interjects under her breath.

"Aleena," Sally comments. "You should at least hear him out. Go on with your story Tom."

"Thank you Sally. Aleena, they had called me in, but they…"

Aleena interrupts again with a growing volume and annoyed tone, "Tom, I don't care what they did or told or what the fuck ever!"

"Aleena you have to hear me out. Please…"

Aleena pulls her arm out of Sally's grip and snaps her head up to reveal a stream of tears and snot running down her face. At the top of her lungs she shouts out, "SHUT THE FUCK UP TOM! YOU DUMB SON OF A BITCH! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOUR LAME ASS EXCUSE!"

Jake jumps into the shouting match by adding, "NOW HOLD ON ALEENA! YOU DON'T…"

She sharply turns her head to shout, "NO JAKE I DON'T KNOW AND I DON'T WANT TO KNOW! AFTER ALL THE SHIT I HAVE BEEN THROW IN THE PASS WEEK, DO YOU THINK I HAVE STRENGTH TO KNOW OR EVEN CARE! I ALMOST LOSE MY SON, THEN A STUPID ASS NURSE MAKES MATTERS WORST! NOW I FIND OUT MY FIRST LOVE HAS COME BACK FROM THE FUCKING DEAD TO DO EYWA KNOWS WHAT!"

Tom tries to move closer to his crying ex-girlfriend, "Aleena please, I know you been through a lot. Jake told me everything, but if you just give me a second to explain."

Aleena watches as he gets closer with arms wide open ready to embrace her. She lets out a heart stopping scream of, "NNNNOOOOOO!" In the blink of an eye, she jumps back out of his range; then thrusts forward, "EARTH STYLE: ROCK SMASHER!" Her fist connects with Tom's solar plexus, and once more he is sent flying backwards into a pile of wooden crates. "FUCK OFF YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKER!" Aleena shouts then run out of the cargo hole.

The next thing everyone hears are spinning tires; Sally and Jake look to see Aleena speeding off in the jeep with the workers and hanger personal screaming as they jump out of the path of the speeding vehicle. "Well she took that better than I thought she would," Sally jokes making the people, that gathered around to see why there was shouting, look at her with a questioning look.

Jake laughs while saying, "You got that right." He turns around look at his debris covered brother. He folds his arms still laughing, "Hey Tom, you still alive under there?"

"Ugh…" Tom grunts out, "No thanks to you."

The tribe leader does what he can trying not burst out laughing. "What do you expect bro, you should have known better than to try and touch Aleena when she pissed off," Jake rebuts.

Sally walks up to the left side of the fallen doctor, "Sorry about this Tom, but Aleena has been acting nutty than ever since she got her."

"That's ok, in truth I probably desire that, but something isn't right," Tom conveys trying to get up. "I can't feel or move my body at all!"

"What?" Jake questions while pulling the smashed boxes off his fallen brother. He leans over and grabs holds of Tom's arm; Jake shakes his brother's arm and sees it move like limp noodle. "Damn what did she do to you?"

"Rock Smasher," Sally states.

"Rock Smasher?" the twins say in unison. Jake quickly adds, "Sally is what that?"

Sally nods bending down and grabs hold of Tom's other arm. "I'll explain later, but first I think we should get Tom to the medical wing. Jake pick him up and follow me."

The former Maine follows Sally's orders and removes the remaining broken boxes from around his brother's body; then he grabs hold of Tom's legs and slings his limp body over his left shoulder. Tom's face land right above Jake's uncovered behind. "Damn it Jake! Why didn't you sling forward!" Tom fusses while trying his best turn his face.

"Well bro, I always told you one day that you kiss my ass and looks like that day has come," Jake laughs out loud following Sally out of the shuttle's cargo bay.

Once outside in the bright sunlight, the tarmac workers freeze when they see Jake carrying Tom like a sack of potatoes, and some even start to gossip about what happened to Tom. From the other side the tarmac the three of them hear, "MA TOM!" Suddenly, Sally sees three Na`vi and Max running towards her. The group quickly passes her as they make their way over to Tom and Jake. The na`vi woman wearing a red beaded chocker with red beads stringed in her hair. On her hips, she wears her hunter knife and vain rope. Tanhì run behind Jake then leans down looking up her mate, "Ma Tom what happened to you? Why are you being carried like this?"

Jake snickers, but in a flash, Neytiri points at Jake with a sour look on her face, "Ma Jake, are you the one responsible for this?"

Jake waves his free hand in front of him, "No... no… you can thank Aleena for this."

Tanhì springs back up making Tom's face smack into Jake upper butt causing the Na`vi twin jump for split second. She growls out, "Aleena? What is an Aleena? And where is it? I will it pay for what it did to ma Tom!"

Jake looks at Sally with smirk on his face as they listen to the ikran chief continue as she fires off questions. Sally shakes her head then walks over her, "Olo`eyktan Tanhì."

Tanhì looks at Sally with a sour face, "Who are you and how do you know my name dreamwalker?"

"My name is Sally Hedsonibous. I am the director of Hope's Path."

Tanhì looks at Sally with a confused expression; then Jake says, "She's like Max, Sally is the leader of Hope Path."

The ikran chief quickly comprehends who the avatar woman is, and with great haste she walks over to the equally ten feet foot tall woman. Tanhì gets right into Sally's face and inquiries with a demanding tone of voice, "You are the olo`eyktan of his place?" Before Sally can answer, Tanhì quickly follows up with, "You invited us into you village in hopes of learning more about the tribes that have gone missing, and, according to Tom, provide healing for your wounded läìo`itan."

Sally quickly realizes that Tanhì is someone who will not let the person she is interrogating answer until she gets out everything on her mind. As a result, Sally only nods in response waiting to the opportune times to counter what she says.

"I see, so why would you invite us here; then let my mate be attacked by this Aleena? If you wish for a fight, I will be glad to give it to you!" Tanhì threatens while moving her hand over her hunter's knife.

Max steps forward preparing to the say something, but Sally holds her hand in front of him stopping him from interceding. The Indian doctor looks up at the calm face avatar woman; he is surprised by Sally's response to Tanhì, "Do you plan on using your blade against me?" Tanhì displays her warrior's face and slightly moves back giving her some space between her and her opponent. "I will take that as a yes," Sally comments motioning Max to back away from her. Once Max is back far enough, Sally looks back at Tanhì with same calm demander and says, "If your heart is set on fighting, then I believe it is only fair that I tell you who Aleena is. Aleena is my `ite, and yes she attacked Tom. For what reason, I don't know yet, but I can ensure you that I will fix the damage done to Tom and get to the bottom of why Aleena attack him. Now that being said, you are mad about what happened to your mate. In truth, you have every right to be; you are here as our guest and you should have the right to feel safe while being here. Since you plan on attacking at any second now, I should warn you that I will defend myself, and you can clearly see the damage my daughter put on Tom." Sally points at the wound Na`vi and follows up with an evil smirk on her face, "Na`vi hunters are trained to read and know their prey. Now, I want you to factor this into your thinking. Aleena did that to Tom, and I am the one that trained her. So are you feel lucky?"

Tanhì looks at her mate then back at Sally standing in front of her without a worry or fear. She glances back at Tom once more then back at Sally. Taking a couple of seconds to size up her opponent, she draws her hunter's knife and scans for where she will strike first. After making her decision, she couches down and gets ready to attack, but Jake calls out, "Hey Tanhì, whatever you're planning, I would think twice about it." Tanhì looks at her brother-in-law with a queer expression, and he continues with, "Look at her. I don't know if you notice, but Sally hasn't even bothered to put up her defenses nor take a fighter's stance. At least from what I can tell, she doesn't look threaten or worried."

Tanhì looks back at Sally and realizes that Jake is right. Sally looks calm and collect with her hands in her pockets. The ikran leader quickly shifts her attention to Sally's tail, and to her dissatisfaction she sees it moving normally. ~How can this be? She shows no fear, and Jake is right. It doesn't look like she is ready to fight back?~

As if reading her mind, Sally calls out, "Don't be fooled by my stance, my defenses are up, and I can already guess where you plan to attack."

Tanhì eyes widen hearing Sally's statement, but she wills herself to stay calm and keep to her attack plan. She gets ready to attack; Jake calls over to Sally, "Hey general, can we move this along? My shoulder is going numb. No offense Tom, but you're getting heavy."

Sally starts to giggle then says, "Max will you please show them to the medical wing while I handle this. I'll be there momentarily." Max nods then motions for Jake to follow behind him.

The two start making their way from the fight scene, but Tom shouts "Tanhì!" The female warrior glances over to her disable mate as he cries out, "Jake wait!" The twin brother stops in his tracks glancing behind him waiting to hear what his brother is going to say, "Ma Tanhì rutxe don't fight with Sally. This is my fault and I don't want you to get hurt because of my actions." Tanhì remains silent listening to her mate's words. Not hearing a rapid response, Tom follows up with, "Tanhì, you are olo`eyktan and have been telling our daughter that she must be willing listen in order to make a wise decision. Ask yourself, will it be wise to fight Sally without knowing the whole truth?"

"Tom's got a point," Jake adds turning around looking at his Na`vi sister, "Since I was there, I'll tell you that Sally tried to stop what happen to Tom, so if I was you I would rethink who you are mad at."

Tanhì closes her eyes and takes a deep breath while getting out of her fighting stance. She sheaths her hunting knife; then walks over to her mate lifting up his head, "Once you are better, you will tell me everything about this Aleena, and Eywa help you if you leave out any details."

"I promise won't," Tom replies with smile.

Tanhì lets go of Tom's head then looks back at Sally with an expression of distrust, "You said that you can heal my mate right?"

"Yes, we were on our way to the medical wing when you and Neytiri arrived, so if you are willing to join us, I will getting Tom back on his feet ASAP," Sally replies walking ahead.

Txep and the others in the traveling party ride their ikrans through the partly cloudy skies. Mewtxä leads the diamond formation pack with Eyakx in the second position while everyone else hold the other flying spots. Txep is bringing the up the rear the pack, but she is soon joined by Taryu. She comes flying up on her right side and calls over to Txep, "Hey what's Ean like?"

Txep eyes Taryu with a questioning expression, "What's Ean like? Where's this coming from Taryu?"

The young hunter takes a deep breath while looking up at the blue sky through a gap in the high soaring clouds. She closes her eyes while saying, "I just want to know more about the man that has captured her heart."

Txep keeps her eyes trained forward focusing mainly on her sempu; then she looks down at the passing ground. After a minute of silent, she looks back Taryu and says, "Let's see, what Ean is like? Well to start with, he's lazy, likes to blow his responsibilities, he'll jump head first into a situation without thinking or taking the necessary precautions." Txep's tone starts to turn mean and harsh as continues, "Hell he whether fly by the seat of his loincloth than come up with a reasonable plan. The fucker likes to run off without a word and do Eywa knows what and… and…" She starts to chock up feeling her eyes burn and string a little while she says, "Ean will do anything for an adventure, but when you boil it down, my skxawng of a tsmukan is one of the most loyal na`vi I could ever know. He will do everything in his power to help protect and defend anyone even it means he has to put his own life on the line. Fuck if you want an example of his stupid strong will, just look back when he fought the palulukan."

Taryu recalls the time Lerì told her that he stood up against her father to defend his mother and even went a step further to challenge him to a one-on-one fight.

Txep wipes her eyes and continues with, "Taryu I can tell you that Lerì made a good choice for a mate, so you don't have to worry about her. Ean would never do anything to dishonor or hurt her because he knows that if he ever did something like that, sa`nu would kick his ass without mercy."

"I know he'll be good to my tsmuke," Taryu replies commanding her ikran to fly faster.

Before she gets far ahead Txep calls out, "Taryu hold up." She looks back at Txep and slows down to get back alongside her. "Taryu if you know that Ean will be good to her, then why did you want to know?" Taryu tries to hide her emotions, but Txep sees the change in her expression presses on with, "Come on Taryu spill it. What are you trying to hide from me and what does it have to do with my brother?"

Taryu tries not to answer the questions, but Txep keeps pressing the issue until Taryu finally exclaims, "It has nothing to do with Ean but Lerì!"

Txep is shocked to hear her comment and replies with, "Hold up, what does this have to do with your tsmuke. Yeah I know that you want to learn elemental martial arts, so you can be a match for Lerì…"

"THAT ONLY THE HALF OF IT!" Taryu shouts, she looks over at Txep to see a confused expression on her face. Taryu calms herself down and continues with, "You remember when we were younger, and I got sick. I was taken by your sa`nu to get healed." Txep nods recalling those events because she had to go out and find herbs to help Aleena create an antidote. "After I got better, I started to notice a change in sempu. He would ask Lerì to do this or that with him instead of me, and it really hit when sempu wanted Lerì lead a hunting party."

Txep interjects with, "Yeah that would piss me off to. Hell, Ean has lead four fucking hunting parties, but when I complain about it sempu and sa`nu just tell me, 'It's his responsibility to lead.' So believe me when I say, I have heard the same shit."

"No Txep it's not the same, Sempu knows that I have all the same skills and abilities as Lerì, but he always goes to her first," Taryu cries out. "Lerì is always giving everything first, and the boys back at home want to be her."

Txep looks at the sad expression on Taryu face then looks back forward. In her mind, Txep can relate to everything that Taryu is going through, but she knows that Taryu has it even worst because she had a sister to compete with. Txep attention is draw back to her wing mate when she confesses, "I thought once we finished our last rite of passage; we would stand on equal ground. Now I find out that she's not only mated, but I learning something that will impress sempu even more." She grits her teeth while saying, "I have to put a stop to this! I'm tired of living in Lerì's shadow; I must beat her, or sempu will never respect me."

"Taryu, I'm with you on this, but you have to know that they are not going to be easy to beat," Txep explains. Taryu nods in agreement. Txep smirks and adds, "Alright, first we have to come up with an attack plan, and we got to make sure that both our parents watch it unfold."

They continue flying and discussing their plans to go up against Ean and Lerì. Mì Uk looks back the two with a untrusting glare in her eyes.

Sally and Max lead everyone to the medical bay without any more trouble except for people pointing and whispering about the event at the loading area. Once they enter the building, Sally walks to the nurses' station and says, "I'm admitting Thomas Sully to recover room five. Please have Tyler and Denise joins us there once they are finished with their noon rounds. Also have someone bring me TRM level four and page OPS. Have them relay to Trudy that we are here."

"Yes ma`am," the male nurse acknowledges.

Sally shows them to a recover that is a similar to Ean's room. Sally goes over to the sink and starts to wash her hands as she orders, "Jake toss Tom facing up on the bed please."

"With pleasure doc," Jake replies. The na`vi twin secures his hands on his brother's hips and with a great show of strength, Jake lifts Tom off his sore shoulder, and then flings him face up with echoing whoosh onto the bed. Sally quickly turns around hearing the sound from the bed and Neytiri, Max, Tom, and Tanhì yelling at Jake.

Sally stares at Jake with a silly grin on his face while defending himself from everyone's verbal attacks. She shakes her head walking up the behind arguing group pulling up stool to the left side of the bed. "Alright that's enough," Sally calls out looking at everyone as she turns back around to face the bed; the colony director adds, "and Jake try not to take everything so literal. As for you, Tom time to start talking."

"Wait, what?" Tom replies.

Sally flexes her fingers and says, "This is going to take some time, so while I'm on you; you can explain to everyone why this happened."

"Ok" Tom conveys, "Where do you want me to start?"

"Start with what you did to make Aleena use you for a practice dummy," Jake states.

"No problem, but before we get into that are you going to undo whatever Aleena did to me?" Tom questions with a worried tone of voice.

Sally gives him a reinsuring smile and says, "Oh course I am, but we might want to wait for the recovery kit to get here before I fix you."

"No offense Sally, but I don't like being stuck like this. Add to that, I came here to help with Ean's recovery." Sally looks like she is about to object, but Tom jumps in before anything is said, "Sally don't worry, I'll be fine so if you would please."

Sally smirks then glances back at the others. After looking at them for a minute, she turns back to Tom, "Alright, if you say so, while I'm doing this you better explain everything that happened between you and Aleena."

Sally rolls down to end of bed. She removes his shoes and socks; then does a quick look over his feet. Sally can see that harden skin from walking bare foot. Tom exhales the turns his eyes to look at the Jake and the others; then says, "Ok where to begin? Well back on Earth, Jake and I met Aleena in our senior year at high school."

Earth: San Francisco, California 32 years ago at San Bay High School (A/N bold text like this is the present talking)

A young seventeen year old light skinned African-American woman with long flowing black hair dressed in a black military like pants suit stands in the front of the classroom next to her new homeroom teacher. Aleena looks at her classmates and says, "Hello everyone, my name is Aleena Mary Hedsonibous; my family just moved to the Bay area. It will be an honor to service with you."

When I first saw her, I shocked not only by her beauty, but the powerful command present she wielded on the first day of class.

Once homeroom is done, the students make their way to first period. Tom and Jake make their way to American Government/ Economics. When they enter the classroom they are surprise to see Aleena sitting the front row quickly reading through her textbook with her long black hair put into a ponytail and taking notes. Her eyes are fully focused on her work not playing any attention to anyone. Tom takes the desk next to her taking any chance to glance over at the hardworking student.

It was like I couldn't control my body. I kept glancing at her without any fore thought, and to make matter worst I wasn't playing any attention to teacher at all. Boy did that get me trouble.

"Mr. Sully… Mr. Sully," the teacher calls out. The middle age male teacher walks up to Tom's face and yells out, "MR. SULLY I'M TALKING TO YOU!"

"Ahhhhh!" Tom screams in panic snapping himself back into reality.

"Mr. Sully if I'm boring you please tell me, so I can rectify it," the teacher comments.

Tom quickly panics again with, "No sir! Everything is good."

The teacher smiles and replies, "Excellent, then what's the answer to the question?"

"Uh!" Tom says making the rest of the class laugh.

The teacher exhales then says, "Alright that's enough! Just for Mr. Sully, I'll repeat the question. How does the affairs of government offices have an effect on the economic status of the public and private sectors?" The teacher looks around at the class waiting for an answer from any of the students, but they all remain silent.

Before the teacher prepares to the explains the answer, Aleena speaks out, "Its directly linked to by the policies and current political stands the government is holding at the time. For instance, my mother is part of a team that performs specialize missions for the military, and she required to test new equipment for different branches of the armed forces. Once the new equipment passes her field test, the officers in the Pentagon may choice to buy the item. Therefore, the product will be put into mass production and the company will receive a fair payment for the product."

The teacher get a wide grin on his face and says full of pride, "Well said Ms. Hedsonibous, I'm very impressed by your answer. I will expect you to follow her example. Now let's continue…"

I wasn't able to pay attention to anything but her for the rest of class. Not forgetting her beauty and presence, she's is also highly intelligence. About a month passed, she wouldn't let down my expectations of her. I thought she couldn't impress me anymore, yet that idea was shattered when we had joined PE class.

The students line you on opposite sides of the blue colored training basketball court. A male and female coach walk out in front of the students wheeling out two large basket full carts with red inflated balls in them. The female coach explains, "For today's activity, you will be playing dodge ball. I'm sure everyone here is familiar with the rules and the do's and don'ts. This is a free-for-all match, you may only carry up to two balls at once. Does everyone understand?" All the students nod, and both coaches get out of the way then blow their whistles.

Man that dodgeball game was nothing like anything I played before. If I didn't know better, you think that match would only happen in an anime. Aleena was always real quiet, but the second that game started. My mind was blown by her performance along with everyone else there.

The students rush for the balls, but Aleena races ahead of everyone with a determined look on her face. She does a front flip over the basket while grabbing a ball in each hand. She hits the floor again running at full speed; then she does a quick turn on the ball of her heel throwing the ball at a madding speed. She hits one of the others students knocking him off his feet. She uses the other ball to knock out another student, but she moves so quickly that she rushs over and grabs the rebound ball right out mid-air. Aleena is able to easily take out five more students without any hesitation.

Some of the students quickly realizes the threat and work together to bring her down, but she able to dodge and evade the incoming balls. To everyone amazement, she looks like a quick moving shadow around the gym.

I was easily taken out of game trying to save Jake from a sneak attack, but little did I know that my dear tsmukan would be the one who would back stab me and get me out with a ball to back of the head. I spent the rest of the time watching Aleena; things seems to go from bad to worse for everyone else when one the boys tried to throw a ball at her face. Of course, he missed, but that infamous Aleena temper, that wasn't known at the time, kicked in.

Aleena's eyes go from being die and cold to dark and fearsome. She is able to catch the ball thrown at her face; she grips the ball tightly in her hand rapidly knowing who the one that throw it. Still holding the ball, Aleena races pass anyone in her path using the ball to deflect other incoming attack. The high school senior is able to take out another five students while still holding on to the ball. Once she is face to face with male student that throw the ball, the student is frozen with a look of shock and fear on his face. Aleena says in a cold tone of the voice, "Aim better next time." She gently bops the ball on his forehead making him crump to the ground in amazement.

Yup that game amazing to watch, Aleena moved with such grace, beauty, and elegance. Watching her was like poetry in motion.~

Be careful Tom, your wife looks like she's getting jealous hearing the way that you are talking about Aleena.~

Tanhì please don't get angry, I'm just…

Continue the story ma Tom, we will discuss this later.

Yes ma`am. I keep watching Aleena day after day just enjoying the sight of her daily activities. In truth, she was the highlight of my day when I went to school, but that all ended on the day before spring break. All thanks to a meddling brother…

"Tom when are you going to stop making goo-goo at Aleena and talk to her?" Jake questions leading against his desk watching Tom do homework from his AP bio class in their homeroom.

Without looking up, Tom replies with, "Jake you have your way to talking to girls, and I have mine. Besides, I do talk with Aleena."

"Yeah only about school work, and your way is so slow and boring," Jake counters. "Tom why not let me help out?"

"Ha! You must think I'm stupid or something," Tom replies while chuckling.

Jake faces grows annoyed and he says, "Tom you have stalking, and yes I mean stalking the girl for two and a half months. Look Spring Break starts tomorrow, why not ask her to go with you on a tour of the city. From what people tell me, she comes to school then heads back to the base, so why not be her knight in shining armor and save her from this life of boredom. Plus you will be doing yourself a favor by getting your nose out of the books for a while."

"Jake, I know you mean well and everything, but you have to know that Aleena and I have a more stressful life than other students. We are both in AP classes, so our work load is a little heavier," Tom states then sets down his pencil, leans back in his chair while turning his head to look at his twin brother. "No offense Jake but I don't want to end up like Sherry and you; because, my face is not made for heavy slapping. After all, I have to keep up my good looks, so trust me and lead well enough alone."

Jake busts out laughing hearing his brother's statement, and fires back with, "Yeah keep telling yourself that Romeo. I know you'll be grateful after I set Aleena and you set up."

Tom's tone turns serious and says, "I mean it Jake. I don't want you interfering with my efforts."

Jake sees the determined and serious expression on Tom's face, so he holds hands up, "Alright, you win I won't butt my nose into it."

You know the voice in the back of my head told me not to take Jake at his work.

What you talking about?! If it wasn't for me… Look what happened next was…

Hey I'm the one telling the story Jake.

Alright, but you better speed it up because Tanhì looks like she's one step from going off the edge into full outrage.

Oh yes! Well because of Jake's shenanigans, I got my first official meeting with Aleena Hedsonibous.

After his talk with Tom, Jake runs to his locker and pulls out Tom's gym bag. The young man changes his into Tom's track suit; then stands in front of the bathroom mirror doing his best to make his hair look like his twin before putting his ball cap on. Jake gives an evil smirk while looking in the mirror as he tells himself, "Damn it been sometime since I made myself look like Tommy. Boy, if dad found out that I'm pretending to look like Tom, my ass will be red for a month. I must remember that I'm doing this for a greater cause." After taking a couple of minutes to get the tone and sound of his brother down, the fake Tom rushes to the track.

At the indoor track field, Tom sees Aleena doing laps at a brisk pace wearing a two piece body hugging track outfit. ~Damn she hot! Shit I could… no I couldn't do that to my brother, but damn Tom does have good taste in women. Ok I need to focus, I got to get her to fall for me… I mean Tommy while not getting busted. The game is a foot my dear Watson,~ Jake tells himself dashing over the track to get alongside the young woman.

Aleena keep her pace as she glances to her left, "Can I help you with something?"

Tom smiles and states, "Nope I'm good, just enjoying the excellent view." Tom watches as the sweat rolls down her neck to growing wet spot around the neck area. "Hey Aleena tell me do you have a boyfriend?"

"What! No I don't have time to worry about a boyfriend," Aleena replies.

Tom gives her a smug grin and says, "Oh that's not what I heard."

Aleena looks over at the fake Tom, "What the hell are you talking about?"

~Got her, now to reel her in,~ Jake thinks, "Well from what I heard, you do nothing but study and work out during your free time; when school is done for the day, some of Jake's friends said that you go straight back to the military base." Aleena's eyes begin to narrow looking at Tom while digesting his words and trying to foretell what he getting at. ~Ok get ready, if she anything like what I saw in the dodgeball match, she going to move fast and hard.~ Jake thinks looking ahead at the doorway to the coming up.

Aleena senses that he stalling and says, "Tom get to the point or stop wasting my time."

"The point is this, I think it's sad that a pretty girl like you is going to waste. Look at you, it's the last day before Spring Break and our teachers gives us a free day to do whatever the fuck we want, and here you are all by yourself running in an empty gym for no reason while everyone else is having a ball playing games and whatnot," Tom states. He notices a change on Aleena's face as she starts to slow down her pace. Tom slows down to keep pace with her then adds, "If you ask me a girl like you with that fine rack, ass, and brain deserves to have fun, and my brother… I mean me can help you with that."

Aleena's eyes become shield by her hair as begins to slow down even more. Tom does the same glancing over to the right to see the door coming close. "So you think, I could be a good girlfriend for Tom."

"Yup yup!" Tom replies. Seeing his chance, Jake adds, "Look, take moment to think about it. After lunch, I'll be in chemical lab 3, so… oh shit!" he exclaims looking at this invisible watch. "I got to meet up with Jake." Tom gives her a light smack on the butt; making her eyes shot wide open and her face start to go dark red. Before she react, Tom dashes off at the door while calling back, "I hope you say yes. Later beautiful!"

I still don't what happened, but I should have fingered that Jake was up to something when I ran into him wearing my track suit and hair style with the hat over it. Dad told us that if one of us was to mimic the other; then we would get our asses kicked. However I bushed the feeling aside not really focusing on it. After we ate lunch, Jake told me that he needed help with some chemistry work. I'll tell you that walk to the lab will be one I will never forget.

Tom makes his way to the lab passing several small groups of students in the hallway. He sees Jake heading downthe hallway towards him. Jake waves signaling to his brother. Just before Tom opens the door to the lab, everyone is surprise when a voice rings out, "TOM SULLY!"

All the motion and talking in the hall freezes, Tom turns around to see Aleena walking up in white shirt with blue jeans and a white half waist skirt. She marches pass everyone with a pissed off expression. Once she is face to face with him, she says, "You have some nerve."

Tom gives a confused face, and he thinks to himself that he hears Jake softly snickering in the background. He looks into her chocolate brown eyes and replies, "Aleena what are you talking about?"

"You're right, I'm a bit of loner because my parents' job requires that we move wherever needed, and being daughter of a Marine Special Ops officer and Naval Intel officer made going to school at the bases really hard that's why I choice to come to a public civilian school. After a week of being here, I notice that everyone was in their own little group, so that once again left me on the outside. This all changed when this one guy started watching my every move, I don't know much outside of studying, training, and military, but…" Aleena starts to blush as the last words start to flow out of her mouth, "Maybe having a boyfriend like you would help me learn new things, so I guess I'm saying yes I will be your girlfriend."

Tom is at first speechless which makes Aleena start to look scared, but he is finally to get the words out,
"That's great! I mean I would honored."

"Good," Aleena states as the blush look on her face starts to fade. She turns around and before she walks away she says, "Oh one more thing Tom…" Tom's ears perk up listening to her voice. In the blink of an eye, Aleena twists around punches him in the gut making him crumple over at the waist. "That's for convincing Jake to dress up as you in order to ask me out, and for letting him smack my ass."

Tom grunts out as he quickly recover with his hand over his stomach and pain smile on his face, "Yeah your right that was my bad, I'll know better next time. Let's meet up after school, I'll show you around the Bay area."

Aleena starts to blush again, "Sure sounds good; I'll see you later then." She turns back around and walks off leaving everyone in shocked watching as Aleena walks out of the hall; then they turn to look at Tom.

"Alright! Alright! Show's over get back to whatever you were doing," Jake commands.

Tom finally fully recomposes himself and says, "Jake would you please step into the lab."

Jake clears his throat, "I don't think it would be good for my health to go in the lab with you alone."

"Either come into the lab, or I'll tell dad that you were pretending to be me," Tom threatens looking at his brother with an evil glare.

"Fuck Tom, give me a break I just helped you out," Jake counters.

"Yeah and I'm grateful, but we need to have a bro to bro chat," Tom fires back.

"I know I'm going to regret this. Before I go in there, I want to remind you that murdering your brother is still murder," Jake states walking into the lab.

You know that was one and only time, I remember you kicking my ass and giving me a black eye.

What do you excepted? You smacked my girlfriend's ass; you think I would let you get away that? After that things between Aleena and I started off simple and clean. We were nearly inseparable, and we even went to the same college and grad school. Seven years went by in ta flash, we were both accepted into Avatar Program, but lives as we knew it changed forever the night of Aleena's departure for Pandora.

Tom and Aleena are in their bedroom as they finish packing her bags. Aleena puts her hard shell suitcase on the bed; then she moves some of her books and study notes into the case. "Tom, I don't have to leave now. I can delay my launch until they get things settled," Aleena states setting down her notes.

"Come on Aleena, we have been over this already," Tom states putting two of her bags next to the door. He walks back over to the bed and sits on his side. "Aleena, we really don't have much choice in the matter. Doctor Augustine wants you on Pandora as soon as possible and don't forget the RDA is paying off our student loans, so I don't think it is wise for us to slap them in the face. Beside, we don't know how long before they are able fix to my avatar."

Aleena finishes putting up her notes; then she closes the case and moves to door next to her other bags. "I don't care Tom. I don't want to go without you," Aleena replies as heads back to bed then flops down on her side. She lays back looking up at Tom. "It would be best if we go together. Most of my projects and experiments are designed to work alongside the work that you will be doing."

"I know Aleena, but Doctor Augustine needs your help with studying the medical benefits of certain Pandorain plants," Tom states while running hand over the top of her head.

Aleena sits up with a puffy expression. She looks at him then says, "Fine, I'll go, but I want something from you the moment you get on Pandora." Tom gives her a confused expression looking into her determined face. Aleena walks over to where he is sitting and looks eye to eye with him. "Tom, we have been together for over seven years, and I want more from you."

Tom smiles understanding what Aleena wants. Tom pulls her into his lap with a big smile on his face; he kisses her then says, "Once again, you're right Aleena. How about this, once I get to Pandora, we'll see if we can convince the Na`vi to allow us to go Aymokriya Utral and there I will ask you. How does that sound?"

Aleena gives a kiss with big smile on her face. "I will hold you to that promise Tom, but tell me will you ask me in my human form or avatar form?"

"I'll leave that choice to you sweetheart," Tom replies.

Tom looks up at the ceiling feeling tears fall down the side of his face. "That was the last day I saw her just after her ship launched; that same day, I went to the RDA Avatar Lab and my life as a human ended."

Tanhì watches the sad expression on her mate's face and feels the same tears begin to well up in her eyes thinking about the loss of her first mate. Sally finishes up on Tom's body; then looks at Tom's face with tears rolling down. "I see, so you were going to propose to Aleena after you arrived on Pandora. I can respect the pain and sorrow that you would felt after being taken away from her by the RDA, but one thing is not sitting right with me," Sally conveys rolling a little back from the bed. She folds her arms; then paints a serious look on her face, "Why would you wait to now to reveal the fact that you are alive to Aleena? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you have been alive and on Pandora for over what sixteen to seventeen years. What was the hold up?"

Tom's face goes into a goofy expression as he gives a nervous laugh. "Well, I heard that she got mated shortly after the RDA was ran off, and I was afraid of what she might have done to me."

Jake laughs out, "Well, bro you got your answer to that question, and you were paid with interest."

"Thanks Jake, you are always so helpful and know the right things to say," Tom says with anger in his voice. He takes a quick breath and looks at Sally sitting back from the bed with her arms crossed and a frown on her face. "Um Sally, are you mad at me?"

Sally shakes her head, "No Tom, I'm not mad at you. I'm disappointed with you Tom. Aleena talked a lot about you back on Earth. She was so happy the day she noticed you were watching her, and after you agreed to go out with her; she was walking on cloud nine. I understand that the RDA's actions are beyond forgivable. Nevertheless, after you came to Pandora, you should've contacted Aleena and let her know that you were alive and safe."

Everyone reminds silent looking at Sally then Tom. Tom states in serious tone, "I'm sorry; I wish I could be back and make things right, but I wouldn't change any decision that I have made since I came here. I'm in love with Tanhì, and we have two wonderful and bright children. Aleena is also in love with her mate, and we have both moved on. I will apologized for not telling her about my whereabouts, but I will not seek forgiveness for nothing else."

Sally gives slight nod of approval hearing Tom's conviction. Tanhì taps on Neytiri's shoulder. She looks at her sister-in-law and motions for her to follow her. They walk over to Sally, and Tanhì says, "Olo'ekytan Sally"

Sally quickly acknowledges with, "Please just call me Sally."

"Sally, I can relate to the trials Eywa has put Aleena through, and I know that she must need someone to talk with because ma Tom and everyone here helped me. I would like to help her by talking with her," Tanhì requests.

Sally smiles hearing her request and says, "Well, normally when Aleena loses her temp; she will go somewhere that she can calm her mind and regain her center." She taps her chin with her finger while thinking of where Aleena could have gone. Suddenly the answer pops into head and she says, "The waterfall…" The two Na`vi women give a questionable look; then Sally explains, "There is a waterfall about a mile from the north gate. I would bet good money that she is there mediating."

Neytiri adds, "Sally please provide us with someone to lead us to the gate and we will help her through this."

"Understood," Sally replies, "go to the desk that we passed on the way in and tell them send an escort to take you to the north gate. Understood? Oh one more thing, tell Aleena that her mark of mastery for spirit will take place as soon as she returns. Don't worry she'll know what you mean."

They both nod yes and head out the room. "Um Sally," Tom calls out. She turns to face her patient. "Have you completed the procedure; because, I don't feel any different? I still can't move any part of my body."

"I have completed reopening all your chakra points that Aleena's attack closed expect for one." Sally replies.

"Why?"

"I'm waiting for Tyler to get here with the recovery kit before I reopen your Solar Plexus," Sally replies turning back around.

Tom's face goes irritated as he complains, "Sally we really don't have time for this. I'll be fine; besides we have a great deal of work to get done . Not only do I have to look at your grandson, but I want to see the research results on the animals that you captured."

Sally rises her right eyebrow hearing Tom's statement, but before she is able to comment Jake fires with, "Tom as much you get on to me about listening to doctors you need to take your own advice. Sally says you need to wait then you should wait."

"You're right Jake, but this is different, Sally am I correct that Aleena's move only paralyzed me temporary?" Sally nods yes, and Tom continues on with, "Well there you go, the effects of the attack would have worn off some time later, but Sally just speed up the recovery process. Sally please finish the treatment and lets get to work."

Sally exhales with while slightly shaking her head left to right, "Alright Tom don't say I didn't warn you."

Trudy is walking past the avatar cabins, when a male and female na`vi come running up to her. The pair look alive in height and face; they are wearing matching riding gear, but the male twin doesn't have his lasso or hunting knife on him. Trudy stops to see the pair racing up to her. "Whoa, slow down! Where's the fire at?"

Karyu quickly replies with, "Mrs. Patel! Is what everyone is saying true?"

From behind her mask Trudy gives smirk, "Well Karyu depends, what is being said?"

Kato quickly comments, "The reason that we're here is because the son of a friend from sempu's past was recovering after he went head to head with a palulukan and won?"

Trudy smiles and replies with, "Yes, his name is Ean and his mother is Aleena. Let me guess you learn this from the other avatars staying the cabin area." They both nod yes and Trudy folds her arms, "Boy its just like home. Well I'm guessing that you kids want to meet him, right?"

"Srane," Kato comments.

Trudy prepares to say something more, but she stops herself, when sees Norm hastily walking towards them. Trudy calls out, "Hey blue man where's the fire at?"

"No fire, but I just got word that Tom is in the hospital!" Norm exclaims quickly

"What!" the twins say in the unison.

"Norm what happened?" Trudy questions.

Norm gets on the other side of them and says, "I don't know, but I'm heading there now to find out!" He starts running with Karyu, Kato, and Trudy right behind him.

"Hey slow down, I don't have long blue legs like you three!" Trudy screams out running after them.

The four of them quickly reach the medical bay and rush in. Trudy is the last one to make it as she breaths heavily with her hands on her knees. Norm smirks, "Hey Trudy you need to work out more girl you're getting soft."

From behind her fogged mask she fires back, "Shut up Norm, I'm in excellent shape!"

They laugh about the joke, but only get serious looks from Tom's teenage kids. Norm turns around to see nurse wearing green scrubs walking down the hallway. Norm calls out to avatar medical worker, "Um excuse me! Please wait a moment." The nurse stops walking and turns around to look at Norm and the others. Norm walks up to him and asks, "Hi, I'm Doctor Norm Spellman, and we are looking for Doctor Tom Sully."

Tyler smiles at the guests and says, "Well good news, I'm heading there as we speak. My name is Tyler Bell; please follow me."

The five of them start walking down the hallway and Norm then asks, "Can you tell me what happened to him and is it serious or life threatening?"

"No, its nothing serious or life threatening," Tyler replies.

Karyu asks with an untrusting tone of voice, "Then what happened to my sempu?"

"Well, I don't know the whole story, but according to the word floating around, Dr. Sully got into a fight with Aleena," Tyler states.

Trudy then says, "Tom got into a fight with a girl, and she put him in the hospital. What the he hell did he do to her?"

Norm quickly comments, "I think the better question Trudy is, what the hell did she did do to him to put him here?"

Tyler hold up the recovery kit showing it to the others while saying, "Dr. H told me to bring this, so I'm guessing that Aleena must have used some specialized martial art on him." Tyler lowers the bag and looks back forward, "Dr. H is working on him and…."

"AHHHHHHHH!" Comes echoing throughout the hallway.

"THAT SEMPU'S VOICE!" Kato screams.

Tyler and the others go running down the hallway and come rushing up to Tom's room. Other nurses surround the door peering inside. Tyler then shuts at them, "MOVE GET OUT OF THE WAY!" The five of them push their way pass the others making it into the room. Jake has his finger in his ears and Sally sitting on her stool with her arms crossed looking at Tom. The na`vi doctor is twisting and turning in the bed with his hands cupped over his mid-section and his legs curled up to his chest while screaming and shouting. Tyler rushes up to Sally and asks, "What happened to him?!"

Sally exhales, "He wanted me to reactivated the last charka point, and he didn't believed me when I told him that reopening the point would cause the pain that was being numbed by the paralyzes to come back in full force."

"And you did it anyway?!" Tyler rebuts.

Sally holds her hands up next to her shoulders, "Well, I did what my patient wanted and here are the results." Tom releases another ear shattering scream making Sally plug her ears, "Alright, that enough. Give me the painkiller and get ready to hold him down." Tyler nods yes, and they make their over to him. Kato and Karyu try to do their best to help their father, but their efforts are futile.

Once Sally and Tyler get close to him, the twins stand in front of them. "Don't come any closer to our sempu!" Karyu orders.

Sally look over to Jake to see in him on the brink of tears from laughing. He spots Sally glance; he nods wiping a tear from his eye, "Kato! Karyu! Let Sally do what she needs to do; Tom asked for this and she is the only one help him right now." The two twins stand firm; Jake faces turns angry seeing twins stubborn nature show. Jake uses his olo'ekytan's voice and commands, "Kato! Karyu! I will not say it again! MOVE ASIDE!"

The twins see the anger look on their uncle's face. They stare each other down for couple seconds, but Jake's expression makes the twins will start to waiver. Kato glances back at his grunting father then says, "Will you help our sempu?" Sally nods yes. Just as Karyu is about to object he steps aside to allow them to pass.

"Kato, What the hell!"

Her brother reminds silent and watches Sally and Tyler go to work. The avatar nurse holds Tom down while Sally grabs a needle out of the bag. She removes the silver cap from the silver pen shaped needle. "Get a good grip on him Tyler!" Sally orders; then she grabs this left arm and sticks the needle into his upper shoulder. Almost seconds later, Tom gives out a massive sigh of relief. "Feel better?"

"Much better," Tom replies.

"Hey bro," Tom looks at his twin; now with his full smile back on his face. "You know, I'm never going to let you live this down right!"

"Jake…"

Tom starts to counter, but Jake quickly cuts him off, "Nah… nah… you are always going on about how when doctor gives an order; we should listen and do what they say."

"Jake…"

"I would like to just state for the record that I was right in telling you to listen, but you didn't want to listen. Norm…" Jake states placing his hand on his friend's shoulder, "Please let all know, for all time that I was right and my dear sweet smart boneheaded brother was wrong!"

Norm and Trudy bust out laughing. Tom sits on the edge of the bed; then Trudy says, "Looks like the Tom's jinx is strong and is here. Tom what happened, what did you do to piss off Aleena?"

Norm is able to calm down and says, "Yeah, I don't think she would just go to town on you for no reason."

"You're right Norm, she wouldn't," Jake gloats looking at the annoyed expression on his brother's face. "To make it easy, I'll say that Tom and Aleena have history with other in more ways than one."

"What!" they all say in unison.

Trudy is the first to say, "You and Aleena were a thing! Spill the beans!" Tom rolls his eyes and lays down on the bed.

Thank you for reading and please leave comments. We will soon be doing an update on the early chapters soon.

Round Two: New Rules, New Arrivals, and New Troubles

Part Two

Coming: December 17, 2015

We want to take a minute to send our prays and well wishes to the Na`vi and people being harm and terrorized by the evildoers from ISIS. Never forget tsmukan and tsmuke, only the ones that have been tricked these radicals are the bad guys. They fear the people becoming united and equal with one another, so they use these cowardly attacks to spread a message of fear and mistrust. The best way to fight their actions to continue to work together and stand up against their message.

Remember:

We will send them a message! This is our land!