Chapter 4: Metroidphobia

Location: Juggernaught training room 218

"Why did you take me here? I thought we were going to work out the details in you new invention." Aileta said as they waited in the blank room.

"Well I understand that you still have some problems mentally with Metroids. So I've decided to help you get over this fear." David explained. "I had this designed just for you." He said as a fellow officer presented her with a beautiful short, gold and blue sword. Aileta took it gratefully.

"Thank you David, but what dose this have to do with Metroids?"

"Because I'm going to teach you how to defend...against those." He said as he pointed behind her. Aileta turned around and jumped at the sight of a Metroid, even as it circled playfully around a taming staff.

"No I can't. You don't know what its like to be afraid of something like those."

"Don't tell me what I'm afraid of. Let me tell you something I am afraid of Metroids, everybody is. But I'm not asking you to not be afraid of them...I'm asking you to be brave and stand up to them. Sicron knows you're afraid of them and I guarantee you he will use that to his advantage. Now unless you learn to stop letting these things control you or both of us will find ourselves in a very bad position. Do you understand?" Aileta was dumbfounded. She had never heard David talk that way before. But she nodded in agreement and prepared to take a lesson on how well David learned to be such a good swordsman. "The first thing you got to know is..."

Location: Aileta's personal bedroom

The training had passed slowly. Aileta learned how to block a charging Metroid and where is the best place to strike it. But she still was afraid of them and she knew spending so much time around them wouldn't help. She tossed and turned in her sleep. "No...stop...get away........help....someone...David.............leave me alone...NO!" Aileta suddenly woke up in a cold sweat. She sat strait up, no longer tired or sleepy. She was still breathing hard when her door opened. She pulled up the covers as to not reveal her undergarments, when David walked in, only some loose sleeping pants were all he wore.

"I could hear you from my room are you all right?"

"Yes, just a bad dream." Aileta said weakly. Aileta never saw David before without a shirt, and she now knew why. A big but defiantly old scar crossed his entire chest, over his heart. She noticed other things like that his tail actually came strait down from his mid back. But the scar most intrigued her.

"What are you looking at?" David asked. He looked down at his chest. "Oh that, heh you should have seen the other guy"

"Other guy?"

"Let's just say when a gut looks at my wings and calls me a freak, I tend to be ruthless."

"Oh."

{FLASHBACK}

Location: Earth 2

"I don't think a freak like you should walk the streets with any money at all." One man said

"Yea, I don't even think a circus would be enough to up your image" Another man said.

"Who said I wanted to up my image? I just don't want idiots like you messing with people like me. David said coolly. "And by the way...no one calls me freak!" David spun around and kicked a guy in the face. But another man came up with a knife and went for the heart. David narrowly missed the stab but still got a deep gash. David looked down and saw some bone. Now really angry, he turned toward the biggest thug, centered on the neck, drew his sword and...

{END FLASHBACK}

"So let me guess what the night mare was. David said as he walked toward Aileta. "Metroid" Aileta nodded. David let out a sigh. "Aileta...I am not teaching you to fight. I am teaching you to stop living in fear of some stupid floating jellyfish."

"I'm sorry..."

"No you're not. If you were sorry you'd look 'courage' up in the dictionary and get on with life!"

"You've never been bitten by a Metroid!" Aileta yelled, hoping to knock some reality into David.

"...for Gods...Electrifying's sake Aileta. I've taken Lord Sicron, head to head. Don't give me any of that crap!" That hit home. David had shattered every sensitive nerve in Aileta's heart. Tears began to well up in Aileta's eyes. Suddenly David's face changed from frustrated to pity. "Oh God...Electrifying I'm sorry. I-I get really cranky if I get no sleep. Please don't start crying on me." David pleaded as his wings began to droop. Aileta saw this and knew he was sorry because his wings usually displayed his emotions. "Aileta...I'm sorry I shouldn't have yelled like that." He said staring at the floor. When he looked up again he was unusually close to Aileta's face. "I um...never...noticed how...beautiful your green eyes were." He stuttered blushing like crazy. His lips felt drawn to hers, like a magnet. The next thing they both knew, their lips were together. But neither tried to pull away. David lost his sences and let his toung envelop hers. Aileta was entranced as she let the saliva flow through her mouth and his. At one point Aileta thought she heard David say in-between breaths "If Jeremy found out about this he'd kill me. David wasn't sure when but at one point his memory quit on him. He would never know what else happened that night.

David awoke the next morning, although it technically wasn't morning since they were out of atmosphere. Virtiual window signaled that it was daybreack. He noticed that his sheets weren't nearly this comfortable. He popped his eyes open to look into Aileta's sleeping face. It was now he realized that their arms were wrapped around each other. David also realized that he was...in the bed with her. 'Oh God...Electrifying no.' David thought to himself as he slowly remove one of his hands from around Aileta's shoulder, and slipped it under the sheets to check his sleep pants. He would do it with his tail, but it didn't function correctly in the morning...especially without food, and David didn't want to risk waking Aileta. Not only were they still on but they were still tied. No way he could have tied it in his sleep. He cringed as he slowly moved his hand to check Aileta. He reluctantly found that he was in the clear. Lucky for David pregnancy was defiantly not on her list. David gently removed Aileta's arms from around him and slipped out of bed, glad to know that Aileta was a very heavy sleeper, being that she hadn't slept for 99% of her life. He walked over to the counter and pulled out a can a Aileta's favorite coffee. Aileta awoke later as the fluid was almost ready. She was surprised to see David still there. "I uh, made your favorite."

"Dark?"

"Yeah."

"Thank you. Could you...hand me my...you know." She said pointing to her discarded clothes that were thrown aside on the chair.

"I have a something better than that old uniform." He said. David walked over to the closet and came out holding...her LYOKO outfit! Aileta gasped.

"How did you..."

"For what you've been through...you deserve the best." David said before she could finish.

"Thanks. Do you want some coffee?"

"Nah. Last time I drank coffee my wings were swollen and green. I need to get dressed anyway. So I'll um, meet you in training room 218 again?"

"Sure."

"Great...I'll see you there. Oh one more thing. About last night...did I um, do anything...violating...to you?" David said red as an apple. Aileta looked confused. She simply shook her head and David was finally relaxed. "Okay then, I'll see you later." David left quickly. Aileta slumped out of bed, drank her coffee, and got ready for the shower she knew she was going to need for that day.

(A/N: This chapter took a lot of guts for me to write, I wasn't sure I was going to do it at first. If you want to flame me for this chapter, don't, I wouldn't want to know if you felt negatively about this chapter. Next up: The test.)