Chapter 9: Cleaning up

Location: Toriton 8

"Aileta, I will come back. I promise." David spread his wings wide and lifted himself from the ground. David slowly pulled away until Aileta could no-longer hold onto his arm anymore. He took one last look at Aileta and flew toward the sky. Aileta watched him go, with nothing more than a teardrop.

"I hate to interrupt this heart breaking moment, but the rest of us are still in pain here." Erick called out. Aileta nodded and began to walk over to him. "Not me, I'll be fine, it's Ollrack who needs help most." Aileta stopped and looked over at her comrade. She saw the pool of blood around his slouched over body. She gasped, she couldn't handle that…but Tiffany could. Aileta ran over to Tiffany's unconscious body.

"Wake up, Ollrack's in trouble." She urged as she shook Tiffany. Eventually she awoke and opened her eyes. "Ollrack needs you!" Aileta told her. Tiffany tilted her head to see Ollrack. She quickly stumbled to her feet and ran over to him. Aileta watched as she began to patch him up. Aileta recollected herself from everything that happed the last few days. If it wasn't for Ollran…Ollran. Aileta looked to the place where Ollran was hit by David's phoenix claw. He wasn't there!

Ollran dragged himself to the all too familiar machine. His legs no longer functioned from his fall, so he abandoned his cannons in an effort to lighten the load. "If I can just reach the console, I can restart master Sicron's program, then the fun will begin all over again." He snickered. Ollran finally reached the dreaded machine. He reached up, but as his hand got high enough, it stopped. Ollran looked in horror as he saw the edge of Aileta's whip sword, wrapped around his wrist. He looked over to see a very angry Aileta on the other end. "Why hello there. Since how long have you been there?" He laughed nervously.

"This is all your fault." Aileta said flatly.

"My fault? I was just fulfilling my duty to master Sicron. Don't forget who let me escape back in the time fluxuation. If I recall correctly, it was you who had the final shot on me…yet even with a weapon that has been scientifically proven to have a 98 hit rate…you still only nicked me. I believe that end to end…it was your fault I did this."

"Don't you pit this on me." She yelled. Aileta yanked on her sword, pulling Ollran down to his back. She walked up and looked down on him with cold eyes.

"Oh come on now Aileta…you're not one to hold a grudge." He said shakily.

"I know…which is why I'm going to kill you so I don't have to." Aileta reached down and yanked off Ollran's infamous helmet. Ollran instinctively detached his true Metroid self from his body. The body went limp as the Metroid rose toward Aileta. She saw the mark that she left before he escaped last time…a mistake she wouldn't make twice. Aileta punched the creature, causing it to fall to the ground. She pinned it there with her foot. She leveled her sword to puncture the beast.

The wailing screech of a dying Metroid was head throughout the outpost. Erick helped Electrifying get to his feet. Tiffany finished bandaging Ollrack's handless arm. She explained that by now there was no way to save it…even with Dodrando medical supplies, or Electrifying techniques. Ollrack would be getting a robotic hand as a replacement.

No one noticed as Aileta re-entered the room. She walked over to the window. Aileta stared at the red sky, thinking of David. Aileta, I will come back. I promise. That's what he said. David was true to his word…so why did she feel like she'd never see him again. Aileta didn't think it was possible to cry after everything that happened, she'd cried enough. But still, one more tear, dripped from her eye.