Gloria's Fear

*This story talks about Gloria's betaphobia. Let's find out what led her from being able to calm Baby Ox to being forced to make a new rule so Nayah stays awake.*

## Summary

Chief Gloria has always been a very kind and loving leader towards her team, wanting nothing more than for her team to be happy, healthy, and safe, but when she starts acting very strange, the team must find out why she's acting strange and help her, but when Ed and Linda show up causing trouble, the team must race against time to figure out what's wrong with Chief before it's too late. Can the team help their leader conquer her fear?

## Characters

Brett

Baby Ox

Nayah

Edward

KC

Linda

Shadow

Xavier

Xander

**Gloria's POV**

Right now, the team and I are fighting Edward and Linda, which is the number one thing we don't like to do but when duty calls, it's our job as spies to answer that call, even if it means fighting the same two villains over and over again, but at least we get to relax in HQ after everything's over.

As I watch my team dodge their lasers, I see Nayah hiding in a corner, so I walk over to her. She's crying softly and mumbling something I can't quite understand, so I wait for her to take two deep breaths before I look at her.

"Nayah, why aren't you helping the teammates?" I ask softly. She looks at me and sighs deeply as she writes the letter X using glitter. I feel my heart sink as I realize why she's hiding.

"Chief, I have something to tell you." Nayah says sadly. She takes my paw in her hand as she squeezes it carefully, then looks at me to make sure that I'm listening.

"I'm listening." I say kindly and softly as she nods, starting to cry.

"Xander keeps doing the one thing I don't like!" Nayah growls softly, starting to cry softly. I gently pat her shoulder and smile softly, encouraging her to go on.

"He keeps calling me babe!" Nayah wails as I look at her, my expression serious.

"I knew it!" "He's in so much trouble!" I snarl as I race towards Xander with a fierce glare in my eyes. He smirks as I use my magic to make a giant laser cage to trap him in.

Once he's trapped, Nayah starts dancing, but then stops and looks over at Xander, humming Fireflies by Zendaya. He growls and smirks at her as she stops humming, but his expression doesn't change. He's ruthless and we all know he is.

"Nayah, I have a dare for you." Xander smirks as Nayah keeps humming, ignoring him. As he laughs evilly and glares at her, she stops humming and looks at him, her expression very fierce as he smirks before he says one word that makes her start screaming.

"Babe." Xander smirks as Nayah looks at me as I glare at Xander like he's lost his mind. He knows that one single word is Nayah's weakness.

As I look over at her, her bright magenta eyes are wide with fear and rage. As soon as she's about to hit the ground, Kace catches her.

"Oh, no!" Kace wails. She tries to get Nayah to awaken, but fails in the process.

"Uh-oh." "Time for two hours of tickles!" Xandra smirks as she and Xaiden fly close to Xander, awaiting my signal.

I sigh deeply before I do a triple handstand, signaling for them to tickle Xander.

"Go on, you two." Nix whispers to them. The twins fly close to Xander and push him so that he falls back on the grass, but then, Xandra hears her favorite song start to play, so she grins at her brother.

"Xandra, stay focused, sis." Xaiden whispers softly. She snaps out of her trance and puts on her game face again.

"Did I get distracted again?" She asks as her twin nods gently, so she face-paws herself. She knows she's not supposed to be distracted but when she hears her favorite Zendaya song, there's nothing no one can tell her to make her stop dancing.

"I'm sorry, Xaiden." Xandra whispers to her twin. He nods understandingly as they both begin to tickle Xander like crazy. They don't stop until he moans in pain and rolls over, revealing a scar that shaped like an X on his cheek. As I look at them both, they drop their glitter laser tasers at the same time.

"Chief, we had no choice." "He kept saying the word Nayah doesn't like." Xandra says sadly. She starts to cry as Nixie hugs her and Xaiden close.

"It's okay, you two." "I know you didn't want to, but you had to." I say.

"Let's all take a break and then regroup later." I say as my team nods, smiling because they're happy but exhausted.

**Nixie's POV**

I hug Xandra close as she continues to cry. I know that she hates seeing someone hurt, but she has to defend herself, no matter what. As she continues to cry, I keep hugging her until she stops. She looks at me and sighs deeply before she lies on her special purple blanket, singing the final verse of her second favorite song.

I watch as she shakes, tosses, and turns in an effort to get comfortable. I sign the word stop in American Sign Language as she looks up at me. I laugh gently as I straighten out her blanket as she lies back down on it, smiling softly at me. I smile, nuzzling her forehead softly.

"Nix, do you think Nayah will be OK?" Xandra asks softly. She sighs deeply as I hug her close.

"To be honest with you, Xandra, I don't know." "She seems real upset now." I say honestly as my bracelet rings as I look at it before I answer.

"Nix, get to Snowflake Cave." "Xander's threating to hurt Baby Ox and Shadow!" Xavier says, panicked.

"Chill out, X." "I'm on my way." "Give me a good few minutes to get ready and *keep Xander away* from those two." I growl.

"I'm on it!" Xavier says.

**Xavier's POV**

I activate stealth mode on my uniform and sneak into Snowflake Cave and see that Baby Ox and Shadow are watching Wild Kratts together. I sneak up on them and use my magic to make them float.

"What's happening?" "Why are we floating?" Baby Ox whimpers.

"Xander wants to hurt you two." "We must act quickly if you two want to be okay." I say softly. Baby Ox and Shadow look at each other and growl, knowing that Xander only wants to hurt them because Baby Ox is mad at him.

"Xavi, are we gonna die?" Shadow whimpers as Baby Ox shoots him a look. Shadow then sighs.

"I'm sorry." "I just don't want to lose you." Shadow says sadly. He looks up at me with a hopeful look in his eyes. I hear footsteps approaching, so I quickly teleport to HQ, awaiting for any orders from Chief. Just as I'm about to go into the HQ lounge and relax, I hear more footsteps.

My heartbeat gets quicker and quicker as I crouch down low to the ground, but Xander spots me. He smirks at me evilly as I give him the most fiercest look I can. He's *not gonna touch* Baby Ox or Shadow. I stand up straight and look into his green eyes as he stares into mine.

"Xander, do you really think you're going to *kill an innocent ox calf and an innocent black jaguar after you killed their parents?"* I snarl as he laughs, smirking.

I wrestle him to the ground, not even letting him *try* and get up.

"You may be the older one by 10 minutes, but I promise you, I'll make sure Mom and Dad deal with you in the worst way possible." I say as I place handcuffs on him. Nayah walks over to me and smirks at Xander before she says two words.

"Hello, X." Nayah smirks as Xander tries to strike her, but she swiftly moves out of the way. He tries to punch her in the chest, but again, she dodges it. He smirks as Nayah puts on her headphones, humming Love You Forever by Z. Xander groans as I laugh.

"Nayah, I know you love me, babe." Xander smirks as Nayah keeps humming, ignoring the fact that Xander just broke Chief's number one rule.

"Mm.. Looks like your trick didn't work." I snarl as Mom and Dad walk over to us. I look at Xander before I look at my parents.

"Xander, don't even try to lie." "Have you been behaving?" Dad asks. Xander sighs, then nods. Mom and Dad look over at Nayah as she removes her headphones.

"Yes?" Nayah asks softly as Mom places her hand on her shoulder as Nayah smiles.

"Nayah, has Xander been acting the way he's supposed to?" Amanda asks as Nayah thinks for a second, before she takes out a piece of paper, along with a mechanical pencil. She writes one word on the piece of paper before she hands it to Mom.

"Mm?" "What's this?" Amanda murmurs as she unfolds the paper, seeing the word no written on the paper. She then glares at Xander.

"Xander, I'm going to give you one more chance to be honest and tell me the truth, otherwise Dad and I are grounding you." "Have you been behaving?" Mom asks.

Nayah looks at Xander with an angry look that says he'd better fess up.

"I haven't, but I don't care." Xander smirks. He looks at Nayah as she puts her headphones back on.

*"I just might love you forever.."* Nayah sings softly. She continues to sing the song Until the song is over, then Xander yanks her headphones off of her and stumps on them, permanently destroying them. Nayah snarls, then realizes that she's in trouble because without those headphones, she'll fall.

"Run." I whisper as she screams, already starting to run. Once she gets to Snowflake Cave, she collapses, exhausted. Baby Ox and Shadow slowly follow her to make sure she gets there okay.

**Nayah's POV**

Now that I'm safely away from Xander, I can't relax just yet, because my headphones are destroyed, and that pair of headphones is my last pair, so I can't leave the Cave to get new ones, otherwise Xander will trick me and I don't want that to happen because I'm trying to stay strong for Gloria.

Baby Ox and Shadow come out from the hiding spots and try to hug me, but I shake my head no.

"Not now, cuties." "As much as I want to hug you guys right now, I can't." I say softly.

"I know you've gotta hide from Xander, but can we relax?" "I wanna finish watching Wild Kratts." Shadow says. I smile, turning on the episode for the two of them as I start to think of what song to listen to so I take my mind off of Xander.

He's been going around telling people that were in love with each other, but Brett, Kace, Nix, and Xavier know the truth.

"Hey, girlfriend." A voice says. I instantly feel a chill zoom down my spine as I get my laser ready. K.C. comes closer to me, so I put the laser down.

"Were you going to fire a laser at me if I didn't tell you I was coming?" K.C. asks as I nod shakily. She opens her arms for an embrace as I hug her. I feel so mad at Xander, but having my girl K.C. with me calms me.