Chapter 7: First Sortie
A/N:Welcome back to Hufwe Makto! In this chapter, our characters are gonna be in their Avatars and joining Grace and Norm on their scientific sortie in their avatar bodies on Pandora! So this will be exciting! Buckle up! Remember, I own nothing!! Only my OC, Alex belongs to someone I'm Rping with!
(Siera's POV-Outskirts of Pandora, in Trudy's Scorpion)
We are in our Avatar bodies, as I watch from the open door of Trudy's Samson as the fauna of Pandora fly around us. I hear Jake whooping as we do, and Trudy looks back slightly with a laugh. I look around then Alex taps my shoulder, making me look back at him.
"How is it?" He asks me. "It feels kinda like we're...." I chuckle, voicing his thoughts.
"Free, but not really. I get yer meaning, Alex. Looks like someone's having fun." I look to Jake who, like Alex and Wainfleet on board have guns on them. "Why the weapons?" I ask Wainfleet. He looks to me, even though he has an exo-pack on his face to keep the toxic air from killing him. He then answers,
"Because even though this world is beautiful, it is cruel, very cruel. Like the Col. said, everything that lives or breathes out here wants to kill us. Did you not hear his briefing?" I shake my head.
"Naw," I answer. "I may be a soldier, but I won't kill any of the wildlife that surrounds such an amazing moon. Nonetheless, keep yer comments to yerself, shit-stick." Wainfleet blinks.
"Why?" He says. "So you can start acting like a-..." he is cut off when Grace narrows her eyes at him, telling him with her eyes to keep quiet. The Samson lands, and the with the blades still whirring, we jump out, Alex, Jake and Wainfleet all having weapons on them. Grace then turns to Trudy, waving her hand. She then puts her fingers to the communication collar on her neck.
"Shut it down, we're gonna stay a while!" She yells to Trudy as the woman starts turning off the Samson. She then turns to Norm as we're climbing off.
"Norm!" She yells at him over the blades. "Your pack!"
"Pack!" Norm says as he walks back to grab his pack. Wainfleet steps forward, but Grace walks up to him. She then holds out a hand to stop him.
"Stay with the ship!" She spits. "Two idiots with guns are enough." She walks ahead, with Alex, Jake and myself in front. I'm armed with just a blade, since I don't like using the guns that are provided to the RDA. I'd really not use them, to me, weapons here besides the ones the Na'vi use for hunting and such, are a bunch of useless time and money.
"You the man, doc." Wainfleet says as we continue walking. We walk until we hear some sounds of animals in the trees. I recognize them from my mother's studies. They're six-legged creatures that remind me of lemurs on Earth, they have big eyes and pointy ears as they swing from tree to tree. Jake obviously aims his weapon at them, and I resist the urge to smack him upside the head for his stupidity.
"Prolemuris," Grace says. "They're non-aggressive." She then points Jake's weapon down as the Prolemuris swing once more through the trees. Grace then turns back to Jake as she points his weapon down, glaring at him.
"Relax, Marine. You're making me nervous." She walks ahead, Alex and I following her lead.
"So, how would they know we're here?" Norm asks, referring to the Na'vi.
"Oh, I'm sure they're watching us right now," Grace replies. I follow her lead, just wanting to take off the heavy boots I'm wearing. I may be comfortable wearing them in my human body, but not my Avatar body. The feathers in my hair are not a hassle at all, which is amazing. I then hear Jake turn back.
"Keep up, Norm." He says to Norm who's lagging behind slightly. Grace then turns back.
"Keep up, guys!" We continue walking until we are at a different section, how many klicks away from the ship I'm not sure, I started losing count after like thirty or so klicks out.
"And here I go," Grace says as she inserts a needle with some kind of fluid into the tree root.
"Scanning," Norm says as he pulls up a small blue portscreen in his hands. He gasps as he sees the data come in. "Oh, wow, it's that fast?" Grace laughs softly as she looks up at him.
"Amazing, isn't it?" She asks before she goes on explaining about the roots and where they connect. Jake gets bored and starts to break away, and Alex and I out of instinct, follow him.
"Why are we following him?" I ask, my tail flicking behind me. Alex hums and replies,
"So he doesn't get himself killed." I nod, and tell him instead,
"Good point." We continue walking until we make it to the helicoradian. These plants are more than just plants, they are commonly called zooplantae, in Na'vi it is called Loreyu, meaning "beautiful spiral." Alex seems to chuckle at this and I say in Na'vi,
"Loreyu. Breathtaking." I grin wide as Alex smiles softly. That is until I hear a whoosh sound and see that one of the helicoradian has sucked itself down to the root. All because Jake is being a dumbass and wanted to touch the damn plant.
"Uh, Jake," I say with a chuckle. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Alex blinks.
"Why?" Jake asks before he goes to touch another with a short laugh. He touches another and all of them go down until we see it:
A Titanothere, a Hammerhead Titanothere, and it does not look happy. Oh shit, this won't end well.
A/N: Next chapter is the Thanator Chase!!! I know, shortie again, but I want to at least put in some updates before I have to go anywhere. Comment, vote, and whoever has been reading my story first, I want to thank you for sticking with it, despite the chapters being short. I know, but like I said, you have short chapters and you got long chapters. See y'all!
Next Chapter Title: Thanator Chase.
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