Avatar ii - the beginning

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[PART 2.33]

Barely 30 meters away is Jake – sitting between Neytiri and Mo’at and enjoys his freshly hunted meal. He has already spotted Jonas and waved at him but he didnt really notice Jake behind the firepots. As Mo’at looks around the round while chewing on her vegetable roll, Jake realizes its the right time to start: “Tsahik, it’s not tricky for me to sense you’re in deep thoughts.”
Mo’at looks at Jake, the light of the fire reflects on her face: “I see uncertainity for us to come.”

Jake: “Your voyage yesterday has moved you much...”
Mo’at: “The bowl can’t be unfilled anymore.”
Jake: “Would you like to unfill it if you could?”
Mo’at places her hand on Jake’s upper arm: “Some things can’t be undone. First I wished it can be undone. But Eywa has chosen you to come to us... as she has chosen our destiny. It is my duty to guide the people through.”
Jake looks into Mo’ats shining eyes: “I found my own destiny, its here, serving the Omaticaya. And I’m proud of being part of.”
Mo’at smiles.
Jake continues: “But a part of mine will be always human... I want to know if Eywa can heal their world.”
Mo’at’s eyes turn to Jonas behind the fire, who seems having a conversation with Najat and another nearby na’vi: “That world is far, I now know Eywa is not everywhere.”
Jake: “Eywa can be there. Norm is a scientist, he found a way. But it would require
our help, I mean all of us...”
Mo’at focuses her eyes on Jake’s: “How can we bring them Eywa?”
Jake: “Norm told me about Eywa’s breath and that it can be felt and influenced. We can send it to Earth, so the seed of Eywa can grow there.”
Mo’at looks sceptical: “How?”
Jake: “Our ancestors had prepared it already but something obviously went wrong. I wish to make it unhappen.”
Mo’at keeps silent.
Jake: “We would need all of us on that moon, would be a matter of some hours and then we ‘re heading back. IF Norm prepares everything.”
Mo’at: “He doesn’t need to prepare.”
Jake: “He has to, since....how to explain you... we have to go to another time with that starship. To a time when Eywa’s seed on earth was still stronger and able to receive the energy to grow.”
Mo’at smiles: “Jakesully. Nothing can be make unhappen or happen in the past. Past is done.”
Jake shakes his head: “No, tsahik. This ship may be able to bring us to a time before our grandparents lived.”
Mo’at shrugs: “If this is possible, then we can make all killed by the warriors and kunsips come back and not let it take place?!”
Jake nods: “If we send Eywa’s breath to earth, the gunships and warriors may never come to Pandora. No RDA, no hellgate, no destruction of hometree.”
Mo’at: “And no Jakesully.”
Jake’s eyes widen: “As I got told by Norm... I should be still there as we are all onbord the ship.”
Mo’at: “This is great task and great risk.”
Jake recognizes Neytiri suddenly gets up and walk away.
Jake: “We would resucue a whole world, as big as eywa’s child. It would become another eywa’s child.. and many people.. so many. Even Norm’s calculation is wrong and I would be gone after that, it would be still worth doing it, as I count nothing to all what we would save instead.”
Mo’at looks at Jake: “Are you sure, Jakesully? Are you ready to bear the risk?”
Jake nods. “Yes. I know I have no choice.”
Mo’at put her hand on Jake’s broad shoulder: “Then you have my will with you.”

Jake lowers his head, showing his respect and appreciation: “Irayo, ma tsahik”
Mo’at nods and gets up: “Neytiri. She is away.”
Jake rushs up: “I will look for her. And again, I feel I own you much, tsahik. I hope I can pay that back one day.”
Mo’at looks at Jake with a serious face: “You should know. We na’vi don’t pay.”
She turns around and walks away.
Jake has hardly time to reflect Mo’at’s message and
rushs out of the hometree while his eyes darts the surrounding forest. He notice some movements behind some trees and rushs into that direction. It’s Neytiri, walking between the trees and bush-like plants.

“Neytiri!” Jake manages to catch her up: “Neytiri! What’s wrong?”
Neytiri stops and turns around, exposing her tearstained face.
“Neytiri!!” Jake tries to grab her arms.
She pulls back: “Do you think I have no ears?”
Jake’s eyes widen: “God...! Neytiri...! Why you didn’t just tell us your opinion about the idea?”
Neytiri pulls back her fingers, before energetically pointing them on Jakes chest: “Do you.. do you think I am the stupid Neytiri?! I told you about our child, I trust you! You make this sip go to past time and you never here again! I trusted you!!” Neytiri bursts out in tears.
Jake grabs her back, Neytiri struggles and cries: “Neytiri... if your ears were so widely opened you would have heard that there is only a small risk that I won’t exist anymore in here after that mission. And if... you also heard what I said. My life is nothing in
comparsion to a whole world I would help to be alive again. It is eywa’s will, my destiny. I would feel guilty if I wouldn’t do it...”
Neytiri collapses in his arms, her screams and bursts of outcry are echoed back by the surrounding forest.
Jake’s eyes are filling with tears: “Neytiri... we will be together all time and if not.. you would never even know that I ever existed.”
“I don’t want.. I don’t want.... ma Jake! If I don’t have you, who I have?!”
Jake wraps his arms tightly around Neytiri as his tears are rolling.


[END OF PART 2.33]

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[PART 2.34]

*** 9:43PM - ’People’s’ Spaceship ***

Norm and Max are onbord the bridge, with the help (pair of hands) of a young na’vi who had skipped dinner and was rather be interested on the ship.
“The next step is a testrun, Max” says Norm as he draws some calculations through his handheld computer, interfaced with the ship.
Max looks at the 3D map on the bridge, displaying Alpha Centauri next to its neighbouring stars and a rotating object near Epsilon Eridiani. “Looks like, as we got all variables in - including the nearby mass, which is necessary to sufficiently warp spacetime for going back!”
“Tomorrow we gotta test it, if Jake’s in.” Notes Max, fascinated by the 3D starmap.
Norm grins: “Believe me, he will be in!”


Same time, outside the Omaticaya hometree. Jonas and Najat are just coming out from their first dinner together with her family, both are smiling, Jonas especially – as he appears pretty relieved.
“Your family is interesthing, I felt they watch me.”
Najat giggles as she dance around Jonas: “No no...! Just bit curious! They like you! My sister and mother worry you eat too less!”
Jonas laughs: “I ate like a bear!”
Najat tilts her head slightly “Bear? What is this?”
Jonas looks up with a smile: “You always look so cute if you don’t understand something! A bear is a hairy big mammal, can be seen in zoos on earth, bigger than a na’vi warrior, has sharp teeth and eats much meat!”
Najat smiles: “Sound scaring! Zoos? Is this the place the animals live?”
Jonas: “They’ve become extinct on earth, so only in some buildings we can view them nowadays.”
Najat’s face turns serious: “This is not good. I say to Eywa please dont let this happen here on Eywa’eveng.”
Jonas: “Eywaeveng? I heard that already”
Najat gently points her finger toward the ground and then the forest: “This everything.”
“Ah, Pandora. I’d say lets head to bed, or?”
Najat first nods but then freezes, hesitates before she gently grabs Jonas arm: “Come... I show you something!”
Jonas looks up at her sparkling eyes: “Where we go?”
Najat smiles as she pulls Jonas into the wildness, lighted up by countless bioiluminescent spots and plants. They walk a while through the lushy pandoran jungle before reaching a well known place, bright and majestic.
“This is Vitrautral!” Najat says, filled with enthusiasm.

Jonas: “We call it Tree of Souls. Never been here but I’ve seen it on fotos. Pohh let me rest a bit, am still not completely cured.”

Najat: “Sorry...sorry, Jonas. I sometimes forget...”

Jonas: “No need to make a sad face! I usually tend to look fit n healthy!”

Najat: “Are you ok now?”

Jonas: “Yep.. let me enjoy this view of this wonderful tree!”

Najat smiles: “I take you closer...” she takes his hand and leads Jonas closer towards the shining bioilumniscent vines. Moments later Najat spreads her arms, obviously enjoying the contact with the vines: “This place, we talk to Eywa, we feel.. its very important place for us.”

Jonas is gazing at the glowing artpiece of nature around and above him: “I heard Jake got transferred into his avatar in here and your spiritual leader got healed here!”

Najat nods and smiles.
Then she takes her queue into her hand.
Jonas stands in front of her watching the long braided queue as Najat lifts its end up, unveils a view at its tendrils, floating like they are alive by their own.
Najat smiles as she gently grabs a glowing vine and let her tendrils attach to it, her eyes closes for a moment.

Najat: “This is our only place to connect to our ancestors since Utral Aymokriyä got killed by ... by the skywarriors.”

Jonas: “I know, the RDA has done so much damage here and I feel shame they were of the same race as I am. How do you actually hear the ancestors?”

- “I can’t hear the ancestors much. This is not like Utral Aymokriyä, but I can talk to Eywa and Eywa can hear me! You try it, take in your hand and feel!”

Jonas touches a vine: “I feel its a bit warm but thats it.”

Najat’s face cant hide her disappointment and removes her tendrils from the vine.

Jonas notices it: “I wish so much I could feel it!”

Najat knees down, looking directly into Jonas face: “Do you want to feel?”

Jonas nods as he attempts to touch her queue to study it: “I wish I would have this..”

Janat’s eyes are sparkeling as her face nears him. Jonas doesn’t wait long before he wraps his arms around Najat’s neck and kisses her intensely. Janat’s arms are wrapping Jonas’s torso as she almost lifts him up. Shortly later her fingers are softly moving over his back, to grope their way up to the neck.

Najat gently pulls herself back, Jonas shrugs. Then she grabs her queue again and moves it slowly up: “Do you want to feel me?”

[END OF PART 2.34]

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[PART 2.35]

Jonas eyes widen: “I already feel you, Najat...”

Najat smiles: “You can feel me much more than before.”

Jonas feels his heart beat: “I have no...”

Najat softly kisses his eyes: “Yes you have! Just no see it!”

Jonas fingers start to tremle: “Where... Wish to feel it!”

Najat looks at Jonas: “Really?!”

Jonas nods: “Yes, my Najat!”

Then Najat put her queue behind his neck, its tendrils start to wave into his neck’s direction. Seconds later they touch his skin. Najat and Jonas shrug and their eyes widen, before falling into a state of deep relaxation. One of Najat’s arms wrap Jonas: “Ma Jonas, I am one with you now. I feel you...”

Jonas heat beats faster, let him almost hyperventilate. Finally he starts to tremble on his whole body and Najat releases her tendrils off his neck. “Ma Jonas... you ok?!”

He breathes still fast as he looks into two worrysome eyes: “Yes, my Najat. I felt so much in that moment, never felt so much in my whole life. I felt you so close!”

Najat smiles: “We call this.. tsahaylu..."

“Can we do it again? I think I can control my body better now...”

Najat looks at him: “Really?!”

Jonas kisses her chin: “Yes!”

Najat moves again her tendrils towards his neck before they start to attach on it...
Jonas heart beats faster again but he attempts to control his breath as he hold his arms on Najat in a state of trance.

Najat kisses Jonas forehead: “We are mated, ma Jonas. Mated forever.”

Next day – 10:08AM – Human camp site

Norm and Max have completed their calculations after studied much into a subject which isn’t really theirs, but their fascination of doing the ‘biggest experiment of mankind and earth’ combined with their scientifical approach and methodology let them finally come up with a concept. Originally Trak’ah and no other na’vi wanted to volunteer to join as the second needed pilot but after a morning of persuading and convincing, they could win back Trak’ah’s support. Jake would like to – but since Neytiri picked up parts of Jake’s conversation with Mo’at last night, she has been retreating from virtually everything which made her daily life. Jake knows he can’t allow himself to be away from Neytiri now...

Trak’ah and the two scientists are bording the ship. Mo’at sends them their blessings and placing a handmade wooden artefact into Norms hands as a symbol to channel Eywa’s spirit during their ‘dangerous journey’ while some other Omaticaya gather around the ship. Najat and Jonas just had their breakfast and watch the scene from one of the shacks. Minutes later the ship soars off the ground, leaving nothing but a bit dust behind.
Neytiri and Jake are gone.

Mo’at looks up into the sky even the ship has already left Pandora’s athmosphere, appears like she sends up her thoughts to catch them up.
Wind kicks some dust on the glade, it hasn’t been raining for some days which is rather unusual for this area, at least according to the Omaticaya.

“I don’t know if I shall wish them to be successfull on this trip.” Says Jonas as he removes some dirt off his socks.
Najat looks at Jonas as he put back his shoe on his foot: “I understand them. If your home can be helped, it is good to try everything.”
Jonas didnt expect so much comprehension from Najat. His eyes meet hers: “Don’t you worry about what might happen with us if they succeed?”
Najat gently shakes her head: “I know your heart, your spirit, Jonas. I know won’t go.”
Jonas shrugs: “To just imagine to leave you and this world lets me freeze in pain. Even the whole thing works out and earth is back alive, what I honestly doubt it will ever be possible, I won’t even think about leaving here. But I would like to have a short trip there and see what earth looks like, with you of course!”
Najat tilts her head: “Me flying to your home?”
Jonas nods: “Yeah, I would love to show you one day! If.. I mean IF they can make it happen!”
Najat’s face turns serious: “I don’t know if it is good. If I go to your home, many skypeople are there, unsafe for me. I like to see your world but I worry. So many died on eywa’eveng.”

Jonas nods: “I am aware of that. But bear in mind that the earth will be likely entirely different to what we know now. I doubt it will be working, but I would certainly hope to see Eywa on our world.”

Najat lowers her head: “I will go with you, ma Jonas. But I hope.. so much... we live here forever.”

[END OF PART 2.36]

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[PART 2.37]

*** SPACE ***

The Alpha Centauri System lies far behind the ship. Only the two brightest stars of the system can be seen, still slightly brighter than the surrounding stars of neighbouring solar systems.
“Still two hours 20 minutes to go until we reach Epsilon Eridiani.” notes Norm as he keeps monitoring the 3D map on the bridge, indicating the calculated trajectory of the ship between the star systems.
Max is gazing at the front screen before his eyes switch back to the 3D map, indicating around a third of the distance already travelled: “This ship is freaky, Norm!”
Norm nods enthusiastically: “This ship ... is thousands of years more advanced than anything we have on earth. I would wonder if humans could ever make it so far to engineer something like this.”

Trak'ah is nervously moving on his seat before he leans back and sighs.
"Trak'ah..?" Norm notices something is wrong there: "... anything up?"

The na'vi hunter looks into Norms eyes: "I think about the stones coming to eywa'eveng"
Norm's raises his eyebrows: (na'vi) "What do you exactly mean?"

Trak'ah: (na'vi) "It helps you speak the peoples language much! I have noted something approaching our home when we left it. Still far fast but slowing down. You didn't read it?"

Norm shakes his head: (na'vi) "No! Definitely not! I was busy on transmitting the right coordinates to the ship and I think you were misinterpreting the ships sensors. There're no asteorid movements near eywa's child and the RDA skypeople's ship is on the way to their home. So dont worry!"

Trak'ah nods but looks still sceptical.

Max looks at Trak’ah: “So, you’re ve been the na’vi one of the pilots?”

Trak’ah’s eyes are focussed on the front screen: “Before Jake flies, now I fly.”

Max grins: “What a short and precise answer!”

“What do you expect from a warrior!” says Norm as he checks the bioneural interface between the handheld computer and the ship: “I wonder why Mrak’tuh didnt want to get the job. Actually he’s supposed to be the type of person who would love it.”

Max shrugs: “I though so, too, but I guess we can’t put ourself as human beings as a standard to determine their own characteristics.”

Jonas laughs sardonically: “You wanna tell me about na’vi characteristics...”


***12:33PM somewhere in Pandoran jungle***

Jake and Neytiri can be seen sitting with their backs leaned on a trunk.
Neytiri’s hands rest on her belly as Jake has his arm wrapped aound her shoulder.
Silence prevail among them before two fan lizards peacefully swirl over their heads.
“Look at them,..” starts Jake “... how they fly together in harmony and peace...”

Neytiri takes a brief glimpse of them, before her eyes return to somwehere of nowhere at the surrounding green void: “They are not mated, just random fly..!”

Jake’s fingers start to massage Neytiri’s shoulder.

“Don’t judge me of things I haven’t done, Neytiri.”

- “You want to do it! You don’t care about what is with me.”
“Please don’t say that anymore, am getting headache. This is my home and so are you. When Norm is back, I want details from him to convince me that ... we cant get seperated.”

Neytiri looks at Jake with a stroppy face: “I am not stupid, Jake. You can tell me what you mean and what Norm tell you, ok! I know if change past, present and future will be changed!”

Jake rises his eybrows: “Ok, my fault. I wasn’t really expecting that you think about time and its effects when travelling trough it...” Jake is re-adjusting his sitting position: “... and how could a ****in’ marine, who knows almost nothing about it, expect that his princess from lightyears away knows about that stuff?!”

Neytiri turns her face to Jake’s: “You remember I was tought by Grace and two other?! And I can think by my own!”

Jake nods: “Alright. With all respect to Grace and god bless her... but she wasn’t a physicist.”

Neytiri’s ears are flattening: “Norm is also no physicist! Wuuaaaarrrhh ”

Jake’s eyes widening: “Easy, Neytiri! Ok? Easy. You’re right. But you may haven’t notice
Max and especially Norm kept studying diligently in their lil cave.”

“No teacher..” Neytiri replies annoyed.

“They don’t need a teacher since there’re petabytes of know-how of all sciences on the mainframe.. er.. calculating machine.”

“Computer!” shouts Neytiri as she attemps to get up, her face signed with anger. Jake swiftly pulls her back down to him: “Sorry but sometimes you really surprise me!”

Neytiri turns around and put her knees on Jake’s legs as he still sits, her face loaded with emotions: “If you would try to think and feel more, you would not be surprised so often!”

“Neytiri...” Jake wraps his arms around Neytiri’s neck and pull her towards him and start to kiss her. In the first seconds she struggles but then her resistance softens before she wraps her arms around Jake.

[END OF PART 2.37]

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[PART 2.38]


***EPSILON ERIDIANI SYSTEM***

The ship zooms in, coming from the black void of space as it nears Epsilon Eridiani, as it can be seen shining in a warm orange light. Its light is diffuse, partly because of the surrounding dusty disc, in which planets are still forming. But instead of flying into the disc, the vessel banks to the right, while deaccelerating.
“There we go.. the micro singularity which provides us the swing now!” notes Norm nervously.
Max focusses his eyes on the 3D map which now magnifies the section around the ship’s present position “Lets rock ‘n’ roll!”
Norm looks to Trak’ah: “You know what to do? Remember what we have planned on the way here...”
Trak’ah looks at Norm and nods: “I know the way.”
“Ok..” murmurs Norm as he re-connects his handheld device with the ship.
“I wonder how will it feel like, circeling around a black hole and then through a sun’s corona... am tremeling!” says Max as he leans himself deep into his seat.
“No one knows..” replies Norm as his face turns fully concentrated: “we’re writing human history already with this experiment, right today and now. Well.. Trak’ah, I am ready, are you?”
Trak’ah nods.
Norm: “Pattern alpha 3-2-9 closing into the micro singularity.. now...!”
The floating ball on the bridge lights up as the ship accelerates into the black void of space right in front of them.


***2:33PM - Orbit of moon Pandora, Alpha Centauri System***

Two big earth vessels are seen sweeping in as they have just entered a medium orbit around Pandora. One has a big RDA logo on its sides next to its name: USS INDEPENDENCE. Some kilometers below it the USS VENTURE STAR can be seen high above the green-white surface of Pandora.

A grey haired man in a general’s uniform is seen on the bridge of the USS Independence as he stares at the big LED screen on a round console in front of him.
“Please inform me once the ship is in stable orbit, Captain Garreth.”
The captain next to him scans briefly one of the screens in front of his seat: “We’re in at a stable 450clicks, ready to deploy the terraforming device. Waiting for your order, General Keller!”
“Sounds good. I’ll call Tappers to get RDA approvement to go to next stage.”

A dark haired and slim woman in her early fourties raises from her seat next to the captains: “I will formally protest and resign off my position as commander of this ship if you really launch the device!”

“Back to your station, Cmd Shanali!” yells Garreth. “We ‘re not getting paid for protesting. Remember our directive.”

Shanali keeps standing: “No one on earth knows that we’re misusing a device on Pandora which has been developed for terraforming Ekleus. That’s a clear breach of the UN directive!”

Garreth slams his hand on the console in front of him: “You know what happened down there, they blew off our entire base and the mining field, causing our employer a hefty loss. Selfrige tried to get in twice by conventional means and the price he paid is his life. We have no other way than using the transforming device to get back to Pandora and the solution to our energy crisis, which already lasts for one and a half centuries! So, last warning. Back to your station, commander!”

The slide-door towards the bridge opens, a civilian middle aged male enters, wearing a grey office slacks and a white shirt with a grey-striped tie: “General. Got clearance for you to engage. Maybridge reports system is ready to go online.

The general nods and turns himself toward the bridge: “You heard it, launch plattform one to three in a sequence of 10 secs each! And let security remove the commander off the bridge.”

Shanali steps into the center of the bridge: “Listen everyone, we are about to kill a whole ecosystem and thousands if not millions of intelligent lifes! Thats insane!”

The two navigators and serviceman looks confused back to the general as two dark clothed security guys rush on the bridge.

“Thats not a global assault, just a diameter 1200 clicks around hellgate will be effected. Get her off the bridge!” barks Garreth.

One of the servicemen in front of the bridge turns back: “Sir, we got viper one on the way, impact in 28 seconds.”


One of the two navigators is turning to his co-worker next to her: “How can that terraforming device actually harm Pandora?” she whispers.
The relatively young male looks at her: “I heard they modified it on the refuel station behind Polyphemus after the Ventura Star arrived back from Pandora. It’s an expanding gas-mixture which reacts with Pandora’s athmosphere, causing a big blast.”

The blond haired woman lowers her head: “I didn’t know how terribly cruel mankind can be... I bet it has a global effect!”

“No. As far as I know after it has mixed up sufficiently with the local athmosphere under high pressure and temperature, it’ll deflagrate – but a huga area prolly as big as central america will be .. well, gone.”

“I must leave the bridge, can’t watch this!” says the female navigator and leaves her seat.

“Viper two has launched!” says the serviceman in front of them.

[END OF PART 2.38]

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remark: there has been a scene added on part 2.37 (space).

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[PART 2.39]

***2:49PM – Near Omaticaya Hometree / Pandora***

Neytiri and Jake are sitting high up one of the branches of the mighty tree, unveiling a spectacular view of the surrounding jungle.
Jake sits behind Neytiri, his arms wrapped around her belly.
“Ma Jake, I feel you so close and I feel our child..!”
-“I feel you two, too... although the little one of you is so tiny I can’t feel with my hand! And am glad you finally believe me that I will never leave you too!” Jake laughs.

Suddenly Neytiri looks up into the sky: “Jake. Something comes!”

Jake looks up but cant see anything unusual until a flashlight pops up for a second.

He immediately grabs Neytiri’s arm: “We gotta get down, looks like an asteoroid just hit us!! Quick!”

Neytiri rushs up like a leopard before both are jumping down to a lower branch which leads to the coiling internal branch of the tree. Another flashlight lights up the already bright afternoon sky. As Jake takes a glimpse of the sky, his eyes widen: “Ruuuun, Neytiri!”
Meanwhile from everywhere screams can be heard.
The few puffy clouds are dissappearing, before a light shockwave rocks the area, sending some leafs down the massive tree.

Seconds later the ground starts to shake like it would in case of an earthquake.
Chaos emerges around the hometree as everyone runs around helplessly. Mo’at fearfilled eyes gaze into the sky, which turns from blue more and more into yellow.

Seconds later a massive shockwave hits the hometree and everything around. Massive branches and virtually all leafs are torn off the tree in a fragment of a second. Bodies are flying around like dust in a sandstorm. Jake looses ground contact to the coiling branch as the tree starts to collapse, Neytiri grabs his arm to keep him up but looses balance on her own and fall free almost hundred meters before getting squashed by the bursting massive trunk.

Moments later another massive shockwave, followed by a giant firewall engulfes the area. Neytiri and Jake don’t feel it anymore, neither does it anyone else of the Omaticaya.

***View from space*** a huge circular and orange-brown spot is seen as it slowly expands on Pandora, already covering around one fift of the visible surface.
“Sir, I’m glad to officially announce that all hostiles on Pandora have been eliminated!” says triumphant Cpt. Garreth.

Gen. Keller studies the screens in front of him: “Well done, everyone. Hope their ship which had assaulted our bases on Ekleus has been disabled as well.”

Cpt. Garreth steps over towards Keller: “Sir general, I’m not sure about this, since we haven’t been able to track its location down there!”

“We don’t have to worry about that...” intervenes Tappers: “there were no more hostile activities on or around Ekleus according to the newest transmissions from there – and there’s also nothing in Pandora’s orbit besides us. And if its somewhere on the planet..I guess no one could fly it, if it still could fly!” he laughs turns around towards the exit door: “Keller, Garreth, please get me informed once our landing unites are cleared to go.”

“It’ll still take some days, Mr. Tappers.” says Garreth: “...although the effect on its athmosphere has slackened, fires will rage there for a while... with mean temperaturs of about 1000 degree centigrade and thats over thousands of square clicks. Plus the resulting fall-out of the ash. So please give it some more days until its getting safer, Sir.”


*** Days later - Some hundred kilometers from the place, where once the Omaticaya had lived***

A wide dessert stretches up to the horizon, the sky is reddish-brown and dusty. The sandy ground is littered with pieces of charred objects, here and there a burnt out stub can be seen. Wind blows dust, while the sun is slightly gleaming from the dusty sky, the heat is still immense.

Eywa is dead - and so is almost every na’vi and every mammal. Pandora has been killed.

[END OFPART 2.39]

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[PART 2.40]


***21.08.2109 – Epsilon Eridiani System***

The ship comes to a stop and floats uncontrolled through open space, faintly lighted by the relative distant orange sun behind the dusty disc of forming planets.

Norm’s eyes open. He manages to raise his head and looks around. Trak’ah stands right in front of him: “Good you wake, Norm. What was this?” he asks.

Norm shakes the head: “I don’t know exactly but I guess it worked! Had you been knocked out, too?”

Trak’ah nods and points at Max, who starts to move.

“Get up, Max!” orders Norm impatiently.

Max stretches and his eyes widen: “Where.. where are we?”

“The question is WHEN!” says Norm as he studies his handheld device.

Max gets out of his seat and walks toward the big front screen: “Geez, imagine that here ‘re just planets forming while neighbouring stars have already been breeding advanced life. Sheesh..”
“Damn!” barks Norm suddenly: “It didnt work as we wanted, we travelled... 46 years back instead of the planned 10! God..!!”

Max sighs, but then his eyes widens: “Wow...early 22th century.. I’m not even born yet! By the way how can you determine the time here, since we ‘re out of reach of any atomic clock?”

Norm grins: “The exact position of the stars are revealing the time. And that can be computed even into the future...!”

Max looks at the front screen: “Well, then we have to finetune our calculations to hop more precisely, since we have to be precise later..!”

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***21.12.2012 – Space – Epsilon Eridiani System***

Norms eyes open... as it’s a routine he immedietely checks his handheld computer.
As he studies it, a bright smile appears below his thick full beard.
He sinks to his knees and folds his hands, his head up: “Yeeeaaaaayyyyy!! It works!!”

“Wo..wah..wow!” murmurs Max as he stares at the handheld device to convince himself: “After that long time I already thought we’ll never be able to determine the exact time or even get back into our own time..!”
“We ‘re clear to head back to Pandora now! Our time..!”
Trak’ah bends down to Norm: “Can I touch?”
Norm looks confused up to Trak’ah: “What?”
“Your fur. It get longer each day!”
Norm raises his eyebrows: “Don’t have a shaver here, neither has Max, so yes, we get a beard after a while. You call it ‘fur’.”

Max take his seat and leans back: “So thats why I suppose we should arrive there a few days after we left. To not shock everyone as it appears to them our beards have been grown within hours otherwise!”

Norm nods: “Fully agreed. I can’t await to be back home! Wish to get into my avatar, I miss the jungle and the air there so much and I hope the blue myself has been recovered sufficiently meanwhile!”

Trak’ah smiles: “Now.. going to eywa’eveng..!”

“First we have to get back into our time!” says Max, a grinning on his face.

Moments later the ship zips away.



***29.09.2154 - 6:32AM - Alpha Centauri System***

“I already see Pandora!” cheers Norm on his seat as the ship further deaccelerates.
Trak’ah stares at the front screen: “Kelkuuu...”

“Okay, lets go straight down to our camp site.” Says Norm as they swing into a high orbit around Pandora to slow down to the necessary inner-athmospheric speed.

Trak’ah (na’vi) “Norm, the objects are there again! Close now..much closer!”

Norm looks at the screen: “Can’t see yet anything but....” his eyes suddenly widen: “oh my god! Oh shhh....! Two RDA interstellar vessels are in low orbit!”
Max facepalms: “How is that possible?!”
“They obviously came back much earlier then anyone expected!” yells Norm

Max gazes at the screen, which starts to unveil details of Pandora’s now rather brownish surface and low athmosphere: “Check the time, Norm, there MUST be something wrong!”

“Negative, Max! Nothing’s wrong! Its eactly 6 days after we left! Look at the planet!”

Trak’ah jumps out of his seat and stares at the screen with a horrified face.

“Trak’ah, you gotta get back to your seat! If you re disconnected we ‘re out of control!” yells Norm in panic.

“Trak’ah!” shouts Max.

Max grabs the handheld still connected to the ship and wildly types on it. Then he drops it while he sinks back into his seat: “Norm..” he whispers “There are no human.. and no na’vi lifesigns down there... nothing, not on whole Pandora..!”

Norm rubs his face and bend himself over: “I feel dizzy, I think am passing out..!”

Trak’ah bursts out in emotion and rage as the ship continues to plunge towards Pandora uncontrolled.

Max rushs toward Trak’ah, tries to move him back to his seat but the tall na’vi pushs him away with ease. “Trak’ah, we‘re dying if you dont get back to the seat!” screams Max.


“Got missile readings!!” yells Norm “Three.. no! Four missiles are on our way!”

“Brace for impact!” screams Max as he goes flat on the floor while the ship enters the athmosphere.

[END OF PART 2.40]

['upxare]

[PART 2.41]


Trak’ah gazes at the front screen as he sees the ship’s zooming through some thin layers of dustclouds. Then he rushs back to his seat. Within seconds the ship stabilizes his trajectory and pulls slowly up. Suddenly the ship shakes slightly while Max keeps lying on the floor, preparing himself for the worst.
Moments later the ship moves upwards, breaking through the haze into deep blue sky, turning black within seconds.

Norm: (na’vi) “We gotta go on full speed, Trak’ah! And back to Eplsilon Eridiani! We must prevent this... gotta get there earlier!”

The vessel rockets out of Pandora’s orbit and disappears in the blackness of space.

Max still lies flat on the floor in front of the two pilots as he cautiously raises his head: “We didn’t impact?!”

Norm looks annoyed: “Come’n get up!”

Max manages to get back to his seat: “Before I was amazed about the ships velocity, now I wish it could fly even faster..!”

- “You’re kidding, Max! What would we do if we were on a RDA ship..? That would be 18 years from here.. and back!”

Max stares at the front screen, showing nothing but the blackness of space and distant stars: “Then we would be ****ed... not even able to warp through time and space... OK so what date we’re going to jump in?”

- “We arrived six days after we left Pandora and it was completely desserted. So I assume they arrived just some hours after we left and started to drop nukes or whatever caused this kind of destruction. You’d seen its athmosphere from space...”

“Nukes are strictly forbidden by UN directives, Max. But yeah, whatever they used has killed almost the entire planet.”

Norm’s eyes are filling with tears but he tries to blanket them: “To imagine how Jake, Jonas, Neytiri and all the others died,... it just let me feel incredibly sad and bitter. We must make it unhappen, or I’m gonna kill myself.”

“We will make it unhappen, Norm, whatever it may cost...”

[...]

***23.09.2154 – Space – Alpha Centauri System***

“Faster... cant this ship get faster?!” complains Max as the ship is heading toward a bright star, next to one which shines much fainter.
Trak’ah stares expectantly at the screen, hoping to see his world soon, as he remembers it.
“I can’t await to be there and act, too...” says Norm “..but dont yell so much, we ‘re almost there. And then the toughest part of the mission just begins..!”

Max nods: “Oh yes... Trak’ah has to convince them that it’s better to get evacuated than burning in flames...”

Norm grins: “Anyway, I already feel much better since we re back to this day.”

Max turns his face to Norm: “Because you know it hasn’t happen yet?”

Norm nods: “Yep. Because I know everyone is still alive and there. After we left Pandora a few hour ago, better said, 6 days into the future, I somewhat felt an extreme emptiness. Horrible..! Don’t want to think about it anymore!”

“I see it! I SEE it!” cheers Max as the ship drops to sub light-speed.

Trak’ah can be seen smiling the first time for days, as the green-white lushy moon fills the lower edge of the front screen.

Norms face suddenly turns serious: (na’vi) “Trak’ah, can you sense anything coming in?”

The anxious na’vi nods: (na’vi) “Two are coming, you don’t see?”

Norm concentrates as he closes his eyes: “Can’t sense or feel nor view anything. Damn. Gotta downlink his readings...” murmurs Norm.

Max’s face turns fearful: “Shall we engage the incoming fleet?”

“No.” Promts Norm: “We cant and we shouldn’t risk to get involved. Not even this ship can withstand thermonuclear blasts. We have to evacuate all Omaticaya now!”

“Wow.. they’ll be glad to leave their home...” mutters Max.

Norm looks at Trak’ah: “He has seen everything, they WILL believe him. We got max 2 hours before they come. The ships are next to Polyphemus and heading straight here, got all data on my handheld.”

“I will try...” says Trak’ah as the ship dives through the puffy pandorian clouds.

“Look how green and beautiful this world is. We’re getting the Omaticaya on bord now and change the time...” Norm sounds determined as the Omaticaya hometree and the nearby glade appears on the front screen.

[END OF PART 2.41]

['upxare]

[PART 2.42]

The wind is blowing some dry leafes over the ground as Jake is just about to move a massive stone-bowl back toward the pit of the hometree.
A young na’vi boy is rushing in: (na’vi) “The skything is back! It’s back and they look different!”
Jake turns around, his face and chest drenched by his sweat: “They look different?”
The boy falls in his mothers arms, as she notices Jake’s glimpse at her boy.

Jake smiles embarrased: (na’vi) “I thinking your child goes and talk to me”

The slender na’vi female moves her ears as she tries to decipher Jake’s message: “Dear clan leader, Paru’uk, my son said the starship has arrived, you may take a look?!”

Jake stands up: (na’vi) “Yes.. thank you, I look there.”
“Damn, Neytiri, where are you when I need you...” he murmurs and walks towards the glade, followed by dozens of na’vi.

Moments later he stands in front of the ship, the entrygate has been dematerialized and he sees Norm and Max, behind them Trak’ah. Jake’s eyes widen.

“Welcome back, guys... you had been barely two hours away but you don’t appear so..! Whats up?!”

Norm looks over at Jake: “Long story, we had been to the past and future, to make it short and simple, it works and we know what will happen in two hours from now. We have to evacuate NOW!”

Jake steps closer, his head shakes: “Woh woh wooo... hold on guys. WHAT will happen?”

“In about two hours, two interstellar RDA ships will appear around Pandora and start a massive planetary bombardment up from space. We have seen this world a few days after. It’s destroyed beyond recognition! No life, nothing! RDA is going to retake Pandora with all means!” explains Norm with a tensioned face. “We must leave!” he adds.

Jake takes a deep breath, his face in shock: “Damn... I had expected we got more time for this. Damn.. damn.. how to...convince everyone?! What about the ship here, it should be able to take those RDA vessels down with ease!”

Max waves his hand in rejection: “No, their ships have weapons which appears like being able to create a thermonuclear reaction. Even our ship wouldn’t be able to handle it, since it has no shields or we havent found out how to deploy them!”

Norm shakes his head: “I dont think it has. This ship isnt actually designed for combat. Its a ship designed to deliver a message of unity and peace...now guys...we gotta get on this ship!”

Max’s head turns over to Trak’ah “Trak’ah..tell them in na’vi the urgency. Tell what you had seen and that we have to leave!”

Trak’ah looks at Max and nods silently before he turns toward the crowd and starts to explain what happened.
“Oh and let them know if we all stay on this a while and do a small .. mission, we will be back at Pandora soon and RDA wont exist anymore!”

Jake turns around and rushs away: “I’ll be back, gotta find Mo’at and Neytiri!”

The more Trak’ah tells, the more panic and turmoil emerges among the crowd. Some warriors picking up their bows and wield them around, making sounds - like warsongs.
(na’vi) “What sibeling are they if they come to kill Eywa’s child?” shouts someone within the crowd.
Warsounds emerges as Norm rubs his hand on his face: “We better get in, Max, its getting out of control...”
(na’vi) “Maybe we have to raise again the bow and plead for the last shadow!” shouts another one.

(na’vi) “THIS IS OUR LAND!” – its Jake shouting with a powerful voice, let the crowd become silent almost instantly as they turn over toward him, next to him Mo’at and Neytiri.

Jake raises his hands: (na’vi) “We will change time forever, then sky warrior will wiped away forever!”
Trak’ah jumps in: (na’vi) “We get on bord this starship together as we together can change the time and reality, so the sky warriors will never come to our land, never kill eywa’s child!”

Then he raises his bow into the air, bursting out war-like sounds. Some of the crowds heads turn to Jake, as he follows Trak’ah victorious gesture. Mo’at nods, signalizing her and eywa’s permission. Moments later more and more warriors raise their bows, joining the war sounds until the whole crowd clamors.

[END OF PART 2.42]