Disclaimer: I do NOT own Avatar: The Last Airbender. Only my OCs. Unless I introduce things from other franchises, THIS WILL BE THE ONLY DISCLAIMER IN THE STORY. All future Disclaimers, unless otherwise specified, will be a list of names. Names of people who tell me my story doesn't have a Disclaimer. Names of people who for some reason did not read the Disclaimer you are currently reading. Names of people who will be told to "Go to the Prologue and read the words below the chapter select box at the top of the page." Names of people who, if you are still reading this without being told, you will be able to laugh at their idiocy. If you are reading this because I messaged you to tell you to read this… (points at you) LOL!

Prologue: Preparations (Nothing is going to prepare my self-esteem [i.e. non-existent] for all the flames I might [i.e. will] get)

"Do I really want to give this thing a try?" a teenage boy asked himself. He was sitting in a small rolling office chair in his room, a desk in front of him. A laptop was running on it, a program already running with a box having the choices 'OK and 'Cancel' on it.

The teenager himself looked normal for a 16 year old with short brown hair and hazel colored eyes. He was wearing a graphic black t-shirt with the white silhouette of a large broadsword with two holes on the blade near the hilt, blue jeans with a black hoodie tied around his waist by the sleeves, and black sneakers. Around his neck going down past his collar was a necklace with what appeared to be a strange looking key attached to it.

Around a month and a half ago, he received a package in the mail saying that he had won a prototype of a universal transporter that could be run from a computer.

At the time, he didn't really care about it. Super Smash Brothers Brawl was not even three days away from being released and he had been waiting a long time to get it. He had his priorities, and some things had much greater precedence.

Anyways, that was a month and a half ago. Lots of things can happen in the span of a month. One thing that happened was this teenager had seen something on the Internet. It had excited him when he saw its existence, and after seeing it he was left speechless and nearly satisfied. The ending had something that left a bitter taste in his mouth so to speak. He wanted to change it somehow. But he knew that it was all just wishful thinking. There wasn't really any way he could go there…

And then he remembered that package he got.

He immediately found it to see if what it claimed to be wasn't a bunch of bullshit. It came with a DVD with the installation on it, as well as two small cellphone-like devices. Deciding to give it a shot, he setup the program on his laptop, reading the instruction manual it came with as it installed.

He learned quite a bit from it. He could go to anyplace he desired, whether it was real or not. He could make changes to himself, like better physical abilities, giving himself supernatural abilities, magical abilities, knowledge of martial arts. Hell he could change his species if he wanted to! Anything and everything he could think of, this thing could do to him. The only thing he had to keep in mind was that said changes would be, in big bold letters in the manual, PERMANENT.

So he just decided to give himself a few things that wouldn't be noticeable unless he was using said changes. He was going to come back from time to time to check up on his younger brother and sister and didn't want to freak them out with some radical change. Just some simple things that would allow him to hold his own in the universe he was going to right from the get-go. Maybe he could try to work on some other things when he found the time.

He wasn't just going to jump into the situation he wanted to change head first though. He wanted to work up to it. He wanted to feel an immense amount of satisfaction knowing that he earned the right to have a chance at changing it.

So he set up when and where the portal would take him and the two changes that would be done to him. He left a note letting his siblings know what he was doing and how to take care of themselves. He packed up a few changes in clothes, some basic toiletries, and his iPod, Nintendo DS, and PSP all into a backpack. Most importantly, he brought one of the cellphone-like devices that the instruction manual said would allow him to open a portal to return home. That thing was never leaving his person.

The program told him to connect a webcam so it could project a portal for him to enter. Once he connected it and positioned it to point where he wanted the portal to appear, the program asked him if he was ready to open the portal with the choices 'OK' and 'Cancel'. It was here he asked himself…

"Do I really want to give this thing a try?"

He didn't know how long he sat there thinking about it. Thinking about just what he was possibly getting himself into. All he did know was that he eventually clicked 'OK'.

The webcam started to project a blue portal. He could see inside was a cosmos like space with an opening to another place not far from him. Another world. He couldn't see a floor in the portal space, so he put a foot inside to test if he could walk in. Upon feeling there was a floor, he put more weight on his foot to see if said 'floor' would hold. It did. He stepped inside and started walking towards the other portal, looking around himself as he saw nothing but the cosmos like space wherever he looked.

Around halfway towards the other side, he heard the portal he entered close behind him. Once it fully closed, his whole body was wracked with pain, his head noticeably more so. After a few seconds of this, the pain slowly went away, leaving his body with a dull ache. He wondered what that was about when he realized that he knew how to use the fighting style he chose to know. So the soreness in the rest of his body must have meant the other thing he did to himself worked.

Now feeling that he was truly ready, he ran towards the opening to another world. A world filled with a select group of people that could bend the elements.

The world of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

AN: Did I upload the chapter just fine? I haven't done this before, so I don't know. I need to see it on the Fanfiction list to make sure. I wanna make sure it can be seen before I go to work and post the 2nd chapter when I get back. (If it takes awhile, there may be the possibility of a Disclaimer)