Foad U'Pad Displaced Person One I don't own LOK, or earn anything from this fiction. This story is rated M for adult language, adult themes, and possible sexual situations. I made some spelling, grammatical and format changes, if you read it, review it. It was a clear, dark and moonless night, my first solo shift as an armed guard at an explosive's storage facility on the outskirts of the Phoenix metro area, made even more so by a sudden and unexpected blackout. As I reached for the radio to call my supervisor I was blinded by an intense light. As I closed my eyes and brought my arm up to cover my face I felt myself falling, my stomach rising through my throat. Then as suddenly as it started I felt my feet on the ground and the light was gone. As I dropped my arm and opened my eyes to look around I found myself on the side of a gently rolling hill covered by a meadow of almost fluorescent purple flowers, scattered giant Moab trees surrounded by a glacier, a far cry from the Sonoran desert I was just in. As I looked around, slack jawed in amazement I could see nothing but the rolling hills around me, except an intense beam of green and yellow spiraling light rising straight up into the strangely cloudy, darkened sky. I fumbled for my radio trying to raise my supervisor, but all I got was silence. I then reached into my cargo pocket for my phablet and started to pull up his number, when I noticed that I had no bars on the screen. As I looked around for any sign of human habitation I noticed voices coming from over the crest of the hill, so I started towards them. Since I was beginning to get a little concerned about what was happening, I dropped to a high crawl as I neared the crest of the hill. When I peeked over the crest I saw the profile of two women, the shorter with the other's arm over her shoulder helping her walk into the beam of light. I backed down the hill and shifted about 10 meters and crawled back up to see where they went. As I stood up, running down the hill, circling the beam of light to see which way they went I couldn't spot them. I circled the beam in ever widening circles when it dawned on me that the beam must be a gateway of some type. I approached the beam from the side opposite from where I last saw them and stepped through. Feeling the same brief description sense of freefall and nausea as the first light I saw, when my eyes readjusted to the dimly lit scene of destruction surrounding the slight knoll in a crater filled with large roots snaking across it, the darkness masking some of the devastated buildings in the distance. It looked like the remains of Chernobyl 30 years on, a near total destruction of the urban landscape. As I looked around, I could hear voices from the other side of the beam of light. Still in shock at the surrounding devastation I stumbled around the beam to see two groups, one apparently unarmed made up of thirteen men, women and children, two of which were the ones I saw pass through the beam minutes earlier. The injured one was telling the other group, made up of five steam punk looking Gundam suits pointing their weapons at the unarmed group, to stand down. At this point the armored suits began to move out of the crater. The two women I saw earlier split up, with the injured one being placed in cuffs by two other women and escorted out of the crater. The remaining nine clustered around the short dark skinned woman with piercing blue eyes all speaking to her at once, when the youngest of the group pointed at me and asked "who's that guy?" At this they all looked at me, and Blue Eyes said "Yea, just who are you!" Lin and Su had just taken Kurvia away, when the rest of Team Avatar, Tenzin and his three eldest clustered around me to see if I was alright and what caused the Spirit Portal to open behind me. As Meelo hugged me around my knees he pointed to the newly opened Portal and loudly asked "Who's that guy?" As I looked at the Portal I saw strangely dressed man in a hat with a brim over his face, pale skin like an earth or fire nation citizen, but with a fire red moustache and goatee, dark blue open jacket with a wide fuzzy blue collar, grey shirt, some type of equipment belt and black puffy pants tucked in to short boots. I yelled up to him "Yea, just who are you?" He answered "Ummm Hartford Insurance Claims Adjuster?" I looked in confusion at the team around me to see if they knew what that was, when Asami yelled "He's getting away!" When I looked back he had turned to his right and was sprinting so fast he was almost out of the crater. TBC