Chapter One:

The Na'vi's request

Captain Terri Zajac looked out at the jungle moon of Pandora that loomed outside her ready room window. It had been nearly 200 years since the human race had committed terrible atrocities against the native people of the moon that the scientists had called the Na'vi.

After the humans of the mid 22nd century had wreaked the planet and the Na'vi's home, the Na'vi had severed ties with Earth until just recently.

Terri's ship, the USS Enterprise, Registry number NCC 1701-K, was now in standard orbit around the moon because Starfleet had been trying for the last 10 years to warn the Na'Vi about an impending Borg attack. Now just six months ago, the Na'vi agreed to a meeting with certain stipulations. They had reviewed the information on the borg and requested Terri specifically because of her history with them. Their other conditions was that she had to come with no technology and she had to come as what they called Dream-walker. The scientists that had encountered the Na'vi first had walked among them using a technology called Avatars. The essentially used a combination of human and Na'vi DNA to create Na'vi like creatures that could be controlled by Human "Pilots" using a device called "The Link."

Her Chief medical officer, Doctor Jonathan O'Neill, had been studying the technology for the last few months and had created an Avatar with enough of her features that the Na'vi would recognize her. He improved the link so it would work on a long term basis and it would interface with her Borg regeneration alcove. She was supposed to meet with the head of the Omaticaya tribe in the morning to discuss about the Borg threat.

Ever since her husband died 2 years ago Terri had dedicated her life to stopping the Borg's advances in the Alpha Quadrent. Which meant protecting the Na'vi, no matter the cost. If the Borg assimilated the Na'vi's knowlage of interconnected life and their advanced physical abilities then they would be an unstoppable force. That.. Terri could not allow.

Her communications badge went off and she heaved a sigh before tapping it. "Zajac here."

"We're ready for the test run." Jack said over the comm.

"I'll be right down, Jack.." Terri whispered.

"You alright?"

"Just thinking..."

"About Will?"

Terri remained silent for a minute before saying something. "I'm on my way."

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Every time Terri walked into sickbay the last few months Terri was taken aback by the large blue tank that held her Avatar. The creature that would hold her consciousness during her meetings with the Na'vi. It was even more of a shock seeing the creature out of the tank laying with its feet hanging off the biobed next to her regeneration alcove. She walked up to the creature and laughed as she saw it's appearance. It had red hair which was an unusual hair color for the Na'vi, and there were blue markings that exactly mimicked her Klingon brow ridges.

"Red hair is a bit much, isn't it?" Terri asked as Jack scanned the Avatar.

"The Omaticaya's chief actually requested that bit. " Jack said. "He liked the color and wondered what it would look like with their skin tone."

Terri looked at the blue skin tone of the Avatar and smiled. "It's definitely different."

"I wish you would let me go with you." Jack said.

"I'll be fine, Jack, if anything happens to the Avatar I will disconnect." Terri said.

"I hope you know what you are doing."