A/N: This is my first Avatar fanfic and my second ever fanfic so please review and let me know what to improve on and what you think of this idea. Note that it was written at 1 o'clock in the morning so some of the grammer and spelling may be a little off. Thanks for reading and, again, please review. Healthy critisism is appreciated. I do not own Avatar but the characters are mine.

I awoke in a metal case and had no idea where I was until an orderly come and pulled the latch. I slowly floated out of the makeshift bed and into a large bay where many other disoriented people were emerging from the same kind of metal chamber. I remembered suddenly how we were en route to a distant planet called Pandora and how I was to be a member of the Avatar program that was being run there.

I pulled my long dirty blonde hair into a ponytail that fell to the middle of my back and slowly made my way towards a row of lockers. I found the one with my first initial and last name on it and opened it when a voice came over the loud speakers saying that newly awoken personnel should find the mess hall and get something to eat because we were about five hours from departure to a smaller ship and eventually to Pandora itself.

I pulled a spare set of clothes out of the locker and changed in to them. After I had on a pair of tan cargo jeans and a plain green tee-shirt, I found the mess hall and ate until I couldn't eat anymore.

I went back to the cryo bay and opened my locker again. I pulled out a book about the history of Pandora and the native population called the Na'vi. I found them to be completely fascinating; being ten feet and blue could have that effect of people. I lazily floated around the bay, reading my book and passing time until the shuttle came to pick us up.

As I made my way around the bay, I ran into some of my old friends. Sam, one of the new Avatar program scientists, was my best friend and somehow managed to secure a bedchamber in the main part of the ship so he didn't have to stay in the cryo bay.

"Hey Sam!!!" I called to him when I saw his bright red hair bobbing around the lockers.

"Is that Arial I hear?" he called from his floating position. I made my way towards him and gave him a big hug.

"You lucky sonofabitch, what are you doing in cryo?"

"Looking for you, actually. I wanted to tell you that I managed to get you an earlier flight to Pandora then you thought but you have to get your stuff together, like now."

"Cool, just give me two minutes. Where should I meet you?" I asked

"In the loading docks on the tail end of cryo, it's full gravity over there so be prepared." He bobbed off towards his chambers to get his things for the flight.

I cleaned out my locker and put it into a sack that I slung over my shoulder. It was fairly light because you didn't really get much time to yourself on Pandora. I floated over to the loading docks and waited for Sam to get his things. As soon as I passed through the door, all the weight came crashing down on me and I fell to my knees. As soon as I adjusted to the change, I stood back up and sat in one of the plastic chairs. Finally Sam came through the door and, just like me, fell to his knees with the change of weight.

"Wow, that's gonna be hard to get used to," he informed me.

"Yeah, I know. What time is this shuttle anyways?"

"Well, look." I turned my head towards the docking station and saw a team of pilots coming through the doors.

"Anyone on flight 103, please come with us," said a black haired pilot with a commanding tone.

"Is that us?" I whispered to Sam.

"Yes," he whispered back. We stood up and followed the group of pilots along with about forty other passengers who were on their way to Pandora.

"Well, here we go," Sam said to me as we passed through the doors and boarded the shuttle that would take us to our new life.

About eight hours after we woke up in cryo, or I did anyway, we landed on the very green planet of Pandora. We had to wear oxygen masks because the air was lethal to humans, but not to the Na'vi. The colonel that was in charge of passengers to and from Pandora was instructing us of where we needed to go and who to report to.

Apparently, Sam and I were to report to the head to the science department herself, that would be Doctor Wendy Sanders. I myself had never met her but Sam had told me all about her and how she can be a real bitch sometimes. But he also spoke about her with a sort of reverence that can't be rivaled by any child over their hero. He really admired her work and he said the only reason why she was such a bitch was because Major Alderson had her pulled out of the local Na'vi village, where she had bonded with many of the children and was teaching them our ways.

The local Na'vi tribe is called the Omaticaya clan and they live in a village that is located inside of a gigantic tree that is 325 meters tall and 122 meters wide. They call this the Hometree. I have read about all the different clans and tribes of Na'vi that live on Pandora but this is the closest one to the base that RDA has established.

RDA is the military operation that is running the Avatar program and they are looking for a new source of energy for earth. So far, the main thing that they have found is a little grey rock that is called Unobtanium. It apparently sells for a lot of money back home and they are hoping this will solve the energy crisis that has emerged.

I ponder this as we walk through the winding halls of the main base, Sam knows better than to annoy me when I'm in this kind of stupor so he just steers me and makes sure I don't walk into anything.

We eventually arrive at the main science office and all I can see are tanks that are filled with some kind of liquid and hold what look to be Na'vi people but they are actually our Avatars. I walk over to one of the tanks and see that inside is a Na'vi being that looks just like Sam.

"Hey Sam, come look at this," I call to him. He walks over and looks into the tank. "This must be your Avatar," I say.

"Wow, it looks just like me only huge and blue."

"Yeah," I say as he walks away to look into a different tank.

"This one must be yours," he says from a couple tanks over. I jog towards him and, sure enough, there is an Avatar inside the tank that looks like an exact replica of me. "Do you know how they do it?" Sam asks.

"What, make them look like us? No I don't."

"They take your DNA, that's what the blood sample was for, and they mix it in with some DNA of the natives."

"Wow, that sounds really complicated."

"Yeah, well they've informed me that our Avatars are almost ready so we should go to the link bay and get ourselves set up with the initial link.

"Okay, lets go."

A/N: Again thanks for reading and please review and let me know what you thought.