I don't own Avatar, I wish I did but unfortunately I don't.

It's Just orders

Chapter 2

"So soldier how are you feeling today?"

"Like I got hit in the head with a two by four, Oh wait I did!"

I'm currently laying on the bunk in a security cell at Hells Gate, I have a splitting headache and I keep getting pestered by this annoying flight coordinator, well at least she's cute.

"uh oh looks like your memory is messed up maybe I should go get the doctors." She teased.

"Sandy, Just give me my pills and breakfast please, I'm not in the mood."

"Its been three days and your head still hurts?" Sandy asked as she handed the tray through the slot.

"Docs say that the headache will go away in a few days, have they figured out what to do with me yet?" I take the tray and start to eat.

The blow to the head that I received knocked me unconscious for the last week and a half. By the time I woke up the Na'vi had taken Hells gate and forced most of the humans onto the venture star for the return trip to earth. But not me, The doctors were worried about putting me into cryostasis with a head injury, something about possible mental retardation, huh guess I can get stupider after all, so I got left behind.

I'm not the only military personnel still here though. There are 20-some soldiers that were allowed to stay as well. They were some of the soldiers left behind to guard hells gate during the attack on the tree of souls. They were specifically left behind because they expressed sympathy toward the Na'vi and therefore were too "untrustworthy" to use in the main fight. Kinda stupid of him, since as soon as word of the our loss at the battle arrived, they armed the scientists and avatar drivers and took hells gate without a shot.

"Actually yeah, they figured something out last night." She says as she pulls a chair up to the glass.

"So what is it?" I lean forward.

"Its a surprise"

I drop back onto the bunk "Surprises always seem to turn out badly for me, so when do I find out whats going on?"

"As soon as your finished eating I'm supposed to take you to norm at the landing pad. He'll tell you what your going to be doing"

"Ahh so it's going to be forced labor."

"Crap! I gotta be more careful with what I say around you don't I"

I grin "Well I'm finished, lets go" I say as I stand up "At least the legs mostly better"

As we walk down the hallway to the main exit to the landing pad I noticed how empty the building seem without all the troops, techs, mechanics, and other assorted personnel that went home.

"Looks kinda creepy being so empty"

"Yeah it does, we've started shutting down portions of the base to conserve energy. At least with the reduction in people we have a large supply of consumables" Sandy says as we turn down another hall.

"I never even thought about food, how much do you have?"

"About two years if we are careful, luckily we have experiments going in growing earth food in pandoran soil, they grow well in the soil but not the air, so we are building greenhouses, and were also hoping to get supplies from the other ships"

"Other ships?"

"Yeah, don't you remember how regular the supply runs are here?"

"I thought that they would be sent back to earth"

"they would be, if they were awake to receive a message, but with everyone in cry for the majority of the trip..."

"Then they would arrive here with no idea whats going on." I nod my head "I get it now."

Just then we arrived at the airlock and Sandy handed me an exopack. "well your norms problem for now, see ya later soldier."

I walk through the airlock and see norm in his avatar on the other side of the pad.

"I thought that you got shot" I ask as I walk over to him.

"I did, but the Na'vi heal faster then Humans do, It's because they have certain amino acids"

"Whoa there doc, I don't speak mumbo-jumbo. I just shoot people and move large boxes. So what am I going to be doing? Mining? Scrubbing the floors? The chicken dance?"

"None of the above, you are going to be working to help the Na'vi get back on there feet."

"What, why?"

"Since your the last one left on planet that fought in the battle, we left your punishment up to the the Na'vi, and they decided to put you to work. Ahh here's your guard and translator now"

I turn around and see a strangely familiar female Na'vi riding up on a pali.

"Ahh Crap."

Well tell me what you think please.