Because the prologue was just a short little snippet, and really did nothing but tell you Kat used to have sex with Jake, I'm posting the first chapter now. Don't own Avatar, yada yada yada, y'all get it.
Onward!

Kat woke to a crazed beeping in her ears and a floating ball of drool suspended in front of her nose. Not exactly how a girl wants to start her six year term on a foreign planet. Not exactly how a girl wanted to start an anything anywhere, really.

One of the many nurses was already floating above Kat when her little cryo-coffin extended. He stationed himself by bracing his feet against the light while shinning his own penlight into Kat's eyes before floating to the next person. A groggy "Are we there yet?" came from the same direction the nurse disappeared to.

"We're here sunshine."

Undoing the straps keeping Kat from drifting away was a tad bit harder then she previously anticipated. Jake had to eventually come over to rescue her, and together they air-swam over to their lockers, alphabetically placed side by side.

Stone, K

Sully, T

"You have been in cryo for five years, nine months, and 22 days. You will be hungry and you will be weak. If you feel nauseous, please use the bags provided." The two friends chuckled at the announcement; there was no chance of an up-chucking from them, not with almost six years of an empty stomach. In reality, all Kat wanted to do was sleep. Inside the lockers was the afore promised sack, an overnight bag holding onto a change of clothes, a few granola bars, and a box of orange juice.

After a few small bites of her granola bar, Kat lost her appetite for dehydrated wheat, tossing what was left to Jake and retreating into one of the tiny alcoves transformed into changing rooms. Scrubs were not fun. Changing from scrubs to jeans in a tiny space with zero-gravity was even less fun. Eventually, Kat made it work, switched with Jake, and then enjoyed his muffled yelps while waiting for the boarding call. The starship had no windows, though the Valkyrie had two, one on each side. Unfortunately, when the call to board came there was such a mad rush it was difficult for Kat and Jake to stay together, let alone get a chance for either of them to sneak a peek at their new home.

Kat timed the shuttle entering Pandora's atmosphere at ten minutes before it leveled out to descend to the ground slowly. The perfect time for the assistant pilot to make his way down the aisles, screaming at everyone to put on exo-packs and yelling warnings about what happens without them. Unconscious in 20 seconds, dead in four minutes. He tacked on something about death not looking good on his report at the end, but was otherwise pretty much ignored.

The jolt from hitting dirt almost sent Kat flying into the floor. It probably would have helped if she had been strapped to the seat when the Valkyrie touched down, but her excitement was too much to handle sitting still.

"Harnesses off!" Kat was a bit ahead on that one. "Get your packs! Let's go, let's go! Directly to the base! Do not pass go! Do not collect $200!"

It was mayhem to get in line. When the ramp came down, Kat couldn't see past the back of the person she stood behind, her view blocked by all the bulging muscles. The humidity hit like a wave, a visible difference between the breathable human air and the air wafting in from Pandora. Some were bouncing on their toes, so eager to get out they were liable to explode any second.

"Go! Go! Go! Let's go!"

The line surged forward. This was it. This was Pandora. Earth at it's very beginning. This was…human destruction at its finest. Kat stopped dead at the end of the ramp, baffled at what lay before her. She came expecting forest and animals and green. Not concrete and gray, with trees barely seen in the hazy distance. She stood there, mouth wide open and fuming, until Jake came flying down the ramp. He slammed into the back of Kat's legs, the force of his momentum sending his friend crashing into his lap. "Jake!"

"Hey, you're the one who stopped, Kitty. Come on, we have a briefing to get to." They moved forward slowly, before Jake found his gait with the wheels. And the extra weight.

"Jaaake! I can walk! And your knees are boney!" Kat wiggled in his one armed embrace. Jake just chuckled, like the little bastard his is. Even one armed and distracted by moving, Kat was no match for the larger Marine. Finally, he loosened his hold enough Kat could break away and walk on her own; Right into the path of a giant metal man-suit.

"I thought you said you could walk."

"Shut up Jake."

The second thing to stop the two person march was a yellow dump truck, three times the size of ones on Earth, RDA printed on its side and arrows as long as Kat was tall protruding from the tires.

"Woo-hoo boys! Would you look at that. Meals on wheels."

"And one hot babe!"

"Hey baby! Why don't I show you how a real man gets it done?" Kat rolled her eyes at the stupidity. And here she hoped she had left idiots like that salivating back on Earth.

Jake seemed to have heard the three men as well, immediately bristling at the defense of his best friend. "What are you limp dicks staring at?" The two could feel their eyes as they entered the caged path leading to the door. Out of nowhere a black and blue riti, or stingbat, slammed into the 'wall'. It attacked with its red stinger, a stinger that was thankfully out of reach. One of the previous men pulled his gun and fired at the creature, three shots until it fell, hissing, then motionless.

"Why did you kill it?! It couldn't even reach us, you dimwit!" Kat screamed. The shooter couldn't be bothered to even spare the woman a glance at her outburst. He instead turned to Jake and leaned down to speak directly in his ear, "I've seen a lot of men leave in wheelchairs, but I've never seen one arrive."

"-kill you and eat your eyes for Jujubes." That sounded pleasant. Kat and Jake quickly found a spot at one of the many tables and tuned into the rest of the briefing. Or more accurately, Jake tuned in while Kat dosed off against his shoulder, blanking out somewhere around 'carbon fiber'.

Jake shook her awake after the briefing was over. They exited the cafeteria together, into the hallway. Kat decided to let Jake have the lead this time, since she had the habit of getting lost anywhere, even a bathroom once. That, and she didn't know where the hell they were supposed to go anyway.

"Jake! Hey Jake!" The two friends turned to see a gangly form forcing its way through the mass of bodies, trying to catch up. "You're Tom's brother right? You look just like him."

"Yeah, that's me." Jake held out his hand, "Jake Sully." The newcomer returned the shake.

"Norm Spellman. Hey Kat."

Kat nodded. "Norm. Long time, no see. It has been six years you know." Norm rolled his eyes and grinned at the sad attempt at humour.

"Kat, Tom, and I went through Avatar training together." The little group had now stopped in the middle of the hall. Looks of all kinds were shot at them as the people had to split one way or the other to make it through. "He was a great guy. Funny. It was…a shock…to all of us."

"Uh-huh."

Kat stiffened at the tense look on Jake's face, sure her own reflected the same image. Neither of them was comfortable with the way the conversation had turned. So she tried to stir it into clearer waters. "So Norm, because I'm sure you have the maps memorized by now…where are the Avatars?"

"You're right! Let's go check them out!"

"So this is the bio lab. Let's see…link room over here…"

The bio lab was a huge room, surrounded by glass and filled with machines. As Norm continued to talk, Kat followed the waving blue lines on the wall to a corner of the large room, where three large tanks standing side by side where holding three equally large beings. "Oh, Eywa," she whispered, awestruck by the floating forms. A dark haired, dark skinned, shorter man came up on one side of Kat, followed closely by Norm and Jake on her other.

"Welcome to Pandora." He held out a hand to each of them in turn to shake. "Good to have you. I'm Dr. Max Patel."

"Norm Spellman."

"Kat Stone."

"Jake Sully. Damn! They got big."

Max chuckled. "Yeah, they fully mature on the flight out."

"The Proprioceptive Sims seem to be working well." Norm commented. "They've got great muscle tone."

"Yeah," Max said. "Jake, that's yours over there. Kat, yours is pretty obvious." He got a backhanded slap for that comment.

Jake rolled over to the floating form, staring at the familiar face, eyebrows furrowed as if there was some puzzle to solve. "Looks just like Tommy." Kat dropped a hand on his shoulder and squeezed as Norm shook his head.

"No, it looks like you. It's your avatar now." Norm was trying to help, that much was obvious, but it was also obvious he had never dealt with death or how greatly it affected people. One more squeeze and then Kat turned to study her own avatar.

Her body was long and lean, tapering at the waist, only to flare out again at the hips, muscles visibly rippling under the skin. A blue tail curled around her leg and dark strips decorated her entire body. Full lips and a flattened nose, pointed ears and even though her eyes were still closed, Kat knew they would be bigger and rounder than her own. Her black hair was collected in a long braid to provide safety to her sensitive queue and gently floating in the ambotic-like fluid.

"Damn Kitty. You've been working out."

"Stop gawking, Jake."

"What? It's nothing I haven't seen before."

"My new body, my rules. Now shoo." Kat physically pushed Jake away, laughing as he rolled into Norm, who was still admiring his own avatar. The three newbies hung out for another hour or so, wondering the lab as each dictated their personal video logs. Jake was the least enthusiastic of the group, constantly complaining if the log was even necessary.

"Good observation is good science Jakey. Just a few more minutes and we'll go see the boss."

"I still think it's stupid."

"Well, I still think you're stupid." Jake stuck his tongue out at his best friend before turning back to the camera. She happily retaliated with the same gesture. Another ten minutes and Jake turned off the camera. All three followed Max into the link room next door. Even bigger than the bio lab, the link room contained multiple link units all lined up in a row surrounded all the very expensive equipment used to temporarily transfer the driver's minds.

One of the units to the left slowly opened, out popping a very disgruntled voice and a head of bright red hair. "Where is my goddamn cigarette?"

"And here she is! Cinderella, back from the ball." Max announced, leading everyone to the redhead. "Grace, this is Norm Spellman, Kat Stone, and Jake Sully."

"Norm, I hear good things about you. And Kat, our very own Zoologist. How's your Na'vi?"

"May the All Mother smile upon our first meeting." Norm said, touching three fingers to his forehead.

Kat repeated the gesture saying, "I see you, Dr. Augustine. Let Eywa grace us with her wisdom this day."

"Not bad. A little formal, but that'll pass."

"Grace?" Max squeezed in. "This is Jake Sully." Jake held out his hand for the introduction. If nothing else, manners were definitely drilled into his thick skull by his momma.

Grace glanced at the appendage and sighed. "I know who you are and I don't need you. I need your brother." Jake's hand dropped. "You know, the PhD who trained for three years to come here?"

He glared the scientist down, refusing to look away as he said, "He's dead. I know it's a big inconvenience for everyone, but I'm all you've got." Grace looked away first.

"How much lab training have you had?"

"I dissected a frog once."

Grace let out a near growl, snapping and throwing her arms in the air. Even with the anger mounting in her boss, Kat couldn't help but grin at Jake's comeback. Smartass

"See?! They're pissing on us without the decency of calling it rain. I'm going to Selfridge." The woman stormed out of the room, hell bent on giving hell. Kat was intensely glad it wasn't directed at her. Grace was scary.

Max watched helplessly as Grace disappeared around the corner before turned back to the new recruits. "0800 tomorrow. Use big words."