Sorry readers for the long wait. Got no good excuse but I seriously lost the idea of remembering to do this. So here's chapter 4
Chapter 4 – The Avatar Solution
A few days pass by as Quaritch begins to think of his battle plans for these… 'New' creatures that are running around in the forests outside the City. He re-watches the video clips from the helmet cams and examines them closer. Helen Augustine walks in and Quaritch looks up.
"Got anything new?"
Helen shakes her head.
"Still nothing. The computers…don't recognize a single trace of any of these animals. Even before the dinosaur age."
Quaritch sighs and rubs his face.
"Great. That's great. We…have a race of 'unknown' creatures running loose on MY Island. Great."
Helen sits down and thinks about the only solution to what these creatures are that are running around on the island.
"Well Quaritch…I did come up with one possible reason to what these creatures are."
Quaritch lowers his hand away from his face. Helen tells him her idea. Outside Quaritch's office, Jake comes up to the doors and suddenly hears Quaritch inside laughing. Jake walks in and sees Quaritch laughing his ass off.
"Sir?" Jake asks
Quaritch sees Jake walk in. He waves him over.
"Ah Jake! Come in, sit down. Augustine and I were just discussing what these screwed up creatures are. Well Augustine came up with the idea, I'm just thinking about it."
Jake comes up to Helen.
"Really? What's the idea?"
Helen almost says it but Quaritch spits it out first.
"Aliens!"
Jake looks back at Quaritch and he gets up. Jake looks at Helen who's rolling her eyes about how ridicules Quaritch is acting about the idea. Quaritch walks over to his bar and pours himself a shot.
"Aliens Augustine?" Jake asks
Helen rolls her eyes.
"It's the only thing I can come up with. There's no other possible reason."
Quaritch spins around and the ice in his cup chimes.
"Let me call the coast and tell them that we have a serious 'alien' problem."
Helen gets up.
"And it's not just the creatures I'll have you know."
Jake looks serious at Helen. Quaritch takes a sip from his glass and narrows his eyes.
"What?"
Helen sort of smiles and uploads the images on Quaritch's desk. Jake and Quaritch surround the desk and look at the images.
"After careful examination of the images off the helmet cams' looks hard at Quaritch and back, 'I looked at what the Soldiers were shooting at. It looks like a person."
Jake and Quaritch look closer and see it looks like something or someone.
"Looks human." Jake comments
"Not human. Alien probably." Quaritch comments and takes a sip of his drink
Helen flips her head up.
"I want to send another team out there and get some real footage. In the DAY probably where it's light out."
Quaritch shakes his head.
"Hell no. Wait; scratch that, HELL and NO WAY."
"We need to look further into this Quaritch. We're on a major discovery here."
Quaritch laughs.
"Yeah I know. Now we can put in the travel guide, free alien watch."
"We got to send a team in again" Helen instructs
"No Augustine."
"Sir, we have to." Jake says crossing his arms
Quaritch sighs.
"Fine. We'll send in another team. But this time. A.M.P. suits are going in this time. I don't want a dead team coming back."
"Quaritch, with all due respect here, I just want a team to go in there and take some good footage, not cause a graveyard out there."
"With all due respect Augustine, you need my permission to send out a team, and I get to send out MY teams anyway I want."
Helen rolls her eyes. Quaritch looks at Jake.
"Major, I want you to get a team together. A.M.P. suit only."
Jake salutes.
"Yes Sir."
Jake leaves. Helen grabs her things and follows Jake out. Quaritch sits down in his chair and puts a cigar in his mouth.
Down in the yard….
Jake assembles a team together putting the A.M.P. suits inside the ship deploying out. Helen walks through the crowd looking for Jake. She spins around and finds him.
"Jake! Jake!"
Jake turns around. Helen and Jake walk towards each other.
"You're really deploying the A.M.P. suits?"
Jake shrugs.
"I can't change the order by Quaritch. He wants the A.M.P. suits out, they go out. Besides, I agree with him on this."
Helen looks at Jake funny.
"Seriously?"
"Now we know what's out there."
"We don't know what's out there."
"Sort of Helen."
"Jake, in my line of work, 'sort of' doesn't go right anywhere."
Jake sort of smiles.
"Look, Helen. These Soldiers need to be protected by what's ever out there. Especially if there all in the A.M.P. suits."
"Still, these are creatures that we've never even scene. Especially the human looking ones."
"Will get more information when the A.M.P. suits start recording. In the mean time, I want you on the monitors examining what's going on."
Helen nods.
"Okay."
Helen heads back to the building. The ship takes off with the A.M.P. suits in the lower deck and deploys off at the exact same spot where the Samson was the same night.
Out in the forest…
The ship flies over the spot. The Soldiers get inside the A.M.P. suits and drop down below. The leader of the group waves his giant hand around and the other suits follow. The Soldiers walk through the forest carefully. Soldiers back at the base radio in to the team and ask if they've seen anything.
"Not a thing in sight Base. Still moving forward." Soldier says
"Copy that." Female Soldier says
Helen watches the monitors carefully. One of the Soldiers in the A.M.P. suit spots something on his radar.
"Something's moving. Something moving!"
The Soldiers arm their GAU-90 rifles in the direction to where the moving object is. They form a straight line. The Soldiers wait. Then suddenly, in the distance, a Hammerhead Titanothere rumbles past the trees. The Soldiers freak out on what to do. The leader just shouts out…
"Open fire!"
The Soldiers open fire against the stampede Hammerhead Titanothere. But their bullets just bounce off of them like rocks. They all see they can't take it down so they retreat. They split up into two groups, four and four. (There were eight A.M.P. suits by the way). As the Soldiers run through the forest trying to get away from whatever they were just shooting at, up in the trees, the Na'vi watch down as these giant machines run past them.
Four Soldiers stop and look back. One Soldier reloads his gun looking for another magazine on his body. Another Soldier just looks around wondering what the hell else is out here. Then all of a sudden, logs come swinging out around the trees and clash right into the A.M.P. suit Soldiers. The Soldiers are first shocked. Then they look to see it was just a log. Then suddenly, arrows start getting shot at them. One after another as they block their bodies with their giant hands.
"What the hell are we getting shot at with?" Soldier yells out
One shoulder spins his hand around and sees it's an arrow.
"There arrows!"
"Arrows?"
"Yeah! There fricken arrows!"
"Who the hell's shooting them!"
The Soldiers try to look around to where the arrows are coming from but there blocking them from getting to them. A Soldier jumps out of the area to where the arrows are hitting them and opens fire in another area.
"TAKE THIS!"
The Soldier aims aimlessly everywhere. Back in the monitor room, Helen rushes over to the radio to contact the Soldier shooting like an idiot.
"Hey! Hey! This is Helen Augustine! Cease fire you idiot! Cease fire!"
The Soldier ignores the order and continues firing. His gun empties on rounds and looks for a reload clip. A male warrior Na'vi up in the trees sees the machine not shooting anymore. He leaps off the tree and sticks himself right in front of the A.M.P. suit. The Soldier sees and screams. Everyone in the monitor room sees and screams. Helen looks closer and sees the blue humanoid person.
"Oh my…"
"GOD!" Soldier yells
The Soldier backs up and slips on a log. He falls backwards and lands hard on his back.
"Ah!"
The warrior punches at the glass to reach the Soldier. The Soldier grabs his Military handgun and aims it at the warrior. He shoots and the warrior jumps off. The Soldier breathes heavily wondering if he came close to a 'near death experience'. He whips his forehead. He relaxes it up a bit and suddenly the same warrior comes back and slams his Staff into the glass breaking it. The Soldier screams and throws the warrior off of him and pushes himself back up. The Soldier looks around and sees more Na'vi around the trees firing arrows at them. Helen is shocked to see aliens in the forests of the island. The Soldier spins around and runs for it. Helen rubs her hair back and thinks about what she just saw. Oh…
Back with the other four A.M.P. suit guys…
There huddled in a circle shooting away the Na'vi hiding in the trees.
"The trees! There in the trees!"
"SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!"
"Kill these things!"
The Na'vi wait for their chance to attack. All at the same time, the Soldiers run out of ammo. The Na'vi look and take their chance. They hop on Direhorses and ride toward the Soldiers. The Soldiers grab out their A.M.P. suit knifes. The warriors ride out fast passed the Soldiers shooting their arrows at them. The Na'vi get the Soldiers really good. One Soldier stomps on the ground so hard causes a warrior to fall of his Direhorse. He laughs about it and grabs hold of the warrior, by the leg. He yells in pain. The Soldier stares at him through the glass.
"What the hell are you?"
The warrior hisses hard at the Soldier. The Soldier laughs and suddenly a female warrior flies by on her Banshee. And from up on a high angle, she fires down with her arrows and crashes right through the glass and into the Soldier. He screams from the pain and he releases the warrior. He runs off. A Soldier sees the wounded Soldier kneeling down from the appearance from his A.M.P. suit. He grabs him and throws his 'robotic' arm over himself and the quartet leaves. And down further in the forest, they bump into the other four A.M.P. Soldiers and they flee back to the city. Back with the Na'vi, they all stand together, looking off in the distance at the battle they just fought…with the beings who also live on this island.
That night…
Quaritch stands against his large glass windows looking down at the damaged A.M.P. suit. He sighs slowly through his nose, recalling the reports from the Soldiers. 'There aliens!', 'There are aliens on this island!', 'There are seriously aliens here Sir'. Quaritch shuts his eyes. Jake knocks on the door and Quaritch looks back.
"Come in."
Jake enters and Quaritch looks back down through the glass.
"Sir, all the men are in the Medical Bay. The serious injured Soldier is being attended to."
Quaritch nods.
"Thanks Major. Keep me posted."
"Yes Sir." Jake says saluting
Jake leaves and heads to the elevator.
Down in the Medical Bay…
Helen looks at a blood sample she collected off one of the A.M.P. suits. She heard the aliens attacked so she hoped that one of the blood stains on the suits were off the aliens so she can examine it. She runs it through the computer and looks at it on the monitor. She sees the DNA of the alien blood and is stunned to see it in comparison with human DNA (Even though it looks a little different).
"Amazing. This is…absolutely amazing."
She types on the computer and fixes her glasses. Jake slowly opens the door and sees Helen in her 'studying' move. Jake sort of smiles and unbuttons his top shirt button.
"Working hard I see?"
Helen turns around and sees Jake. She smiles and looks back at the computer.
"Yes. Checking that I 'am' working?"
Jake sits down and smiles.
"It's my job but after today, I probably will be checking to make sure you are working."
"Well don't worry about me Jake. I'm doing my job."
Jake sighs.
"That you are Helen."
Helen turns around.
"What about you Jake?"
Jake narrows his eyes.
"How's Desmond?"
Jake sighs and leans back.
"I haven't seen him once all week. I've been here."
Helen realizes.
"Right."
"Besides, if I was there, he wouldn't talk to me anyway."
"Have you tried calling him?"
"Yeah, but no answer at the house or to him. He's either not answering or just avoiding me."
Helen looks back at the computer.
"I'm starting to think that he's planning on leaving or something."
Helen looks back at Jake.
"Why do you think that?"
"It's his look, his body language. He feels alone here. Even with Dennis and Sarah. He feels like he doesn't belong here."
"Then tell him he does."
"I can't. He never wants to talk to me Helen. There's…no way to communicate with him."
Helen looks the other way.
"Well…you did teach him the way to be like you. How old was he? Four…five?"
Jake rolls his eyes.
"Five."
"Right. He's like a bunker Jake. You can make him so tough on the outside. But just like what a bunker is built for, you'll never find a way to break it open."
Jake shakes his head. Helen looks back at the monitor. Jake gets up.
"That's it. I'm going home."
"Bye."
"Continue whatever your doing."
Helen nods. Jake heads home.
Miles Residence…
Jake pulls up and gets out. He walks up to the doorway and enters his house. And almost falling on his back from Desmond's hover board.
"Dammit."
Jake heads upstairs quietly and goes to Desmond's room. He opens the door and sees Desmond sound asleep on his bed. Jake slowly closes the door and heads to his room.
The following morning…
Jake yawns as he heads to Quaritch's office. He fixes his uniform and enters and all of a sudden…
"No! No! No way! HELL NO! Not happening Augustine! Never!"
"Will you shut up and listen for a second?"
"You took two minutes of my time explaining this dumb shit to me, what makes you think I want to listen even anymore?"
"Because it's going to help our current situation."
"It's only going to drive my patients."
Jake walks in.
"Hey, hey, whoa, whoa! Hey!"
The two turn at Jake.
"What's going on? Can I pause the argument you're having?"
Helen nods and looks at her watch.
"Sure Jake, I can do that. How about 12:30 Quaritch. Can we continue this conversation later?"
Quaritch throws down his head. Jake smiles.
"Get out of here, both of you." Quaritch orders
Helen sighs and follows Jake outside. Helen purposely slams the door shut behind her and Jake spins around.
"Whoa! I take it that the conversation you two were having in there didn't go so well."
Helen gets really annoyed.
"What gives you that idea Jake?" Helen asks walking past Jake
Jake follows.
"Oh, I don't know. Your body language and your eagerness for a cigarette."
"Damn right!"
Helen grabs a cigarette and puts one in her mouth. She mistakenly puts it in backwards and fixes it. She lights it and puffs it hard.
"God, that idiot. He never listens. Like a child with a toy."
"Would you tell me what happened in there?"
Helen takes another puff.
"I think I figured out a way we can solve this…alien problem."
Jake grows a surprised look.
"Really? What?"
Helen smiles and drops her cigarette on the ground and rubs it out.
"Follow me."
Jake follows Helen to her office. She explains to Jake that she managed to get a sample of the alien blood off one of the A.M.P. suits yesterday. She examined the DNA from the blood sample and came across the idea of producing it out into a form. (And thus concludes the idea, of the Avatar program).
"Wait, I'm sorry. Avatar Program?"
"Yes. We grow out a body just like them. That way, we can resolve this situation peacefully. Unlike the two attempts Quaritch made."
Jake leans forward.
"The second time was from you. You asked Quaritch to send out a team, remember?"
Helen gives off a look at Jake.
"Shut up. But anyway. You clearly see that how dangerous these people are. We can't just walk in there and figure out what's going on. They'll attack on sight."
"So you want to 'grow' one of these people…and what…just ask it to go in and figure out what's going on?"
"No. Will grow it from the DNA from the people and mix it in with DNA from a human. So that way, there's a connection from our mind and body to the mind and body of the alien."
Jake nods. Helen sees.
"You get that?"
Jake nods and shakes his head.
"Not a word."
Helen sighs.
"I'll explain everything to you and that numb nuts later. In the mean time, you convince Quaritch that this is the only way to resolve the situation. Not sending out a hundred Soldiers and slaughter everything in sight."
Jake puts his hands up.
"Alright. I'll do what I can."
"Great."
Helen gets to work on the computer. In the meantime Jake tries his best to convince whatever idea Helen has in mind is the only solution to the problem at hand.
That night…
Helen explains to both Jake and Quaritch the idea she has in mind. In order to figure out how to resolve this situation, she wants to try and grow a relationship with the alien to make them trust them. But not as themselves, but as them in a way to control one. Such as an Avatar.
"An Avatar?" Quaritch asks
"Yes. While I'm asleep, I'll wake up in the Avatar, which I'll be able to control with my mind. I'll be simply controlling it from the link I designed up."
"Let's see the link." Jake says
Helen shows the blueprint of the link. It's a chair in which a helmet will come down over the user's head in which they'll fall asleep in.
"This will work Sir." Helen comments
"I see that. But from the look of this. How long exactly?"
"Well, growing relationships don't become friendly over night Sir, but this might take a few weeks."
Quaritch flinches.
"Weeks?"
"Maybe months because the Avatars have to grow."
"Months now she says."
"Sir, I agree with Dr. Augustine."
"And I agree with bombing the hell out of them."
"Yeah, let's do that. Loose a section of the island. Answer to hundred thousands of people why a nuke went off the side of the island." Helen explains
"I heard I can be pretty persuasive." Quaritch comments
Helen rolls her eyes.
"Can you at least confirm to me that this idea of yours will work out?"
Helen turns back around.
"Well I don't know Sir. I've never really been in contact with an alien civilization before."
Quaritch points at Helen.
"Augustine. I'm one snap of a finger away from calling you out of here. Now tell me…will this plan of yours work?"
Helen crosses her arms.
"If it all goes to plan. Yes."
Quaritch gets up and walks to the windows. Jake and Helen watch Quaritch. A moment passes by and Quaritch turns around.
"Alright. I declare this idea for you Augustine."
Helen nods.
"Thank you Sir."
"How long before you can make contact with them?"
"Well Quaritch I don't know. I first have to grow my Avatar."
Quaritch looks down and bites his lip. Jake follows Helen out and asks her himself.
"I don't know yet. I have to do some work. After that…maybe a month. I can't grow a human body over night without the machine."
"Okay, get to work then."
"Alright."
Helen and Jake go their separate ways. And Helen starts to get to work.
A month and a half later…
Through the first couple weeks, Helen had to design machines and pods to make her idea come to life. After that, the DNA and all the gene machines had to come into place. And after continues calibration. Helen finally made the link off the computers come to life. She sat in the chair for the first time and slowly woke up inside her Avatar. And after weeks of training and getting used to her new body. She ventured out into the forest and made first contact with the Na'vi. To her surprise, they didn't speak a word of English. Only Na'vi. But that led to another problem…
With another problem at hand. Helen needed more time with the Na'vi, so she had to ask Quaritch to build her a school. A learning way that the Na'vi can communicate with her. And no need to find a teacher, Helen volunteered. So now with the school built. Not only teaching the Adult Na'vi English, but also teaching the children of the Na'vi. Helen was shocked to see that these beings had children. So things start to work out, only to drive Quaritch up the wall every single day wondering when this 'plan' of Helens will start to WORK out.
Inside Quaritch's office…
Quaritch is…seriously loosing it.
"It's been almost two months. TWO months and still no progress here Miles!"
Jake sighs.
"She's doing what she can Sir."
"Well tell her to hurry her blue ass up. I'm getting sick and tired of waiting here!"
"She's one woman by herself out there. She can't do this on her own."
Quaritch lifts his head up and sees Jake's got a point.
"You're absolutely right."
Jake narrows his eyes.
"Sir?"
Quaritch gets up and heads to the door. Jake watches.
"Sir?"
Quaritch heads to the floor where the links are at.
Out in the yard…
Desmond, Dennis and Sarah follow Desmond to the Military Base. Dennis and Sarah see Desmond just busting in like a thief and they look around. Desmond gets in and they follow him inside. They walk through the lobby and head to the Mess Hall. They each grab trays and sit down at a round table. Desmond digs in and Sarah looks across at Desmond.
"Desmond?"
Looking down at food.
"What?"
"Why are we here?"
Desmond looks up and down at his food.
"Eating."
"Yeah I can see that but why here?" Sarah asks
Desmond shrugs.
"It's free. No wait in lines and basically every Soldier here knows who I am."
Sarah rolls her eyes and digs in.
Upstairs in the Link Room…
Helen lifts the helmet off her head and stretches her neck.
"Oh boy! Twelve hours in the link will make you starve. Someone get me something to eat here. Geez!"
Quaritch and Jake enter the link room and Helen sees. She puts a cigarette in her mouth and lights it.
"Dr. Augustine." Quaritch says
Helen doesn't look at Quaritch.
"Quaritch…what brings you out here in the neck of the woods?"
Quaritch smiles.
"Woods? Funny. Ironic. But I have one for you too."
Helen rolls her eyes.
"Save it. I got to get some rest."
"Rest later. I want some status."
"Take your status and shove it. I don't know where they are. They still won't allow me into their home. How many times do I have to tell you?"
"You're not making any progress what so ever."
Helen turns around with a smirk on her face.
"Well it's kind of hard to make 'progress' when the people you're trying to make trust with is being shot at. You remember right?"
"Hey, don't blame me for that. They attacked first."
"You don't know that."
"I know what I need to know. And I know, they started first."
Helen takes a big puff of smoke and blows it in Quaritch's face. He blinks and shakes it off. Helen starts to walk away.
"What do you want? I take it that you didn't come down here to ask me the same old bullshit."
"No actually, I came down here with something different."
"Oh, that's a first."
Quaritch crosses his arms.
"How are the other Avatar' growing?"
Helen looks back and looks down at what she was looking at.
"There still growing. There not fully adults yet."
"How long will it take for them to grow into adults?"
Helen shrugs.
"I don't know. Another month or a half, I don't know yet."
Quaritch sighs hard.
"Okay, I don't care no more. Send them out as they are."
Helen turns around.
"What? They can't go out yet. There not down growing."
"What are you waiting for them to grow up for anyway? Looking for bodyguards?"
Helen bites her lip.
"No. If they mature into adults, the clan will think there are males from this place as well. Then that way, they might accept us into the clan."
"What are they? Children?" Jake asks
Helen nods.
"In a way. There between children and an adult."
"Well, who would be stupid enough to take children size Avatars out in hostile environment?" Jake asks
Helen shrugs. Suddenly Jake gets a message and he looks at his phone. He gets a from a Soldier saying his son and his friends are here. Jake thinks for a second and looks up at Helen.
"Dr. Augustine."
Helen and Quaritch turn around.
"I think I might have found your controllers for your children Avatars."
Helen narrows here eyes.
25 minutes later...
Desmond, Dennis and Sarah were sent upstairs to Quaritch's office. The three adults explain the situation to the children. The Na'vi, the creatures, when the blackout happening. And the situation at hand with the children Avatars.
"Wait…what?" Desmond asks
"You heard me." Quaritch says
Sarah and Dennis sit surprised.
"Yeah I heard you Quaritch. Especially the part about 'aliens'. What do you want us to do?"
"We want you to pretend to be one of them." Quaritch explains
Desmond blinks and leans back.
"How?"
Helen steps forward.
"We've developed links in the building', looks at Jake and Quaritch, and back at the children', and we've…also grown Avatars."
The kids look at one another.
"Avatars?" Dennis asks
"What's that?" Sarah asks
"There people, just like you and me. When you fall asleep inside the links, you'll wake up in the bodies of the Avatars."
"Whoa." Sarah amazed
"Really?" Dennis asks
Desmond shakes his head to believe what's going on.
"There are two boys and a girl. I wanted them to fully grow into adults, but Quaritch here, like a little baby, wants them deployed now." Helen explains
"Why us?" Desmond asks
Helen blinks.
"Why not you Desmond? You three know each other. And besides, you three were the only children in the building."
Sarah and Dennis look at Desmond. Desmond sees.
"Don't even blame me on this one guys."
"We want you to be part of the program Mr. Miles. I don't see any excuse why your father here would decline', looks at Jake, Jake gives off a look at Quaritch, looks at Desmond, 'Your father even thought of you to join."
Desmond looks at his dad and back at Quaritch.
"We simply want you to tag along with Augustine here. Follow her lead, gain the clans trust, and try to convince them to leave." Quaritch explains
"Why do you want them to leave?" Sarah asks
Quaritch leans back in his chair.
"Well now little lady. This place isn't there home now. They didn't ask nicely. And honestly, I don't want here."
Desmond just shakes his head seeing how much Quaritch is acting like a child.
"You see children. Helen here has the idea that her way will be more peaceful. Unlike my way…if I had it my way, some parts of the island would…be gone."
The kids look at one another.
"I'm going to give you guys two months to convince them to leave. That should be long enough for you to do what you have to do. Dr. Augustine can't do it on her own and I don't want to wait another year now to see any progress."
The kids think about what they want to do.
"So, what do you say?"
It's quiet for a moment. Dennis nods.
"Okay, I'll do it."
Desmond looks at Dennis. Sarah agrees.
"Yeah. Me too."
Desmond looks at Sarah. Quaritch also looks at Sarah.
"Great. How about you Desmond."
Desmond gets up and everyone looks at him.
"Find someone else to play your Halloween game, because I'm not."
"Excuse me?" Quaritch asks
"Find someone else. I'm not going to play any of your childish games Quaritch." Desmond says walking away
"Desmond!" Jake yells
Desmond continues. Quaritch gets up.
"Desmond Miles. Stop right there or I'll throw you in the stockade."
Desmond stops walking. He slowly turns around and looks hard at Quaritch.
"Everyone, leave my office right now."
Jake looks at Quaritch.
"Sir?"
"Leave. Everyone. NOW."
Desmond sighs.
"Except for you Desmond."
Everyone leaves. Jake shares a quick glance at Desmond and Desmond stands in the middle of the room staring at Quaritch.
"Why don't you want to take part in this little experiment Desmond?"
"Why do you want to get rid of them so badly Quaritch?"
Quaritch smiles.
"That's Colonel Quaritch to you boy. Respect authority here."
Desmond looks around the room.
"And that's…who exactly?"
Quaritch slams his fist into the desk.
"Shut up! You're going to take part in this experiment."
"No I won't."
"Yes you will."
"There's nothing you can say or do that will make me."
"Oh yeah?"
Desmond smiles.
"Yeah? Even the great 'Colonel' Quaritch, who runs and operates this shithole, can do anything."
Quaritch smiles and Desmond begins to leave. Quaritch looks down.
"How about a ticket out of here?"
Desmond stops at the door. Desmond slowly turns around.
"What?"
Quaritch looks up.
"How about a ticket off the island. Straight to the coast."
Desmond gulps.
"You'd…let me leave here?"
"Yeah. Is that what you really want?"
Desmond brushes his hair back.
"I know your history here. And from what I read….it's not so great."
Desmond looks at Quaritch funny.
"Hell, I would want to try and get as far away from this place as I can from what I 'accidentally' did."
Desmond bites his lip.
"Here's the deal Desmond. You give me what I want. I give you want you want."
"And that is?"
"Get rid of these freaks. Make them leave, get them packed up, start another storm cloud like last time, I don't give a shit. I just want them gone Desmond. Out of here."
Desmond nods and looks the other way. Quaritch leans forward.
"I do that, you let me leave?"
"I'll even walk you to the shuttle."
Desmond thinks about the offer Quaritch is making. Quaritch waits for Desmond's answer and Desmond walks on over to Quaritch. He lends out his hand.
"Fine."
Quaritch looks at the hand and shakes it.
"Deal."
Desmond gulps and turns around.
"Now meet up with Dr. Augustine in the Link Room. She's going to give you a crash on how to be one of these blue freaks."
Desmond leaves the room and catches up to everyone.
Am I being selfish here?
Whoa! Boy I wanted to write this chapter out so badly. Boy I'm happy about it. So now the deals been made by Quaritch and Desmond. Its scratch each other's back. So now, it's off to the forest in an Avatar body. Next time on Kid Avatar Chapter 5, First Contact