It's not over...
The air rushed over Neytiri's face as she rode the mighty thanator through the jungle. Her eyes scoured through the foliage searching for targets. She hadn't heard from Jake since she told him that help was on their side and she only hopped he was ok and that the people were safe. She had heard, and felt, a massive explosion rock the ground moments before. That worried her a bit. Jake had told her and the warriors that a shah-tell would be carrying a giant bomb and its target was the tree of souls. She didn't know if the explosion was from the bomb detonating in the well and obliterating everyone and everything in it or if the aircraft was taken down and crashed somewhere else when the bomb blew up. She didn't think about it because either way she was going to kill any sky person she would encounter either for vengeance or to tie up any loose ends.
From some yards away, she saw two glints of metal in the distance. As she moved in, she made out the two shapes. One was a "Shield that walks" with its gun leveled and ready to fire on the shack where she helped Jake take Grace from when they attempted to save her life. She closed in on the AMP suit and when she was close enough, the ferocious creature leaped. At the last moment the machine turned around.
Quaritch, who managed the escape the dragon in his AMP suit, raised his gun up and barely forced the creature over his head. Neytiri lunged again and Quaritch pushed the creature behind him. He brought his cannon up afterward but by the time he squeezed the trigger Neytiri's steed tackled and pinned him to the ground. Neytiri roared loudly as the thanator's claws grasped the cannon and bashed it against a rock. Quaritch rocked around the cockpit as the alien cat shattered the gun in two. He managed to land a punch on the creature and got to his feet. Neytiri kept wrestling violently with the persistent driver landing some blows while barely managing not to be clobbered off the thanator by the AMP's metal fists. After a number of blows, Quaritch threw the beast aside and drew the AMP's blade and stood ready for another attack.
"Come on, come to papa!"
And sure enough, Neytiri did. She lunged forward and the colonel caught the creature and stabbed it while his other hand held it in front of him. Again and again the colonel sent the blade into the beasts belly until he threw it and it's rider to the ground. He then leapt into the air and plunged his knife deep into the creature's innards. For good measure, he twisted the knife and saw the creature's body go limp.
Neytiri struggled to move herself with the dead beast pinning her to the ground. She grunted loudly as she jerked around trying to free herself. Quaritch withdrew his blood soaked knife from the corpse and faced the helpless hostile pinned under it. But Neytiri did not show her fear as she gave an angry hiss at him indicating she will die annoyed but not afraid.
"Give it up Quaritch!"
Jake made it to the scene just in time. When he saw the Dragon fall he had a feeling it wasn't over. Quaritch wouldn't have given up the fight so easily. Jake made it to the scene just as Quaritch threw the blooded thanator to the ground and plunged the blade into its guts. When he saw Neytiri stuck under the heavy corpse, and the AMP suit ready to strike, he had to take the attention of the aggressor.
"It's all over." He told the colonel.
Quaritch flipped his knife and held it ready.
"Nothing's over while I'm breathing!"
"I kind'a hoped you'd say that."
Let's dance!
As both opponents advanced, Jake grabbed the barrel of the severed cannon and brought it up to block the colonel's attack. Moving with light feet, Jake stepped around the machine dodging and blocking the colonel's powerful blows. Eventually, the coronal lunged forward and Jake manged to catch his blade between the cannon's stability handle and twisted it until the blade snapped off from the hilt. With his weapon useless, Quaritch tossed it aside and swung his suits meat fists around at the blue pest. Jake dodged each blow and manged to land some quick jabs on the glass of the cockpit. Then Jake slipped behind the suit, hopped upon a formation of roots and leapt high up toward his opponent. As he descended, he thrust the blade down hard right into the cockpit windshield. Jake pivoted over the AMP suit and landed behind it. The suit's arms still moved which meant the pilot was still alive.
Come on!
The blade of the cannon barrel had stopped only inches from Quaritch's heart. He moved his suit's arms to grasp the barrel and inhaled deeply before he pulled it out. As the pressurization alarms rung in the cockpit, the colonel swung around and threw the barrel toward Jake. He ducked as it whooshed pasted and cracked the window of shack. Jake looked back to see the window and was relieved to see it didn't break through.
With his vision blurred from the shatter glass shield, Quaritch came aimlessly at Jake. Jake moved around out of the way to keep his distance from him. Then the colonel stopped and stood still.
"Come on!" Jake yelled at the colonel.
A few seconds later, the machine's arms went limp and fell to their sides. After that, the shattered canopy popped off and landed just beside Jake. Quaritch moved his hands freely and acquired his emergency exopack and breathed deeply as he activated the filter. While Quaritch readjusted himself and reengaged the arm control, Jake drew his knife and stood ready for one more clash.
"Hey Sully," Quaritch said with a sadistic smirk. "How's it feel to betray your own race?"
Go fuck yourself!
Jake responded with a long angry hiss with his blazing eyes glaring right at him.
"You think your one of them?" Quaritch asked, "Time to wake up!"
An instant later, Jake's eyes that blazed with fury grew wide with horror when he saw Quaritch turn around to the cracked window.
Oh shit!
Before Jake could stop him, Quaritch punched through the glass crushed the link bed that lay in front of it. Alarms sounded and lights flashed as the colonel wedged himself into the structure to lift the pod's hatch open only to find nothing. He withdrew from the window and proceeded to the next only to be distracted by Jake who leapt onto his back. Quaritch waved his arms violently over his head trying to get him off. Jake held on tightly as he was flailed back and forth while dodging the enormous fits. When he was able to get a sold grip, he roared as he swung his knife down toward the colonel's neck. Quaritch moved his head to the side just in time as the blade stuck into the head rest only inches to the side of his neck. Jake felt frustrated again but it was short when he felt a force pull at the back of his head. Quaritch managed to grab Jake's queue and swung his arm toward the ground. Jake felt himself jerk violently as he was flipped forward and slammed into the dirt. When he came out of the impact he tried to get up but he vision started to blur. Then he felt as if his body was going completely numb. He felt a violent disturbance in him then all of a sudden everything went black.
Jake's eyes shot open and to see the top of the link pod chamber. He breathed and felt the air burning the inside of his nostrils and his throat. The Pandoran air flowed in from the broken window and seeped into the link where Jake laid in. He couldn't think in the haze of poisonous gas but he managed to force himself to inhale a big breath and held it as he focused his mind back into the link.
Jake opened his eyes again and gasped as his avatar lurched back to life. He tried to move but before he could a metal hand force him back down to the dirt. Then Jake felt the hand grasp his queue and lifted up. Jake screamed in pain as his body was pulled up from the stem of his queue. Jake hands grabbed the queue as he tried to release the force that pulled at the back of his skull. He looked up and saw the colonel hovering in front of him. Quartich held Jake right in front of the cockpit only mire feet from his face. His bloodshot eyes glared right at into Jake's filled with anger and desire to get payback for what he did. With the other his free hand, the colonel slowly grasped Jake's knife that embedded into the head rest and pulled it out. With it free, he slowly brought it up to Jake's neck. Jake looked painfully into the colonel's blood lusted eyes as he felt the blade rest on his throat. He tried his best not to give the colonel the pleasure of fear. Then everything suddenly went haywire and the last thing Jake knew before he lose conciseness was the image of Quaritch jerking violently and a seeing an oversized arrow staked through his torso.
Over the course of the dual, Neytiri worked hard to free herself from the thanator corpse. She was on the verge of freeing herself when she saw Jake dangling from his queue in front of the AMP suit driver. As quickly as she could, she leapt over the log she was pinned against and ran to her bow. Smoothly, she loaded one of her two remaining arrows onto the string and pulled back lining up the shot. Just as the sky person put the blade to Jake's throat, she released. The arrow moved straight through the air as it cleanly impacted the sky person's torso. He jerk violently and dropped the dagger and the suit's arm holding Jake loosened and Jake fell free to the ground and flopped onto is back.
Quaritch stood in disbelief as he looked at his hands which grasped the arrow. The suit arms mimicked his feeble movements. His vision lost focus and lost the feeling of his extremities. From a distance he saw blue blur swipe across his vision. Once his vision refocused, he saw the blur turn into a blue female warrior aiming her bow at him. Then another arrow flung off it and streaked right at him. The arrow shattered through the suit's display screen and embedded itself into his torso again. His arms flailed again from the impact as the pain shocked his entire body. Then the pain disappeared as his arms came to the arrow again. His mouth locked open has his last breath escaped from it. The last thing he saw was the women prance forward and crouch down with a knife in hand before him in front of Sully's body.
Neytiri watched the driver's body go limp and came to his knees. The suit and the driver fell to the ground, dead.
Author's note: Hey everyone. I know I haven't been uploading this often. College is hard work and lately I've had a hard time staying committed to writing this story and I apologize. The next chapters will be on their way shortly. After the next 2 chapters, it will take a little time because I have to plan for how I will structure the rest of the story and to make it believable. But don't worry, when summer comes I will spend some serious time on this.
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