It was quiet, not a noise to be heard. It was as if the earth itself was anticipating the battle that was about to kick off. I let out a shaky breath as I sat in the back of Trudy's chopper. We were sitting on one of the floating rocks that scattered the soon to be battlefield. "You alright back there?" Trudy asked, and I nodded. "Keep calm, you got me flying." She said as a joke, but I wasn't listening. Instead my ears perked up to the sound of helicopters out in the distance. I cocked the mounted gun on my side, and she started up the chopper. We lifted off just in time to see the fleet of Ikran riders fly below with Jake in the lead. "Whoever's listening, please let me live through this." We fell into the formation, and stayed just above the pack. I saw the line of choppers slowly advancing towards us with the starship in the middle, and the dragon running point for it. I steeled myself for what was to come, and we speed forward to face our enemy. I to aim, and blew the cockpit out of the first chopper, and focused on the next. This went on for what seemed like hours until we came face to face with the Dragon. "Trudy, you sure we can take this thing?" I asked, and she laughed before saying. "We'll sure as hell try." She opened fire, and I followed her example. They shot back, and they're bullets did more damage than ours did. "Pull back behind the rocks." I said, and she did as I ordered. I unlatched the gun, and pulled her out of the cockpit. "What are you doing?" She yelled as I wrapped an arm around her waist. As I went to jump, she struggled against my grip, and yelled. "Hey you prick my sunglasses are-" She was cut off by the two missiles that hit the front of the chopper, and engulfed her completely in flames. I jumped, and held her close to me as we fell to the ground. I braced myself for the landing that wouldn't be pretty. Luckily the canopy broke my fall, and so did my body. I was knocked unconscious by the fall, and when I woke up Trudy was no longer in my arms. I sat up quickly, and looked around. I didn't have to look far, she was on her back and she looked like she walked through hell. Her whole body was completely burned, and one of her legs was almost nonexistent. I crawled over to her, and she smiled when she saw me. "Hey man, what took you so long?" She said, delirious from the amount of pain that was in her body. The fire had cauterized the wounds before they ever bled. I checked her front before telling her. "I need to roll you over." She nodded, and I put my hand on her shoulder. Gently but swiftly, I pushed her onto her side to see all of her skin gone and nothing but back muscles. While I was wondering where the skin went when I looked down at the front of my shirt. When the explosion occurred, she had wriggled around to where she was facing me. That means the only place the skin could go was the front of my shirt.
I ignored the flesh that was covering my front, and pulled my medical bag off of my back. "I won't fail this time, no not this time." I promised myself as I got out the morphine. I rolled her back over at the skin on her arm fell off in my hands. "I can't do anything for you here but give you this." I told her, but she was unconscious from the pain. "I hope we win this, or she's dead." I thought as I stuck the needle into her arm. I looked around me, and I could hear gunfire off in the distance. Luckily my gun hadn't been lost in the fall so I pulled her behind a tree, and set up to shoot anyone who dared even look this way. Above, the battle waged on. From the looks of things, we weren't doing good until I heard a rumble off in the distance. Looking back, I just had enough time to see a solid wall of dire horses charging towards me. I pulled the unconscious woman close to me as they charged past us. When they had left I looked back, but my attention was pulled back to Trudy who was choking on the Pandoran air. The mask I had put on her had slipped off when I pulled her to me. I quickly placed it back to where it should be, and sat back down. Just as I sat my head back on the tree, I was forcibly unlinked. When I opened my eyes in the link bed, I was choking as well. I opened the lid, and looked around only a little before getting to the emergency exopack. I put it on, and jumped back into my avatar without a second thought about Jake in the link next to mine. When I opened my eyes once more the sound of gunfire was gone, and a Dire horse was grazing on the grass in front of me. I put her on sideways, and got up behind her. We took off towards what I hoped would be help. Eventually we made it to where Toruk was sitting in a small clearing, and I got down to search for him. I found him sitting next to Tsu'tey who had several bullet holes in his chest. I ran down as he gave his knife to Jake. "Stop, don't you fucking dare!" I yelled as I slid to a stop next to the warriors. I looked down at the complete asshole, and said. "You're not dying today." He looked up at me with scorn, and I looked over at Jake. "I need some room, and could you do me a favor?" He shook his head. "Find Alyara, and make sure she's okay." He took off, and I got to work. Searching through my bag I found a small device that tests blood types, but when I got it out he swatted it away. "Cooperate, or I'll knock you out with my fist." I threatened, and he quit resisting. After testing his, it came back B+. I looked around at the other two Na'vi that were standing guard. "Help." I said in their language, and they both rushed over. After testing both of them I found out the woman was a perfect match.
"I must put this in your arm." I said as I held out the needle after sitting her down next to the wounded warrior. She nodded, and I put the needle in her vein. She looked over at the warrior almost lovingly, and he did the same. Remembering my precious cargo, I called Jake and told him about Trudy. He had already found her, and she was on her way to the overthrown Hell's Gate. "I guess we won this war." I thought as I prepared to pull the bullets out of his chest. IT took three hours, but I managed to get them out and him bandaged up. Just as I was about to tell the male warrior what I needed for a stretcher, Max and two others came into view. The warriors were about to kill them when I stopped both of them. "Don't shoot they're here to help." I said, and they lowered their bows. Max and the others got him onto a stretcher, and out to a scorpion waiting where Toruk was. I caught a ride to Hell's Gate with them, and prayed that Alyara was alright. As I sat back in the chopper I finally got a rest. When I got to Hell's gate they immediately called all available doctors in the Na'vi OR to help the wounded warriors. That's where I spent the rest of the day, working on gunshot wounds. Eviscerations, severs and explosion wounds was what I was working on and that is the messiest kind of work. Around midnight everything slowed down, and I wasn't needed anymore. When I stepped out of the OR, and gotten my bloody surgical clothing off I turned around to see Alyara standing behind me with a bandage around her head, and two one either arm. "I finally found you." She said before rushing into my arms.
This is the second to last chapter, and just in case you didn't know OR stands for Operation Room. Anyway follow me on twitter or follow this story to find out when the next chapter comes out. I will be working on another Avatar fanfic when I finish this one. As a matter of fact, it will come out the day after this one ends. Ja ne
