Yeh, so this chapter just introduces the avatars. Enjoy, I guess.

After the first scout group returned, no more were sent out of sight of the encampment walls. They began clearing away around the base to increase sight range, and we were forced to pull out our scouts before they were discovered. Once that was done, satellites began to appear in orbit. Hope was still cloaked, but we had to alter her orbit twice to keep it from colliding with the human's satellites. A third rocket was about to land at the human's base, but it malfunctioned before entering the atmosphere and was sent spiralling into space mostly intact, to crash on Pandora's planet. The base on the surface continued to grow. Soon after, they sent out four groups to mining camps. Soon after, they began sending rockets back to earth. We checked the manifest, and it was labeled as unobtainium, and was most likely what was being mined.

Soon after they sent the first rocket back, another landed. Once they had first set up mining camps, the Omaticaya did not appreciate it and would sometimes attack convoys returning from or going to mining camps. After the first three days of these attacks, they were always heavily guarded. About two weeks after the last rocket had landed, a building was built outside of the compound, close to the edge of the woods. About a month after that, we saw something strange.

It was, upon first glance, an Omaticaya. But upon closer inspection, it looked somewhat human. They had some of the human characteristics that were good for almost anywhere, as well as the features that favored the Omaticaya in this world. They were first sighted from Hope, blue figures seen from above in the human camp. At first we suspected they were prisoners, but we had no missing people. Ole'eyktan suggested that they might be from another tribe, but that was unlikely as the nearest tribe was too far away to find the human base by accident, or on purpose. Both of these were immediately disproven because no one had ever seen another Omaticaya like that.

A month after the first sighting, scouting parties were sent into the jungle again, but they were the hybrids. One time I followed them into the jungle, using a personal cloak device from Hope to remain undetected. They had been taken by helicopter to an area close to Hometree and landed. From there the helicopter was left, as well as the human pilot, and they walked towards Hometree.

"ARC, what are those?" I asked.

"Visual analysis suggests Human-Na'vi hybrid. References to this creature are limited, but they seem to be code-named Avatar. "

"Your reference is pre-time failure, right?"

"Correct. "

"Okay. Well, see if you can figure out anything else about them. "

"They seem to be linked to a location inside their landing site. I can't tap into it. The signals vary immensely. "

"Any similarities to anything like the Mundars?"

"No, but they seem to be similar to brain signals. I think that these hybrids are being remotely controlled. "

"Is that possible?"

"It was thought so, but apparently not. This technology is just like controlling a ROV, you use a controller to control the robot, only in this case, they made the controller the human, and the robot the hybrid. "

The humans kept walking towards Hometree, sometimes collecting samples. I kept following them, staying in the trees above them. After a little bit, a group of Omaticaya met them. I stayed cloake and made sure that the other Atlantians knew to stay away. The Omaticaya were armed and ready to shoot the human hybrids and kept trying to talk to them, but they both spoke different languages. The language on Atlantis had been Galactic Standard, which was a dialect of english and very similar.

"What are you doing here? Who are you? " asked the Omaticaya. The hybrids had no idea what they were saying, but the fact that they had bows pointed at them showed their intent clearly. One of them stepped forward.

"We mean no harm, " He said in english. The Omaticaya had only heard english spoken by the Atlantians, but none of them understood it. The Omaticaya realised that to communicate with humans, they would first need to break the language barrier. They warded them away back to their helicopter, and from there they returned to their encampment.

After the humans left, I disabled the cloaking device and met with the Omaticaya who had stopped the humans.

"Hello John. What do you think of humans so far? They seem like they want something from us, but nobody knows what, " Hund'ri said. He had taken over a small military position after we finished learning about the biology on Pandora.

"I don't know. If they decided to come in with all of their weapons and armor, they could very well kill everyone here. It's best we stay on their good side, but maintain clear boundaries so they can't push us around a lot, " I replied.

"Well, I hope we stay on their good side then. Most of that is up to Ole'eyktan. "

"Yes. he is a good leader. He won't attack without cause, but will defend the tribe at all costs. "

"Hopefully the cost isn't too high. "