We'd been having skirmishes with the humans for a few months. They had been forced to slow their pace drastically and stop earlier in the day to set up security precautions. Despite this, we had still taken the machines from twelve to three. The escort kept getting reinforcements every day by helicopters, but we still kept attacking every few nights. After months of fighting, they arrived at a and demolished a sacred tree near Hometree. This was noticed by the Omaticaya, especially Netiri, who was there when it was destroyed. Most of us were at our camp at the time, except for Paul, who was at Hometree. Then the humans attacked.
It was in the afternoon, and they attacked with eighteen helicopters and their larger transport ship. The Omaticaya were waiting, but they were severely outgunned, even with Paul there.
"Code red, gunships at Hometree!" Paul called over the radio. We were too far away to get over quickly, but headed over as fast as we could. When we got there, It was too late. The base of Hometree was on fire, and the whole thing would come down any moment.
"First priority is to save the Omaticaya! Ignore the ships for now, save as many as you can!" I shouted to the others. "Paul, where are you?"
"On the ground, getting people out. "
"Hometree's coming down! Everybody out of the way!" May said.
"Paul, get off the ground and into the air!"
"Just a minute!"
Suddenly I was Paul, just like when Resilience was stuck in the planet. He was running on the ground away from the base of Hometree, but it was falling fast towards him. He thrust out his palm and a wedge of ice extended, pushing about thirty Omaticaya out of the path of the falling tree. In the last few seconds before Hometree hit the ground, he threw something to the side and died as Hometree fell on him.
And I was back, sprawled on the ground, while the Omaticaya ran from the burning destruction that was their home. I was devastated and enraged. My sight turned red, and I launched myself at the helicopters, which were just starting to turn around. I targeted one of the helicopters on the left edge of the formation. I rocketed in through the side and shoved out the door gunner after taking his sidearm. I then turned around and shot the pilot, who was just starting to realise I was there. I pulled his dead body out of the pilots seat and sat down. It was a simple machine to operate, and I turned it to the left and strafed the others with machine guns, taking out two. I was halfway done with a second strafe when somebody hit the left engine. I was losing altitude, but I jumped out onto the larger shuttle craft, grabbing the door gun on the way out.
There were soldiers on top in a small fortification, and I let loose on them with the larger gun. They ducked behind sandbags, but I kept firing. I wasn't thinking clearly, and my rage was only getting worse. One of them threw a grenade, which I sent back at them. Immediately after it exploded, I leapt over the remaining troops and shot them. I dropped the large gun and ran to the cockpit. I looked in and saw Miles looking at me. Before I could shoot him, a maintenance hatch on the other side of the ship opened and troops started to come through. I ran over as the second was starting to get out of the helicopter. I shot the first at point blank range under his rib cage. The bullet severed his spinal column and continued on it's journey to embed itself in the second soldier's head, killing them both instantly. I grabbed a grenade from the first soldier and tossed it into the hatch.
Once it exploded I jumped down. There were six more soldiers in there, stunned from the blast. The grenade had happened to be a flash bang. Before they could recover, I turned the water in their bodies into plasma, killing them instantly and burning holes in the bottom of the ship. I heard a clunk behind me and turned to see a grenade lying on the ground, pin pulled. I quickly shielded myself, but the blast caused me to stagger backwards and out through one of the holes in the floor.
I landed in a river, finally shocked out of my mindless rage, but only for a little bit. I raised myself up and hovered above the river, lobbing globules of plasma at the retreating ships. A short while later, I began to launch them farther, towards their base. The globules I was throwing ranged from the size of peas to car tires. I had no idea if they would hit the base or fall short, but I didn't care. All I cared about was our lost comrade, and nothing the humans did could bring him back.
A few hours later, I had come out of the mindless rage for the second time, and was laying on my back in the river, mindlessly looking at the stars. I felt nothing. No grief, hatred, or desire for revenge anymore. I was just too tired to care. The others had shown up earlier, and stayed nearby, although out of sight. I knew they would still be there, waiting for when I would walk up to them, have some great plan, and then do it. Except I had no plan. I was too exhausted to do anything. I was numb to the world. I raised my hand and made an icy flame, making it flicker like fire, and then let it fall back into the river. It had been one of Paul's favorite tricks.
Now there were only six of us, plus those still on Resilience, resting in what could very well be their tomb. The Omaticaya would head north, to another place where they could connect with Eywa. We had never been allowed there before, and I didn't know if we would be now. Finally, I got up and found the others.
"Hey guys, " I said. They looked at me glumly. It was clear they were all grieving for Pual as well. I sat down and pulled up a map of the human's base on my watch. I highlighted a route from the main gates to the holding cells, and then from there to varios exits. "Our next move is going to be to hit the humans at their home. We will take the Avatar operators who tried to help the Omaticaya, Jake, Grace, and Norm. They may have betrayed the Omaticaya, but they also betrayed the humans. They kept up the appearance that they would move, but in the end they didn't, forcing them to use force, which will undoubtedly meet bad public approval back on earth. Once they are out, we will take them to their mobile link site or whatever.
Satellite shows it's only five minutes away by flight. Once there, we'll take them and the mobile site north to the Omaticaya; the Avatars can catch up later. We'll all enter the camp as one, but once we get to the holding cells, we'll split up. In three groups of two, or three once we pick them up, we'll exit at different parts of the camp. Don't be afraid to use powers. We want them to be as afraid as possible. "
Once you're out, get to the mobile site for rendezvous. We will attack tomorrow at noon. Choose your exit routes and teams. Use anything you need from camp. Bring at least an extra pistol for the Avatar users. Good luck. "