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When we arrived at their camp, people were lying everywhere. They were alive, but in bad shape. Some were looking for medicinal herbs in the forest, but they had revolted before learning much about local foliage. I grabbed a fern-like plant from one person and tossed it into the forest before they could use it for tea. "That ones no good. Use the ones with a red stripe on the bottom of the leaves. " He thanked me and went back into the forest to find another plant. I walked to the command tent. The messenger led us there, and kept the guards from attacking us. He went in first for a few moments, then exited and held the flap open for us. We walked inside.
Inside was what remained of the bridge crew of Resilience. Two of them had been lost when they ended up inside a planet, and the virus had claimed three more. They were all sick and lying on their beds. The captain sat up.
"John, we need your help, " He said.
"You don't need me, you need medical supplies, " I replied.
"True. "
"Why didn't you move the supplies here?"
"We were going to, but then you arrived. The helicopter that landed was supposed to take the first load of supplies here. "
"We can help you. "
"Can and will are two very different things. "
"For now, we'll leave it at can. "
He nodded. "Of course, you'll want us to stop fighting you. "
"Yes. "
He sighed. "You can take all the weapons and helicopters. I'll send you the coordinates in a few minutes. "
"We don't need all that. What we need is you to stop fighting. "
"Very well. I will tell them all after you bring in the first load of supplies. You can take the weapons and helicopters anyway, I don't trust some of the troops not to go rogue with all that firepower lying around. " He sent me the coordinates for two air bases and an arms depot.
"Good. It's a deal. " I passed him the small pack of medical supplies. "We'll have the first load in by 1530. "
"Thank you, John. "
I nodded and turned to leave. I opened the tent flap and sent Trudy the all clear to bring in a load of medical supplies. We left the messenger there and I returned towards our base with the two others. We met Trudy on her way over and followed her back to the camp to make sure she wasn't shot down.
We landed at the camp and caused quite a stir. The captain of Resilience was waiting for us. When we landed, he turned to the crowd that had gathered. "Due to the virus that is rampaging through our camp, I have bargained with the enemy for medical supplies. We will no longer battle against them, and instead work alongside them. They will hold our weapons and aircraft until they are needed. "
This caused a murmur to run through the crowd. I could tell they were confused, but willing to accept this change. We distributed the medical supplies, and then took a stop at the arms depot to empty it out. Once that was done, we started ferrying helicopters up to Hope, and got the others off. We kept five helicopters on the ground, two at our base, two at the uprisers camp, and one hidden.
Three months later, the virus had been defeated. It ran its course and claimed fifteen lives, but we managed to destroy it before it mutated. We had everyone living at the humans' old base, and we were all getting along well. The Omaticaya still didn't like the others, but we were working on removing the distrust and hatred. Everyone had been taught Na'vi, and ARC was working on finding a nearby planet for us to move to so we didn't disrupt the Omaticaya.
The humans that we fought off had begun to arrive at earth, and it was causing a lot of political battles. ARC had very limited information on what was happening there, but from what he gathered, it would be a while before they left earth. Atlantian technology began to advance again, albeit very slowly. We even found a way to help Jake, Norm, and Max speed up the process of their new Avatar bodies. The future began to look bright, and we hoped it really was.
This is NOT the end, but I haven't decided what to do next. There will definitely be more chapters, but what happens is yet to be decided.