WELCOME BACK PEOPLE! NOTHING MUCH TO SAY HERE BESIDES THAT IF YOU READ CHAPTER 1 BEFORE THIS MONTH I HIGHLY ADVISE READING IT AGAIN SINCE I CHANGED A LOT OF THINGS. PLUS FOR DAVE I'M NOT GOING TO INCLUDE ITALICS ANYMORE. ANYWAYS ENJOY!
RATED T FOR VIOLENCE, THREAT, (CENSORED) LANGUAGE AND SEX REFERENCES
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ATLA OR FALLOUT BESIDES OC. FALLOUT IS OWNED BY BETHESDA (VEGAS, 1 AND 2 OWNED BY OBSIDIAN) AND ATLA IS RIGHTFULLY OWNED BY NICKELODEON.
THE NORTH POLE - 99AG - WORLD OF THE ZHEWANJI
Ryan's eyes shot open. His vision was a blur, only seeing blue and white colours everywhere. A strange feeling occurred to him, something he hasn't felt in years. He was cold.
A memory suddenly flickered in his mind. It wasn't clear, all he knew was that he couldn't move, and it was freezing. He remembered laying in the snow awaiting for death to release him from his suffering. The last thing he saw was a person running up to him hearing somebody say, 'There's someone over here!'
The Californian looked down at his body which laid on a bed, a blanket was placed over him. Ryan couldn't feel his headgear, his armour or his equipment. Where was he?
His vision finally cleared. The room he was in was made completely of... ice? Ice was a rare thing to him, only seen it used in drinks for the rich. Of course he knew there were environments full of ice but seeing it in person was bizzare. Besides the structure, all there was in the room was a table covered with random objects. His backpack and equipment laid beside it.
Ryan took off his blanket, he was wearing a black shirt and trousers so at least he still had that on. Before he got up, a woman looking to be in her thirties entered the room. She was wearing a thick blue winter coat and her skin was brown, an Eskimo maybe? She noticed the wastelander was awake. As he tried to get up the woman said, "Easy now. You've been out for a while. Let's start with your name."
"My name's Ryan," he replied.
"Now it's not what I'd have given you but if it's your name it's your name. My name's Ling. Do you know where you are?"
"No I don't. I can't even remember how I got here."
"You're in the North Pole, in the Northern water tribe," she said. The wastelander widely opened his eyes. The north pole? He couldn't remember how he got from the Mojave all the way to the North Pole. Do you remember anything?" Ling asked.
"I remember there was a vault. An AI was there. I was with... East!" Most of his memories thankfully recovered.
"Calm down. Who or what is 'East'."
"She was with me when we arrived in the vault. We met the overseer who was an AI. East went missing, me and DAVE went after her by touching a vase or something. Hold up where's DAVE?"
"Who?" Ling was bewildered.
"He's an eyebot, you know like a metal ball with black rods attacked facing backwards."
"That thing? We thought it was just junk. We put it by your bag." Ryan looked at his bag, to his surprise the eyebot laid dead beside it. Blended in well with his other stuff. The Californian struggled to get up but eventually succeeded. Ling stopped him.
"You need to rest," she said.
"I'm fine." He proceeded to the eyebot and put him on the table. DAVE's body looked to be in decent shape and easily fixable.
"What are you doing?" Ling asked.
"I'm fixing DAVE."
"It's just an object. I find it weird that you've given it a name." The eyebot all of a sudden turned on. It started to float, Ling was amazed. She had not seen anything like this before. "What did you do?"
"I just turned the power button off and on again," Ryan replied.
"Aggghhhhhh!" DAVE screamed, "Oh hold up we're... Ryan, where are we?"
"What are you?" Ling asked in awe.
"Wow. We made it? We actually travelled to another dimension?" The AI asked.
"So that's what happened!" Said Ryan.
He took notice of the woman's question, "Hi my name is DAVE. I am an AI that has been transferred into this eyebot from Vault 41."
Ling fainted.
DAVE asked, "Was it something I said?" Ryan rolled his eyes. "You feeling alright? Your temperature levels have dropped to 31 degrees celsius or 87.8 degrees Fahrenheit. You are also showing symptoms of hypothermia."
"I almost froze to death but I'm fine."
"Well I advise-"
"No I don't need to rest!" He shouted, "Sorry I've got an awful lot on my mind right now. East is missing, we're not on Earth and we're in a climate that I have literally no experience in."
"I was going to say you need to take some H-Pills. Perhaps you might have something like that in your backpack?" (It's just a medicine I made up. What are you looking at? Fallout has some crazy medicine!)
"Oh right. I have some in my backpack. Oh can you also look away I'm going to put my stuff on."
A while later, Ling woke up, "Oh what a crazy dream. There was this boy and a floating... I don't even know what it was. And they claim to be from another world." Ryan, already dressed and have his equipment and armour on besides his headgear, and DAVE were standing over her. "It wasn't a dream was it?" The Californian shook his head.
"So we're heading out now. You don't happen to have seen a girl around 14, wearing clothes stitched together, has a black mark across her face?" Ryan asked.
"First of all, no I haven't. And second of all you're not ready to go out there," she replied.
"Can we stop the hypothermia topic please?! I'm fine! I just took a few pills."
The woman sighed, "I guess I can't stop you. You might want to ask around." The two thanked her and left the building. "Wait did they just say they're from another world?"
The city was magnificent, buildings made completely of ice conquered the land, the community was thriving and peaceful unlike most places back in the wasteland. DAVE described it as Venice but made of ice. The canals were almost at ground level though, DAVE described it as Venice but made of ice. For Ryan it makes him wish that his sister back home would shut up about nuclear winter. The locals gave the two weird looks since they pretty much stood out, everybody was pretty much wearing the same style clothes, blue winter clothing. Ryan was just wearing brown armour and DAVE was a floating metal ball. One thing caught their eye though, some people could control the water without even touching it, people call it water-bending and it's like an everyday thing around here.
The two asked around for East but no luck. Their findings lead them to some kids, apparently they were some of the only foreigners within the tribe which is probably why they're getting quite a lot of attention. One of them was apparently the 'Avatar'. Whatever that title meant it must've been important.
There were two kids. One of them was a bald boy, he was wearing orange and yellow robes and had a large blue arrow tattooed on his head, he was probably this so called 'Avatar'. The other was a girl around East's age, she looked more native than foreign guessing by the blue clothes and looks.
"Hey, excuse me?" Ryan said.
"Yeah?" The girl replied.
"You don't happen to have seen a girl, around your age, wears stitched together animal hides, has like a black mark across her face," The Californian listed.
"No," the girl replied.
"Sorry, Master Pakku might know something," said the boy.
"Ryan, hasn't it occurred to you that nobody knows where your friend is? Literally everybody we asked has no idea," DAVE said. The kids looked at DAVE, a floating metal ball just spoke.
"Uhh... what is that thing?" The boy asked with a bit of fear in his voice.
"Well this thing is an AI that has transferred into an eyebot. And I have feelings you know!" The two didn't know what an 'eyebot' or an 'AI' was.
"Sorry, we've just never seen something like you before. How are you floating? Are you a spirit?"
"Yes I'm a spirit with a laser penis," he said sarcastically, "What did I just say!"
"Sorry about him, he's lived 200 years underground alone. Now can we see this Master Pakku?" said Ryan, "What were your names? We didn't catch them."
"I'm Aang and this is Katara, we're actually on our way to see him so Katara could learn waterbending," said the boy.
"I'm Ryan and this is DAVE. We're from uhh..." He was at a loss of words. That lady in the clinic fainted, who knows what would happen if they told a bunch of kids.
DAVE was thinking the same thing, he just said, "Alpha Centauri."
"Yeahhhh... I was just about to say that."
"Where's that?" Asked Katara.
"Uhhhh..." Ryan didn't know what to say, "Doesntexististan?" The wastelander and his floating toaster companion definitely weren't very convincing at all.. But the locals didn't look threatening so they brushed it off. "Can we please see this Pakku guy now?"
A couple minutes later. The four arrived at what looked like a dojo. There was a crap-ton of ice stairs to go up though, funny thing was it wasn't even slippery. Everywhere they went physics was defied.
After climbing so many steps Aang shouted, "Good day, Master Pakku!" There was an old man who looked like the old senseis from those pre-war movies. He was using waterbending to hold a a ball of water. He dropped it as Aang greeted him loudly.
"Oh go ahead and drop in it's not like I was concentrating or anything," Pakku said sarcastically. He turned around and looked at the group. "So which one of your friends was here to learn waterbending? You?" He looked at Ryan.
"Me? No," the wastelander denied.
"It's me," Katara corrected.
"I'm sorry, there's been a misunderstanding. In our tribe, girl's aren't allowed to learn waterbending," Pakku mentioned.
Aang and Katara were shocked. Ryan wasn't at all, sexism was a common thing in what's left of his world. But he still had a problem with it.
"So you're not going to let her practice your water magic because of her gender?" Ryan asked.
"It's not magic," Pakku and Katara said in Unison.
"Sorry, waterbending. Her gender doesn't mean anything. What else can't women do? Join the army? Get a job of power? Vote?" He listed.
"There's a few things women can't do. (Guys I have no clue about all of their customs just go with it) They can't join the military or fight with waterbending as you already know and... there's more but they're not important. We've used these customs for a millennia and I dare not break them to teach one girl." Pakku commented. These people have really proven themselves to be primitive compared to most factions in the wasteland. And not tribal primitive, more like using technology and ideas centuries before the great war. On the bright side women have good jobs like doctors rather than housewives.
"But there's got to be some waterbending women in this tribe," Katara mentioned.
"The women here learn from Yugoda. I'm sure she'd be happy to teach you despite your bad attitude," Pakku uttered, "She teaches them to heal."
"But I don't want to heal. I want to fight!" Katara shouted.
"Too bad."
"If you won't teach Katara or I will..." Aang couldn't think of what to say. He just walked off.
"Have fun teaching yourself then!"
Katara ran after him. As the two spoke in the distance, Ryan asked Pakku, "Hey you don't happen to have seen a girl, around her age, wearing stitched together robes, has like a black mark on her face have you?"
"No I have not. Might I ask where you're from? Your clothing looks like it's from the fire nation yet your hair and eyes tell a different story."
"Nowhere," he replied, and walked off.
Down the stairs, Ryan realised something. Where was DAVE? Somebody screaming could be heard, he looked up. The eyebot crashed onto the ground making a small crater. The robot hovered again. "Where were you?" The Californian asked.
"I was seeing how high I can go. I reached 2398.788ft until gravity ruined everything," DAVE commented. The wastelander rolled his eyes. "So, did you get any information with that Pakku man?"
"No. I don't even know what to do now. We're stuck here for now." He sat down on a step.
"What is the story between you and East? You seem to be almost obsessed with searching for her."
"She's tribal from Arizona. Her tribe was occupied by the legion and she ran off into Nevada. She doesn't tell me all the details or her real name. I don't know why she changed it at all. She ran into me and we became friends. Been teaching her how to survive the wasteland for the past year. Anything else you wanted to know?"
"No that was all. We can get some more intel on this world. Know some more about the history of it."
"Sure. Beats sitting around and chatting."
Asking around the city (again), the two got a lot of information. There are 4 nations in this world: The Northern Water Tribe, the Southern Water Tribe, the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom. They thought of them being definitely weird names for countries. The people here can control the primary elements, water, earth, fire and air. There wasn't an Air Nation in the world but some say that they were wiped out in a genocide. The Fire nation have been at war with the world for almost a hundred years and are winning. The Avatar has been destined to save the world, thing is the Avatar is a twelve year old. And he's been hilariously failing at his lessons by a sexist stubborn man.
"Well, these people are screwed," said Ryan.
THE NEXT DAY
Fighting could be heard from the dojo. The two other-worlders went to check it out. It sounded too intense to be a training lesson. Turns out Katara was fighting Pakku because of his sexist beliefs. There was a whole audience watching the battle. Katara created a pile of ice discs and shot them at Pakku, the waterbending master barely dodged them. After some more violent water clashes, the young girl gained the upper hand and wrecked Pakku in the process. The master disappeared into a cloud of mist. All of a sudden, sharp icicles dropped around her forming a cage rendering the girl helpless. Her fierce attitude didn't stop her from trying, but it was useless, she was beaten.
"I told you I'm not teaching you!" Pakku uttered and walked away.
"Come back here! I'm not done with you!" Katara shouted.
"Yes you are," he froze. The master's eyes widened as he looked at the ground. He picked up her necklace, a wave of memories poured back to him, "This is my necklace."
"No it's not. It's mine!" Katara still struggled to get out of her ice cage.
"I carved this sixty years ago. For Kanna."
"That's my grandmother. She was supposed to marry you," she realised.
"Top ten anime plot twists," DAVE muttered.
Ryan looked at his companion confused, "What?"
"You wouldn't get it."
"I loved her," Pakku uttered.
"But she didn't love you. She wouldn't let your stupid customs rule her life." Pakku instantly melted the deformed cage setting Katara free. In the audience, a teenage girl with white hair ran off crying. A guy around Ryan's age ran after her.
"What do you think that was about?" DAVE asked.
"Heck if I know. I'm going to find us a way off this rock."
AND THAT'S THAT. SORRY IF THAT ENDING WAS SO BLAND, THE ACTION HAPPENS IN THE NEXT CHAPTER SO STAY TUNED FOR THAT. PLEASE REVIEW!
