Chapter 3: Aren't Deathknight's immune to cold?

AN: Hello again here is another chapter for ya'll and as promised this will be chapter introducing the Enclave to the ATLA universe. Though the Enclave don't know they were sent to a different universe/planet...yet.

Disclaimer: I don't own either Fallout or Avatar the Last Airbender

Snowy mountains covered the landscape. Rivers of icy water encircled and pierced the snowy plains. Multiple masses of ice floated above the water as if they were small independent islands. Islands home to the dangerous tiger-seals, the malicious bear-wolves or the adorable giant penguins. These snowy plains were home to a tribe nearly destroyed by war. A tribe whose men have taken by said war. Leaving only women and children in their homes, people who have no means of protection. No protection except for a naive yet enduring young warrior and a strong willed novice waterbender. These two individuals were the children of the tribe chieftain, Sokka and Katara of the Southern Water Tribe. At the early adult age of 18(Katara) and 19(Sokka) they have some of the most stressful responsibilities.

They are in charge of ensuring the protection of the women,elderly and children from the dangers of territorial animals, the danger of starvation, and more importantly the dangers of the fire nation. These responsibilities continue to grow as they must teach the children how to hunt, cook, skin or any other skill they need to know to survive in the South Pole. The mother's and other young women help the siblings but there are too many things to be done for only a dozen and half people to do. Causing many of the more strenuous tasks for the siblings such as the formerly mentioned hunting,fishing and late night watches for possible fire nation attacks.

These two young adults are now riding one of their boats to collect fish for the tribe. Sokka, a ruggedly handsome man with his dark brown hair in a small ponytail, deep blue eyes, dark skin, and a small stubble on his chin. Wearing a blue thick hide skinned parka, warming him from the harsh cold wind, threw a fishing net into the water hoping for successful catch. Katara, a young beautiful women with dark brown flowing freely to her shoulders and mid-back, deep blue eyes, and dark exotic skin. She wore her mother's necklace along with a blue dyed hide skin park as she held a wooden pole keeping the boat in place to help her older brother.

Sokka pulled the net and found that they gained a bounty of only one fish. Katara sighed at the lack of success and Sokka groaned in disappointment. He placed the one fish into a vase filled with water to keep it fresh.

"I told you a thousand times and I'll tell you a thousand more times, stop using the net! Use the fishing pole, put some snow bread on it, and wait. That should give us plenty of food." Katara said to her older brother's in his stubbornness.

"But if we do that we'll waist perfectly good food, that we need, to get fish that might not even get caught. Using the fishing net is a good and fast way to get fish without the need of wasting our food supply for the coming winter." Sokka countered before sighing,"I don't even know why I bring you with me you don't understand how men work and how it actually succeeds." Sokka continued causing Katara to get angry. Sokka had developed a very sexist mindset having the idea that women should stay at home with the children and cook while the men do everything from fighting to deciding what to do. A mindset caused by the action his father and all the other men before they left for war. Katara, however, was born with a fire in her heart, her father even said he would have mistaken her with a firebender because of the burning flame in her eyes. She never really went along with the whole 'women stay and men go out' social lifestyle and openly expressed it. She even have some of the younger girls agree with her.

"Sokka don't go on that whole 'men know what's best' bullshit! You would of have not even thought of fishing here until I told you about this boat that father and the others left behind. They even told you about it but yet you forgot about it almost instantly." She said with her hand on her forehead at an attempt to control her rage.

"Hey, I was still the one that remembered which place was the best fishing spot." Sokka countered again, getting Katara more angry.

"Yes, fishing as in a fishing pole, meat for brains, you brange us to a fishing spot not a netting spot. For the past few hours you've been using nets!" Katara screamed with rage and from that rage caused her unskilled control over her natural ability in waterbending to crack a nearby snow glacier. Sokka noticed this and from the size of the glacier he was afraid that it cause a wave large enough to tip over the boat.

"Katara stop-"

"Stop! No I'm not going to stop I am tired of all of your sexist crap!" She screamed again creating another crack on the glacier.

"Katara you're-" Sokka tried to speak again but he was stopped, not by Katara, but by hitting a moving piece of ice. The boat shook as they both held to the edges to not fall off. They both turned to see what hit them and found that it a moving piece of ice...with something on it. It looked huge, maybe 9 feet tall, it was an all black metal creature with drawings of animal and human bones on its feet was knee deep into the freezing water as its body was spread out upon the surface of the ice.

Curiosity took over them as they pushed the ice to solid ground, which in itself was difficult because of the unimaginable weight the strange creature had. They were impressed on how the piece of ice did not sink as they pushed it to solid ground. Katara used her waterbending to keep the piece of ice from moving while Sokka got pikes and rope to keep it in place. When Sokka put that last pike in the siblings sat next to the strange being.

"What do you think it is?" Sokka asked as he began to poke at it with his club.

"Don't poke it, you idiot, it might be still alive!" Katara told Sokka for him to only scoff.

"This thing is dead"

"How are you so sure?"

"I just...I just know okay, it something a man knows." Again anger grew on Katara's face.

"Really, knowing when something is dead is something only a 'man' can do." She said with anger ,again, though she pinched the bridge of her nose at an attempt to calm herself down. She ,of course, loves her brother dearly but his opinions on women really gets her angry at him.

Sokka continued poking at it as he continued to mumble some words but Katara ignored them. She examined the face of the creature intently. It had hoses from the right side of his head going to it face. It had a wide open mouth that looked like it had something stuck inside it. "Maybe that's how it died" she thought as he looked at the creature pure sickly gold eyes, quite terrifying really. As she looked further she noticed this strange blinking...something, it was flashing red every few seconds. Her mind and body for some reason said to touch it so her hand began towards his face. Sokka asked her what she was doing but she, again, ignored him for the sake of her curiosity, her anger now gone. When her finger touched the blinking thing it felt somehow soft as if she could go deeper. She did just that as she pressed hard on the red button. Almost instantly a hiss was heard as the creature face was coming off. They screamed in fright and backed away. After a few moments Katara moved forward to see what she had done, Sokka again was calling out to her to stop and again she ignored him."I can take care of myself" She thought as she reached to what seems to be an opening to the creature's face. The 'face' of the creature was not a face at all it was a helmet and this man she sees before her is his true face.

He had a slightly pale yet a very hairy face because of his slightly unkempt beard giving him a feral look. A increased that appearance one that came from his right side of his forehead to his left nostril. It looked like a beast attempted to cut his face off but it failed. A blush came to her face, the man had a 'bad boy' look and those scars gave him more attractiveness from what he already had. Plus it didn't help with this man being ,probably, the only other man other than her brother that she has seen for the past 8 years.

She pushed those thoughts away. She was a young woman someone who of yet has to hold a firm grasp on her emotion. If her lack of control of her anger is anything to show for it.

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The last thing he remembered was a bright white flash and then just being cold, deathly cold. He's beyond thankful to his genetics giving him one hell of a hairy body giving him a natural resistance to the cold weather plus he loves the cold. Though this freezing air was pushing it.

He heard talking coming from outside his armor sadly because it being offline he couldn't hear them quite well. That was until one of them manually unlocked the helmet piece for his armor. When it fully came off he heard a young male voice call out in english.

"Katara get back we don't know what that thing will do!" A male voice screamed. "Katara" he thought with his eyes closed "that's a..exocitly bueatiful name." His body could not move but his face was free, he could feel the incredibly cold wind, so when he felt a presence in front of him he opened his eyes.

Brown met blue and blue met brown, the girl was exactly like her name, exoticly bueatiful. Blue eyes, tanned skin, and long dark brown hair. She didn't react to his eyes the way he expected her too. Instead of stepping back in fear she leaned closer with eyes filled with curiosity.

"Who are you?" She asked and the . raised a tired eye brow at the question yet he did not answer. For noticed to his left was a man with ponytail, blue eyes, tanned skin but what he most concentrated on was the melee weapon in his head. Katara noticed this and turned to the young man.

"Sokka put your weapon down, it's impolite." She ordered but he did not follow it.

"Impolite? Ha, you won't say that when he attacks us." the boy countered.

"He has no reason to attack us, you dummy, we practically saved him from the ocean. Put your weapon down." She ordered again but this time it succeeded and he lowered his weapon, however the first part of what she said got his attention.

They saved his life? How? He began to look around the snowy landscape. Then another thought came into mind, snow? How? When? What!? The DeathKnight was confused at the current situation. Until he saw the giant body of water behind the exotic girl. How the heck did he miss that? They saved him from the ocean. With his armor that would have, indeed, been a horrible death.

"So, can you get off my chest miss, I would like to get up." His said voice sounded slightly surprising Katara and caused Sokka to aim his weapon at him, again. Katara blushed slightly as she quickly got off his chest allowing Sokka to get in front of her in a protective manner.

The LC began to press buttons from within his armor re-activating it. Green-ish outlines of light glowed out the armor causing both of the strangers to stand in shock. As he began to stand up he noticed something, something horrifying. He couldn't feel his legs they've been stuck in sub-zero temperature water too long. The lack of feeling could only be caused by one thing. "Frostbite" He thought cursing wildly in his mind,this is not good, not good at all. He did not know where he was, he was separated from both his unit and the bunker and the only people that good help him are apparently tribals. If their style of clothing and reaction to his APA was any type of indication. He sighed in frustration as he banged on his leg armor.

"What are you doing?" The Knight looked up and saw the girl, Katara, again, fearlessly walking towards him. He could see the young boy cautiously move to her side with a well crafted club in hand. If their was anything Navarro appreciated it was a good and well made melee weapon. Sadly they are not standard issue for Enclave Soldiers so he usually enjoyed watching them as he slaughtered raiders or other wastelanders who used melee weapons against him. Katara noticed his staring and grabbed the club right out of his hands." Amataur warrior, didn't even have a good grip on his weapon." He thought with a calculative gaze. Katara began lecturing the young man on how it's impolite to have weapons in front of he needed them to focus if he was to keep his legs. dam frostbite.

"I can't feel my legs, they've been in the water to long." he said simply as he began to bang on his leg armor again. As he did so he heard some sloshing of water coming from inside the suit. it would seem a large amount of water is still inside the suit. Thankfully the electronics and other powered equipment were completely water resistant but stopping water from coming in the armor would not seem to be as prudent as the formor. Navarro will never understand what the engineers were thinking when they made this suit.

Both Katara and Sokka, if Navarro heard his name correctly, eyes widen at that. Sokka quickly went for the boat while Katara went towards his legs. She looked up as if asking permission to touch his legs. He nodded to which she put her hands on the armor. He was about to say that he need to get out of his armor to be able to help it but what happened next shocked him.

The water from within the suit began to move out as her hand pulled back from his leg. Then she moved in smooth but yet slightly awkwards movement to move the water from the air towards the large body of water next to them. She then began with next leg and did the same process as before.

To say he was shocked was an understatement. He was flabbergasted, befiddled, whatever other words you could think that would describe his shock. How? Was his first thought at Katara's strange ability. Then he thought upon the war and the many mutations that might of happened in the conclusion of radiation exposure. He really needed to know where he was. After Katara finished moving the water in his armor into the ocean Sokka was able to move the boat next to him. Sokka motioned him to enter but the LC shook his head.

"I weigh over 300 pounds, there no way that small boat would hold me afloat." The sibling were slightly shocked at how heavy he was but they shook it off for the sake of his health. " These kids are too trusting, to kind." He thought as he glanced towards Katara." You never know who you will find in this world" He thought again as he moved his hand to the hip over his concealed Plasma Defender. He corest the location for a second before moving his hand away.

"Then take off your armor. The only way back to the tribe is by boat." Katara suggested and the Knight instantly denied the request. He would not leave his armor in the middle of nowhere.

"Plus the only thing I'm wearing under my armor is my underwear and I'd rather not die faster than I already should and my suit can heat my body up. I couldn't before because of the water inside would of started to boil can me to get burned." He said nonchalantly causing Katara to blush at the thought of seeing him naked but yet had an amazed face the ability of his armor. He flipped on the heater switch from inside the armor as Sokka was about to say something but was stopped by a buzzing sound coming from Navarro's armor. It was his radio, it still works. How? He doesn't know but right now he can use it for assistance.

"Knight Squad, come in, this is Knight-01 do you read me? I repeat this is Knight-01 radioing all Knights does anyone hear me?" The LC called to his unit, his hand pressing a button on the collar of his armor. The sibling looked at him weirdly not understanding was he was doing. They were then shocked when a voice sound off from his armor.

"Knight-01, this is Knight-02, we hear you sir. It's nice to know your still alive. Where are you located sir?"

" You won't believe me but I'm near the ocean on the main body of a large snowy plains. If would I have to guess, the South or North pole. Cause there is no way these glaciers are in Alaska." He said again through the radio and came another response Knight-02 or more well known as Delta.

The siblings were simply shocked at how his armor was talking to him. However, further into their conversation they both of them figured that he was not talking to his armor, since that would be impossible, but instead talking to an actually person...that is not in front of them. Actually that would be more insane than talking to your armor. They thought more upon it and noticed that the man over the radio sounded very similar to his own...The siblings glanced at each other and they found themselves in agreement.

This man was beyond insane and it was probably because of the frostbite covering his legs.

Though as he continued speaking they began to notice some words that caught their attention. 'Raven Rock', 'bunker', 'power armor', and 'vertibird. These sounded too foreign to be made up but they could be wrong and it was just his mind growing more insane by the second. He continued for another minute speaking to this 'Knight-02'. Though at least they knew a name of his, Knight, they could tell it wasn't his real name it seemed more of a title. After some quiet whispering they also concluded that the other man was probably his brother who died at one point and is appearing to him in some kind of delusion. On the basis that both men carried the same title.

"Ok, well, it would seem my men are coming to pick me up so it would seem I don't further require your assistance. " He screamed in surprised as he fell not being able to move his legs. His legs would seem his legs froze slightly but the heat from his suit is helping. He would still need medical attention.

"What happened?" Katara asked as she kneeled next to him as they moved him from facing down to facing up. As he was turned upward he answered by saying his current situation causing her eyes to grow wide with worry. "To kind, she has been sheltered, to easily moved by others problems or weakness. That would prove fatal as she grows older." He commented in his mind as she and Sokka quickly opened a jar in the boat and put a small stick with some old rags wrapped around it. He raised his eyebrow as Katara dipped it in the jar and as Sokka went grab two stone from his bag. Though his eyes grow to be shocked, one of the very few times he ever truly was, as he saw Katara pull the stick back with black liquid dripping off of it. He knew what it was, every single Enclave member knew what it was. It was what was fought for in a decade long war, it's what was fought for in the Great War. 'Liquid Gold' as some pre-war businessmen called it but the Enclave like to call it by its more common name.

Oil

They had oil here.

Navarro's head looked at all directions. Oil is in these snowy plains, in these mountains, in the soil. That would mean the Enclave has just found an untapped oil deposit, well not untapped considering their people were the first to discover it but that doesn't matter. We were using oil reserves for the past few years though the reserves were very large it was not unlimited.

As the LC continued to think on the possibilities this new discovery could give them. Sokka finally sparked a fire on the torch and ran towards me. He overed the torch one my legs.

"You know my armor is heat resistant, I and it would not get damaged if you placed the torch on my leg." Sokka placed the torch after shaking out his amazement, grumbling at Navarro's 'awesome' armor. He quickly ran back and began sparking another torch his sister had prepared.

Navarro sighed as he watched them attempt to help him. He knew that those torches won't do much but he won't say anything. Why? So they won't ask him 20 questions. Rather have them be busy and doing something they think will help then starting to ask questions about him or anything related to him. That'll just cause more problems especially now that he know that Katara is a mutant, he sighed at the thought.

"Sucks she's a mutant, I bet Autumn would have considered taking them in as second hand citizens if they had shown us where the oil was located but now knowing they were mutated. It would be only a matter of time before the General or the President orders their annihilation." He sighed again in sadness as he patently waited for his evac.

Katara held the torch for her brother to light as she watched the armored man in the distance. She hopes they would be able to save his legs from the cold. A flash was caught in the corner of her eye, turning, she sees the now burning torch, the fifth torch they have lit. They were running out of sticks and cloth, fast. Probable only two more torches before they runs out of everything except for the black liquid.

She stared at the black sludge as she plunged another stick covered in cloth into the substance. She knew had its uses especially at making fire, you have no know idea how many times their lives were saved by this stuff but that was the only thing it was good to be used for. You can't drink it because the two men who had done had died a day later and what purpose is there in bathing in it. The only known use was creating fire, useful as it was, it was basically useless.

Were Katara's thoughts on the black substance. Though she will very soon learn of the other amazing uses oil can be used for.

Sokka placed the last torch he and his sister had been able to make with materials at hand on the man's legs. The armor really was resistant to heat if his lack of screaming in pain said anything. Though that caused him to think on how effective those torches actually are at helping the legs not freeze up. He ignored that thought for the sake of some rest.

Sokka collected a large amount of snow to be make a bean bag shaped seat for himself. As he sat he watched 'Knight' but more particularly his armor. The armor was the most amazing thing had seen in his life. It was made completely out of steel or whatever metal it was made out of. It was large bulky yet somehow also sleek and smooth. It had lights coming off of it as if it was alive. Even though he really doesn't believe armor can somehow become a living thing. His mind can't shake off the idea that the armor truly is alive somehow. He then narrowed his eyes at the man his earlier thoughts removed..

He gripped his now reclaimed club in worry. Worry in how the appearance of this strange man and his strange armor would endanger or change their way of life. He knew that the armor was built specifically for war, what armor wasn't, but his armor screamed death and the drawings of bones on his armor was not helping.

Though that wasn't the only thing he was worried about. He had caught the man staring at his sister. Now he knew his sister is a very beautiful woman and she will attract a lot of male attention.. He is prepared for that type scenario but the look this strangers face was not lust nor anything smitten. It was sadness and forgiveness, his eyes said it all, and Sokka could not understand why he would look at her in that way. Though now that he thinks about it he started looking at her like that when she used her waterbending.

His thought however were brought to a close when he heard a strange whooshing and chuga chuga noise coming from behind him. He turned around and looked around the empty snowy plains and found nothing but the noises were getting closer and louder. He stood from his seat and narrowed his eye at an attempt at trying to see what was nearing them. As he searched the area he heard the armored man voice behind him.

"Hey, look up you'll find what you're looking for," Sokka blinked, up? How could it be above him. Was it a bird of something that created those strange noises. He looked up to satisfy his curiosity at the possibility it can actually be something flying above him. After a few moments he was about to give up until he saw a break in the clouds. His eyes widened and quickly ran towards his sister near the armored.

They both stared at the strange metal looking beast as it circled them above. Like a monkey-vulture waiting for its prey's death.

"You got nothin' to be afraid of they aren't going to hurt you," They" the sibblies both thought. Were there more than one of those creatures because of there was they couldn't see the other ones.

The creature above them then stopped moving above them as it slowly lowered down to their level. It was large with two wings a tail and...spinning mini-arms. What? That couldn't be possible no living thing had that. Now as they further examined the strange flying...thing. They noticed that it looked more...machine. Like those steel boats the fire nation uses for war. As the things wings began to slow down they could see a symbol on it side. It was an 'E' surrounded by stars.

Abruptly the side of it opened revealing six other men wearing similar armor 'Knight's'. Some armor was lighter, some were thicker but they all held that low green glow to them. The siblings stood their in confused shock at was occurring. As they watched one person came out of the vertibird without any type of armor. He wore a thick leather hooded-sweater and thick pants and carried a briefcase.

"Knight squad, secure the area." A soldier with 'Delta' printed over his heart, in white, ordered to the others. The other soldiers quickly followed the order and encircled them in a protective manner. Delta moved out of the cloth wearing individual and allowed him to quickly move towards Navarro.

She kneeled next to the LC opening his suitcase. He grabbed a vial from inside then grabbed a syringe. He pulled a blue liquid from the vial into the syringe making sure remove any air trapped inside. He lifted the hood off her face revealing her to be a women. Elizabeth to be specific. When Navarro saw her face he paled and gulped in fear. She did not look at him preferring to find a slot in his armor to open to put anti-frostbite chemicals into his bloodstream. He grunted in pain as she stabbed the needle into him now looking at him with anger but with some hints of worry in her eyes.

"Now, what did I tell you about dieng Lieutenant Colonel." She said in a strong and demanding voice.

"...Not too, but I didn't you clearly see me breathing and I even grunted in pain when you stabbed me so I'm very much alive." He said slightly confused and trying to save himself from his friends wrath. She only smiled sweetly as she looked towards Delta.

"Did you say something Delta, is it something about how I treat my cadavers," She asked. Delta quickly shook his rapidly. She nodded in happiness as she stabbed another vial into his other leg causing Navarro to grunt and his men to wince.

"Look, Liz, I'm sorry, I really am but can you really expect what had happened to happen. Teleporting to another continent entirely is not something we talked about. You can't blame me for that." Navarro pleaded only to receive a blank look."... I'm willing to change my armor if that makes you feel better." He continued but this time he got a twitch from her." No combat mission for a month, you know I have a lot of leave time built up." This time he got a smile out of her. Navarro sighed in relief but then yelped in pain as she stabbed a stim into him.

"Alright if you do all that, I might forgive you." She said getting a quick nod from Navarro. Elizabeth called for two of the soldiers to pick him up and take him to the vertibird.

The two sibling simply stared trying to register what they were witnessing. They watched silently as they carried 'Knight' off to the vertibird. Though as he was about to enter the aerial vehicle he turned to Delta and quietly spoke something to him. After they finished speaking Navarro was fitted into the aircraft and Delta turned around looking at the siblings. He then pointed to them.

"Take'em" Delta said causing Katara and Sokka to grow wide eyed and to turn around in an attempt to flee to only see the butts of two soldiers weapon hit their faces knocking them into unconsciousness.

AN: :) hehe you didn't see that coming did ya… or maybe you did… I'm not that good of a writer..yet. I need more experience with writing before I completely confident on my writing ability.

Now if this seemed rushed to you I'm sorry I sort of wrote that last 2.5k words is less than an hour in class. So again sorry for any grammar mistakes or spelling. No, I'm not neglecting my school work I had done my work a week early so I was OK on doing anything I wanted. I'll probably will edit it at one point.

Now ,my finally message, I might not update next Wednesday since I had the first two chapters done ahead of time while I had finished half of the third chapter. I do know where I am going with my story thankfully so it shouldn't take me that long...maybe two weeks if I really work on it and that's for another three chapters so don't worry about waiting too long.

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