Fate's Bitch of A Sister
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar.

For three years I studied alongside two others going to Pandora, Norm Spellman and Thomas Sully. They'd been on the program two years ahead of me, but they were all too helpful in helping me catch up. I heard about the natives of Pandora, the Na'vi, from them, they taught me about their culture and the language that they spoke. They also spoke of the ingenious way that the Na'vi managed the resources of the forest, taking enough to sustain their people and the forest. I wished that humans had managed the environment that way. Of course the program was optional as I was only to be an assistant overseer for the RDA, but I was fascinated. But little did I know that the things that I had learned would soon be very important when I arrived on Pandora.

Norm Spellman opened his eyes and slowly felt his way out of the cryosleep capsule. If he was awake it meant they were there, they were finally at Pandora! "Now people do not panic," a male voice called out, "You have all been in cryosleep for five years and nine months. You may feel dizzy, hungry or nauseous. If you do feel nauseous feel free to use the available barf bags."

He then heard a female voice chuckle from above him, "You'd think that they'd have a more professional term than barf bag."

Smiling down at him was a 27 yr old woman with short black hair that was closely cropped to her head, with the exception for the fringe and bangs that curved around her face, although at the current moment her hair was floating because of the lack of gravity. This was his friend, Kiseki Stewart, soon to be assistant overseer for the RDA.

"Kiseki!" he yelled, "Wait up!"

"If you're too slow you'll get left behind," she said, playfully floating out of his grasp.

"Quit playing around over there!" the man who yelled earlier said, "Or you'll both get left behind!"

"I don't think he's kidding around Kiseki," Norm said, pulling her down to his level by her ankle.

"Okay," she sighed, and then looked down sadly, "Tommy should be here."

Norm patted her on the shoulder, "I know, but I heard he had a twin brother called Jake who took over his contract."

"Yeah, the whole DNA math-up stuff for the neural link for the Avatar Program, right?" Kiseki said, "Well let's go."

It was unfortunate, but Tommy had died just days before they were meant to board the shuttle for Pandora. He was shot for the money in his wallet and it was devastating when Norm and Kiseki first heard of it.

Kiseki changed into her normal clothes when they were at the ISV Venture Star. Then she and Norm boarded the shuttle that would take them to Hell's Gate, the RDA base. She was lucky to get a seat next to Norm, who had a huge grin on his face. "If we didn't have to be strapped down you'd be jumping up and down in your seat wouldn't you?" Kiseki asked.

"Oh hell yeah!" Norm exclaimed.

"You're not the only one," she replied, "I can't wait to see an actual forest for myself."

"Alright people," barked out a dark-skinned man, "Exo-packs on. The air on Pandora is toxic; you're unconscious in 20 seconds and dead in 4 minutes. Let nobody die on my watch, it looks terrible on my record."

Norm and Kiseki quickly put on the masks that got handed to them. 'What an asshole,' Kiseki thought.

Soon the shuttle landed. "Okay everyone, head straight to the building and do not stop no matter what," the man yelled as the ramp was put down.

"Let's go," Norm smirked, "If you're too slow you'll get left behind."

"Hey! That's my saying!" Kiseki exclaimed, chasing after him.

As they walked in Kiseki couldn't help but gape at the amount of weaponry she saw, when she had read Dr. Augustine's book Dr. Augustine had said that the Na'vi were peaceful people. She was even more shocked when she saw large arrows sticking out of the wheels of a mining truck. "Come on Kiseki," Norm said anxiously, pulling on her arm, "We're going to be late for our safety briefing."

They had arrived on time; however Kiseki had to disagree with Colonel Quaritch, the man apparently responsible for their safety. He claimed that the Na'vi wanted to use their eyes for jujubes. A while later she glared at Norm who had started poking her in the shoulder. "What?" she hissed.

"The briefing is over," he said, "Where do you have to go?"

Kiseki looked down at the schedule she got given and raised an eyebrow, "It says that I have to go to the Avatar centre."

"Are you sure?" Norm asked, reading over her shoulder. His eyebrows also went up in surprise. "That's weird, are you sure that's your schedule?" he said.

"Yeah," she said, "There's my name right there. Look, why don't we just go down to the centre and see what's going on."

"Sure, oh look, I think that's Jake!" Norm gasped, pulling Kiseki over to a man in a wheel chair. Kiseki sighed, he looked so much like Tommy, well, they were identical twins, but Tommy was the one who was supposed to be there with them, not his brother. She stayed silent as Norm did all the talking.

They were greeted by a man of Indian descent who introduced himself as Dr. Max Patel, "Norm, Jake Kiseki, welcome to the Avatar Driving Program."

"Wait," Kiseki protested, "I'm supposed to be an assistant overseer, why am I in the Avatar Program?"

"Wait, you didn't know you were transferred to the Avatar program?" Dr. Patel asked, clearly confused.

"Kiseki's in the avatar program," Norm interrupted, "But how?"

"Well there was a mix up with your file and by the time we figured out you weren't in the program it was too late to stop the process without flushing 500 million down the drain," he explained, "We were lucky you had some good credentials in science. Selfridge was supposed to contact you and tell you."

Kiseki frowned, "Well I didn't hear a thing until today."

Dr. Patel cleared his throat, "Well how would you three like to see your avatar's?"

Norm looked at Kiseki, concern on his face.

"Let's go," she said grudgingly.

Author's Note: This idea would not leave my mind alone, so I wrote it then decided to randomly publish. Yeah, hope y'all enjoy.