Inside the shack, Norm, Max, and Ryan prepare an avatar link so Ryan can get into his avatar body in the American base.

Norm was making final adjustments, "Alright just finishing up here to get you into your avatar."

Max comes in the room, "Ryan once you're finish with whatever you need to do, have someone transport you to the river guard tower, there, I with two of my friends will help get back you back to the village. We'll be there at noon."

Ryan sat by the link. "Alright, it should be quick. I hope the Captain will understand, with the Russians around, the Captain will have to lend a hand in case they're up to something here."

Norm was just finishing up pressing keys on the key board.

"I still don't understand why you all are back. I had sent a message to earth you all were defeated and to come and dig here was pointless. The new people should have received it too."

Ryan looks at Norm, "Well they still were in space and maybe were not in the transmission route, due to the fact that the Russians may have intercepted it. Besides, you know if they weren't here, the Na'vi would be in danger if the Russians attack."

"Fine then, you're right, but you better make sure the Captain doesn't resume the original mission. If we were able to defeat the previous Americans, with the help of Eywa, I'm sure we still have a fighting chance against the Russians."

Everything is set and Ryan lies down on the link, "Whose Eywa by the way?"

Norm rolls his eyes, "Not this again."

Norm closes the lid.

Max then speaks through the speaker inside the link, "Remember, we'll be waiting in the tower by the river at noon, we should arrive around that time."

"Alright, I'm all set to go."

Norm presses the button and Ryan warps to his avatar body. Ryan opens his eyes and gets up from the bed he's lying on. He is back in the barrack outside of the base. Ryan leaves it onto to the training grounds heading to the nearest entrance to the base. As he walked, he saw other people in their avatars exercising and playing sports.

Jessica, smiling headed towards him notifying Danny on the way and follows her, "Ryan! Where have you been?"

"Yeah, what have you been doing all this time?"

"I've been through a lot. First the Russians discovered who I was on a security video. I was able to escape from the base into the forest, but they followed me. I was able to get rid of them in the end, but this group of five Na'vi warriors kidnapped me and took me to their village where I was held for a trial," Ryan explained.

Jessica then asks, "How were you able to escape from them? But most importantly how you were able to communicate with them from what it seems?"

"Well from what I found out, there are human people living among them. The survivors of the war, which had happened not long ago, here on Pandora. Their clan leader, Jake, well he and his partner spoke English 'cause also there were humans living with them too."

"Why did they let you go?" Danny asked.

"I told the whole tribe about you all. Since it seems the people who once ran this base started a war with the Na'vi. The Na'vi won and banished the survivors from Pandora. But since the Russians can turn out to be a threat to them, I promised we would defend them if the Russians were to attack them."

"You think the Captain will agree on such a thing? I mean, they did kill some of our people before we arrived." Jessica was wondering.

"Well if they would've waited a bit longer, they would've been spared. They weren't suppose too either way."

Ryan was nearly at one of the entrances. Danny, Jessica, and Ryan talked on the remaining distance, "Any ways, now I should report to the Captain, he'll know what to do."

Danny starts walking to a scientist, "We'll have to call Sarah; you obviously can't go in while being in your avatar body."

Danny went to a scientist with a communicator, and called Sarah to the training grounds.

Sarah comes through the door and was surprised to see Ryan in his avatar body, "Well, long time no see. What have you been doing? Captain Mason has been trying to get in touch with you."

"Yeah my apologies, since I was discovered, chased through the forest, shot at as well, and finally abducted by blue aliens, which luckily some of the missing people here were living among them."

Sarah was surprised at what Ryan just told her, "It sounds like you been through a lot."

"Yeah, well right now I'm on a personal mission to tell the Captain what has happened here, but mainly that our lives are on the line."

Jessica steps up, "What do you mean our lives are on the line?"

"I promised the blue aliens..."

Danny interrupts, "The Na'vi."

"Fine. I promised the Na'vi that you all weren't here to resume your mission and that you all were here by accident and that you all would come to their aid if the Russians were to attack them."

"Wow. You think the Captain will believe you and agree to help if the Russians attack the Na'vi?" Sarah asked.

"He should. After all I helped get information on what the Russians are up too."

"I'll call the Captain to come and hear it all for himself."

Jake was pacing along the lake nearby the village.

Neytiri comes down the slope while looking at Jake, "Jake, what are you doing?"

"You think we did the right thing?" Jake asked looking at Neytiri.

Neytiri was confused, "What do you mean?"

"Giving that dreamwalker a chance to tell the new arrivals about us? They might attacks us again. What if the dark past repeats itself?"

"We all gave him this chance because the people trust he will do the right thing."

"But what if we gave him the chance to go tell the others where we are and warn them?"

Neytiri smiles at Jake, "The people trust him. He did after all remind us of a dreamwalker that once came to us and was troubled. He proved himself that he is not the enemy. And in the end, saved us all and restored our lives and smiles."

Jake stops pacing and looks at Neytiri, "But what if he undoes everything we have achieved?"

"We gave him the chance to prove himself that he and his friends are not the enemy this time. He has to pull through. Don't worry about it Jake, we all know we can count on you to do the right thing as well."

Neytiri grabs Jake's hands. Jake looks at her and gives her a kiss, "Come; let's go back to the village."

They hold each other's hand and go up the slope to the village.

Back in the training grounds, Captain Mason shows up, "Hello Ryan, not sure to say that you're safe and sound since it's not really you I'm starring at."

Ryan responded with sarcasm "Nice to see your caring side."

"Where have you been at? Thought you been caught and imprisoned by the Russians."

"Enough with the sarcasm sire, right now this is urgent."

"Alright tell me what happened to you these past hours."

Ryan then explains what had happened, "After being chased out of the Russian base into the forest, I was captured by the Na'vi, which have something to do with why no one was here when you arrived."

"Sounds like you had quite a day. What were you able to find out? What happened to everyone here?"

"The leader happens to know a lot of what had happened here since he took part in defeating everyone here. Course there was some people living with them, scientist of the avatar program from before."

"So there are at least some survivors."

"The Na'vi could've executed me, by after my trial; they gave me a chance to come here. Sire, despite of what had happened, we must protect the Na'vi if the Russians are up to something that might in danger their lives."

"O.K. why would I, they killed some of our people before we got here. Why should we?" The Captain asked.

"Captain do not forget I was supposed to get a certain message about not attacking the Na'vi. So we have no choice."

"I see where you are going at, but I don't know if I can. They did after all kill some of our people here, and we have orders to make sure nothing stops us from getting the Unobtainium."

"Yes, but the new order was not to start some kind of conflict with the Na'vi too. Now that both are thrown off now, so there practically no orders no more. Come on sire, they can help us out if the Russians are up to no good."

Captain Mason takes a few steps towards Ryan, "This will be a hard decision Ryan. I see your point, but we can't just go to the aid of some people we barely know, especially if we fought with them."

"I promised them you would. I told them how you're not really here to continue the mission especially after being told the past events. They trust that I can get you to help them when they need help."

"I don't know Ryan, it's something that will take time to decide, and besides how would you know if they're telling the truth? What if they made up a story to trick us to their advantage to attack us?"

"If that were true, then why the humans be living among them in peace? I doubt they're prisoners or hostages."

"Well, get more of the story, and we'll see if we can be allies."

"Alright, now I will need someone to transport me to some guard tower by a river. Some of the humans will be coming to take my avatar to the Na'vi's village somewhat. But I guess it's time to put my avatar to work by helping me blend in with every one there."

"OK I'll have a pilot fly you to the tower; we should find it in our maps."

He turns to Sarah, "I will call you Sarah so you can tell Ryan his ride is on its way."

"Yes Captain."

"Ryan, I will think about it, but I'm not making any promises. We might be alone now, but we must not let our guard down just to unite with strangers."

Captain Mason leaves back into the base.

Sarah shrugs her shoulders, "Well Ryan, it seems it'll be up to you to make sure we don't run in or create trouble again with the Na'vi."

"I know. Looks like I'm going to be doing more than what I was asked to do here."

Jessica smiles, "Don't worry Ryan, you can always count on us to help you when you need it."

"She's right; we'll watch your back any time. You don't have to go at this alone." Danny says.

Ryan smiles at them, "Thanks, good to know I won't be alone in this one."

Captain Mason returns with a few small equipment, "Alright Ryan, here are a few things I'm sure will be of assistance while you're away."

Captain Mason gives Ryan another walky-talky, a knife, and a small pocket sized hard drive.

Ryan was confused since Captain Mason gave him a small hard drive like the one he used to store the previous documents, "I don't get it, what's with this hard drive?"

"You're going to have to persuay me. Since you want me to watch over the Na'vi, well you're going to have to get me more files from the Russian base. You raised the bet, I raise the price. Get me more on what other reasons the Russians are here for. We found some files containing new weapons that I've never seen at earth. There must be a reason of why they brought them here."

"Fine, you just sit here and not do anything to jeopardize my, no, our situation with the Na'vi. Because if I fail, you fall with me."

Captain Mason nods his head, "Fine Ryan, I'll go see if the pilot is ready."

Captain Mason goes back into the base.

"Well Ryan, I sure do hope for the best for you. Take care of yourself and the avatar will ya."

"Thanks Sarah. Sure don't worry; I'm not going to kill this one thing that took years to develop in space."

Captain Mason then starts talking through Sarah's communicator, "Sarah, tell Ryan the pilot is on his way, over."

"Yes sire. I'll tell him right away, over and out."

Jake and Neytiri walked through the village. Jake was still thinking about if Ryan is doing what he promised.

Neytiri looks at Jake knowing what he was still thinking of, "Jake, what's wrong? You're still not thinking of Ryan still are you?"

"I'm sorry Neytiri it's not that, I don't want to lose this, all of this along with you. Pandora is my home and I don't want it to be taken away because of Ryan and the new arrivals. Pandora is important to me and I won't allow anyone to ruin it again."

Neytiri smiles at him, "You must not worry about the future all the time; you have to live in the present that's what you should worry about."

"You're right. I should go and check on the guys, they said they would help Ryan to get to the base. I will see you later in the gathering tonight."

Jake kisses Neytiri on the cheek and walks on the path that will lead him to the shacks.

A helicopter lands in an open area in the training grounds.

Sarah speaking in a loud voice because of the loud sound of the helicopter, "Ryan it's all up to you now. Best of luck, we all will be rooting for you here."

"Thanks, I'll be in contact with the Captain. I'll be informing him of the progress with the Na'vi."

Jessica also talking in a loud voice, "Take care and make it back safely."

"I will, you guys too."

Ryan heads over to the helicopter and gets in.

Dale the pilot then turns to see if Ryan was in, "Hello, you must be the one the Captain told me to fly to the guard tower near the river. I'm Dale, nice to meet you."

"Nice to me you too, I'm Ryan."

"Alright, hang on now, I'll get us there quick, the tower is not far from here."

"Good, let's go before time runs out."

The helicopter starts to rise up and starts flying to the right to head to the tower. As the helicopter flies over the top of the forest near a cliff, Ryan sees a waterfall and notices a lot of Pandora's wild life by a lake drinking water and eating plants. They looked like strange dears and others like cows.

Dale makes a hand signal to Ryan indicating to look down below, "Beautiful place huh? Quite a scenery, we're lucky get to see it from."

"Got that right. How long before we reach the tower."

"Not long, two more miles, we'll be there in a jip. You can sort of see it from here."

They finally reached the tower, but couldn't find a place to land, "Sorry Ryan, but it looks like you're going to climb down using a rope."

"It's alright. I have to go by myself from here any ways. Thanks for the lift."

Ryan gets a rope and attaches the clip on the handle and grabs onto the rope. He slowly slides down until he reached the forest floor. Dale then brings the rope up and flies away. Ryan walks around the tower through old barracks that are falling apart. Ryan reaches the side of the river where he waits for someone to come for him. As Ryan waited, he looks at the tree tops and listens to the sounds around him, like some strange bird making a noise time to time, and by the river hears the water running and the strange insects flying by.

Then at a far distance, Ryan hears a motor. It starts to get closer to him, and soon enough knew it had to be Max with some Na'vi accompanying him. Then, they finally appear and stopped close to the shore where Ryan stood.

Max gets up, "Here we are. Fine avatar Ryan, lets head on over to the village."

"Sounds good." Ryan replies.

Ryan walks aboard the flat boat with big fan like motor to make it move. There were two Na'vi on board with bows and arrows, and one on the machine gun on the nose of the ship.

As the boat sailed along the river going back the way it came, Ryan looked around at the huge trees that they passed. There were some creatures on the branches, some on the ground. The boat, at a distance, past a Hammerhead herd near the side of the river. Some were in the shallow water while others on land eating plants. As the boat got near a small harbor, there were a few fisherman that were using some kind of nets to catch the strange fish or others swimming and diving to catch them. The boat finally ported and everyone started walking on a path that will lead them back to the village while passing huts off the side of the path.

"Now just because you look like them Ryan, it will not make it simple for you here understand. Stay close to us, wouldn't want you wondering off and starting trouble."

"Then how am I going to be able to get them to hear me and trust me if I can't go to them?"

"Right now teaching you some things about the Na'vi's culture will help you out so you don't incidentally ruin your chance to prove yourself. Norm and I will teach you a bit of how and what the Na'vi do things around here."

"Good, I'm going to need all the help I can get to get them to trust me. Oh yeah, now that I remember, Captain Mason gave me these communicative devices to inform him of my progress with the Na'vi here. He also would want to meet you all; it would cut some work out for me to get him to be on the Na'vi's side."

Max looks at the device, "Yes that would be helpful. For now let's just get back to the shacks."

Jake walks up to the door where Norm and Ryan are, and knocks on the door. Norm sees that it's Jake, so he puts on a mask and goes outside.

"Hey Jake, what's going on?"

"Where's Ryan? I need to talk to him over a few things since he's going to be staying here with us."

"Well, right now he's in an avatar link. Max had radioed me they're close."

"Avatar link? So he has his own avatar huh?"

"Ryan was going to use it to tell the Captain about us here, you know, to do what he promised. But we thought it would also be better for him to bring his avatar so it could help get him the support also from the Omaticaya."

Jake nods his head, "I suppose it is better that he does bring it. He won't survive as a human out here and once I tell him of the past here."

Max then speaks through Norm's communicator, "Norm, we're nearby."

"Cool, Jake is here right now, so Ryan when you get here, he'll want to speak with you."

Finally, the group appears from the brushes that form the entrance to the past.

Max comes walking first, "We're here now."

Jake walks towards Ryan, "Ryan, I see you're disguised as a Na'vi. I think it's better for you to be like this."

"As do I. By the way, the Captain has given me this walky-talky, so I can inform him of the progress here."

Jake grabs the walky-talky, "Hmm, I'll hang on to this, if whenever you need to talk to the Captain, you'll have to come to me."