Okay, so this is the last chapter where I'm going to be setting up the story. After this I'm gonna start making things a lot more entertaining and a lot more epic. If your still with me up to here I'm glad to say the next chapter will be where Jake and Striker have a bit of a run in with the dangers of Pandora. Trust me it's about to get good.

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar. I own only my original story points and the characters I created myself.

A Second Chance Chapter: 3 First Day as an Avatar

"So there I was, surrounded by three guys with pipes and baseball bats. I was cornered in an alley, and these guys knew I was the one who blew up there narcotics lab. So I pulled out my machete and cut off the first guys arm! Then I took the guys arm and threw it at the other guy, while he was distracted I picked up his weapon and took out the other two guys at the same time! The two guys suffered some blunt trauma from getting whacked on the head, and the other dude doesn't have his left arm, but I think he wont be needing it in prison." I finished telling my story and looked at Jake and Norm, who had their jaws dropped.

"Holy shit dude, that's some epic stuff!" Said Norm with a look of total amazement on his face.

"Are you kidding me? Your telling me that you've been living on earth for the past 6 years as a vigilante super hero?" Jake said apparently unconvinced by my story.

"I'm telling you dude, I killed three attack dogs with my bare hands!" I said frustrated (but not surprised) that Jake didn't believe my story.

"I'll believe it when I see it." Said Jake with a smug smile.

We were suddenly greeted by the sight of every ones favorite unhappy scientist, Grace. She was obviously angry we were late for our first linking and she didn't try to hide it.

"All three of you are late. If you don't get your asses moving right now I swear to God I will put my cigarette out in your breakfast."

"How do we know you haven't already." Jake's remark made everyone laugh, that is until Grace responded.

"You don't, but I think its better if you don't think about it."

After that we all headed straight for the link center. None of us really felt like eating anymore.

We got to the link room and I had a sudden thought. What am I doing? I had read part of a manual that told me I would be driving this alien body, but other than that I was completely clueless.

"So Augustine, what exactly are we supposed to be doing?" I tried to sound sincere, this question was definitely going to annoy her.

"You and Jake are going to be our security escort while me and Norm conduct research. Just stick with us and don't do anything too stupid." She said, a little less annoyed than I thought she would be.

"Okay, I'm gonna need a machete and an assault rifle." She looked at me funny, but nodded. I guess that was standard equipment for security escort.

We got to the link room and me and Norm hopped in to our link beds. I heard Jake talking to Augustine just before I went out.

"So you and Striker thought you would just come here, to the most hostile environment know to man and see how it went? What was going through your heads?"

"Striker's been living in hell for at least five years. And frankly I was pretty sick of doctors telling me what I couldn't do."

I laughed then blacked out. As my vision slowly returned I lifted my arms, which were blue. I got up then looked at my reflection. I was ten feet tall, I had a giant neural cord coming out of my head, and I was blue.

"Holy crap, this is so epic!" That was all I could say cause when I looked over I saw Jake getting up and running out the door, ignoring the science teams demands for him to sit down.

"Hey wait for me!" I said chasing after Jake and Norm. It was incredible. Jake looked like he was having the time of his life, and he was just running. I could tell this meant a lot to him. Eventually the three of us ran in to Grace who was way more up beat than usual.

"Well you three seem to at least know what your doing." She said with a smile.

"This is incredible." Jake just stared at his feet, with nothing to say.

"I cant believe it man. I got a tail! I don't know why, but I've always wanted a tail." Its true I have always wanted a tail.

Grace decided it was time to get serious again. "Well lets get going. The rest of the day were going to be training."

The whole rest of the day was exhausting. We practiced running, climbing, every single movement drill I could think of. We ran an obstacle course that basically killed me, and we did it about eleven times. Me and Jake practiced shooting. By the end of the day I was exhausted. Jake on the other hand loved every single last minute of it. I guess losing your legs really makes you appreciate things in life, especially when you get them back.

We went back to the cabin where our Avatars slept. I was pretty excited cause tomorrow we were all gonna go out on our first field mission. "So, you guys ready for the wild jungles of Pandora?" I said making it apparent I was excited.

"You have no idea, If you think this was cool just wait til you get out there. It's like nothing you've ever seen back on earth." Said Norm even more excited than me.

Jake Sully didn't say a word. He just couldn't stop thinking about the fact that he could walk again. He was the last one to unlink.

We were all in a good mood. Tomorrow was going to be our first day out in the jungles of Pandora. We knew it was gonna be epic. Boy were we right...

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