Planetshine's Space Odyssey Book 2

One week has passed, and I could see the helicopters arriving, bad things were going to happen. We didn't want to participate in it, but it seemed like we had to, but we chose not to. We didn't want anypony to die, but going into war would be the difference between the tree being uprooted or not. For now, we are I guess allies with the humans and the Na'vi, all of them being friendly to us. Maybe we could stop the war instead of participating in it.

From what the humans told me last week, there was an unobtanium deposit under the Omaticaya clan's hometree, which was definitely why the humans wanted to destroy it, selfish to say the least. I guess the only way to stop it was to do something about the selfishness of the humans and that tree.

I walked out the door, the others still in the spaceplane debris. I then flew off, flying away to one of those helicopters. The heli stopped, and a person in it pointed a gun at me. Ok, so I was going to be dead unless I give a good reason. I said to the person, 'Don't shoot, please, I'm passive, ok.'

The human put down his gun, looking at me, the helicopter hovering by my side. 'Why are you going to war with the Na'vi, and why would you excavate the tree?' I asked, also a bit nervous that the person would shoot at me.

'Because of the Unobtanium, we need it for keeping Earth alive.'

'Earth? What happened to it?'

'Earth's natural resources have been depleted, and we have to replenish them, and this is the only way.'

'But going into war isn't right, you should choose another way, something better.'

'No, we will fight, now back off.'

I backed off, dashing away as fast as I could, back home. The war has begun, bombs were dropped and the arrows were shooting up. We could clearly see what was going on, and it was bad. There were arrows breaking helicopters, making them fall down to the ground. 'We need to help the Na'vi,' I told the others.

We busted out of our plane debris, and went in the battle, defending the Na'vi from the human invasion that was going on. It was at that point I remembered something, avatars. They could be undercover and whatnot, killing the Na'vi as they were controlled by the humans. We landed on the tree, and looking up we saw a shower of arrows. One was heading right for me, but thank goodness I dodged it in time.

There was a Na'vi that walked up the back of me, and said, 'Hey, I'm Jake, don't freak, I'm in an avatar's body.'

'Jake, don't creep up on me like that, please,' I complained.

He and I had a conversation, Jake telling me all about the situation and what led up to it, and how he was on the Na'vi's side. He told us most of the tactics the humans used, and how his real body was in a mountain base, resting while he controlled his avatar.

The strategy was simple for us, break all the helicopters' reinforced blades, with one thing, their own weapons. Already having a bit of trust, and also knew the strategy, Starry and Flamerider went up to the helicopters, asking for weapons. One thing was for her to dodge the arrows, which was a breeze for her, she was cool, like me, and had a good reaction time. When they got the weapons, which was as simple as pie, or was it pi, I don't know, I used that necklace to turn myself into a unicorn. I would never forget about Silverstream.

The others were a bit jealous, but whatever, they had things I didn't have, uh, wings, only for now though, I didn't want to be an alicorn. Being a unicorn was just for the levitation, nothing else, I didn't know any other magic, only levitation, that's it. I levitated up a rocket launcher, which did require a bit of focusing, but it was easy, not.

Lyra also levitated a weapon, a minigun. We fired them in the direction of the helicopters, but my aim wasn't the best, so I thought about going flying, but that would make my aim even worse as flying meant the rocket launcher would be shaking, plus I didn't have wings. I hit 2 helicopters while Lyra hit 3 with her minigun, maybe I should use that, the rocket launcher wasn't my type.

Now the humans are going to hate us, we literally betrayed them, even though we weren't even on their side, we were on the Na'vi's side. Jake was the one that betrayed the humans, or his own team, he also shot down 2 helicopters. Now that most of the helicopters were gone and the arrow shower is gone, we high fived. The other Na'vi gathered around us, cheering, but the war wasn't over yet.

The helicopters retreated, great, but there was something else that came, wheeled vehicles. They were going to dig up the tree, they were going to destroy it, for unobtanium, for the humans. There was no way we were going to win, they were too big. Jake then suddenly blacked out, the avatar, his real body must've been removed from that remote control thing.

The trucks and bulldozers came closer and closer, some of the Na'vi carrying Jake's avatar's body, some of them shooting at the trucks and bulldozers. I had a brilliant plan, use another rocket. There was only one left, and it had to count. I aimed carefully and shot it right at the windscreen of a bulldozer.

The window cracked, the people inside suffocating because of the atmosphere, it worked. That only gave us a few more seconds to spare, and it wasn't much. The humans didn't have exopacks, or whatever they were called, and they slowly collapsed, dying from the atmosphere, getting unconscious in about 20 seconds.

The arrow shower started again, but nothing was done to the vehicles the humans were using, it was just too strong. I turned back into a pegasus, just for easier escape. The bulldozers edged even closer, and defeat seemed like it was inevitable, and it was. The Na'vi then fleed from the tree, and so did we, flying up into the sky. We lost, the tree was going to be gone, the Na'vi homeless, all because of the humans' selfishness.