Vehicle Bay

[nightarcher]

A mess. That is what Hells gate had become after the years of being abandoned from the first attempt at Pandora. It was a wander all the networking equipment still worked for the most part. Being one of the first here... maybe on the second ship that had been sent... she and her team had been working on fixing the Hell's Gate computer network first. Half her people were the techies, the small group of computer geeks and infrastructure techs. The other half were the mechanics for all the mechanical workings on the base. The AMP bays, and all other vehicles and machines. Most of the biologists and other Scientists don't seem to realize how important these things are to their work until they break.

Alicia had been the busiest of them. Mostly because she worked both jobs, and had her own personal pet project that she worked on in her office/workshop. Even after the amount of time she had been working she still had some more to do. The primary systems that needed work were up, and the main important labs had gotten upgrades. Unfortunately, she couldn't get to that for the next 3-4 days. The rest of the techs were working on the links to the towers along the walls. There had been breaks in the lines and they were having to replace the entire fiber lines. Not a fun job.

Though, Alicia wasn't exactly doing a fun job right now either. Well, ok, it wasn't as dull, it it wasn't fun either. Someone had busted the mechanics of an AMP while doing work outside, and Alicia had to fix it. She also has a few SA-2 Sampsons to check up on. They weren't working properly, or some errors in the readings. The mechanics under her were currently running some tests on them, and sending the information to Shiva to analyze... yeah, more vehicles to look at, and Alica already needed a shower. She wasn't wearing more than her cargo pants, boots and tank-top, already smeared with patches of grease, including some over her cheek where she had wiped her hand.

“Move you stupid piece of junk!” she half hissed at a stubborn bolt holding the assembly she was trying to replace in the arms in. A loud curse echoed in the Hanger as she struggled with the thing, not getting it to move at all.

[Jason]

Jax had just arrived on Pandora a couple of days ago after being offered chance to be apart of "Avatar" program. The pay was much better then a Marine on earth and something new and crazy. Jax was told to stay inside the base and not to wonder off but being a Jarhead, he don't listen to well and gets bored quickly. Jax starting wondering around the base before eventually coming out to large hanger where they stored most of the vehicles and weapons. Jax looks around the huge hanger a bit with his Mk 14 at his side, as he goes no where without it. Jax finally comes around corner and notices a AMP, atleast thats what he thinks it is from the pics he has seen. Jax notices someone over by the AMP working on it. As Jax looks closer he notices this not a man like he expected.

" O my thats no man". Jax mumbles to himself as checking out the women.* Jax decides he has to go up and introduce himself and get closer look at this chic especially since only good looking girl he has seen since been on this damn planet. Jax approaches up behind her slowly and looks around to see if anyone else around but does not see anyone,

"Hello, hope did not scare you.".

[nightarcher]

There was a steady stream of curse words between the grunts as she struggled with the bolt that just refused to turn. “Mother F****** A$$holes sticking me with equipment that hadn't been used since we were last here! Moronic Leadership!” She half yelled before another grunt and attempted turn of the rusted bolt. They hadn't brought as many AMPs as had been recommended. The old ones were theoretically supposed to still work... the techs on earth hadn't estimated this planets atmosphere's influence on machinery.

Before she could turn the bolt again, she got a feeling she was being watched. Also, hearing the footsteps behind her cause Alicia to glance over her shoulder to spy the approaching soldier. One glance over him, and she guessed a marine, and she noticed his eyes had run over her. She didn't shiver or anything, just rolled her eyes before getting back to work when he said hello. “Hey. And good-bye Jarhead, unless you stop standing there and being a useless muscle-head.” she said, though not at all kindly, obviously sounding pissed. So she couldn't help but add in something else. “And prey your eyes don't wander, or you lose your head.” At that last bit, she moved to give him less of a view of her backside, and the knife above it, and more of a view of her leg where the pistol rested on her thigh in it's holster.

[Jason]

Jax continueing to check her out as waiting for her reply to him saying hello. She finally turns around and glances back at him and surprises Jax a bit with what she says “Hey. And good-bye Jarhead, unless you stop standing there and being a useless muscle-head.”.. Jax laughs but she wasnt done yet as she added “And prey your eyes don't wander, or you lose your head.” . Jax thinks well guess was checking her out pretty hard so not surprised she noticed. He continues to watch her as she moves her body around to where he cant really see her backside anymore but can see the knife and sidearm she has.

Jax is about to leave but decides not to, even though this chic pretty much chewed his head off. He still finds himself liking her and attracted to her. He watches her struggling with bolt for few seconds longer. Jax then leans his Mk 14 against wall and walks over under machine near her.

"Hear let me get in there and help you with this". Jax grabs wrench with her and helps her turn it and the bolt finally turned.

[nightarcher]

Alicia didn't spare him much of a glance after she had finished speaking, not much point. Ok, rude, but what was the point of being polite? Not like she would hit on him, or wanted to be hit on herself. If he decided to start trying that, she would be the one to walk away. But, both luckily, and unluckily, as he seemed to be getting ready to leave. So she just got back to work, trying to turn the bolt. That was when she heard the sound of his rifle being placed on the ground against the wall near the AMP and him coming up near her.

Looking at him again when he spoke, she moved so that she was on the other side from him, and able to pull the wrench that was on the bolt while he pushed on it. “Ok, 1... 2... 3...” She counted before pulling as hard on the wrench on the bolt as possible, while the Jarhead pushed. After a moment of them struggling, there was a loud pop as well as some rust dust. Almost immediately after, and when Alicia caught herself, there was a a small spray of oil from the part she had been removing before it came loose. Both got hit in the face.

Alicia stood there a moment before sighing in relief at finally getting that rusted bolt loose. Reaching her hand over, she gathered up the rage off the metal surface of the AMP and wiped the oil from her face, though it left another smear to add to the one already on her cheek. “Thanks.” she said, though still a little pissed, but not at the bolt now as she handed the rag to the man who helped while she started to remove the piece of machinery.

[Jason]

Jax thought it went well and they got the bolt out good intill some oil sprayed out and went all over there face. Jax stands there and then looks over at the her. "Well that son of a bitch had one last surprise in it, I guess.". Jax watches with the little he can see as she wipes the oil off her face. As she is doing that he is surprised to hear her say "Thanks" before handing him the rag. Jax wipes the oil off his face the best he can to see her already back working on the machine.

"No problem, sorry if we got off on the wrong foot. My name is Jax".

[nightarcher]

“Hmph.” was all she said in reply to his comment about the oil spraying them as she tossed the broken piece of machinery over her shoulder to the floor. It could be melted to scrap later, that was all it was useful for after she looked at it. She moved a little before bending to get the new one she had placed on the ground before bringing it, and some brand new screws and bolts up to fit into the proper place. She didn't look up at him at all from her work.

“hmm... almost everyone gets off on the wrong foot with me. And I think I liked 'Jarhead' better.” She said, not giving her own name. Why should she? She didn't need this guy who must be new here thinking he could try hitting on her or anything. She wasn't really in the mood to be polite either. “Everyone tries talking to me while I am pissed.” While the words came out of her mouth she was aligning the mechanism into the AMP as the other one had been before placing the brand new shiny screws into the places the rusted ones had been before securing them with clean bolts.

[Jason]

Jax laughs a bit after she said "almost everyone gets off on the wrong foot with me. And I think I liked 'Jarhead' better.”

"I can't see how anyone could get off on the wrong foot with you?. You are just such a bundle of joy, he says and laughs a bit more*. If you want to call me Jarhead, thats fine but would be nice to know your name, unless prefer being called girl or chick. You need more help with that?". Jax watches as she continues to work hard on the machine, not paying any attention to him.

[nightarcher]

Alicia just glanced up at him for a moment as she secured the piece in place with the new bolts. Jax was still standing there and talking. Just great, he wouldn't be easily chased off. In-fact, making a little joke out of her bitchy attitude. This was not going too well, she had a lot more work to do after this AMP, she couldn't afford to talk to security because one wanted a booty call they weren't going to get. She had seen how he was checking her out. He was stupid if he thought she was gonna be easy. She just ignored him.

“Shiva. I got the replacement part in place, and clear. Power on the Suit and run Diagnostics.” Alicia said out loud. Immediately upon saying Shiva, a holographic screen on the small computer near the cockpit of the AMP popped to life before a female figure appeared there. (http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/Avri18/final%20fantasy/Shiva-1.jpg) “Of course Alicia.” the figure, Shiva, said before there was a click from the AMP, some low rumbling, before it powered on, and readings began appearing on the computer screen as all the mechanics of the AMP powered on, and started working. It had not pilot, so it couldn't move though.

“All readings showing green Alicia.” came the voice from the small computer again as the woman studied the display. Pressing a f3ew buttons, she showed the diagnostics from what she just replaced. “Ok... good... I give it about 3 months then something else will break of this piece of crap old AMP. Shut it down.” Almost immediately the motors and other mechanics started to slow and stop as Alicia was replacing the panels she had had open to work on, and Shiva disappeared from the screen.

[Jason]

Jax watches her as she continues to work on machine,only glancing back at him for a moment as continued to ignore him. Jax stops talking and continues to watch her, hoping she would say something,even if rude. A min or so goes by and then she speaks out and says "Shiva". Jax looks around expecting to see someone else around but there is no one else around. Jax is surprised as notices a holographic screen popped up on and a life like women appeared. Jax just stood there and watched pretty much in shock as he has never seen technology like this before on earth. As quickly as the women appeared she disapeered and the machine shut down.

"Whoa now that was pretty damn cool. We don't have anything like that on earth. I guess it's fixed then?".

[nightarcher]

Alicia turned at his words, Studied Jax for a moment then went over to her little computer, closing the cover of the screen projector, then slinging it over her shoulder to hand at her lower back, over her knife. The shocked look on his face gave her the clue that he hadn't gotten the name because of Shiva. Things like Shiva, A Virtual Intelligence really wasn't common. Hell, to have one made for you was very expensive if you were buying them. Only the biggest corporations had them... well Shiva was the exception. Alicia had made Shiva with her own hands, and honestly, she was better than those that Corporations bought.

“Yeah, She is, and she belongs to me. I made her. Next to no one can afford computers like Shiva.” Alicia said before starting to walk away. “It's fixed, and I got some Sampsons to work on. Won't see you later Jarhead.” Hopefully he wasn't so bored that he would follow... hopefully he didn't have an avatar. The sampsons were stored in a hanger in Pandora atmosphere. 'Ha, yeah right, he is a Marine, why would they give a marine an avatar after the events of the last time humans were here.' she thought to herself while walking along the line of AMPs toward the door to the hallway that would lead to the aircraft hanger.

[Jason]

She finally turned around and looked at Jax, looking him over good. Jax looks back at her, hoping she would finally tell him her name but instead she goes starts talking about the machine and says “Yeah, She is, and she belongs to me. I made her. Next to no one can afford computers like Shiva.". then she turns and starts to walk away. Jax was about to say something but before he can she says “It's fixed, and I got some Sampsons to work on. Won't see you later Jarhead.” .

Jax shakes his head and smiles and watches her walk away. "Dont miss me to much".

Jax decides to go find out where the Sampsons are stored. To his surprise they are stored in a hanger outside off the base in Pandora atmosphere. Jax knows he cant get there as is now but with his Avatar he could. Jax has not gotten chance to use his Avatar yet as has only been here for week or so. They have started to train him and he is pretty much ready to go.

[nightarcher]

It only took Alicia about ten minutes to move from the Land based vehicle bay, through the halls to the airlock out to the external hanger. Now she was wearing one of the clumsy piece of crap masks that were necessary for humans to breath on Pandora. “At least they got real good cleaning regulations on these things. It is clearer than a gas mask on earth.” Alicia muttered as she waited for the airlock to cycle for the outside. The three Sampsons that were being worked on were off to the side with a pair of cranes nearby for any disassembley that may be needed. The nearest one had it's wing and prop removed with a mechanic looking over the readings on a similar device to what Alicia had hanging over her back right now.

Upon seeing their boss approaching the mechanic looking over the diagnostics waved her over to the screen where Shiva appeared. “Ma'am, we are having some issues here. We cannot locate any problems with this Sampson even though the diagnostics are coming up with red errors. The other two are running through a full rest at the moment.” he informed as Shiva ran through some of the displays for Alicia.

“Well, that's odd... Did you check...” She began as they started working on the ariel vehicle, going over everything that had been done to it a second time. They used to find it annoying that she insisted on going over all the work again, but they had gotten over it as a couple times she found something they missed.

[Jason]

Jax was finally ready and allowed to use his Avatar. He layed down on table that closes over him. It reminds him of tanning machine back on earth, not that he used one he thought but what it looked like to him. Jax looks up as the door closes over him and everything goes blank for few moments.

Jax opens his eyes and looks around with his eyes, not sure where he is but not where he was before and he feels different. He slowly sits up and looks around some more. Everything is so much different. The doctors check him over and finally allow him to go. Jax walks outside and takes a deep breath of fresh air and looks around. He quickly notices that his sense of smell,sight,hearing,and other senses are much better.

Jax had heard how at home the Na'Vi are in the trees.
So he had to see how well he could climb tree's in his new body. Jax runs up to a tree and starts to climb it. He climbs it like nothing and walks out on branch. He see's another branch 50 feet or so across the way on another tree. Jax eyes it up and having more guts then brains figures he can do it, Jax backs up a few feet on branch he is on and runs to end of branch and leaps across towards branch across the way, his finger tips touch the branch but he does not make it. Jax falls down and lands on the ground hard. He lays there holding his back for a few moments before finally pulling himself up.

"Son of a bitch tree!"

Jax remembers the girl and heads back inside, still holding his back. He grabs his Mk 14 and throws sling over his massive shoulder,barely fitting over. He looks over map of base and head outside towards hanger where she said was going.

[nightarcher]

Ok, Whatever was wrong with this sampson was stumping her for now. She was still doing some physical checks on the motors, while two techs were triple checking the sensors, and ensuring there was nothing wrong with the software. This was weird. The sensors were showing something was off, there was degraded performance when compared with what the sampson should be, enough that it brought up an issue with the sensors. But when the diagnostics were run, nothing was showing wrong. She had the right wing assembly off of the sampson, and was inspecting the connectors, and the motors for the wing. “Are we absolutely certain that it is the right wing that is off on the readings?” she asked, pulling a couple of the components from the motors for the right propeller.

“Yeah, It is showing a 10 percent drop in power output, forcing it to work much harder to keep up with the right.” the tech that was looking at the screen where Shiva displayed the readings that the two people were talking about. Alicia had her head almost inside the body of the Sampson with a flashlight as she inspected the motor. There were some possibilities that she was thinking, but they would be a problem. She wasn't sure there were any spare parts for what she was thinking. “get the team to remove the right side motor assembly from the body of the Sampson. I think the issue is inside the motor itself. I need it taken apart to be certain.” She ordered with a sigh, still curing the leadership for having them use the old equipment. They just had to save money.