A/N: Welcome to Chapter 4!!! If you guys voted for either continuing with the movie or doing an original chapter, I will do either or, it don't matter, but either one or the other will be saved in my drafts until I can complete it. We'll have to see. This specific chapter will be in third person POV only. Enjoy!!

(Normal POV-RDA base)

Up in the barracks section of the RDA base, soldiers are scanning their computers and monitors while a hologram in the middle of the room shows the different sections of Pandora, or rather different sectors. It is quite amazing how the RDA could spend their time up here, trying to mine something very important to them, if you can even call it important. Not all of the people up here are soldiers, however, some of these people are businessmen and women, all wearing fancy dress shirts with upturned collars, neckties, slacks and dress shoes. They even have headsets on their heads, either standing or sitting down, all chattering into their radios, all except for a couple.

A man immediately uses a golf club to hit a golf ball into an overturned mug with a grin on his face as he makes it in. "Yes!" He exclaims. "Did you see that?" He says to one of his colleagues sitting at a desk with a headset on and looking at his monitor.

"Yes sir." The man says, obviously lying. The other man immediately says back to him, "no you didn't. You were looking at the monitor. I love this putter, Ronnie. I love this putter!" He goes to collect the ball from the cup and places it back in its specified place to be hit again as Grace walks in the room, eyes narrowed and lips in a thin line.

"Parker," she says as she walks up to him, not daring to get any closer since he's playing golf. Not that she would care less. "You know, I used to think it was benign neglect, but now I see that you're intentionally screwing me." She raises her hands which in one has the lit cigarette she has had for a little bit since leaving the link bay to confront Parker Selfridge. Selfridge lines up his shot again to hit the ball in the mug again as he doesn't dare meet Grace's gaze.

"Grace," he says to her. "You know, I enjoy your little talks." He hits the ball with the putter, hoping to watch it go in the mug again, only to frown in disappointment as Grace kicks the mug and the ball just rolls past her foot.

"Oops," she says, as Selfridge looks up at her. "I need a researcher, not some jarhead dropout." Selfridge walks past her as she decides to follow him, his eyes not even looking at her for a bit.

"Actually, I thought we got lucky with him." He says to her. Grace seems to gasp in disbelief, but it's written clearly on her face.

"Lucky?"

"Yeah."

"How is this in any way lucky?" She watches as Selfridge grabs his golf ball, looking at the people in front of him before turning back to her.

"Lucky your guy had a twin brother, and lucky that brother wasn't some oral hygienist or something. A Marine we can use." He walks towards the holograph of Pandora as he continues,

"I'm assigning him to your team as security escort." Grace seems to scoff, clearly pissed with the idea of having a Marine assigned to her scientific team as security detail. She wants to say screw it, but knows better. Instead, she walks up to him as he types away at a screen.

"The last thing I need is another trigger-happy moron out there!" She exclaims to him. Selfridge, clearly not getting her point taps away at the holographic screen in front of him, interjecting,

"Look, look, you're supposed to be winning the hearts and the minds of the natives. Isn't that the whole point of your little puppet show? If you look like them and talk like them, then they'll start trusting us. We build them a school, we teach them English, but after, what, how many years?" He turns to her as he continues,

"Relations with the indigenous are only getting worse." Grace turns to him with a cocky smile on her face, even if it doesn't actually hit her features as much.

"Yeah, that tends to happen when you use machine guns on them." She points out to him. Selfridge narrows his eyes. Clearly she has no idea.

"Right. Come here." He gestures to her muttering under his breath, "I can't. I can't." He then grabs a little rock off of what seems to be a floatation device. He then turns to her with the rock in between his fingers as Grace eyes him.

"This is why we're here. Unobtanium. Because this little gray rock sells for 20 million a kilo. That's the only reason. It's what pays for the whole party. It's what pays for your science." He walks back to his desk, putting the rock back in its spot. "Comprendò?" He then walks to his seat, putting his hands on the desk as he stares hard at Grace.

"Now, those savages are threatening our whole operation, we're on the brink of war, and you're supposed to be finding a diplomatic solution." He taps his knuckles angrily on the desk to hopefully prove his point to the biologist in front of him. He stares hard at her as she blinks.

"So use what you've got, and get me some results." Grace then walks away, storming out of his office while she mutters under her breath how she doesn't take orders from him. But she can't help it. Neither could Stephanie back when she was still alive. Oh how she wishes she were here. The xeno-zoologist would've been better off dealing with Selfridge than any other person, and she knows this for a fact. This isn't up to her now. It's up to the people she has decided to take under her wing no matter the circumstances or situation. She just hopes that nothing bad will happen on either side, whether human or Na'vi.

Boy how wrong she is going to be.

A/N: Another shortie, I know!!! But like I said, the scenes are somewhat short when you're following the movie. We are already thirteen minutes in this two-hour long movie story, excluding the original chapters I will be putting in. Next chapter will be an original for now, then we will move on to where they will get their Avatars! Remember, I do NOT own the rights to Avatar, they belong to James Cameron, my OC is my own and Alex belongs to my friend that I'm Rping with! Also, realized I just pulled a double update for once!! Holy crap!!

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