Spider who ends up having some sort of fatal accident sometime post AFAA (perhaps sacrificing himself to send the Sully children ahead to safety after running into some predator/the RDA) and being deadly wounded in the process. Eywa, seeing this, weeps for her poor skyperson child whose life is cut short far too soon. So in a desperate attempt to save him she lets her roots and plants absorb him into herself, connecting his physical form and mind to be sustained by her until his body can be fixed.
It takes years longer than she originally thought. Eywa is unfamiliar with his alien body and his wounds were deep. But she manages to do so. Releasing Spider back in the exact same spot he originally fell, untouched by the years that passed with no idea what happened. One moment he's dying on the forest floor, the next he's perfectly fine and fixed up.
His first instincts are to get back home. Spider doesn't really know how much time just passed- he's more concerned about the safety of his friends than his own tbh. But when he arrives at their camp, he finds it abandoned. Each tent and hut was carefully dismantled and carried off somewhere, leaving the former grounds to be easily reclaimed by nature. After that Spider attempts to use his comms, only to find no one there to answer. He checks if he went in the right direction time and time again, yells for anyone to listen, retraces every step he takes. And yet... nothing. It's as though everyone just got up and vanished.
Poor Spider has no idea how to deal with this. He doesn't even feel abandoned; he's mainly confused and worried. What the hell happened? Where is everyone???? Why does every place he goes to look so deserted??? He spends the next few days desperately trying to find literally anyone. Going so far as to even try out smoke symbols and climbing the highest possible tree he could find out of sheer desperation. He knows how to hunt and gather well enough that his own survival isn't threatened...but being so completely alone still takes its toll. He goes to sleep praying to Eywa one day, begging her to just- just let him understand what the hell happened.
His prayers are answered the next day.
Kiri looks different, older. Her features are more mature and she's a good chunk taller than he last remembered. She's got a new shawl and loincloth aswell as some war paint on. But Spider would always recognise her, no matter what. He nearly cries out of pure joy at finally seeing another face- and then that of Kiri no less! He's just so glad. The dude can't stop himself from running at her and tackling his friend in a hug (even if he can only barely reach her lower torso doing so.) He expect her to hug him back, for this to be a tearful reunion before someone would finally explain everything to him.
Instead, she pushes him off with more force than she'd ever used before, snarling about how those "RDA clones" have been getting far too bold and good at it now. Spider barely managed to avoid her knife and flee back into the forest.
After Spider was believed to be dead during his accident, the RDA decided to make use of the data and samples during his time captured. They essentially grew an army of Spider recoms in no time- with the slight issue that the faster growing time and lack of personality to turn them into made those clones mindless puppets executing orders. Enter: Ardmore trying to use these Spider-shaped robots in an attempt to infiltrate the resistance. Hoping a grief-stricken Kiri especially would accept them and make them into a useful insider.
It fails of course, but that did not stop them from trying again and again.
Meanwhile the real Spider has no damn idea wtf happened in the years he's been gone and is honestly just extremely confused and hurt by Kiri's sudden rejection. After their meeting in the woods he believes that somehow, Jake changed his mind about killing him afterall and got Kiri convinced of it too. Enter a mental breakdown and him deciding to live as a hermit out of sheer fear and hurt from it.
Kiri on the other hand believes the RDA decided to send another demon wearing her dead friend's skin and decides he needs to go now.
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