Chapter 24: Suckers

It didn't seem like a long flight to the western air temple, I had a lot of catching up to do with Kyo. "So how you doing?" I asked, with a huge smile leaning on Zuko.

"Oh, you know the usual, I was locked in prison, blah blah it's boring really." He sarcastic replies having a hand in the air with a smile.

I chuckled shaking my head, "Still you, though." I smiled.

"Sooo... you and Zuko huh?" He asked with a tease.

"You got a problem with that?" Zuko asked, making me tense, was he trying to start a fight?

"Not at all." He slowly replied with a grin leaning back.

"So what about you?"

"Oh, the same really." I shrugged, looking out at the sky.

"What do you mean? I lost my bending, that crazy assassin was after us and I almost died! No, I did die!" Zuko reminded me as I laid on his chest.

Kyo's eyes widens when he heard Zuko died. "Wow." Kyo stated, before leaning his head on his hands.

When we got to the temple the Gaang was already there. Katara ran up and immediately hugged everyone of us. "Kyo!" She gasped with a huge smile. "Where were ya'll?!" She asked looking over at Zuko.

"We got an air ship because of what was happening." I immediately replied.

The rest of the GAang went up and hugged Kyo. "We missed you, buddy."

"Thanks guys, nice to know I was missed." He replied, patting them on the back.

"We have so much to tell you!" Katara smiled holding Kyo's hand. I could tell he didn't like it and wanted to pull away.

"Yeah." He shrugged before turning to me for help.

"He's got to rest first." I smiled, grabbing him. "Where's the rooms?" I asked realizing I didn't know my way around.

"Just over there." Aang pointed.

"So Katara huh?" I teased as I shut the door behind us.

"Are you kidding? Azula." He smiled as he sat on the bed.

"Seriously?! You got with her?" I asked with a huge smile, there was no way.

"Kinda, she'd visit my cell everyday. I kissed her." He smiled folding his arms.

"What?! How?!" I squealed.

"Well, she kinda kissed me really. It was at Ember Island after she talked with Chan."

"You were there?"

"Yeah, she dragged me along. What about you? How far you get with Zuko?" He asked with a slight grin thinking about it but I could tell there was more to it.

"Steady couple. But than again I don't know what steady is." I smirked sitting against the door.

"You miss earth?" I found myself asking, he just shrugged.

"You know what I miss about earth?" I smiled as I laid down.

"What?" He asked, looking down from the bed.

"The music, the games, the movies." I rolled my hand around with a sigh.

"Oh yeah. I played Skyrim too much." He smiled shaking his head.

"I played dragon age too much." I chuckled back.

"You and Fenris, Zuko would get jealous." He teased closing his eyes with a wide smirk.

"It's so great here though." I sighed, closing my eyes.

"Tell me about it. I'm not even close to getting a girlfriend back home." He chuckled.

"I know!" I agreed a little too loud.

"A bee!" I screamed as I heard it flying around in the room.

"You've killed how many people and still scared of a bee?!" He asked shaking his head.

"Actually I've killed Hama and that's it." I shrugged.

"You killed Hama?!" He gasped.

"She deserved it! Now kill this bee!" I screamed as it got closer.

"You're scared of a f**king bee?!" He asked, getting annoyed at my screaming.

"Some fears stick with you for life. Can you please kill it." I begged, giving him puppy eyes.

"Arigh!" He growled before fire bending at it but missing it.

"I tried." He shrugged laying back down.

"Come on, man!" I yelled. He sighed before shooting more fire but actually hitting it.

"You can bend?!" I asked.

"Yep," he immediately replied with his eyes closed.

"Well that sucks." I sighed thinking about how I didn't.

"What?!" He asked, getting defensive.

"I mean how come I don't have any." I replied before the door slammed open.

"Mia, are you okay?! I heard screaming!" Zuko yelled coming out of nowhere.

"I'm... fine. I was just screaming because I was scared of something." I replied, I didn't want to admit I was scared of a bee.

"Like what?!" He asked, slouching.

"A bee." Kyo grinned, popping his head up.

"What?! They can bight you and I'm allergic. I think." I started scratching my head, I might not be in this world.

"Okay." Zuko sighed slowly walking away.

"I can't believe you told him!" I yelled at Kyo, making him chuckle at himself.

———Kyo POV———

It was a few boring days at the temple, we got attacked by Combustion Man, Zuko and Aang left, blah blah blah, point being I wasn't sure if I wanted to go with them to the boiling rock. I knew Azula would be there and that wasn't a good idea to see her this soon. But then again I wanted to see her, I missed her.

That evening in the western air temple, Zuko had just made tea and was serving it to us. "No one can make tea like uncle. But hopefully I learned a thing or two. Would you like to hear uncle's favorite tea joke?" He asked, making everyone agree but Sokka.

"Okay, well I can't remember how it starts but the punch line is, 'leaf me alone, I'm bushed!'" Zuko said trying to put on an accent leaving everyone Speechless, but me and Mia had to hide a laugh.

Making everyone look at us, except Zuko who gave Mia a smile. You know I hate the guys Mia likes, but Zuko not so much.

"Well it's funnier when uncle tells it." He explained to her as he didn't move his eyes from her's and sat a little too close.

"So Kyo, what happened to you at Ba Sing Se?" Katara asked, leaning near me. Ever since we met she was trying to get with me, she did not understand that she was meant for Aang and I was meant for Azula. We were going to have futures together.

"Well I was arrested when I went to the palace." I replied sipping on tea, seeing how cuddly Zuko was getting with Mia. It's kind of eew to see my sister like that, my little sister.

"Well I'm glad you're okay now." Katara sighed as she put her head on my shoulder, I immediately froze.

It wasn't the first time she did this, but I was never going to get used to it. I then saw that Zuko and Mia were lightly kissing each other. "Ohhh! I'm tired." I yawned looking the other way. Then it hit me, as Zuko and Katara trying to get each other jealous? Whatever was going on, I didn't want any part of, so I stood up with a stretch, I figured if I was going with Sokka and Zuko I was going to have to get some sleep.

That morning when it was still dark I woke up to hear sokka trying to leave.

"Boo." I whispered, making him fall on Mia.

She groaned as she opened her eyes to realize Sokka was on top of her. They both immediately got up as they're noses almost touched, both completely panicking.

"Not up to anything huh?" Zuko asked, standing in front of Appa making him fall again. Me and Mia snickered as he got up.

"Fine you caught me; I'm gonna rescue my dad. You happy now?" Sokka whispered as he put all his stuff back in his bag.

"I'm never happy." Zuko replied.

Making Mia go; "Okay, now that's a lie and you know it."

"Look I have to do this, the invasion plan was my idea, it was my decision to stay when things were going wrong, it was my mistake and it's my job to fix it. I have to regain my honor. You can't stop me." Sokka directed at all of us.

"You need to regain your honor, believe me I get it. I'm going with you." Zuko stated.

"No! I have to do this alone." Sokka quietly yelled back.

"How are you going to get there? On Appa? Last time I checked prisons don't have bison daycares." Zuko sarcastically replied, I just let the scene play out. "We'll take my war balloon."

"Hey, we helped steal it, we should be able to come." I grinned, pointing my thumb at Mia and me.

"No!" They whisper yelled in unisons.

"Seriously? Since when did you tell me what to do?" Mia asked with a smirk and her hands on her hips.

"Alright." Sokka gritted through his teeth.

We traveled for a whole day, not a pleasant experience before getting to the boiling rock. When we got in we found disguises to blend in as guards.

"I hope these disguises work." Zuko asked as I found that Mia didn't like how much it showed. Which wasn't much.

"Yeah announce that to the whole prison, Zuko." I sarcastically replied with a grin making him sigh.

"Why don't they have shirts for girls." Mia complained, folding her arms to cover up, she was never one to wear short pants or shirts.

"I think you look good." Zuko complimented her making her turn red with an uneasy smile. I rolled my eyes, she was way too shy.

"We just need to lay low and find my dad as soon as possible." Sokka said, before a bunch of guards ran by the hallway.

"Guards, there's a scuffle in the yard, come on!" One said so we had to follow.

"I didn't do anything!" The big man said to a guard. Since I never caught his name I'll call him Wrax. The guard made a fire whip and threw it near him.

Zuko was about to move up and stop it but me, Mia, and Sokka stopped him. "We can't blow our cover." Sokka whispered before we watched an injustice happening to Wrax, Starlord would kill this guard.

"What did I do?" The prisoner asked.

"He wants to know what he did, isn't that cute?" The guard nagged at Zuko.

"Huh very cute, sir." Zuko hesitated.

"Unbelievably cute." I nudged with a huge smile.

"Super cute." Sokka added.

The guard threw a fire whip at him, before he defended himself and was put in the cooler for it. The guard chose Sokka and I to help him take Wrax away.

"Meet back here in an hour." Sokka whispered before splitting.

When we got there, I shoved Wrax in before closing the door, to let him freeze away. "The Warden will deal with you soon." The guard snarled.

"Can you believe this guy?" He asked me and Sokka.

"Prisoners, am I right?" Sokka asked with a nudge.

"Huh tell me about it." The guard sighed.

"It sure looks cold in there." Sokka commented,  looking in the cooler after awhile.

"That's why we call it the cooler. He won't be fire bending in there." The guard explained.

"It's the Warden, look alive!" He pressed as he walked up.

I immediately stood up straight best I could, but I was never the military type.

"So, Chit Sang." The Warden started 'That's his name.' I thought, but I was still going to call him Wrax.

"I hear you used fire bending to try to escape. You should know better." The warden said, with a calm tone.

"I wasn't trying to escape." He shivered in his defense.

"He's lying! I saw him with my own eyes!" The guard defended, pointing at him.

"No one has never ever escaped from here, I'd sooner jump in the boiling lake myself then let that record fall. Don't forget it. Now go back to your shivering."

"Hey there, fellow guard. How goes it?" Zuko said to Sokka as we met at the sight he said to.

"Zuko?" Sokka asked, seeing it was him and Mia.

"Shh, listen we asked around the lounge. There are no water tribe prisoners. I'm afraid your father's not here." Zuko stated making Sokka's eyes grow large.

"What? Are you sure did you double check?" He asks looking over to both of them.

"Yeah, nothing." Mia shook her head.

"...No." He whispered away. "No!" He now yelled hitting the wall.

"I'm really sorry, Sokka." Zuko said.

"So we came all this way for nothing?! I failed. Again." Sokka sighed dropping to sit down.

"Huh what would uncle say?" Zuko asked himself.

"Sokka, we can't give up. There's a reason for everything, there's a reason for this." I stated outting a hand on his shoulder before I realized I sounded like Mia.

"Your right! Maybe we haven't failed after all." Sokka smiled as he looked at the yard below.

"That's the spirit." Zuko commented with a smile.

"Look! It's Suki." Sokka squealed as he radiated off love eyes.

Later Sokka went to speak to her while Mia and Zuko watched outside. I went in, it would look weird for three guards outside, even if it took three guards earlier. I didn't like it, I knew what was about to happen, and sure enough when we got out I found Mia and Zuko attacking a guard.

"Guard help! I think they're imposters. Arrest them!" She yelled as she heard Sokka and me walking away.

I looked at Mia, I didn't exactly want her to be a prisoner, what if something happens to her? But nonetheless, I grabbed her arms

"You're under arrest!" Sokka stated as he grabbed Zuko. "Don't worry I'll figure it out." Sokka whispered in their ears.

They sent Mia and Zuko to different cells, I snuck in to see if she was okay. "Hey." She said as she saw it was me.

"You okay?" I asked, closing the door.

"I'm fine, nothing happened if that's what you're wondering." She replied not looking at me, just her dark cell walls.

"But there's something else bothering you huh?" I shrugged my shoulders.

"Yeah there is. You and Azula, you can't be serious! What's your shipping name? Azulo?" She mocking with her arms folded.

"Why do you hate her so much. Back home you loved Azula. Not to mention earlier." I replied to her pouting, it was probably for a good reason though.

"Yeah, but when she goes Manchurian Candidate on you, you don't exactly want to become friends." She explained looking at the wall again.

"What?!" I asked, I had no idea what she was talking about. Not the movie, I knew the movie, but how could Azula even do that?

"Kyo, she can use me when ever she wants, I'm afraid I won't be able to help on the gondola."

After we had a meeting and Wrax got Zuko and him got in a fake fight to get in the cooler. Which you know how that went. Meanwhile I got Mia and Wrax out of there cells and went down to the meeting point. "Took you guys long enough, this here is my girl and my best buddy, there coming too." Wrax explained as we helped Zuko and Sokka slide down with the cooler.

"Fine, everybody in the cooler, let's go." Sokka ordered. Sokka began getting out clothes out of a hole.

"Are you sure you want to go? You're the one who said you want to redeem-" Zuko explained making me chuckle.

"Your iTunes card." I nudged at Mia like a minion making her laugh to. We then got a death glare from Zuko, which make both of us shut up.

"Sorry." Mia muttered.

"Redeem your honor. Rescue your dad is your chance." Zuko finished.

"Your dad?" Suki asked.

"If I had just cut my losses at the Invasion, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess. Maybe it's just better to call it quits before you fail." Sokka rabbled as he began to walk to the cooler.

"No it's not! Look Sokka your going to fail a lot before things work out." Zuko tried to say putting a hand on his shoulder.

"That's supposed to make me feel better?" Sokka asked.

"Even though you'll probably fail over and over again."

"Seriously, not helping."

"Yeah Zuko, you give bad pep talks." I added shaking my head with a grin.

"You have to try every time. You can't quit because your afraid you might fail."

"Hey if you two are done cuddling can we get a move on?" Wrax asked, cutting the emotional music off.

"No, I'm staying. You guys go. You've been here long enough." Sokka said to Suki.

"I'm not leaving without you Sokka." She replied.

"I'm staying too." Zuko added.

"Not me I'm out. Let's roll baby." Wrax said, before hoping in and floating away.

"Bye." I waved.

"Stop acting like Deadpool." Mia grinned, shaking her head.

"We gave up our only chance of escape. I hope we haven't just made a huge mistake." Sokka stated with regret already in his voice.

After the sun came up and Wrax got caught, the gondola was moving. "This is it." Sokka stated watching every movement.

"If my dad's not there we risked everything for nothing."

"We had to." Suki reassured him.

"Come on, come on." Sokka said as they began to come out. Yet it was everyone but him. "Where is he?" Sokka asked as the one last one came out. Just for the audience. "That's it? That can't be it." Sokka let out pulling his head down.

"I'm sorry Sokka." Suki said putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Oh no." He whispered.

"Hey you, get off the gondola." The guard said

Making Sokka's head pop up to see; "Dad."

I took Zuko, Suki, and Mia back to the cells while Sokka went to see his dad. I held guard while Sokka went in his cell to speak with him. After that, Sokka explained the plan to me before we left to tell Zuko.

"I just got done talking with my dad. We came up with an escape plan together." he was explaining before two guards walked up to the doorway.

"What are you doing here?" One asked.

"We were just telling this dirty low life what We think of him!" Sokka replied, pointing at Zuko.

"Well you'll have to do that later, he's coming with us." The other stated with a bored attitude.

"Why?" He asked, trying not to show his concern.

"Because we have orders straight from the Warden that's why." The other replied.

"Can I just get ten more seconds to rough him up a bit." Sokka asked before they nodded.

"Fine, ten seconds." She answered, Sokka closed the door and threw Zuko a pillow. He held it as we it hit saying,

"Take that and this."

"That's for not redeeming your honor!" While Zuko faked groaning in pain.

"We have a new plan but it's going to take a big distraction, be at the yard in one hour." He whispered right before the guards opened the doors.

Zuko immediately threw the pillow and Sokka and I charged him and acted like this was what we were doing. "Alright that's enough." The girl said before they grabbed him and dragged him down the hallway.

"What's going on?! Where are you taking me?!" Zuko asked but got no response as they carried him away.

I later left to tell Mia. "Hey." I waved before closing the door.

"You really shouldn't be in here." She shook her head. "Is Zuko still being nagged by Mai?"

I shrugged at her question. "We're gonna do the escape plan, remember meet at the courtyard." I said before walking out. I could tell she was thinking of something else, something's really bothering her.

"Hey you!" A guard yelled as I was walking down the hallway. I immediately froze.

"Me?" I asked with a grin pointing at myself.

"Yeah, the Warden wants to see you." He replied.

"Okay." I statues trying not to show fear as I followed them.

"One of you is an imposter who thinks he could fool me. But now that person is going to be in a lot of trouble." The warden stared as we all stood in a line in the courtyard.

Wrax came out to point him out in chains, I didn't flinch a muscle, I knew how this would end. "Who is it?" He asked before Wrax pointed.

"That's him, warden, he's the imposter." He pointed at the guard putting him in the cooler before.

"What?! I am not! He's lying! He's a liar!" He defended as they dragged him away, Sokka let out breath before giving me a nervous look. I on the other hand, couldn't be better.

Sokka told me to wait in the courtyard while he went to get open the prison cells, which was really boring. Soon Sokka, Mia, Suki, and Hakoda all ran up along with all the other prisoners. "This is it, we have to start a riot." Sokka said while we all stood in a huddle.

"Okay, but how do we do that?" Suki asked.

"I'll show you." Hakoda grinned before shoving a big guy.

"Hey, what did you do that for?! That hurt my feelings." He asked with a deep voice.

"Aren't you mad at me?" Hakoda asked not knowing what to do.

"Normally I would be but I've been leaning to control my anger." He replied scratching his head.

"This isn't working." Sokka sighed.

"Hey, you! You're lucky I didn't rat you out, but my generosity comes at a price. I know you're planing another escape attempt and I want in." Wrax stated making me grin.

"We're trying one right now. You wouldn't know how to start a riot?"

"A prison riot? please." Wrax chuckled before grabbing somebody and shouting, "Hey Riot, riot!" Almost immediately everyone began fighting or Fire bending.

"Impressive." Hakoda said as me and Mia shook our heads with smirks.

Soon Zuko ran up and huddled with us, but not before Mia put her arms around him and they kissed.

"Oh come on, it's not like you've haven't seen each other in days." I mocked, folding my arms making Mia chuckle at my big brother act.

"Good we're all here, now all we need to do is grab the Warden and get to the gondolas." Sokka explained.

"And how do we do that?" Zuko immediately asked.

"I'm not sure." Sokka hummed making Zuko sigh.

"I thought you thought this through."

"I thought you told me it's okay not to think everything through!" Sokka defended with a screech.

"Maybe not everything but this is kind of important!" Zuko yelled back.

"Hey uh folks I think your girlfriends are taking care of it." Wrax stated before I saw Mia and Suki were gone.

I looked up to see Mia running through prisoners and jumping up on the rails to other and the other. Before we would catch up Mia and Suki were already near the Warden.

When we finally did we were all panting for breath as Mia had the Warden in tight grasp. "We've got the Warden, now let's get out of here." Suki stated as we felt like just catching our breath.

"Those are some girls." Hakoda grinned with a hint of attraction.

"Tell me about it." Sokka and Zuko sighed in unison looking at this girlfriends with grinning eyes.

"We're almost there." Suki expressed as we were almost at the gondola.

"Back off, we got the Warden!" Zuko yelled at the guards. Mia held him tight and in front of her as we began to run in.

"Let's go."

"Everyone in!" Suki ordered as we ran in the gondola. I quickly ran back and jammed the lines best I could.

"What are you doing?!" Sokka asked as I ran back with heavy fire behind me.

"I'm jamming it so they can't stop us." I replied as the doors started to close.

"Way to think ahead." Sokka complimented as the gondola began moving.

"We're on our way." Suki sighed.

We all looked out the window to see Azula fly up using fire, then using cuffs to hook on the Lines, and once again used fire bending to move. Meanwhile Ty Lee ran it. I suddenly had that pit in my stomach, I didn't really know why I was so afraid to see her again. She did after all let me go.

"Wait who is that?!" Hakoda asked.

"That's a problem. It's my sister and her friend." Zuko replied, I looked over to see Mia glaring Azula down.

"This is a rematch I've been waiting for." Suki said.

"Me to." Zuko added.

We all began to get on top of the gondola, I looked back to see Mia was too.

"Stay." I put a hand on her shoulder, she growled looking to the side, but we both knew it was for the best.

————Mia POV————

I really felt like fighting Azula for all the shit she did to me, but I knew it wouldn't go well if I did. So I stood there hearing everything going on. Ty Lee jumped in for a few seconds before jumping back around.

"I hate this." I growled, hearing the fight continue. Hakoda put a hand on my shoulder with a reassuring smile, it did help.

But when none of us were watching the Warden managed to get his mouth free. "Cut the line!" He yelled out the window.

I immediately ran up and punched him in the face before putting the gag back on.

————Kyo POV————

"They're about to cut the line!" Ty Lee warned as we stopped fighting.

Azula looked over at me with a terror in her eyes. "What are they doing?!" She hissed before using Fire bending to fly down and the cuffs and zip line.

We all immediately jumped back in the cart, as quick as I could I looked out the window.

"They're cutting the line! The gondola is about to go!" Zuko yelled at Mia, who looked bummed we fought without her.

"I hope this thing floats." Hakoda stated with a sigh.

As we looked out the window I saw that Azula was taking out all the guards. I gasped, there was no way, she couldn't be doing that for me.

"Am I seeing things or is Azula doing what I think she's doing?" Mia said, with her jaw dropped, even Zuko.

She took all of them down before looking up at the gondola, seeing us get away safely. I didn't know what to think of what she could be feeling, I suddenly felt bad, but I didn't know why. Azula made her choice and I was never going to change mine, I just hoped I changed her for the better. I then looked over to see Zuko giving me a suspicious look, maybe he was catching on?

We ran out as soon as the gondola landed, yet we turned to see Zuko stopped. "Well we made it out now what?" Suki asked, looking around.

"Zuko, what are you doing?" Sokka asked, looking back at him.

"My sister was on that island." He thought out loud.

"Yeah, and she's probably right behind us, so let's not stop." Sokka replied.

"What I mean is she must have come here somehow." We all followed him as he ran to a hill. "There. That's our way out of here." He said pointing at a air ship.

On the way back I couldn't help but think of what Azula did for me. She literally betrayed the Fire Nation to save me, first she let me go, then she attacks her own people. I never would have thought I would change her, but maybe, just maybe I could. Maybe I could change her fate. Maybe I could keep her from becoming insane.

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