We all headed down to the lake and stood at the edge. "So... what now?" I asked.

"Yeah" Sokka said "where's this secret headquarters?"

"Under the water, I think," Jet said.

"There's a tunnel right there by the shore." Toph said.

Toph and I use our earthbending to bring up a slab of rock with an entrance. Toph moves the rock out the way with the same technique. We all look down at the tunnel and Momo flies away. Jet checks to make sure the coast is clear and we start to walk down a long hallway.

"It's all starting to come back to me!" Jet says as we walk. "I think there might be a cell big enough to hold Appa up ahead." He tells us as we walk "I think it's through here" He opens a door and we walk inside. The door closes suddenly behind us and lights turn on, revealing the Dai Li agents.

"Now that's something different." Sokka says.

"You think?" I said, giving him a look.

"You have made yourselves enemies of the state." Long Feng says "take them into custody."

The Dai Li agents jump off the ceiling and surround Us. Two agents fire rock gloves, but Toph breaks them up and I send two of the agents flying through the air with rock pillars. Jet runs toward the agents and breaks another two other gloves with his swords, and trips another. Aang deals with a pair of Dai Li agents. Sokka and Katara destroy two Dai Li gloves, but a second pair grabs them.

I create a rock wall to save them and raise the ground up. Toph knocks away the four Dai Li agents that attack her, but a glove captures her but Jet swings by to free her. The agent fires his other rock glove, and Longshot fires an arrow, which destroys the glove. Jet jumps in front of Longshot to hold off more of their rock attacks. While we were fighting Long Feng escaped.

"Long Feng is escaping!" Aang cries as he knocks away teo agents with his airbending. Jet and Aang run off to chase him.

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After our fight we hurry off to find Aang and Jet, when we get there we see that Jet has been injured.

"Can you heal him?" I ask Katara softly.

That seems to break her out of her trance and she rushes forward and withdraws water from her flask, and begins to try and heal him. After a short time Katara looks back towards the rest of us.

"This isn't good."

"You guys go and find Appa." Smellerbee tells us "we'll take care of Jet."

"We're not going to leave you." I tell them.

There's no time." Longshot says "just go. We'll take care of him. He's our leader."

We end up leaving and Toph whispers to me "he's lying."

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When we reach Appa's hold we discover that he's gone. "Appa's gone!" Aang cries "Long Feng beat us here."

"If we keep moving, maybe we can catch up with them!" Sokka says and we all run off.

We find an exit back to the beach. But as we make our escape, several Dai Li agents jump out from behind us.

"Do you think we can outrun them?" I ask.

"I don't think it's gonna matter!" Aang replies.

Another group of Dai Li agents, plus Long Feng, stand in front of us. All the agents box us in, lifting up the ground on both sides. Dai Li agents stand on all three walls. Momo flies to Aang.

"What is it Momo?" He asks. Momo flies to the sky. And suddenly, Appa flies down! "Appa!" Aang cries happily.

Appa smashes through the rock walls, scattering the Dai Li agents. Aang and I use earthbending to knock other nearby agents off a cliff and into the lake while Appa confronts Long Feng. The man charges at Appa, but Appa grabs his leg and throws him into the lake, skipping like a stone. Appa spits out Long Feng's shoe. We all cheer and run toward Appa.

It was good to have Appa back. 

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A/N: This is a bit of a shorter chapter, I know. But seeing that this is where the episode ends it seemed like a fitting place to stop.

Gosh, we are almost done with book (season) 2! Just a few more episodes to go. I'm hoping to finish book 2 by Valentines Day of next year. Maybe by New Years if I'm lucky. But as I mentioned in the last chapter I have been busy with college so I don't know if I'm going to find the time. 

Anyways, what are your thoughts on this chapter? Did you enjoy it? 

Stay safe. 

-Isabel