A/N: This is a compilation between me, my sister and my bestie :3 We don't own Avatar The Last Airbender (no matter how much we want to!). We just love crack fics.

This is a little filler that takes place at the Western Air Temple. Mischief and chaos (and maybe even some slash) ensue! This is chapter one, in which Sokka yearns to have a male-bonding experience with two of the less-manly characters in the show. Should be interesting, hope you enjoy!

Man-Juice

It was only a sliver of sun above the horizon, but it was enough to shine through the crack between Appa's eyelids. The giant, furry bison yawned, stood up groggily, and shifted so he faced the opposite direction. He did not have the opportunity to drift back into the deep slumber that the sun had so rudely stolen from him, because someone promptly began fastening his saddle and packing it with supplies. He lifted his great head to give Aang a perturbed look. The airbender said sympathetically, "Sorry, Appa. You can sleep in when we get there. You know Sokka's been planning this trip ever since he and Zuko came back from the Boiling Rock."

The bison yawned resentfully. The loud watertribesman never got up early, and was probably still sleeping right now, leaving the toil of this trip to Appa and the other two men involved. In fact, he noticed Zuko attempting to rouse him right now.

"Yue," Sokka was mumbling as he wriggled around in his sleeping bag. "Stay out of the koi pond!"

Zuko, who had been trying to gently coax him into consciousness, became impatient and quickened the process by growling in frustration and applying a quick burst of flame to the ground beneath the sleeping, muttering Sokka.

Sokka hopped up in his sleeping bag. "Ah! Ah! Hot hot hot!" And he tripped and fell backwards into the fountain. "Aaahh…" he sighed, steam trailing upward from the bag. After he had been satisfactorily soothed, Sokka glared up at Zuko. "What was that?" He tumbled out of the fountain, spilling water all over the stone. "Don't you know it's dangerous to wake up a sleeping warrior? I could have killed you with my space sword before I was awake enough to realize it was you!"

Zuko glared back at the sleeping-bag-cocooned boy on the ground. "You can't even move your arms right now. I'm not all that worried." Zuko chuckled to himself. "Even if you could move…"

Sokka jumped up and started hopping after Zuko. "What is that supposed to mean? I'll have you know, I am a great—" He tripped again and hit the ground in front of Zuko's feet.

"Uh-huh," Zuko nodded. "Have you forgotten that you are the one who imposed this camping trip upon us?"

"It's not a camping trip!" Sokka retorted. "It is a man-trip!"

"Well, you've already done that—"

"It is a journey of self-discovery and male-bonding," Sokka said, ignoring Zuko's comment. "Fueled purely on testosterone and man-juice!"

Zuko and Aang adopted weary looks at the thought of Sokka's "man-juice."

Sokka wriggled himself up off of the ground. "So stop standing around, and let's get going! You guys are acting like a couple of lazy girls!"

"Excuse me?" Suki came down off of Appa's saddle, where she had been fastening down supplies. "What was that you just said Sokka?" Suki glared at Sokka through one eye, her hands balled into fists on her hips.

"I wasn't referring to you Suki, you're anything but lazy!" Sokka gushed.

"I know!" Suki lithely kissed Sokka on the cheek.

"Really Sokka? We've been working since sun-rise because that's the time you said you're little camping trip was going to start," Katara exclaimed as she came around the other side of the fountain, bending water into a water pouch.

"How many times do I have to say it? This is not a camping trip! It is a MAN-JUICE-TRIP!" Then Sokka muttered, "With camping, and maybe some tents, on a mountain somewhere. Maybe."

"Whatever. The fact of the matter is that Zuko and Aang have been doing all the preparing while you were catching up on your beauty sleep."

"And you need it! Trust me!" Toph cut Katara off, ignoring the dirt all over her from her rock tent.

"Toph, you have even less room to talk," Katara retorted, ignoring the joke. "You do even less than Sokka does unless we're fighting."

"But I bend metal!" Toph exclaimed.

"Uh, guys?" Aang said, trying to keep the argument from escalating.

"What?" Toph and Katara shouted at the same time, then looked at each other in embarrassment.

"Could we get going soon? I agree with Sokka and think that some male-bonding time would be a good thing." Then he shuddered. "But hopefully without any 'man-juice'."

"There is going to be SO MUCH MAN-JUICE you will be swimming in it!" Sokka raged.

At that point, Appa noticed the young scarred one walking off, shaking his head. Haru called from behind him, "What's this about 'man-juice'?" Turning back around, Appa saw the young earth bender coming from an entrance into the building.

"Yeah, Zuko, Aang and I are going on a man-trip! For the male-bonding!" Sokka stated proudly.

"Well, what about us? Aren't we manly enough for your little trip?" Teo asked, wheeling in from the direction Haru had come from, followed by The Duke.

"It's for the main central group only, sorry guys," said Sokka

"Seriously? You're taking Zuko along, but not me? I've been an ally ever since I first met you guys! He can't say that!" Haru exclaimed. Then, stroking his newly grown goatee and mustache, "I know I am most certainly manly enough."

"Sokka thinks that since there are nine of us, we should split into groups of three." Katara stood next to Haru, her hands on her hips. "He thinks it's an optimal way to split us up."

"Well, duh! We can't cut one of us in half to have two groups." Sokka ejaculated animatedly (You know, in the old sense of the word…). "This way, Zuko, Aang and I can work off each other in case there is a problem. With only three of us gone, you six can defend the headquarters without being overrun."

"Sokka, if Azula were to attack us, it wouldn't matter if there were nine or six of us here. She alone could take us out."

Zuko returned. "I'm tired of this, are we leaving or not?" He slung himself up onto Appa's back and glared down at the others.

"I guess we're going now," Aang consented, bending himself up onto Appa's head in a fluid jump. Sokka shrugged and followed Aang up, with much less flair.

"We'll see you tomorrow then," the now much less grouchy, ex-fire nation prince said to the six left on the ground.

"You guys have fun!" Suki called after the retreating flying bison.

"Yeah, have fun on your 'trip of manly-juiciness'," Haru muttered bitterly.

"Hey Haru, it doesn't matter that much. So what if they get to go on a totally awesome field trip with the Avatar!" Teo patted Haru on the back.

"Thanks Teo, get your hand off my ass. And for some reason, you saying that does not cheer me up."

"Well, I know something that will cheer you up! We can go on our own adventure with our own man-juice!"

"You know what, that sounds nice. Let's go do that. Only please without the man-juice."

"Well what's the matter, you wanted Sokka's man-juice," The Duke piped up innocently.

"Th-that's not what I said!" Haru defended, blushing wildly as he pushed past them and strode toward the entrance to the temple. The Duke and Teo shared a shrug and followed.