SunSet
Summary: In the final battle, Sokka discovers he is, in fact, a bender, but with it comes the uncovering of locked away memories that turn his life upside down. The clock is ticking and when it's up, not a single person will remember the name 'Sokka'. But, is it really that easy to walk away when your one of the reason's a 100-year-old war, ended?
I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender
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"XY. Your mission will end on the day of Sozin Comet. A week later, your existence will be gone from the mind of everybody who has ever met you during the mission. We will come and pick you up, then."
"Yes sir"
Sokka, woke up in the middle of the night, sweating.
What was the hell was that?
And why did he think, it had something to do with him?
And then he saw the empty bed that Aang was supposed to be sleeping in.
Aang did not want to kill somebody so he ran away, nobody knows where to but everybody was praying that he would be back to face the fire lord.
Today was the day of Sozin Comet.
The attack on the Day of the Black Sun was a trap.
This was the only chance they had left.
All Fire Benders, including the Fire Lord, will be more powerful in these hours because of the Comet.
The deranged man of a Firelord was planning to use the comet to bust into places the Fire Nation haven't concurred yet and engulfed them all into a special fire.
Millions of people who had nothing to do with the war would die and the world would be concurred by a man calling himself 'The Phoenix King'.
So, before the Fire Nation could carry out the attack, they had to break through and Aang would have to return and kill the Firelord.
Everybody was nervous.
This was War and if they screwed this up, that was it for them.
He, himself, hadn't quite gotten over the fact that he had led a bunch of people to their deaths on the Day of the Black Sun.
What was an even bigger blow was that the Fire Lord had already been warned about the invasion and went into hiding so it was all for nothing?
What if his plan doesn't work?
What if Aang doesn't return?
What if he was leading everybody into another trap?
There was so much on his mind that he just wanted to run.
But he couldn't run.
So many people were counting on him.
So many people were counting on him with his jokes to lighten the mood and assure them that they could win if they die than their deaths wouldn't be in vain and would for a brighter future.
Knowing that the Avatar was on their son could only do so much.
Everybody had to believe that they would be able to protect their friend and family today.
So while his sister and the former Fire Prince rode on Appa, he with the blind girl and his kick-ass girlfriend, want by water to stop the Fire Nations airships from taking off.
But they were too late.
The airships took to the skies, their presence was terrifying.
But it didn't stop Toph though.
They were thrust into the air through earth bending and managed to land on one of the ships.
Toph was like a wrecking ball on the ship, she moved through the ship and nobody could stop her.
Watching her fight, Sokka got another vision.
Little Sokka stood in the middle of the room, he was dressed in neither Fire Nation or Water Tribe clothes.
"Again. Try to make sure none of them hit you!" Shouted a man.
Suddenly machines came out of the ground and started firing, he expertly dodged them, only for him to make a strange pose and the machine began to collapse into themselves.
However, there was a lot more where that came from, he quickly found out.
However, one of the bullets hit him and he hissed in pain.
However, it was only brief, his flesh started healing before his very eyes.
No matter how many bullets would hit, he would heal.
"SOKKA!" Yelled his girlfriend, Suki.
"Huh?" He said, suddenly he realized both Toph and Suki were at the control.
Was Toph done already?
Suddenly Suki pulled a lever and they dropped all the soldiers still on the ship off the ship and down the hatch into the sea.
Then they followed the Firelord personal airship.
However, they weren't fast enough to catch up to the man, the Firelord had already reached his first destination and started torching everything.
However, when they were all wondering how they could get down there, suddenly the Firelord ship went tumbling down and with his scope, he saw Aang take down the Fire Lordship.
He had come through!
Now it was his turn.
He looked at the mass of ship's behind them and his mind want to work.
Then he had a crazy idea.
"Suki. May I have the wheel?" he said.
"Be my guest?" She said as he took it.
"What are you doing?" Toph said, she hated flying because she couldn't really see.
"I'm going to crash this ship into all the ships behind us," He said, much their surprise.
"Wait. What?" Suki said, was he nuts?
"Don't talk, just run. We have to make it to the very top" He said, just then the firebenders on the other ships opened fire on the land below.
It was like hell had opened up, he was thankful that there was no one down there.
He took both Toph and Suki hands before trying to lead them to the top, he didn't know how he knows where he was going but all he know was that he was too young to die.
The ship started crashing into other ships and it began destroying itself, there was a huge explosion below him but he managed to hang on.
"Dad. Mom." He said, talking to a couple, the man looked a lot like him.
"Son. We know" Said, the woman "And we're proud."
"Even if you won't remember us for a couple of years" Said, the man. "Your report will be a lot of help to our race. Perhaps, you'll finally make some friends"
"Friends?" He said. "This has nothing to do with friendship. It's a mission. Nothing more or nothing less"
The man and wife looked at each other.
Sokka shook his head, where were all these flashes coming from?
Had somebody from the City of Ba sing se got to him and messed with his head?
He made his way onto the top of the Airship and began to run as the scene around them began to collapse.
However, Suki wasn't quick enough.
"SUKI!" He yelled, watching her go down.
However, moments later he heard. "I'M OKAY! JUST FINISH THE MISSION" from her, which gave him a sigh of relief.
However, what he had done wasn't enough, there was a ship or two left and but this ship wasn't going anywhere.
"Toph," He said, addressing the blind girl. "Metal bend the ship into this one and let it spiral into the others"
Suddenly Toph moved him aside and spat on her hands, which was unnecessary before Metal bending.
It was at that moment he realised something.
Why at 17, did he have the brains to not only be in a full-blown war but he was actually taking down a whole fleet of ships with only two people and succeeding?
Wasn't this a bit unbelievable?
Just a year ago, he was the protector of his Village while his dad was away but now look at him.
A firebender managed to get the roof to stop them and he took Toph and ran, however, something even more unbelievable happened.
The metal below his feet began to react and it shot to the sky, blocking the fire attack that was shot their way.
He looked at Toph and she looks equally as stunned.
"You didn't do that, did you?" He said.
She shook her head.
But then the titling of the ship forced them off the ship without them realizing.
The metal chased after them and he tried to grab it but it was too late.
He slammed into a piece of metal and his leg bent a weird way but he had no time to care about it because he was too busy trying to save Toph from plummeting to her death.
The only thing keeping her from death was his arms that she had grabbed.
Two firebenders suddenly appeared from both sides.
He tried to think fast but just as he tried to think of a way out, the metal underneath both soldiers buckled and they both plummeted to their deaths.
Now, he had to admit it, in this current situation, there was no way Toph could have done that.
But this wasn't supposed to happen!
Toph was supposed to be the one who invited metal bending so what was this?
He never received a single lesson from her and yet, he could metal bend!
Just like in his first vision.
Wait.
Did that mean it was real?
However, before he could maul over the shocking discovery, he was suddenly surrounded by Firebenders the same ship.
If he really could Metal bend than...
However, just as he wanted to try the soldiers ran away, he was confused until something almost flattened him and Toph was thrown onto a safer surface on the ship.
"What happened?" Toph said.
"It's Suki," He said, he saw Suki riding a small ship.
That's his girlfriend!
And that's when they all saw the light show, orange and blue clashed together in the distance and it seemed the orange was consuming the blue until there was only a spark left.
But just when it was about to be snuffed out, the blue burst out and overtook the orange until there was only blue left.
It was a beautiful sight and you could tell something amazing was going on.
He hopped onto his girlfriend ship to safety.
His biggest Flashback came.
A much smaller and younger him sat in a chair, in front of him were figures shrouded by darkness.
"XY. We have discovered a world that is very similar to our own. Not all of them can bend the elements like we can but there is an individual amongst them called the 'Avatar'. From stories, it says that this person will be born over and over again. The Avatar is an extremely powerful person" Said, the figure in front of him. "We fear that those on that planet will continue growing generation after generation in power. Sooner or later they will completely destroy their own planet and look for another planet to invade"
"Our planet is much like their own. We are the closest to them in term of being able to be habitable" Said, a woman voice. "Our planet is also close to being filled up. And what we do know about that planet is from our Spies. But they were unable to blend in well so we do not know how a person from that planet thinks. Are they monsters incapable of being reasoned with? Are they a large threat to us now? If we were to go to war with them, we don't have the data needed to defend ourselves or attack them"
"That's where you come In." Said, the man's voice, making him surprised. "We want you to infiltrate that planet. You will go undercover as a tribe person from what is called the Southern Water Tribe. The whole tribe's memories will be altered to include you so you can slip right in"
He was stunned.
"The mission will be a 10-year long mission" Said, the man. "In that time, we will bind your memories and seal your ability. Your ability is not common there so we do not want to you attract any unnecessary attention On, the day of Sozin comet, your mission will end and your memories will come back. A ship will come for you a week later, just before your image is removed from everybody you have ever met on the mission. Do you accept this mission?"
A mission where his memories would be bound and his ability were bound for 10 years?
He stood up and said. "I will be honoured to take this mission. How can I say no to protecting this planet?"
"Then XY, you will go by the name of 'Sokka' while on Earth," said, the man. "You will be escorted to the planet in a week time. We look forward to hearing your report"
They got off the ship just to meet Aang and what looked like the corpse of the Firelord.
"That was amazing!" He said as he was helped to walk.
His girlfriend left him with Toph to check on the body.
"So, is he...you know?" Suki said. "Did you finish the job?"
But then the corpse start moving.
"I'm still alive" growled the fire lord making all three of them take a step back.
Wait. He was still alive!?
They all looked at Aang questionably.
"I learned that there was another way to defeat him. I took his bending away" Aang said, making all of their eyes widen.
"Wow. Who taught you that?" Toph said.
"A giant Lion turtle," Aang said.
"You have the craziest adventures when you disappear," Toph said, impressed.
He hopped over to his girlfriend and faced the downed and powerless Firelord.
"We'll look at you, Buster. Now that your fire bending is gone" He said, "Guess, we'll call you...THE LOSER LORD"
He struck a nerve.
"I am the Pheonix King!" The man growled, before losing all strength in his body and flopping down like a drunkard.
"Oh, I sorry I did not mean to offend you," Toph said. "Phoneix king... of getting his butt whooped!"
"Yeah. How about the king... of the" Suki began before saying things that made all of them cringe. "Guys, who don't win?"
"Leave the Nicknames to us, Honey," Toph said.
They all watched as the Comet pasted.
It was a beautiful Sunset.
"What's wrong?" Suki said, seeing his unusual serious face.
"Oh, nothing." He said, turning to her. "I just can't believe that a 100-year-old war is over just like that. We did more in 2 years than any highly trained adults ever did. I was just wondering what I'll do from now on"
"Maybe, you can get to know me better before popping the question?" She said, giving him a kiss on the cheeks.
"That is a possibility," He said.
To think all this would be gone in a week.
In a week, Sokka would have never existed.
However, the name Sokka may vanish from the history books but he had created a legacy.
A legacy lives on even after a thousand years go by.
He was the 'Wise Cracking Genius General' who was a huge factor in the ending of a war that involved the entire world and transcended 3 generations.
It was because of this Legacy that Aang and the group would soon realise they were missing somebody.
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