A Few pointers:

1. The main character is not some long haired pretty boy (like Zuko), but rather a nutty eccentric man...kinda like Sokka mixed with Dale Gribble from King of the Hill. He wears glasses, he smokes, he's a nerd, he's crazy and eccentric and can be obsessive and he's in his mid-30s.

2. Like Chin the Great was to Qin Shi Huang (China's first emperor) Moh Lai-Tsung is supposed to be similar to Mao Zedong and Kim Il-Sung. But the revolution is not a communist one, but rather more similar to the Chinese revolution that established the republic in 1912 (the KMT republic prior to the 1949- present People's Republic)

3. The story setting is set in a early 20th century setting. The Earth Republic (formerly the Earth Kingdom) shares similarities with the Republic of China (1912-1949) and Mao era China.(1949-1973)

4. I DO NOT own any of the Avatar characters (Aang, Zuko, Iroh, Azula, Katara, ext). I acknowledge that they are properties of Nickelodeon.

An archaeologist in his mid-thirties has scaled to the top of a tall hill hoping to find a legendary temple. His name is Ming Baifou, he is a man in his thirties, he had a thin mustache, glasses and he is known for being an eccentric man. He cared more for his line of work than even some of the most beautiful girls he has encountered; because of that, he is sometimes singled out as asexual or even as far as a homosexual. As a dedicated archaeologist of the Earth Republic Army Corp of Searchmen, Romance was never on the top of his priorities, to him, discovering secrets of the past was far more important. Ming is also a low-level earth bender, he best thing he can do is lift medium large rocks and chuck them and he has trouble doing that.

He sat down Indian style at the top of the summit. He lit a cigarette and began puffing away while looking at the map

"Where's the western Air Temple?! I know it's supposed to be here, I've researched this mountain thoroughly. This is where the Avatar Aang was supposed to be preserved! I must see the avatar!"

His teeth clenched on his cigarette harder, and began walking around. He feels the ground

"Hmm, this is ice...from a water bender?"

He got out his ERRA (Earth Republic Revolutionary Army) issued revolver and shot at the ice, creating a crack that got bigger until is broke, He jumps in and turns on his flashlight."

"So many mysteries...so many but where's the avatar?"

He comes across the hall of avatar door.

"I've read that air bending it required to open this..."

"But I've opened these doors before in exploring the other air temples!" He said with a huge teethy grin

He gets out his portable cooling fan and he lights another cigarette, he turns the fan onto a high setting and blows really hard into the all the cigarette turned to butt. Like his previous successes, it worked in opening the door.

"WINGO!!" He runs in to the hall of avatars.

He looks around and see's a big block of thick ice. He walks to it, knowing it's probably Aang. He begins melting the ice with his matches, then he tries to use his rudimentary earth bending skills, then he fires a shot from his revolver at the ice, but nothing worked.

"DAMN IT WHY WONT YOU MELT!!" he yelled out

Baifou then tries to scapegoat the Avatar Kyoshi statue by kicking it. He bears a lot of jealousy to the Kyoshi people, particularly Kyoshi warriors due to bad past experiences of trying to rob from Kyoshi's shrine, only to be stopped and humiliated by Kyoshi warriors.

"What are you looking at you petrified Kyoshi bitch!" He kicks the statue senselessly until it glows

He then panics and runs behind the frozen avatar, the other avatar statues light up and the ice starts to melt. Baifou then steps back and looks at the ice block melt before him. Aang then appears out of the ice, laying down. He looks as though he is still in his early teens.

"WINGO!!" Baifou shouts out

The loud shout of excitement from the elated archaeologist woke Aang up, Aang opens his eyes and gets up. Baifou looks at him with a big smile, his tobacco breath reaches Aang's nose

"EWW, YOU STINK!" He covers his nose. "Who are you?! Why are you here!? and what's with the funny looking green clothes you are wearing?!

Baifou explains everything to him: "A lot can change in one thousand years, Aang...according to scripts, you were preserved with permafrost, but a water bender named Katara."

Aang looks at him funny, "where's Katara?"

"She's dead. She's been so for the last nine hundred twenty one years."

"You're other friends are dead too, Sokka, Toph..." the archaeologist added "Like I said, a lot can happen in a thousand years."

"Aang starts tearing up"

Baifou tries to calm him down with his flash light. "Look, I'm a Fire bender that knows combustion!" he said with a smile switching it on and off.

Aang takes his revolver out of his holster "What's this?!"

"AAAHHH, DON'T SHOOT ME!" Baifou backs away Aang accidentally fires the gun, nearly hitting the archaeologist in the head.

"Let's not play with that..." he snatches his pistol away from Aang and puts it back into his holster

"Who are you?" the dazzled Avatar asks

"I am...MING BAIFOU, THE GREATEST ARCHAEOLOGIST AND AVATOLOGIST THAT EVER EXISTED!! He poses in a masculine fashion with his machete out, trying to cover up his scrawny and seemingly malnourished body. He also performs his sub par earth bending tricks."

"Is that all? I can do better than you!" Aang tried to do some Earthbending, but fails.

"What the!? How, why?!"ddfd

"I think all that time preserved in permafrost in a deep sleep has...de-conditioned you." he says with a laugh, but then Baifou is knocked out with a strong gust.

LATER THAT DAY...

Aang and Baifou climb down the mountain of the temple and reached the valley below and they take a ride on Baifou's truck into a local town. Aang looks at the truck suspiciously.

"I know you're not that good of an earth bender to move this carriage on the ground like that...you must be from the Fire Nation!!" He steps out of the truck and blows it off the road easily

Worried, Baifou draws his shotgun and threatens to shoot Aang with it.

"I am not Fire Nation, I am not fucking Fire Nation!" He steps out of his turned over truck and threatens to shoot Aang, but only to get kicked in the shins.

"Ack! You asshole!" Do I look Fire Nation, look at my hat!"

Aang takes a good look at his field cap and see's the Earth Republic symbol...which is basically the Earth Kingdom circle with a white star in the square."

"You see, I am Earth! EARTH!" Baifou yells out

"Why is there a star in the symbol."

Well, a few decades ago, there was a revolution in the whole Earth Kingdom, the last of the Kuei dynasty Earth King was overthrown, he was a very corrupt man, very brutal...very much so like Ozai and Azula from your era! He had the best Dai Li agents guarding him, but they were still not enough for the masses of revolting peasants, middle class people and revolutionary soldiers all led by a great leader, Moh Lai-Tseng the Excellent. The revolution then spread to Omashu and other parts...but there is one part of the Earth Kingdom that has not adapted our revolution...one part that continues to dwell with their reactionary ways...the Kyoshi Islands!"

"Why's that?" Aang asks

"Everytime the Earth Republic sends the revolutionary army over there to liberate the Kyoshi, the damn warriors always slaughter them...how is it even possible, we have guns, artillery, explosives, they still use their feudal weapons!! Not one of those women die either! But whole ERRA platoons would be rubbed out!"

"Maybe they like their old ways, you can't just force ideas on to people no matter how good they may sound, or even how sugarcoated they may be." Aang replied in a retort

"BUT, THE IDEAS OF MOH THE EXCELLENT ARE PERFECT!! Those Kyoshi peasants do not realize how sweet of a proposition it is to be liberated by us! I guess they've been enslaved by the Kyoshi warrior elite for so long.

Aang then loses his patience "Well, you're brainwashed by the Earth Republic government, just look at all those propaganda posters, and that oversized Moh portrait hanging from the town hall." Aang looks at it, it's a poster of Moh Lai-Tseng, he has a bald top with hair on the side (similar to Mao Zedong), with a Chiang Kai-Shek mustache between his nose and lip and a wart on the side.

"Are you sure Moh is a good leader, or is he just like Chin the Great? Hell, he could be like Ozai for all we know!?" Aang said

Then Aang and Baifou look around to see youth guard soldiers in lime green uniforms, each with a white band tied around their left shoulder. They wore green field caps with white stars on them. They pointed their rifles at the two and escorted them to the local corrections office.

"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a naysaying little brat kid!" Marshall Liu looked at them with dismay. Liu then looks at Baifou. "Are you with this brat?"

"No, not at all, he's a little twerp who followed me into town!" Baifou said while sweating

"...you look like you're lying, Ming..." Liu, slaps Ming and earth bends a small rock to hit him in the jaw."

That night, they are both in the local jail, constantly harassed by the youth guards. Then Marshall Liu arrives at their cell with a proclamation from the local branch of the government.

"Baifou, you're as lucky as you are pathetic...you and your boy have been cut a break."

Ming runs to the jail bars with excitement "You mean we won't get the pellet gun torture?"

"Nope." The marshall replied

"What's the catch?" Aang asked

"Such a smart little nut, aren't you...that's not good for a boy like you...anyways, both of you will be cleared of all sedition charges. But the exoneration is conditional." The Marshall says

"Oh, we'll do anything!! I'm ready to feed soldiers, clean the streets, clean public toilets! Anything!!"

"Shut up Ming! You're not even close! You two will have to do some...borrowing...I mean high risk borrowing from the Kyoshi."

"WHAAA!! But I tried that!" Baifou replied

"Yes, but that was only to try to taylor your counter-revolutionary greed! This time, you are doing it for the motherland!"

Aang steps in "We will never agr..." Baifou muffles his mouth

"We agree, this little boy is not very smart, I found him from the jungles."

"I though you said he merely followed you from the mountains." Liu looked at him funny

"Well, he's still an untamed barbarian kid." Baifou says with his teethy grin.

The next day, both Ming Baifou and Aang are sent on a destroyer to the Kyoshi Islands to try to attempt a robbery Ming failed accomplish years ago. He sits on the ship, smoking his cigarette.