Enter chapter two.

Life in the FAYZ was typically weird, but little girls appearing in Dekka's living room with strange clothes, with no idea what was going on was a stretching it. Toph, she called herself. She'd have to bring this kid to Sam, and that was exactly what she was going to do, until Taylor bounced into the living room.

"Oh." Taylor looked at Toph. "That's why you needed my clothes…?"

"I can't wear those, apparently." Toph was lounging on the sofa, and pointed to her normal clothes.

"Those look like a Halloween costume." Taylor giggled.

"What the-" Toph was going to ask what Halloween was, but Dekka guessed as much and cut her off.

"What's up, Taylor?"

"Zil's being a jerk again, he's limping around shouting for your blood." Taylor shrugged. "Sam and Edilio and some of his soldiers are heading over, they want you to come, too, but no attacking anyone just now, unless Zil shoots you." Taylor nodded matter of factly.

"Oh, great." Dekka rolled her eyes. "All right, I'm over there. Toph, stay put, all right?" She was out of the door a second later, as Toph crossed her arms.

"I've never seen you around here, before." Taylor didn't bounce away immediately. "And you're in my old clothes."

"They're itchy." Toph replied. "What did you wash these things in, or do you just have fleas?"

"Ha-ha." Taylor grumbled. "I washed them in the ocean water, just like everyone else."

"Well, that's stupid. Come on." She got up, off the sofa, with no intentions of obeying Dekka. "I wanna go see this fight."

"I'll meet you there." Taylor figured she might end up being of assistance, and bounced out. This left Toph confused, but then again, Dekka had levitated her, so why couldn't someone else disappear? The trouble was, she had no idea where this Zil guy would be.

"What does Zil want this time?" Dekka skidded to a halt beside Sam.

"Your blood." Sam replied. "Though we're going to try and talk sense into him. He's grabbed the girl, Jill, and gagged her." He pointed down the messy and graffited street, where Jill was tied to a light post. "They're offing a trade."

"So what do you want to do?" Dekka could go in there, but there was no saying she'd be able to fight them off and get Jill free.

"I don't know yet, I'm thinking." Sam groaned. "This is the last thing we need."

"I second that. Which remains me, I think someone poofed INTO the FAYZ. She's about twelve, ended up in my living room. No idea what's going on." Dekka informed him while Edilio snorted.

"Yeah, right, and Mary's gonna come back, too." He shook his head. "How about we get Dekka staring to walk forwards, and then Brianna rushes in, unties Jill-"

"They'd shoot her by then, or would have rigged wires." Dekka didn't want Brianna getting involved.

"We need to do something they'd never think of." Sam sighed. "Otherwise, we're going to be here until Zil," He looked down at the Human Crew leader waving his gun around, "gets trigger happy."

After some asking around, Toph did find her way to the sight of the showdown. She couldn't find Taylor but instead she stood behind a wall, standing on a surface that was not stone nor dirt. She could still see just fine, but it was so strange. Like someone had pureed rock. She worked out the situation on her own, a bunch of kids with sticks and a hostage. They wanted Dekka for the hostage, presumably to kill her. "HURRY IT UP, FREAKS!" Zil's voice carried from up the hill. "I'M GETTING ANNOYED!" No one seemed to have a clue as to what to do.

"There you are!" Taylor reappeared back into Toph's world. "I've been looking for you."

"How do you just end up out of nowhere? Do you hover?" Toph asked.

"I teleport myself…" Taylor would have thought that was obvious. "You know, disappear form somewhere, end up somewhere else?"

"Oh." Toph kinda understood. "Okay, well…no one knows what to do, do they?"

"Nope." The other girl shrugged.

"I have an idea, but it's between you and me, all right?" Toph grinned devilishly.

"Okay…are you sure?" Taylor bit down on her lip.

"Yeah, I've done this stuff before, back home, wars and stuff. Look, all I need you to do if teleport yourself down to the girl. Start untying her. If they decide to hit you with their sticks, teleport away, and keep doing that. Just distract them, but don't hurt yourself. I'll go in and scare them off, easy." Toph figured these kids hadn't seen real earthbending before.

"How are you going to do that?" Taylor asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Earthbending." Toph cracked her knuckles.

"Some freak power?" It was Taylor's turn to wonder.

"Yeah, whatever." Toph shrugged. "Just do it, you and me, all right?" Taylor nodded. If this kid got Dekka trusting her, then she supposed she could, too.

"What the…" Sam saw Taylor bounce right into the danger zone. "Who told her to do that?"

"Not me, dude." Edilios' eyes widned as Lance went for her, ready to shoot. Taylor bounced away, with Jill less tied by a single knot.

"BACK OFF, FREAKS!" Zil shouted, before the earth below him moved. A legde of earth shot up, knocking him onto his bottom. This time, the Human Crew weren't the only confused ones.

"Oh god." Dekka saw Toph walking down the street. "That's the girl I was going to tell you about. I think she got INTO the FAYZ from somewhere else."

"Don't move!" Zil had gotten back up, gun pointed at Toph.

"What're you going to do?" Toph laughed. "Throw the stick at me?"

"She doesn't know what a gun is?" Edilio asked. "Dude, she's dead, what're we gonna do?"

"Nothing." Sam decided. "Not yet."

Zill didn't know who this kid thought she was. She was tiny, barefoot, and didn't look at all threatening, but had she been the moof who's moved the earth? "I'll shoot you, that's what I'll do!" Zil shot, and the bullet, which Toph didn't see coming, grazed her shoulder. She put her hand where he'd hit, feeling blood. What was that? An arrow, but not an arrow? No time to think about it, she heard the stick explode again. She raised her hands and coated herself with the earth.

"Did she just turn herself into Orc?" Sam asked, blinking. Nothing surprised him much in the FAYZ, but this was a serious freak.

Zil continued to shoot as Toph, but this girl-turned-Orc didn't seem bothered now. She hadn't even left room for her eyes. Did she know where she was going or was she just guessing? No, no, she knew, she headed for Jill. "Kill the siren!" Zil called back to Lance, who advanced with a baseball bat. He was going to make a show of this.

"Oh no you don't!" Toph had let the earth drop from her, and this time sent a horizontal avalanche of sorts at Lance. He was thrown backwards, and didn't get up. Taylor bounced back in and resumed untying Jill as Toph fell back into old habit. These kids were by no means skilled firebenders, or, for that matter, that accurate with their sticks.

"I don't know about you guys, but I suggest we get down there." Dekka took a step forwards. "Before she kills anyone, and before kids get shot." Amazingly, the bullets had yet to hurt ayone, barring the glancing shot at Toph's shoulder.

"I second that." Edilio agreed. "Anyhow, if she got into the FAYZ, we need to speak with her." Sam didn't say anything, just nodded and dashed down the hill. Instead of toasting anyone, he just fired at the ground near their feet; the Human Crew had already deemed it not worth all this trouble to get Dekka, not with the new freak in town. Once they'd scattered, Sam watched as the new girl raised her hands to air, shouting.

"THE BLIND BANDIT STRIKES AGAIN!" She called, as her hair felled from her eyes. They were light green – far too light. He'd seen a picture of cataracts once, but it wasn't quite the same as this. It was pretty clear her eyes were dead, though. She turned back to him and grinned. "I'm the most powerful earthbender alive, possibly ever, why so shocked?"

"How many bars are you?" Sam asked.

"Bars? We don't go by bars, whatever you mean by that, at home. You're either an earthbender, or not. Or a firebender, or not. Or a waterbender, or not. Or an airbender, but there's only one of those left, and Aang's the Avatar, anyways, so he could have airbended regardless."

"So…that's common where you're from? To just…do that?" Edilio asked.

"Well…yeah." Toph blinked her unseeing eyes. "But no one can teleport or hover things without wind, and I'm not sure what sort of firebending that guy," She pointed to Sam, "was up to."

"But how do you see?" Dekka wasn't so believing of the 'blind bandit' idea.

"My feet." Toph replied nonchalantly. "The vibrations from the earth. That's how I can tell if someone's lying, too, provided they aren't total sociopaths."

"We only have one of those around here, and he's fused with a dead girl." Sam sighed. "Maybe two, but I hope he's starved to death. Come on." He motioned for Toph, Dekka and Edilio to follow him. On the way to Astrid's house, those from the FAYZ explained what life was like in Perdido Beach, and Toph explained life 'back home', from a massive war and genocide to a guy who could blow things up with his mind, the, probably the closest thing besides healing that was a "freak" talent, rather than one from Toph's universe, which she admittedly didn't know the name of. They reached Astrid, who was trying to talk to Little Pete, and recapped.

"So, I wanna go home some year," Toph added at the end of the comparisons and explanations. "Think Little Pete can put me back?"

"If he wants to, he can. But he might have summoned you here for a reason, or he might have done it by accident, so you might be stuck." Astrid admitted, playing with a strand of her hair. Her words made Toph say something so bad Astrid was for once glad Little Pete was in his own world, and probably hadn't processed what she'd said. "I'm sorry, Toph. We're stuck in the FAYZ, too."

"But you're in your own universe, at least!" Toph retorted. "Let's say I'm stuck here even after the FAYZ wall goes down; then what do I do? I sure can't make a living earthbending, now can I?"

"We'll deal with that when we come to it." Astrid replied. "I'll try my best to talk to Little Pete, I promise." Toph backed off a little, not sensing lies.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhh!" Little Pete began to scream and flail.

"Oh no." They could all guess what might be happening.

"Who do you think, Toph?" Sam asked, vacating the room with Dekka and Edilio. None of them would be any good calming little Pete, which Astrid was frantically trying to do. "Anyone you think might be likey to poof in?"

"Aang? Maybe he's going to put me back?" She didn't sound that hopeful. "It can't be Zuko, Mai or Sokka, Suki's too old, too…so it's got to be Aang, Katara, Ty Lee…Azula...it could be anyone!" The screaming stopped, and Toph was still present. Somewhere else, a blue light flashed.