A/N: I need to learn how to play battleship properly.

Toph was a good fighter. That was a fact. Ever since she had learnt earthbending at the early age of 6 she had trained to be a fighter. It was a fact of life for everyone close to her, and it would be a fact of death to those currently in her way.

"Move it, punks!" She slammed the earth, sending a column of firebenders off their feet and several meters away. Toph paused for a moment before entombing a number more firebenders in the ground.

Even as the effects of the solar eclipse faded Toph moved like a hurricane of pain. She swept across the beachhead, tearing apart the fire nation forces. The fire tanks they had deployed were no match as Toph crushed them into useless piles of scrap. Even though Toph was an amazing fighter, she was still blind, and although she could see anything that happened on or within the ground, fire travelled through the air.

"Look Out!" Toph felt a wall of earth raise itself and block the blast of fire that was headed for her. "Spirits. That was close. Are you alright?"

Toph turned to the source of the voice. From what she could tell the speaker was a tall man, slightly older than her, definitely not a soldier, but definitely an earthbender.

"Watch your back!" Toph felt the wave of fire rush across the ground towards them and intercepted it with a wave of dirt.

"Thanks," the stranger replied. "I guess we're even now?"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Toph waved him off and began attacking the next wave of fire nation soldiers. "Just try and keep up, Rocky!" She summoned a wave under her feet and began moving farther up the beach. To her surprise, however, the stranger appeared beside her on a disc of earth, keeping stride with her.

"Rocky?" he questioned.

"I have to call you by something." Toph replied as she slammed a large boulder into a tower. The stranger simply shrugged and followed her lead.

The two continued like that until reinforcements began to arrive. A deadly dance as they stood their ground, sending dozens of firebenders to their graves, and even more to the infirmary.

"We're going to have to fall back!" Rocky yelled from over the commotion of battle. "The others are leaving!"

"Let the wusses go, We'll stay behind!" Toph yelled back. "We'll buy them some time, just get them out of here!"

Rocky smirked. "we'll just have to catch the last boat out!" he said before carefully earthbending some injured earthbenders out of harms way and toward the boats.

"What's that sound?" Toph said as the two of them drew back to back. Hundreds of firebenders now swarmed the beach, the tanks self destructed and abandoned. The only thing keeping them out was three rings of stone several feet thick, but Toph and Rocky were having a hard time shoring up breaches.

"I don't know." Rocky said before trapping a fire nation soldier who had tried to climb over a breach. Suddenly several large shadows passed over the battlefield. "Blimps!" They're Blimps!" He exclaimed before fire rained down on the remaining boats, forcing those on board to swim for it.

"Damn it. Rocky, I'm going to need you to tell me where they are. If you look straight up I'll base it off of you." Toph shored up another breach and unleashed a wave of earth, ending the battle for dozens of fire nation soldiers.

"Umm, five O'clock! 200 meters!" Rocky rattled off the approximate coordinates and Toph send pillars of rock towards the five airships, destroying two of them.

"We're kinda screwed now." Rocky called out. The two of them were trapped in an area about 20 meters square, thick walls and roof covering them from assaults from all sides.

"We did what we came to do." Toph began to sweat. The heat from the barrage was beginning to permeate through the dirt. "Still. There is one way we could go out. Taking as many of these goons as we can."

"Not the most glamourous death." Rocky smirked, "but it is definitely glorious. I've got an idea. On the count of three we make as big of an earthquake as possible and allow all of that dirt to pile on us. At the last second we turn it all into shrapnel and aim it for those blimps up there. Sound good?"

"Sounds great, Rocky." Toph had a maniacal grin on her face. To stare death in teh face was exhilarating. "By the way, I never got your name. I'd like to know who my grave buddy or prison partner might be."

Rocky grinned the largest grin all day. "Kanto. The name's Kanto.

A/N: Yeah, I changed it a bit, but whatevs.