Hi!
...So, yeah... Every title of every chapter is the summary. Just so you know.
"Guys, do we HAVE to rebuild Zuko's old vacation house? I mean, seriously. It was old and decrepit anyways. I say good riddance!" Sokka complained, after managing to right the column that had broken down.
"Sokka, shut up and do your work." Katara snapped. "You were the one who led to the fall of this house, not us. Just be glad we're even here, helping you!"
Sokka rarely saw his sister that mad at him, but he didn't flinch- or notice at all, for that matter.
"You know, I just wish one of us were woodbenders. Then this job would be over in about three minutes!"
Then he stuck out his lower lip like a stubborn child and sulked for a bit. Toph scowled.
"Snoozles, just shut up, will you? We have no house, and it feels like it will rain soon. So, if you can, shut your gigantic mouth and just WORK!"
Dramatically, Sokka put a hand to his chest and gasped.
"How dare you insult me! My manly pride is gone!"
Suki was the only one that laughed.
A few hours later, the house was standing again. Aang used his airbending to fix the roof, and not a moment too soon- the minute they got everything inside again (including the precious iPad), it began to rain. The drops came down in sheets; it was so thick, nobody could see three feet in front of them. Appa was drenched, and the sight of Momo's panicked, desperate face clawing at the windows was too much. They exploded into laughter.
A few hours passed of staring out at the window, tracing paths that the raindrops created as they ran down the window.
"Oh my GOSH, guys, I'm so bored I'm just about going to die!" Katara proclaimed dramatically.
"Yeah, it stinks that Sokka's the only one who can operate this thing. We really could use some entertainment right now, and the 'iPad' is full to bursting with it!" Zuko said moodily, fingering said item. Toph cracked her knuckles menacingly.
"If I die of boredom, right here, right now, it's all Snoozle's fault." She said, blindly eyeing Zuko.
"Sparky, I'm entrusting the revenge of Toph Bei Fong in your hands. Got it?"
"Hey, why not me? I'm the Avatar, how can Zuko be stronger than me?" Aang asked plaintively. Toph raised a questioning eyebrow at the boy.
"Do you honestly think that I am going to depend on a bald monk who's kind of socially off and refuses to harm anything to take vengeance on Sokka? Seriously!"
"Hey, guys! We're back!" Sokka yelled, kicking the door open. Suki was carrying all the food that they had bought.
"Finally, you bumbling idiot!" Toph cried. Then, before Sokka had a chance to step inside, she created a jail of earth and rocks around Sokka so he couldn't move.
"Aw, come on, Toph! This thing doesn't even have a roof, and you know it's pouring out there!" Sokka whined.
"Shut up. I'm not doing anything until you teach us how to use the iPad." A note of franticness, laced with desperation (a very un-Toph like virtue) entered her voice.
"Do you know how bored we were, stuck inside this stupid house with an endless supply of fun right in our hands, but not knowing how to unlock it? Do you?" There was a brief respite in her 'lecture'.
"You know what? I guess you don't. Since you always knew how to do this sort of thing. And maybe also because you're stupid. But anyways, you never bothered teaching us, did you? Nope. So teach us. Now! BEFORE I EARTHBEND YOU TO WHO KNOWS WHERE AND YOU CAN'T COME BACK BEFORE WE DEFEAT OZAI!" Letting out a breath, the blind earthbender smirked, as if nothing had happened, and the sand jail melted away.
"Fine, fine, gosh. You didn't have to imprison me out in the rain, did you? I'm coming!" Sokka whined again.
"Yes, I did have to, Snoozles. You know I did." Sighing, Sokka muttered something under his breath that sounded remarkably similar to 'Maggot-infested human string bean'.
"What was that?" Toph asked, threateningly.
"N-nothing!" Sokka cowered. "I j-just said, you were a marvelous human being."
Toph grinned, allowing what she knew she had heard slip by. It was nice knowing exactly how much power she had over a teenager that was three years older than her.
A few minutes later, the results of the shopping trips had been laid out and organized. The Gaang now sat in a circle, watching intently as Sokka reluctantly unfolded the secrets to the iPad. He passed the 'Instructions Manual' around, and each Gaang member finished reading it and passed it on to the next person. Eventually, Suki (the last person to go) had finished reading, and everybody was silent (except for Momo, chittering indignantly after being left in the rain) as they took in the knowledge they had just been handed. After a while, Katara spoke.
"Wow." she said plainly, voicing the emotion that everybody except Sokka was feeling.
"I can't believe it. All this time, and all we had to do was press the power button and 'swipe to unlock'? This thing is amazing!"
Sokka scratched his head.
"What's the power button?" He asked. "All I did was look at the diagram, and press that little button up on the top over there."
Zuko slapped his forehead in exasperation.
"Sokka, that is the power button! Honestly!"
"Yeah, Sokka, and all this time we thought you were the expert on this!" Aang added.
As the rest of the Gaang began their 'highly technical' discussion about operating the iPad, Sokka began to feel slightly left out, as he had no idea what the words 'power button', 'volume controllers', or 'home button' meant. Pouting childishly, he petted Momo on the head and went to cuddle with Appa. Since, obviously, the rest of the humans were too busy discussing their volume controllers.
"Guys!" He finally whined. "Can we open the Safari thingy now?"
Katara laughed.
"Sokka, it's called a tab, or a page."
"What the heck is a tab?" Katara facepalmed.
"You know what? I'm not going to explain. Just- you know what? Forget it."
"Snoozles, it's too complicated for your teeny brain to comprehend."
"What does 'comprehend' mean?" Toph snickered, and Aang stifled a grin. Katara and Zuko exchanged knowing looks that very clearly meant, 'What an idiot'. Suki patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, but even she thought Sokka was getting a bit primitive. However, she didn't dare voice that out loud to Sokka. It was just as well that she didn't, because at the moment, the Water Tribe boy was reflecting on just how his friends had gotten so far ahead of him. Wasn't he the Plan Guy? This was all so wrong.
Waddo you think? Does the chapter name accurately summarize this? If you review, I may give you a virus! :P
~Tracie
