Heh heh. Sorry it took me so long to update this time…

I was participating in a basketball tourney all weekend!! I don't know about you, but I can't walk up the stairs without groaning about how sore my legs are!!!

Standard Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar or any of its characters.

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Chapter 7….

Aang slowly devised a plan overnight, praying that it would work. It could go two ways. Either it could go perfectly, without any bumps along in the road, or it could go horribly utterly wrong and result in some terrible horrible way. (You get my point.) Aang hoped that it would be the first option. His plan may not go smoothly, but hopefully it would work.

The guard was a brute, and better yet, an idiotic one at that.

Aang hoped that he could manage to trick the guard into taking off the chains that bound him to the wall. Maybe, just maybe… The guard was stupid enough to fall for a good old fashioned jail break?

It was highly unlikely, but it was the best option that he had at the moment.

As expected, the guard brought in the tray of gross sludge that they called soup and set it down just out of Aang's reach.

The guards often liked to do this, torment him before they gave him his "food".

The brute of a guard came over and taunted the young Avatar. Aang pretended to take it with a miserable face.

"My arms are too weak to even bend." Aang whined in a nasal voice. "I knew Azula was right all along to say that she would win." (Aang had to grit his teeth while saying this, but tried to sound pathetic, it seemed to be working as he had planned.

"That princess is damn right scary she is! But what a babe!" The guard remarked with a dreamy look in his eyes. Aang didn't want to imagine what he was thinking. The guard stepped a little closer. "Between you and me, the Princesses friends aren't so bad either." He muttered, his eyes darting nervously around.

Just a little closer…

The guard leaned against the wall, taking a swig of ale as he continued. "But what would a mere boy know of being a man?" He asked with a sneer on his face, taking one last step closer.

Yes!!!

Aang smiled before head butting the guard, knocking him out cold.

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"Who's there?" Katara tried to keep her voice from shaking as she thought that she heard something. I must be going crazy. Katara thought, but there was that noise again, it sounded suspiciously like nails being scratched on the metal.

Taking a deep breath, she stood up on her weak legs and went to seek out the source of the noise.

Katara stared stupidly at the small kitten that had somehow found its way in here. It had soft grey fur and huge tennis ball watery brown eyes.

It mewed pitifully, head butting Katara's leg, purring non stop.

I was scared of a kitten? Katara asked herself, absentmindedly picking up the kitten and stroking it softly.

The kitten hadn't been in here before… How had it gotten in?

Katara glanced at the tiny fur ball that was cuddled into her chest, purring loudly. She looked around; the cell was still the same metal hell hole it had been since she first got here. What had changed? Other then she had a new friend… But how had this thing got in here?

Katara put the kitten down gently, before crawling on her hands and knees around the cell, looking for the way that the kitten had somehow gotten in.

Then she saw it. It was a hole about as big as her fist, the metal had rusted and slowly rotted away.

The kitten trotted up next to Katara as she lay on the cold metal ground and peered through the hole.

It looked like some kind of broom closet almost.

Complete with an old smelly mop and dusty broom. But that's not what caught her eye.

It was the pairs of armour that lay scattered around. Perfect for an escape!

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Sokka gripped his stomach. He was withering on the floor in pain! How cruel these people were! HE WAS HUNGRY! For god's sake! Didn't they know how to feed a person around here?

Unlike the others, he hadn't been locked in special metal cages which were designed to keep benders contained. No. He thought that they didn't think that he was much of a threat, so they locked him in one of those old regular stone cells that had bars on the front.

He had been locked up in the main jail, not the high security jail like Aang and Katara had been locked up in. Or at least that's what he heard from the other prisoners in the cell across from his.

Many people in Ba Sing Se were suffering from the Azula's harsh reign over the final strong hold of the Earth Kingdom, but now it was no longer a stronghold.

It was a base for Azula and the Fire Nation. Many preached about how all hope was gone. How the world would finally end as the Fire Nation would reign supreme.

Sokka had to admit that it was all very depressing. Very depressing indeed. Not only that, but on top of it all, his sister had been kidnapped, and his boomerang may not actually come back this time!

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Toph ran at top speed, using the earth underneath her, almost like she was surfing a waver. Except the wave was earth, and not to mention she had no surf board… Toph was angry. More angry then she had ever been in her entire life. She was pretty sure she even made that annoying cabbage man soil himself when he had gotten in her way and she had practically exploded on him.

But it was her family in danger!

She had used some of the ropes that she had gotten from when she had been tied up, and used the to strap both Aang's staff and Sokka's boomerang to her back so that she could still use her hands.

They had fled far away that day when they escaped Ba Sing Se. The Earth King, they had dropped off at a small town, where the people agreed to shelter and hide both the earth king and his bear.

She was getting close, she could tell, but it was still a long ways off.

Not to mention there was the problem of getting into the city… Knowing that fire witch Azula, she would already have those Dai Li agents posted, and security most likely tightened.

But she was Toph! The greatest Earthbender in the world! She would somehow find a way to rescue her friends, even if it cost her life…

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Katara had been saving the water that the guards would bring her everyday. One glass in the morning, one glass at night.

Although she had to drink some of the water, she conserved most of it for her plan. All she had needed was one small flaw in the metal, and she had gotten her wish!

That tiny kitten that she had named Koi, who was a small male kitten, had practically saved her life by showing her that hole that he had somehow managed to squeeze himself through. That part still puzzled Katara, but what mattered now was escaping and saving both her brother and Aang.

Katara did that same thing as her and Aang had done in the Drill. She wove the water back and forth, slowly slicing the metal as she went. It was gruelling work, and she needed to take breaks quite often, Koi kept her company.

She only needed a hole big enough so that she could squeeze through without cutting herself on the sharp metal edges.

She needed to finish it tonight. It was easy enough concealed in the darkness. The guards never came in anyway. They always slid that disgusting soup and her water through a small little flap, but they would check on her one they delivered her evening "meal".

Koi rubbed up against Katara, mewing, wanting more attention. Katara panted hard as she took a brief break. It was almost dawn; she would have to finish quickly.

As usual the same gross sludge and foul tasting glass of water arrived through the small flap, but by then, Katara had been long since done. Her arms ached terribly, but as soon as the water came, she downed a quarter of it, and saved the rest for bending in case she needed it later.

Katara crawled through the hole, before sticking the metal plate into the hole, and wedging it in so it looked like it wasn't cut. Koi somehow seemed to know the seriousness of her situation, and for once, he didn't make any noise, but padded along behind her silently.

Katara chose some armour that would fit her… Er, well almost anyway.

Koi drew attention to how she would stand out if a cat followed her around when she was supposed to be a guard.

She managed to get Koi under the helmet, sitting on top of her head. It kind of worked better this way.

Koi helped fill the helmet so that it didn't fall over her eyes.

Her eyes were another problem.

Not one fire nation person had blue eyes. She would be found out instantly. All she could do for that problem was hope that she wouldn't have to lift the visor on the armour.

Koi was quite content under the helmet, cuddled into Katara's soft brown hair. Katara took a deep breath before opening the broom closet door, and stepping out into the open.

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I hoped you liked this chapter. I'm working on making this story better for everyone! I would appreciate reviews please. You can all help me make this story better!!! Thanks a lot!