Chapter 9
A/N: I sadly do not own TFP or ATLA. Just my OC.
Bold is 'Bee's speech.
~thoughts~
/comm link/
Optimus' POV
We sat on the main cliff, waiting for the invasion force to arrive.
"Ready for the invasion?!" Aang asked popping up.
"Sounds like someone slept well," Katara pointed out.
"Like a baby mooselion," he chirped.
"So what's you plan to take out the Firelord?" Smokescreen asked.
"You gonna hit him with some Avatar State action?!" Toph asked.
"I can't," Aang said sadly. "When Azula hit me with her lightning, she blocked my seventh chakra, and I could no longer flow with the cosmic energy of the universe."
All the Autobots blinked, they hadn't heard that story.
"All I heard was 'blah, blah, blah, spiritual mumbo-jumbo, blah, blah, something about space," Toph said.
"Oh no," Arcee said.
"What?" they all asked.
"Will that fog delay the invasion?" I asked.
Midnight grabbed the telescope out of Sokka's hands. "No…that is the invasion, they're using the fog as a cover," she said lowering the telescope. "Smart."
-.-
Aang and Toph earth bended several docks for the boats to land on. Once they were all docked, and the passengers getting off, Katara and Sokka raced to hug Hakota.
"Glad you made it Chief Hakota," I said walking up after their family moment.
"Same," the chief grinned. "I trust you've been keeping them all in line sir?"
"Believe me, he has," Sokka stated. "Did you find everyone I asked you to get?"
"Yes, but some of these men aren't the warrior type," Hakota grimaced.
At that moment two men in leaf hats, bark shirts, and loincloths, walked down the plank.
~Primus you're kidding me~
"Is it just me, or do those guys seem a little lose in the leaf hat?" Hakota asked, and I nodded.
"I just wish they'd wear pants," Bato said as he walked by us.
Looking where he was, we saw a somewhat fat swamp-man, wearing nothing but a loincloth made of vines and leaves.
"Pants are an illusion, and so is death," he said.
"Is this guy for real?" I asked.
"Completely," Sokka said.
"Optimus!" Katara called from where she walked off to. "I want you and the guys to meet someone!"
Walking over, I was greeted by a young man, about Smokescreen's age, with several other earth benders.
"This is Haru, we helped free his town from the Fire Nation," Katara said.
An older man, who I assumed was Haru's father piped in. "Katara gave us the encouragement we needed to take back our villages. We're more than happy to help."
"No way," Toph said all of a sudden, moving into a fighting stance.
She was suddenly picked up, by a huge man with missing teeth, and a small tuff of hair. "Hippo happy to see Blind Bandit!" he said.
~Hippo? Blind Bandit?~
"Come for a rematch?!" Toph asked.
"Negative, the Boulder and the Hippo no longer fight for the entertainment of others! We fight for out kingdom!" the other man exclaimed.
"Sweet," Toph said as she was set down.
My attention turned away as a loud explosion sounded from inside one of the boats. Running over, I saw a young boy in a wheelchair going down the ramp. He was followed by a balding older man with a spectacle, and a little kid riding on a bigger guy's shoulders.
"That a new invention?" Sokka asked.
"Yes, unfortunately it's a bust," the man sighed.
"Were you able to complete those plans I sent you?" Sokka asked.
"Of course," he said.
"Hey Aang," the boy said. "Here's a new glider for you." He handed Aang a staff. Pressing a button, the wings and handles popped out.
"Sweet thanks," Aang said sounding excited.
"And it even has a snack compartment," the inventor said.
"Oh…I'm sure that'll come in handy," Aang said looking unsure.
We all sat up with Aang, and the others as everyone gathered for the war meeting. Sokka was holding a series of battle plans, and was shaking.
"You'll do great," Hakota said pushing him up.
"Morning everyone," Sokka said before he tripped. "As you all know today we are invading the Fire Nation! Well, of course you know that, why else would you be here…" He hung up the pictures, and began to babble through the plan. Even the swamp guys were confused. "I'm sorry let me start at the beginning." He then literally began from the beginning.
Hakota and I got up and walked up. "Why don't you take a break?" Hakota said as he took his son to sit down.
"Alright listen up!" I said as I would to my troops. Everyone immediately perked up, and listened. "Today is the day of black sun…" I continued to explain the plan, and everyone nodded/cheered in understanding.
With that we began to collect our supplies.
-.-
Bumblebee's POV
I sat with Zuko as he wrote a letter to Mai, as we prepared for the eclipse. Finishing it he handed it to me, sneaking out of the palace I climbed up to the window of Mai's room. Opening the window, I placed the gently wrapped letter on the desk. Closing the window, I went back to the palace. I found Zuko sitting in front of a picture of his mother. As if he knew I was there he got up and turned to me, his swords strapped to his back.
"Ready?" I asked. Picking up a bag of supplies, and placing it in my subspace.
"Yes, I should've done this a long time ago," he said.
-.-
Optimus' POV
We stood on the decks of the ships heading for the Gates of Azulon.
"Katara, you and the swamp benders whip-up a fog to shield us," Hakota ordered.
"We'll sneak past those gates just like we did that Fire Navy blockade," one swamp benders said.
They all got into positions and created a fog cover. Just when I thought it was going to work, the alarms sounded and the nets went up, lighting on fire.
Hearing the sound of motors, I saw several wave runners riding towards us. "Get below deck!" I commanded.
Going down, we went into the subs that were connected to the ships. Disconnecting we dove under the gates.
"You've outdone yourself this time son," Hakota said patting Sokka on the shoulder.
"Yea, thanks a lot," Toph said sounding a little sea sick. "You've invented a worse way to travel than flying." With that she puked in Duke's helmet.
"I just came up with the idea," Sokka said. "The mechanist did all the work."
"Don't sell yourself short," the mechanist said. "It was your idea to use water bending to make the sub sink and float. Unfortunately there's one problem I couldn't fix, the subs have a limited air supply; we're going to have to resurface before we hit the beach."
"I could fix it, but I'm not sure I'd have enough time," Ratchet said.
-.-
We all sat on the top of the subs stretching our legs.
"You ready Aang?" I asked.
"Yes," he said with a nod.
"I hope you kick some serious butt Twinkle Toes," Toph said punching his arm.
"You can do this," Sokka said.
"Listen up!" Hakota said. "The next time we surface, it'll be on the beaches. Break time's over back in the subs!"
I stood on the deck waiting for Aang and Katara. They were talking about something and ended up kissing.
"Alright love birds, let's get going," I said.
They both looked at me with an embarrassed blush. "Yes sir," they said with a salute. Aang opened his glider and took off, and Katara got on Appa. With that I went inside the sub, and we submerged.
-.-
Smokescreen looked through the scope, and gave a thumbs up. "There's some gates up ahead, everyone get into position!" he ordered.
/Everyone's comms good?/ I asked as I put on my helmet, everyone else had ear pieces.
/I hear you loud and clear/ Arcee said.
/Ready to rumble/ Bulkhead said.
/Everything's good/ Ratchet commented.
/I'm so ready!/ Smokescreen said.
/Ready when you are Prime/ Midnight said.
It was then the alarms sounded. The subs began to do evasive maneuvers around the firing harpoons. One got hit, but Katara used her water bending to cut the chain.
"Ready torpedoes!" Arcee commanded as she looked through the scope. "Fire!"
The torpedoes launched and broke the grates, blocking three sub-sized holes for us to go through. We went down to the cargo-hold waiting for the doors to open. The subs rocked a bit at they were fired at and they landed on the beach. The doors opened and the tanks exited first, followed by the rest of us. Battlements fired at us, and tanks exited the gates on the other end. Our tanks were like giant caterpillars which allowed them to climb over the other tanks and crush them. Some tanks went up behind us, and the swamp benders began to defend us, though I did not expect one to fight as a giant seaweed monster. Soldiers on komono rhinos began to charge at us, Arcee and I ran ahead. I jumped onto one rhino's head, and the guy on it looked at me terrified. With a kick I knocked him off, and moved to the next one. Sokka took my first rhino, and grabbed his dad riding it. A battlement fired, and took out one of the earth bender ammo trucks.
/Take out those battlements/ I commanded as I climbed up the wall. The others fallowed my lead, and began to climb as well. Getting to the top, I climbed on the roof of one, and swung in through the window. The guards started firing at me, but my armor blocked their weapons and fire. Knocking them out, I shot at one of the battlements I knew no one was in, taking that one out of the picture. My team got the same idea, and did the same thing.
An explosion at the battlement next to me got my attention, and I saw Hakota stumbling out, holding his side. Katara, and Sokka ran to him, and grabbed him.
"Get him on Appa!" I said grabbing the bison's reigns. We flew to the beach, where Katara began to treat Hakota's wounds.
"I need to get back to the troops," Hakota said trying to sit up.
"Chief Hakota, your wounds are too serious for you to continue fighting," I said.
"But everyone's counting on me to lead this," he protested.
"Sokka and I can handle it," I stated. "I've managed army twenty time this size."
Hakota nodded.
Sokka mounted Appa and the two took off, and I ran back to the field.
"I want the tanks in wedge formation! Warriors and benders in the middle! We're taking that tower, next is the royal palace!" Sokka commanded.
/Autobots defend the outside of the tanks, take out anyone you can handle/ I ordered.
/Got it sir/ Smokescreen said as he and Arcee charged a tank.
Midnight ran next to me as we took on two more tanks. Using my swords I slashed through the armor, disabling it. Midnight leapt like a cat onto her tank tossing a grenade in, she jumped onto another tank where she did the same thing.
Bulkhead tossed a grade at the wall connecting the tower to the sides of the cliff, making a giant hole in the wall, and the Fire Nation troops began to fall back past the tower we secured.
-.-
I walked over to Sokka, Katara, and Hakota after Arcee temporarily took my place in command. "Are you feeling better Hakota?"
"Yes, I am," he said with a slight smile. "I may not be able to fight, but perhaps there's some way I could help."
"Everything's going smoothly, if our luck holds out we should be at the palace by the time the eclipse starts," Sokka said.
Katara walked off a little bit, looking at something.
"Katara? Is something wrong?" I asked.
"Yea…is that Aang?" she said as the glider flew towards us.
"Please tell me that you're here because the Firelord was a wimp and you didn't need the eclipse to take him out," Sokka said.
"He wasn't there, no one was," Aang said. "The entire royal city was abandoned."
"They knew about the upcoming invasion then," Midnight said joining us.
"The Firelord is probably long gone, far away where he'll be safe during the eclipse," Aang growled.
"No, he won't," I said. "He'd need to be close enough to govern his people, but still be safe during an attack."
"An underground bunker perhaps," Midnight suggested.
"If it's an underground bunker we're looking for, I'm just the girl to find it," Toph said.
"The mechanist gave me this timing device, ten minutes till the full eclipse, ten minutes to find the Firelord," Sokka said.
"What if this is a trap?" Katara pointed out. "Maybe we should use this time we have to escape."
"Everyone here is prepared to risk everything, they knew the risks," Hakota said.
"Aang you're the one who has to fight the Firelord," I said. "You choose what you think is the best course of action."
"We have to try," he said after a moment.
"Alright, Aang, Toph, Sokka, Midnight, and I will search for the bunker. The rest of you will keep pushing towards the city!" I commanded.
We all hopped on Appa, and flew to the mountain. Hopping down, Toph placed her hand on the earth.
"You getting anything?" Aang asked.
"Yep," she smirked. "There are natural tunnels crisscrossing throughout the entire volcano."
"Any sort of structures?" Sokka asked.
"There's something big, dense, and metal in the volcano's heart," she said making a tunnel.
"That's sounds like a secret bunker to me," Midnight said fallowing Toph into the tunnel.
We ended up in the middle of one of the tunnels.
"This way!" Toph said running one direction. "That way's a dead end."
"What would we do without you?" Sokka asked.
"Perish in lava," Toph stated.
We ended up in a large cave with lave geysers shooting out of the ground.
"We need to be fast and careful," Sokka said running out. The geyser next to him began to erupt, and I pulled him back, as Aang turned it to stone.
"How exactly was that careful?" Midnight asked.
"Let me rephrase that: we need to be fast, careful, and lucky," Sokka said.
With that we bolted across the room, sometime barely missing being burnt. Exiting the room, we came to a halt on a cliff as we saw a giant river of lava.
"I can only carry two people across with me," Aang said.
"Take Sokka and Toph, we'll find a way," I said.
Aang nodded, and they flew off. Backing up, I ran and leapt onto one of the walls. Midnight followed my lead, and we began to climb our way arcoss the lava river. It took us a while, but we caught up with them.
"Three minutes, not bad," Sokka said looking impressed.
"No time for chatter, let's move it!" Midnight said as we ran past.
After running down a few more tunnels, we found the giant bunker.
Toph walked up to the giant metal door, and tapped on it. "Not a problem," she grinned. Smacking her elbows into the metal, she made a sizable dent, before she slammed her fingers through it, forcing part of the door open.
"I am so glad you made matal bending!" Sokka said as we walked through the hole.
As we ran through the tunnels, we ran into a prominent looking man, probably an advisor. He stopped dead, and put his hands in the air, when we all turned towards him weapons bared.
"The Firelord's chambers is that way, down the first hall to the left, and up the stairs! You can't miss it!" he said.
"Thanks!" Aang said as we fallowed his directions.
"We have thirty seconds until the total eclipse!" Sokka said as we stopped at a massive door.
Aang took a deep breath, and force the door open. Stepping in we were greeted by a young woman, probably a year younger than 'Bee.
"So you are alive after all," Azula said. "I had a hunch that you'd survived. Doesn't matter, I've known about the invasion for months."
-.-
Bumblebee's POV
Zuko and I stood at the door of Ozai's bunker. Zuko took a deep breath before opening the door.
"Prince Zuko, Bumblebee, what are you two doing here?" Ozai asked. "Why are you here?"
"We're here to tell the truth," Zuko said.
Ozai gave a small chuckle, and waved his guards away. "This should be interesting."
"First of all in Ba Sing Sei it was Azula who struck down the Avatar, not me," Zuko said.
"Why would she lie to me about that?" Ozai asked looking surprised.
"Because, he didn't die, he survived the attack," Zuko said flatly.
Ozai looked furious. "What?!"
"In fact he's probably the one leading this invasion," Zuko said.
"Get out! Both of you! Get out of my sight right now if you know what's good for you!" Ozai snarled.
"You don't scare me, when I beat your sorry but in that arena I was holding back; don't push me," I said with a look of malice.
"And that's another thing," Zuko said. "I'm not taking orders from you anymore."
"You two will obey me," Ozai growled going to his feet. "Or this defiant breath will be your last!"
Zuko and I pulled out our swords. "Think again!" Zuko barked. "I'm going to speak my mind! And you will listen!"
"And if you try anything," I said sheathing one of my swords I pulled out one of my shrunken and tossed it, it embedded itself right next to Ozai's head, giving him a small cut on the ear. "Well, I'm sure you got the picture."
-.-
Optimus' POV
"Where's Ozai?!" Aang demanded.
"What? I'm not good enough for you?" Azula asked. "You're hurting my feelings."
"No games Azula! You're powerless, so start talking!" Sokka growled.
"And stick to the truth, I can tell if you're lying," Toph said.
"Are you sure? I'm a pretty good liar," Azula said walking down the steps. "I am a ten foot tall platypusbear with pink horns and silver wings."
Toph blinked. "Ok, you're good I admit it, but you should consider telling the truth anyways!" Toph made a stone circle around Azula, closing her in.
Cracks spider webbed on it, and Azula broke out, but she didn't even move. "When I left Ba Sing Sei, I brought back a few souvenirs." Several men jumped down from the roof. "Di Li agents."
Aang shot an air blast at them, but the earth benders blocked it.
-.-
Bumblebee's POV
"For so long all I wanted was for you to love me. When I was hunting for the Avatar, I thought I was earning my honor back, but it turns out I was trying to please you. You! My father! Who banished me, just for talking out of turn! My father! Who challenged a thirteen year old kid to an Agni Kai! How can you justify that?!"
"It was to teach you respect!" Ozai growled.
"No! It was cruel, and wrong!" Zuko barked.
"Then you learned nothing!" the Firelord snarled.
"I've learned everything! And I did it all on my own! Growing up, we were taught that our nation was the greatest in history, and the war was a way to share our greatness with the world! What an amazing lie…the rest of the world is terrified of us. They hate us! And we deserve it!" Zuko said.
"You've created an era of fear, and the world can and will destroy itself. Unless you end it, and replace it with an era of peace," I said. "This happened back in my homeland! And now it's a desolate, lifeless, wasteland! Nothing can live there anymore! Pit! There are still bodies of the fallen strewn across the cities, warriors and neutral alike! Men, women, and children! All of them, dead!"
Ozai laughed. "Iroh has gotten to both of you hasn't he?"
"For me he has," Zuko said. "But 'Bee is speaking from personal experience, he witnessed all of what he just told you. And like me, he's been hurt by his own family."
"Oh really, how?" Ozai asked looking curious.
"My uncle was the one who stole my voice, he ripped it out of my throat with his bare hands after twnenty minutes of torturous interrogation, and twnty minutes may not seem like a long time, but it was long enough for him to nearly beat me to death, break my leg, rip off my arm, and tear out my voice! And I was ten years old at the time!" I snarled. The Firelord looked taken aback, shock clear on his face. "At least my uncle has the decency to establish a peace treaty; unlike you slagger!"
-.-
Toph, and Aang went through the wall, and Midnight and I leapt over it, thanks to our cybertronian strength. Getting there we saw the two fighting with their bending.
Toph shot two of the agents into the wall, but they just landed on it and fired back. She effortlessly blocked them, and shot at Azula. The Fire Nation princess, leapt off the rising rocks, and like a cat landed on her feet.
"I got Azula, you help them!" Midnight said.
Two agents began to fire at Aang. Pulling out my pistols, I shot both of them. Everyone stopped fighting, and looked at the smoking gun, and the two dead agents. Until Midnight, punched Azula square in the face, then everyone began fighting again. Azula and Midnight jumped through the hole in the wall that Toph made barely missing Sokka. The two were followed, by two agents, me, Toph, and Aang.
One agent blocked the doorway, but Aang and Toph just ran right through it, seeing the agent still standing there, I shot him as I ran past. Toph trapped the other one in a wall.
"Wait guys!" Sokka said. "She's distracting us, she's not even trying to win this fight."
"Not true!" Azula said.
"You're just trying to waste our time!" Toph said.
"No duh genus," she said. "And since you can't see I'll tell you I'm rolling my eyes."
"Why you-!" she began, but I place my hand on her shoulder.
"And you must be one of the Autobots that Bumblebee's told me so much about. Let me guess, you're his father, Optimus Prime?" she said with a sickeningly sweet smile. "I can't see how much you look alike, cause of that stupid helmet, but I'm guessing he taked after his mother; from what I've seen of you you don't act similar at all."
"What did you do with him?!" Midnight growled.
"And…you're symbol is not theirs, so who are you?" Azula asked.
"Midnight, daughter of the Decepticon TIC, Soundwave. Bumblebee is my fiancée," Midnigth stated, smiling when Azula's eyes widened and filled with jealousy. "Oh, do you love him? Well, to bad sister! He's all mine."
Azula charged her, and Midnight grabbed her back shoving her knee into the princess' stomach, and then punched her into the wall.
"Let's go deal with Ozai, we can find 'Bee after we take him out of the picture," I said.
Azula looked shocked. "You aren't concerned about you son?" she asked looking surprised. "He's been expecting you."
"I know, but I know he can handle himself just fine, he's my top scout, second best spy, and one of the best assassins in the army," I stated. "And recently I overheard some chatter about a sixteen or seventeen year old boy, who kicked the Firelord's butt to the earth kingdom and back with breaking a sweat. I also heard that he used a gun, which clearly says is my son." With that we began to walk away.
"Sokka right?" Azula said changing tactics. "My favorite prisoner talked about you all the time, she was convinced you'd come rescue her, but you never came, and she gave up on you."
That got Sokka's attention, he turned and charged at her. I saw Azula pull out a knife, and apparently Midnight and Toph saw too. Midnight, used her bladed whip to yank Azula's arm casuing her to drop the knife, and Toph pinned her to the wall, as Sokka held her.
"Where is Suki?" he asked pure venom lacing his tone.
-.-
Bumblebee's POV
"Before we leave today, we're going to free Iroh from prison, and I'm going to beg for his forgiveness," Zuko said.
Ozai chuckled. "Maybe he can show you the ways of tea, and failure."
"And we've come to a more important decision," Zuko said. "We're going to join the Avatar, and we will help him defeat you."
"Really?" Ozai said with a dark smile. "Since you're full blow traitors, and you want me gone, why wait?"
"Because I know my own destiny, taking you out is the Avatar's," Zuko said as we put our swords away.
"And what about you Bumblebee, you made it very clear at the meeting that you hate my guts," he said.
"As Zuko said it's the Avatar's job, not mine, and you aren't on my knock-off list," I said, and he paled as he caught on that I was also an assassin. "Besides, you're just a waste of my time with full power, why should I go for you when you're truly pathetic?" He didn't answer. "Nothing to say? Ok, bye!" Zuko and I turned to walk away.
"Coward!" he growled. "Zuko you were only brave enough to face me during the eclipse, if you had any real courage you'd stay till the sun comes out. Don't you want to know what happened to your mother?"
Zuko stopped dead, and looked at me. "Don't listen, he's baiting you."
"Wouldn't you want to know what happened to your mother?" he asked me.
I sighed and turned with him to face Ozai, not liking the evil grin on his face one bit. Pulling out my black knife, I tossed it in the air as a reminder of my threat.
"What happened that night?!" Zuko demanded.
"My father, Firelord Azulon commanded me to do the unthinkable, to you, my own son," Ozai said. "And I was going to do it too."
"You were going to murder your own son?!" I said shocked, horrified, and disgusted.
"Yes, I was Bumblebee, though now I see that would've been merciful compared to what happened you," he said with a grin.
I pulled out another shrunken and tossed it, it gave a nice haircut. "This isn't about me slagger! Talk! Or one of these blades meets your arm next!"
"Fine," he sighed, though I did see fear pass through his eyes as he looked at the blade. "Your mother found out, and she came up with a plan. A plan where I'd become Firelord, and you'd be spared. She did very treasonous things that night. She knew the consequences, and accepted them. For her treason she was banished!"
"She's alive," Zuko said tears running down his face in relief.
"Perhaps…but now I realize banishment for treason is too soft of a punishment," Ozai said. "Both of your punishments will be far steeper."
At that moment he shot lightning at us. Zuko stepped in front of me and redirected the lightning back at his father. Ozai was blasted back into the wall. I darted up and grabbed my knives. He looked up and saw me, I gave a mock salute and ran after Zuko.
-.-
Optimus's POV
"Where is she?!" Sokka demanded the unrelenting princess. "Answer me!"
"Sokka, my son did the same thing she's doing right now, he may have lost his voice, but one thing's clear, she won't talk," I stated flatly.
A loud explosion sounded through the complex, and Azula perked.
"Sounds like the fire's back on!" she said striking out, and breaking her bonds. "Dad's at the end of the all, down a secret stairway to the left, I'm sure he'll be more than happy to see you now. And I'll make sure you never see 'Bee again!" Her glare was directed at Midnight, with that she turned and ran off.
"I can't believe I fell for it!" Sokka said. "I wasted all our time."
"Sokka, she knew about the invasion, she had everything planned out; the only thing she probably didn't expect was us," I said.
"We can still try, even if the eclipse is over," Aang said.
"No, what we need to do now is help the others, and fall back," Midnight said. "They were prepared for us this time. You'll have another chance."
"Alright," Aang said.
-.-
We got back to the troops to see a dozen airships in the air.
"Midnight, can you still talk to your father?" I asked.
"Yes," she said.
"Good, have him tell my brother, that we need reinforcements, I recommend bringing the entire warship," I said.
"On it," she said.
Appa landed and the others ran to us.
"What happened?" Arcee asked.
"It was a trap," Sokka said. "They knew about the invasion from the start."
"I'm going to do what I can to slow them down, get everyone outta here," Aang said begore taking off on his glider.
Katara hopped on Appa, along with Arcee, Smokescreen, and Bulkhead. "We'll see what we can do to help stall." With that they took off after Aang.
"Everyone! Get back to the beach!" I commanded.
-.-
Bumblebee's POV
Zuko and I sprinted through the familiar hallways of Iroh's prison. And apparently I was the only one noticing the fallen guards, and broken walls.
"Uncle!" Zuko called as we stopped at his cell.
We both blinked in surprise, the bars were ripped apart, like someone shot a plasma cannon at it. On the side of the room one guard sat unconscious.
Zuko grabbed him and shook him awake. "Where's my uncle?!"
"Gone," the guard said fear showing in his eyes. "He busted himself out, I'd never seen anything like it; he was like a one man army." With that he passed out again.
We both turned and left with a growl of irritation.
-.-
Optimus' POV
We were going down the trail leading to the beach when in saw the warships approaching, and the bomb bays opening.
"Midnight! What did Soundwave say?" I demanded.
"Megatron said they're on their way, but it's going to take a day or two to get the calculations for the entire ship just right!" she responded.
"I don't think we have that long," Arcee said as they all landed.
Toph and the other earth beanders made covers for everyone as the bombs began to drop. The ships kept pressing forwards.
"Why aren't they turning around to attack us?" Katara asked.
"They're going to destroy the submarines," Ratchet said. "Make it so we can't leave."
"How are we all going to escape then?" Sokka asked.
"We aren't," Hakota said.
"Then we stand and fight!" Smokescreen said.
"No," Hakota said. "You kids have to leave. You all need to escape on Appa together."
"No, I'm not letting the Fire Nation separate our family again!" Katara protested. "We won't leave anyone behind!"
"No, you all are our only hope, a hope that needs to be able to fight another day," I said.
"The youngest of the group need to leave," Bato added. "The adults will stay here and surrender."
"Optimus, I was actually wondering if you and your team could go with," Hakota said.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because we overheard you asking Midnight about the reinforcements that'll be here in a few days with their warship, you'll need to be there when they arrive," Hakota said. "And so they have someone to keep them out of trouble."
I gave a reluctant nod.
Smokescreen, and Bulkhead climbed onto Appa, helping me and the mechanist lift Teo in the saddle. Arcee helped pulled the Duke up, and then the rest of us climbed up onto Appa.
"Thank you all for being so brave and strong, I promise I'll make this up to you," Aang said. With a whip of the reigns we took off.
We all were looking at the warship that hovered behind us, before it turned going back to the beach.
"I know just the place for us to hide," Aang said. "The Western Air Temple."
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Bumblebee's POV
Zuko and I stood on the hot air balloon, watching the flying bison. I adjusted one of the ropes slightly and we began to fallow it.
"You ready?"
"Definitely."
