Sokka watches Katara and Aang from on top of Appa's belly. Cleaning out his toes is absolutely gross, but soon enough she'll be done and she can cool off in the water. That is, if she can stop watching the water benders. Sokka can't figure out if Aang is flirting with Katara or just being friendly. Either way, Sokka is almost done with the last paw, and her dip in the water can break them up if anything. Looking away is a bad idea though, because before Sokka can even finish saying Aang's name, she covered in a wave and swept away along with the supplies. She stops herself, but she can't stop the other stuff.

"You just 'practiced' our supplies down the river!" She says angrily. Aang apologizes and suggests finding a place to replace them. Sokka sighs before sinking back into the water. "My life was hard enough when you were just an airbender."

Sokka wants to budget carefully and stick to safer looking stores, but somehow the group ends up on a pirate ship. Katara and Sokka end up looking over the scrolls. Katara and Aang start talking with the pirates, but Sokka is more interested in the scroll she found about weak places on the body and how to attack them. It even has information on how and where to attack benders. When Katara asks to leave and Aang says they'll cast off, Sokka follows after them. Soon enough they're being chased by the pirates, and Sokka can't help but wonder if Aang offended them or if they're running after them because of something else. They don't stick around to find out.

"I used to kind of look up to pirates, but those guys are terrible." Aang admits.

"I know." Katara grins. "That's why I took this."

Sokka almost wants to scold Katara but instead she starts to laugh. "It looks like we had the same idea." She says with a grin as she pulls out the scroll she took. "Lets just hope we can both figure these out."

Katara decides to start practicing using the diagrams as her way to see how they work, but all Sokka can do is read through her scroll. She's not going to use what she's trying to learn on Katara or Aang.

When Katara snaps at Aang, Sokka isn't surprised. The older sister has seen it building since Aang started learning bending from her. Nevertheless, she glares at Katara so her younger sister realizes how she hurt Aang's feelings. And then, just cause it's sort of fun, she teases Katara into apologizing to Momo, but doesn't get an apology for herself unfortunately.

That night, once Aang is asleep, she catches her sister sneaking away with her scroll. "Hey Katara!" She whispers, catching the girl in the act. "I wanna practice my stuff too, don't leave without me." Katara waits impatiently as Sokka gets her scroll.

"What are you going to practice?" Katara asks when they get further away from Aang.

"I'm going to pretend the tree is a human and practice hitting certain spots."

"Won't that hurt your hands?"

"Probably." Sokka admits. "I'll only keep it up for a bit. I also want to keep a bit of an eye on you."

Her words anger Katara. "Why? Cause you think I can't do it?"

Sokka shakes her head. "No, not at all. I know you can Katara. I just wanna see you do it. I wa-"

Before she can fish her comment, Katara interrupts. "You're lying just like you used to back in the tribe. You don't think I can water bend good just cause Aang did it better. So fine!" Katara says angrily. "I don't want to do this anymore, I'm going to sleep!" Katara turns on her heel and starts to walk back to the campsite. Sokka watches her go, but gives her space. Katara's obviously upset and needs to calm down on her own.

So instead Sokka finds a tree to work with and practices some of the simple moves. Soon her hands get sore. She hears something near the water, so she peaks through the bushes to see what the sound was and is shocked to see the pirates. Sokka turns to run, but is grabbed by one of the pirates.

"No! Let go of me!" She shouts before using one of the moves to hit the pirate in the chest. He lets her go, and she runs.

Before she gets too far she is grabbed by Zuko. "I'll save you from the pirates." He says with a glare that implies the opposite.

Soon Sokka is tied to a tree with Zuko standing in front of her. "Tell me where he is and I won't hurt you or your sister."

"Go jump in a river!" She says angrily.

"Try to understand. I need to capture him to restore something I've lost, my honor." Zuko is crowding into Sokka's personal space so she turns her head away from his. "Perhaps in exchange I can restore something you've lost." He puts something around her neck and she jerks away from that too. He pulls back surprised and that is when she sees that he has Katara's necklace in his hands.

"How did you get that?" She demands to know.

"I didn't steal it, if that's what you're wondering. Tell me where he is."

"No!" Sokka says angrily.

"Enough of this necklace garbage!" Yells one of the pirates. "This isn't the scroll I wanted." He says angrily.

"Well then we'll search the woods for the boy and your scroll. I'm sure if we find one we can find the other. We'll meet back here."

They split up leaving Sokka and Zuko there. "I'm surprised you trust a bunch of pirates to bring you Avatar." Sokka says looking at Zuko unimpressed.

"I'm surprised you were dumb enough to steal from pirates." Zuko says back, effectively shutting her up.

Hours later when the sun is up, Sokka is unhappy to see that they have caught Aang and Katara. She thought with their bending they might be able to fight them off. So with nothing else to do, Sokka struggles with the ropes.

"Nice work." Zuko says, pleased with the capture.

"I'm so sorry Sokka, this is all my fault." Katara says.

"No it's not." Sokka says trying to reassure her.

"I shouldn't have left you alone."

"I'm glad they caught me instead of you." Sokka says, not wanting to imagine her sister tied to this tree all night long.

"Well now we've caught all of you." Points out an older gentleman.

"Give me the boy." Zuko demands.

"We haven't found the scroll yet." The pirate says. "The girl said your prisoner had it last."

"Wait, why do you want the scroll when you have the Avatar?" Sokka asks the pirates. "Why hand him over to this jerk?"

"Don't listen to her!" Zuko says glaring at her. "She's just trying to turn us against each other."

"You're the Avatar?" One of the pirates asks Aang.

"He is." Sokka says. " I'm sure he'd get you a lot of money on the black market."

Zuko's glare gets even sharper. "Shut your mouth, you Water Tribe peasant!"

"Yeah, Sokka," Aang adds. "you should really shut your mouth."

Sokka ignore both of their comments and keeps manipulating the men with her words. Soon a battle breaks out between the pirates and the fire benders. It's the perfect cover to get away. When a knife narrowly misses Sokka's hand, she uses it to cut her ropes and then works to find her two younger companions.

After nearly falling down a waterfall, the trio is able to get away on Appa's back thanks to a whistle Aang had bought earlier.

Safely on Appa's back flying through the clouds, she watches Katara apologize to Aang. Sokka considers telling Katara that Zuko has her necklace, but she decides against it. She has a feeling that the stubborn guy will find them again, and Sokka plans to try and take it from him then. Katara managed to keep hold of the scroll, and Sokka's fine with her focusing her attention on that instead of the missing piece of jewelry.