BIG THANKS TO amillionthingsatonce!! She wrote the majority of this (I wrote only the first like 300 words or so…) because I suck at action scenes. Maybe one day I'll figure it out. I had much difficulty with the last chapter so I had Kelly do this one for me.

Kelly- I'm sorry the title isn't what you wanted.

Katara placed a hand on her stomach and sighed. A relentless pain lingered there from the previous events. The woman sighed and tried to hold back the tears of the feeling of a sudden void that formed inside her. She turned to her side to see the figure of her sleeping daughter next to her and smiled. At least she had one of them.

"Katara?"

The Waterbender looked to her husband who was now sitting in front of her. She slowly sat up to match his cross-leg position.

"Hmm?"

"Are you doing okay?"

Katara just looked down and picked at the burnt fabric of her kimono. She shrugged.

"Okay as I can be, I guess. I'm just…" she sighed again, "I'm just tired and I feel sick. I feel like I lost a part of myself."

Aang grabbed her hand and stroked the top of it with his thumb, hoping that would comfort her.

"You kind of did. And that will wear you out. I know that you're tired and sick and sad that…that we-." Aang paused and took in a deep breath. "Lost it but you were really brave. It was risky surrendering like that but I think you might have just saved both of us by doing so. And I'm very proud of you."

She lifted her head up and down in acknowledgment of Aang's words. They meant a lot to her, they really did but it seemed that nothing could take the pain away from her heart from whom she had lost earlier that day. Katara looked back down to her side to see Kya no longer there. Frantic, the mother turned around to see her daughter standing up and looking over the back of Appa's saddle. Katara carefully got up and placed her hands on Kya's waist and pulled her into her lap with a small wince of pain. She looked over her shoulder uneasily. They had just got out over the ocean; the Western Air Temple was behind them.

"Are you sure they won't go after us?" she asked Aang nervously, clutching Kya closer to her chest as if that would protect her.

"I'm sure," Aang murmured, disregarding his wife's suspicions. He added, in a brighter voice, "I can't believe she's an Airbender."

"Isn't that what Daddy is?" Kya asked, tugging on Katara's hair.

"Ow, yes," Katara said, frowning and gingerly pulling her hair from her daughter's hand.

Aang grinned at her. "This is great! I'm not the last Air—"

He was cut short by a giant boulder flying through the air, missing Appa by a few mere inches. It crashed into the ocean, sending up a tall column of spray that left them drenched. Kya screamed at the top of her lungs, clawing at her mother. Katara and Aang looked over their shoulders as a submarine burst out of the water, charging towards them. A Fire Nation insignia gleamed in the sun against the dark metal. A small launch pad was uncovered on the top. Several Dai Li agents stood there, framed by a tall stack of rock pre-shaped into disks.

"They did follow us!" Katara cried, alarmed.

"How did they get submarines? That was Sokka's design, and besides, you need Waterbenders to make them work," Aang asked.

"Who cares? They probably figured out how they worked on the Day of Black Sun and developed technology to make them work without Waterbenders. Or they brainwashed Waterbenders to sink it for them. Does it ma—they're shooting at us again!" Katara screamed, ducking.

"Mommy!" Kya wailed, burying her face. Aang jumped up into the saddle and smashed the rock. They were buried in dust for a few moments.

"Katara, we need altitude," Aang shouted. Katara picked up the reins, then looked up and yelped.

"Aang look!" she shouted, pointing at the sky. A Fire Nation airship hovered above them. A disk of earth was shot out of an opening in it and sailed at Appa. Katara bent a huge arm of water snaked up out of the ocean and swallowed it, freezing it in place before it could them. The ice melted and the rock fell into the ocean.

"Aang, take care of the airship and protect Kya. I'll go for the sub," Katara said, picking up her daughter and setting her into the saddle. Before Aang could protest she had jumped down into the water. A large wave formed below her and caught her fall. She skated off towards the submarine on ice, stopping the paths of projectiles before they hit Appa. Aang snatched the reins and steered his bison up into the sky towards the airship.

The Dai Li agents changed their target to Katara, but most of the missiles she dodged until she got close. There was a large glass pane on the front of the sub so the pilot could see. It was thick enough that it wouldn't crack if under pressure, but it shattered easily under the spike of ice Katara bent out of the sea. She jumped through the opening, rolling over the shards when she landed. Several cuts were torn into her arms, but she ignored them. Water was pouring through the hole in the wall, rapidly flooding the room. Katara bent it up and froze the pilot to the wall, grabbing the wheel and changing the sub's trajectory so it was now headed towards the cliffs. She froze it in place under a thick block of ice and ran out of the room.

It was a rather small sub—probably built for this purpose only. Besides the small room where it was steered the ship only had one chamber. Her suspicions of technology were confirmed by large machines pumping and churning, creating a thick coating of foul-smelling steam. Katara covered her nose and 

looked around the room--spotting rungs along one of the walls leading to a circular hatch on the high ceiling quickly. She ran to them and climbed up to the hatch.

Wind blasted her hair back as she clamored out on top of the sub. It had picked up speed, and was traveling at full force towards the cliffs. It was also starting to sink, probably due to the flooding of the inner chambers. She had very little time, but it was going to be enough.

Katara dodged the boulder that was bent at her, pulling up a large wave in the process. She curled it around her and sent it outwards, knocking off all the agents and most of their rock with them. She jumped into the water before the cliffs swallowed her with the ship. When it hit the high walls it exploded with a loud crack that echoed through the chasm. The cliff crumbled and sent a shower of rubble and debris down.

Katara drifted there, watching the destruction, being washed backwards a bit from the force. The saltwater stung her arms where she had cut herself, and her burns still stung painfully. During the fights she had been too caught up to heal them or even notice them, but now they made her eyes tear up with their searing pain. Katara closed her eyes and took a breath. The water around her started to glow. The cuts disappeared and the burns melted away off her skin.

She turned her head and looked up at the airship. There was a loud crash inside it before it too exploded. A figure fell from it. Katara watched with wide eyes as the person flipped themselves over and bent up a small wave, catching their fall.

"Aang!" Katara screamed, horrified.

A/N: Cliffhanger! This was GOING to be one chapter but Kelly just had to write like over 2000 words…jeez. Haha, I'm kidding. I love it. This continues in the next chap. Enjoy the change of authors for one last one :)