Usagi is napping in the lounge and a small booger bubble is coming out of her nose and moving with her breathing pattern. HKL is in a chair near by listening to Korn on her CD player, nodding her head to the music. Katara blinks at the two of them, Usagi specifically.
"What happened to her?" She asked and HKL looked up, talking off her head set.
"Huh?" she asked and Katara pointed to Usagi.
"What's with her?" she asked again, leaning over the arm of the couch.
"World of Warcraft and college," She said, "Plus writer's block and being secretary of the anime club at school." She put her head set back on
"Don't you think we should wake her up?" Katara asked.
"I wish you luck on that venture" HKL said, turning her music back up and bobbing her head to the heavy metal. Katara sighed, seeing HKL was not going to help. Usagi just snored like a saw cutting wood, the bubble continuing to shrink and grow. Katara's nose wrinkled at the mucus bubble and decided to get help, namely Toph help.
5 minutes later; Toph scratched her hair, some grains of sand falling to the floor, "So let me get this straight," Toph said and looked in Katara's general direction, "You called me because why?"
"Because Aang's still sulking," Katara explained, both girls standing in front of Usagi on the couch, "Zuko's stuck on the Fire Nation floor because May is keeping him there and Sokka is still traumatized from the last chapter. He's convinced himself that it's all Usagi's influence and that she paid Zuko to kiss him." She put her hands on her hips, looking everywhere but the booger bubble; it was disturbing her, "Azula's busy being evil and Suki's with her, the Guru is meditating, Jet and Haru are somewhere and I don't want to know what they're doing. Also Iroh is locked up, so we can't rely on him." Toph frowned at that but said nothing about it.
"Alright, so what do you want me to do?" she asked.
"Help me wake her up." Katara said and Toph sighed.
"We've become too reliant on a yaoi fan's opinion." She stated.
"I know." Katara replied.
"Well, first I suggest we break Iroh out, kick Mr. Matching-Belt out of his drama and then deal with her." And she started to stomp off to find Iroh. Katara rolled her eyes.
"You just want to help Iroh." Katara accused and Toph spun around, pointing an accusing finger back at Katara.
"No one locks up my BFF Iroh (1) and gets away with it!" she yelled and Katara shook her head.
"Its in the plot, you can't mess with the plot." Toph pouted and shuffled her feet.
"The plot's stupid." She scoffed and for the first time acted like a spoiled 12 year old.
"Well it's not your choice; now help me wake her up."
Toph sighed and walked back over to the sleeping fan girl. Over the next half hour they would try many remedies to wake an exhausted anime fan. They dumped cold water on her. They yelled in her ear. They tickled her nose with a feather and she hit herself in the face with whip cream. They poked her with a stick, rock, and icicle. They brought Chong to sing a song. They threatened her with their elements. Toph even got Appa to lick the whip cream off of her, but it didn't help. The bubble coming from her nose miraculously survived it all.
Katara growled in frustration, "What the hell?!"
"Maybe she's dead?" Toph suggested, crouching next to the couch.
"If she was dead that stupid bubble wouldn't be pulsing?!" Katara yelled, hating that booger bubble more and more with each attempt. It continuously mocked her by moving and being in existence.
"Bubble?" Toph asked, "What bubble?"
"The snot bubble coming from her nose!" Katara yelled. Toph blinked.
"Really?" she asked and Katara sighed, she kept forgetting Toph was blind.
"Yes, really." Katara confirmed.
"Oh, then just pop the bubble." She said and made a stone needle in her hand. Katara's nose wrinkled and her eyebrow twitched.
"Ew…" she said and Toph just blinked.
"What? I can't even see it." Katara went to take the needle, but then she took Toph's hand and directed her hand to pop it. She didn't want to have anything to do with the nasty booger bubble. The bubble popped silently and Usagi blinked her eyes open sleepily.
"Mm… what?" she mumbled, sitting up and rubbing her eyes. Katara shivered from the bubble popping and whipped her hands on her clothes from the thought of it.
"We need the review for the last episode." Toph said and Usagi shrugged.
"Well, Aang's alive, he's gone emo. Zuko's still dealing with crap and he's back in the fire nation." Usagi summed it up. "It felt like the shortest episode ever." Katara blinked.
"Is that it?" she asked and Usagi rolled onto her feet, stretching her arms out.
"No, but it was the basics." She said through a yawn.
"It really was a quick episode." HKL agreed, taking off her headphones.
"Yeah…" Usagi thought for a minute and decided to begin, "Well Sokka looks so good with his hair grown out, and now he DOES have a pony tail and not a warrior's wolf tail. Though I can't say any one action in this episode made him uke." She sighed, "disappointing really, but he looked good in Fire Nation armor, despite his being so against Fire Benders."
"Of course he probably picks his own clothes, and you know he has to look 'fabulous'" HKL added, giving his last statement a frilly gay edge. Usagi giggled and Katara sighed.
"He is picky." She agreed and Toph shrugged, clothes where clothes to her.
Usagi then frowned, "but that talk on the ship with May and Zuko made me want to break the TV. They go on the same ship and they're suddenly making out?! What the hell?! No build up?! No reason?! They just suck face after Zuko's been banished for 3 years?! It makes no sense?!" she pulled at her short burgundy hair, "Even in hetero romance it makes no sense?! Why doesn't it make any sense, HKL?!" She threw herself into the cushions of the couch and proceed to overdramatically sob.
"It was ridiculous." HKL agreed, reaching over and patted Usagi's head, "I'm sure he'll come to his senses soon."
"He better!" she popped up and huffed, "I can't stand things like that, yaoi or het." She paused, "Even though the yaoi is nicer, I like relationship build up." She paused, "Aang has hair now… it is bit odd, and the first time I saw it I said 'What the fuck decided to hibernate on his head?!' But they at least gave us a reason as to why he kept it by the end of the episode, so I'm not giving him a hard time about it."
"I still don't like his hair." HKL said as she pulled out a copy of Shonen Jump, "Is this the new one?"
"Yes, yes it is." Usagi replied.
"Shweet." HKL grinned, "It's also cool that they didn't leave out the Earth King and Bosco."
"Yeah," Usagi smiled, "Cute as hell. I'm also pleased that they took a Fire Nation ship, Sokka had good plans." She sighed, "He's smart but stupid at the same time."
"Like Zuko." HKL said while flipping through the book, "He's really smart, but he's emotionally an idiot."
"Precisely." Usagi said with a nod and smiled, "Remember when Sokka said it couldn't get any worse and the serpent came? Another side effect of his animal magnetism, and it also showed his bad luck. But then the universe decided to cut him a break and the serpent attacked the other Fire Nation ship."
"'Thank you the universe!'" HKL mimicked Sokka.
"It was so cute." Usagi stood up on the couch and bounced on the cushions, "I'm glad that they found the ship in the first place, it's actually a really good cover."
"Plus Sokka got his choice of Fire Nation clothes; I'm sure." HKL commented, "It was nice to see the Duke and Pipsqueak again also." She glanced over her book to see Usagi pouting on the couch.
"They remind me of Jet…" she pouted sadly and HKL sighed, shutting Shonen Jump.
"Well what I enjoyed about the episode was Katara and her dad's interaction. We already had Sokka and Hakoda, and now the Katara and Hakoda tied it up nicely."
"Only because Aang went emo and turned into Zuko for an episode." Usagi got off the couch again and HKL's eyes turned happy and she got all sparkly, like Lt. Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist.
"Then there was all the wonderful symbolism," She went on wistfully "Aang's staff getting covered by the Fire Nation flag, a foreordaining message from the spirits, the glider burning in the Fire Nation…" Usagi picked at the build up of wax in her ear with her pinky finger, watching HKL's pink sparkles.
"Yeah…" she said, whipping her hand on her cargo pants, "they did focus on the flag covering the staff quite overzealously, and what was with the deal with Yue? She died over a season ago, I'm tired of seeing her face. All Aang really needed there was Roku there." She folded his arms and pouted. HKL shook her head.
"Still anti-Yue?" HKL asked.
"Of course!" she exclaimed, "Sokka should not be obsessing over these girls! Yue died and Suki is probably broken and raped in a ditch somewhere. What the hell man?! What the HELL?!" HKL shrugged and Katara and Toph were now comfy on the couch Usagi had napped on.
"Usagi," HKL said calmly, "Ozai." Usagi calmed from her spastic ranting and giggled, blushing ever so slightly.
"Zuko's daddy is pretty…" she admitted, "But Sokka's dad is already taken…" Katara's eyebrow twitched.
"Usagi…" she said warningly and Usagi got the hint.
"Right, no dad sex…" she sighed sadly, "Well, Sadly Ba Sing Se was torn down and it pulled at my heart, not fair at all. It makes me sad that Azuka is so pretty when she's not wearing make up. I wish she was uglier, damn it." Usagi fumed for a bit, "Azula's still a lying bitch. I think she only gave Zuko the credit so if he becomes Fire Lord, she'd kill him and then be Fire Lord. Of course that's my theory on her thinking. I wouldn't put it past her. "
"Yup," HKL said, "though there was only really one part that was odd."
"Aang's feet didn't burn in the lava in the Fire Nation, hello!" Usagi bounced, "He just ran over fresh lava with no shoes on! I expected him to go 'Owowowowowowowowowowowowow, my footies!'" She ran around the lobby, acting like she was on hot coals. "But he didn't, and that just blew the serious moment for me." She jumped then and landed on Toph and Katara, mostly on Katara as she hugged Toph, "and you were cool as always and the awesome metal bending and the coolness." Toph sighed and shoved Usagi off of her.
"Get a grip fangirl." Toph said.
"But-but how can I?" Usagi pouted, sitting on the ground since she'd been shoved off and Katara brushed herself off the Usagi dust that had been put on her from the jumping, "Iroh wasn't even in this episode, so I don't get to hug him." She pouted and poked her fingers together, "I miss him." Toph also saddened and Katara sighed.
"It's not in the plot, you can't mess with the plot." She said.
"But I want to! Everything seems so messed up right now!" Usagi wailed, "Not fair! And the episode was so short! I wanted more! Nobody got captured and I want the next episode noooow!" by not she was whining like a little child and lying on the floor. HKL sighed and hopped onto her feet.
"I'm sure everything will be back to normal next episode, and next chapter." HKL said and Usagi sat up, picking her nose sadly, the allergies were really getting to her lately; it kept drooling on her.
"Ok…" she said and got up.
"Now." HKL said and put her CD in her pocket, "Let's get coffee." Usagi perked up.
"Oh boy! Caffeine." she said and they headed off to the kitchen Katara blinked.
"That was somewhat civilized." Katara said and Toph nodded.
"But I bet it won't be next chapter." Toph said.
"Um…" Katara concentrated for a moment, "I can't help but think something should happen, or that there has been something unsaid…"
"USAGI YOUKAI!!!"
Usagi and HKL popped back in, seeing Sokka running down the stairs and the girls on the couch turned around to see. He was angry and there was a bright purple think in his hands, and he was wearing the Fire Nation uniform; he would normally switch right back into his Water Tribe clothes as soon as he was off the plot. He marched right up to the two fangirls, face red and angry, whaving the purple shirt around.
"What the hell did you do to my clothes, I can't wear these!" Sokka yelled, the purple clothes were his Water Tribe clothes, the blue of it was blotchy purple and the normal white was red.
"Oh yeah…" Usagi said, scratching her cheek and sweat dropping; Sokka was quite scary when it came to his wardrobe, "I just thought you could used more color in your clothes… so I tried to dye them red… but they sort of bled…" Sokka gripped the purple shirt like he was going to rip it in half.
"This was my favorite shirt!" he growled dangerously, "These are MY clothes, you dyed all of them?!"
"You do look good in red." HKL tried to help, looking just as sheepish as Usagi. Sokka wrung the shirt out in his hand, a few threats audibly breaking.
"I'm about to skin a certain rabbit and cat." He hissed and Usagi and HKL looked at one another.
"He's mad." Usagi stated.
"Pissed." HKL agreed.
"Clothes Crazy?"
"Fashion frazzled."
"Ah yes, that one sounds better"
"Indeed, run?"
"Oh, most definitely"
And with that they took off, leaving a small cloud of dust behind them and Sokka soon followed with his club.
Katara blinked after them, "Well… that seemed more regular." Toph nodded, smiling.
"Yes, yes it does." And they both sat back to watch the chase. "What a great kick off for the third season."
Capture Count- still…
Toph: 5
Aang: 9
Katara: 11
Sokka: 16 ½
(1) I loved this comic too much to not include it http://sora-ko. deviantart. com/ art /Avatar -RAMPAGE- OF- DOOM- 65410302 LOVE IT LIKE I DO!!! Toph would so do it! (remove spaces)
(2) Lawl isn't lol. Me and HKL use lawl to describe something so cute that it falls over limp from something like a scratching of the ear to being petted in a good spot (The equivalent to someone rubbing your shoulders, head, or feet after a long hard day, it just feels relieving good)
And now for the mini episode of avatar.
Usagi hops in on the Earth Kingdom, nose wiggling like a rabbit. She also has two long lilac springy rabbit ears in place of human easy and a same colored. Her hair is still insanely short, but purple. She grins widely.
"Hey guys, remember the mini episode after the main one?" Usagi asked to the screen, "Well, who am I to leave out these little blessings from the creators of Avatar?" she waves her little paws in the air and her legs are really rabbit feet, "Look! I'm in super-deformed form! Also known as chibi form. I shall therefore be chibi Usagi."
"'Sagi!" HKL cried, running onto screen. She has longer red hair and darker red cat ears. She has a long red fluffy cat tail. Her ears are tipped black and so was her tail, which was also stripped. She has red cat paws and legs. She tackle-glomped Usagi and they rolled over on the ground; both a mass of giggling.
Chibi-Sokka sighs off to the side, sitting on a rock, muttering, "Even here I can't escape them…"
Usagi and HKL were soon up again and Usagi stood at full height, bouncing up and down on her tip toes, both were exactly the same height.
"What the hell, you're as tall as me," Usagi pouted, used to being taller than most of the people. HKL smiled superiorly.
"Ha, now you can't make fun of me for being short." She said happily.
"Yeah…" Usagi smiles slowly, "Worth it though." She ran off and HKL followed right behind her, both enjoying the chibi forms.
"Sokka!" they cried together and before Sokka could move, they tackled him in fan girl glomps.
"Ah! Get them off of me!" Sokka yelled and squirmed, clawing his fingers into the ground to get out from under them. They giggled and got up.
"Good thing we caught you." HKL said, grinning happily.
"Cause now I have to do the Mini Avatar episode, Bending Battle!" Usagi squealed, "With more hyper-ness and cuteness!" Usagi patted Sokka's head, "Sadly you still have your season 1 outfit, I'm hoping that they evolve that soon." Sokka swats at her and, threatens her with his boomerang claw-hand thingy. HKL just pinched his cheeks.
"So cute…" she cooed and his cheek snapped back and he rubbed it, simmering to an irritated mood.
"Poor thing was everyone's test dummy." Usagi said and Sokka got up, dusting himself off. Usagi grabbed him in the middle of dusting and she dragged him off by the back of the shirt, "Now to find Chibi-Zuko!" HKL followed, her tail wagging.
"Katara's cute statement was quite appropriate; you guys are adorable as chibis!" HKL said happily, "Though the hearts in her eyes were unneeded."
"Even Iroh told Zuko that he was a cutie-pie." Usagi grinned. Sokka just frowned as he was dragged along. They stopped when they reached a small hill and Usagi plopped Sokka down on it. She then turned to her partner in crime, "Now we need Zuko."
"I'm on it!" HKL saluted and pranced of to find Zuko. Usagi smiled.
"I love chibi episodes," she said, "Toph's mountain making was really cool, she would have gotten a score of 10 from me; it could be seen from space!. Aang's flying was ok, but it just made a big arrow." She poked the grumpy Sokka in the forehead with her index finger, "Zuko cooked your fish and he didn't use you as a test dummy for his element, you should be happy about that."
"Found him!" HKL called, dragging Zuko by a foot and Iroh right behind them. Usagi clapped rapidly as HKL dropped a fuming Zuko next to Sokka and HKL ran over to Iroh to get attention paid to her; Iroh did scratch kitty-HKL behind the ear, which made her lawl(2) and fall over. Usagi glomped Zuko.
"I loved your dragon Zuko!" she squealed, "I'm sad that Katara shrunk it, but now you can keep it in your room as a paperweight or something… can I have it?"
"Get off me." He said calmly, but angrily. Usagi hopped up and smiled.
"You two are so cute, and so it chibi-Iroh!" she then hopped over to Iroh to be cuddled like the bunny she was.
"Hehehe, you're still in season one form too" HKL said as she lay behind Zuko, batting at Zuko's pony tail. Zuko's good eyebrow twitched. Sokka patted his shoulder.
"I know how you feel." He said and then HKL and Usagi popped up in front of both of them, starting to chant.
"Chibi-kiss, chibi-kiss, chibi-kiss!" they both hopped up and down, both looking like the hyper active fangirls that they were on the inside. Sokka and Zuko blinked at each other, about to protest, but then HKL took Zuko's head and Usagi took Sokka's, pushing their faces together. They both cheered and took pictures, then they ran away to Iroh to run into the sunset.
Both Sokka and Zuko blinked at each other, both blushing slightly.
"Um…" Sokka poked his fingers together.
"Yeah…" Zuko trailed off, "Food?" Sokka perked up.
"Food!" she agreed and both got up to escape before the girls came back
Usagi and HKL grin at the screen, speaking together, "Now I hope that you can see that each fandom has its own strengths and weaknesses… BUT YAOI IS THE BEST!" and they both run off waving 'We Voted for Fire' on flags behind them
