Chapter 12: Liberty for the Earth Kingdom
Location: Los Angeles, California
Elsa, Anna, and Ms. Benchy finally arrived towards Ricky's home for an hour, getting out of the van and knocking on the door. It wasn't long for door to open, revealing Johnny standing at the entrance.
"Johnny", Anna says surprisingly, "What are you doing here?"
Johnny hangs his down in despair.
"Same thing you're here for", he replied in guilt.
Ms. Benchy put her hand on Johnny's shoulder, giving him a confident smile.
"Don't worry about it honey", she assured him, "Is Nikki and Susan here?"
Johnny nods his head and shows them Nikki sitting on the couch with an angry look on her face. Elsa and Anna why Nikki was mad; she's ticked off because of Mrs. Richards said insulting things about Ricky isn't really dead and how he's just probably hiding somewhere, crying like an idiot. Susan on the other hand, still locked herself in her room and crying about Ricky's death.
Elsa and Anna walk up towards to Nikki, sitting next to her and giving her a hug. Nikki's anger suddenly washed away and replaces it with depression and sadness. She starts crying as Elsa and Anna continue comforting her as Johnny and Ms. Benchy walk towards to the girls and began to hug Susan as well.
"I'm going to see Susan alright?" Ms. Benchy says.
She walks toward to Susan's door and begins knocking on it.
"Susy, are you in there?"
Location: Haru's home
"HARU"S GONE!" Katara cried out.
Ricky jump off of Appa's tail and race towards to Katara.
"Calm down Katara", Ricky assured her, "Tell us what happen. Who took Haru?"
Katara starts to wipe her eyes, to ensure that she's already calm down.
"The old man that we saved from the mine, he reported the Fire Nation soldiers about him and they took him away", Katara explains.
Everyone was shock to hear what just happened, Ricky was fumed with anger and shock about the old man.
"Haru's mom said that they took him last night", Katara reassured sadly.
Ricky's hand began to curl into a fist and starts smoking from his palm. He wasn't mad about the Fire Nation that took Haru away, he was mad about the old man told the F.N. soldiers about Haru. He wanted to punch the elder in the face, but right now he needs to comfort Katara from the horrifying experience.
"Well, it's too late to find him now", Sokka said plainly, "He's long gone."
Ricky quickly glared at Sokka with anger in his eyes.
"HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT?!" Ricky yelled, "WE CAN'T JUST LEAVE HIM THERE WITH HIS MOM GOING TO DIE IN LONESOME!"
"Hey, that's how life is", Sokka retorted, "We can't do anything else but leave without being seen."
Ricky was about to punch him in the face, until Katara stop him with a firm grip on his shoulder. He looks at her who is just recovering from her depression and decides to get from the ground and heading back towards the door.
"No, we're not", she says plainly.
Everyone look at her worriedly.
"What are you talking about?" Ricky asks.
"I mean the Fire Nation is going to take to Haru", she answer.
"And how are they going to do that?" Aang asks confusingly.
Katara turns around with determination on her face.
"Because they're going to arrest me for earthbending."
Ricky, Aang, Sokka, and Sari gasp in total shock, thinking that she's insane.
Five minutes later
Ricky and his friends continue to push a boulder over a giant air vent, which was found on a rocky road.
"You know Katara, at first I thought you were insane, but this might actually work" Sokka explains, "These air ventilation are linked to underneath these mines. All Aang has to do is blow some air into those airshafts and TA-DA, fake earthbending."
Everyone nods their heads as they turn around to see Aang playing with a butterfly shooting tiny air puffs at it.
"Aang, you got that?" Katara asks.
"Yeah, yeah I got it", he dismissively wave his hands.
"Are you sure?" Ricky asks concernedly.
"Yeah, all I have to is blow through the ventilation and Katara would be arrested and Haru will be free." Aang says casually.
Ricky raises his eyebrows with concerns, but he shrugs it off. He turns around to see some F.N. soldiers coming towards their way.
"Guys, I see them coming. Get in places", Ricky called.
Everyone stop what they were doing and begin their place. Sari and Ricky begin to hide behind some bushes as they see the F.N. soldiers walking towards to Katara and Sokka who are pretending to argue. Ricky watch the entire scene, face-palming at their TERRIBLE acting, but luckily the plan actually work; with the exception the F.N. soldiers were complete idiots, thinking Momo was earthbending the giant boulder.
After the soldiers arrested Katara for 'earthbending', Ricky and Sari walk out of their hiding places and walk towards to Sokka and Aang. Ricky turns towards to Sokka, looking at his ears.
"Has anyone told you that your ears look like an elephant?"
Sokka turns around with an anger look on his face.
"I DO NOT!" he yells, "MOMO DOES!" pointing accusingly at the flying lemur.
He stomps towards to Haru's home, leaving Ricky, Aang, and Sari behind. There was an awkward silence until Aang looks at Sokka.
"You're right" He says, "His ears does look like an elephant."
Everyone laughs as they begin to walk back to Haru's home.
Ricky couldn't help but think about Katara if she's all right. His friends kept reassuring to him that she's fine, but he can't feel but very uneasy with the whole plan. He keeps pacing back and forth at the barn, worrying for Katara's safety. He can't remember when he was this worry about his friends, when his girlfriend Elsa when she's says she's going to be all right at the family reunion.
Aang notices Ricky's worriedness and decides to walk towards him. He place his hand on Ricky's shoulder, giving him a comforting smile. Ricky sighs as he begins to rest on Appa's tail.
"Don't worry Ricky", Aang assured, "She's going to be fine."
"I know Aang", Ricky replied, "I'm just worried if they figured out she's not an earthbender."
Before Aang could reply, Sari burst from the door with excitement on her face.
"GUYS, YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST FOUND OUT!"
The boys got up to see what the Kyoshi warrior has to say. Sokka was the first to reply.
"Well, what is it Sari?"
"I know where Katara is being held at!"
Ricky and Aang's eyes widen in total surprise.
"Really, you know where's the prison is at?" Ricky asks.
Sari nodded.
"Yes I do."
"Well", Aang spoke up, "Where is it?"
"It's at—"
"Oh oh, let me guess" Sokka interrupted her, "They're near a mountain, surrounded by guards and the earthbenders are being held by a camp that is surrounded by their elements and they can't use them because the Fire Nation will attack them if they do right?"
Everyone look at him like he was insane. Ricky smack his forehead.
"Dude are you kidding me?!" he yells, "That is the most STUPID theory I've ever heard and besides, what idiot would think that would be a good idea of having a prison filled with earthbenders that surrounded by their FRIGGIN' element?!"
M. Night Shyamalan was sitting on his desk, bored out his mind, until he randomly got an idea.
"I GOT IT! I'll make a movie where there are people who can bend four elements and only one can bend all four. I'll make the people who can control fire have to be near fire to bend it. And the people who bend water cam hardly hold ALL of the water. And the people who can control the earth can only control tiny boulders and will be put into prison where they're surrounded by their elements. Oh and the people who controls air all die but one. IT'S BRILLIANT!
Sokka was about to protest but he couldn't think of an backup argument for his theory.
"Uh guys?"
Ricky and Sokka turns around, forgetting that Sari was there the entire time.
"I was going to say that she's being held at prison in the ocean", Sari explains.
Ricky's eyes widen in excitement.
"Well, what are we waiting for", he says, "Let's get Katara and Haru back!"
The Gaang nod their heads as they head towards the prison to bring back Katara and Haru.
Katara was sitting in her prison room right after her plan to motivate the earthbenders failed, and she can see why; they have been in that isolated prison for who knows how long and they begin to lose hope as time passes. She needs to get their hopes back, but how would she tell her friends and brother about it. That's when she heard someone climbing from her window, to see Ricky hanging on the window's bars.
"Katara, are you here?" he asks.
"Yeah, I'm hear", she reply.
"Good, we're at the docks. Everyone's waiting for you."
Katara nods her head and begins to follow Ricky to the docks. She stop herself and has finally decided what she must do. Ricky turns around to see Katara has stop following him, the Gaang notices this as well and decided to walk up to her.
"Katara, what's wrong?" Aang asks.
"I'm not going", she answers.
"Yes you are", Sokka answers, "We don't have time for this nonsense. Get in the boat."
"I'm not leaving with those people behind" Katara retorted.
Ricky didn't say anything as the siblings were arguing, he doesn't want to get caught by the Fire Nation, but he wants to free those prisoners to be with their families. That's when he had an idea, he look at his friends who were debating on what to do. He quietly walk towards the entrance where he took Katara out of her cell.
'Katara is going to kill me if she finds out about this', Ricky thought.
It wasn't long it Sari notice that Ricky was gone, while Katara and Sokka were arguing.
"Hey guys, where's Ricky?"
Ricky was always a ninja at his world when he tries to avoid Jeremy and his goons during at school, and was able to scare the living crap out of people since he's rarely noticed. It was a good thing he and Johnny were playing Metal Gear Solid, Assassin Creed, and Goldeneye 007 on the Wii at his house and now it's time to test his skills. He found a guard standing guard of a door. The door swung open, causing Ricky to quickly hide in the shadows, showing an old man bursting out of the room yelling at the guard.
"YOU THERE! I NEED YOU GO AND WAKE UP THE CAPTAIN!" the warden yelled furiously.
"Um sir, that was the captain you threw out of the window." one of the guards replied nervously.
"THEN FIND SOMEONE WHO I HAVEN'T THROWN OVERBOARD!"
The warden storms off as the guards wander off to warn the others, too oblivious about Ricky hiding on the ceiling. Ricky waited for minute to make sure no guard was coming and jump down safely.
"I've got to thank Johnny when I get back home", he said to himself.
Ricky already figured out that they probably found out his friends have infiltrated the prison, he needs to find a way to get all the prisoners free without getting caught. That's when he stumbled across an armory room filled with spears, swords, helmets, armor, etcetera. Ricky's eyes widen as he got a better idea.
Katara couldn't believe what just happened; first Ricky was gone, now her plan to free the earthbenders refused to bend the coal Aang brought from the furnace. What's even worse is that the warden laughed at her attempt to have the earthbenders rebel against the Fire Nation soldier to be free.
"Guards, take them away. The Fire Lord will be please to here we have the Avatar", the warden said.
"That won't be necessary", a guard said.
The warden angrily turns around to figure out who said that, but didn't react to see a blue fireball hit his face pushing him backwards. Aang, Katara, Sokka, Sari, and Haru's eyes widen to see the mysterious soldier took off his helmet revealing Ricky's face in armor.
"I won't let you torture these people anymore warden." Ricky said angrily.
Ricky curled up his fist and released two, blue, fire blades coming from his fists and raised his right hand and yelled at the top for his voice.
"WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM OR DIE TRYING!"
The earthbenders yelled in a warrior-like tone and begin to bend the coal at the firebenders. The firebenders weren't even ready to see an outbreak from the prisoners rebelling against them caused by a young teenager. Haru and his father created a coal wall while Aang, Katara, and Ricky was fighting off the guards.
"DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY!" the warden yelled.
A couple of guards charge towards Ricky, he squat down and lunge towards the two guards with full sprint and knock sliced their legs with his fire blades. The two scream in pain as he uppercut one of them in the jaw and spin-kick on the other. Katara watch Ricky with awe as he taken down the two soldiers, she can't help it but she's impress.
"EVERYONE, HEAD TOWARDS THE BOATS!" an old man yelled.
The warden begin to get up, to see his prisoners were getting away.
"DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE!" the warden roared ferociously.
He begin to attack, but Ricky grabbed his arm and punched him in the face. The warden steps back and look at the teenager with pure rage.
"You'll pay for that you runt."
"We'll see about that."
Ricky begin to put up a boxing stance, preparing for a fight. The warden starts to shoot fireballs, but Ricky created firewall to block the attack. Ricky then lunge towards the warden and threw a fireball at him. The warden counter attacks Ricky's fireball and does a somersault kick at Ricky. Ricky collapse to ground but got up quickly and begin to do a Shoryuken, from Street Fighters, at the warden. The warden was launch into the air and fell face-first towards the metal floor. The warden grab his chest in severe pain, but wasn't able to react when Ricky pick him up and let him hang over the edge of the isolated prison.
"NO WAIT, I CAN'T SWIM!" the warden pleads.
Ricky gives him a smirk.
"Don't worry about it, I'm hoping you float like a log."
Ricky let go of the warden as he plummets towards the water. The warden emerges as he struggles to keep himself afloat, Ricky chuckles at the warden's screaming like a little girl. He turns around to see Katara walking up towards him and smack him right in the face. Ricky was shock as well as his friends.
"KATARA, WHAT THE-", but he was caught off guard when she starts hugging him tightly and crying.
"Don't you EVER leave me and your friends like that", she sobs, "Do you know worried I was when you left us?! When you left me?!"
Ricky doesn't know what to say about this, never in his life has this ever happen to him.
'Sh-she was worried about ME?'
Ricky looks into Katara's eyes and gave her a heart-warming smile.
"Sorry, just want it to be a surprise for everyone." he replies.
Katara wipe her tears off her face and him a smile.
"So, you must be Ricky Katara and my son were talking about."
Ricky turns around to see a tall, old man wearing with a long beard and long hair, but still have a bald spot on his head. The man gave him a warming smile as Haru walk next to the old man.
"My name is Tyro, I'm Haru's father and from what I heard from these two; that you came from another world right?"
Ricky rub the back of his head, slightly embarrassed.
"Yeah", he bluntly answers.
Tyro nods his head and then sighs.
"You know when I was young, there were some stories about people that came from another centuries before this war began."
Ricky's eyes widen, he can't believe what he's hearing.
"At first I thought it was just a story", Tyro added, "But now seeing you and hearing it from my son and Katara made me realize that we may not be alone in this universe after all. I hope the High One will help you on your way to get back home. And to believe that you're a firebender, maybe there will be people in the Fire Nation might live up to see you as someone who can help the Avatar to end this war."
Ricky nods his head and was amazed that he wasn't the only one who came to this world, but the main question is: why?
"We should get going, we have a long way ahead of us in order to get Aang to the North Pole", Ricky replies.
Katara nodded as she places her hand around her neck and notice something was missing.
"MY MOM'S NECKLACE, IT'S GONE!" Katara yells.
Location: Five hundred miles away from Los Angeles, California
Jonathan sits quietly in his seat as he heard his only son was murdered and he blames himself for not being there to protect him. He doesn't know what to think other than curse himself and ask God why did He take his precious son away from him. All he can do now is get back home and hopefully comfort his family from this horrible event.
"I'm sorry Ricky", he whispers quietly, "I'm so, deeply, sorry."
Author's Note: HEY GUYS I'M BACK AND FULLY ALIVE! I finally finish this chapter and I can't believe how much work it was to finish it. Oh and I'm once again, putting Pokemon: Battle of the Gods on hold, again T_T. I'm going to rewrite the entire thing, but I'm not deleting it. Anyways, the OC requests is still open and you guys can make him/her a bender or non-bender whatever you like. Anyways, Happy Thanksgiving, LeoPrime13 is out PEACE!
