Suki begins to steer the ship close to the water. In the bomb bay, the crew members are standing around, waiting. The bomb bay doors open and all the crew members' fall into the ocean. The crew members swim up for air. Back up into the cabin, Sokka looks through a broken window at Ozai's airship. Sokka grabs the throttle and pushes it forward. Several members of the white lotus are standing outside Ba sing se.
"Ba Sing Se, the Order of the White Lotus is here." Bumi said
"Here to set you free." Pakku said
"Only once every hundred years can a fire bender experience this kind of power."
Iroh inhales deeply. Iroh exhales as a ring of fire appears around. The flames grow larger each time Iroh breathes deeply. Iroh opens his eyes and raises his arms, as the flames around him collect to make a ball of fire. It collects energy and Iroh fires it as a massive fire blast that breaches the Outer Wall. Bumi jumps forward and stomps the ground. The three stone blocks that the Order's members are standing on begin to quickly move toward Ba Sing Se. The Order members leap and go toward the city. The airship that Sokka, Suki, and Toph hijacked can be seen just below the main group of air ships.
"We're not gonna catch up to him in time."
"No." Toph says
The comet before changing back to Ozai. He tilts his head back and smiles sadistically. Ozai raises his arms in the air, pulls his palm down toward the ground beneath. A small but incredibly intense flame is forming on his hand, growing larger until it is finally fired into an enormous fire blast that ignites the earth below. None of them know that Aang is nearby, just waiting for Ozai to appear. He sends Momo away before earth bending rocks towards Ozai's ship. The chunks of rock whistle past the side of Ozai's airship, which catches his notice. The last few pieces of rock strike the airship's engine, which causes Ozai to lose balance and stop his attack. The ship starts losing power and begins to descend. Ozai looks down to see Aang. Aang spins his body around, gathering his energy, and unleashes a huge fire blast at Ozai's ship, striking the final blow to its engine, thereby destroying the airship. Aang turns to the side toward the airship and it floats past him, facing Ozai for the first time. Ozai stares at Aang with surprise. Aang can be seen standing on top of a stone pillar in the distance.
"What just happened?" Suki asks
"It's Aang, he's back" Sokka cheers
"After generations of Fire Lords failed to find you, now the universe delivers you to me as an act of providence." Ozai says
"Please listen to me. We don't have to fight. You have the power to end it here and stop what you're doing."
"You are right. I do have the power. I have all the power in the world!"
Ozai began to shoot fire from his hands and mouth. Ozai jumps, spins in the air, and slams his fist downward, creating a circular wave of flames that spread directly toward Aang. Aang jumps over the attack and slams his hands and feet into the stone pillar right below him. He earth bends a piece of the pillar he is holding into the air. Aang rotates it around and kicks the chunk of rock toward Ozai, who leaps away using his fire bending. In mid-air, Ozai propels himself at Aang using a jet of fire from his feet. At the same time, Aang jumps toward Ozai, sending a wave of fire at him. Ozai kicks forward and shoots a fire blast from his foot. The two attacks collide in a fiery explosion.
"Go, Aang! Air bending slice!"
"Shouldn't we be helping him?"
"The Fire Lord is Aang's fight. We need to stay focused on stopping that fleet from burning down the Earth Kingdom."
"And how do we do that, Captain Boomerang? I can't see outside of this floating hunk of metal."
"Airship slice!"
The airship begins to rise higher and higher into the air. Fire benders are seen standing on platforms jutting out toward the front. In unison, they begin to fire bend. Sokka does some things and it causes the airship to head towards the other ships. The three of them make their way to the top of the ship. Sokka has Toph metal bend the sail so it will hit the other ships. Toph, Sokka, and Suki, racing toward the front of the airship. Suddenly, just as they are getting to their destination, part of the airship falls off, separating Suki from Toph and Sokka. Their piece of airship is drifting away from Suki's.
"Suki!"
"I'm okay! Just finish the mission!"
"No... "
"Sokka, I think we've gotta..."
"JUMP" Both said
Both make it out safely. Zuko, Tara and Katara make it to the palace. Azula was being crowned at fire lord when they arrived. When Azula looks up, Katara is seated on Appa's saddle, Tara is on one knee and Zuko is standing on his back.
"Sorry, but you're not gonna become Fire Lord today. I am."
"You're hilarious."
"And you're going down." He says jumping down
The Fire Sage is just about to crown Azula the new Fire Lord, regardless of what Zuko just said, until Azula signals with her hand for him to stop. Katara and Tara were more than ready to defend Zuko if need be.
"Wait. You want to be Fire Lord? Fine. Let's settle this. Just you and me, brother. The showdown that was always meant to be. Agni Kai!"
"You're on."
"What are you doing? She's playing you. She knows she can't take the three of us on, so she's trying to separate us."
"I know. But I can take her this time."
"But even you admitted to your uncle that you would need help facing Azula." Tara said
"There's something off about her; I can't explain it but she's slipping. And this way, no one else has to get hurt."
Several minutes later both were ready for their duel. Both finally face each other. Azula smiles and assumes an awkward fighting stance. She spins and sends a sudden blast of blue fire toward Zuko. Zuko brings his hands up and jumps forward, bringing his arms down in front of him. He bends a flame in each hand and they emerge. He sends the fire toward Azula. The scene cuts to the side of the fight to show a wall of fire, blue colliding with red, take form. As the wall begins to die, Azula leaps up on a jet of fire and kicks her legs forward, sending a wave of fire from her feet during each of her three spinning kicks.
Back with Aang, he lands on top of one pillar, but suddenly leaps away to be blocking and pushed by a blast of fire emerging from Ozai. The Fire Lord attacks again, sending a wave of fire from a downward kick. Aang jumps to another rock to avoid the attack, and picks up a small part of the rock and sends it toward Ozai with a kick. Ozai dodges the attack by sending a blast of fire out of his foot. Aang leaps to the top of another rock to avoid the attack before leaping to land near a waterfall. Ozai follows him there, sending yet another fire blast toward Aang. Aang then uses water bending to send some of the waterfall toward the flames, extinguishing them and causing Ozai to jump back. He flies back toward Aang, using fire rockets from his feet. He shoots a large burst of fire at Aang, but Aang jumps to the top of the waterfall to avoid the attack. Ozai rockets up after him, and flips forward, shooting fire from both feet. Aang jumps to the other side of the slope to escape the hot flames. Ozai flies over to him, using his fire jets shooting from his feet, but Aang lands on a boulder, lifting it into the air. He jumps away, only to stop Ozai for a second, distracted by the boulder. He continues to chase Aang, shooting at him with his fiery fist. Aang spins around, creating a tornado shield that blocks him from the flames. He lands on the side of a rock pillar, and quickly scoots to the other side, only to see Ozai shooting another stream of fire at him. Aang leaps to another pillar before air bending himself back to the first pillar.
He kicks the top of the pillar off, sending it toward Ozai. To Aang's surprise, Ozai is right behind him, and he sends a ball of fire toward Aang. Aang raises his hand to block himself from the surprise attack as he is pushed and hits the side of a rock, falling to the ground in pain. Ozai flies toward him again, and lands on the same ledge as Aang. Seeing that Ozai is there, Aang picks himself up, and suddenly earth bends to create rock armor around his body. Ozai shoots fists of fire at Aang, pushing him around the edge of the ledge. He swings his arm at Aang, sending a wave of fire toward him, but he jumps away leaving the rock armor behind. Aang suddenly performs a flip backward to shoot a gust of wind at Ozai from the air. Ozai jumps aside to avoid Aang's blast, and begins to shoot lightning. Aang is grasping on to the side of a rock, seemingly terrified. Just when the lightning is about to strike him, he quickly swings his arm around to create another tornado shield. He jumps up, and flies to the top of a rock where Ozai attempts to shoot a lightning bolt at him, but misses. After the failed attempt, he continues shooting blasts at Aang, to which he lifts the top of a rock and dodges in order to evade. He suddenly rolls forward, just as Ozai sends another blast of lightning toward him.
Aang begins to redirect the lightning, pointing it toward the terrified Ozai. Aang hesitates to strike him, and so he sends the bolt into the orange sky instead. He falls to the ground, exhausted from straining to hold the energy from the lightning. Ozai smiles, sensing he has the upper-hand, and performs a spin-kick of fire toward Aang, who raises the ground to protect himself from the fire blast. He is thrown off the rock from the impact and is falling toward the water below him. He opens his eyes and realizes he is falling. He tilts himself up, frantically waving his arms and trying to air bend to break his fall. Seeing that does not work due to the speed he is falling, as he nears the water, he creates a funnel shape from it to land softly and gets washed up onto shore. He quickly stands up to see Ozai rocketing toward him.
Azula and Zuko were still fighting, neither were winning. Azula was having a slight advantage over Zuko. Orange and blue flames blasting toward each other. One building is on fire, and as a bright blue flame shoot. He punches a powerful blast of fire toward his sister. His stream of orange blends with a blast of blue fire. The scared and confused Azula turns to find that Zuko's strong attack has caused the plaza behind her to be smothered in flames. She leaps forward with a blast of fire that she swings at Zuko. Just as he is about to be hit, Zuko thrusts his palms outward to create a wall of fire that slices the blue flame. Zuko is shown crouching with his arms outward, blue and orange flames swirling around him. Azula is flying toward him as she swerves to the right to dodge Zuko's last blast.
"No lightning today? What's the matter? Afraid I'll redirect it?"
At that moment, Azula waves and moves her fingertips in order to generate lightning, but her stance is irregular and off. He assumes his stance and prepares to redirect whatever lightning may come his way. As he is doing so Katara and Tara standing by as backup. Suddenly, light begins flickering as Azula begins charging her lightning. She finishes charging, and her eyes shows she is not glancing toward Zuko, but to the left of him. Azula, still in her stance and ready to strike; lightning at her fingertips. She smiles and extends her arm to shoot the blast directly at Katara. Without a moment's notice Tara shoves Katara out of the way in an attempt to redirect it. Zuko runs, trying to get in between Katara and the lightning. Suddenly, Zuko jumps up, in between Tara and the lightning. Zuko extends his finger out in order to redirect it, but fails in doing so, therefore absorbing it. Tara and Katara look horrified that Zuko absorbed the lightning. Zuko hits the ground, the lightning leaving his body through his other arm. Zuko, lying on the ground, twitching from the electricity seeping through his body. He rolls onto his back, groaning and holding his wounded chest. A scared Katara and Tara run in Zuko's direction.
"Zuko!" Both yelled
"He didn't just do that. "
Zuko is lying on the ground in pain. His shirt around his chest is burnt away, revealing a large scar. Katara and Tara are running towards him, but are stopped in their tracks by a blast of lightning in between them and Zuko. A crazed Azula, hunched over and swaying from side to side. She suddenly starts laughing maniacally and runs forward.
The terrified Aang begins to swing his arms using water bending to launch. He reaches the shore, stumbling forward, with Ozai not too far behind. Ozai reaches him, and Aang earth bends a circle of rocks around himself for protection. Ozai is right over him, laughing. Aang is trapped inside his sphere, bracing himself with his arms. Ozai is throwing a left-curved fire blast, followed with a right-curved blast. He fires a straight blast. Aang is doing what he can to protect himself.
"Come on out, Avatar! You can't hide in there forever!"
On top of one of the airships Sokka has Toph metal bend the rudder. Moments later, several fire benders attacked them. They fall of the side and Sokka uses his sword in an attempt to stop the fall. They fall and land on a platform, breaking Sokka's leg and his sword landing just in front of him. Toph falls off and Sokka holds onto her hand. Two fire benders come out on the platforms next to them. One of them is about to shoot them off, but Sokka throws his boomerang at him. He kicks his sword in to his hand and throws it at the other one's platform. Sokka became sad in the fact he lost his sword. More Imperial Fire benders come outside, ready to finish the pair. Toph starts crying and the fire benders run away. The airship gets struck by a different one and Sokka lets Toph fall onto it before jumping down himself, hurting his leg again in the process. He falls over in pain. Suki ended up saving them.
The scene changes to Aang and Ozai's battle. Ozai is still throwing fire blasts Aang. He blasts Aang a few more times and rises up to fly toward the shell to shoot an enormous, continuous blast of fire at Aang. Ozai steps back to charge another intense attack causing Aang's rock shield to be crushed and Aang protects himself with an air bending shield but is pushed back by the force of the attack, crashing into a rock pillar. The scar on his back is hit with a point of the rock, causing him to flashback to when he was shot by lightning. Aang jumps out, now in the Avatar State, and grabs Ozai by his goatee. Ozai tries to fire bend at the Avatar, but Aang merely knocks his hand away. He creates a blast of air sending Ozai flying backward. Ozai being forced away, crashing into a pillar of rock. He falls down to the ground and as the dust clears he looks up at Aang in the sky with a sphere of air around him. Aang proceeds to roar and creates fire out of his mouth, fists and feet. Aang creates a massive gust of air causing Ozai to cover himself as he groans in struggle. Pillars of earth disintegrate and move toward Aang as other pieces of rock rise up from the ground to surround Aang. Water also rises toward Aang as he creates a ring of fire around himself. The earth begins to create a ring inside the air sphere as the water continues to rise up and form another ring inside the earth sphere.
"I'd really rather our family physician look after Little Zuzu if you don't mind. Zuzu, you don't look so good!"
Tara looks at Katara and nods at her before running out. She had a slightly evil smile on her face, not to mention was beyond ready for this battle. The comet was giving Tara more confidence, though it was only enhancing her fire bending. Though Azula wasn't fully there, she did realize who Tara is. That caused her to become pissed. She remembers very well the day Tara was banished and knew she had to die for returning. She sent a blast of fire at Tara. It wasn't hard for Tara to redirect it back. Tara raises an eyebrow at her. She thought it would be harder to beat the fire lord's daughter.
"Really that's all you got? I thought it would be harder to beat you. Seeing as you're the fire lords daughter and all."
Azula lets out a yell before sending several blasts at her. Tara blocks all of it. Azula lightning bends at Tara but she redirects it back at Azula. She dodges it though was in shock that someone else knew how to redirect it. Tara lightning bends at Azula, though she dodged it, she was shocked that Tara can lightning bend. After several fire blasts back and forth, Tara is standing near a grate, she looks at Katara. Both stared at each other for a moment. Katara seemed to understand what was trying to be said, she had to get herself and Azula on the grate. She bends some water at Azula while Tara ran off the grate. Azula fire bends at both of them. After a few minutes, Azula is near the grate, while Tara and Katara were standing on the grate but hiding behind the pillars.
Katara manages to get behind Azula and she turns around. After a brief stare down, Katara uses multiple water whips to force Azula onto the grate. Azula is about to shoot lightning at her when Katara freezes the three of them with the water under the grate. It was unintentional that Tara was frozen also. Katara melts the water around her and chains Azula's hands together tied to the grate. Katara bends the water back into the grate. After catching their breaths, she tightens the chains to make sure Azula cannot get free. By that point the make up on Tara was gone. Both rush to heal Zuko. Katara and Tara roll Zuko on to his back and Katara begins healing him. Zuko opens his eyes, feeling the pain lessen, and smiles weakly at Katara and Tara, Both smile back. Tara was slightly crying, and as for Katara, just a few tears came out.
"Thank you, Katara. You too Tara."
"No, thank you Zuko." Tara said
Both help him up. Azula pants in anger, screams in madness, and breathes fire, writhing in an attempt to break free. Finally she stops and begins to cry uncontrollably. Katara, Tara and Zuko watch in horror and pity. Though Tara just kind of wished that she would just shut up. The scene changes to Avatar Aang and Phoenix King Ozai. Aang still chases Ozai and uses earth bending to move two pillars in front of Ozai, who recoils and flies away. Aang sends a wave of water at Ozai, causing him to crash to the ground. As Ozai recovers and looks up, Aang bursts through the pillar he landed near. Ozai retreats backward and shoots a stream of fire at Aang. In slow motion, Aang drops to the ground narrowly missing Ozai who propels himself away with fire from his feet.
Aang rises and begins following the fleeing Ozai again. Ozai lands on a pillar and launches a wide fire blast at Aang, who uses earth bending to move two large pillars to protect himself. Aang breaks and lets the pillars fall as Ozai flies away again. Aang unleashes multiple blasts of fire toward Ozai, who manages to dodge them. Ozai lands on the side of a pillar and launchers three similar fire blasts at an approaching Aang, who uses air and water to disperse them. Aang fires a strong blast of air at Ozai, disintegrating the pillar he stood on but he manages to get away. Aang continues to chase him as Ozai looks back, realizing Aang is catching up. Aang moves his arm in a circular motion causing water to wrap itself around Ozai's leg and up to his outstretched arm, whipping him around, before slamming him on top of a pillar. Aang flies forward and earth bends Ozai's hands and feet to the ground, trapping him.
"Fire Lord Ozai, you and your forefathers have devastated the balance of this world, and now you shall pay the ultimate price!" Aang prepares his final attack, under control of is past lives, combining all four elements together, while a terrified Ozai watches. At the last second, Aang manages to regain control and comes out of the Avatar State and Aang floats to the ground, freeing Ozai in the process "No, I'm not gonna end it like this."
"Even with all the power in the world, you are still weak!"
Ozai moves to attack Aang who senses it with the seismic sense he learned from Toph. He stamps down and lifts a foot up, dragging a pillar of earth along with him, deflecting Ozai's attack and binding him inside the rock. He circles Ozai and proceeds to bind his other hand as Ozai attempts to attack again. He pulls the rocks down into the earth slightly, causing Ozai to kneel. Ozai attempts one final fire breath attack, but Aang uses air bending to stop and approach him and puts one hand on Ozai's forehead, and one on his chest, while he watches in horror. Aang closes his eyes and it flashes back to Aang's meeting with the lion turtle.
"In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves."
The lion turtle places his paw in a similar position to Aang's hands on Ozai using its claws. The claws begin to glow green light. Aang's head arches back and blue energy shines out of his eyes and mouth into the sky. Ozai's terrified face as his eyes and mouth begin to shine out red energy. Aang's, followed by Ozai's, bodies become consumed by the blue and red energies. Ozai's energy begins to make its way to Aang's body, consuming the blue and replacing it with red energy. The energy reaches his face and continues to cover the beams shining out his mouth and eyes. The red energy has taken over almost completely with just one eye left. The blue energy begins to disappear, but at the last second it blasts out of Aang's eyes, overwhelming the red energy in the process and proceeding to take over Ozai's own body. Aang completely takes over Ozai's energy and an intense beam of blue energy erupts into the sky. The beam disappears and Ozai falls to the ground as Aang releases him. Ozai attempts to rise and attack, but falls back exhausted and unable to bend.
"What? What did you do to me?"
"I took away your fire bending. You can't use it to hurt or threaten anyone else ever again."
Aang steps forward and looks toward the sea as fire spreads on the land below. Aang breathes deeply and enters the Avatar Stat. Aang begins to bend the water from the ocean below to extinguish the fires. He lowers the water back to its normal level. Momo returns to Aang's shoulder. The comet flies away as Sokka, Toph, and Suki are leaving the airship they were on. Sokka is being carried by the other two due to his broken leg.
"You did it! You should've seen yourself, it was amazing! You were all like and the Fire Lord was all like"
"So did you, you know... finish the job?" Suki asks
"I'm still alive."
"I learned there was another way to defeat him and restore balance. I took his bending away."
"Wow! Who taught you that?" Toph asks
"A giant lion turtle."
"You have the craziest adventures when you disappear."
"Well, look at you, buster. Now that your fire bending's gone I guess we should call you the Loser Lord."
"I am the Phoenix King!" He falls over and drools
"Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to offend you, Phoenix King of Getting His Butt Whooped."
"Yeah! Or how about King of the... Guys Who... Don't Win?" Suki says
"Leave the nicknames to us, honey."
The comet leaving, returning the sky to the darkness of night time. Sometime later at Fire Nation Royal Palace. Zuko is having trouble putting on his robe due to his injury. Mai comes in and helps him. Zuko is shocked and happy to see her. She was only let out because her uncle is the warden. And it doesn't hurt when the new Fire Lord is Mai's boyfriend. In the Fire Nation Coronation Plaza. Sokka and Katara look for Chief Hakoda. They spot him and hug him. He was proud of what his kids did. Sokka became happier when the Kyoshi warriors approached. Though it soon changed when its revealed that Ty Lee was a part of the group. It changed once again when things were explained to him.
Inside the Royal Palace Zuko approaches Aang and he open his eyes from meditation. It was weird seeing as now they were friend, as the previous year Zuko was hunting Aang down. Outside the palace with people from the Fire Nation, the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom and the Foggy Swamp Tribe all outside. All of Zuko's new friends were standing up front of the groups of nations. Though they were standing closer to their respected elements. Several people were kind of shocked to see what Tara was wearing. She was wearing more traditional fire nation clothes. Though it was the male version. It was courtesy of Zuko. She looked at her friends and she was happy, smile and all.
"What happened there Tara?" Suki asks
"Things are different now."
She looked at her with a slight smile. Moments later, Zuko and Aang walk out. Everyone starts clapping and cheering. He signals for everyone to quiet down and the crowd does so.
"Please. The real hero is the Avatar. Today this war is finally over! I promised my uncle that I would restore the honor of the Fire Nation. And I will. The road ahead of us is challenging. A hundred years of fighting has left the world scarred and divided. But with the Avatar's help, we can get it back on the right path and begin a new era of love and peace."
Zuko kneels down, preparing to be crowned Fire Lord. A Fire Sage approaching with the headpiece. He puts the Fire Lord headpiece into Zuko's top knot. Everyone starts clapping and cheering. That was a start of a new era. The following day, Zuko entered Ozai's prison cell.
"I should count myself lucky. The new Fire Lord has graced me with his presence in my lowly prison cell."
"You should count yourself lucky that the Avatar spared your life."
"Hmph."
"Banishing me was the best thing you could have done for my life. It put me on the right path. Perhaps your time in here could do the same for you."
"Why are you really here?"
"Because you're going to tell me something. Where is my mother?"
In Ba Sing Se, kids are now using the stacked Fire Nation tanks as a game. Inside the Jasmine Dragon, Appa looking in from the outside. Zuko is serving Team Avatar tea and Iroh is playing the tsungi horn. Aang is playing with Momo. Sokka is painting a picture. Sokka annoys everyone because of the painting, though the painting of Iroh was decent. Though he mentions that he's slimmed down quite a bit. A few minutes later, Haru came in and sat next to Tara. After a few seconds he grabs her hand and smiled at her. At the same time Aang and Katara walk outside. Apparently Aang wanted to talk to her in private. Tara looks down and blushes. Toph's head moves in the direction of them.
"Oh my god. Haru and Tara are dating."
"Shut up." She muttered.
"Stop it Toph. Theres nothing wrong with them dating." Zuko said
Moments later, Aang and Katara walked back in. It was obvious they were dating too. There were some snickers when they walked in, though no one seemed to question it. Zuko finished reserving tea to everyone before setting a tea pot down and finally sitting down. Tara looks up at Zuko before chuckling.
"Whats so funny?" He asks
'I can't believe you, Fire Lord Zuko, is serving tea to people."
"So? Whats wrong with that?"
"Just weird."
"I have an announcement to make."
"You do?" Several people said
"What is it?"
"This is something I've been thinking about for a while. Tara, I can't change what my father did to your parents, but I would like to make your life a bit easier. You are free to live in the royal palace."
"What?" Several people said
"Is this such a good idea, Zuko?" Iroh asks
"Yeah. What about your girlfriend? Would she be okay with it?" Tara asks
"I've talked to her about it already. She's really not fond of people but she's okay with it. Katara, Sokka I cant change your mother's death. If you need anything, just ask."
"Thank you Zuko." Katara said.
"It means a lot that you are doing this for me Zuko. It really does. I'll do what I can not to piss Mai off. I so don't want to get on her bad side." Tara said
