'Uh, hello?' Lai knocked on the door of the police station. 'Avatar here?'

The officer opened the door. He wore a typical red and gold uniform, with an electrified baton at his side. 'What is it? We open to the public in five minutes.'

'Really?' Lai looked at her phone. 'Damn, my clocks fast.' She turned back to the guard. 'I wanted to ask about those guys we brought in a few weeks ago.'

'Oh yes I remember – you and the princess, right?' Akmei nodded. 'Well they're not here anymore – it was quite a while ago. They confessed, and were sent to prison a while ago.'

'Well, didn't you take some evidence? I was hoping to have a look at anything you had.' Lai asked.

'Er, is this allowed?' the officer asked.

'I don't see why not.' Is that a lie? Oh well, I could have asked Akmei down here. 'I'm sure it'll be fine. Avatar business and all that.' That still feels weird.

'Well we do have some stuff that they left, but it's not much. You can have a look I suppose.' The police officer let Lai in, and started to show her around to the back of the station. Lai looked at the surroundings with interest. 'Very nice.' She said. 'You're better equipped than the police in Gaoling, I can see that.'

'Really? In what way?' The officer asked.

'At home, the police don't get mecha suits.'

'It's for rescue missions in case of stuff like yesterday. Besides, how do you know that? It's locked away.'

'Oh, I'm not wearing shoes.' Lai said, pointing to her feet. She was trying to get into the habit again, in case another attack happened, then she wouldn't be attacked. The officer looked confused, and then shrugged.

The officer walked round to a locked metal door, punched a code into the lock, and buzzed open the door. The room was full of locked cabinets, most of which Lai could feel were empty. However, a few were full of various things – she couldn't make them out. The officer walked over to one and opened it up. Inside was a variety of items, on three different shelves. 'We haven't really sorted these out yet, so just have a look through.'

'Hmm.' Lai looked at the first shelf. It was a mixture of standard stuff – a coat, a purse, a pressed flower - kindda weird – and finally a phone. Lai opened it up, and started to look through called numbers and contacts.

'You know, there's something I've always wondered,' the policeman began. 'You're a metalbender right? Does that mean you can bend computers and stuff?'

'As long as they don't put in loads of plastic, sure. Once I was decided I could make my phone thicker so it wouldn't slip through a gap in the bus. That's a thousand yauns I'm not getting back.' Lai looked intently at the phone. 'Mind if I make a quick call with this?'

'I guess? I'll need it back afterwards though.'

'Don't worry about it.' Lai took the phone, and dialled one of the numbers she'd found. It rang for a while, but eventually it answered. 'Hello?' it answered. It was Zolt's voice.

'Zolt. It's the Avatar.'

'What do you want? How did you call me?' Lai could hear him spit with sudden anger.

'That doesn't matter. What matters is this. The night of Sozin's Comet, I challenge you to an Agni Kai.'