The next day the mood in the fishing village was even higher. There were smiles and cheers everywhere!

Dock had produced several figures of the painted lady and people were now doing their best to carefully freshen up the pain.

"I saw her! I saw her!" A little kid cheered with tears in his eyes. "She leaned over my mom. There was a light and my mom is all better now! LOOK!"

And true enough next to him a woman was standing smiling warmly.

Katara was beaming and so was Zuko looking at them with soft eyes… well the one eye visible with his hair covering half his face.

"Isn't it wonderful?" Katara smiled warmly. "They are doing so much better!"

"Good for them they had a spirit to bail them out." Sokka commented. "Hopefully she's actually stick around. As long as that factory is there people will keep getting sick. And probably at a higher and higher rate as the lake keeps getting even more poisonous the more slug they pour out there."

Katara halted and so did Zuko.

Sokka though was completely oblivious as he turned to have a look at the odd fish on sales giving Katara an opening to just grab Zukos arm and pull him behind a building.

The both looked at each other and then exclaimed simultaneously.

"We need to destroy that factory!"

Katara and Zuko halted and then they both smirked.

"Great minds thinks alike." Katara smirked.

"Heh yeah. I suppose so." Zuko commented. "Okay here's what I am thinking." he bowed closer so he could whisper. "They still have a lot of food and medicine in there. So let's strip them of that first and then destroy the factory."

"Good idea." Katara whispered back. "It isn't really stealing when they stole it first."

"Exactly." Zuko replied. "And better that the food goes to the villages than it going down with the factory."

"Of course. That only makes sense." Katara replied back.

"Hey guys what are you doing?" Aang suddenly appeared making them both shout in shock as they jumped away from each other.

"Oh. Hi Aang." Katara smiled sweetly. "I didn't see you there."

"Katara and I was just… We…" Zuko began. "Errh… " he began only to get a harsh elbow in his side making him hiss. "I had this… problem. I hoped Katara could help me with."

"Ooookay." Aang looked from one to the other. "What problem?"

"Private…" Zuko said. "It's nothing."

"Some sort of medical problem?" Aang asked.

"Yes." Zuko nodded. "Yes… A medical problem. It's nothing though. It's fine."

"Is the food we have gotten from here giving you a bad stomach too?" Aang asked. "I seriously don't think we should be eating it."

Zukos eyes widened as his face grew deeply red and Aang laughed.

"It's nothing to be embarrassed about Zuko!" Aang assured. "Everyone gets bad stomachs ones in a while."

"O… Okay." Zuko muttered as he looked down. His cheeks bright red.

"Okay Aang. I think that's enough now." Katara said as she grabbed Aangs shoulders and twirled him around. "Zuko can't help he grew up a royal where even farting was considered a high offence."

"What?! Is that true?" Aang asked as he turned his head to look up at Zuko. "But how would you even prevent yourself from farting! That's impossible!"

Zukos entire body was red and he was steaming at this point.

"Goodbye Aang!" Katara exclaimed as she finally managed to push the Air bender away. "So anyway." she turned back to Zuko like nothing had happened. "Let's meet at the shore." she whispered. "Same place where we put your raft."

Zuko couldn't say anything just nodded.

"And put on your demon outfit." Katara continued.

"Dark water spirit." Zuko corrected her but still couldn't look Katara in the eyes.

"Okay good." Katara nodded. "Tonight we'll take that factory down." she said and finally walked away.

Zuko needed a couple of minutes to take some deep breaths and get his body temperature back under control before finally he managed to go out and rejoin the others.

And that's when Sokka appeared. "Hey I hear you have some stomach issues." he said making Zukos eyes widen. "We got some sea-weed wraps back at camp. Those are really good to get the stomach back under control. You should try some of that."

"Right… Sure… What-ever…. Thanks I guess." Zuko said as he walked off with a stiff rigid back and long stiff steps making Sokka blink.

"Wow… must be pretty bad." Sokka concluded in a shrug and continued with his own business.

As promised the next night Zuko met with Katara at the shore. Zuko arrived first, which was probably unsurprising as Katara would have to spend a longer time apply her make up and so on.

They barely spoke any words as both settled on the raft. Zuko sitting down as he pulled down the mask to cover his face and Katara standing up so she could use her water bending to drive them forward and towards the factory.

So far so good. The water and air was quiet and they moved at a good speed as suddenly a voice called out through the air.

"Hey! HEEEY! Painted Lady!"

Zukos eyes widened as Katara gasped.

"Shit! AANG!" Katara exclaimed.

"What does he want?" Zuko asked.

"EXCUSE MEEEE!" Aang shouted from shore. "I'm the avatar! Bridge between human and the spirit world! I just want to talk to you!"

"What do we do?!" Katara panicked.

"Pick up speed hurry!" Zuko shouted and Katara raised her hands and their raft was propelled forward.

"HEY WAIT!" Aang screamed and then… What both seemed to have forgotten… Aang could fly. And he came zooming right after them.

"Faster!" Zuko exclaimed and then put his own hands into the waters creating a massive cloud of steam to cover their tracks.

"Painted lady!" Aangs voice sounded from somewhere above they couldn't see any more due to the steam. "I wont hurt you. I just want to talk!" he shouted.

And the raft kept moving forward at high speed. "Are we soon at shore?!" Zuko asked.

"I don't know! I can't see a thing!" Katara tried. The answer came though as they smashed directly into shore and both figures were just send flying into the air then rolled around on the ground.

"Urgh."

Zuko was the first one to jump up on his legs and then managed to grab Katara pulling her up as well.

"Hellooo!" Aangs voice sounded not to far from them.

"Run." Zuko gasped as he held Kataras arm and pulled her with him.

"Excuse me!" Aang shouted. "I'm just gonna…" and then a massive gust of wind came dispersing all of the steam and a Avatar standing not far behind them as they ran.

"HEY!" Aang shouted as he jumped up into the air and then.. he propelled himself forward and landed right in front of Zuko and Katara.

Zuko who had to stop abrupt so he didn't crash into Aang. Only for Katara to not get the memo as she crashed directly into Zuko and they both fell down in a rather unflattering pile.

Aang blinked as he looked down at the pile of blue and red. "Wow for a spirit you're not very graceful." he commented and then blinked as Zuko lifted his head. "Wait… Blue Spirit?" he asked. "Zuko?!"

"Look we can explain!" Katara gasped as she finally looked up.

"KATARA!" Aang gasped.

Zuko groaned deeply as he dropped his head down on the ground. That had to be the worst get away ever attempted by anyone.

Slowly… Slowly Katara managed to stand up allowing Zuko to did the same and finally removed his mask to shamefully face the young not just were they standing there with shamed bowed heads. They were also dripping wet from the thick steam. It was quite the image.

"You… You." Aang pointed a shaking hand. "You two! You were the ones getting the villagers food, water and medicine! Weren't you?" he asked.

"Yeah." Zuko finally admitted as he averted his eyes to the left.

"I can't believe you!" Aang gasped making them both squirm. "You were dressing up as spirits to help these people and you didn't even invite me!" he spread out his arms. "Unbelievable!"

Zuko and Katara both blinked as they looked up.

"You… You're think it's okay?" Katara asked.

"Okay? It's awesome!" Aang beamed. "Saving people is great! Why didn't you say anything?!"

"Sokka said we shouldn't do it…" Zuko muttered.

"Oh… yeah." Aang remembered. "So erhm. What were you about to do right now?" he asked.

"Well erhm. The idea was to first strip the factory of food and medicine then destroy it." Zuko admitted. "Tonight."

Aang gasped. "And you wanted to do that….. Without me?!" he asked. "Seriously!"

"So…. You want to help?" Zuko asked nervously.

"OF COURSE I DO!" Aang shouted and then he gasped. "Do I get a spirit disguise too?!" he asked. "What spirit can I be? I want to be something cool!"

"Aren't you… All ready one with the great spirit Raava?" Zuko asked.

"The great spirit what?" Aang blinked honestly confused.

"Well…. It might just have been made up by people over the years. It's one of the stories my mother would tell me in secret when I was a kid." Zuko admitted in a shrug. "The reason why the Avatar is the bridge between human and spirit world is because he is half spirit. The spirit Raava is re-incarnated with him in all his lives."

Aang blinked looking just as confused and then he shrugged. "Maybe… I dunno. What does Raava look like?"

Zuko shrugged. "Dunno… Like a tea pot I think."

"That's weird." Aang blinked. "But then again spirits are pretty weird. So that could totally be true."

Katara sighed. "We just have to make sure Aang isn't seen." she said. "In fact the goal is that none of us is seen. The costumes are just in case anyway."

"That's fair. We don't have time to find another cool costume right now. Let's go destroy a factory!" Aang grinned. "Go team!" he raised a hand only for the two others to shush him. "Heh." Aang blushed. "Sorry."

And Zuko sighed deeply. Well, having the Avatar on hand when trying to destroy an entire damn factory was probably a pretty good thing. So this might turn out for the better after all.