Freeman's Odyssey
Chapter: 54
Black Sun: Massacre
Island
Aang, Katara, Sokka and Toph had spent the night upon this island as morning has come and Aang has had a great night sleep considering the invasion is today, as the avatar was very restless prior to those days as he knew he would one day face the fire lord.
They watched as mist of some sort is approaching the island until finally they see except for Toph A fleet of Southern Water Tribe ships appears on the horizon under the cover of a cloak of mist. Together with Toph, Aang creates some makeshift docks in the cove.
Unknown to them at the same time, a portal appears on the other side of the island as Gordon Freeman has appeared, the portal closed behind him and so he wondered what dimension he is again until he checked the dimension coordinates as he realized he is in this dimension again. However he only came back briefly to learn the Avatar has died or so he thought, the Earth kingdom had fallen and there is some kind of invasion being planned.
Sokka and Katara greet their father, Hakoda, and Sokka asks whether he was able to bring the people he requested for the invasion. Hakoda replies he did, but he is unsure about some of them, in particular the Foggy Swamp Tribe waterbenders, whom Bato wishes would put some pants on. Emerging off one of the boats, Huu declares mystically that pants are an illusion, as is death. Due believes a rock he sees in the water is some sort of Fire Nation trap.
Off another ship, Haru greets Katara, sporting a newly grown mustache. She hugs him and Tyro thanks her for helping them find their courage when they were imprisoned by the Fire Nation. Toph senses The Hippo and The Boulder approaching and prepares to fight them. They instead tell her they are done with the earth bending tournament and want to help fight for the Earth Kingdom.
There is a small explosion on one of the ships, and everyone rushes to see what happened. The mechanist, Teo, Pipsqueak, and The Duke emerge. The mechanist was working on a new type of bomb using peanut sauce, but it proved to be a failure. Pipsqueak and The Duke remark the bombs are destructive and delicious. Teo presents Aang with a gift, a brand new glider staff that contains a secret snack compartment. Toph sensed by the vibrations in the Earth someone else is here.
"Well, well," said Gordon as he approached the group of people "Seems like a band of freedom fighters are here,"
"Good the hear your voice Gordon," said Toph at first then muttered "About damn time you showed up,"
"Relax princess melon head," said Gordon "You grown your hair Aang,"
"Yeah I, uh forgot to shave it," said Aang "On the account of being dead and all, so are you going to help out,"
"Might as well," said Gordon "Katara you've developed quite a bit, your turning into a woman and one day you'll marry Aang,"
"What?" she blushed "Ugh….never mind, thanks for coming."
"And you Sokka," said Gordon "You look the same,"
"I am a great warrior now," said Sokka
"You mean side kick," said Gordon
Before Sokka could say more, Gordon is introduced to the rest of these merry bands of freedom fighters. Everyone gathers to hear the invasion plan, Sokka attempts to brief the force about the invasion, but his nervousness gets the best of him; he gets more and more anxious until he loses track of his speech and begins to tell the entire story of how he met Aang. Hakoda takes over for him and confidently rallies the small army.
He explains the plan to storm the beach and reach the palace before the eclipse. That way, when the eclipse begins, they can take on the fire benders that guard the palace, and Aang can defeat the Fire Lord while he is powerless. After that they will have control over the Fire Nation Capital, and the Hundred Year War will be over. Everyone cheers and prepares to depart. Which they do as the island is now empty.
Fire Nation Capital: Fire Lord Ozai's throne room.
With blue and red flames rising up fire lord Ozai is sitting alone in his throne room as he is well aware the comet is only weeks away. Now the impending invasion of a rag tag band of rebels as his daughter had informed him of this situation, a minor problem that can be handled as the solar eclipse will render fire bending useless for a short time. He opened his eyes and sees a hovering figure that has come before him. His master as the fire lord is the master of no one.
Ozai knew of this creature as it was his great grandfather Sozian who went to the spirt world to find something the fire nation can use, only to discover some sort of creature trapped by the spirits. Until Sozian released the creature and over the past 100 years this creature has been the secret power behind the fire lords until up to this point. He hated to be ruled by someone else, perhaps once he conquers the rest of the world he can do away this creature.
"What is your bidding master," asked Ozai
"You and your nation has failed," said the creature "The avatar is alive and your daughter, along with your son knew of it,"
"What," said sharply the fire lord
Azula's body is thrown like a rag doll before his feet as Ozai stands up in utter shock; she is foaming from the mouth.
"You had 100 years to conquer this world in fire," said the creature 'Fearful of some boy, now it is time to do it my way,"
"No wait," said Ozai "Give me more time."
"Times up," said the creature as the tendril of the creature reaches out and hits the chest of the fire lord "I will not kill you, simply remove your fire bending as you can watch the fire nation be destroyed."
The creature grew larger as it crashed from out of the palace crumbling and trashing everything in sight. At the same time Zuko is in his room and looking at the picture of his mother
"I know I've made some bad choices. But today, I'm going to set things right." said Zuko
Suddenly there is shaking of the entire palace as he lost his footing and is flung out of the window, Zuko leaps safely to the outside as he watches the entire palace being trashed and a large shadow looms over everything. As his eyes widen in shock and then he made a run for it as he needed to check on his uncle.
"Thank you, MIng. Your little gestures of kindness have made my days in prison bearable. I think you should take the rest of the day off." said Iroh
"What?" asked Ming
"You don't look well. Maybe you should go home and rest." said Iroh
"No, I feel fine." said Ming
"Trust me. It is better that you are not here this afternoon." said Iroh
Suddenly there is a rumble like an earth quake as everything shakes, Iroh stands up as he is holding onto the bars, the invasion cannot be this soon as he is a member of the white lotus. Ming hangs on as well until one of the guards came in looking scared as explosions are heard outside with a loud voice.
"There is some kind of monster attacking the capitol city," said the guard "I have to go help to defend the city, you stay here and watch the prisoner," The guard ran off.
"Ming, get me out of here," said Iroh "I can help,"
"I don't know," said Ming
"Do as he says," said Zuko from behind "I command you to release him into my custody,"
"Prince Zuko," bows Ming "I uh….very well,"
She unlocks it as Iroh and Zuko are reunited, so all three of them go outside to see a creature attacking the city, all of them know this isn't good at all, not one bit.
The fire nation
The mood is tense as no one spoke as Toph has puked a few times in someone's hat and Gordon swaps a few stories with the other. The invasion force heads to the Great Gates of Azulon. Although under the cover of mist, as they approach the gates in expecting an alarm to go off, however that is not the case and they go through expecting resistance. They spotted fire nation ships heading to the capitol port of the fire nation and speed boats as well; they wondered what is going on as they pressed on.
They finally arrive at the beach near the capital. Storming the plaza, new caterpillar-like tanks powered by earth benders are released from the subs and face off against tundra tanks, as ground fighting ensues, followed by other warriors, benders, and eight supply trucks. The earth bender tanks are highly resilient and easily defeat the Fire Nation guards. Something else is happening as the fire nation is attacking something not to far away. Aang uses his glider to fly off to investigate only to discover a creature is attacking the fire nation. Aang comes back.
"Aang what happen," said Katara
"A creature is attacking," said Aang "It looks like a metal worm, maybe it's a spirit."
"It's no spirit," said Zuko who came with Iroh and an injured Ming "It came right out of the royal palace,"
"It's a monster," said Iroh "I have never seen it before as it is slaughtering everyone, we need your help,"
"What do you think Aang?" asked Sokka
"We fight this creature," said Aang "Gordon you mentioned the combine have some kind of worm monster leaders, could this be one of them."
"We will have to see for ourselves," said Gordon "Beats standing around and doing nothing,"
Every nodded as they pressed forwards as the Invasion force followed by reinforcements from the fire nation navy as they moved further into the city as they see bodies all over the place, mostly dead or dying, building trashed or destroyed. Up head fire nation soldiers are fighting the creature but they are being beaten badly. It is a complete massacre. Until the united forces stop and see the creature approaching them.
"Well it isn't the Avatar," said the creature "You look different the one I previously encountered."
"Yeah it's one of them," said Gordon "This one looks mutated, never seen one this large before."
"Oh you seem to know my kind;" said the creature "No matter the end is near for all of you, I am overseer prime"
Chapter: 55
Black Sun: United Forces vs. Overseer Prime