First of all I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while but there were issues and---

You don't need to know them. SO without further lag, heres part 4.

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Pipsqueak threw Zuko against the ground. The bound prince struggled, fire flickering around on his palms. He ground his teeth and stared murderously at Jet, then the Freedom Fighters behind him. "Going to tell me your 'plan' for me anytime soon?" he snapped.

Jet sneered. He threw Pipsqueak a look and nodded.

"AGH!"

Zuko yelled out as Pipsqueak began grinding his heel into prince's spine. Pipsqueak drew back his foot and Zuko rolled onto his side, face contorted in pain. Even through the ropes, Pipsqueak's mass had done plentiful damage to his back.

"Smellerbee, won't you 'attend' to our friend here?" Jet then asked, glancing back at the small Freedom Fighter. Smellerbee saluted and then bounced on over to Zuko, shoving him onto his stomach and then jumping on his back. Zuko grunted and forced his head to the side, his bad eye glaring up at the younger boy.

"Hiya freak," Smellerbee chimed as he reached to his belt and pulled out a rope. He hopped off, and Pipsqueak grabbed Zuko again. Zuko struggled to wriggle away, but Pipsqueak's huge fists held tight to his sides, and Zuko was left unable to move. He was stuck on his feet, being held perfectly still by a gargantuan tree-house-living barbarian, and surrounded, alone, by enemies. This was not a good situation.

"I think its time we get down to business..." Jet informed them all, and the Freedom Fighters cheered. Their leader stepped forward and smirked, and Zuko knew he was in for hell.

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Appa landed with a loud groan. Bushes rustled from the windy impact to the ground, and smoke hissed away. Sokka remained perfectly still, arms and legs folded with his attention completely averted. Aang and Katara on the other hand slipped off the bison, giving up on Sokka as they'd failed over and over again in convincing him to come. They'd landed back in the forest just outside the fire for Appa's safety, and the only thing between them and it now was an amazing wall of smoke, smog, and then of course - the flames themselves. "So, where did you see the berries, Katara!"

"Uh--"
"C'mon where!" Aang asked desperately as they weaved between smoking, charred trees. The first sign of fire began to dance in the distance, and before long, they were surrounded.

"I can't tell in the smoke Aang!"

"I--"

Katara suddenly screamed as she felt something beneath her snap. One of the treehouse's traps had collapsed around her and pulled her up into the trees above, dangling her around limply. "Katara where are--" Aang suddenly felt the same happen to him, and he shouted as he flew up through the trap into the canopies.

"Aaaaaaaang!" Katara shouted through the spherical trap, through the smoke, hoping to reach him.

Aang looked up from his prisonous trap. "Katara! I'm caught too!"

"...What do we do!" she screamed.

Aang bit his lip. "I don't know..." he said sadly.

"What!"

"I DON'T KNOW!"

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"So, what's your name?"

"..Z...Zuko."
"No its not."

"AAGH! YES IT IS! YES IT IS!" Zuko screamed.

Why was he screaming?

Because at every 'wrong' answer Zuko spoke, Smellerbee would tighten the rope he had just tied around Zuko's head. Smellerbee was now sitting on Zuko's shoulders, holding the ends of the rope, grinning toothily at the prince as he moaned from the extreme pressure on his skull. Smellerbee loosened the rope, and waited for Jet to continue.

"You're name is Scum," Jet informed Zuko, and the Freedom Fighters repeated it.

Scum, Scum, Scum...

Zuko opened his mouth in protest. "My name isn't--"
"ITS SCUM, and you'll DEAL with it!" Jet shouted as Zuko snarled in pain from Smellerbee tightening the rope. Jet lowered his head and stepped to Zuko, arm lashing out and beating him across the face. Zuko hissed and turned the smarting side of his face away, quivering. Fire crackled and burned madly around the clearing, almost as though joining the synchronized laughter of the Freedom Fighters. "Ready for question two, Scum?"

Zuko opened an eye and glared at Jet, the pressure releasing his skull.

This was worse then he'd imagined...

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Hooray the end of that. What will become of Aang and Katara? Will Sokka come to someone's rescue?

Zuko's?

Aang's?

Katara's?

...Jet's? What will happen to him and the Freedom Fighters in the next continuation?

Find out in Part 5..