Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender, it belongs to Nick. I do not own the line 'certainly, definitely absolutely', it belongs to T.A. Barron. I do not own the line 'I'm melting', it belongs to whoever wrote the Wizard of Oz. Can't quite remember… I also do not own any of the leading experts except for SueBasher2000 and Random Stuff About Stuff. I own Random because she is me, and I own SueBasher2000 because I invented her. The others are my kind reviewers, and I do not own them, as they own themselves. I do, however, own the pink glasses that I wear. Unless they're my mom's, and the purple ones are mine…. Oh, well. I doubt my own mother is going to sue me about eyeglasses.

A/N Last chappie before the epilogue. Sorry if it's a little overdramatic in the end, I couldn't help it. Anyway, at nine pages long, this is the longest chapter I've ever written. I think. Oneshots don't count. Also, as to your votes about who should win, the winner will be mentioned in the epilogue, but there won't be anything else. I've sort of got a plan about this that wouldn't work if I did that. Sorry. Well, hope you like this!

"I don't get it!" whined the Sue. "It was a good story. It wasn't a cliché."

"It's a plot that's been being written since the beginning of time!" scolded Katara. "And everyone was OOC."

They had been having this conversation for about twenty minutes now, and the Sue still didn't seem to get the fact that they didn't like her story.

Now the Sue spotted what she thought was a sympathetic face. "Momo!" she cried. "Tell them my story isn't a Mary-Sue."

The lemur gave her a look, and opened a plot hole. "Sorry, beutyinthemoonlight19," he told her with the voice he had gotten from the plot hole. "But it sort of was."

"No it wasn't!" cried the Sue. "Sues are self-inserts, and she wasn't like me at all!"

"Well, let's explore this theory," suggested Momo. He opened another plot hole, and pulled out Belle.

"Zuko!" screamed Belle in a fangirl voice. "Hi!" She threw her arms around him, oblivious to the disgusted expression on his face.

Looking at her, Aang realized that Belle looked exactly like beutyinthemoonlight19, except her hair was blonde, while the writer's was red.

"Someone… get… her off me!" groaned Zuko. Aang tugged at the fangirl, and she turned around. Unfortunately, she spotted him.

"Aang!" she cried. "It's great to see you!"

Now it was the Avatar getting hugged. All he could say to that was 'erp'.

"I so think you're totally cool!" she gushed. "You're like, supposed to save the world, but you, like, don't wanna be the Avatar, but you, like, do anyway, and you, like, are the coolest person ever, except for the other guys on this show, and you, like, are gonna totally save the world, and you, like, are totally cool, but you, like, are just twelve and stuff, but I think you're, like, gonna grow up to be hot, and you, like, are so cute!"

"Zuko," squeaked Aang. "I got her off you. Please return the favor."

The Fire Bender did, only to be caught in a hug by Belle once more.

"Zuko," she crowed. "I think you're totally, like, hot! And you're a Fire Bender, so that's a pun! And, like, you got burned and stuff and you're really cool! I think you're scar makes you look hot and stuff, which is still a pun, 'cause you're, like, the best Fire Bender ever! But you've got, like, a past that's, like, more tragic than mine! It's so sad! And you're trying to hunt down the Avatar, and my sister says you're supposed to be the bad guy, but you're really hot, and hot people can't be the bad guy. And anyway, you're cool, and cool people can't be the bad guy, either. And you, like, have a scar, and it's all, like hot, which is a pun, but I didn't mean to do a pun, 'cause you're, like, the coolest Fire Bender ever! Ohmygod!"

"Help," screeched Zuko angrily. "This girl is insane!"

Perhaps Belle actually knew when she wasn't wanted, or perhaps she had just run out of things to say to Zuko, because then she threw herself on Sokka.

"Sokka!" she squeaked. "It's good to see you! You're so cool!" Sokka wasn't sure whether to be relieved or insulted as she hopped away quickly and put a comradely arm around his sister.

"Katara," she said cheerfully. "I'm glad to see you again."

"But I've never met you," pointed out the aforementioned Water Bender.

Belle ignored this, responding instead in a stage whisper. "You know, Katara, I won't be around forever."

"Thank goodness."

"So, as much as I love Zuko, we can never be together."

"Lucky Zuko."

"I know. It's tragic!"

"That's not what I said…"

"But I believe that he should have some love in his life."

"I don't," snapped Zuko.

"And, I've seen the way you look at him."

"What way?" asked Sokka suspiciously.

"So, don't worry about hurting my feelings, Katara," Belle continued obliviously. "I know you love him, and I approve."

There was a short pause in response to this, followed by an outburst of noise.

"Hahahaha… you're not joking, are you?" asked Iroh with a sudden sense of enlightenment.

"Katara!" cried Aang. "How could you?"

"I absolutely forbid you to have anything to do with him!" announced Sokka. "He is a Fire Bender, Katara, get that through your head!"

"I know that, Sokka, and I am not in love with Zuko," Katara shouted.

Meanwhile, Zuko had shoved himself into a corner and was whimpering quietly.

"Oh, stow it," Katara ordered irritably. "I don't like you; Belle's an idiot, okay? We know that!"

"It's the power of the Sue," Iroh told them. "She's tearing us apart with her lies."

The younger four quieted down, and looked at each other, feeling slightly ashamed of themselves for falling for the Sue's power.

"So, you're not in love with the Fire Bender?" Sokka asked Katara suspiciously.

"No!"

He seemed satisfied by this, and turned to Zuko. "And you're not in love with my sister?" he asked him.

"NO!"

"Good," he said to both of them.

"You see?" asked Momo, who had been watching the antics of the humans with vague amusement. "She is a Sue."

"No, she's not!" cried beutyinthemoonlight19 angrily.

Momo returned Belle to the pot hole, and smiled at the Sue.

"Alright, will this convince you? I'll bring in some of the leading experts on Mary-Sues in fanfiction to make the decision as to whether or not you've written a Sue. Will you believe them?"

beutyinthemoonlight19 frowned for a moment, and then nodded. "Alright, I'll believe the leading experts. But it has to be a con… con... they all have to say it, okay? If even one says that I didn't write a Sue, I won't believe you."

"Fair enough," agreed Momo. He had complete faith in these 'leading experts' people.

"And the first of our leading experts is…. the writer of this very story, Random Stuff About Stuff!"

A face appeared on the computer. A face wearing pink glasses. Random quickly removed them.

"What?" she asked. "That's what happens when you let your mom do your shopping for you!"

"Random Stuff About Stuff, you are the writer of this story?" asked Momo.

"No, I'm an identity thief," Random said sarcastically.

"What?" asked Zuko, looking confused.

"Never mind. Yes, I am."

"I assume that you've already read this story, written by beutyinthemoonlight19?" said Momo.

"Yes, I have," Random confirmed, visibly restraining sarcasm.

"Well?"

"Well, what? Well, how many bananas do I have? Well, well, well? Timmy fell into the well? Well, what are you going to say next? What, exactly, do you mean by 'well'?" demanded Random.

"Well, is it a Mary-Sue?" asked Momo.

"Yes, duh, obviously, no doubt about it, definitely a Sue. One of the Sueiest Sues I've ever read. Such a Sue, it's painful. Sue. Certainly, definitely, absolutely!"

"Right…." muttered Sokka.

"Well, there's one confirmation for you!" Momo said. "Thank you, Random."

"Not a problem," she answered, and disappeared.

"Alrighty, then, our next reviewer is as such… me-obviously, the writer of one of the most critically acclaimed texts about Mary-Sues!"

A second face appeared on the screen. "Hey," it said.

"You are me-obviously?" asked Momo.

"Obviously," me-obviously said. "If you already knew, why'd you have to ask?"

"Formalities," the lemur said. "So, have you read the story written by beutyinthemoonlight19?" he asked.

"Yup, and it's a Mary-Sue," she confirmed. "I have never seen such an obvious Mary-Sue. It's disgusting."

"Thank you, me-obviously," Momo told her.

"You're welcome," she answered, and her face vanished from the screen.

"Another confirmation that you're story is a Sue," Momo announced.

beutyinthemoonlight19 winced. "That means nothing," she informed him. "I'll need more than just those two to prove that I wrote a Sue."

Momo nodded sagely, and turned back to the computer. "Element Girls," he said. This time, there were two faces on the screen.

"Are you the aforementioned Element Girls?" he asked.

"I dunno, are we?" retorted one sarcastically. Momo coughed.

"Formalities," he told them.

"Yes, we are," the second said.

"And you have read the story written by beutyinthemoonlight19?" he asked.

"More formalities?"

"Yes, we have."

One of them giggled quietly. "It was pretty funny," she said.

"Thank you," the Sue answered, smiling.

"It was such a Mary-Sue," the Element Girl continued, ignoring her. "It was hilarious! The writer didn't even seem to notice how stupid it was, right?"

The last comment was addressed to her friend, who nodded.

"It was insane! Absolutely stupid. Can't believe anyone would write that stuff."

"So, you agree that it was a Mary-Sue?" asked Momo.

"Definitely," chorused the girls.

"Thank you."

"Any time." The two faces disappeared from the screen.

beutyinthemoonlight19 was squirming slightly, but didn't seem about to relent. "There's more," Momo told her.

"And here's one of them, in the form of bAnDgEeK75!"

Another face was on the screen in a blink of an eye.

"You are bAnDgEeK75?" asked Momo.

The fanfictioner nodded, grinning. "Is it that un-obvious?" she asked.

"For the last time, it's just formalities!" snapped Momo.

"Okay, okay, chill. What do you need?" she asked.

The lemur regained control over his temper. "Have you read the story by beutyinthemoonlight19?

"Yeah…"

"Is it, or is it not, a Mary-Sue?"

"Well, let's ask our judges," she responded. "Simon says… 'Well, that was amazing'."

The Sue was positively glowing.

"Amazing-ly Sueish!" continued bAnDgEeK75. "Paula says… 'I'm sure you can't help being a Sue-Writer. And Randy says… 'Sue.' Hmm, don't think he wants to comment any further. Congratulations, beutyinthemoonlight19, you are the Mary-Sue Idol!"

"Alright, thank you, bAnDgEeK75," Momo said.

"No problemo," she answered, and flickered off-screen.

Before the Sue could comment on that, the lemur announced another 'leading expert'.

"Khazia," he announced. Another face appeared.

"Yeah?"

"Are you Khazia, just for formalities," Momo asked.

"Yes, I am," she comfirmed.

"Thank you," Momo exclaimed, glad that someone finally was not being sarcastic. "So, more formalities. Did you read the story by beutyinthemoonlight19?"

Khazia nodded. "Yes, and before you ask, it was definitely a Mary-Sue."

"Thank you, Khazia. And thank you for not being rude."

"No problem," she responded, and blinked out.

"There's one more," Momo told them. "SueBasher2000."

This time, it wasn't a face on the screen, but a girl who materialized just as the Sue had. In face, she seemed to have a lot in common with the Sue…

"You two look a lot alike, you know…" Zuko began, but didn't get any farther, because SueBasher2000 punched him in the face.

"We're sisters okay, get over it," she snapped.

beutyinthemoonlight19 smiled. "My sister is a little sensitive about being related to me," she explained. "But I know that she'll put family loyalty above everything else, and tell me that I didn't write a Sue. Choosing my own sister as one of your 'leading experts', so to say, was your undoing! You can't comprehend the true meaning of family!"

Aang, Katara, Sokka, Zuko, and even Iroh looked slightly worried about that, but Momo seemed calm. Quickly, it was proved why.

"What, you want me to say that you didn't write a Sue?" SueBasher2000 asked. "No way am I saying that! Belle is a Mary-Sue, and I hate her. As I said before, tu est un tete de merde et je ne peut pas faire quelque chose por ton ecriture."

Momo turned to the Sue. "And now will you believe us? You wrote a Sue, face it."

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" she screamed. "I'm meeeeltiiiiiiiiing!"

And she did just that. Melted, that is.

"Well…" commented Sokka finally. "That was… odd…"

"Odd?" demanded Zuko. "ODD? That was one of the strangest things I've ever seen, and you say it's odd?"

"Don't worry, Zuko," Aang reassured him. "Sokka's the master of understatement."

The Fire Nation Prince visibly calmed down. "Thank you, Aang," he said, before he remembered that he was supposed to dislike the Avatar. Frowning slightly at that, he allowed Momo to continue with his conversation with SueBasher2000.

"So, what did that thing you said mean?" he asked.

"Oh, basically I was comparing her head to, erm… dung, and telling her that her writing style was beyond saving. I did beta for her, though."

"Beta means…."

"I proofread her story."

"Maybe you can do more than that," suggested Katara. Everyone looked at her. "Well, the story was sort of left unfinished," she explained. "So, why doesn't SueBasher2000 finish it for her sister?"

"No way am I writing that Sue," SueBasher2000 sneered.

"No!" exclaimed Katara, aghast at the misinterpretation. "Write it, and make it an anti-Sue, or just not a Sue."

"Hmm… Alright, I'll do it!"

"Thank you!" Katara cried. "The few brave warriors who stand up and write against the Mary-Sues may one day be the only chance we have of survival… One day, the forces of Sue and the forces of Good Writing will face off in a final battle. And we can only hope that the Sues will be conquered as is their rightful lot in life."

Aang was smiling slightly as SueBasher2000 disappeared.

"What?" asked Sokka, noticing the expression on his face.

"Nothing. It's just… a flamer, a Suekiller, a concritter, a reviewer and a PlotHoler managed to actually band together and defeat a Mary-Sue. I really never would have thought we could do it, but we did."

"Mary-Sues bring out the worst in some people, and the best in others, like all dangers do," Katara told him. "But there are silver linings to every cloud. And maybe our story will inspire others to fight the Sues as we did."

"To the last breath," vowed Zuko.

"Until the end," agreed Sokka.

And they knew that, no matter where this war took them, the bond they had forged in fighting this greater evil would last. Any time that a Mary-Sue appeared, the five of them would be there to fight it.