Chapter Two.

It was a wonderful day in the Avatarverse, Sokka, Zuko, Aang were all in their underwear, bathing in a beautiful river. The sun was shining, the wind blowing lightly, the birds were singing cheerfully; and the Sues were drooling.

Zuko screams, "Run! I'll hold them back!" And fire flares up in a defensive wall between the Canons and the Sues.

"Zuko!" Aang cries, looking back to the Prince who stood fighting the drooling fan-girls. Some were Avatars; others bending Wind, Rain, Shadow, Wood, Sword, Thunder, Sleep. Zuko was no match for these Sues, and he screamed in terror as they broke through both his offensive and defensive attacks.

Meanwhile, Aang and Sokka had gotten Appa too moving, the great flying bison soaring low over the battle zone. Sokka was hanging off the side of Appa, and as they flew over, the Water Tribesman snatched Zuko, who made a jump for the safety of the air. Sokka and Zuko struggled to make it back up into the saddle, but nearly fell a couple of times; down below the horrid wailing of banshees, or fan-girl Sues, could be heard. They all shuddered at the horrible sounds, and Zuko, too keep the chill of the wailing at bay; Zuko huddled with the other two boys as he raised his body heat to ward off the shivers.

"Are you okay Zuko?" Aang asked, his eyes looking to the Fire Bender in concern. He had already asked Appa to head back to the village they left Katara in.

"Thank you." Zuko said, a slight tremor in his voice as he looked forward, too afraid to see a dust trail from all the fan-girls attempting to follow. "I'm fine." He looked about, and with a frown, "Where is my clothing?"

"We didn't have time to grab it." Sokka said, this way Zuko's fury would be on him and not the small Avatar. Zuko frowned, and looked about to say something, then thought better of it and remained silent. "We'll just have Katara buy us some clothes when we reach the village."

"It would be a good course of action." Zuko returned, and remained silent as they headed to the village. They kept an eye out for the Sues, and as they approached the village, they saw large fires.

"Fire Nation!" Sokka cried out, taking in the smoke and periodic explosions. Aang and Zuko leaned forward, looking out at the village as they got closer. There was definably a battle going on down in the village, and the screaming could be heard even this high up.

"No, I don't think so." Zuko said, both Aang and Sokka looking at him, the Fire-Bender narrowing his eyes as he looked, pointing to a cluster of townspeople who were well outside the village. "If it was, they wouldn't be watching all of this within distance of their homes." There were more explosions, and the familiar tell tale sign of cannons. "That's Serpent Armour!"

"Katara!" Both Aang and Sokka cried, forcing Appa to go lower, and fly over the city. The three boys, looking for the Water Tribeswoman through the smoke and destruction, flew over the roofs, low enough to see her as they called out her name.

"Look out!" Katara screamed as she hung onto the slithering robotic armour, who at the last second ducked an overhang that would hurt the girl Serpent carried. Katara had been shopping for supplies, while on the run from the Sues when Serpent showed up, snagging Katara and running. It was a second later that Katara knew why Serpent was there. Stus. There were hundreds of them, and some Sues, all chasing Katara. If not for Serpent, she would have been caught unawares. "I want Aang!"

"Aye, so do the fan-girls!" Serpent cried out in that thick accent, pausing long enough to turn around and get off a few blast of Plasma and missiles cannons before fleeing again. Serpent went full speed of forty miles and hour. In fact, Serpent only slowed when a shadow passed above their heads.

"Katara!" Aang cried out, hanging over the side of the saddle with large worried eyes. Zuko was throwing balls of fire at all the Sues, giving Serpent some cover. Sokka was lowering a rope from the saddle, so Katara could grab it.

"Aang! Sokka!" She cried out, smiling with tears of joy in her eyes. She made to reach for the rope, but was a bit short, at least until Serpent stood up a few more feet, allowing the dark skinned girl to get a good hold of the rope.

"What about me!" Zuko complained as he glared down, then went back to his Fire-Bending. Katara smiled sweetly at Zuko, as he paused to help Sokka haul her up. With Katara and Momo no longer in danger, Serpent slithered to a stop, sliding as it turned about to face the Stus and Sues.

"Bring it ya gits!" Serpent yelled, Axe at the ready, as it was suddenly alight with plasma fire. "I'll slash each of ya limb from limb!" It took to attacking, with no skill but brute force; the heavy axe with a four and a half foot blade slicing through flesh and bone like butter, the tail lashing out and piecing body parts. Heads and body parts fell, still there was a never ending flow to the Stus, and then it became worse...

The Sues from the river fell upon the village, crying out for Zuko and Sokka and Aang. "Blimey!" Serpent cried out, using the Class One shield and launching the missiles, the missiles not getting far into the forces of Stu and Sue; the explosions were devastating, but effective.

"Serpent!" The Avatar, Sokka and Katara cried out, seeing the destruction below; Zuko merely watching in silence. They saw now the Sue and Stu forces were cut by a third of what they had been, but there were still many.

"Serpent can't be gone!" Katara cried, looking over the edge of the saddle as they left the village behind. She started to cry, "He... She... It can't be dead!"

"Do you really think even Serpent can survive that type of damage?" Zuko said, cold as ice. "He's probably dead by now, nothing more than a Fire Nation tank scrap heap." He sat down, legs crossed as were his arms. "Let us leave him too have his honourable death. He deserved nothing less than to go down fighting something far more evil than my Father."

"How can you be so cruel!" Katara cried, taking out her grief on the Fire-Bender.

"Katara!" Aang said, putting a hand on her arm, "it's his way of grieving." She looked to Aang, and once he had her attention, he continued; "Serpent protected us from them, and Zuko's way of grieving is by honouring the death, not mourning it."

"Well, I don't think we have to grieve much longer." Sokka said, then exclaimed, "look!" The other three darted too look over the side of Appa's saddle, and down below, far behind them, they saw something shine in the sunlight. It was moving fast. It was obvious from the smoke that trailed off the left side, and the speed it was moving, that it was Serpent; that and the fact it was so big.