Chapter 4: New Friends and New Enemies Part 1


Location: Southern Water Tribe Village

Aang and Katara went back towards the village while Aang carried the unconscious Ricky. Then they saw the villagers standing in front of the entrances. The kids ran towards shouting with excitement.

"Yeah, Aang and Ricky are back!"

Sokka came towards with an angry look on his face.

"I knew it", he pointed towards Aang and Ricky, "You two signal the Fire Nation and now they're on their way didn't you?"

"Aang and Ricky didn't do anything", she yelled back, "It was an accident! And just for you're information, Ricky is out cold! He tried to stop the flare from going up, but the blast knocked him out."

Kanna then finally spoke up.

"Katara you know you're not allowed to go in that ship. Now we are all in trouble."

While they were arguing, a loud moan came out of nowhere; they saw Ricky tried to get up. He rubbed his head, trying to get his sight back until he saw the kids running towards him.

"Ricky, are you ok", Namine asked.

"Soldiers away from the enemy", Sokka demanded, "Those two are now hereby banished from this village."

Ricky was very confuse, what did he do to be banished. He started to get up slowly while he tried to find his voice. When he finally stood up, he finally spoke.

"Are you crazy", he yelled, "We didn't do anything. You can't jump to conclusions Pony Man!"

Sokka's eyes began to twitch when he heard that insulting name: Pony Man.

"Listen, everyone. I know you guys are not living in paradise, but Aang has brought something that I have never seen this have: fun."

Aang and Katara looked at him in surprise, they just met for a few hours and he is trying to protect Aang from leaving the village.

"Fun, FUN?" Sokka yelled, "How can we fight the Fire Nation with FUN?"

"You should at least try it sometimes", Ricky murmured.

This made Sokka finally ticked, he pointed his spear towards Ricky.

"Both of you out. NOW!"

Katara then stood in front of Ricky, begging Kanna to stop Sokka.

"Katara, you knew better then not to go in that ship. I'm sorry, but I believe that the airbender and the boy should go."

Katara looked at her in disbelief, she can't believe that this is happening.

"If Aang and Ricky are banished, then I am too."

She turned her back away from Gran-Gran and Sokka. Ricky put his hand on to her shoulder. She turned around seeing Ricky with a sad look on his face.

"Katara, we don't want you to do this for us. It's mostly my fault to bring you two into this."

Sokka smirked in victory, "So, the enemy finally confesses."

Ricky began walking towards Appa, the giant flying bison and Aang followed up behind him. Aang went up on Appa's head, getting ready to leave until Katara and the kids went to say their goodbyes to the two boys.

"So, this is?" Katara asked sadly, "This is… goodbye?"

Aang hanged his head down in sadness, Ricky looked at Sokka with an angry look on his face. He then looked at the kids with great sadness on his face.

"Please don't go", Namine said sadly, "We will miss you guys."

"I'll miss you too Namine", Ricky said.

Ricky turned around and started climbing up on Appa. Sokka then started to mock about Appa.

"Ok, let's see your bison fly now, air boy."

Aang began to thrash the reins, but all it did is made Appa yawn and just made him stand.

"Yeah, I thought so", Sokka said mockingly.

Appa began to move slowly away from the village, leaving Katara at the entrance. Kanna went up to Katara, trying to make her feel better.

"Katara, you will start to feel better if you-"

But Katara began to snap at her.

"Happy now Gran-Gran? That was my ONLY chance to become a master waterbender!"

She then stomped away from her grandmother; upset with both Sokka and Gran-Gran, she went inside her tent.

"Alright soldiers", Sokka yelled, "Get into your positions, the Fire Nation soldiers will be here any minute now."

"But I have-" a young boy replied, but was cutoff by Sokka.

"And NO POTTY BREAKS!"

The young boy began to run towards with the other kids, leaving Sokka behind. Sokka turned around, wondering what he did was the right thing to do. His mind was racing about one thing, Ricky.

"I hope those two aren't getting themselves into trouble", he mumbled.


"Ugh, I can't believe Pony-Man would do such a thing", Ricky yelled still mad at Sokka.

"Don't worry about it Ricky" Aang said, "Once we get back to my place everything will be okay."

Ricky looked up at his new friend and smiled a bit, but couldn't think of how the monks from another dimension would help him. They were resting near an odd looking ice; Aang was resting inside a hole, while Ricky rested on Appa's saddle. Ricky kept his mind busy about how would he ever get back home, why is he even here, and hope that Elsa is okay.

"So, what do you think", Ricky asked.

Aang looked at him with confusion.

"Think about what?"

"About Katara", Ricky finally answered, "What do you think about her?"

Aang began to blush for a minute, but then his mind began to start thinking about her. He couldn't help but blushing when he saw that beautiful face of hers.

"She's amazing", he said, "What about you?"

Ricky was quiet for a moment, but for some reason he started to think about Elsa.

"She reminds me of my girlfriend", he said.

Aang wanted to know more about him.

"What's her name?"

Ricky started to look at him with a accusing and joking look on his face.

"Why, so you can steal her away from me 'Romeo'", he said jokingly.

Aang started to laugh at his comment, he still doesn't know who Romeo is, but it's probably a cultural thing where he's from. That's when Ricky caught something from the corner of his eye, a giant metal-like ship that is coming straight towards the Village.

"Hey Aang, what's that?"

Aang looked where Ricky was talking about, his eyes widened when he saw the Fire Nation navy ship

"The village is in trouble! Appa wait here, Ricky we have to help them!"

Aang grabbed his staff, transforming it into a glider. Ricky wanted to help, but he couldn't wonder how on earth they would get there in time. But that's when he gotten an idea.

"Aang, I got an idea. Do you still have those fish Katara gave you?"

Aang pulled out the fish that Katara gave it to him.

"Yeah, I still do. Why?"

Ricky then made a grin, making Aang unease.


"WHERE IS HE?" Zuko angrily yelled.

Sokka was already frustrated since Zuko keeps counterattacking his attacks. Sokka tried to charge at him with his spear, but was a failure like every other of his attacks. But then suddenly Sokka's boomerang came back, spin Zuko's helmet around. Zuko start to turn his helmet in its original position and then stared angrily at Sokka. It wasn't long till they heard yelling, it was Aang and Ricky riding on the penguins. Aang started to rammed towards Zuko, making him flipped over. The kids started to cheer, but stopped when the snow piled over them when Aang passed by. But they still cheered since their two new friends are back. Aang got off of his penguin, went up to his two new friends.

"Hey guys", he said.

"Nice to see you again, Aang", Sokka said moodily.

Katara started to notice that Ricky was nowhere to be found.

"Hey Aang", she said, "Where's Ricky?"

Soon after they saw Ricky holding Aang's staff, still on his penguin, whacked a couple of Fire Nation foot soldiers down towards their feet. Ricky jumped off from his penguin, landing safely on to his feet. The kids started to cheer for him as he started to walk towards his friends.

"What did I miss?" he asked.

"Nothing really", Sokka said (still moodily), "You came in just in time."

Ricky turned around to see who the leader was; it was a teenage boy with a burnt scar on his left eye. The teenager started to command his soldiers to surround Aang, preparing to attack. Luckily, Ricky threw Aang's staff towards him, blowing all the snow towards the foot soldiers including the scarred teenager. Ricky grabbed a spear that was next to Sokka, began running towards to Aang preparing for the worst. The teenager melted all the snow, showing an angry look on his face, looking towards the two young boys.

"Wait a minute", he said, "You're the last airbender? You're the Avatar?"

Katara and Sokka was shocked on what the firebender had said, but Ricky on the other hand was very confuse.

"What are you talking about", Ricky asked.

Zuko then turned around to see who said that, a young teenage boy with a dark grey light Water Tribe jacket with a wingless spiked dragon on it. He was standing next with the Avatar, trying to be brave.

"I have been training for all my life and this is the result? You're just a kid", Zuko said.

"Well, you're just a teenager", Aang replied.

Zuko then starting to launch all of his firebending on Aang, but Aang deflected all the fire with his staff. Zuko started to notice that the strange kid with the Avatar trying to protect the villagers from the firebenders with a half-broken spear. Then Zuko got an awful idea.

"Soldiers, attack that kid", he commanded.

Ricky saw the foot soldiers starting to surrounding him, without thinking, he started yelling as he keep swinging his broken spear at the soldiers. But to no avail, the firebenders began to launch their fire at Ricky. Everything started to move very slowly for Ricky, but something was caught in the corner of his eye. Aang turned around to see something he never seen before, a bright dark blue light was coming from Ricky's right hand, began to blast all the firebenders away from him. Everyone was shocked when they saw what Ricky did; he was holding a dark blue fireball that was hovering above his right hand. Ricky looked at his right hand and was completely scared on what just happened. Before he could react, he was knocked out from the back of the head. Few hours later, Ricky started to wake up slowly but still was hurt after being hit in the head. His eyes, still adjusting to his surroundings, started to see that he was inside some sort of metal room with a red flag in the center of the wall.

"Wait a minute", he murmured, "Am I inside of the Fire Nation ship?"

Then suddenly, the door started to open making Ricky scared out of his wits. It wasn't long till he saw an old man, with a very long goatee, sideburn, and an extremely short ponytail.

"Oh good, you're awake. I was afraid that you wouldn't wake up", the old man said.

Ricky has heard about that the Fire Nation were ruthless, merciless, and very aggressive. But by the looks of the old man, he seemed to be a nice man.

"I would like to know you're name young man."