Colonel Sheppard arrived back at the puddle jumper to find Sokka helping Aang with the gun, Rodney and Teyla were talking and Ronon and Toph sat on the side, watching Sokka and Aang.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Col. Sheppard. He stopped and looked at them, placing a hand on the butt of his gun that was clipped onto his vest.
"Well, Carter is sending through another puddle jumper, but she doesn't know if she can spare anyone to us at the moment. Apparently there's an issue at the base." He said.
Teyla looked alarmed. "What issue?" she and Rodney asked. Sheppard shrugged.
"She didn't go into detail, but she said it wasn't incredibly serious. She said we should continue with our mission."
"Well where's the puddle jumper? Shouldn't she have sent it to you when you were in contact?" Rodney asked, his brow furrowed.
"It should be here…" Sheppard counted mentally. "…now." At that exact moment, a puddle jumper rose from the trees and landed a few feet away. Sokka and Aang stared in awe at the puddle jumper.
Toph shuddered once the engine of the ship died down. "That thing is creepy. Giant metal monster."
"Giant flying metal monster. Did they send someone or is it remote controlled?" Rodney asked as he and Sheppard walked over to the landed puddle jumper.
"No idea, probably remote controlled— " the puddle jumper door interrupted Sheppard and Dr. Beckett stepped down the metal ramp.
"You've gotta be kidding me." Rodney moaned.
"Nice to see ya too, Rodney." Dr. Beckett said sarcastically in his Scottish accent.
"What're you doing here?" Rodney demanded. "Carter said she couldn't spare anyone!" his voice was incredibly whiney.
"The situation wasn't anything medical, and she thought I could be of some use here." Beckett shrugged. Rodney rolled his eyes.
"We need to get moving," Sheppard said.
"What about the other ship?" Toph asked standing up.
"We'll leave it here for now, it'll be repaired when it can. Toph, Sokka, Aang, are you going to come with us?" Sheppard asked.
"Uh duh. Why would we still be here if we weren't?" Toph said and she walked back Sheppard and towards the new puddle jumper. She walked past Beckett and he looked at her curiously as she entered the ship.
"I guess we'll be going then." Beckett said and everyone filed onto the ship.
Once Sheppard stepped inside, he checked everyone was in and accounted for. Aang and Sokka and Toph were all on one side of the puddle jumper sitting on a bench, Teyla, Ronon, and Beckett on the other side of the puddle jumper, sitting on a bench.
Sheppard sat up at the drivers seat, with Rodney in the passenger seat. Sheppard began closing the puddle jumper doors.
There was a shriek. He jerked around to see Toph bolting for the raising door and she kicked out her leg and slammed her foot to the ground, the door falling flat.
"Toph!" Aang said alarmed. Toph turned around and everyone looked at her, and it was silent.
She was breathing heavily. "S-sorry. I don't think I can handle flying in this thing…" she sensed the heavy silence and grimaced. "But I'm cool now. I'll breathing exercises or something. It's okay, Sheppard, raise the door, I won't freak out." Toph sat down slowly and her hands clenched, then unclenched.
Sheppard raised the door, looking at Toph bemused.
"Are you sure you are okay?" Teyla asked, leaning forward and placing a hand on Toph's wrist. Toph looked up at Teyla. She nodded.
"Yeah, I'm not used to the sensation of being trapped in a flying metal box. But it's fine, really." Toph said and then she grabbed Sokka's arm and clenched it.
"Owww, jeez woman!" Sokka said looking down at Toph's hand on his arm.
"Sorry, I need support." Toph said staring straight ahead.
"It's really not that bad," Sheppard said, revving the engines and the puddle jumper began to rise. "It doesn't even feel like we're moving that much." He said and they took off.
It was true, though Toph felt the ship rise, she could hardly feel how fast they were going. Slowly, she released Sokka's arm and he took it back, rubbing it.
"See?" Sheppard said, looking back at her. She nodded numbly.
"What are you staring at?" she said to Dr. Beckett, who apparently was staring at her.
Dr. Beckett blanched. "Uh, sorry miss, but you're blind, aren't you?" Toph shrugged.
"Maybe. So what?" she asked, daring him to make some snide comment about her being a blind little girl.
"You act like you can see perfectly." He said. "I know some people have practice all their life, but you're not very old and you act like you have no disability at all." He said.
"Because I don't. I can see perfectly well with my feet." Toph said simply. He looked at her confused.
"These people are another Ancients experiment," McKay said without turning towards Beckett, seeming to be working on something in the front. "They can control the elements."
"Seriously? That is incredible— how does this allow you to see?" Dr. Beckett asked Toph eagerly.
"I can sense the vibrations in the earth, since I am an Earthbender." Toph said cocking her head at the man.
"Earthbender. That's what you call yourself?"
"Anybody who can bend earth is an Earthbender. Like my sister is a waterbender. Aang can bend air."
"Technically Aang can bend all four elements." Toph added in.
"How?" Dr. Beckett asked. Toph groaned.
"We just went through this, someone fill him in." Toph said. Teyla sighed and began explaining to Dr. Beckett everything they just learned.
"Aang!" Sheppard called from the front. Aang jumped in his seat.
"Yeah?" he said.
"Come here," Sheppard said and Aang looked at Sokka. Sokka shrugged and Aang went up next to Sheppard.
From the cockpit of the puddle jumper you could see everything you were flying over. They were now heading over water.
"I need to know where we're going. I have no idea," he said and Aang looked at him in surprise.
"Do you know if we're going the right way now?" Aang asked. Sheppard shrugged.
"I assume it's north, since it is called the North Pole." Sheppard said and Rodney snorted softly.
"Why are we going to the north pole?" Aang said, suddenly alarmed. Sheppard looked at him.
"To talk to the water tribe or whatever?" He said.
"What about Katara? Zuko has her right now and we've no idea where they are!"
"Do you have any idea where he might've took her?" Sheppard asked. Aang shook his head.
"Great. What do you want me to do?" Sheppard asked, looking weary.
Aang jumped over to Sokka. "How are we going to find Katara?" he said urgently. Sokka blinked.
"Zuko is living as a earth nation peasant isn't he? We'd have to go to a small village nearby or something small so he can hide."
"What do I tell Colonel Sheppard?" Aang said, bouncing on the balls of his feet, afraid they would fly out of range of looking for Katara.
"Nothing, sit down. I'll direct him." Sokka stood up and went straight to Colonel Sheppard. He began directing Sheppard, and they ended turning back around.
"Is this really want we wanna do? It's not our mission," Sheppard said to his team.
"We need to save their friend, John. It's the right thing to do." Teyla said. "She got captured underneath our watch, we are somewhat responsible."
"Alright, just making sure. Then after we get Katara we go straight to the next nearby Nation's leader or whatever. Got it? No more detours."
Katara woke up in a small hut made out of stone. She tried to get up, but her arms and legs were bound tightly. She whimpered as one of the ropes cut in tightly on her legs. Her mouth was also wrapped tightly with a gag. She attempted to get up again, but it was no use.
She heard footsteps out of the hut, and she froze. Zuko stepped in, ducking into the small entrance. His eyes locked onto hers and he registered she was awake.
"You don't sleep for very long, do you?" he asked, and it was of course rhetorical. She glowered at him from her corner, feeling very uncomfortable with him in this small a space.
"I'm debating on whether on keeping your gag on, or off. If you scream I'll knock you out again, and it won't do any good because we're in the middle of nowhere. You gonna scream?" he asked her, looking directly at her, daring her to nod.
She scowled and shook her head. "I shouldn't believe you. But I'll take it off." He got closer and slowly unwrapped the gag from her mouth. Katara took a great intake of breath and coughed from the nasty gag.
"This is getting ridiculous." She gasped. Zuko shrugged.
"Thanks for not screaming." Was all he said and he fiddled with something metal with a string hanging off it.
"I'm assuming you're doing this is so that you can lure the Avatar into a trap and then you'll have your so called "glory"." Katara said carelessly. Zuko stared at her.
"Obviously." He said picking at the string.
"How is that going to work if no one knows where I am?" Katara demanded, blowing the strands of hair out of her face.
"Your brother is smart, he'll know I camp out in the smaller villages. Now we just sit and wait."
"How do you know they'll come for me?" Katara asked, knowing she was going out on a ledge.
Zuko snorted. "The Avatar would do anything to get you back, as would your brother. I don't know much about the blind girl, but I'm sure she likes you too." He looked up at Katara and just stared at her.
"Well—" Katara was getting frustrated. "You know how boring that'll be? Waiting for who knows how long?"
Zuko shrugged. "I'm used to it. Anyway, I can get to know you a little better."
Katara looked at him sharply. "Who, me? Why would you want to get to know me?"
"You've been with the Avatar why wouldn't I?" he said seriously. Katara realized he wanted to know about her relationship with Aang, not necessarily her.
"Oh." She said quietly. He grinned slightly.
"You thought I wanted to know you personally?" he laughed a cold laugh.
"Obviously you don't, so ask your little questions. I doubt you'll get anything valuable out of me." Katara said, irritated.
Zuko lost the grin, but his eyes were still smiling in a knowing way. Katara was looking away, waiting for him to ask, but then she felt breathing on her neck and she turned her head—
Katara let out a gasp. Zuko was inches from her face, and she struggled to squirm away, but she was already jammed against the wall.
"What're you doing?" she said, her voice constricted and squeaky.
"Asking my little questions. Does this bother you or something?" he asked, his voice was low and the corners of his lips were twitching up, as if he was refraining from smiling.
"Uh yeah, personal space you freak!" Katara tried to ram up against him to push him away, but his face smashed onto the side of hers. They ended up in an awkward position of Zuko kissing Katara's cheek. Zuko jerked back, looking annoyed.
"Ow, darn you woman, that hurt!" Zuko said rubbing at his mouth. Katara was breathing heavily.
"It was your fault you psycho person! Why'd you have to get so up close, I'm right here it's not as if I'm deaf—" but Zuko covered her mouth with his hand, his eyes glittering with anger staring down at her.
"Stop shouting, now." He said, and she swallowed and nodded. He let go of her.
"Why, because someone will hear me?" she hissed at him. Her mind flashed back to his face on hers and she shuddered. "You're lucky it wasn't closer to my lips you would've been drowned, then frozen, then chucked off a cliff!" she spat furiously.
"You're lucky I didn't either. Your boyfriend wouldn't like that at all, to rescue you only to realize you were fraternizing with the enemy." Zuko retorted.
Katara's mouth dropped. "My boyfriend—? I don't have a boyfriend, who do you think's my boyfriend?"
Zuko looked at her as if he was mentally saying, seriously? "Really. No one comes to mind. You travel all around the world with the avatar, your brother, and a blind girl and no one comes to mind." Katara blinked.
"Aang? You think me and Aang are — that we —? Okay you need to get your facts straight, Aang is my friend, and just that." Katara said, not believing Zuko actually thought they were anything more.
"You might think that, but does he? It doesn't matter. Just— sleep, or something you're really annoying me." Zuko said and he turned away from her, and exited the small hut. There was a curtain over the entrance, so she couldn't see out of it. The curtain fell back in place after he left.
Katara let out a noise of disbelief and groaned. "Such a jerk." Katara huffed.
The image would not go away. The thought of Zuko that close to her was…she shuddered, but not because of the thought of Zuko being close to her. That was a totally different story. That she might've actually liked, if he wasn't a psycho ex-Fire Prince who was bent on capturing Aang.
She couldn't deny that he wasn't attractive. But even not denying that was dangerous. She had felt her cheek electrify when Zuko practically awkwardly kissed her cheek. It would've been worse if he hadn't been forced on her face.
Katara shook her head and what Zuko said floated back to her. Your boyfriend wouldn't like that at all, to rescue you only to find out you were fraternizing with the enemy.
Zuko honestly thought they were together. Did that bother him? No why should it? I'm just another prisoner to him, just another thing that will get him what he wants… Katara thought, shaking the thought away.
She sighed. This was going to be a long day. She tried to close her eyes, to shut out the horrible situation she was in.
Zuko trudged through the small villages dirt roads, looking for a place to get food for him and his prisoner. He pushed his black bangs from his face, wiping away the sweat. It was ridiculous how scorching hot it got here, Zuko's distaste for it was growing. Despite his being a firebender, he didn't relish the fact of sitting in his own sweat for more than an hour.
He found a small little pub that had almost no customers outside, unlike other little shops people took shelter underneath the shade of the building roofs just chatting.
Zuko entered the pub and bought two bags of food, and also a drink before he left. The burly man that was serving him had no expression on his face. He handed him the drink, then left without saying a word returning to his workspace in the back.
Zuko downed the cup in one, then stood up to leave.
"Don't see many people like you walking in here everyday." Someone said faintly from behind him. He jerked around to see a gorgeous girl his age dressed in sandbenders clothing. Her long black hair was braided down her back and she had jade green eyes. She looked up at him, smiling knowingly.
"Same here. I take it you're not from here?" Zuko said, eyeing the sandbender clothes that fitted tightly around her. She stood up, and walked over to Zuko, her sand colored boots clicked on the wooden floor.
"Not so much. I live on the border of the earth nation area. I'm just in town for business interests. My brother owns a sandbending company, and he thinks that sending me on these business trips really helps." She said leaning up against the counter, looking at him with her head tilted back, smiling at him.
Zuko grinned slightly. "Why would he think that would help business?" he said leaning forward on the counter, looking at her.
"I dunno, something about me being intensely persuasive or something… way better than any of the men he's recruited." She laughed and so did he.
"I don't know if that's entirely accurate though." She said afterwards. Zuko chuckled.
"I wouldn't doubt it. So what's your name?" Zuko said, and he could not believe he was actually flirting with this girl. He hadn't flirted with a girl in ages, but he thought he was doing pretty decent. She wasn't backing away, she was encouraging it.
She smiled a brilliant white smile. "Jaida. You are?" she said and Zuko froze. He couldn't tell his real name or he'd be discovered. But his fake name was so lame, it was too embarrassing he did not want to say it to this beautiful woman. He gritted his teeth. He would not lose his cover over some girl.
"Z…Po." He winced at the sound of the name. It wasn't that bad but he did not like the sound of it at all for his name.
Jaida grinned. "Well, Po. You here for very long? We could grab some dinner, or go see a play at the theater in the upper villages." She flipped her braid over her shoulder and picked up her bag, looking at him.
Zuko felt his throat go dry. "Um…I don't know if I — "
"Oh please? It's so awfully boring here and I've nothing to do. The people I'm supposed to meet don't arrive until tomorrow." She pleaded, her face pouting.
Zuko knew he would regret this. "Fine, where do you want to go?" he said, defeated. She smiled, pleased.
"Exactly what I said. Meet me at the Barter's Hut just a couple of shops over from here in two hours, kay?" She said and she patted his arm and walked out, her braid swishing behind her.
Zuko groaned, even though he scored a date with that insanely attractive woman.
"You didn't stand a chance," a low bass voice rumbled from behind the counter. Zuko looked at the bartender.
"What?" he said.
The bartender cocked an eyebrow. "She had you wrapped around her pretty little finger. Good luck with that date. Go on now!" he said shooing Zuko out. Zuko had his mouth open in protest, but he left quickly anyway.
"This is not going to end well," Zuko breathed as he made his way back to the stone hut. He just hoped it wouldn't go as horrible as he was expecting it to.
Sheppard landed on the outskirts of a small village Sokka had directed him to. Once he came to a complete stop, he opened the puddle jumper doors and Toph bolted out the door, followed by Aang and Sokka.
Toph laid down right in the dirt, breathing a sigh of relief as if that had been the most terrifying moment of her life— being in the puddle jumper, that is. Aang looked around.
"This looks like the place where we found that one scholar that led us to the secret library." Aang said. Sokka nodded.
The place was like a desert, but with a small community of buildings here and there, and farther down the roads there were small groups of tiny houses. It was insanely hot and Aang was sweating already.
"It was the only town I could remember how to get there. Hopefully Zuko brought her to this one or this will be a huge waste of time." Sokka took out his boomerang and began fiddling with it.
Aang noticed there was a small pub in the middle of a junk store and a supply store.
"Anyone hungry?" Aang asked as Teyla, Rodney, Ronon, Dr. Beckett, and Colonel Sheppard all stepped out of the puddle jumper.
"Starving. Do they serve food around here?" Rodney asked shading the bright sunlight out of his eyes.
"Yeah, right there." Aang pointed. Sheppard looked at the small pub.
"Lets head in there, it'll be cooler." He said and everyone followed after him.
Sheppard stepped into the pub and the few people that were in there turned their eyes on him. It must've been strange seeing seven people crowding into this small pub, especially since four of them didn't look anything like the people of this planet.
Aang, Toph, and Sokka sat around a medium square table, and the SGA team pulled up more chairs next to them.
"Somebody going to take our order?" Ronon asked.
"How are we going to pay? We do not have their type of money." Teyla pointed out. Teyla and Ronon looked at Aang and Sokka.
"What?" Aang said.
"Do you have money?" Ronon asked tonelessly.
"Nope, left it at our house in Ba Sing Se, remember that? So we came in here for nothing." Toph said, putting her feet up on the table. Rodney eyed her dirty feet with distaste.
"Can you get those out of my face?" he said, and Toph looked at him.
"Oh, I'm sorry, do they bother you?" She wiggled her toes at him. He glowered at her.
"Yes, they do. They're disgusting in fact and I don't appreciate—"
"McKay." Sheppard said. Rodney looked at him, his eyebrows lowered.
"What? It's disgusting!"
"So no one has any money." Sheppard said looking at Toph, Sokka and Aang.
Aang and Toph shook their heads. Aang looked at Sokka, who hadn't moved. He was staring at the table.
"Sokka…" Aang said. Everyone looked at him. Sokka looked up, then shrank back once he saw so many eyes on him.
"What!?" he said scooting his chair back.
"Do you have any money or what?" Toph said, leaning towards him across Aang who was right next to Sokka.
"Well, I do, but it's not much." Sokka pulled out a couple of silver coins, and one copper coin.
Sheppard grabbed the coins and held them out to Aang. "How much would this get us?"
Aang shrugged. "I don't know. You'd have to ask him." Aang pointed to the bartender.
Sheppard got up, his chair scraping against the wood and he leaned up against the counter.
The bartender turned around. It was a middle age man with a beard, and a little potbelly. He wore an apron, and a annoyed expression.
"What." He said, his eyes looking droopy.
"How much drinks could this get us? Or food." Sheppard put the coins on the counter.
The man eyed the money lazily. "One drink. For food a bowl of crackers."
Sheppard stared at the money, then snatched it back. He began to turn back to his group.
"If you're looking to feed your whole party I may be able to bargain you for something." The man offered in his snide voice.
Sheppard stopped in mid-turn. "What?" he said, looking back. The man pointed to Sheppard's arm.
"That fancy device on your wrist looks interesting." He said, pointing to Sheppard's watch.
Sheppard looked at his wrist, then back to his team. "Do we really need something to eat? We have protein bars in our packs!"
Rodney shook his head. "I ate all mine a couple of hours ago, so did Teyla and Ronon." Sheppard sighed.
"What will my watch give us?" Sheppard said. The bartender thought for a minute.
"Every individual in your party will get a rabaroo leg. And a small drink, that's the highest there is here." The bartender said. Sheppard had no idea what a rabaroo leg was.
"One sec," he said and he went over to Sokka. "What's a rabaroo?" he asked him.
"Sounds like a rabbit and a kangaroo mixed." Dr. Beckett said and Sheppard looked at him.
"Pretty much." Sokka said and Sheppard shrugged. It was meat, and his team and the kids were pretty hungry.
Sheppard undid his watch and slid it across the counter to the bartender. His greedy little eyes widened at the shiny watch.
"Your meal will be ready soon." He said and he disappeared into the back. Sheppard sat down next to Teyla and Ronon. On his other side was Beckett and Sokka.
"So what do we plan on doing after rescuing Katara?" Sheppard said, starting conversation.
"I thought we would go to the North Pole." Aang said. Sheppard shook his head.
"No, I mean with Zuko. Are we supposed to capture him or what?"
Toph slid her feet of the table and Rodney exhaled hugely. Toph scowled at him. "You don't really catch Zuko." She said, glaring at Rodney who was ignoring her.
"And even if we did, what would we do with him?" Beckett asked. He had been briefed about what had happened with Katara and who had kidnapped her.
"We could take him to Atlantis." Sheppard said. Rodney looked at him in surprise.
"Why would we do that? So more havoc can be wreaked upon that place? Have we learned nothing?" Rodney demanded.
"Cool it Rodney, I was only saying that if we sedated him we could run some tests and see how his abilities work." Sheppard said. "Dr. Beckett wouldn't mind that, would you?" he said looking at Dr. Beckett.
"What keeping him as a lab rat?" Rodney said. Dr. Beckett looked alarmed.
"Of course not, Rodney, no! Yes, I would like to take a look at his DNA structure and whatnot, but I wouldn't do tests on him as if he were an experiment. I'm not that inhumane, Rodney I am a doctor." Dr. Beckett said frowning at Rodney. He shrugged.
"I am just a little confused." Teyla said suddenly.
"Why's that?" Rodney asked looking at her.
"It seems as if this world is dived by nations. The Fire Nation, the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, and the Air Nomads, right?" she said looking at Aang. He nodded.
"How did you know all that?" he asked.
"Katara told me about it. Now, if we wish to make an alliance, how do we know which nation to make alliance with?"
"Obviously we can rule out the Fire Nation." Toph said instantly. Teyla nodded, brushing her brunette bangs out of her face.
"We have no way of contacting the Earth King unless we force our way in, and I doubt he would be willing to listen to us if we approached as if we were attacking." Sokka said to Sheppard. Sheppard nodded.
"So our only choice is the Water Tribe." Sheppard concluded.
"Why not the Air Nomads?" Dr. Beckett asked.
"They were wiped out of existence fifty years ago." Aang said quickly. Dr. Beckett looked at Aang, then flushed.
"Ah, right. Sorry. Forgot about that." He said and Aang shrugged.
"It's fine. Are we going to the Northern tribe?" he asked Sokka.
"Well yeah, the Southern tribe isn't very reliable at the moment, since the population dropped drastically." Sokka said.
The bartender called for Sheppard. Sheppard turned to see seven plates of steaming rabaroo legs. Sheppard got up.
"Aang, Sokka, wanna help me with these?" Sheppard asked. Aang and Sokka jumped up and began picking up plates and handing them out. Toph looked annoyed at Sheppard. She made a little angry snort.
"What's your deal?" Ronon asked her. Toph exhaled.
"Why didn't Sheppard ask me to help, huh? Is it because I'm blind?" she fumed. Ronon looked up at Sheppard handing Teyla a plate.
"No, he already has enough help. Sheppard doesn't think about those kind of things. If you ask him I doubt he'll say that's the reason why." Ronon said, examining his leg of rabaroo.
"Whatever. You don't think I'm some poor little blind girl, do you?" Toph asked Ronon. He shook his head.
"Definitely not." He said taking a bite out of his meat.
"How's the meat?" Sheppard asked Ronon. Ronon shrugged.
"Not bad." He said and took a drink of water that had been passed to him by Sokka.
Everyone ate in silence, then Sheppard directed everyone to the puddle jumper. Sheppard stayed behind to talk with the bartender.
"Have you seen a teenager with black hair, scar on his face, possibly with a young girl?"
"I've seen a boy with a scar but no girl. He headed deeper into town earlier this morning." The bartender said. Sheppard nodded.
"Thanks." He said and he left.
When he walked into the puddle jumper, Toph was talking with Ronon, Teyla was talking to Aang and Sokka was arguing with Rodney. Dr. Beckett was listening to Sokka and Rodney argue.
"Guys, guys!" Sheppard said loudly. Everyone stopped talking and looked up.
"I think…I think we need to split up." He said slowly.
"What, why?" Aang said, sitting up, alarmed.
"This group is too big. Half of us could be hunting down Zuko, the other could be flying to the North Pole to speak with the Northern water tribe." Sheppard said and everyone was silent.
"I think that's a good plan, but who goes where?" Rodney asked. Sheppard looked at Aang.
"Aang, Toph, and Ronon go after Zuko. Sokka and the rest with me. Unless Dr. Beckett, you would rather go with Aang's group." Sheppard said. Dr. Beckett nodded.
"Why does Sokka get to go to the North Pole?" Toph demanded.
"Because that's where I'm from, and I know how to talk to them. Why would you want to come with us? We're only negotiating." Sokka said and Toph reconsidered.
"True. Okay, yes lets do this. But what about when we're done?" Toph asked.
"We'll be heading back here when we are done, but we have no idea how long that will take. We need something to communicate with," Sheppard said.
"Radios?" Teyla suggested.
"Too far out of range." Sheppard said.
"We can use them when you come back, so then we know when you're back. I don't know how we would communicate over seas though." Aang said, shrugging.
"We'll figure something out. But we better get going. Ronon, make sure you have all the supplies you need, and you're going with them too, Dr. right?" Sheppard said.
Dr. Beckett nodded. "Yes sir," he said and he stood up.
"Alright, everyone who is not going to the North Pole, out! We'll meet back at this pub when we return, and if not here then somehow to Ba Sing Se. It's a sketchy plan, but it's all we've got right now." Sheppard said. "Oh! Ronon, the bartender said he saw Zuko headed into farther downtown." Ronon nodded.
Ronon, Aang, Toph, and Dr. Beckett filed out of the puddle jumper and the door closed.
"See you soon!" Sheppard said before the door shut. The puddle jumper took off, and faded away before their eyes.
"Alright, we need to head farther downtown. You all ready?" he said and they all nodded.
Dr. Beckett covered his eyes with his hand. "Aye. This'll be a long day indeed."
They began walking.