"I like this ship," Sokka looked over the side of it and read the words engraved on it, "The Catalyst. What a cool name."

"All right," Jet muttered, "Let's check one more time. Weapons?"

"Check," Sokka answered, sifting through the hook swords and boomerangs.

"Ship?"

"Gee, I wonder…" Zuko muttered quietly, as he adjusted the rudder.

"Leader?"

"Yeah, yeah…" Toph replied, waving a hand.

"You know, it would be nice if you all weren't so sarcastic," Jet exclaimed.

"It would be nice if you would stop thinking you were the leader of this group as well, but that's obviously not happening either," Avin shouted from up on the crow's nest.

"And psychopath, check," Jet said, sitting down on the deck, and putting a piece of straw in his mouth, "Okay, we're good. Any sign of them yet?"

"Nope!" Avin exclaimed, putting his hands behind his head, "And I gotta say, this is a very boring job, lookout. You said Toph would be impressed by this but I'm not seeing the part of this that would impress her."

"Just keep looking," Sokka shouted up to the young airbender, as Toph looked away, freaked out. Sokka looked over to Zuko and asked, "You sure this is the right way? We haven't seen another ship for miles around."

"Positive," Zuko replied, "The fact that we see no other ships is a good sign. It means we're reaching neutral waters, where no ship wants to go."

"Why do no ships want to go there?" Toph asked, as she heaved over the side of the ship again.

"Because in this part of the waters you can get fired at from any one of a bunch of naval fleets, be they Fire Nation or Water Tribe or Earth Kingdom…" Zuko trailed off, as his eyes widened.

"Get us out of here!" Sokka shouted, as Zuko swung the rudder around, "Jet, get to the arrows. Toph, see if you there's some metal you can rip off the boat without sinking it. We're going to need firepower and lots of it. And not YOUR kind, either," Sokka said, as Zuko looked up hopefully, and sat back down, dejected. "Avin, what do you see? What do you know?"

"Well, captain," Avin rolled his eyes, and pointed towards the west, "We got Fire Nation ships, approaching fast." Then he pointed to the east, and said, "We got some Earth Kingdom coming at us as well, and" Avin looked to the north, "Yep, we got Water Tribe longboats closing in."

"Why didn't you tell us this before??" Sokka asked, as Toph grunted, ripping a sheet of metal from the deck and crushing it into a ball.

"I was listening to you rant," Avin muttered.

"Okay, we've got to get out of here!" Jet yelled, as the small crew prepared for battle.

Avin jumped down from the crow's nest and went to Toph. "Hey, boss?"

"Yeah?" Toph said, as she ripped another block of metal from the ship.

"I was thinking…since we've still got Aang's glider, along with most of his stuff…"

"You can use it to take the fight to them!" Sokka shouted, grabbing the glider and tossing it to Avin.

"We're having a battle?! I just wanted to play with the glider!"

Everyone slapped a hand to their foreheads and shook their heads.

"Avin, just get going!" Jet shouted, and the airbender nodded and took off towards the Fire Nation ship closest to them.

"He might hold off that boat but it's up to us to take the others," Jet said.

A BOOM! was heard, and a large ball of flaming garbage flew at the small ship.

"WHOO!" Avin shouted as he barreled through the projectile, and flew over the heads of his teammates, "Don't worry, guys, I saw Aang do this once. If anyone fires anything at us, I'll take care of it."

"Thanks," Jet waved as Avin flew towards another approaching ball of garbage.

"Toph, start firing off metal," Sokka said, turning Toph in the general direction of the Fire Nation ships, "Go crazy."

"Sweet!" Toph shouted as she started swinging blocks of metal at the boats. Most of her attacks missed, as the metal sank to the bottom of the ocean.

"Uh, Sokka," Jet said, grabbing Toph and turning her more precisely towards a Fire Nation boat, "How about being a bit more specific?"

"Hey, don't worry about it," Avin shouted as he flew over them again, "I bet those Water Tribe and Earth Kingdom boats will help us, right?"

No sooner had Avin said this when the Earth Kingdom ships started firing at the Catalyst. The Water Tribe longboats soon followed suit.

"What the..?! Hey, we're on your side!" Sokka jumped and waved at the Earth Kingdom and Water Tribe warriors, who kept firing.

"Guys, this isn't good," Zuko explained, "Both sides think we're the enemy, and are firing at us. What's more, this boat isn't built for heavy combat, and we're taking a lot of hits as it is."

"Meaning?" Toph asked, shooting a disc of metal through a warship.

"Meaning we don't have a lot of time before we're treading water!" Zuko shouted.

Avin dropped down to the deck, tired.

"You reek!" Toph shouted, as Avin made a face.

"Well, you try deflecting those trash balls and smell good afterwards," Avin replied, "Anyways, I'm beat. I won't be able to keep those things off." The airbender turned to Sokka, and went on, "If ever you were to hatch a brilliant plan, now would be the time."

"I think I have something," Sokka said, pointing to Zuko, "Steer us towards the Fire Nation ships."

"What? Are you insane?" Jet asked.

"Yeah, but don't worry, this will work," Sokka yelled, as Zuko swung the rudder around, and the little boat sailed through into the heart of the Fire Nation warships.

"All right, Avin, Jet, cover the left side of the boat. Toph, with me. We'll cover the right." Sokka ran to the side of the boat and started throwing boomerangs at the guards who had run to the side of their boat as well. Toph shot metal at the guards, stopping them from taking Sokka out.

Meanwhile, Avin sent waves of air at the guards, while Jet covered him, shooting arrows at the guards Avin missed.

It seemed to go on forever, as the four just tried to avoid the onslaught coming from all sides.

"We're through," Zuko said, as the Catalyst sailed past the Fire Nation ships, "Now what? They're just going to come and follow us anyway."

"I wouldn't be so sure," Sokka grinned, "They're going to have their hands full."

The rest of the group turned back and watched the Water Tribe and the Earth Kingdom platoons engage the Fire Nation navy, as a great battle began.

"Way to go, Sokka," Jet exclaimed, "Now we've got to hurry. Aang and Katara shouldn't be too far off."

"Not at all," Avin said, showing the group a messenger hawk, "Took it off one of the Fire Nation ships. Now we can send a letter to your dad, Sokka. We could use the backup."

"Good idea!" Sokka said, as he grabbed a piece of paper and started to write, "He shouldn't be too far from here, he can meet us right when we're about to catch up to Aang and Katara."

"He was probably one of the guys shooting at us, too," Jet added, but saw Sokka's face and decided not to say anymore.

"Now," Avin muttered, "If you'll excuse me, I want to go shower. I smell really bad." And with that, the airbender threw himself overboard and started swimming alongside the boat.