I actually have a reason for this one taking so long... I wrote myself into a corner that I couldn't decide how to get out of. But after a little bit of hard thinking and a whole lot of asprin later, I came out with this. I hope y'all like it.

Warnings: Um...The usual? Does that cover it? Ummm Sokka-silliness, um injured Zuko, smart Iroh, clever Momo, Surfer/Skateboard Aang, and rabid Katara. That about covers it.

Yuck factor: 4

Momo skittered down the hall undetected. He had the keys and was almost back to the cell, when his ears pricked. He froze and listened. Then with all the might he could muster in his legs jumped into the cell. He crawled up Iroh's sleeve and grew very still. Just as Aang started to say something a guard walked around the corner, and past the cell. Momo let out a breath against Iroh's arm before he crawled back out the sleeve. Iroh gave the lemur a nice little pat on the head and smiled taking the keys.

"Smart little one."

Katara took a deep breath and checked the sling one last time. She traveled back up the docking rope and crouched down next to the railing. She tired to calm her heart, but the beating was relentless. She had a plan, and had worked it out in her head, but planning and doing were two completely separate things. She waited until the guard that had been pacing the deck came around the corner. She lowered her self into the lowest crouch she could manage. She held her hand out and the man began to freeze. Metal was such a wonderful freezer. She stood up, and walked with light feet over to the soldier-cicle. She was careful as she looked around him, making sure that there were no other guards. She pulled the man's helmet off, and made sure that he was still frozen. She quickly removed his armor. She tore a piece of cloth from his pants and wrapped it around his mouth as a gag. She checked her surroundings again to make sure everything was clear. She loosened the sling and worked to put the armor on without taking the baby off. She fought the urge to scream in frustration as she was unsuccessful. She pulled on the rest of the armor leaving the helmet and chest plate for last. She pulled the strap over her head and held Riyo gently as she set him down on the floor. She knelt down next to him and pulled on the plated breast armor, then just as quick pulled the large helmet down over her head. She stood up slowly so she could keep her balance in the heavy armor. She bent over and picked up the child.

She looked at the guard once again. She smirked in the helmet and opened a small mop closet, next to the stair well. She froze the inside and threw the man inside. That should keep you busy till I get done.

She took a deep breath. As long as she didn't run into Azula she would be fine. The bitch would recognize her sure enough. Get the guys, get the hell off the boat.

She walked down the stairs trying to look as soldier like as possible. Where are the cells? If I were a psycho power mad princess where would I keep the prisoners...I wouldn't...

She frowned. She wasn't helping her self by thinking that way. She turned a corner and ran into Aang. The small boy bounced back and squatted down about to blast her off the ship when she spoke up.

"Aang. It's me." Aang frowned and stared at her.

"Katara?" Iroh stared at the girl in the armor and laughed quietly.

"You don't pass well as a soldier." She frowned and handed the baby to Iroh.

"Get off the ship. I'll get the other two." Iroh shook his head and grabbed her by the arm as she started to leave.

"As much as I admire your courage, foolishness I cannot abide." Katara pulled her arm from Iroh. Iroh shook his head.

"You do not know what Azula is capable of. Take the child and get back to the shore. Aang and I will free the others. Katara shook her head.

"What? Just because I am a woman?" Iroh shook his head.

"We will discuss gender issues later. Now go!" Katara grumbled and pulled the baby in close as she left. She grumbled under her breath as she hit the door to go out. Her eyes grew wide as she looked straight an a soldier. She was far to close and she knew he could see into the helmet. She cussed and jumped up kicking him in the jaw. She made a mad dash for the side of the ship. She jumped over the edge and tore the water up as she ran down the makeshift stairs to the ground. She threw the helmet off with her free and and kept running. She felt useless, but she would be mad later.

Aang crept around the corner, following Iroh's directions. In a odd twist of fate the ship Azula had taken as her own, was one of the ships Iroh had the pleasure of using during his time in the war. Iroh crouched his large body low to the ground as he scanned the area. He pulled the keys from his sleeve and turned the lock to the cell. Iroh stood up and pushed the door open, Aang slinking in. Iroh turned and shut the cell door, slamming the peep slide shut.

"Holy shit..." Aang cussed. Iroh turned around to see what had brought the curse from the avatar's young lips. He looked over at his nephew. He was curled up on the floor with blood surrounding him. Iroh ran over and grabbed the boy, looking over his severely mutilated back. Aang looked around and jerked a cloth off of a table that held different medicinal tools. He threw it too Iroh who wrapped Zuko in it. He picked the boy up causing his head to fall backwards.

"Sokka's cell was on the other side of ours. Grab him." Iroh ordered. Aang nodded as they burst out of the cell. They weren't necessarily quiet about it, so they knew that there would be a swarm of soldiers and most likely Azula as well. Iroh disappeared down the hall. Aang went in the opposite direction backtracking to his own cell. He could hear the rush of metal echoing down the halls. He found Sokka's cell and blasted the door open. Aang just realized the problem with Iroh's plan. Sokka was bigger then him. How was he supposed to carry him?! His mind went into a frenzy as he untied the leather straps that held him down. After a extremely quick look to make sure that all of Sokka was there, he grabbed his arm and gave it a good jerk, causing Sokka to fall off of the table and hit the floor hard. Sokka pushed himself up and shook his head. He looked up at Aang with drool hanging from the corner of his mouth.

"Momma?" Sokka blinked. He jumped up and grabbed Aang snuggling into him. Aang thrashed and pushed against Sokka trying to get out of the older boy's grip.

"Sokka! Let go of me!" Sokka only squeezed tighter.

"I missed you Momma!" Aang frowned and looked at the boy with a flat face. He stopped pushing himself away and gave Sokka a nice pat on the head.

"I missed you too. But Sokka, we are in a lot of trouble! We need to get off of this ship." Sokka's eyes grew wide.

"No one hurts my Momma!" He dropped Aang to the floor and rose his hand up in a a charge motion. Aang let out a sigh and rolled his eyes. He jumped up and grabbed Sokka's arm.

"Sokka, listen to Momma. I am alright, but we need to run. Come on!" Aang ran over the fallen door and turned, He looked over his shoulder and Sokka was running the other way. Aang slid to a stop and stumbled to run in the other direction. He grabbed Sokka's arm and braced his legs on the floor.

"Sokka stop!"

"But momma?!" Sokka said pointing in the direction he was heading. Aang frowned.

"Momma says we go this way!" Aang growled and gave Sokka a big jerk in his direction. Aang started running, and let out a sigh of relief as he heard Sokka's feet hitting the floor behind him. Aang's eyes grew wide as a handful of soldiers appeared in the door in front of them. He slid to a stop and started to turn around when one of them grabbed his arm. Just as he started to turn and attack the soldier, Sokka let out a yell and flew over Aang landing his feet in the soldier's chest. The soldier stumbled back but was quick to attack Sokka. Sokka stumbled back and lept up kicking the man in the chin knocking his helmet back. The man flew back and two other soldiers started to rush the boy. Aang threw his hands out knocking the men back. He jumped over the soldiers and started up the steps. He turned and looked back at Sokka and felt a sweat drop appear on his temple. Sokka was standing over the men with his hands on his hips.

"No one hurts my Momma." Aang growled and turned around. He stamped his foot on the stairs getting Sokka's attention.

"If you don't come on, Momma's going to...to...uh...make you eat...sea turnips..." Aang frowned. Was that even a feasible punishment? It didn't matter, it worked. Sokka shot up the stairs after Aang. Just as they found the deck, more soldiers were after them. Aang's eyes went wide as they ran the soldier's in circles. Aang smiled as he spotted a discarded chest plate. He grabbed it as they ran and doubled back around the cabin to the docking cord. He threw the chest plate in the air and jumped up jerking Sokka with him. He threw out a gust as they slide down the docking cord. The two jumped off and ran into the forest. One thing bothered Aang though: Where was Azula?

Katara didn't know who was chasing her, but fire bit almost literally at her heels. She threw her hand back tangling the vines and plants together. She pulled the baby close to her as he screamed. He was scared. She couldn't blame him, she was scared too. She threw the armor off as she ran. She had to lighten herself.

The adrenaline coursing through her made her heart beat faster and harder. Panic, fear and the mother's instinct to protect her young kept her running, tangling the plants behind her. She pulled water from the grass as she ran. Her chest was burning as she forced air into her lungs with painful pants. She could feel her legs start to cramp as the burn ran down the top of her thighs.

She let out a whimper as her legs started to lock. She shook her head and pushed harder throwing the water behind her as ice, in hopes to give her pursuer a little obstacle. Before she knew it something was in front of her. She skidded and stumbled to the left taking off into the trees. She wrapped both her arms tight around Riyo as she continued to run. Where the hell was a lake, or a river, or a fucking stream when you need one!?

She ducked under a tree limb. Who ever was after her had amazing stamina. Her eyes shot wide as her mind started putting pieces together. She slid and scrambled to make a hard turn. There was more than one person after her. She felt her chest start to tighten. Rain, rain... please. She could hear the rumbling thunder in the distance, though it wasn't a promise of rain. The trees in front of her turned to fire. She held back the urge to scream as she turned around only to run into a wall like person. She fell back and clutched the baby to her chest.

The tall man bent down and tried to pry her hands from the child. She growled and kicked her leg up catching him in the knee. She rolled over and crawled to her feet, but he grabbed her ankle before she got enough distance between them. She caught her balanced and turned to look at the man. Her eyes grew wide as she stared into a demonic smile; a smile which she recognized all too well. She narrowed her eyes and jumped, spinning herself in the air to kick him with her free leg. She fell to the ground and scrambled away. She stood up and came face to face with the bitch herself. Azula smiled as she grabbed at the child. Katara frowned and clutched the baby closer to her. She looked around as she tried to out maneuver Azula. She jumped and vaulted herself off a tree and landed behind the large man. She felt her legs scream in pain as she forced them again to run the zig-zag path through the forest.

Her knee buckled and she fell hard to the ground, hitting on her side so that she didn't fall on Riyo. She tried to side up by her leg cramped up. She sat up and pushed herself along the ground as she heard the terrible twosome coming her way. She pushed her back to a tree and felt the panic surge through her. She turned and glanced over the bas of the tree. She stuck her free hand in a small hole where the roots bulged. There were only a few leaves and some kindling, which meant that it was some creature's nest, which, thank the spirits, wasn't home at the moment. She snuggled into Riyo and kissed him as he cried. She pushed him into the hole and turned around her back blocking it. She could hear the child start to gaga. He was going to make himself sick, but there wasn't anything she could do to stop it until she lost the demons following them. She couldn't leave him and draw them away, for his crying would draw them right to him. So she did what any primal mother would do. She bedded her self in the corner and prepared for the fight of her life.

She could feel the adrenaline releasing into her system and could feel the mounting excitement. Some primal in her ushered a growl from her lips as she scanned the dark forest. They were upon her almost before she knew it. Azula's hand in front of Katara's face, the heat radiating from it.

"Move and give me the child." Katara narrowed her eyes and slapped Azula's hand away. Her larger male companion looked down at Katara and brought his hand up at her, a flame rolling out of the center of his palm. Katara wrapped her hand around a large rock and dove forward bashing the man in the knee. He growled and backhanded her, but she lashed onto his arm, grabbing one of his fingers and jerking it backwards as hard as she could. She threw herself away from him and back in front of the hole kicking at Azula who was trying to grab Riyo. Azula grabbed the girl by the neck. Katara's mind took over and her vision went black. She drove her finger nails into Azula's arm then her hands found the girl's face. Instinct told her to go for the eyes. A predator couldn't see with out them. She clawed at Azula's face, until her hand found that oh-so-soft flesh just over the eye. She drove her finger's into that softness and tried to rip anything she could away.

The large man grabbed Katara's hands forcing them away from the princess. Katara snarled and clamped her teeth down on the man's hand just between his thumb and forefinger. She tore her head back sending a shower of blood down around her. As the blood splashed across her face, her vision blinked back on. She stared up at the two. She dropped one of her hands as she got it away from the man/. Her hand was searching the forest floor for something anything. She didn't have enough energy to bend, and the fact that they hadn't burnt her to a crisp was a surprise. Her fingers wrapped around a large piece of wood. She did have enough adrenaline left, though, to bash someone's head in. She brought the large stick up and started swinging and her vision turned dark again. She hit something soft then nothing then struck something again.

Azula's hands were on the girls hair dragging her away from the hole when Katara's vision cleared. Katara brought the large stick up between Azula's legs with enough force that she knew she would hit that sensitive bone. She heard Azula cuss and dropped her hair. Katara stood up and gripped the large log with both hands and swung it as hard as she could, sending Azula flying into a tree. Her heart froze. The entire time during the scuffle there had been one constant, Riyo's shrieking, but it had stopped abruptly. She swung around the stick tight into her hand. The man stood with the child held close to him and his palm facing Katara.

"You can die now." Katara felt the rage fill her. She started to charge at the man, but the flame built in his hand and shot at her. She was thrown to the side as someone collided with her. She felt the body land on top of her and hold her to the ground. She could hear the man run for a moment. He stopped, then she heard two sets of footsteps retreat into the woods. She pushed the person off of her and looked after the two, but all she saw was the darkness of the forest. She turned with a glare back at the person who had tackled and pinned her to the ground. Pink eyes blinked back at her. She felt the rage subside and the exhaustion take over. Then came the anguish. She bent over covering her face as she put her head to the ground. She shook her head as she cried. Nakin stood up and pulled her to her feet.

"Calm doun now. We find him, you'll see. But ya gosta calm done now ya hear me." She looked up at him with red tired eyes. Her eyes rolled back as she fell. He caught her just before she hit the ground and shook his head.

"Now dis is gonna be sum shit ta 'splain ta dat prince o hers." He said picking her up, cradling her against his chest.

Haha, you know you all thought that Azula's accomplice was nakin. Well I guess you will have to wait for the next chapter to see who it is. AND I PROMISE TO UPDATE THIS WEEK! If i don't you can have all my cookies.