Author Note; enjoy!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~*`~~:Chapter Six:~~`*~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ally stumbled backwards in shock, the room that was supposed to be filled with statues of the previous avatars was a nightmare; the room was filled with war machines, weapons, and torture devices.
"Wait, please - you - you don't understand!" said a voice behind them. Tane, Ally, Damien and Teo turned to see the Mechanist walking hurrying up to them.
"Why are their weapons in our home!" Tane seethed and Damien held him from attacking.
Teo looked absolutely furious. "Explain all this! Now!"
If Ally had been in Teo's dad's position she would have been quite intimidated, he would have looked down right frightening if he was standing up.
Mechanist flinched and hastily started to explain, "It was about a year after we moved here. Fire Nation soldiers found our settlement. You were too young to remember this tale. They were going to destroy everything. I begged them to spare us. They asked what I had to offer. I offered my services. You must understand, I did this for you!"
Teo turned his head and wheelchair away in shame, "How can I be proud of you when your creations are used for murder?"
"How soon are they coming." Ally said in a rather calm voice she was quite proud of.
"in the afternoon - around four." The Mechanist said downheartedly.
"And you said this place was safe." Damien muttered to Ally. She shot him a glare.
"I'm not going to let you give them anymore weapons." Ally said fiercely to the Mechanist.
"If I don't they'll burn this place to the ground." He said.
"Then we fight back." Tane said forcefully.
Ally grimaced, "Tane is right, you'll never be free if you don't rebel."
The Mechanist looks down, "They'll be here any minute, in my study."
"Let's go then." Ally said, resigned to the upcoming fight. "Damien, Tane. Go and warn the other masters, tell them that a fight is coming, and then get the younger ones to safety. Twelve and over are allowed to fight if they wish."
"Alright." Damien nodded and pulled Tane away down the hall.
Ally looked around at the study; it looked a little like the Southern air temple liabary, with the scrolls in shelves but with gismos and other curious little contraptions covered the walls as well as scrolls. Suddenly a bell donged, "Quickly hide." said the Mechanist as he pushed them behind a table. The Mechanist then pulled a lever and a wheel built into the floor begins to turn rapidly. A trap door in the floor next to the wheel opens and steam rises through the opening. A man in a Fire Nation uniform rose through the opening.
"Give me what you owe us so I can be on my way." Said the fire nation soldier. "Come on, I am a busy man. - Or is there a problem?"
"As a matter of fact there is. For you anyway." said Ally before leaping in front of the Mechanist, "You will be leaving empty handed."
"Ally don't get involved!"
"Who are you little girl to get in the way of fire nation business?" the man sneered.
"The Fire Nation's worst nightmare." Ally said before knocking the man to the ground with an air whip.
"An Air bender!" The man gasped his eyes that once held shock burned into fury. "The destruction of this temple will be on your head!" The man said before blasting fire at Ally, who kicked up an air shield then pushed the man onto the trap door, which opens and the man fell down it.
"Get ready all your able who is prepared to fight." Ally said emotionlessly, turning to the shocked Mechanist.
"I want to help." said the Mechanist.
Ally smiled at him, "Thank you."
The meeting consisted of the Mechanist, Teo, Koiki, the Air masters, three other air benders, and seventy other people who had mastered the art of gliding. "Okay," Ally began, "we've got four kinds of bombs. Smoke, slime, fire and -"
"Stink. Never underestimate the power of stink!" said the Mechanist.
Tane smirked, "We are going to have five stages, and the front line will be the half of the Air benders and a group of others who can glide. They will be firing off the bombs. The next line is where a group makes landslides of snow fall onto the fire-nation. The next is more defensive and right on the doors of the temple, it's where the other half of the Air masters fight and knock them back down the cliff side. Should we fail, then the front lines of attack retreat and help us fight. Then after we have held off all of them we glide back into the air and that is when the Mechanist, upon Snow-Fire, throw's a boiler into the Natural gas creavous. That will be enough to scare the Fire Nation swine away."
"If they don't?" Ally asked.
"Then hopefully you could release your supernatural spiritual powers to blow them off the cliff side." Tane said sarcastically.
Ally sighed heavily, "great, just what I needed- more pressure." she mumbled.
The tense air surrounded the atmosphere reflecting the nervous anticipation on everyone's faces; they were looking out over the edge of the mountain. All of the bison and Snow-fire were behind them.
"Look!" A girl said.
"Into the sky!" Ally called before lunching herself of the edge, accompanied by the other gliders. All the bison's flew up, loaded with bombs of all sorts.
Ally swooped down and under the cloud line, startling the soldiers that were climbing up the mountain slope. Ally landed on the path the soldiers were marching on and closed her glider, and propelled the soldiers backwards with a air blast. The snow whooshed and fell down bellow and fell ledge after ledge covering the soldiers who were climbing.
Teo gave her the thumbs up as she rejoined them in the air. "Nice one!" he called out.
The soldiers left began to run back down. Ally grinned, "We have them on the run! We need more bombs!"
Ally swooped up into the clouds to take a hand full of fire bombs from the nearest bison and swooped back down again into the fighting zone. She bombarded the next batch of soldiers with fire bombs and they fell backwards, onto the ledge bellow them, toppling over their fellow comrades. Ally pegged the last one at a group and they fell over.
Suddenly several huge spikes shot up through the clouds below her. She screamed and barrel rolled out of the way, the spikes were attached to thick chains, they shot up past her and through the clouds above.
Ally looked down as squeaky wheels of tracked vehicles could be heard. Then, Fire Nation tanks roar into view. With two, huge spiked wheels at each end, these heavily armoured vehicles are using the grappling hooks to allow them to scale the cliff face. The gliders droped bombs on them, but they have little effect.
Ally swore under her breath, "They didn't have those a hundred years ago!"
"No shit!" Tom shouted sarcastically, slammed his staff into the cliff face next to the spike that is hooked into the rocks, he pulled it out and one of the tank's start to fall only to shoot out another hook that narrowly missed Tom. The tank begins to scale the cliff side again.
Ally flew up to the top of the mountain and onto a small plateau area at the base of the Temple, she didn't have to wait long before the tanks emerged over the cliff side, fire blasts came at her and she knocks the flames away with her staff, then blowed the tanks off the mountain. Several more tanks appear over the edge and Ally conjured a massive tornado, picking the tanks up then dumping them over the mountain side.
But they just kept coming. "Damn it!" Ally said as she flipped one of the tanks over, but it just rotated back onto its wheels and kept coming. Fire blasted at her again and she spun her staff to form a shield. A tank moved forwards and was now beside her, fire blasted at her again and Ally swiftly moved out of its way and used an amateur air slice on the front of the tank, it clanged and broke.
Ally blinked in surprise, but swiftly managed to dodge another fireball. She leaped in the air and did a few more air slices on the tanks; the wheels of two of them broke off.
Ally's smile would have sent shivers down the soldier's spines had they seen her demonetise mirth. She blasted the broken tanks over the side of the mountain, but seven more replaced them.
Bombs plummet down on the tanks and Ally wrinkled her nose at the smell of rotten eggs mixed with sweaty socks. They seem to have little effect on them but at least the fire benders inside were too distracted with terrible smell too fire bend.
By then Ally was surrounded by the tanks that were now back to blasting fire balls at her. Tom and Damien join her, "Use the air slice to the wheels!" Ally said to them hurriedly, blocking a fire strike. "It's the only way to stop them!"
"What's taking the bomb to the natural gas so long!" Tom shouted above them at the gliding bombers.
"How should I know?" Tane shouted landing behind his little brother to diverge a blast of flame, the then smacked a bomb into a fire benders face and he toppled out of sight in the tank. "Stink." Tane laughed tensely.
Tom laughed as well. "Nice shot." He said as he kicked a air ball into a group of soldiers that had just climbed over the side of the mountain.
Suddenly a snarl erupts over their heads and they saw Snow-fire take off toward the crevasse on one side of the mountain. "Bout' time." Ally grunted while stopping a blast of fire. "Retreat!" Ally called, while stopping five simultaneous fireballs.
The fire nation soldiers shouted out in victory as Ally and the others, including the gliders retreated to the main courtyard.