Ming Baifou and Aang are now sailing towards the Kyoshi Island to steal valuable treasures from the Avatar Kyoshi's shrine. But little do they know, the Fire Nation Navy patrols the waters near the Kyoshi Island. The Fire Nation of today is eerily similar to the Fire Nation a thousand years ago, the people are fiercely patriotic and there is a corporatist socio-economic system and government synonymous to fascism. The Fire Nation is currently ruled by a young Fire Lady; Azusa, she is only nineteen years old but already a skilled fire bender.
The Kyoshi people are now more paranoid than ever in that they constantly fear a take over by the Fire Nation or the Earth Republic.
FNSS "Sozin" Class Battleship
Admiral Zemin sits in his quarters sipping his tea, listening to tracks of his favorite Fire Nation propaganda music and marches. He had the trademark Fire Nation style side beard, he was a large muscular man of medium height (175 cm/5' 9" ft) but he still towered over much of the ship's crew. He was a stern man but he is not the type to lose his cool over something small.
"Sir, we are I detect something on sonar, it looks like an Earth Republic ship." an ensign wearing a black navy uniform informed Zemin.
"A ship...what kind? It can't be anything serious, everything the Fire Nation has in the navy is far superior to any Earth dinghy." the admiral replied
"From the looks of it, it looks like a Patrol boat, nothing too serious...plus it's not heading into Fire Nation waters, it looks like it's heading right for the main Kyoshi Island."
"Hahaha, looks like the Earth Republic is up to their juvenile gunboat tactics again. They tried that with a few PT boats on one our treaty ports...and our cruisers blew up blew up those poor bastards." Zemin said with a slight chuckle
"What are your orders sir?" the ensign asked
"Let those Earth monkeys do whatever they want, their ships are as pathetic as their soldiers are retards that can't even shoot a whole barn."
Ming Baifou and Aang finally land on the island, the patrol boat anchors itself on the unagi bay. Baifou wanted to find some food so he spent his time collecting fruits and then began fishing. Aang decides to fool around and play with the large wildlife on the bay.
"Aang, my lad, you do know that it's dangerous...I've been here before, there are giant unagi that will eat you whole!"
"Don't worry, I've ridden on one years ago...well...1004 years ago." Aang replied
"...ok, in that case, I hope you will be accountable for yourself, just make sure those barbaric she-samurai do not capture you."
"You mean Kyoshi warriors? They're nice people!" Aang responded
"Nice...? They're fu..." Baifou then found himself muzzled and tied up to a log. Aang was also tied up
They are taken to the town, the Kyoshi Island has changed, particularly the warriors. The Kyoshi warriors are much taller in height, about 1.97 meters in height (6' 5" feet), it came from one thousand years of martial lifestyles, evolution and selective breeding, ext.
"Let me go you damn amazons! I have a gun and I'm not afraid to use it on you fan wielding whores!" Baifou yelled out
"You mean this wuss weapon?" Reina, the shoguness of the Kyoshi asked towering over the tied up Baifou
"...y-y-yes.." he said nervous
the Kyoshi fans slice through the stainless steel casing of the gun. The Kyoshi has a lot of contempt for anything modern, especially weapons and modern politics. They saw the modernism of the Fire Nation, Earth Republic and the Water Democracies as invasive, degenerate and destructive to their culture and way of life.
"We tolerate these things here, they take away from the human's ability to achieve great things, they make people lazy, they make people socially degenerate!" Reina says while also busting up Baifou's flashlight and radio equipment.
"THAT'S MY STUFF, YOU BIT...!!" a Kyoshi warrior gutted Baifou in the stomach before he could complete the expletive
"We do not tolerate such language in our society, especially from men!" Reina replied.
Aang the rose his voice "Don't hurt us, we're friends, I am the avatar, a friend of Suki and I am also Kyoshi."
They all laughed and questioned him "You look like Earth Republic saboteurs to us, plus we remember that man, Baifou, that loser tried to loot Avatar Kyoshi's tomb two years ago. A good avatar wouldn't associate with such a petty criminal!"
"You tried to steal from one an avatar tomb!" Aang looked at Baifou with disappointment "I can't believe it, you're a dishonest man!"
Reina cited the seriousness of Aang's criticisms toward Baifou. "Hmm, you sound like you shouldn't even be with him."
"Well, that man found me frozen in the Southern Air Temple, I was frozen for a thousand years. I'm not used to much of the changes that have been put in place in the world...I mean, everything is different...self-propelled carriages are common place (cars, trucks and trains), there are weird weapons that shoot tiny rocks that can kill people and they require no knowledge of earth bending either (guns) and the politics are weird (fascism, socialism/revolutionary government, and democracy.)" Aang explained
"And you know Suki?" Reina asked
"Yes, her and her band of Kyoshi warriors helped out in the fight against the Fire Nation a thousand years ago...she married a water tribe man named Sokka." Aang responded
"Wow...but Suki did not get married to Sokka, she married an Earth Kingdom man...but you're right, she did have an affair with Sokka...but, good enough." Reina has Aang untied "but as for your foul mouthed...friend...he will be put into a cage" Reina said
"WHAAAT...YOU BETTER LET ME GO, I'M FRIENDS WITH AANG, I'M SOKKA, I'M SOKKAAAA!!" Baifou yelled out in a desperate attempt
"No you're not...you don't even look Water...you look like an Earth bandit!" Reina ordered Kyoshi warriors to torture him and put him into a Hanoi Hilton style prison.
Little do they know...the Fire Nation
Fire Nation spies under the command of Admiral Zemin are in the bushes of the main Kyoshi Island, spying on them. They see Kyoshi warriors carry a cage with Ming Baifou."
"psst...hey look, it's an Earth Republic soldier, they failed another invasion...that must be the last man who will be sacrificed to the spirit of Avatar Kyoshi."
The other spy gulped "I heard about the sacrifice ceremonies...from Fire Nation textbooks."
"you know damn well that they're nothing more than government propaganda..."
"Well I heard that the Avatar Kyoshi rises from her grave, tortures whatever poor bastard is sent in front of her and then either eats or inser..." the spy was muffled by the other spy
"ok...that's enough from you...we gotta keep our mind on the mission and find out why the Earth Republic sent a gunboat to Kyoshi."
The Fire Nation spies followed suit after the Kyoshi warriors and the captured archaeologist. They entered a village. The non-warrior peasants were much smaller than the warriors. They are on average about six inches smaller than the average Earth person and eight to ten inches smaller than the average Fire person.
"Sweet avatar Roku...those people are tiny!" the second spy remarked
"Shh...we don't want to be caught, not even by the peasants." the first spy scolded
The Kyoshi warriors interrogated Baifou while he was stripped down to his underwear. Baifou cries out for them to stop. The warriors torture him for three hours straight. The Fire Nation spies witness it and become stirred by their brutality.
"Holy crap...look how they're torturing that Earth man." spy one remarked
"Feh, that Earth bastard deserves it, besides, the Fire Nation is supreme." spy two responded.
"I don't know about you, but I actually wish I could do something to help the poor bastard...but we must focus on our mission." spy one turned around and looked at to see his partner loudly cheer on the Kyoshi."
"YEAH KICK HIS ASS, MAKE THAT LOUSY EARTH MAN FEEL THE PAIN HE DESERVES!!"
Spy one sighs in disbelief as the Kyoshi warriors tie up the cheering spy and put him into the same cage as Baifou. Spy one narrowly escapes into the woodland. Meanwhile, Aang is escorted by Reina to Avatar Kyoshi's shrine. After an air bending demonstration, Reina was convinced Aang was telling the truth. He is happy to find the shrine to be well intact and in good, clean shape.
"We have always protected these Islands from people who want to do us harm and from tyranny. From Chin the Great to Fire Lord Ozai to Moh Lai-Tseng and the Fire Lady Azusa." Reina told Aang as she inspected the shrine for dust and misplaced things. She finds a porcelain figure in the wrong place and places it back in it's rightful place immediately.
"Yeah, I know the story. The people at Chin village tried to boil me in acid for being the avatar until the Rough Rhinos roughed them up." Aang said
"Haha, I heard that place has been renamed to Moh Lai-Tseng City now." Reina responded
The Fire Nation spy is hiding behind the avatar shrine, he overheard the conversation between Reina and Aang.
"...is that little boy...the avatar?" He takes one peek at him "...blue arrow, Air bending stock...he's the only air bender in the world...I don't want to tell the Fire Nation about this. But I have to in order to make up for this foul up my partner made. To be honest, I have very little loyalty to the fascist Fire Nation leadership."
"Shh...did you hear that?" Reina said. "I heard some man whisper something about the Fire Nation."
The spy overheard it and decides to run off only to be caught in booby tap net, set up by the warriors after Baifou tried to steal from the shrine a couple years back.
"SHIT!"
Reina and Aang see the man dangle from the net.
"What are you doing here?!" Aang asked brusquely
"Ugh, I guess I might as well tell the truth, I was sent here to spy on this Island, because a Fire Nation flotilla nearby picked up a small Earth Republic ship on sonar. Me, along with another spy were sent to find out." the spy explained to them
"WHAAAT!! Fire Nation navy!? Earth Republic ship!? I better tell the Kyoshi about this! We're going to keep you men as well as that big mouthed Earth bandit here as bargaining chips." Reina said in a panicky tone.
"Calm down Reina, I wouldn't get too paranoid yet, besides panic leads to poor planning. You warriors fended off three Earth Republic invasions quite successfully despite them having modern weapons and outnumbering your warriors." Aang said trying to calm the Kyoshi down
"True, the Earth Republic is easy to defend from, but Fire Nation soldiers are far more better trained than Earth conscripts...they also have better weapons, leadership, tactics and they're far more ruthless. Earth Republic generals with their revolutionary youth guards and masses of conscript soldier packed into landing ships are juvenile compared to the special operations and combined arms tactics of the Fire Nation military." Reina replied
"Well, from the looks of that guy's face and his opening in sharing information with us, he didn't look to thrilled of working with the Fire Nation navy. I say we let him go, he can come with us back to the Earth Kingdom. I'm sure Baifou will have an extra pair of those tacky green ERRA uniforms for him."
Meanwhile...
Admiral Zemin orders a small platoon of Fire Nation marines to head to the Kyoshi Island to find out what is taking the two spies so long. They reach the shores armed with automatic rifles, sub-machine guns, potato-masher grenades, mortars, wearing camouflage and German-style combat helmets. Two motor rafts filled with Fire Nation marines arrive on the rocky shores of the Kyoshi Islands. Unlike the previous Earth soldiers that tried to invade, the Fire Nation marines relied on smart maneuvers rather than large numbers. They were stealthy, even in the day time, they moved around the Island carefully, avoiding villages and towns that did not contain the prisoners until they closed up on the village with the prisoners. Each marine found themselves a firing point. It was quite evident that the Fire Nation military had much better tactics and strategies than the Earth Republic military. They fired mortars onto the village, kill three Kyoshi warriors on the spot. Yu Yan snipers opened fire on two guards. The rest of the marines snuck in and surprised them.
Aang and Reina made their way to the village where Baifou and the other spy were being held. They arrived at the village to find the people terrified, some of them dead. All the defending warriors slain and buildings on fire. They notice some of the Kyoshi corpse are bleeding from bullet holes, some of the Kyoshi who died from the explosives are missing their legs and arms.
Aang catches one of the marines speaking to naval officers on the ships out at sea. "Sir, there are no more warrior survivors and we have rescued one of our own...however he is not with the other scout, the other guy appears to be an Earth Republic grunt...a rather stupid one at that, he should be no threat, all Earth Republic soldiers are retarded anyways." The marine looks to his left to see Reina and Aang. "Scratch that, I see one Kyoshi warrior alive and her bald son...with an arrow on his head...damn those Kyoshi are strange..." The marine puts away his radio and steadies his rifle at Reina. Aang runs up to him and creates a gust of wind that blows the rifle out of his hand.
"Holy shit...did...he just...air bend...?" The marine looked at Aang with awe. "But rumor has it that the current avatar is Aang and he's the last remaining air bender. He hasn't been seen in a thousand years...how the hell...you can't be Aang!" The shakened soldier creates flames in his hands and begins shooting fire orbs at Aang. Aang dodges the Fire balls and leaps up onto a rooftop and throws wind balls at the soldier, knocking him down. While he's down, Reina pierces his lungs with her fans.
"They must have taken Baifou!" Aang yelled out
"Will you just forget about that thief. He's the least of our worries right now!" Reina looked at the direction they left. "I say good riddance...let the Fire Nation deal with him for I care!" Reina tried to get Aang to stop pressing the issue. "I need to warn the other Kyoshi warriors about the Fire Nation."
"Well...I have to help Baifou no matter what; he is my friend...kinda." Aang responded. Besides, I'm curious what the Fire Nation military looks like now. I'm actually quite fascinated by some of the modern weaponry." Aang added just as he turns his staff into a glider.
Aang follows the Fire Nation marines on to their rafts out to sea to a medium sized Fire Nation cruiser. The two rafts enter through the rear of ship. Aang dives into the sea so he won't be noticed. He swims closer to the ship.