A/N: Chapter 3, and my debut in the art of writing battle scenes! Thank you SO MUCH for the reviews, faves and follows, which I will refer to as RFFs from now on :D

Okay, the Action/Adventure/Suspense officially starts here. :) I'm sorry this took a while; I was supposed to upload it sooner, but I had a dreadful case of writer's block. :(

Btw, I wrote the previous chap before "The Search" came out, so the "Azula-sending-rebels" part might not be canon consistent . . .

To Al (Guest): Thanks for your review! Descriptions have always been my weak point, and to be honest, I've never been good with poetry xD But thanks for pointing that out; I'll do my best to improve on that :)

I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender or Legend of Korra.


It took about a second for Aang to realize that the situation was not good.

There were about a hundred men, quickly making their way up the island. They were armed and some seemed capable of firebending. But the worst part was that there were about a dozen—he didn't know what to call them. They seemed to stay in the air with the use of large, rotating blades, and were clearly made of metal. One of them shot out a fire ball, which Aang quickly bended back, causing the flying metal thing to explode.

One down, 11 and an army more to go. This was going to be fun.

Aang's eyes narrowed. "Azula's been more active than we thought. She's recruited an inventor."

"How're you gonna bring down those er . . ." Katara fumbled for the right word. "What do you call those flying metal things?"

"Huh, I don't know. I guess we need Sokka and his witty nicknaming skills right now, don't we?" he grinned.

She grinned back. "Guess we did take those skills for granted." She glanced back up at the 'flying metal things' with a worried expression. "If only Toph were here, these things would be down in no time," she muttered wistfully. "Don't you think you need your glider for this?" She turned to him.

Aang shook his head. "There's no time to go back and get it. I'll just use that new move I was talking about for those FMTs."

"FMTs?" Katara asked, raising an eyebrow.

"What? 'Flying metal things' is a mouthful."

She rolled her eyes. "Fine. You take care of those . . . FMTs; I'll try to help you as much as I can." She then turned and sent a gigantic wave of water at the rebels nearest to the shore. "But I'll deal with these guys first." She drew two large tentacle-like water whips from the sea before running off into the battle. Aang watched her for a moment before shaking his head, smiling. His wife/waterbending sifu was one kick-butt waterbender, all right.

Another explosion shook him back into reality. "Right, right, that move Zuko taught me . . ." he muttered. He balled his hands up into his fists, put one foot forward and stood on slight tip-toe, just as he had been taught. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, concentrating his energy into his fists and feet. A few seconds later, fire blasted out of the ends of his limbs, shooting him upwards.

"WOOOOOHOOOOO!" he yelled in exhilaration, just like on his first time.

From the ground, Katara looked up and saw her husband shooting through the air, fire blasting out of his feet and fists. She didn't have to look hard for the crazy, I'm-having-the-thrill-of-a-lifetime grin she knew was on his face.

She shook her head; Aang was Aang.

A man holding a sword started running up to her from behind. She blocked the sword with an ice wall, which she swiftly unfroze and refroze to hold the mans legs to the ground.

"What do you want? Why are you attacking us?"She glared at him.

The rebel just glared back. "I don't have to tell you anything."

"You don't want to mess with me," she said venomously. The ice started to creep up his body.

"Don't waste your time on me, waterbender. You have other things to deal with," he sneered.

Katara looked around and saw that some more rebels had started to surround her. She let out a frustrated groan before gathering water and forming it into the Octopus Stance.

Meanwhile, Aang hovered near the FMTs. He had put out the fire from his hands, so he was now relying on the fire blasting out of his feet alone as he studied the strange things. "What I wouldn't give to be a metalbender right now," he said to himself. Maybe if he could somehow jam the blades . . . or destroy them.

He raised his hand to send a slice of air at the nearest FMT, but ended up doing a somersault instead. "Woah!" he cried. "Okay, next lesson from Sifu Hotman: how to bend while flying," he said after regaining balance.

Unfortunately, he had caught the attention of an FMT. It turned to face him and sent a fireball his way. Aang propelled himself to the right, barely dodging it.

To his horror, all of the other FMTs turned around as well. "Uh-oh."

He blasted himself across the sky in a panic. How was he going to take those things down? Maybe he should have listened to Katara and gotten his glider.

He made a sharp turn to the right before glancing back behind him. There were still some FMTs hot on his trail, but there were some that lagged behind, clumsily trying to change direction.

Wait a minute, he thought. That's it! He looked below him. He was right above the water.

Perfect. He was going to need Katara's help, though.

He looked back to see if they were all following him again before plunging down headfirst. As expected, the FMTs followed him. "Katara!" The waterbender looked up. "I need you to jam the metal blades!" Aang yelled.

Her blue eyes looked confused for a moment, then widened in understanding. She reformed her Octopus Stance into a tidal wave and rode on it to reach the shore (effectively washing away a good number of rebels). Aang glanced behind him; yes, they were all following him. He suddenly pulled up from the dive, causing four FMTs to crash into the sea. The rest continued following Aang.

Katara drenched the blades of those within her reach and froze them into blocks of ice, rendering them unable to fly. They too, fell into the water.

The few that she missed, however, continued to chase Aang, who had just landed back on the island. Without the flying to limit him, he sent an "airbending slice" (as Sokka would call it) at the FMTs, cutting off the propellers from the bodies.

He felt a pang as he watched the FMTs fall into the water and go up in flames. Being an airbender, he hated violence and destruction . . . but if there was one thing he hated more, it was the people he loved being put in danger.

He then remembered Katara, and rushed to help her.

Apparently, the rebels had decided that attacking her in groups from different sides was the best strategy. They came at her in threes in every direction, all at the same time. She did nothing, which made Aang start to panic. Just as he was about to interfere, she evaded the assault with a backflip, causing the men to run into each other. She then proceeded to freeze them in a gigantic block of ice.

A smile pulled up at the corners of the airbender's lips. Seems like Toph isn't the only one who knows how to wait.

While she was doing this, however, a rebel came running at her. Aang bended a large rock at him, knocking him into the sea.

Katara looked up. "Thanks," she said, grinning.

He grinned back, then groaned, seeing more men coming. "Seriously, how many are they?"

"A lot, apparently. They're using numbers to make up for their lack of skill. They're trying to tire us out," Katara said.

They assumed their usual stance, back to back. Naturally, the rebels started to surround them.

Aang raised a cylinder made of earth and set it on fire. With each wave of his hand, a disk from the cylinder about half an inch thick was sent flying, each one knocking a rebel unconscious. Katara was doing the same, only she used ice instead of earth and didn't set it on fire (of course).

When their disks ran out, Aang sent a ball of air at an incoming group, knocking them to the ground. Katara trapped them in a prison made of icicles while Aang immobilized the others by trapping their limbs in earth.

"Firebenders incoming!" Katara said.

Aang turned and saw a whole battalion of firebenders closing in on them. Something told him that their simple traps weren't going to work, and those guys could melt right through Katara's ice prisons.

As if to prove a point, they sent a fireball at the two of them, which Aang extinguished just in the nick of time. "We're going to have to make use of the sea," he said. Katara nodded at him.

Aang raised his hands and concentrated. His hands trembled from the effort, but eventually he managed to raise the earth the firebenders were on with enough force to catapult them into the water. Meanwhile, another group sent a blast of fire at Katara. She protected herself by creating a wall of water before washing them away into the sea with a massive wave.

"I gotta admit, Aang, I missed the adrenaline rush," she remarked.

"It is pretty nostalgic," he agreed.

"And to think our last fight was years ago," she mused. "We still got it, huh?"

Aang scoffed. "Of course. We're talking about Master Katara and Avatar Aang here."

"True," she grinned.

The mood was broken, however, at the sight of another wave of rebels approaching.

"I thought that was the last of them," Katara groaned.

"Afraid not," Aang said regretfully, as he got ready to fight once again.

He was so busy holding the rebels off that he didn't hear the shrill voice. He didn't notice Katara leave his side, either.


As for the FMTs, in our generation, we call them helicopters ^_^

Regarding the "new move", it's not exactly new, but I noticed only Azula and Ozai used it in ATLA, and only Iroh used it in LoK. Hey, if they could do it, then why not the Avatar and Sifu Hotman? :D

I was going to include a flashback about Zuko teaching the move to Aang, but it turned out too long so I decided to make it into a one-shot instead. Watch out for it :D

For the waterbending moves, I mostly referred to Katara's battle with Master Pakku. And the episode "Crossroads of Destiny" for the Octopus Stance-turned-Tidal Wave thing.

The battle scene . . . too weird? Hard to imagine? Okay? Decent? Crazy? Trying hard? Inconsistent? Impossible? Please tell me what you think and point out anything you think needs editing. Feedback is much appreciated, as well as suggestions for improvement. :D