Taran and Ahsoka ran towards the nearest droids attacking Anakin and Obi-Wan and hacked through them. The other droids saw their new adversaries and began to attack them. Taran got himself surrounded by three commando droids, eight of the remaining SBD's, and two droidekas. Ahsoka was surrounded by the remaining two commando droids and eight battle droids with two droidekas. All the while Bane at them from different places while they were fighting, and Dooku was busy battling Anakin and Obi-Wan. The three commando droids worked in a rhythmn so that one would strke when the under had attacked.
"This is very difficult," muttered Taran. The SBD's were also shooting at him at the same time, and coupled with the attacks from the commando droids stretched even his midi-chlorians to see the attacks coming. As Taran was fighting he cut down one commando droid and two of the SBD's, but the droidekas made up for the lost firepower and poured their fire into Taran. Taran had to deflect and block at the same time. However as he was fighting he thought he saw a large, furry object coming towards him. The droids saw it too and stopped what they were doing, including Bane.
"What is th..Oh my God!" yelled a battle droid as two tons of fur flattened him to the ground. The animal sweeped it's tail and the droids were blown back, along with Bane. From the back jumped Aang, Katara, Sokka, Hakoda, Haru, the Duke, and Pipsqueak.
"What are you guys doing, I said stay away," said Taran.
"We couldn't let you fight these things by yourselves," said Aang. At that moment a commando droid launched itself at Taran. He and Taran wrestled on the ground while Taran punched it with his fists, making dents in it, but not doing much damage. Everyone else went and started to fight the droids.
"Taran, do you know how to Metalbend?" said Toph as she took on two SBD's. She sent a boulder into one of them and used an earth column from out of the ground to prople the other one into the sky before it fell back to Earth with a metallic thud.
"No," said Taran in the middle of his fight.
"Feel the earth in the metal," said Toph before she went back to battling the SBD's. Taran tried to concentrate on feeling the elements in the metal of the droid. Using the Force and his bending he looked 'inside' the droid. The droid was all metal with wires and and what not, but Taran could also feel that in this metal there was trace amounts of Earth in it. Taran placed his hands on the droid's head, and willed the Earth in it to separate. As he wrestled he saw the droid's head start to split, and with all his might, ripped the face in half. The droid sputtered sparks from it's neck, and then went still.
Taran slowly got to his feet, the two halves of the droid's head in his hands.
"I'm a Metalbender," he said to himself. But he didn't have to start cheering before he dropped the halves, turned on his lightsaber again, and started to deflect shots from some of the droids attacking Aang. He jumped over there heads and landed next to Aang to help fight.
Elsewhere the coming of the team turned the tide of the fight. Ahsoka and Katara worked together to fight two droidekas and three battle droids. Sokka and Hakoda fought one commando droid, who was using it's vibroblade to attack. The Duke and Pipsqueak fought another droideka, but they had to dodge most of the time since it was still using it's blasters, and Toph and Haru fought on the remaining battled droids, SBD's, and the last droideka.
"What's this Kenobi? Using children to fight your battles!" said Doku as he fought Anakin and Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan didn't respond, but instead hurled attack after attack on Dooku. Aang and Taran fought back-to-back against the last two commando droids. Aang used his staff to block all the blows from the vibroblade while Taran did the same with his lightsaber. As they fought Taran had an idea. He used the water on his glove and sent it to Aang, who used it to slash the head off the droid, and then rebounded it back to Taran who sliced the other droid in half vertically.
"Nice one," said Aang.
"Ditto on that," said Taran. They didn't have long to congradulate one another before Bane came and started shooting. Taran had to push Aang out of the way before being shot.
"Go help the others. I got a personal score to settle with him," said Taran. Aang nodded and rushed to help Katara and Ahsoka. Taran turned back around to Bane and began to deflect every incoming bolt.
"Who was that?" said Bane.
"None of yo damn business," said Taran angrily. Only Bane, Dooku, Ventress, and Grievous would go back into time to screw things up for everyone, and just the thought of that pissed Taran off as he fought to defend his past life and his ancestor. Taran deflected one shot from Bane that sent his pistol flying out of his hands. Taran bended an air swipe that sent Bane sprawling to the ground. Taran put his foot on Bane's back, got his wrists together, and bended water around it and froze it to resemble cuffs. Then he bended the earth under Bane to get him into a sitting position, then bended some more earth to enclose his arms and legs together.
"Stay here," said Taran as he rushed back to go help. Toph and Haru had finished off the droids they were fighting and were now helping Anakin and Obi-Wan fight Dooku. Taran rushed off to help them. When he got there he blocked all the attacks Dooku was aiming at Haru. Dooku saw how much Taran was defending Haru more than everyone else and came to the conclusion that this was someone very important. Taking all the dark side energy he could bring, he launched a massive Force-wave that sent everybody to the ground.
Taran was the first to get up and started to run towards Dooku. Dooku saw this and levitated Haru over to him, careful to keep him in the air so that he couldn't bend. In the air he began to use the Force to choke him. Taran stopped in his tracks, the strangest feeling overcoming him. It was like someone was taking his body and erasing it.
"See Cyneran, I knew this boy had something to do with you. It appears I found one of your ancestors," said Dooku. Haru was losing oxygen fast, and it would only be a matter of time before he completely couldn't breath and he would suffocate, causing him to die along with Taran being erased from existence. Ahsoka and Aang came up to him, but they saw he was starting become transparent. They tried to stop Dooku themselves, but Dooku started to squeeze harder and Taran was slowly fading to nothing. Just as Dooku was giving the final squeeze, a blue object collided to the back of his skull. Dooku was knocked out and fell to the ground, unconscious.
Haru fell to the ground, trying to catch as much breath as possible. Taran became whole again, but stumbled a little when he tried to walk. Ahsoka caught him by his shoulder and helped him regain balance.
"That's boomerang for ya," said Sokka as he came to collect his boomerang.
"So who are you?" said Anakin.
"Master Skywalker, this is Aang, my past life, Katara, Toph, Sokka, Haokda, my ancestor Haru, the Duke, and Pipsqueak," said Taran. Pipsqueak was holding the remains of the droideka he and the Duke had killed.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all," said Obi-Wan. Team Avatar bowed in respect.
"We're sorry you had to go through this," said Ahsoka.
"It's okay, weird stuff happens to us all the time," said Sokka.
"Oh yeah Taran, good work Metalbending," said Toph.
"You can Metalbend?!" said Ahsoka, Obi-Wan, and Anakin.
"It was only a little bit, not a lot," said Taran.
"You tore a droid's head off. You can bend al ot more when you concentrate on the earth inside the metal," said Toph.
"How will you get back to your original time?" said Hakoda.
"I don't know, but I think that Dooku here..Where did he go?" said Obi-Wan. He looked to see that where Dooku had fallen that he was gone. Everyone looked and saw Dooku, with a just freed Bane, running towards nowhere. They dodged air and earth attacks, and Dooku pressed a button on a remote in his cloak. The same kind of portal that they had went through showed up. The two ran through it and were seen no more.
"We have to get there before he closes it and we're stuck here," said Anakin. He ran and dove through it, followed by Obi-Wan. Ahsoka was just about to dive through, but saw Taran had stopped.
"Taran, what is it?" she said.
"Before I go I have to talk to Aang and Haru," said Taran. Taran talked to Haru first.
"Haru, or should I say granddad, thanks for helping me and you're role will be critical in helping your group," said Taran. Taran and Haru exchanged a handshake. Next Aang came.
"Aang, you need to tell Katara now," said Taran, quietly enough for only Aang to hear.
"What do you mean?"
"All I'm sayning is for all you know you could die in this battle of yours. You need to tell her before you go into battle," said Taran. Aang looked confused at first, but then he nodded.
"Taran, the portal's closing," said Ahsoka.
"Go," said Taran. She dove in. Taran could see the portal was slowly closing and knew he had only a few seconds left.
"Also Aang, a sharp, blunted rock holds the key to getting your power back," said Taran. He used the Earth Kingdom hand gesture for bye to everyone and dove through the portal. Once again the strange feeling of time travel enveloped as he zipped through back to the time where he belonged.