I TOLD YOU THAT THIS STORY WAS MAKING A BIG COMEBACK. TWO CHAPTERS IN ONE DAY. ANYWAY, AS USUAL, TRANSFORMERS IS OWNED BY HASBRO AND AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER IS OWNED BY NICKELODEON.
Transformers: Avatar Chronicles
Chapter 15: The Day of Black Sun part 2
The eclipse was inching closer and closer, and the chaos had only escalated in the battlefield. The plaza had been taken and the invasion force was inching closer to the capital, despite the futile attempts to hold them back by the firebenders and the Vehicons. Meanwhile, Sokka was with Bato, Warpath, Optimus and an earthbender discussing their next move when Sokka spotted Katara helping their still wounded father through the plaza doors.
"Dad! You're on your feet again!" Sokka excitedly exclaimed as he, Warpath, Toph and Optimus ran up to him while Katara allowed Hakoda to sit down.
"Thanks to your sister," Hakoda replied. "I'm in no shape to fight but maybe there is someway I could help."
"Everything's going smoothly and the eclipse hasn't even kicked in yet," Sokka reported.
"Then let us hope that our luck will continue," Optimus said before turning into his vehicle mode. "For now, it is time for me to confront Megatron." With that, he sped towards the capital when Katara noticed something coming FROM the capital.
"Katara, you seem distracted, is something wrong" Hakoda asked her daughter.
"Yeah...is that...Is that Aang!?" Katara asked, not believing her eyes.
"What!?" Sokka asked. Sure enough, it was indeed Aang gliding to them and landing in front of his friends.
"Please tell me you're here because this 'all powerful Firelord' was really a big wimp and you didn't even need the eclipse to WHAM! kick his butt?" Warpath asked.
"He wasn't home...no one was...the entire palace city is abandoned," Aang replied. Sokka's eyes widened in horror as there was only one reason for this.
"They knew..." he said.
"It's over," Aang said with his head down. "The Firelord is probably long gone. Far away on some remote island where he'll be safe during the eclipse."
"No, my instincts tell me he wouldn't go too far," Sokka said. He would have a secret bunker. Somewhere he could go so it'll be safe during a siege but still be close enough to lead his nation."
"If it's a secret bunker we're looking for, I'm just the girl to find it," Toph remarked.
"And you're gonna need me to POW! kick some Decepticon tailpipes!" Warpath remarked before turning on his comlink. "Ratchet, have either of the aerialbots been repaired yet?"
"I'm still working on Breakaway, but Powerglide should be good to go," Ratchet responded.
"Send him here," Warpath ordered before switching off his comlink. "We're gonna need all the help we can get." Sokka then pulled out a small device that resembled a pocket watch.
"The Mechanist gave me this timing device," he said. "It looks like we've got about ten minutes until the full eclipse. Ten minutes to find the Firelord."
"We can still do this," Aang said with a determined look on his face. "We can still win this day."
"Wait, if they knew we were coming, it could all be a trap," Katara suggested. "Maybe we should use the time we have left to make sure all of us get out of here safely."
"Everyone who's here today came prepared to risk everything for this mission," Hakoda replied. "They know what's at stake. If there's still a chance and there's still hope, I think they would want Aang to go for it."
"What do you think?" Sokka asked Aang. "You're the one who has to face the Firelord. Whatever you decide, I'm with you." Aang then stood up and faced toward the battlefield.
"I've got to try," Aang answered.
Meanwhile, Megatron was watching as Optimus advanced towards the city.
"Lord Megatron, should we send a team in to stop him?" a Vehicon asked.
"No..." Megatron answered. "I shall deal with Prime myself." With that, he got up from his throne and walked off.
While that was going on, Appa, carrying Aang, Sokka and Toph, was flying alongside Powerglide and Warpath to the top of the volcano where the Fire Nation capital is. Once they landed, Aang, Sokka and Toph jump off of Appa.
"Do you feel anything down there?" Aang asked Toph as she placed her hand to the ground.
"Yep," Toph answered. "There are natural tunnels criss-crossing through the inside of the volcano."
"Anything like a structure inside?" Warpath asked before Toph plunged her hands into the ground, gripping the earth with her fingers.
"There's something big, dense, and made of metal deep in the heart of the volcano," Toph answered.
"Sounds like a secret bunker if you ask me," Powerglide said before Toph bended a hole into the side of the volcano while Momo curiously stuck his head out from behind the headpiece of Appa's armor.
"Stay safe, we'll be back soon," Aang said to Momo before the five of them enter through the hole and into a dark tunnel.
"This way!" Toph said before running down one side of the tunnel with the others following her.
"What would we do without you?" Warpath asked.
"Perish in burning hot magma," Toph sarcastically answered before Sokka flinched away from a small stream of lava they were passing.
"Yeah, pretty much!" Sokka responded. The five of them then came across a cavern filled with active lava vents all over the floor.
"The tunnel continues on the other side and it leads right to the bunker," Toph reported.
"We'll have to be fast, but careful," Sokka said as he started to run across, but immediately stopped before one of the vents erupted close to him, causing him to yell in surprise as Aang swings his staff and cools the lava with airbending.
"Explain how that was careful," Powerglide remarked.
"I was wrong," Sokka admitted. "We need to be fast, careful, AND lucky." The group then quickly ran across the cavern, dodging the erupting steam and lava, but then see that what was ahead was nothing but a river of lava.
"There's no floor!" Sokka exclaimed. "It's just a river of lava!" Powerglide responded by transforming into his jet mode and opening hic cockpit.
"Then climb aboard kids!" he said before the three kids climbed into the cockpit. "And awaaaaay we go!" With that, Powerglide immediately boosted to flight with Warpath beside him, easily flying across the river before landing safely to the other side, letting the kids out before transforming to his robot mode. The group then advanced to a large metal bunker built against the cavern wall.
"That's some door!" Sokka exclaimed before Toph walked up to the door, placed her ear against it and knocked on it.
"Not a problem," Toph said before she bashed her elbows against the door, took a step back, kissed her middle and index fingers, and stabbed them through the middle of the door, ripping it open. They advance through as Toph points to the direction that they needed to go.
"I am SO glad we added you to the group!" Sokka said.
Meanwhile, War Minister Qin was walking down a tunnel, whistling, when the group ran past him. He gasped in shock, which got their attention, and they got into battle stances, which caused Qin to raise his hands in surrender.
The Firelord's chamber is that way down the hall to the left and up the stairs, you can't miss it!" Qin quickly said out of fear.
"Thanks!" Aang said in a slightly cheerful manner as the group pressed forward. Once they were gone, Qin sighed in relief, made sure no one saw him, and continued walking down the tunnel, resuming whistling.
Back with the group, Sokka checked the Mechanist's device one last time.
"Only thirty seconds until the total eclipse!" he reported before they made it to another large door, this time with a flame symbol on the top of it. Aang then took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
"You ready kid?" Warpath asked.
"Yes," Aang answered. "I ready to face the Firelord." With that, he immediately airbended the doors off the hinges and saw someone sitting on the throne, but their eyes widened when they realized it wasn't the Firelord...it was Azula.
"So, you are alive after all," Azula said to Aang with a wicked smirk on her face. "I had a hunch that you survived, but it doesn't matter. I've known about the invasion for months."
Meanwhile, Zuko stood in front of a much smaller door within the tunnels.
"I'm ready to face you," was all he said before he slides the door open to reveal Firelord Ozai, guards surrounding him, slightly surprised to see his son.
"Prince Zuko, what are you doing here?" he asked.
While that was going on, Optimus walked through the inside of the palace when he heard footsteps behind him. He turned to see his old nemesis Megatron with his fusion cannon ready.
"Megatron, your treacherous ways end here," Optimus declared as he deployed his sword.
"We shall see Prime," Megatron replied as he deployed his own sword before charging at Optimus.
Back outside, the eclipse was beginning as the invasion force was advancing up the side of the volcano.
"The eclipse is starting!" the Mechanist reported. "Put on your eclipse glasses!" With that, he and the other humans put on a visor with thin slits over their eyes as the moon completely blacked out the sun.
"Why are you here?" Ozai asked his son as he aproached him.
"I'm here to tell the truth," Zuko answered.
"Telling the truth during the middle of an eclipse...this should be interesting," Ozai responded before motioning for his guards to leave.
"First of all, in Ba Sing Se, it was Megatron who took down the Avatar, not me," Zuko said.
"Why would he lie to me about that?" Ozai asked.
"Because the Avatar is not dead," Zuko answered. "He survived."
"What!?" Ozai asked in an alarmed state.
"In fact, he's probably leading this invasion," Zuko added. "He could be on his way here right now."
"Get out!" Ozai yelled as he stood up, furious at his son. "Get out of my sight right now if you know what's good for you."
"That's another thing," Zuko said. "I'm not taking orders from you anymore."
"You will obey me, or this defiant breath will be your last!" Ozai responded, seething with rage as he got up and started to walk to his son until Zuko unseathed his swords.
"Think again!" Zuko replied. "I am going to speak my mind, and you are going to listen." Ozai just glared at Zuko before
sitting back down.
Back with Optimus and Megatron, their fight had escelated as their swords clashed with each other and they ocasionally exchanged punches to the face. Megatron then saw an opening and tripped Optimus before kicking his face, sending him flying to the wall. Megatron then fired his fusion cannon at him, but Optimus easily dodged the blasts and returned fire with his own blasters.
"Where is he!?" Aang asked Azula as him and the others were in a battle stance. "Where's the Firelord!?"
"Hm, you mean I'm not good enough for you?" Azula sarcastically asked as she stood up. "You're hurting my feelings." Warpath then stepped forward.
"If I were you, 'princess,' I'd start talking before KAPOW! I blast ya!" Warpath remarked.
"And stick to the truth," Toph added as she stepped forward. "I'll be able to tell if you're lying."
"Are you sure?" Azula asked as she stepped down from the throne. "I'm a pretty good liar...I am a 400 foot tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings."
"...Okay you're good I admit it," Toph replied before bending the earth underneeth Azula to encase her from her neck down. "But you really ought to consider telling the truth anyway." Azula however mearely smirked as a laser blast shattered her prison, much to the shock of the group. Azula, unphased, just wipped the dust from her armor as three giant Insecticons descended from the cealing.
"I believe you know the Insecticons," Azula said as the Insecticons started howling. "These are their leaders: Kickback, Shrapnel and Bombshell."
"Great...more giant bugs...just what we needed," Sokka sarcastically remarked in fear.
"Insecticons, attack!" Kickback ordered as they transformed and started flying to the group.
Back outside, the invasion force was advancing to the city.
"Surround the periphery!" Bato ordered. "We have to secure the palace by the time the eclipse is over. Otherwise, we'll be in for the fight of our lives." Meanwhile, Haru, Tyro, Jazz and a group of earthbenders advanced to a group of firebenders.
"Stop!" Tyro ordered. "Surrender peacefully and we won't harm you!"
"We'll never surrender!" one of the firebenders responded as he dashed forward and tried to attack, but only produces a pathetic fizzle. They tried to back away when they bumped into something. They turned to see Mirage deactivating his cloaking field, looking down at the firebenders.
"Er, okay, we surrender," the firebender said.
Meanwhile, Katara was helping her father up the volcano, looking down at the palace.
"There it is," Hakoda said. "The Fire Nation royal palace. We've come so far."
"It's not over yet," Katara said as she and Hakoda begun to descend down to the city.
"For so long, all I wanted was for you to love me, to accept me," Zuko continued to his father. I thought it was my honor that I wanted but really, I was just trying to please you. You, my father, who banished me just for talking out of turn. My father, who challenged me, a 13-year-old boy, to an Agni Kai. How can you possibly justify a duel with a child?"
"It was to teach you respect!" Ozai answered.
"It was cruel!" Zuko argued. "And it was wrong."
"Then you've learned nothing," Ozai coldly responded.
"No, I've learned EVERYTHING!" Zuko replied. "Growing up, we were taught that the Fire Nation was the greatest civilization in history and somehow, the war was our way of sharing our greatness with the rest of the world. What an amazing lie that was. The people of the world are terrified by the Fire Nation, and the Decepticons have only made things worse! The people don't see our greatness, they hate us! And we deserve it. We've created an era of fear in the world. And if we don't want the world to destroy itself, we need to replace it with an era of peace and kindness." Ozai responded by cackling in a mocking manner.
"Your uncle has gotten to you, hasn't he?" he asked.
"Yes," Zuko answered before smiling slightly. "He has." Ozai just continued glaring at his son.
Meanwhile, Optimus was thrown to the wall by Megatron, causing him to crash into the tyrant's throne room as Megatron walked towards him.
"Still fighting for the weak Optimus," Megatron said as Optimus got back up, but Megatron didn't give him the chance to attack as he knocked him to thr ground again. "I'm going to make them suffer Prime, these humans that you love so much, I will take them all from you, one by one." Just before Megatron could strike however, Optimus got out his blade and blocked Megatron's attack, then gets back up and the clash continued.
Back with the group, Toph earthbended a wall to try and block the Insecticons from reaching them, but they easily broke through as they advanced and grabbed Warpath and Powerglide and tossed them to the wall. Aang tried using his airbending to blow them away, but they were so big that it only pushed them back slightly. They then turned to their robot modes and were ready to attack when Powerglide and Warpath fired laser blasts at them to distract them.
"We'll fend them off!" Warpath said. "Go get Azula!" The three kids nodded as they quickly ran from the Insecticons, who tried to chase them, only for Warpath and Powerglide to start firing at them. Azula quickly got up from her throne and ran for the exit and down a hallway, with the kids chasing her, when Sokka realized something.
"Wait!" he shouted which caused Aang, Toph and Azula to stop in their tracks. "Don't you see what she's doing? She's just playing with us. She hasn't even attacked yet! She's not even trying to win this fight!"
"Not true, I'm giving it my all," Azula sarcastically remarked.
"You're just trying to keep us here and waste all our time!" Toph declared.
"Um, right, I think your friend just said that genius," Azula insultingly responded. "And since you can't see, I should tell you I'm rolling my eyes."
"I'll roll your whole head!" Toph angrily responded.
"She's just baiting you again," Sokka reminded her.
"Okay, so what do we do?" Aang asked. "Just ignore her?"
"We don't have a choice," Sokka answered. "We just have to get out of here and find the Fire Lord on our own somehow." With that, the three kids turned to walk away from Azula.
"It's a trap," Azula suddenly said. "Don't say I didn't warn you."
"Ignore her!" Sokka said as he kept walking.
"So, Sokka's your name, right?" Azula asked. "My favorite prisoner used to mention you all the time." That time she got Sokka to turn around. "She was convinced that you were going to come rescue her. Of course, you never came and she gave up on you." Knowing who she was talking about, tears started to fill Sokka's eyes before he yelled in rage and rushed at Azula.
"Come and get it," Azula said with a smug smirk as she deployed a hidden blade from the sleeve of her armor, but Toph could easily sense it, so she tossed a stone at her, pinning Azula's hand to the wall and causing her to drop the knife and grunt in pain. Sokka then pinned her to the wall, glaring into her golden eyes.
"Where...is...Suki!?" Sokka asked.
"After I leave here today, I'm going to free Uncle Iroh from his prison, and I'm going to beg for his forgiveness," Zuko bluntly told his father. "He is the one who has been a real father to me." Ozai's response was to chuckle sarcastically.
"That's just beautiful," he sarcastically responded. "Maybe he can pass down to you the ways of tea and fauilure."
"But I've come to an even more important decision," Zuko added. "I'm going to join the Avatar and the Autobots, and I'm going to help them defeat you and Megatron."
"Really?" Ozai responded with a sly grin. "Since you're a full blown traitor now and you want me gone, why wait? I'm powerless, you've got your swords, why don't you just do it now?"
"Because I know my own destiny," Zuko answered. "Taking you down is the Avatar's destiny." With that, he seathed his swords and turned to walk away. "Goodbye."
"Coward!" Ozai shouted. "You think you're brave enough to face me but you'll only do it during an eclipse. If you have any real courage, you'll stick around until the Sun comes out. Don't you want to know what happened to your Mother?" Upon hearing that, Zuko stopped and turned around. Ozai responded by grinning venomously, thinking he has him now.
"What happened that night?" Zuko asked.
"My father, Firelord Azulon, had commanded me to do the unthinkable to you, my own son, and I was going to do it," Ozai answered. "Your Mother had found out and swore she would protect you at any cost. She knew I wanted the throne and she proposed a plan. A plan in which I would become Firelord and your life would be spared."
"Where's Suki!?" Sokka angrily asked Azula, who just smirked at Sokka's anger.
"Sokka, she won't talk," Aang said as he grabbed Sokka's shoulder.
"Where are you keeping her!?" Sokka asked Azula.
"Your Mother did vicious, treasonous things that night," Ozai continued. "She knew the consequences and accepted them. For her treason, she was banished."
"So she's alive," Zuko said as a tear streamed from his eye.
"Perhaps," Ozai coldly responded. "Now I realize that banishment is far too merciful a penalty for treason. Your penalty will be FAR steeper." And with that, Ozai could feel his strength return to him, meaning only one thing: the eclipse was over. He then started bending lightning and shot it at Zuko, but surprisingly, he caught it by the tips of his fingers and launched it back at Ozai, causing him to fly back into the wall and start a fire. Zuko took this time to escape as Ozai glared at his son.
"Oh, sounds like the firebending's back on," Azula remarked as she shot a blue flame at Sokka, who barely dodged it, then breaks free from her restraints. The kids prepared for a battle when Azula got back up.
"Dad's all the way at the end of the hall and down the secret stairway on the left. I'm sure he'll be more than happy to see you now," she said with an evil grin on her face as she quickly ran down the tunnel.
"I fell for it!" Sokka exclaimed when he realized what happened. "I used up all our time."
"It's not your fault Sokka," Toph replied. "Azula was ready for us. She had every move planned out."
"And now it's too late," Sokka hopelessly said.
"Maybe it's not too late," Aang suggested. "The eclipse is over, but I can face the Firelord anyway."
"No, I don't think that's a good idea," Sokka replied.
"But I'm ready!" Aang argued. "I came here with a job to do and everyone's counting on me!"
"The Firelord knew we were coming this time," Toph said. "We thought we had surprise on our side but we didn't. It just wasn't our day. What we need to do now is go get Warpath and Powerglide and go help our friends."
"I guess you guys are right," Aang admitted.
"You'll have another chance," Sokka said as he placed a hand on Aang's shoulder. "I know you will."
Meanwhile, Optimus was gaining the upper hand, pinning Megatron to the ground before the monitor in his throne room turned on.
"I suggest you turn to see what I have in store for the invasion force Optimus," Megatron suggested. Optimus turned, and his optics widened in horror when he saw the six Construticons, the five Combaticons, and five beast Decepticons known as the Terrorcons, as well as an armada of Fire Nation blimps, ready to strike.
"Your choice Prime," Megatron said. "Either leave now to assist your puny invasion force, or stay and fight, and risk the lives of these humans you have sworn to protect." Optimus just glared at Megatron before getting up and running out the throne room. Megatron then turned back to the monitor and started cackling evily, believing he has this entire war in the palm of his hands, when suddenly something blasted him in the back and he fell to the ground, leaking energon. He turned to see Azula, in a position that proved that she had bended lightning at the tyrant. Megatron, consumed with fury, pointed his fusion cannon at her before it suddenly was disabled by a null ray blast, and Starscream walked to the now wounded Megatron.
"Oh how the mighty hath fallen," Starscream remarked as he stood above Megatron, pointing his missiles at him. "I have been waiting for this moment for eons." Megatron just glared at Starscream, then clossed his eyes, accepting his defeat, before a missile launched from the seeker blasted a hole in Megatron's chest, and the tyrant was no more.
Back outside, the invasion force had successfuly surrounded the palace. Katara then layed Hakoda against one of the tanks, then the two of them took off their glasses.
"What should we do Hakoda?" Bato asked. "Shouldn't something have happened by now?"
"I don't know," Hakoda answered. "But now that the eclipse is over I expect we're going to see some firebenders any minute." Then, Optimus ran up to Hakoda and Bato.
"The invasion is a failure!" he declared. "We must retreat immediately!" Just then, they heard the intercom system built into the Fire Nation activate.
"Attention firebenders and Decepticons," Starscream said through the intercom. Everyone in the invasion force stopped dead in their tracks to listen to what Starscream had to say. "It brings me great sorrow to report that during the invasion, an unknown Autobot snuck into the capital, and KILLED Lord Megatron. Rest assured though, he will not have died in vain, for we shall now take vengeance on this petty invasion force. Release the blimps and the Combinders!" The second he said that, the Fire Nation war balloons and zeppelins started to rise upward, much to the horror of the Mechanist.
"My own invention!" he exclaimed. "Oh this is terrible!" But that wasn't the worse part. Then the invasion force saw the Constructicons, Combaticons and Terrorcons advance to them.
"Constructicons, merge to form Devastator!" Scrapper yelled to his fellow Constructicons.
"Combaticons, merge and form Bruticus!" the Combaticon leader 'Onslaught' ordered his fellow Combaticons.
"Terrorcons, merge and form Abominus!" the Terrorcon leader 'Hun-Gurr' yelled to his fellow Terrorcons. With that, each of the robots transformed into a limb each and merged into 'Devastator,' 'Bruticus,' and 'Abominus,' much to the horror of the entire invasion force. Then Katara noticed Appa and pointed to where they were.
"They're back!" Katara shouted as Appa, carrying the kids, with Powerglide and Warpath flying beside him, flew to the invasion force when the group noticed the three Combinders and blimps heading to the invasion force. Appa then landed and Katara ran up to Aang.
"It was all a trap," Sokka reported before the kids jumpped off Appa and Powerglide and Warpath landed. "Azula knew we were coming and she's plotted out every move. We just got to get to the beach as fast as we can. If we can make it to the submarines, maybe we can get away safely."
"Agreed," Optimus said before turning to the invasion force. "Everyone, fall back!" With that, everyone retreated.
While that was going on, Zuko ran to a mysteriously damaged Capital City prison to free his uncle. He ran past craters and injured firebenders and made it to his uncle's cell.
"Uncle!" he exclaimed, but then he noticed that there was a huge hole in Iroh's cell, and he was gone. Zuko then grabbed a dazed warden by the collar.
"Where is my uncle!?" he demanded.
"He's gone," the warden answered in shock and awe. "He busted himself out. I... I've never seen anything like it! He was like a one man army!"
Meanwhile, the invasion force had successfully retreated from the city, but then the zeppelins caught up to them and opened their bomb bay doors.
"Try and find cover!" Sokka suggested. "I think we're about to see some bombs!" Everyone then huddled together as Toph bended a large slab of stone above them before the zeppelins started dropping bombs at them. Some of them impacted the stone shields protecting the invasion force, but Toph bended two supports from the ground to keep the slab from collapsing. Then, surprisingly, the zeppelins past them.
"Why aren't they turning around to attack us again?" Bulkhead asked.
"That doesn't make any sense, unless...they're going to destroy the submarines!" Ironhide exclaimed.
"How are we all going to escape!?" Sokka asked.
"We're not," Optimus responded which got the invasion force's attention. "The Autobots and the adults will stay and fight while the children, along with Warpath and Powerglide will go somewhere safe. It will be the only way to keep hope alive."
"Once the kids have left the Fire Nation, we'll surrender," Bato explained. "We'll be prisoners but we'll all survive this battle."
"I've got some experience with the Fire Nation prisons," Tyro added. "It's not going to be easy but we'll get by."
"They're at the beach already!" Sokka exclaimed as the zeppelins started dropping bombs at the subs, destroying them. The kids eventually decided that this was the best option and said goodbye to their loved ones. First, Teo said goodbye to his father as The Mechanist helped his son on Appa's saddle.
"Bye son," the Mechanist said as he hugged Teo.
"Bye Dad," Teo said in a sad tone. "I'm really proud of you." Then The Duke tried to climb Appa before Pipsqueak helped him up onto Appa's saddle.
"I'll miss you Pipsqueak," The Duke said to his friend.
"Take care, The Duke," Pipsqueak replied. Next, Haru and Tyro hugged each other goodbye.
"I'll be back for you Dad," Haru said to his father.
"If we don't escape on our own first," Tyro remarked before Haru bowed to his father and got on Appa. Then Katara and Sokka said goodbye to their father.
"We lost today, but we've never been this close," Hakoda said. "We tasted victory and that counts for something."
"We'll miss you Dad," Katara said before she and her brother gave their father one final hug.
"Bye Dad," Sokka said. "We won't be apart for too long this time. I promise." Finally, Katara and Toph went up to say goodbye to their Autobot companions.
"We won't be apart again for too long kiddo, I promise," Ironhide said to Toph as she went up and hugged his leg.
"(Goodbye Katara,)" Bumblebee solumly beeped.
"We'll miss you both," Toph said before she, Sokka and Katara got on Appa. Then, Aang leapped up onto Appa to say something to the invasion force.
"Thank you all for being so brave and so strong," he said. "I'm going to make this up to you." With that, Aang commanded Appa to take off with Powerglide and Warpath beside him. Then the three Combinders started to approach the invasion force.
"Surrender or die!" Devastator ordered as he, Bruticus and Abominus got their weapons ready.
"We must hold them off until Aang and the others have left the Fire Nation!" Optimus ordered before he and the others charged to the Combinders.
Meanwhile, Azula watched Appa, Warpath and Powerglide fly away inside her zeppelin.
"Should we follow them Princess?" a Vehicon asked.
"No, they're too fast," Azula answered. "It doesn't matter, they'll be back."
Back with the kids and the two bots, Aang got an idea for where they would go.
"I know just the place for us to go where we'll be safe for a while," Aang said to the others. "The Western Air Temple." But as Appa flied into the horizon, the group failed to notice a war balloon following them. A war balloon, piloted by Zuko.
Later that day, Starscream had arranged a funeral for Megatron on a Fire Nation ship. Not that he wanted to, but because he needed to keep suspicions of him killing Megatron as far away from him as possible. Megatron's body was then released into the sea as Starscream had some final words to say.
"With the tragic death of our lord and master, the title of supreme leader of the Decepticons now falls to his second in command," he said before he grinned wickedly. "All, hail, Starscream."
"ALL HAIL STARSCREAM!" replied every Decepticon on the ship...except one. His name: 'Cyclonus,' and he was sure that there was more to the death of Megatron than what Starscream had said.
*QUE AVATAR ENDING THEME*