Author's note: Yet again I have managed to create another chapter to these stories. I would fist like to thank Micheal the Archangel for the ideas to the series (don't worry, I remember them). If you all want to see the ideas posted to me, I will put them in this section. Also in case there comes some complication, I'll put a voting section. And of course if you have more ideas in your mind, feel free to tell them. After all I haven't even closely created the whole story. Anyway, enjoy this new part and wish luck for inspiration

Itatchi and Kisame travelled around the Omashu, looking for supplies to their next journey.

"So you are saying these gabbages are the best in the Omashu?" Kisame asked from a merchant, whose cart was full of cabbages.

"Oh yes, absolutely!" Merchant answered. "If a cabbage gets better from this, it is not a cabbage anymore"

Kisame looked closer to one of the cabbages. "I'll take six" Kisame took the cabbages, paid them and put in his backpack. Soon Itachi came to see Kisame.

"Do you have food?" He asked.

"Indeed I do" Kisame said showing his backpack. "Mine is already full. How about you?"

"I haven't really concentrated on collecting supplies"

"Why? What would be more important than getting supplies?"

"Finding the Avatar for example"

Kisame sighed. "You take finding him too seriously, Itachi. It's not like Avatar would fall form the sky"

Suddenly a large sled holding four youngsters fell right in front of Itachi and Kisame, landing on top of Kisame's backpack.

"NOO!! MY CABBAGES!!" The merchant screamed.

Kisame looked at him. "What are you complaining about? I bought them already!"

A young boy with an arrow on his head rose from the sled. "Look, I'm really, really sorry about this" He apologised. "If there is anything I can do to repay your groceries..."

Kisame angrily took the boy from the neck. "Groceries? What about my backpack? It was made by the best weavers of the North Pole! And now it is crushed underneath your sled. I should do the same to you!"

"Ahem! Kisame!" Itachi interrupted and pointed at the arrow. "Maybe we should let king Bumi say, what do we do about the Avatar."

"King Bumi?" The boy said amazed. "I didn't know the mad scientist was a royal."

Kisame looked at the boy in the eyes. "Avatar or not, I hope you'll be punished for ruining my backpack and perhaps for insulting the king. Itachi, get those others!"

Before long all six were in front of king Bumi. The arrowheaded boy spoke first.

"It's good to see you again, Bumi" He said. But the king only looked angrily at him. "Don't you recognise me, Bumi? It's me, Aang!"

"I have never seen you, boy" Bumi answered. Aang looked down sadly, while king started laughing. "Gotcha! You should have seen your face, Aang!"

Aang looked at Bumi with anger in his eyes. "Why did you do that for? It was not fun!"

"I'm sorry, Aang" He apologised in guilt. "I just couldn't control myself. But we have another thing to talk about. Why are you two still here?"

"We were buying supplies for our journey, when these two flew right down onto my backpack" Kisame explained showing his ruined backpack. "I demand a some kind of sepaying for this. Oh, and by the way, Aang called you a mad scientist back there."

King laughed. "Well I am not mad about being called mad scientist because that's what I am. However I do understand, that even though it was an accident, that backpack was rather expensive. What do you say if Aang, Katara, Sokka and Haku would help you on one of the prison rigs?"

"I accept the offering" Itachi answered. "I believe Avatar needs to know about the enemy he is facing"

The others also agreed to the suggestion. Soon they got the supplies rebought and left the Omashu. After half of a day of travel they arrived to a town, where several earthbenders had been arrested by Fire Nation soldiers. If someone wanted to find a prison rig, this was a good place to start. Itachi told them to land close to a dried river. There they met a youth named Haru, who told that he had secretly sent a request for help to the Omashu. On that night at Haru's home, Itachi explained their plan.

"I am actually happy for the fact that you four are with us, it makes our plan easier. First of all Haku needs to disguise himself to a leaf ninja. Haru will attack a random Fire Nation squadron, while Haku paralyzes him with a needle. After that is done, Haku will travel with the ship going to the prison rig and inflirtrate to the other soldiers. Meanwhile the rest of us will fly to the rig by Appa, following the ship. When we get there, we silently defeat the guards and capture the warden of the prison. Since the earthbenders have likely lost their hope after being so long out of land, having lost their touch to the earth and thus a part of themselves. Which means, that we cannot count for their help, meaning, we must work silently. On the other hand there is unlikely to be a lot of ninjas, so that shouldn't be too difficult. After we have defeated everyone, we capture all the ships and help all of the prisoners to escape, even if we have to use force. Are there any questions?" Everybody shook their heads. "Good. Now we must collect strenght and tomorrow we start our plan."

On the next day the plan was set in motion. A squadron of Fire Nation soldiers was patrolling the city, when suddenly one of them was thrown away by a rock. Others looked at the direction where the boulder had flew and saw a young man holding another even bigger one.

"No more shall Fire Nation roam these lands!" He yelled. "For the Earth-UNGH!" Suddenly the kid fell down and the boulder with him. A smoke ninja had thrown a paralyzing needle to his neck.

"Are you guys alright" The ninja asked.

"Pretty much" The leader of the squadron answered. "Thanks for helping to capture this earthbender"

"I did only my duty to the Fire Nation" Ninja continued. "I was sent here to help guard the closest prison rig."

"In that case it is your lucky day. You can come with us to the rig, when we take this criminal there"

Little did the soldiers of the ship know, that when they travelled to the prison rig, a large animal carrying five humans followed them. When the ship got to the rig, the prison warden came to "say hello".

"Welcome to the prison rig 5. My name is none of your business, so you can simply call me Warden. You propably know already, why you are here, so I won't bother you with that either. However you are not here exactly as prisoners, but more like honored guests. Despite that this place is still a prison, so unless you want to be punished rather cruelly, you'dbetter to co-operate with us. Also you should know this place is completely made metal, which you are unable to bend, but it doesn't prevent us from bending, so if you try mutiny, we have he upper hand. Since you are newcomers, I'll allow you to meet the other guests and rest for a while, and you start working tomorrow."

After the speech Haru and the other prisoners were taken to a large open area, where there were other prisoners. He saw a man who he hadn't seen in five years, his father Tyro. Haru went right to him, who also seemed to recognise Haru.

"Could it be?" Tyro asked from himself. "Is that you, Haru?"

"Yes, it's me, father" Haru answered putting his arms around his father. "It has been so long since we met last time. But you don't need to worry, we'll get you out of here"

Tyro looked at his son and sighed. "You shouldn't have tried it. You can escape with the rescue team, if you want. I stay here."

"What are you saying, father? Of course you come with us"

"I'm afraid I can't. I'm not saying I don't miss freedom, but I have no reason to escape. I have lost my touch to the ground, like all the others. Listen to me, Haru. Get contact to the rescue squadron and tell them to retreat. Leave this place until you become like me."

Haru left his father and sat towards the shore, putting his head on his knees. On the night Haku came to meet Haru.

"We are ready to start the operation, Haru" He spoke. "Just tell when you're ready"

"I'm not sure if I want to leave" Haru answered. "These people have lost their hopes completely. I want to stay and help them"

Haku stayed silent for a moment. "Is there any way to get their hopes back"

"Maybe if they could get their touch to the earth back, but how is that possible in a place like this"

Haku leaves Haru and gets to the rescue squadron's hideout. There he tells everything to the group. Everybody starts to think.

"Earthbenders can bend metal, just like I can" Itachi told "But to do that you need years of practice to be able to find the impurities to use. And to these people it is out of question. We need impurified earth"

Then Sokka got an idea. "Why didn't I realise this earlier? This whole rig is full of coal!" The others turned towards Sokka. "This place is used to make ships to the Fire Nation, which need coal, that comes from mines, thus being earth. So there must be a storage for this coal, which we could use to arm the earthbenders. We need to find this storage and get the coal to the earthbenders. Listen, I have a plan"

The plan was set in motion immediately. Itachi and Haku returned to the earthbenders, paralyzing the guards on the way. Meanwhile rest of the team started looking for the storage. After finding it Sokka discovered that it was almost right underneath the prisoner area, though several meters underground. Kisame banged the roof with his sword creating an echo, which Itachi, who had pressed himself to the floor felt. Itachi bended the metal, opening a path to the coal to travel, which Aang used to push the coal up. When everybody were back to the prisoner area, they gave two pieces of coal, one for each hand, to all of the earthbenders. When the dawn came and the prisoners woke up, they felt something they hadn't felt in years.

Haru returned to his father "It's all right, father. It's coal, part of the earth, and we have more if you need."

Tyro levitated the pieces of coal. "I can't believe it. After all these years I can still bend earth"

"Drop that coal!" Came a voice, it was the warden. "You may have returned their touch to the earth, but you can never get their courage back. You six failed" Then he discovered that none of the earthbenders had dropped the coal. "I said drop the coal! DROP IT NOW!!" everybody prepared their fighting positions. "Fine, you can only blame yourselves. Attack!"

Guards of the rig fought well, but were no match to the outnumbering earthbenders and the rescue team. Less than a minute the rig had been taken over and everybody prepared to leave. When the ships travelled back to the Earth Kingdom, Sokka came to meet Itachi in person.

"You are not an earthbender, are you?" Sokka asked. "When we were on the rig, you used metal, but never even touched the coal"

Itachi looked at Sokka. "You are a smart kid" He admitted. "And yes, I'm not an earthbender but a firebender, a fact I hate. You see, I invented the fire form of metalbending after travelling to Northern Air Temple and meeting a scientist know only as the Mechanist. He gave me an object, that can bend metal" Itachi gave a U-shaped object in Sokka's hands.

Sokka looked closely to the strange object. "What is this?" He finally asked.

"A magnet. If you put it close to certain small objects made of metal, they will attach to it. But it is very difficult to attach two magnets to each other. I learned to bend metal by accident. Some firebenders can also bend electricity, which lightnings are, for example. One day I was practicing my electricitybending, when my lightning accidentally hit a metal plate. Having missed my true target I started creating a new one, when suddenly that same metal plate came right into me. I stopped and the plate dropped down. After a several more tries I could move the metal. According to Mechanist as an electricitybender I have a personal magnetic field or something, which I can use to magnetise other metals. But I didn't lie about earthbenders being able to bend metal. The difference is that when earth form uses the impurities in the metal, while fire form uses the metal itself." Itachi went quiet for a while, but continued. "Maybe you should meet the Mechanist, Sokka. You two have a lot in common. He lives in the Northern Air Temple close to the North Pole. I believe Aang knows the way. When you are there, could you help him in one thing? His home has been discovered by the Fire Nation, who demand him to create weapons to them. In exchange though they also allowed him to establish a ninja school to give him additional funds. Most of the ninjas are banished Fire National ninjas, who may or may not still hold nationalism in their hearts. When you go there look for a ninja named Yugito, she is my friend and also see if the cloud ninjas could help Mechaninst. They may either hate or love their home, but Yugito only cares about the Mechanist. She also has the same kind of secret as true hero of the Fire Nation, who is hated by those, who should respect him."

Sokka listened intensely. "I'll try to help both of them if I can"

Meanwhile Aang was walking around the ship and saw Katara looking angrily at the sea. He want closer.

"Is something wrong, Katara?" Aang asked. "Looks like you would have lost something"

Katara sighed. "I haven't lost anything. I just have a strange feeling, that I was supposed to have a much bigger role in this story than using my waterbending to knock a few guards. If I don't remember incorrectly I have barely spoke. It is like something was stolen from you, yet there is no way to prove it. I know it is crazy, but that's how I feel. Am I going crazy or something"

"If you have a feeling that your role is changed you're not" Kisame, who had heard the conversation, answered. "I'm a neutral person, but I have a feeling I'm supposed to be evil. The thing is that Fire Nation is seen as evil and Water Tribes and Earth Kingdom as good. The Akatsuki works for all of them, but at the same time we take ourselves as the top priority. I just wonder should I work for the Fire Nation if I'm evil, or would I be good for fighting against them?"

"Personally I like you being neutral" Katara answered. "It's good to have some other opinions about this war"

"Besides you don't have a face of an evil person, Kisame" Aang added.

Kisame laughed looking his reflection at the water. "Youre a weird pup, Aang, a weird pup"