Chapter 19. Mission Fox Hound – Ice Cold Gunslinger

"Alert, a riot is in progress in the courtyard. Will all unoccupied guards please end the riot, immidiately!" said the louder speaker as the riot went on. It been a day since Zuko and the others broke in the prison, today is the plan to leave the prison. Samanosuke sent Jin and Katara to start a distraction to keep some of the guards busy.

"Damn it, Jin!?" Samanosuke sounded mad as he stood next to Fox's cell. "When I said to start a distraction, I didn't mean to start a riot." He watched the riot as he sighed. "Then again, it's great idea." He knocked on the door and said, "Fox, are you done changing?"

"Not yet!" said Fox as she changed into her clothing. "Just wait a bit longer."

"Hurry it up, okay!" he said. "Damn it, they're here!?" He looked out the window and spotted an Alchemists Air Ship. "I'll get Zuko; just take care of Atoli for me." He ran off to search for the young prince as the air ship draw to a near to the prison.

Atoli watched as Fox changed into her outfit. "Will Angel-kun be okay?" said Atoli as she felt worry about Samanosuke.

"You love him that much, huh?" said Fox as she put on her boots.

The young girl nodded a bit as she blush. "I love him a lot."

"I think he's a too old for you." Fox placed the two katana on her waist and single edge sword on her back.

"I don't care as long as I have him, I'm okay with it." said Atoli as she smile. "Let's get out of here." She pointed at the metal door as she ordered Fox to break down the metal door.

Fox grinned as she nodded. "Yes, ma!" She walked up the metal door and quickly drawn the two blades as fast as she could. Metal shattered into pieces as she looked at Atoli and then she got on one knee. "Hop on!"

Atoli nodded as she jumped on Fox's back. "Let's got!" she said as she held on tightly. Fox ran down the hallway as she carried Atoli on her back.

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Samanosuke ran down the hallway as he tried to look for Zuko. As he ran down the hallway, he started to hear a familiar voice not to far from him. He quickly knew who it was as he goes near the location of the voice. He entered to the room to see Mai yelling at Zuko. "Mai, what are you doing here!?"

Mai glared at him and started to yell. "And you, why didn't say something to me when you left!?"

"Me!?" said Samanosuke as looked at her.

"Yes you!? You were gone for a few years, show up and disappear again!?" Mai was taking her anger on Samanosuke more then Zuko.

"Sorry for not saying nothing, but I don't want to you to get hurt!?" Samanosuke yelled back at her.

"Don't give me that bull crap!?" said Mai. "Zuko just told me the same shit just awhile ago!?"

Zuko just sat there as he stared at Mai and Samanosuke. He felt he should say something, but the situation was already awkward enough as it is already. He wondered how much time went by as the two argue to one another. "Umm… you know we're wasting time here." he said to them.

"I'm sorry Mai, but I don't have time for this." said Samanosuke as he then looked at Zuko. "Zuko, Jin and Katara are waiting for you outside; also they have your weapons as well."

"Got it." Zuko ran out of the room as he headed towards the courtyard.

"Sorry, Mai, but I have to go." Samanosuke was about to left the room until Mai hugged him from behind.

"Why…why are you doing this to me?" She pressed her head against his back as she started to shed some tears. "I was so worried about you. Why didn't you take me with you!?"

He looked down a bit as still felt bad for leaving her and causing her pain. "I don't want you to get hurt because of me." He turned around and held her tightly in his arms.

"You're such a jerk, you that!?" Mai continued to cry as she buried head into his chest. "Please don't leave me again!?"

"Mai…" Samanosuke slowly pulled away from her as he felt guilty for what he going to do next. "I'm sorry."

Mai whips the tears off her cheek as looked at him. "It's okay."

"I'm also sorry for this as well." Samanosuke did round house kick at Mai causing her to fly to the other side of the room. "I'm sorry, Mai."

Mai quickly get up and ran towards the door, but the metal door slam shut in front of her face. "Samanosuke!?" She looked through the eye whole of the door to glare at him. "What are you doing!?" She tried her best not to cry as she looked at him

Samanosuke returned Mai's glare with a cold hard look in his eyes. The stare gave Mai a chill up her spine as she looked at the cold stare. Samanosuke looked down before he walked away. Mai watched as her childhood friend walked away from her sight once again. She fell to her knees and started to cry. As tears ran down her cheek the door opened once again. Mai looked up as she can only see a shadowy figure standing in front of her.

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Samanosuke was running down the hallway, hoping to catch up with Fox. As he ran, pods started to come down from the roof. He quickly headed where the pods are landing. When he got there, some of the pods were open as the alchemist soildiers walked out of them. Each one carries blade gauntlet on their right arm and alchemy writing covered the left arm to increace their attack and speed. The armors was light weight, but stronge enough to take several blows from a sword.

"Damn, their already here." Samanosuke looked up to see another pod coming down. "I think it's best to give them a welcoming party." When the pod dropped near the same level where he is standing on, Samanosuke does around house kick at the pod and sending it flying towards the alchemist soldiers few stories below him. Some of them quickly dodge the pod as the other was injured by the pod.

One of alchemist soldiers looked up and yelled, "Get him!?" All of the alchemist soldiers rushed at him. Some of them took the stairs as the others jump balcony to balcony to get to the same floor where Samanosuke was standing on.

When the first A.S. (Alchemist Soldier) got near Samanosuke, he grabbed the A.S. and flipped the soldier to the ground. Samanosuke quickly used Princess Yue to summon his ice knives to throw at the two A.S. behind him. One of them quickly got near Samanosuke slashed down at him, but Samanosuke quickly grabbed the soldier arm and pushed him over the edge. After he tossed the soldier over the edge, some of the A.S. got in front and released a fire blast at Samanosuke. Samanosuke quickly used Princess Yue to form an ice shield, but the blast was too strong for him to handle. When the blast was over, he dropped his guard for a brief second to rest his arm a bit, but then the A.S. fired another fire blast at Samanosuke, causing him to go through the wall behind him.

Samanosuke landed one of the lower walls around the courtyard. He slowly got up and dusted off a bit. He turned his head to find Zuko, Katara and Jin fighting against the alchemist soldiers. "Nice team work." he said as she watched his friends fight against them. He looked up at the hole he went through as A.S. started to come out of the hole. As the A.S. charged at him, Samanosuke noticed the writing on arm started to glow red as the A.S. speed increases. "They're not holding back this time. Best do the same thing." His weapon started to glow as he said, "Let's cool this place down." Princess Yue slowly started into ice as it covered Samanosuke's hand. "Yue!" The ice surrounding his hands shattered as it revealed bow-pistols in each hand.

The Alchemist Soldier's weapon burst into flame as they changer at Samanosuke. Samanosuke ran towards the center A.S. as he then rolled on the ground. He quickly got on his knee as he slammed his back against the center A.S. to stun him. As he stunned the soldier, he quickly shot the two on his right and left side. Samanosuke quickly stood up to head butt the soldier lower jaw. The soldier lean forward a bit then Samanosuke grabbed the soldier's arm and spun him around a bit to make the soldier's blade cut some of his own allies behind him. After the spin around, Samanosuke placed his hand on the soldier's back to cart-wheel over him to dodge an attack from another A.S. He then pushed the A.S. to the other one. Because of the push, the soldier accidentally knocked his ally over the wall edge. The last soldier standing swung his blade at Samanosuke, but he quickly deflected the blade by using one pistol and using the other pistol to shoot the A.S. between the eyes. The blood splatter covered the pistol as some of the blood drop Samanosuke face. The red blood slowly turned ice and the dead A.S. around him turned into ice and then shattered into pieces.

"Ice cold." said Samanosuke as he looked at the icy pieces of his victim. He looked up to see the A.S. drop ship as it release more pods in the court yard. "Best to keep going before some of them see me." He ran down the path, hoping to catch up with Fox.

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Fox was fighting against A.S. at the left area as Atoli hide inside one elevator to avoid watching the bloody battle. Fox quickly took out the last A.S. She grabbed rag and then whipped the blood off her blade. She quickly removed all the bodies somewhere else. Fox placed her blade on her sides as she walked up to Atoli.

"Atoli, time to come out." said Fox as she lends out a hand to the little girl.

Atoli grabbed Fox's hand as she got on her feet. "That was quick."

"I know, now need to wait for Samanosuke and the others." said Fox as kept watch around the area.

"I hope he's okay?" said Atoli as looked at Fox.

"Don't worry, he take care of himself." said Fox as smiled a bit. "Just calm down."

"I wish he hurry up and get here then!?" Atoli sounded worried and lonely as she waited for Samanosuke.

"Sorry, for keeping you waiting." said Samanosuke as he walked in on them.

"Angel-kun!?" Atoli rushed at him as she filled with joy. "I was so worried!?" She hugged him tightly as she buried her against his lap.

He rubbed her head a bit before saying, "Fox, I can see you took care of all guards here." He noticed the blood on walls and on the ground.

"Yea, they were in our way so I have to get rid them." said Fox as she looked at him. "Also, I see the prince from this place." She pointed out the window.

Samanosuke gently pushed Atoli away as he walked up to the window. "Damn!?" He could see a battle ragging on with Zuko and Azula. Zuko and Azula will leave a trail of lighting and fire where ever they go. "Wow, a Craftsman weapon battle." He sigh a bit as he walked away from the window. "Too bad, I already knew the out come of the battle."

"Angel-kun, who's that?" said Atoli as she pointed out to another window.

He looked out the window to see Mai being held as a hostage. "Mai!?" Samanosuke rushed out of the room before yelling. "Fox, guard this room that is an order!?" He quickly headed where were Mai is being held.

Fox watched Samanosuke as he ran away from the room "He just got here and ran off to save some random girl." She sighed as she looked at Atoli.

"That's how he is." said Atoli as she smiled at Fox. "That's why I called him Angel-kun."

"I guess you're right." Fox said as she looked out the window. "It's almost time to signal the ship."

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"Damn it, Mai!?" said Samanosuke as he get to the platform where Mai is being held at.

"Shut up and help me!?" said Mai as the A.S. pressed his knife against her neck.

"Well, this is the person that took down some of my men." said A.S. as he held Mai.

"Who the fucks are you?" said Samanosuke as he looked at A.S.

"I'm Tahu, one of the best Alchemist Soldiers the Fire Nations even had." Tahu pressed the knife against Mai's neck as he draws some blood.

"Then why you look like shit?" Samanosuke noticed that Tahu was wounded with a badly damage armor.

"Shut up!?" Tahu snapped his fingers as a dark armor Alchemist Soldier came floating down from the sky. The new dark Alchemist Soldier held his massive swords as it stood next to Tahu. "Now, I think it's time to test the new Alchemist Soldier." He looked at the dark Alchemist Soldier and said, "Kill him, Red-wings."

Red-wings's sword burst into flame as it charged at Samanosuke. Red-wings side swung his sword at Samanosuke. Samanosuke lean back as much as he could as the blade went pass by him. He was about lean forward, but Red-wings quickly grabbed him by the neck and tossed him into the air. Red-wings swung it's sword as the blade release a wave of fire at Samanosuke. The fire like wave hit Samanosuke across his chest. As the wave passed by his chest, Samanosuke could feel the burning heat going through his chest as he fell to the ground and trying his best not to show any sign of weakness as he got back on his feet. Samanosuke looked at the new A.S. as he gets into a fight stance with the Yue.

Mai could only watch as Samanosuke continued to fight the Red-wings. Mai shut her eyes tightly to avoid seeing Samanosuke getting hurt, but she can still hear the noises of battle from the two fighters. As the battle went on, Mai felt the blade slightly loosen a bit from her neck. She quickly used this chance to escape. She pushed back hard enough to make Tahu hit the wall behind them. Tahu loosen his grip allowing Mai to escape. Mai rushed to Samanosuke side as he lay on the ground.

"Samanosuke!?" said Mai as she knee in front of him. She soon noticed Samanosuke condition was different then before. His clothing was badly damage and scratch mark covered his body as he lay on the ground.

Samanosuke looked as he slowly got on his feet. "What are you doing here!?" he sounded mad as glare at Mai.

"I'm here to help you." she said.

"I didn't ask for your help!?" he said as fell to his knee. He knew he is too weak to continue on, but he wanted to keep fighting.

Mai held him and said, "Then let me fight for you!?" She looked deeply to his eyes.

Samanosuke looked her as he thought a bit. Letting her fight that thing may cost her life and he will never forgive himself if she die like Princess Yue. "Fuck!? Just don't die, okay. I don't want to lose another person that I care about." He handed Mai the bow-pistols and said, "Be careful."

Mai nodded as she grabbed the bow-pistol. "I will." she said as she stood up and firmly held Yue in her hands. She glared at the Red-wings as she charge right at it.

As Mai ran towards the enemy, Red-wings left up it's sword and swung downward at her. Mai quickly flipped back to avoid the blade as the blade smacked hard on the ground. Mai ran up the length of the blade towards the helmet. When she got near the Red-wings's helmet, she flipped back to get off the Red-wings as she kicked the helmet off the heavy armor warrior's head. She looked to find a horrifying sight; the Red-wing was bold people with glowing red eyes as a gasmask like object cover the mouth. Mai knew the warrior's eyes were filled with rage as if person was not human anymore. The heavy armor warrior yelled out a battle cry as it changed towards her. The Red-wings swung it's sword like a mad man as Mai dodged around to avoid getting hit. She moved far enough to aim with the bow-pistol and when she had a clear view of the heavy armor warrior's head, she quickly pulled the trigger.

"Head shot." said Samanosuke as the Red-wings fill to the ground and slowly turned into ice.

Mai smirked as she took down the heavy armor warrior with ease. "That was easy." she said as she walked up to Samanosuke.

"Shut up and give me back my weapon." he said as he slowly stood up.

Mai walked up to him as she then handed him his weapon. She turned around and noticed Tahu was gone. "That jerk is gone."

"Yea, for now." Samanosuke started to walk back to Fox and Atoli. As he walked back to them, Yue transform to Princess Yue.

"I'm going with you." said Mai as she followed him.

I'm sorry for the very late up date got lazy in the past few weeks ^_^;; but I hope you like this chapter. Also watch out for my new up coming story as well.

Info

Yue – When Samanosuke actives Princess Yue Trigger form, the two blue gauntlets will transform into two ice silver bow-pistols. This weapon will fires ice like arrows and when the arrows hit the target, the person or object will turned into ice. When Samanosuke use Yue in battle, he use the weapon more as a close-range instead far-range also he will always aim for the head or the hurt on his enemies to make sure they do not feel the ice cold pain as they turned into ice.

Fox (Aoi) – This 21 years old lady is one of best fighter that the master have in her until. Fox is tomboy like girl that loves to get into fights. Fox also the one that recruited Samanosuke to join master's until. Fox and Samanosuke are really "close" friends, so close that Fox told him that she is a earth and metal bender. The two things Fox hate the most is her name and using her bending. It start in her childhood when she force to learn earth and metal bending from her father. If she refuse to learn the bending, she will get beaten by her father. Also the reason why she hate her name is because it was given to her by her father. So Fox refuse to use her bending even thought she was granted weapon from Craftsman.

Fox clothing - Fox clothing for battle is an outfit that almost look like a gothic school girl uniform and a long black coat. A Red tie with the Earth Kingdom symbol on it.

Atoli – Atoli is a normal 9 years old girl that has a crush on Samanosuke. She was found in a destroy village. She was covered in blood and ashes when Samanosuke found her. Now she lives with Samanosuke as his assistant. Even though Atoli is young she will sometime tease Samanosuke in a sexually way.