Chapter 22. The Central Nation

A day as pass since the prison escape, everyone was resting peacefully in the airship as it head towards their new destination.

"Dragonfly, didn't know you can drive this thing." said Snake as he enters the bridge.

"It's not that hard." said Dragonfly as she moves the stirring wheel a bit. "Oh, I almost forgot. I made you a nice weapon. It should be on top of the table."

Snake heads towards the round table that has a big box on top. He smiles as he places the box on its side. "Let's see what do I got here." He opens the box and grazes at his new weapon. He was speechless for a moment as he takes out his new bow-rifle. "Nice work." He eye-balls the bow-rifle as he admire the detail of the work it went through to make this.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" said Suki as enter the bridge. She soon spots Snake holding a weapon. Curiosity got the better of her as she then walks towards Snake. "I never have seen that kind of weapon before." She glances at the weapon and then looks at his outfit. "And what's that you're wearing?"

"This is an M82A0 Bow-rifle with a crystal scoop and a built-in side shield." said Snake. "And the outfit I'm wearing is called a Stealth-Suit. I made it for my missions." He holds his new weapon and takes aim at Suki's face. "You're from Kyoshi Island, am I right?"

"Yea, how did you know?" said Suki.

He places his weapon down as he said, "Because that is where Dragonfly is from."

"Yep, I was born there and raise there before I move out and became a weapon expert." said Dragonfly as she drives.

Suki walks up to her and said, "Is your name really Dragonfly?"

Dragon laughs a bit. "No, it's my code name. The guy you just met, his code name is Snake, the Angel is the guy you met in the prison, Jin is known as Raven."

"I see, what about Zuko? Does he have one?" said Suki.

"We're still thinking about his code name." said Snake as he walks up to them.

"So what do you guys do for a living?" Suki looks at them.

Dragonfly and Snake starts to give the rundown to Suki on what they do and who do they work for.

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"Zuko, I got us some drinks." said Ty Lee as she enters Zuko's room.

"Thanks." Zuko sat up from his rest to give room for Ty Lee.

She sat down on the edge of his as she gives him his drink. "Katara told me that Azula have the same weapon like yours."

Zuko grabs the drink from her and takes a sip. "Yea, but I could feel that she wasn't the same level as me when we fought."

"What you mean?" she said.

"I don't know. It's like she didn't know the name of her weapon." he looks down at his drink as he deep in his thoughts.

Ty Lee places her cup down then she rests her head against his shoulder. "I just forget about it for now."

Zuko places his hand on top of Ty Lee's as he smiles a bit. "Okay I will."

The two spent a nice peacefully moment together as the ship heads towards its destination. Their nice moment came to hard crash when the ship made a hard turn. Zuko holds Ty Lee tightly as they fall off the bed. Zuko quickly check if Ty Lee is okay before he got up and looks out the window. He opens the window and sticks his head out. As soon as he did, a flaming fire flies across him as it almost hits his face. He looks what was attacking and was surprise to see three Fire Nation's ships.

"Ty Lee stay here!?" he said before he ran out of the room.

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"We're under attack!?" said Zuko when he enters the bridge.

"What gave you that idea!?" said Dragonfly as she avoids the fireballs.

Samanosuke finally enters the bridge and said, "We need to take them down before we reach to our destination!?"

The airship rocks side to side, avoiding some of the fireballs. Dragonfly tries her best to guide the ship without getting much damage. Suddenly, the airship got from behind. Smoke starts to fly out of the rear of the ship. The damage was not great, however a few more like that and airship will crush into the sea below.

"Damn, I can't keep this up!?" said Dragonfly.

Samanosuke finally came up with a plan to down the three Fire Nation's airship. "You need five people to take down those airships."

"The back in of the ship is one fire!?" said Toph as she enters the bridge.

"Go tell Katara and Rin to handle fire and you go with them. There might be a lot of twist metal in that area, use you Metal bending skill to clear them a path." said Samanosuke.

Toph quickly heads to do what she was to do as the ship got hit once again.

"We need Jin, someone look for her." said Samanosuke

"Found her!" said Dragonfly as she looks out the window.

Samanosuke and the others look out the window to find Jin dodging the fireballs. She then turns around and heads towards the three airship.

"This is going to be very bloody." said Snake as he grabs his gear and heads toward the top of the ship to give Jin back up from a far.

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Snake made his on the roof of the ship as spots Jin flying towards one of the airship. Snake got on his stomach as he then loads his new M82A0 Bow-rifle. He adjusts the crystal scoop a bit and then takes aim at his first target. He holds his breath before he pulls the trigger. Snake slightly felt the recoil of the weapon as the arrow comes out the barrel. The arrow slices through the air as it then hits the one of the soldier that was outside the Fire Nation's airship. As Snake takes down some of the soldiers, Jin heads towards the nearest ship close to her. She lands up top and then pulls the ripcord of the Ketuseki Rain. Jin slices a triangle shape opening on the roof of the air shape. She then jumps inside to start the slaughter.

Snake watches through the scoop as blood splatters covers the window. "Damn it, Jin. How much blood are you going to shed?" He soon spots Jin entering the bridge of the enemy's airship.

Snake watches the soldiers in the bridge began to fight against Jin. However, his sight of the battle was cut off when blood covered the window of the bridge. The enemy's airship starts to drift away from the others as it head towards the sea. Jin got out of fallen airship and moves to her next target.

Aang finally made his to the roof top after searching for his staff. He soon notices that one of the airships is heading towards the sea. "What happened?"

"Everything is under control, we don't need another Air bender right now." said Snake as reloads his weapon.

"Another Air bender!?" Aang looks ahead and spots Jin heading towards another airship. "I'm not last of my kind." A sense of joy follows through his body knowing he is not alone.

"You're wrong." Snake picks up off another enemy. "The way of Air bending has change; it became a very deadly bending."

"What!?" The joy that was following through Aang's body is now gone. "What you mean!?"

"See for yourself." said Snake.

Aang looks ahead and notices the Air bender is cover in blood. "It can't be true. . ."

"I'm sorry, but it's true." Snake aims at pilot of one of airship and pulls the trigger.

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Finally the attack has ended as their airship made it to its destination. The airship floats in front of a huge mountain that reached to the heaven. Zuko wonders why it looks so familiar to him. The airship heads towards the base of the mountain. Dragonfly flips some switches and pulls some leavers. An outer shall starts to form around the bridge. The bridge soon disconnects itself from the body of ship. The bridge became a sub as it heads deep into the ocean.

"This thing can become a sub?" said Sokka as he looks out the window.

"Well yea, the place we're heading is in an underwater cave." said Snake.

"Why there?" said Katara.

"To protect everyone from the war." said Samanosuke.

After awhile, the sub enters a cave as it then raise to the surface. Zuko eyes widen as the building were very familiar to him and Ty Lee. The sub heads towards the dock while fish for their meal or to sale. Everyone got off and unload their things from the sub. Zuko looks head as buildings hang from roof of cave. He can hear the nose from the city, the sounds of people moving around and talking to one another.

"Wait, I know this place." said Zuko. "This Black Phoenix Island."

"No, that is not the really name of this place." said Samanosuke as he walks towards the city. "This is the Central Nation."

Again I rush this one ^_^;; I got too many write blocks, but I hope you will this chapter.