Warning: Occurs post-series and contains spoilers. Takes place after "Occupational Hazard".
Suki had to admit that it was a great move, allowing Ty Lee to become one of her Warriors.
She had been at the Fire Nation Palace as Royal Guard for over a month, and despite the constant and poorly-written letters claiming otherwise, there hadn't been hide nor hair of any usual or suspicious activity (save Toph, who was always trouble). Suki was wondering if she was actually needed at all.
That was, until the earthbender suddenly dropped from the ceiling of the conference hall and threw her hands out towards the Fire Lord and his wife.
Suki was on her feet and standing before Zuko and Mai in a split second, her fans flicked open and held out faster than anyone could blink. With a shout, the earthbender threw out her arms and bent out a chunk of the marble floor, holding it up and then just hurling it at the dais.
Suki jumped forward, twisting her body in a slow circle and thrusting out her fans, edge-up. The sharpened metal sliced into coarse stone, bisecting the chunk of rock and crashing harmlessly on either side of where Zuko and Mai sat, staring with shock and confusion.
She landed, just a few feet before the bender. She flicked her fans again, in warning, and the earthbender rose to the bait. With a shout, she ran forward, her hands held at one side in preparation to summon more of her bending.
Suki grinned, closed her fans, and tucked them back into her belt. The earthbender seemed to hesitate, just a shred, but Suki was already slipping past her, turning on her heel at the last minute and thrusting a hand out faster than she opened her fans. her fingers dug first into the shoulders, then the forearms, then just under the ribs, all in a fraction of a second.
The air seemed to just whoosh out of the earthbender, and she staggered a little, skittering on her feet, before crashing to the ground in a heap at Suki's feet.
Suki breathed in, then out, a thin sigh of satisfaction. With a smile, she winked up at her employers, then bent down to lug the earthbender away.
Just another day at work.