"Dad!" Sokka stands to approach her sister and father. "You're on your feet again."
Hakoda sits. "Thanks to your sister. I'm in no shape to fight, but maybe's there's some way I can help."
"Everything's going smoothly and the eclipse hasn't even kicked in yet." Sokka explains.
"Let's hope our luck holds on." Hakoda notices Katara looking at something. "Katara, you seem distracted. Is something wrong?"
"Yeah." Katara says looking towards something. "Is that… is that Aang?"
Once Aang returns, it's nothing but bad news. The group realizes that the Fire Nation must have known about their upcoming invasion. But they don't give up. Katara stays with everyone else, but the rest of the group goes to search for the Fire Lord. With Toph's help they find the place.
Unfortunately the powerful Fire Nation Royal they find is Azula, not Ozai. She kept some of the Dai Li agents with her, which makes fighting her a little harder than they predicted.
Once they take the agents down, Sokka realizes what Azula is doing. "Wait! Aang! Toph! Stop attacking! Don't you see what she's doing? She's just playing with us. She's not even trying to win this fight!"
"Not true." Azula says calmly. "I'm giving it my all."
"You're trying to keep us here and waste all our time!" Toph says angrily.
"Um, right, I think your friend just said that, genius." Azula says sarcastically. "And since you can't see, I should tell you I'm rolling my eyes."
Toph growls. ""I'll roll your whole head!"
"She's just baiting you again." Sokka explains.
"Okay, so what do we do, just ignore her?" Aang asks.
"We don't have a choice. We just have to get out of here and find the Fire Lord on our own somehow." Sokka says starting to walk the opposite direction that Azula was leading them in.
"It's a trap." Azula says coolly. "Don't say I didn't warn you."
Toph and Aang hesitate, but Sokka keeps walking forward. "Ignore!"
"So, Sokka's your name, right? My favorite prisoner used to mention you all the time." That gets Sokka to stop when she hears Azula say that. "She was convinced you were going to come rescue her. Of course, you never came, and she gave up on you."
"Ha!" Sokka laughed, not even turning towards Azula. "She doesn't need anyone to rescue her. She probably escaped on her own."
"Not after what I did to her." Azula says cruelly.
Sokka turned sharply and charged towards Azula. Toph keeps Azula from stabbing Sokka by pinning the fire bender's hand to the wall. Sokka grabs Azula by the shoulder and forces the other girl to face her.
"Where is Suki?" Sokka practically growls. "Where is she? Answer me!"
Aang tries to get Sokka to stop. "Sokka, she won't talk."
Sokka ignores him. "Where are you keeping her?"
"Oh," Azula says almost conversationally. "Sounds like the firebending's back on." She kicks her leg in a wide arc sending a fire blast that strikes Sokka. She uses a few more fire bending tricks to free herself. "Dad's all the way at the end of the hall then down a secret stairway on the left. I'm sure he'd be more than happy to see you now." Azula says before she runs away.
"I fell for it!" Sokka says ashamed. "I used up all our time."
"It's not your fault, Sokka. Azula was ready for us." Toph says trying to comfort her. "She had every move planned out."
"And now it's too late." Sokka says sorrowfully.
Toph and Aang convince Aang to wait to attack Ozai and escape from the underground bunker. They go back to their invasion force and only have a few minutes to explain what happened before they have to figure out what to do about the attacking fire benders.
"How are we all going to escape?" Sokka tries to figure out.
"We're not." Hakoda explains.
"Then our only choice is to stand and fight." Sokka says determined. "We have the Avatar, we could still win."
Hakoda shakes his head. "With the Avatar we could still win, but on another day. You kids have to leave. You have to escape on Appa together."
It's hard to leave all the adults behind, but soon the group and the rest of the younger fighters of the invasion force are on Appa, escaping from the Fire Nation.