Princess Azula and Mai and Ty Lee had originally came to the Boiling Rock to capture Zuko and take him back to the Fire Nation Capital as prisoner. Two of the three girls had arrived inside of a cellar where Zuko was being held, only to find the cell empty. They both realized Zuko had went missing. The two Fire Nation teenage girls had looked around the celar and found completely nothing in there. One female Fire Nation prison guard had stood behind Mai and Azula in attention.
"Guard!" Azula had called.
"Yes your majesty?" The prison guard had answered in response.
"Who was here?" Azula had asked without looking at the prison guard.
"Prince Zuko, ma'am." The guard had answered.
Azula turned her head to face the female prison guard.
"No. I mean, "whom" was in here with my brother?" Azula asked as she stared daggers at the female prison guard.
Meanwhile...
Zuko was currently waiting outside of the women's restroom. He jerked his head left and right to see if any of the guards were watching them. He assumed that any guard could spot them.
"Psst," Zuko whispered. "Ty Lee, are you done, yet?" He asked as he slightly cracked the women's bathroom door open.
"Almost. I just have a few knots left to untie in my hair, then I'll be done." Ty Lee said as she was unbraiding her long dark brown ponytail in front of the bathroom mirror.
"Okay. But, please, make it quick. We have to get out of here, soon, and meet up with Sokka and the others." Zuko whispered.
"You mean, the Avatar and friends?" Ty Lee asked.
Zuko knew what Ty Lee had meant, but he knows Aang isn't there. "Aang's not here, but..." Zuko tried to whisper.
"Okay. I'll hurry." Ty Lee said.
Meanwhile...
"You're saying that Ty Lee went to see Zuko? Alone?" Mai had asked the female guard. Half of her mind was in disbelief after hearing the prison guard.
Azula had remained silent for a moment after hearing the news. Her arms were behind her back and she stared at the red metal wall.
"I'm afraid so, Lady Mai." The female prison guard said, while bowing to them. "She was last seen here, fifteen minutes ago."
Mai had placed her right hand under her chin, trying to solve the investigation. "I don't get it. Why would-"
"That's what I'm trying to figure out, Mai." Azula had cut Mai off. She then turned to the female guard."What I'm also trying to figure out is, why didn't you inform me about this much sooner?"
"My apologies, your majesty. We assumed that you were going to join her, shortly afterward." The female prison guard had bowed before Azula and apologized.
Azula had sighed, disappointingly. "Tell every guard that works here to find my brother and Ty Lee and bring them both to me, discretely." Azula had ordered the prison guard to leave and find her childhood friend.
"Yes, your majesty!" The female prison guard had yelled, then ran out of the cell.
"Azula, do you believe that Ty Lee has gone rogue?" Mai asked Azula.
"I, myself am not sure about it, Mai." Azula placed her left hand under her chin. "Ty Lee wouldn't randomly go awoll on her own, unless she's being threatened or blackmailed." Azula had turned to the female prison guard that gave them the news.
Mai had stared at Azula.
Meanwhile...
A minute and a half have passed and Zuko was still keeping watch if any guards were coming or spying on them. He sighed, thinking that Ty Lee was never going to show up in time.
Ty Lee then popped out from the women's bathroom and approached Zuko. "Sorry that I took a bit longer than expected."
"Ty Lee, thank goodness you're do-uh..." Zuko stopped himself as he spotted Ty Lee's new appearance. She had no longer worn her pink attire. But instead, she wore red Boiling Rock prisoner clothing and she had let down her long and unbraided dark brown hair all the way down.
"Ta-daah!" Ty Lee had put on a big smile on her face as she presented herself to Zuko in her new disguise. "How do I look?" she asked as she raised her arms to her sides.
Zuko blushed a tiny bit as he saw tiny sparkles around Ty Lee's face. He then shook his head as he remembered something important. "Great. You look great-now, let's get out of here." Zuko said as he instantly grabbed Ty Lee's right hand and ran elsewhere, dragging Ty Lee with him. Ty Lee ran as fast as she could as she was being dragged by Zuko. 'It's a good thing we stopped by the laundry room, first so that Ty Lee could disguise herself as an inmate.' Zuko had thought as he dragged Ty Lee to where his allies were.
A Short While Later...
A short while had passed, and both Zuko and Ty Lee had arrived outside in the Boiling Rock courtyard to see dozens of other Boiling Rock prisoners rioting and fighting against each other and prison guards. Zuko looked at his surroundings and spotted Sokka standing by a wall with a few other people. "I see him." He slightly looked at Ty Lee, whom was behind him. "Get behind me and stay close." Zuko told Ty Lee.
"Okay!" Ty Lee quickly nodded as she jumped behind Zuko's back and followed him closely as he led a path towards his friends. They simply avoided them by simply running and dodging prisoners that nearly crashed into them and nearly bended flames at them.
"Sokka, there you are!" Zuko called out as he caught up with Sokka, Suki, Hakoda and a prisoner named Chit Sang.
"Zuko, good. We're all here. All we have to do is grab the Warden, then make it to the Gandola." Sokka informed Zuko as he pointed towards the Warden on top of a balcony.
Zuko had felt a bit nervous. "Uh, yeah. About that..."
Sokka looked at Zuko with a bit of confusion. "Sure? What is it?"
"Do you think you think we have room for one more person?" Zuko rubbed his head with a bit of embarrassment.
"Yeah. Who is it?" Sokka asked.
"Um, hello." Ty Lee took a step from behind Zuko's back and waved her left hand as she greeted Sokka and the others.
Sokka had stared at Ty Lee for a moment, before recognizing her. "Y-you!"
"What is she doing here?" Suki asked as she had taken a fighting stance.
Sokka and Suki had raised their awareness as they remembered all of their encounters with Ty Lee. They still saw her as an enemy and they were prepared to fight her at any given chance. Suki had taken a fighting stance and Sokka was ready draw out his space sword from his sheath.
Zuko saw their reaction and had taken a step in front of Ty Lee and stretched his arms out. "Wait! Hold on! She's not a bad guy. At least, not anymore..." Zuko had turned his head back to Ty Lee. "Right?"
Ty Lee shook her head no.
Sokka choked a bit. "Why is she coming with us after everything that's happened?"
"Because, I know her! That's why!" Zuko yelled.
"Yeah, you're not the only one who knows her. She's totally bad news, Zuko! She helped chased us down from Omashu to Ba Sing Se!" Sokka replied.
Suki had taken a step forward. "Yeah! And she helped kidnap me and the girls, when we found Appa!" Suki pointed towards Ty Lee, referring to when the Kyoshi Warriors had found Appa.
"You're not as pretty as we are."
Those words had echoed throughout Ty Lee's mind and she had remembered saying that to one of the Kyoshi Warriors after blocking a member's Chi. She was now starting to regret saying that to her. She frowned and looked downward in disappointment.
"I'm sorry, Zuko, but I don't think we can trust her enough to take her with us." Sokka said with a serious look and shook his head no.
"Then trust me!" Zuko said.
"Trust you? You burned down my village, remember?" Suki had detested.
"Yes-and I told you that I was sorry for it!" Zuko had replied.
Ty Lee looked down and frowned after hearing that she was denied joining the escape of the Boiling Rock prison.
"Look, Ty Lee's coming with us and that's that!" Zuko yelled, defending her.
"Zuko?" Ty Lee asked, which caught Zuko's attention. "I think your friends are ri-"
"Everyone! This is not the time to argue with one another we still have to escape this place!" Chief Hakoda yelled, breaking up the argument.
After hearing Hakoda's words... Sokka had taken a moment of silence, and exhaled some air. "Fine. We'll deal with this, later." Sokka said, staring directly at Zuko. "For now, we have to worry about capturing the warden and escaping to the Gondola. Suki, can you-" Sokka turned his head to where Suki was standing and noticed that she had vanished. "Huh? Where did she go? She was just here?"
Chit Sang pointed into a single direction. "Uh, guys, I think your girlfriend's making a break for it."
Zuko and the others looked to see Suki running towards a group of rioters as stepping stones and using her parkour abilities to jump onto the barricade.
"Follow her!" Sokka yelled as he followed Suki's direction.
Chit Sang, Hakoda then followed after Sokka's lead. Zuko followed afterwards for a second, then stopped and noticed that he didn't hear footsteps behind him. He looked back to see Ty Lee still standing in one spot with a look of depression on his face.
"Come on, Ty Lee! We have to catch up with Sokka and the others!" Zuko said, then noticed that Ty Lee looked really depressed. He realized that Ty Lee was standing like a statue and still looking depressed as if she wanted to say something. Zuko lightly sighed before looking at her. "What's wrong?" asked as he walked back towards her.
"Your friends... don't just distrust me. It's more of... they despise me. I can feel it in their auras." Ty Lee said as she continued to look depressed.
Zuko had looked at Ty Lee for a moment. "Ty Lee..."
"Everything they said about me was true. I did help hunt down the Avatar and friends throughout the Earth Kingdom. And I did take the Kyoshi Warrior's stuff. And now, I'm starting to regret doing those things." Ty Lee said in a sad tone.
"But you had no choice. You were with Azula during those times." Zuko stated.
"I know that, but. Do you think I deserve to-?"
Zuko interrupted. "Look, I know that Sokka and..." Zuko gasped as he saw a male Boiling Rock prisoner running their way, in attempt to attack Ty Lee. "Look out!"
Ty Lee looked to see a man charging towards her and she quickly gasped. She didn't move from the spot she was standing in. Zuko quickly moved in front of her and flipped the prisoner over his shoulder, making him crash onto the ground.
"Uungh!" The prisoner had groaned in pain when Zuko flipped him onto the hard ground.
Ty Lee gasped. "Thank you, Zuko."
"As I was saying... I know that Sokka and Suki have their reasons to dislike you... but, we don't have time to worry about that, right now. We still have to catch the Warden, first, then escape to the Gondola." Zuko rested his hands on Ty Lee's shoulders. "Once we're there, you can explain yourself to them and why you did what you did as much as you want."
"You mean it?" Ty Lee asked as she looked at Zuko, again.
"I do mean it." Zuko nodded.
Ty Lee slowly cracked a smile on her face. "Okay. I'll go with you."
"Good." Zuko grabbed Ty Lee's left hand, once again and dragged her with him.
Meanwhile...
As Princess Azula and Mai were still thinking of their friend, Ty Lee and her possible betrayal... they were suddenly approached by a male prison guard who ran toward them with great haste.
"Princess Azula! Lady Mai!" The male prison guard had panted after finding them.
"Did you find them, like I asked?" Azula asked as she faced the male prison guard.
"Not in the flesh, yet. But I think I might know where they might be..."
Azula and Mai turned their full attention toward the male prison guard.
Meanwhile...
A few minutes had passed. Zuko and Ty Lee had caught up with Sokka and the others on top of a metal balcony. Suki had already captured the Warden and restrained him by tying rope behind his back and used his own crown to wrap around his mouth. Chit Sang carried the Warden over his shoulder and Sokka used the Warden as a hostage to get passed many guards, until they reached the Gondola, where they took the Warden with him.
Sokka, Suki, the Southern Water Tribe Chief Hakoda, Chit Sang-whom was carrying the Warden over his shoulder and Ty Lee made it to the Gondola. Zuko decided to stay behind and destroy the breaks. Believing that the Gondola would not stop.
"Zuko!" Ty Lee had yelled as she watched Zuko destroy the break.
"Hurry, Zuko!" Sokka yelled as he extended his hand out.
Zuko sprinted towards the Gondola and jumped as high as he could. Luckily, Sokka had quickly caught Zuko by the hand and slowly pulled him inside the Gondola.
Afterward, Ty Lee had wuickly embraced Zuko.
"Are you okay?" Ty Lee asked, while hugging Zuko.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Zuko said while hugging Ty Lee back.
Meanwhile...
Azula and Mai were currently in the prison courtyard. Many of the Boiling Rock were restrained, once again and were now forcebly taken back to their prison cells by guards. Azula looked around the courtyard and saw debris on the ground and soot.
The Warden's second in command had approached Azula and Mai. "I'm sorry for the chaos that took place out here, Princess Azula. We were supposed to be on lock down during this hour. We're now securing all the prisoners and taking them back to all their cells.
"Where's the Warden?" Azula asked.
"Deepest apologies, Princess Azula. And I'm sorry to you, too, Lady Mai. But we have no knowledge of where the Warden could be at right now." The male guard bowed before Azula.
"Hm..." Azula then took a moment to think of what had happened. She placed her right index finger under her chin, then thought. 'First, my brother, Zuzu had escaped from his cell, before we had arrived... Then, a riot had suddenly started during lock down... and now the Warden is suddenly missing. There could only be one thing that's happening, right now.' She could only think of one thing. Suddenly, her eyes had widened. "It's a prison break."
"Princess?" The male guard had heard Azula.
"My brother didn't come here, alone. He had help. Looking for someone important." Azula told the guard.
"Princess Azula! I have urgent news!" A female prison guard ran towards Azula, then bowed before her.
"Speak." Azula demanded.
"I was just informed that the Warden had been taken hostage by a group of prisoners and another male guard!" The female prison guard had informed both Mai and Azula.
Both Mai and Azula looked a bit surprised after hearing the news.
"My uncle was kidnapped?" Mai asked.
"Yes!"
"Who were the perpetrators that kidnapped the Warden and where are they?" Azula asked.
"As far as we know, there was a guard-who I thought was really one of us, at first. Three male prisoners along with your brother... the traitor prince, Zuko and two girls with dark brown hair. One is longer than the other!" The female guard had described Sokka and the others.
Mai gasped.
Azula's eyes widened in horror when she heard of a girl with long dark. 'So, it is true. Ty Lee is working with the enemy...' Azula had clinched her fist as she had thought of Ty Lee.
'But, why?' Mai had thought with a look of shock.
Azula had looked at the guard. "Where are they, now?" Azula asked.
"Well, since they had kidnapped the Warden, it's safe to assume that they are using the Warden to try escape this island." The female prison guard had answered Azula.
"The Gondola." Azula muttered, then looked at the balcony where the Warden once stood on.
"Princess Azula!"
Azula heard her name be called by another prison guard. She looked to the direction of west and saw three prison guards approach her. Two of them were male and one was female. "What do you want now? I'm in the middle of something." She asked in an annoyed tone.
One male prison guard had approached her had apologized. "Forgive my rudeness, but we found something in the lower levels of the prison. In one of the female guard's bathrooms." He then nodded to the female prison guard that stood behind him. The female prison guard that had approached Azula had nodded back to her colleague and approached Azula and revealed something to both Azula and Mai.
Azula had stared at the object that the female prison guard held in her hands, then widened her eyes in shock.
Mai's eyes had grown a bit big and pointed at it. "Wait, isn't that-'
Ty Lee's pink shirt and pants.
Meanwhile...
The group of Boiling Rock escapees had successfully made it to the entrance of the Boiling Rock by using the Gondola. They had successfully made it off, but their full escape was not over.
After leaving the Gondola, Chief Hakoda ordered Chit Sang to throw the Warden back in the gondola. Still tied.
"Sorry, warden. Your record is officially broken." Chief Hakoda said, before leaving the Gondola. Leaving the Warden muffling.
"Does anyone know a way we can get off this island?" Sokka had asked, while running.
"I do!" Ty Lee had cried out.
"What? You do?" Zuko asked Ty Lee, while running.
"When Mai, Azula and I got here, we arrived on a big airship." Ty Lee had stated as she kept running.
"If you don't mind me asking, where's the big airship?" Sokka asked.
Ty Lee had led the way and showed her now comrades where the airship was. Over the cliff and on a port. "Down there!" She had pointed at the big black airship far below from where they were standing.
Meanwhile...
Princess Azula, Mai and all the prison guards had arrived to the transportation gondolas. They had discovered that the lever that makes the gondola that exits the island break-in case they didn't want anyone following them.
Fire Nation guards were already working on repairing the lever that Zuko broke.
Princess Azula had stared at the other side of where the transportation gondolas would transport. The entrance. Her hands were behind her back.
"Princess Azula! Lady Mai!" One male Fire Nation prison guard yelled. "I'm sorry to say this, but... We have checked the entire island and there is no sign of the perpetrators."
"And what of my uncle and Ty Lee?" Mai asked the prison guard.
"I'm afraid we have found them, yet." One of he male prison guard had replied in a disappointed tone.
"No need to worry about your dear uncle, Mai." Azula said, which caught Mai's attention.
"My brother and the Avatar's friends would not know what to with him, beyond this island. He's probably over there in that Gondola-struggling to escape his binds." Azula had assumed as her eyes had narrowed as she realized that the perpetrators had escaped the Boiling Rock.
Mai had stared at Azula's backside. Catching a bit of an uneasy feeling from her friend.
Azula had then thought of a certain someone. 'I don't know why you did what you did-but, one way or another... I will find out and you will answer to me, Ty Lee.' Azula had thought of Ty Lee and her betrayal.
Later That Night...
The Boilin Rock escapees were currently riding on the Fire Nation toward the Western Air Temple. It was currently being piloted by Sokka-who knew how to get there.
All of the other Boiling Rock escapees were currently sleeping within the ship. Their bodies leaned on the walls. Except for Zuko had sat and leaned his back on the wall, while Ty Lee had sat and slept next to him. Her left head rested on Zuko's right shoulder. Zuko didn't mind Ty Lee sleeping on his shoulder. But what he couldn't stop thinking about was how was he going to tell his group back on the Western Air Temple.