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SCRAPHEAP

I get up at my usual time and make my bed before pulling on a yellow t-shirt with the Air Nomad insignia printed on the front and a pair of blue jeans, then socks and my white tennis shoes. I grab an orange hoodie and lay it out, planning to stuff it into my overnight bag that I take to the base on Saturdays, along with my airbending fans, a book, and my IPod.

After meditating, I leave the room and pack my overnight bag for a day at the Autobot base. As an afterthought, I stick my head back in and grab the glider-staff my parents had gotten me. I know they're gone.

Though they're not benders, they had both been from an Air Nomad line, and Dad's nomadic spirit had led him to become a truck driver, driving a custom Peterbilt semi—painted yellow with an orange oak leaf on either side, on the door. Mom is a ER doctor, and close friends with June Darby, a nurse and the mother of my best friend, Jack. We don't know where Jack's father is, but we do know that he was not a bender either.

"Morning, Bee. Morning Jack." I smile as I slide into the back seat with Jack. Jack is dressed differently today, wearing a blue t-shirt with the Water Tribe insignia rather than his normal gray and white set. "Morning. Your parents gone?"

"Mom's at the hospital, and Dad should be on his way back from California. I wish I was riding with him again."

"You don't like coming to base?"

Jack raises an eyebrow at the dash before turning to me. "What'd he say?"

"He asked if I don't like coming to base. I love coming to base, but my dad's a truck driver—Peterbilt semi—and I miss him."

"Besides, you're an Air Nomad. You just want to travel."

"I'm afraid Mom was born withOUT that nomadic spirit. I guess that's what comes from being a descendant of Avatar Aang and Katara."

Jack gives me a strange look as Bumblebee pulls up to Raf's house. Raf climbs into the passenger seat, dressed differently as well. "What's going on?" He's wearing blue jeans and a red t-shirt with the fire nation insignia printed on the front.

"I don't know. Jack, what's up?"

"Mom just finished our family tree last night. She was able to trace our line back to the same point you were."

"Who? I traced my line all the way back to the Fire Lord."

"Water Tribe Chief Hakoda. Through Sokka."

"Through Katara." I shrug. "Married Aang. So who exactly, Raf?"

"Zuko."

I get a distant look in my eyes. "Sheyenne?"

"I'm fine, Bee. Just thinking. Wouldn't it be funny if Miko was descended from the Blind Bandit?" Jack and Raf nod. "Then we'd all be descended from the original team avatar. Miko came from a protective family in Japan, and from history class we know that the Beifong family was overprotective of Toph."

We finally pull into the base. I climb out of Bumblebee and wave. "Miss us doc-bot?"

Ratchet sighs and turns towards Optimus. "Shouldn't they be in school?"

Miko walks up next to me and tutts. She's dressed differently as well. I've rarely seen her in anything but her purple and green getup, but she's wearing a bright green t-shirt with the Earth Kingdom insignia on the front and skinny jeans. "On Saturday? We have the whole weekend off… To spend with you."

I snicker at how enthusiastic she sounds, and Ratchet just glares at her.

Jack steps over to where Arcee is standing. "I wasn't expecting a car pool. What gives Arcee?"

Arcee places her hands on her hips as she briefly explains. "Tag-team, Jack. It's my turn for exploration duty."

"Huh… too bad. It's a beautiful day out for a ride. Would hate for you to feel guilty for leaving me indoors…" Jack pouts up at her. It isn't working.

"Arctic exploration duty."

"Indoors where it's warm." Jack cocks his fingers into the direction of the sofa, and quickly walks towards it.

I laugh and shake my head at his antics, only just catching Optimus' eyes on me. He quickly turns away, though. I cross my arms while rolling my eyes up to look at Jack. "Jack's ancestry can actually be traced back to the South Pole."

Raf walks up to Optimus, hope gleaming in his eyes. "The Arctic! I've always wanted to see snow!"

Optimus shakes his head sadly. "I would invite you to join, Raf, but the conditions are much too extreme, even for we Autobots."

The boy deflates slightly but still nods in understanding. "I… I understand."

I walk over to him. "Raf, firebenders don't belong in that ice and snow anyway. You need the tropics."

He smiles at me slightly. Optimus and Arcee are about to leave but Optimus turns back to Raf. "But, I will bring you back a snowball." A smile plays on his lips. That is not something you'd expect a 30 foot alien robot to say.

I grin as Raf brightens up. "That would be awesome!" He exclaims. Optimus nods to him before walking through the ground bridge.

"Transport complete." I hear Ratchet mutter, shortly followed by the sound of a small explosion. I slowly turn around to face Ratchet, who is staring wide eyed at the ground bridge lever, which is sparking. "By the All Spark…" He trails off.

I simply shake my head and walk where Jack, Miko and Raf are. They are too occupied in the racing game they are playing to notice me. Sighing, I decide to explore the base again. "Hey, where you going?"

I spin around to see Raf. I smile and shrug. "I dunno, I'm bored." An idea suddenly pops up in my head. "Wanna play artic exploration?"

Raf grins and for the next half hour we 'face a snow storm' and 'struggle to survive', just like my ancestors—the Water Tribe side—had done eons ago. It's actually fun. "Temperature sub-zero and dropping!" Raf says as he 'attempts to walk through the strong wind and snow'.

We stop when we hear something drop onto the floor. Curious, we look around. We hear the noise again and turn around, gasping at what we see.

It's a small, round, metal creature with huge purple eyes. It looked adorable, but I'm suspicious. As the thing walks closer to us, I feel the bad vibe radiating from it, but ignore it as I stare at the thing. "W-Where did you come from?" The thing only blinks at us and walks closer. "The Autobots never said anything about pets." I state as Raf picks up an over-sized bolt which just about fit in the palm of his hand. "You wanna play fetch?" Raf giggles as the creature cutely nods and starts running in circles and jumping around. Raf throws the bolt and the thing chases after it. "Good boy! Go get it!" The thing gets closer to the bolt and starts eating it. "No! Don't eat that! You're going to choke!" The thing then turns back around, the bolt gone, and it seems fine.

"Or… Not." I'm not sure about the creature. The cute ones are always the deadliest. Mind you, Megatron isn't a picture you want to look at, but baby moose-lions look cute too, and they're dangerous as all get out. "Raf, I'm not sure about this…" I start, trailing off.

The thing then skips over and starts rubbing against the boy's leg. "Awww, come on Sheyenne, it's not going to hurt anybody!"

I sigh, but agree. After all, Sokka did befriend a baby moose-lion once.

My suspicions of the thing grow as the lights start to flicker. We walk back into the main room. Raf is petting the thing, which has snuggled up into his arms. "Hey guys, look what I found!" He holds the thing up in full view.

"We're busy!" But when Ratchet looks up at him, he suddenly yells in shock. All the Autobots back away warily as they point their weapons at Raf and the thing.

Jack and Miko run over to us. "Hey, hey!" Miko shouts, attempting to calm the Autobots. She places herself in front of Raf, along with Jack.

I take an airbending stance to defend Raf if necessary. "What's with you guys?"

"Scraplet! Scraplet!" I tell you, any other moment I would be laughing my butt off at them, but this is serious.

"What's a scraplet?" Raf jumps slightly to see over the two teens.

"The most dangerous vermin ever to crawl upon the face of Cybertron."

I turn to Raf and give him a look. "The most 'dangerous' vermin ever, Raf, is what you are currently hugging." I sigh and shake my head, "Dude, you are SO reminding me of Sokka right now."

Miko stares at the Autobots wide-eyed and Jack just gives them a confused look. Miko and Jack then look back at the scraplet. "This…? Are you kidding me!"

"Saber-toothed moose-lion cub." I whisper to Jack, reminding him of the story I had told him after I hear it from Aang. Jack then nods knowingly.

"Your giant robots! Scrappy here is… Tiny." Miko pinches her fingers together for emphasis.

"You have no idea how much damage that tiny thing can do!"

"Awww, he wouldn't hurt anything."

'Oh, how wrong can you get?' The thing focuses on the Autobots and stares at them, as if analyzing them. Suddenly its mouth opens wide and it reveals chainsaw-like teeth as it charges toward the Autobots. They shoot at it repeatedly but the scraplet dodges and jumps onto Bumblebee's leg. All I can do at the moment is watch in horror as it started chewing away at his armor. Bumblebee finally shakes the scraplet off, but it gets ready to charge again.

It's finally stopped when I run over and kick it over to the wall. Hard. I'm amazed it doesn't hurt, and I'm pretty sure the others are too.

Raf lets out a battle cry and races toward the already-dead scraplet and whacks it multiple times with a crowbar he had found. I just fold my arms and look on in amusement as the scraplet turns into a pancake.

It takes Jack to stop him. "Easy there, killer."

I snicker at the remark, but sober up when Raf runs over to Bumblebee worriedly. "I'm so sorry, Bumblebee!" Raf apologizes.

"It's not your fault, Raf." Bumblebee replies, attempting to soothe the boy's nerves. It only works a little bit. Raf looks up to Ratchet, who is examining Bumblebee's leg.

"Is he going to be okay?"

Ratchet turns to me and nods. "Only a mesh wound. He'll live."

Raf breathes a sigh of relief.

"Now do you believe me!? All scraplets do is dismantle machinery and eat anything metal! Especially living metal!"

'That is VERY unnerving.'

Jack then walks over to where I am. "Well, bug squashed, game over… Right?"

I facepalm and wince, hitting my forehead harder than I had intended. Ratchet must have noticed me flinch because he shoots Jack a glare. "No! When it comes to scraplets, there's never just one. And I fear I know how they got in here."

Ratchet stands up and walks toward the corridors, gently grasping me in the process. I look up at him. "What was that for?"

He glances down at me. "Don't you want to know how the scraplets got in here?"

I keep silent after that.

We eventually get to the room in question and Ratchet places me down on the floor. He walks forward and examines this giant metal egg container, which has a hole in the side, with his wielder. "It's a trap. A scraplet trap."

Bumblebee cowers behind Ratchet, which I find incredibly adorable.

"An empty scraplet trap…" Bulkhead states the obvious, and I have a hard time trying not to roll my eyes at it.

"Most likely injected into space eons ago. Only to wind up in the Arctic where the Arctic temperature kept them in stasis." Jack takes a step forward. "Until we brought the thaw."

Miko looks from me, to him, to Raf. "Now their wide awake and ready to brunch."

There is a short, almost awkward, silence. That is until Raf breaks it. "Sooo…"

"How many are we talking about?"

"Thousands." Ratchet turns toward me.

My eyes widen in shock. "Holy scrap!"

Ratchet then transforms his hand back. "With the power malfunctions and ground bridge damage, a sure sign that their infestation is well under way." Ratchet suddenly realizes something and quickly runs back to the main room.

"It is time." I turn to face my little team. "For the world to know that the avatar has returned. Jack, when we get the ground bridge back up, you and I will get some of the spirit water. It's got special properties, and we may need it in the future. But Aang told me a few days ago that we have to work with the bots to save the world before we can even think of restoring the balance."

"So what, we tell the bots that we're benders?"

"First. Then we tell the school and the world. Jack, I need to start my waterbending training today."

"So, one bender to one bot. Jack, you and I will stick with Ratchet. You two go with your guardians, and don't be afraid to bend in their presence. That may be our only way of keeping them safe. Jack, if it's slow, I'll take a waterbending lesson."

In the main room Ratchet is desperately trying to get Optimus or Arcee on the com. "Ratchet to Optimus! Do you read me? We have a situation!" The screen glitches and switches off, causing Ratchet to growl in frustration. "The scraplets have gotten into the com-link system! If we don't eradicate these creatures immediately, they will reduce the entire base to a scrapheap."

Bulkhead shudders. "Well I say we bug out of here and let them keep it!" Bumblebee chirps in agreement.

"Evacuation is not an option. If we don't get the ground bridge back online stat, Optimus and Arcee will perish."

Mine and Jack's eyes both widen. "They will…?" I place a comforting hand on his shoulder, which earned me a small smile.

Miko, however, looks extremely furious as she marches over to where Bulkhead is currently standing. "Bulkhead! You never run!"

Bulkhead looks down to her, his expression deadly serious. "Miko, you haven't seen a swarm of these things devour a bot. I have. They pick you apart from the inside out, going for the small juicy bits first, fuse by fuse, circuit by circuit, till there is nothing left, and I mean nothing! Not even your optics."

I shudder. "Thanks for the nightmares."

CLANG! Bulkhead yelps as a wrench comes into contact with his head, leaving a dent. The wrench drops to the floor with another 'clang'. Jack, Raf and Miko all glare at me.

I hold my hands up in surrender. "That wasn't me!"

Bulkhead, however, looks behind me. "What was that for?"

I turn around and end up facing a smirking Ratchet, whose arms are folded. He shrugs. "For giving Sheyenne nightmares." Ratchet shrugs. "She's… special." I giggle, covering my mouth. He looks down at me briefly before walking over to pick up the wrench he threw.

I nod at the trio. "It's time we get that out in the open Ratchet. We're all benders, and I am the Avatar."

"What's an avatar?"

Miko facepalms.

"For almost as long as time, people have been able to bend the elements to their will. Well, the Avatar can master all four of the elements—air, water, earth, and fire—and the Avatar is one who can be called upon to keep the world in balance. However; all benders have gone into hiding. Though no one's needed the Avatar in over two thousand years, the Avatar is always reborn into the next element in the cycle. It goes, air, water, earth, and fire. When I die, the next Avatar will be reborn as a waterbender and after that will be earth, then fire, and once again air. Like Optimus, I seek wisdom from the past avatars if I don't know what to do—usually Aang."

"So, what does Miko bend?"

"Miko's an earthbender, Jack is a waterbender, and Raf is a firebender, and a descendant of royalty, I just found out. We've been tracing our ancestry—well, I KNEW mine was Aang because I'm an airbender—but Jack's mom traced them back to Sokka—by the way, he WAS sort of like a prince himself, being the son of the chief—Raf traced his back to Fire Lord Zuko…"

"My mom is from the Beifong family."

I smile widely.

"What's going on?"

"Generations later, the original team avatar has come together in their descendants. Sokka and Aang's wife Katara—were from the Water Tribe—Jack and I are both descended from those two—Jack Sokka and I Katara. I am descended from the last airbender and avatar, Aang. Raf is descended from Aang's Fire Lord friend Zuko—remind me to tell you all the story of Roku and Sozin later—and Miko is descended from the Blind Bandit—Toph Beifong, who invented metalbending. Miko even reminds me of her—Toph was reckless, against rules of any kind, and hated to be sheltered—and she was because she was blind. She and Katara NEVER got along."

"And the balance? Did our coming three years ago push earth out of balance?"

"Spirits no! It's been slowly falling out of balance for the last two thousand years, Bee! No, Aang told me Thursday morning about some prophesy… we're supposed to work WITH you guys to defeat whoever, and then restore the balance with you all here."

"Any abilities that could HELP us here?"

"Waterbenders like Jack can be gifted with healing abilities. Jack has them, and I can learn to heal as well. Miko can learn to metalbend—and she can create an earth armor—or metal if she learns the subset of metalbending—to protect herself from danger in the field—and so can I. Raf may be able to bend blue flames like Azula did."

Jack suddenly steps forward. "Okay, back to the situation at hand. You have to let us help." I nod my head in approval.

"We're not made of metal!"

Miko then leans on me. "Ya, they can't harm us!"

"Typically I find your fleshiness your least engaging quality." I roll my eyes at Ratchet's words. "But it would appear to provide an advantage, under these extremes."

"Okay, good." I am partially relieved that we can help, "So, we pair off. One bot one human. I'll watch your back while you repair the ground bridge."

"Let's go on a bug hunt." Miko punches her fists together. Bulkhead and Bumblebee both shudder violently as I shrug.

"What'd I tell ya? Toph." I say to Jack.

Miko and Bulkhead are walking down the hallway looking for scraplets. "I get to be your bodyguard for once. How cool is that?"

"Raf found the found the first one here, right?"

The lights flicker off and a girlish scream is heard. The lights flicker back on as Miko turns around. "Did you just scream like a little girl?"

"No!… Maybe… Can we talk about this later?"

They then continue to walk down the hall and search for scraplets. There are little tapping sounds near as Bulkhead begins to fire. He then screams as Miko is getting ready to fight.

Miko's mouth drops when she sees that Bulkhead is swatting away a bunch of cables. "Okay. Wish I hadn't seen that. Bulkhead! Snap out of it! It's just a bunch of cables!"

Bulkhead immediately stops and sighs with relief. "Right. Cables." Bulkhead pulls on one of the cable. As he pulls it, scraplets begin to fall from the ceiling. Bulkhead tries to swat them away.

Miko smashes the scraplets' heads with her pole. "Forget this." Miko then tosses it away and earthbending and metalbending the base itself instead.

Bumblebee and Raf are walking down another part of base as they look for the scraplets. Bumblebee buzzes wordlessly and worriedly. "Don't these things ever stop eating?" Raf walks near an air vent with a hole in it. Bumblebee then beckons Raf to stay back as he pulls the opening. Raf gets into his fighting stance and Bumblebee aims his guns, but nothing is there. They then hear a shredding noise from behind as Raf's face is filled with worry. The scraplets then come out through another hole in the ground that leads through to the air vents. Bumblebee begins to fire rapidly as the scraplets come toward him. Raf shrugs and starts firebending at the scraplets.

Once they all leave, Ratchet starts working on the ground bridge, and Jack and I just stand by, watching. When there are no signs of any scraplets I quickly get bored.

Jack walks in then, using his bending to hold about twenty gallons of water in a small blue wading pool as he drags it over to me. Ratchet turns to us, his eyebrow raised, before shaking his head at our antics and continuing his work. Jack motions to me and streams water into the air and to me. I catch on pretty quickly, and the lessons continue from there.

Jack and I stop about six forms in and check on Ratchet. We turn to Ratchet. "How's it going over there?"

"I've repaired the damage conductors and rerouted the central conducts, but the ground bridge still won't receive any power!" Ratchet slams his fists into the ground.

We suddenly hear tiny footsteps and I look up and, on the wall, a bunch of scraplets are crawling along the wall. I grab the nearest thing to me, which happened to be a two foot long metal pipe. My eyes widen at how many there are. "How did they manage to get up there?" The scraplets then open their mouths as they begin flying toward us. "What the heck?!"

"YOU NEVER SAID THEY COULD FLY!"

The scraplets begin to eat Ratchet as he falls back from the force. "Ratchet!"

Jack and I share a worried look. I drop the pipe and take a stance and bend the remaining water out of the pool—we had spilled quite a bit—and combine it with my airbending to add power. Seeing the water gone and knowing he can't pull THAT much water out of the air, Jack takes my discarded pipe and attempts to hit them with the pipe. He runs over, kicking and hitting the scraplets with all the power he has. There are just too many, though, and Jack looks like he is losing hope.

Ratchet then looks to our right. "JACK! THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER!"

Jack then drops his pipe and grabs the fire extinguisher from the ground. He then sprays the carbon dioxide foam and the scraplets stop, dropping like bugs that have been sprayed with bug spray.

Then more scraplets come in getting ready to feed. "Monkey feathers."

Jack shivers as the foam dampens his clothes. Ratchet groaned as he slowly stood up, his armor literally covered with scraplet bites. He looks battered. Bumblebee and Bulkhead then come limping in with Miko and Raf, not looking much better than Ratchet. Bulkhead is holding his right arm. "Ratchet, get the patch kit. We're leaking energon like—Whoa!"

We all look up to see hundreds of scraplets flying around our heads. They look at the Autobots and start attacking again. Jack sprays Ratchet again while the others use their bending to fight the scraplets.

I run over to my overnight bag, remembering I had brought my staff and fans today. "Sheyenne!?"

I run back using my bending to speed myself up and lean my staff on the computer before smiling at Jack with a sheepish shrug. "Stronger attacks." I open the fans, creating a small metallic sound.

"They're metal?"

"What? They were styled after the Kyoshi Warriors!" I close them again and slip them into my back pockets before I grab my staff as thirty scraplets aim for me.

I summon up an air blade and slice them all in half. It only takes the others one hit to knock them out, so it doesn't take too long to kill them all. The 'Bots are leaning on the walls while we make sure the scraplets are dead. I walk over to the thirty I had cut in half. 'Good. They're just sparkless organisms. They don't have life.'

Jack looks around. "Did we get them all?"

We all hear a shredding noise come from the halls, and I groan. "You have got to be kidding me."

"Primus hates us!" Bumblebee collapses backward, now lying down. I snicker at his comment, and Raf is giggling as well.

"This is not a laughing matter." Jack walks over to us.

I look over at a trembling prone Bumblebee and nod. "Jack's right. Even if he does remind me of Sokka." I lay a hand on Raf's shoulder to calm him down. "It's going to be all right. Team Avatar is on the case."

"So the rest of them know we're in here?"

"Good news. They're sparkless shells."

"Great. So we're not going against your beliefs."

"Hey, they're AANG'S beliefs. Besides, I know none of you want to REALLY kill something."

We all turn to Ratchet when he speaks up, continuing what Bulkhead said. "And if we allow ourselves to become their next meal, Optimus and Arcee will never make it home. We must get the ground bridge operational."

Raf looks up to Ratchet. "Then we can use it to send the Scraplets anywhere on Earth."

Jack motions to the group we had sprayed with the fire extinguisher. "Why not back to the Arctic? We already know they don't do cold."

"Sweet! One-stop shopping!" Miko cheers.

"But how are we supposed to get the ground bridge to work when we don't know what the problem is?"

Miko turns to face Jack and I. "Why don't you just freeze them with your waterbending?"

I shrug nervously. "We kinda used up all the water with my lessons."

"Given the body mass of the Scraplets, the sub-zero temperature should freeze them on contact. So think, Ratchet, think. If the Ground Bridge is still down, then maybe there's a breach in the energon fuel line." I giggle. He looks so proud of himself, his optics widening and brightening up.

"We're slagged." I start laughing, but laugh even harder at Raf's puzzled face. I quickly calm down when the seriousness hits me again.

Bulkhead and Bumblebee try to get up, but immediately collapse from the loss of energon. "If we weren't breaching, one of us could go back over there and fix it."

"Where do we find it, and how do we fix it?" Miko, Jack, and Raf step over by me. We are given the instructions on how to fix the breach.

We walk over to the pipe with a toolbox, but we're a little precautious. Raf eventually figures that the pipe above us should lead us too it. As we continue to follow the pipe, we have to step over and dodge many scraplets. "Remember. We're okay. We're not metal." Jack reminds us.

I see a pipe leaking energon from it. "Guys. Energon." I point to it. Jack, Miko, and Raf run over and begin to patch it up. "I'll destroy some of the scraplets."

Jack nods. "All right. We have to work fast." They begin to patch up the ground bridge as fast as they can while I destroy scraplets. When they are finished, the scraplets had gone through the vents that lead to the main room.

"Guys, when that bridge opens, I'm goin' out. Something tells me we're going to want some of the spirit water."

Jack nods. "I'll back you up with the bots."

I nod and send another air blast with my staff, only to notice that they're starting to move somewhere again. "What's happening?" I follow them with my eyes.

"They're getting ready to feed!"

We sprint toward the main room, where the scraplets are flying on top of us. "Ratchet! All systems go!"

"Fire it up!"

"Ground Bridge…activated." Ratchet then collapses on the ground.

The ground bridge opens up as Bulkhead looks up at the scraplets. "Bait…huh?" He then slowly gets up and begins waving to the scraplets. "Ready for the main course?" The scraplets then open their mouths and fly toward Bulkhead. "Come and get it!" Bulkhead then limps through the ground bridge.

Jack holds his modern parka out to me. "It's not much, but it was made for artic temperatures."

Miko walks over carrying two clean soda bottles. "Go get 'em, girl." Miko hands them to me.

"Miko, you're nuts." I slip into the dark blue parka and zipping it up. "I'll be back. Cover for me."

Bulkhead jumps through to the Artic while the scraplets follow behind. He sees Optimus and Arcee try to get into the ground bridge, but their strength is fading fast.

"Down! DOWN!" Bulkhead tells them before he falls into the snow. The scraplets are now flying toward Optimus and Arcee. Optimus then puts a hand in front of Arcee, making sure that she doesn't get hurt. But before the scraplets can reach them, they freeze and bounce off of his armor. After they shield themselves from the scraplets they look over at Bulkhead, who is rubbing his head.

"I'd invite you in, but the place is a mess."

I run through the bridge right behind Bulkhead and find the spirit oasis, still there and still warm, whereas the land around it is no longer green, and the Northern Water Tribe is long since destroyed. As I fill the bottles, a scene from Aang's life fills my mind.

At the oasis, Iroh places the dead koi fish in the water, only for Katara to lay a hand on his shoulder. "It's too late, it's dead."

Iroh notices Yue. "You have been touched by the Moon Spirit. Some of its life is in you."

Yue nods. "Yes, you're right. It gave me life, maybe I can give it back."

"No! You don't have to do that." Sokka reaches to stop her.

"It's my duty, Sokka."

"I won't let you!" Sokka takes her hand. "Your father told me to protect you."

"I have to do this." Yue slips her hand out of Sokka's as she places her hands on the koi fish. The koi begins to glow and Yue closes her eyes.

She falls as Sokka catches her. "No! She's gone, she's gone."

I kneel on the edge of the dilapidated bridge and smile at the koi fish, my hand resting on the surface of the water. "Thank you, Yue. Thank you, La. This will really help us in our mission." I turn and run to the ground bridge, one bottle of spirit water under each arm.

"Where did you go?" A half-frozen Optimus asks. Jack walks over and takes the bottles from me, mumbling something along the lines of 'Mom will make us each a water skin for this.'

"The Spirit Oasis at the North Pole." I smile up at my guardian. "The water there has special properties, even the power to revive an avatar. Master Pakku gave some to Katara once… if he hadn't, the avatar cycle would have ended and the world would be no more—neither would the airbenders." A tear rolls down my cheek. "Azula killed Aang with her lightning. He was the world's last hope. Now, that's my position. I have to save the world, restore the balance, rejoin the benders, and help you end your war."

Optimus looks at me. "Your world must not share the same fate as Cybertron. Whole generations lost."

I look at my feet. "Whole generations of Air Nomads were already lost. It wasn't my fault. Aang didn't want to be the avatar and ran away so he didn't have to go to the Eastern Air Temple, and while he was gone, frozen in an iceberg, Sozin killed all the Air Nomads."

"But they rose up from the ashes after Aang won the war." Jack places his hands on my shoulder. "Remember? We've been learning about Tenzin in history."

"Yeah. An airbender equal to Ratchet! We ALL would enjoy that." I say sarcastically before changing my tone. "Of course, they almost got bloodbent."

"Bloodbent?"

I lean over to Jack and whisper in his ear. "Jack, do you know the technique?"

"No, Katara outlawed it, remember?" Jack looks more than a little nervous at the thought that I may push the thought.

I nod slightly. "Then the benders went into hiding. It's a dark form of waterbending, created by Hama, outlawed by Katara." I slip off the parka. "I believe this is yours, Jack."

"Mom's going to make us each a water skin for the spirit water. I already have one, but I could ask her to make you one as well."

"I'd appreciate that." I smile.

A few minutes later, all of the Autobots are beginning to recover from the Artic and the scraplet infestation. "Report bio-circuitry status."

Jack gives him a thumbs up. "Levels are rising."

"Excellent. Rafael, keep a close watch on Bumblebee's electro pulse monitor. Miko, check Bulkhead's interface patch."

"Levels are steady." Raf reports.

"Looking good!" Miko pipes in.

"Sheyenne, check Arcee's system operations."

"She's doing fine, Ratchet."

"Perhaps you should get some rest yourself, old friend. You saved quite a few lives today."

"It wasn't all my doing." Ratchet looks over at us with a proud smile. "We're just fortunate that the infestation happened on a Saturday."

"Our human friends may be small, but they are strong."

Miko then screams at the top of her lungs as Jack, Raf, and I get into a fighting stance. "Scraplet?!"

"SPIDER! Is it on me?!" Miko then screams as she runs out of the room leaving the Autobots confused.

I can't hold it in and fall onto the floor laughing.

"Did she just scream like a little girl?"

Everyone exchanges glances. "Meet Miko." I sigh, and walk over to where she ran off. I look around the corner to see that she isn't in sight. I turn back around, my expression blank. "I ain't going after her…" I walk back over to Jack and lean on his shoulder.

He chuckles, quickly twisting and attempting to knock me over. I fall back, but before I hit the floor I airbend myself back up. "I know what to buy Miko for her birthday."

I burst out laughing. 'Oh, she is going to LOVE us.'

Raf then walks over, curious. When I grin deviously at him he shakes his head. "Do I want to know?"

"I wanna know!" Bumblebee pipes up.

"What happened to having super hearing?"

The yellow mech just shrugs.

"I wanna know too!" Bulkhead pouts.

I am about to speak when Miko walks back in. "Wanna know what?"

I smile sheepishly and run over between Ratchet and Optimus, hiding behind Optimus' leg.

Ratchet glances down at me before smiling and turning away, leaving me shocked. 'He smiled, AGAIN?'

"Oh, we were just going to buy you loads of spiders for your birthday." Jack doesn't seem to know what will now happen.

Miko turns and glares at me.

I glare at Jack, who now looks lost. "Well done, meat head!"

Miko comes charging at me, seemingly thinking that it was my idea. As she nears me I am pretty sure that I am about to die until I feel a hand gently pick me up. Miko growls, frustrated. "Put her down, I just want a chat!" She narrowing eyes say differently.

Optimus' hand curls around me only slightly. It's barely noticeable, but I clearly see and feel the action. "Not until you calm down, Miko." Optimus simply says, sounding rather smug.

Well then, I'm going to be here for a while…

Or not. Miko actually calmed down pretty quickly this time. Optimus walks over and sets me down on the platform next to the other three, who have started playing truth or dare. "Hey." I walk across the platform to them. "Great job today. All of you." They look up at me. "Come on. We need to plan for next week."

"Plan what?"

"We're going to announce out identities as benders Monday."

"You're sure it's a good idea?"

"The world had to know Aang was alive—it brought them hope."

"So, what are you wearing on Monday?"

"Mom made me a traditional Air Nomad outfit. I can't wait for Optimus to see what my people wore in Aang's day."

"Mom made me a Blind Bandit costume. It came in the mail yesterday."

"I'm pretty sure the two of you are going with what was traditional then as well, with your ancestry." Jack and Raf nod. "Okay, twin day…"

Jack smiles, turning to Raf with a friendly smile. "Raf and I are pairing off."

"Then Miko and I will as well. So far as I know, we're the only benders. The next step is telling Fowler about this Monday after school.

I look around at the now-recovered Autobots standing around the main room. "It's time I told you the story Aang told me, the story of Roku and Sozin, from their teens to the end and the birth of Avatar Aang."

Miko, Jack, and Raf walk over and sit on the couch behind me, wanting to hear this story as well.

"As to how I know all of this, Aang's and Roku's lives both teach a lesson we need to know now. Aang took me back, through his life, and through Roku's life."

Optimus nods. "So you have their memories, as I do the past primes."

"And it's not supposed to be that way. But Roku took Aang through his past, and Aang took me through both. I needed to know." I sigh heavily. This isn't going to be easy. "Roku and Sozin were in the Fire Nation palace courtyard, dueling. They were fifteen, and good friends. Best friends. Sozin grabbed Roku's shirt to stop him from falling and raises a hand as if to firebend at him, but instead just knocks him over. After helping him back up, the two leave the courtyard and run into the girl Roku apparently had a crush on. Sozin encouraged him to talk to her, but he wasn't able to, and instead, falls back on the ground. Sozin sprinkles grass on his face. The next thing I saw was a party. Sozin AND Roku's sixteenth birthday party. That's the day Roku was told he is the avatar, and he almost fell down the stairs, if not for Sozin. Everyone, even the prince, bows to him, but he just looks scared. That's when Sozin gave Roku the crown he wore—one supposed to be worn by the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, before Roku goes to learn the other bending disciplines." Optimus looks down sadly when he thinks I'm not looking at him. Without speaking, Ratchet quietly walks over to the prime and lays a hand on his shoulder. "Roku was gone for 12 years. When he went back to the Fire Nation, he was a fully realized avatar, and Sozin was Fire Lord." I smile at Raf. "On Roku's wedding day, Sozin went to him with a plan—a plan to group together and "Share the prosperity with the rest of the world". But Roku believed that the four nations should remain four. It was his first real test as the avatar."

"My ancestors." Raf knows about the Air Nomad genocide just as well as the rest of us do.

"Yes, Raf." I whisper, turning around. "You are descended from both Sozin and Roku." I turn back to the others. "Weeks later, Roku is flying on Fang, his dragon, and discovers that Sozin had gone ahead with his plan anyway, and had set up a colony in the Earth Kingdom—a city called Yu Dao. Roku went into the throne room, furious with Sozin. One battle later, the friendship is torn apart, but Roku let him live on the basis of their old friendship." I say, "They didn't speak for twenty-five years after that incident, and Roku stayed on his island home when he wasn't filling his duties." Optimus looks up at me, the sadness still in his eyes, but with a hope in them as well. I hate to crush that hope, but I have to finish the story. "That's when it all fell apart. The two volcanoes on his island erupted. Roku sent his family and the other villagers off in boats and stayed to fight the lava flow. That headpiece fell to the floor. After he gets them to safety, he sends Fang off as well. He goes into the avatar state, a defense mechanism I'll explain later. Roku starts to tire out, and Sozin arrives on his dragon and begins to help face the two volcanoes. Lightning is striking, and the earth is quaking."

Raf sighs. "I hate what Sozin did to Roku." Jack puts an arm around him.

"How do you think Sheyenne feels about what Sozin did?" "Miko, you're not helping. He meant Roku…" 'Not my people…' Jack looks up at me and sees the sadness in my eyes, but I shake it off and continue the story. "Sozin uses a heat adsorption technique to cool the lava as Roku stops Sozin from falling to his death, and the two take off running when another surge of ash shoots out. Roku airbends the toxic fumes away from Sozin as they run, until the gas erupts into Roku's face. Roku falls to his knees, and begs Sozin to help him. Sozin looks back and says "Without you, all my plans are suddenly possible. I have a vision for the future, Roku." His dragon then appears and he flies away. Toxic gas, rock, and ash overtake Roku. Fang coils around Roku, and the two die, together. The next second, Avatar Aang was born." The Autobots look at me, shock evident in their eyes. "Roku told Aang to make sense of their past, and he would be able to bring peace and restore balance in the world. Sozin wrote in his journal that with Roku gone and the great comet returning, the timing was perfect to change the world. They knew—they all knew—that the next avatar was going to be an Air Nomad, so he took out all four air temples, but Aang evaded him."

"The Fire Nation's greatest threat."

"The last airbender." Miko says.

"Toph thought the people had been born bad, but Aang simply said that since Roku was just as much Fire Nation as Sozin was, that the story proves that everyone is capable of great good, and great evil. And that everyone, even the Fire Lord and the Fire Nation have to be treated like they're worth giving a chance. And that it was about friendships as well."

"Do you believe that?"

"Yes, I do. The three of us are as well. Jack is descended from Sokka. I am descended from Katara and Aang. Miko is descended from Toph Beifong. Raf is descended from Fire Lord Zuko. Our friendship has transcended several lifetimes."

"Zuko was told that Sozin was his father's grandfather, but that Roku was his mother's grandfather." Raf says, having recovered from remembering what Sozin had done to Roku. "Zuko had been born with the ability to restore balance to the world, even with evil and good in him." Raf looks down. "I have that headpiece, if you want it."

I give Raf a deer-in-the-headlights look. "No. Rafael…"

"What's wrong?"

I shake my head. "Nothing, Bee." I glance to Raf, who nods, before turning back to Bumblebee with a small smile. "Bumblebee, if Raf has that headpiece, even though the Fire Lord doesn't technically exist anymore, it means that Raf is the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation."

We all stare at Raf for about a minute. Optimus breaks the silence. "The lessons you need, are they going to be easy?"

"No. Even Roku says the bending lessons are bitter work, but worth it in the end."