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RonaldM40196867: Not really. The situation is a bit too serious at the moment.

Zigzagdoublezee: Maybe, but Aang would still be Aang. I think he'd be more upbeat. But I agree that if he's not an Air Nomad (so is he a Pirate in our world or an AU version of theirs?) he'd probably be significantly less pacifist, although I still can't imagine him enjoying violence particularly.

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Yue watched as Sokka rushed around to the surviving officers on deck and dragged them over to her, and then bowed to them.

"We don't have much time," she said. "We need to get this ship moving. Do we have a sail?"

"Won't they just burn the sail?" One of the officers asked.

"Not if we can get moving before the stinkbombs stop smelling," Sokka suddenly intruded on the conversation. "They can't fire their catapults or shoot their fireballs from below decks."

The officer nodded, turned away and began barking orders. The man with the horn nodded, and blew into it, a long, deep note which echoed around the ship. A moment later, the deck itself seemed to split open, and the mast rose slowly, vertically up from where it had been stored. As it rose, two sailors jumped up onto the yard-arm and were carried aloft with perfect poise and precision honed by years of sailing experience. They dashed along it, throwing down ropes which were pulled taut and tied to the deck to form rigging. Then they untied the sail and it unfurled above them, a huge blue square of material which flapped in the breeze for a moment until it too was caught and tied. Waterbenders on the deck quickly dried it, and a moment later it billowed as it caught the wind. The same symbol of the South Pole that was on Sokka's armour was also painted on the sail.

Slowly, the ship began to move, following along behind the reversing Fire Nation cruiser. A few ships were already taking evasive manoeuvres to avoid crashing into it, and were as a result moving out of their way.

"Can we go any faster?" Yue asked. "Hey- the drum! Get that going!"

Sokka dashed over and picked up the drumsticks from where they lay on the deck. Then he raised his arm.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

He began beating the drum rhythmically, in the same way that the previous drummer had used to keep the waterbenders in time below deck. Yue had to grab the railings as she felt the ship suddenly pick up speed, faster than she had felt before thanks to the waterbenders and the wind working together. The two enemy ships still embedded in her side fell away and were left trailing in their wake.

A few enemy ships in the pile up beside them tried to follow, but found that they couldn't extracate themselves from the tangle.

A moment later they were free, the wind in Yue's hair and every enemy ship safely behind them. Yue twisted the wheel, and the ship leaned outwards slightly as it changed direction, moving away from the still-reversing and out of control enemy vessel which had cleared the way for them.

Yue left the wheel and dashed towards the front of the ship, stepping gingerly over the burned ruins of their artillery. In the distance she could see, as well as hear, the chaos of combat unfurling as the other five ice-ships, increasingly reinforced by a few of the wooden ships brave enough to get close, struggled to hold off the Fire Nation's superior numbers. But they weren't her concern. She was looking for one particular vessel.

It didn't take her long to find it.

Zhao's flagship was by far the largest enemy ship, as well as the most richly decorated. Yue could even see the fast ship that they had talked to him on still moored to its side.

It was also, Yue couldn't help but notice, at the back. Zhao was clearly a hands-off sort of leader.

She dashed back to the wheel, and shouted to Sokka over the drum.

"We need as much speed as possible! We're aiming for that ship! You should find something to hang on to!"

"Pardon?" Sokka called back.

Yue repeated herself, and he nodded.

"All right, I'll follow your lead."

A moment later, Pakku approached her, being supported by Katara and Rinzen.

"What's all this I hear about a plan to ram them?" He asked.

"The ship itself is the only weapon we have left," Yue explained.

"Can I help?"

"Aren't you injured?" Yue frowned.

"Not that injured. I can still waterbend."

"Alright, go right to the back of the ship and help give us as much speed as possible," Yue told him.

"I'll go too," Katara volunteered immediately.

"Great!" Yue grinned at her. "But remember, have something to grab hold of immediately."

Then she turned to Rinzen.

"Let me guess, you want me to put more wind in that sail," he said.

"If you would," Yue nodded.

"Alright," Rinzen jumped up onto the railing, staying upright with almost supernatural balance. Then he extended his hands upwards and the sail nearly tore itself free from the mast as a huge gust of wind slammed into it. The ship leapt forwards in the water, travelling faster than anything this size had any right to go, and Yue turned the steering wheel again so it was pointing right at the side of the flagship and closing fast.

Yue told an officer to take the wheel, and another to go below and tell everyone there to brace for impact. Then she dashed to the front of the ship. She needed to make this do as much damage as she could.

She looked down at the water passing by below her, and then began moving her arms. The water began to freeze, and latch on to the front of the ship, changing the shape of the bow. Yue was not an experienced waterbender, but before long, with trial and error, she had managed to construct a big icy square structure which jutted out in front of them below the waterline. It wasn't refined, or elegant, or even well-made, but Yue was confident that it would do the job. She looked up.

By now they were less than a hundred metres away from the side of Zhao's flagship and closing fast. There was pandemonium on the deck as crewmen tried desperately to turn their catapults to face them, and the cloud of ash above the ship grew bigger and darker as it began to try to turn away. But even with engines, they would never make the turn in time, Yue noted with grim satisfaction. They drew closer and closer, Yue waiting for the right time. She noticed the moon still hanging in the morning air, behind Zhao's ship. The chain connecting the fast ship to the flagship fell into the water with a splash.

And then Yue reached out, grabbed the water around the flagship with her bending and pulled with all her might. In an instant, the closing speed between the two ships was nearly doubled as the flagship was sucked towards them, causing everyone on deck to tumble over in surprise.

Yue just had time to jump down and brace herself against the ruins of a ballista as the prow of the ice-ship headed squarely for the side of Zhao's flagship. She could not check whether anyone else had done the same. And then there was a sickening crash, the scream of metal, and a huge splash of water as the two ships collided with devastating force.