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Yue led their group as they burst out of the house, greeted by a sight of total confusion. Several buildings were already on fire as soldiers dashed past, half-dressed and still groggy, pushing through crowds of civilians.

"How did they find us?" Sokka cursed.

"It's probably Shu and Dun they're after," Suki reasoned. "I don't know if they know we're here."

She turned to Rinzen, pulling out her fans.

"Where is Gembul?" She demanded. "My swords-"

"Follow me," Rinzen gestured, and the two of them rushed away. Yue led the others forwards, cautiously, looking for trouble, making sure the lid on her waterskins was loose as she went. Sokka drew his club and his boomerang.

Yue peeked around a corner, and saw them. Men in black robes advancing down the street, wearing skull masks with horns. Their red armour was slightly visible beneath the black.

They saw Yue at the same time as she saw them, and drew their fists back, but Yue reacted quicker, a stream of water slamming into the first man's helmet. He went down with a grunt. His comrades yelled and unleashed a blast of flame which forced Team Avatar to dive for cover. Yue considered what to do next, but Katara was already moving around her, bringing out water which she slung down the street at ankle height. A moment later she heard startled cries as the water slammed into the firebenders' legs and knocked them over. The wall of flame abruptly stopped.

"Nice," Yue told the other Princess as they advanced down the street, stepping over the prone and groaning firebenders. Some of Dun's troops had appeared, and were pointing their swords at them to make sure they stayed down.

Beyond them, fires continued to rage in town. They raced forwards, and reached a fountain, where more Firebenders were busy torching surrounding buildings. Yue watched them deliberately directing their flames into the upper floors, and used the anger to reach into the fountain and pull. A wave of water erupted from it, the Firebenders turning in time to see it descend on them. It knocked them flying, and carried on far enough to gently lap at the sole of Yue's shoes.

"Katara, put out these fires!" She called, and Katara nodded. They both reached out and lifted the water up, Yue aiming for the houses on the left and Katara on the right. Another huge wave rose up, and then came crashing down upon the flaming buildings, extinguishing them with a hiss.

"Avatar!" A voice came from behind them, and they turned to see Suki and Rinzen rushing towards them. The Kyoshi Warrior had put her breastplate and wrist protectors on over her blue robes, and was carrying a longsword with a big golden shield attached to one of her forearms. A second, smaller sword hung in its scabbard on her waist.

"You made it then," Yue stated.

"Luckily," Suki said breezily. "Now, where do we go-"

More firebenders piled around the corner, silhouetted against a burning building as one of them pointed and shouted something. Yue raced around the fountain, hoping that the water would offer them some level of protection from the flames. The firebenders raced towards them, and Yue braced herself for the coming fight.

An ice-knife whizzed past her head. Yue frowned.

"Katara, look where you're shooting those," she complained. "You nearly hit me."

"What?" Katara appeared from behind her. "I didn't hear that, what did you say?"

Yue looked at her, and was hit by the dawning realisation that the ice knife was not Katara's.

A moment later, the water in the fountain reared up again, and came crashing down upon them. Yue threw her hands up to try and stop it, but she had been taken by surprise and reacted too slowly. Team Avatar were thrown to the floor, dazed and drenched. The Firebenders advanced around the fountain, except they weren't firebenders at all, were they?

"You're waterbenders," Yue whispered. "Why?"

Her head was spinning in shock. She did not know about any Water Tribe diaspora who had lived inside the Fire Nation before the war, so were they from the North? Or the South? Or where?

Katara, meanwhile, was faster to make up her mind.

"Traitors," she growled, jumping to her feet. With a wave of her hand she immediately dried herself off, the water flying out of her clothes and hair as she launched it at the enemy. One of them was hit and knocked down, but the others sidestepped it. As they approached, Yue saw under their black robes that they were wearing very similar armour to a Firebender of Ozai's army, except any part of that armour that would normally be coloured red was instead blue.

Katara's action allowed the rest to jump up, and Yue launched an attack too, a water-whip aimed at the nearest man. He held up his hand and the whip was wrenched out of her control, before being fired back at her. It hit her in the chest, and she went down with a thud.

"Sorry Princess," a voice came from under one of the helmets. "You don't understand. We're not traitors. You are the past. Ozai is the future. We're the winners."

Yue tried to scramble away as Katara stood protectively over her. This time, when they tried to drop the fountain water on them again, the princess of the South was ready, and she caught it in midair. Some of the waterbenders kept up this attack, as Katara strained to keep it contained, while others slipped knives out of their belts and slipped around the water stream towards them. Suki drew her shortsword, holding it in her other hand, and got ready to pounce.

They hadn't even made it halfway when a shrill horn-blast achoed through the town. They looked up, then at each other.

"It's done," one of them said. "Let's go."

And just like that, the waterbenders turned and bolted, abandoning them in the middle of the street, leaving Yue dazed and confused surrounded by her friends. The others scrambled to their feet, Sokka throwing his boomerang towards the waterbenders but missing. Then he was throwing himself down next to Yue.

"Are you alright?" He asked urgently.

"Fine," Yue reassured him. "Just a bit shaken, that's all."

She couldn't quite believe what she had seen. It looked for all the world like those had been northerners willingly fighting for Ozai.

Katara had been right. Traitors.