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Unusual Circumstances	By : voyager Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Slash - Male/Male > Aang/Zuko Views: 5136 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 16

Airship Assault

Sokka, Suki and Toph arrived on the precipice overlooking the airship base; unfortunately, they were already lifting off for the assault on Ba-Sing-Sei. "OK, so now what," asked Suki.

"We're takin' off too," declared Toph; then she asked, "Where's the closest airship?" Sokka, forgetting that she couldn't see, pointed and said, "It's right…" Before Sokka could finish his sentence, Toph shouted, "Hang on!" and earth-bended their rocky outcropping towards the great ship. The three of them shot up and came back down to an almost, but not quite, perfect landing on the ship. Sokka, Suki and Toph made their way down a gantry toward the control room of the airship.

Suki and Sokka took up positions on either side of the entrance, and Toph tapped out a rhythm on the door. When a Fire-nation crewman answered, he and his Captain found themselves slammed into a bulkhead when the steel deck inexplicably warped beneath their feet; courtesy of one Toph Bei-Fong.

The remaining command crew was rapidly overwhelmed by a beautiful, but never to be underestimated, young warrior from Kyoshi Island; and a gangly looking, but remarkably skilled, young swordsman from the Southern Water-tribe.

It took Sokka only a few moments to master the controls, this ship was nearly identical to the one he and Zuko had commandeered during their escape from the Boiling Rock. Sokka found the intra-ship 'comms' tube and announced a special assembly of the crew in the bomb-bay; after which he steered the airship down close to the inland sea over which they were flying.

Once they were close enough to the water, Sokka had Suki take the wheel, and he looked for the bomb-bay door release, and pulled the lever. They could hear the panicked shouts even through the control room doors. There were only a few crewmen left, those who couldn't leave their stations, Toph, Sokka and Suki made short work of them. "Ok, what's our next move, Sokka," Suki asked. Sokka grinned and made a chopping motion with his hand and said, "Airship slice!" Suki looked at him skeptically, and even though she couldn't actually see him, Toph had an expression not unlike Suki's on her face. Sokka explained his plan, "We'll take this ship to full speed, and use it to ram the others in the fleet, and hopefully we should be able to take them all out at once."

Just as their ship was about to hit the first of the others, huge slabs of stone, and bursts of flame came from somewhere in the distance to slam into the lead ship, Ozai's ship! The engines were smoking and crippled, and Ozai's airship began to slowly go down. "What just happened?" Suki asked; Sokka had a better view through a telescope, and exclaimed "It's Aang, he's BACK!"

It was indeed, Aang, standing on a stone pillar opposite the Phoenix King's smoking, sinking ship. Aang looked on calmly; there was a glowing serenity about him, as well as grim determination. For the first time since Sokka met Aang; back at the South Pole, the young Avatar actually looked like he fit the role destiny had prepared for him.

"So, what do we do now," Suki and Toph asked Sokka, in unison. The Firelord is Aang's fight; our job is taking out the rest of those airships!" Sokka told them. The three of them proceeded with the plan as Sokka had proposed it; Taking their ship out of formation, and spiraling back toward the rest of the fleet. Their ship sliced through one, two, eventually six, of the eight remaining ships; before their own ship began to break up. "What now," Suki asked, "We get to the top of this thing; And if we make that far, I'll let you know!" was Sokka's tense reply.

Sokka Suki and Toph made it to the top of their ship, but its bow broke loose from the rest of the ship. Sokka and Toph were on top of the bow section, Suki, who had been just behind the break fell away on board the rear section of the fractured vessel.

"Suki, NO!" Sokka yelled in panic, he could well identify, at this point, with how Aang felt as he watched Zuko fall off another airship; back at the Western Air Temple. Suki jumped down to safety on top of one of the last two remaining ships of the fleet "I'll be okay; she shouted back; just keep going with the mission, that's all that counts!"

The bow section of their ship, which Toph and Sokka still rode, collided with the last of the mighty vessels; Damaging it, but not significantly enough to cripple it. They jumped down to the other ship hitting one of the platforms jutting out from the side of the vessel; from which the fire-benders had used their comet enhanced powers to carry out Ozai's lethal scorched earth attack.

They landed badly, and Sokka shouted in pain as there was a wet snap from his left leg, and he collapsed; almost passing out from the agony. Adrenaline and necessity forced him to stay conscious, Toph had missed the platform and he caught her by the wrist just before she would have fallen to her death.

Two fire-benders, each of them tethered to the ship by lifelines came out on to the platforms on either side of Toph and Sokka's ready to burn them down; Thinking quickly, Sokka hurled his boomerang at one of them, knocking him out. Then, equally quickly he tossed his magnificent sword, made from a meteorite, under Piandao's tutelage, at the other platform. It sliced clean through, severing the platform and the lifeline; both the steel plank and the Fire-nation warrior tumbled off into the darkness. Sokka was deeply saddened to see his beautiful and unique, blade falling away into the night, as well.

Sokka was gradually losing his grip on Toph's wrist; and the pain from his shattered ankle had him losing his grip on consciousness, as well. Two more fire-benders came to the head of their platform; ready to finish what the comrades had tried to do. Sokka and Toph could do nothing, they were completely vulnerable; Sokka had lost his beloved 'space-sword', and even his boomerang did not return, this time. Toph, dangling so precariously, could not metal bend, as she could on a solid deck. "I think this might be the end Toph; we did all we could." Unfamiliar tears stung at Toph's sightless eyes.

The two firebenders, taking aim at their helpless targets suddenly ran away in panic; as the last of the airships came charging in at ramming speed. It sliced through the lower hull of the ship Sokka and Toph were aboard; crippling it for good. The two of them dropped down to the top of the other zeppelin.

Again, Sokka shouted in pain, as the landing sent new waves of agony through his left leg. "How'd that happen?" Toph asked, "Did boomerang come back?" Sokka looked up and rejoiced to see a beautiful Kyoshi Warrior, the love his life, steering the ship via the guide wires attached to the rudder mechanism. "No, he told Toph; Suki did!"

The three of them climbed down through hatch, into the ship; Sokka going gingerly, thanks to his damaged limb. Suki and Toph made short work of the ships' crew; just as they had aboard the first airship. Sokka was unable to help with this, as pain and the onset of shock had him nearly passed out.

Suki had gleaned the finer points of flying this metal monster from watching Sokka, and took the helm; while Toph found some metallic planks and some bandages to help Sokka splint his injured leg. She then gave him a slug of fire-brandy from the ship's stores, to help deaden the pain a little.

"What's our next move," Toph asked of both Sokka and Suki. Sokka was in too much of a haze from the pain, and the unfamiliar liquor, to answer; but Suki said; "We're too far away to help the Order of the White Lotus in Ba-Sing Se; so we'll double back towards the fire-nation to give Aang, Katara, and Zuko whatever help they can use." Toph answered in her usual gruff way, "I like the way you think, Suki!"
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