Sorry this chapter's late, I have many excuses. Speaking of excuses does anyone who's played Twilight Princess know how to get through the City in the Sky? That place is driving me CRAZY? I HATE OCCA'S…okay I'm done.

This chapter was originally gonna be twice as long, but since it's taking so long to type up I'm posting in two individual halves.

Chapter Ten: The Outer Wall

The others patiently waited for the return of Aang, Omi and Raimundo as they went to observe what it was that Toph had sensed. They only needed to wait about a moment before Aang came down using his glider followed by the two Xiaolin Monks climbing after him. Katara noticed the worried expression on Aang's face as Momo jumped onto her shoulder.

"Aang, what is it?" she asked, concerned for the twelve year old Avatar. Aang looked at her, and answered.

"We have a problem…a big one."

"Not just a big one," Omi cut in, "A long one, a very, very long one. So long that-"

"Just spit it out already!" Sokka interrupted the Dragon of Water, "What's going on? What's the problem?"

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From the Outer Wall of Ba Sing Se, the Drill looked even large and closer than it did from the exit of the Serpent's Pass. The rest of the group was shocked at the sight of the Fire Nation weapon.

"Oh… that…" was the Southern Water tribe warrior's response to seeing the ahead-of-it's-time machine. Jin unconsciously grabbed hold of her fathers arm. "It's horrible," she muttered, "why does the Fire Nation have to ruin our lives with these destructive weapons?"

That's what they were all wondering, but didn't have an answer to. Katara looked over toward the girl and her father. "Jin, Harith," The two looked at her, "You two should go into the city, you'll be safe there."

"All right," Harith agreed.

"Appa can take you down to entrance to the city," Aang told them. The two refugees got on the large bison and left for the cities entrance. The last airbender turned to the Xiaolin Dragons, "Can you guys keep an on that thing while we," referring to Katara, Sokka, Toph and himself, "talk to the guards around here."

"Sure," Raimundo said, and with that Aang and his group went off leaving the dragons alone. They stood in silence, before Omi's head popped up and he jumped on the wall.

"I've got an idea: Raimundo, we have the Falcon's Eye with us, correct?" Raimundo looked at Omi for a second then reached into his pants pocket and took it out. Omi snatched it out of his leader's hand.

"Hey, what's the deal dude?"

"I believe I know how we can stop this drill," the bald monk said, putting the Shen Gong Wu over his write eye. "Falcon's Eye!" With that cry the magical artifact activated.

"Well don't' keep us in the dark," Raimundo said.

"Yeah, Omi what's your plan?" Kimiko questioned.

"You remember one of the training sessions Master Fung gave us one when an opponent is to powerful to attack on the outside, right?" Omi asked.

"To attack it on the inside," Clay answered. "Oh, I get it. Yer gonna use the Falcon's Eye to see how the machine works then we can figure out from there how to destroy it."

"Exactly," Omi concluded, "now let's see." The short boy began looking over the large drilling mechanism as it spun around, "There appear to be large metal-oh what are those things called again…? Beams, poles-"

"Braces?" Raimundo suggests.

"Yes, thank you." Omi then proceeded to search around more. He saw mechanics everywhere working on something on the drill to keep the massive weapon running at peak performance. Finally he moved his eye up to the main control room. "There are some strong looking men in there and three girls." His eyes widened and he took of the Falcon's eye and looked at his friends, "Two of those girls are the one's that attacked us on the Mountains."

"You sure?" Kimiko asked, surprised. Omi nodded. "What are they doing out here?"

"I don't know." Omi's face then turned red, "Though I must say without the night shadows hiding there features, those girls sure are pretty." Kimiko glared at Omi which made the monk panic and quickly put the Falcon's Eye back on and continue searching. He saw one of the girls, the one they hadn't seen before walk over to someone with long black hair. "One of them seems to be talking to another person," he said, then muttered, "why does he seem familiar?"

Omi got his answer as the man turned around. The monk gasped at the site. He knew who it was, and almost wished he didn't.

xx

"There. Here."

Azula, a little surprised, looked at Chase Young. It was the first time she'd heard the young man speak in a few days. "You mean the Avatar?" she asked.

"Perhaps…" Chase trailed off, and said no more.

The Fire Nation Princess didn't bother to ask anymore at that point. Chase Young wasn't going to give her a straight answer and she knew it. Instead she looked at War Minister Qin and said, "Proceed with breaching Ba Sing Se's wall."

"Yes, Princess," replied the War Minister obediently.

"And don't mess up," Azula warned, "My father might have had mercy on you after your failure at the Northern Air Temple, but if you fail this, I promise I won't be so kind."

Although Minister Qin tried to keep his stoic composure, he was visibly sweating. In a hurry he began giving the men in the control room orders, all while Azula's gold eyes watched him like a hawk.

xx

Katara began healing a soldier using her waterbending. These men had gone out to take down the drill several minutes and had gotten ambushed. Some had minor wounds or burns, while some had to be completely covered in bandages because of bleeding. Most however didn't even look hurt at all, but couldn't even move. The Waterbending Master was using her healing ability on one of these men's arm.

"So, what happened to him?" Toph asked. While Katara answered her, Sokka and Aang were talking with one of the generals.

"So let me get this straight, everything you've tried to break through the drill has failed?" The water tribe Warrior asked.

"Yes, no matter how many times my soldiers threw rocks at it, they just bounced off." The general said. "This is bad; the Grand Secretariat is counting on the Outer Walls military to prevent any Fire Nation troops to enter the city."

"Why don't you ask for more troops to fight?" Aang suggested. The general snorted.

"I've got a better chance of getting a vacation to Whaletail Island than him giving me more troops." Aang and Sokka look at each other slightly surprised at the Generals comment. "Now if you'll excuse me I have other matters to attend to."

"Right, thanks for your time," Sokka said as the General walked off. He and Aang then went over to the girls; Katara had just finished talking to one earthbending soldier. Katara looked at them.

"Well?" She asked.

"Aside from learning that the General hates the Seciatrist- or whatever he's called- I've got nothing." He looked at the soldiers. "What about these guys; they don't look hurt."

"Ty Lee."

"Who?"

"The girl dressed like a circus freak." The waterbender explained, "She knows how to block a person's chi, which prevents them from moving and using any bending."

"In other words she takes them out form the inside." Toph simplified. Sokka put his hand to his chin as if thinking, then his eyes widened.

"Guys I have an idea."

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Omi took a step backwards, which resulted in him losing his balance and falling on his head. "Ow!" The yellow monk sat up rubbing his head as his friends knelt down by him.

"Omi, are you okay?" Kimiko asked.

"Yes, thankfully my large cranium broke my fall."

"Usually that's a bad thing," Clay pointed out, "but I suppose whatever floats your boat." He re-adjusted his cowboy hat, "You look a little freaked out little guy. What's wrong?"

"Oh, I just saw something really bad. Very, very bad."

"Dude, what are you talking about?" Raimundo inquired. Omi stood up brushing off his clothes.

"Chase Young," Omi replied, "he's here." The others looked at each other before turning there attention back to Omi.

"You sure Omi?" that was Clay thinking maybe the poor monk was seeing things.

"Positive."

"But Jack has the Warp Whip," Kimiko reminded him, "so how could Chase get here?"

"Kim's got a good point," Raimundo commented, "There are a lot of guys in this world that have long hair, you sure you didn't get confused cue-ball."

"I trained under Chase when I was on the Hylin side, how could I get him mixed up with someone else?" While Omi did have a good argument, Raimundo and the others were still skeptical. For now though they chose to shrug it off to get to the task at hand. Sokka ran over as fast as he could, Katara, Toph and Aang behind him.

"The Drill…"He gasped as he stopped to catch his breath. "I've got an idea how to stop it."

"Take it out from the inside!" Omi shouted instantly, Sokka had a look of hopelessness on his face as he turned to his sister and friends, pointing an accusing finger at the dragons.

"They stole my idea!" He shouted, "I came up with that, and they stole it! This is so not fair!" Katara and Aang rolled there eyes at Sokka's immaturity.

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All while this was going on, the drill was still advancing. "How much longer until we finally reach the wall?" Mai asked in an extremely bored tone. Sitting around in an oversized metal contraption wasn't exactly her idea of a good time.

"At the speed we are going we reach it by sunset," Minister Qin answered, though it was more towards Azula then Mai. "In a few hours, Princess, you'll be able to claim Ba Sing Se in the name of your father."

"Excellent." Azula said, out of the corner of her eye she looked at Chase Young. And then our little agreement will be over.

End Chapter Ten

Finally! Now back to the City in the Sky. Next achapter they will definately meet Chase Young and Azula face to face. An I get to write a fight scene (which has been in my head for over a month now...)