Sokka

"Okay, Sokka, you know the rules, right?" Katara said sternly to her elder brother.

"Yes, yes, of course I do, Katara…You only go over them a thousand times every time I babysit," Sokka replied.

"Well, Sokka, it is a huge responsibility and there was that one time Tenzin almost drowned on your watch," Aang added.

"I'm their uncle, I think I can handle things," Sokka said shooing them off.

"Yes, but this time you're not just watching your niece and nephews. You forget that Ursa and Lin are here too. Where is Suki when you need her…" Katara grumbled.

"Suki has been on Kyoshi Island all week, you know that and I'm more than capable of watching these guys. My question is why do you all have to go away at the same time!" Sokka growled.

"Well, there's a meeting in Republic City and it's very important. You're going to deal with it later on with the council, I'm sure." Aang replied.

"I know, I know. You guys better go or you'll be late," Sokka said.

"Okay, be careful with them, Sokka," Katara said worriedly.

"They'll be fine, Katara," Sokka assured.

"Alright, thanks again, Sokka, we'll see you later! Yip-yip!" Aang said as he flew off with his wife on Appa.

"Yeesh, I thought they'd never leave!" Bumi exclaimed as he nudged his uncle.

"So, Uncle Sokka, what fun games do you have planned this time? You're not going to drink cactus juice this time, right?" Kya said excitedly.

"How about the game where I don't lose any of you. I have five kids to keep a track of. Let's take attendance…" Sokka stated, "Okay, so, Kya?"

"Here, Uncle Sokka…" Kya mumbled.

"I'm just double checking!" Sokka insisted, "Bumi?"

"I've been next to you the entire time!" Bumi said.

"Good. Tenzin?" Sokka said.

"Here…" Tenzin whined as he struggled with being tied up with some metal wire by Lin.

"You look like you've got yourself roped up there, buddy," Sokka teased and Tenzin just pouted.

"Okay, Lin?" Sokka said.

"Over here!" Lin called, waving her hands as she ate a cupcake from the platter that Suki had baked and prepared before she left.

"Alright…Ursa?" Sokka called, but there was no reply. "…Ursa?" Sokka said once more. "Aw, man…Ursa! Hey…Princess Ursa…? You around?"

"Maybe she's outside," Bumi suggested as Lin sniggered.

"Zuko is literally going to kill me if I lost his precious, little princess! Where'd she go? Do you guys know where Ursa is, seriously?" Sokka said beginning to get panicked, as Lin just laughed some more.

"Maybe she's burning stuff somewhere," Lin teased as she continued to laugh.

"Lin knows," Tenzin tattled.

"Lin!" Sokka snapped.

"Okay, okay, I locked her in the attic," Lin confessed, laughing.

"The attic?" Sokka said sternly, but suppressing a laugh, "Why? How did she not get out?"

"This is how!" Tenzin exclaimed, still struggling in the metal wire he was tied in. "Lin tied us all up with her mom's police wire!"

"Lin! Your mother will have your head!" Sokka said as he snatched the wire away and began to march upstairs to untie Ursa. "Don't do anything stupid in the meantime I'm upstairs! Tenzin, you're in charge!"

"Tenzin is seven, Uncle Sokka," Kya added.

"I know how old my nephew is!" Sokka growled, "He's still the most mature of the lot of you." Sokka said as he then went upstairs.

"Did you hear that, Uncle Sokka said I'm most mature!" Tenzin boasted, pointing his thumb to himself pridefully.

"Most mature and least fun, Twinkletoes," Lin grumbled, throwing her hands on her hips. Meanwhile, Sokka was untying the tight wire Lin had metalbent around Ursa.

"I would've been stuck up here forever if you hadn't come, Uncle Sokka!" Ursa exclaimed.

"Eh, not on your dad's watch," Sokka teased.

"When I get my hands on Lin, she's in for the biggest firebending lesson of her life!" Ursa shouted angrily.

"Okay, okay, how about we just calm down there, Princess!" Sokka said as Ursa's hands flared up with blue fire. "There's no need for that, I'm sure Lin's very sorry. And you two are best friends, right?"

"Yeah, I guess so…" Ursa grumbled. As Sokka finally undid the bonded wire.

"Now, what are we not going to do?" Sokka warned, extending his arm from blocking the girl from racing ahead.

"…Erm, disrupt the balance of the world?" Ursa guessed.

"Well, yeah, that's always a good thing not to do. But, what are we not going to do at the moment?" Sokka warned.

"Drink your cactus juice when you're not looking?" Ursa guessed again and Sokka's eyes bolted wide open.

"Well, yes, never do that again, but what else?" Sokka hinted.

"…Get angry and burn daddy's papers again?" Ursa guessed.

"No! Well, you probably shouldn't do that either…But we're not going to go down and light Lin on fire, okay?" Sokka said.

"Oh yeah…" Ursa said with a laugh.

"I'm serious! I know Lin can be a little…edgy sometimes, but it's all out of love, trust me. It's the same as her mother, Toph would torment me, and your dad too, to no end, heck, and she still does! But it's all out of love," Sokka exclaimed.

"I know," Ursa said with a smile.

"Alright, good," Sokka said as he ruffled her hair, "Now I better get back down there before someone else ends up tied up with some of Aunt Toph's police metal." Sokka said with a chuckle as they both went downstairs.

"Hey, Ursa!" Lin said with a beaming, apologetic smile.

"You're lucky I don't light your head on fire!" Ursa said.

"Ursa, what did we just talk about…" Sokka said with a sigh. "Geez, Fire Nation people and their tempers…"

"She's not the only one who's mad!" Tenzin growled, "So it's not nation exclusive!"

"Lin, don't you have something to say for yourself?" Sokka stated.

"…Fine, I'm sorry that you guys aren't better benders to defend yourselves against my metalbending. There, Uncle Sokka," Lin stated with a devious grin.

"I'll show you who's the better bender!" Ursa shouted, sprouting a blue flame in her hand.

"No, no, no, we all know you're a great bender, Ursa!" Sokka said, "And, Lin, come on, be a bigger person!"

"Okay, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have tied you up," Lin said bitterly as Sokka's raised an eyebrow, urging her to continue, and Lin sighed, "And I'm sorry I locked you in the attic…"

"Okay, good. Now we're all friends again, right?" Sokka said and they nodded.

"Uncle Sokka, can you tell us a story?" Kya asked with bright, wide eyes.

"Sure! That's a great idea, Kya! Now, gather 'round, kiddos, Uncle Sokka is going to share some more of his famous tales!" Sokka said as he sat down on a sofa and urged the kids to sit around on the rug. "So, would you like to hear the story about how I single-handedly took out the Fire Lord with my trusty boomerang and space sword?"

"That's not how Mom and Dad said it went…" Bumi mumbled.

"Yeah, my dad says that Uncle Aang did it," Ursa added.

"Mom says that you, her, and Aunt Suki were on blimps taking out some soldiers," Lin exclaimed.

"Well, they're all liars. Do you wanna hear the story or what?" Sokka asked.

"Yes, please tell us!" Kya begged.

"Okay! So, it all started when I got to the Fire Nation royal palace on the night of Sozin's Comet!" Sokka began dramatically.

"My house?" Ursa asked.

"Yeah, your house, but this is when your house was bad," Sokka explained. "So, I was with Suki and Lin's mom, but I left them back at base because I couldn't risk the love of my life and my best friend's lives to take out the Fire Lord, it was a mission too dangerous to drag the people I love into, so I charged ahead, alone!"

"This isn't what happened…" Lin rolled her eyes and whispered into Kya's ear as Kya giggled.

"I know," She whispered back.

"What about Mom and Dad, what were they doing?" Tenzin asked his uncle.

"Erm…your father was…missing! Yes, that's it, he was missing!" Sokka said, thinking to himself that this wasn't a total lie Aang had been missing awhile.

"And Mom?" Bumi questioned.

"She was with Uncle Zuko," Again, the truth.

"They were fighting my aunt!" Ursa said, "An agni kai! And my dad saved your mom's life!"

"That's right, I knew that!" Bumi exclaimed, "But my mom saved your dad too!"

"I know, isn't it weird that if it weren't for each other we might not exist!" Ursa said.

"No, no, no!" Sokka interrupted, "You kids and your tall tales. What are Zuko and Katara telling you guys! Everyone knows I was the one to save them both."

"Really?" Lin said with a giggle.

"As I was saying!" Sokka continued, "I busted open the Fire Lord's door and declared to him that his tyranny must come to an end-" Sokka emphatically went on with his tale.

"Uncle Sokka's story is full of bologna! He's not even watching us, let's go do something fun!" Lin whispered with a smirk.

"Like what?" Kya asked.

"We could reenact what really happened when our parents ended the war!" Lin suggested.

"Oh, that sounds like fun!" Bumi exclaimed, "But which battle?"

"All of them! We'll start with Uncle Zuko and Aunt Katara's agni kai against Princess Azula!" Lin said as Sokka rattled on, oblivious that the kids were scheming.

"Okay!" Tenzin agreed.

"Alright, so Kya, you have to be your mom," Lin said.

"Sounds like fun," Kya said.

"Go to bed, young lady! Bumi stop torturing your brother! …How was that?" Kya said as she mimicked her mom.

"No, I mean your mom when she was fourteen, she must've been cooler then," Lin explained.

"Oh, okay," Kya agreed.

"You be Uncle Zuko, Bumi," Lin said.

"Yes!" Bumi exclaimed, "Uncle Zuko is the man."

"Let's see, show me what you've got," Lin prompted.

"Hmmm…Is Ursa okay? What's she doing? She better not get hurt! Careful, careful! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THAT, MAI-AANG…I BET IT WAS SOKKA! THE THINGS I HAVE TO DEAL WITH!" Bumi said and Ursa started giggling.

"That sounds like Dad alright!" Ursa exclaimed.

"Good, you get the role," Lin said as she gave her friend a friendly punch on the arm. "And Ursa, you get to be your whacky aunt, okay?"

"What? Why?" Ursa moaned.

"Because you're the only one who can bend blue fire," Lin said.

"I'm the only one who can bend fire- period!" Ursa said.

"Well someone has to be Azula!" Lin argued, "And everyone says you look exactly like her!"

"Ugh, fine!" Ursa said reluctantly, "I'll fry you all to pieces, Water Tribe peasant!" Ursa said in a mocking tone.

"Excellent! Tenzin and I will be the directors! Right, Twinkletoes?" Lin said.

"Right, Lin…" Tenzin said with a sigh as they began to rearrange all of the furniture in the house to make room for their agni kai arena.

"I will be Fire Lord, brother!" Ursa shouted in an exaggerated cackle, standing on a table.

"Not on my watch, sister!" Bumi yelled.

"We will defeat you and Zuko will be Fire Lord!" Kya said.

"Oh yeah, well you'll have to fight me first mwahahaha!" Ursa screeched as she ran across the table, hopping from sofa to sofa as Kya and Bumi followed after. Ursa started shooting light doses of fire at them.

"You'll never get away with this, sister! Father will be defeated too!" Bumi shouted as he sliced open the couch cushions and pillows with his uncle's boomerang.

"Nonsense, Father will be the supreme Phoenix King!" Ursa yelled.

"Never, Princess Azula!" Kya yelled as she waterbent all of the water from the flower pots all over the rug.

"And Fire Lord Ozai fell and my dear friend Zuko took up the throne, as you all know!" Sokka finished his tale, "So, what did you think of that kids? …Kids?" Sokka said as he finally turned around to see the cataclysm they had created in his living room.

"I'll show you lightning, brother!" Ursa shouted with a cackle.

"Oh good grief!" Sokka exclaimed, "Cackling must run in the family…and Suki is going to cut me into bite-sized pieces!" Sokka said, freaking out.

"Lightning-choooo!" Ursa exclaimed as she pretended to aim for Kya, but Bumi jumped in blocking the attack.

"Nooooooooooo, not my friend!" Bumi yelled over dramatically in mock slow motion as Ursa lit his shirt on fire.

"Aw man!" Sokka shouted, "Guys!" He yelled, still being ignored, "…Azula, Katara, and Zuko!" Sokka shouted as a last resort and Kya looked up from pretending to chain Ursa down as Bumi's shirt still flamed up, as he lay fake wincing on the floor, which was also covered in flames.

"Oh, hey, Uncle Sokka!" Kya said, releasing Ursa with nervous laughter as Ursa wiped some blood off her forehead.

"What is going on?" Sokka yelled, fighting back his laughter at the imitations of his old enemy, friend and sister. "Put the fire on Bumi out before he burns to death!" Sokka scolded as Kya obliged.

"And Ursa! Do you know what your father is going to do to me when he sees blood on you!" Sokka panicked, "What happened to you? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Dad worries too much," Ursa said, waving it off.

"Ain't that the truth," Sokka said with a sigh. "And I can't believe you guys would reenact our battles!"

"Why not?" Lin mumbled, downtrodden.

"I meant-reenact our battles without me! I'm historic figure who was actually there! You can't do this thing without Uncle Sokka coaching you through!" Sokka said with a grin as the kids smiled back, "But!-No fire and no blood. Okay, clear? Commence scene!" Sokka declared as the kids started jumping around again imitating their parents and surrogate aunts and uncles. Sokka was standing on the table pretending to be a Fire Nation soldier who'd just been shot down by Tenzin who was pretending to be him.

"Aw, Water Tribe peasant, you got me!" Sokka cried as he fell to the floor.

"We're back Sokka, how did the kids-" Katara said as she opened the door, but stopped in her speech at the sight she just saw, cupping a hand to her mouth.

"What is it, sweetie?" Aang said as he walked up beside his wife. "…Sokka?"

"What's going on, how're the kids? Don't tell me Sokka screwed up again? He didn't let them get cactus juice did he? What'd he do-" Toph began but also ceased in her tracks at the sight.

"What are you guys going on about? Are the kids okay?" Zuko said worriedly as he saw what they were all gaping at, "What is going on? If he gave my little girl cactus juice again, I swear!"

"SOKKA!" Katara yelled and Sokka jolted his head up.

"Oh, hey, Katara…how was the meeting, sis?" Sokka said casually with a nervous giggle.

"Mom!" Kya exclaimed as she ran to embrace her mother.

"Why is half of your house a burnt, wet mess?" Toph snapped.

"Burnt?" Zuko said raising an eyebrow at his daughter.

"Hi, Daddy!" Ursa said, trying to act innocent as she kept her hand over the bloody scrape on her forehead.

"Why do you have your hand on your head, Ursa?" Zuko asked as he walked over to his daughter.

"Erm…Bumi and I are playing a game…first one to move their hand loses!" Ursa said with a chuckled, but Zuko moved her hand aside.

"Blood! What happened? Are you okay? Who did this? Sokka!" Zuko snapped angrily.

"Look, Zuko, I know it looks bad, but we've been through worse, right?" Sokka said.

"Just because this happened to me, doesn't mean I want my little girl's head covered in blood!" Zuko shouted, pointing at his scar.

"The kids were just playing!" Sokka said.

"Just playing? Sokka, Suki is going to kill you!" Aang stated.

"It's okay, Dad. Lin did it on accident, we were pretending to be you, Aunt Azula, and Aunt Katara when you stopped her!" Ursa explained.

"Lin! You flung a rock at Ursa's head?" Toph scolded.

"After she locked her in the attic!" Tenzin ratted her out.

"Tenzin, you little snitch!" Lin yelled.

"What?" Zuko yelled.

"Sokka, do you watch these kids at all?" Aang yelled as he pulled his sons close.

"No, Dad, we had fun!" Bumi said, "Right guys?"

"Yeah! Uncle Sokka is the best! Plus, it was all our fault," Ursa stated.

"Yeah, can Uncle Sokka watch us next time too!" Kya exclaimed.

"I'd be good with that!" Lin added and Sokka's eyes widened.

"Look, I love you guys and all, but you're a bit of a hassle and me in control of you all is now emergencies only!" Sokka said as the entire gang couldn't help but look at the desperate gleam in his eyes, along with the bags underneath them, and the tattered-ness of his clothing and the frayed look of his hair. They all cracked a smile and shared a chuckle.

"Sokka, as angry as I am right now for my baby's head being a bloody mess, I'm glad she had fun," Zuko said, putting a hand on Ursa's shoulder.

"I suppose so…" Katara mumbled, "At least the kids bonded with you and each other and nobody's dead, so that's a plus."

"Sokka, what are we going to do with you," Aang said shaking his head.

Toph then added, "I'm just glad no one got a hold of the cactus juice this time."