From Mortal to Divinity (SI/CYOA Jumpchain)

[xandou]

The trip to Zuko's location took about two weeks at sea. Azula spent the majority of the time sparring with Kagutsuchi and practicing energybending. After she'd managed to learn lightning generation and all its variants from Kagutsuchi in five days, he transferred everything he knew about energybending to her mind using said form. Admittedly most of the information is theoretical, with spirit energy manipulation and astral projection being the only abilities he managed to accomplish.

The problem with energybending, is the lack of references on how to achieve the abilities they know they can do. It's like knowing for a fact that you can firebend and the katas to firebending without knowing how to properly breath and manipulate your chi.

Ridding her mind of those thoughts, Azula set about exploring her brother's lodging. The location is situated at the northern post of the Earth Kingdom in a small port town under Fire Nation control. The only notable feature of the town are the trees, in full bloom with gorgeous petals of pink and red. The house itself is located up the hill from the port. It's small with two bedrooms, one dining area and one bathroom.

Sitting on a table in the dining area with her legs crossed, Azula prepares to wait for her brother's return when her guard speaks.

"You're such a drama queen," he says in exasperation.

She turns her head to face him and narrows her eyes dangerously at him before asking "Excuse me?"

Leaning on the wall behind them with his arms crossed and his eyes close, he answers "A drama queen is ---

"I know what a drama queen is," she interrupts. "Ever since you got rid of Koh, you've been talking back, almost to the point of insubordination. Is there a reason for this?"

"I'm just glad that I can be myself once again. Aren't you glad that you can finally read my face. I know you hated not being able to tell what I felt when Koh was around." he answers with a smirk on his face.

This is infuriating, she can't tell whether he's joking or is actually serious.That's something she started to notice recently, her inability to tell jokes apart from slights. Usually people don't make jokes around her, however ever since he freed himself from Koh he has taken to making jokes at her expense, and it irks her that unless a conversation involves war, bending or politics, she has absolutely no idea how social interactions work.

Before she can answer, Kagutsuchi opens his eyes and looks towards the door saying "They're here."

As soon as he finishes speaking Azula senses two chis, one big and yet calm while the other is smaller and raging like an inferno, entering her range of detection. It's a skill he taught her when they were brainstorming new possible firebending techniques. The skill itself has nothing to do with firebending, it is based on the user's knowledge and the ability to sense all chi, starting with the user familiarizing themselves with their own chi.

Half a minute later the door opens, admitting in her brother and uncle. Looking at them, Azula can't help but notice how far Iroh let himself go. While her uncle had always been short, he was also fit with good senses developed from years on the battlefield. Now instead of being fit he is fat with senses so dull that he completely misses her and her guard and continues his conversation with Zuko.

"Look at these magnificent shells" says Iroh as he empties out his bag of shells on a table near the entrance.

"I'll enjoy these keepsakes for years to come"

Zuko following him answers "We don't need anymore useless things. You forget, we have to carry everything ourselves now."

Zuko himself hasn't really changed much physically other than getting taller and packing a bit more muscle. However, he no longer carries himself like the proud prince he used to be. He looks, not tired per say, but weary.

Having seen enough, Azula makes her presence known "Hello brother. Uncle."

Immediately they face her, and as soon as they realize that it is her, their faces harden and they take a step towards her.

"What are you doing here?" questions Zuko

Not bothering to answer the question, Azula says "In my country we exchange a pleasant hello before asking questions."

Getting up she walks towards him and mockingly asks "Have you become so uncivilized Zuzu?"

Rage covers his face as he screams "Don't call me that."

Iroh, knowing that responding to her taunts will only encourage her, interrupts "To what do we owe this honor."

"Hmmm" hums Azula, a mocking smile still on her lips. "It must be a family trait, both of you so quick to get to the point."

Before they can answer, Azula continues, her voice and face now completely serious "We need to talk."

"Ozai wants you dead uncle, and Zuko, he wants to put you in a cage where you can no longer disgrace him. Your recent failure to capture the avatar was the last straw." she says.

Zuko, who didn't know what to expect, can only stare at her while trying to process the information, his face cycling between disbelief, rage, and horror. Iroh on the other looks pensive and somber, as if knowing that it is in fact something his brother would do, but struggling to decipher whether it's the truth or another one of Azula's lies.

Deciding to get to the heart of the matter, Iroh asks "You didn't come here to play messenger. Why are you here? Why betray Ozai?"

"Don't mistake my pragmatism for compassion. He was going to betray me first" answers Azula.

"Lies!" screams Zuko. "Why would he betray you!? You're a prodigy, the perfect heir, the one he didn't scar and banish!!!"

By the end of his tirade he is full on raging, eyes glaring at her and his chest heaving up and down from running out of breath.

"Oh Zuzu" begins Azula, her face still as serious as before. "Don't you see it by now. Ozai doesn't care about anything but power. Not you, not me, and certainly not the Fire Nation. We're all a means to and end."

Iroh who had been contemplating up until now asks "What did he do to make you come to that conclusion?"

"I have been forced to reevaluate his teachings recently" she says as she turns her back to them.

"I must admit that they are...narrow, for lack of a better term." Turning back to face them again she says "While Zuko's refusal to even put up a fight during the agni kai can be seen as dishonoring himself, the punishment didn't need to be as severe as disfigurement and banishment. Sending him to serve in the military would have sufficed."

Zuko couldn't believe what he was hearing. Azula herself claiming that their father was wrong in banishing him. He didn't want to believe it, he knows that she has a history of lying. Yet, he's never seen her this sincere before.

"As for me" continues Azula. "I did some searching, and I found his plans for the future in his secret office."

"Secret office?" three voices rang out.

Immediately Zuko and Iroh, the first two voices, zeroed in on the third voice behind Azula. Standing behind Azula, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed in front of his chest, stood a Fire Nation soldier wearing a modified version of the Southern Raiders uniform. He stands as tall as Azula who, now that Zuko is paying attention, stands just as tall as him. He has midnight black hair tied into a ponytail, dark skin reminiscent of a member of the water tribes, golden eyes, and a scar that starts from his left eyebrow, runs through his eyelid only stopping at the edge of his lips.

Iroh narrows his eyes at the soldier. Something about his looks tugs at his mind. Taking a closer look, his eyes immediately focuses on the scar as he remembers the rumors about a single soldier able to accomplish any mission.

Eyes widening he speaks "Dragon."

Zuko, never having paid attention to any rumors not pertaining to the avatar, skeptically looks at his uncle and asks "What?"

"I see you recognize my new guard uncle" says Azula.

"How can I not" responds Iroh "Rumors of a soldier with golden eyes like the sun and a scar that starts from his left eyebrow, runs through his eyelid only stopping at the edge of his lips, have been circulating between soldiers of the colonies and the mainland."

"It's said that he can accomplish any assignments and can firebend as if he were a dragon himself, hence the moniker Dragon" says Iroh.

"Him?" says Zuko skeptically. "He looks more like a pretty boy than a soldier. Can he even firebend?"

Before Kagutsuchi can answer, Azula interjects "We can discuss the validity of the rumors later. We need to get back on topic."

Walking past Zuko and turning to face the whole room, Azula speaks "Father had a set of secret passages and rooms installed in the palace. They are hidden behind specific portraits and can only be accessed by firebending at said portraits. That's how I was able to sneak around the palace when we were children."

Seeing that she has everyone's attention, she continues "In one of those rooms is an office with scrolls on information ranging from secrets on all nobles to secrets erased from history books. It's also where he keeps all of his plans."

She pauses to make sure that everyone has processed the information before continuing "I found a scroll there detailing his plans to win the war. He plans to use Sozin's upcoming comet to burn down the earth kingdom completely. A remake of the airbender's genocide. After that he planned to discard me by giving me a puppet position as the Fire Lord while he rules the rest of the world as the Phoenix King."

By the end of her explanation everyone is silent as they process the information. Evident on their faces however, including Kagatsuchi, is shock. Zuko because he knows that Azula isn't lying. Throughout their lives Azula has never made up such an outlandish lie, and how can someone even come up with a lie like that. For Iroh, he can't believe how far his brother has truly fallen. He can't help but think that if he fought Ozai for the throne, none of this would be happening.

For Kagatsuchi however, the reason is completely different. He knew that was Ozai's plan in the cartoon, however none of his jumps have been exactly like their source material. ROB specifically told him not to rely on his previous knowledge for anything other than the basics. In the Arkham universe, the events of Arkham Origins never happened. Sure the people existed, but Black Mask never set the events that would become Arkham Origins into motion. Also, Jason Todd and Dick Grayson were Robin at the same time, and Jason became Red Hood without dying. In Westeros the only reason why he was able to make a plan based on his foreknowledge was because he had an extensive spy network to confirm his suspicions. He honestly never expected Ozai to be the same crazy bastard in real life.

Seeing that everyone has processed the information, Azula extends her hand to Zuko before speaking "What do you say Zuzu, do you want to help me save the world?

Looking at her for a few seconds, Zuko grabs her hand and responds "I hope you have a plan. We'll be going up against the Fire Nation as a whole."

Smirking Azula looks at her uncle and Kagutsuchi before answering "Don't worry, the soldiers are loyal to their Dragons after all. First though, I have to hunt down the avatar to make sure that Ozai doesn't suspect anything, that means I'll have to assemble a special team. It's time to visit some old friends."

 

[xandou]

AN: This chapter was a torture to write and I have absolutely no idea why.
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"Good, your firebending isn't completely wrong now," says Azula as she looks at her brother practicing his forms on the deck of the ship.

"Firebending using your anger and aggression may give you a little extra strength at the beginning, but eventually you will burn out before your enemy drops dead."

Before she can explain further I interject "Maybe it would be better if you two took a break. You won't get better if you burn yourselves out, and I believe your uncle would like to get our spar over with."

They've been at it for hours. Zuko had been sparring with some of the soldiers, Azula had gotten tired of watching his aggressive firebending and had taken it upon herself to correct it.
While Zuko is most certainly not average when it comes to firebending talent, Azula is just on a completely different level, which made it all the more interesting to watch her get frustrated when it takes him longer to get things that took her little to no time.

Stopping, Zuko looks at Iroh standing next to me and asks "Are you two really sparring?"

Iroh laughs and pats his stomach while saying "Of course. It will help me get back in shape. After all it's not everyday you go on an adventure to save the world."

Shaking his head, Zuko and Azula make their way to the back of the deck, giving Iroh and I room. Making my way over to the front of the deck, I turn and face Iroh who stands in the middle and ask "What are the rules?"

He strokes his beard for a while before answering "No lightning bending, no lethal shots and winner is determined when the opposition yields."

Nodding my head, I set myself into a stance that incorporates the standard firebending stance taught by the military and the dancing dragon. Iroh follows suit with a stance that I recognized as being influenced by waterbending.

Seeing my stance, Iroh raises an eyebrow and jovially states "I see you met Ran and Shaw. It must have been an enlightening experience."

I answer him with a smile and simply reply "Very."

Without saying another word, he launches a fireball at me via a roundhouse kick followed by a jab. I step to the right avoiding the first fireball and into the second fireball. I bring my left palm up and clench it, completely extinguishing it. Not giving him time to process what happened, I launch a fire arc at his fee via a sweeping kick, using the momentum of the kick, I launch myself into a flying roundhouse and send out another arc at his head. Following through, I use flames under my feet and glide my way within thirty feet of Iroh just as he splits my attacks right down the middle. Before he can move I punch two fire streams at him and a fireball via front kick when he deflects the streams to his sides. He manages to block the fireball but is unprepared for the roundhouse fireball that connects to his right side. Taking advantage of his brief lapse of attention, I follow through with a back kick fire stream to his solar plexus, which he redirects over his head. Using my back foot, I launch into the air and send a pillar of fire crashing down on his head via hatchet kick. As I fall I jab a comet towards him as he barely manages to block the pillar. The comet is barely blocked, and he takes the lapse in attacks to speak.

"I yield," he says as he bats away the flames on his sleeves.

"While I have more experience bending than you, you're certainly a far more skilled combatant than me. Throughout that whole exchange, I could feel you holding back the intensity of your flames." he explains

He sighs wistfully and says "It seems that I let myself go much farther than I thought. Perhaps it's time that I start participating in these little exercises."

"Why did you yield" came Zuko's voice.

Turning to face him I can tell that he genuinely doesn't understand why Iroh yielded, and to be honest I can't blame him. The spar itself looked as if we were at an impasse, with Iroh not being able to get through my attacks to counterattack and me being unable to breach his defences.

"While the spar may have made it look like we are even, the reality of the situation is that this was a spar. In a real battle where lethal techniques are allowed, I am not confident in my chances of beating him" explains Iroh.

"Indeed" continues Azula "While uncle is the more experienced of the two, Kagutsuchi focused most of his attention into the lethal part of bending. Other than the most advanced techniques such as lightning generation, uncle Iroh focused more on perfecting the basics of firebending before going on to research into the spiritual side of bending."

Silence greets her as we all stare at her, none of us really expected her to know or figure it out.

Looking up from where she is admiring her nails, Azula answers our unasked question "What? I can read his chi. I may not be invested into the spiritual side of bending but anybody who can feel chi can tell that uncle Iroh's has a far less aggressive feel to it. Kagutsuchi you taught me this, remember."

Nodding my head I answer "I did teach you that. I just didn't think that you were paying much attention based on the fact that you were admiring your nails throughout the whole lesson."

All I receive is an eye roll for my troubles.
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Arriving at the circus, Zuko couldn't help but ask "Why are we here Azula? You said that we would be visiting your old friends, shouldn't we have gone back to the Fire Nation?"

"No" answers Azula "Ty Lee ran away from home, and Mai's family was relocated to the Earth Kingdom colony of Omashu."

Walking in, the group of three can see performers of all types walking around in their costumes setting up for the show that night. One said performer is a girl of about fifteen years old with brown-gray eyes, and brown hair tied into a long braid. She wears a tight crop top that does little to actually restrain her… assets in her current position, or the toned muscles of her exposed stomach. She is positioned upside down in a single handed handstand. Naturally since she's a friend of Azula being in a single handed handstand isn't enough, instead she also decided to balance herself on her index finger.

Azula seeing her friend sarcastically says "Hmm, I wonder who this girl balancing on her fingertips can be? Certainly no one I know…"

Hearing Azula, Ty Lee turns her head to face the group and immediately smiles upon recognizing her friend.

With an excited cry of "Azula!" Ty Lee pushes herself from the ground into a flip before landing on her feet and smoothly forming a bow.

Coming out of her bow, she rushes Azula with a hug and screams "I missed you!"

Azula smiles and calmly returns the hug.

"It's good to see you too. Please don't let me interrupt you. We both know a simple conversation won't hinder your performance" she answers.

Ty Lee, taking Azula's words to heart, proceeds to flip onto the ground, and using her torso as support, bends her legs backwards so that her feet rest on her head.

"You know, when you told me that you'd be joining the circus I didn't think that you would follow through with it. That said, I didn't come here to badger you about your life choices. I have a favor to ask." says Azula.

"Umm, suuure" says Ty Lee hesitantly.

"You see, my father has tasked me with the mission to capture the avatar, and I would be honored if you could join me," explains Azula.

Ty Lee flips herself back onto her feet and replies "I'd love to, but you see I'm really happy here. My aura has never been pinker."

Azula raises her hand in surrender and answers "I'll take your word for it. It was at least worth a shot."

Ty Lee cups her hands together, bows and says "Thank you Azula."

Azula nods and turns to leave. After taking a few steps however, she stops and says "Of course before I leave I'm going to catch your show."

Ty Lee, who had been in the process of balancing on one foot, stumbles a bit before hesitantly answering "Uh, yeah, sure. Of course."

As they walk out of the circus Zuko turns to Azula and says "You didn't force her to come. Usually you would have hatched a plot to convince her to come."

Azula looks at him from the corner of her eyes and replies with a smirk "Maybe I already have a plan, or maybe I've changed"

Having said her piece, she continues on her way leaving behind a thoroughly confused Zuko and an amused Kagutsuchi following her.
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The show itself was mediocre in terms of entertainment. The only part that was somewhat entertaining was Ty Lee's performance. Surprisingly Azula didn't do anything to force Ty Lee to join her. Yet she still ended up joining because, according to her, Azula's aura seemed sadder when she was rejected.

"Sooo" says Ty Lee's voice ahead of me as we board the ship. "Who's the handsome guy following you around?"

I've only been around her for a few hours and I can already feel myself getting annoyed by her overly cheerful attitude.

"That would be my guard" answers Azula.

"Guard? Why would you need a guard? Don't you already have the Royal Guard?" questioned Ty Lee.

"Well, he was also my teacher for a few months. Naturally I've already learned everything he needed to teach me." answers Azula in her usual haughty tone when she spoke of her accomplishments.
"Aren't teachers supposed to be… I don't know... old and ugly?" questioned Ty Lee skeptically.

Turning to face my only compatriot in this torturous situation I raise an eyebrow and ask Zuko "Is she always like this?"

With an exasperated sigh he answers "Unfortunately."

It's only been a few hours and I can already feel my eyebrows set in a permanent twitch. Whatever deity is out there, please give me the patience to deal with her.

 

[Selias]

Looks like I wasn't the only one to have the idea of becoming Azula's teacher in The Last Airbender. Really liking this story.

 

[xandou]

"Please tell me you're here to kill me," says Mai.

By Agni the last member of our team is also emotionally unbalanced. It seems as if I'm the only normal one around here. Azula is too sadistic, Zuko is a professional at brooding, Ty Lee is far too happy and optimistic, and our final member, Mai, is… I don't even know what to call her. She's definitely not brooding, if I had to describe it I'd have to settle for dispassionate or unsentimental.

Like the other two ladies in the group, she's definitely beautiful, just a different sort from the other two. Whereas Ty Lee is the free spirited beauty, and Azula is the regal beauty, Mai is the cold type of beauty.

Azula and Mai stare at each other for a few seconds before breaking out into laughter.

"It's great to see you Mai," says Azula.

Ty Lee being Ty Lee decides to jump at Mai with her arms wide open, prompting Mai to catch her in a hug.

"I thought you said that you were going to run away to the circus? You said that you found your calling there" says Mai in her monotone voice.

"Well, Azula called a little louder" replies Ty Lee.

"I have a mission" interrupts Azula. "And I need you both."

Zuko, who is currently standing next to me whispers "What are we chopped liver"

Mai, either not hearing him or ignoring him, says "Count me in. Anything to get me out of this place. First though, there's a situation I may need your help with."

Azula smiles and answers "Anything."

Mai turns and walks towards a set of well made double doors as she says "Come on, you'll probably want to get all the details from my father"

Through the double doors is a moderately big throne room. On the walls are flags of the Fire Nation, a blue carpet leads from the doors to a raised dais. On the raised dais sits a throne with the back shaped like a three floor pagoda.

Azula walks to the throne and sits on it, Zuko and I stand on her left and right respectively while Mai and Ty Lee stand guard at the steps of the dais.
Once situated on the throne, she crosses her legs and asks "What is the situation?"

The governor of the city of Omashu, who's apparently Mai's father, kneels in a seiza and explains "Yesterday afternoon a plague swept through the city and infected the majority of the inhabitants. The only ones not affected were the soldiers and my family. I made the decision of exiling the affected, and the rebels took the opportunity to leave the city in the confusion. Worse, they kidnapped my son Tom Tom and are demanding a trade for King Bumi. The trade is set for noon today."

A few seconds of silence go by before I hear Azula heavily inhale, then exhale before she speaks.

"There are so many things wrong with what you just said," she says.

She taps her fingers on the arm of the chair for a few seconds before getting up and inclining her head to tell us to follow.

As she walks out of the room she says "You're lucky that I don't have time to thoroughly go over every mistake you made. Stay here. We'll take care of this mess for you."

Before she opens the door she stops and turns her head to the still kneeling governor and says "This will be the last time that you make such a mess of your assignment."

Her piece said she calmly walks out of the room.
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I stand in Bumi's cage as it's slowly brought down to the ground where the trade is scheduled to happen. On the right, Azula's group is already there waiting. It takes about two minutes before Aang's group arrives.

Aang stands about as tall a Ty Lee, a few inches shorter than Azula. He wears his regular yellow and orange monk outfit, staff/glider in his right hand and a yellow hat covering his tattooed bald head. Following him are Katara and Sokka, who interestingly enough look like twins. In the show one of them, I don't remember which, was the older sibling by about a year. Here they look to be the same age, with Katara standing about an inch taller than her brother. They both stand around as tall as Azula, have skin as dark as mine, brown hair and blue eyes, and wear traditional water tribe clothes without the winter jackets. Sokka, unlike his sister, has a cloth that seems to contain something, wrapped around his neck.

They approach Azula's group before stopping about fifteen feet away. Behind them, out of the corner of my eyes, I can make out Zuko climbing the construction platform and settling himself ten feet at their back.

Before anybody can say anything, I decide to completely ruin team avatar's plan and say "Those are interesting tattoos for a rebel to have on their hands."

Aang immediately tenses and turns his head to face me.

Before he can retort I begin to raise the temperature in the area and continue speaking "Paired with the staff and your clothes, one might mistake you for an air nomad."

Now his face loses a little color.

I still don't give him time to speak before I carry on "However that would be preposterous. The only air nomad left is the avatar, and there's no way that he's a twelve year old. Right?"

By now his face is completely pale and I can see sweat forming on his forehead. His friends aren't in better conditions as they too have begun sweating.

Azula, having caught on, speaks in an honest, yet somehow still condescending tone "Of course not Kagutsuchi. Are you stupid? The avatar is a master of all four elements, not some twelve year old brat."

Along with Mai, she approaches Aang and continues to speak "Now hand over the baby and take your crazy king so that we can go our separate ways."

Nodding, Aang hands over Tom Tom while I hop off the top of the cage onto the platform behind Azula. Mai takes Tom Tom and retreats back to where Ty Lee is waiting.

Azula makes a show of turning to leaving, only to face Aang again and break his staff in half using a lightning encased knife chop. Before Aang's group can process what happened, I move into the offensive and flip over their heads to land at Katara's back, and knock her out with a hit to the back of the neck. To my right, Zuko moves in and proceeds to knock out Sokka. I turn to face Azula just in time to see Aang fall unconscious from a lightning encased palm to the solar plexus.

I roll my shoulders, look at the unconscious group on the ground and say "That was far easier than I imagined."

Azula nods her head and replies "Yes it was. Good job catching on to their identities."

Zuko turns to face his sister and asks "Ok, we've captured the avatar. Now what?"

"Now, we convince him to take our father out" she answers.

"What? Why can't we do it ourselves?" asks Zuko.

Mai and Ty Lee, who had left to return Tom Tom to his mother, return with a squad of soldiers who tie up the avatar's group and take him away.

They join us and look to Azula to answer the question. However, before Azula can answer the question, I do "Politics"

Azula turns to me and asks with a smile "Have you finally figured it out?"

With a nod I answer "It took me a while but I did."

Azula stares at me with a raised eyebrow, and with a sigh I explain "If we were to take down Ozai ourselves we would have to deal with the nobles and generals who are loyal to him. This would most likely plunge the Fire Nation into a civil war and leave it wide open for the Earth Kingdom to attack. If the avatar takes down Ozai then the nobles and generals who are loyal to Ozai have no choice but to side with Azula, especially since they know that she is his favorite."

"Civil war?" asks Zuko. "Didn't you say that if it came down to it most of the soldiers would follow you?"

"I did. However, that's on the condition that the information is properly relayed to them. The generals loyal to Ozai will most certainly misinform them though."

The group nods in understanding and Azula simply smiles sadistically. She makes to speak again, only for me to interrupt her.

"However, if you go about it this way the Fire Nation will have to end the war and most likely give up a majority of the colonies back to the Earth Kingdom."

She nods and answers "That's fine. The war by this point is really pointless. No one remembers why Fire Lord Sozin started it in the first place. Besides, the other nations are crippled and will have to rebuild for generations to come while the Fire Nation will just keep improving."

Looking around the group I can tell that the others completely agree with her, so I shrug my shoulders and simply say "You're the Fire Lord… or would it be Fire Lady?"

 

[Boghog123]

This is seriously good stuff, the only thing I can say about it, is that its way too fast and there is just not enough info, like the amount of chapters per jump need to roughly double in order for this to really shine.
But considering this is probably just a writing exercise for you, its pretty well thought out.

Keep going at it, im really enjoying it, and it seems like you are too.

 

[Lotisman]

This is seriously good stuff, the only thing I can say about it, is that its way too fast and there is just not enough info, like the amount of chapters per jump need to roughly double in order for this to really shine.
But considering this is probably just a writing exercise for you, its pretty well thought out.

Keep going at it, im really enjoying it, and it seems like you are too.

Click to shrink...

I like it too, but i think the amount is right for a jumpchain especially if it is a no compainion one. most chains fail when they try to shove to much into one jump.

 

[Boghog123]

I like it too, but i think the amount is right for a jumpchain especially if it is a no compainion one. most chains fail when they try to shove to much into one jump.

Click to shrink...

Eh, it honestly is fine (Im not denying that), I just like to having more to read to pass the time, and to learn more about the world/s, specially since the worlds are not going to be copy pasted directly from their respective franchises.

 

[xandou]

Eh, it honestly is fine (Im not denying that), I just like to having more to read to pass the time, and to learn more about the world/s, specially since the worlds are not going to be copy pasted directly from their respective franchises.

Click to shrink...

The reason it's so fast right now is because the plot for each world is easily resolved. When we get to places like Naruto and Highschool dxd the chapters will most likely get longer and more detailed. Also I plan on doing spinoffs of what if he actually lived in some of those world. Those will read like an actual story.

 

[xandou]

After dinner Azula took Mai and Ty Lee and dragged them to her room for a private talk.

Ty Lee, who had never seen Azula act this way put herself into a handstand while she excitedly asks "So what did you want to talk about Azula. Is it some super secret part of the mission that you didn't want to tell the others? Oh, maybe it's a secret task you can only trust us with. Or maybe it's---

Azula, not too keen on letting Ty Lee prattle on, interrupts in a hurry "Ty Lee. Maybe if you let me talk you'd find out what it is."

"Oops. Sorry Azula." apologizes Ty Lee.

With a sigh Azula moves to lean on the wall across from Mai who sits on the bed.

"It's fine. I just need some advice." says Azula.

"Ok. So spill. What's so important that you didn't even want your trusted bodyguard to know." says Mai in her usual monotone voice.

"Well, I've been having these weird reactions whenever I'm in close proximity to Kagutsuchi." says Azula.

"Oooh, like butterflies in your stomach, you're distracted when he's around, and when he's not around you think about him. Righ?!" exclaims Ty Lee as she flips back onto her feet and closely approaches Azula's face.

Azula leans back a bit and slowly answers "Yeees. How did you know?"

"Well when there's purple and some pink in your aura" replies Ty Lee as she once again reverts back to a handstand.

Azula looks at her skeptically and turns to look at Mai who is now vividly paying attention.

"Now that I think about it, you seem to prefer being near him when we're together in a room and have a tendency to sneak him glances, especially when you do something impressive." says Mai.

Azula once again can't help but look at her friend skeptically.

"You love him silly!" excitedly says Ty Lee.

"Love?" questions Azula, not fully understanding the concept.

"Well yes." says Ty Lee.

After looking at Azula and seeing that she doesn't understand, Ty Lee returns to her feet and decides to explain.

"Well yes. When you're so attracted to someone that you would do anything for them, even die." says Ty Lee.

Now Azula's confusion increases, and it shows in her face while she asks "I would most certainly kill for him. But why would I want to die for him? If anything was truly a threat to us we could simply team up and easily take care of the problem. Between our cunning and martial prowess nothing would stand in our way."

By the end of her statement, Azula is completely grinning. Mai and Ty Lee can't help but look at their friend and sigh.

"Ty Lee's point still stands. You're extremely attracted to him, even if it's not love yet, you're well on your way to falling in love with him." says Mai

"I see" says Azula as she crosses her arms and furrows her eyebrows in thought.

After a few seconds she looks at Mai and asks "Do you think that he would accept me if I were to make him my consort when I become Fire Lady."

"He definitely will!" exclaims Ty Lee as she does a split on the floor.

Mai nods and replies "I think so. He seems to react the same way around you. Are you going to ask him or demand?"

Azula tilts her head and asks "What do you mean? Why does it matter if I ask or demand if he feels the same way?"

Mai once again sighs and replies in her usual monotone voice "Just ask. I don't think I can explain it to you in a way that you would both understand what I mean and care. It's just better if you ask him."

Azula thinks about it for a few seconds before she nods her head just as someone knocks on the door.

"Enter" commands Azula.

A soldier enters and salutes before saying "Captain Kagutsuchi wants me to inform you that the prisoners are awake Princess."
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They arrive in the throne room to see Kagutsuchi and Zukko standing in front of a kneeling Katara and Sokka respectively with their right hands a few inches away from the captured while lightning sparked around it. The avatar himself is also kneeling on the ground while facing the throne, with his hands tied behind his back.

Azula makes her way to the throne and sits, while Mai and Ty Lee stand on her right and left.

"There's no need for that you two. He won't try anything. Even if he did I made sure that the doors are locked. They're stuck with us now." says Azula

Hearing her, Kagutsuchi and Zuko retreat to stand guard on the stairs of the dais, prompting the two water tribe members to release sighs of relief.

"Now that this is taken care of, we can finally speak like civilized people." says Azula

"Civilized?! You have us completely tied up." exclaims Sokka

"Of course. You three have a reputation of running at the first sign of trouble. I can't really have a conversation with you if you run away now, can I." replies Azula. Her tone condescending and spoken as if it's the most obvious thing ever.

"Whatever you want you won't get it. Aa---

Her words are interrupted by a small bolt of lightning that knocks her out. All heads turn to look at Kagutsuchi who just shrugs and says "Her input for this conversation would have been more of a hindrance than actually being useful."

"What do you want from us?" demands Aang.

Azula crosses her legs and rests her chin on her right hand before she answers "I want you to defeat my father, the Fire Lord."

"What? Why would you side with us against your father?" asks Sokka.

"Simple. My father is an abusive psychopath who wants to completely burn the Earth Kingdom to ashes." answers Azula.

Aang and Sokka look at the group skeptically as if expecting them to deliver a punchline anytime soon. Seeing none coming, their eyes widen as they realize the severity of the situation.

"He can't do that?!" exclaims Aang

"Of course he can. All he needs to do is wait for Sozin's comet that's schedule to come this summer, and reenact the airbending genocide. He doesn't care about anything. Not the Fire Nation, not his people, and not even his children. I mean…" Azula points at Zuko before continuing "... he burnt his eldest son in the face because Zuzu disagreed with the strategy of sending new soldiers to suicide missions."

By the end of her speech Aang and Sokka are as pale as they can possibly be, and are trembling from fear.

"Why? Why would he want to do such a thing?" whispers a horrified Aang.

Sokka meanwhile can't help but stare at a scowling Zuko while whispering in horror "His own son"

"He only cares about power. His full plan is to use Sozin's comet to burn down the Earth Kingdom to ashes then, using his now surplus of forces, conquer the water tribes and rule the world as the Phoenix King." replies Azula.

Aang turns to face her and asks "Why do you care? Wouldn't that just make you the princess of the entire world?"

Azula's face saddens, her eyes moisten a bit, and she replies in a somewhat shaky voice "I don't care about the war. I'll even have the Fire Nation stop the war when I take over. I just want my father stopped. Especially after what he did to Zuzu and I. Besides, other than my father and a few generals loyal to him, no one in the Fire Nation wants to continue this war, but no one is powerful enough to stop him. That's why we need the avatar. "

By the end of her statement, Aang looks very apologetic about his crass words and promptly apologizes.

"Ok. We'll help you. But I only know airbending and waterbending. I need a firebending teacher and an earthbending teacher." says Aang

Azula smiles brightly and proceeds to speak in a cheerful tone reminiscent of Ty Lee "That's great. Thank you so much. Our uncle will teach you firebending. He's the best firebending teacher you'll ever find. You won't regret it."

Sokka excitedly stands up and says "Great now how about you undo these bindings. It's really uncomfortable."

"Kagutsuchi, be a dear and untie them." orders Azula.

With a nod he unties them, while Azula gets up and says "I'll have a guard show you to your rooms for the night. Tomorrow morning we'll plan."
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"What did you want to talk about?" asks Kagutsuchi as he enters Azula's room. She's leaning on the wall next to her bed with her arms crossed.

Azula takes a deep breath to steel her nerves and speaks in a commanding voice "When we take down my father, I will step in as the new Fire Lord. Eventually I will need a consort to sire heirs. The only person I admire enough, trust to take the position and not attempt to backstab me is you. You're also the only person that I am even remotely attracted to and is worthy to have the position. So, will you be my consort?"

Kagutsuchi looks at her for a second before smirking and asking in a joking manner "Are you asking me to marry you?"

"Yes" replies Azula.

Seeing that she isn't joking Kagutsuchi sighs, takes a seat on her bed and taps the spot to his right.

"Sit" he says. "I was hoping to talk to you anyway. Might as well do it now."

Azula sits next to him and turns to face him.

"I'm not originally from this world, nor is this really my first life. Well I can't really call them lives since I only died once" rambles Kagutsuchi.

"What are you talking about?" questions Azula.

He sighs and says "I'm going to talk and you're going to only ask questions after I'm done talking."

She nods and tells him to talk, and he does. He tells her that he lived a previous life and died at the age of seventeen in an attempted robbery gone wrong. Once he died, a Random Omnipotent Being, which is a being of unlimited power, offered him a chance to live once again in exchange for entertaining the ROB with his new life. He had to pick a world, with only gaining the basic knowledge of said world, create himself a background, experience said background and take part in the major events of that world based on what time period he lives in. Once done with the major events ROB removes him from that world and makes him pick a new world to repeat the process. It sounds far fetched, but after witnessing his biotics she believes him.

As Azula sits there, she imagines living a life like that. Constantly experiencing new things, meeting other formidable warriors and majorly impacting the history of many worlds. The more she thinks about it the more she begins to like it.

She stands up, faces him and says "Very well, I will accompany you."

Kagutsuchi dumbfoundedly stares at her and asks "What? What about being the Fire Lord? Isn't that what you've always wanted?"

She scoffs and answers "What is a mere Fire Lord position compared pitting myself against other formidable warriors and showing them my superiority, impacting major events in multiple worlds, and only becoming more powerful in the process. Besides I need to make sure that you don't get yourself killed."

She stands and raises her hands, while lightning sparks around them, and says "Imagine it, the two of us would be unstoppable. None would stand in our way, and if they do we will simply turn them to ashes."

With a chuckle Kagutsuchi replies "Of course princess."

 

[Lotisman]

I forgot that this wasn't a no companion run, got it mixed up with the g-man one on SB

 

[Arimai]

I forgot that this wasn't a no companion run, got it mixed up with the g-man one on SB

Click to shrink...

Would you kindly state the name and whether or not you recommend it?

 

[morkail]

A little dry on the down time but pretty solid on the over all plot. You don't normally see a jumper with this kind of personality then again he's been highly trained in multiple disciplines. He was trained first by Batman for god sakes and didn't get caught when he killed the joker.

All I can think is just after she gets crowned fire lord time will freeze and she'll come back after a few thousands years a literal bloody goddess. That might mess up the balance a little bit lmao

 

[Boghog123]

I just wanna say I find this funny cause @Lotisman said to me that its good for the chapters to not be long because this isn't a jumpchain that has companions.

Not trying to be rude, just gave me a good chuckle.

But yeah, didn't see it coming, even though its actually a pretty logical progression of events.

Very nice! 👍

 

[xandou]

I just wanna say I find this funny cause @Lotisman said to me that its good for the chapters to not be long because this isn't a jumpchain that has companions.

Not trying to be rude, just gave me a good chuckle.

But yeah, didn't see it coming, even though its actually a pretty logical progression of events.

Very nice! 👍

Click to shrink...

Lol. He's right. It's just that the difference of the worlds he visits causes the nature of the story to change. For example, naruto is a much more complex world than asoiaf, mass effect, tthe arkham universe and even avatar, because of that the objectives, concepts and story gives more things to explore

 

[Boghog123]

I have to disagree with you @xandou , about Naruto being more complicated than ASOIAF, but yeah I do understand what you mean.

 

[xandou]

The next morning, Aang's group is introduced to his new firebending master at breakfast. They had seen him around before, by Zuko's side when he used to hunt the group to capture Aang. They had also seen him try to defend the moon spirits from Zhao, but have never truly had a conversation with him. Now that they have a chance to speak to him, they can't help but think of him as a wise, quirky old man.

After breakfast, they gathered their supplies and promptly left for the city of Gaolin, where, according to Kagutsuchi, is a city filled with earthbenders. It will be another three months before they regroup in Ba Sing Se.

After watching the sky bison fly away, the members of Azula's group turn to face her as Zuko asks the question on everybody's mind "Ok. Now what?"

"I received a letter from father this morning." replies Azula

Zuko frowns and asks "How does he know where we are? Also, are you sure that he won't find out about what happened here?"

In response to Zuko's question, Kagutsuchi scoffs before deciding to answer "Your father isn't as cunning as he likes to make people believe. The majority of his spy network, if you can even call them that, is situated at home to keep him informed on the nobility's schemes. As far as he's concerned, the generals are absolutely loyal to him, therefore the soldiers are absolutely loyal to him, with General Iroh and me being the only potential threat to that loyalty."

"Kagutsuchi is right. As for how he knew to send the letter to Omashu… well I told him I'd be here. I still need to keep up the facade of a perfectly loyal little princess after all" spitefully replies Azula.

Slightly shaking her head, Azula empties it of the thought of all the painful ways she can kill her father before speaking "According to the letter, War Minister Qin has come up with a way to take Ba Sing Se."

Her mention of War Minister Qin is met with sounds of distaste from Zuko, Mai, and Kagutsuchi. Azula isn't surprised by Zuko's and Kagutsuchi's hate for the minister, they've both spoken to him and after each conversation they've cultivated a certain distaste for the man. For Zuko it's because of his complete disregard of Fire Nation soldier lives, he was the man who came up with the plan that Zuko protested so much on, resulting in the Agni Kai that led to his banishment. As for Kagutsuchi, the man is a complete self righteous idiot who wouldn't know a good military plan if it was shoved down his throat. However, Azula never knew that Mai had heard of the name, let alone know the minister.

Turning to face Mai, Azula can't help but ask "Although I've never met the minister, I know why those two hate the buffoon, why do you hate him?"

Mai rolls her eyes before sneaking a glance at Zuko who's now paying close what is being said. Seeing as she won't be able to divert their attention to something else, she sighs and with a voice of pure loathing that the others didn't know she was capable of, she answers "He kept leering at me during those banquets that we used to have to attend. He even tried to arrange a marriage between me and his grandson. While I don't have proof, I'm sure that he's the cause of my father being appointed governor of Omashu."

By the end of her explanation Zuko looks murderous and Azula simply adopts her usual sadistic smile while her eyes glint dangerously.

"Interesting" says Azula

Ty Lee, who has grown to become wary of Azula whenever she makes that expression, simply steps back and whispers to Mai "Um, are we going to tell her that she's making her super scary face?"

Mai turns to face Ty Lee with a raised eyebrow and asks "Do you volunteer?"

Ty Lee hurriedly shakes her head no and closes her mouth.

Kagutsuchi, who had been quiet up until now, chuckles and whispers to the two of them "Poor minister Qin. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes in the foreseeable future."

Mai and Ty Lee, who have grown used to Azula's sadistic side can only nod their heads in agreement while contemplating what horrible fate Azula has in store for the idiot.

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It takes us about a month of nonstop travel to arrive at the outer wall of Ba Sing Se. Like in the show, the minister's method of breaching the wall is by using a giant drill. By the time we reach our destination, the drill is only a few miles away from colliding with the wall.

"Wow" whispers Ty Lee, as she looks up at the giant drill, her eyes wide open in wonder.

"Yea, wow." replies Zuko.

"Interesting. I wonder if this was built in a separate location and driven here?" asks Azula.

"It would be the most logical way to accomplish this. I don't think that there's a single earthbending technique to deal with this monstrosity. At least not ones that wouldn't involve bending metal, and I haven't met an earthbender who can do that yet." I reply.

From my right I can hear Mai sigh as she spurs her mongoose lizard forward while saying "Let's get this over with. I don't want to be near that disgusting old man longer than I have to."

Without a word we follow her to the entrance of the machine, where War Minister Qin stands waiting.

"Princess Azula, it is a pleasure to meet you" says the man with a bow.

"Indeed, the pleasure is all yours minister. Unfortunately for you, I don't have time for pleasantries, so why don't you take us inside so we can get this over with." replies Azula in her most condescending tone yet.

Taken aback by her response, the minister takes a few seconds to realize that he'd been given an order, seconds that are going to cost him. With an irritated scowl Azula taps the man on the chest with her forefingers. While the tap itself is harmless, the small bolts of lightning sparking off of her fingers certainly aren't. With an agonizing scream, the man is sent to his knees in a fit of spasm.

"When I give an order minister, I expect it to be carried out immediately." says Azula.

"My apologies princess." stammers out the minister.

After taking a second to regain control of his body, he hurriedly walks inside while beckoning us to follow.

Once inside I turn to a soldier and command "Take me to the engine room."

Qin, who was facing forward, turns to me and makes to speak, only to immediately shut up when he notices the look Azula sends toward him. Not even bothering to look at his suffering superior officer, the soldier walks into a corridor with me following behind him.

As we make our way through the corridor I notice the soldier discreetly glancing at my face, specifically at my scar.

"If you have a question, just ask" I tell him.

"Sorry sir. It's just that we've heard stories about you. I never thought that I'd have the honor to actually meet you. My cousin is part of the 51st brigade, you saved his life."

"His name wouldn't happen to be Shin?" I ask

"You know him?" came the soldier's excited reply.

"I know him. He's probably the most creative soldier I've ever met. He created a fire wall based on the earthbending technique." I reply

"Yea, he's definitely something else" he answers as he opens a door at the end of the corridor that reads "Engine Room" and walks in.

The room itself is big, with valves and pipes everywhere. Looking around, I immediately realize that I have no idea how to sabotage this without killing everyone inside.

Turning to the soldier I look him in the eyes through the lens of his mask and say "Listen and listen well. You're going to sabotage this machine to make it implode in the most destructive way possible.. You can make it look like it just malfunctioned or just decided to blow up for whatever reason. I don't care how, as long as it becomes completely unsalvageable. Understand?"

"What?! Why?!" he asks.

"Don't ask questions that you don't want the answer to. Just do it. Don't worry about getting in trouble, the princess ordered this. Understand?" I ask

He nods and quickly sets about turning levers.

Looking around the room I quickly spot the sound system that will let me talk to all personnel in the machine.

Making my way to it, I activate it and yell through the speaker "This is Captain Kagutsuchi speaking. All personnel are to evacuate the drill, the machine has overheated and will be imploding soon. This is not a training exercise! I repeat this is not a training exercise!"

I spend the next few minutes yelling through the speaker until the engineer returns and says "Finished. The machine will implode in ten minutes. We should evacuate with the others."

I nod and follow him as we run to the exit.

Once outside, it doesn't take long for me to find the commanding officer of this brigade and order him to take his men and retreat to the nearest camp.

Five minutes later Azula and the rest exit the machine, with a certain war minister noticeably missing. Azula herself is sporting her usual sadistic smile, while Zuko looks entertained, and Mai is sporting a very rare smirk on her face. Ty Lee on the other hand looks a little unsettled.

Approaching the group I can't help but raise an eyebrow and comment "I didn't know that you had a sadistic side Mai."

She simply shrugs and puts her hands in her sleeves.

Azula looks at me and says "Good job. Now, father has one less supporter on his side, and we can move on to Ba Sing Se and see what's so special about it. Maybe I'll even conquer it while we're there."

 

[Boghog123]

Didn't feel like too much happened in this chapter, also im wondering how far into the show/world are you actually gonna go, like a couple more things from the episodes to finish it up, or are you planning to stay in this universe awhile?

Im not trying to rush you, im just curious.

 

[xandou]

Didn't feel like too much happened in this chapter, also im wondering how far into the show/world are you actually gonna go, like a couple more things from the episodes to finish it up, or are you planning to stay in this universe awhile?

Im not trying to rush you, im just curious.

Click to shrink...

After they defeat Ozai they'll leave

 

[xandou]

AN: Quick question. Does this arc feels as if it's dragging on?
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I lean against the wall of a building with my arms crossed over my chest in a dark alley as I wait for the patrolling Dai Li agents to arrive near my area. Getting into Ba Sing Se had proven to be as simple as disguising ourselves as refugees and sneaking. Once inside the Lower Ring we split off to conduct investigations to see what information we could obtain about the city.

What was learned was that the Dai Li had far more control over the city than in the show. Not only is the king a puppet, but so is the council of five. Normally obtaining such a piece of information would have been near impossible, however the Dai Li's increase in power also resulted in an increase in personnel which they used to patrol the lower ring. A pair of said personnel had been keeping an eye on us due to them recognizing Zuko as the exiled prince of the Fire Nation. We easily captured the pair and interrogated them for every piece of information they had. Then we had them smuggle us into the Middle Ring, the perfect place to cause a scene, get captured and sent to Lake Laogai, headquarters of the Dai Li.

Unlike the Lower Ring, the Middle Ring is where the laws set by Long Feng are enforced with extreme prejudice. In the Lower Ring, the population is far too big to be property policed, and the people there are in no position to cause any significant amount of trouble. The Middle Ring and Upper Ring however, are where the population is easily policed and any mention of a war going around can cause an untold number of problems.

Once in the Middle Ring, we interrogated another pair of Dai Li agents in case agents of different rings have different types of information. From them we learned about the best way to get sent to Lake Laogai, Dai Li parol schedules, and the layout of the headquarters. With the information, we made a simple plan to get in and have a conversation with Long Feng.

Which leads me to my current situation, waiting for the time to put our plan into action.

"This reminds me of the times when Bruce used to train me for infiltration. Scouting the location, interrogating the enemy, the stakeouts, such good times." I sigh in nostalgia.

"Bruce? Isn't he your mentor that dressed as a bat and went around at night apprehending criminals?" asks Azula from a dark corner of the alley.

"Yes. He's also the one that taught me most of what I know about hand to hand combat, infiltration, detective work and many more." I answer

"Is he also the one that taught you how to carry out assassinations, or was that during your tenure as an N7 Infiltrator?" asks Azula

I chuckle at the question before turning to the corner where she's standing and answering "If Bruce ever found out about my penchant for assassinating my enemies he'd be absolutely livid."

"Interesting." she says. "What of your brothers and Oracle?"

"Dick and Barbara would be majorly disappointed, while Jason would most likely pat me on the back and offer to take me out for a drink to trade stories." I answer with a fond smile on my face.

Immediately after saying so, I sense two heat signatures eight hundred meters away approaching us, and overlapping those heat signatures are the chi signatures of two earthbenders.

"It's time." I say to Azula as I stand up straight, my back to the entrance of the alley.

"Do make sure not to break any of my bones. I'll need them." I tell her as I drop my guard and make myself as open to attack as possible.

"Hmmm, we'll see. This is after all the perfect opportunity to exact my revenge on you for the torturous training regime you put me through" she answers.

Before I can ask her whether she's joking or not, she front kicks me right in the solar plexus, sending me flying out of the alley. By now the Dai Li agents are about four hundred meters away, right around the corner, and in perfect hearing distance to hear Azula.

"IT'S YOUR FAULT! IT'S BECAUSE OF FIRE NATION SCUM LIKE YOU THAT I LOST MY MOTHER!" screams Azula as she runs out of the alley.

I pick myself up from the ground and take a basic boxing stance as I face her. The following exchange can't even be considered a fight. Azula uses the basic forms for earthbending to beat me up, while I made a show of attempting to evade. While some of her hits miss, the majority of them connect, and soon I find myself once more laying on the ground.

Azula straddles me, and begins to repeatedly punch me in the face while screaming hysterically "YOU SCUM STARTED THIS WAR AND KEEP ATTACKING US, I'LL KILL YOU"

By now the Dai Li agents have started to pick up the pace after hearing her screams. As I begin to lose consciousness, I can feel the duo's approaching heat signature as they sprint towards us to put a stop to Azula's screams about a war going on.

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I come to, strapped to a chair in a dark room with two other heat signatures. I take a second to calm myself and clear the fog from my mind. Once done I concentrate on where the pain is coming from to check for what injuries I've sustained. From what I can tell, my most serious injury is from a bruised rib where a roundhouse had connected. After making sure that I didn't sustain any serious injuries, I begin to put the plan into motion.

While the duo set about setting up whatever brainwashing contraption the Dai Li use, the part of myself that bonded with Max, my AI, begins to work. Immediately the world around me slows down, the dark room is no longer dark, smells that I didn't notice before are introduced to my nose, I can hear that centipede that scuttles on the wall to my left, and the receptors in my brain are dialed up to three times, including the ones pertaining to pain.

The pain that used to be tolerable is now enhanced threefold. As soon as the pain is enhanced, the AI part of my mind immediately forces itself to disconnect from it, making me no longer feel it at all. It however doesn't mean that my pain or my injuries have left, my mind simply tricks itself to no longer feel any of it.

Once that is done, my mind partitions itself into two, one to focus on the upcoming fight, and the second to subconsciously navigate the underground base using the schematics taken from the interrogated Dai Li agents. The whole process, from enhancing my perception to partitioning my mind, barely takes a second.

After checking that everything is in order, I begin to manipulate my chi to enhance my flames to a much hotter degree than I usually use. While not necessary, Azula wants me to put on a show as I escape. "Show them why your enemies have decided to call you Dragon" were her exact words.

Inhaling through my nose, I subconsciously go through the proper breathing technique before exhaling a jet of blue flames from my mouth and completely obliterating the stone door one hundred meters in front of me.

The duo raise a wall to protect them from the flying debris, giving me the second I need to summon flames from my hand and destroying the stone chair I am strapped to. Standing up, I crack my neck and roll my shoulders before using a back kick to expel twin balls of flames that connect to my previous captors. Normally I'd burn them to death, but since they're Azula's future employees, I only leave them knocked out with a bad case of second degree burns.

With that done I walk out the room and step out into the hallway. Once out into the hallway, I make sure to expand my sensory field to its full potential of eight hundred meters and raise the temperature within it. With every step I take the temperature rises further, and by my tenth step everything arm's reach of me spontaneously combusts. Except for my body, which can easily take such temperatures, everything in that area catches on fire, including the clothes I used as disguise, leaving me in a pair of uncomfortable underwear that are made out of the same material as my armor.

Eventually I come across my first group of Dai Li agents, ten of them. I had sensed their heat signatures entering my domain of heat around the corner. The first to make his presence known did so by sending a pair of earth fists at my face. Without missing a beat, I exhale a jet of flames from my mouth and destroys his attack and continues on to combust after colliding with his chest, sending him flying into a wall. From there the fight dissolves into a battle of flames and rocks. They would send their earth fists at me, and I would either dodge or destroy them before knocking them out with flames that combust upon collision.

Eventually another group arrives as I knock out the last one. This group clearly learns from the mistakes of their predecessor, because instead of using their earth fists, they do the smart thing and start using the environment instead. After dodging a second pillar of rocks coming from the walls, I realize that they're stalling for time. Usually I wouldn't let them succeed, however I need to make a show of how powerful I am, so I play along.

Jumping into the air, I dodge an earth spike from the wall on the right and use it as a booster to jump higher and dodge a pillar from the wall on the left. While in midair I punch out a comet of fire at the nearest agent and knock him out. I land into a roll and come up while exhaling a jet of flames at another agent.

After taking out the third agent, I notice a large group of sixty heat signatures enter my sensory field and can't help the small look of annoyance that flickers through my face. Normally I wouldn't really care about how many came, however the environment is a complete detriment to me. I am literally standing in a corridor made completely of earth. Not only is it restricting my movement, but the environment itself is a weapon for my enemies.

So I make a split second decision, I return the temperature around back to normal, and remove the distance between them and me, forcing the battle to change from bending to pure close quarter combat.

For normal firebenders, this would reduce their effectiveness. Especially since earthbenders can form armor around their bodies using the earth. For me however, it only makes me more dangerous. As a warrior, I've always favored close quarter combat as opposed to mid or long range combat.

While I'm perhaps the most skilled bender alive right now, it's mostly due to the echo of my past combat experiences from the Mass Effect and Akham universes subtly giving me a head start. Soon enough though, Azula will outstrip me as a bender.

When the Dai Li agents realize that they will no longer be able to use earthbending, less they catch their comrades in the crossfire, they immediately form earthbending armor on their bodies and attack me using hand to hand combat and makeshift weapons made from the earth. Seeing this I form fire daggers of flame and throw myself into the fight.

Ducking under a strike, I push the agent away while quickly turning to flip another away. It has been a constant repeat of similar moves, using kicks, flips and pushes to keep the agents at a distance in order to avoid getting overwhelmed by their sheer number, while also making sure that they don't distance themselves enough to be able to use earthbending.

Despite how easy it sounds, it's a challenging task to do, especially since I don't want to kill any of them. To ease the challenge a bit, I've taken to subtly using biotics to subtly slow them down. A small push to redirect a strike, an inconvenient pull to make an enemy's stance too wide. The only indication of my use of biotics are my eyes occasionally flickering with a violet light, easily dismissed as a trick of the light.

As the fight continues, more and more agents arrive and I stop consciously keeping track of them and just flow in the battle. Eventually they realize that the narrow hallway makes my job easier, and they remove the walls giving them more room to operate

Every time I put distance between myself and an agent, another would be on top of me in an instant. It left me with next to no time to think and even with my skills, I know it won't take long before an earth spike gets lucky and skewers me. Unlike in my battle with Stannis' army, these men aren't your average soldier. They are elite earthbenders who use a style that was made by Avatar Kyoshi, who is perhaps the most militant avatar there ever was. Defeating them would take me using my biotics in less subtle ways. The last time I did that I ended up being looked at as if I'm a god, and honestly I don't need the hassle right now, especially since I'll be in this world for a few more months.

So I start to make my way to the middle of the group of agents to finish this.

Sidestepping a jab, I grab the offender's arm and pull him in between me and an earth spear aiming for my shoulder. Letting go of him, I perform a sweeping kick, using it to send arcs of flames all around me. The flames give me just enough room to perform my finishing move. Borrowing Azula's created technique, I form a sphere of fire that completely surrounds me. Unlike Azula however, I compact the sphere as close to my body as possible before exploding it in every direction.

The resulting explosion sends all of the agents flying except for the ones that are located on the outskirts of it. Unfortunately for them, being on the outskirts doesn't leave them unscathed from the flying debris of stones.

The majority of agents are knocked out, leaving only a small number of them still standing. Even then, those agents aren't enough to take me down, especially since I now have room to move.

They know it, and they also know that I notice that particular detail.

Before the fight can resume however, a clap resounds in the chamber as Azula finally makes her presence known.

"Splendid performance" she says.
She'd arrive a few minutes after the Dai Li had removed the walls and was watching from makeshift rafters along with Zuko, Mai, and Ty Lee.

While my job was to attract as much of the Dai Li's attention to me as I possibly could, Azula was "persuading" Long Feng to work for her, and the others were sneaking around the base gathering as much important information as they could find.

Turning to the ceiling where she's situated, I notice that there are Dai Li agents following her around. Meaning that when she arrived the Dai Li was already under her control and she let the fight continue to see how well I'd perform. The scary part is that I can't tell whether it was out of curiosity or her just because she wanted to see me demolish them.

 

[Sidron]

Would you kindly state the name and whether or not you recommend it?

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He probably means "the consequences of your action" by cliffc999 and yes i would recommend it, and all the Other jumpchains cliffc hat written
Edith: bloody autocorrect

 

[Arimai]

Snip

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Thanks mate. I'll check it out now

 

[Boghog123]

@xandou Sorry if I gave you the impression that the chapters were dragging on, they are absolutely fine as they are. I was just getting a little disconnected because its a bit of a wait between releases, and sadly, jumpchain fics are not exactly rare, so sometimes I tend to not remember/misremember previous chapters or get bored.

Its nothing against you, keep going at your own pace, its just me.

 

[xandou]

The weeks following Azula's takeover of Ba Sing Se, and awaiting the arrival of the avatar, the group split off to do their own things. Azula and Kagutsuchi spent the time between sparring and consolidating her hold over the Dai Li while also strengthening their power over Ba Sing Se. While the council of five is the major party that controls the city, it is possible to replace them. Therefore, Azula had the Dai Li "persuade" the major candidates for replacement should such a situation occur. During their spars, Azula finally reached a skill level that almost equals Kagutsuchi, unfortunately for her Kagutsuchi's flames still burn hotter than hers.

Meanwhile Zuko and Mai have taken to spending time together, to the point that even Azula can tell that it's only a matter of time before they make their relationship official. Ty Lee on the other hand spent the time alternating between hanging out with her friends and exploring Ba Sing Se.

Just like that two months go by and Azula awaits the arrival of Aang's group.

It is during a particularly warm day that Aang's group arrive at the mansion where Azula's group resides in the upper ring.

One of the servants, having been notified to expect them, leads the group to an open courtyard where Azula's group is currently holding what seems to be a free for all spar.

The spar itself looks like complete chaos, with flames and thrown weapons flying around. Sometimes members will team up with one another against a single member, and other times they'll turn on each other. Most frequently however, Mai, Zuko, and Ty Lee will team up with each other to deal with the terrifying duo of Azula and Kagutsuchi.

While it looks like the trio are doing well against the duo, Iroh himself can easily tell that Mai, Zuko, and Ty Lee are barely holding on by the skin of their teeth. Eventually Zuko is hit by a flaming roundhouse to the rib, disrupting him and leaving an opening in his group's offensive for Azula and Kagutsuchi to mount a counterattack, taking them out of the spar.

Turning to face Azula, Kagutsuchi says "I'd love to take the time to beat you again princess, but our guests have arrived."

"Using our guest's arrival to shield you from your upcoming humiliation captain?" replies Azula

Mai, who is sitting with her back leaning on Zuko's chest, groans and says "Get a room already. I can feel the tension all the way from here."

"Oh?" says Azula, as she quirks an eyebrow and looks at Mai.

"Are you sure that it isn't the sexual tension between you and my brother that you're referring to?" Azula says.

Mai can't help but blush while Zuko awkwardly looks to the sky.

"Hmm, Azula is right" says Kagutsuchi. "You two haven't been able to stop staring into each other's eyes"

"And don't forget the uncomfortable silences between you when one of you says something that's supposed to be romantic." continues Azula

Kagutsuchi places his hand on his chest and says in his most convincing Zuko impersonation "Mai your eyes are such a beautiful tawny color, I could stare at them forever."

Azula daintily sweeps a piece of her hair behind her ear and makes a bashful expression while saying in her best imitation of a lovestruck Mai "Really? You think so? I thought that they were dull."

Kagutsuchi makes an affronted expression before he once again imitates Zuko's voice and says "Of course not. They're beautiful and anyone who says otherwise is a liar."

Ty Lee and team avatar, no longer being able to stop themselves, erupt in a boisterous bout of laughter. Mai, whose face is now as red as a tomato, promptly hides her face in Zuko's chest while Zuko himself hides behind his hands.

Iroh attempts to be the responsible adult and orders the duo to stop. The order unfortunately never makes it past his mouth, as he's too busy laughing at the expense of his nephew.

Eventually the group recovers and makes their way to the living room.

As the group sits down in various areas around the couch, Azula can't help but notice a new member in team avatar's group. The girl is about Aang's age and the shortest person in the room. Unlike girls her age, her body is well built for battle and she's completely barefoot. Her most eye catching features however are her blank eyes, indicating blindness.

Her question however is voiced by Ty Lee who excitedly makes her way to the girl.

"Ooooh, you're a new member of team avatar. What's your name?" she asks

The girl visibly recoils from Ty Lee's overabundance of excitement and says "Lady, have you ever heard of personal space?"

Ty Lee sheepishly steps back and says "Sorry. I get excited when I meet new people."

"Her name is Toph, and she's Aang's earthbending master." answers Katara.

Azula nods and turns to Aang and asks "I presume that you mastered the rest of the elements?"

He nods and answers "Yup the trip was really successful. I even mastered the avatar state."

"We also have a plan to take down the Fire Lord" chimes in Sokka.

"Do tell" replies Azula

"The Day of Black Sun." says Katara

"The day of what?" questions Zuko

"The Day of Black Sun is a day where the moon completely blocks out the sun, it makes firebending completely useless." explains Sokka

Hearing this Azula's eyes unnoticeably narrows as she asks "How long does this last?"

"About seven minutes" replies Sokka

Azula nods before turning to Aang and saying "You do know that by the time you reach the throne room the event will be over and the Fire Lord will be able to firebend again?"

Aang nods and answers "I know. But it's the perfect time to get in the capital since the majority of the army will be powerless."

Azula raises an eyebrow and decides against correcting him. He doesn't need to know that the majority of the army situated to defend the Fire Nation is made up of tanks and other machines.

Her musing is interrupted by Sokka who says "It's also the perfect day to mount up an all out offense and make the Fire Nation army."

With an incredulous expression on her face Azula asks "Why would you need to? As soon as I'm Fire Lord I'll have them retreat. Attacking them during that day will only increase casualties in an already bloody war. Especially since the Earth Kingdom army will have no qualms about killing every Fire Nation citizen for revenge."

Aang, who had been on the verge of arguing for the sake of mounting an all out offense, can't help but think about what Azula says and agrees. The Earth Kingdom has been stuck in this war for a century and is likely feeling resentful toward the Fire Nation. As an air nomad and the avatar, Aang feels that it's his responsibility to take the path that leads to the least amount of lives taken.
"You'll also have to give the colonies back to the Earth Kingdom." says Katara

Azula simply shakes her head and says "It's not that simple. There are Fire Nation citizens living there and if I give the colonies back they'll have nowhere to go. The Fire Nation has no room to house that many people, and the Earth Kingdom certainly won't want any of them."

Katara incredulously looks at Azula and says " That can't be true. You're just saying that because you don't want the Fire Nation to lose the colonies."

Before Azula can retort, Iroh answers with a sigh "Unfortunately, Azula is telling the truth. When the Fire Nation took the colonies, many citizens decided to move there to start new lives for themselves. Since they had the room to grow, their population has grown extensively. Too much for the Fire Nation to safely take in without destroying the economy."

"We'll just have to decide how to handle them with the help of the Earth Kingdom once the war is over." says Zuko

"Speaking of ending the war, Zuko is going to have to kill you" says Azula.

Immediately after she says that Katara stands and throws ice spikes at her. The spikes barely make it within arms length of her before they melt and splash onto the floor.

Before Katara can follow up on her attack Toph breaks out into laughter as she says "I can't believe you fell for that. She didn't mean literally."

Katara looks around the room and notices that no one else is attacking. While Aang and Sokka are certainly on edge and ready for a fight, they didn't actively attack anybody.

Azula merely raises an eyebrow and says "While I know that you don't trust me, that is an extreme reaction to have. Regardless of whether you trust me or not, I wasn't being literal."

Katara follows Sokka and Aang as they slowly sit back down.

"What I meant is that, we need to fake your death and give Zuko the credit so that dear old dad doesn't kick up a fuss about him coming home. Besides it'll also help you infiltrate the capital when the time comes. Just wear a disguise and you'll be fine. Especially since uncle wouldn't mind helping you sneak in."

"Great" says Sokka. "In two months we'll infiltrate the capital and end this war."

Katara who has been looking at Azula in askance can't help but ask "What are you going to be doing in the meantime."

"Naturally I'll be reducing father's political power to smoothen out my take over of the throne." replies Azula.

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It's about a month and a week later that Zuko and Azula find themselves kneeling seiza in front of their father in the throne room.

"I am proud of two of you. Azula for having crippled the government of Ba Sing Se and giving our forces on the front lines time to plan on how to invade the city. And Zuko you have accomplished something not even Sozin himself could. You slayed the avatar. So it is with great pride that I say, welcome home my son." exclaims Ozai

"Thank you father" replies Zuko

"Good. Now you must be tired from your travels, you may go rest. We'll speak further at a later time." dismisses Ozai

Without saying a word, the two bow before exiting the throne room.

Once outside Azula taps Zuko on the arm and says "Follow me. We need to talk"

They make it to Azula's room where she quickly opens the door and walks in with a confused Zuko following her.

"What did you want to talk about that we need to do it in the secrecy of your room?" asks Zuko

"I want you to take the throne." abruptly says Azula.

Baffled, Zuko can barely open his mouth to ask "What? Didn't you always want the throne? Isn't that why you did everything you've done up to now?"

"Originally yes. However after some thinking I've decided that I would prefer to just travel rather being stuck dealing with all the politics that comes with the crown. I especially don't want to deal with the nobles. I'd sooner burn them alive than cater to them." replies Azula

Zuko looks at Azula for a while before he asks "What brought this on?"

"Traveling of course. After experiencing a journey on the road I find myself preferring it over life in court." answers Azula.

Zuko raises an eyebrow and reiterates "Seriously Azula, what brought this on"

Azula sighs before she answers "Fine you've caught me. After experiencing battles, I find that I like the feeling of testing myself against powerful warriors and seek to do just that."

Zuko rubs his face and exasperatedly answers "Azula I don't think that you'll find a warrior to match you that isn't Kagutsuchi, Aang or uncle Iroh."

Azula simply shrugs and says "You never know. So what do you say?

"Is that why you've had me following you around while you send Kagutsuchi to do the grunt work? Because honestly, we've never been close enough for you to not make me do grunt work." says Zuko

"Yes, because you needed to see how a leader should work. Besides you'll have uncle Iroh to guide you" replies Azula

After a minute of contemplation Zuko agrees.

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The Day of Black Sun came quickly for Azula and Kagutsuchi who were busy preparing for the day and finishing up their affairs.

Kagutsuchi spent the time using his connections in the army to have them leave an opening in the capital's defence and making sure that they know not to interfere with what happens on the Day of Black Sun no matter what. He also spent the time invading the houses of nobles and "persuading" them to back Zuko's upcoming claim to the throne. From blackmail, to bribery, he used everything in his arsenal to get them to agree. When he wasn't committing what could be considered treason, Kagutsuchi spent the time alongside Azula teaching Zuko whatever he knows about politics.

Azula meanwhile spent the time with her friends and her brother. It was a weird experience for her, just spending time with them idly. It was during those days that she finally understood what everything always goes on about love being a beautiful thing. During those idle days she was able to notice that her friends care about her for being her. They weren't afraid of her, nor were they treating her like the princess of the Fire Nation. It was a weird, but at the same time nice experience.

Eventually the day arrived.

It started as a normal day, until the eclipse began and a fully grown sky bison flew over the capital and landed in front of the royal palace.

Kagutsuchi, who has been waiting for their arrival by the front gates, looks on as Aang and the others jump down from the sky bison wearing the same clothes they wore in the final season. Turning his eyes to the sky bison, he can't help but feel a little pissed off. All his preparations to create holes in the capital's defense, and they didn't even use a single one. His efforts are completely wasted as they decided to fly in with the subtlety of a bull is a china shop.

Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Kagutsuchi watches as Aang screams while amplifying his words with airbending.

"FIRE LORD OZAI, I'VE COME TO PUT AN END TO YOUR REIGN OF TERROR!" exclaims Aang.

Aang's words cause an uproar in the palace as every soldier situated within rushes outside to defend it.

Naturally the soldiers, who can't firebend currently, are completely defeated by Aang who simply blows them to the wall, knocking them out.

Kagutsuchi, who remembers specifically telling the soldiers not to do anything, can feel his left eyebrow twitch as he watches them get knocked out.

Eventually, a fully armored Ozai walks out of the palace followed by Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee.

Looking up at the sky Kagutsuchi notices that only about twenty seconds of the eclipse is left.

Turning his eyes back to the spectacle happening, Kagutsuchi sees Ozai stop about ten feet away from Aang while the others stand farther away at his back.

Ozai looks Aang up and down, notices the tattoos and laughs "What are you supposed to be boy? The avatar? Please, my son personally killed him."

"Clearly he didn't do a good job" replies Aang as he earthbends a pillar next to him and waterbends water from a pouch tied around his torso.

Ozai immediately stops laughing and turns towards Zuko.

"You miserable failure!" he snarls.

"I made a mistake when I let you live, NO MORE!"

Taking a step towards Zuko, Ozai's arms make a circular motion as he generates lightning and throws it at his son.
Unfortunately for Ozai, Iroh saw Azula practicing lightning generation one day on the boat and saw fit to teach the firebenders of the group how to redirect it. Ever since then, Azula, Zuko and Kagutsuchi have been throwing lightning at each other like it's going out of style.

Without thinking about what he's doing, Zuko steps forward and reaches out to the lightning with his index and middle finger pointed. Then he goes through the familiar motion of bringing it to his stomach and completely redirects it at a surprised Ozai.

Ozai's surprise costs him dearly, and he takes the bolt of lightning straight to the chest. His screams echo out through the air as his body convulses before falling to the floor dead.

The field falls silent as the gathered people process what just happened.

Eventually a lone soldier walks up to Zuko and bows while exclaiming "Hail Fire Lord Zuko!"

His screams prompt his fellow soldiers to follow suit as the shout

"Hail Fire Lord Zuko!"

"Hail Fire Lord Zuko!"

"Hail Fire Lord Zuko!"

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It has been two weeks since the death of Ozai and the end of the war, and the day after the coronation ceremony.

Zuko, Mai, and Ty Lee stand in front of the royal palace to say goodbye to Azula.

"Are you sure about this?" asks Zuko.

"Of course I am." replies Azula.

"Fine. Just don't get into too much trouble." replies Zuko

Before she can reply Ty Lee envelops her in a hug while saying "I'm gonna miss you. Don't forget to write, ok."

Awkwardly patting her back Azula replies "I'll miss you too."

After disengaging from Ty Lee, Azula turns to Mai while saying "Take care of the idiot for me"

"Of course" replies Mai.

Zuko meanwhile turns to Kagutsuchi and says "Don't let her do anything too dangerous ok."

Kagutsuchi scoffs and says "You're acting as if she won't go behind my back to do dangerous stuff."

Zuko merely shrugs and says "At least try."

Kagutsuchi simply replies "No promises. After all, I also have a tendency to get caught in dangerous situations."

 

[morkail]

The fire bending princess on a jump chain well everything will soon be on fire. I wonder if it's the adventure she wants or just the power.

 

[Arimai]

The fire bending princess on a jump chain well everything will soon be on fire. I wonder if it's the adventure she wants or just the power.

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Power. Azula was addicted to lashing out with her power and grinding into dust anyone who showed insufficient obeisance.