To The World

Chapter 6: Kids (Ain't All Right)

We start seeing a forest. Momo is chasing a bug through the trees. In his pursuit he lands on the ground to see a neatly stacked pile of lychee nuts. When he runs toward it, Momo is pulled into the air by a cage trap, joining two other caged animals. Camera changes focus to find the rest of Team Avatar camping.

"Where's Momo?" Aang asks, looking around, Tai, Aang, Katara, and Sokka arranged in a circle, the siblings sitting next to each other with bored faces, and Aang standing. Tai lays on the ground nearby eyes closed. Momo screeches and the gang looks around.

The group rush through the forest, a moment later Aang spots the three animals in their cage traps hanging by rope on tree limbs.

"Hang on, Momo!" Aang uses his airbending to fly to the top of the tree, jumping from trunk-to-trunk to get higher. He finds the traps' mechanisms, undoes them, and carefully lowers Momo to the ground where Katara and Sokka are waiting. They open the trap together and the lemur runs out with one of the lychee nuts in his mouth. Katara and Sokka look on as Momo gets on his hind legs and eats it as though nothing has happened. Sokka grunts in frustration and facepalms. When Aang lands, he looks up to see the other two animals seemingly crying out to him for help. "All right, you too." He jumps up to them.

Sokka sighs. "This is gonna take forever." He throws his boomerang to simply cut the animals free.

Aang inches his way upside-down to the traps on the tree branch. They fall before he can reach them. "That works."

The hog monkeys run up the tree and out of the camera's view and Aang jumps back down, dirt flying from the ground as he lands. Tai joins them rubbing his eyes while yawning. Everyone gathers around two of the traps and Sokka kneels down to examine them.

"These are Fire Nation traps..." Sokka comments. "...you can tell from the metalwork. We better pack up camp, and get moving." They gather their things and begin to pack them onto Appa's saddle. "Uh uh. No flying this time."

Aang turns to Sokka confused. "What? Why wouldn't we fly?"

Sokka takes the sleeping bag from Aang's hands. "Think about it: Somehow Prince Zuko and the Fire Nation keep finding us. It's because they spot Appa, he's just too noticeable."

"What? Appa's not too noticeable!" Katara replies.

"Besides, if there's Fire Nation here already we need to get away quickly." Tai says to Sokka.

Sokka points dramatically at Appa; condescendingly. "He's a gigantic fluffy monster with an arrow on his head! It's kinda hard to miss him!" The bison yawns.

Aang sits comfortably on the animal's head. "Sokka's just jealous 'cause he doesn't have an arrow."

"I know you all wanna fly, but my instincts tell me we should play it safe this time and walk."

Katara leans forward at her brother and smiles. "Who made you the boss?"

Sokka points his finger at his chest; to Katara. "I'm not the boss, I'm the leader."

Tai rolls his eyes. "Same thing."

"You're the leader? But your voice still cracks!" Katara says amused.

"I'm the oldest, and I'm a warrior, so..." He says through a cracking voice, he does his best to hide it by deepening his voice. "I'm the leader!"

Katar rolls her eyes. "If anyone's the leader, it's Aang. I mean he is the Avatar." She looks back to Sokka.

"Even without that, I'm the eldest here." Tai says through baggy, tired eyes.

"Are you kidding, he's just a goofy kid!" Sokka shouts.