My Shinobi Academia: Naruto x ATLA x HxH x MHA

Chapter 11 - Azula Returns

Another explosion had occurred in an alleyway a few blocks from the Tatooin station, away from where Gon and Killua had appeared. Water spread across the wall of the alley to cushion a 14-year old Katara as she landed into the world, the young waterbender stretching her hand out to send a water whip to grab hold of Toph before she hit anything.

"Toph! Are you okay?"

"Katara! What happened? One minute I'm at home in Ba Sin Se, and the next, I'm flying blind!" the blind earthbender complained.

Katara's swiped her hands over her head quickly to raise a water shield to block a blast of blue flames aimed at them. Toph, who had just landed, flicked her foot forward, chugging a rock towards the assailant who sent another bolt of blue flames to blast it away.

As the smoke cleared, her maniacal smile became clear. "Azula!" both Katara and Toph noted.

"Did you miss me?" she asked them in a calm silky voice. "Last time we fought, I wasn't really myself was I?" This question was directed at Katara.

"You are supposed to be in jail!"

"And yet here I stand. In all my regal splendor." Her statement drew attention to the brown and dirty prison attire that she was wearing, her forearms still bearing the prison cuffs whose chains were now broken.

"Were you behind all this?" Katara asked, glancing upward at the sky. The moon was obscured.

Azula rolled her eyes. "Do you really think that if I broke free on my own, my first act would be to reunite with a peasant waterbender and a blind girl?" The thought made her chuckle. "Although you do owe me for that fiasco at the Agni Kai. I think it's time for a rematch!"

She sent a fire punch at Katara, but Toph raised a half-pyramid earth shield in front of them. Toph sent the first-section at Azula, but she side-stepped it. The second came flying at her and she dodged with a jump split which provided the leverage she needed to dodge a water whip from Katara.

She landed on the alley wall only to jump again as an earth pillar shot into it. She did a sweeping kick to send a large flame arc towards the girls and Toph raised another earth pyramid to block. Katara had to raise a water wall to block from behind as Azula sprang over the wall and sent several successive flame blasts towards the open section. Her assault intensified when she landed.

Toph opened up her stance, flicking both feet inwards as several blocks shot from the walls towards her. Stepping backwards in a delicate dance, Azula blasted or avoided the assault of blocks, stopping to evaporate a frontal water blast from Katara with a large flaming arc that filled the alleyway. This freed up Katara's hands as she split the second blast of water she had sent above Toph's block barrage into several water needles, obscured by the cloud of dust the princess had created.

Azula lost her balance as the earth beneath her turned to sand and Katara sent all her water needles down through the cloud of dust. The girls had done it.

Most of the streets next to the alleyway were being evacuated after the explosion. The barrage of blue flame blasts, shaking earth and water whips spelled a present danger, so of course bystanders stood a reasonable distance away to try and see what's going on.

"In the alleyway, there are still villains there!" a crowd member said.

"Everyone please stand back as we assess the situation," a female pro-hero in black tights and strange pointy goggles told the crowd.

"Whoa! It's Eye-Slip, the oil hero!" "Isn't her quirk like not suited for a fire?"

[Hero name: Eye Slip. Quirk: Oil vision. She can blast her enemies with oil from her eyes].

"But in situations like these, I'm also the best at keeping back a crowd," she said. "Improvised Flame Wall!" Two beams of oil came shooting out of her eyes onto the ground a few meters in front of the crowds on both sides. These were quickly set ablaze by a stray fireblast, effectively cordoning off the area.

Two other heroes landed on the street in the cordoned off zone. One was a plain looking man with dark hair, wearing a long dark trench coat, and the other was a more colorful clown whose clothes were half-hearts half clubs on the front, half diamonds half spades on the back.

"It's the The Gambling Hero: Dark Magician, and the Clown Hero: I Got You!" "They're so creepy." "They're so confusing!"

[Hero name: Dark Magician. Quirk: Card surprise. He can control small pieces of paper.]

[Hero name: I Got You. Quirk: Enslaver. He can control any body part of an opponent if he touches it and says "I Got You".]

The two heroes stood on both sides of the alleyway. They could barely see a thing through the thick cloud of dust and smoke.

"I'll clear it right up! Deck Whirlwind," Dark Magician shouted. He opened his trench coats sending cards flying up in a whirlwind out of it and into the alleyway.

Blue flames appeared within it and spun rapidly to form a pinwheel before blasting out of the alleyway into the streets. There was another burst of blue flames in the street.

Within the alleyway, Toph had put up and earth wall just in time to block Azula's defensive flames. They rushed into the street to find Azula on a metal carriage (car) surrounded by two men and a woman in costumes. Katara felt her water pouch to gauge how much she had to work with. It was almost empty.

"It's a bunch of kids!" Eye-Slip noted.

"What have you little naughties been up to?" I-Got-You asked.

"Is that...a clown?" Toph wondered. "Creepy!"

The princess stood straight on the car, pulling back a stray bang into the fold of her hair. "You two really improved your bending whilst I was away," she commended condescendingly. "Unfortunately for me, I wasn't allowed to firebend when I was locked up," she pondered sadly. "One thing I did have time to do was think a lot... about Zuzu and our little Agni Kai... about the meddling water tribe girl... and about how I wouldn't have lost if I had just been able to do it twice... at the same time..." She smiled.

Katara's eyes widened in realization.

"She's still crazy!" Toph stated.

"I order you children to stand down. Or we'll be forced to act," the Dark Magician told them, drawing Azula's attention.

"Stand down? Stand down?" the princess asked, looking down at him from her vantage point on the car. "Do you dare to address me, a princess of the Fire Nation so casually? I'll show you your place!"

"Toph, now!"

The earthbender stomped the ground, causing the car to crumple inwards to capture Azula, but a blast of blue flames had allowed her to escape into the air.

"Do you think I'll allow myself to be humiliated again, Water Tribe Girl??" she snapped as she dragged both hands through the air in opposite directions, the cold-blooded fire appearing on both her fingertips as she hovered with her flames.

"Let me ask you girls! Can water or earth move faster than lightning?" she wondered as she pointed one hand towards the crowd to her right and the other towards Toph.