Avatar; The Royal Firebender.

The Drill Part 3

The moment the blue flames spark around her hands Zuko practically vanishes from his spot in the hallway. Almost a full second later the blue flames careen into the wall before dissipating off into the air quickly followed by Azula who chases after him. "Good, this will keep her away from the others, all I have to do now is find Aang's staff and my swords then just stall her." He monologues before jumping onto the side of a pipe then reaching up and grabbing another pipe and swinging himself around the corner. Beneath him several more fireballs slam into the surrounding metalwork. As he bolts around the corner he almost runs face first into a guard patrol who are almost as shocked to see him as he is to see them. However he doesn't give them the opportunity to try to attack as he twirls an air scooter into existence and jumps onto it before riding it around the guards and down the hallway. As Azula rounds the corner, Zuko hops off the air scooter then launches the ball backwards slamming into firebenders he just evaded. Nearly a dozen men are launched every which way from the attack, one of which almost crashes into Azula as she gives chase. The princess drops into a vertical split and bends her upper body as flat as possible to avoid getting crashed into by the soldiers her brother just sent flying.

"If I was Azula, where would I keep any trophies..." He wonders, sprinting down the corridor towards the elevators to the bridge. "She'd keep them in her quarters. Probably in the helm of this thing." he monologues, seeing the closed doors to the elevator. Smirking to himself, Zuko blasts the pipe beside him with fire instantly causing it to burst. As he runs past the water he pulls a great deal of it towards him, in the process he also uses the water to freeze a wall in the corridor to stall Azula for a moment.

Zuko surrounds himself in the rushing water, covering his arms all the way to his shoulders using a technique that Katara had taught him. Using one of the tendrils, Zuko repeatedly slashes it against the roof in front of the elevator, cutting through the steel with each pass. Behind him, Azula's blue flames easily melt through the icy wall that he had created before being splashed by the rushing water. The water pressure from the broken pipe actually forces her backwards preventing her from getting through the hole she made long enough for Zuko to pierce through the metal shell of the drill and pry an opening wide enough for him to squeeze through. Getting outside, Zuko freezes the ends of the tendrils over his arms before launching it upwards onto the supports of the drill's helm. The ice spike on the end catches in between a few of the beams allowing him to pull himself up ascending almost thirty feet in mere seconds. The helm of the drill is over twenty stories above the main body of the drill but he manages to scale the support structure with ease.

Inside the helm of the drill, War Minister Ching is frantically shouting orders for the engineers to get the machine operational again. "Sir! The first three engines have been completely destroyed. The third one has suffered the most damage, it's been completely melted through!" One of the engineers responds through the intercom. "Send reinforcements to the rear engine, we're under atta- gahh..." The voice of one of the guards in the rear of the drill asks frantically before Ching hears the man get stabbed on the other end of the line. "How could this day possibly get any worse?!" the war minister declares, though his rhetorical question is answered by a series of knocks on the side window. Dong dong da-dong dong, dong dong. The hair on the back of his neck stands up when he hears the tapping on the window. Slowly he turns his head to look and a look of terror washes over his face as Zuko takes a second to wave to him before blasting through the glass with his firebending.

Zuko lunges into the room, drilling War minister Ching in the chest with his legs launching the man over. He quickly dodges a fireball sent from one of the pilots before airbending the man flat against the ceiling. He dodges a swipe from a dagger before striking the other pilot in the throat then planting a side kick into the man's stomach. Using the water. He sprays the two remaining pilots with it before freezing them to the control consoles. He quickly scans the room looking for any other doorways before spotting Aang's staff and his swords being displayed above the throne that Azula sat on. He sprints over to the throne and grabs the staff and his swords before hearing the doors to the elevator open. For a split second, both siblings lock eyes with each other and freeze in place waiting for the other to make the first move. That lull in the battle lasts for a single moment before Zuko sprints towards the hole in the window. Azula instantly blasts a torrent of flames towards him but he jerks his hand to the side and splits her attack down the center, bending it away from him as he gets to the window.