Best Friends Forever?[SPORATIC UPDATES]

5: Drilling Drilling Drilling

You wanna know what's really boring? Sitting in a slow...slow...slow moving drill. You wanna know what's worse? Having to listen to a guy yap about how great it is. Mai was swinging a blade. Ty Lee was looking through a scope. Azula was looking all proper and listening. What was I doing? I was slouched in my chair, trying to find something to quench my boredom.

"What about those muscley guys down there?", Ty Lee asks. Huh? I sit up straighter. Is something interesting going to happen?

Well. I guess this could be interesting. If we had better competition. "22.", Ty Lee shouts, "23...24..." We decided to make it more entertaining by having a contest. "And...26. How many did you get, Azeala?" She looked at me with a smile. "27.", I respond with a smirk. I was always a little better than her.

We are back inside now. And I am back to boredom. I was listening... then I started to zone out. I wonder how Kapuco and the circus are doing. I wonder if Meela, the animal tamer, finally got the Tuck, a rare animal known as a Flortal Squid, to jump through that hoop.

"Congratulations crew. We made contact with the first wall of Ba Sing Se. Start the countdown to victory.", the guy says. I completely forgot his name. We'll see. I wouldn't celebrate yet.

All these calls of trouble start coming in. Told ya.

We found the Avatar and his friends to be the problem. Knew they'd be behind this. We chased them through the drill. Ty Lee, Mai, and I catch them jumping into a slury drain. Nasty. Despite there being three of us, Ty Lee and I are the only ones to jump in. I think I'm starting to see why Azula keeps sending me with them. Mai isn't really a motivated one.

This stuff is so horrible. Top that off with being suspended in it. Stupid water bender. She blocked us in. And it's still moving. Aw great. The earth bender found this the perfect time to help out. Now we're being sent back up the drill. I should have stayed with Mai.

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We lost. The drill blew up in a big 'ol slury sludge explosion. Nasty stuff. I shiver at just the thought. I had to bath at least 3 times to feel clean enough. Why did I subject myself to that torture again?