"Toph!" Sokka groaned. 

"What?! Oh right you guys can't sense vibrations." said Toph. 

"No duh!!  we can't-  wait.." Ben looked briefly at the Omnitrix thinking hard. "Nope yeah, don't have that one yet.. unless.. wait if Armodrillo can do it from underground does that count?"

"Armo-what?" said Sokka.

"Didn't you all hear us!?" roared one of the soldiers, prodding his spear in Toph's direction. "We said FREE- CLANG!!"

soldier fell over as one of his fellow's arms slammed into his helmet and sent him flying. 

"Why did you do that gov'nor?" asked one of the soldiers. "You just hit Tim!"

"I.. I didn't do it!? My armor just- WAAAAGGGGHHH!"

Toph grinned as she thrust both fists forward, and multiple soldiers were pinned to the wall, their metal breast plates crumpling and digging themselves into the wall. 

"Oh right, metal bending." said Sokka as he whipped out his sword. 

"Cool." Ben muttered.  "Alright I think I'll change into- wham!!"

Ben flew into the air, his vision blurring as a stone disk smashed into him.

"BEN!!" Sokka yelled, brandishing his sword.

Soldiers that were dressed differently than the spear bearers glided in on their feet, rocks with strange brush-like features were attached, and long robes around their waists as well as large brimmed bamboo hats. 

Stone disks were stacked in packs on their backs, levitating as the new soldiers slid in, sweeping their hands in a crane style-like gesture. 

"Enforcers!" Toph yelled. "Get ready!"

Toph slammed her feet to the floor and bent out waves of bent and crumpled metal through the ship's hull, creating dagger-like spines, attempting to impale the Enforcers. 

The Enforcers moved like serpents, sliding in and out on their stone skates, avoiding Toph's attacks like they were made of water.

They thrust their hands rapidly as they skated along, firing multiple stone disks at the trio. 

"YEEEK!" Sokka yelled, grabbing the dazed Ben and diving under the Rust Bucket as Toph thrust her fists upwards and a massive wall of ruptured metal blocked the stone discs.

Toph smirked and she thrust swept her feet outwards, hurling metal rupture waves out around her forcing the Earth Enforcers to leap into the air to avoid the metal shockwave. 

But just as they leaped, Toph slammed her hands into the ground, and the metal ceiling opened up like a maw, instantly grabbing and folding over the Enforcers who were unfortunate enough to leap too high. 

Those who were left however, slid down the metal rupture slopes like skateboarders, sweeping their hands back to levitate more stone disc ammo from their packs. 

Rapidly moving their hands again while sliding from side to side, they resumed a 360 degree attack at Toph from all angles, surrounding her as they slid in circle formation. 

Toph moved with immense grace and strong decisive movements, her arms thrusting and bending like a living mountain, her feet maintaining unwavering stances as she smashed every stone disc that came at her to pieces by slashing her hands through them, creating an immense dust cloud with her destroyed ammo. 

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