The Legend of Ben 10: Book 1, Sentience.

Chapter 8: Brothers and Enemies (Part 1)

Ben frowned and bowed his head. "I.. I'll try and make the best decision."

"We capture him first. And then we talk it over." said Katara slowly. "Listen, it's tempting when I know there's a possibility too, but..  At least think about Jin too. She's relying on you to come back as well."

Ben nodded. "Right."

"Alright, guess its settled."  Sokka stepped over, hands on his hips. "Whose ready to go beat the crap out of Aang?"

Ben and Katara both raised an eyebrow.  

"What.. are you wearing?" Katara muttered. 

Sokka was dressed from head to toe in what appeared to be massive black armor with various lights and mechanisms on it, steam hissing out of different points. 

"Are you trying to cosplay NRG?" Ben asked. 

"NO! It's a Mechanized Fighting Suit! Listen, I talked to the Mechanist after I showed him the totally dope movies from Ben's time period.. like Iron Man-".

"Sokka that's fiction." said Katara with a frown.

"Well, I mean it IS possible though." said Ben. "Like Aang's living proof. Plus I think Azmuth's dad had a Galvanic Mechamorph Retaliator armor one time-.."

"But there's no way OUR tech is advanced enough to make THAT without something seriously wrong happe-."

"OH PISSHH Posh!!" said Sokka, "Look if we're gonna fight Aang, we need an edge. And this suit, is that edge!!"

Sokka made to step forward... but the moment he lifted one leg, his entire body fell over and shook the earth as it clanged to the floor. 

Ben knelt down but Sokka held up a hand.

"NO! I can do this! Don't help me! I am perfectly fine!!" Sokka growled.

For a moment, Ben and Katara just stared as Sokka made grunting noises. 

"Okay never mind, I can't do this, it's not working." Sokka grumbled. "HELP!"

A flash of green light later, Four Arms began helping Sokka remove the armor piece by piece. 

"No worries Sokka." said Suki as she walked by, holding a bundle of weapons and laying it inside the Rust Bucket before poking her head out. "We'll find you something to give you that edge."

Four Arms looked up. "W-wait, you're coming too?"

"Not just me." Suki smiled and nodded at an area behind the large alien. "He's joining us too."

Four Arms turned his head and his four eyes widened as he saw Iroh himself step up with a smile. 

"Well I may be old, but I still do have quite the bit of experience." said Iroh. "Plus who else is going to feed the Avatar some quality Tea after all that terrible stuff the Ladies have been making him drink?"

"So, our Avatar saving party, including the Genius Strategist Swordsman Sokka.." said Sokka. "Is a super powered Alien Arsenal, an angry girlfriend water bender, a blind earth bender, a badass girlfriend kiyoshi warrior, and an old tea maker who is also formerly known as the Dragon of the West. Guys I don't know about you, but I can't see what can go wrong here."

"Sokka.. you should NEVER say something like that when we haven't even succeeded yet." Four Arms grumbled as he tore another armor piece off his friend. 

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"Ma'am.. I'm not sure this is a good idea!!" 

"The best ones rarely are." said Azula as she shoved another man aside, mercilessly, her eyes filled with wrath. 

Mia frowned as she walked behind Azula, who was shoving aside the human researchers wearing white lab coats in the deep steaming metal halls within what was once a Fire Nation castle.  

"Azula.. I.. I don't know." Mia stammered ."Using.. that of all things. I don't think it's good for the world or-."