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Water, earth,
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fire, air...
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Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony.
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Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
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Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them.
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But when the world needed him most,
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he vanished.
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A hundred years passed, and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar,
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an airbender named Aang.
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And although his airbending skills are great,
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he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.
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But I believe Aang can save the world.
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So, travelers, the next time you think you hear
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a strange large bird talking,
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take a closer look. It might not be a giant parrot, but a flying man,
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a member of a secret group of airwalkers who laugh at gravity
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and laugh at those bound to the earth by it.
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Aren't airbender stories the best?
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Was it realistic? Is that how it was back then?
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I laugh at gravity all the time.
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Ha ha! Gravity.
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Jingle, jingle.
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Sorry.
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Aw. Cheapskates.
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Hey, thanks for the story.
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Tell it to the cap, boy.
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Aw. Much obliged, little bat thing.
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It means a lot to hear airbender stories.
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It must have been a hundred years ago
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your great-grandpa met them.
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What are you prattling about, child?
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Great-grandpappy saw the airwalkers last week.
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( GREAT-GRANDPA SPEAKS HOARSELY )
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We're almost to the Northern Air Temple.
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This is where they had the championships
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for sky bison polo.
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Do you think we'll really find airbenders?
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You want me to be like you or totally honest?
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Are you saying I'm a liar?
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I'm saying you're an optimist. Same thing, basically.
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Hey, guys, look at this!
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They really are airbenders!
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No, they're not.
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What do you mean, they're not?
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Those guys are flying!
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Gliding maybe, but not flying.
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You can tell by the way they move
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they're not airbending. Those people have no spirit.
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Oh! Oh!
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I don't know, Aang. That kid seemed pretty spirited.
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Ow!
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We'd better find some solid ground before it finds us.
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Ha ha!
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Go, Teo!
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Show that bald kid how it's done!
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Hey there. You're pretty good.
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Yeah, I know. But I can do more than fancy gliding.
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Wow! I don't think I can do that.
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But here's a good one.
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What do you think?
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It's great.
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Hey, you're a real airbender.
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You must be the Avatar.
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That's amazing! I've heard stories about you.
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Thanks.
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Wow! This glider chair is incredible.
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If you think this is good, wait until you see
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the other stuff my dad designed.
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Wow!
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Yeah, my dad is the mastermind
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behind this whole place.
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Everything is powered by hot air.
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It even pumps hot air currents outside
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to give us a lift when we're gliding.
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This place is unbelievable.
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Yeah. It's great, isn't it?
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No. Just unbelievable.
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Aang used to come here a long time ago.
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I think he's a little shocked it's so different.
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So better!
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This is supposed to be the history of my people.
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Ugh!
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I'm sure some parts of the temple are still the same.
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It's nice to see at least one part of the temple
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that isn't ruined.
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What the doodle? Don't you know enough
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to stay away from construction sites?
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We have to make room for the bathhouse.
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Do you know what you did?
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You just destroyed something sacred
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for a stupid bathhouse.
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Well, people around here are starting to stink.
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This whole place stinks.
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Hyah!
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This is a sacred temple. You can't treat it this way.
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I've seen it when the monks were here.
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I know what it's supposed to be like.
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The monks? But you're 12.
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Dad, he's the Avatar.
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He used to come here a hundred years ago.
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What are you doing? Who said you could be here?
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Doing here...
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A long time ago, but not a hundred years,
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my people became refugees
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after a terrible flood.
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My infant son, Teo, was badly hurt
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and lost his mother.
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I needed somewhere to rebuild,
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and I stumbled across this place.
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Couldn't believe it.
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Everywhere pictures of flying people, but empty.
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Nobody home.
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Then I came across these fan-like contraptions.
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Our gliders.
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Yes, little light flying machines.
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They gave me an idea...
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Build a new life for my son in the air.
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Then everyone would be on equal ground,
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so to speak.
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We're just in the process of improving upon what's already here.
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And after all, isn't that what nature does?
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Nature knows where to stop.
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I suppose that's true.
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Unfortunately, progress has a way of getting away from us.
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Look at the time!
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Come. The pulley system must be oiled before dark.
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Wait. How can you tell the time from that thing?
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The notches all look the same.
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The candle will tell us. Watch.
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You put spark powder in the candle!
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Four flashes. So it's exactly four hours past midday,
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or as I call it, four o'candle.
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Ha ha!
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If you liked that,
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wait till you see my finger-safe knife sharpener.
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It only took me three tries to get it right.
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Aah!
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Follow me.
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Hey, Aang, I want to show you something.
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I just can't get over it.
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There's not a single thing that's the same.
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I don't know about that.
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The temple might be different,
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but the creatures that live here are probably direct descendants
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of the ones that lived here a long time ago.
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You're right. They're kind of keepers of the temple's origins.
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Besides, there is one part of the temple
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that hasn't changed at all.
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Hey...
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It's just like the one in the other air temple.
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Only an airbender can open it.
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So inside, it's completely untouched.
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Just the way the monks left it.
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I've always wondered what it was like in there.
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Aang?
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I'm sorry. This is the last part of the temple
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that's the same as it was.
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I want it to stay that way.
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I completely understand.
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I just wanted you to know it was here.
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Thanks.
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These lanterns are terrible. I can't see.
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Why would you want to use fireflies for light?
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Hey! Close that up. They'll get loose.
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Fireflies are a nonflammable light source.
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Cover your nose and hold your breath.
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Ok. So you brought me all the way down here
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to see an empty room.
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Wrong.
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It's filled to the brim with natural gas.
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I came across it my first time here.
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Unfortunately, I was carrying a torch at the time.
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Nearly blew myself and the whole place even more sky-high.
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I thought my eyebrows would never grow back.
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Anyway, there's a vital problem that needs solving.
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From time to time, we have gas leaks.
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And they're nearly impossible to find.
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So this place is an explosion waiting to happen.
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Yes. Until I figure out how to locate
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something I can't see, hear, smell, or touch.
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The wind will carry you.
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It supports something inside you,
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something even lighter than air.
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And that something takes over when you fly.
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I've changed my mind.
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I think I was born without that something.
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Ha! Impossible. Everybody has it.
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Spirit.
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What?
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That's the something you're talking about.
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Yeah. I suppose it is.
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Are you ready?
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No! Aah!
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I can't believe I'm flying!
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Just make sure you keep your mouth closed
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so you don't swallow a bug.
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Teo was right about the air.
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All I had to do was trust it,
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let it carry me.
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Even though Teo's not an airbender,
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he really does have the spirit of one.
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I've been thinking.
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If you want to see what's in that room,
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I'd be happy to open the door for you.
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Great. Wait!
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How do I land this thing?
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What if I land over in the...
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Blech! Bug. bug.
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That was a bug.
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I said, don't touch anything.
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Oh!
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Oh, don't worry.
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That experiment is old,
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and that egg was just part of last week's lunch.
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Ugh!
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Week-old egg smell.
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Quick, find that egg.
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I can't believe I'm finally going to see what's inside.
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How could something that's so small, you can't even see it,
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make such a big stink?
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That's the solution to our problem.
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Yeah. If we put a whole mess of rotten eggs
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in the cellar where the gas seeps up...
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The gas will mix with the smell of rotten eggs.
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Then if there's a leak...
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You smell rotten eggs.
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Then you just follow your nose
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to the place where the smell is coming from...
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And plug up the hole where the gas is escaping.
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You're a genius! You're a genius!
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Something is wrong. I've got to go.
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This is a nightmare.
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You don't understand.
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You're making weapons for the Fire Nation.
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You make weapons for the Fire Nation?
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Explain all this... Now!
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It was about a year after we moved here.
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Fire Nation soldiers found our settlement.
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You were too young to remember this tale.
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They were going to destroy everything,
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burn it to the ground.
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I pleaded with them. I begged them to spare us.
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They asked what I had to offer.
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I offered my services.
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You must understand. I did this for you.
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When are they coming?
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Soon, very soon.
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You can't give them more weapons.
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If I don't give them what they want,
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they will destroy this place.
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How can I be proud of you
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when your inventions are being used for murder?
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I need some time to think.
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You need to leave. Go.
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We're not leaving.
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Then hide quickly.
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You know better than to keep me waiting.
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Give me what you owe us so I can be on my way.
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Well? Is there a problem?
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No. Right this way.
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The deal is off.
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The Avatar.
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Aang, don't get involved.
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If I don't get what I came for,
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the Fire Nation will burn this place to rubble.
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Get out of here.
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Uh!
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You're leaving empty-handed.
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Then the destruction of this temple will be on your head.
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This is bad, very bad.
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Aang, what are we gonna do?
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How can we possibly keep them all away?
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I'll tell you how.
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We have something they don't...
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Air power.
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We control the sky.
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That's something the Fire Nation can't do.
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We can win.
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I want to help.
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Good. We'll need it.
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We finally got the war balloon working,
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thanks to Sokka.
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This boy is a genius.
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Thank you. You're a genius.
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Thank you.
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See, the problem with the old war balloon was,
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you could get it airborne,
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but once you did, it just kept going.
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You could put a hole in the top,
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but then all the hot air would escape.
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So the question became, how do you keep a lid on hot air?
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Ugh. If only we knew.
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A lid is actually the answer.
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If you control the hot air, you control the war balloon.
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Hmm, that's actually pretty smart.
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Ok. We got four kinds of bombs...
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Smoke, slime, fire, and...
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Stink.
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Never underestimate the power of stink.
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They're coming!
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Are we ready?
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Yes, but where's Sokka with the war balloon?
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We'll have to start without it.
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Uhh! Uh!
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Ooh!
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Take them out of the sky now!
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We've got them on the run.
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We need more slime.
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Aah!
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Huh!
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Uhh... Uh!
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Whoa!
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Uh! Huh!
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Uh! Huh! Yaah!
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Those things are unstoppable.
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I think I know how they work.
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I remember my dad tinkering with a counterbalancing system,
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something to do with water.
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Works great, huh?
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Water? Can you get me close to one?
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No problem.
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Huh!
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Huh!
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We're out of bombs.
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Come on, Sokka. Where's that war balloon?
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Hey, why aren't they shooting at us?
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The insignia.
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They think we're on their side.
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Then I guess they won't see this coming.
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Bombs away.
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Uh! Hey! Aah!
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Oh, no. That was the last one.
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Wait a second.
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You smell that?
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Rotten eggs. There.
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That's where the gas is escaping.
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What are you doing? That's our fuel source.
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It's the only bomb we've got.
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Look. They're retreating.
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Yeah!
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We're going down!
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No! Sokka, hold on!
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Get ready.
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Oh!
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You know what?
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I'm really glad you guys all live here now.
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I realized it's like the hermit crab.
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Maybe you weren't born here,
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but you found this empty shell and made it your home,
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and now you protect each other.
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That means a lot coming from you.
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Aang, you were right about air power.
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As long as we've got the skies,
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we'll have the Fire Nation on the run.
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This defeat is the gateway to many victories.
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