[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[AIR WHOOSHES]
Whoever gets to the temple first wins!
What? Aang, no fair!
[BLOWS RASPBERRY, GIGGLES]
AIRBENDER 1: Let's get him!
AIRBENDER 2: Come on, hurry up!
[ALL GIGGLING]
[ROARS]
Hi, Nima. Good morning, Aang.
Hey, Mip-Mip. Oh, hello, Aang.
[GASPS]
GYATSO: Oh, perfect timing. Huh?
[CHUCKLES] Mind giving me a lift?
Gyatso, this isn't the best time.
I'm getting old, you know. [AIRBENDERS LAUGHING]
My body doesn't move like it used to.
I'm kind of in the middle of something.
You are so heavy!
GYATSO: Heavy? Me? I eat nothing but vegetables.
AANG: Pie is not a vegetable.
I'm gonna lose the race!
GYATSO: Race? What race?
We finally won!
We won! We won!
[ALL LAUGHING] Yay, we did it!
Aang, as an Airbender,
it's important that you know when to show restraint.
Even if you have the power to win,
you are the Avatar.
A lot of people are going to rely on you. [ECHOES]
[GASPS]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[GASPS]
[YELPS]
[GASPS] [PEOPLE CLAMORING, SCREAMING]
[GASPS] WOMAN: Where's the Avatar?
MAN: He's gone! He ran away!
What? I'm here!
MAN: Where's the Avatar? WOMAN: Avatar!
Aang! Where are you?
Gyatso! I'm here!
I'm... I'm... here!
I'm here! I'm here!
Here!
I'm here.
[PANTS, SIGHS]
[PURRS]
Hey, Momo.
Hi, Appa.
Was I asleep for long? [GRUNTS]
Okay, okay. I'm awake already.
I know, I know. We've got a job to finish.
[SIGHS] Let's continue our journey.
Back to our old home.
[HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
[MOMO CHITTERS]
AANG: This may not have been our best trip,
but any Airbender relic we find makes it all worthwhile.
This could be the oldest piece in our collection.
"Sonam."
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
I miss you.
[MUSIC TURNS TENSE]
Momo, go outside with Appa. [CHITTERS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Now!
[ALL GRUNTING]
AANG: Whoa!
[JIE GRUNTS]
Who are you? Why are you doing this?
[ALL GRUNTING]
Please stop. I don't want to hurt you.
[KALLIK GROANS] [YUDDAH YELLS]
HONG: Where is it? Where is it?
No, that's not it. [ANTIQUES SMASHING]
Hey, those are antiques.
[GRUNTS]
[SHOUTS]
Enough!
HONG: Wait! I found it! [YELPS]
Sonam? Why are they after you?
[YUDDAH GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
[GASPS]
Wait!
No! That's a thousand years old!
[KALLIK GRUNTS]
Give it to me!
Why don't we just talk? Maybe I can help.
We don't need your help, Avatar.
We're done living in a world where Benders have all the power
and we have none. Who are you?
We're the Denied.
The Denied?
JIE: Just kill him already!
YUDDAH: No! You'll bring the whole place down!
[KALLIK GASPS]
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
[GRUNTS]
[YELPS]
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
[WHIMPERS]
[PANTING]
[GROANING]
You... saved me.
JIE: Kallik, grab the map. Let’s go!
[GRUNTING]
[GASPS]
[WOOD CREAKS]
[GASPS]
[ALL WHIMPERING]
HONG: Oh, no!
[AANG PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
[WHIMPERING]
[STRUCTURE RUMBLING]
[EPIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTS]
[APPA GRUNTS]
[CHITTERING] [PANTING] I'm fine.
Momo, I'm fine.
[GROANING]
But we've got to get to Republic City.
Appa, yip-yip!
KATARA: Water.
Her tribes gather strength from the moon
and flow with the tides.
TOPH: Earth.
A kingdom of unshakable will, reliable and strong.
[ROCKS RUMBLE]
ZUKO: Fire.
A nation capable of great destruction,
but also of great warmth.
[FIRE WHOOSHES]
AANG: Air.
Peaceful nomads with the power of a hurricane,
but the spirit of a gentle breeze.
For generations, the Avatar,
the one master of all four elements,
kept the nations in balance.
But when that responsibility fell to me as a child,
I ran away.
I was caught in a deadly storm,
but my Avatar spirit preserved me in a sphere of energy
where I stayed for a hundred years.
I woke to discover
that the balance preserved by the Avatar
had been destroyed by war.
The Air Nomads were gone.
All but one.
Me.
I could no longer run from my responsibility
as the Avatar.
I found allies from every nation,
Benders and Nonbenders.
Katara taught me how to waterbend.
Toph trained me in the ways of the Earthbenders.
Zuko, once my worst enemy, became my firebending teacher.
Sokka showed me that bravery is the most important part
of being a leader.
We became a family.
And together, we ended the Hundred Year War.
Then, we began the hard work of rebuilding the world.
[EPIC MUSIC PLAYING]
KATARA: For so long, the nation stood apart,
alone,
and we all suffered as a result.
But here, on this ancient site,
we created a place where all people are welcome,
Bender and Nonbender alike,
working together in peace to build the future.
Though there are still those who would seek
to divide us, we remain united.
As a council representative,
I am honored to be here today
celebrating the anniversary of Republic City
and the opening of Unity Tower,
a symbol for all people.
[CROWD CHEERING]
Look!
Yeah!
It's the Avatar!
[CHUCKLES]
Whoo! Whoo!
[BOTH GROANING]
[SIGHS]
Momo!
[CHITTERING] [GIGGLES]
[CHUCKLES] Appa!
I missed you too, old friend.
Aang!
Katara!
KATARA: Mm!
[KISSES] [GROANS]
You're hurt.
[PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
KATARA: Take a deep breath.
[AANG INHALES]
KATARA: And... exhale.
[AANG EXHALES]
I've heard the Denied are growing in numbers,
but they've never done anything like this.
Attacking the Avatar?
Yeah.
They were incredible fighters.
Even without bending.
[BACK CRACKS] [SHOUTS]
Oops. Breathe through it. Ow! [GROANS]
Be honest. You're enjoying this.
Aang, this is serious.
Whatever this map they took was,
if they were willing to kill the Avatar to get it,
what else are they willing to do?
I don't know.
I'm worried about you.
You're spending more and more time
at the Air Temple, alone.
It's how I hold on to my past.
I know how hard this is for you.
[SIGHS]
When I was attacked,
all I could think about was that...
this could be it.
I'm the last Airbender.
If I die, my culture dies with me.
You may be the last Airbender, but you're not alone.
Aang, none of this would exist without you.
You made the city possible with your heart
and your mind.
Because of you...
all of the nations live here...
together.
All except mine.
I know...
but the people here still need your protection.
You're an Airbender...
but you're also the Avatar.
You're right.
Whoever this Sonam person is, I need to find out more.
[VOICES WHISPERING]
Aang.
AANG: Avatar Roku.
ROKU: It is good to see you again.
How can I help you?
In your lifetime, did you ever hear
of an ancient Airbender named Sonam?
I have not,
but you have many past lives to call upon.
Perhaps one further back in the Avatar cycle
can help you.
Thank you, Avatar Roku.
[VOICES WHISPERING]
I'm sorry. I've never heard of Sonam.
I'm unfamiliar. PAST AVATAR: Perhaps earlier.
You must go further back.
PAST AVATARS, OVERLAPPING: You must go further back. Not here.
...in the Avatar Cycle.
[VOICES FADE]
AANG: Um, hello?
Is there anyone here?
Hello?
[GRUNTS]
XIAN: [IN BOOMING VOICE] Who calls upon Avatar Xian's
vast wealth of knowledge?
[XIAN COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
[IN NORMAL VOICE] Oh, hello.
You look like an Avatar from a time quite distant from mine.
Please, please, tell me about your era.
What are people wearing?
Are sandals still a thing?
Uh, yes.
[SCOFFS] Why?
Why, after so many years,
open toes, seeing someone else's crusty cuticles?
Disgusting!
Right.
Anyway, I have come for your guidance.
You see, I was attacked.
It was not me, okay? Wasn't me.
I know that.
I think it might have something to do
with an Airbender named Sonam.
Hmm. Sonam.
It sounds familiar.
Sonam. Where have I heard that name before?
[GASPS] Ah-ha!
Sonam was the youngest daughter of the owner
of the possum-chicken shop at the corner marketplace.
Wait, that was my ex, So Nyung.
If only she didn't have those humongous toenails.
[GROANS] Disgusting.
This is going nowhere.
Sonam... So-nahm... Sonum?
[SIGHS] Well, thank you for your time.
I must continue my search.
Oh, Sonam!
You're asking about the legend of the lost Avatar.
Sonam was an Avatar?
Indeed she was!
She was the Avatar
in the golden age of Airbenders.
Legend said she had a staff that could channel
the vast energy of the Spirit World,
granting its keeper unlimited power.
Is... Is that even possible?
Eh, we'll never know for sure.
Many Avatars have tried to communicate with her,
but they couldn't.
She disappeared so completely
that it was as if she never existed.
And perhaps it's better that way.
Maybe such a staff was too dangerous
for anyone to possess, even the Avatar.
But... But that's exactly why I need to find it.
The people who attacked me discovered a map.
It must lead to the staff.
Avatar Xian, please,
you have to tell me where it is.
The legend says that Sonam disappeared with her staff
on the peak of Mount Baihu.
AANG: "Katara, I'm sorry to leave so suddenly,
but I found out what the Denied are after."
"Sonam had a staff of immense power,
and in their hands,
it could be a devastating weapon."
"They have a head start."
"There's no time to waste."
"You take Appa and Momo and gather up the rest of the team."
"We're gonna need some help."
GRAND CHAMBERLAIN: Next on the agenda,
a Fire Nation naval vessel came into conflict
with an extremist group of Nonbenders called the Denied.
They've been robbing ancient sites... Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
An urgent message has arrived from Republic City.
How impudent.
Can't you see Fire Lord Zuko is...
ZUKO: Chamberlain.
There's only one person who can send a message
urgent enough to interrupt the Fire Lord's counsel.
Is it from the Avatar? MESSENGER: Yes, my lord.
ZUKO: Read it to me. Yes, my lord.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Um... [CLEARS THROAT]
What are you doing?
Read it quickly.
Uh... Yeah, yeah. Yes, Grand Chamberlain.
[CLEARS THROAT]
"Flameo Hotman, how's ruling the Fire Nation?"
"I hope the boring Chamberlain you mention in your letters
isn't still annoying you." [ALL GASP]
"Anyhoo, to cut to the chase, I need your help." [SIGHS]
MESSENGER: "Can you please come immediately?"
"Oh, and don't forget to bring some firecracker buns."
[SIGHS]
SOKKA: Allow me to present Sokka-Cycle.
Flames launch you into the sky
where you can drop water bombs on your enemies,
then skis pop out to help you stick the landing.
[CHUCKLES] Pretty great, right?
Eh, boring.
Why would you need a sled when you can just waterbend?
Ooh, ooh, ooh. Like me, like me!
Whee!
Keep in mind, there are still
plenty of folks like me who can't bend.
Why would Avatar Aang partner with a Nonbender?
[GROANS] Why? I'll tell you why.
I saved him from the iceberg.
My boomerang flew by his side
while I parried away enemies with my trusty blade.
I even took down the whole Fire Nation airship armada.
And on top of all that,
I was more popular than him.
You're such a liar, Sokka.
[CHIRPING]
SOKKA: It's from the Avatar.
Really? That's so cool! Wow.
Oh, so now you think I'm cool?
[CHILDREN GIGGLING]
TOPH: All right, Metalbenders.
Let's see if any of you tenderfoots
can at least make me use my hands.
[GRUNTS]
[METAL WHIRRING]
[UPBEAT TRIBAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
[SIGHS]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
[BOTH GRUNTING] [METAL CLANGS]
I'm still the greatest Earthbender in the world!
[BIRD SCREECHES]
And I'm bored.
Master Toph, there's a bird on your head.
And? It looks like it has a message.
TOPH: Read.
Uh, it's from Avatar Aang. He needs your help.
It's the Denied? The Denied?
Where is he?
Mount Baihu.
[WIND WHISTLING] [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[AIR WHOOSHING]
[GRUNTS]
[PANTS]
[GRUNTS]
[WIND HOWLING]
[GRUNTS]
[YELPS]
[WHIMPERING]
No, no, no!
No!
[GROANS]
I love that hat.
[PANTING] [WIND HOWLING]
[MUSIC TURNS SERENE]
[PANTS] [TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
[CURIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[SNOW RUMBLING]
[RUMBLING CONTINUES]
[ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
Sonam?
Could that be you?
[GRUNTS]
[ICE RUMBLING AND CRACKLING]
[GRUNTS]
[CRACKLING] [AIR HISSING]
[SHOUTS]
[WIND HOWLING]
[GASPS]
[EXHALES]
[PANTING]
Who are you?
[CRACKLING] Huh?
[RUMBLING]
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[ICE GROANING] [GRUNTS]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[PANTING]
[WHIMPERING]
[GASPS]
[GASPS, GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
[WHIMPERING]
[SHOUTS]
[THUDS] [MUSIC ENDS ABRUPTLY]
[SCREAMS]
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC TURNS DRAMATIC]
[ROCK CRACKLING]
Aang!
[BOTH GRUNT]
[APPA GROANS]
[GROWLS]
[MUSIC TURNS VICTORIOUS]
Team Avatar to the rescue!
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
KATARA: Aang!
You made it!
You couldn't wait a day before running off to get yourself killed?
I thought you were here looking for a staff.
Who's this guy?
[SOFT HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING] [MOMO CHITTERING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
An Airbender.
[PANTS]
[GROANS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING] [WATER RIPPLING]
SOKKA: How did he hold up an entire mountain?
KATARA: His chi is strong, like nothing I've ever felt.
Hey, Avatar, you think this guy beat your record
for longest frozen Airbender?
Yeah. How long do you think he was in that ice?
I don't know.
His tattoos look... ancient.
He's been in there a long time.
He smells good for an old guy.
Ew. What?
My senses tell me this guy is pretty attractive.
Toph! Someone else confirm.
This is serious. What does attractive even mean?
Just give me a straight confirmation.
Is he attractive?
He's very attractive. AANG AND KATARA: Huh?
What? He is.
It's all in the bone structure.
MAN: No... [BOTH GASP]
No...
No!
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey.
Easy, you're safe.
[HEART BEATING]
MAN: Earthbender! AANG: No, no, no!
We're all friends here. It's okay.
Someone woke up on the wrong side
of the mountain.
Where is she?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Where is Avatar Sonam?
You knew Sonam?
Who are you?
I don't know how to explain it,
but you've been asleep for a long time.
I'm the Avatar now.
I'm Aang.
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] If you're the Avatar, then...
Sonam...
Well, Sonam might be long gone,
but on the bright side, you woke up at the perfect time.
Everyone will be amazed to see another Airbender.
Aang's not the last one anymore.
What do you mean, last?
[GULPS]
The Air Nomads, they've been wiped out.
There's only me.
No.
Sonam's staff, do you have it?
It's our only hope now.
What do you mean?
I thought it was a weapon.
The staff is no weapon.
It is a gift.
With it, Sonam was able to channel
the vast power of the Spirit World.
It was this power that allowed Jharana to flourish.
The greatest city in the world, an Air Nomad utopia,
where Sonam presided over a golden age of balance
and where I devoted my life to serving her.
In return, she raised me up
and used her staff to give me, a lowly Nonbender,
the power to bend the air.
I was the first, but I would not be the last.
She filled the skies with Airbenders,
and we flew by her side,
spreading peace across the world.
[PANTING]
Aang? Are you okay?
Sonam used the staff to give people airbending.
If we found it...
I could bring airbending back to the world!
[CHUCKLES] This is incredible!
There haven't been Airbenders for over a hundred years!
This is everything you ever wanted, Aang.
We could heal the greatest atrocity
my nation committed in the war.
This could be the final step to rebuilding the world.
Not if the Denied get there first. They have the map.
Who are the Denied?
A group of violent Nonbenders.
They...
They must be after the staff to give themselves airbending.
Then there's no time to waste. There's only one place it could be.
Ready your bison.
We'll need to travel across the endless ocean.
On the other side of the world? But there's nothing out there.
There's an island.
The journey will not be easy.
But we can make it.
Then let's get going.
[CHUCKLES]
The skies are no place for a water child.
Water child?
Um, I know you just woke up after thousands of years,
but we do these things together.
Trust me. We're stronger this way.
Welcome to Team Avatar.
What's your name?
Tagah.
My name is Tagah.
Just think of it as a big metal air bison.
TAGAH: We will travel ancient paths through the sky.
Ones that our people learned
by following the great air bison herds
that long ago taught us airbending.
Air currents known only to us,
encircling the great sphere of existence,
allowing us to travel where we wish,
giving us our name, the Air Nomads.
[KATARA GASPS]
[MAJESTIC MUSIC PLAYING]
ZUKO: What's he doing?
He's really feeling that air.
He's navigating by instinct.
What if his instincts are just wrong?
Who needs instincts when you've got muscles like that?
Or what if his brain is messed up from being frozen?
Like me? Uh, no, no!
He was frozen for five thousand years, okay?
You were frozen for, what, a hundred?
Okay, that's nothing. Your brain is...
fresh.
Maybe he is a little old-fashioned, but look at him.
He's so in tune with his element,
he can travel across the entire ocean
with no map, no instruments.
[EXHALES] There's so much I can learn from him.
[SNORING]
[APPA PURRING] [CHUCKLES]
I'd give anything to be able to see my air bison again.
[GROWLS]
And now, to see only one remains.
Aang, you said our people were wiped out,
yet you survived.
How?
I had just found out I was the Avatar.
But the responsibility, it was too much.
So I ran away.
And while I was gone, the Fire Nation attacked.
They were looking for me.
If...
If I'd just been there.
TAGAH: Sonam would say,
Air Nomads are formed from the mist.
We walk the world for a moment in time,
then we return to the eternal wind.
Monk Gyatso taught me that.
We carry the same weight,
a grief no one else could possibly comprehend.
But you and I can heal the past.
Let me show you how powerful our element can be
when Airbenders work together.
Tagah, what are you doing?
Whoa!
This is how Sonam taught me.
Feel the energy that tethers us.
[GASPS]
[SIGHS]
[GROWLS PLAYFULLY]
[LAUGHS]
TAGAH: The bond between us. Can you feel it?
Use it!
This is amazing!
Yeah! [LAUGHS]
[CHUCKLES]
Woo-hoo!
Oh, yeah! Human boomerang!
He's actually flying.
TOPH: So are we.
Whoa, that's my best friend! That's my best friend!
Now you throw me!
[GRUNTING]
[EPIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTS]
I had no idea this was possible!
This is only the beginning.
AANG: I can't believe it.
Airbenders will fill the sky again.
TAGAH: We have been given a great gift.
The chance to redeem ourselves.
You were destined to find me on that mountain, Aang.
How did you end up there?
The Earthbenders had attacked Jharana.
Sonam and I fought fearlessly, side by side.
We drove them back to Mount Baihu,
and that's the last I remember.
She must have saved your life.
Only an Avatar could have put you in that sphere.
Aang, can I ask you something?
Of course.
If the Fire Nation destroyed the Air Nomads...
how can you suffer the presence of the Fire Lord?
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
Zuko is a friend and an ally.
He turned against his own father to help me end the war.
Yet he wears the crown himself now.
Fire by its nature burns, Aang.
Our kind have always suffered at the hands of the other elements.
That's why we built Republic City.
To show the world that if we listen to each other,
we can all live together in peace.
[MUSIC TURNS HOPEFUL]
And once we bring back Airbenders,
it'll be complete.
When everyone stuck to their own,
the whole world was nearly torn apart.
And besides, Katara, Sokka, Zuko, Toph...
they're my family now.
I want to live in a world where we can all be together.
You remind me so much of Sonam.
KALLIK: It's the Avatar.
And this time he's got his friends with him.
That's the Fire Lord's airship!
How'd they get ahead of us? They don't even have the map!
We can't risk him getting to the staff first.
Kill him.
But he spared our lives.
And how many countless were killed in the hundred years
waiting for his return?
Where was he when your family was wiped out?
If we want anything to change,
we need what the Benders have... Power.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Fire!
[BOTH GRUNT]
[AIR WHOOSHING] [METALLIC CLANGING]
It's the Denied!
Uh, we are definitely under attack!
Tear them to shreds!
[AIR HISSING]
[CLANKING]
Is he crushing the ship?
Tagah?
Tagah, stop!
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
[ALL GRUNT]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
We're here.
The Immortal Storm.
Oh, no.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[TORNADOS ROARING]
There has to be another way around. No!
Together, you and I can clear a path for the ship.
But we have to go now.
Aang, trust me.
[MOMO SCREECHES]
[APPA MOANS]
Uh, maybe now's a good time to turn back.
ZUKO: I don't think that's an option anymore.
Where are they going?
[ALL GRUNT]
[AIR HISSING]
The engine's out. We're losing air pressure.
ALL: Whoa!
Katara, Toph, come with me. What about me?
Take the wheel.
What? No, I've only ever crashed Fire Nation airships.
Okay, let's see. Here's our rudder,
this is the elevator, there's our ballast,
and there's the giant tornado that's going to kill us all.
[GRUNTS]
Follow my lead.
[GRUNTS]
[MUSIC SOFTENS] [GASPS, STRAINS]
Work with me, just like I showed you.
We can harness the air.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[WHOOSHES]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES] Yes! That's it, Aang! Keep going!
ZUKO: There's a long tear above your head on the left.
Got it!
ZUKO: Whatever happens, you have to hold the ship together.
SOKKA: Zuko! Zuko!
Aang and Tagah are destroying tornadoes,
but there's too many, and they're everywhere!
Just steer the ship. Don't lose Aang.
It's not that easy,
especially when everything is sideways.
Okay, left!
[PANTING]
[METAL CREAKS]
[LAUGHS] I did it!
[YELPS] Right!
Oh, no! We're falling behind!
I'm losing sight of them! We have to go back!
Trust in your friends.
They won't make it if we don't clear a path.
[WHOOSHES]
[METAL CREAKS]
Zuko! We're gonna crash into the sea!
When I give you the signal, pull the lever next to the wheel.
[RATTLING]
SOKKA: We're gonna crash! We're gonna crash!
Katara?
[GRUNTS]
[EPIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMS]
Give me the signal! Give me the signal!
It's closed!
Sokka, now!
Here we go!
[GRUNTS]
[MUSIC FADES]
AANG: Katara! We did it!
What were you thinking?
I was clearing the tornadoes to make a path.
The ship almost crashed, Aang. We could have died.
[DARK PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] And what if you got yourself killed?
You're the Avatar.
This is too risky. We need to turn back now.
No! We're almost there.
We just need to get to the eye of the storm.
Aang, no. This is too dangerous.
The staff is out there. The Denied are after it.
Do you really believe that they could make it through the storm?
We're nearly there.
That staff can bring back my people.
I understand how much you want that, but...
You don't understand. None of you do.
Aang...
We push forward.
TAGAH: If we generate enough air, we can push our way through.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[MUSIC BUILDS DRAMATICALLY]
[BOTH GRUNT]
[ALL YELP]
[MUSIC FADES]
[PANTING] We're alive?
We made it through. Thank you, Tagah.
It was you, Aang. We're here because of you.
Yeah, we're having a good time, too.
You could have told us we were flying into the Immortal Storm.
I know it was dangerous, but we had to risk it.
We? [CHUCKLES]
I don't remember when we took a vote on that.
There wasn't time. I had to make a call.
TAGAH: Friends, please, don't blame Aang.
This is all my fault. [GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
I knew this would be difficult.
But Aang believed in your strength as a team.
And I'm honored to be a part of it.
I forgive you, Tagah.
AANG: Everyone, look.
These islands, they were Lion Turtles.
Whoa.
KATARA: It's beautiful.
[BIRDS CAWING]
Long before my time,
the Lion Turtles granted the gift
of bending to humans.
These are their final resting grounds.
This is where Sonam came to learn their ways.
I am certain that she left her staff here.
Where should we start looking?
Aang, you must connect with her.
But no one can connect with Sonam.
TAGAH: The spiritual power of the Lion Turtles
is still concentrated here.
Let it guide you.
We'll set out immediately.
Actually, Tagah, we could really use your help here.
If the Denied are close behind, we need to be ready.
Yeah, and we're gonna need more than Toph's metal bending
to fix this ship.
My bending got us through that storm.
What did you do?
Steered with his feet.
Repairs can wait.
Aang needs me.
Tagah, please, stay and help my friends.
I'll be okay on my own.
As you wish.
We will begin repairs for our voyage home.
AANG: Everyone, I know I've asked a lot of you on this journey,
but we're about to accomplish something
that will change the world.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[APPA GROWLING]
[CAWING]
Let it guide you.
Sonam?
Oh, this is turning out to be a nice little vacation. [SIGHS]
Aside from all the people trying to kill us.
And the tornadoes.
Um, we're supposed to be fixing the ship?
SOKKA: You're doing great, buddy.
[GROANS] KATARA: Has anyone seen Tagah?
Yes, we've all seen Tagah.
He's so gorgeous. Jeez, I get it.
Oh, I see what you mean.
He wandered off that way.
No, maybe that way?
KATARA: Tagah!
Where are you going?
Aang needs to be protected.
I agree.
I know my ways may seem unusual to you,
but I assure you, everything I do,
I do for Aang.
For Aang? Or for the staff?
You have no idea all that we've lost.
You've never known a world with Airbenders.
I know Aang.
He may be the last of his kind,
but he's the reason this world knows peace.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
His values as an Air Nomad have brought balance to chaos.
It's because of Aang that the Water Tribes,
Earth Kingdom, and Fire Nation now work together,
striving for harmony,
a peace we once thought unattainable.
TAGAH: You speak of peace.
There will never be peace among the elements.
There never was.
Your precious Republic City is built on lies.
KATARA: It's built on hope.
Do you have hope, Tagah?
Saving my people requires more than just hope.
It requires sacrifice.
I saw you try to crush the Denied's airships.
You were ready to kill them.
I know what kind of Airbender Aang is...
but what kind of Airbender are you?
[AIR WHOOSHING]
[RUMBLING]
TAGAH: Aang did well getting us here.
There is great strength in him, but weakness as well.
Weakness?
TAGAH: Yes.
You.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[ICE CRACKLING] [GASPS]
[GRUNTS]
What the hog monkey?
[GRUNTS]
No!
[GLOWING LIGHT HUMMING]
[TWINKLING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
He trusted you!
[GRUNTS]
No.
[ICE CRACKLING]
ZUKO: You traitor! [BOOMERANG WHOOSHING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
[YELLING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
[SHOUTS]
[GASPS]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
Tagah!
[GRUNTS]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[AIR WHOOSHING]
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
TAGAH: Brother.
Tagah. It's real.
We can finally bring back airbending.
Let's go tell the others.
We can do this.
Me and you.
I can't do this without my friends.
Earth killed my people. Fire killed yours.
The staff is the only way we can create a new Air Empire.
One capable of defending itself.
No.
We can build a new future, Tagah.
But it has to be for everyone.
The staff doesn't belong to everyone.
It belongs to us.
What... What have you done?
TAGAH: As long as they were around, you'd always put them ahead of our people.
Don't you see? This is how we redeem ourselves.
It doesn't matter that you ran then.
As long as you stand with me now.
No... Katara. TAGAH: Aang, listen to me.
This is the only way.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SHOUTS]
You're a traitor to your own.
Just like Sonam.
[SHOUTS]
[GRUNTS]
[APPA ROARS]
[SHOUTS]
[MUSIC ENDS ABRUPTLY]
[GROANS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING] [APPA MOANING]
TAGAH: I wanted to do this with you by my side.
But if I must build the new Air Empire alone...
so be it.
[MOANS]
There's no way in! We have to turn back! [STRAINING]
No! We keep trying to push through!
Sonam's staff.
TAGAH: Denied...
the Avatar is dead.
If you wish to build a new world where you have the power,
I can give it to you.
[MUSIC FADES]
[AANG GRUNTS]
Appa!
Katara!
Katara! [ECHOES]
Katara.
They're gone.
It's all my fault.
It's always been my fault.
Ever since I ran away.
SONAM: No Avatar has ever fallen into such shame
as to join me here in my sorrow.
Why do you grieve so, friend?
Avatar Sonam?
Tagah murdered my friends.
And now he has the staff.
Tagah? No.
No, I... I stopped him.
I hid the staff.
What have you done?
You're the one who gave him airbending!
How could you give power to a monster?
The Tagah I gave bending to was a different man.
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
SONAM: It was a different time.
The Airbenders were the peacekeepers of the four elements.
We used our power to mediate all conflict
with non-violence.
But we were the fewest in numbers.
For many years, we existed in a beautiful balance
of great prosperity.
But the world began to shift.
The Earthbenders formed their own kingdom,
separating from the other elemental tribes.
The balance of the world was at risk.
It was my duty to act.
So I learned how to channel the energy
of the Spirit World just as the Lion Turtles did.
To give people the power of airbending.
My most devout pupil,
Tagah, was the first to receive it.
I sent my new peacekeepers out
to help calm the growing unrest.
But they were not prepared for the brutality
of the new Earth Kingdom. [SCREAMS]
Tagah watched
as his brothers and sisters were all slaughtered.
His heart darkened by the violence of war.
He now saw everyone who wasn't an Air Nomad as the enemy.
Tagah begged me to use the staff to create an army
and to kill all who would do us harm.
I refused.
So he stole it.
[THUNDER CRASHES]
SONAM: When he connected the staff to the temple,
his energy was so corrupted by grief and rage
that the power of the Spirit World [TAGAH SCREAMS]
consumed him.
Tagah became something more than human,
too powerful to kill.
It took all my energy to finally trap him
high above the clouds, where no one would find him.
I reclaimed the staff,
but I was fatally wounded.
Before the Earth Kingdom could invade Jharana,
I sent the remaining Air Nomads into the mountains.
And I hid my temple in the Spirit World,
where no one could access its power.
Then I locked the staff away,
where only the Avatar could find it.
I died, hoping that one day,
another Avatar would create more Airbenders
and restore balance to this world.
And that Avatar is you, Aang.
You have to get my staff
before Tagah connects it to the temple.
There's still time.
Don't let my regret become yours.
AANG: My friends and I fought hard for this peace.
I won't let him start another war.
Help me find a way back.
[MUSIC BUILDS THEN STOPS ABRUPTLY]
AANG: Sonam?
What's happening?
[YELPS]
No!
No! Please!
I have to fix this!
This can't be it! I can't die yet!
Please! Not yet!
No! KATARA: Aang?
Katara? KATARA: I'm losing him.
Come on, Aang! Come on! Aang!
Hold on! [GASPS]
Aang!
Katara!
I was so worried.
SOKKA: Aang!
AANG: Sokka! [SOKKA SIGHS]
I knew you'd pull through, buddy.
Hey, Aang.
Zuko!
[CHITTERS] Momo!
Welcome back, twinkle toes.
Toph, you're okay.
I...
I thought you were all dead.
We were. But Katara saved us.
The spiritual power of these waters
strengthened my healing abilities.
You're incredible, Katara.
Where's Appa?
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
Tagah must have taken him.
I'm sorry.
No.
I can't believe I trusted him.
KATARA: We'll get through this.
SOKKA: So, let me get this straight.
He's pulling Sonam's temple out of the Spirit World
to gain unlimited power, and let me guess,
you want us to stop him?
Sure, only problem is your air bro
crushed our ship and stole your bison.
Also, there's a massive typhoon surrounding us!
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
I don't say this very often, but Sokka's right.
Thank you. Yep, we're stuck.
And there aren't enough Lion Turtles
for all of us to have our own island,
so I'm calling this one.
I'm naming him Snappy.
SOKKA: Aw, Snappy is the best one.
TOPH: I know.
We may not know where Tagah is,
but we know what he's looking for
is in the Spirit World.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] And lucky for us,
we're stuck in the most spiritually charged place
on the planet.
So I may be able to open a portal to get us there,
if I can summon an old friend.
[ALL YELP]
Wow.
ZUKO: The ocean spirit.
[MUSIC TURNS EPIC]
[GROWLS]
This portal smells an awful lot like the fish market.
I'm gonna go check on Snappy.
Face your death with honor.
I'm sorry.
I know I got us into this,
but I promise you I'll fix it.
KATARA: We'll fix it...
together.
SOKKA: We're gonna die! We're gonna die!
Woah!
[SOKKA GROANS]
What? Where's my power pony?
Uh, were my hands always this small?
[YELPS] It's Baby Toph!
Baby Toph! [GRUNTING]
What the hog monkey?
[YELPS] Old people!
Gran Gran?
It's your sister, you meathead!
Give me Toph. There, there, Toph.
Oh, no, Zuko!
What happened to your beautiful face?
You look like a dried sea squid. [GROANS]
No, Zuko! Tired.
Ow, ow, ow! What's going on here?
AANG: The Spirit World is out of balance.
And so are we.
That's gotta be Tagah.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
AANG: Oh, no!
He's pulling Sonam's temple into our world!
We're running out of time!
GORILLAVARK: [YELLING] Chunder!
[ALL YELP]
[SIGHS] Pretty good landing.
[GROANS]
Whoa! Humans!
I love humans!
Two brothers, their little sister,
and an elderly couple.
ZUKO AND KATARA: A couple? Not a couple!
Whoa! Looks like I touched a nerve.
Oh, look at this one.
Hello. Ow!
Toph, no! Bad Toph.
We don't bite strangers.
[YELPS]
AANG: Great Spirit, excuse me.
Did you just come from that temple in the sky?
I certainly did.
It was my favorite hidey-hole until that dark,
yucky energy started corrupting this whole place.
Please, we need your help getting up there.
It's my duty to stop this.
I'm the Avatar. [CHITTERS]
Ooh, the Avatar.
Let me have a squiz at you.
Okay. Now with this eye. And this eye.
Mm-hmm. And this eye. Don't forget this eye.
Hey, hey, can we hurry up? GORILLAVARK: Every eye needs to have a squiz!
Sniff check!
[YELPING]
Ooh, that's Avatar material right there.
Yes, it is. Oh!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
It appears the universe has brought us together
for a very important mission...
Ah?
...to flee!
Run for your lives!
Wait, come back!
You're going the wrong way!
Stop!
Please, Great Spirit, both of our worlds are in danger!
No, no, no, no, no, no. I am not going back up there.
[GASPS]
[CHITTERS]
Hmm. Well, when you put it like that, it does make more sense.
Upon reflection, I've decided I shall help you
and your human-y friends.
What did he say? Nice work, Momo.
All right, in you go.
By the way, no eating anything you find
in my teeth, as I'm saving that for later.
Ready, set, get steady and ret.
One and a two and a you know what to do.
Blast off!
[ALL SHOUTING]
I know we haven't known each other very long, but...
I love you!
You don't have to say it back.
[ALL GRUNT]
Hey! You got your hair back!
Why are my eyes teary? Was I crying?
No way! Look!
What? What is it?
AANG: It's Republic City.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
We can't let him destroy everything we built!
We won't.
[CLAMORING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Boomerang!
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
Give me the staff, Tagah!
I see I underestimated you, Avatar.
Your friends are stronger than I thought.
But you're too late.
[ALL SHOUTING]
The Denied.
You see? I did what you wanted, Aang.
I returned airbending to the world.
[CHUCKLES]
What's the plan?
We'll deal with the Denied. You have to get the staff.
I will rebuild Jharana on the ruins of our enemies,
just as they did on ours.
A new Air Empire will rise.
Kill them all.
[ALL SHOUTING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
[WHIMPERING]
We have to get these people out of here.
[SHOUTS]
[GROANS, GASPS]
Oh, yeah!
AANG: Tagah!
Give it to me!
This isn't the way!
We can use the staff to bring back balance, peace!
You care so much about your ideals
that you let your people die!
I will do anything to make sure they survive!
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
[CLAMORING]
[GROWLS]
[SCREECHING]
My cabbages! Not my cabbages!
[SCREAMS]
[SNIFFLES] My cabbages!
My cabbages!
[YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNT]
Don't do this.
You have the power now. You can decide how to use it.
I'm not like you.
The world hasn't been good to me.
The world is what we make it.
JIE: Get away from her!
[GRUNTS]
[YELLS]
[CLAMORING CONTINUES]
Tagah, stop!
[SHOUTS]
You betrayed me! You betrayed our culture!
I gave you every chance to see the truth!
Shouldn't you be in the Fire Nation?
I'm fighting for the peace of all nations!
Big talk from someone who sits on a throne
built on a century of war!
[ROCKS RUMBLING]
[METAL CREAKING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
I'm still the greatest Earthbender in the world!
[BLADE DINGS]
[AIR WHISTLES]
[BOTH GRUNT]
Oh, no. I'm out of water.
[CACKLES] We got ya!
And there's no Avatar here to save you.
SOKKA: Sokka-Cycle! Huh?
[BELL DINGING] [HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[GASPS]
Let's see if your fancy new bending
can beat some good old nonbending know-how.
[GROANING]
SOKKA: Bombs away!
[DENIED MEMBERS GRUNTING]
You just got denied!
Whoa!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
[ALL COUGHING]
Let's go! Good luck saving your city.
Huh? [GASPS]
[CITIZENS SCREAMING]
We have to save as many people as we can.
[CITIZEN YELPS, PANTS]
[BOTH GRUNT]
[GASPS]
AANG: I know your pain.
I know what you've been through.
You don't know.
I watched as all of my brothers and sisters were slaughtered.
When the Fire Nation burned the Air Nomads to ash,
where were you?
You ran!
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Tagah!
No!
[MUSIC ENDS ABRUPTLY]
[WHOOSHES]
[CITIZENS CLAMORING]
The full power of the Spirit World flows through me!
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
This is what strength looks like!
[SHOUTS]
[BOTH GRUNT]
[GASPS]
[SHUDDERED BREATHING]
[CLAMORING]
[ALL SCREAMING]
You should've run away like you did
all those years ago, little Avatar.
I...
won't run.
Then at least you'll die knowing you're not the last Airbender!
[GASPS]
[SHOUTS]
TAGAH: Aang!
No!
[SHOUTS]
[CLAMORING] [ROARS]
[CHITTERS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
No.
[CHIMING]
[CLATTERING]
[SHOUTS]
[GRUNTS]
We could've been brothers!
We could've done this together!
It didn't have to end like this!
It's Aang! He's got the staff!
Yeah! Kick his butt, Mega Aang!
No! Something's wrong!
The power is corrupting him!
[SCREAMS]
[GROANS]
[GROANING]
AANG: I dreamt of bringing the Air Nomads back
to the world as peacekeepers.
They could have been a beacon of light
for the world to follow.
But you ruined it!
You twisted my dream into a nightmare!
Finally, you have the power the Air Nomads need.
Maybe there is hope for you after all.
[GRUMBLES]
[SHOUTING]
[SCREAMS]
Do it! Use the staff!
Show me you have the strength to bring our people back!
Do it!
[SHOUTING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY]
[PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHILDREN GIGGLING]
[LAUGHS]
GYATSO: Aang.
You will do so many great things as the Avatar,
but you must be prepared to do what frightens you the most.
Your people, your home, we are always with you.
[GROANING] [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
No.
No!
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SHOUTS]
[BOTH WHIMPER]
[GASPS]
No! My power!
No.
No!
[GROANS, PANTS]
You fool!
Why?
Why did you break it?
We could have fixed everything.
We can't erase the pain of the past.
We couldn't save them.
But it's our duty to protect our people.
Not at the cost of betraying everything they stood for.
No.
It's time to let go.
You have to forgive yourself.
I have to forgive myself too.
Air nomads are formed from the mist.
BOTH: We walk the world for a moment in time.
Then we return to the eternal wind.
[GROWLS]
[GASPS] Aang!
Hey, Katara.
Hey, Aang.
Seriously?
You do realize you're falling, right?
Hey, if you ever get tired of relying on Appa,
I could hook you up with one of these babies.
[WHIMPERING]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
SOKKA: I'll give you the best friend discount!
[CHATTERING]
These are pretty good!
AANG: I don't know if airbending will ever return,
but I know now that the true power
of the Air Nomads was never their bending.
It was their values.
And that's a power I can pass on to others.
Avatar Aang, you are the true embodiment
of the Air Nomads.
Thank you for giving up the power that I could not.
You give me hope for the future of our culture.
[EPIC ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
It's amazing, isn't it?
The first new air temple in centuries.
Republic City is finally complete.
A city for all nations, just like you promised.
I never could have done this without you, Katara.
Hey, everybody.
Sorry I kept you all waiting.
Are you ready for our big trip?
As my new acolytes, you'll be helping me preserve our culture
for future generations.
So, who wants to search for artifacts
at an ancient abandoned temple?
[FLATLY] Yay.
I'm only going to make sure you don't try
to release another beefy old Airbender.
Yeah, I'm done with bad boys.
AANG: Avatar Sonam told me about this place.
So it's very possible that no one's been here
in hundreds of years.
Oh! Is this an Airbender relic?
I think that's just a rock.
But I love the enthusiasm.
[CHIRPS] Aw!
[ROARS] [YELPS]
AANG: Keep your eyes open.
You never know what we might discover here.
Woah!
I thought they were extinct.
[ROARS]
I can't believe it.
The original Airbenders.
Aw, can I have one?
[LAUGHS]
Appa, yip yip!
[PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]