The group sat in a room with a large table surrounded by filled chairs. They all sat in the chairs and looked very disheartened.

“Well, I guess we should just go to Ba Sing Se and try our luck there.” Tenzin said dejectedly.

“I don't know what to do. I just thought more people would be excited about coming with us.” Korra said.

“People don’t like change.” Aang said solemnly, “Pretty sure everyone would rather forget they’re airbenders.” He looks down sadly.

“Well, someone once told me that, ‘when we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change’.”

“Who told you that?” Bolin asked.

“Aang did.”

Aang looks up at Korra who is giving him an encouraging smile. Aang smiles back as Bumi says, “Well, maybe you gotta do more to get them excited. You need to add a little razzle-dazzle.”

“Sokka had to get himself captured at the worst possible time.” Zuko mumbled.

“Yeah, razzle-dazzle!” Bolin exclaimed, “We could put on some sort of airbending street performance!”

“I was gonna say we could cover Tenzin's robe in sequins, but that's even better!”

“It sounds ridiculous, but it might work.” Korra said

“I'm willing to try anything at this point.” Tenzin said.

“Yes! That is the kind of enthusiasm I like to hear!” Bolin exclaimed, “What do you think Aang?”

“I think… it would work.” Aang replies with a smile, “It sounds exactly like a plan Sokka would come up with. You two have the same mindset.”

“I was just compared to Avatar Aang’s best friend…. by Avatar Aang himself. This is the greatest day of my life!” Bolin said happily

-----

The airship flies close over an Earth Kingdom town, made up of sandy-colored rock. A small crowd has gathered to watch the airship.

Bolin speaks through a megaphone up on the airship, “Come one, come all to witness The Amazing Airbenders! The airbending show that will leave you breathless... with wind! First up, the tattooed master himself, you know him as the son of Avatar Aang, he shaves every hair on his head, every single day!” Tenzin takes his shirt off and turns to face the audience, “It's the one, the only guy with an arrow pointing to his nose, Tenzin!”

Tenzin airbends a large wheel and drives it around in front of the awed crowd. The crowd begins to cheer as Tenzin stops in the middle of the half-circle created by the audience and throws his hands up in the air.

“Now, now, ladies and gentleman, ladies and gentleman, please be quiet.” Bolin said, “I have some serious news. We've heard that an escaped firebending convict has been spotted near here.” The crowd begins to murmur nervously, “Now, I don't want to panic anyone, but if you see a firebender with a red scarf-”

Mako stands in the crowd with his arms folded. At his cue, Mako straightens up and begins to walk out of the crowd.

“I see him! He's right there!” A crowd member said.

“I am the escaped convict, and you will all reap my fire.” Mako said stiffly. He pauses before letting out a small blast of fire from his fist into the air. The whole crowd gasps.

The crowd continues to mutter as Bolin says, “Oh no! Who will help us?”

“I will. With my airbending skills!” Korra said.

Korra catches Mako in an airbent tornado. She lets him go and he falls, but she catches him with another airbending blast and brings him up in another tornado.

Mako is no longer stiff and slightly panics, “Ah! Hey! Let me go! This is not what we rehearsed! Korra!” Korra laughs and turns to Asami, who also starts to chuckle.

Oogi soars through the air and does a barrel roll, ‘With the power of airbending, even this beast can float!” Bolin said, then whispers, “Like a feather.”

Bumi begins to show off some air blasts, “Look what can be done in only a few short weeks of practice!”

Jinora flies over the crowd on her glider. The whole crowd frightfully gasps, “No no, don't worry folks. She might be young, but she is in full control!” Jinora softly lands on the peak of a tall fountain. The entire crowd begins to cheer.

“Now ladies and gentlemen, we’re not done yet! Visiting us from the past, master airbender at age twelve, the last airbender in his time, the one, the only, Avatar Aang!”

Aang flies over the crowd on his glider, creating a gust of wind as he does. The crowd gasps in amazement as he proceeds to do airbending tricks in the air with his glider. He then lands on the ground and pulls out his marbles to do his favorite trick.

Zuko, who was watching on the airship with Katara and Toph, facepalms. Katara covers her mouth with her hand as she giggles at her boyfriend’s dorkiness.

“He’s doing the dumb marble trick isn’t he.” Toph said, unamused.

Aang put his marbles away as Bolin begins to speak, “Ladies and gentlemen, if you, or anyone you know is an airbender, please, send them our way! Master Tenzin, Avatar Korra and Avatar Aang would love to teach them all they know!”

Korra shrugs and smiles at Tenzin and Aang. The crowd begins to disperse. A young boy, Kai, runs up to the group.

“Hey! Hello. If you're looking for airbenders, you just found one.” Kai proceeds to demonstrate his airbending abilities, “I wanna join you guys.”

The group becomes excited, “Get outta town!” Bolin exclaimed.

“We got our first recruit.” Korra said, then she turned to Kai, “Just to be totally clear, we're going to be heading to Ba Sing Se, then the Northern Air Temple to live as nomads and rebuild the Air Nation. All that sound good to you?”

“Yeah, Ba Sing Se, rebuild the temple, Air Nomad what-do-you-do, I'm in. Let's go right now.” Kai replies.

Bolin jumps in the air, “This is going to be so great! You're going to love it, er... ah... real quick, what's your name?”

“Kai. So when do we hit the road?”

“Hang on a second Kai, where are your parents?” Tenzin asked, “We can't have you come with us without their permission.”

Kai looks down, “My parents are... gone.”

“You're an orphan?” Bolin asked.

“It happened about a year ago. My home town was raided by outlaws, but my parents fought back against them. I was so scared, but they told me not to worry they would protect me, and they did. My parents saved me and the entire village, but they died in the fight. Mum and pap meant everything to me, they were my whole life. Ever since then, I've been on the run. Those same outlaws are still after me.”

“Well, you don't have to be on the run anymore,” Bolin looks at the rest of the group, “right guys? Tell him.”

“I'm so sorry about your parents. I know we could never replace them…” Tenzin puts his hand on Kai's shoulder, “but we are here for you.”

“We'll keep you safe, come on.” Korra said.

Bolin wraps his arm around Kai's shoulder, “When you board this airship, you're going to leave your old life behind and start a new path. That's big brother advice. Just think of me as your big brother.” Kai smiles at Bolin.

After everyone boards the airship, Mako stops and walks away from the group. He stares out a window and sees a group of motorcyclists in official-looking uniforms pulling to a stop outside their airship.

“Guys! I think we got trouble.” He says.

The whole group turns around, the lead motorcyclist gets off his motorcycle and takes his helmet off. He walks up to the airship and takes his glasses off.

“Release the boy, or we'll take him by force.” The sheriff clenches his fist as his deputies each earthbend a rock from the ground and get into a fighting stance.

“The outlaws! They're here... Uh, let's get out of here.” Kai grabs on to Korra's arm.

Korra looks down at Kai, “We are not running away from anyone.”

The airship door opens to reveal Korra standing at the top, “If you want Kai, you'll have to go through me!”

The deputies launch their rocks at Korra, who jumps out of the airship's door and destroys the rocks with airbending, before rolling on the ground and airbending at the deputies, knocking them all over. The sheriff soon gets back up and earthbends at Korra, who dodges the attack and knocks down the sheriff with her own earthbending move.

“Your days of harassing an innocent boy is over. You outlaws are going to prison.” Korra said.

“Outlaws? Innocent boy? I'm a sheriff,” He looks at his badge before looking up, “and these are my deputies, and this kid is a thief.” Korra widens her eyes in surprise, “Whatever he told you was a lie, we've been chasing him for months.”

“Where's Kai?” Korra turns around, failing to see Kai or Mako among the group.

Then she sees Mako walking toward her, holding Kai with one hand and a sack with the other.

“Right here, I found him slipping away.” Mako says.

“I was just going to the bathroom.” Kai said.

“With your stash of gold?” Mako throws the sack toward the sheriff. When it hits the ground, jewelry and gold spill out.

“I told you, I found this on the road.”

“Enough with the lies kid. I want the truth.”

“The truth is, he's the outlaw.” The sheriff said, “He spent an entire life in an orphanage, got adopted by a real nice family six months ago, and how did he repay them? By taking their entire life savings. We've been after him ever since.”

“Is that true?” Korra asked Kai.

“The person who stole that stuff was the old me.” Kai replied, “Once I got airbending, I changed. I don't know how to explain it, but I feel like airbending chose me for a reason, like I'm a new person. I'm sorry! Please, you have to listen to me.”

The sheriff and his deputies start to take him away, along with the sack of gold, “Are... are you taking him back to the orphanage?” Bolin asked.

“No, he's headed to jail.” The sheriff replied.

Aang quickly stepped forward, “Wait! You've got the family's life savings, let us take Kai.”

“Dad, do you really want our first member of the Air Nation to be a liar and a thief?” Tenzin asked.

“He just needs some guidance, Tenzin.” Aang replied, “Zuko was worse than Kai when we met.”

“Thanks Aang.” Zuko said sarcastically.

“Who better to give him guidance than us?”

“I agree with Aang.” Korra said, “He’s just lost.”

“Do you want this boy or not?” The sheriff asked.

Aang looks back at Tenzin, who nods at him, before looking back at the sheriff, “Yes, you can release the boy into our custody.”

The sheriff's deputies let go of Kai's hands. He smiles and runs to hug Aang, “Thank you!”

Aang hugs him back, “You’re welcome. Just stay out of trouble from now on, I don’t want to have to keep defending you.”

“You got it Mr. Avatar sir!” Kai replied with a small hint of sarcasm.

Aang could hear the hint of sarcasm, his best friend is Sokka the meat and sarcasm guy so of course he would.

Aang nodded with a smile and said, “Just Aang is fine.” He knew this kid would probably be trouble, but he sort of reminded the young Avatar of when he was that age.

Bolin and Jinora approach him; she smiles toward him and Bolin hugs Aang and Kai, “Welcome to the family, little bro.” Bolin said.

Jinora hugs Bolin, Korra, and Kai. Bumi goes and hugs Tenzin, much to his annoyance.

The sheriff and his deputies drive away from the scene. As the group goes back onto the airship, Mako stops Kai, turns his head around to better look at his face, and bends down.

“I just want you to know that I'm going to be watching you, kid. I know exactly what you're all about, 'cause I've been there. You don't have me fooled.” He says.

Mako stands up and moves back from Kai, who in turn backs away from Mako, “Woah! Hey, lighten up.” Kai puts his hands in his pockets, “I'm turning over a new leaf, making a change.” He starts walking into the airship, “Don't you worry about me.”

“Hi, I'm Jinora.” Jinora greets with a blush while Tenzin passes her by to enter the airship, “If you need any help with airbending, I could show you what I know.”

Aang stops at the top of the airship to watch the exchange.

“Thanks, that's real nice of you.” Kai replies as he smiles at Jinora.

Aang smirks lightly as he enters the airship while Tenzin says, “Jinora, we're leaving now.” Jinora walks into the airship and smiles at Kai.

-----

At Ming Hua's prison, an elderly Zuko stands on the higher tier of the prison with a White Lotus sentry.

“They came out of nowhere.” The sentry said. He bows his head down, “I'm so sorry, Lord Zuko.”

“How could you let this happen?” Zuko asked

“They caught us by surprise, and Zaheer is an airbender now.”

Zuko is alarmed by the revelation, “No! This can't be.” He looks at the White Lotus sentry, “Do you have any idea the power these criminals possess? Individually, they can take down any bender.” He looks down in fear, “Put them all together, they could take down the entire world. And now you're telling me that their leader is an airbender?”

“We can track them.”

“We don't need to track them, I know exactly where they're going.” He and the White Lotus sentry walk out of the prison, “Notify the new chiefs of the Northern Water Tribe that an attack on their prison is imminent, and send word to Lin Beifong in Republic City. The Avatar must be protected. Both of them.”

Zuko's dragon lowers its neck and Zuko gets on it.

“Where are you going?” The sentry asked.

Zuko mounts Druk, “To stop them.”

Druk roars and flies off into the distance.