EXT. ICE PLAIN – DAY
CLOSE ON: SOKKA and KATARA remove their hands from their eyes. KATARA begins to lean forward.
SOKKA
Great. Amongst everything else I think I’m flash blind now.
KATARA breaks his grasp and heads over to the ice.
SOKKA
Katara! Why do I even bother?
ANGLE ON: KATARA hops over the now destroyed husk of the ice shell and slides down into the resulting crater. She stops cold.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG lies motionless on the floor of the shell, a hood covering his tattoos.
ANGLE ON: KATARA kneels down next to him and begins to try to get him up. SOKKA jumps in next to her. He points bewilderedly at AÁNG.
SOKKA
Who’s he?
KATARA motions him away and returns to lifting up AÁNG.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA turns away, screaming as he sees what lies before him.
ANGLE ON: He walks cautiously towards APPA, who lies motionless on the ground.
SÔKKA
What is that?
ANGLE ON: KATARA props AÁNG against a wall of the sphere, and tries to revive him. First, she tries slapping his cheeks lightly. She looks over to SOKKA.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA stands in front of APPA, whose tail is beginning to swing.
SOKKA
Katara, there’s no way he’s still alive.
He is then nearly pushed over by the force of APPA’s tail hitting him. He turns around to face him.
ANGLE ON: KATARA presses her ear to AÁNG’s chest. Her eyes widen as she detects a heartbeat and faces him.
KATARA
He is alive.
SOKKA (O.S.)
Great. Now let’s get out of here.
KATARA
We’ve got to get him back to the village.
ANGLE ON: SOKKA looks as if it takes all he is to stop from bursting out laughing.
SOKKA
Yeah, I’m sure that’d look great…
KATARA leaps up to face him.
KATARA
We can’t just leave him here.
SOKKA
Yes we can. He’s alive. He can get out of here on his own.
KATARA
We’ve got to take him back.
SOKKA
What would we tell Gran-Gran, exactly? “Hey, check out this kid we found in an iceberg under a Fire Nation shipwreck.” What would we tell her?
KATARA
The truth.
SOKKA
That’s as bad as if we just came back empty handed.
KATARA
Look, we’re taking him back no matter-
AÁNG (O.S.)
Excuse me?
Their eyes both bulge out as they turn to face the before lifeless boy.
ANGLE ON: AÁNG stares at them, a frightened expression on his face.
ANGLE ON: KATARA frantically looks between SOKKA and AÁNG, before breaking an uneasy smile on her face.
KATARA
(perky)
Hi!
ANGLE ON: AÁNG has eased somewhat, but not much.
AÁNG
Would you mind telling me where I am?
ANGLE ON: SOKKA then, without warning, yells and lunges forward with his spear.