The thing you should know is that everyone is in really big trouble. Yeah. Even you.

[cityship]

Ax had escaped the Controllers on board. Brainy had not been so lucky. Neither had Sam and Tim. And who knew how many others on board had Yeerks wrapped around their brains, controlling their every movement, pretending that everything was normal until the time came to strike.

Who do you trust, podlings?

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[anoldtrickster.livejournal.com]

Wednesday is seemingly undisturbed, though that scimitar he persistently carries now flashes out from his belt, and his good eye squints a little. "Sorry, girl, but I've never been much of a man for comfort," he says, quirking his mouth.

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

Shnk! The swords are out.

"What was that?" re: the lights. "What is that?" re: the slug. "What are you?" Re: Leela.

"Whatever you did to him, let him go now."

[ihasvision.livejournal.com]

"Nope, don't think I will, thanks."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Shame. He was more valuable as a psychic. Ah well."

Leela reaches into her bag and tosses Shawn a Dracon beam.

"You take ol' scarface. Watch the flames. I, on the other hand--"

She attacks Wednesday by flinging her chain, trying to tangle up his scimitar.

[ihasvision.livejournal.com]

"I'll tell you one thing kid, he wasn't lying about being able to use a gun. He can use one. Quite well in fact. Seeya." Shawn fired...and the blast missed by millimeters.

"Run...now" Shawn grunted, having retaken control for the briefest of moments.

[anoldtrickster.livejournal.com]

Wednesday lets the sword get tangled—and then yanks, trying to pull Leela off her feet. (He's stronger than he looks!)

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

Run? Zuko? Jeeze, Shawn, who do you think you're talking to? The Earth King?

The swords go away and Zuko lunges at Shawn, fast in the way that only a person who's been training to kill people since they were able to stand are, reaching for the hand with the weapon. Zuko hasn't faced too many of those yet, but he's disarmed enough people with weapons to know how to stay out of their way.

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"You think you can outsmart me, old man?"

She moves as if she's...expecting that, and in fact uses it for momentum to slide into a sweep-kick at his feet.

"I see what she sees."

[anoldtrickster.livejournal.com]

"And what's that?" Wednesday says sharply, smoothly hopping over the incoming kick as he launches a foot towards Leela's gut—

—and stops halfway, using the movement to pivot and pull the chain in the opposite direction.

[ihasvision.livejournal.com]

The Yeerk retakes control, and Shawn's body moves out of the way, and he attempts to pistol whip the back of Zuko's skull.

"You should've listened to him. There's a reason he's been able to fake being psychic for so long in his world. He's observant. So much so in fact he can read every movement you're gonna make before you make it."

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

Before the hand holding the gun connects with teh back of his skull, Zuko slips out of the way. He has the advantage of speed - Shawn may know what he's going to do before he does it, but whether or not the Yeerk can make his body move faster than Zuko's is still up for debate.

It was dishonorable to use firebending against a non-bender. It was an unfair advantage, and one that a true master of firebending should not need to use. The art was martial as well as elemental for many reasons, including the fact that most Fire Nation soldiers were not benders, but still had the right to honorable combat.

But then again, there wasn't a whole lot that was honorable about stealing control of another person's body and using it to attack their shipmates.

While Shawn's arm was still completing the arc that had missed his skull, Zuko clenched his fist and, with a deep exhalation, launched a fireball directly at the false psychic. He had very little time to take advantage of the visual cover that the move offered him, so he swept his leg out to knock Shawn off his feet inches behind the roiling flames.

[ihasvision.livejournal.com]

Well, Zuko wouldn't have any problem with knocking Shawn over. Mostly because Shawn had absolutely no experience with firebenders, and thus, in addition to getting his eyebrows singes, was blinded.