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Weeks of searching, more weeks of life on Stacy, and Zuko still hadn't found who he was looking for.

He was getting plenty sick of tunnel-crawling, too, and closer to a Punishment than was probably smart. And he hated to think of how much time "missions" were going to take away from his search . . . but whether he lacked time or not, he still needed to train.

The scarred prince ran through his katas in the Sensoriums, a breeze cooling the sweat on his back and blowing away the heat from his flames as he practiced in an open-air dojo. They were basic katas. His uncle would have been proud -

Except, no. He really wouldn't. Zuko faltered in his stance, remembering the last time he'd seen his uncle - the dim prison, the quiet disapproval in his voice, and Zuko's fireblast went wide as he stumbled.

Shit. At least nobody was there to see, right . . .?

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"Yeah. We do."

He hates to admit that his bending has been worse as of late, but truth be told . . . Zuko is feeling the lack of a sun.

"This was my uncle's estate. The outdoor dojo."

He has much better memories of here than of the dojo in the palace.

"The only beach nearby is the one on the royal harbor. It's not much of a vacation beach." Zuko pauses, considering how much of his country he wants to share with this guy, and whether or not he actually wants to go to -

"There's always Ember Island."

"Beach! C'mon, don't hold out on me now--imagine that sucker up," Kon says enthusiastically.

Apparently, he loves the beach. (He really does, though).

Zuko just gives him a look. Really, Kon?

"I was in the middle of something. I don't feel like going to the beach."

"You're less fun than previously advertised," Kon says, going back to feeding the ducks.

"Considering that you weren't advertised as fun, that's not much fun at all."

Zuko rolls his eyes. "Well congratulations, you're a quick learner."

No one has ever, in Zuko's life, described him as 'fun.'

Kon just snorts at that.

"I bet you could be fun. You'd just have to to unlock your inner fun person. Embrace the good times, my friend. Engage in some activities that could possibly be called 'shenanigans.' That's all you'd have to do."

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"I don't have time for shenanigans! The Av - Aang is in prison somewhere on this ship, and even after I find him, I need to find some way back to the Fire Natiion -"

"Yeah, but while you're cooling on your heels, you can chill just a little bit. Pun possibly intended, what with the fire thing," Kon says with a grin. "Nothin' wrong with a well-timed shenanigan or two to cut the tension. Leaves you all spry and well-balanced for the hero parts."

"No."

Kon scratches his chin.

"I can see you're going to be a very difficult case for my fun facilitation engineering skills," Kon says, mock seriously.

"I don't do fun."

It might be the wrong thing to say to someone like Kon - who already reminds Zuko WAY too much of an even MORE annoying Aang - but dammit, he DOESN'T do fun! There's too much stuff to do.

Here's the question of the hour.

"Why not?"

"I can't have fun when things need to be fixed. It would be a waste of time."

"You can't do everything all the time, 24 hours a day. I mean, until the tech heads bust open the ship--and they are close, at least--we're kinda sitting on our heels."

He pauses.

"Besides, since when has fun been a waste of time? That's the great thing about it--you can squeeze it in anywhere."

"I don't enjoy sitting around doing nothing when peoples' lives are at stake. My father is going to take over the world if I don't get the Avatar back in time, and he's going to start by burning down an entire kingdom. I can't sit around and enjoy myself knowing that."

"I gotta go back home and save the world, too--but people are pulled from different times. People are from my future. So if, to them, I won, and the world was still standing, obviously it means we all get put back at the times we left."

"There's no one from my future here."

Apart from Mai, who's not from far enough in the future to know that they win.

"That's not the point. The point is that if the future didn't get wrecked for those people, it must mean at the end of all this, I'm gonna get back to where and when I was. And if I can get back to there, probably everyone will get put back right where and when they were."

Duh, Zuko. Don't you know anything about time travel?

No.

". . . I'm going to go back to training now."

"That's how time travel always works," Kon explains. "S'why I'm trying to have a good time here when I can."

Clearly, this means he's an idiot with no sense of when's a good time.

Zuko is too busy to hear you, Kon. Yeah, busy, taking his stance, doing his breathing, gathering his chi -

He speaks up at the worst possible moment. He maybe did that on purpose.

"So is the fire powered by the kung fu?"

"If kung fu is your word for chi, then yes. If not, no."

"It looked kung fu powered."

"As opposed to being powered by what?"