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2nd Transmission

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Rodents are supposed to die when you step on them. What is the matter with these creatures!

[There are a series of loud stomps, followed by cursing. In many languages.]

Get away! Disgusting little beasts!

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Obviously.

[How Ironhide can manage a dry tone through all this is a mystery.]

Need some napalm. Hmnf. Where can I find fire?

[When you're a robot, you don't really ever have to think about these things.]

You're in forest. Full of wood. Surrounded by torches.

[Fire on a stick, Ironhide. It's not that difficult.]

[He snorts.]

There is some satisfaction in... removing weapons from our captors.

[Meaning, he's going to just waltz up to the nearest villager and swipe a torch.]

[That's the spirit, Ironhide!

Or not.]

Or you could just get your own. You don't have to make them defenseless.

They dragged us here against our wills. Let them find their own torches.

I hate being here just as much as you. But that doesn't mean we need to make victims out of other people.

But I guess you wouldn't understand, not being a human.

I am not talking about the people. I am talking of the ones who dragged us here. Their torches are forfeit.

I guess you would not understand, being young and irrational.

[Zuko huffs.]

Look, hurting them obviously isn't working. They don't respond to threats. So how is victimizing them rational?

It is not.

I am angry... Anger is frequently irrational.

Guess that doesn't make you any better than me, then, does it.

Did I ever claim to be?

You refused to even tell me your name. Sure seems like you think you're above everyone else here.

You want my name? Show some common respect, first, boy.

Give me a reason to respect you first.

Then it will be a long time before you learn my name, boy.

[Have a snort.]

So you're admitting you're dishonorable? That's pathetic.

[Maybe it's going a little too far. Zuko is by all means hesitant to call into question anyone's honor, but...he's exceedingly frustrated. With everything. And this isn't helping in the least bit.]

Because my interests lie in spending time and energy working to return home, not in earning the respect of a strange human child?

[Ironhide just snorts.]

Yeah. Real dishonorable.

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I am not a child.

[Strange? Well...he'll just ignore that one.]

And I have better things to be doing than arguing with some heartless metal thing. I'm going to get my ability back. And then I'm going home.

Then perhaps you should cease acting like one, hmn?

'Course I have no heart. I lack all human organs.

[There's a hint of wry amusement in his voice. Yes, he knows exactly what Zuko means. He just chooses to misunderstand.]