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17th Transmission - Audio - 4TH WALL DAY

So. It is time for the tournament?

[Ironhide chuckles.]

You may as well all retire now. I will be winning this one, I think.

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[And just like that, he closes the distance, crouching down to his level. The bad hip lets out an audible crack -- but there's no pain.]

Too long, boy.

[He holds out a hand.]

Too long.

[Zuko comes to a stop next to Ironhide's hand and rests an arm there.]

...Yeah. It really has.

[Way too long. So he gives in and wraps both arms around the autobot's hand. What, it's totally manly. And he needs this.]

It's good to see you again.

[There aren't many who can boast being able to do this to Ironhide. Or boast being on the receiving end of such a gesture.]

[But it's been way too long since he last saw his charge. And he doesn't care.]

[He curls his fingers around him, carefully.]

Yeah. You too. [He rolls a shoulder -- a shrug.] Wondered what happened to you. Went looking...

[It's a reassuring gesture, and it's enough to get him over the fact that he's here--again. He wishes he could just stay put in one place for once.]

...They sent me back. Home. I actually...I got to finish the war. Finish what I needed to. Well--mostly, at least.

Home...?

[He looks at him, sharply, at that -- like Zuko just said he turned into Redd or something.]

Your world?

[He blinks--it hadn't really occurred to him that this was strange until now. But a lot had happened since he was last here.]

Yeah, home. I...don't know how, exactly. But it was still there. I just couldn't remember any of this--any of it--when I got there.

[And he can only stare in response. For several long seconds, as he struggles with that.]

[After everything that had happened. Everything in the end. It was still there.]

[He simply curls his hand around Zuko enough to lift the boy onto one massive shoulder with a shout.]

Still there! Hah!

[He can't help a grin--even being stuck here now, there was promise of return. There homes were still there. This wasn't the end. The End wasn't even the end.

And that alone can give them strength and hope. Zuko's willing to bet on that.]

Yeah. So don't give up trying to find a way home yet. Because there definitely is one out there.

[The feeling of elation lasts about until Zuko speaks. Then he falls silent, going still.]

I cannot go home yet, boy.

[He glances over at him.] Too many left back on the Shore. Too... many who need to go home.

[He nods, slowly at first, and then more eager. Right. He couldn't forget that, either. There were others that needed help. Others that weren't here yet. Sokka, Katara...he needed to help them and everyone else, too.]

You're right. I don't even know where to start, but...we'll figure something out.

First we get back to the shore...

[He looks over at Zuko -- his charge, his friend -- and nods. It's good to know there's hope. It took seeing old, familiar faces again to remind him. But, now... they just have to act on it.]

... Then home again. All of us.

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17th Transmission - Audio - 4TH WALL DAY

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action; baaaaaaaaaaw ;A;

action; well now i'm officially cryin'

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action; /sobs all over

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