What help do they offer?

Stop Azula

"You could help us catch Azula," Aang suggested.

"Didn't you hear us?! We can't go back to her!" Ty Lee said.

"You don't have to go back to her," Aang said. "Once we've got her, she won't hurt anyone else, including you. We can turn her in to the Earth Kingdom, they can keep her prisoner until we're far, far away."

Ty Lee and Mai looked at each other.

"It would work," Mai said.

"If we can find her!" Ty Lee said.

"We might be able to," Mai said contemplatively.

Azula crawled out of the spring, having warmed it several degrees in frustration. Her bending was back at least. She crawled out of the water, expression twisted in fury, and got to her feet. Her perfect skin was scrubbed clean, though she stayed as bare as before. She rung her hair out, then neatened it as best she could with her hands. Enraged, she turned and looked at her reflection in the pool.

She wasn't going to look any more regal than this until she found something to wear. She took a few steps forwards, practising a few particularly ferocious bending stances, willing herself to go through with them.

It was okay to be naked, she reasoned with herself, so long as she killed everyone who saw, and burned out the eyes of everyone who almost saw. No one needed to know.

Except for Mai and Ty Lee. She had something _special _planned for them.

She heard movement. Azula immediately stopped her posing, huryring towards the shelter of a tree. She still didn't want to be seen. Although, she reflected, she needed only to get the jump on those strangers.

And then she heard a voice. That sounded like Ty Lee. Azula smiled, evil glinting in her eyes.

Perfect timing.