Ever wonder what happened to Team Avatar
after Sozin's Comet?
In the official comic book series, The Promise,
Aang and Zuko's newfound friendship
will be tested. Will they be able to prevent
another war, or will history repeat itself?
[screaming]
Yeah!
[screaming]
The war is over, you knew it'd be a happy ending.
Aang saved the world by defeating Ozai,
and Prince Zuko became the new Fire Lord.
Everything was perfect.
[record scratch, shrieking]
Well, almost perfect.
Sokka.
We find our heroes at the Earth King's palace,
where they've begun planning te Harmony Restoration Movement,
an initiative that will remove the Fire Nation colonies
from the Earth Kingdom and thus begins the celebratio.
But the war wasn't over just yet.
Struggling with the pressures of being the new Fire Lord,
Zuko saw how he could easily slip
down the same terrible path as his father.
Zuko asked Aang to make a promise.
Aang must kill Zuko
if he ever saw him turning into his father.
Aang was reluctant... but he promised.
[knocking] Who's there?
[screaming]
[grunting]
Who's this mysterious character?
Why is she trying to assassinate Zuko
and why call him a traitor?
The would be assassin revealed herself as Corey,
a citizen from the Fire Nation colony of Yu Dao,
and daughter of the town's mayor.
To her, the Fire Lord support f the Harmony Restoration Movemet
was a betrayal of Fire Nation families like hers
who had made the Earth Kingdom their home.
As Fire Nation citizens living in the Earth Kingdom
for generations, they weren't okay at all
with this plan to send them back.
Mayor Morishita even called Zuko weak
compared to his father, Ozai and a traitor.
Zuko didn't take that well.
[screaming]
Meanwhile, back in the Earth Kingdom,
Toph had begun training a motley group of students
in her all new metalbending academy.
These lily livers had a lot to learn.
But that had to wait.
Ah.
Sifu Toph left to regroup with Team Avatar.
Word was out, Fire Lord Zuko was backing down
from the Harmony Restoration Movement.
And was holding up in Yu Dao. Aang needed guidance
so a conflicted Avatar connectd with his past life Avatar Roku.
Would the Avatar be forced to fulfill his promise?
How could he go and kill Zuko?
They were friends.
I offer you this wisdom, Aang. You must be decisive.
[Appa grunting]
Flameo Hotman.
When Aang and Katara landed in Yu Dao,
it was obvious that they were not welcome there.
Whoa!
They were met with heavy resistance
from Fire Nation troops.
[groaning]
[groaning, splashing]
[Katara] Sorry!
Stop!
No! Let go of me!
[groaning]
Aang! No!
Aang, please... for me.
Once the commotion settled down,
Zuko explained his change of heart.
Yu Dao had become a place where Fire Nation colonials
and Earth Kingdom people lived in relative harmony.
The city was undergoing an industrial boom
and thriving as the two peoples built it together.
Zuko had come to realize
he must respect his citizens' wishes.
Aang disagreed.
As the Avatar, he couldn't let the Fire Nation
continue to occupy Earth Kingdom territory.
Katara convinced the two to discuss the matter
with the Earth King.
[Appa grunting]
When Zuko came home,
he was greeted by Mai and the Kyoshi Warriors?
Suki, Ty Lee and the others were brought in by Mai.
She hoped the extra security would help ease Zuko's mind.
But his restless nights continued.
I need your advice, father.
[Appa grunting]
[Sokka] Ugh.
Sokka couldn't take this KatAang nonsense anymore.
[Toph] Come on!
[Sokka screaming]
Toph rescued him from the Oogies
by bringing him back to her academy.
But when they arrived, Penga, Ho Tun, and The Dark One
had given up their studies and packed their bags.
But why?
Meet Master Kunyo of the Fire Nation.
Before Toph's academy,
this was Master Kunyo's firebending dojo.
Until the Harmony Restoration Act forced them to leave.
With Zuko backing down,
Kunyo returned to reclaim his school.
Toph was ready to settle this right here and now.
But Sokka, being the smooth talker that he is,
convinced Kunyo to agree to a one of a kind battle,
Toph's metalbenders versus Kunyo's firebenders
for control of the school.
Oh, did we mention her students couldn't metalbend at all yet?
Back in the Fire Nation, the new Fire Lord
was second guessing himself at every turn.
Ozai's advice to Zuko:
as Fire Lord, whatever Zuko chose was right.
Regardless of what everyone else said.
He warned Zuko, he must do whatever was necessary
in the name of the Fire Nation.
Tensions were rising.
Back at Ba Sing Se, Aang and Katara broke the news
to the Earth King about Zuko's intentions.
The Fire Nation citizens of Yu Dao
weren't going to leave the Earth Kingdom
and Zuko had their support.
The Earth King was furious.
He ordered his army to invade Yu Dao,
forcing the colonists to leave the Earth Kingdom
or suffer the consequences.
Meanwhile, Master Kunyo returned,
certain his students would win the duel to reclaim the dojo.
[fighting]
[Toph] Ow!
[clinking]
[fighting]
[screaming]
Team Beifong won back their academy and Sifu Toph
officially had her first class of metalbenders.
[sighing]
Zuko was confronted by Mai and Suki.
They knew he'd been secretly meeting
with Ozai and were worried about him.
Before Zuko even had a chance to explain,
he received a message from his spies.
The Earth King was marching towards Yu Dao.
Another war was on the brink of starting.
[marching]
Go on! Strike me!
I'm sorry, Zuko.
[Zuko screaming]
[both screaming]
[Aang gasping]
Time was running out.
Back in Yu Dao, a resistance was building
to defend their colony,
led by none other than Corey Morishita.
Katara and Aang tried to evacuate the city
before the fighting started.
But they were too late.
[rumbling]
No!
Aang wanted to stop this conflict
right here and now.
He found a quiet place and sat with Roku once again.
Roku said the Avatar must put the world before himself,
his nation, even his own famil.
He clearly felt that Aang should fulfill
his promise and end Zuko.
[screaming]
[fighting, rumbling]
[Aang grunting]
[rumbling]
Let's go!
[Katara] Aang!
Speaking directly to the Earth King
Aang told him that the nations
could no longer be entirely separated.
The colony represented a whole new kind of world.
And Zuko had been right all along.
Zuko!
That night, Aang contacted his past life
one final time. In the past,
Roku's guidance helped Aang become a full fledged Avatar,
but the world was different now compared to Roku's time.
[Roku] Aang.
Aang needed to start figuring things out on his own.
In the wake of the Yu Dao incident,
Zuko realized it was wrong to ask that promise of Aang.
He was ready to face his duties of being Fire Lord.
And now, it was time
to take a different leap of faith.
He decided to search for his long lost mother,
and he was done asking Ozai.
Hello, brother.
That wraps up The Promise.
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