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Guys, I think Zuko's gone crazy.

Or at least had his mind messed up by Stacy or something else. To prevent a fight and anyone getting hurt, I'm going to surrender to him.

I need you guys to get Security and the doctors ready to take him in and find out what's happened to his mind.

I've talked to the Captain about the problems people are having with who's in charge. As it stands, he has someone currently drafting laws that everyone will have a chance to discuss, potentially change, and then vote on, and then afterward, depending on how choosing leaders is decided in those laws, he's going to have everyone decide if they still want him to be leader or if they want someone else.

Deciding these kinds of things is difficult, though, and I know everyone has very legitimate concerns about how this crew is run, and about our future.

For those reasons, in the next week, I'm going to go going around the ship and talking to everyone. I already talked to the Captain and heard his concerns, so I want to hear things from your side, too. I want to get to know everybody and what they're worried about, and then, when I do, I would like to throw a meeting for the entire crew. During it, I want to explain what I know of the Daligig and the Ohm, so everyone understands our situation better. And then I want to help you all get past your differences and get along.

My duty back home as Avatar is to act as a mediator, as the person that helps resolve conflicts between many different peoples across different nations. I want to at least try to do the same here, since I have experience with it, and since I'm pretty impartial. (It's my job to be).

So what I'm asking everyone is for your trust, and to talk to me as I go around the ship meeting everybody, so we get to know each other. The captain understands that I don't take the sides of rulers--or anybody. I help people work out problems and treat each other fairly and to actually solve them. I want you all to have the chance to get to know me, so you know it's true.

What I'm also asking if everyone is comfortable with that. Are you all comfortable with it? If not, do you think you'll be comfortable if we talk first? I want to see how everyone feels about this before I do it. And to ask me questions if you have any! I know people might want to know how I feel about certain things before letting me be a mediator for something that important.

(I told you I'd get back to you, Mr. Sawyer).

I think I got it working now!

My name is Aang. On my world, I'm called the Avatar. You may have met my girlfriend Katara, or Toph, or Zuko. They're all Benders. (Sokka isn't a Bender but he's from the same world and he's smart and really good with his boomerang!) With me, instead of just one element, I can Bend all four elements. It's really strange explaining what I am to people who don't know, because everyone on my world does, but I'm the spirit of my world. A thousand lives ago, I took a human form, and I've been reborn, life after life, into each of the Four Nations of our world each time. My job is to maintain the balance in our world, between the Four Nations, between people and nature, between mankind and the spirit world.

I'm the one that destroyed the city and hurt some of you when I was in the Avatar State (it lets me get in touch with the power and skills of my past lives and sometimes I go into it when I don't want to when I'm really upset or hurt or scared or angry), and for that, I'm really, really sorry. I understand if some of you can't forgive me for it, I know some of you were hurt pretty badly. I'll do anything I can to make amends and I'll help clean up the City. I wasn't myself, because of the Nightmare King, because of holding him back for so long. Because of a lot of things.

But that's over now. And that's what I want to talk to you all about. It's over now. You survived. We survived. The reason we did is because everyone looked out for one another, because everyone fought as hard as they could, even if, from what I'm reading, they didn't prepare as much as they should have.

Preparing, though, would not have saved you in this case. The Nightmare King was a monster, a great and powerful spirit--a thing called a "god." In the end, he overpowered even me with my fears, and I had the will of a thousand lifetimes and a magical coffiney thing holding him back.

And for that, I'm sorry, too. I wanted to give you more time, but I wasn't strong enough, and because of that, you all suffered. If anyone wants to blame anyone for anything, blame me.

Some of you are arguing about preparing, some of you are arguing over who should get the credit for defeating the Nightmare King. And I am going to cut that out right now by saying that we all should. Your fear made him stronger, and if you had each fallen, that would've made him stronger still. But you fought, you helped each other fight, you were brave--and by not giving in, by helping each other instead of giving into the horror, it made him weaker. You saved each other, and some of you even saved me. (Thanks you for that. Thank you.)

Anyway, I want to ask you all to not let him break you even when he's gone. This is his poison, this is the kind of hate he spreads, by playing on our fears and hurting us. He may be gone now, but he isn't gone entirely--he's still in our minds. He wanted to divide you all, and let you each wither away in your bad dreams, alone. We need to be stronger than that.

Normally, I don't ask requests of people, I don't believe in asking for favors when I've done something for someone else, but I'm asking one of you all now. Even if I failed in the end, I suffered to give you all a chance. I saw...things that most people couldn't see and walk away from. For that, I'm asking you to not divide yourselves over this, not to worry about the "should haves" and the "I told you so"s.

And I'm also asking you to let go of your anger at the people saying those things when the reason they're saying them is they're worried about the future and your safety. Sometimes people say the right things in really stupid ways and don't realize it makes people less likely to listen--and that's bad when what they're saying is the truth, and important. Sometimes people say the right things but say it at the worst time possible, when people are still hurt. What matters is their intent.

It's time to let the anger and fear go now, and for what I did for this crew, the one and only thing I'm going to ask of you all is that you please stop fighting. Please stop. We have to work together now. We have to do it for each other, for our worlds, and for life itself. Who's right and who's wrong and who told who what doesn't matter in the face of that.

In a little while when I'm feeling better, I want to have a meeting. I've met the Daligig and I've fought the Ohm. There are things you all need to know.

Hopefully, I'll meet you all in person soon.


--Aang (the guy that was in the coffiney thing in escherville) (and also blew up the City) (Sorry)

P.S. If that guy who shot me with his gun-thing can see this, I want you to know that I forgive you. I know you were trying to protect everyone. I'm sorry I confused you into thinking I was the bad guy and put you in that situation in the first place.