A/N I am writing this story entirely out of disgust of Mary Sues, Gary Stus, excreta. Any resemblance to your story is purely coincidental, on the grounds that I have probably never read it. Also, if your name is Belle, no offense is meant, I am sure that you are not a Mary Sue. Unless your name is Mary Sue, in which case I pity you, but that doesn't mean you are one. I know some very nice people named Mary Sue. Like my history teacher! And if your name is Gary Stu, well, I'm sure Stu is short for Stuart or something of the like.

P.S Sorry about Belle's spelling, she can't help it. Also, the translation of SueBasher2000's comment is 'you are a sht head and I can do nothing for your writing'. It's French.

Disclaimer: Oh, sure, I own this. Rolls eyes. Seriously, I don't own Avatar or anything related to it. What I do own is myself, my glasses (yay, I'm wearing my own this time!) an air plant named Gawain, and the Mary Sue. Anyone want a Mary Sue? She's starting to bug me. One dollar, going once, going twice, sold to the bald kid with the tattoos. What? You didn't bid? Drat, I was hoping you wouldn't notice.

"Not again, Aang!"

"C'mon, Aang, remember what Haru said?"

"Mom, they're crazy, just look at how they're dressed!"

Aang frowned stubbornly. "That doesn't really matter, Katara. Haru's off throwing rocks at Fire Benders and stuff. We're here, and I like this hat!"

Sokka sighed. It really was a strange hat, even for Aang. It was roundish, purple and white, with a tiny button-like thing at the top, and some sort of bill sticking out front. But, if it would keep the kid from riding anything else strongly opposed to him and lethal…

"Plus, it's a good disguise!" added Aang happily to Katara. "Can I borrow your gloves?" he asked. Looking confused, Katara pulled a pair of gloves out of her pocket and handed them to him.

Aang jammed the gloves on, explaining as he went. "See, when people can't see the tattoos, they won't know I'm the Avatar," he elucidated. "Put on the hat…" he did so, "Wooo, you don't recognize me, Katara! You can't tell that I'm the Avatar!"

"Stop that," Katara said sternly, but she giggled. "If you want a disguise, you'll have to stop screaming your identity to the world." She paused, and sighed. "Alright, buy the hat. Do what…."

Before she could even finish her sentence, much less change her mind, Aang had paid for the hat and was jumping happily into the air.

"Woo-hoo! Ouch!" He landed on the ground, taking the hat off his head. "There's something in here…" Reaching inside, he pulled something out.

"It's just a book," he said, disappointed. "No rabbits to pull out of my hat."

"I swear, Aang, you're getting more like Bumi every day," Sokka muttered.

"Right, well, for now, let's just return the book and go back to camp," Katara said. "I'm tired."

She took the book from Aang and held it out to the shopkeeper. "Sir? We found this book inside your hat…"

The man glanced once at the book and screamed as if a thousand Fire Benders were on his trail.

Across the market, the two Fire Benders who were on Aang's trail looked up and spotted the trio.

"What's wrong?" asked Aang, stepping forwards.

The man was shaking, terrified. He said in a whisper so quiet that the three had to lean forward to hear him, "M-m-Mary-Sue!"

Suddenly, a plot hole the size of Zuko's ship opened up, and everyone in the market heard him!

Everyone in the Market: Gasp!

Fanfiction Site: No script format. Bad writer! Bad!

Me: Aww, man!

And, after the dramatic gasp, the plot hole closed and the script format disappeared, making everyone go about their business. Except for Zuko and Iroh.

"Uncle," asked Zuko "What's a Mary Sue?"

Iroh shrugged. "Well, Prince Zuko, that's the sort of question you'd better ask your father."

Zuko sighed. "Uncle, my father banished me. It's not like I asked where babies come from or something, sheesh!"

"Well, you see, Prince Zuko, when a man and a woman…"

"No! That's not what I was asking about!"

"Oh, right. The Mary-Sues." Iroh considered that for a moment. "I honestly don't know. I heard something somewhere about 'fanfiction' and an 'invasion', but it really wasn't in my area of expertise."

Zuko took that to mean that it had nothing to do with tea, therefore his uncle was bored with the subject.

"I think the Avatar is preparing to do battle with one of them," he commented, watching Aang accept the book from the shopkeeper and walk away with his friends.

"Perhaps we should watch them, Prince Zuko," suggested Iroh. "I'm sure it would be educational."

"And when he's finished, I could capture him!" the prince added excitedly.

The trio walked to Appa and their camp, with Zuko and Iroh close behind them.

"Okay," said Aang. "Let's see what scared him so much. I'll read first…"

"I'll go second," suggested Sokka. "And Katara can be last."

A short argument that has nothing to do with the plot followed, before things were finally sorted out with Aang first, followed by Katara, and Sokka last.

Aang opened the book. "Hmm… Alright. Here goes…"

"Heart Bender

By beutyinthemonlite19

Summary: A beautiful, tragic girl with no memory of her past life appears in the Avatar world, only to discover that she alone can save them. But will her heart let her? ZOC, nonslash."

"Now what could that mean?" Katara asked. Everyone shrugged, and Aang began reading the story.

A/N Like, hi! Okay, so I'd like reveiws but if you have someting meen to say dont say anyting at all so I don't acept flames Anywy, this storry is so nott a Mary Sue! My sissters also on fannfition, and she says it is but seriously its not Uknow Y? Mary Sues are self-inserts but my character has blonde hair (I so wish I did sigh) while Ive got this ugly red stuff Gross! Anywa this story is about Belle a beutiful, trajic gurl who has no memmorry exceppt about someting terible but with her per… LOL cant spel it! her amaazing sprit she survivs and wins the hart of everon. When she has to chose her luv her choce is so unexpcted. It's like a total plot twist, becase I always right plot twists. OMG! This note is geting relly long! I'd beter get in2 the sttory now!

Oh, BTW, my sister, SueBasher2000, has done this thingy on my story called 'proofreading'. It means that she checked my story for spelling things and stuff. I don't really get what's the big deal, I mean, spelling and grammer are school stuff, right? But she said that if she didn't, nobody would like to read it. Then she asked me to tell all my lovely readers something, and ask if you understand. She said 'tu est un tete de merde et je ne peut pas faire quelque chose por ton ecriture.'

"I wonder what that means?" commented Aang.

"Uncle?" whispered Zuko. "What does it mean?"

"It's in an ancient language," explained Iroh. "I believe it is an insult, coupled with a swear word."

Zuko grinned. "Normally, I'd just shrug, but this 'beutyinthemonlite19' is getting on my nerves, so I'm definitely starting to like 'SueBasher2000'.

Aang and Katara finished their discussion none the wise, and went back to reading.

Belle sat up and blinked her beautiful blue eyes. "Huh?" she said.

Standing over her were two boys and a girl. Belle could tell that one of the boys, the one with hair, was the girl's older brother, and the other was her friend.

"Hello," Aang said. Belle smiled.

"Hello, Aang," she said.

"Kinda makes you wonder how she knows our names," Sokka muttered. Katara shushed him.

"I'm Aang," the boy said.

"Introductions came a little late," grumbled Sokka. Again, he was shushed.

"This is my friend Sokka," he said, pointing at Sokka. "And this is my other friend, Katara," he said, pointing at Katara.

"Now there's something about that phrase that just doesn't sound like Aang," Sokka mused. He was shushed for the third time that day.

"I don't know my name," the girl said.

"But I thought her name was Belle! That's what she said earlier," pointed out Sokka. Guess what happened? He got shushed!

"We'll call you Belle," Sokka said. "Because you are so beautiful."

"Excuse me? Excuse me! I've just met this girl, what's wrong with me?" demanded (you guessed it) Sokka. The shushing that ensued was very much like the other four times.

Belle laughed, and her laugh sounded like her name.

"Her… oh, a bell. Sheesh, that's a little clichéd, isn't it?" I'm not even going to bother telling you who said that or what happened to him.

"Why don't you know your name, Belle?" Katara said. "You seem like a lovely, intelligent girl."

"Erm, what does being lovely have to do with knowing her name?"

"I have no memory of my past. It was very tragic, but my love for all living things has survived my mysterious tragedy," Belle said.

"Now, if she doesn't remember anything, how does she know it was tragic?"

This time, Katara didn't shush him. Instead, she told him. "I'm sure that's just part of the power of the Mary-Sue. Whatever a Mary-Sue might be."

"That's so tragic!" Aang said. "We'll take you with us," he said.

"Would you?" Belle said.

"Of course," Katara said.

"You can finally have a home," Sokka said.

"How do we know she doesn't have a home? And why are we so eager to have her along?" asked Sokka.

"She's a Sue," explained Katara.

Aang momentarily put his book down, holding the place with one finger. "Katara," he asked "Do you know something we don't about Mary-Sues?"

Katara sighed. "Sort of. Gran-Gran told me. It's a family tradition for the women of our family to battle Mary-Sues wherever we shall meet them."

"I didn't know that," Sokka commented.

"You also aren't a woman in our family," retorted his sister.

"So what are Mary-Sues?" Aang interrupted, both out of curiosity and a need to stop the impending argument.

"In a world far away, we are just a story," Katara began. "People who like that story write other stories about it, called 'Fanfiction'."

"I knew it!" exclaimed Zuko. Everyone turned to look at him. "Erm… chirp chirp," he improvised.

Katara sighed, opening a plot hole that wasn't quite as big as the last. "Zuko," she said, "If you're not going to hurl fireballs at us, come out. We could use the help."

The two Fire Benders came out, and sat down.

"How do we fight the Sues?" asked Iroh.

"First, let me finish explaining them," Katara told him.

"There is good fanfiction. Fanfiction with original plot lines, witty authors, in character… characters. And then there is bad fanfiction. Self-inserts, where the author drags themselves into the story. But that is only a minor problem compared to… the Mary-Sues!

"Mary-Sues are always original characters, but not all original characters are Mary-Sues. These terrible vermin infest good fanfiction with their phony perfection. They come up where they are least expected, disguising their stories as creativity, and frightening and disturbing innocent readers.

"They are always perfect. Beautiful, strong, intelligent, they can figure things out that no human should ever recognize. They always charm the character that the author likes best, and nothing they ever do is wrong. They have no faults. They are the Sues, the plague of the universe."

"Slightly overdramatic, but whatever," Sokka said.

"Shut up. Anyway, we fight them in a very simple way. First, we have to read the entire story, all the way through. I assume you two heard the whole thing?" she asked the Fire Benders.

Zuko nodded, while Iroh pulled a tea bag out of a plot hole and began making tea.

"Good. We have to point out all or most of the stupid things that happens. Plot holes, they're called. Sokka's already finding that, noticing out of characterness, filling the plot holes. We'll all need to help him with that.

"Then, armed with constructive criticism, we hunt down the author, erm…" she paused and looked at the book. "beutyinthemonlite19, and concrit her. Either she accepts our suggestions, which isn't likely, or her Sueness is melted by common sense.

"We have to be careful, though. Beutyinthemonlite19 seems to be a full-grown Sue, with all the perfection, terrible writing style, stupid jokes, out of character canons, and no grasp of the plot.

"But we may have help. This sister, this… SueBasher2000. If she lives up to her name, then perhaps she may be someone who will help us. Someone from a race known as 'The Concrit Reviewers'. These are heroes who fight the Sues.

"And if SueBasher2000 helps us, then our task will be considerably easier."

As Katara finished, Iroh handed out the plot-hole tea.

"Alright," Sokka said. "Let's concrit this Sue!"

Aang opened the book and began to read.

"Alright, so, we've just invited Belle to live with us."

"That would be wonderful," Belle said. "For I have never had a home that I can remember because I have no memory," she said.

"Very redundant," muttered Sokka.

"And does she know that there are words used to describe conversation besides 'said'?" put in Aang, before continuing.

"That is so tragic," Aang said.

"He's sounding a little repetitive," commented Iroh.

"But I'm sure that I will love living with you," Belle said. "Because my ever-cheerful spirit will prevail, and I will love everything, as I always do," she said.

"That is stupid beyond comment," grumbled Zuko.

"You have to find something specifically wrong with it, and tell how to fix it," admonished Katara. "Otherwise, it's a flame. And that's no help whatsoever!"

beutyinthemonlite19's author's note: Like, wasn't that cool! Review, please. I would be so totally happy if you did. I'd, like, love you forever. And everybody thank my sister for proofreading! This is so sweet. More romance with Belle later on.

My author's note: What she said. Except without the blatant begging for reviews and self-praise. And without the thing with the sister. I don't have a sister, I proofread this all by myself! So, with that lapse into toddlerdom, hope you liked it!