A/N: In response to people trying to pair off the handicapped kids. As usual, I own nothing.

Things were quite literally going rapidly downhill- more specifically, Teo and his chair were rapidly going downhill. Usually, this wouldn't have been too much of a problem, if not for the fact that the brake he held in his hand was in no way connected to the chair. Damn it all. He'd lived through a flood, he'd lived through a war, and now he was going to be killed due to shoddy craftsmanship. He could imagine the eulogy now, he thought he managed to narrowly swerve around an oncoming boulder. "Teo of the Earth Kingdom was a good, smart lad. Not smart enough of course to remember to properly screw his break onto his chair before attempting to go down the side of a mountain, but hey, we can't all be geniuses, now can we?"

Any second now, he was going to run out of mountain, and get some serious air. Which would have been all kinds of awesome, except he and his dad had decided it would be better to go into battle without the bulky glider contraption, meaning it was still on Hakoda's ship, and who knew if the damn thing was even still afloat. Yay, life.

Here it came-the edge of the cliff dropping away into pretty damn certain death, and yup, here he went, launching out into the atmosphere. Goodbye, cold, cruel, overly-ironic world, and WHAM. He completely face planted into a giant slab of rock that definitely had not been there .5 seconds earlier. The front wheel snapped off and rolled away downhill, just like with every good accident. Over the incredibly loud clanging in his head, he heard familiar harsh, barking laughter. He peeled himself away from the boulder and lay flopped on his back, eyes closed, trying not to puke. When he was finally sure that only words, and not vomit were going to come out of his mouth, he finally turned to question the source of the laughter.

"A. Couldn't you have done that sooner? B. Couldn't you have accomplished the same thing without shattering my skull?"

"Yes, and yes, but why should I when I can torture you instead? It's not like I'm the one who couldn't properly attach the brake to the chair. If you don't want to risk placing your life in my hands, you're going to have to start watching out for yourself more. Now come on, let's get your broken ass back to the temple."

As a landslide somehow took off up the side of the mountain, carrying Teo and the shattered remnants of his chair, the last thing he remembered thinking before his concussion fully took hold was something to do with looking to escape into the Fire Nation.