The Promise: The Omnibus (Parts 1-3)

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of racism, graphic violence, and death. In particular, this section deals with issues of colonialism, cultural appropriation, and genocide.

Outside Yu Dao, Team Avatar finds a crowd of Earth Kingdom citizens, including some old friends, the Freedom Fighters, protesting the Fire Nation’s refusal to comply with the Harmony Restoration Movement. One of the Freedom Fighters, Smellerbee, asks Aang how he plans to attack Zuko and the Fire Nation Army. Aang tells her that he is only interested in talking to Zuko and uses his air glider to fly with Katara inside the city walls, leaving Sokka and Toph outside with the protesters.

Inside, Fire Nation soldiers attack them, and a fight ensues. Zuko discovers them fighting, puts a stop to it, and expresses anger at Aang and Katara for harming his citizens. This makes Aang angry, and he attacks Zuko. He is so angry that he threatens to fulfill his promise to kill Zuko. He enters the Avatar State, a defense mechanism in which his powers become supercharged. Knowing that violence will not solve anything, Katara manages to calm Aang down before he does anything to harm Zuko.