Forward In Time

Aang watched as Korra sparred with Wing. He fires two meteorites at her, but she dodges them and sends her metal cable at him. He dodges it twice, traps it on the ground, and bends it back at her. The impact of the cable knocks Korra to the ground.

Meanwhile, Bolin sparred with Wei, having difficulties with metalbending. Toph walks up next to Aang.

"How's he doing?" Toph asked.

"Still having difficulties." Aang replied, "I thought you were supposed to be teaching him metalbending."

"I am, he's training right now." Toph nudged Aang, "Remember our training?"

"Yeah, that was almost as terrifying as fighting Ozai."

"Hang on, I think I got it." Bolin said to Wei, "Let me just try this." He attempts and fails to bend a meteorite, "Nope, okay maybe-"

He is cut off as he gets nailed with a slab of metal by Wei.

"Trial by fire. It's the best way to learn metalbending." Wei said.

"He's definitely your grandson." Aang told Toph with a smirk.

Bolin ducks as a meteorite is sent toward him. He quickly bends a pebble at his attacker, directly hitting his forehead.

Mako approaches the scene with Asami, "Whoa. Nice shot, Bolin!" Wei grabs his forehead with both hands and makes little moans of pain, "But I thought you were supposed to be practicing metalbending, not earthbending."

Wei rubs his red forehead, "Yeah, cheater." He crosses his arms.

"Mako, metalbending is extremely difficult." Bolin argued, "No one gets it right away, if they can get it at all! It's not normal!"

"Don't stress about, Bolin. Twinkletoes took forever to learn earthbending. If he can learn it, then you can learn metalbending." Toph reassured.

"Did you just... encourage him?" Aang asked with a tone of surprise.

"Yeah..." Toph paused, "OH MY SPIRITS I'M TURNING INTO YOU!" Aang started laughing as she continued, "We can't hang out anymore. You're too good of an influence."

"Guys, it's time to get cleaned up." Asami said, "Tonight is Opal's farewell dinner."

Everyone started walking to their rooms to prepare for the dinner.

"So, how come you never let me teach you metalbending?" Toph asked Aang as they walked back into the palace together.

"What?" Aang aasked with confusion.

"Everytime I mention it, you change the subject. And don't use the same 'I had a hard time at learning earthbending so I don't think I can learn metalbending' excuse. I know that's not the case."

Aang sighed, "For a blind girl you can see right through me sometimes."

"Answer the question Twinkletoes."

"I don't know. Maybe I don't want to be too powerful."

"What's wrong with being powerful?"

"Well, right now it's putting everyone I care about in danger. Considering I'm the only Avatar who can give and take away bending. Besides, I probably wouldn't be able to learn it. I barely learned earthbending."

Toph stopped walking, which also made Aang stop,  "Listen Twinkletoes, there's nothing wrong with having power. As long as it doesn't go to your head, which would never happen to you, you can bend any element you want. You're the Avatar. And you were twelve when you learned earthbending, but now you're a great earthbender. Not as great as me of course... but you shouldn't be afraid to learn new bending styles just because you don't want to be 'too powerful' or you're scared of failing."