Star Trek: Enterprise – Works | Archive of Our Own

Sequel to Beneath the Raptor’s Wings. With the situation in Ba Sing Se under control, the attentions of two worlds now turn to the events that led up to the events in Ba Sing Se that have thrown two worlds together and changed the course of human history. But questions remain. Who stole weapons from Earth and handed them over to pro-Ozai holdouts in the Fire Nation? Why? What do they get out of deliberately drawing Earth’s attention to a world they probably never would have noticed for another century or two, if ever?

Sokka and Mai are the ones tasked with starting to find the answers to these questions. They have each other and the support of their friends and the crew of the Enterprise, but they still won’t have an easy time of it. And the answers will take them into the most surprising and dark places,and unleash secrets perhaps best left buried.

Aang meanwhile finds himself face to face with the larger mysteries of how humans got to their world in the first place. And why.

But as the Prophets say, “And in Their words, hope and despair walk arm in arm.” And no matter what, another war is inevitable.

Beta’d by PrairieDawn.