Line #11 FanFic/TheDragonKingsTemple


1	-->''The spite of the spirits opened a door better left untouched. On the other hand, with Fire and Earth as one's allies, sometimes escaping is the easy part.''
2	--> The story summary
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4	A ''Series/StargateSG1''/''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' crossover in which Sam and Janet find themselves in an unexpected encounter with a group of Jaffa and make their escape with the help of two misplaced kids, one which has some literal [[PlayingWithFire firepower]] and one which can [[DishingOutDirt manipulate the ground itself]].
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6	Needless to say, Toph and Zuko make things easier, although more confusing. How ''are'' they doing that?
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8	Read it at [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7679074/1/The-Dragon-King-s-Temple Fanfiction.net]] or [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6211903/chapters/14231311 AO3]].
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11	!!Examples of Tropes:
12	* TheAce: Zuko was a somewhat subtle version in the show, generally being competent-to-highly-skilled in everything [[NoSocialSkills not involving interacting with other people.]] It's just downplayed in the original show, because he tends to take on threats on their own terms, like facing more powerful benders in open combat rather than utilizing his stealth and weapon skills to take them out. Here, when put beside trained soldiers and special forces, Zuko's vast array of skills gets much more spotlight, to the point that he is considered a bigger threat than Toph, because he can do a lot more than simply break stuff. Also, the nature of the main threat within the storyline makes fire its natural enemy, meaning Zuko's the most effective fighter against it [[spoiler:until the Avatar shows up for a direct confrontation.]]
13	* AgonyOfTheFeet: The group escapes the ship in the beginning to discover they are on an ice planet. Toph hurts her bare feet on the ice and Zuko is forced to carry her.
14	* [[NoBiochemicalBarriers/AlienFoodIsEdible Alien Food Is Edible]]: {{Downplayed}}. Asyuntians and humans can eat each other's foods, but Asyuntians start suffering mineral deprivation if fed exclusively on naquadah-less human foodstuffs, while humans have to be very careful to avoid getting heavy metal poisoning from the naquadah-laced Asyuntian food web.
15	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified by the Stargate having a built-in translation function. Lampshaded by Daniel:
16	--->"Did you think that every long-lost splinter of humanity somehow magically spoke English, then?"
17	** And actually {{Inverted}} in sections from Zuko and Toph's point of view, where English is phonetically transliterated according to Asyuntian pronunciation rules to reflect the fact that Zuko and Toph ''don't'' speak it.
18	* {{Anadiplosis}}: Chapter 5: "You healed her" repetition cut off by a phrase change, to emphasis it:
19	--> Speaking of skepticism – Toph threw her hands in the air, nearly clipping his nose in passing and forcing his attention back from its wandering path. “Sparky, you ''healed'' her! You healed her using ''firebending''! Why didn’t anyone ''say'' anything? Uncle didn’t tell you, the Sages didn’t tell you, even your stupid ''dragons'' didn’t tell you!”''''
20	* AndIMustScream: Implied to be the fate of the yukiuso's victims. Frozen to death and trapped in the Spirit World/ascended plane for the rest of eternity while the yukiuso plays with them.
21	* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The Ancients. Some of them. [[spoiler:Agni, Tui, La, Oma and Shu are all ascended Ancients. The Avatar Spirit is implied to be one as well.]]
22	* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:Khenut, Sanura's predessor as First Prime, appears to Zuko, Toph and Sam after they accidentally free her spirit from the yukiuso and are trapped in the Spirit World. She returns the favour by helping them return to the physical world.]]
23	* BadassAdorable: Toph, naturally. Lampshaded by Sanura.
24	* BadassAndChildDuo: Does it count if the child (Toph) is also a [[LittleMissBadass badass]]?
25	* BatmanGambit: Toph and Zuko figure that when Iroh used firebending to heat up his tea back when they were acting like refugees, it was either a) a brilliant move to get Zuko away from Jet, who Iroh saw as a bad influence who would lead Zuko down a darker path, or b) he honestly loves tea so much that he didn't think about it. Toph and Zuko, rather tellingly, give ''both'' theories equal weight.
26	* BlowYouAway: Aang, of course.
27	* BrickJoke: Janet's first thoughts in chapter one is a desire to find whoever invented zats and murder them in the name of the Hippocratic Oath. At the beginning of chapter twelve... [[spoiler:she finds him.]]
28	-->''...he raised [his] hands, palms forward in the universal I am unarmed, please don't hurt me gesture...''
29	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Sergeant [[{{Expy}} Heather]] [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Dyne]]. Completely obsessed with science and her thoughts are all over the place in the middle of a fight. However she carries flash powder around with her at work, stores ''fireworks'' in her lab at the SGC and is the first member of the SGC to injure the yukiuso by observing Toph throwing salt at it.
30	* CallBack: "Isn't it obvious? Zuko finally coughed up my life-changing field trip!"
31	* CastFromHitPoints: Without access to the sun, Zuko's firebending rapidly becomes this [[spoiler:to the point where at the end of Chapter 8 he collapses into convulsions.]]
32	** Enforcing a threshold against spirits or banishing them seems to be this [[spoiler:as Janet felt incredibly tired after ejecting the yukiuso from the Infirmary]]
33	* CataclysmBackstory: [[spoiler: The Avatar world. Maybe.]]
34	* ChekhovsGun: Several.
35	** The naquadah battery that Toph crystallises in Chapter 8 makes a reappearance in Chapter 11 as a makeshift grenade.
36	** Averted with Toph's ability to [[spoiler:utilise earth-healing to 'bone-bend' offensively]]. As the author specifically notes:
37	-->"...the Blind Bandit plain doesn't roll that way. She wants to deal with someone, she chucks rocks at 'em. So Chekhov can take that gun off the mantelpiece and fire it ''somewhere else''."
38	* ChildSoldiers: Sam realized Zuko is one when she thinks about his actions while escaping and when he confirms that he has killed before.
39	---> ''Sam: Note to self, walk him home through the Gate. I have some parents to pound.''
40	* CliffHanger: The end of Chapter 4 certainly counts, but Chapter 5 blows it out of the water. See WhamLine below. Chapter 8, too.
41	** In Chapter 10 [[spoiler: Toph, Zuko and Sam have been taken into the spirit world with Toph and Zuko trying to prevent Sam from being killed in the crossing; the rest of SG-1 and their allies are in the midst of the yukiuso's storm; and on Asunyti the Avatar Spirit starts to dial the Stargate.]]
42	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Jack [[{{InvokedTrope}} invokes]] this with the bender's eye colours reflecting their abilities.
43	* CollateralDamage: Firing guns in an enclosed space from multiple directions in a crowded room never ends well. Trying to shoot [[spoiler: the yukiuso when it attacks the SGC canteen]] leaves multiple bystanders injured.
44	* ComicallyIneptHealing: The Stargate command refuses to let Zuko outside, despite Toph's repeated pleas to "let them see sunlight", because they think she's just using a metaphor for wanting fresh air and they are afraid of exposing Zuko to Terran diseases with his immune system weakened by naquadah depletion, not to mention rogue groups attempting to kidnap these children to use as living weapons, or dissect them. What they don't realize is that Toph isn't being metaphorical-- Zuko ''literally'' needs to be exposed to sunlight in order to biosynthesize naquadah.
45	* CompositeCharacter: While the text does say that it's General Hammond in charge, his mannerisms (and the fact that he apparently has hair) seem more in line with General Landry, his successor.
46	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sanura.
47	** Toph and Zuko for the SG-1. Being a ChildSoldier is not a Terran-approved choice of occupation.
48	* {{Deconstruction}}: Turns out that not everyone was happy with the ATLA series finale. Multiple Earth Kingdom units and Southern Water Tribe fleets went rogue to continue their ''own'' actions against the Fire Nation.
49	** It turns out that Aang really is just a kid, and doesn't think about the consequences of his actions too much. For example, Zuko points out that his habit of trying to ride every animal he sees could technically be counted as animal abuse, and Toph is ''furious'' at how Aang raised the sea level to stop the fires caused by Ozai's attack on the Earth Kingdom during the Comet. Not because of some bender pride thing... but because he just swamped vast amounts of land with ''salt'' water, making the land unusable for a long time.
50	** Toph realizes that despite her trying not to break bones, she's probably killed several people through internal injuries. Throwing rocks fast enough to launch people into the air is ''not'' something that someone shrugs off, despite the PG nature of the show.
51	** Despite the PG nature of the show showing children having fun with magical powers and having an adventure to defeat the Fire Lord, the fact of the matter is that the war has turned these ordinary children- the oldest of whom is still in their teenage years- into ''child soldiers,'' who have seen the front lines of the battlefield, taken lives, and done things that no one their age has any right to do.
52	* DefectorFromDecadence: Djehuty is this to the Goa'uld,though they ignore him believing him to be [[MadScientist senile and only useful for inventing stuff]].
53	** The group of Ancients called the Renegades [[spoiler: who would go on to inhabit Asunyti and become the Elemental Nations]] left the rest of their race due to opposing ideologies.
54	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Daniel heavily insists on this when they discover Toph and Zuko's status as [[ChildSoldier child soldiers]], pointing that their world could consider them as legally adult and fit for military service, while Teal'c sees their age as no big deal because Jaffa start their training young. It doesn't abate in the slightest Jack's anger about two ''kids'' flung into war.
55	* {{Determinator}}: Several, but par for the course, Jack O'Neill powers through the crippling despair that the yukiuso has used to stop every other human and Jaffa thus far. Also par for the course is Zuko, who just won't stop until he's ''comatose.''
56	* DishingOutDirt: Toph! The greatest earthbender on three worlds!
57	* DudeNotFunny: In-universe. Sanura makes a comment that Djehuty would want to snap up someone as brilliant as Sam "So fast you'd leave your shoes behind," leaving Sam and her assistant looking horrified. Teal'c points out that while Sanura jokes about such things, they're a lot less funny when ''that exact thing has happened before.''
58	* EldritchAbomination: The yukiuso. A massless, intangible being that cannot be seen in the visible spectrum and feeds by sucking the heat from living creatures. When it can be seen, it looks like a glowing blue thunderstorm or a mist made of diamond dust. Oh, and it can also inflict MindRape at will and thrives on fear.
59	** Judging by Jack's thoughts upon seeing the various spirits in the Ancient database on "Hoth", there are MANY of them that would be classified as this.
60	* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Zuko's fire can harm the yukiuso's, but the opposite is also true. However, it's blocked by Katara's ice.
61	--->''You can't freeze ''ice'', spirit!''
62	* EntertaininglyWrong: Janet thinks a little girl was zatted from the front because she didn't even get a chance to run away. Then Toph wakes up.
63	** Similarly, many of the conclusions Daniel draws about Avatar-verse culture and Zuko and Toph's relative social standings are ridiculously inaccurate, but he simply doesn't have enough information to get any closer to the truth.
64	* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The yukiuso, [[spoiler:which is literally "killing cold". And it ''laughs''.]]
65	* ExactWords: When Toph repeatedly asked for "let [her and Zuko] see the sunlight", Daniel thought it was some metaphor for going outside. Zuko actually ''needed'' [[ThePowerOfTheSun to see the sun]] because of [[CastFromHitPoints medical complications]].
66	* FingerSnapLighter: Zuko helps Carter with her repairs by making a hand-held flame to light her workspace.
67	* ForScience: Heather Dyne seems to like this trope, even though Toph cannot understand what she is saying.
68	** So does Sokka. This was his exact reason for dismantling a fire lock and the resulting explosion.
69	** [[spoiler: Djehuty]] is a milder, [[TimeAbyss older]] example.
70	* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler: The Renegades entered Asunyti as a next-to-last resort, to save what would become the Avatar Spirit]].
71	* GracefulLoser: Sanura isn't terribly upset about losing to "a pair of kids", noting that they were skilled fighters with magic powers or as close to magic as makes no difference. Also, she found Toph's victory dance adorable.
72	* GuardianEntity: Chapter 12 [[spoiler:reveals that the Ancient that would become the Avatar Spirit released the yukiuso from its containment in order to (unknowingly) act as this to Asunyti by killing anybody who tried to follow.]]
73	** [[spoiler:It is also heavily implied that the original purpose of the Avatar himself was to protect the people of Asunyti from off-world threats.]]
74	* HealingHands: Zuko (and later Toph) experiments, leading to:
75	** HealItWithFire:
76	** Zuko tries to save Heather Dyne's arm. He succeeds. And overdoes it. He later uses it to heal his injured arm in Chapter 5. Apparently it hurts.
77	** In Chapter 5 Toph uses what Zuko has told her and figures out how to ''[[BadWithTheBone bend bone]]''. She is promptly horrified when she figures out just how close it was to [[PeoplePuppets Hama's]] [[BloodyMurder bloodbending]].
78	---> "I wonder if all healing-bending is linked to the scariest part of that bending style? Waterbending healing has to be related to bloodbending. Fire is related to lightning. Earth and bone..."
79	* HealingMagicIsTheHardest: It is pointed out just how complicated the human [[spoiler:or Ancient]] body is and Janet is worried that Zuko could have caused irreparable harm by playing around with his nervous system. It also seems to exhaust the healer, as Zuko was knocked out by his first use of fire-healing to save Heather's frozen arm and Toph developed a headache after her first healing attempt.
80	* HereThereBeDragons: SGC originally knows the Avatar world as Dur'Asada, which translates to [[spoiler: "Danger, do not enter"]].
81	* HumanWeapon: The team thinks that Zuko and Toph may be an example of this.
82	--->'''Jack O'Neill:''' "They're ''weapons''. Someone took a couple of kids and raised them as living weapons."\
83	'''Daniel Jackson:''' "[...] these abilities may simply be common in their cultures. If the children are weapons -- well, maybe ''everyone'' is."
84	* HurlItIntoTheSun: [[spoiler:The ultimate fate of the yukiuso.]]
85	* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Janet would like to remind Jack O'Neill that she is a pathologist, not a neurologist, or a trained forensic surgeon. Jack lampshaded this in the past by calling her Mini-Bones.
86	* ItMakesSenseInContext: Near the end, Toph and Zuko are perplexed when hearing a quote from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters\|1984}}'' out of context.
87	* {{Hypocrite}}: Toph notes that for all their talk about [[ThouShaltNotKill not killing]], both Aang and Katara have killed numerous people, they just did so from a distance (such as destroying airships) and didn't have to see them die. However, the author also admits that, "Fighting enemy soldiers in battle is very different than [[CoupDeGrace a deliberate, focused assassination attempt]]."
88	* JustAKid: A rather heartwrenching example when Jack shows surprise that Zuko isn't goofing around with his flames, because he's a teen and teens love showing their cool tricks. Janet's answer is that a teen wouldn't carelessly use a potentially lethal trick, and Zuko knows his flames can kill people because he already used them for this. Jack doesn't take it well.
89	* KillItWithFire: Something Zuko can and will do if he has to. When the SG-1 crew realizes he has done this before, they are not happy, since to them, Zuko is still a ''child''.
90	** This actually causes problems for Zuko, since his bending is CastFromHitPoints without access to his world's native foodstuffs or access to the sun.
91	** Jack and Sam both make notes to ask for flamethrowers due not only to the Yukiuso, but also because this sort of thing ''keeps happening.''
92	* LanguageBarrier: A central focus of the story, as the Stargates failed to translate Toph and Zuko's language to the SGC.
93	* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Djehuty is the last remnant of what the Goa'uld were before they degenerated into the System Lords.]]
94	* LiteralMetaphor: Over the course of the first several chapters, Toph and Zuko repeatedly and increasingly urgently ask to be allowed to "see sunlight". The SGC assumes that they're just using a metaphor for feeling confined (like "wanting some fresh air" in English), and refuse to let them out. It isn't until after Zuko collapses and Toph is forced to bust the two of them out of the SGC facility that they realize Toph was trying to explain that Zuko actually needs to be exposed to sunlight or he will get sick and die (as sunlight is necessary for his body to metabolize Naquadah).
95	* MadeOfIron: Initially the SCG's thoughts on how Zuko and Toph are so tough, it is revealed to be SuperToughness, related to the high amounts of naquadah causing increased resistance to damage.[[spoiler:The fact they are both Ancients doesn't hurt either.]]
96	* TheMadHatter: The exact term is used near the end by Janet (in its original meaning of "heavy metal poisoning in the brain") when talking to Djehuty about why there are no "Mad Hatter" System Lords: [[spoiler:it's because they're ''all'' Mad Hatters due to the naquadah they've been exposing themselves to. Djehuty himself regulates his intake very carefully and tries to avoid naquadah-based technology.]]
97	* MakingASplash: Katara.
98	* MamaBear:
99	** Sam's knee-jerk reaction when she learns Zuko had killed people before his abduction can be summed in "going through the Stargate when bringing the kid home and tearing some parents a new arsehole".
100	** Janet also qualifies, especially when her patients are threatened. Discharged with prejudice, anyone?
101	* MentalFusion: Blending between a Gou'ald and an Unas turns out to be an example of this trope, in contrast with the DemonicPossession that is a Gou'ald blending with a human.
102	* MindRape: The yukiuso raises in its victims the crippling feelings of loneliness, hopelessness and fear, until they stop resisting.
103	* MistakenForRelated: After seeing them bantering and watching each other's backs, Teal'c assumes Zuko and Toph are brother and sister and is quite surprised when Daniel expresses his doubt about a blood relation between the children.
104	* MundaneUtility: Toph's magnetic sense means she always knows where the North is, so she can't get lost. Also, Zuko's firebending attunes him to the sun's progression through the sky, letting him tell the time - the children use it to sleep in shifts.
105	* MustBeInvited: Apparently a characteristic of ''jashin''. The yukiuso cannot cross a threshold that belongs to somebody. It is for this reason that it cannot penetrate the SGC Infirmary, Janet's space,[[spoiler:until it is accidentally invited in. This invitation can be withdrawn by sheer willpower and the yukiuso was immediately banished from the threshold.]]
106	* MustHaveCaffeine: A RunningGag about the SGC staff; especially Sam, Janet and Daniel. Toph tries coffee in order to understand what all the fuss is about.
107	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Toph had one when she realized Jet was dying from his injuries. She'd injured people like that before, including fellow Earthbenders at the Rumble matches, meaning she'd also killed people.
108	* NoBiochemicalBarriers: {{Averted}}. The differences between human, Asyuntian, Gou'ald, and Unas biochemistry and physiology are key to several plot arcs.
109	* NotNowKiddo: At the climax of Chapter 9, Zuko is on the brink of death from using firebending while already suffering from elemental deprivation, and Toph is ''screaming'' at the SG-1 staff to get him outside and under Sun ''right this minute''. Unfortunately, none of the SG-1 staff pay any attention to her.
110	* NotTheIntendedUse: The neurotoxin the System Lords use to kill their human hosts was originally intended to allow a Gou'ald blended with an ''Unas'' to separate from its host without harming either party.
111	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Jack tries to pull this off on Toph and Zuko in order to appear harmless. It doesn't work.
112	* OhCrap:
113	** When Zuko realizes how far from home they are. Which is expressed via [[ClusterFBomb swearing]].
114	** The moment Sam realizes that [[spoiler: the yukiuso has been free and growing for thousands of years, and is now coming after her, Toph, and Zuko.]]
115	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
116	** The new group of Jaffa don't use the same tactics as the others. Which means the team can't predict them based on past experience.
117	** Aang, in chapter 6 after hearing that Zuko and Toph have gone missing, gets ''serious''. Sokka admits he has only seen Aang like this three times: The Siege of the North, the Day of the Black Sun and when Appa was captured by the sandbenders.
118	* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler:Djehuty is heavily implied to the last surviving sane Goa'uld in the universe.]]
119	* OutsideContextProblem: Generally invisible, intangible monsters that are immune to bullets are ''not'' part of the things that soldiers have to deal with, and were justifiably unprepared for this. Jack still reams them out about this, but not as harshly as he would have.
120	* PapaWolf: Jack isn't very happy about [[ChildSoldier Toph and Zuko being used to kill]] - [[FridgeBrilliance which makes sense when you remember he lost his son]]. When he see Aang fighting the yukioso and realizes the kid is a LivingWeapon, he mentally swears he will go on a ''hunt'' for those who thought it was a good idea, Ancients or not.
121	* PhlebotinumHandlingRequirements: Jack, as per canon, has the ATA gene. [[spoiler: Toph and Zuko also have it due to the fact that they are descendants of the Renegade Ancients.]]
122	* PhlebotinumMuncher: Zuko and Toph (and by implication, all descendants of the Renegades) have incorporated naquadah into their basic biology, using it to fuel their bending abilities as well as for passive strength and toughness boosts. Unfortunately, this also means that if deprived of naquadah, they suffer symptoms similar to mineral deficiency in humans. They can somehow biosynthesize more if exposed to their respective element, but it apparently isn't enough to fully replace getting it from the environment, at least if they're bending heavily.
123	* PlayingWithFire: Zuko.
124	* PoorCommunicationKills: Daniel puzzled out Toph's repeated demands that she and Zuko "see sunlight" as her companion grew weaker, but dismissed it as merely wanting some fresh air rather than awareness of [[PowerOfTheSun life-threatening]] [[CastFromHitpoints medical complications]].
125	* PowerIncontinence: The reason why "only fools and masters bend in the Comet's light." Sozin's Comet increases a firebender's ''power'' a hundredfold... and does absolutely nothing to improve their ability to ''control'' that power.
126	* PrecisionFStrike: Sam, when she realizes that [[spoiler: the yukiuso is coming for her in the massive blizzard.]]
127	* {{Precursors}}: The Ancients. [[spoiler: Whose renegade group colonized the Avatar world.]]
128	** [[spoiler: AbusivePrecursors: The Ancients conducted genetic experimentation on the Goa'uld which gave them their genetic memory, their biological reliance on naquadah and insanity. This group would go on to become the System Lords. The "failed experiment" Djehuty was released into the wild to die, but was saved by an Unas who became his host.]]
129	* RequiredSecondaryPowers:
130	** Janet notes that Zuko and Toph's bodies are capable of safely handling massive amounts of naquadah without suffering the usual effects of heavy metal poisoning.
131	** Although the inhabitants of the Avatar world need naquadah in a similar way to us needing copper, they seem to have a limited ability to generate it biologically when exposed to their corresponding element, though apparently not enough to completely counter the need to take it in from the environment. Toph manages relatively fine on Earth because she's inside a ''mountain'', while Zuko deteriorates over time because he's ''underground'' and hasn't been exposed to sunlight.
132	** It's later revealed that the Gou'ald ''lack'' this immunity, despite having been altered to require dangerously high levels of naquadah in their systems. Effectively the entire species is suffering from severe brain damage as a result.
133	** Zuko notes that while Sozin's Comet gives a ''massive'' boost to firebending power, it does nothing for your ability to ''control'' that power. That's part of why Iroh and the rest of the White Lotus retook Ba Sing Se when the comet passed, the firebenders among them ''did'' have the skill and control needed to handle the comet's power without accidentally frying themselves, while the Fire Nation soldiers in the city were actually ''hindered'' by the extra power.
134	** It's also implied that the Stargate ''may'' not be all that good for your mind either, as part of it is a system that copies languages and downloads the local ones into your brain. This, coupled with the Goa'uld genetic memory, has had a few less-than-healthy side effects. Humans, being similar to Ancients, and obviously Ancients themselves, were okay with this process.
135	** The individuals of each bending nation, even the non-benders, seem to have an increased resilience to their element, particularly for Fire and Earth. For example, Zuko remembers Aang and Katara experimenting with ice guantlets, and while that was a failure, they were still able to resist the cold better than Zuko could have, though apparently even non-benders of the Fire Nation are capable of withstanding cold better than an Earth human could, hence why Katara's freezing of the soldiers on the ship she attacked looking for her mother's killer wasn't something Zuko was worried about.
136	* RocketTagGameplay: Zuko's Agni Kai against Azula, with both of them benefiting from the power-boosting effects of the Comet. When he issued that challenge, he'd fully expected both of them to die.
137	* SaltTheEarth: Toph points out that the aftermath of the canon finale - where Aang put out the fires Ozai and his airship fleet started with the help of Sozin's Comet by raising the ocean for a few seconds - saturated the land with salt.
138	* SealedEvilInACan: Jack invokes this trope by name [[spoiler:after Jack, Sam, Toph and Zuko manage to seal the yukiuso in a thermomagnetic freezer. Jack triumphantly states that "It's officially Sealed Evil in a Can now, Carter. Fifty, one hundred, or a thousand years. There are ''traditions'' you know." He forgets the tradition of, "WhoWouldBeStupidEnough" The guy they called in who thinks ''they're'' all idiots ignores all the warning labels, walks right up to it and ''opens it himself.'']]
139	** And in fairness to Nekht, SGC also forgot to ''lock the door,'' something Sam especially beats up on herself for.
140	** In Chapter 10, we learn that [[spoiler: the Ancients were studying the yukiuso on Hoth. How did it escape? Same reason as above - someone purposefully turned the containment unit off. That time, though, it wasn't an act of stupidity, but of desperation.]]
141	* SelfDuplication: The yukiuso. [[spoiler: Turns out the one they were fighting at SGC was only a fragment of the thing.]]
142	* SerialEscalation: The cliffhangers and wham lines at the end of each chapter. %%is it this trope?
143	* ShaveAndAHaircut: Toph and Zuko knock it on the walls to communicate.
144	* ShockAndAwe: Zuko demonstrates lightning redirection after being shot at by a zat, but also [[spoiler:figures out how to manipulate the electricity inside his body when healing. Seeing as it travels through the nerves, this hurts a whole lot.]]
145	* ShoutOut: Several. ''Franchise/StarWars, Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia, Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'', several by Creator/MercedesLackey...
146	** Sam snarkily refrences Music/TomLehrer while talking about [[spoiler: Djehuty, when they don't yet know what his game is]].
147	-->Don't say that he's hypocriticalSay rather that he's a-political!
148	* ShownTheirWork: Everything from physics and the effects of trace elements in the body to the intricacies of language.
149	* SingleBiomePlanet: [[ShoutOut Hoth]]. It's ice, ice, ice, some rocks and ice.
150	* SneezeOfDoom: Zuko scorches the floor and lights Jack's shoelaces on fire with a sneeze after Jack uses pepper on him to snap him out of a meditation trance. It's mentioned that Aang can have these, as Zuko brings up a time when Aang sneezed on a campfire, sending burning shrapnel everywhere.
151	%%* SpiritWorld: Par for the course for Avatar.
152	* StealthPun: Without the P, X and hyphen the planet code of P 4X-684, an ice covered wasteland, is telephone numerals for "HOTH". Colonel O'Neill happily points this out by referring to the facility there as "[[Franchise/StarWars the Rebel Outpost on Hoth]]". [[spoiler:Which turns out to be literal, as it was a base for ''renegade'' Ancients.]]
153	** Sanura gives her registration number as 2 aka the ''first prime'' number.
154	* StrongerWithAge: The yukiuso. Unfortunately for our heroes, [[spoiler: the yukiuso has spent the last few thousand years growing stronger. It is so ancient it can go toe to toe with the ''Avatar Spirit'' itself.]]
155	* StuffBlowingUp: Where to start? Dyne's explosives are used to combat the yukiuso, Zuko accidentally blows up a staff weapon when fighting Sanura and Toph destroys an MRI machine. This is excluding the explosion the crystallized naquadah causes. It also seems to be the Fire Nation's attitude towards a problem which Toph points out to Zuko.
156	--->"Sparky, the Fire Nation thinks blowing stuff up solves everything!"\
157	"You mean it doesn't?"
158	* TemptingFate: Jack. See YouJustHadToSayIt. And [[spoiler:SealedEvilInACan.]]
159	--->"Dammit, Teal'c, what have we told you about tempting Murphy..."
160	* ThePowerOfTheSun: A ha'tak has its shields modified to reflect these rays [[spoiler: against the super-yukiuso]].
161	** Similarly, Zuko needs to be exposed to sunlight to replenish his naquadah reserves. And it does specifically need to be ''sun''light, the full-spectrum lamps in the botany lab do nothing.
162	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: For all intents and purposes, the yukiuso in SGC [[spoiler: if it wasn't disintigrated by the kawoosh.]]
163	* TimeAbyss: Djehuty "I am very, very old, and I remember."
164	* TranslationConvention: In the parts of the story told from the POV of the members of the SGC, Toph and Zuko's speech is written as phonetically spelled Japanese. This is not because "real" Asunytian ''is'' Japanese or even related to it in way, but because the author knew Japanese, wanted their language to something more than nonsense syllables, and lacked the time and talent needed to create a {{Conlang}} out of whole cloth.
165	* TranslatorMicrobes: The Stargates have a function that can basically beam a language into the head of someone who goes through them. But [[HumanAliens while humans and Ancients are close enough that there's not an issue]], the Gou'ald's brains are different enough that it might be a significant factor behind why they're so psychotic. Played Straight in that the Stargates themselves act as translators by implanting the basics of the local language, or a "language pack" into the minds of Gate travelers after tapping into the language centres. Averted in that they cannot translate if the "Home Gate" has not been used enough recently to figure out the language or does not have the information.
166	** Also has a bit of realistic consequences. The Gate translates by planting a version of the planet's language into those who travel through it's brains. The Ancients designed this system with ''their'' brains in mind. This is all right for humans, who are... well, nearly identical to Ancients. Goa'uld... well, they're sapient cranial parasites. Getting stuff meant for a human brain uploaded into a worm-like creature does not do their mentality favors, and Djehuty points out that getting this stuff beamed into their brains may be why so many Goa'uld are nuts.
167	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If Nekht didn't get trigger-happy when his squad found two psychokinetics, Sanura wouldn't have had to deal with Zuko and Toph by placing them with captured Sam and Janet, and they wouldn't have escaped together and taken the yukioso with them. [[SarcasmMode Well done, Nekht]].
168	* WeakenedByTheLight: The yukiuso. Because of this it only attacks at night and retreats when the sun appears, even when it is under a mountain.
169	* WeirdnessMagnet: O'Neill describes SG-1 as Murphy's favorite punching-ball. It's gone so far that he wouldn't be surprised if Sam and Janet were kidnapped by Santa Claus.
170	** Team Avatar. There '''is''' a reason why Sam calls them "the junior version of SG-1".
171	* WhamLine: At the end of Chapter 5: [[spoiler:"On the biochemical and genetic level? Zuko and Toph are not human."]]
172	** You think that's a WhamLine? Wait til you read chapter 10: [[spoiler: "...they are Ancients."]]
173	* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Every bender of the [[FanNickname Gaang]] killed over the course of the series. While Toph realized eventually that some of the people she fought didn't survive their injuries and Zuko always knew (having killed before the series even started), Aang and Katara remain apparently oblivious, not realizing that by knocking an airship out of the sky or sinking a battleship, they killed just about everyone on board.
174	* WorldOfSnark: It has Toph, Zuko and Jack O'Neill in it. 'Nuff said. Everybody else snarks, too - Sanura is particularly good.
175	* VictoryDance: When Toph captures the Jaffa. Accompanied by an EvilLaugh.
176	* YouJustHadToSayIt : O'Neill: "so long as the radiators keep blasting" indeed.
177	* ZombieApocalypse: The fate of Sanura's homeworld, of the infection variety.

Context FanFic / TheDragonKingsTemple