Talk:Freedom Fighters/@comment-74.129.69.38-20130410204938/@comment-4321828-20130410213343

I suppose they weren't there for the same reason that they weren't on the battleship that Team Avatar took control of at the beginning of Book Three: that they simply were not in the right place at the right time. Pipsqueak and The Duke were there because they were caught stealing food from someplace when Team Avatar found them, so Team Avatar took them along in the battleship. Consequently, the two were part of the Invasion of the Fire Nation, so after the invasion, they went with the other minors (Haru and Team Avatar) on Appa to the Western Air Temple. Hakoda took Haru, The Duke, and Pipsqueak to who-knows-where when the air temple was attacked by Azula's fleet, so I guess he was the one who brought them with him to the Fire Nation Capital City in the last episode.

However, Longshot and Smellerbee had to escape the Dai Li with Jet (who was dying) when they stalled for Team Avatar to let them get out of Lake Laogai. Their whereabouts after that until The Promise are unknown, but it can be assumed that they were simply too busy getting away from the authorities of Ba Sing Se to group up with the core Team Avatar members upon the Fall of Ba Sing Se. We don't put this assumption in articles, of course, as that would not reflect our facts-only approach.