This is my first Korra fic and I have to say I like the story Ive chosen. I hope you like this Intro.

Additional: I have due to requests begun going through my word to get rid of the grammar errors. I have done all my dyslexia addled mind will allow so I hope this time it is more legible. For more American readers if there are any i would also ask you to remember that I am British so my spelling and use of certain words will be different from your own in some cases.

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Chapter 1 – Crime Scene

"What did they take?' Korra asked Asami examining the massive tear in the vault door.

The two of them were standing in the Future Industries central vault, over a hundred feet beneath the main company compound. It was supposed to be one of the most secure locations in republic city, mainly due to its secrecy. Only a few dozen people knew it was down here, most of those loyal guards that kept the vault secure round the clock.

Constructed ten years ago from pure platinum and titanium and locked with one of the most complex locking systems Future Industries could produce. No one in the company or the small number in the police force had ever considered it could be broken into.

However no one could deny away that jagged hole ripped into the three foot thick vault door. No bender should have been able to gain access to it but...

"Random blue prints," Asami sighed, she looked exhausted, "there are hundreds of finished and unfinished designs in here, it will take me weeks to figure out what they took. Half of it was from my father's time and as you can guess he didn't exactly keep the best records."

Korra paced angrily along the lines of shelves that filled the room. Apart from the half destroyed door the room looked almost untouched. The thief had not damaged anything important, which seemed almost impossible but...

She stopped at the end of the room and frowned up at the main focus of her irritation, of everyone's irritation. While the large metal room she stood in was made mainly from platinum, the inside was made of a darker stronger metal to ensure its integrity.

At the end of the room where one of the shelves had been pulled away was a large stretch of dark grey wall. On it were three large spirals, painted in white and spaced out like triangle. The sight of it had driven Tenzin from the room, even if it had been the reason why he had been brought down.

It was a traditional Air Nomad symbol, the one used to represent both their old nation and there element.

"There still arguing about this one," Asami said to her left, reaching out a hand and lightly touching the dry paint.

Korra nodded angrily, "Tenzin's still answering questions about it."

"They don't think it's him right?'

She shook her head, "He doesn't match the description, he's too tall." she replied still staring at the three swirls, "They just want to know if he knows anyone that could...well you know..."

"That doesn't make any sense, I mean do they really think some guy with an air nomad fetish decided to rob me just to paint my wall?" It did sound a bit stupid.

"Beifong just got excited when someone said Air Nomad in front of him," she grumbled trying to make it sound like she thought the idea of there being a real connection was ridiculous. Though she had to admit she had a feeling in her gut that there was more to this than she was seeing, she hated that feeling.

The best theory right now said that someone with a grudge or a hatred for air nomads had done this to discredit them. It made sense at least though several people though it had been done just to throw everyone off the scent of the real criminal.

"Are they talking to any Air Acolyte?" Asami asked, Korra gave her a look like 'Are you kidding', "Hey Im just asking, there are bad eggs in every group."

"The most dangerous thing the Air Acolyte do is feel sky bison an hour late," Korra pointed out, giving Asami a comforting smile that she looked like she really needed, "I can't see one blowing off a vault door."

Asami sighed smiling back a little, though half heartedly, "They don't even know how it was done Korra, there's no explosive residue and the door was platinum over titanium, no one could bend it!" she was sounding increasingly worried, "it was made by my father to be literally unbendable!"

Korra put a comforting hand on her friends back and gave her a squeeze. The two of them had been through rocky times with both Mako and the incident with her father. But at the end of the day Asami was Korra's best female friend and she would do whatever she could to make her feel better.

Throwing the same arm around Asami's shoulders she pulled her into a rough but affectionate hug and pulled her away from the eyesore.

"Don't worry Asami," Korra said giving the taller girl a slight shake, "you know we'll catch the one that did this. I'm the Avatar, name one thing I can't do?"

Asami laughed at her boast, "Thanks Korra, I really appreciate you coming down here so quickly."

"Hey no problem," Korra replied gently angling Asami out of the crime scene at towards the elevator, "you know we all have your back. Now come on your going to get nothing but a head ache staying down here."

They made their way out of the vault at towards the elevator. Outside the vault things were less tidy the two guard station's were in splintered ruins and a seven foot gash had been cut into the ceiling. Pieces of the vault door were all over the place as if they had been thrown backwards away from the vault.

"How is that even possible?" she asked Korra as she stepped over one of the more sizable chunks or expensive door.

"Maybe platinum is not as bender proof as we though," Korra suggested, though she could not imagine the way anyone could have bent like this. The idea that someone was doing this alone was just scary.

Luckily for them the highly unpleasant elevator was still working, it seemed the thief had gone out the same way he had come in. They were silent on the way up, Asami it seemed need time to think or grieve over her shattered sense of security.

She left Asami to her thoughts, it was obvious she needed some head space right now and Korra pestering her was not going to help.

The scene on the surface was a lot more hectic than down in the vault. Police were everywhere searching the compound any clue as to who or what had attacked them. Korra understood exactly why everyone was so on edge, everyone remembered how much damaged Hiroshi Sato's machines had done in the Equalists movement.

The idea of anything similar happening again was unthinkable. Republic city did not need another civil war like that. It sent a chill down her spine, thinking about all those blue prints in the wrong hands or a lot of wrong hands.

Korra looked around for any sign of Tenzin. From what she could see he was no where outside but she did see some large police issue tents that had been set up a few hundred yards away which were being guarded by several metal benders and a police mecha tank.

Guessing he had to be in there she turned to Asami, "You want to come check on Tenzin with me?"

Asmai shook her head, "I need to go start damage control, my PR people are probably wetting them selves right now over the fall out from this."

"Ok" Korra said nodding in understanding, "call if you want any company. I think I can handle being girly for a night if it will cheer you up."

Asami gave her a quick hug, "Sounds good Avatar, I might just do that," with that she walked away a bit of her old confidence back in her step.

Korra made her way towards the three tents, as she got closer she realised her instincts were right about Tenzin being over there. She could hear him, Beifong and Saikhan arguing inside the middle tent. No one stopped her as she shouldered her way inside.

"A coincidence does not make him a suspect!" Tenzin half shouted from across a metal fold away table covered in a map of the surrounding area and another of the Republic city area as a whole.

"Tenzin," Beifong said in a calming manner, "none of us are saying he did it."

"Speak for yourself," Saikhan muttered, after loosing his position as chief of police to Beifong after the mess he had made of the Equalist uprising he had be reduced to her second in command. Korra was more than aware this had left him a little bitter, towards all of them.

"Can it Capatin!" Beifong snapped at him, "find me evidence that puts that boy here during the robbery and ill arrest him, but only after you got that?"

"Yes Chief," he grumbled not sounding convinced.

Lin continued, "Like I was saying it's not like I want to arrest Nam or Rin, but I have to question them. If they know anything that could be helpful..."

"Who's Nam?" Korra asked interrupting there conversation.

Lin rolled her eyes at Korra's interruption but didn't look annoyed, "Ask Tenzin, I've only met him once."

Tenzin looked at her for a second as if deciding what would be best to tell her, she hated when he did that, "His name is Nam-kha," Tenzin said as if this was the most important point she had to know, "he's from Temple city."

Temple city was a mountainous city build around an ancient air temple in the north. It was a technological marvel and had been since the hundred year war. The odd city was an unofficial part of both Republic city and Air nomad society.

"Is he an Acolyte or something?" she asked, she knew from what Tenzin had told her that there was a monastery on one of the mountains and that there were Air Acolytes there.

Tenzin looked uncomfortable, "No exactly," he said scratching his arrow nervously, "he's part of a community within Temple city that my father brought together several years before his dead," ouch that one chilled her to the bone, "they are...how should I put this..."

"Nut jobs?" Saikhan suggested in an unhelpful manner, he cowered a bit at the look Beifong then gave him.

"There Air Nomads with out the air," Beifong supplied prompting a raised eyebrow from Tenzin.

"I suppose that's correct...if limited," he grumbled glaring at Lin who did not look apologetic.

"Woh who," Korra said raising her hands to get them to stop glaring at each other, "last I checked there were only five Air Nomads, one of whom can't walk yet. So who's this guy?"

"There are five Airbenders," Tenzin corrected, "Nam and his people are all of heavy Air Nomad decent. They were gathered in the hope that they may one day produce actual Airbenders. As far as we know it has yet to work."

Korra was starting to catch on, "So you think that this guy could be the guy that drew the Air Nomad symbol on the wall?"

"No one is saying that," Lin interjected glaring at her second in command to challenge her statement.

"But your thinking it," Korra said with a slight note of triumph in her voice, she liked to work things out without people having to tell her, "or at least your thinking he knows the one that did."

"Which I refuse to believe!" Tenzin said his anger flaring again, "The thief was definitely a bender yes," he looked around the room for conformation, not that he needed it even Korra could tell that the damage had to have been done by a bender, "there are no bender's in the...in Nam's community so how could he know?"

"I would rather ask him and get it over with, no Tenzin!" she raised a hand to stop him from interrupting again, "Im not moving on this one. If your right and he knows nothing then we can let him go, but if Im right and he might know then we need to find out."

Tenzin ground his teeth for nearly a minute before saying, "Fine but I want to watch the interrogation myself. He is one of my people, I need to be there for him." when Lin nodded he sighed with relief.

"Captain," Lin said commandingly causing Saikhan to snap to attention, "get back to the station and have a squad track down Nam-kha and bring him in for questioning." Korra frowned a little, a whole squad for one guy?

"That wont be necessary Lin," Tenzin said his voice in it's usual calm and controlled state, "He's staying on the island with the Acolytes ."

"Are you mad!" Lin asked sounding a little angry.

"Lin!" Tenzin chided, "Nam is not as dangerous as you think."

"He is still dangerous!" she half shouted, "last time he was here in the city he broke into a Triad building and nearly burnt it down!"

"The Agni Kais burnt it down," he corrected though Korra was starting to agree with Beifong about this one, even she would not go alone into an Agni Kai den without heavy back up. "by your own logic I and my family are safe."

Lin threw up her hands in surrender, "Fine Tenzin have it your way, juts don't come crying to me when he sinks you all into Yue Bay!"

"That was also an accident!"

Lin shook her head at him and gesture to Saikhan to follow her out of the room, "Ill see you on the island."

Tenzin stood the second she was out of the room and rounded on Korra, "Korra I need t you to run directly to the temple and warn Nam before they get there."

"What?' she asked a little confused.

"Warn him Korra!" he implored desperately, "if he thinks there there to arrest him he might fight them just for the fun of it."

"I though you said he was peaceful!" Korra said accusingly, she knew this smelt fishy when Tenzin had stood up for a guy that sounded to her like a first class whack job.

"He is," Tenzin said assuringly not convincing her in the slightest, "but he also loves a challenge, now go Korra please before it's to late!"

She glared at him for a second before dashing out of the tent. She was the Avatar after all, it was her job to protect people...even from themselves...


Hope you enjoyed the chapter, there will be more coming along with updates for several others of my stories over the next few days. Reviews are welcome.