Hey guys, if you were a fan of my other Avatar story then you should enjoy this. Instead of in the past though, we go into the future. I know I will love all other 3 seasons of Korra, but it's rather unlikely that it will be resolved in the way I would like it to. Besides, 3 seasons based off of that finale? I see a lot of filler in our future. Do note though that I do plan to continue my other story, but the inspiration for this one was so powerful and I have so many good ideas for it that this will shift to become my main story. I also plan on doing another story I'm planning which will explore the origin of all bending.

So yea, here we go. Just so you know, while it apparently says that bending was restored through Energy Bending when Korra managed to connect with Aang, I think this is rather unlikely. It would make sense if it was a Chi-Blocking technique that took their bending away, but Amon used a bloodbending technique so I am inclined to believe a bloodbending technique would be required to restore it. Plus, there are some things about the Avatar universe that have never really made sense to me here, and I am going to attempt to go into those things that the show seems unlikely to explore and explain them. What I'm talking about will become clear as you read.

Another thing though is that from what I saw in Korra, benders of Earth (ones that don't use Metalbending), Fire, and Water seem to be delegated (as far as law enforcement goes) to what is akin to special forces and anti-terrorism units (like the US Delta Force or the UK SAS) in the real world. This explains why Tarrlock had Waterbenders with him instead of Metalbenders. This appears to be to limit destruction as they do cause lots of damage (especially normal Earthbending, even though Lin obviously felt inclined to use it if necessary), then it obviously makes sense to restrict them to jobs where their destructive bending is judged as necessary force.

Now let's get to the story.

Book 2: Revenge

Chapter 1: Aftermath

Lin quietly went over her speech in her head again as she prepared to step in front of the cameras. It had been two weeks since she had gotten her bending back, but even after such a short time away from the spotlight, it was still a bit odd to have cameras turned upon her again. Still, it was her element and she would figure it out one way or another. When she was finally satisfied that her speech was memorized, she stepped up to the podium in front of City Hall and the press below her silenced as the photographers began snapping pictures.

"You will all need to hold your questions until I am done speaking. There is a lot to convey." Lin said. They remained silent as she cleared her throat to continue. "You may wonder why I'm giving this speech, as you have probably heard that I lost my bending during Amon's short-lived revolution. Some would argue that the revolution is not over with the loss of the Equalist leader, but it is. The reason is that I am delivering this speech is because Metalbender Police are still around the city keeping order, and as of yet, Chief Saikhan has yet to be found. The truth also is that Avatar Korra has restored my bending, and…"

"Where is Avatar Korra?" A man said raising a pen and interrupting the silence.

"You will need to hold your questions until she has finished." Tenzin said stepping in.

"I can handle this Tenzin." Lin responded.

"Sorry Lin."

"Now…" She continued. "…I was getting to that. First, I needed to tell you that my bending has been restored and as such, I will be resuming my post as Chief of Police effective immediately. To answer your question though, Avatar Korra is out restoring bending to those who have lost it. She is also teaching waterbender healers a technique that uses bloodbending, which is being granted an exception for this use as it restores the bending taken by Amon."

The Press looked eager to ask more, but they managed to hold their composure this time.

"There will be several changes sweeping the city and after that, the entire United Republic of Nations. This is because even with all of the hardships we have been through, we have realized that if we continue as we were, that it would not solve the problem. The most important change though is that all of the Equalists and anyone suspected of Equalist involvement… are not being held accountable for any crime they committed by Amon's command unless the atrocities they committed are of an extreme nature."

As she said this, the Press exploded with questions. She ignored them and continued her speech with a raised voice.

"As such, all Equalists are currently being released from the overloaded jails and the ships under the command of General Iroh still at dock."

They quieted down now as she continued her speech.

"Chi-Blockers who worked for the Equalists have been freed from jail will be kept under strict probation for a year. They will be observed as they go about their business and if they are associated with any criminal activity, they will be put back in jail with an extended sentence. Any Equalist deemed to have committed major atrocities during the attempted revolution will also be granted reduced sentences as long as the crimes were not committed of their own volition."

The crowd remained surprisingly silent, allowing her to lower her voice back down to a reasonable level.

"Any Chi-Blocker who was not working for the Equalists can sign up at the Police office as we start using them as a non-bending police force. Metalbenders are highly effective, but as Amon has proven, they are not infallible. This is also a gesture to all non-benders that we benders are making an effort to stem the tensions between us. As such, non-bender sports will now be conducted in the Arena alongside Pro-Bending matches. We are working with several entrepreneurs to set up Chi-Blocking schools around the city. Future Industries and its new CEO Asami Sato are working together to find ways to improve life for both benders and non-benders…"

She turned her head towards Tenzin and nodded, stepping away from the Podium as Tenzin stepped up.

"There is also more." He said. "The council position previously filled by the still missing Councilman Tarrlock will be filled by a non-bender from the Water Tribe territories. In addition, as a gesture of cooperation, I will be stepping down as the representative of the Air Nomads on the council, and the position will be filled by one of my non-bender Air Acolytes. The people filling these positions will be announced at a later date."

He granted the position back to Lin who stepped up and again cleared her throat.

"Any Equalist who successfully passes their one-year of probation will also be allowed to join the Police Force. If they were Chi-Blockers, they will be allowed to proceed with minimum training." Lin said. "In addition, our Special Bending Groups are also being augmented with Chi-Blockers and non-benders are being invited to serve both in the fleets and in superior positions in the Republic military. The groups I mentioned will also be brought to the forefront more than ever as we set up a permanent task force led by someone to be chosen at a later time to prevent anything like Amon's revolution from ever happening again.

"To anyone who has lost their bending, I urge you to seek out the waterbender healers of the city and to not bother Avatar Korra. She is teaching them the required technique and thus they should be able to restore your bending without an issue. I will now accept questions."

As soon as the last word echoed from her mouth the press exploded in a storm of questions.

"Will the Avatar be leading the task force you mentioned?"

"No." She replied.

"Will the Avatar be having any involvement in law enforcement from this point forward?" Another asked.

"That's entirely up to her."

"What will happen to Police Chief Saikhan now that you're resuming you're post?"

"He will be resuming his post as Captain I hope."

"How much does the government plan to interfere in Pro-Sports?"

"We don't plan to interfere at all, only to guide things in the right direction. Many of the executives at the Arena have already agreed to work with us towards our goals."

"Will the Special Groups start conducting more operations on lower profile criminals?"

"No, the profile of criminal they target has not changed. However their involvement has been increased which will lead to a higher number of raids and operations by them."

"How long will these changes take to spread to the rest of the United Republic of Nations?"

"I don't know. It depends on how many people are willing to accept our new laws and how fast they do so."

"What will happen to those who do not follow the new laws?"

"They will be prosecuted accordingly."

"Does this mean that the Police are becoming corrupt?"

"Absolutely not. But anyone who doesn't follow the law of the land set forth by the Council is a traitor to the entire spirit that led my mother to help found this city. To found the department I now belong to."

There had more questions. They kept at it for nearly an hour before she had finally just had enough. She excused herself and as thus ended the press conference. She retreated through the doors as the press yelled even more questions. Tenzin followed her as she walked indoors.

"Are you okay Lin?" He asked.

"I'm fine Tenzin. How many times do I need to tell you that?" Lin replied.

"I'm sorry. It's just that what you did when we were trying to escape…"

She turned to look at him.

"I get it Tenzin, you appreciate what I did. You don't own me anything."

"I feel like I do though Lin."

"It didn't work anyways." She replied turning around and starting to walk away, but he continued to follow her.

"That shouldn't matter." He said. "You sacrificed everything to protect my family, to do the job I should've been doing. You lost your bending. If Korra hadn't been able to connect with Aang, it would've been permanent…"

"It doesn't matter Tenzin. Just go home. Be with your family, your new son."

"Are you sure you don't need anything?"

"I'm sure."

"Alright. But if you ever need anything Lin…"

"I'll call you."

Tenzin nodded and left. She sighed and continued to think about how everything was changing and shifting around her. She felt she could touch it, but not interfere no matter how much she wanted to seize it.

Korra concentrated as she repeated the motion she had repeated so many times in the past two weeks. At first, she had needed to be in contact with her past lives to exercise the technique. But as she had done it more and more, it became easier for her. She took it slow so that the waterbenders observing her saw how to do it, how to exercise control over the elements of water within the human body.

It had been previously unheard of to be able to do it in the daytime. But Korra had felt Amon's bloodbending grip when he had taken her bending away. After connecting with her past lives, being able to comprehend it seemed to come easily to her. It wasn't some type of family ability that allowed Amon to do what he did, just complex control of the chi pathways throughout the body and intense concentration. The full moon usually enhanced the strength of the waterbender, flooding the chi paths usually necessary for bloodbending and making the power easy to use, which was why weaker bloodbenders needed it to use the ability.

Still though, it was a complicated thing to explain to the others, so it required several demonstrations. She sighed as she released yet another who had lost his bending to Amon. He was a firebender, and he stood up and quickly made a fire inside of his hand. He grinned and thanked her, and she nodded mechanically as he left. It had felt good the first few times, and she had relished the work. But as she had done it more and more, helped more and more people, it just became something else she did.

She of course was happy to do it. She just didn't relish the work as much as before. She was tired. Finally though, one of the other waterbenders managed to do it. She successfully restored the bending of an earthbender. It didn't take long for the others to finally master the ability, and Korra smiled at the success of their exertions.

"Well, it looks like my work here is done." Korra said smiling in a tired way. The door to the building suddenly opened and Mako stepped inside wearing his signature clothes and red scarf. He looked around until his eyes fell on her and he smiled warmly. "Mako, what are you doing here?"

"Looking for you. Making sure you're okay." He replied simply as he walked up to her.

"I can take care of myself." She said squinting.

"I know… I guess I just feel kind of responsible about it now."

"Well, don't." Korra replied smiling at him. "Still, it's a good thing you showed up, just finished. Want to go out… and I don't know… do something?"

"Uh… sure. Where do you want to go? Now that the Pro-Bending season is over it just seems kind of quiet. We've also never been out on a date before…" Mako replied.

"You're the one that lives here." She replied walking outside closely followed by him with his hands in his pocket. Naga greeted her and Korra hugged her around the neck laughing as the polar-bear dog licked her.

"I suppose that's fair…"

"Why don't we go see Asami? She moved back into her house and it may be a good idea to go talk to her."

"That might not be a good idea…" Mako said scratching his head with one hand.

"Are things still tense between you two?" Korra asked.

"Of course they are, it's only been two weeks. Not even that long since I dumped her."

"Things are so different in the city. We resolve arguments as quickly as possible back home. We can't afford to be conflicted."

"Well, not in the city. We apparently glorify conflict."

"Huh…" Korra said smirking. She shook it off and smiled before climbing into Naga's saddle. "Well, whatever, climb on. We're going to go see her anyways."

Mako sighed.

"Fine, if you say so Korra…"

"Let's go Naga!"

It did not take them long to arrive in front of the mansion. The gate was closed however, and it was like nobody was home. They found Bolin there as well.

"Hey guys." He said waving. "What are you doin here?"

"Korra insisted we come and see Asami." Mako replied.

"Yea, I came to see her to. She's been kinda angry lately. You know, between her father and um… my brother." Bolin replied.

"I'm standing right here." Mako said.

"Technically you're not standing…" He said referring to the fact that Mako was sitting in Naga's saddle. He seemed to look both ways before getting an idea. "Hey, want to see this new trick I taught Pabu? Come on buddy!"

The fire ferret crept out of his shirt to get on Bolin's head then stood up on his hind legs.

"Come on buddy, show em what I've been teaching you!"

Pabu stood on one hind leg and then switched to the other before doing a backflip off of Bolin's head to land on the ground on his forelegs before Somersaulting into a standing position and bowing in their direction with flourish.

"Good job! I knew you could do it!" Bolin praised bending down in front of him. Korra giggled.

"Yea, good one Pabu!" She said smiling.

The fire ferret jumped suddenly as a huge booming noise resounded not far away and the ground shook. He quickly jumped and crept up his master's arm and back into his shirt. Peeking out around the collar. Suddenly though, there was another boom, Pabu jumped again and went back into Bolin's shirt, and the wall next to Bolin collapsed towards him. He started to turn around to defend himself, but he was too slow. Korra reacted instantly, jumping off of Naga and raising a barrier with Earthbending to defend Bolin.

As the first rocks collided with the barrier, she pushed the rocks falling towards him away and over his head. As he realized what was happening, he quickly assisted and a dust cloud built up around them as the rocks all hit the ground. They coughed as the dust cleared and Mako was off of Naga rushing to Bolin's side.

"Hey, are you okay little bro?"

"Yea I'm fine, what was that all about?" He asked. As the dust cloud cleared, standing at the hole in the wall was Asami in one of the mechs her father had built. She had used the devices mechanical arm to break the wall. She quickly opened the cockpit as she saw them there.

"Hey what are you guys doing there?" She asked in surprise. "Are you all okay?"

"Yea, we're fine. What was all that about?" Korra asked.

"I'm making renovations." She said simply hopping out of the cockpit and onto the ground.

"Hey Asami." Mako and Bolin both said.

"Hi Bolin." Asami replied completely ignoring Mako. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yea, I'm fine." He said.

"Why isn't there a sign?" Mako asked. Asami rolled her eyes and pointed at a big sign painted onto the wall that said, Construction zone, stay away.

Bolin frowned.

"Yea… I guess we should've seen that." He said.

"Hehehehe…" Korra said scratching her head with her eyes closed. "Sorry Mako."

"It's fine." He replied. "All I care about is that you're okay."

He walked up to her and hugged her. She hugged back. Asami rolled her eyes again.

"What are you guys doing here anyways?"

As Mako let her go she stepped around him.

"Oh, just wanted to check up on you. I know you've been going through some hard times lately…" Korra said.

"I'm fine. My father is in jail, and I'm okay with that. In the meantime, the company is mine now, and I'm going to do all I can to right the wrongs he made." Asami said.

"That's not all is it…?"

"It is." She replied turning away.

"Well what are the renovations for?" Bolin asked.

"I'm trying to eliminate every sign that my father was ever here." Asami said. "If I have to tear the whole place down and rebuild it, so be it."

"We can help!" Bolin said.

"Yea, if you're breaking stuff we can definitely help out." Korra said planting one of her fists in her palm.

"Sure." Asami said. "Let's go in and get something to drink though, I'm parched."

They went inside to see half of the house was already torn down. The other half was still in place though, and the butler quickly poured them all cold drinks. Asami gave explicit instructions though, and no drink was given to Mako.

"I don't get it." He whispered to Korra. "How can she be totally okay with you, but she's so mad at me?"

"I don't know. Get over it and fix it." Korra replied.

"But I don't know how…"

"I love you Mako, but this is your problem. I don't know how to fix it."

He sighed.

"Fine, I'll figure it out somehow."

Somehow…

After their drinks, they all went outside to start trying to get to work. As usual, Asami didn't talk to Mako at all as she distributed everyone to destroy the walls. He figured it out though, and worked on the south wall, destroying it with large fireballs and lightning, as he tried to figure out what to do about Asami.

I cheated on her as we were drifting apart and now she hates me… what do I do? Mako thought. Lucky Korra, she has past lives to consult and I've got nothing. Well, either way, I need to get her to sit down and talk to me…

He continued to think on it as he continued on the wall.

A young woman sat at the center of the pro-bending arena. It was quiet and dark around her. Security had been lax, and she had been able to easily get past them. She meditated as she sat there, thinking on what she had returned here to Republic City for. She'd come here for revenge. Revenge against the one who had caused her so much strife when she was young.

She'd practiced so hard to become strong enough to do this. She had been around the world, she had studied, she had suffered… and she had been reborn. Reborn as one strong enough to take on any who would oppose her in her objective. She had even killed a man in cold blood during an Agni Kai in order to make sure she had the mettle to do what she had come here to do.

She had not known the man. She had not known if he had a family. But it had not mattered, the act had served its purpose. It had made her stronger. It had made her stronger inside. It had made sure she was able to do it when the moment came. For when she struck, she would strike with no hesitation and no regret.

She had come here to seize vengeance, and she would have it.

Suddenly though, there was a voice behind her.

"Hey, you're not supposed to be in here." She stood and turned about to find a small man in one of the preparation rooms for the teams. She grinned at the one who challenged her. She moved with speed and agility, and send two long streams of fire from her hands around the man. Then she pulled her hands in, creating a large arc of fire. This caused the man to trip forward, and he fell, just barely missing the stone outcropping on the bottom and slamming into the water.

"Ah, so he is lucky after all." She said. She quickly used firebending to jet her way back to one of the rooms as she prepared to leave. She knew the one she was seeking had been here, and not long ago either. He had been here to fight as a pro-bender. He who she wanted to kill… and he who she now knew the name of after so many years of searching.

Mako. That was his name.

The name of her target.

The name of the one who she would kill.