A New Life

It had been months since Korra's victory against Zaheer and his Red Lotus, but she still was crippled and grounded to a wheelchair. She had left her friends in Republic City to recover in the Southern Water Tribe with her family; Tenzin reassured her that he and the new air nomads were going to keep the world safe until she got better.

She didn't like hearing that, Korra wanted to feel useful…she wanted to be the greatest Avatar in history but after her battle against the Red Lotus her body had been broken and her spirit tainted. Her legs were paralyzed and her bending wasn't the same anymore.

Adding salt to injury, Kuvira, Su Beifong's protégé had taken the responsibility in uniting the Earth Kingdom. Korra should've been the one in doing so…

Korra threw the letter on the floor next to her bed, it was night and she had been reading the mail sent to her from Republic City. How her friends had moved on with their lives without her, how they were actually making a difference in the world. Mako cleaning the streets of the city and making people's lives safer, Asami literally rebuilding Republic City and Bolin helping Kuvira uniting the Earth Kingdom while the Avatar was far away lying on her bed moping…Korra began to sob softly so her parents wouldn't hear her.

In between her soft sobs she heard noise coming from outside her room, she slowly moved up from her bed towards her wheelchair. Korra pulled her body into the wheelchair, she hated to be dependent on that thing but she needed to move. Korra opened the door and rolled towards the hallway connecting her room with the massive living room, she and her parents had moved into the palace after Tonraq had been declared the new Water Tribe Chieftain.

The sounds were coming from the kitchen or rather the dining room. Korra turned on the lights and found a rather odd dressed man sitting on the far end of the table eating a plate of noodle soup. "Hello!" Said the man dressed in a white tuxedo, he had shaggy black hair and fair skin. "Don't mind me, just enjoying some noodle soup."

"Give one reason to firebend a fireball at your face right now for trespassing royal grounds." Korra stated as she pointed her fists at the intruder.

"Whoa whoa, settle down gal, no need to threaten a fellow." The man replied putting his hands on the air. "I'm just here because I felt I was needed."

"Yeah right, you have ten seconds to leave before I call the guards." Korra responded.

"Hear me out." The man said standing up from his seat and walking towards Korra.

"That's close enough." Korra said still ready to fry his face.

"I heard you, Korra." The man said, "I heard your cries for need."

"Wha…what?" This surprised Korra, no one else but her parents knew of this.

"I can notice it in your bloodshot eyes that you've been crying." The man stated, "And well, I've been around looking at this world for quite some time and I must say that…you are the one in most need."

"I don't need your help, back off!"

"As you can probably tell I'm not from around here, I'm from somewhere else. Far beyond the confines of rational thought and logic." The man said, "I can prove it to you."

Korra didn't respond, she still didn't trust the man… "I don't trust you, you broke into my home…for all I know you could be a burglar or an assassin." She said.

"If I was a burglar I would've stolen the magnificent gold plates in your father's trophy room and if I've had been an assassin your parents…well…they would've been not…alive?" The man responded, "Anyway, I'm not either of those things. Like I said, I'm from the beyond." He opened his right hand and on top of his palm appeared a miniature star brightening the room a bit.

"Is that…"

"Don't look at it for too long, it might fry your eyes." The man said, "It's a small yellow star…well actually is a massive star from the Pegasi system but I've shrunken it down and brought it here to show it to you, its gravitational pull and obvious radiation is being blocked by me, and its brightness is being toned down as well for your sake, Korra."

"Are you…are you…"

"Please don't call me God; I've been called that wherever I go. Just call me Beyonder, I like it better." The Beyonder said as he closed his hand teleporting the star away. "For why I am here, it's because I want to help."

"You want to help me?" Korra asked putting her guard down. "Why?"

"I've visited many places across the greater cosmos; I've been here and there and over there. In this timeline or in another, traveling looking for a purpose you could say. Being omnipotent has its downsides, I mean I could make it that everyone is a mindless worshipper of my greatness but…but I'm not looking for that. I'm looking for something else…a sense of wanting, of being useful to this wonderful creation." The Beyonder said, "When I entered this dimension I was curious at first, this Earth being so much different from the ones that I've visited in the past. Full of rich history and culture, with many interesting personalities…so I stayed to look at it. Now after about fifty Avatars I stumble onto you, you were different."

"Different?" Korra asked.

"The other Avatars experienced a lot of hardships, except for Kuruk the good for nothing. But you are the only one of them that actually wants to be what you were born to be…Aang never wanted to be the Avatar, neither did the others. They took the job and did a great work at it, but no one ever enjoyed being the Avatar except you." The Beyonder said.

"Well I'm not the Avatar anymore, I'm useless." Korra said.

"And that's why I am here. To give you purpose, but it's going to be more of an experience. This world thinks it doesn't need you, but it does. So to make them understand I will transport you somewhere else, somewhere were you will be wanted. Feel useful." The Beyonder stated walking behind Korra's wheelchair.

"Wait! I don't want to go anywhere; I have friends, family…a life here!" Korra responded.

"You will have a new one." The Beyonder replied, "See it as an experiment, an adventure to explore the confines of the universe. Would you rather be standing up still feeling useless or standing up and fighting? I could give you your legs back but I could never give you your strength, you have to rebuild that by yourself."

"Where are we going?" Korra asked as the room warped and became an endless tube of light.

"Oh, it's a marvelous place! You will love it." The Beyonder answered, "But to fit in, you must first become a local."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm going to erase your memories and replace them with new ones." The Beyonder bluntly responded.

"What!?"

"Don't put your panties in a bunch, it will only be temporary. Once I see you making progress in this new community, I will give them back and bring you back home." The Beyonder said, "I will make it as if you had always lived there, for the sake of morality I'm going to allow you to keep your name and make exact duplicates of your parents in this new reality. And your bending, I can't have you running around without it."

"I'm still not sure…" Korra doubted.

"Don't worry, there, I will be watching." The Beyonder said, "I know that meeting a stranger in the late hours of night telling and showing you all of these wonders can be…hard, but you do deserve a break from that gloomy world don't you?"

"Agh!" Korra grunted touching her chest, "Agh…!"

"Oh that must be Raava feeling the sudden change in the polarity of this universe, it will pass." The Beyonder said, "You ready?"

"I…I…I am." Korra responded.

"Good, good luck Avatar Korra." The Beyonder disappeared. Korra turned to see the bright light ahead of her as she moved towards it quickly through the endless tube. Korra closed her eyes and awaited this new life.

Korra opened her eyes; she was on her bed and saw at the digital clock next to her on her nightstand. It beeped eight 8AM; she sighed and stood up from her bed. She looked around her room, it was small and had posters of rock bands on the blue walls. Various pieces of clothes lithered the floor, "I have to clean this place up." Korra said walking towards the window of her room, opening it. "Ah New York City…you are as noisy as ever." Korra lived in an apartment in the heart of New York.

She grabbed the control remote of her television turning it on.

"On the news today, reported sightings of the vigilante known as Spider-Man increase, making people a bit wearier in the streets. Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson speaks against this masked menace and asks the Avengers to apprehend the Spider-Menace. More at six." The news anchor said.

Korra changed from her pajamas to a pair of blue jeans, a light blue shirt and got her hair done in ponytails. Then her mom knocked at the door, "Honey, time to go to school!" Senna said.

"Going!" Korra responded as she put on her shoes, "Another day at Midtown High."

As she walked to school, Korra passed the Avengers Mansion, home to Earth's Mightiest Heroes. They had formed three years prior when the resident Asgardian's brother took control of the Hulk. Korra smiled as she looked through the fence, she had always wanted to get inside and see what kind of cool stuff the Avengers kept inside.

She heard the sound of an aircraft passing by; it was the Fantastic Four aboard their Fantasti-Car thing going to a mission. Korra watched in awe and amazement, she loved living in the city.

Once at school, Korra went to her locker to put her backpack away and take out the books she needed for class. "Ugh…math." She sighed as she went her way to math class.

"Hey! I think we have never met before!" A blonde girl approached Korra, "My name is Gwen!"

"Oh, hi. I'm Korra." Korra replied.

"Korra? Are you from Alaska?" Gwen asked.

"My parents are." Korra answered entering the classroom; they sat next to each other. "I hope that today we actually learn something useful."

"You don't like math?" Gwen asked.

"Nah." Korra replied, the teacher went through the roll.

"Gwen Stacy?" The teacher asked.

"Here!"

"Flash Thompson?"

"Here, teach." The local football star and top tier bully replied.

"Mary Jane Watson?"

"Here." The resident red head answered.

"Korra…uh…how do you pronounce your last name, young lady?" The teacher asked.

"It's…" Before Korra could answer a young teenager came running through the door, extremely tired as if he had run miles before arriving to school.

"Don't worry, I'm here…I am not late!" He said recovering his breath.

"Ah yes, Mr. Parker. Please take your seat behind Ms. Stacy so we can begin class." The teacher said, Parker walked to his spot and sat down.

"Peter, you okay?" Gwen asked.

"I…I'm fine." Peter replied.

"What's your beef?" Korra asked him.

"Just…just woke up late, that's all." Peter answered. "Hey, never talked to you before, name's Peter."

"Korra." She replied with her name.

"Cut the chit chat, class has started."

Korra sighed and opened her notebook; this was going to be a long day.

In the Sanctum Sanctorum, the private residence of the renowned Doctor Strange, the good doctor felt a strange presence had entered their plane of reality. He had been reading a small book and drinking tea when he felt the presence.

"Something wrong, Doctor?" Wong, Strange's personal assistant and friend, asked.

"Someone or something has changed our reality's timeline…I just felt the ripples right now." Strange replied, "I couldn't feel before but now…something powerful is the cause of this."

"Can you track it down, sir?" Wong asked again.

"I can, but the presence…the powerful presence disappeared. I need to meditate so I can find where the ripple happened." Strange said, entering his mystic state of mind. "If something entered our reality, then something else could find the ripple and attempt entrance into our realm, I must find out who entered first."

To be continue…