Warring Fire

The Search

The sky was covered in crimson as Sozin's comet flew over the planet.

"AAAHHHH!" Bolin leaped over the roof and slid down it in a panic. Titles broke off below him. Flames blew behind him just missing the frightened earth bender. Bolin hit the ground, rolling onto his feet. "Mako, cut it out!"

Mako landed on the rooftop of one of the many houses in the capital of the Fire Nation. "I told you I would roast you, Earth bender." The raging fire bender tapped two of his fingers from both hands and swiftly moved them around to create lightning around him. He thrust his fingers out and blasted his lightning bolt down for at Bolin.

The lightning struck just behind Bolin's feet. Bolin flew forward, hitting the ground and sliding forward. Bolin tightly closed his eyes to the point they were trembling. He pushed himself up. "Why can't you remember that we are brothers?"

Mako landed on the ground. He walked down the cold stone road toward the seventeen year old that was desperate to get away from the mad fire bender that seemed as cool as always. "I told you before I don't have a brother." Bolin twisted around to face Mako. Mako raised his fist as he wrapped it in intense flames. He raised it up. "And you're finished." He threw his fist forward, blasting fire.

Elsewhere in the capital Jinora was held by two chi blockers who held her hands by cords. Asami marched down the alleyway with her electrically-charged glove in her hand ready to blast the young air bender with it.

"Asami, stop this," Jinora pleaded. "You have to wake up."

"This rebellion ends here," Asami said as she narrowed her eyes. She raised the hand with the glove on it when she was just a couple of feet away. Jinora took in a large breathe and blew out a blast of wind. Asami easily sidestepped it and thrust her hand forward at Jinora. Jinora saw the attack coming and gave in, shutting her eyes and turning her head away from the attack, knowing she was out of moves.

How could this have happened?, were her final thoughts.

-K-

"Raava," Korra spoke. Korra stood in the middle of nowhere with the light spirit standing in front of her. "What's the matter?"

"I sense a disturbance in the past," Raava said.

"How do you know?" Korra questioned.

"My memories with Aang have altered from what they were before," Raava answered.

Korra brought her hands forward as if she was carrying something. "But we lost our connection to the past Avatars when you were destroyed by Vatu."

"Yes, but my memories with them haven't disappeared," Raava explained. "And Aang's time has changed from that of a savior to a failure."

"What!? What's happened?" Korra took an aggressive position.

"Aang being defeated by the Fire Nation and the Avatar cycle ending," Raava said.

"But that's impossible." Korra placed her hands on her chest. "I'm here and I'm the Avatar."
"I suspect someone has found a way to alter the past and is doing everything in their power to destroy the time we have come to know. Korra you must find who is responsible for this and stop them before it is too late."

-K-

Korra sat up in her bed out of breath. It was the middle of the night and she had just woken up from her sleep. "A dream." She placed her hand over her forehead and shut her eyes, calming herself. "It was only a dream."

-K-

A few days later, Tenzin's kids were out on Air Temple island, looking out to the bay in confusion. Tenzin came down the steps to stand behind the kids. "What are you three looking at?"

Ikki looked back at her father and pointed out to the water. "Wasn't Grandpa Aang's statue put back up?"

"Yes, of course it was," her father answered.

"Then why is that statue of a fire bender man out there?" Ikki asked.

Tenzin looked forward to see a statue. "Fire Lord Ozai, wha-what is going on?"

Korra then came down toward the air bender family. "Hey, what's going on?"

Meelo pointed out to the statue. "Grandpa Aang statue is missing?"

"And that's not all," Jinora chimed in. She pointed toward Republic City and the others followed her with their eyes. Waves flashed over buildings transforming them into red and black. Jinora lowered her hand down to her side. "What is going on?"

"We need to get to Republic City," Korra said.

-K-

Mako rode up to the Police Station on his motorcycle with his brother clinging to him. Lin Bei fong stood in front of the doors as Asami and General Iron also arrived at the police station. Mako leaped off of his bike and ran up to the chief. "Chief Bei fong, the entire city is transforming."

"Tell me, something I don't know," the annoyed chief of police said. "I've been getting calls all morning."

Asami and Iroh got out of their respective cars and came up to the others. "I got a call from Korra to meet her here," Asami said.

Bolin looked over at Asami, gesturing his hand to the side. "We got the same call." They all then heard a noise from above. They looked up to see Oogi, coming down toward them with Korra, Naga, Tenizin, Bumi, Kya who was visiting and Tenzin's kids on the back of the flying animal.

Oogi landed on the ground between the cars and motorcycles in front of the building. Korra instantly leaped off and ran toward her friends. Tenzin and his kids quickly dismounted as well. "What's the meaning of this Avatar?" Lin questioned with her arms folded across her chest.

"Korra, do you know what's going on around here?" Mako asked.

"I think so…" Korra gazed down disappointed in herself for not realizing things sooner. "Raava informed that she felt something going wrong in the past."

"What do you mean?" Tenzin asked as he walked up to the group.

"She said she felt her memories alternating from Aang's lifetime," Korra said, looking back at Tenzin. She focused back on the group.

"But how is that possible?" Asami questioned.

"I don't know," Korra said. "But someone must have found a way to tamper with the past and have the Fire Nation win the war. That's why the landscape is changing. The present is changing to match with the alternate past."

"But then why isn't anything happening to us?" Lin questioned.

"According to Raava the changes happen in parts," Korra began to explain. "First the environment will change, then people's memories, and finally the people. If we don't stop them in time we'll all disappeared."

"How much time do we have?" Lin questioned.

"If Raava's correct, we have only two hours to save the world as we know it," Korra informed them.

"That doesn't give us a lot of time," Tenzin spoke.

"Which is why we can't waste anymore time here and need to start searching for who and what is doing this," Korra announced.

"I'll get every men searching," Lin said. She ran inside of the building. Mako quickly hoped back on his motorcycle and speeded off while Bolin hoped a ride with Asami. Tenzin and his siblings flew off on Oogi while his kids flew on their gliders. Korra jumped on her polar bear dog and ran down a street as General Iroh took his own car down another street.

-K-

Oogi flew over the city with Tenzin at the reigns. "How do we even know the people responsible are even in Republic City?" Bumi questioned.

Tenzin looked back at his brother. "They have too it's our only hope of stopping them in time." Tenzin focused back on the buildings seeing what they could find from the air.

-K-

Korra rod through the middle of the city on Naga, the polar bear dog stopped in the middle of the street. Korra looked around in frustration. "Urgh, where could it be?" She had Naga head forward.

-K-

Mako rode through the streets as every building around him transformed. "Now if I wanted to keep a portal to past hidden where would I go?" The fire bending policeman sped up on his bike and turned a corner.

A half hour later Mako found an abandon looking warehouse where he spotted two men with the Fire Nation emblem on their shoulders walked inside. Mako got off his bike and sneaked around the back to look inside a window. "This has to be it."

He saw inside to spot several mecha tanks, electrically-charged gloves, smoke grenades, and several other weapons along with fire benders, non-benders dressed as Fire Nation equalist and banners of the Fire Nation that 'Warring Fire' written on bottom of them filled the warehouse. Right in the middle of it all a large machine with a large ring attached to it had a large wormhole inside it.

Mako leaped off of the box he stood on and head over to his motorcycle. He turned on the radio and grabbed the speaker. "Attention, all units I've found the base. Repeat I've found the base. Please respond."

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