Korra was trapped. With her hands, bond behind her back, gripped so tight that she was unable to firebend herself out, she quickly realised that her determination to bring down Tarrlok had become her downfall. She acted too quick, didn't inform neither Tenzin nor her friends of her whereabouts, and now she was paying for it. Oh, how she was paying for it!

"Tarrlok, you snake!" yelled Korra and pushed herself back and forth, making as much noise as possible. "Let me out and I'll show you how a real waterbender should fight!"

"I'm afraid I'll pass, Avatar Korra." Tarrlok replied from the front of the truck. "I'll make sure you never see Republic city again. I warned you not to mess with my affairs."

"What you did was wrong! You arrested innocent people, you are turning into Amon!"

The truck violently stopped and Korra was thrown across the trailer. When Tarrlok spoke, from his voice issued anger.

"I am NOTHING like Amon. I am doing this to save the city. MY city."

"When did it become YOUR city?" asked Korra. "Avatar Aang built it."

"Your little walk the day you came showed you just how dangerous this place can be, especially at night. Face it, Korra - without a strong leader this city will fall apart."

"And I suppose YOU are that special strong leader, huh?" Korra laughed. "Get over yourself, Tarrlok, Tenzin will stop you."

The truck slowly increased its speed and, by the bumps on the road, Korra suggested that they had left the road.

"Tenzin, like you, will be removed if he shows restraint. I have the support of the council, the police is also under my control. You can't stop me, Avatar, noone can."

The bumps increased as Korra stopped sensing the scent of the ocean - Tarrlok was taking her away from the city. Funny, she thought he was going to load the truck onto a ship and send her back to the South Pole. On one hand, it was a bit of a relief - Korra wouldn't have had the strength to tell Katara she had failed her. Plus, Tenzing would definitely forbid her to return to the city.

"It's too dangerous, you got kidnapped!" she almost heard him say.

On the other hand, it did raise a sticky question.

Where was Tarrlok taking her?

She had to get out of here. Who knows how the city would react if the Avatar suddenly vanished. No, she wouldn't let neither Republic city nor her friends down. And if she left a bloodbending ponytail freak get the best of her, then what kind of Avatar was she?

"I urge you to meditate." Tenzin's words suddenly surfaced in her mind. "Aang's spirit might be trying to tell you something."

Alright, said Korra to herself as she sat in meditating stance, a stance she quickly came to hate in the beginning as her legs always felt sore after it. She breathed deeply and exhaled, trying to release her mind from everything in this world and let herself to "the flow". Faces quickly rushed before her eyes as she tried to forget them and focus on contacting Aang. Tenzing and Pema, the airbender kids, Naga, Asami and Bolin, Mako...

Mako. Korra sighed - she knew this was gonna happen.

"Get out of the way, gorgeous." she mumbled and tried to shove his image away. "I'm trying to get spiritual and stuff in here."

Finally, Mako gave in and Korra gladly threw him with the rest of the gang. There was no time to swoon around and make girly squeaks, for she had to contact Aang and give Tarrlok a serious ass-kicking lesson, Avatar style.

"Aang, where are you?"

New images flooded her mind, but these were not her memories - they were Aang's. They raced with such speed Korra lost track of most of them, though she could swear she saw a guy with a ponytail, doing the worm in the middle of the desert, yelling "Dink cactus juice... IT'S THE QUENCHIEST!".

Suddenly, the images stopped and Korra felt a warming presence. She knew she had finally contacted the builder of Republic City, the past Avatar.

"Aang."