Back in time
Summary: Lin visits the spirit world and gets thrown back in time, 74 years back in time. With knowledge of future events, will she change history, or keep it the same?
Ch 1 the beginning
Lin woke up in the night and looked from her bedroom window, seeing the spirit portal in the middle of the destroyed city.
"Man, what a shit show." She muttered, putting her armor on.
In a trance like state, Lin walked thru the city and towards the spirit portal. She didn't know why, but she felt compelled to go there. Lin felt the glow of the spirit portal pass through her as she walked away from the physical world, and into the spirit world.
"Wow." Lin said, seeing the spirit world for the first time. Colors and flora unknown to humans were shown all over the place.
"Morning, human." A spirit said.
"It's nighttime in Republic City." Lin dryly said.
"Indeed. You're an interesting person. We've been watching you." The spirit said, and more spirits appeared.
Lin recognized the spirits shown. Sokka, Suki, Iroh, Aang, her grandparents, and her father, Kanto.
"Dad?" Lin asked, seeing the spirit.
Kanto looked at Lin and smiled back.
"You've been watching me?" Lin asked.
"We have." Sokka said.
Lin couldn't speak. A tear rolled down her face, touched that she saw her friends and family from years ago.
"You were always interested in history. How about a chance to live it yourself?" the spirit asked.
"Are you serious?" Lin asked, not believing the spirit.
"I am. I'm the spirit of time. I can send someone back in time, if they wish." The spirit said.
"Have you done this before?" Lin asked.
"This is the first time." The spirit replied.
"Well, I've always heard stories of how my mom and her friends ended the 100-year war. I'd like to live that. To see what it was like." Lin said.
"So be it. But let me warn you. You can still die, and you have the potential to heavily alter the future course of events as you know it. So take care." The spirit said.
"When it's all done, I'll be back right where I am, correct?" Lin asked.
"Correct." The spirit said, then touched Lin's eyes.
Lin felt herself black out, and all her senses ceased to exist.
Suddenly, like a sharp pain she awoke and clutched her head, suffering a massive headache.
"Oh fuck." She muttered, and stood up.
What Lin saw was snow, snow, more fucking snow.
"I can't believe it. I traveled back in time." Lin said, and walked thru the snow, half-expecting to be in the southern water tribe.
She continued her walk and heard something she didn't want to hear. The growl of wolf. Lin slowly turned to face the animal, and saw it.
The wolf then charged forward, and Lin stood where she was, waiting for the right moment to strike. Just when the wolf leaped up for the kill, Lin dove out of the way and fired her wrist knives at the wolf, firing at the underbelly.
The wolf cried in pain, and charged again. It bit at Lin's armor, breaking thru the metal and drawing some blood, causing Lin to clench her teeth in pain, trying not to cry out.
"What does it take?" Lin muttered thru clenched teeth, and wrapped her cables around the wolf's neck, then proceeded to crush its neck, killing it.
"About time." Lin muttered, and continued to head towards what she hoped would be a village. Hours passed, and Lin collapsed from exhaustion. The last thing she saw, was two teenagers heading towards her.
'Sokka? Katara?'
Katara and Sokka were hunting for food for their village, being the only ones who were able to do so. In the distance, they saw a body and headed towards it. Coming closer, they saw an older woman, wearing a metal armor they'd never seen before.
"Who's she?" Katara asked.
"Don't know, don't care. She's wearing metal armor, and is probably a fire nation soldier." Sokka said, pulling out his knife.
"Sokka, I doubt she's fire nation. Look at her eyes." Katara said, opening Lin's eyelids and saw green eyes.
"Fine. Lets take her back to the village. First that bald kid with the arrows and the bison, now this. I wonder what else is going to happen." Sokka said.
Southern water tribe village
Lin woke up in a tent and saw another person sleeping. Lin silently moved towards the person, and saw it was Aang. For a moment, she sat there and observed the avatar. She couldn't believe that Aang had reincarnated into Korra of all the people selected to be the avatar. And she couldn't believe that she was seeing Aang, just after he was freed from the iceberg.
Aang quickly woke from a nightmare, and looked at Lin.
"Good, you're awake." Lin said.
"I'm Aang. Who are you?"
"Call me Lin."
"Where do you come from, Lin?" Aang asked.
Thankfully, Lin thought of a cover for the moment. She only hoped the lie would hold.
"I'm from the earth kingdom." Lin said.
"Neat. I have some friends in the earth kingdom, and the fire nation. All over the world." Aang happily said, as he put on his clothes.
"Aang, the village wants to meet you." Katara said, and took him outside. Sokka walked inside the tent and faced Lin.
"So who are you?" Sokka asked.
"My name is Lin. I'm a soldier in the earthkingdom." Lin lied.
"How'd you end up here?" Sokka asked.
"The war is going very badly for the earth kingdom, I'm sure you know. I was sent to scout any weakness in the fire nation territories. Got spotted, and had to get the hell out of doge. Got on a ship, only for the fire navy to catch up. I escaped, played dead by floating on the water, and ended up here." Lin continued.
"Okay. What about your armor? Never seen anything like that." Sokka said.
"Special forces armor. Very secret force." Lin said.
Sokka still didn't believe Lin, but allowed her to stay.
"… Extinct?" Aang asked, as gran-gran said that the air nomads were extinct.
"What's this, a weapon? You can't stab anyone with this." Sokka said, taking Aang's staff.
"Sure you can. Any object can be used as weapon." Lin said, holding her right arm in front of her chest, and brandished her knife.
"How'd you do that? Mechanism in your armor?" Sokka asked.
"You can say that." Lin said, pushing the blade inside.
"So what's the staff for?" Sokka asked.
"It's for airbending." Aang said, and opened the staff into a glider.
"Magic trick. Do it again." A young girl said.
"Not magic. Airbending. It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly." Aang explained.
"You know, last time I checked, people can't fly." Sokka said.
"Check again." Aang said, and launched into the air, and performed several aerial tricks for the village to see.
Lin couldn't help but smile. It was nice to see Aang so calm and worry-free. Too bad he'd be forced to learn about the war anytime soon.
Lin was brought out of her thoughts when Aang ran into a guard tower.
"My watchtower!" Sokka gasped. Lin was briefly reminded of Huan, when he flipped about seeing his sculpture ruined, courtesy of Lin and Su.
"Great. You're an airbender, Katara's a waterbender, and Lin carries weapons inside her armor. Lovely." Sokka said.
"I can train you in hand to hand if you want." Lin offered.
"No thanks. I'd rather learn by myself, then by an old woman." Sokka said.
"So you can't beat me, can you?" Lin smirked, goading the proud warrior.
Sokka's face went red, and fumes left his ears. With a war cry, he charged the metal-bender only for Lin to sidestep Sokka and grab his coat. She used his momentum against him and threw him in the snowbank.
"One thing you should know. Use your opponents' momentum against them." Lin said.
Sokka stood up and charged Lin, swinging his club at her. Lin dodged the club then tripped Sokka and knocked him on his back.
"You should give up your attitude now." Lin said, knowing full well that Sokka did ditch the chauvinism.
Meanwhile, Katara talked to her grandmother about the two newcomers.
"Katara, you shouldn't place all your hopes into this one boy." Gran-gran said.
"But he's special. I can tell. I sense much wisdom inside him." Katara said.
"And the older woman?" Gran-gran asked.
Katara watched Lin walk away from Sokka, after beating him in a match.
"Time will tell, but I have a good feeling about her." Katara said.