THE WORLD OF BENDERS AND SPLICERS PART 1: THE LAST AVATAR

CHAPTER 1: The Bullet

Avatar Doyle seals off to the Fire Nation after having been told about some sort of invasion carried out by House Maverick and other water families. He is very disciplined and focused; something that hadn't been seen probably since Kyoshi. He doesn't have many friends and spent most of his life training hard to become a great avatar, and this could be his opportunity to help people and make himself recognized.

Doyle leaves his boat when he reaches the nearest shore and proceeds to walk. He doesn't know what's going on exactly, but is ready for anything. He then walks close to a group of soldiers in blue uniforms and becomes quiet and stealthy.

"What should I do now?" –Asks Doyle to himself-

"hmmm.. I guess trying to talk to them is all I can do" –Doyle thinks-

"Hey! Can we talk?" –Says Doyle to the soldiers while coming out and walking up to them-

"Oh Shit! It's the Avatar. What do we do sir?" –Asks a soldier to his squad commander-

"TAKE HIM OUT!".

The soldiers fire their rifles at Doyle and he quickly reacts by trying to bend their bullets away, but he can barely divert them.

"Those bullets are so fast... I never came against anything like this. It takes a lot of my energy just to barely avoid them" –Doyle thinks-

Doyle raises an earth wall to protect himself but instantly notices how fast the bullets destroy it, so he starts retreating while bending the elements against the soldiers and propels himself away with an air blast.

"FALL BACK, CALL REINFORCEMENTS!" –Doyle hears from the soldiers-

"They don't even need to bend any water at me... I can't effectively survive this without also killing people. I don't want that; I must escape and think of something else ...maybe warn the Earth Republic of how bad this could be" –thinks Doyle to himself-

Avatar Doyle runs to his boat but it gets destroyed by a helicopter; it then fired a rocket at Doyle but he manages to catch it and bends it back at the helicopter, but then immediately sends it away and raises the seawater below the helicopter and freeze it in place, as he doesn't want to kill anyone. Then a tank fires fairly close to him, making him a bit stunned and deaf. In the middle of his war dizziness, he notices the helicopter quickly gets freed from the ice and the pilots are already bending a water wave at Doyle since most of this army is water benders. At the same time, there's a swarm of guys coming with more tanks and helicopters surrounding him and pinning him to the shore. The wave starts freezing as it falls towards Doyle and a hundred projectiles approach him, but right at that moment he goes into Avatar state and is able to deflect everything in a display of powerful rage, holding many of the soldiers and war vehicles down in place by earth bending strait piles of earth, while also thinking to himself:

"A single one of these bullets can still kill me, I can't risk it. Must get out of here now"

So he flies away and then freezes a block of ice making himself a new boat. On the way to the Earth Republic, Doyle hears Korra's voice while lying down:

"I need you to meditate right now"

Doyle: "Fine" –goes into the spirit world- "What is it?" –whispers lower and giggles- "Korra cacorra pfff hehe"

Korra: "What...? ..Anyway, I need to show you something..."

Korra starts narrating: "Varrick was a visionary. He worked on one ambitious and dangerous thing after another"

Doyle: "Oh yeah, he was awesome. I'm sorry, go on".

Korra: "I'll show you these images..."

(In the images)
Varrick: "This Amon guy was a bit of an extremist, wasn't he?" –Says while holding a piece of propaganda of his-"I got an idea. What if instead of taking bending away from benders.. we give bending to non-benders "

Korra: "Whoa, hold it right there buddy. I absolutely can't do that"

Varrick: "No no, it's ok. I'll find a way to do it myself... and while I'm at it, I'll build my own city" –he stands up smiling with his arms wide spread- "that will be my true legacy. Varrick Ryan's legend has only begun"

Korra: "Wait what? What do you have in mind? I don't see how you could possibly... aren't you afraid about offending the spirits?"

Varrick: "I won't do it the traditional way. I don't need you or a turtle lion. I'll do it with science" –he winks and gets his coat- "I'll go tell Zhu Li to do the thing"

Korra: "Wait..."
(End of the images)

Doyle: "Hey Korra, look. I don't know where are you going with all this but I'm almost at the shore so... do you mind if we talk about this later?"

Korra: "but..."

/Avatar Doyle gets to the council/

The President: "So, what did you find on your visit to the now completely taken Fire Nation? I bet you made them think twice before bringing their toys to where there are so many metal benders"

Doyle: "That's the thing. Those projectiles are too fast... that's a challenge of its own. Besides, they are made out of lead; not a very easy to bend metal. I barely survived back there... even having gone into the Avatar state. This situation could get really bad Mr. President"

The President: "I'll think of something. Thanks for your help Avatar. It would do you some good to relax and hang out with some friends after your close death experience"

Doyle: "Friends? I've only been talking to people who are already dead... but now that you mention it. I might call a good old friend"

(somewhere outside the Council Doyle gets into a phone booth)
?: "Yes? Who is it?"

Doyle: "Oh fuck, is that you?"
?: "Doyle? Haha, is the Avatar too busy to hang out with his best friend now?... That's, if I'm still your best friend of course"

Doyle: "What? Of course you are Rafaél and.. ARE YOU EVEN AWARE OF WHAT YOUR FATHER IS DOING?

Rafaél: "Oh!, well yeah, so? Listen, why don't you come to the palace?"

Doyle: "Thank the spirits you're there. I thought for a moment you were part of the invasion and were in the Fire Nation or something. But anyhow.. is it ok if I go there? Would anyone try to kill me?"

Rafaél: "Nah, I didn't go there. I'll make sure nobody does try to kill you, relax. Just make sure you bring appropriate clothing to the cold south, it is particularly cold here at Sabana Andes this time a year. Just how I love it"

/Avatar Doyle is on his way to Sabana Andes/

Korra: "Is this a good moment for me to continue?"

Doyle: "Ugh... It's you again. What do you want?

Korra: "May I finish telling you what I have to? I mean... I was so excited to have Aang trying to tell me something back in the day"

Doyle: "It was different. I would be excited if Aang wanted to contact me too, but I digress. Sure, tell me what it is about Varrick and a city and bending from science... all that jazz"

Korra: "Varrick Ryan eventually announced his city finished and... 'habitable', which sounded a bit weird to me. He said it could be expanded and be built further but it was already... 'habitable'. Next thing I know, Varrick and thousands of non-benders disappear into the ocean. Nobody has ever found that alleged city... like, where did they all go? 21 years later little girls start disappearing everywhere as well"

Doyle: "Oh yeah, that's the last everyone knew of Varrick... and all those non-benders. What happened to them and what does it have to do with little girls disappearing?"

Korra: "That's for you to find out Avatar Doyle"

Doyle: "Look, I would really like to help you solve this mystery right now but I got a national security situation going on and... it's very important I do what I can to prevent a massive slaughter. I'll find the missing non-benders as soon as this is over, I promise"

Korra: "Maybe they'll find you first..."

/Doyle walking with Rafaél Maverick into the Sabana Andes Citadel/

Rafaél: "Welcome to my humble citadel"

Doyle: "Yeah... real humble. What's with all those formed soldiers?

Rafaél: "I'm supposed to lead them during the final phase of the invasion... but, let's not talk about that... it's boring stuff. So, Doyle Martell, you turned out to be so much more than a sand bender ...haven't heard much of you since you started being busy with all that avatar stuff. Do you mind telling me about all your adventures?

Doyle: "NO, I'm here exclusively to talk about that invasion shit"

Rafaél: "Oh! Well, you see..." –leads Doyle to his chamber while talking- "My dad engineered this bullet thing, it's brilliant but it's metal. So he came up with this world invasion strategy. He took over the Fire Nation really quick, almost overnight with a decent amount of troops and also some inside help from the Targaryens. He likes to be called Chief Maverick only now"

Doyle: "Wait a second... he must also have had to take over the Water tribe... the North's also under his command. How did it happen?"

Rafaél: "Our killer penguins gave us a tactical advantage on that one. I'm surprised you didn't try to interfere then though"

Doyle: "I couldn't, it was also too fast. For how long has this been in the planning?"

Rafaél: "For a while... so yeah. The bullet has brought us this far but now we must continue without it. You know... metal benders and all. Even if there are a few of them, they could make everything backfire too hard on us. So it's old school from now on"

Doyle: "Wait, you aren't taking anything metal to the Earth Republic?"

Rafaél: "No, are you insane? You and other metal benders could completely make it not worth it to carry metal shit around. Hey, by the way... you'd do good to stay out of this one. The Earth Republic is going to be completely stormed from every possible direction, and... the world balance as you see it has had to come to an end, sorry to say pal"

Doyle: "You're better than this. Come on man! And what about your mother? I don't see her being ok with this. What was her opinion on this?"

Rafaél: "Oh! Well, you're right. She left the citadel ...and went off to live a spiritual and peaceful life... with the freaking air nomads since she's an airbender and all"

Doyle: "Why didn't you go with her?"

Rafaél: "Amm... I'm not an air bender. Hey... the soldiers, they're coming... your visit must have been reported to my father... you gotta get out of here now" –says while taking a look through the window-

A soldier breaks the door open and says: "I'm sorry my lord, gotta give your guest the courtesy greeting". Rafaél freezes his blood and helps Doyle scape.

Doyle: "I didn't know waterbenders could do that... that's disturbing. Are you a... blood freezer? Anyway, thanks for helping me. Goodbye my friend" –says while leaving through a secret exit-

/Back with the President/

Doyle: "No, they are not bringing their weapons, they are under the same assumption that metal benders will just be highly effective against them. The problem has solved itself... well, except for the war part... and the occupied Fire Nation part"

President: "Oh well, we already thought of something Mr. Avatar. We will however have your intelligence findings in mind, they are very useful... but, I'll be daring any Maverick supporter to step into the Earth Republic..."