Korra:

When I finally woke up, I had no idea where I was at first… my head was pounding and pretty much everywhere else on my body ached; except my side. That just stung like hell whenever I tried to move. I was lying in a bed underneath a white silk blanket, in a little room and there was an IV in my arm. At first I thought this meant I was in a hospital somewhere, but no. I found hospitals unnerving and nothing about this place was playing on my fight or flight response. That's when it registered that I was in the infirmary on Air Temple Island.

Sheesh… I'd had the craziest dream ever. Aang had been there… we were being held captive together in a metal prison… in the basement of some cabin in the mountains outside the city. But he'd been young, not the man I saw in my visions but the boy who'd ended the Great War. Amon had come… his chi blockers had rendered us both powerless and he'd beaten each of us to a pulp… but that couldn't have actually happened could it? Was that even possible? I'd grown up with stories of wartime and I'd heard of some pretty strange and amazing things happening. Things that you wouldn't think should be possible. I didn't know and I was still a little too out of it to care very much one way or the other. If Aang really had been there I hoped he was ok, but I didn't want to risk asking for fear of sounding like I'd finally lost it.

Amon, almost a week previously:

In my great plan for equality it dawned on me that taking the avatar's bending away wouldn't in fact help get rid of bending but ensure its survival. Once she was reborn the next incarnation would be an earthbender and the quest for equality would have been all for not.

In the interest of preserving my identity I decided to take a "hide in plain sight" approach. I needed to look through the city's vast archives, but I couldn't risk being recognized as the city's most wanted criminal. I removed my mask and took a look around the giant library housed inside city hall behind the council room. Though I despised the place even I had to admit that it was impressive…

I found what I need among thousands of books brought here years ago from the spirit library of ancient times. In that book I learned how to travel through time, and how to destroy the avatar permanently even if the current avatar couldn't be killed in the avatar state. All I had to do was bring Avatar Aang into this time and kill him. If I could do that, he and his current incarnation would both die and the avatar would cease to exist at all. This was the answer, and I was the solution.

I opened a portal to exactly seventy years ago to the day in Ba Sing Se, my childhood interest in history served me well here. I saw Avatar Aang, as a young boy once again, meditating on the balcony of a house in the Upper Ring of Ba Sing Se. At my will, he was transported here where my chi-blockers blocked his bending and electrocuted him, knocking him out… There was nothing in his reaction to this that told me he'd even noticed.

Once I had him, I paid off that power-hungry fool Tarrlok to gian access to Avatar Korra, whom he was already holding captive.

Aang in Ba Sing Se 6 months after war's end:

We'd come back to Ba Sing Se for a meeting between Zuko, the Earth King, and myself to discuss how to handle the problem posed by the Fire Nation colonies on Earth Kingdom territory. I was on the balcony at dawn, meditating just like I did every morning that I had the chance to. Helping rebuild a nation as vast as the Earth Kingdom and healing scars left by over one-hundred years of war had proved even more daunting than I'd anticipated. This is where I got to step back from everything I had in front of me... it always had been that but was even more Important now.

When I stopped meditating I wasn't in Ba Sing Se anymore. That much I knew. My arms and legs were bound with metal shackles and I was in a fast moving metal box… I was noticing a theme here, metal. Clearly whoever had somehow managed to bring me here without disturbing me knew exactly who they were dealing with. After we'd been moving for a while the box opened. I was grabbed out of the box by two strange people in masks who immediately chi-blocked me.

In the distance I could hear another man giving them orders, but I couldn't see who it was. They took me down to the basement of a small wooden cabin. As they brought me in I looked around, trying to figure out where I'd been taken, I saw that we were in the mountains somewhere. But that was all I could figure out before I couldn't see outside anymore.

In the basement was yet another metal box… one of the masked men pushed a button on the side of the box, causing it to expand to about twice its width without opening. Then they used a strange device that I'd never seen. It looked like the box had somehow been shot with lightning and I could hear what sounded like a girl screaming from inside. Then they opened the box and threw me in. They laughed at the girl already inside the box, which made me mad.

"You've got company." One of them told her before forcing me in the box too and sealing it shut.

I tried to bust out, but I wasn't a metal bender. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't get it to budge. I'd have to take my old friend Bumi's advice and wait for an opportunity. So I just sat down with my back against the wall of the box and waited.

Katara, Ba Sing Se seventy years ago:

I couldn't believe what I'd just seen. One minute and gone the next. He'd just disappeared out of thin air. My mouth fell open in shock… Sokka, Suki, Taph, and I looked everywhere for him for hours and came up empty. Finally at sunset, after having split up hours ago to cover more ground we finally met up. We didn't need to say anything. If any of us had found him he'd have been there with us.

"Where could Aang be?

"Katara we've searched the entire city and found no sign of him" Sokka reminded me. I wasn't in the mood to be reminded of what we already knew and I rolled my eyes at him. That's when things got weird.

A tall, old man with a long white beard, wearing dark red robes that were obviously Fire Nation appeared before us.

"Who the heck are you old man? We don't have time for this. We have a missing friend track down!" Toph yelled at him, having already taken a fighting stance.

"I know Toph, I'm actually here to help. I am Avatar Roku, the avatar before Aang." the man told us.

"You're…him?" Sokka asked.

"Yes."

"Do you know where Aang is?"

"We are in a very strange and very dangerous situation… Aang has been captured and taken into the future. He was taken into the lifetime of his successor by that avatar's enemies."

"How is that even possible?" Sokka asked.

"Why would someone do that anyway?" Suki added.

"They have already captured Avatar Korra, who will be Aang's future reincarnation. With the two of them in the mortal world at the same time it becomes much easier for them to destroy the avatar once and for all." Roku explained. "If they manage to kill Aang while he is in the future, taken from a point long before his own death, it will force an earlier reincarnation and it will kill Korra and anyone else who's existence is dependent upon Aang's future; but most importantly, as she dies Korra will be forced into the avatar state, and if she dies in the avatar state, the reincarnation cycle will be broken and the avatar's very existence will di with her."

We were all speechless for a little while, kind of in shock at what Roku had told us.

"Well then, how do we help them?" Sokka finally asked. He had that determined look on his face.

"I can get you to the future, and I can warn those closest to Korra who are already searching for her that she isn't alone. Find them and get both of them out of there, before it is too late." He said.

Then before we knew it we were on the sidewalk in a huge city we'd never seen.

Makko:

We had split up to cover more area, but I was starting to think Korra wasn't even still in the city at all. I was about to suggest we stop for the night, when I heard the payphone on the corner start to ring.

"Makko are you there?" I heard Tenzin ask.

"Yes, this is Makko." I said. "I know what you're going to ask but… we haven't found her yet…anything on your end?"

"maybe…but you won't like it…actually you might not even believe me."

"Whatever it is if it helps us find Korra I'm all ears." I told him.

"Well… I don't know that it helps us… but time may be shorter than we thought. Korra isn't alone, wherever she is there's another hostage."

"Who is it?"

"That's the part you might not believe…it's my father…"