The docks of Republic City were big and beautiful, with a lot of boats. One boat, however, looked extremely suspicious, with people carrying big boxes away from it. "Hurry up! We don't have long before-" Their boss yelled, A Water Tribe man with brown hair wearing blue clothes.
Water splashed down upon all of them. "-What?" He asked, looking up.
And then a girl landed and kicked him in the face, water splashing onto them both to make a water ball that slowed their fall.
The water ball exploded. "New record!" Satoru yelled, using the exploding water as ice to slice open the boxes while the workers dropped them in surprise, then she moved the ice to catch their legs and form icecubes around their legs and bodies that kept them stuck to the floor. "I just flew in from the South Pole, and boy, are my arms tired! Now, show me those..."
Fish spilled out of the boxes. Big, stupid fish.
"Fish?" She asked in surprise.
The man she'd landed on groaned. "No..."
"No way!" Satoru said, running off him and over to the fish, stepping on his face accidentally, searching through the fish. "There has to be- OH MY GOODNESS!"
Hidden by the fish, she found drugs. "Drugs!" She yelled, picking one up and throwing them at the boss. "What do these ones do? Amplify your chi? Make you see spirits? Make you stronger?"
"Uh... No, they just make you feel good."
"They're not even proper ones?" She asked angrily. She took water from the ocean and dunked the massive water whip on him, freezing him onto the docks in a huge iceberg. Then she melted the part covering his head, letting him breathe and see light. She didn't want to kill this guy.
Satoru folded her arms and looked around at the other ships, which were just passenger ships. "I'm here to beat the Triads!" She declared. "And I'm going to-"
She had an idea. She went over to the frozen block and pulled him out, then froze him in a smaller iceberg, only his head unfrozen, but the ice was creeping up slowly. "Who do you work for?!"
"I'll never talk!" He yelled back at her.
She moved her hand up, and the ice grew up the back of his head, freezing his hair and starting to pull his head so far his neck felt like it was going to snap. "Who do you work for?!" Satoru shouted, and he started to get scared.
"I can't tell you, they'll kill my family!" He yelled, terrified.
She moved like an earthbender and threw the frozen man into the air, higher than she'd thrown the rock earlier. It kept on rising and rising until his screams faded away, and then the screams faded in when the frozen man fell back down toward the ground, head-first, screaming and crying. Just before the frozen man fell, Satoru stopped him, then pulled him to her, so they saw eye to eye.
"Tell me, or I'll kill them myself!" Satoru shouted, bending water into her hand and making a big knife, then threatening him with it by putting it right up to his face, under his left eye. "Do you want your eyeless, toothless, gutless corpse to be the last thing your kids and wife see before I do the same to them?" She asked.
"IT'S THE TRIPLE THREATS! IT'S THE TRIPLE THRE-HE-HE-HETS!" He sobbed.
"Yes!" Satoru yelled, breaking the knife in her hand and letting the ice around the frozen man melt. He fell to the ground, sobbing weakly. "...Hey, who are the Triple Threats?"
"They work out the back of a restaurant near Central City Station!" He yelled. "They run protection rackets and fix Pro Bending matches, they're the only bending gang that have members from all three elements!"
"All four elements." Satoru corrected.
"No airbender helps the triads!" He yelled.
She bended water into her hand and made a knife again. "Tell me where I can find Central City Station." She demanded, aiming it at his heart.
"That way, near the middle of the city!" He said, pointing.
Satoru began to walk away.
"Wait! You can't leave me like this, the Triads will kill us!" He yelled. "All of us, and our families! We didn't want this life, but the Triads-"
"You have a boat, don't you?" Satoru asked, pointing at the boat they were taking fish and drugs from. "If this town sucks so bad, why not just leave?"
"It's just a fishing boat, it can't go too far from shore!" He yelled.
"Say no more." Satoru said, and began to waterbend. She made a massive warboat, with a dragon on the bow and fifty attached oars, but instead of a dragon's head, it had her head and upper body on it, and she was smiling, both hands giving thumbs-up. "This will get you anywhere in the world you want. Try the South Pole, the seafood's great over there. Just tell them Satoru Satoshi sent you!"
"Thank you!" He shouted, getting on his knees and bowing to her, then running off to help break the ice keeping the other workers trapped. Satoru melted the ice for him, and they ran to the new boat, ready to sail away.
And then metal strings pierced the boat, keeping it stuck.
More metal strings came towards the workers, catching them and pulling them back.
Satoru turned around, and saw people in grey metal armour shoot those metal strings, catching the workers and putting handcuffs on them. And at the center, there was a woman with grey hair, a very stern and scary-looking woman. It was Lin Beifong, and she went straight for Satoru.