AN: Short chapter, this is made more or less as a bridge between two larger ones.


Chapter 2: The Steel Balls.

Two days later.

After two days of intensive treatment by part of the waterbenders of the Republic City's hospital, all the persons, Lin and Mako included that were injured in the warehouse incident were recovered and ready to come back to work and investigate the group that attacked them.

Lin had reunited a selected group to investigate them and take them down. Now all of them were reunited, ready to listen Lin's briefing

"Ok, all of you." Lin talked in a calm voice, she didn't show signs of have been in the hospital until two hours ago.

"In this moment we know very few things about them." She continued. "But we got some leads from where we can begin."

She took from a box next to her three sheets of paper.

"First, these are the approximated portraits of the men who attacked us in the warehouse, we believe this three are the ones with most power within the organization which is in itself not very big, if what we saw at the moment is most of them, as our first group was attcked by only five men plus this three."

She looked again to the box and took an strange device from it, it was a ball, made from what looked steel, it was small, as it could be grabbed with one hand.

Lin continued talking.

"We found this artifact in the same room where we confronted the suspects the next, I think it was being transported in one the boxes and it fell down when one of them dropped the box to the ground, we don't know what it does, and why are they using them, you must find it. Understood?"

All in the reunion nodded.

"This is all we have by the moment, sorry guys if it is almost nothing, but with the little we know, we must dig in this hole and get them out. Now, go, I trust we'll get them soon."

All the policemen and detectives left the room, leaving Lin and Mako alone, they didn't have time to talk since the Incident, and both were plagued by questions, who the didn't have answers.

"Ey, Chief." Said Mako. "Wouldn't be a good idea call Korra?" He said. "She has already shown to be able to overcome things more difficult than this."

Lin sighed.

"You are probably right, but after what happened to the city, I would prefer let this be solved in a discreet way, we don't need more collateral damage."

I that moment , in what it one could call it an horrible call of fate, one policeman entered the room running.

"CHIEF!" He shouted. "The Avatar is here. She is seriously injured."

"What?" Said Lin.

Mako felt as his hearth stopped and time stood still, that words felt like a rock had crushed his ribs.

"Where is she?" Asked, he couldn't contain his nerves.

"In the entrance, Lady Sato it's with her, we are preparing to transport them to the hospital."

After hearing that, Mako ran directly to where his friends were, narrowly avoiding the people in the way.

He finally arrived, Korra was in the ground, not moving and covered in a blanket. Asami was at her side, she had the face a bit red after being crying.

"Korra!" Mako run at her side, and crouched to see her condition.

He heard a faint breath, relieving him somewhat, her short hair was messy and her face had some cuts, he removed the blanket and was horrified after seeing what was happening to her.

She had cuts all over her body, and from them, some golden substance was emanating very slowly, it was nothing that Mako have ever saw.

"Asami..." He asked. "...What happened?"

"A man..." She said. "...A man with a crown attacked us."