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Korra awoke with a start, the sound of Tenzin yelling jolting her from her sleep. She quickly ran to see what the trouble was, wearing only her blue nightie. She entered the living room to see Tenzin with the biggest smile on his face she had ever seen. Well it was the only smile on his face she had ever seen now that she recalled.
"Okay, who gave Tenzin happy pills?" Korra asked no one in particular.
"Oh, Korra!" The airbending master exclaimed as soon as he caught site of his student. He cleared his throat as recomposed himself.
"Korra, we are to be expecting a very important guest here on Air Temple Island. He will be staying for a few weeks and I expect you to be on your best behavior." Tenzin said in his usual no-nonsense tone. Korra rolled her eyes and asked,
"Will do. So who's the big wig? Some rich, uptight, fat guy of a politician?" Tenzin narrowed his eyes a little and replied,
"No. He is Captain Shin Raikou." Korra just stared at her master, the importance of the name clearly being lost on her.
"Korra, please. Captain Shin Raikou? Achieved the rank of Captain in just under a year of his enlistment? Saved the entire Southern Earth Kingdom from a fascist terrorist group bent on world domination a year ago? The youngest and most decorated war hero in recent history?" Tenzin listed off, but was still met with a look of indifference and lack of acknowledgement.
"Perhaps you would know him better by the name those childish comic books gave him? What was it again, Captain Avenger?" Tenzin tried one last time, but this time Korra's face beamed.
"Captain Avenger is coming here?! Why didn't you say so?!" Korra shouted, almost waking the rest of the household.
"Now Korra ..." Tenzin began, attempting to quiet the girl, but was ignored.
"This is so exciting! It's not every day you get a real life superhero staying at your house."
"Korra, he's not a superhero." Tenzin sighed as he rubbed the bridge of his nose.
"Come on Tenzin. He's as strong as an earthbender, as fast as an ostrich-horse, and he beat an entire platoon of gun-totting goons with nothing but a shield!" Korra said excitedly.
Tenzin was confused, to say the least, about Korra's sudden fan-girl praising. In fact the only other people Tenzin knew of Korra respecting this much was his father Avatar Aang and his mother. And that was about it.
"Yes, well, I'm sure those are just exaggerations made by the press. They tend to do that for drama's sake." Tenzin said, but Korra pretended not to hear him.
"Anyway, Colonel Furukawa said he will be arriving sometime around lunch." Tenzin said.
"Why so soon?" Korra asked, snapping out of her fan girl mode.
"The good Captain was very close by as it was, having decided to travel since taking early retirement from the military, and when he heard you where here Korra he wanted to meet you."
"And he's staying for a few weeks because..."
"From what Colonel Furukawa said, he simply wanted to see Republic City, take a bit of a vacation as it were."
Korra had dragged Mako, Bolin, and Asami to the train station. Apparently Captain Raikou was just a city over, so his train would be arriving any moment.
"This is going to be so awesome!" Korra said, practically bouncing with excitement, as she looked to see the train approaching. Her three friends looked at her oddly, surprised by this sudden hero worship.
"Okay, Korra we get that you really look up to the guy but can you tone it down a little? People are starting to stare." Asami said, causing Korra to compose herself.
"Yeah I guess I'm a little excited." The Avatar admitted.
"A little excited?" Bolin chimed in.
"Try a lot excited." Mako said, causing Korra to sigh.
"I can't help it. You might not believe this, but there was a time when I was pretty scared about being The Avatar. When I heard about those terrorists in the Earth Kingdom, I got scared because I realized I'd be facing those kind of people sooner or later. It made me think that maybe one person can't make a difference, Avatar or not. Then reading those comic books about this one guy, a non-bender, who took on entire towns worth of bad guys with just a shield and his smarts made me feel a lot better. It made me realize that if he can stand up for what's right even without bending, without fear, then so can I."
At this point the train rolled up. Passengers began to disembark as the Avatar and her friends began scanning the crowd for the Captain.
"Shouldn't we have brought a sign or something?" Mako asked as he stopped looking, realizing he had no idea what the man looked like.
"Tenzin said we'd know when we saw him. He'd be wearing a blue bandanna." Korra said as she looked around for the Captain. Suddenly she saw a man walking towards them. He was a fairly young man, barely into his 20's from the looks of him. He wore a blue shirt, red fingerless gloves, blue pants, red boots, and on his head was a blue bandanna with a white United Republic symbol in the middle of his forehead, and had a pair of goggles above his brow. He was carrying a dark green duffle bag and had something strapped to his back.
"Avatar Korra I presume? I'm Captain Shin Raikou, nice to meet you." The Captain said as he extended his hand for Korra to shake. And shake she did.
"Um, you know who I am?" Korra asked dumbly, excitedly shaking the man's hand.
"Yes, I saw your picture in the paper. So you're a pro-bender as well as the Avatar huh? Gotta say that would make for a pretty impressive resume." Captain Raikou said as Korra blushed a little, still quite enthusiastically shaking the man's hand.
"Um, Avatar Korra?" Shin said, causing Korra to reply,
"Oh please, just call me Korra." Shin smiled and replied,
"Korra?"
"Yes?"
"I'm gonna need that hand back."
"Oh! Sorry!" Korra said, quickly retracting her hand, cursing herself in her mind.
"So are these friends of yours?" Captain Raikou asked, nodding towards the three standing behind Korra.
"Oh, yeah. Captain Raikou this is Mako, Bolin, and Asami."
"Shin is fine and nice to meet all of you." Shin said as he shook their hands.
"Is there any place to eat nearby? I'm starving." Shin said as Bolin suggested Narook's Seaweed Noodlery and pointed in its direction. Shin turned to head that way, revealing the thing strapped to his back was a large silvery shield with a star carved in the middle of it.
Mako and Bolin had to head home, leaving Korra and Asami to show Captain Raikou to Narook's. They entered and ordered their food, Shin telling a few anecdotes from his time in the military as they waited for their food.
"And when we got back to the barracks, the turkey-duck had made a nest in Liang's bunk. Let me tell you, I don't know who was angrier, Liang or the turkey-duck when he tried to move it out of his bunk." Shin said, causing Korra and Asami to laugh. Shin was about to tell another story, when he saw a scene at the counter that made him go quiet. Narook was putting money into a bag, held by a man who had a stern look on his face. Shin looked around to see another man at the entrance with his collar raised to obscure his face, and yet another man at the rear entrance with a scarf tied around his lower face. Shin frowned as he quietly slipped the shield off his back.
"Korra, Asami, get under the table." Shin whispered. The girls looked at him curiously before he said,
"Just do it, trust me." Shin said as the two did as instructed, though reluctantly. Shin got up, pulling his goggles down over his eyes, and walked quietly over to the robber, Korra and Asami watching from under the table. He grabbed the man by the back of the head and slammed it into the counter. The man at the front entrance shot a blast of fire from his hand, but Shin threw his shield at him, knocking him through the door. The shield bounced back to Shin, who then quickly turned just in time to block a barrage of water darts from the last crook. The man soon ran out of water and drew a knife, running toward the Captain. Shin ducked and used his shield to flip the man over, before kicking him which sent him flying out the window and half way across the street. Shin put his shield back on his back and looked around.
"Everyone okay?" Shin asked. One of the patrons, a young boy, slowly walked up to Shin. He had in his hands the comic book he had been reading. He held it up and compared the cover of the comic, which depicted a man wearing a costume that looked very much like Shin's outfit(A/N: Look up the costume for Captain America: The Winter Soldier).
"Hey! Captain Avenger just saved us!" The boy shouted as the other patrons then began to cheer.
"Hey, it is Captain Avenger!"
"He's so handsome!"
"Finally a real hero instead of these freak vigilantes! And look at the symbol on his head, a real patriot too!"
These were just some of the things Shin heard before he was quickly escorted out of the establishment by Korra and Asami.
"What was that about?" Shin asked asked as Korra and Asami rushed him into a taxi.
"They think you're a superhero like your comic book." Asami said, looking out the back window of the taxi to see a crowd gathered.
"I have a comic book?" Shin asked as the taxi drove the three to the harbor.
