The day had been long so everyone retired early, Bolin and Korra built a small extension to the side of the house so Naga could sleep comfortably, and out of the snow. Though the polar bear – dog was used to the cold she did prefer to bee indoors near her master.

Korra was awake well into the early hours desperately thinking about the strange girl who she had suspected helped them in the fight against the chi blockers. But thinking so hard was taking it's toll so she promptly fell asleep after she gave up. Asami was sleeping upstairs in the only bedroom and Mako and Bolin had found sheets and pillows to sleep on the floor in front of the fire place. Korra was left with the couch, it was comfy enough and the pillows were soft.

It felt like she was only asleep for a few minutes when Bolin began shaking her shoulder to wake her, he sounded panicked and there was a dull roar of machines coming from behind the house. "the Mecha tanks! They found us?" She yelled and was up in an instant, everyone else was dressed and rushing outside to fight off what they thought were equalisats, however the shock on their faces when Iroh stood on the top of one of the fire nation tanks made them grin ear to ear.

Korra beamed and ran up to him. "General Iroh! I've heard so much about you how did you get here? Are you here to help us defeat Amon?" She looked back to her team then to the general who was trying to shush her but failing badly. Luckily her questions stopped long enough for him to clear his throat then explain. "Tenzin sent me a wire requesting I come to your aid. I'm glad you're all all right. Let's go inside we'll talk more there." He motioned for his men to use the tanks to circle the house and one man stayed in each one, the rest following the team inside.

Once everyone got acquainted and tables pulled up from the ground in an empty room Iroh sat down, motioning for the team to do the same. "Now tell me, what happened? Tenzin didn't give me much of an explanation and it looked urgent."

The team looked at each other, and they let Korra do the explaining. She told Iroh about her first encounter with Amon, Bolin jumping in once again praising her for saving his life. But he quieted down when Korra shot him a 'don't mention it' look. She continued on about the rallys and Amon's invasion of the stadium, then Tarlock kidnapping her.

Iroh nodded listening intently to her explaining how they got here, this new person they talked about intrigued him and he sat back in thought. They waited for him to say something but that didn't take long.

"This..girl. She attacked both sides am I right?"

They nodded but Mako spoke next. "But she..we think she showed us the tunnels, and from what I saw before were were all knocked out is she did a lot more damage to the chi blockers."

"Hm..." Iroh looked down for a moment then back to the team, rising to his feet. "Well..we don't know this person's motives, so that makes her dangerous, at least for now. I suggest not looking for her just yet as it could hurt our chances of getting to a point where we can attack the equalists and still have a chance at restoring peace." He paced back and forth and held his chin, thinking once more while Korra whispered to the others.

"Do you think she could really be an enemy? I mean she got us here right? And if she didn't then who did? She took out chi blockers and I couldn't see her using any bending."

Bolin leaned over to join the conversation. "Yeah but what if she lured us here and Amon is on his way? I don't wanna think about what he'd do to us if he catches us all here.."

Korra frowned and thought. Amon was after her, she didn't want her friends getting hurt for her sake. But she didn't feel that this person was a threat to them, she was a very skilled fighter sure but, something told her they would need her help.

Iroh's voice pulled her out of her thoughts. "We have a few supplies with us in the tanks but we will need places to sleep, I don't think this house is quite big enough to house all of us, would you kids mind helping my earth benders outside with some temporary accommodation?" Korra and Bolin nodded and went outside, followed slowly by Mako. Asami stayed inside and helped make meals for everyone, seeing as not all of them could help outside.


As the sun began to set Korra stepped back and leaned over to catch her breath, she'd worked hard with the other earth benders to create domes of stone and raised platforms to act as beds for the troops, the place looked like a small village now. Someone was playing music from inside one of the tanks to make the work less painful, and it worked, Bolin was singing along to one of his favourites while the soldiers clapped and cheered for him. Korra giggled and smiled at him.

"Seems you have another talent Bo." He blushed and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, then looked over as Iroh stepped out to them, handing them each a bowl of noodles. "Well done, everything looks great, however as this place grows larger it will attract unwanted attention if we keep it lit up at night, one of my men spotted the house many miles away. After dark lights out, or keep the windows boarded up so we don't get any visitors. Understood?"

They both nodded and Korra set about lighting small fire pits in the domes so the occupants would be warm. She made a cone of thin rock around it so it wouldn't produce much light but still kept the rooms warm. Bolin was impressed and helped her make similar cones in the other domes.

Settling back down for the night Korra became restless and her stubborn attitude was urging her to go find the girl she'd seen in the city. If she was a friend then they could really use her help. After everyone had fallen asleep she crept outside, pulling her parka over her head she crept through the domes and tanks, avoiding the soldiers on guard she made her way back into the tunnels, using her earth bending to propel herself at speed down into the city.


Finding another exit Korra climbed up and looked around carefully, she recognised this street, it was right behind the pro bending stadium. Carefully she wheeled the garbage boxes away and climbed out, replacing it so no one would find the hole. She crept around to make sure no one would hear her.

Turning the corner she spotted the girl from before leaving the arena and head down the steps. She followed, wondering where she was going, the way she walked it was like there wasn't a war going on, there wasn't chi blockers everywhere and war balloons bombing the streets every few hours.

Korra furrowed her brows and followed the girl, but out of nowhere a chi blocker's chain wrapped around her legs. Spirits! How many times was this going to happen? She threw fire balls at the oncoming equalists and yelled as the ball engulfed them. They didn't stop long but something whipped passed behind them and they fell forwards. Another two leaped over the bodies before whatever hit them could get another chance.

Korra burned the chain off her legs and stood up, throwing fiery punches at the two chi blockers, they were fast, and she was finding it increasingly difficult to keep up. Both punched six times up her sides and her arms rendering them useless, just as before. One struck her in the collar and she felt her head spin with pain and her eyes clouded over as she fell to the floor, the last thing she saw was those eerie green goggles closing in on her before her world went black.


Korra felt herself regaining consciousness, but instead of freezing cold pavement she felt warm, and comfortable, and a familiar but unpleasant smell of sweat filled her nose. She sat up too fast with a gasp of fright and sent fire at the girl who had been leaning over her. Her fist was held tightly and her cerulean blue eyes were met with dark green ones, the rest of the face was under a darker green mask.

"Calm down Avatar if I wanted to hurt you I would have done so outside and left you there."

Korra blinked and suddenly leaned over the side of the bed to wretch. The other girl grimaced a little but felt pity for the other and laid her back down. "Stay there for a few minutes till your bending comes back. You were out for about half an hour, I'd say they hit pretty hard, they obviously didn't want you waking up till they got you where they wanted you."

Korra looked at the other girl and as her vision focused on her, those eyes began to look familiar.

"Who are you? What the hell did you do to those chi blockers and why are we in here?"

The girl put her hand over Korra's mouth and looked at her sternly.

"Calm down. I'm not your enemy that's all you need to know for now. A friend on the inside if you will, The chi blockers don't know who I am and you don't need to either. Now since you are here you can help me, upstairs are a small group of young benders, they got separated from their parents who I'm afraid have been captured, Some have escaped and will be meeting us to the entrance of the tunnel you came out from. I know it's a stretch but they need somewhere to go, if you can take care of them then the city will have a chance to take their city back."

Korra listened and she felt the familiar warm rush of hope swell in her chest, she nodded and slipped off the makeshift bed of training mats and looked around the room, the gym she'd trained in with Mako and Bolin. "All right. I'll help just tell me what to do." This earned her a smile from the other girl who finally gave Korra her name.

"I'm Mao by the way."

"Korra."