Chapter 3! As usual, I'm trying my best to make the story as consistent and clear as possible, and I'm open to any suggestions! Hope you enjoy!
It was already the middle of the year. For the students in Republic City, it meant that it was time for their highly-anticipated mid-year break. After the flurry of project deadlines followed by two entire weeks of exams, the holidays couldn't come at any better time and provide a form of respite for the students. For Sombra, however, it was a different story.
As the Avatar, no holiday would ever be a true holiday for her. Term holidays were always filled with a slew of training and learning with different teachers again and again. Even weekends which were extended by one day due to a public holiday and the like, OWL would send her online work to complete, to apparently "learn about the different people the Avatar has to protect around the world."
As the school bell rang, Ms Tee reminded them to check their inboxed over the weekend for their holiday assignments, advising them to finish them as quickly as possible.
Sombra and Ana had barely stepped foot outside of the school gates when two large sedans had already arrived just outside the school compound. Of course, they knew the cars would be there to fetch Sombra and take her away. The cars always did, since the girls first met in seven years ago.
"Are you sure you can't even grab a Frappe with me today? I never get to spend enough time with you." Ana voiced out.
"Oh trust me, I've tried everything I can."
"Even the Avatar State?"
"Hahaha. Good one. Yes, even the Avatar State."
Ana waved at Sombra reluctantly as she saw her friend climb into one of the sleek black sedans. As it drove away, she knew Sombra would be out of contact again for the next couple of weeks. She sighed.
Just then, Ana was nudged by Horan a little too hard. Instead of stopping and face Ana's ramblings about being hit so hard in the arm without her consent, Horan kept on running forward. He was running fast.
It was only when Min Lee, a little behind Horan, who hasn't passed by Ana yet, had reached out to her earpiece and shout into the mic, "Target is escaping, target is escaping!", that Ana came to her senses about what had just happened.
Sombra had been kidnapped. Right in front of her. And she could've stopped it.
Regret piling up in her stomach, she ran as quickly as she could to catch up with Min Lee, who was now about to enter her vehicle. Horan had already hopped onto his hoverbike and was already revving up his engine as he sped towards the direction of the two sedans ahead. Min Lee gave Ana a quick glance to try to stop her, but upon reading her face, she could see that there was no way she could talk her out of this. Ana boarded the rover on the passenger seat and soon they were on their way.
"It's all my fault...I should've seen it coming."
"No, Ana, it's not your fault, it's none of ours. Whoever the kidnappers are, they're good. Both Horan and I were alerted earlier that two sedans would be coming down to pick up the Avatar. They even alerted us when they arrived, so we dismissed it that it was the usual procedure. But when the actual vehicles give us their notice a few seconds later, Horan knew exactly what was wrong."
Ana kept quiet, feeling as if there's a lump in her throat, her regret for not being there for Sombra.
"Anyway, inspections are ongoing and they'll be rebooting our comms anytime. These kidnappers were either the most skilled hackers in the world for hacking one of the most fail-safe comms systems in the world, or we had a snake growing up our sleeve all this while. I believe the latter. And someone's gonna get fired tonight."
Min Lee stepped on the gas even further, as they zipped by the city, passing by cars faster than Ana can even see their car plate. She looked at the huge screen on the dashboard, and could see that their rover, along with another 6 dots on the screen were all chasing down two red dots on the screen. The Peacekeepers had been dispatched.
They were going so fast that she could feel the entire river vibrate, due to the engine being overclocked to peak performance. At the rate they were going, she should've heard the engine, but it was muffled due to the siren that had been switched on. Her eyes flickered between the dashboard screen and the road and back. They were slowly gaining the upper hand. Against the six speeding vehicles now forming a barrier around the two sedans, they would run out of places to run to very soon.
Suddenly, the two black sedans made an abrupt turn, almost a u-turn, at two different directions and stopped some ten metres from each other. Two men in full-black suits jumped out, and with a synchronized stomp on the ground, a large concrete barrier was summoned on the ground. Two of the six vehicles would later collide disastrously, but not fatally, on the large concrete wall. The rest of the four vehicles came to a halt.
Horan used his megaphone and announced the terms of surrender loud and clear. The kidnappers apparently didn't receive the terms well, because Horan was quickly shot at by another bender from inside one of the sedans, but he didn't get hit. Min Lee immediately got out of her car, her arms in place for a shootout, but shot a quick look at Ana, commanding her to stay in the rover.
The few seconds of standstill felt like forever until another shot was taken.
Min Lee immediately casted a huge fireball towards one of the men standing there, but he managed to blocked her attack with a slab of concrete. The man then took his turn, and the continuous spikes of earth was quickly heading towards Min Lee, but she was saved by Horan who pushed her out of the way with some wind.
The metalbending Peacekeepers simultaneously casted their wires towards the cars. However, upon coming close to the car, an extremely strong force bent all their wires at once, overpowering the metal benders. All of them held onto their end of the wire, withdrawing all of their strength to regain control of their now non-controllable wires. They struggled to maintain control. and suddenly, in one strong swipe, the wires were all pulled to the side simultaneously, snatching with them all the metalbenders out of their vehicles respectively. Their bodies collectively collided the street with loud thuds, mostly due to the wire equipment being crushed against the black solid asphalt, but Ana was sure a few broken ribs were heard being cracked as well. She flinched slightly, and had the urge to puke so she opened the rover door, and was about to reach the ground after jumping out the vehicle, before she felt an extremely sinister and painful force taking over her body. She was held like a puppet some five metres above the ground before her body was shot down towards the ground, and she gritted her teeth knowing that her fate would've been similar to those metalbenders she just saw, or worse. But instead Horan caught Ana with another air move, and she was blown off the road onto the surrounding grass before it.
She could barely keep her eyes open after that, feeling a tremendously painful feeling at the back of her head. Only then, she thought of who, or what, they were facing up against. She looked at the chaos in half-shut eyes, as Min Lee and Horan took turns taking shots at the benders in black who kept growing in number.
She let out a faint "Sombra!", before she passed out.
The heli finally arrived at the scene, bringing more Peacekeepers to the place. As it quickly descended for them to alight, a bigger wire was shot towards a nearby building so the Peacekeepers could sail down. However, even before the first Peacekeeper managed to hook onto the rope, the thick black metal wires started to bend and turn. Just like the previous wires from the metalbenders, the wire was being controlled again by the same powerful force, and the entire heli was being manipulated with it. The pilot struggled to keep a grip on the stick shift, but before long, the heli was about to be sent into a dead spin. The Peacekeepers inside quickly jumped off and landed on the ground with the help of their bending. The heli quickly started to spin faster and faster, before it crashed into one of the buildings nearby.
Min Lee wasted no time, crouching behind one of the now-upturned car from the benders in black, not resting from trying to shoot and hit them in their heads. "Where are our bots?!"
One of the men who just jumped from the heli replied, "You just saw them all go down," pointing his head towards the crashed heli, but never keeping his gaze off the two sedans.
"Well, shit."
Regarding my current piece, I'll be using fantasy as well as sci-fi elements into my Korra story (it's about the fifth avatar after Korra though so...she'll mostly only do appearances as a ghost or something because she's dead, duh) but I'll also be incorporating both personal - school, mental health and self-care, relationships - and world-scale events such as war, natural disasters as well as a CERTAIN politician's rise to power. Also, I recognize LGBT and the story will also touch on such topics (I'm assuming Korra and Asami is legit so) and I hope that the story won't just be a type of entertainment, but also something readers and writers can enjoy thoroughly and get inspiration from.
Some names and events might be adapted from different materials that I've exposed myself to, but aside from the actual Korra universe, everything here is original. I'm also contemplating if I should include any sort of NSFW material, so please let me know what you think ;)
