Hello there! How are you all doing? Good I hope! Sorry that I haven't updated in a very long time, but I got many things going on in life right now that demand my attention. So don't expect fast updates for now guys. Sorry if that disappoints you, but I hope you understand, after all I am a human like you people. Well then, I hope you enjoy this boring chapter, bye!

3 Years Later:

It has been three years since the use of the nuclear weapon that sparked outrage and fear. Outraged that the Empire could consider using such a devastating weapon of mass destruction by a single command and fear because that such a weapon exited and only available to the enemy no less. If they didn't fear the Empire and took them seriously, they did now. Each Nation began to mobilize their forces and ramp up production just in case a war broke out.

The Fire Nation began to build more naval ships, along with holding war games with the other Nations. The Northern Water Nation began to expand their cities and industry in-order to catch up. Traditions were being broken as all Nations began to modernize to catch up to the Empire. The clear and clean skies of the North Pole were now filled with smog as industrial buildings darkened the sky with their smoke stacks. The Fire Nation started to slowly revert back to their old military ways and becoming more secretive by the day. The Earth Kingdom however was still on was still an unstable Nation, even after order was restored by the Empires troops that had entered the Nation as peace keepers and soon left after 5 months.

Republic city however improved by the trade that they had with the Empire. They city even grew and people began to move to it as well. The Bending Nations also began to develop other weapons, like fire arms. Even though the Empire had strict control over what they traded with the other Nations the basic understanding of firearms was acquired by other Nations. Though not as sophisticated as the Empires weapons, these weapons allowed the Bending Nation to arm the regular citizens of their Nation and grow their armies. Naval warfare also got a boost when the basic cannons were developed. They evolved to larger cannons and were soon mounted on warships, longer range and greater firepower then the Fire cannons.

Even with all these advances in technology, the Bending Nations were far behind the Empire. The Bending Nations had only 3 years to catch up, while the Empire had almost 400 years of technological progress. The Bending Nation were in their, as the Empire called it, industrial Era. An Era that the Empire also saw, but they were past that now. They had developed clear and more effective means of power. Large naval cannons were considered obsolete, replaced by faster smaller cannons that packed more fire power and range and at the same time have the auto loading advantage. Space research was on the forefront of the Empire. Within the last 3 years, 8 rockets were launched into space and had gotten a small space station going.

The city of Zaofu had greatly benefited from the trade and the alliance from the Empire. The South Pole had been greatly industrialized with cities and industry by the Empire. The lack of oil was resolved, thus allowing the military to grow even more.

However, the most concerning thing right now for the Empire was Kuvira and Baatar Jr. The two had left the metal Clan and headed for Ba Sing Se, where Kuvira was able to stabilize the city and earned most of the other Nations trust. As such, she was named the provisional leader of the Earth Kingdom. She later led the Earth Kingdoms army to unite the rest of the Kingdom. She was being called the "Great Uniter". That was not the problem for the Empire; the problem was that when Kuvira and Baatar left, they had stolen a great number of blueprints, documents and more. They were labeled enemies of the Empire. Suyin, Baatar Jr. Mother, tried to request the Empire to drop those charges, but the Empire wouldn't and it didn't help when the response came from Naruto's mother, the Empress. Her word was law and if the Empress answer was no, then there was no way you could ask the Empire to do anything. While the rest of the Beifong family was quite saddened by Baatar leaving them and the fact that he was an enemy of an Empire, Opal was not. Over the 3 years, Opal had studied more about the Empire than anyone else. She had studied about their cultures, their ways, their society and even more. She began to accept their ways and one of the things the people of the Empire were taught was loyalty. Opal viewed her brother as a traitor to the family and the city as a whole. She felt that the Empire was justified to label him an enemy.

The Beifong family was divided, with Opal on one side and the rest on the other, but the difference was that Opal had the backing of Naruto. Over the years she and Naruto had grown quite close. His support meant that she had the support of the Empire. Like the rest of the world, the Beifong family was divided and the Avatar was nowhere to be found.

Korra, despite being saved and the mercury being removed from her, still had problems with her Avatar state. She had these strange visions and as such, she had left on her own to find answers or grow stronger. The world had begun to forget about the Avatar as a whole. Technology was leading the way and the people's opinion about the Empire began to change. They were more accepting of them and that meant their leaders would have to reflect that opinion. This meant that they were more open to the Empire and would accept many of the demands the Empire put forth. The Empire flourished like it had done in the past, while the world rushed to catch up.

Hakodate, Japan:

The city of Hakodate was buzzing with life, even though it was midnight. The people walked, talked, ate, slept and did all kinds of things. However all of this stopped as the city started to shake, an Earth Quake.

Nearby military base:

"Sir, the Richter scale just picked up an Earthquake." An Officer reported to the Commander of the base.

"No shit, the whole base felt it. Where's the Hypocenter and what's the scale of it?" The Commander questioned.

"Sir, the Earthquake's Hypocenter was 200 miles out of Hakodate and-holy shit! Sir, it's a level 10 Earthquake!" The Officer answered as everyone stopped and looked at him like he was crazy. A level 10 Earthquake? Those were supposed to be rare ones that occurred about every 1000 years.

"Goddammit! Issue a warning for all coastal cities to evacuate!" The Commander ordered.

"But sir, the Earthquake happened miles away, why evacuate when it happened out in the sea?" One of the soldiers questioned as everyone gave him an 'are you kidding me look'?

"What the hell did they teach you at school? If an Earthquake happened out as sea, it means that there will be a tsunami that follows after and with the size of such a big Earthquake there is going to be a massive tsunami hitting many of the coastal cities. Now get those cities clear!" The Commander ordered as everyone rushed to do their job.

"What about the nuclear reactor?" One of the Officers asked. Hakodate was one of the very few cities that housed a nuclear power plant and it was one of the older generation ones. It supplied power to 5 other cities nearby as well.

"Shit, tell the workers at the nuclear plant to shut down the reactor and make sure it's not compromised when the tsunami hits. Have all power diverted to the power plant itself. If it has no power, then they can't keep the reactors cold enough to prevent a meltdown. We cannot allow a meltdown of that reactor! Get moving ladies!" The Commander ordered.

"Sir, we have a visual of the first wave that will hit the city!" The screens in the command room changed to a massive wave that stretched for miles. If they had to estimate its high, it could have been nearly 140 meters high.

"God help us..." Someone whispered as they witnessed the wave approach closer and closer to the coastal cities of all Northern Japan.

9 Hours Later:

"So it's true..." Naruto whispered as he looked at the devastation caused by the tsunami and it was massive. All coastal cities and many inland cities of Northern Japan were hit badly with by the tsunami and since a vast majority of the cities were built just above the sea levels meant that there was nowhere really to run only back inland. Almost a million people lost their lives and thousands of more were missing. The sheer size of the tsunami was shocking. It was so massive that it even hit cities in the Fire Nation, the United Republic, Omashu city and parts of the South Pole. Something like this had never happened before. However they were able to avert an even bigger disaster, a nuclear meltdown.

"This is bad; this leaves our Nation venerable to attack. Have the 3rd and 4th fleet to head to Hokkaido and secure the water. I am not going to take any chances. For all we know, this Earthquake might have been artificially created." Naruto issued out his order. He had a theory. He thought that the Earthquake was created by a very skilled Earth Bender who had aid of an equally skilled Water Bender. If this was their work, then naturally the Earth Kingdom was in a secret alliance with the Northern Water Nation. He was well aware that the two Nations would not win a straight up fight with Japan, they would have to lower do something that would lower the Empires defenses and this was as good as they could get.

"And ready a plane, I am heading back to Japan." Naruto ordered, right now his people needed him as he was their Prince, their future ruler.

"Naruto?" He turned around to find Opal.

"Opal? What's wrong?" Naruto questioned. What was she doing here?

"I heard what happened...I want to come with you." She said as Naruto's eyes widened.

"Opal, I can't just take you with me, what about your family?" Naruto questioned. Opal gritted her teeth when he brought up her family. Her family did not approve of her, what they called conversion. She didn't know what to think of about her family these days. They wanted the technology that the Empire offered, but they refused to learn their ways? How were they supposed to be allies, if they didn't learn their ways?

"I don't care what they think, but right now this is more important." She answered. This surprised Naruto. He knew that she liked her, oh yh, he knew, but to an extent that she would care for his people? He didn't know that. Seeing his confusion, she face palmed.

"I just want to help...I know Earth bending, maybe I can help stop the flooding." She stated.

"Oh...I never realized that..." Naruto said stupidly. Earth Benders would be very handy right about now and Opal was one, a good one too. She was also one of the few that knew Metal Bending and she also knew Air Bending too! She was just one element shy of being an Avatar.

"Right...well, pack up then, this is going to be a long trip." Naruto said. He wasn't kidding when he said that. He would be there for a long time. He would be in-charge of the recovery and cleanup crew. Another Commander would fill his role over here for now.

"This has to be the work of an Earth Bender and a Water Bender, but I have no proof to justify a war. Dammit, I hate not knowing stuff." He thought with a pout on his face, this caused Opal to giggle at him. Over the years she realized that Naruto thought to himself, a lot. He didn't like it when he was kept in the dark, he hated it. It was one of the reasons why he had established a large intelligence network, but there were things that even his intelligence didn't know, this was one of those things. She knew that if this was the work of the two Nation, then there would be hell to pay. If there were two things Naruto cared about, were his family and his people. He would gladly lay down his life for the two. That's what she admired about him the most, his sense of loyalty, honor and value of life. He had the world's most powerful army at his command, but he didn't use it to brutally conquer other Nations. He tried to win without fighting and if need be minimize the loss if he did have to fight.

Republic City:

The entire city had somehow gotten news of the disaster and was pretty much shocked. From what they knew, a massive tsunami had hit the homeland of the Empire, hell that same tsunami had hit Republic city and it did a lot of damage. They wondered how major the damage was for the Empire. No one from the Bending Nations had been to the Nation of the Rising Sun and all trade was conducted in Omashu, Republic city ports or the many other trade ports established by the Empire. Only the few leaders of the Bending Nations had been there once and no one else. The sprites that had once lived in the city began to leave it, in-fact sprites all over the world began to leave. They all headed north, to the sprite portal in the North. Many of the Water Benders, along with more spiritually aware people figured that the portal in the South was somehow closed. They figured that it had something to do with the Empire. The Northern Water Nation was up in arms, calling for blood, along with the Earth Kingdom, while the Fire Nation remained neutral. Whatever it was, there was bad blood between the Empire and the Nations of Water and Earth. This disaster was not natural, that was for sure.

Well, that's it for now, I know this might have been a really lame chapter, but it is a time skip, away ways, I'll see you later bye!