I updated,and what a update!
I'm sorry for the long length of time, but my attention span is so short, not to mention i start collage soon so expect updates in the future to be just as slow. Ergug.
any way, this chapter has my own person al thoughts abou the mass effect universe, (why humanity was accepted into the council so fast) and avatar universe (how bending works) so let me knwo your thoughts on the subject. also,,, on the sceen with the counclors and the Liner,,,, well that sceen just wrote it's self after I had Kelin lit his hand on fire so forgive me, the universe compled me to write that sceen.
also: a problem some of you may have noticed: the time line as writen has humality only explaore space for 250 years,,,, long time sure, but not nearly friggen long enough to fit the time scale in place. I'll have to expand that ,but by how much? I request reviews on that please.
now, onto the stroy!.
Julistin fidgeted slightly in his chair while his fellow admirals went over his reports.
Turian behinds, were not meant for Ostrichhorse back sides. He thought to him self. Hopefully the shifting would not been seen as nerves.
Having experienced the full blast of Alliance culture and biology, especially there 'bending' he had come to the conclusion that much could be gained by corroborating with the, much more inexperienced Alliance, and yet they could do a few things that surprised him.
For example: there ships had the surprising tendency to, burr from sensors. They did not become invisible completely. But they gave off a surprisingly low amount of heat when they wanted to. Which was often given they tended to turn off the engines and drift when not actively accelerating or decelerating.
Additionally there might be something to look at in there torpedoes. Or rather Kentic impactors The differences was that Torpedos had warheads. And the element zero alloy hulls had great promise.
"Well, admiral Julistin, I've read the report," the senior most Admiral on the board said as he placed the data slate down in front of him. "And, well, I'm not sure where to start."
"In what way sir?"
"Well, if any one other then a Admiral gave me this, I would throw the majority of it into a trash can, and then have his rank."
"I, understand sir. I would share your opinion were it not the fact of what I have seen with my own eyes." it certainly did not help that the, human General Chand had forbidden recording devices in the base.
Avatar Kelin had apologized, but personally Julistin felt Chand was properly paranoid. (maybe a touch too paranoid but not with out reason)
"Well, one way or another we shall see. Your report mentioned they are highly interested in sending a ship with a diplomatic corp to the Citadel."
"Yes sir, but they have yet to send any yet. They not sure how to negotiate the Relays to get to the Citadel."
"humm," The admiral said looking though the data tablet again.
"I don't see why we can't help them." he said with a smile. "after all. They did save one of are colony's."
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else were though the new Alliance was causing conversation else were,
The three Council members, Tevos of the Asari, Valern the Turians, and Shrenda of the Salarian were going over maps and trying to figure out what would happen next.
All new races shifted the galactic geopolitical landscape depending on there locations.
The discovery of the Batarians alone had basicly set the formation of the Terminus system into being.
This new race could have started the stabilizing of the Terminus, if they were stronger.
The Alliance had sent data of there boarder planets, and only there boarder planets, to the Council, they were playing this safe, if a little paranoid.
The problem was there boarder planets placed them close to the Terminus. Dangerously close. Also reports from Admiral Julistin had painted them as being less technically advance by a horrific margin.
They still used inter-combustion engines, propellers and Calvary, honesty to god on guy on a smelly animal, Calvary!
Once word of this got out the whole Terminus was going to get on them like a Varren with a baby in the room.
Fresh, easy to kill, meat.
Tevos looked away from the map with a huff. "Any ideas how we keep them from getting steam rollered into just another part of the Terminus?"
"Make them part of the Citadel." Valern said. "and quickly. That would keep the Terminus system legal powers from attacking them. They want a war with the Council as much as we do with them."
"That would be a snub of the highest caliber to Hannar, Elcor, Batarians and Volus." Shrenda countered. "They had to wait decades to join the Citadel. Now for no good reason we let a new race join the citadel in less then a year?"
"But it is a good reason." Valern countered.
"Valern, we all know your bias here given there first action was to help save Turian civilians." Tevos began. "And you idea is likely the best to keep the organized powers away, but Shrenda does have a point. Will the others agree that it is a good reason? Do we want that kind of political fallout? I say we play this by ear, and have a word with there diplomatic team before we decide anything.
"Agreed, best to play it safe." Shrenda agreed.
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three weeks had passed from first contact. Now the Citadel awaited the Cruiser Spring wind.
It was a long wait, the Alliance ship were far from the fastest ship in the galaxy.
But now? At the third week?
The cruiser had arrived.
The relay spun up and emitted a pulse of energy as the massive, light green ship arrived.
On the half of the aliens: the cruiser was some what impressive on the face of it.
A pirate had called it, a combination of battle ship and a temple, and that impression was common among those who saw the ship slowly, (Very slowly, Iron engines were efficient, not fast) approach.
On the humans part?
Rear Admiral Norebank was trying to look professional, and though he was doing well on that front, the rest of the crew was not.
The diplomatic team alone were going 'ga ga' over the ships.
"Look at that!" one pointed out the massive silver cross of the Destiny Ascendent.
"If you had a team of metal benders working for a year they MIGHT be able to make that,, out of Pig Monkey iron!"
"I know! The main gun alone would be a BITCH!" Norebank shook his head sadly.
"Can you blame them?" Norebank turned to face Avatar Kelin.
"When did you you walk up behind me?"
"I'm the avatar, a stealth mode comes standard." he chuckled.
Norebank rolled his eyes then coughed loudly to get the diplomatic teams attention. "If you can peel you eyes off the view screens for a moment thank you, we have a slight problem."
the team turned to face him.
"Do we deploy a shuttle now, or do we wait till we will get closer?"
"I assumed we were going to dock the Cruiser?" one said.
"Incompatible docking gear." Norebank said back.
"Well, what do there flight control recommend?"
"They suggested we wait till are shuttle was a couple minutes out, problem is, for us that is a exceedingly close to the Citadel. I think that guy was surprised by just how slow our shuttles are." A sudden nervous shiver passed though him.
Spirits, if it came to blow, real blows with a real army and navy, just how out classed were they?
He put the thought from his mind. "Very well then, I'll forward the message, we lunch are shuttle in a hour and a half."
"Umm, sir, did some one inform the council that we would be awhile?" a diplomat nervously said."
"Spirits I hope so."
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"We have been standing here for over an hour." Tevos muttered. "I think I am getting blisters."
"Not there fault," Shrenda muttered. "In the words of there Captain there ships are fuel efficient not fast."
"And this things suppose to be a warship?" Valern muttered back.
The whole of the Citadel press core had turned out to Presiden dock one, normal reserved for special occasions.
And right now the alliance was inadvertently snubbing the entire Citadel with there lack of speed
the threes Councilors omni tools lit up in sync and Tevos was the first to look.
"Seems the Alliance has finally lunched there shuttle."
"About time." Valern muttered.
"You can't blame them for having cruddy technology." Tevos defended, though her feet told her other wise.
"Were still stuck here for a couple minutes though."
"O joy."
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a couple minutes later the Alliance shuttle arrived.
Passing though the glowing field that kept the air in, and the void of space out the shuttle pulled into the docking bay.
A world apart from a standard shuttle, most of the dignitary present were shocked, propellers? Just how primitive were humans?
Ion jet pulsing the shuttle went into the gravity well of the station flitting across the ground like some ungainly insect with no grace at all. Careful it settled on skids along the base, springing lightly as the coils in the struts bounced it for a few seconds till it settled to stillness.
With a hiss of pneumatic force the rear of the shuttle slid upward and before live galactic cameras, Avatar Kelin (finally) emerged.
Blinking a few times he got his baring before turning toward the three Councilors, who were trying to discretely hide the evidence they had been brought folding chairs, he then approached them, even as a select squad of escorts left the shuttle.
"Typical." Salk muttered to any one who would listen. "I'm suppose to stay close to him and what does he do? Leave me behind. Hump."
"Well he is the avatar." Sargent Malk said, he was the fire bender chosen to escort the Avatar, why? He had no idea. "He can do what he want."
"Hump," She said again. A prickling sensation at the back of her neck spun her head around to meet the unnerving stare of Arashi, the marksmen of the group, and of them he was the only one openly armed with a weapon, albeit the ceremonial weapon for his regiment, a recurved bow.
"Who you looking at?" Arashi merely made his glare more intense.
"Do you guys ever say anything?" She asked mean sprited. Malk tried to answer. "Every Yuyu sniper I've met been like that. Once tried to date one of the women in there regiment."
"Really? How did that go?" at this new topic Arashi focused he targeter eyes on Malk, but they were softer not quite as hard. "55 minutes of complete silence, most awkward date I have ever been on. Still have her number in-fact."
"So what do we do now?" Salk turned to face the white face of one of the other escorts. "Right now? Nothing. I think it would be too damaging to are image to go chasing after the Avatar like school yard nanny. Pfft. I hate my life some times."
meanwhile: the avatar was going though the formality of meeting a almost thousand year old community of different alien races.
A thought struck Malk. "Say, how old is the Avatar cycle any way?"
"I don't know." Salk muttered. "Five thousand years?"
"And how old is the Council?"
"No idea, don't care really." Salk almost growled. Malk almost hissed back, he held it back though.
"Any idea what there doing?" he asked Arashi. Who just shrugged in slight confusion.
"Likely going though the ados." the Kyoshi warrior who had asked Salk what they were suppose to do now said. "You know, 'I'm honored, to meet you in the name of the Alliance and 'no I'm honored to meet you please have the Galactic Encyclopedia of infinity knowledge!" Malk chuckled "I never did get your name miss?"
"Jun." she said. The two cast a glance back at the dignitary talking at each other. "When are they going to shut up." Malk muttered.
"He's likely apologizing for how long it took for us to get here." Jun replyed "the only question is how long till we get past all this ceremonial stuff and they move on to the smoke filled back room where the real policy is made."
"That should be soon." Malk muttered. "When do you think were get those translator things they told us we would?"
Back at the meeting of avatar and councilors, the four of them were beginning to walk to what seemd to be a flying car that was behind them.
"If he thinks hes going without me." Salk muttered she turned on her helmet radio, little knowing that any one with there omni tool set to the proper frequency could hear the supposedly, encrypted channel..
"If you think for one moment Kelin your leaving your bodyguard your sorely mistaken. Now wait for me or kick you so hard your past lives will feel it!"
"My dear." the radio signal said back "I would not dream about forgetting you." he said in such a tone that clearly showed he would rather forget about her.
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Kelin sighed. "Forgive me Councilors, but it seems the paranoia of my escorts knows no bounds."
"That is no issue Avatar." Tevos siad. " you should have seen the Elcor when they joined. They don't look like it, but a full Elcor anti terrorist squad is scary as all heck."
"Really? If I recall from the codex you gave us, Elcor are slow and ponderous."
"Treaty's allow escorts too carry around small arms. What the Elcor define small arms, are really anti tank rifles. And when you walk around with a cannon on your back it does not matter how slow you are."
"I can imagine. I shall signal her to join us."
"If I may ask, what qualifications does your body guard have?"
"She is a Kyoshi warrior." seeing there confused looks he gave some back ground. "First, some history. In the Alliance there are generally four elite regiment, First for the water nations there are the Wolves, not a single regiment but a group of men who have all volunteered for suicide missions, so they get them, along with some additional training and equipments*. For the Fire nation there's the Yuyu snipers, the finest marksmen to ever serve as a standing force."
"That title among us goes to the Asair commandos." Tevos said self aware.
"I once saw a Yuyu sniper throw a three inch target off a cliff, wait three seconds, jump after it. Then, while in free fall, shoot and hit it, with a semi auto rifle."**
"... if that is true then he had to be showing off." Tevos said.
"He was a women actually, as for the showing off? Of that I have little doubt. They can be quite the show offs in there own silent ways. But such feats of accuracy are common. If you wish a more believable tale, I've seen a Sniper, using a bow and arrow, hit a target, then split his arrow five times by hitting it with another arrow."
Just then Salk arrived.
"you still have not answered what qualification she has to be your body guard." Valern asked.
"quite: well the Republic of nations has the metal bending elite, and the Earth Kingdom have the Kyoshi warriors: of which, she is one."
"I have no idea what your talking about." Salk said.
"Of course, you don't have the translator, for that matter nor do I." Kelin said switching his language fluidly.
"That can easily be solved." Shrenda said. "we have some spare omni tools in the transport."
"What did you just say." Salk said trying hard not to get infuriated at diplomats.
"Were going to get you a translator." Kelin supplied.
"Bout time." she almost growled. "Can they understand me?" she asked.
"Yes." Kelin said some what amused.
As the five of them moved to the air car once more Valern eyed Salk.
"For a body guard she seems lightly armed." he said after a moment
"It must be said that I don't need much protection in onto my self. But as far as I know all my body guards, save are marksmen Arashi, are armed with a full array of dart knives*** and throwing knives, and Arashi has his recerve bow."
"Throwing knives and arrows?" Tevos said confused.
"We did not feel fully comfortable bringing fire arms to a peace meeting. Also, there projectiles move too slow for most shields to stop." the councilors almost skipped a step. As councilors they got the best shielding money could buy,, now the one glaring weakness in there shields was made as clear as a bell.
Honestly: fire arms would been better. Seeing the sudden change in expressions, even if he did not fully understand the meaning of them, Kelin chuckled. "I take it that thought is new too you?"
"Very," Tevos said. "How common are, Dart knives?"
"Not very. They are complex devices, they have to be given the amount of high power springs in them. There assembled by clock makers. But as long as you have money for them you can get them. The problem is using them. It takes years of practice and focus to be able to hit a target more then arms length away. It's why we use guns and not throwing knives. Despite the knives perks."
"That is relaxing." Tevos said.
All the talking while walking had allowed them to reach the air transport.
It has so far been called a car.
The term, Assault limo would work far better.
Shielding more commonly found on APC covered it along with armor plating to match, a heavy machine gun was embraced just under the pilots seat. Add on a five man elite C-sec assault team just a compartment ahead of the councilors, and you find out why the Liner, as it was called, had been forcible requisitioned by C-sec as a command vehicle at least three times. (the fully stocked Asair wine bar had nothing to do with it, the head of C-sec was a Turian.)
Entering the Liner the four diplomats and one body guard settled on the padded seats quickly.
While Shrenda handed a omni tool to Salk Tevos public display disappeared and a face that was dead serious appeared in its place.
"Normally we talk about treaty you would to agree too to join the Citadel, but your location is a massive problem."
"What do you mean?"
Shift
back at the shuttle the escort team were left scratching there heads.
"Well, now what?" Malk asked scratching his head.
"Now your real task." Malk winced as his head set cracked encrypted information into his head, at a volume a bit too loud. It sounded like Admiral Norebank he thought as the order flowed over the head set.
"Though your primary mission remains to guard Avatar Kelin, he is, lets face it, the Avatar, and needs little in terms of a escort. So your are to observe the Citadel and give us your thoughts on it, give us a feel for the culture of the council."
"So, were to play tourist?" Jun asked over the radio system.
"Basically. And keep a close eye open for any sign of bending, and keep your own bending close to your chest."
"Understood." Malk replied. The line went dead.
"So, whats the plan?" Jun asked.
"Well, we need a translater thing before we can get anywhere."
"And when will we get that?"
The oddest possible language, and this coming from some one who knew the foggy swamp local dialect, came from nearby.
The entire group pivoted to face a blue skinned alien, women? That was the only assumption they could reach at her appearance.
"What did she just say?" some one asked.
"You guess is as good as mine?" Malk said. "Though I think she can understand us." Malk said as he watch her face palm, a universal gesture even here. "She must have the device her self."
She nodded. "So, I presume you will give us equivalent devices?" Jun asked.
She nodded again. "Well, what do we have to do to get them?"
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Kelin face was very serious as he absorbed the news that the Alliance, was a small fish that had to share a tank, with a Unagi
"Is there anything that can be done other then bracing are self against the tide?"
"Nothing right away, we may be over stating the situation a great deal, but the threat of it is there." Tevos said.
"It may be a case like a animal, as long as you make your self look like a hard target they will leave you alone." Shrenda added.
"So, we have to crush any first attempt that comes to us and make a example of them?" Kelin said.
"In a nut shell." Valern answered. "Why are you smiling like a loon?"
"I'm the Avatar, making examples is what we do best, one of my past lives once split a Island apart from the rest of the continent."****
silence met that remark.
"That, does lead us into the issue of these, 'bendings' we've heard of."
"And, what is the question you wish to ask? Are they real? I assure you, they are." he lit his hand on fire.
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The liner settled down in a unsolicited stop at a empty loading dock.
As soon as it landed the door was thrown open and three thoroughly foam covered councilors stumbled out gasping for fresh air, you could not even tell the species at the moment.
"I'm sorry I had no idea this thing had fire retardant systems." Kelin said as he stumbled out trying to get foam out of his beard.
"I think my make up is running." Salk muttered as she attacked her face with a rag all, smart Kyoshi kept on them for times like this.
Coughing chunks of foam out of his mouth Shrenda wiped the stuff out of his eyes. "If I see this on the Extra net tonight I will kill you." he half joked.
"Let me help." Kelin said taking a deep breath formed a ball of air around him self, then he then blew it all directions send foam flying and clearing the councilors up, sunning them senseless, but cleaning them.
The special forces team just a compartment ahead of them manged to get there act in gear and as they figured out they had both stopped, and most of all.
THE COUNCILORS HAD GOTTEN OFF!
now that they knew that one fact, they now had a single goal.
GET THEM BACK IN THE LINER!
There timing though, was horrible.
The second they left there compartment was the exact moment Kelin made his puff of air blowing the foam away, and into there faces.
Surprised they they made the one assumption they could make.
They were under attack.
Even as they tried to find bareings, tried to find the councilors to cover them one of them blindly fired in the direction of the supposed attack.
All the councilors had the best shielding in all of the council space, and Kelin and Salk who had the best shielding the Alliance had, which was much less efficient technology, but actually slightly stronger since they had a much larger core of element zero. (more noticeable then the slimmer councilor version) so the few rounds that were fired did not harm any one, (though the councilors all threw themselves to the ground.) Kelin though did not throw him self to the ground..
He was thrown to the ground.
Salk slammed her shoulder into the avatar forcing him to the ground, as her training took over.
Step one: Secure escort; that done.
Step two: neutralize hostiles.
It took less then a second for her to get in close, and once there, it took less then ten second.
Sweep the legs out of one with a pivot across the right foot, turn that into a blow across the chest of a second with right hand, when drawing back right hand, aim arm at third member fire a spray of dart knives into his armor knocking him down, left hand reach out, grab a turian by his body armor, throw him into a fourth guard.
The fifth stumbled back taking aim with his sub-machine gun, only for five darts knives into impact the gun, kicking sparks up as they both shorted and destroyed the system.
Silence reigned in the moment as every one tried to figure out what the heck had just happened.
"If we are done making a audition for the universe's funnyist home video." Tevos said standing back up with a angry scowl on her face. "can we keep moving to the council chambers?"
"Only if you tell me why these guys opened fire on us!" Salk shouted back. She stomped down on some ones hand as he tried to stand back up.
"Salk, not only was I not hit, but the only ones who's shields took a dent were the councilors." Kelin rolled his eyes as he stood up.
"Now, please allow those fine special force's guys to stand up, delete any video that may have been caught on security cameras, while we get moving again."
Salk glared at Kelin, one of the spec op troopers tried to tackle her, lunging at her waist. She turned, lifted her knee, smashing into his chin, grabbed his skull, then flipped him over her shoulders.
"Yes, your very good." Kelin drawled. "now, can we get going?"
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Malk's eyes spun around in there sockets and his skull was on a pivot as he took in the ward.
The tour guide. Almin, was along side, glad as all heck she was not the guide to get 'Arashi', the mute oddity.
Right now: they were touring one of the more refutable and cultural areas, the best equivalent to the human would be to call it a tourist trap.
The streets were lined with shops, side shows, each vieing for attention, and of course, your money.
"What is going on here?" Malk said head following a line of brightly wind chimes.
"It's a Asair religious festival dedicated to the goddess as a Maiden, and so, it's about experiencing life. Hence all the food, artwork, and displays."
"It looks like the fire nation culture festival!" Malk said, "All I need are some fire flakes!"
"What are, fire flakes?" She said interested
"They are the most beloved snack in all of the fire nation. Remind me to send you a bag some time in thanks." he said smileing back at her.
A puff of a distinctive light to his left snagged his eye. "Whats over there?" he asked pointing down a ally that lead into a open square filled with people.
"I think,," she tapped on her omni tool a second. "Ah, that square has been booked for the next hour by a fire breather. Would you,," she looked up about to ask, go and see? But he had already taken off toward it.
"Hay!" she said. "Wait for me!" she quickly took off after the human.
Once past the short ally way she scanned the mass of people for a human form.
She found a tuff of cranial fur near the front, hanging near the railing.
Sighing in exasperation she started to move though the crowd trying to get close to him. After offending a half dozen strong Turian family she got along side him.
The fire breather in question was a Krogan, (pretty impressive for a race that lacked lips) he was spinning a pair of poles with burning wads of fabric wrapped along both ends, one pole in each arm. He spun them so fast they formed a pair of loops of flame.
In a perfect movement he tossed on into the air, expelled a gout of petrol upward, it touched the burning torch.
The gas lit ablaze as it touched the flame shifting into a six meter long pillar of fire, the crowd oohed and awed at all the right places, even Almin.
Malk, had not.
Not only was not impressed, he was not happy in the least.
He in fact looked offended.
"Fake." he simply said.
Almin shot him a look. "You don't think that's really fire?"
"Well, ya the flame is real, and as far as fakes go, he's a pretty good one, but a fake he is none the less." he turned to Almin as he spoke.
"How's he a fake?"
"He's clearly spitting gasoline." Malk answered.
"O come on." Almin said rolling her eyes. "It's not like humans can just spit fire from there mouths."
Malk answered by lifting his hand to his mouth to cover the flame, save for her to see it, then coughed.
A small tongue of flame lit his mouth, the flame gently licking his fingers. Almin eyes went wide, rumors and story's from the Turian army that had met the humans coming back to her.
"O, shit." She muttered. Malk shrugged at her reaction. "I was told to be down key. So, I think I appreciate if you kept that to your self." His stomach gave a large discontent growl.
Giving a almost embarrassed smile he shifted the topic. "So, can we get something to eat?"
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The liner had left the warehouse all aboard, (minus a pair of spec op troopers who stayed to hunt down any camera footage.) and right now the council plus avatar were desperately trying to get the foam off themselves before a public appearance.
"So, I assume that everything we've heard about your, bendings is correct?" Tevos said eyes like sauce pans.
"Though I don't know what you have been told, Indeed." Kelin said as kept a small current of air blowing though the cabin to blow dry everything, mostly Salk hair but every one was getting dry.
"You are volatile every law of physic I know off the top of my head." Shrenda said some what awed.
"Spirits above." Valern muttered putting his head in his palms. "how are we going to explain that to the galactic community?"
"Simple. You put a camera there, you put me there, I bend and that's that."
"While good that is what were likely going to do, I meant,,, well." Valern hand open and closed as if grasping for meaning.
"Let me put this this way." Shrenda said. "There is no way what your doing is possible, by the laws of normal physics. Yet you can clearly do it, so everything we know is wrong."
Kelin coughed into his hand, letting the wind-stream die. "We have our own physics problem. We've noticed there seems to be two sets of physical laws, those applying to the universe, and one applying to benders. Most people don't notice given that, well benders our everywhere. So the fact there exist two laws is not well understood."
"You don't have your own theory?" Shrenda said intrested.
"The only idea we have is that benders draw energy from the spirit world," (Valern perked up at that mention) "and externalize it in as either, Earth, Fire, Air or Water bending. Normal humans," he gestured to Salk. "Draw energy the same way, but can't externalize. We call it internal bending, and while they can't say throw fire balls, the energy augments there muscles and reflexes to move much, much faster. Hence why Salk is so fast, or why the Yuyu snipers have such ridiculous levels of accuracy. The energy, benders draw is the energy that allow the first set of physical laws to remain accurate, since benders get the energy from there."
"Fascinating." Shrenda said.
"Very. Energy benders, in that benders who bend energy are able directly alter the internal energy of people, and are able to alter that state, allowing them to make people benders and to take it away. Current guess put the first benders as energy benders who made themselves able to external bend, while the four bending arts took off energy bending became rarer and rarer, till it faded away."
"Fascinating." the three councilors said at once.
The Liner stopped. "Time for another public appearance." Tevos commented. "We will have to speak about this latter but for now."
"Smile and wave." Kelin said smileing.
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Malk had requested. 'the spiciest thing on the menu'.
That that meant he ordered the flaming, atomic, red hot volcanic, Tuchanka 'extreme death salsa.'
Almin had images of teams of men working robotic arms, mixing multi colored fizzling chemicals behind blast doors, the fumes eating there way though the walls. If they spilled, the fluid would eat it's way though the floor and they would call a bio response team to come in for clean up.
Face as far from the chill as he could the waiter brought the fuming meal to the expecting human. Putting the concoction down eyes watering she backed away.
"If you eat that." the Turian said. "With out vomiting, I've got 200 creds on the line."
"Make sure it doesn't eat the spoon." Almin said pinching her nose. "Goddess that thing's reeks."
"Spirits, your whining is like a water tribe member given a box of fire flakes." Malk said as he tucked a napkin around his neck. "Grow a real stomach for Avatars sake."
"Your need regrow yours soon enough." the Turian said. With no further introduction Malk dug his spoon (which Almin imagined to a marty spoon kind,) into the thick, steaming fuming, concoction and took a large bite out of the mass.
The restaurant held it's breath.
"I like it!" Malk said after he swallowed. "Damn you." The Turian growled good naturedly. "I've lost!" to the awe of every one the human kept eating.
"You really don't find it hot?" Almin said shocked.
"O hell no, it's the spiciest thing I have ever eaten. I just like my food incredible spicy." he took another bite (Even as Almin heard his intestines cry out for mercy)
"There a lot more where you come from?" The Turian asked.
"I'm pretty typical for the fire nation." Malk said. "This stuff will sell like fire flakes."
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Meanwhile on Tuchanka.
"Hay, whats wrong! I'm losing contaminant on the number four salsa reactor! Why are you just starring slack jawed at those diodes!"
"I just had a money-gasm."
"It's just your imagination, we only sell to a few krogan die hard."
"I Don't know why, I just know where going to make a lot of money soon."
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"I'll believe that when I see it." The Turian said.
He walked back to the kitchen to pay his gamble. A television was silently playing in a corner of the restaurant. Malk looked up at screen.
"Say, That's your councilors isn't it?" Almin looked up as well.
"Say, your right."
"Is there a way we can turn the volume up on that thing?"
"I think so." Almin said looking around for a waiter to ask.
One noticed. "O sure." she (she was a Asair) said and she walked over to the television and turned the volume way up.
"Thanks." Malk said as the two of them watched the video.
The three councilors stood along side the avatar as the press meeting began, some question or other had been asked and Kelin was answering it.
"The Allinace only seeks peace with there now much expanded community. Of course if some wish to over come us, to denie us our basic rights of a people, then of course we shall fight them with all of are might. But, we shall never start a unjust, or unprovoked war. It is upon those thoughts, and upon those pillars of are behavior that I, on the behalf of the Alliance. Do hereby state, that we would be honored to join the Citadel."
"And that," Malk said as he started to dig into his chili, "IS all she wrote."
*this is the group Sokka volunteered for in the siege of the northern water tribe. (not sure if I got the episode name right)
** actually: less impressive then pinning Aang by his clothing with a bow in free fall.
***the spring loaded darts Mai used.
****Kyoshi Island.