Chapter 10
"Get ready Republic City, because the New Team Avatar will now patrol the city and fight the Equalist. Join the Mighty Fire Ferret and his brooding sidekick the Man in the Red Scarf, who team up with two fierce ladies, the Avatar and Lady Electric Glove on the journey," began Bolin
"Hey Bo, I think we should be going," spoke Korra
"But our origin stories! Mako, you don't want to hear your awesome origin story?" asked Bolin
"No Bolin, and since when did I become a sidekick?" inquired Mako. Instead of replying, Bolin only grinned.
"I think I will keep this," smiled Asami as she tested her glove again. "And remember, evasion and dodging are great defensive tactics against Equalists. Mako, your lightning redirection might help you against the electric gloves,"
"Alright, lets ride," smiled Korra as she hit her fists together. The four teenagers jumped on Naga one by one. By the time Bolin joined his three friends, Naga felt too much weigh and dropped the Krew on the ground. This resulted in a pile, where Bolin lay on top of Mako, who lay on top of Asami, with Korra being on the bottom of the pile.
"Scratch that, anyone else has any other ideas?" asked Korra as four people stood up.
"I think I have just a thing that could work," smiled Asami as she left the team. When she returned, she was sitting in the driver seat of the Satomobile that Tarrlok gave Korra as a gift.
"Now we just need to mark it as ours and patrol the city in our Korramobile," smirked Bolin as the group jumped in the car. Korra joined Asami in the front row, while the brothers sat in the back.
After their journey to the City, the Satomobile, which was now named Korramobile, was driving in the city. "Report, the Equalists are escaping," the police radio line told the coordinates of the Equalists.
Asami sped up the car. The Krew did not need to search for the Equalist vehicle for long. After they spotted the Satomobile, Asami began the chase. Mako stood up and sent electricity at one of the motorcycles, and quickly knocked out one of them.
The other drivers pulled together and increased the smoke from their exhaust ports. Asami put on goggles and continued driving. "Have we lost them?" inquired Korra
Korra's question was soon answered when two Equalists jumped on the Korramobile. One of them quickly managed to chi block Bolin's left arm.
Korra stood up and fought with the two Equalists. While she could not land any punch, they could not either. Korra quickly realized that her air bending practice of being the leaf finally payed off. "Ha, get this suckers," spoke Korra as she continued dodging the attacks.
Once Korra managed to hit one of the chi blockers, and then spontaneously hit a chi spot. Due to this, one of the attackers could not fight with his arm. "So this is how you do it," spoke Korra. Her newfound overconfidence resulted in her arms being chi blocked. Korra fell on her seat.
"Get of her," spoke Mako as he sent fire, which threw one Equalist off the car.
Asami noticed that the other Equalist was ready to hurt Korra. The heiress quickly took one hand of the wheel, and electrocuted the other Equalist, sending him off the car as well.
The chase continued. The car entered a smoke free road. "Mako, send lightning at the wheel. Bolin, Korra, use Earth bending to derail its path," spoke Asami as her friends did what she requested. The Satomobile in front of them crashed into a wall.
The Korramobile stooped. "Team Avatar scores one, the Equalists score zero," spoke Bolin as he proudly pointed at the Equalists, who were lying on the ground.
The Team Avatar then waited for police to pick up the Equalists. What they had not anticipated was that Tarrlok also arrived with the police.
"Hey Tarrlok, we managed to take down these Equalists on our own, while your Taskforce was somewhere else," spoke Korra proudly.
"I told you Avatar Korra, that you should join my Taskforce. You are effective at helping people. I do, however, want to teach you a lesson since you were so eager to go behind my back and fight the Equalists on your own," spoke Tarrlok
"And what are you going to do? Tell Tenzin about this small incident? I bet he would be proud that Team Avatar can be useful," smiled Korra
"Very well. Guards, subdue Asami Sato," spoke Tarrlok as metal cables flew at Asami, and tied her up.
"Asami! Tarrlok, I warn you," began Korra
"Warn me of what? Asami Sato is not only a bender, which by the way places her in a violation of the new non -benders curfew law; she is also a relative to a known Equalist sympathizer. And as we all know, children do follow in their parents footsteps," grinned Tarrlok
"Apparently you had not heard of former Fire Lord Zuko," spoke Korra
"Avatar Korra, I only wanted to arrest this traitorous woman but now I will do more. Arrest the brothers too," spoke Tarrlok as the metal benders tied Mako and Bolin as well.
"Tarrlok," screamed Korra as she used her earth bending to form a large bolder, she then lifted it above her head.
"Now, now, don't do something that you will regret later," spoke Tarrlok
"Tarrlok, I swear, if you hurt Asami I will," spoke Korra as she prepared to send the bolder at him.
"Korra, please, don't do anything reckless. Go and find Tenzin. I can spend one night in jail. I know that Tenzin will listen to you, and call a meeting first thing in the morning to deal with this," spoke Asami
"I," Korra hesitated before running towards Asami, hugging her, "I promise. I will see you tomorrow," spoke Korra as she saw that the metal benders put her three friends in the police Satomobile.
Korra arrived late to the Air Temple Island. "Korra, is everything alright?" asked her teacher.
"Tarrlok, he wanted for me to fall in line, so he arrested my friends," spoke Korra
"Korra, you did the right thing. I will speak with the Council first thing in the morning, and we will release your friends. Rest for now, and please don't do anything foolish," spoke Tenzin as Korra went to her room.
Korra could not sleep. "I have to rescue Asami, I need to fight Tarrlok," thought Korra, but then remembered that Asami asked her not to be reckless. "But Asami would not want that. I, I don't know what to do!"
"Woof," spoke Naga as she entered the room and put her head on Korra's body.
"Hello girl," spoke Korra as she hugged Naga's head. Korra looked out of her window, and stood up.
"I, no, I will not. Think Korra, Asami told me several times that I sometimes behave recklessly. I can wait one night," spoke Korra as she lay on her bed again. Naga looked at Korra and lay next to her.
Tarrlok stayed in his office for a long time. The councilman was very surprised that the Avatar had not arrived to his office. "She must be learning. It does not matter, I know that Tenzin cannot persuade the Council to release her friends," thought Tarrlok as he waited for a little while longer before leaving his office.
Somewhere else, Amon was standing by a table. Hiroshi Sato arrived in the room. "Amon, the new Sato planes are almost ready," spoke Hiroshi
"Excellent, good work Mister Sato," replied Amon as he was thinking where to strike next.
"These benders, these monsters took my wife away from me. And now they corrupted Asami into thinking like them," spoke Hiroshi
"Don't worry, we will reunite you with your daughter," spoke Amon as Hiroshi left and Lieutenant approached Amon.
"Amon, we learned that Tarrlok passed a new law against non benders. He also arrested the Avatar's friends, and keeps them in jail. Should we go and rescue the girl?" asked the man.
"No. We need to be patient. You say Tarrlok arrested the Avatar's friends? Excellent," spoke Amon
"Sir?" Questioned Lieutenant.
"Tarrlok tries to fight the us, and by extension all non benders. His extreme methods only will alienate the public from him. The arrest of the Avatar's friends and the passage of anti non-bender laws will make the public lose any confidence with the Council. And when Tarrlok does something really extreme, we will eliminate him from the equation, which will fragment the Council, and make them unable to do anything. So in essence, we will use Tarrlok's poor judgment to gain us more public acceptance. We just need to be patient," smiled Amon as Lieutenant grinned.
"And then at the end we will take down these Air benders and finally the Avatar," spoke Lieutenant.
"Precisely. After the Avatar looses her bending, our victory would be absolute,"
A/N: next chapter Tenzin brings these arrests for Council to discuss. Korra becomes unhappy with the Council's decision. Korra did not go to fight Tarrlok in this chapter, cause Asami urged her to be more patient, and unlike canon, Korra is getting slightly more patient at this stage already. I do plan to have Korra fight Tarrlok though. I thought it was interesting to add a scene on Amon's perspective. Unlike Tarrlok, Amon plans well ahead, and does not make mistakes.