Ami leaned against the handrail and stared at the vast ocean beneath her. The sun was starting to rise, tinting the entire sky in a gorgeous glow. She glanced down at her watch, and lamented that her mother would soon wake up. What would be her reaction when she saw the letter?

"Hey...are you okay?" Minako strolled over and joined Ami.

Ami nodded without saying anything. Truth was, she didn't know the answer to that question.

"I know what you are thinking." Minako sighed and leaned against the handrail. "I can't promise everything will be okay, because clearly it's not. That's why we are "activated"." Minako raised her hands to make the air quote. "However, if we all stick together and combine our forces, I am sure we can weather just about anything."

Ami pulled her lips into a forced smile. "Yeah..."

"How much longer?" Mako came out and joined them on the roof of the airship.

"mm..." Minako squinted her eyes and looked to the horizon. "I think I can see the island. It's over there. Maybe another 20 minutes?"

"So does anyone know anything about the other guardian? Or the avatar?" Makoto looked towards Minako.

The blonde shrugged. "Not much. Artemis mentioned that the avatar is unlike any other that existed before. Whatever that means...As for the firebender, her name is Rei Hino. That's all we know about her."

Suddenly, a shadow was casted over the airship. All three looked up and gasped. Another airship had appeared out of nowhere and it was flying dangerously close to them. Minako had her chain ready as she studied the newcomer.

"Guys, I don't think they are friendly." Ami pointed at the end of the other airship. The hull was opening...She stared in horror as grimm started to rain down on them...

"SHIT." Makoto grabbed Ami and leapt away, just as a wolf-like grimm landed on where Ami was previously standing. Minako wasted no time and was already slaying using her metal chain.

"Mako, I can't water bend at will." Panic rose in Ami's voice.

"Stay behind me." Makoto shoved the smaller girl behind her back while she took her stance. A few gust of winds and she managed to knock a few monsters overboard.

Ami turned and looked up. She could see a girl with green hair holding up a scroll, filming them. The girl sneered and waved at Ami.

"There's someone filming us from the other airship." Ami shouted over the battle sounds.

"What?" Makoto looked up. "Is this the test from the academy?" A grimm leapt up and slashed at Mako while she was distracted. The tall brunette yelped in pain before punching the grimm overboard. "Or maybe not..."

Minako cleared the remaining grimm off of the roof before looking up at the other airship. "Hmm...let's see what I can do about that..." She dropped into a horse stance and reached out with her hands. The metal in the other airship started to groan and bend...

Before Minako could finish however, the enemy struck first. The girl with the green hair chuckled as she pressed a button on a device she was holding. A loud explosion was heard in the lower deck and then the engine sputtered.

"Oh no." Ami looked at the fast approaching ocean as their airship started to spiral down.

"Okay...landing strategies. We all have one, right?" Minako bent out the metal handrail and started to shape them into a makeshift glider.

"um..." Ami looked down at the water. If only she's a water bending master, then she could bend a column of water to soften their landing.

Makoto picked up Ami like she weight nothing. "Hang on." Before Ami could react, Mako leapt off the airship and Ami couldn't help but yelped a little. Amazingly, Mako was shooting air out of her feet and they were flying/falling.

They landed hard on a nearby beach, Makoto and Ami ended up tumbling from the force. Minako's glider did not work as well as she thought either. She landed with a thud a few feet away.

"Everyone alive?" Minako tossed the metal garbage aside. "Is that it? Is that the best welcome they can muster?"

The sky was calm again. The enemy airship was nowhere in sight.

Ami coughed and stood up. She extended her hand and helped Mako stand up as well. Quickly, she glanced around at her surrounding. "There. The school is that way. I guess we will have to walk the rest of the way..."

Mako took a step and then winced. She looked down and saw the gash on her abdomens was gashing blood. Ami looked down at the wound and burrowed her brows. "Let me take a look at that."

Mako was led to a nearby boulder and then sat down. "I am fine. Really." She blushed when Ami bend down closer. The smaller girl was so close that Mako could smell her perfume.

Minako started to pace on the beach. "We are too exposed here. If the enemy comes back to finish their job, we are sitting cats."

"Turtle ducks." Ami said while she rummage through her pockets, looking for anything that could constitute as a sewing kit.

"What?" Minako whirled her head around.

"Nevermind." Ami paused what she was doing. She needed to think. Minako could probably bend a metal thin enough to be used as a thread, but if one of the arteries was pierced, Ami needed to repair that. Makoto could bleed out in minutes ad she's starting to look real pale.

Suddenly, a thought occurred to Ami. It might not work, but she had to try.

"Okay, stay still." Ami placed both of her hands over the wound and closed her eyes. Blood is water. She thought. Ami started to imagine the circulatory system in the human body and how the blood would flow. Amazingly, her hands started to tingle and she could feel the flow in Mako's body. Following the flow, Ami could tell that the gash missed all major arteries.

"Ah.." Mako yelped in pain as Ami started to force the blood to flow back.

"Minako, I need a very very thin metal. As thin as you can bend it. Imagine a thread. Also, bend me a needle." Ami barked out her order.

"On it." Minako ran towards the discarded metal from earlier. Moments later, the metal bender came back, beaming as she handed the needle/threat to Ami.

Ami fished out a small bottle of liquor in her pocket and then splashed some onto Mako's wound and her new surgical kit. Makoto raised an eyebrow at Ami and the smaller girl blushed. "OH my, you are not the goody goody girl..."

"Okay, this is going to hurt." Ami paused, holding her thread in midair. "Ready? Don't move okay?"

"Oh, I can help with that." Minako grinned and stomp her foot. A column of earth rose up and trapped Mako's entire body, except the abdomen area. Mako looked over with disbelief. "I can totally not move by my own will. OTT much?"

"Oh yeah? What if you pass out and falls? This way, you are completely immobilized." Minako crossed her arms.

"All done." Ami stood back up and wiped her hands on her shirt. Mako looked down in amazement. "I didn't even feel that..."

Ami smiled. "I think my power is increasing. Just now, I was thinking how I wish I have some ice to numb the area and then your surrounding area started to frost over. Anyway, I sew you up quickly before the frost melted. Minako, you can let our patient go now."

"Not bad, Doctor Ami." Minako offered a hand and high fived the blue hair girl. "Now, do I need to bend a wheelchair for you, Mako?"

"I can so walk. Thank you very much." Mako stood and winced but she was determined. She looked back at Ami and Minako and smiled. "And I mean it. Thank you both."

"Ah...don't mention it." Minako waved her hands and then laughed. "Now, let's move the sitting cats to the campus please, so we don't get attacked again."

"Turtle ducks." Ami muttered as she started walking.

"See, why would it be turtle ducks? It makes no sense..." Minako continued to protest as she half jumped half walked the rest of the way.