"So you're going to need paperwork dealt with aren't you Kerenai?"
"Yes sir I am, but it's so worth it to find you alive and well...sort of"
"I'm better than when you rescued me at least"
"True enough, now all that's left is a very long drive ahead of us"
And it was a long drive, due to his injuries the President couldn't handle traveling for longer than four hours at a time and so it took a week to get back when normally it would have only been a day or two. Korra and the President had to sneak in due to everything that was going on but that was expected for Korra considering her current situation, but the Vice President was very welcoming
"It's good to see you alive sir"
"It's good to be alive, and the group that took me captive and inserted an impostor is for sure taken care of?"
"Yes, what Kerenai didn't take down I did, silently and carefully"
"Well for now we have to get Kerenai back into proper status and get me legally declared alive again"
"Agreed, and Kerenai, this time it's an order, you are staying here at the White House while we get this entire mess cleared up"
"Yes...sir...will...comply...night"
And with that Korra falls asleep in the Oval Office with the President not that far off himself. It would take another three weeks for everything to fall into place but finally the Vice President could hold a press conference to not only declare that the actual President was alive but that Korra had acted in the interest of the country killing the impostor almost seven months earlier and had been acting under orders three days into her self assigned mission (it had taken that long for the Vice President to actually get back into the Oval Office to formally take command of the country, even if he had started his duties days earlier during the initial confusion)
"So ready to be a normal citizen again?"
"Are you ready to run a country again?"
"Yes, though John will help with the transition for a few more days at least"
"I'm not quite as prepared, the country may know the truth finally but actual trust will still take time within the unit I am ultimately assigned to"
"If need be I will help smooth things over"
"It shouldn't be necessary...and Mirage you can stop using your device which makes you invisible while Jazz can come out from behind the trees and let the rest of his group know that I am truly starting to recover from my ordeal and am well for the most part. By the way what are you doing on Earth anyways?"
Both come out of hiding as requested and then Jazz uses the family bond to make contact with Prowl
/Prowl, Korra busted Mirage and I and says she's doing okay, looks thin and tired to me but all things considered she's probably right in declaring that she's okay/
/Understood Jazz, I will let the Primes and Galvatron know that she's almost back to her normal self minus what naturally happens when on the run for a long period of time/
While Jazz was talking to Prowl Mirage was talking to Korra
"Jazz asked me to come after you pulled your little stunt with the impostor, wanted an extra eye on the lookout for you basically if possible"
"Makes sense I guess"
Finally they got the signal that the press conference was beginning and waited for their signal to come out from where they were, and when the Vice President announced his news everyone was scrambling for permission to get their questions answered, and they were with the conference finally ending two hours after it had begun
"So tomorrow you go to your new unit then"
"Yes Jazz, tomorrow, oh by the way I need to know if there's any heat I need to take on now that I am in the clear"
"Not that I'm aware of, minus the Primes and Galvatron, but they allowed me to tell you what they thought about this, they said and I quote 'if you ever think about sacrificing yourself like this again we will hunt you down and keep you at home until you change your mind, and if need be we'll send you to Cybertron so that they have a turn at lecturing you' they also said that there are no policies you need to take the heat for as of yet while you were leader of Cybertron"
The next day before Korra's unit met her her commanding officer had a meeting
"Okay everyone, we're getting Korra Kerenai into our unit, now then if you've pain attention to the news you know a lot about her already, here's the deal, you may not trust her immediately, and you may not like her, but you will at the very least respect her as a person and not provoke her into a fight. She sacrificed a lot for this country going in knowing the cost"
"When will she arrive?"
"Two hours from now depending on traffic"
An hour and a half later Korra was meeting her new unit and could instantly tell that there was tension in the ranks with her addition, she took it calmly however having known that that would most likely be the case, trust was going to be hard to earn, but she didn't regret the choice she had made back when she had killed the impostor and put the Vice President in charge of the country