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The First Avatar
Book 1: Mind
Chapter 37: Endgame Pt. 1
Iroh and his group hid behind a snow bank, looking down on the Equalist Airbase. They had managed to travel through the mountains remarkably quickly with the help of Naga and Byakko.
"I think we found our secret air field." Iroh said with a smile, "Tahno, once we get down there, I need you to freeze the runways over and raise a few icicles. We can't let those aircraft take off." The waterbender nodded in understanding.
Mako turned back to Naga, Pabu and Byakko, "Alright guys. We need you to stay here so we can make a quick escape later." He told the Polar Bear Dog and Fire Ferret.
"Stay here as well Byakko; they'll need your help in case you're discovered." Asami said petting the tiger affectionately, "Of course Miss Asami" was his simple reply.
After leaving the Animals, they slid slowly down the icy hill, careful not to alert any equalists. Once they reached the bottom they approached a series of odd posts.
"Why would there be fence posts, but no fence?" Asami wondered aloud. Her question was answered as a web of electricity coursed through them, dancing from one fence post to the next, sending Iroh and Team Korra into unconsciousness.
The position they awoke to was less than favourable. Asami and Mako were tied back to back, as were Tahno and Iroh and they were all locked inside a spacious cell. Before any of them could speak, Hiroshi Sato made his presence known, looking disdainfully at the three benders that shared a cell with his daughter.
"Asami…" the Sato girl looked her father in the eye with malice, "Asami I know I have hurt you… And I'm sorry. But I believe that one day, you will come to your senses and we can be a family again."
Asami looked at him with incredulous eyes, "Are you insane! How can we be a family after everything you've done? Mom would hate you for what you've become."
"How dare you!" he roared, "I am avenging her death!"
An equalist foot soldier appeared behind the Future industries founder and saluted, "The Airplanes are ready for take-off sir."
"Good, annihilate the fleet" Hiroshi ordered. Team Korra gasped and Hiroshi turned to face them, "That's right general. I intercepted your message to Commander Bumi and I planted the documents for Silver to find! Spirits knows why Amon wants her left unharmed…" he laughed and walked away, in his mind he had already won.
Once he was out of earshot, Iroh turned (as much as he could) to the others, "anyone here a metalbender?" he asked hopefully.
"Firebender only" Mako grumbled.
"No metalbending here" Asami added.
"Water…" Tahno said.
Iroh pouted as he tried to think of a way out until…
There was massive crash as a Polar Bear Dog and a Tiger burst through the doors to the warehouse that Team Korra had been stored in. "Naga! Byakko! Over here!" Mako shouted. Hearing the call, Naga bounded over to the cell and smashed it open with a clean swipe from her massive paws.
"Who needs metalbenders? We've got Naga!" Tahno cheered. With the team now free, they ran from the warehouse to see several planes already in mid-launch.
"I'm going after those planes!" Iroh announced as he used his firebending to jet propel himself onto one of the planes. He briefly wrestled with the pilot before throwing him out and taking control of the plane, leaving the dislodged equalist to float down on a parachute. Tahno and Mako went about destroying the stationary planes with their bending while Asami found an unoccupied Mecha Tank.
While his allies destroyed the planes at the base, Iroh was having an all-out aerial dog fight with several equalists in the skies above Republic City. As he approached a tightly packed enemy formation, Iroh stood and launched a bolt of lightning at them; causing them to scatter but not before one of them was damaged and flew into another, taking them both out. The equalists went on the offensive as one of them fired an explosive Bola which managed to destroy Iroh's propeller, leaving his plane useless. Iroh was quick and jumped away from his plane, propelled himself to a new one and commandeered it in the same way he had done before, he then launched a fireball at another plane which destroyed it. He was once again hit, this time by a torpedo which took out his tail and sent him spiralling out of control. As Iroh set his aircraft on its course, he destroyed the last of the Equalist planes and hopped out, grabbing a hold of the Equalist Banners that been placed on the staff of Avatar Aang's statue, tearing it and leaving him hanging in mid-air. His plane continued without him, right into the Giant Amon mask that had been placed on the statues face. It exploded and sent the mask plummeting toward the ocean, revealing the undamaged face of Avatar Aang.
"Thanks for looking out for me, Aang." Iroh smiled as he looked at the statue, "Now…how do I get down?"
Meanwhile at the Airbase, Mako and Asami's Mecha Tank were destroying the planes stored there while Tahno froze the runways over, creating uneven mounds and icicles, leaving them useless. As Asami raised her Tank's arm to destroy another plane, Mako was suddenly struck from behind by an electrified Bola, knocking him unconscious. Asami spun the tank around, only to come face to face with another tank, this time with her father, driving another tank.
"Asami, what are you doing! You are aiding the very people who took your mother away!" he roared.
"You don't feel love for Mom anymore! You're too full of hatred!" she screamed, angry that he dared imply her friends were responsible for her mother's death.
"You ungrateful, insolent child!" he advanced on her, Asami responded by firing a grappling cable, however she missed and her father's tank knocked her's on its back with a swift jab.
"You would side…" he punctuated each word with a blow from the tank. "…against your own father, for one of them?" a sudden shockwave sent Hiroshi's tank flying across the area, landing in a heap just a short way away from the fuming Asami.
"I am one of them!" she cried as she began walking forward. "The First Avatar has gifted me with Energybending, the art that ties the other bending types together. By using the Aspect of Air Technique I can create shockwaves and kinetic blasts, like I just did." She continued to advance as Hiroshi desperately tried to control his malfunctioning machine.
"And with the Aspect of Fire, I can affect the flow of heat and electricity in any object with an energy flow that I recognise, and I know your inventions well. Give it up father; you'll never be able to control that machine."
Hiroshi was panicking as Asami reached his cockpit. "the Aspect of Earth allows me to affect the hardness of any earth-based material, so long as I am aware of what the material is composed of, your tanks use a platinum based alloy, correct?" she asked rhetorically as she effortlessly twisted the cockpit open like it was made of foil.
Hiroshi quickly jumped past her and ran, not Asami, Tahno or the newly awakened Mako moved to stop him. A few feet away, Hiroshi lost the feeling in his legs and collapsed to the ground. "The last aspect of energybending is the Aspect of Water. This one works a lot like chi-blocking, except I can do it from a distance, and without making contact."
Hiroshi flipped onto his back and looked at his daughter, the energybender as she walked toward him with a hard expression.
"Why Asami? Why would you side with them over your own father? Benders are the reason your mother is gone and yet you allowed yourself to become one…" he said, tears in his eyes.
Asami's expression softened and she knelt down beside him, "Daddy, it wasn't benders that took mom away from us. It was one criminal, how could I turn against all my friends just because someone they never even knew hurt my family? You've let Amon and his equalists hurt thousands of people, innocent people, all for the actions of one man. How can you justify the extinction of an entire cultures way of life for that? Look at them." Asami gently tilted her father's face to meet the looks of Mako and Tahno. "Where they responsible for mom? Was Silver? Or Korra? Or Bolin? I know you believe this is wrong and we both know mom wouldn't have wanted this, so please stop this. You're the only family I have left." Asami began to tear up.
Hiroshi could bear to see his daughter cry; he thought on her words, she was right. He was punishing thousands-no millions for the crimes of one man. He began to break down in sobs and pulled his daughter toward him. "I'm so sorry!" he cried, "I forced you to choose between your family and your friends, spirits I've caused all this! If only I'd never been so foolish! I promise I'll make this up to you if it's the last thing I do!"
The two Satos cried together, finally releasing all their pent up feelings as Mako and Tahno looked on, each smiling to themselves.
I was unsatisfied with how they dealt with Hiroshi and Asami. I wanted some kind of redemption thing, him finally realising what he'd done and reverting to being a good caring Father. So i changed it!
So Asami is now an Energybender! i tried to balance a few of the techniques so she wouldn't be invincible. What did you guys think of the aspects? Took a while to think up ones that i liked.
Today is the last day to Vote on the Fate of Amon!
Tomorrow's chapter is also longer.
Next Chapter: Endgame pt 2: Korra faces Amon but will she succeed or will Amon take away her bending?
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