Greetings, one and all and welcome to another chapter of Avatar Heroes. I hope you enjoy it and now on to the reviews.
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And now on to the story.
The next morning, Team Avatar and Suyin's family are sitting at the table for breakfast. Mako and Bolin giving Skywalker an odd look now and again, remembering what had happened last night, he could guess what they wanted to talk about. "Hey, has anyone seen Chief Beifong?", Mako asked suddenly.
"Probably still sulking in her room.", Skywalker muttered, as he ate his breakfast. "I know she has a problem with me, but she had no right to yell at Opal last night.", Su said, angry at what had happened last night. "We can agree on that.", Skywalker said as Wei and Wing run into the room. "All set for your power disc game, guys?", Su asked as the Wei takes a few pieces of fruit from the basket. "Yeah, all set to kick Wei's butt." Wing said as he snatches an apple. "I wanna power disc your face.", the other twin said as he smacks Wing in the stomach, causing him to choke on the apple before turning to Skywalker, "You should go play with us."
Skywalker stomping his foot on a table and pointing at Wei and Wing, "Bring it on!", Skywalker declared as he crushes a carton of milk in his hand, "Your coming Korra?"
"Um. I don't think I'd be much help, since I can't metalbend.", Korra said, much to Su's surprise that Lin never offered to train her in the art of metalbending. "Nope. I guessed I never thought to bring it up because I was learning to airbend, then there was the pro-bending, then I got tied up fighting Equelists, then I got tied up with fighting my crazy uncle, then I was attack by Morgenstern. It was a busy few months."
"Well, it's probably for the best. I'm sure Lin would be a horrible teacher. As the Avatar, you should have mastery over all the elements. I'd be happy to show you the basics.", Su offered, which Korra gladly accepted. Opal said to Bolin that he should try too, bu the flinches visibly at the thought, "Uh, nah. I'm more of an earth guy. The dirt, rocks, you know, maybe some light gravel. That's kinda where my heart is."
Suddenly Su's necklace begins to be pulled off, the cutlery on the table begin shaking and being pulled away, causing everyone to duck for cover. A man in a metal suit, where the cutlery flies and stick to. The person in the suit removes the helmet cover, revealing to be Varrick. "It worked! Zhu Li, mark it down. Magnet suit test successful.", he declared as everyone peers out of the table. "Power down.", he ordered as Zhu Li unplugs the suit, causing everything to drop, "On to phase two: Zhu Li cleans up this mess.", at this Zhu Li hangs her head in disappointment.
"What the hell is Varrick doing here?", Skywalker whispered to Asami. "Oh yeah, we forgot to mention that Varrick is here.", the raven haired girl muttered.
After they had finished breakfast, Mako and Bolin dragged Skywalker away for some privet talk. "Explain.", Mako said, Skywalker not understanding what he meant, "Are you Jason Skywalker, in a relationship with Korra and Asami at the same time?"
"No, I just pork with every female friend I have.", Skywalker said sarcastically but Mako was not amused by this. Bolin meanwhile looked both surprised and impressed, before pulling Mako to the ground, "He is a god!", Bolin declared as he and Mako bowed before their friend, though Bolin had to force him, "A god I say!"
Meanwhile at Korra and Su, as they walk through the garden, Su stops near a meteorite on a low pedestal, "These meteorites are perfect for beginning metalbenders. The metals have a unique property, making them easier to bend." to demonstrate, she breaks off a piece of the meteorite which she slowly bends down to her hand, reshaping it into a star shape, followed by a diamond. Korra looks on in amazement, before she is given the meteorite. "Here, try it!"
Korra nods before concentrates for a while, but is not able to do anything with the meteorite, much to her disappointment. "So how is everything going here?", Skywalker asked as he landed next to his girlfriend. "Done with the game already?", Korra asked, her boyfriend giving a nod, "Did you win?"
Skywalker gave a mockingly insulted glare, "How many times do I have to say it? I win all contests.", he declared pointing a finger at her. He suddenly turned his head as he heard something moving behind a large rock. His eyes glowing blue for a second, he saw that it was Bolin watching them. "Bolin? What are you doing there?", Skywalker asked. His young earthbending friend steps out nervously from behind the rock, "Oh, hey. Just uh... I was just looking for Pabu. Pabu!", Bolin tried to make up, but Korra pointed out that Pabu was on his shoulder.
Bolin eyes shift to his shoulder and see Pabu, "Oh, look there you are! You know, I thought something was chewing on my ear. Probably need to get a shot. Pabu has sort of a... a venom. Anyways, so what are you guys doing? You metalbending over here or something?", Bolin said as he walked over to them. Su asked if he wanted to give it a shot. "Nah, it's okay. I mean, only like one earthbender in a hundred can metalbend."
"Don't believe everything you hear. The only way to know your limit is how far you can push them.", Skywalker said, "I mean, would you believe I only learned to fly when I was 16?", going from Korra and Bolin's reaction, they didn't. "Not really Jason, I always assumed you came flying out of your mothers womb shooting lasorz out of your eyes. Looking exactly like you are now.", Korra said. "That's going to be terrible for you and Asami then.", Bolin whispered, receiving an elbow into his stomach from the Avatar. Korra turns back to the meteorite, focusing on the fine pieces of earth within the metal, and successfully changes the shape of the meteorite. "I can't believe it! I'm metalbending!", Korra said.
A little while later, after getting a little peptalk from Opal, Bolin wanted to give metalbending a shot. But they were interrupted when the ground cracks beneath them and a meteorite falls and breaks. Turning to the side, they saw an angry, panting Lin Beifong. "I think Lin is mad about something.", Bolin said somewhat nervously to Skywalker and Korra. "How is that anything new?", Skywalker asked. "Su, it's time we talk.", Lin said as she walked towards her younger sister, "When we were in Mom's office that day, you could've taken responsibility for what you did. But instead, you stayed quiet and let Mom throw her whole career away."
"Mom didn't throw her career away. She retired the next year. She was a hero.", Su corrected her older sister, but Lin wasn't having any of it. "You think she wanted to retire? She was so guilt-ridden about what she did to protect you that she didn't feel worthy of her badge.", Lin said back. "Look, I admit that I was not a perfect kid and I've made some mistakes in the past but...", Su started her sister scoffed at this. "Lin, Mom and I already talked about this years ago and worked things out. If you had gotten together with us like we'd asked, you would know that I'm a different person now. I've been a different person for a long time.", she looked slightly hurt at her sisters remark.
"You think that just because you live in a big, fancy house, and have a chef who cooks you fancy food, that you're a different person? Maybe you could fool everyone else, but you can't fool me. I see right through you.", Lin said hatefully. Su apparently had enough of it and replied back, "You know what, Lin? You're the one who hasn't changed. You're still a bitter loner who only cares about herself. No wonder Tenzin ended things with you years ago."
"That can't be good.", Skywalker said before Lin bends a rock towards Su, which she deflects using her wrist. Su trips Lin with a fissure, before knocking her off with a meteorite. Lin gets back up and earthbends a staircase, while Su metalbends a metal panel. Su bends the metal panel toward Lin, which she evades by using a backflip. Lin earthbends many fragments of small rocks to Su, who evades the attacks by weaving through.
"Should we stop them?", Korra asked unsure to her friends. Both Skywalker and Bolin shook their heads, "You don't have any siblings, fighting is all part of the healing process.", Skywalker was the one to explain, much to Korra and Bolin's surprise. "You don't have siblings.", Bolin said.
"Actually... It so happens that I have a younger half-brother.", Skywalker said, his friends nearly dropping their jaw, "My father was kind of a man whore.", he added disdainfully, he wanted to turn back to the fight but found Korra turning him around. "And when was your plan to inform me or Asami about this?", she asked, a little insulted. "That my father was a man whore?", he asked surprised, but he got what she meant by her look, "I... I don't know. We had been friends before we found out. If it makes you feel any better, you already have met him.", her deep sky blue eyes widened, trying to remember which of his friends could be it.
Turning back the fight, Baatar, Huan, and the twins run to a pavilion while Lin earthbends toward Su, which she dodges with a cartwheel. Lin metalbends Huan's Harmonic Convergence sculpture, which Su deflects and smashes it into a metal wall. "My sculpture!", Huan dashes over to survey the damage, "Actually, it looks... kinda better now."
Su metalbends three metal panels towards Lin, which she deflects. Lin begins to earthbend rocks from beneath Su. Lin earthbends a large boulder towards Su, who uses a part of the metal wall to shield herself before deflecting it out, which knocks Lin into the pavilion nearby. "You've got it out of your system?", Su asked but Lin got back to her feet, earthbends a part of the staircase leading to the pavilion, while Su earthbends a boulder from the ground. The two of them begins to charge at each other, but Opal interfered by airbending both objects to the side.
"What are you two doing! You're sisters! Why would you want to hurt each other?", Opal demanded to know while both Su and Lin pants in exhaustion, and suddenly, Lin faints and falls to the ground, but Korra saved her head from knocking the ground.
Later, Skywalker, Korra, Bolin and Mako are standing outside of Lin's quarters. "Uhh, whose going to knock?", Korra asked as she pushes Bolin closer to the door. "No, no, no, no, no, no! Not me! You're the Avatar, why can't you do it?", Bolin asked as she and Korra started to argue. Skywalker shrugged his shoulders and knocks on Lin's door. "Beifong! You've been sleeping for sixteen hours! That's pushing it, even by my standards! So get your fat ass out here!", Skywalker started before Bolin placed a hand on his mouth while he and Korra dragged him back.
"Uhm! We just wanted to make sure that you're okay.", Mako quickly said as suddenly the door opens, revealing Lin in Metal Clan attire. She yawns and stretches her arms, "Good morning.", Lin said cheerfully. Skywalker, Korra and Bolin stopped their struggle and looked surprised. As Lin walked away, Bolin gave a sudden yelp, holding his hand painfully, "He bit me!", he said accusingly to Skywalker. "You covered my mouth!"
A few days later, late in the evening Skywalker found himself accompanying Kuvira on her patrol, having taking a liking to the young woman almost instantly after their first meeting. Kuvira laughed at his story before asking what happened next. "Then I threw Phoenix into a wall. We all thought he had a few broken bones but he just got up and said 'That was amazing!'.", the two laughed. "So, that title of yours.", Kuvira asked about one of his earlier stories, "'Knight Of The Wind', fancy title.".
Skywalker rolled his eyes at the mention of the title his city had giving him for liberating it single-handed. "The 'Only One in Canterlot Not Completely Insane' was considered...", this got another chuckle from the young woman next to him. "You know, I thought we were alike, but I was wrong.", Kuvira started, much to his surprise, "We are both abandoned by our parents. But at least I was raised by Su. You grew up all alone."
Skywalker closed his eyes, as he shook his head, a smile on his face. "That's nice of you to say, but knowing the kind of man my father was... I am glad to be brought up alone. At least I had my friends. It's from them that I draw my strength from in the toughest of times."
Skywalker eyes widened when he saw an unconscious Korra being held by group of people he didn't know. "What the heck?", Kuvira said amazed. "Go warn the guards! I will duel with them!", Skywalker said, the tone of his voice showing power and command as he charged off.
Sending off a warning shot with his Heat Vision, he nearly blew away a wall, the bald man must have felt the heat grace his ear. "Let her go!", Skywalker ordered, his eyes still glowing red. An armless woman sends a line of water at Skywalker, but he counters by freezing it with his breath. Much to his surprise the woman with a eye on her forhead attacked him with an explosion while the bald man attack with a gust of wind. Skywalker avoids their attackes. Thanks to Kuvira, lights are shone onto the criminals, as reinforcement arrived. "So much for the element of surprise.", the armless woman said, the man holding Korra said, "Back-up plan."
The woman with the eye turns and blasts combustion at the guards who are operating the lights. She fires another blast and the impacts with one of Skywalker's Heat Beam, creating an explosion. Asami, Bolin and Mako arrived, the twins still in their sleeping wear as they joined him. "We can't let them take her.", Skywalker said.
"I don't think they're going to get far. Look!", Asami pointed out as one of Zaofu's guards attacks the group, but is easily overpowered. The criminals try to flee, but are stopped in their tracks as they are surrounded with slabs of metal, bent by Lin. Wei and Wing add onto the pile.
"We have you surrounded. It's over. Release the Avatar!", Kuvira said, giving a thumbs up to Skywalker, who gave her one right back. Suddenly lava begins to flow out from underneath the pile, evidently bent by one of them. Lin and the metalbending guards quickly jump back. "No way! That guy is lavabending! That's awesome... ly not good for us.", Bolin added when he noticed the looks his friends were giving him.
The bald man begins to airbend a mask of smoke from the lava, but is caught by the wrist by a cable of one of the guards, who is able to reel him off the platform. Skywalker, Bolin, Mako, Lin, Asami, and the Metal Clan members take cover together behind a slab of metal in order to avoid the criminals' attacks.
"Are those the criminals you mentioned who wanted to capture Korra when she was little?", Skywalker asked Lin, who gave him a nod before she turned to her sister. "How did they get in here?"
"I don't know, but we're not letting them escape!", Skywalker shouted as he looks over, three guards use more metal slabs to create a bridge to get to the criminals. The lava guy knocks the guards off with earthbending. "There's no way to cross that moat.", Asami said as they looked on. "I am taking them down, right now.", Skywalker said standing up, but Lin pulled him back down. "That's a great idea.", Lin said sarcastically, "Except you'll get blown up the second that third-eyed freak sees you."
"Then I better make sure she doesn't see me.", Skywalker said, and in a blur of speed Skywalker flies into the middle of the criminals, who are stunned by his sudden appearance. Evading and countering their attacks, Skywalker grabbed Korra before taking to the sky. The armless woman tries to trap his legs with water, but Skywalker blast it away with his Heat Vision.
Meanwhile, the bald man is busy fighting two guards, but looks up and sees Skywalker escaping with Korra, he flies up on his glider in pursuit. He blasts air at Skywalker, but he manages to avoid it, and Skywalker uses his Heat Vision to puncture holes in it and stopping his opponent. As he land by his companions, the bald man successfully creates cover with smoke and the criminals escape.
A few moments Skywalker was sitting in Suyin's office, where Korra lies on the couch, her head on his lap as she waking up. "Hey there.", Korra said hoarsely, much to his relieve as she sat up. Skywalker let out a relieved sigh, before clenching his fist in anger and turning to Su. "How could you let this happen!?", Skywalker asked angrily, standing up as he gives Korra brings a knee up, "You assured us this was one of the most secure places in the world."
"It is. I don't know how this happened. Obviously this was a well-planned operation.", Su said defensively, "So don't blame me.", they had a small stare down which only stopped when Kuvira entered the room. "We searched the entire estate. There's no sign of them."
"Well, keep looking!", Skywalker ordered, slightly taken a back by his own tone. "S-Sorry." Kuvira gives him a understanding nod and departs. "It would seem they had some inside knowledge of Zaofu. They must have been working with someone.", Aiwei said as he stood up himself. "The...", Korra started as she sat up and puts a hand on her head, "The guards. It had to be one of them."
"Question them all! Whoever betrayed my city will suffer the consequences!", Su said before she storm off.
And I think this is a good place to stop. I hope you enjoyed it. Many, many thanks to everyone who reads, reviews, favorite or follows this story, you beautiful bastards. Now I wish you all a fantastic day and I will see you ladies and gents, very soon.