United Forces Airship

Besides Iroh, Asuma, Korra, Mako, Kanan, Soren, and Shisui, the ship was run by a small crew of people. It was all the United Forces could spare to help the Avatar regain and train her bending. Hey, it was enough.

Mako sat at a nearby, empty table deciding to spend his time pouring over the Jutsu scrolls Sasuke had given him before they departed. Kanan had decided to join the fire bender sitting across from him.

Mako looked up at the former earth bender who rubbed his head. "Hey, you seem to know what you're doing with this whole Shinobi thing, so I was hoping you'd help me. In return, once I got it down, I can become your training partner. I promise I'll work hard as not to drag you down."

"Hm, having a dedicated training partner would increase my own strength even though this would slow me down. Then again, I shouldn't think like that since the bell test made it clear what being a Shinobi is about." Mako nodded.

"I can agree to those terms." He moved over to Kanan's side. "I've seen you training, and you're missing a key part of learning almost any Ninjutsu. You got to learn the twelve hand signs before you even think about trying to use the various combinations. Here, follow along."

So, Mako began slowly weaving through the hand signs with Kanan following along. Soren leaned against a nearby wall watching them. She nodded thinking this might just be what her brother needs.

Shisui came to stand next to her. "So, you're concerned about him, correct?"

Soren looked over at the older Shinobi before sighing. "Yeah… He just hasn't been himself since losing his bending." She looked at Kanan. "That said, at this time I do see just a little sliver of who my brother was before."

Shisui nodded. "I'm not going to pretend that I can understand what losing your bending does to you, but I do know it's not just some power you have. It's an integral part of who you are. In that sense, losing it must be devastating for anyone."

Soren sighed. "Yeah, I guess it would be."

Shisui put a hand on her shoulder. "Look, don't worry about your brother. The guy may be missing his bending, but the fact that he's here… the fact that he's willing to train like that… it speaks volumes of the strength within. All your brother needs are good people and family."

"I guess you're right." Soren nodded determined. "I won't let him be alone."

Shisui patted her shoulder with a smile. "That's the spirit."

Korra looked at everyone talking and helping each other before leaving the room and making her way to the bridge where Asuma and Iroh were. As she entered, she saw them standing in front of the radio which was picking up a signal.

"Hello, this is Zaofu calling for any available aid in the area. We are under attack by an army of stone statues our earth benders can't bend and according to one of our guards, five individuals are in the city going after the Beifongs. Please, if you are in the area, send help."

"An army of stone statues…" Asuma stated contemplatively.

Iroh looked at him. "You know something about this?"

"I can't be certain, but back in my world we had to deal with a huge army of stone statues that were immensely difficult to stop. They were controlled by a demon called Moryo until Naruto Uzumaki defeated it.

There were also four Shinobi trying to facilitate Moryo's return as he didn't have his body at the time. His plan was to wipe out all Shinobi nations and take control of what remained calling it the 1000-year kingdom." Asuma explained.

"That is most troubling." Iroh stated. "We can't ignore this danger; however, if we go, we may be all the assistance there is to offer, and the Avatar is aboard our ship."

"I understand, so just let me off with two or three of our men." Asuma stated. "We'll provide what help we can while you make it to Omashu and call in the United Forces."

Korra stepped forward. "No." They both turned to her. "If Zaofu is in as much danger as you say, then all of us will aid them."

Iroh looked at her. "Are you sure Avatar Korra?"

Korra walked over and joined them. "I'm certain." She sighed. "I know I'm nowhere near as strong as I could be, I don't even have much to go on with my air bending, but this Zaofu seems to need all the help it can get."

Iroh stroked his chin. "Well, this is her journey." He turned to his men. "Full speed ahead straight to Zaofu. We have a city to protect."

Iroh walked over to the Avatar. "Let's go inform the others of this." Korra nodded. "Lieutenant Asuma, keep command here and make sure we're topping out our speed."

Asuma nodded. "Right General."

Iroh and Korra stepped back into the main room, and the general cleared his throat to get the other's attention. "We just got a distress call from the Metal Clan of Zaofu. Korra has decided that we will aid them. If you don't feel up to it, speak now."

"What's the trouble general?" Shisui asked.

"According to Asuma, an enemy from your world. A demon who goes by Moryo, a huge stone army that earth benders can't bend, and five Shinobi." Iroh explained.

"Moryo… I recall hearing about that in my time." Shisui nodded. "I'm in."

Mako crossed his arms. "I'm not about to run away from this."

Kanan looked down. "Zaofu… Mom may have eventually agreed to go, but given her past with Aunt Su… Still, they are family, and I'm not mom; however, I'm severely lacking in skills at the moment." He shook his head to clear his thoughts. "Count me in."

Soren said, "Sasuke Sensei wouldn't back down from this, so neither will I."

"Soren, you shouldn't…" Kanan began.

Soren firmly said, "Big brother, I can handle this so don't think of making me sit out." She walked over to Mako. "Those who would abandon their comrades are worse than scum.

Kanan closed his eyes and sighed. "Very well."

Iroh nodded. "Next stop, Zaofu." He turned to a soldier. "Relay these orders to your fellow men. We'll disembark on top of Zaofu. All soldiers are to join the guard in trying to stop the statues while myself, Asuma, Soren, Kanan, Korra, and Mako head into the city to rescue the Beifongs."

The soldier nodded. "Yes sir."

Mako asked. "General Iroh, what do our allies look like?"

"Green robes and/or metal armor." Iroh stated.

Shisui spoke up. "That said, approach any battle with caution. The enemy could have decided to disguise themselves or use the Transformation Jutsu to look like our allies."

Everyone nodded as the airship was flying through the sky at top speed.

Streets of Zaofu

Kuvira stared at her two opponents and she knew she had to give it everything she had to beat them. Ketu stared at the guard and Shinobi carefully discerning who was the bigger threat, how to handle them, and when to get away as neither of them were his mission.

Yomi stood their feeling overconfident in his ability to handle them both. The Shinobi threw a scalpel at each of them. Ketu dodged while Kuvira rose a metal slab from the ground catching the lighting infused weapon.

Kuvira sent the slab of metal at Yomi who jumped into the air while Ketu ran at the slap and pivoted around it heading straight for Kuvira. The guard rose up an earth wall wall, but Ketsu jumped over it before leveling an axe kick down at Kuvira.

As Yomi fell to the ground, he wove a set of hand signs. "Lightning Balls."

Balls of lighting appeared around the street. Ketu came down, but Kuvira caught his leg with her cables and flung him away. Both now noticed the lighting balls surrounding them. Yomi smirked and wove the hand sign to make them launch at his opponents.

Kuvira grit her teeth and immediately bent every ounce of metal far away from her person as Ketu weaved through each lighting ball. Kuvira was bombarded by lighting while Ketu avoided them and drew close to the Shinobi.

Yomi drew two scalpels that he used to strike struck at Ketu. The mercenary maneuvered around them and to Yomi's back where he landed a powerful kick that knocked the Shinobi into a wall. Kuvira was still standing but clearly suffered damage at the hands of the lighting.

Still, she wasn't prepared to give up. The guard formed her armor and cables into three spheres and launched them at Ketu. He weaved past the first two, but the largest ball caught him in the stomach knocking the mercenary away.

Yomi moved behind Kuvira going for the killing blow, but the guard lunged to the right resulting in both scalpels digging into her sides. She pushed through the pain and moved her hands up slamming Yomi into the air with earth.

Ketu jumped up to meet him with a kick to the stomach slamming the Shinobi into the ground. Kuvira bent a section of some stairs into the air before launching it at the mercenary. Ketu cartwheeled to the right avoiding it.

Yomi got to his feet panting as he wove a single hand sign which caused a single, black snake to leave his body. He caught it before looking at both his opponents who were shocked to see this. He gripped the snake tightly absorbing the Chakra into himself.

"You two are proving to be a nuisance, so allow me to show you how far I outclass the both of you." Yomi stated.

Purple Chakra blazed to life around Yomi as his skin turned an ashen gray and two extra arms sprouted below the first two.

Yomi wove hand signs with both sets of arms. "Lightning Style: Twin Thunderbolt!" Yomi held out all four of his arms as huge spheres of blue lighting surrounded them. "I no longer care if you survive because there are many others we can ask of the truth, so just die already!"

Kuvira was about ready to earth bend herself out of there when Yomi plunged two arms into the ground sending just enough lighting surging through the ground. Ketu jumped up to a nearby roof and decided now was the time to get out of there. He booked it from the scene.

Yomi laughed as he pointed his remaining, free hands at Kuvira who was out of options on how to defend herself now that the area was electrically charged. It made it hard to bend anything no matter how much Kuvira tried.

"Ketu may have gotten away, but your finished Kuvira!" Yomi shouted

Kuvira was shocked before she turned and ran as fast as she could. Yomi laughed and fired his lighting at the exact same moment as a powerful gust of air hit Kuvira knocking her into an alleyway and out of the way of the Jutsu.

Yomi watched as from the opposite alleyway Korra walked off. "Phew, I made it just in time."

Yomi was genuinely shocked to see what appeared to be a water bender using air bending. As far as he knew, there were only three air benders in the world, and none of them matched this girl's description. Then it hit him.

"Oh, you're the Avatar." Yomi stated as the lighting in the ground dissipated. "Guess I didn't do nearly as good…" Korra punched out air at him so the Shinobi jumped over it. "…as I thought destroying the city's communication network."

Kuvira came out of the alleyway and looked at Korra in shock. "Air bending… Korra, is it really you? Does she remember me?" the guard shook her head. "No, now isn't the time for that." She looked at Korra gratefully. "Thank you, Avatar Korra."

Korra looked at her. "That guard… she looks familiar." She nodded. "No problem. Now just get out of here because I'm not as strong as I could be, and I don't know how long I can hold him."

Yomi was not intimidated in the slightest to be facing the Avatar as he wove hand signs with both sets of hands. "Lightning Style Bullet: Quadruple Powerful Breath!"

Each of Yomi's fist sparked with massive amounts of lighting nature. He thrust two to Korra's left and right, one directly above, and the fourth aiming dead center meaning Korra couldn't avoid this and she wasn't skilled enough to generate massive amounts of air yet.

Korra was never one to give up so she generated as much air as she could preparing to fire it only for two metal slabs, spaced apart a bit, to appear before her catching the lighting and acting as a ground discharging the Jutsu harmlessly into the ground.

Korra started at Kuvira who was just lowering her arms. "Sorry Avatar, but I won't flee from this battle. If you're staying to fight, I am to."

Korra nodded gratefully only for Yomi to seemingly appear in front of her faster than she could react. He hammer fisted Korra in the gut knocking her down the street. Kuvira bent the metal slabs back catching the Shinobi from behind and slamming him into the wall of a building.

For a second, everything seemed calm until Yomi grabbed the slab discharging pure lighting nature forcing Kuvira's hold on the slabs to weaken to the point that he could kick them off. He then charged at Kuvira only for Korra to blast him back with air.

The Avatar came to stand next to the guard with both sharing a nod of genuine respect for each other. Yomi shook his head and prepared to take them both on. One more opponent would not make a difference.

"You two have done a good job, but please allow me to take it from here." A male's voice called out.

Everyone looked for the source of the voice until the man who said those words appeared in between the two woman and Yomi. He had short, spiky black hair and black eyes. His skin was perfectly normal.

He wore a short-sleeved blue uniform, waist length blue jacket, and matching pants with orange trim. The Uchiha clan crest was imprinted on the back. He also wore a white belt, shinobi sandals, and a pair of goggles with orange lenses pushed up to the top of his head.

The man didn't look back at them as he focused his attention on the person before him. "You two have done well, but there are more pressing concerns than him. That said, Kuvira apply your metal bending at the right time. You'll know when."

"Kuvira?" Korra looked at the guard again. "Is she really my childhood friend? A question for a later time."

Yomi drew four scalpels. "You sound as though you are underestimating me stranger." He brandished the weapons. "Allow me to show you the error of your ways."

"Hold on, are you sure you want to take this guy on alone?" Korra questioned. "Let us help you."

"Relax, I can take this guy without using much of my strength." The stranger stated.

"I should be saying that to you." Yomi stated. "I'll tear through all three of you!" He charged forward. "You're all…"

He was silenced by a powerful palm to the chin knocking him back.

The stranger then closed his eyes and said a word Korra certainly recognized. "Sharingan!" He opened his eyes revealing the three tomoe of the standard Sharingan while drawing multiple shuriken. "Kuvira focus on where Yomi is and ignore my weapons."

With that, the stranger flipped back while throwing every shuriken he held. Each one sailed past Yomi who'd recovered while the stranger landed holding the various wires attached to the shuriken in his hands and mouth.

The shuriken were maneuvered around a lamp post and soon restricted catching Yomi with them. Even though he struggled, the Shinobi was snapped back to the light post which wasn't as sturdy. Kuvira's eyes widened before she used her metal bending to reinforce it.

"Assisted Sharingan Windmill Triple Attack." The stranger declared.

"Impossible." Yomi thought. "I can't lose to some Uchiha."

The stranger wove hand signs. "Fire Style: Dragon Fire Jutsu!"

A massive amount of fire flowed down the wire straight for Yomi washing over him and making him scream out in intense pain. Once he was done, the stranger released the hold of the wire allowing a blackened corpse to fall to the ground.

"Thanks for the assist Kuvira." The stranger declared.

The stranger started to move towards the wall of the city until Korra spoke up finding her voice after the shock. "Hold on, who are you and where are you going?"

The stranger looked back. "My name is Obito Uchiha." Recognition of that name flashed across Korra's face. "No doubt Sasuke has told you about me, but my goals now are vastly different to the Obito Sasuke and Naruto fought. Now, I'm going to the outer wall to reinforce the troops. You can either fight me or aid Suyin with her own problem."

Kuvira jumped in. "Su? What is wrong? What is all of this?"

"We are wasting time ladies." Obito walked forward. "Suyin Beifong is the one in danger, so I'd suggest hurrying to her."

With that, Obito vanished.

"Well, there's no doubt he's a Shinobi." Korra stated. "Still, was that really the same Obito Uchiha Sasuke told me about? If so, what's his real game here?"

Kuvira said, "Avatar Korra, if Suyin is in trouble, I need to get over to the estate. Will you continue to help me?"

Korra turned to her. "That's what I'm here for." She ran past the guard. "Let's hurry."

Kuvira nodded back and followed the Avatar.

Su's Study

Su screamed out in pain before Kusuna dropped the scalpel he'd been using. It clattered to the floor among many, other scalpels covered in blood. Su sat in her chair still unable to move, but that did not mean she couldn't be hurt.

The head of Zaofu was panting as sweat poured down her body mixing with the blood from various, non-lethal cuts to her body. Her clothing and body were damaged in other ways and would most certainly bruise.

Kusuna sat on the couch across from her with an amused smile. "You know, it's almost admirable how you've kept quiet all this time Su. You are quite resilient and/or you must care a great deal about your father. I wonder, do you care about him more than the rest of your family?"

Su stared at this monster defiantly. "My family is strong enough to weather whatever you try monster. I won't tell you anything because releasing Moryo is not an option. That demon would only see to the destruction of my family anyways."

Kusuna laughed. "Really? Well, it's easy for a mother to say that when not confronted by the truth. Let's change that Su Beifong. Allow me to enlighten you on the current state of your children by having some of them dragged in here."

He pressed his thumb to a seal on his wrist and poured Chakra into it. "That should get us the results we are looking for." He retrieved another scalpel. "Until then, we can certainly pass the time with a little more fun."

The screaming resumed.

Power Disc Field

Wing and Wei waited and watched as Shizuku rose her foot in the air and a tiny drop of water hit the ground. "Water Style:Rising Water Slicer!"

She slammed her foot down and a high velocity wave of water rushed at the two boys visibly tearing up the ground. Wei moved out of the way, but Wing brought a slab of metal up blocking the attack. The metal bender struggled against it as the water pushed him back.

Wei used this moment to bend up a chunk of the ground and throw it at the Shinobi who effortlessly dodged it using the water nature to slide around on the ground. This did not dissipate the water Jutsu, so Wei bent another large rock into the wave disrupting it.

Wing took this opportunity to send the slab he was using as a shield at Shizuku aiming for where she'd be. The Shinobi jumped over the slab before landing and continuing to glide as she wove more hand signs.

"Water Style:Water Dragon Whip!" Shizuku declared.

An orb of water levitated above the ground causing the twins to stare at it with concern. Their concern was valid as multiple, sharp whips of water came bursting fourth straight for the twins. They both earth bent themselves out of the way only for whips to follow them.

Wing managed to stay ahead of the Jutsu, but that was because most them were going for Wei. "Wei!"

Wing earth bent towards his brother as the whips drew closer and moved his arms putting all his effort into his bending. Wing slammed into his brother and finished his maneuvers. Five slabs of metal moved with Wei.

One caught his body while the remaining four formed a box with it. The whips that had been aiming for Wei were now on a direct collision course for Wing. He moved an arm up forming a wall, but every whip pierced through it and Wing.

The whips that went after Wei dented the metal, but the box held. The Jutsu faded as Wei hit the ground with blood pouring out of his various wounds. All Wei heard was the gurgled screams of agony from his brother as he quickly bent the metal box away from him.

Wei gazed upon the body of his brother spasming on the floor. "Wing!"

Tears started to well up in Weis eyes and his blood was starting to boil as he rushed over to his brother. Shizuku wasn't concerned with letting them have a moment. These twins were in the way, and they weren't for sharing information which meant they had to die.

"Water Style: Water Rising Slicers!" Shizuku called out.

She sent three waves of water at the distraught twin only for him to turn on the Water Style user completely enraged. "You hurt my brother!" He tried to bend as much metal as possible at Shizuku. "Now, I'm taking you down you psychotic monster!"

Something strange happened. No metal in the area reacted instead the ground heated up considerably, became lava, and rose up as a wave overtaking the water as it moved straight for the Shinobi.

Shizuku was shocked, but she still wove hand signs. "Substitution Jutsu!"

The lava washed over her just as the poof followed meaning she'd replaced herself with something. Wing thought he got her until he heard agonized screaming behind him. He whirled around to see that Shizuku's right leg had been eaten by the lava.

Water dripped from a blackened wound as the Shinobi looked at Wei with an intense anger. "You!" Shizuku stood on one leg using water nature to keep herself from falling over. "I will kill you Beifong!"

Wei looked over at his brother and froze in place as the body laid there lifelessly only further intensifying the twin's anger and boiling blood. Tears ran down his eyes as he turned back to his opponent enraged.

"You're wrong. No matter what you are, or how strong you are, you will pay for taking my brother away from me." Wei declared as he again tried to bend metal. "You'll pay!"

Once again. it was just a wave of lava, but Wei didn't care. He pressed forward turning more of the earth around him into lava.

Shizuku used the water to move around the ground that had yet to be unaffected. "Your rage is blinding your bending." She sounded rather angry herself. "Considering you have no practice bending lava, you'll be easy pickings from here on out. You might want to switch to earth."

"Shut up!" Wei shouted. "My brother and I did nothing to you, yet you've cut him down with no remorse. What's more, you're attacking my family and city. No, your opinion doesn't matter to me. All I'm concerned with it stopping you and your friends before you take any more."

The lava came more intense and faster than before with Wei now cooling the land around him to ensure his opponent couldn't end this prematurely. While his metal bending seemingly turned to lava bending, it didn't mean he'd closed the gap in skill between them.

"You're finished kid!" Shizuku shouted. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

5 total Shizuku now moved around Wing who attempted to take them down with his lava, but he was never able to hit one. Maybe if he were calmer, he could do this, but his anger was rather strong now.

The five Shizukus wove hand signs. "Water Style: Water Dragon Whip!"

Five orbs floated into the air and immediately shot out their whips at Wing who was rather defenseless even as he switched to earth bending to try and shield himself. He already knew earth wasn't strong enough to stop this water.

The real Shizuku jumped onto the roof of the house to see the death of her opponent only to hear something moving fast towards her followed by a voice. "Swift Style: Chakra Drill!"

Shizuku turned around to come face to face with Mako. He'd been running through out the city looking for any trouble. When he found nothing there, he booked it to the Beifong residence. What he'd saw made him angry.

True, he had no idea who these two twins were, but when you see a dead sibling on the ground, and the pain in the still living one's eyes, it strikes a powerful chord within. Chakra was spiraling around the fire bender's right arm uncontrollably as this was a Jutsu he had little practice with.

All that said, Mako would be lying if later he claimed his actions were easy. There was obvious hesitation passing on his face as time seemed to slow down. At this point, it was to late to reconsider. Mako's arm punctured through Shizuku's chest.

Mako's hand was covered in blood as Shizuku coughed up the same substance and the water spheres dissipated. "Lord Moryo…" Shizuku tried to move her hands up to weave a Jutsu. "I failed you."

The Shinobi's body slumped as she died. Mako retracted his hand shocked while Wei ran over to his brother's body trying to feel for a pulse. Just as he expected, there was none. Fresh tears spilled from his eyes, but Wei stood back up.

"Wing…" Wei stated. "You brave, idiotic fool. It should have been me." He clenched his fist and forced himself to turn back to the house. "It should have been me damn it!" The bender was grateful to Mako, but he had no time to wait. "I'll do what I can to save the others, brother."

Wei ran into the house heading for his mother's study. Mako looked at Shizuku's body just in shock over what he'd done even if he knew, deep down, that it had to be done. It still didn't make this any easier on him. That said, he saw Wei ran inside and knew he had to press on.

I know you guys may have some questions, and ask them if you're still confused; however, I'd hoping to knock them out of the park right here.

Wei gaining Lava Bending: This has effectively replaced his metal bending, and it doesn't completely come out of nowhere. As it has been stated last chapter, Su's father is Roshi of the Four Tailed Beast Son Goku aka Lava Monkey. So, by process of their births, I see any earth bender Su had having the potential for lava bending. Wei just tapped into it by his immense rage at losing Wing.

Will Huan or Su gain Lava Bending: I'll have to say no. In my eyes, Wing or Wei would be the ones to access Lava Bending through their immense rage as it's my head canon that they're a little more intense than Huan or Su who often seem more calm in my eyes

Obito's return: The person behind any and all the Shinobi, except for Sasuke, appearing in this world has his reasons for whose brought back and how he goes about it. Some retain all their memories, portions are left out, or memories are altered to gain a desired effect. A dead soul is easily manipulated to fit the perpetrators wants and needs. Especially if they've had darkness in their souls. He's also a long ways away from officially joining up with Sasuke and them. For now he's basically going to be the guy on the outside jumping in when he's needed.

Why did Obito defeat Yomi: Korra's not at full strength, and Kuvira is injured. While that alone isn't enough as they could have very well still defeated Yomi, Su clearly needs some help just as those soldiers outside the city do as well.

mastercheif1229:Great chapter! Can't wait for the next one! Also, could Indra and Ashura possibly be reanimated?

Quillion9000:I won't say it's impossible. Sasuke and Naruto may have very well broken the cycle after their fight. It is also worth noting that Hashirama and Madara are also reincarnations of Indra and Ahura, yet both were able to be brought back. Madara was even alive at the same time as Sasuke. It is also likely that their link to their own reincarnation cycle was broken when they both died for the brief time in the final battle. Also, glad you enjoyed the chapter.