The Voice In The Night

Cliff is wandering around his old home the home of Uncle Nijuto something feels off to Cliff like something bad is about to happen. Cliff then arrives at the living room to find Amon standing there waiting for him, he gets into a fighting stance as Amon chuckles and says "come on Cliff don't be scared now." Cliff begins to panic as Amon knows his real know he asks in a panicked tone "how do you know my name?"

Amon chuckles and says "I saw the fear in your soal" Cliff then charges at him and goes to throw a punch but Amon grabs and flips him onto his back as Amon puts his knee on his back Cliff looks up to see his Rocketeer suit covered with Equilists logos. Cliff begins to really panic "no-no-no" Amon laughs as he asks "what's a matter, Cliff? Your uncle's invention will be in much better hands now" he then grabs Cliff's right arm and pulls it up as he says in a menacing tone "too bad about your's" he then falls backward breaking Cliff's arm as Cliff begins to scream out in pain.

Cliff jolts up screaming from the nightmare drenched in sweat. He calms down and begins to look around the room looking for Amon, once he realizes that it was just a really bad nightmare he begins to try and calm himself down saying "it was just a nightmare Cliff it was just a nightmare." A nightmare that felt all too real for Cliff but Cliff fell back into a deep sleep.

The next day Cliff woke up at two in the afternoon, grumbling he slowly got out of bed and realized that he was in the shop but how he didn't remember falling asleep in the shop last night. "How did I end up in the shop?" Is what Cliff asked himself in his own head but his question was soon answered when Mikey came walking through the door.

Mikey smiled and said "hey Cliff your up" Cliff lightly waved and said "yeah but I don't remember falling asleep in the shop last night" Mikey laughed and said, "yeah I figured you wouldn't you had one heck of a night last night." That's when it all came back to him the night before The Revelation heald by Amon, Amon the same man that beat the snot out of him and would have chocked him to death had it not been for Korra. He put his head in his hands and said: "oh yeah last night..." Mikey sensing his friend's fear walked over to his friend and put his hand on his shoulder. Mikey knelt down by Cliff saying "hey man look I would be scared to after last night I mean the dude almost broke your wrist and choked you to death" Cliff then looked at his friend and smile saying: thanks Mikey I kind of needed that."

Mikey stood up and patted his friend on the back saying "no problem" he then began to walk over to the door he stops in his tracks and says "hey by the way the shop is closed I figured you needed it after last night." Cliff then smiled as his friend walked out of the room saying "oh boy Mikey what would I do with a friend like you?" Mikey answeres from the other room shouting "most likely do something really dumb!" Cliff just laughs as he finally gets out of bed and gets ready for the day.

Later on, that night in the shop both Cliff and Mikey were relaxing listening to the radio and having a good time until. "Good evening my fellow Equalists" Cliff froze as he listened to Amon's message "this is your leader, Amon. As you have heard the Republic City Council has voted to make me public enemy number one proving once again that the bending oppressors of this city will stop at nothing to quell our revolution." Cliff rolled his eyes not once being intimidated by Amon Mikey surprised after what happened asked: "you're not scared after what happened?"

Cliff smirked and said, "Mikey if I'm scared of dying then I really need to get out of the superhero business." The two chuckled as they returned to listening to Amon's speech, "Our numbers grow stronger by the day you no longer have to live in fear, the time has come for benders to live in fear. And to the one known as The Rocketeer, I hope you won't forget what happened the last time we faced each other because I won't and I will find you and finish what we started, sleep well."

Cliff turned off the radio with his blood boiling saying "boy what I would give to knock that stupid mask and that smirk off his face!" Mikey a tiny bit worried said, "boy you sure made him a little mad" Cliff turned to his friend and said, "good I'm glad I ruffled a few feathers." The two men said good night and closed up the shop for the night.

The next day Cliff was walking to the shop and stopped when he saw a moped parked outside he whistled and said: "boy ain't that just purty." He then walked inside but was greeted by a beautiful young woman and his friend slash boss Mikey who walked up to ecstatic "Asami Sato this is my friend and partner Cliff, Cliff this is Asami Sato daughter of Hiroshi Sato." The two shook hands as Cliff said "well hello there Ms. Sato" Asami giggled and said "you can just call me Asami" Cliff nodded and asked, "so what brings you here Asami?"

Mikey quickly jumped in and said, "Cliff Asami has just invited us to the gala that Councilman Tarrlok is trowing Avatar Korra!" Cliff surprised turned to Asami and said "Well that is quite generous of you miss Sato" she smiled and said, "it's the least I could do for you two helping to fix one of my dad's Satomobiles." Cliff then pulled Mikey aside and said: "Mikey we can't go we don't even have nice clothes!"

Mikey smirked and said "oh yes we do Miss Sato just delivered them for later on tonight" Cliff then sighed and said, "I don't know Mikey I mean what if The Rocketeer is needed?" Mikey replied confidently with "don't worry Cliff just were the suit underneath" Cliff looked at Mikey skeptically asking "but what about-" before he could finish Mikey said, "hide it somewhere to where only you could find it." Cliff finally sighed and said "alright but only I guess I could go" Mikey then returned to Asami and said "Miss Sato we will be honored to go to the gala" Asami began to walk out of the shop saying "great see you tonight."

Later that night the two men arrived at city hall with two big posters of Avatar Korra Mikey whistled and said: "wow one day they can't stop talking about you and the next it's like you never even existed." Cliff smiled and said "yeah well the fewer eyes on The Rocketeer the better" the two then made their way inside to find a lavish party. Cliff and Mikey both whistled as they walk around Cliff tries not to be noticed but fail as Asami moves their way.

"Hey, you two this is my Father Hiroshi Sato" the three men great each other as Mikey does most of the talking "why hello there Mr. Sato" the older man chuckled saying "please just call me Hiroshi my daughter told me about you two fixing a Satomobile for her" Mikey grinned and said, "yes sir we did me and my friend here!" They all chuckled as Cliff looked to see both Bolin and Mako he smiled and said "hey you two are-" Bolin cut him off saying "yeah it's us the amazing Fire Ferrets" he then began to flex his muscles. Avatar Korra and Councilman Tarrlok arrived and Cliff then began to look around he then saw two strange men outside walking and looking around as if they were planning something, Cliff knew he had to act so he coughed and said: "excuse me, folks, I just need to use the restroom real quick."

Once out of sight he sighed and said: "time to get out of this fancy get up" he then changed into his Rocketeer costume and began to secretly follow the two men "boy I just hope this all goes well." He followed the two men to a shop Cliff waited for a part of him hoping that they would not do anything and a small part of him hoping they would just so he wouldn't have wasted his time. And then one of the men used earth bending to break the window open Cliff quietly sighed and said: "welp time for some action I suppose."

He then flew up to the open window saying "hello there boys doing a little late night shopping?" The Earth bender sent a piece of earth toward Cliff who just flew out of the way. He did the same thing when te other man threw a record player at him while dodging more earth he quipped "well look at this a bender and nonbender working together why Amon would have a heart attack at the sight of this." He then flew full speed at the earth bender knocking him hard into the wall knocking him out he then turned his attention to the nonbender who just quickly surrendered, Cliff then tied the two men together saying "alright now you two sit tight the police will be here any minute."

Cliff flew back to the gala only to see people exiting the building as they looked up in awe to see him flying by he decided to fly back to the shop as discreetly as he could. Once there he found a somewhat mad Mikey waiting for him with an earful "are you trying to get caught?" Cliff confused asked his friend "what do you mean?"

Mikey sighs and says "look Cliff you were 'in the bathroom' for the rest of the gala and don't think no one but me noticed someone noticed like oh I don't know THE AVATAR AND FRIENDS!" Cliff chuckled and said "well I'm sure the whole city heard-" he was cut off by Mikey who was clearly in no mood for Cliff's jokes right now "Cliff this is serious what if they noticed they might start to put two and two together!" Cliff chuckled at his friend's worry "Mikey I get it but they have much bigger fish to fry" Mikey sighed as Cliff began to get changed saying "look Cliff I'm not telling you how to change into your fancy get up all I'm saying is to please be careful whenever you do" Cliff smiled and said, "alright dad will do."

The two men laughed as Cliff asked: "so what did I miss?" Mikey sighed and said "well Avatar Korra joined Councilman Tarrlok's new task force" Mikey with a soda in hand looked at Mikey confused asking "really?" Mikey smiled and replied back with "yes really and I think this concerns you as well" Cliff still confused asked, "concern me how?"

Mikey sighed and said, "well if Councilman Tarrlok did all of that to get the Avatar to join his task force what do you think he'll do to get 'The Rocketeer' to join?" Cliff laughed and said "you can't possibly think that he would try and get me to join" Mikey swiftly replied in a serious tone "yes I do I mean come on in less than one day The Rocketeer became an overnight sensation!" Cliff still not believing his friend replied with "Oh come on you think he would try to get me to join his little task force for good PR" Mikey shrugged saying "could be that or it could be to have The Rocketeer in the pocket." Cliff laughed and said "goodnight Mikey" and set off to bed.