"I'm expecting a fair fight Uncle. Metal against metal, leave the blood out of it. Unless you're afraid of me that is." Kuvira said mockingly, a hint of the Great Uniter showing through.
Jeong Shu simply smiled before extending his right arm out to his side. A street lamp began creaking and groaning before bending towards him. All at once it was torn from the ground and sent flying through the air, straight at Kuvira. She dodged it easily before pulling several strips of steel off her armor and hurling them at him like knives. He jumped to the side, but not quite quickly enough. One of the strips cut across his leg, blood spilling from the newly opened wound. It would seem his age and size slowed him down considerably, making Kuvira believe she had an advantage. She was quickly proven wrong however as the blood dripping from his leg suddenly stopped, suspended in the air before going in reverse back up his leg and returning to the cut. A moment later the wound closed, as if invisible stitching had pulled the flesh back together.
Jeong, noting the shock on Kuvira's face, began laughing. "Oh I'm sorry, did I forget to mention? The body is controlled by the blood, and I control the blood. I can heal any wound, hold together any broken bones... No mater how hard you hit me, no matter what you cut... You can't hurt me. So come on Great Uniter! Let's see what you can do!" He yelled before rushing her, ripping stones from the street as he ran and flinging them towards her head. Her shock wore off in an instant and she ducked underneath the stones. Several razor sharp strips of steel imbedded themselves into his chest a moment later, but he barely seemed to notice as he barreled over her, knocking her down with sheer brute force. She planted her hands on the ground behind her head and pushed off, kicking her legs out and sweeping his out from under him. He fell, caught off guard by the sudden move; and just before he hit the ground she kicked him in the chest, pushing one of the strips even deeper into his ribcage as he went tumbling away from her.
She flipped back up onto her feet, stomping the ground as she landed, thrusting a stone pillar into his back and pushing him even further away. He smashed through a store front window on the other side of the street. He stood slowly, his laughter never faltering. Glass shards stuck out from his body at odd angles, yet not a single drop of blood stained them.
"Did you know Kuvira... That glass is just superheated sand?" With that he thrust his arm forward, hand flattened like a blade, and each knife-like shard ripped from his body and flew towards her. They were difficult to see, and even harder to dodge. Several missed, but several also connected. One planted itself into her shoulder, another into her abdomen, and a third went clean through her left thigh.
"Kuvira!" Korra yelled when she saw the older woman fall to her knees, blood spilling onto the ground before her. She had been kneeling over Asami, water surrounding one hand as she tried to use her limited healing abilities to close the cut on Asami's forehead. The Avatar's hands were suddenly ablaze with flames as she stood to face the one armed blood bender. Before she could attack however, Kuvira pulled herself to her feet once again. Glass shards fell and shattered on the pavement as she pulled them from her body. She glanced at Korra for just a moment, just long enough to let her know she was okay, before slowly walking towards Jeong.
"You want to know something funny? All my life I've been afraid of you. You haunted me. Tainting my memories of childhood... Making me scared to go to sleep at night. Don't I feel foolish? Look at you... Such a big man... But you're nothing but a coward, aren't you? An exceptional coward, I'll give you that. But you're no different than the thousand other big men I've taken down over the years. And I'll bring you down just as easily..." Suddenly the twisted metal frame of the window he'd been thrown through came to life, two ends of one long strip forcing themselves through the backs of his knees before wrapping around his legs and pulling him down. But the agonized scream she'd been expecting, even hoping to hear, never came. Instead it was just that same laughter that had followed her the last twenty years of her life.
"Stop it..." She said, walking towards him once again.
"Stop it. Stop laughing."
Finally she reached him, pulling a strip of metal from her waist that wrapped around her hand like a glove. The laughter didn't waver.
"Stop... Laughing."
Her steel fist connected his his jaw, shattering several rotten yellow teeth and sending several more flying across the room. He fell onto his back as she encased her other hand in metal. It was garbled now as he choked on his own teeth, but the laughter never stopped.
She straddled his chest, pinning his hand to the ground with her foot before punched him again. She could feel his eye socket crack.
"I said stop laughing damn you... STOP LAUGHING!" She yelled, punching him again, and again, and again. Blood began pouring from each new gash she opened on his face, he didn't even bother trying to control it.
The laughter never stopped.
"That's it my girl... Just a few more..." He choked out between fits of laughter.
"Shut up... Just shut the hell up you bastard... Do you have any idea what you've done to me? Do you have any idea what you turned me into?!"
She all but screamed as tears sprung up in her eyes. They mixed with the blood that had splattered against her face from each hit before falling onto his chest. She kept swinging, the bones in his face cracking under her fists as fresh blood poured with each blow.
Finally she pulled back, metal spikes extending above the knuckles on her right hand. She fully intended to cave his skull in with one final blow. Before she could however she felt the makeshift metal glove being pulled off of her hand. A tan arm wrapped around her waist from behind, gently pulling her off of him.
"It's over Kuvira... You won... Everything's going to be okay." Korra whispered. Kuvira's silent tears became sobs as she was led away from her father's killer.
"I'm sorry Korra... I'm so sorry, for everything. I... I can't-" she managed to gasp out between sobs. Korra simply hugged her tighter, letting the metal bender weep onto her shoulder.
"What I made you... What I... Made you..." Jeong Shu wheezed out, his broken face and missing teeth almost making the words incomprehensible.
"What I made you, Kuvira?... It's obvious isn't it? I made you just like me..."
The laughter never stopped.