In Republic City, things were even. Most of the foot-bots had been destroyed, but on the side of the good guys, their forces were pretty much exhausted, but they kept going with the intention of protecting the city and all its inhabitants.
"Tonraq... Tonraq!" the waterbender slowly opened his eyes to see Splinter and Tenzin looking at him. He groaned as he stood up, holding his shoulder that Shredder dislocated.
"Don't try too hard. You're more injured than we are." Tenzin said, sliding under the other arm of the Avatar's father to hold him up and lift him.
"I'll be fine. Where's Korra?" asked Tonraq.
"We don't know and we haven't heard from Shredder, Leonardo or the others." said Splinter leaning on his staff.
"If they are facing Shredder we have to go help them." said Tonraq before moaning in pain.
"In our state we can't do anything." Tenzin said, bringing him to his senses.
"All we can do is trust that they can handle it." Splinter said.
Suddenly, several foot-bots jumped off the roofs and landed around the three of them.
"Great. As if things couldn't get any worse." Tenzin said.
"I'll distract them, you escape." Splinter said, taking a step forward.
"I may be very hurt, but I'm not going to leave you behind." said Tonraq.
"Neither do I." said Tenzin, holding his ground.
The foot-bots prepared their weapons and were ready to attack the helpless teachers, but then…
PUM
A pair of giant claws crushed two of them, all of them looked up and were left with their mouths open (except for the foot-bots) at what they saw before their eyes. A huge creature that looked like a mixture between a dragon and a bird, the most amazing thing was the golden and luminous tone that he had in most of his fur.
The dragon bird spirit let out a shriek in sign of his arrival. The foot-bots considered him a major threat and prepared to attack him, but the dragon eel spirit pierced them all like a ghost, causing them to short-circuit until they fell inert to the ground.
"And I thought you could handle this." said the dragon eel spirit.
"What are you doing here? I thought you weren't going to help us." said Tenzin, recalling what Mako and Raph reported.
"And so, it was. Until an old friend of yours managed to convince us to give you a little help." said the dragon eel spirit, bringing back to the airbender the memory of a certain old man he found in the spirit world. "But don't think this changes anything. This will be the first and only time we will help you in your affairs."
"Of course. You have our deepest gratitude." Splinter said, bowing in respect.
Tenzin and Tonraq did so as well, although it was a little more complicated because one was holding the other who was badly hurt.
"Anyway." said the dragon eel spirit before flying away from the area.
The dragon bird spirit followed soon after.
Everywhere you could see the help of the spirits. Wherever there were some surviving foot-bots, the spirits appeared to destroy them, giving their support to the allied troops.
In one street, a rock spirit lowered his huge rock arms to crush a group of foot-bots, although he made sure at all times not to harm the humans, as they were there to help them.
In another street, in front of Bumi and Kya, Hei Bai, in his monstrous form, was destroying with his claws and fangs any foot-bots that had the courage to attack him. It was a shock for Tenzin's brothers to see it, as he was the spirit their parents told them about when they were children.
April, Casey, and the Mutanimals were shocked by what they saw, because it was the first time they had seen the spirits of that world.
Soon, thanks to the help of the spirits, the Foot forces were quickly eliminated to the point where the only ones left were the evil mutants who had been stopped.
All that remained was to defeat the leader of the Foot, but as Splinter had said, all that could be done was to trust that Korra, Leo and the others would be able to defeat him.
The clouds continued to swirl over the Temple of the Air Island, where the heroes were having the greatest fight of their lives.
Raph and Donnie lunged at him with their weapons, but Shredder blocked both weapons with his claws before expelling them with a blast of air. Mako threw several fireballs at him, which Shredder countered by throwing several airballs and then threw a current that knocked him down.
Asami tried to touch him with her electrified glove, but he grabbed her by the wrist before kicking her in the chest. Karai tried to attack him from behind, but Shredder grabbed her by the leg and threw her away from him.
Ikki and Meelo threw a couple of waves of blunt wind, but Shredder dodged it, leaving it open for Jinora to enter with an air-wrapped kick. However, as if the scene were moving in slow motion, Shredder ducked under the kick and when she passed over him, he pushed her towards her brothers with a gust of wind.
Mikey approached him with his nunchucks, but Shredder jumped back before kicking him in the chest. Bolin squirted lava at him, but Shredder used the airbending to harden the lava and with sharp wind waves sent from his claws, shattered him, causing Bolin to swallow saliva before suffering Shredder's wind slap.
Korra tried to attack him with a water tentacle at the same time that Leo was going to attack him with his katanas, but Shredder avoided both attacks before grabbing Leo by the neck and hurling him towards the Avatar.
"I have faced hundreds of warriors to prove my strength, you are nothing to me!" said Shredder.
"But you've never faced people like us." said Korra.
"This is only the beginning." said Leo before everyone charged at the Foot leader.
Asami was the first to attack with her electrified staff, but Shredder was able to block all attacks, then used his momentum to repel her. Mako and Bolin combined their powers to create igneous rocks that were thrown at Shredder, who was able to dodge some while the others deflected them with his airbending.
Korra was next, covering her right fist in rock and throwing herself towards him at the same time as Leo. Shredder blocked both attacks with his gloves, but the two continued to push him back. With a powerful thrust mixed with an explosion of air, Shredder knocked them both down.
Jinora created an air ring that she threw towards him, but, to her surprise, Shredder manipulated the air around the incoming ring, making it spin back towards her like a boomerang. Jinora stepped out of the way before being hit by her own attack.
Ikki jumped on his back and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Leave them alone, you big bully!" Ikki said before Shredder grabbed her and threw her out of him.
Donnie threw his staff at him, but Shredder grabbed the staff and then used it to make Donnie hit an incoming Mikey. Raph threw several shurikens at him, but Shredder blocked them with his gloves before sending a few waves of cutting wind from his claws. Luckily, Meelo, on his air scooter, saved him in time.
Karai tried to hit him in the neck with an immobilizing technique, but Shredder grabbed him by the wrist and lifted him a couple of feet off the ground.
"Have you forgotten, Karai? I taught you everything you know." Shredder said.
"Not everything. I've been learning new tricks." said Karai before his trapped arm became a snake and wrapped around Shredder's neck. Karai took advantage of that to kick him horizontally in the face and knock him down. "Like that."
Before Shredder could fully recover, he felt the electricity rushing through his body, courtesy of Asami who had hit him with the tip of her staff before the engineer kicked him in the back.
Donnie and Meelo went in to kick him in the chest (the second one wrapped in air) and sent him crashing into a wall created by Korra. She then, with a stretch of her arms, leaned the wall over it to crush him, but Shredder cut it with waves of cutting wind from his arms.
On each side, Mako and Jinora threw their respective elements towards him, but Shredder built a wall of air powerful enough to resist both attacks. However, he had to roll out of the way to avoid Raph and Mikey, who were coming in from above and hit the place where he was with their weapons.
He was able to avoid the attack from above, but couldn't stop a column of earth from throwing him up. Bolin did the same, but with Leo, so that he could get to him and give him an uppercut. Shredder opened his eyes in time to see Ikki descend on him to give him an axe kick taking advantage of his mid-air state, but Shredder acted quickly and used airbending to get away from there and land on the ground on his feet.
The heroes, once again, surrounded Shredder preparing to continue the fight.
Leo was the first to attack him, the two of them entering into an exchange of swords. Soon after, Shredder was able to put Leo on his defensive side. Shredder threw his blades at him, but Leo blocked them by putting his katana in the X position. However, Shredder took advantage of that to pull the katanas out of his hands before hitting him with an air current.
Mako began launching several fire attacks, from a wave of fire to a flash of flame, but Shredder neutralized half of them with his airbending while using his agility to dodge the rest. Shredder charged toward him, but as soon as he took another step, he felt a strange sensation on the ground and jumped back in time to dodge a stalactite that suddenly emerged from the ground.
"Damn it." said Bolin as he saw that his attack didn't work.
Shredder rushed at him and kicked him in the side before charging at his brother, who tried to defend himself by creating a wall of fire, but Shredder knocked it out with an air current before punching him in the face.
"Booyakasha!" shouted Mikey jumping towards him
Mikey kicked him in the chest, knocking him back a few passes, only to later meet Raph, Karai and Asami.
Karai turned her arms into snakes and wrapped them around Shredder, holding him in the process. Raph and Asami took advantage of that to hit him with all their might. Both prepared to attack him with their weapons, but Shredder freed himself from Karai's grip. He grabbed Raph's face and threw it at Karai and then grabbed Asami by the neck, lifting her off the ground a little.
"Let her go!" shouted Korra as she came in with a fist wrapped in fire that hit Shredder in the face, resulting in an explosion that knocked him down.
As soon as he got up, he saw Jinora and Ikki combining their airbending to create a small tornado that was strong enough to lift him high into the air. While he was in that situation, Meelo came in to hit him with a fist wrapped in air, but Shredder demonstrated his strength by using airbending to push Meelo away and override the tornado, much to the surprise of the two sisters. As soon as he landed, Shredder sent each of them an air current that knocked them down.
Korra threw a stream of water at him and Shredder got ready, but what he didn't expect was that Mikey and Donnie were inside the stream of water and when the water attack approached Shredder, it stopped, letting the two turtles shoot out like bullets and kick him hard in the chest.
Then, Shredder was approached by Leo, who was unarmed at the time, and they rolled on the ground, ending up with Shredder pinning him to the ground. He lifted his claws with the intention of finishing him off, but suddenly...
"Leo!" looking to the side, could see Korra using the metalbending to throw two drops of liquid metal at her that solidified into two metal swords.
When Shredder lowered his claws, he was surprised to see that Leo was able to block him with his metal swords. Leo took advantage of that moment of surprise to kick him away.
"Thank you, Korra." Leo said.
"You're welcome." said Korra.
Again, everyone gathered around Shredder, preparing to fight again.
After making sure that all the foot-bots had been destroyed and that the evil mutants were well contained, all humans, mutants and spirits who participated in the war approached the docks, where they had a clear view of the island, whose sky above was covered by clouds.
"How's it going?" Casey asked April, who had a pair of binoculars.
"It's amazing. Despite being 12 to one, Shredder was showing a lot of strength and stamina. Not to mention his handling of the airbending" said April.
"Even if they do, they won't give up." Slash said.
"Do you think they can do it?" Opal asked, worried about her boyfriend.
"Shouldn't we go help them?" Kai asked.
"No. We'd only be in the way. We have to trust them." said Splinter.
The heroes, who had surrounded Shredder, began to attack him from all directions.
Donnie was the first to go at him with his staff up, but Shredder grabbed the staff and pushed it against Donnie. He saw out of the corner of his eye Jinora throwing him a sharp wind wave, but Shredder dodged it before using Donnie's staff to send a wind wave that knocked her down.
Bolin threw several stones at her, but Shredder dodged them before noticing Raph coming toward him, but Shredder kicked him in the side before grabbing him by the face and throwing him toward the earthbender.
Karai stretched her snake arms forward, but Shredder grabbed them and threw her towards him. When she got close enough, he punched her with a side kick. Asami tried to hit him with her electrified glove, but Shredder blocked him with his glove before hitting the engineer in the face.
Mako threw several fireballs that he was able to neutralize with his airbending, leaving him open to Korra's air-wrapped kick in the back, knocking him down in the process.
He got up quickly to see Mikey running towards him with his nunchucks, but Shredder blocked the attacks before grabbing him and then kneeling him in the chest.
Jinora sent a sharp wind wave through him, but Shredder, as he ran towards her, ducked under the attack, his knees scraping the ground and then grabbed her by the throat before throwing her away from him. Ikki and Meelo tried to attack him from behind with air currents, but Shredder used airbending to jump over the attack and land on them. Before they knew it, both brothers suffered minor cuts that brought them down. Fortunately, the cuts weren't so deep as to leave a mark or anything.
Leo went into action with his metal swords and entered into another sword exchange. Fortunately, because Shredder was beginning to wear out from the effort and damage he received during the fight, both sides were even.
"He won't be able to hold out for long." Mako said while watching the exchange.
"We have to do something." said Korra worried about her friend.
That's when an idea crossed Mako's mind.
"Do you remember what we were practicing?" Mako asked.
"Do you talk about it? I haven't quite learned it. We don't even know if it will work." said Korra, having an idea of what her friend was talking about.
"We have no choice." said Mako.
Leo and Shredder continued their sword exchange. Leo was slightly surprised at how resilient Shredder was despite what he had suffered during the fight.
In the end, Shredder found a small opening and kicked Leo, causing him to fall to the ground, with his weapons falling out of his hands. Shredder approached him and prepared his claws for the final blow, but before he could do so...
"NOW!" shouted Mako.
Mako stretched his right arm forward, with his fingers extended, throwing a lightning toward Shredder. Korra stretched the fingers of her arms and turned them in a circle before stretching her right arm toward Shredder, sending her own lightning.
Anyone would think that these attacks were aimed at Shredder, but instead of hitting him, they hit each other a short distance from his face. The impact between the two lightnings caused a powerful flash of light that hit Shredder's eyes, forcing him to close them while he screamed.
Leo, who had seen the attack and closed his eyes before they hit, got up and hit Shredder in the face. Taking advantage of his state of blindness, Korra used ground control to bury Shredder's feet in the ground and then locked his arms in walls of earth, holding him completely.
"Now! Hit him with everything you've got!" Korra said, drawing everyone's attention.
"Now that's a plan." said Bolin delighted with the idea.
Everyone was encouraged to hear that and prepared to attack the enemy at large.
"This is for what you did to our friends!" shouted Mikey being the first to attack, hitting Shredder several times with his nunchucks.
"This is for allying yourself with the Kraang!" shouted Donnie hitting him with his staff.
"This is for your arrogant attitude." shouted Raph, hitting him several times in the face.
Karai turned her arm into a snake and wrapped him around his neck to force him to bend over at his height (as much as he could because of the ground restrictions).
"This is for my mother!" Karai shouted before hitting him with her knee on his chest.
"This is what you tried to do to my girlfriend!" shouted Asami, hitting him in the chest with her electrified glove, making him scream in pain from the electricity running through his body.
"This is for what you did to the Hamato clan!" shouted Bolin, throwing a stone the size of his body, which freed him from his restraints and knocked him to the ground.
The moment he got up from the ground.
"This is for attacking our city!" shouted Mako, throwing a lightning that had almost the same effect as Asami.
"This is for Karai, you monster!" shouted Jinora and Ikki in unison before throwing an air current at him that brought him down.
He got up again, only to be punched by Meelo (who was wrapped in air) in the chest.
"This is for dishonoring the masters of air! Even Zaheer was more polite than you!" shouted Meelo.
"This is for my brothers!" shouted Leo, beating him on the chest. "And this is for master Splinter!" shouted Leo giving him an uppercut.
In spite of having received all those blows, to everyone's surprise, Shredder was still standing, although he was having difficulty staying on his feet. He looked forward to seeing Korra with her eyes closed and when she opened them, they were illuminated, a sign that she had entered the Avatar State, but unlike before, she was calmer and more serene.
She wrapped herself in a sphere of air and with her powers, formed a ring of water, rocks, and fire around the sphere of air, similar to the technique of Avatar Aang. When her technique was completed, she rose high in the air, but with her eyes on Shredder.
"AND THIS IS FOR EVERYTHING ELSE!" shouted Korra in an echoing voice before swooping down to him.
The impact caused a smokescreen so large that it could be seen even on the docks. The others had taken cover to protect themselves from the dust and debris that flew off on impact and when they opened them up they saw Korra jump backwards, still in the Avatar State.
When the smoke screen dissipated, everyone could see Shredder struggling to get up, even though Korra's attack had shattered much of his armor, even removing his helmet, leaving everyone to see his burned face. Needless to say, those in the Avatar group were quite surprised at the appearance of the leader of the Foot.
"I don't understand, why don't you finish me off?!" demanded Shredder.
"I will, but not the way you want me to." said Korra.
Korra stepped forward and punched Shredder in the stomach causing him so much pain that he was forced to kneel in front of the Avatar. He looked up to see her throwing a quick glance at her.
"Oroku Saki, your crimes end here." Korra said, placing her hands on his forehead and chest and closing her eyes to concentrate.
After a while, Korra raised her head to the sky and when she opened her eyes and mouth, blue beams of light shot upward, soon after, the same thing happened to Shredder, only black beams of light came out of him.
Later, both Korra's body and Shredder's body became covered in their respective lights, as if they became one with the energy they emitted.
Everyone else's eyes were wide open to the light show that was happening.
The blue and black light seemed to be in balance, until it was seen that Korra's body was beginning to be consumed by Shredder's black light. The light had consumed her almost completely, but at the last second, an almost heavenly light emerged from within Korra and quickly her blue light surpassed Shredder's, consuming his body in that light.
Both were enveloped in a flash of light before a pillar of blue light was shot into the sky, dissipating the clouds that covered the sky above the island. Shortly thereafter, the pillar of light disappeared.
The blue light continued to envelop them for a few seconds until it dissipated. Shredder fell to the ground and Korra stumbled a bit, but Asami caught her and helped her to her feet.
Shredder looked at the Avatar with a weak gaze, as he felt his strength leave his body. "What... what did you do to me?" Shredder asked.
"I took your airbending. You won't use it to hurt anyone anymore." said Korra.
Shredder let out one last moan before falling unconscious.
They all got together while they were catching their breath, as they were very tired after the hard fight they had.
Donnie was the first to laugh. "I can't believe it. We did it... Yes! We did it!" Donnie shouted with extreme joy.
"I have to admit, I didn't expect that." said Raph.
"Dude! What you did was the most amazing thing in the history of amazing!" Mikey told Korra.
"How did you come up with that?" asked Jinora.
"Like your grandfather, I didn't want to kill him, but I couldn't let him loose, especially with that power of bending. So, I decided to take away what should never have belonged to him." explained Korra.
"You certainly made the best decision." said Asami.
"Even if you can't see them, I'm sure the previous Avatars will be proud of you." said Leo, bringing a smile to Korra's face.
"We did it, guys!" started Ikki bringing her brothers into a hug. "We beat Shredder and we survived!"
"We are definitely the best!" said Meelo.
Even Karai brought Leo and Raph in for a hug. "I love you, brothers." said Karai.
Both turtles were surprised by their sister's act, but they smiled and hugged her back.
"Can you believe it, Mako? We won!" exclaimed Bolin, resting his arm on his brother's shoulders.
"I know. It still surprises me." said Mako.
Suddenly, everyone heard a slight grunt. They looked back to the place of origin to see Shredder struggling to get up.
"Come on, how can he even get up after all he's been through?" Raph asked, annoyed at the resistance of the Foot's leader.
"You may have taken away my airbending, but this isn't the end of me! I will come back and I will kill you all for sure!" exclaimed Shredder in spite of his condition.
Before any of them rushed towards him, to the surprise and confusion of all, Asami stepped forward and stood in front of Shredder, looking very serious.
There was silence for a few seconds until Asami hit him hard in the face with her naked hand, knocking him down for good.
"Will you please be quiet and stay still?" Asami asked.
When Asami turned around, she was greeted by a hug from her girlfriend, who then kissed her on the lips.
"That's my girlfriend." said Korra.
Asami smiled before the two shared a loving, caring kiss. The others burst into cheers of joy.
"Booyakasha!" shouted Mikey.
"You know, it doesn't sound so bad after all." said Meelo.
"I'm even starting to like it." said Jinora.
"Try not to let him know, or it will go too far to his head." said Karai.
"First of all." said Bolin before using his earthbending to cover Shredder completely, leaving only his head exposed. "Just to make sure he doesn't think about getting up again."
"Good thinking." said Mako.
"I don't know about you, but this calls for a celebration." said Ikki.
"You know what? You're right, we just beat Shredder and his whole army. It's time to celebrate!" declared Leo.
"BOOYAKASHA!" they all shouted together, raising their fists to the sky.
AN: Done. Here ends the greatest battle I have written so far, because it assured you that more battles, some bigger than others, will come in the future. Once again, if I have written something incorrectly or something similar, tell me. If you think the end is near, you are right, but there is still much to tell, so wait for the next chapter.
