Author's Note : The Fifth chapter is here for who know long, so enjoyed the story, and don't be shy to voiced your opinion in the review. Every opinion helped me to be better in writing this story. Still don't know to make Korra and Asami a couple.
LEGEND OF KORRA, STAR WARS, NARUTO, TRANSFORMERS AND EVERYTHING THAT APPEARED IS NOT MINE, EXCEPT ORIGINAL CHARACTERS, SETTINGS, AND PLOTS !
So here is the story !
Chapter 5 : Synchronizing
Starting a day with morning run was a good way according to Kuvira. It pumped up the adrenaline inside the body and keeping it stay health. It always a bright in the Sanctuary because it located underground and they need light to see. But the inhabitants know the time by clock and Blackburn roar every early morning and the start of the evening. Kuvira runs in laps across the Sanctuary square in a sportsuit she found in the wardrobe. Now she was resting on one of the railing after her 5th lap and she began to get sweat.
"I didn't expect this," Kuvira tell herself quietly. She doesn't expect an answer either.
"Didn't expect what?" a voice replied to her. Kuvira looked up and saw Commander Vort in his daily uniform.
"When I run, I didn't expect it would be a long run," Kuvira answered his question.
"Right. So you're assigned to a team," he said not mind his previous question.
"Yes, Team Meza to be exact," she stated.
"Every team composed of three members. One from each element. Unfortunately, we don't have any airbender in our ranks. Your team, Kuvira, is one of the best we have." He explained.
"I expect by you joining them, you able to synchronize with them, make them your family," he said then left Kuvira alone. Kuvira watched his back and keep his words in mind. She walked to her bungalow to prepare for the day and her first training with her team.
Performing several stances in the training ground, Kuvira is the first one to arrived at the training ground. In full armor, except metal plates because she didn't have it in her armor. After several punches and kicks, her waiting is over. She noticed both Mole and Kiala approached the training ground with full armor, additional metal plates in Mole's case.
"Good morning, Kuvira," Mole spoke first. Kuvira reply only with a nod of acknowledgement. Kiala waved her hand to her as Kuvira once again only nodded.
"Morning for you too," Kuvira said simply.
"Seems you start earlier," said Kiala warmly to Kuvira.
"Yes, need to keep our shape, yes?" Kuvira answered with a nodded. Kiala pay the gesture with a shrug as she went into her waterbending stance and start doing katas.
"Want to have a little spar?" Mole asked Kuvira.
"Is yesterday not enough for you?" she asked Mole with a raised eyebrow making Mole get taken back by her question.
"That was only a warming up," he said to her, smirking.
"I prefer when the captain come," she answered then she walked away to the other side of the ground.
They separated after that as Kuvira kick and punch a tree as lifting earth and dirt aimed at the tree. Kiala and Mole talked to each other waiting for Meza. After several minutes, the firebender arrived in his armor as he brought something in his right arm. Both original members saw him and walked to him. Kuvira looked from the corner of her eyes and stopped her self-training.
"Good morning, y'all," Meza greeted with a hand wave. His team stopped all their training and approached Meza who looked like to have something on his back.
"Took you so long. What is it? Morning briefing?" Kiala first to spoke with a raised eyebrow.
Meza sighed. "You know how it is, captain's briefing," Meza repeated himself.
"Some news you got there?" Mole make his appearance.
"Nothing new, just some standard missions and stay alert as usual," Meza answered.
"You shouldn't come late if you are late yourself," Kuvira said stoickly.
His face snapped to her direction. "Pardon?"
"I said 'you shouldn't told us to arrived on time if you yourself are late'", Kuvira said louder so the other three can heard her.
"This is occasionally happened to us. As captain, I need to report to my superior first," Meza stated.
"Hmmm...hypocrite," she muttered the last part.
"What did you say?!" Meza shouted to her as he went forward only inches from Kuvira.
Both Kiala and Mole looked back and forth to Kuvira and Meza as they exchange words after words. Feeling this will not end well, Kiala step forward and placed herself between the two.
"Now let's just start training don't we?" Kiala asked with a nervous laugh. She shot a glare to Mole. Need help here!. Mole seemed to understand the gesture, quickly appeared beside Meza and pulled him away from Kuvira. He swore he saw a lightning appeared between them.
"Fine," Meza said reluctantly as he shake his shoulder from Mole's grip. He face his team. Plus Kuvira. "our training today with conducted with a one-on-one spar. The order as follow : Kuvira vs Mole, Kuvira vs Kiala, Kuvira vs me, and finally Kuvira against all of us, is there any question?" he asked to his team.
"Yes, why do you all spar against only me though?" Kuvira asked the obvious.
"We want to analyze your combat skills against various elements, this way we know how talented you are in earthbending," Meza answered to her.
"I think we need to train in teamwork so we can fight together side by side..." Kuvira replied but got interrupted.
"As it my rules!" Meza exclaimed. "now, in position, Mole and Kuvira,". Both earthbenders stepped to the center of the area facing each other. They stay for seconds before take their respective earthbending stances. Meza and Kiala in the side watching them both.
"Before you begin, Kuvira! Catch!" Meza shouted to Kuvira as he throw an armor plate to her direction which she caught easily and put it properly as the part of her armor in her back.
"Spar...Begin!" He shouted.
Silence filled the air as both earthbenders advancing towards each other and exchanging blow of earth and rocks, creating many holes in the ground. Dirts and rocks already emptied by both of them, even Kiala and Meza must cover their face from the effects. They heard sound of metal clashing. They opened their eyes and sweatdropped at the sighed. Metal plates all over the place! and both earthbenders still fighting! Alright, I must stopped them before they tore the place out! He blasted to the middle of the ground and jumped. Fire came out from his mouth, hands, and feet, it was a amazing sight for Kuvira. He stepped between them as Kuvira and Mole panting heavily from the spar.
"Enough, both of you," He said
"What?! No! Not one of us knocked out yet!" Mole shouted.
"Get some rest, that's final," Meza stated again firmly with his 'captain' gaze making Mole slightly uncomfortable.
"Fine," he huffed with Kuvira followed later. Both of them sat down and drink provided by Kiala. Meza walked over to them, standing in front of them, intimidating.
"Five minutes," with his hand on his hips. "Kuvira get ready,"
"I'm ready,"
"To the field, both of you,". Kuvira and Kiala walk together to the center of the field, stopping not long and facing each others. Kiala has a neutral expression in her face. After Meza's shouted 'Begin', that expression became a smirk one as she take a stance and slashed a whip of water from her bottle on her side. Kuvira responded with a shield made of earth in her hand, then Kuvira sent several narrow spikes of earth to her direction which Kiala retaliated by shots of water to the spikes, destroying them mid-air.
Kuvira advancing as she formed a wrist blade on both of her arms. Kiala watched this as she simultaneously created a blade made of ice around her arm. She stood still until Kuvira in range and jumped towards Kuvira, clashing both metal and ice. Surprisingly the ice blade seemed to withstand the metal blade, making it become a fiercing duel. It ended when Kiala's ice blade splitted by the swung of Kuvira's metal blade.
Kuvira smirked with her temporary advantage while Kiala sighed inwardly as she looked at her now half-blade. I knew ice eventually will broke against metal. She melt the blade as it changed into smaller ice spikes which she sent to Kuvira. Kuvira defended herself with an earth wall. The earth wall crumble and she sent a massive earth to Kiala who also sent a large amount of water to Kuvira. both attack collided directly to their respective target, making both benders fell to the ground with a hard tud.
"Alright, I think that is enough for now," Meza said after seeing his benders spar to each other.
"You pretty good, Kuvira," Kiala retorted.
"You too, Kiala," Kuvira replied from her position still laying down on the ground.
"Of course she's good, she's not the Great Uniter for nothing," Mole said from the sideline.
"Rest for five minutes,"
So both of females benders went to the side and sat down, enjoying refresher of foods and drinks from Mole while Meza still in the middle of the field.
"What is his problem?" Kuvira asked.
"Who ?" Kiala asked.
"Meza,"
"Oh,"
"Well ?" Kuvira wait expectantly.
"Meza is ... a bit complicated. He didn't like Earth Empire, but he didn't resent it either," Kiala explained.
"Does something happened between him and Earth Empire ?" Kuvira asked with a bit of guilty in her heart. She knew her Empire will have effects on people, and not a good one either. It will need amount of time to heal from that wound.
"Don't know, he never told us about it. And if there is one, it is not our place to tell you, though," Kiala responded.
"Kuvira, let's begin," Meza's voice was heard from where they sat and where he stood. Sighed to herself, Kuvira stand up and walked to the middle of the field and glanced back to noticed a smile of encouragement from Kiala and thumbs up from Mole.
Both fighter met in the middle facing towards each other with determination on their face. Quietly, they took their respective bending stance.
One think that Meza noticed during the whole spar is Kuvira difference stances for each of spar, like each stance was meant for each different opponent, or in this case, bending. It seemed Kuvira understand the nature of each element as she use different style to fight a certain element to her advantage.
Mole walked to the center, eyeing Kuvira then Meza, back and forth, and shouted, "Begin!" with enough power to shook the air a little, only a little.
Meza attacked first with his fist of flame which come towards Kuvira as she protected herself with an earth wall. Behind the wall, unknown to Meza, Kuvira smirked. She stomped her foot to the ground, creating a captor of earth to both of Meza's feet. He looked down and wide eyed to her as Kuvira lowered her earth wall and sent two strips directed to his shoulder. Meza saw this coming and tu Kuvira surprised expression, he sent a small lightning to both of the strips, making the strips deflected as he use the same amount of lightning to free himself from the earth captor with his lightning strike to the dirt.
"That is a good trick," Kuvira said.
"That is only another one, there's more, though," Meza Replied.
Kuvira pushed her fist, sending several metal strips with Meza able to dodged it or deflected it with his lightning. Then he spurted famles from his mouth to Kuvira as she dodged it.
"Show me how strong the Great Uniter really is!" Meza Exclaimed as Kuvira cursed in the inside.
Kuvira strike once more with several larger chunks of rocks as Meza stumbled upon himself as he hit by the rocks. But he still going on as she a wave ofdirt spikes to Meza. Surprisingly to Kuvira, he jumped high enough with fire come out from his feet and hands and he fly directly toward Kuvira. making both of them collided with each other. Then both of them collapsed side by side, panting exhaustedly.
"I think than enough for today," Meza said.
"I agree," Kuvira replied.
"Now let me heal you,". Kiala walked to them with water float around her. Stopped and crouched between them as her water covered their cuts and bruises, although Kuvira have more than Meza for she fought tree opponents continuously. Those healed quickly and the captain and the new member sighed in content. Both of them sat up as noticed Mole are fixing the ground. And Kuvira's curiosity got the best of her.
"What are you doing?" Kuvira raised an eyebrow is question.
"What do you think? Fixing the ground of course!" Mole exclaimed as he stomped the ground and lifted dirt and rocks back to the ground.
"For?" She pushed. But Kiala was the one to answer.
"Well, Admiral Ka Trell told us to fixed the ground every time we use it as we have eartbenders to do the job just easily," She answered with a shrugged.
"I see," Kuvira hummed to herself. A sound of bipping was heard from Meza as an hologram – if she's not wrong – of naval officer appeared.
"Commander Vort want to brief you immedietly at the Mission Center right away," the officer said.
"Right,". He sighed, "tell him I'm on my way,"
"Copy, that,". And with that the call end.
Meza stand up and dusted off the dirt from his uniform. He faced his team.
"Alright, get rest and relax a bit. See you later," he said with a handwave and left the three in the training ground. Silence ingulfed them as three of them stand there awkwardly. Mole break the silence though.
"So, do you guys wanted to have lunch?" Mola asked.
"Nah I just want to rest," Kuvira said tiredly not noticing the evil grin spread on Mole and Kiala's face. Before she can left, she felt someone pulled her towards different direction from her bungalow.
"What are you doing?!" she asked irritated.
"Taking you to lunch of course!" Mole said excitedly as he run away from the training ground, Kiala on his trail while tugging Kuvira's shirt. After an amount of time, Kuvira gave up.
"Alright, alright, now let go off me,"
"Promise you will go lunch with us?"
"Yes,"
And Kiala let go her arm and Kuvira proper herself up.
"Now where is the restaurant?" she asked.
"Follow me," Mole answered. And they walked several meters and stopped in front of a door of a decent cafe. They walked inside an Mole gave a friendly wave to the occupants.
"Hello everybody,"
"Mole!" replied by most of the costumers and employees of the cafe.
Kuvira saw various kind of people, clone troopers – people with identical faces -, benders, a relaxing naval officers, even animals, and several others she didn't recognized. They walked to the stall with a chubby man behind it.
"Aaaah, our finest team of benders...and of course costumers," he said with a grin. Mole grinned back stupidly.
"Well, thank you, Domu, good to see you too, buddy," Mole replied with a bumped fist.
"Domu, we have a new team member just right now, introduces Kuvira," Kiala introduced Kuvira to him as she walked closer to the stall.
"A pleasure to meet you," He said with a small bow.
"Please to meet you too," Kuvira nodded inwardly shocked by his gesture.
And the conversation went on as Kiala and Mole ordered their meal with Kuvira followed whatever they ordered and chatting for who know how long.
Meza walked to Mission Center, a different section inside the Control Center on the left side on it. He saw Commander Vort wearing his helment with Grand Lotus Daizan in one of the hologram table, seemed has been waiting for his presence. He stopped and bowed a little.
"Commander, Grand Lotus," acknowledging both of his superior.
"Let's get to the bussiness shall we?" Vort said. Meza only nodded. Daizan handed him a file with Mission written on it.
"You and your team have a mission tomorrow, bring them here at 0800 hours exactly, read the file first," Vort said as Meza looked down at the file.
"Do you understand?" Vort asked.
"This is Kuvira's first mission, sir,"
"Yes, now dismissed,"
So Meza left the room.
