4.4k words in this one! I can say for certain that I'll be posting a chapter every Saturday now, and next week I'll be posting two. Enjoy!

Korra saw Mako run off after who she thought was Kenichi Shinoda. She lowered herself down beside Hazukk and slapped him hard on the back. He coughed out water, but managed to get to his feet a few moments later.

"Get up!" she ordered, unsympathetic. "If it weren't for me, you'd probably be dead by now."

"Apologies," he mumbled, and faced the conflict. These were some of the finest metalbenders around, but the triads were fighting like there was no tomorrow. The waterbenders in particular were actually winning despite their lack of co-ordination. There were already five or six cops out for the count or worse, but the semi-circle that the rest had formed was formidable similarly.

"They need help," Korra said, then fell to one knee, wincing. She had bottomless pit in her stomach, filled sharp, sudden pains. She definitely was not in good shape to keep on fighting, but it wasn't like she could just call it a day now. She groaned, and stood back up to her full height.

"Are you ok?" Hazukk said, nearly putting a hand on her shoulder, then catching himself. "You don't-"

"I've been through much worse," Korra snapped, and then spotted the red crate being loaded onto a truck. There were plenty of men guarding it, and any cop who broke from the formation to try reach it was shot down before they even got close.

Jiren, the Monsoon boss, and two of his bodyguards (the firebender from the Agni Kai was nowhere to be seen) was using the fight as a distraction to escape, but Korra spotted him running to the water, maybe 60 yards away from her. She made to run after him, but then she felt a hand tugging on her wrist, and found none other than Hazukk holding her back. She wrenched her arm away from her.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Korra gave out. "The leader of the Red Monsoon is in our grasp and you're holding me back? Are you fuckin' crazy?"

"Korra, please, think this through," Hazukk said, despite Korra's glare. "You're probably the only one who can get to that delivery right now with your power. There will be more opportunities for Jiren to be apprehended in the future without a doubt, but after tonight, all that cocaine will be split up countless times, and near impossible to seize if we don't get it now."

"We?" Korra said, raising an eyebrow.

"The good guys," Hazukk rephrased. "I'm a healer and a more than capable fighter. I want the city to be safe just as much as anyone here."

Korra stopped and thought about this. Despite her belittling him for implying that he was helping so far, he actually had a good argument, and the way he said it all so confidently without stuttering was very persuasive. He was better at getting his point across than most councillors she'd been forced to listen to. His deep voice added a little bit of authority to it as well, ironically. She bit her bottom lip and looked him dead in the eye.

"You're a good talker, I'll give you that," she said, and turned her attention to the truck, leaving Hazukk to wonder if she just complimented him. "Have you ever flown before?"

"Flown?" Hazukk repeated. "Well no-"

"Then hold on tight," Korra replied, and grabbed Hazukk by the midriff, squeezing him. She would've been inclined to use fire to fly, but the extra passenger made that a bad option for a number of reasons. She frowned, annoyed at what her current capabilities meant she was going to have to do. It was meant as a last resort when fighting, and not as a 'booster-rocket' as Tenzin had to said all those years ago. The circumstances were very different, but at base level it was the same concept.

She closed her eyes, and connected with the power deep inside her. Raava's spirit flashed in her eyes once, and a tornado picked her up, Hazukk squirming awkwardly like a puppy in her right arm as they rose higher and higher. The truck's back doors snapped shut, and it sped off, flanked by four cars, two in front and two behind. Korra plus Hazukk flew over the fighting, a number of water and firebenders getting tangled up at the bottom of her tornado.

She sped after the vehicles, but found herself struggling to keep pace. They were going 60 miles per hour, easily. She probably could've caught up with only the tornado if she was 100% fit, but she wasn't nearly at that level. Hazukk's weight was also something to contend with. He looked skinny enough but he was about Mako's build, a few inches taller, and she wasn't as strong as she used to be with all that sitting around in Republic City Hall. She put her free hand behind her and used fire to propel them even faster. The wind was forcing Korra to squint, such was their velocity.

Korra heard sirens behind her and saw cops speeding up to catch them. There were five cars, but as soon as she registered that, one spun and skidded into a shop, causing an explosion of flames. Screams were heard from bystanders but it seemed that shop was closed, so it removed the threat of civilian casualty. She couldn't say the same for the cops though, sadly. Korra glanced down at the road and cursed. The two cars behind had a couple of men freezing the road. She punched at car on the right, and an almighty whirlwind blew it onto its side. It flipped multiple times before landing upside down.

"Fly lower!" Hazukk cried out, and Korra just about managed to duck under a billboard. She mumbled appreciation before dodging an ice shard. Two more police cars skidded out behind them, and that left two other cars, who were now right under the trailing Monsoon car's nose. One of the officers reached out the window and shot a cable at its tire, bursting it. It started to spin out, and then crashed into a bike rack, crumpling the rack, but being halted at the same time.

Korra made one last push and landed on the truck. She secured her and Hazukk's feet to the top using metalbending. Korra spotted a fire hydrant in the distance, and closed her eyes, reaching out to the hydrant with both her mind and her hands. She felt the water pumping around below, even this far away, and ripped the metal off. The water sprung out and she tugged her arms in, then pointing her fingers at the car on her left. The waterbenders inside were helpless to do anything with barely any notice and were driven into ice, before their momentum tugged them out of the trap. They landed on their hood, all unconscious. Korra smiled, but that smile was immediately wiped off her face when one of the remaining police wagons crashed into her ice, and rendering it useless when smoke came out of the hood. Now they only had one car left, twisting and swerving through the streets to avoid losing the criminals.

"Block that turn using earthbending," Hazukk shouted over the wind while pointing at a junction. Korra didn't understand why but she did as he advised, and the cars, which had been slowing down for a sharp curve, sped up again. Korra found it nauseating, but ignored the sickness. They continued deeper into downtown, the buildings becoming more and more derelict from neglect after spirit vines had wrapped around them.

A man climbed up to the roof from the passenger side and slashed at them with a water whip. Hazukk caught the whip and ripped it out of the new guy's grasp. He tried to return the attack, but his whip just splashed back in his face. He would've taken a step back and probably would've fallen onto the road if he weren't bolted in. The man created another whip with his second pouch, and started slashing at the both of them. Korra ripped open the roof directly in front of them as protection, curling it away from her, and then shoved Hazukk in after releasing his feet. He would be a handicap more than anything in this situation.

"Don't get in the way!" she ordered.

She grabbed the top of the roof she had ripped off and used airbending to vault herself over. She flipped, and brought her heel crashing down, a column of fire accompanying it. The man jumped to his left, and the fire scorched the white roof black. Korra landed on her hunches and swept her foot 180 at him. A carpet of flames tried to knock her off her feet. He hopped over it, and in the same motion, licked Korra's outstretched leg with his water-whip. She ground her teeth together, not letting a sound out. Get your head in the game, she thought, not allowing her temporary frustration to get the better of her.

One of the two cops in the last remaining police car shot out a wire which pierced the side of the truck, latching on. She prepared to climb out her window to help Korra, but it was sliced in a half by a waterbender from the other car. A large amount of water snaked out of the window, and the same waterbender splashed it onto the road behind them. Wasting no time, he froze it and then raised the ice into nearly a hundred three-inch-long spikes. The cops, having barely enough time to see it happen, drove right over the spikes. All four of their tires popped, and a block of ice was smashed into one of their front wheels. The car turned and drove right into a tree, the police chase now over. They crawled out of the wreckage before it started to smoke, and fell down on the ground far enough away from the car to avoid any potential explosion.

"It's up to the Avatar now," the driver said.

Korra threw a heavy punch of air at her opponent, but accidentally put too much of her weight behind it. The waterbender rolled underneath her air-punch, stood up behind her and hosed the Avatar with whatever water he had left in her back. Korra stumbled forward and ripped off part of the wall that she had just erected not too long ago, coiling it around her waist and strapping herself into the thin sheet of iron that was like a wall. She had no time to rest though, as water shot from the car at her. All she could do was wave it away, while some was tossed to the waterbender on the roof with her, who collected it, having no water left in his snakeskins. He formed tentacles over his arms with the water, and reminded Korra of the old Red Lotus member. Her name was Ming How, or or something like that, and she proved how deadly it could be when used correctly.

Korra wildly flung her metal strapping at the waterbender, the volleys of water having stopped at least for the moment, and faced him, hands up. He easily shimmied out of the way and stood ready. They squared off, neither moving an inch. "Come on, Avatar," he drawled. "Show me what you've got."

Korra tried to say something witty, but couldn't come up with anything, so she just brought her fist back for a large fire. She was going to blow him off the roof, but just as a few embers started to come out of her knuckles, he quenched it with his tentacle. He froze the tip around her hand, and flung Korra around into the side of the truck. She nearly fell onto the road, but dug her fingers into the truck. The Red Monsoon man peered over the side, careful not to lean too much, and pulled his tentacles to his eye-line. He melted the ice, curled both tips into hooks, and then froze them both. He flashed her a grin.

"You're a shit Avatar," he said. "I think it's about time that we get a new one."

He raised his tips, ready to curl them into Korra. She twisted her hanging wrist secretly, moulding the metal around his feet as she had done earlier to herself and Hazukk. He didn't notice.

"Can't please everyone," was her reply, and she screamed fire. The waterbender tried to step back, but cursed, now noticing his feet being locked in place. He used his tentacles as a shield to avoid being roasted alive, and Korra used this opportunity while still performing the dragon breath technique to wrench his footing from underneath him using metalbending. He flew with the roof, surprised, but couldn't do anything to stop himself from crashing into an old school. Korra wrapped the metal around him and dug it into the wall. He hung there, unconscious, hopefully for the police to find.

Korra climbed up the side, making sure every time she moved her foot or hand, the other three limbs were secure, her hair whipping back in the wind. She pulled herself up over and fell inside the truck onto the container, half of the roof gone. She looked around, but couldn't see Hazukk. It's not that hard, just stay out of the way! she thought, ready to give him an ear-lashing when she found him. He's probably gotten himself killed somehow.

Just as that thought passed through her head, the truck hit a violent left. Korra was thrown across the top of the crate and into the other side. Her eyes widened as she got winded, hitting her shoulder awkwardly and dislocating it. She would've given some kind of yelp or something, but she had no breath to do so. She lay there for a moment as the truck wobbled dangerously, threatening to fall over, before it finally balanced itself out. She vomited, clutching her stomach.

"Why did I agree to this?" Korra muttered, then snapped out of her self-pity. She could cry later, but there was a group of people trying to kill her at that very moment, emphasized by an icicle flying overhead.

She closed her eyes and touched her dislocated shoulder gingerly. All that time spent with Katara in the compound had drilled into her the human skeleton. She'd hated it back then and found it boring, but it was all necessary in becoming a healer. It was very relevant now. She moved her good arm behind her head, and reached for her dislocated shoulder. It popped back into the socket painfully in one swift movement, although she only let out a grunt.

Another icicle crashed into the side of the truck and splintered, but with the full moon, Korra had no issue gathering the shards in mid-air and floating them over the side to her palm and melting them into an orb of water. She held the orb over her shoulder and it glowed a bright blue, soothing the pain, and after a few moments, it was a very dull ebb that she could ignore for the time-being.

Korra stood up and caught an icicle in her left hand, moulding it into a dense block. She faced the car, and punched a flamethrower with her right hand. It connected with their one of their front wheels, and blew it off completely. They began to swerve wildly, and the weight of the car tipped to where there was no wheel. She pelted the ice she had in her left hand at their windshield, smashing the glass and sending the driver's vision into chaos. The car crashed into an old building, and Korra raised an eyebrow mockingly as the men crawled out of the car bleeding, becoming smaller and smaller as the seconds flew by.

"Now it's time for the driver," Korra said aloud to herself, and faced the front of the truck. But she found an old warehouse quickly approaching them, and the driver wasn't slowing down. She noticed a hole right behind the passenger seat, and would've climbed through it, but she had no time for that. She ducked, and the vehicle crashed through the wall. It shuddered, but the body of the truck withstood the impact.

Korra, who'd used airbending as a cushion when thrown forwards, jumped out and landed on her feet, hovering down. She walked up to the driver's side, opened the door, and was taken by surprise. It was none other than Hazukk at the wheel, still gripping tightly onto the rubber. He hadn't been thrown out the window, but the other man was, and lay in a heap across the warehouse, which was more like a large barn. And a very dark one too. She couldn't see past a few metres in front of her.

"What was that about?" she asked, pulling him out of the seat and draping his arm over her shoulder. "And why couldn't you just stay down there and not cause any harm? I had it under control!"

Hazukk pushed her away and stumbled on his feet before regaining his balance. Despite how rigid he'd been in the driver's seat, he was actually moving perfectly fine. He didn't answer the question though, just backing away from Korra.

"Well?" she asked.

"Eh, I, I, I..." Hazukk stuttered.

Suddenly a current of water came out of nowhere and hosed Hazukk in the side. He flew off into the darkness, and Korra couldn't help him as she had to redirect another one flying at her. She followed it up with a fireball, which briefly lit up the enclosure. She spotted five different faces in that brief moment.

"Of all the places you could've drove into," Korra noted loudly. She didn't hear any signs of resistance from Hazukk. He could've at least put up some kind of fight. Never again, she thought.

She ripped some metal from the truck and wrapped it around her upper body, creating a makeshift chest-plate, like Su Beifong had taught her to. She punched the ground in front of her, and it rumbled, cracks forming and a line of rocks erupting out in front of her at the waterbenders. It stopped halfway there though. She frowned. How could the Red Monsoon-

She cried out in surprise as she was catapulted into the blackness above from the ground underneath her. She flailed around helplessly for a moment, and then her airbending training kicked in. She thrust her hands out and blew downwards at what she thought was the ground. It almost worked perfectly, but when she blew at the ground she was pointing a little diagonally, at an angle, so she landed awkwardly. It wasn't anything serious, though.

She jumped up just in time to wave away a fireball coming at her, but she was too slow to avoid a brick clipping her across the back. She nearly fell to her knees, but resisted the temptation to do so. More attacks started flying at her, all three elements. Pebbles mixed in a volley of water, flamethrowers, blocks of earth, from all directions nonetheless. She soon realised that she couldn't stop them all as the odd volley of water crashed into her shins, the flamethrowers singing her when she didn't react in time, blocks of earth banging on the door of shattering her chest-plate. She started bleeding in quite a few places. They were mainly just nicks, but still bleeding, despite her two layers of clothing. She lashed out wildly with fire and air, but she couldn't tell if she was making any connections apart from the odd 'oof' or 'agh'.

She used airbending to blow her shoes off of her feet. She sent them flying into the abyss. As she did this, she unleashed a large helicopter kick of fire around her. She used the opportunity to tear off her socks, leaving her barefoot. Her heels landed on the ground first, and she felt the vibrations from around her. She gasped, realising there were thirty other people there apart from herself and Hazukk, the latter of which was slumped over by a wall, still breathing thankfully.

The other figures in the room were approaching on her slowly, firing away all the time. She countered them all, but they were making steady progress. I don't have any choice. This is a last resort, she reasoned, she thought. She reached down for the third time in the space of an hour, and Raava roared up in her. Her eyes emitted the heavenly light and a sphere of air exploded from around her. All of her enemies, who she couldn't see for the most part, were blown off their feet away from her. The chest-plate broke into pieces as she unleashed her chi, and she began to rise up in a tornado. Shouts of terror were heard and she was about to blast them with another wave when suddenly, the flow of power choked. She stopped for a moment, and her tornado nearly unravelled. The power wouldn't come to her cleanly, and she lowered herself to the ground. The onlookers didn't dare attack, afraid of a retaliation.

Then, as the power faltered, it shut off completely. Korra blinked, and tried to bring it back, but it was like when Zaheer had poisoned her. It was as if it wasn't there. No. It was there, but it was struggling. Maybe it was her illness. She'd never tried to activate the Avatar State before while unwell, and maybe this was why she'd always steered away from the idea of it. She had to get it checked out now. This was serious.

"What are you waiting for?" a familiar voice shrieked. "Get her!" Tokuga. But what was he doing here? There hadn't been any Triple Threats at the delivery, although she had plenty for company now. How did they-

Korra was interrupted mid-thought for the second time in a few minutes as a flurry of attacks rushed to end her. She raised an earth tent around herself, and used it to buy a breath. A hole broke through one of the walls as she came up with an idea. She drove both fists into the ground. A circular crack appeared in the ground five metres around her tent. The hoard stopped, wary if what was coming next.

"What's the issue?" Tokuga screamed. "She's hiding because we have her cornered! Kill her!"

But right as Tokuga finished his command, a loud rumble was heard, and the crack lit up. Everyone backed away as lava bubbled up from the circle and began to overflow. The Triple Threats hastily retreated, tripping over each other in their haste. Korra's tent exploded into shrapnel and she emerged, determined, angry. She then remembered how the Red Monsoon member had used water tentacles against her before. That gave her an idea.

Korra erected eight thick tendrils of lava, adapting the octopus technique from waterbending into lavabending. Her eyes darted around, daring anyone to challenge her as they backed away.

"Are you deaf?" Tokuga shrieked, somewhere behind the crowd. "Get her, now!"

His lackeys obliged and soon started attacking her again, but Korra swirled the tentacles around her, absorbing every attack and lobbing blobs of lava right in front of the gangsters, ushering them away.

"Stay away if you know what's good for you!" she warned.

"Of course you have to leave it up to the nonbender. I'll do it myself!" Tokuga declared, and raced out of the crowd towards Korra. She tried to scare him off him by throwing lava right beside him, but he wasn't faltered by one.

Damnit, Korra thought, and stomped her foot. A small rock rose out of the ground and Tokuga tumbled right in front of her perimeter of lava. He rose his head and they met eyes. Korra hesitated, reluctant to kill someone even like Tokuga. And in that moment, she showed him mercy.

"I knew it," he growled, and threw a small object at her. She couldn't tell what it was, but it clunked off her head, and she fell to her knees, clutching her now bleeding forehead. The lava tentacles fell and Tokuga scrambled out of the splashes' range. "Grab her, waterbenders!"

A sliver of water grabbed Korra by the neck and threw her out of her protective circle. She landed on an earthbender, whelping, and rolled over. They all parted, and Korra watched out of the corner of her eye as Tokuga raced towards her, shouting something incoherent. He was intent on one thing only though. He had been waiting for this moment, and he wasn't bothered about having a long triumphant speech.

"No!" Korra shouted, and held out her hands, willing him to stop. But when she opened her eyes, he had. In fact, he had stopped entirely. He stood there, unable to move.

Korra looked around. Everyone was just standing still, as if they were frozen in time. She opened her mouth as if to ask why, then shuddered at the realisation of what she was performing.

Bloodbending. A crime punishable by life in prison after the Equalist Movement. She'd done it accidentally a few weeks ago, and had let go after just a moment. She had involuntarily reached out to everyone in the large enclosure, but she only tightened her grip this time. She grinded her teeth together and stared the half-spirit in the eye once more. This time, she wasn't feeling as compassionate. Korra raised the blood in every single body in the room to the head. One by one, they all fainted, with Tokuga lasting the longest. She pulled him towards her, until they were almost touching noses.

"Consider this your final warning," Korra said quietly. "The next time we meet, I won't hesitate to end you."

Then she forced the blood up even more, and Tokuga gave up with a moan. His body fell to the floor. Korra collapsed onto her hands, exhausted.

Hazukk silently watched all of this in the background cunningly. He'd just caught the Avatar committing a heinous act. Bloodbending. Oh, how he could write an article about that if he could prove it. He smiled as she unknowingly rendered him unconscious along with all the others.

So what did you think about that one? I definitely enjoyed writing it. So, if feel like it RR! Thanks a million for reading. I've got the entire storyline planned out now, so if you spot any plot holes, I'd greatly appreciate it if you point them out. Have a great day!