Ch 7: Who are you?
It has been a few weeks since Asami and Korra have officially started dating and things have been going well even if their schedules may have been complicated. They managed to work it out and since they've been hanging out more, Korra quickly discovered that Asami's team did not particularly have that much information on the case that they've all been technically working on. The team hasn't connected the clues and hints to the true nature behind the kidnappings.
Korra honestly found this sad since Asami would never be able to solve the cases but she that didn't mean that she was going to tell her the truth. Korra knew. She knew that whatever the end result was going to be, it was in over everyone's head and it needed to be kept in the dark. This wasn't your ordinary case and normal people can't be involved. They couldn't. There was practically a hundred percent of certainty that the Avatar knew was happening in this city and if it's not stopped, the whole world will crumble.
But, as of now, it was currently mid afternoon and Asami was showering for the mini date she abruptly planned with Korra that will take place in few minutes. The captain had split shift today and earlier decided at the last minute to go grab a bite with her girlfriend within that awkward time gap. Earlier, when Asami got home first she was pleased to see that Korra was already waiting in her apartment so she rushed to get ready.
While the beauty was showering Korra did what she does best, snooping around. So, of course this time wasn't any different and she was rifling and scoping around Asami's work rooms looking at the information she had on the kidnapping cases. The informant was earnestly impressed but then of course, she also found the room her girlfriend had dedicated for the Avatar and couldn't help but smile. "My biggest fan huh?" Chuckling to herself, Korra continued skimming through the documents and saw some repeating information but also surprisingly some new ones. By the time Asami finished, Korra listened for her movements until she was finished dressing and quickly walked over and sat on her couch. When the door clicked open Korra smiled and looked at her freshly showered girlfriend.
Drying her hair with a towel, "Hey I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long."
"No you're good," winking at her, "You smell really good like usual by the way."
Slightly blushing, "Thanks… (wait is my shampoo that strong or something? Man this is deja vu…) anyways," tossing her towel aside, "let's go?"
"Yeah," standing up Korra walked towards her lover and kisses her on the cheek.
Asami smiles and kisses back before heading out. Grabbing her purse, she twirled her keys in her hand while walking outside as Korra followed behind her comfortably. When they arrived at their usual restaurant, they sat at a booth and ordered a good amount of food. They chatted and flirted with each other before the waiter interrupted them with their food.
"Thanks," they both say.
They then ate playfully with another and talked about what they did earlier today. After they finished their meals Korra let out a sound of delight, "Ahh that hit the spot… nothing is better than Narook's seaweed noodles!"
Chuckling with amusement, "I noticed when we first ate together but you sure eat a lot don't you? I'm surprised you can eat so much."
"What can I say I just have a big appetite," making a lopsided grin while shrugging nonchalantly.
"Okay then babe if you say so… but hmm how about we go for a walk in the park now? You know, to walk off the food baby you just made," nudging Korra with her foot teasingly.
"Hey! Don't tease me!" Tapping back her foot under the table, "But sure, sounds nice it'll be fun."
Korra paid the bill this time and they went back to their car in the parking lot. Asami then quickly drove them over to the park and once they arrived there, they walked around aimlessly while holding hands.
"Say Korra… how would you feel about meeting my dad? I actually accidentally told him that I started dating someone and he said he'd like to meet you… then I kind of sort of promised him that we'd have dinner together some time…" laughing nervously.
"Your dad as in Hiroshi Sato? (Hmm… he's still one of the last people I haven't gotten to yet on my watchlist…) wow the great man himself wants to meet me? Sure I guess but wait, you already promised him?" Raising her brow with some sarcastic disbelief.
Stopping in place, "I know, I know. I'm really sorry! It's just he sounded really excited and started that dad speech about me finally finding someone and you know…. stuff like that," looking at her with puppy eyes.
"Aww come on don't make those eyes!" Asami was pouting and puckering her lips while her eyes were such a beautiful shade of light green that shimmered with the sunlight, "Urgh! Okay okay fine I'll go! I promise so just stop with the eyes!"
Smiling gratefully, "Thank you so much love!" Kissing her lips eagerly. Korra smiled in their kiss and enjoyed her lover's affection before they were rudely interrupted by unpleasant voices.
"Hey sweethearts why don't you let us join your party," walking towards the two love birds with a group of people.
Breaking free from their kiss "(What the hell in the middle of the day really?) …. leave us alone, we don't want any trouble…" Asami says while standing her ground.
They started circling the two women, "Hey now babes, if you're both so lovey dovey why don't you share the love. We're all lonely too," chuckling obnoxiously.
"(Ugh what a pain…) listen pal… you don't know who you're messing with so why don't you just walk away before things get ugly…" Asami tries negotiating peacefully while preparing herself for a fight by cracking her knuckles.
"Ohhhh? Why don't you enlighten us then… besides we want to get messy with you," laughing arrogantly.
Asami lets out a breath before speaking in her intimidating cop voice, "This is your last warning."
"Now now no need to get rough baby," grabbing her arm.
Quickly grabbing his wrist, Asami twists and bends his arm behind his back. Then, kicking him in the back of his knee, she shoves him onto the floor and whispers into his ear, "I told you. You are going to regret it."
Asami kicks him in the back before turning around to see the other men rush at them, "KORRA!" she screams worrying for her girlfriend's safety, forgetting that she is a jack of all trades.
Side stepping to the right, Korra quickly jabs the guy in the face with her left fist stunning him. She then pulls him forward by his collar and elbows him in the face before throwing a right hard punch at his stomach. He lets outs a pained groan before Korra stomps his knee, knocking him onto the floor and switches to the guy on his left.
Asami lets out a whistle pleasantly surprised before switching her attention to the guy who was charging at her. She dodges him to the left, deflecting his grapple before pivoting around and fist palms the next guy in the jaw. Then, she throws a 1-2 punch at his face and gut before finishing him off with a roundhouse kick to the head.
Two out of the five were down.
Quickly making that three, Korra just threw a heavy uppercut knocking out the thug before bouncing back towards her girlfriend. She turns around and rests her back against Asami's.
"Having fun Asami?"
Laughing humorously, "Well I do have to say this is one of my… more exciting dates."
Korra lets out a grin before raising her fists into a boxer position. They both smile before rushing towards the remaining two. Korra easily ducks the aggravated man's sorry excuse of a punch and pushes him mockingly.
Asami lets out a snicker seeing Korra play with the guy before she decided to the same. She taunted the guy by repeatedly dodging and jumping back many times making him waste his energy. Then once he was tired she quickly stepped in between his legs and pulled his leg forward making him fall down. She jumped on top of him and pinned down by his waist with her knee and raised her fist, "Have you had enough yet?"
Around the same time Korra had already pulled the other guy into a headlock from behind and rendered him unless. Glancing towards her girlfriend, Korra called the situation handled and dropped the guy to the floor before grabbing her phone and called for an ambulance.
They were all easily dealt with so the two of women patiently waited for the help to arrive. Once the ambulance came, the couple quickly explained the situation to the officials before the medics took off. When the ambulance was finally out of sight, Asami sighed and turned around.
"I'm sorry I didn't think our date would get so weird… but I have to go now before I'm late," making a sad frown.
"Hey… it's not your fault, how were you supposed to know that was going to happen?" Pulling her into a hug, "Besides you were pretty hot out there babe," pecking her lips.
The maiden made a soft smile, "I could say the same about you, I didn't know you could fight like that. Well I should've figured since you seem pretty toned and fit," nudging her shoulder teasingly.
Winking flirtatious, "What can I say?" Chuckling slightly, "But you should see me in bed. Now that's where I don't hold back."
Asami blushed hard.
"Anyways, why don't you go on ahead? I don't want you being late so I'll just walk home."
Shaking off her embarrassment, she scrunched her eyebrows, "You sure? I don't mind giving you a ride real quick."
"No it's fine babe, just go!" Pushing her forward.
"But-"
"Asami! Just go!"
"Okay okay geez…" smiling warmly, "I, I love you and don't forget about dinner okay? I'll text my dad to let him know later." Jogging off into the distance while waving.
"Yah… love you to…" she mumbles while looking at the ground guiltily, "Don't worry I won't forget!" She quickly shouts while waving back. Once her girlfriend was out of sight, Korra immediately relaxed and had a serious expression. "Now then… what are the triads planning tonight at the warehouse…" Slipping her hands into her pockets, she started walking towards the docks to scope of the area.
*later that night*
Several squadrons of cops were scattered around Pier 57. They were about to raid the place and arrest all of the present triads when Chief Beifong starts speaking through the mass radio transmission, "Listen teams we don't know what they're up to so stay on your guard. And watch out for the escapees towards the bay. We'll commence the operation in precisely at midnight. Understood?"
"Roger."
"Check."
"Understood."
The troops sounded off before standing by until the given time. Several long minutes pass before they all proceeded with their operation and barged in. "FREEZE, THIS IS RCPD! DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND PUT YOUR HANDS UP!" The officers all rushed in with their weapons in hand ready to shoot and fire.
The triads all scream and scrambled to fight, aimlessly shooting at the police in vein. Series of gunshots go off again and again as gunpowder and debris filled the air in the entire room. But, even so, the police were pretty skilled and quickly handled the situation rounding up the gang members.
"Alright, well that was nice easy! We can finally not write a long report!" Bolin says while cuffing one of the last men.
"Hey don't let your guard down Bolin… this feels… it feels too easy… something feels off…" Mako shoves the outlaw towards the prisoner van.
"..." Looking up towards the metal stairway, "You two go put the rest of them in the van, I'm going to check upstairs."
"We checked earlier, nothing was there Cap." Bolin points out.
"Yeah I know… don't worry just being cautious and it'll only take a second…" Cautiously walking towards the stairs.
"Alright, we'll check in with you after we put them in the box." Mako says while shoving two more men outside. "Come on hurry up Bolin!"
"Comin!" Quickly following behind his brother with an additional two triads.
Asami's boots clacked on the metal stairway as she walked up the flight of stairs with her hand by her gun holster. Once up, she places her hand on the railing and slid her fingers along it. She could see her coworkers downstairs as she continued observing the railing. But her eyes soon scrunched at the sound of a tick, "What was that…" walking towards the source she noticed a black figure squatting by a suspicious box.
*Korra's POV*
Looking down through a glass window on the ceiling, the Avatar quickly assess the situation. "About forty ish triads members and twenty cops… that should be fair more or less… mmh? That noise…" closing her eyes in concentration, "A timer? And that smell… C-4…" she quickly locates the mechanism and climbed down into the build discreetly.
Landing softly onto the metal platform, Korra walked over to the bomb while the cops were arresting the triads members. Squatting down, she carefully opened the complicated box, "Dammit… this was more complex that I thought… shit this is going to take a while to diffuse… Asami…" letting out a breath, she pulled out her pocket knife and started working on the rest of the box.
The bomb had a red countdown timer that was short in time, "00:08:27" Korra clicked her tongue with irritation before strategically inspecting the wires with her knife, "Whoever made this is a genius… great what a hassle, just what I need…" she slowly pulled apart the wires and started cutting away. She made sure to avoid the traps but made quick work with the color coded wires. The bomb was too complicated and any normal bomb expert would take probably around thirty minutes to defuse the damn thing. Yet, here Korra had less than ten and there were just too many peoples' lives at stake including her girlfriend.
Annoyed and focused, the Avatar was too engrossed with the damn thing that she misses the sound of footsteps getting closer. She was so close to finishing the diffusion and there were only a few more wires that needed to be cut before a familiar voice called out to her.
"RCPD PUT YOUR HANDS UP WHERE I CAN SEE THEM!" Pulling the hammer on her gun while aiming at the figure.
The hooded figure turned slightly looking behind her, "Dammit Asami…." ignoring her, she refocuses her attention back to the bomb, "00:02:09"
"What are you… I said: PUT. YOUR. HANDS. UP." Cautiously and quickly walking closer to the figure.
"Tch…" Setting the knife down, she stood up with her hands up and slowly faced the detective. Her golden eyes were flickering with anger and irritation as she looked in her girlfriend's fierce eyes.
Asami felt shivers go down her spine as she looked into those cold eyes. "Who, who are you?" walking forward cautiously she reached out for the vigliante when she was suddenly yanked towards the railing. Letting out a grunt, she quickly started fighting back but immediately got disarmed. The gun fell down onto the railing but the captain ignores it and punches him, aiming for his face which he blocks with ease. She then throws her body against his and knocks herself free from the hold he had on her. Putting up her fists, she starts throwing a series of punches.
The Avatar grunts and starts deflecting the blows, glancing at the time. "00:00:53 (Fuck! We're not gonna make it…)" the Avatar quickly starts shuffling back, leading the detective towards the window.
Asami threw in a few punches before kicking upwards making the vigilante clench his jaw while narrowly dodging the kick. However, he quickly steps in real close which surprises the detective at their sudden close distance and tackled her. Lifting her upwards, the Avatar rushes her towards the window.
The maiden let out a grunt and was about to fight back before the shutting her eyes from the sudden boom that went off. Shards are sent flying as the shock of the explosion sent them flying out the window. Suddenly free falling, Korra grits her teeth as she held onto her lover. But unfortunately the second wave of the explosive went off which separates them and Asami went flying towards the bay.
"ASAMI!"
The Avatar screams as she fell hard onto the concrete floor. The whole building was shaking behind her as she groaned from pain and ignored her fractured body. Korra was beyond aggravated and pushed herself up, sprinting towards the bay. Without a second thought, she dove in the freezing cold ocean after her girlfriend.
Asami's conscious was slowly fading as she continued sinking deeper into the darkness. Trying to collect her thoughts she saw a silhouette swimming desperately closer to her, "Who… who are you..." losing her breath she fell unconscious.
Korra finally reaches her and pulls her back up to the surface. Gasping for air, "ASAMI!" Taking a few deep breaths, "ASAMI HANG IN THERE!" Swimming over to the shore, Korra quicks diagnoses her condition which she deemed dire as her pulse is very weak and she wasn't breathing. The Avatar quickly pulls down her mask and starts performing CPR on the unconscious woman.
"WAKE UP! DON'T GO DYING ON ME HERE! YOUR TEAM, MAKO AND BOLIN NEED YOU." Korra tilted back her head and pulled her chin down. Lining up their mouths she took a breath and pressed their lips together.
Two breaths.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 30"
Two breaths.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5… 30"
Two breaths.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5… 30"
Two breaths.
"1, 2, 3, 4-"
The detective chokes out water and started coughing. Still very disoriented from the blast and lack of oxygen, "W-Who are? K-Kor-?" The last thing on her mind was a blurry figure running away into the darkness with flickering flashes of red and blue in the distance. Unable to stay awake, her heavy eyes scum to the darkness and she falls unconscious.
Staggering and leaping through a dark alleyway, Korra held onto a large splinter that was logged into her side. "Shit…" she bit down on her cheek drawing some blood as her vision turned red. A monstrous growl escapes her mouth as she grunts while pulling out the shard. "AARAGHHHH!" She yanks out the bloody shard and throws it onto the floor before panting while holding onto her face.
Taking several deep breaths, she leans onto the brick wall and pulls her mask further away from her neck. "A… Asami…"