Disclaimer: This is a parody inspired by the works of Nickelodeon. All characters that I have not created or borrowed from other sources are theirs. This is a Fan fiction and not meant to violate the rights of those who own the rights to the Avatar:The Legend of Korra. I have no money and therefore not a good suing target. Thank you very much.
The Legend of Korra: The Ship
Chapter One
Korra had become a full fledge avatar after the battles with the Equalist, which was why Tenzin was showing something the nations of the world had been hidding for at least fifty years. A secret so big they feared it would totally destroy the balance in the world. Given what had happened, she was a little worried about what this secret was. Or what it would be needed to be kept in a bunker just outside of Republic City.
'Or the fact Tenzin and the council wanted me to come alone to this bunker. This place has it own power plants below the surface and the base itself is in a bunker feet beneath the earth, carved by Earthbending masters and built up with the strongest alloys they could find from what they could tell me.
What would be so important?' Korra asked herself as she was lowered down on an Earthbending platform down to the depths of the bunker. It was the second set which she had to pass through, each time passing a check point while following Tenzin as he lead the way down.
"I can not explain what it is as looking at the object would explain more then words can. It does have the power to change the believes we have held for centuries. We are almost there. The nations of the world wanted to study this object but had to agree with a place where all nations could have equal access to the information. Which is why it arrived in the United Republic of Nations. The council has been in charge of it for fifty years or so.
We, the Order of the White Lotus and the council, were worried that you would have enough trouble learning the elements. So we didn't want to dump this object on your lap. However as a full realized, if not fully trained, Avatar... you have the responsibility to advise us in this world changing event. We are about to enter the room overlooking the object." said Tenzin as they entered the room and Korra got a good look at the fuss was about.
It was a metallic vessal, shattered into pieces. It had dozens of people scurrying over and around the pieces of the metal object. She had only one question, "What is it?"
"It seems to be some kind of ship from space, from a source unknown to the people of this world. In other words, there is life somewhere else in the universe. Which given we have just gained peace in the world in the last seventy years and just recently faced the possible start of a new war... could have some scary consequences for our world.
This has not stopped our urge to look through the machine and learn from the advance secrets of the ship. We have been trying to crack the language code but they seemed to have used a language which is completely alien to us, pardon the pun. Our greatest lingists have been working on it and seemed to have hacked some of the words and grammar of the new language which has allowed for a primative understanding of the science behind this technology." continued the bald airbender as he explained but Korra was stunned at the secret which she was being shown. The fact her people, no, her planet was not alone in the world was making her suddenly feel small.
Yet at the same time it was so awesome at the same time, as she wondered how fast an alien ship could take her. There was also a part of her, likely the part most connected to her past life as she tried to think of the reactions of the common man to the news of aliens.
"We have organizing the information into what could be best handled by the population at this time. We have been looking at fiction in books and radio programs to get people ready for what could occur if we were to come into contact with these or other visitors. We have also used existing business as partners in researching the technological advancements of the ship's mechanical secrets." continued the older man as he continued to brief the Avatar of the situation.
"Like Cabbage Corp or... Future Industries. Hiroshi had access to the advance technology and he's a devoted Equalist. There's a disaster waiting to happen." answered the water tribeswoman as she shivered at the thought of what technology the father of her friend as well as one of her deadliest enemies could have developed from this information.
"We didn't know he was a member at the time and he has not been researching it for as long as others. We have kept most of the information to ourselves and our in bunker labs. We have learned a lot about the basic scientific principles which have been useful. I have to admit Sato might have gotten the idea for his plan wings from the resources we have gained from the ship.
They seemed to have knowledge collected onto fast computing devices which we have just gotten use to. The information on it could fill all known libraries in our world, and would take years to for us to completely amass what they knew in these records.
We have found research tools as well as... weapons beyond anything we could have thought of. Weapons which shoot energy like a bow shoots arrows. This is the most frightening aspects of the find as it suggests if they want to invade our world, not even the power of bending would be able to stop them. So we can only hope they will be friendly and not our enemies.
Do you have any insight on this, Avatar Korra?" Tenzin had used her title, which was a hint to the young woman he wanted her to act in her official status. She had to think hard on this subject, her eyes glowing for a moment as she tried to call on the advice and council of her past lives.
"This thing is here and continuing to reserach it is the best option we have now. If we had not found it, we would be completely off guard. It will allow us to meet any visitor on equal terms and be the best defense if we need to defend ourselves. Besides we might not be able to stop the information from being leaked out.
Which also brings up the issue with disclosure. I doubt everyone on this base has kept this thing totally secret, secrets have a way of coming out. At best, you might have slowed down the discovery of the secret of the population. This might be something it needs, but you are going to have to get ready for the shoe to drop and your secret to get out.
Also I'm guessing there have been benders and non-benders in the organization, which given how the Equalist had people pretending to be accepting of bending until need... begs the question of any people who have divided loyalties. Even the benders might have divided loyalties, either to their nation or to other groups like the triads. Bet they would pay major money for any details or knowledge from this find.
We are going to need to be subtle with this... not my strong suit." responded Korra as she looked at the ship and the research.
"We also have to ask if someone might be sending someone after this ship. Who knows how long to takes to move in space? We could be visted a year from now, a decade from now, a hundred years or even tomorrow. We have to ask, if we lost a ship in the sea... would we send someone after it and how long?" asked the dark skinned girl as she became thoughtful.
Down below the Avatar...
One of the workers was using the recovered thinking machine, as they were called, and looking up the operations of the systems. They were not fully fluent in the alien language and did not recognize some of the lines of code on the machine.
Which was how the worker triggered the unengaged homing beacon, which started to send out a silent beeping which could be heard by ships with similar communication systems.
In the reaches of Outer Space...
The beeping of the homing beacon, a device built to find rescue for the people and/or property of the culture who sent them out, moved faster then light to be picked up by anyone who could sense the cries for help. Echoing through out space till someone could finally heard what was being said.
It was not long before someone heard the silent sounds of the device, picked up by a ship which was in range of the planet where the ship and the people of the Avatar were. The ship took a few moments to trianglate the source of the beacon and then made course corrections to send them to the planet for investigation. Their engines hummed as they moved faster then light to the planet and the source of the beacon, making it's arrival come sooner then expected for the people of the elemental world.
This is how the world changed... This is how everything changed...
Author's notes:
Not sure if I hit the characters but I hope it's good enough. I wanted to leave the ship vague enough so that if I (or Someone else) wanted to use or reuse this fragment for different crossovers, they could.
It can fit Star Trek (Not sure how to add elements of Avatar to that, but could be possible if you think less of magic and more of advance science which can do anything). It can fit Stargate. It can fit Star Wars. It can fit Ben 10. As long as you can explain the mystical elements of Avatar, it can mesh with most sci-fi which involves spaceships.
Also it could also work work with Aang's generation in the Avatar world with a rewrite.
I hope you have enjoyed it.
HV
