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Underneath the starry night, a ship sailed peacefully on the cool waters. The ship itself carried supplies from Future Industries to send to the south pole in assistance with the war. The captain of the ship observed peacefully from the railing. Nothing peculiar was going on, but he suspected as much since nothing ever happened at the ocean at night, and the weather was clear, no signs of any storms at all. But the peace was disrupted when the captain spotted something flicker red. Bright red, blinking objects were thrown onto the deck. Before long, the objects exploded in a fiery inferno. Another device, stuck to some white sticky substance, was thrown at the captain, landing at the wall behind him. The object was a remote controlled bomb, which detonated in less than five seconds. The captain managed to jump off onto the deck before the explosion hit him.
"We're under attack!" he cried out. Just then, four waterbenders ambushed the ship while ridding on a wave, swapping it with their water. The events happened so quickly, the captain and passengers didn't know what hit them. They managed to escape on a rats while looking on at the destroyed ship with smoke emitting from its sides.
"Varrick is not gonna be happy about this."
(~)
Both Eska and Desna stood in front of the Southern Spirit portal, which had been fortified with a surrounding wall along with some watchtowers.
"Where is he?" Eska asked her brother.
"Father said he would meet us at this location. He'll be here."
Right on cue, they saw their father emerge from the portal, "Were you just in the spirit world?" Desna asked in surprise. But Unalaq was not in the mood for silly questions.
"Never mind that. Where is the Avatar?"
"She was within our grasp until a dark spirit attacked her." Eska explained.
"They're out of control" Desna said, angering their father.
"You didn't get her?!"
"The Avatar is dead." Eska said bluntly.
This news devastated the chief in more ways than one. His children could not red his expression as clearly as they wished. He appeared to be both heartbroken but angry, and appeared to be struggling with which emotion it was he was feeling.
"What do we do now? Desna asked. But his father did not have the voice to answer at the moment.
(~)
Nothing could pry his amber eyes away from the gray image. The photograph he held carried far too many memories. On the one hand, they were too painful to remember now, but at the same time he didn't want to forget. Love is such a strange thing, it brings you joy, it brings you pain. It makes sense and yet it doesn't. It can make you feel, and yet not feel at all. Anybody else would just forget the past and move on, but Mako was not like anybody else. He knew he needed to make things right with Korra. But first, he needed to find her. He had already heard news from her father that she had gone missing. Tenzin had the entire police force on the look out for her, but so far nothing had turned out. To makes things even harder, many cargo ships had been robbed in the past several days.
The doors opened and Mako hid the photo in his jacket when the Avatar's best friend entered the room.
"Is it true?" Asami asked with worry as she approached him.
"I'm so sorry. Your entire shipment was stolen." he said with sympathy.
"Without that sale, I don't know how much longer dad and I can keep our company going. What am I gonna do?"
"Don't worry. I'm gonna find whoever's responsible. Chief Beifong is about to question the captain of the ship." Mako pushed the button of the intercom, and from it they could hear the captain speak in the interrogation room with Lin, Gang and Lu, two of Lin's detectives.
"I know it's been a long day, but walk me through what happened." Lin said to the captain.
"We were ambushed about thirty clicks outside the harbor. We never heard them coming."
"This is the third attack this week at about the same location" Lin said.
One of her detectives, Lu agreed, "Yep, and mask-dad in Republic City's jurisdiction, which means another problem for us." he sighed as he stroked his mustache, "All this stress is gonna turn old black beauty gray."
"It's gotta be Northern Water Tribe." said his partner Gang, "They're trying to stop supping supplies to the South."
"I agree." Lin said, before turning to the captain once more, "Is there anything else about the attack you remember? Anything unusual?"
"There is one thing. The bombs exploded in a way I've never seen before. They didn't have fuses. It was like they were detonated remotely."
Mako's eyes widen slightly at hearing this, "Like the bombs at the cultural center." he made his way out of the room.
"Wait, where are you going?" Asami asked.
"I gotta grab some evidence." he said as he exited while Varrick entered.
"Asami, I heard the news. I can't believe they took my fifth favorite ship in the Varrick Industries fleet! Named her after my mom. Rest in piece, Rocky Bottom."
"Without the money from the shipment, Future Industries is almost broke." said Asami. Her attention turned to Mako, who had just entered the interrogation room.
"Chief, I think there's a link between this attack and the attack at the cultural center." Mako tells his boss. But Lin was not in the mood to listen to a rookie.
"What do you think you're doing?" she asked aggressively.
"Solving this case." he turned to the captain, "Did any of the people who attacked you have one of these in their hands?" he showed the man the remote control he had found that night at the bombing, "I think it's a remote detonator."
"I was too dark to see anything."
"Mako!" the young man slightly flinched when his boss snapped at him.
"Chief, I don't think the people who attacked you were the Northern Water Tribe."
Gang laughed at this theory, "Of course they were Northern Water Tribe. They were waterbending."
Mako ignored him and showed the captain a picture of the firebender he and Flash Sentry spotted that night, the one who was responsible for placing the bombs. "Was this one of the guys who attacked?"
"No, I don't recognize him."
"Oh, that's embarrassing." Gang said to his partner Lu, who chuckled, "Nice try, Rookie."
Lin had had just about enough of this, "Mako, leave. Now." she said the last part rather threateningly. At that moment, Varrick and Asami entered the room.
"Great work, everybody" said Varrick, "Another open and shut case for the dynamic mustachioed duo!"
"Wait, I think Mako might be onto something." said Asami. Mako practically pleaded to his boss, "Chief, I know it's a long shot, but I have an idea how we can catch these guys."
"Yeah, let's listen to the rookie." Lu said sarcastically.
Asami angrily glared at the immature man, "He's doing a better job than you!"
"Whoooooo's hungry?" Varrick spontaneously asked to lighten the mood.
"Enough!" Lin finally snapped, "I don't want to hear your lame-brained rookie ideas. You're a beat cop, not a detective. Now hit the street and do your job!"
Mako lowered his shoulders in defeat. He clenched his fists as he watched Lu and Gang laugh at him, while Lu styled his hair to look like Mako's to tick him off. The two men laughed while Mako silently wished he could burn their mustaches right off of their faces.
These two always loved to pick on the new, younger, cop. Mako had tolerated their antics for far too long now.
(~)
Mako and Asami stood outside of police headquarters, the firebender vented out his frustrations, "Lu and Gang are idiots. I hate them and their stupid mustaches."
"Forget them. What's this idea of yours?" Asami asked, sounding very interested in his plan.
"A sting operation. I was thinking we'd set up a bait ship, take it out into the open ocean, and capture whoever attacks it."
"Let's do it."
"It's not that easy. For the plan to work, we need the police, and Beifong already said no."
"We can make it work, just the two of us."
"I don't know. I don't want to go behind Beifong's back. If she finds out, I could get kicked off the force."
Asami pleaded to her friend for help, "Mako, I need your help. My dad has done the best he could, we both have, but it's just not enough. Future Industries is a huge part of my family."
Mako knew Asami needed his help, but he still wasn't sure if this was a good idea. "I want to help you, but this is more than a two-person job. First of all, we'd need a ship."
"You need a ship?" Both teens recoiled in shock when they saw Varrick beside them, "I got a ship. I want in on whatever you're talking about. I love being in on plans."
"The less you know, the better." Asami told him.
"Perfect! I love not knowing things."
Mako decided to agree with this plan. With Varrick's help, they might be able to catch these crooks and save Asami's company.
"All right, I'm in." said Mako with a smile, "Let's get these guys."
(~)
At the harbor outside of Future Industries, an empty cargo was closed while two meca tanks lifted the cargo on board. Asami and Mako looked on from the warehouse, which was filled with meca tanks and biplanes.
"The ship's all loaded with the dummy crates." Asami said. "Let's get this sting operation going."
"Not yet. We need some extra manpower."
"Well, I'd suggest Korra but…" she quickly stopped herself once she took notice of Mako's expression. "Oh, sorry, I wasn't thinking."
"It's okay." he replied sadly.
"I miss her too, you know." she answered sympathetically, "But I'm sure we'll find her. She's probably blowing off some steam somewhere."
"Probably." his eyes then widened once he remembered somebody who could help, "Wait, what about Bolin? He'd be more than happy to help out."
Now it was Asami's turn to be surprised, "Oh, um, I don't think that'll be necessary."
"Everything okay with you two? Ever since we came back you've been acting distant."
"I've just been having a lot on my mind."
"Well, whatever it is, can't you put it aside to help your company?"
The heiress knew she needed to come up with an idea. Luckily, it came. "You know what, you're right. But, I should be the one to ask him. In fact, I'm going to go find him right now. Mind keeping an eye on things here?"
"I suppose, but I don't-"
"Great, thanks!" with that, Asami rushed out of the building, leaving a very confused Mako behind.
(~)
Bolin sat alone on the couch. He had just come back from a lunch with Varrick, but it did nothing to cheer him up. Not even Pabu's tricks could lift his spirits. Then, a knock on the door interrupted him. He quickly got up to answer, but found nobody there. He looked down and noticed a letter on the floor. Once he took it, a familiar scent caught his nose. It was the smell of vanilla, and the envelop was sealed with a kiss mark made up off red lipstick. He knew that color anywhere. Happily, Bolin opened the envelop and read the letter out loud.
"'Bolin, I'm sorry I've been so distant lately, but I think now's the time to finally explain to you why. Meet me at this address by midnight tonight. Can't wait to see you.
Love, Asami. xo xo xo"
He jumped happily, waving the paper with glee. His sorrows faded away with this just one note.
(~)
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Mako asked his friend.
"I already told you, Bolin was too upset to talk to me." Asami responded, knowing very well it was just a big fat lie.
"But, why this?" Mako never would have imagined that the always reasonable Asami would even suggest to something like this.
"It's our last resort. Now knock."
Hesitantly, Mako knocked on the wooden door in front of him and they saw the eyes of a man through the open faceplate.
"Hey, Mako. Whatever you think we did, we didn't do it."
"I'm not here on police business. I'm running an off-the-books operation, and I thought the Triple Threats might want a piece of the action."
"How big a piece?" the man asked.
(~)
Both Asami and Mako sat on chair, opposite a waterbender named Viper. The leader of the Triple Threats. The criminal smuggled smugly at his guests. "So Mr. Law and Order needs our help, huh? What's in it for the Triple Threats?"
"Helping the Avatar in stopping a war." Mako stated confidently.
"The Avatar? Ha! You've got to be kidding."
"Don't you remember when Amon captured Shady Chin and the rest of your gang? She was the one who let them go. She showed them mercy."
"One charity act aint enough, kid."
Asami stepped up and spoke, "What if I said we could ask the Avatar to give back Shady Chin here his bending?"
"Sounds good to me, boss." said Shady Chin. He was one of the unlucky ones who lost his bending, but due to there criminal records he could not go to the Avatar personally and ask for his bending back.
"What about the rest of us?" the leader asked.
"I've got vehicles, all brand-new and top of the line." Asami said. "They can be yours if you help."
Mako was rather surprised by Asami's words. She acted so confident around them. Normally, she would be disgusted by these kind of people, and yet she acted as if she was just an expert in the criminal underbelly as any of them. There was definitely something very off here.
Viper smirked at their offers. "I think we got ourselves a deal."
Asami shared his exact same smirk, which still gave Mako a bad feeling.
(~)
That night, out in the open sea, Mako, Asami and the Triple Threats were all on board the bait ship. Mako kept a watchful eye out for anything suspicious, waiting for their thieves to appear. Asami stood with her back pressed against the wall of the deck with her arms crossed, while one of the Triad, the firebender named Two Toed Ping, stood near Mako at the rails.
"This is right around the area where the attacks happened." said the young cop as he leaned on the rails, looking down at the ocean. "So keep your eyes peeled, and stay quiet."
"I agree. Keep quiet." Ping said, "Mouth zipped, don't say a word. That's the best thing to do when you're trying to ambush somebody, which is what we're doing here, and it's basically what I'm always doing. I mean, I am a gangster, after all, and -"
"Two Toed Ping, please." Mako silenced him. He remembered this guy pretty well from his Triad days. He was the most annoying of them all.
"Oh, right. So, I heard you and the Avatar had been getting pretty cozy lately." he wiggled his eyebrows and gave the young man a knowing smirk, "Care to share some details?" Mako sighed in annoyance, turning his head. "Come on, Mako, I gotta know."
"Ping, stay focused!" he snapped.
"What? What are you so weird about it? If I was dating the Avatar, I'd tell you all about it."
"There's nothing to know!" Mako shouted, still angry. He turned his head away form them and spoke in a much softer tone, though his expression remained angry. "She broke up with me." he finally confessed. Asami was surprised by this.
"You broke up? When? Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't know." he sincerely answered, "I really don't know how it happened. Ever since we came back from the south pole I had this weird thing stuck in my throat. Whenever I tried to tell the truth, I couldn't. And then I told the president a big fat lie that got Korra in trouble."
"What do you mean you told a lie?" Asami asked.
"I said I don't know! It was like my voice had a mind of its own. But then Korra kissed me and I was back to normal." he gripped his neck, "I'm still trying to figure out what it was and how I got it."
"What do you think it was?" Asami asked.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was almost…like, some sort of spell."
Then, Ping started laughing. "Yeah, right! Hey, Shady Shin, Viper. Mako says a spell made him break up with the Avatar!"
The rest of the triads all laughed along at the idea.
"Sure he did."
"Yeah, I did too."
Mako's anger grew even more with their laughing. "All right, would you guys knock it off and do your job?"
With that, the laughter slowly died down and Mako continued looking down at the reflection of the moon on the ocean. He knew the idea of a magic spell was insane. But what other explanation could he come up with at this point? It really didn't make any sense.
A few hours passed, and still nothing had happened. Mako and Asami were slowly growing board, and even Ping. So, in order to stay on 'friendly' terms with them, he decided to use his own way to break the ice…which disgusted both Asami and Mako. The two teens felt like they wanted to gag.
"And that's why they call me, Two Toed Ping." he said, while wiggling the two extra toes on both of his feet, giving him a grand total of twelve toes.
"Because you have two extra toes." Asami concluded, though in her head she was puking up her lunch.
"That's right. And there was already a Twelve Toed Ping on the south side."
Suddenly, Mako heard a strange sound in the distance."Wait, guys. Do you hear that?"
"I didn't hear anything." Asami said.
"No." Ping said.
Mako groaned in frustration. "Ah! What's taking so long?"
"You just gotta relax, like me." Ping said while placing his hands behind his head and leaning back on his chair. "Maybe try taking your shoes off."
"'m gonna check it out." Mako said and he walked along the deck, trying to find the source of the sound. He heard both Shady Shin and Viper talking to one another.
"So how long do we have to stay out here?" Shady Shin asked.
"I told you, it's gonna be a few hours. What, do you have a hot date?"
As they talked, Mako hid under the stairs of the ship and looked up, seeing the two criminals. He listened in on their conversation underneath the staircase.
"Actually, I do. And I wanna look my best." Chin said to Viper. "I gotta shower and shave. I have a whole routine, okay?"
"Well, your date's gonna have to wait."
"She's not gonna be happy about that."
"Too bad. We were paid to keep pretty boy distracted for a few hours, so that's what we're gonna do."
"See? This is why I never get dates."
Mako's eyes widened at the realization…they had been played. He knew he had to warn Asami, and fast. Back on the deck, Asami was watching Two Toed Ping stroking his toe, when Mako gestured her. Asami walked up to Mako. "I just overheard Shady Shin and Viper." he said. "We've been double-crossed. We have to get off this ship." both teens ran off, only to be ambushed by Viper, who smirked wickedly at the two.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Mako knocked the gangsters off with firebending before running off with Asami by grabbing onto her wrist. They both boarded a speedboat that was on the side of the ship. Viper growled at his goons.
"Get'm!"
Mako burned off the ropes sustaining the speedboat, causing him and Asami to plunge to the sea. Once there, Asami turned on the ignition and began driving the boat at full speed. The gangsters pursued them with two speedboats of their own. Mako stood from his seat and attacked the speedboats behind them with firebending, but missed each time as they dodged his incoming blasts. Asami turned the wheel and made a sharp turn, causing Mako to nearly lose his balance and fall back onto the back seat. He was so close to fall off.
Already fedd up with this, Viper jumped off his speedboat and waterbended a geyser, throwing Mako and Asami's speedboat up into the air. Both managed to remain in the speedboat as it plunged back to the sea. Mako was only seconds away from vomiting, but the gangsters were far from done. The chase brought them back to mainland Republic City. Mako looked behind them and saw the criminals gaining on them.
"They're getting closer."
"Not for long."
Mako braced himself as Asami drove the boat between two ships. "Watch out! We're not gonna make it." the firebender cried out, but Asami made a swift turn, making it pass easily. One of the triad's speedboat failed to execute the same turn and capsized.
"One down, one to go." Mako said as he witnessed Viper's speedboat cut through in front of them. Asami swerved off and the engine stalled
"We're stalled." cried the heiress and her eyes widened as Viper's speed boat approached them. Mako attempted to firebend at them, but the speedboat crashed, throwing him back while the speedboat was being pushed back. Viper leaped to Mako's speedboat and threw a water pulse at him, but Mako managed to dodge. He prepared another attack, but was stopped by Mako. Mako did a fire kick, which Viper managed to neutralize. Mako threw another two fire blasts, which Viper managed to dodge one and neutralize another. Mako missed his attack and was pushed back to the passenger seat by Viper's waterbending attack. Asami's engine still wouldn't restart.
"It's no use! It won't start up!"
"Let me try something." using his old criminal skills from the past, he managed to hot-wire the boat and the ignition started up again. Asami grabbed the wheel.
"Mako, hang onto something." the heiress then swerved violently, throwing the gangsters' speedboat off the water before reaching the docks near her warehouse.
"What was that all about?" Asami asked.
"Someone paid the Triple Threats to keep us distracted."
"Distracted? From what?" then, the horrible realization struck her. "Oh no."
Once they reached the warehouse, Asami turned on the lights…only to see that all of her meca tanks and biplanes had been stolen. The entire warehouse was completely empty. There was not a trace of what she had left.
"Whoever paid the Triple Threats stole everything." Mako said, his eyes widened at the sight. But even though he was deeply upset, it could not measure up to the heartbreak Asami was feeling right now.
"I'm ruined. My company…it's over."
"We should check out your other warehouses. Maybe they didn't have time to hit them all."
"You don't understand. Everything I had was in here."
"We have to search the place for evidence. If we can find a lead…"
"Mako…it doesn't matter anymore."
"I can figure this out."
"Just stop. It's over. I give up."
Mako looked on at his friend with determination, "Well, I'm not giving up on you."
Asami's eyes briefly darted to her right, indicating she saw something, but before Mako could look he received a very unexpected, and unpleasant, surprise.
Asami grabbed his face and placed her lips on top of his own. Korra's best friend was actually kissing him. And quite passionately, he might add. He struggled to break free, not kissing her back at all, and pushed her away from him with all of his might. Her grip was stronger than he thought. Mako was both furious as well as confused.
"What was that?!"
"That's what I'd like to know!"
Mako spun around at the sound of his younger brother's voice. Bolin was standing before them, carrying a bouquet of flowers, his eyes were wide like saucers, his fists half clenched and his lip quivering, trying his best not to cry right then and there.
Mako tried to explain, "Bolin, it's not what it looks like!"
"It looks like my brother was kissing my girlfriend!"
"No, I didn't kiss her, she kissed me!" the older brother insisted, for it was indeed the truth.
"Asami, is that true?" Bolin looked at his girlfriend, who was only standing there with her hands on her hip, not showing any signs of remorse.
"Sorry you had to find out like this, Bo." she said, her voice cold and unloving.
The poor earthbender was crushed, "Asami…why would you…?"
"I'm going to tell you the exact same thing I said to Korra before she left. Grow. Up."
That was it, he couldn't' think of anything else to say. His heart was hurting too much to even think straight. With tears in his eyes, Bolin ran off, tossing the flowers onto the ground, ignoring his older brother calling out to him.
"Bolin, wait!" Mako then noticed that Bolin also dropped a piece of paper. Picking it up he quickly realized it was written in Asami's hand writing. The firebender turned to face her, his eyes narrowing in anger. "You told him to come here? You wanted him to see that?!"
"Not at first. I originally just wanted to stand him up so he'd leave me alone. But, this works just fine too."
Mako shoot his head in disbelief, "This…why would you-this isn't you, Asami! How could you do that to my own brother, and to me. And Korra, you said you didn't see her before she left!"
"Oh, get a clue, detective. I lied." she replied, rather bluntly.
"What?! You never lie, you stink at it!" it was then, that more pieces of the puzzle started to come together, "Wait, you also lied about Bolin not wanting to help. And at the hideout, you acted you've been there before." his eyes widened, hoping his conclusion was wrong. "This was all a set up. You went to the Triple Threats beforehand, didn't you?"
Asami slowly clapped her hands while smirking wickedly, "Very, very good, Mako. Took you long enough." with a snap of her fingers, more and more mend appeared from the shadows of the warehouse. They were more Triple Threat members, even the two men two he witnessed at the bombing.
"You're responsible for the bombing too?!"
"Guilty is charged." Asami said with a vainly flip of her hair.
Mako slowly backed away from, whoever this wicked woman was, but was stopped once his arm was twisted behind his back and was forced on his knees. Viper and the others had arrived and had subdued him.
"And, FYI, my supplies were never really stolen. I shipped them off to the south to be used as weapons for the northern invaders."
"What?!"
"If you can't make money from a war, you just flat-out can't make money."
"But why did you go through all that and didn't just finish me off right then and there?"
"Well, since you couldn't keep your sticky little nose out of the bombing mystery, I had a hunch you'd find out eventually. So, I went to these guys, got them in on the act to keep you distracted while my workers send the supplies. Once you were out at sea, they could have just finished you off right then and there. But, of course, somebody couldn't keep his mouth shut!" she glared at Viper, who quivered in fear of her, "And then you had to go all 'noble hero', I had to improvise. Believe me, I'd finish you off myself but, I can't risk having any blood on my hands. I've got a reputation to keep."
"How could you do this? I thought you were our friend!" it was then, Mako remembered something else. "Wait…this all started when we got back." he then remembered that feeling in his throat, the one that kept him from speaking the truth. The sensation was familiar, like the taste of the apple Yuki had offered him.
"The apples…the ones Yuki gave us. She must have done something to them. That's why you're acting like this!"
Viper couldn't help but laugh, "Looks like somebody's been reading too many fairytales."
Mako struggled to break free but the worse was yet to come. Asami snapped her fingers and one of the triads hands her her electric glove.
"Asami, you can't go through with this!"
"Oh? And who's going to stop me? Your girlfriend? You don't even know where she is. And after you betrayed her the way you did, I doubt she'll listen to anything you say."
"You're no match for Korra." he said through his teeth.
Asami squatted down, and grabbed his chin, "No. You're no match for Korra. I, on the other hand, will be the hero who saved Future Industries, and the North to win this battle."
"You won't get away with this!"
"Mako, sweetie…I always have."
The young man felt an incredible pain course through his body once Asami's glove made contact, sending waves of lighting all around him. The last thing he saw was darkness and his now limp body rested at her feet.
Viper whistled, "Lady, you are rotten."
"To the core, baby." Asami smiled. Feeling wickedly good about herself.
(~)
Mako's head was throbbing, and his body was in serious pain. He found himself in his apartment, rubbing his head. He still remembered the events from last night, but why was he at his home now?
He was still wearing the same cloths as before and nobody else was there but him. Not even Pabu. There was a note on the fridge, which was from his brother, saying he didn't want to be around Mako at the moment and was staying at a hotel thanks to Varrick.
The poor young man sighed before sitting back on the couch. He felt terrible. How could any of this happen, he wondered. One of his closest friends betrayed him, Korra was gone and now his own brother was angry at him for something he didn't even do. A knock on the door shook him from his thoughts and he stood up, limping a bit due to the shock he received from Asami. That woman did not kid around. Opening the door, he saw it was his boss Lin, Lu and Gang.
"Hey, Mako. Hope we didn't interrupt anything." Lu said rather smugly before he, his partner and boss made their way inside.
"What's going on?" Mako asked, rather confused and still a bit delirious.
"We had a word with miss Sato earlier this morning. Some of the cops found her unconscious near the docks. Said something about Triple Threats hired for a job." he explained while he and Gan searched his place.
Mako knew he couldn't lie to them about this, and they needed to know the real truth. Maybe they could help him to stop Asami.
"Alright, it's true." he confessed, "Asami and I were trying to figure out who stole her stuff so she hired them for a sting operation. I'm sorry for going behind your back but, there's something else you should know."
Before he could continue, Lin interrupted him, "According to Asami, you did more than that."
"What are you-" he remembered that Asami was not acting like herself, "Wait, what did she tell you?"
"She said you helped them steal a warehouse full of Future Industries property!"
"What?! That's crazy!"
"I have to follow up on the lead."
"No, you've got it backwards! The supplies were never really stolen. Asami is illegally shipping them off to the south to be used as weapons! She set me up!"
"Mako, I've known Asami for as long as I've known Korra. She would never do something like this."
"I thought so too, but she's changed somehow, and not in a good way."
Lu walked out of Mako's bedroom, and waved something in his hand. "Well, look what I found here. Cash and these." she waved a couple of explosives in front of the others. Mako's eyes widened.
"What are you doing with explosives, Mako?" Lin asked him suspiciously.
"Those aren't mine! I don't know where they came from!" before he knew it, his hands were cuffed behind his back by Gang.
"You're under arrest."
"None of that is mine!" Mako protested to no avail.
"Yeah, should have known you'd hook up with your old pals." said Gang as he tightened the cuffs. Once a Triple Threat, always a Triple Threat."
"I'm telling you, Asami's lying! She's the one behind all of this, and she's the one responsible for the bombing!"
"You should be ashamed of yourself!" Lu said, "Blaming that sweet little angel for what you did. You've been using her the whole time."
"Sure glad the Avatar's not here to see this." said Gang, "She'd be so disappointed in you, lover boy."
Against his will, Mako was led by the cops away from his apartment. If things weren't bad enough, now he had to pat for a crime he didn't even commit.
(~)
As Asami gazed into her mirror, she could not be happier. Korra was gone, Bolin was through with her, and now Mako was in jail, and nobody was the wiser. She just had to celebrate.
They say I'm trouble
They say I'm bad
They say I'm evil
That makes me glad
A dirty no good
Down to the bone
Your worst nightmare
Can't take me home
So I got some mischief
In my blood!
Can you blame me
I never got no love
They think I'm callus
A low-life hood
I feel so useless
Misunderstood
Hey, yeah!
Mirror, mirror, on the way
Who's the baddest of them all?
Welcome to my wicked world
Wicked world
I'm rotten to the core!
Rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the core
Who could ask for more?
I'm nothing like the kid next
Like the kid next door
I'm rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the….
Core!
Listen up, now
Call me a schemer
Call me a freak
How can you say that?
I'm just unique
What me a traitor?
Aint got your back?
Are we not friends?
What's up with that?
So I'm a misfit
So I'm a flirt?
I broke your heart
I made ya hurt
The past is past
Forgive forget
The truth is
You aint seen nothing yet!
Mirror, mirror, on the way
Who's the baddest of them all?
Welcome to my wicked world
Wicked world
I'm rotten to the core!
Rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the core
Who could ask for more?
I'm nothing like the kid next
Like the kid next door
I'm rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the….
Core!
oooh, oooooh,
Original…
oooh, oooooh,
Unusual…
oooh, oooooh,
I'm rotten to the….
I'm rotten to the core!
Rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the core
Who could ask for more?
Yeah!
I'm nothing like the kid next
Like the kid next door
(No way)
I'm rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the…..
Core!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
But while Asami was rejoicing, her old best friend was somewhere else. Somewhere far from all is this wickedness surrounding the city.
She was in a place unlike anything she had ever seen. With people she never thought she would ever meet again. A place where she would find the strength…to believe once again.
(~)
No, nobody's dead, just to be clear. Also, what do you guys think of Evil Asami? Personally, I like imagining her as both a good girl and a bad girl. She just seems to fit both pretty well, depending on what universe she's in.
The song is from Sofia Carson, who played Evi (daughter of the Evil Queen) from Disney's Descendants. You have got to check it out and picture Asami dancing to this.
Thanks to everyone who tuned in to read this, and hope to write more soon. We're about to find out where Korra is.
A bit of a spoiler, we're going to encounter some characters from book 3. ;)
God bless, *kiss kiss*