Chapter 2

Waking up in a new life and going down to the station.

A/N: Well, to rabid response, this story's getting continued. I have a lot of idea's for it, so look out! And thanks to Your favorite freak for reviewing!

"No Naga."

Korra hopped off of her pet polar bear-dog and circled around to the side of the food stall, grabbing up a cabob with gluttonous gusto. "Well take one of everything please." Korra might have thought that would have impressed the owner-lady enough to get free food. In that respect she was sorely mistaken.

"That will be twenty Yuan." The woman glared at Korra, lifting a set of tongs threateningly. Korra winced at the usage of the foreign word, and turned to Levi to ask if he had any money. Leviticus might have just shook his head, but because he was still hanging onto Naga for dear life and trembling like he had been plunged into a vat of liquid nitrogen, Korra decided that it was better to just grin sheepishly and say that they had no money on them. The woman brandished her tongs at Korra again, and the Avatar just turned back to her companions.

"Well, got any ideas?" Levi eyed the bender that he had arrived with. Granted, it was one thing to find yourself in a cartoon, but quite another to actually speak with the main character. And on the subject of being in a cartoon, Leviticus had to hand it to the artist's; the skyboxes were really well done and easy on the eyes. From anywhere in the city you had an amazing view of the surrounding mountain range, all in a gorgeous, slightly exaggerated art style. And another thing; at a distance, everything looked likeit did in the cartoon, but at close examination, was very realistic. Strange.

Korra and Leviticus brainstormed for a moment, before Levi decided to steal Korra's thunder and said; "Park and fish."

…

Leviticus gingerly took the still slightly smoking fish that Korra had cooked with her fire-bending, but didn't bite in. Any second now, a vagabond (as he so rapturously put it) would hoop out of the bush he and Korra were sitting next to and ask for some "fishy". And then they would talk a little about why he was currently living in a bush, and then Korra would get caught for fishing, and then she would meet the Equalists, then she would run into the triads, and then… 'the show happens, I suppose,' Levi thought wryly.

Everything up till now had pretty much followed the script of the pilot episode of Korra, so what was the purpose of changing anything aside from revealing to the world that Amon was the son of the cabbage salesman. You couldn't fight destiny, only watch it sweep by you and try to keep up. 'Besides, you only know about the first few days of Korra's life. Beyond that, you got nothing man.' Leviticus turned the cooling fish in his hands, before standing up and bidding fair well to the Avatar. Korra smiled at him, gave a friendly nod, and asked if they would meet. Leviticus shrugged turned and started off into the city.

Leviticus made it maybe fifty feet before he stopped. Yeah sure he could wander around the city for maybe a few days, but the elemental nations were on a completely different planet. For all he knew, they were orbiting Proxima Centuari. There had to be another way! There just had to be.

A stout man in a policemen's outfit suddenly blew his whistle in Levi's ear. "Hey you. No fishing here." Korra and the vagabond turned and ran, Korra jumping onto Naga's back and racing off towards the fated meeting with the Equalists. And with the sudden sight of the policeman, Leviticus had an epiphany. Who else would have the strength of bending behind them, the involvement in the city for them, and the lack of involvement in the story to allow his presence to go unnoticed?

Leviticus was going to join the metal benders.

…

Of course, the thing was much harder then the thought, as the really old version of the old saying goes. For one, Levi couldn't bend, probably because he didn't live in the actual world of Bending, only one were Avatar was a cartoon. For another, if he could bend, he didn't even know if he could earth-bend period. But Levi was rather hopeful, and he more importantly, he had a plan.

The plan was simple. Go to the headquarters of the metal-bending police, drop some tidbits about the future, make them think he had knowledge of the future, then convince them to tutor him. Simple!

The problem with the plan was that while Levi had watched the first episode of Korra a few times and the second episode once, he had never gotten a full layout of Republic city from Korra's rather limited trips. But Leviticus could circumvent that particular obstacle just by asking for where the police station was. From there, it was supposedly smooth sailing.

But the first person that Levi asked just glared at him, muttered something about being fresh off the boat, and walked away. Levi was shocked! How rude some people could be. But the next one, and the third, did little to enlighten him. The fourth said, rather unhelpfully, that the station was just behind the giant statue of Toph Bei Fong. The fifth though was a fount of information. After quickly reconfirming the directions to the police station, Levi set off at a run, full intent on reaching the station before Korra could.

Five blocks later though, Levi had paused to catch his breath in a plaza, and upon looking up to take in his surroundings, found to his horror that he had no idea of where he was. He was currently in a large square, the southern end bordered by a road with several trolley lines running down it. The northern edge had an enormous building with a golden statue recessed in the front. A few people milled around, and Levi asked the first person he could find, a boy about his age that was wearing the green and brown of an earth-bender, where he was.

"Well, you're in metal bender plaza." The earth-bender smirked in a friendly oh-so-your-new-in-town way that made Leviticus wonder if he should know the boy. And, rather rapidly, it clicked.

"What's your name?" Levi waited with bated breath, and the earth-bender answered.

"Bolin. Ever hear of me?" The earth-bender gave a superior, completely missing Levi's crestfallen expression.

"Ere, where's the police station? I'm kind of looking for it." Levi rubbed the back of his head unconsciously as the Bolin guy groaned. Leviticus had really thought that the earth-bender was Mako, the famous player on the fire ferrets. He certainly looked like him. The same goofy grin, the same earth-bending garb, he was the splitting image of the younger brother of the fire-bender on the fire ferrets. Seriously, he looked like Mako!

"Well, the police station is that big building right over there." Bolin pointed at the massive building with the statue and Leviticus slapped himself. Of all the places, it was here. Go figure.

Bidding thanks to the earth-bending Bolin, Levi strode confidently into the police headquarters of the metal-benders. This was it, this was when things were going to start. From now on, Leviticus Wilkes was a new…ere…man. Levi turned on a heel and walked up to the front desk. "I would like to speak with police chief Lin Bei Fong please."

"Go away kid, the chief doesn't have time for you." The desk guy waved Levi off unceremoniously, but the writer was determined.

"I have important information about today. It's in regards to the triads." Levi had pulled the triad thing out of thin-air, but it did the trick. One minute I was out in the reception room of the police station, the next I was in an interrogation room with the chief of police, Miss Lin Bei Fong.

"Okay, let's hear it. What are the triads doing."

Levi rubbed the back of his head. "Well, it's really what you're going to do with some of the triad's people. Basically, later today, you'll take in three benders from the triple threat triad. They'll be… no wait, sit back down."

Captain Bei Fong had made to leave and only sat back down with a glare. "We have that sort of problem in Republic city. Maybe you should get used to being off the boat before you start reporting crime that won't happen."

"But wait! One of them will be the Avatar!" Leviticus cried desperately. Shockingly, it worked. Lin Bei Fong sat back down and pulled out a portfolio.

"Councilmen Tenzin said that he was travelling to the south-pole to teach the new Avatar air-bending. However, several patrolling policemen stated they saw him disembarking from a ship from the south a few days ago. If the Avatar is here, it would explain why he returned. But-", she said in the tone of voice that might have as well as screamed she didn't believe Levi,-"If everything you say is true, then why would we arrest the Avatar?"

Leviticus mentally groaned. This was going to take all day.

…

"Now Tenzin will tell Korra not to bring his mother into the mess."

The various policemen put their ears back on the glasses they had propped on a door, listening for the telltale signs of Tenzin's annoyance. Sure enough, they heard him, and several started digging into their pockets, handing out Yuan to one another and to Leviticus. Levi had decided to prove that he could (sort of) predict the future, and had set several bets in his favor. And it was payday!

"Korra tries to argue back, but agrees in the end." Levi waited for the cash, and wasn't disappointed. "A man walks in and asks Korra " Ma'am, is this your polar bear-dog?"

Now several men got wicked grins, and held out their hands for the cash. Leviticus pulled out the payrolls and handed back double what he had been asking for. But this still put him well ahead of the game. One of the policemen finished scribbling on a notepad, and ripped a paper from. These notes where to be taken to Chief Bei Fong to prove that Levi had the stuff to be in the metal-bender force.

Leviticus smirked to himself.

'Metal Bending, her I come.'

A/N: You got to love those elemental abilities, am I right or am I right?