A/N: Here's the next chapter, please excuse any errors. Also for those who have been asking, Asami will be in the 4th chapter, I have to set up their meeting so yea that's why its taking a bit, and then from there they form their relationship!

Stay tuned!

Korra feels around next to her, looking for the warmth that accompanied her last night, but unsuccessful in finding it. Before she can wonder where she went:

"UP! EVERYONE GET UP! We've got a schedule to keep, GET UP!" Kuvira yells. Once again her company voices their complaints, but does what they are told. After about a half hour of breaking down camp, they all line up, back in full gear waiting for orders. Kuvira does a last look over, before giving the rundown of the day.

"Fall in! Alright, the base we are setting up is another hour's march. It'll suck but you are Marines," Everyone erupts in a "Oorah." "Exactly! This is a walk in the park compared to the shit you will encounter this year. Once there we will be under constant fire. So everyone pay attention and be aware of your surroundings. LET'S MOVE OUT!"

"OORAH!" They march at a steady pace some of they guys talking eagerly to one another about getting to fight, those who were stupid enough to actually seek out war. Korra has to admit though, she was in the same boat as them her first tour. Eager to fight in the war like her parents had. However, her first day there was awful. Kuvira, Korra, and Bolin were all in the same company and all watched half of their friends die on their way to secure a village. They were under constant, heavy fire and were sitting ducks before US tanks and reinforcements arrived. They were allowed time off after their tour, the three of them felt safer together so all three of them got an apartment together, where their friendship blossomed, and their friendship was like a good luck charm, but there was still a war to fight and now they are back.

X-X

Surprisingly they made it to the location of their base. It was located in the middle of a deserted town. Town being used loosely. It's really just four blown up houses and a dried out well. They drop their gear and began building up a perimeter and a makeshift base that will have to hold up for a year. They build it out of supplies air dropped, usually containing wood, metal sheets, sand bags, and stuff to hold things together. They also received other drops of food and weapons. By the end of the day they made a decent sized camp. It was all contained in those houses, with dim lights and LEDs surrounding it, so they can look for any incoming attacks. On all four sides of the camp were machine guns and all their heavy artillery. Which were surrounded by sand bags and some metal sheeting to protect themselves from incoming fire. In the middle of the camp were six shacks that held 5 people each. In the middle of those was the lieutenant's shack, which doubled as the "war room." Behind the lieutenant's shack was the canteen, it was really just tables surrounding the well they turned into a fire pit, and flimsy walls around them. But it was their home for a year and they had to make the most out of it. Korra and Bolin were sitting on the floor next to their beds playing cards and talking about home.

"So Korra," Bolin says taking a pull out of a cigar he was sharing with Korra. Korra's dad sends her some Cuban cigars twice a month, with letters, pictures, snacks and other goods. She only breaks them out when it's either a very good day or a very bad day, and Kuvira usually brings the booze at some point during the bad nights. So far tonight was a good night, they set up base quicker than expected, and didn't get shot at, it was a very good night. "What are your plans for the future?" Korra chuckles.

"Well, I plan on taking a long vacation, maybe on a cruise ship. Then, I'm gonna work for the government doing whatever they offer as long as it pays well, meet the girl of my dreams, marry her, build her a house, have a couple of kids, send them off to college, then retire and take my wife to see the world, until I die in that house I built for her. All while smoking these cigars." Korra says taking a long inhale of the one she's holding. "What about you?"

"I like the way you think, I might have to copy you."

"Go for it dude."

"Hey guys!" They look up to see a teen walking their way, must still be no older than 18, seeing as he still has a baby face.

"Hey what's up, man." They haven't had much time to meet everyone in their company, so today everyone was forming their groups, and meeting new people. Korra picked up a slight scent of an Omega nearby, but tried not to focus on it too much.

"I'm Kai."

"Korra."

"Bolin!"

"Nice to meet you." Korra says holding out the cigar, "Wanna join? We are playing poker for candy and rations."

"Hell yea! I gotta warn you guys, I'm pretty good." They all share a light chuckle over the start of a new friendship.

"So Kai, what's your story?" Korra asks.

"Hm, well I dropped out of school young to take care of my mom, she was sick and my dad was a drunk, so he was useless. I used to be an expert at pickpocketing if I do say so myself, then my dad disappeared. My mom passed and I joined the marines a day after the funeral."

"Shit man, I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it, I'm just glad to have known my mom. But the Marines are my family, so I'm pretty glad I ended up where I am now." Kai said sliding closer to Korra. This action caused her to smell the scent again, figuring it was coming from him. Korra knew that he wasn't paying attention to the fact that he was being drawn by her scent, which she has been told many times that she has an overwhelming, intoxicating scent.

"Kai, this is a very personal question, and I'm sorry for asking it. But, how were you allowed into the military?"

"What do you mean?" Korra lowers her voice so only her, Kai and Bolin could hear.

"I can smell you're an omega." Because of the rarity and agitation, and violence Omegas can cause between Alphas, a law was made banning Omegas, only a few were allowed to stay, and by a few, there are only 2 Omega's still in the military, now 3 apparently. They are both Lieutenant Generals, one step under General, and they are powerful ones and pridefully both are Marines.

"Oh, well no one knows but you two now and the Lieutenant. I was only allowed to stay if I used constant pheromone suppressants. General Tenzin knew my mother and when I had nothing left other than the military, he pulled some strings."

"Ah, Tenzin, I bet he's bored without me around." Bolin and Korra laugh.

"He's probably glad you aren't causing him anymore trouble."

"Whatever!" Korra punches Bolin's arm playfully.

BOOM!

"Oh shit!"

"Let's go boys, it's started." Korra says quickly standing, snuffing out her cigar, and placing it back in the box for later. Grabbing her bulletproof vest, ammo belt, and helmet and runs out of the shack with Kai and Bolin in tow.

"KORRA!" Korra slides to a stop, Kuvira running up to her. "I need you to head to the west side of camp. That's where the explosion was, I have to protect the back. You're the only one I can trust to do it. Don't die."

"OORAH!" Korra responds running to the west side of camp, they make it to the machine gun, having to dodge bullets on the way up.

"We need to see where they are!" She yells to Bolin. Bolin peaks his head up, bringing it back down his helmet gets shot off.

"HOLY SHIT!" He yells but laughs, Korra joining in and Kai looking a little pale. "They've got a sniper 3 up, over 2, right." Bolin says throwing a distraction grenade, stopping their fire, Korra pops her head up chucking a grenade perfectly where Bolin said.

BOOM!

"Did you get em?" Kai asks.

"Let's check." Korra says standing up. Noticing she hasn't been shot she crouches down again.

"Looks like it-"

"ARE YOU INSANE!" A woman to their right yells.

"Probably!" Another round of gunfire starts to go off, reinforcements. Korra and Bolin start shooting expertly killing enemy after enemy. After 3 hours of fighting, All goes quiet. The bright LED lights turn on for two minutes exactly and turn off, any longer and it would give away their position. There are no enemies left, or so they thought. A man creeps from behind the bushes with his arms behind his head.

"Surrender, surrender, no shoot, surrender!" He yells. They keep their guns trained on him for another minute, before Korra hops over the barrier and walks over to him.

"Are you alone?" She says in a stern but gentle voice trying not to scare him.

"N-no English."

"Are you alone?" Korra says in his tongue, relief seems to wash over him.

"Yes." Korra pulls him to his feel walking him over to the base.

"Bolin watch my back." Korra says slinging her gun around her while she pats him down, finding cash, a photo and a small black book, which looked like some sort of religious book. Flipping through it she see a picture of a bald man with a scar across his eye brow, a deep frown and an evil hidden in his eyes. She made a note of that before giving the man his book back.

"Korra, who is that?" Kuvira arrives with her gun drawn, pointing at the man.

"I'm not sure, he surrendered. I figure we could ask him some questions." Kuvira nods.

"Alright, take him to the third house, there's a call room, with a steel door. Take him there and lock him up. And you and you," she pointed to the girl that freaked out at Korra and a man next to her. "You guys will guard him tonight."

"Yes, ma'am!" They salute and follow Korra and Bolin to the room she was talking about. They gave him two blankets and some rations and left him for the night.

X-X

It was lights out and Bolin, Korra and Kai all pushed their beds closer together.

"Kai, is this your first tour? And was this your first shoot out?"

"Yeah."

"You did well for your first time."

"That's the problem, I didn't do anything! I just cowered the entire time."

"That's to be expected, everyone is afraid. Some people just deal with it differently. At least you didn't throw up or shit yourself like most do their first time."

"I guess."

"Trust me, it'll still be hard and it won't be fun, but it will get easier."

Korra leans over to rummage through her gear

"I think we all need a drink before bed." Korra says pulling out some whiskey.

"Where's you get that!" Bolin says.

"Guess."

"You're dad." They laugh passing the bottle around until Kai is happily drunk and everyone is ready to pass out after a long day.

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