Here is chapter four. It's a little shorter than the others, but this one is more emotional and it's also a continuation of the last chapter. I separated the two because I didn't want one really long-ass chapter. Anyway, I hope you all like the story so far. I promise the group is going to get into meeting the other characters soon. Like below, they'll be meeting Korra and Lin. Also, Asami will have a small part here. But, the big meeting between Asami and Rai won't be until the next chapter. Also, just to make it clear, everything that happened in LOK happened in this story, including Asami and Korra getting together. I, regretfully, had to skip over their relationship and they are married, but I promise I will be divulging into that later on in the story. So stay tuned for all of that! Read, review and favorite!

Always be Brave, guys. ~BraveGirl

The Avatar and the White Dragon: Book One, Guidance

Chapter Four:

"So what's the game plan exactly? We can't just march into the police station and yell, 'hey, there's a bunch of people that have been living under the city for years now waiting to overthrow the government and their leader is capable of some weird shit, who, by the way, will be looking for all of us soon so be prepared.' Is that what we're gonna lead with?"

"Of course not, you idiot. They'd lock us up before we'd even get the chance to explain any of it. I say we just anonymously leave the papers you guys found with a note explaining everything and we get the hell out of here."

"Like that's an even better plan than Hayate's, Asha? Someone has to go in and tell Chief Beifong what's going on. We should vote or something."

"Well, I'm not doing it."

They'd been standing outside the police station for a few minutes, not worried of the possibility of being recognized or confronted. This part of the town was active with life, the streets filled with people seeing movers, or eating out. Rai sat on the edge of the police station steps, watching her three teammates bicker back and fourth about what they were going to be saying to the police. Suddenly the firebender stood up, tightening her grip on the bag across her chest. "I have an idea. Follow my lead."

The other three members shared a confused look, but followed the firebender into the police station nonetheless, earning a confused and wary look from the officers stationed at the front desk. "Shouldn't you kids be home? It's kind of late to be out, isn't it?"

Rai nodded, motioning for the three behind her to wait as she walked up to the desk. "Is Chief Beifong available for talking?"

The two officers who sat behind the metal desk and wearing the exact same uniforms glanced between each other before back at the teenage girl on the opposite side. "The Chief doesn't deal with many cases, young lady. If there's something wrong, we can help you."

The firebender nodded, leaning on the edge of the metal desk, her fingers tapping the cool metal lightly. "There actually is something wrong. Uh, wasn't Asami Sato's office broken into earlier last week?"

One of the two officers sputter slightly. "I'm sorry, that…that was never released to the public, how do you know about that?"

"Also the library should be missing a few articles and police reports, no? Or those symbols that have been located all over the city? The same symbol that's been used to send threats to the president and this very station?"

The other officer stood up from his seat while the three remaining members of Rai's team voiced their opposition on what the firebender was doing. She was going to fink on all of them. "What do you four have to do with any of those things?"

The firebender nodded, slipping her backpack off her shoulders and laying it on the metal desk top before holding out both of her hands. "I was the one who broke into Asami Sato's office and stole the plans for her prototype, I am also the one who stole those articles and reports. And we all are in serious danger. Me, my friends, the whole freaking city, now please, I need to speak with Chief Beifong and the Avatar. Immediately."

"What the hell were you thinking? You just landed us in prison. How is this supposed to be helping anything?"

The firebender glanced up from where she was sitting on the bench, the metal serving as handcuffs slapped around her wrists protesting the movement by squeezing the flesh tighter. "It was the only thing I could think of at the time, okay? Be thankful we're safe here."

Hayate grumbled under his breath, turning to face away from the firebender, his own cuffs shackling with his movement. The firebender rolled her eyes, turning to look at the other two occupants in the cell, raising a silent eyebrow to ask if either of them had anything else to add to the discussion. Asha simply shook her head with wide eyes, knowing better than to question anything that the firebender thought was best for them. Kayo, still angry with her roommate from earlier, refused to keep eye contact with the younger girl for longer than a few seconds, making a point to look at everything in the small, windowless cement room they'd been locked in.

"Alright, where is the little piece of-?"

All four heads snapped around towards the sound of the new voice, the chief of the police force scowling at them as she glanced between the group. "They didn't tell me you were children. Damn it, Lou! Which one of you is the leader of this little posse?"

Rai stood up, waving one of her cuffed hands and she made her way towards the metal bars where the Chief stood. "Right. That's me."

"You come with me. The rest of you can sit here and…I don't know…think about what you've done wrong."

The firebender smirked over her shoulder at her team, letting the metalbender that had led them to the stall attach her cuffs to a wire built into the Chief's uniform before she was whisked away down the hallway. Eventually they came to stop outside a door, where one of the officers from the front desk stood with two others on either side of him against the back wall of the room. The Chief shoved the firebender into the one of the two chairs in the room, attaching the cable and therefor the girl to the table. "Start talking, kid. I don't have all night."

"Where's the Avatar?"

"The Avatar will be here shortly. Start. Talking."

Rai sighed, leaning back in the chair before blowing at a piece of her hair that had fallen around her face, the black and white hair flying up around her head as she carefully thought about how to approach all of this. "Where would you like for me to start?"

The metalbender sat down in the remaining chair, her arms crossing over her chest as she studied the young girl across from her. She looked vaguely familiar, but the bender couldn't quite put her finger on it. "You can start by telling me who the hell you are."

The firebender nodded, figuring it was as good a place to start as any. "My name is Rai. I'm a firebender and I am, or was, part of an group of people who call themselves The Reformists. I believe you've heard of them before? Their goal is pretty simple, they blame the government for everything that's happened and caused each of them to suffer and they want to take control of it, run it themselves. For years, they've been acquiring any and all information they could gather on anything that could be deemed a road-block for them. I joined when I was twelve, under the impression that my parents had been involved in a fire following Kuvira's attempt to take over the city as a way to escape from being an orphanage. The Reformists leader, Kwan, he offered me a place to stay and food if I helped him. About a week and half ago, when we were asked to stake out the University, I broke into Asami Sato's office because Kwan had been wanting any information about military weapons being researched at Future Industries, specifically the research that was used by Kuvira using spirit vines and energy. It was going to be one of the first things they tried to make to use in their efforts, and while I was looking for the prototype, I stumbled across-."

The sixteen-year-old faltered slightly in her explanation as they door to the room swung up, revealing a half-awake Avatar, frowning and wincing at the brightness of the lights in the room. "Can someone please explain to me why I was called down here at one in the morning?"

"Shut it and listen up, Korra. Small-fry over here was just explaining what she found and stole from your wife's office the day she broke into it."

The Avatar turned her attention to the firebender, raising an eyebrow. "That was you? No wonder you were able to get away unnoticed, you're tiny."

Rai resisted an eye roll as she huffed slightly. "I am not that little! Anyway, as I was saying, I found a file in Asami's desk that held a bunch of newspaper clippings about Hiroshi's arrest and his eventual death, her mother's death following the robbery at their mansion, and about a hit-and-run car wreck she was involved in about sixteen years ago. There was also was death certificate. I didn't think much of it at the time, but the date on the certificate caught my attention. It was my birth date. So I took it and went back to the compound, which I will give you the location of in a second. A few days later, my roommate and I were in our boss' office looking at the information he keeps on everyone he recruits and we noticed my info was missing. We went looking for it, and I found it with letters written between Kwan and Hiroshi Sato, talking about some payment for whatever Hiroshi wanted Kwan to do. None of it made sense, and none of it added up until my roommate, the blue-eyed girl back in our cell, she found an article at the library about the accident dated around the same time as the death certificate I found in Sato's office, and a police report recounting the details of the accident and how Sato was pregnant and I-."

The Avatar's head snapped up at that information, the frown she'd been wearing from earlier deepening. "Pregnant? Asami doesn't have any kids."

Beifong held a hand up as she stared at the teenager in front of her, the sudden realization of where she'd seen the girl before hitting her like a ton of bricks. "Oh my Spirits, you're the kid, aren't you?"

The firebender shrugged, nodding her head backwards in the direction of the three officers, the middle one, the one from the front desk, was holding the girl's side bag in his hand. "Everything I found is in that bag. I brought it with me, but the main point of all of this is that Kwan knows I figured it all out and he's pissed. He's out for blood. My blood. And he's not going to stop until he has it. He was planning to publicly announce himself and the group at the festival in a few days, no doubt showing off all the kids he basically kidnapped from Zaofu. But he has to be stopped."

Korra pushed herself off the wall, waving her hands around herself while shaking her head. "Wait, hold up. Asami doesn't have a kid. I think my wife would have told me about this."

Beifong turned to look at the Avatar, shaking her head. "Korra, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but the girl isn't lying. Sixteen years ago, Asami was hit by a car and it looked pretty deliberate. And she was pregnant, but Hiroshi wanted to keep it quiet. After the accident, so did Asami. But we all had been told the baby didn't survive...I'm sorry."

Korra glanced between the Chief and the girl, feeling anger and confusion bubble up inside of her. "She…I...are you kidding me?! Why the hell didn't she ever tell me about this?!"

Rai sighed, shaking her head. "I don't know why she never told you, but that's not the point, Avatar Korra. I didn't come here to ask for anything, I just…I figured she deserved to know the truth."

"You honestly don't expect any of us to believe that you're in this for the greater good? Given the track record you just gave us?"

"I don't want anything. Look," The firebender ushered to herself as best as she could with her hands cuffed to the table. "Let me pay for my mistakes, and try and do right by those who came before me."

The Avatar scowled, crossing her arms over her chest as she studied the young girl sitting across the room, who was looking at her with pleading eyes. It was obvious the firebender wasn't lying, but still, lives were about to uprooted. Again. Just the thought of what was to come made the Avatar groan, her arms dropping down to dangle by her sides. "Are you sure about all of this? Because I don't want to bring Asami into this unless I have to."

Rai nodded, tearing her eyes away from the older woman to frown down at her hands, the appendages clenching. "Trust me, Avatar Korra. I wish I was wrong."

"Then I guess I need to go talk to my wife. Lin, can you spare a few officers to keep an eye out on her? Also, don't do anything with her until I get back, okay?"

The chief of police nodded, both her and the firebender watching as the Avatar left the room, the air around them suddenly filling with a pregnant pause until Lin stood up, shaking her head. "Get this kid back with the others. And take their cuffs off. Rai, do you mind if I take those letters you found? I think it might be easier for Mrs. Sato to process all of this if she had tangible proof in her hands."

Rai quietly thanked the officer who uncuffed her, rubbing at her wrists while the others handed her bag over to the Chief. "I have no use for them anymore. She should keep them."

The officers escorted the young firebender back down the hall, the Chief keeping a hand on the girl's shoulder until they reached the holding cell where her friends were, all three rushing to the bars and asking if she was okay.

The firebender chuckled slightly, trying not to let the conversation she'd shared with the police and the Avatar cloud her brain too much. Or at least not show how much pain it had been causing her as she stepped into the cell. "Guys, I'm fine. Really."

Once they were all cuff free, a collective sigh was heard around the cell. Beifong watched as the group all went to try and find something to occupy themselves with. Luckily, one of her on-duty officers had a game of Pai Sho hidden in their desk, which was currently holding the attention of three of the teenagers. Save for the firebender who, in Lin's opinion, had been through too much for someone so young. The young girl was seated by the bars of the door, her head resting back against the metal as she stared blankly ahead. "When Korra gets back, we'll come get you four. Oh and, Rai?"

"Yeah?"

Reaching through the bars, the Chief placed her hand on the girl's shoulder, squeezing slightly. "You didn't deserve any of what's happened to you. Despite everything you've done, this outweighs it. You did good, kid. And we're going to protect you with everything we've got, alright? You're safe here."

Rai was slightly confused by the woman's words. She'd heard rumors of the infamous Chief Beifong. She'd even seen the woman a time or two on her scouting missions. The woman was known to be a hard ass, stubborn with words like venom when need be. Any ounce of compassion was hardly ever shown, and yet, here she was, offering the girl safety and praising her for her decision to come forward. "Thank you. Although I don't deserve it."

"You deserve a lot more than you think you do, kid."

Across town the Avatar found herself hesitating outside her wife's office at Future Industries, unsure of how to approach the topic of the teenage girl she'd just met down at the police station. Thinking back to the moment she'd stepped into that interrogation room, she'd been somewhat confused as to why Beifong had said she'd been asked to come down there for a teenager. And after the girl had explained everything, Korra had thought this was some sort of terrible dream that she couldn't wake up from. Until the girl had really got a look at her features. She had Asami's eyes and hair, save for the few white streaks. Even if Korra didn't want to believe it was true, but there was too much tipping the scales.

Shaking herself of her thoughts, the Avatar schooled her features, knocking on the door to the office before glancing around the otherwise empty area. It was one in the morning, after all, but she'd become accustomed to the CEO working until late. Usually there were at least a few stragglers of workers or other engineers trying to fit in some last-minute work/research. Thankfully, though, everyone else had already left, leaving the two to have this conversation in private. If Asami hadn't even told her about the pregnancy, she most likely didn't want anyone else to know about.

The door opened fairly quickly, revealing a confused looking CEO. "Korra? What are you doing here? I thought you said you were calling it a night a few hours ago?"

"Uh, yeah, I had. Beifong called me at the house and said they'd found the people who broke into your office and stole those prototype plans. They also gave us a little more information about the newest threat in Republic City. Apparently there's a group of people who call themselves the Reformists, and they're planning on overthrowing the government."

The CEO raised an eyebrow, leaning against the door frame of her office. "Well that at least explains why they took the plans for my firebending armor and the research on using the spirit vine weapons. Did Beifong get them back? Or at least what else was stolen, too?"

Korra scratched at the back of her neck, clearing her throat. "Yeah, she has them down at the stations. I think she'll give them back eventually, but there's something else that we found out. The people who broke into your office, they're kids. Teenagers, actually. Four of them, only two were responsible for the actual breaking in part."

"A teenager? What about their parents? Are they apart of the group, too?"

"Uh, no. Not exactly. They're all orphans. Well, some were taken from abusive households, but it's mostly just orphans. Hey, 'Sami, I need to ask you something, okay? And I need you to be 100% honest with me. Can you do that?"

The CEO nodded, pushing herself off the door frame to wrap her wife in a hug. "Korra, we've been married for five years. You know I'll always be honest with you."

The Avatar returned the hug, letting out a sigh. "Please don't freak out…but…do you have a daughter?"

Almost immediately the CEO tensed in the Avatar's arms, causing the Avatar to tighten her grip around her wife. "Asami-."

"How did you find out about that?"

Korra internally flinched at the coldness of her wife's voice. The last time she'd ever heard it like that was when she'd first returned to Republic City following Zaheer poising her. When the CEO had admitted to speaking to her father, something the Avatar had asked if she thought was a good idea, only to have Asami tell her she had no right to march back into her life after three years and act like she knew what was right. "Why didn't you tell me about the accident?"

"Korra, I really don't want to talk-."

"We need to talk about it, 'Sami. Please."

Korra watched as a thousand emotions flashed across her wife's face before the CEO nodded, ushering towards the office behind her. "Can we at least sit down? I don't think I can have this conversation standing up."

The Avatar followed her wife into the office, taking a seat in front of her wife's desk and waiting until the CEO was seated in her own plushy chair before bringing up the topic. "I thought we agreed that there would be no secrets between us when we got married?"

The CEO signed, leaning forward in her chair, letting her head fall in her hands. "I know. I'm sorry, it's just…it took me days to even move from my bed after the accident. I told myself I'd just forget it ever happened and never bring it up again."

"So you thought it was better to keep it to yourself for the past sixteen years?"

"I admit it probably wasn't the best idea, but I was sixteen. What else was I supposed to do? I had no one to talk to and it would have been something for the press to have a field day with. And it's not exactly something to bring up on a date, either."

Silence passed between the two women before Korra figured she should just get it all out of the way. "Asami, the girl who broke into your office, the reason why she took that file with that death certificate is…how do I even tell you this? She took it because the date was familiar to her. It was her birth date and...your father must have lied to you. The baby, she survived the accident. She's alive."

The Avatar watched as the CEO's head snapped up, her usually warm and inviting emerald eyes cold and hard, glazed over with unshed tears. "That's…impossible."