Title: Good At Being Bad
Pairing: Korra & Asami.
Rated: T
Disclaimer: I do not own Legend of Korra and its characters. All rights belong to their respectable owners Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino.
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Looking at her phone, Korra could see it was 11:19pm. She had to borrow Mako's car to meet up with Asami. He was reluctant to let her use it until the Captain twisted his arm, literally. She was in the parking lot of the old arena seeing a woman leaning against a car up a head. Korra had stopped a few feet away and parked. She had that feeling in her gut again causing her to press her hand against it. She took a deep breath before getting out trying to push this feeling down.
She closed her car door and walked up towards Asami. "Didn't think you'd show," Asami said looking at the time on wrist watch then back to Korra.
"I wasn't gonna miss this for the world," Korra said looking around seeing it was just them two.
Asami pushed herself off her car and raised her hands up in the air, "welcome to the holy sanctuary," she said trying to be over dramatic.
Korra looked at the outside of the arena sniffing the air taking it all in. "Good times," she said nodding her head afterwards before turning her attention back to Asami.
She walked up to Korra and leaned in a bit close to her breathing space, "you ready to be... destroyed?" she asked in a seductive tone.
Korra expression changed quickly as Asami gotten closer to her. After what she said, Korra gulped feeling her stomach tightening even further with a nervous feeling over taking her body.
As many times as Asami has said that to her opponents, she never gotten a reaction as the one Korra gave to her. It satisfied her more ways than one, she just wasn't sure in what way yet. Asami chuckled breaking the tension as she backed off walking away from her car and towards the arena. "Follow me," she ordered as Korra walked up behind her.
Breaking into the building was easy. Asami had done it so many times over the years that it was like another home to her.
Giving a mini tour at this point, Asami walked beside Korra pointing toward an area where the concession stands use to be next to the restrooms. "I remember when I had to go to the rest room and my father couldn't leave the track so he asked Water Whip Wipe-out if she could take me," she said as she looked around for the guards.
"Really, what was she like?" Korra asked as Asami looked over to her.
She shrugged her shoulders and said, "pretty cool," while placing on her racing gloves. "A lot of people thought she was mean by the way she handled herself on the track but really she was the sweetest woman in the world," she said remembering the kind woman.
"Did she ever tell you how she got her name?" Korra question with curiosity peeked on her face.
Asami nodded as they were heading through the doors that lead them out into the stands. "Yeah she did. Her best friend called her that and from there she just stuck with it," she said opening the door silently. She walked a bit further stepping over the trip wire security had placed. She then stopped in front of it and held her hand out to Korra.
Korra walked up behind her nearly stepping on the wire only to see Asami's hand.
Before Korra could step on the wire, Asami took Korra's hand with her other hand grabbing Korra's waist lifting her up off her feet before placing her down beside her. "Whoa thanks," Korra said not realizing there was a wire there.
"Your welcome," she said as she began to jog down the steps.
Korra began to jog down the steps in a way that Asami did. Quietly but effectively to where they were out of sight in seconds. Coming up behind Asami, Korra bend down once she did as lights began to flash there way. Asami placed her gloved finger to her lips to signal for Korra's silence. Korra noticed when Asami turned around to do so, they were so much closer than before.
As the lights stop flashing, Asami peeked her head up seeing no one around. She then got up and waved for Korra to follow her. Going down even more steps, Asami when toward the next level down below as Korra tried to keep up. "So why would Water Whip stick with her name if it was so negative?" she asked still curious about it.
Asami turned to Korra with a some what amused expression at her curiosity. "Well its simple," she said in a whisper. She then pulled Korra close to the wall so they wouldn't be seen. "The Earth Shaker called her Water Whip Wipe-out because when they first started to race together all she did was wipe out," she explained as Korra nodded her head to her every word. "Soon after with a bit more training, Water Whip started to get the hang of it and from there the Wipe-out part was more so of her wiping the floor with her competition. Turning a negative into a positive," she said with a smirk before walking off again.
Korra lips curved into a smile having her in aw as she followed behind Asami. "So why do they call you Sato?" she asked as Asami smile yet again.
"Because its my name," she said cutting it short only to lean next to gate four. She pulled Korra by the arm as another guard flashed his light. Korra heart was pounding having Asami come closer to her. "Relax..." she whispered as she sat next to Korra. She then leaned her body up over top of Korra peaking her head out.
Korra felt Asami's body heat to close to hers with a scent of her perfume getting stuck in her nose making her become red in the face. She could feel her heart pounding even more than before.
Once the guard left, Asami stood up completely and opened up the door to gain access to one that her father use to use to get to the station area for the cars so he wouldn't be late. Asami stopped and said, "Sato is the shorter version of my racing name, plus its my father's last name," while taking out a black pouch.
"What's the long version?" Korra asked as Asami took out her fathers old key.
Asami glanced up at Korra with a raised brow, "Motor City Sato, but here in my district its just Sato. I'm sure they call you something other than Avatar back home huh?" she questioned as she walked further opening a nearby door leading them to some steps that the workers use to use.
"No just the Avatar..." she said as she followed Asami.
As they walked down the steps, Korra was still in a panic about being caught. "Your dad seems pretty amazing if he taught you all this. Where is he now?" she asked as Asami stopped once she got to the bottom.
Her expression changed into one of dismay as she answered. "Dead," before walking off.
Korra knew that was a lie since she looked in Asami's file and saw that her father was doing time in prison. It just didn't include what for. As Asami got towards the workers station, Korra came up beside her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry," she said sincerely.
Asami stopped to look back at her. "Its alright," she said before looking away from Korra. Before opening the gates lock to the cars inside, Asami stopped again and looked back at Korra. She held the key in her hand only to point it at her. "You sure you really want to race me again?" she asked out of her own curiosity.
Korra looked stunned at this point and said, "of course!" nearly in a shout making Asami cover her mouth with her gloved hand. She held her other hand on Korra's shoulder with the key dangling off her ring finger as she looked around seeing no one. She then released her smirking hard out of amusement causing a small chuckle to escape her cherry red lips. "What?" Korra questioned in a whisper.
Asami began to unlock the gate hearing a click. She took the lock off placing it in her pouch, "because you're either crazy, reckless or both," while pulling up the string to the gates door. Once it rolled up, Asami smiled at the heavenly seen of auto body parts around her.
"Whoa whoa whoa..." Korra said as she stepped in front of Asami. "What do you mean reckless and crazy?" she asked wondering where it came from.
Asami picked up a wrench in one hand that she was about to pocket only to place hand on her hip leaning to the side. "Well lets see the other night, you kept backing out when Tahno had moved in front of you," she said as Korra's jaw slightly drop.
"He was going to clip me!" she said in a loud whisper. "I had to move or I would have been road kill."
Asami walked away from Korra and began to unhook the nearby car from its tire stoppers. "No you would have made impact without hesitation. Call his bluff, because the most he would have done was swerved out of the way not to get his beautiful car messed up," she said since she had watched many of his races before picking apart his techniques.
Korra was becoming flustered placing her hands on her own hips. "Well I didn't know that," she said as Asami peeked up at her with a smirk. "Okay well there were a few things I shouldn't have done like jump the gun with pressing on the turbo to early-" she said folding her arms as Asami interrupted her.
"No that was a good call," she said complimenting her as she began to pull the stopper from the tire as she had the cars side lifted up. "Just not against me," she said smugly as she when to pull the stoppers off the back tires. "Lil' help?" she asked Korra who finally noticed only to assist her afterwards.
Korra began to help Asami pull the stoppers off the next car, continuing to speak on the matter. "Even if the things I did was a bit out there, isn't it worth the risk?" she asked causing Asami to stop giving her a deadly look.
Asami's eyes nearly beamed into Korra's skull, "It is never worth it, if the risk is your life," she said in a low but serious tone of voice. Her look soften up as she saw the way Korra's expression changed, "if its done right, you could prevent putting it on the line," she said getting the last tire stopper off. She then looked at her watch seeing it was 11:31. "Great, its break time. We got 9 minutes to kill," she said standing up straight as Korra stood up beside her. "Now. Show me what you got," as she walked up pulling the car she intended to drive toward the open gate.
Asami got her car on to the track just as Korra did up to the starting line. "My father use to test drive the engines he often fixed so it was easy to access these," she said taking out a helmet from the seat of the small vehicle. She tossed one over to Korra seeing her catch it. There was a pair of goggles inside which Korra place on her head.
"So ground rules," she said as she started to put on her helmet as well. "Before security comes back, we go 4 laps, first one to cross the finish line and not get caught, wins."
Korra smiled widely and said, "you're on," as she got into her car.
Asami raised up her hands starting the count down off five fingers. Once her fist became balled up, she sped off with Korra doing the same. Placing her left hand on the steering wheel, Asami began to drive up towards the first turn. Korra was right behind her causing Asami to glance over getting in front of her.
Korra backed off hitting the steering wheel knowing what Asami pointed out earlier was true. Asami smiled to herself with a chuckle escaping her lips. "Come on Avatar!" she shouted since she was ahead of Korra at this point. Korra pressed more on the gas coming up on Asami's bummer. She wasn't going to ram her she was just trying to get an opening.
As she crossed over toward Asami's side, Asami got right back in front of her with Korra nearly hitting the wall. Backing off again, Korra switched toward the other side making Asami do it again. Asami made another turn coming up heading for the first lap. As she crossed the finish line, Korra began to speed up further passing it as well.
Coming up toward Asami, Korra took a deep breath repeating those words that helped ease her before. 'Smooth. Slow Let it all flow.' It tend to calm her down as she took a deep breath, before pressing harder on the gas coming up to opponent. Asami was about to pull up in front of Korra again as she got toward her back tire. Korra didn't back off which made Asami keep in her lane not wanting Korra to hurt herself. Any other racer might have risked that but Asami wasn't.
Seeing Korra pull up beside her, Asami had her left arm resting on the door of the car as she looked over at Korra. "Bold move!" she said as she was gaining more speed pulling up a bit further than Korra.
Korra heard what she said looking over at Asami. "You think that's bold. Watch this!" she said pressing further on the gas bypassing Asami by a bit. She cut Asami off with Asami backing off just a bit.
Taken off guard, Asami placed her left hand back on her steering wheel quickly turning to get on the other side of Korra's car as they were pulling up towards the third lap.
During this one, Korra had the lead with Asami's competitiveness getting the best of her. She was coming up towards Korra's bummer causing her to shift gears promptly. What she was doing as a pump fake that most drivers did when the time came. Soon as she came up toward the side of Korra's car she backed off before Korra could jump in front of her. Asami had dashed off toward the other side of Korra's car pulling up beside her again. "So close..." she uttered with a smug look on her face as she saluted a shocked Korra who Asami was now passing.
They were so close toward the finish line, both were pulling out ahead of each other. Korra was trying to focus blocking out Asami's laughs.
Asami was honestly enjoying herself only to see lights shining up in the stands out of the corner of her eyes. It didn't stop her from driving.
Just as Korra was pulling up a head of Asami towards the finish line a guard shouted. "Hey!" he said with Korra turning her head to look at him.
Asami then shifted gears and pulled off ahead of Korra passing her.
Soon as Korra looked a head of her she saw Asami passing her making her press on the gas to catch up.
Asami got out tossing the helmet and goggles into the car.
Korra saw the guards in the stands running down to get toward them. She quickly got out of the car running behind Asami. Taking off her helmet and goggles, Korra dropped them as she ran.
"Come on this way!" Asami shouted as her and Korra ran through the halls and towards the exit they broke into.
They both escaped the security detail once outside. Asami ran to her car jumping inside the drivers seat window that was rolled down. She got in placing her keys into the ignition as Korra ran towards her own car getting in. Asami pulled off ahead of Korra as Security ran outside calling the police.
"Now the real race can begin," Asami said to herself as she raised her hand balled into a fist outside of her drivers side window for Korra to see.
Watching, Korra saw her fist giving her a signal that this would be another race. Korra smirked speeding up in Mako's car as police began to rush towards the area.
Police began to swarm the scene just as Asami and Korra left the parking lot. Two nearly crashed into each other trying to turn their vehicles around to get on to Korra's trail.
Asami turned up her radio a bit with her nodding her head to the beat of the music. She gripped the steering wheel with her right hand as her left slid her shades down over her eyes. She then allowed her left arm to rest on the door as her hand was outside of the window slightly tapping the car. She was cruising to the music as police was on her trail just like Korra's.
Glancing in her rear view she saw Korra keeping up. A pleased smile rose upon her cherry red lips. Raising her hand outside her window again twirling her index finger in the air giving Korra another signal.
Korra was trying to keep up with Asami's car knowing if she had just one scratch on it, Mako would have a shit fit. Seeing another signal, Korra had saw her twirling her index finger around. Not quite understanding, Korra was going to follow her lead. Seeing Asami make a hard right, Korra took a hard left turn since a cop car speeding towards them broke the alignment.
Asami came back towards the left turning, with Korra making a right. They were twirling behind each other for a bit causing confusion toward the police who tried to cut them off. Unable to cut them off this way, officers up ahead had tried to form a road block to cut them off in their tracks. Korra soon pulled up beside Asami's vehicle shouting at her, "whats the game plan!" she asked not trying to blow her cover.
Listening to her music, Asami noticed Korra shouting. She pointed up ahead towards the road that had spiked tracks to puncture their tires. Smiling, Asami drove up not going to stop at this point wondering if Korra was going to back down.
There was a truck parked on the side of the building Korra was about to past. She saw an opening since the back of the truck had a tilt tray flat bed that was elevated already. She wasn't sure if she could get past that block on it but she would try it. Pressing on the gas, Korra was picking up speed as she made a right toward the lift that was already on the pavement with the other end of it extended in the air.
Asami drove past the truck heading towards the road block that was in place by the police department. She knew she was going to make it regardless of that spike tire tracks they set in place.
Korra drove fast up on to the ramp causing her to fly off of it. The back tire nearly bumping the top part of the lift she had past. "Oh My Spirits!" she said as she was in mid air. She shifted her car over to the left as to avoid coming down on passing cars.
Asami ran right through the tire spikes with her own tires unaffected by the damaged it tried to inflict. She had customized a special kind for herself with what she had learned and observed not only in class but by her fathers notes he had in his belongs. She drove past the police who were looking above her. Glacning outside of her window, Asami couldn't believe what she saw.
Seeing Korra's car in mid air about to come down on top of hers made Asami move toward the right. Korra landed hard gripping the steering wheel as not to lose control. "WHOOOOOO!" she shouted as Asami laughed. She glanced over at Korra through her side window. Both women sped off losing the police in the process.
The girls both drove toward an abandon area above the train tracks as to avoid any further police detail that might still be on them. Korra had arrived there first pressing the brakes on her car to park. Asami soon stopped beside her. She got out placing her shades back above her head and into her hair. Fixing her jacket, she noticed Korra get out of her car out of the corner of her eye. Closing the door to her drivers side, Asami leaned up against her car with her arms folded.
Korra got out of her car still filled with excitement from the rush she got from that police chase. "Did you see that!" she exclaimed as she raised her hand to demonstrate. "I flew like almost ten feet above everyone!"
"They should call you the Aviated Avatar then," Asami commented giving Korra an addition to her street racing name.
Korra pointed at Asami and smiled brightly. "Yes! That is perfect. The Aviated Avatar and Motor City Sato take the streets by storm," while still filled with adrenaline.
Asami watched Korra with an arched brow with a some what amused expression over taking her serious one. "Its good being bad huh?" she asked as she pushed herself off of her car walking up to Korra.
"Hell yeah it is!" Korra said grinning from ear to ear. She could feel her heart beating in her chest like a drum. Soon as Asami got close enough Korra grabbed her by her shoulders nearly shaking her a bit. "Teach me," she asked with a bright smile on her face and out of breath.
The raven haired beauty was struck with confusion at this point. "Um what?" she questioned as Korra released her.
"Please, teach me all that you know because that!" she said pointing in the direction they came from. "I can do and do well."
Asami knew when having a rush like this things could get to your head but the way Korra acted was just to adorable. "Um..." Asami said taking a small step back. "Are you sure you're up for something like that?" she asked with a hint of concern.
Korra's excitement was dropping quickly by the way Asami spoke.
"I mean going down that road..." she said stopping as she saw Korra's facial expression change. "Its no going back from there Korra. You really wanna do this?" she said taking a step forward again as to not give off a bad vibe.
Korra took a deep breath placing her hands back on Asami's shoulders looking deep into her eyes. "I'm down to ride."
Seeing that determined look in Korra's eyes made Asami lips curve into a smile softening up that serious expression she had earlier. "Alright, I'll teach you," she said feeling Korra's hands remove from her shoulders. Asami began to back up to her car still looking at Korra. "Tomorrow night at 9. Meet me at the Noodle Shop," she said before turning around and opening up her door. She placed her right leg in only to press her back against the door frame of the seat of her car. "Don't be late..." she nearly sang out with a small grin as she got in her car completely.
Korra watched as Asami drove off. She turned back around to face Mako's car seeing a big scratch on the side of it. "Hopefully I'm still alive tomorrow to make it," she said to herself as she got into the car driving off.