Title: Ride or Die Part 1.
Pairing: Korra & Asami.
Rated: M
Disclaimer: I do not own Legend of Korra and its characters. All rights belong to their respectable owners Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino.
Authors Note: Hey Guys. I know its been a few months since the last chapter. Had to add a few scenes to this one to level out a tiny miscalculation I made in the last chapter. So this will be the shortest one yet but the last one will make up for it. We are so close to being done. One more chapter to go before the first part of the Just Drive series is complete. Sequel is coming soon. How soon? We shall see. The first multi chapter story of 2016 was voted by you guys in my Korrasami AU Drabbles and will be revealed in the next chapter. Thank you so much for your constant support, reviews, favs, follows, everything. Means a lot. Hope you all enjoy the chapter.
Warning: Violent. Major Character Deaths. You have been warned.
Ghazan spotted the black tank truck a few blocks down cutting off his pathway. This was a one way street heading directly toward city hall. He knew the RCPD would intervene but not like this. "Someone's been doing their homework," he said reaching across his monitors to launch an rpg their way. He stopped when he saw someone running toward the mecha tank from behind. "There's a little bug on my six," he said redirecting the machine guns to shoot from behind.
Mako took out his gun and ran toward the mecha tank. He needed to stop it some how. Before he could get any closer the gun turned in his direction shooting at him. He ducked behind a near by car hearing countless bullets ripping through metal above his head.
Through all that noise, he kept toward the ground not daring to peek. He could feel his phone buzzing in the line of his jacket. He took it out and saw it was Korra. "Its kind of a bad time!" he shouted as he answered.
"Asami's in danger!" Korra shouted back.
Mako could barely hear what Korra was trying to say. "What?!"
Korra was a few cars behind the black civilian truck. She was following the GPS on Asami's phone. "Zaheer made her!" she projected while switching lanes to catch up.
"Where are they headed?!" Mako shouted still hearing shells falling down on the ground. He wondered if he was going to make it out of this alive.
"Not sure but I'm following Asami's GPS coordinates on her phone," Korra said knowing they could be going anywhere at this point.
Mako got Asami's GPS signal on his phone and saw what was close by. "They could be heading to the airport. I'll meet you there soon!" he said hanging up right after. He wasn't that far from Yangchen Airport. Calling Beifong, Mako held his hand over one ear and the phone up to the other. "Cap! Zaheer's got both Raiko and Asami! They might be heading to the airport! Korra's not to far behind!" he said lowering himself even more as glass began to fall from the back seat of the car.
Lin was signaling for her men to get in position. "We'll give you some cover. Move on my signal," she said hanging up and giving her men a nod.
Five men moved into position and began to shoot directly at the mecha tank. The glass was impenetrable. Ghazan laughed as he reverse the machine guns once more and began to shoot in their direction.
Mako felt the car behind him stop shaking. He peaked around the corner and saw that Beifong got Ghazan's attention. He quickly got up and ran back to his car. He backed it up and drove in the opposite direction toward the airport.
Korra called Bolin soon as she hung up with Mako. "Bo! Zaheer has Asami. They're headed to Yangchen Airport."
"We'll meet you there!" Bolin said driving after a similar civilian truck. The twins drove behind him trying to catch up with Korra.
Asami could feel the gun pressed against the back of her head as she drove. "I can't concentrate like this."
Zaheer just laughed as he confiscated the knife from her leg strap. "You have enough to worry about after this is over," he threatened as he placed the knife in his pocket. "You thought I was stupid huh? That I wouldn't find out that you when to see Hiroshi," he said remembering the video Unalaq sent him on his phone that night. Zaheer knew this day would come eventually but not this soon. "Now that the truth is out. I can stop pretending to be something I'm not," he said meaning their relationship as father and daughter.
"Your a bastard..." Raiko uttered wanting to do something.
Zaheer aimed the gun back at Raiko's temple. "If you value your life you should keep quiet."
Kuvira was starting to come too when back up arrived. She shook her head still feeling dazed from a slight concussion.
"Are you alright?" one of her agents asked.
"Secure the area and get the helicopter now!" she ordered picking her gun up from the floor. Once her people got to work, she took out her phone and called her right hand. "Do it." she said before hanging up.
One of her agents came back and told her the helicopter was a few blocks away.
"Good," Kuvira said heading in that direction.
The man Kuvira called took off his glasses and entered the warehouse where Ming-Hua was.
Ming-Hua was working on her left arm trying to fix it with the right one that Ghazan had repaired earlier. It was difficult but she was managing. She heard a noise and shot her head up in that direction. Standing to her feet, Ming Hua looked around to find what it could be.
A figure rushed her from behind and wrapped a thick wiring cord around her throat.
Ming-Hua struggled for a bit feeling the cord suffocating her before stumbling back on her feet. She backed the intruder into the wall. His grip broke momentary causing her to pull forward with her metal finger tips hooking around the cord.
He pulled the cord back trying to twist it around her neck.
Before he got the chance, Ming-Hua pulled it forward and ran up the wall. She landed on her feet behind him.
He kicked her in the chest causing her to fall forward near the entrance. She spin her legs around and stood back up to her feet facing him.
The stopped a few feet away from her with a hard smirk on his lips. "I'll make this fair," he said knowing he had an unfair advantage against her the first time. "I'll only use my dominant hand against you," he said holding up his right.
Ming-Hua became enraged and charged him swinging her right hand like a moose lion would its prey.
He dodged her with ease and blocked when she almost clawed his eyes out. He tried to twist her arm off but she broke free of his grip and nearly slashed his abdomen. He jumped over her and landed behind her placing his arm around her throat in a head lock.
Ming-Hua tried to move but was fading away with in seconds. She started to claw at his forearm but only hit metal.
He whispered something into her ear before snapping her neck. Her limp body fell to the floor once he let her go. "What a waste..." he said before stepping over. He walked out of the warehouse and placed his glasses back on with a satisfied smirk.
Ghazan was aiming at the barricade they had formed in front of him. He stopped once a sharp pain hit his chest. He felt as if his heart had been ripped out of him. He gripped at his shirt taking his hand off the controls.
Lin saw he stopped shooting and signaled for team b to move in. "Move it now," she directed with them opening the back of the truck. They shot off a harpoon canon from their truck. It penetrated the steel with in the tank which got Ghazan's attention.
The harpoon nearly took Ghazan's head off. He ducked underneath it and quickly aimed the machine gun at the driver shooting him down off the controls. He aimed it at the other officers trying to take as many out as he could.
"Shut it down!" Lin ordered over the constant gun fire. Another officer moved toward the back of the truck and pressed the button for the harpoon to retract and pull the tank apart.
Ghazan felt the tank start to move forward and break apart. He stepped hard on the break but it didn't help. He then hit reverse and started to back up.
The truck started to move forward with the harpoon retracting its cord. They were trying to pull Ghazan in range for the tank to be shut off by the electromagnetic pulse generator.
P'li was driving to the airport using the surface streets. She glanced up at the review mirror and saw a red and green car following her. She took her gun out from underneath the center console and aimed it out the window letting off a few shots.
Mako had caught up to one of the civilian trucks and spotted Bolin's car close behind it. He pulled up beside his brother and signaled for him to fall back a bit only for shots to be fired at the both of them.
Bolin grabbed the back of Opal's neck and pulled her down as he swerved out of the way. Mako moved slightly out of range and back up behind P'li's vehicle from the other side.
Korra drove fast beside the truck Asami was in. She was trying to cut them off to the side of the highway.
Zaheer spotted Korra's car and groaned. "Run her off the road," he ordered with the gun pointed to the back of her head.
Asami didn't want to hurt Korra so instead of hitting her car she drove faster pulling up ahead of it.
Korra pressed on the gas to catch up and get in front of the truck to block it off.
Asami rolled down her window and stuck her arm out waving at Korra to move.
Korra saw Asami directing her and fell back and drove up the right side of the car with Wei and Wing close behind them.
Ghazan heard the awful streaking sound of the metal against the concrete. He kept his foot on the break since pressing on the gas to move it backward wasn't working. The tank dragged to the point it couldn't move anymore.
Lin saw that Ghazan was in range and tapped on her Lieutenant's shoulder. "Turn it on," she said with him giving her a nod. He turned on the generator with it automatically shutting off Ghazan's weapons.
The tank when dark and Ghazan started to panic. He frantically pressed every button he could to turn it back on and reboot it some how.
Lin turned on a mega phone in order to talk to him. "Come out with your hands up!"
Ghazan couldn't even respond since his own speaker phone was shut down. He looked over at the barricade of police blocking him and narrowed his eyes to focus on the cracked glass of his mecha tank making the people in the back blurry. "Time to go home," he said to himself. He slowly opened up the hack and waited a moment before speaking. "If I'm going out! I'm taking all of you fuckers with me!" With that he got his body half way ready to toss a bomb their way.
The line of officers at the barricade began to shoot Ghazan in his chest before he could throw it. He fell back through the hack and into this seat.
Lin moved forward with her team and approached the tank with caution. They couldn't really see through the shattered glass. She held her gun up and got up on to the tank and to the opening of the hatch.
Aiming her gun through it, Lin peeked in seeing Ghazan sitting there looking up at her. He smiled softly seeing an image of Ming-Hua in his sights. "I'll see you soon," he said with a chuckle. Blood was dripping down his mouth as he took his last breath. He dropped what was in his hand. It wasn't a bomb but a normal 8 ball with blood on it that read: til next time.
Lin lowered her gun once she saw he stopped breathing. She got down off the tank and walked over to team c. "Get all available units to Yangchen airport now," she said getting into her car and driving in that direction. She made a call to make sure no planes were to leave the runway.
Zaheer saw Korra getting closer to the other side of the truck. "Ram her," he ordered growing impatient.
"No," Asami said defying him. She knew he would kill her but not now.
Surprised by her actions, Zaheer came to the front and held the gun to her temple again. "Ram her or I will kill us all right here and now."
Asami turned her head staring down the barrel of the gun. She looked up at him and smirked. "Do it then," she said testing him. No matter what happened, she wasn't going to let him hurt Korra.
Zaheer chuckled at her defiance and said, "Fine. I'll do it myself," while shooting out the passenger side window at Korra.
Bullets sprayed the side of Asami's car missing Korra by a couple of inches. She stepped on the break to keep a safe distance away from the truck.
"Korra!" Asami shouted looking for her.
When Zaheer stuck his arm back inside of the car, Raiko punched him in the face and reached for the gun. They exchanged blows multiple times trying to get the upper hand. Both men had their hands on the gun with shots firing up into the ceiling. Raiko wanted to make sure Zaheer had no bullets left.
Asami ducked her head down as she drove in order not to be shot in the back of the head.
Once the clip was empty, Zaheer yanked his arm away from Raiko's grasp. He pushed him in the face and hit Raiko with the bud of the gun knocking him out.
Zaheer became more pissed at the way things were going. He sat up behind Asami's chair and got close to her ear. "If anything else happens from here on out. I will kill Korra while you watch." He took out his walkie talkie he had earlier and handed it to her. "Tell them to back off now."
Asami took it in her hand and pressed the side button. "Korra..."
Korra heard Asami over the walkie talkie and reached for it. "Yes I'm here! Are you okay?"
Asami gulped knowing this may be the last time they would speak. "I need you to back off."
Korra looked dumbfounded at what Asami said and shook her head no. "No. I'm coming to get you," she said determined.
P'li could over hear the whole conversation on her own walkie talkie wondering what was going on.
"If you don't back off Zaheer will kill you," Asami said hoping she would listen.
"I don't care. I'm coming to get you no matter what," Korra said not letting her go that easy.
Asami was trying to hold her composure but was finding it hard to. "Korra Ple-"
Zaheer took it from her before she could finish. "I could just kill Asami instead. Either way one of you will be dead if you don't back off right now," he threaten with an unruly aggression in his voice.
Korra wasn't sure what to do. She knew he would make good on his word if she didn't comply. "Alright. I'll back off," she said slowing down her vehicle. She put her hand out the window and signaled for the twins to do the same. They drove off the next exit and on to the surface streets.
Despite his threat, Korra was still heading toward the airport to cut them off. Hold on Asami... hold on.
