Tenzin and Lin were now carrying an unconscious Ace to the Safe Haven with Su right on their tails, making sure they were not being followed. Su had enough of Ace making remarks about how everyone was going to die and so on. She decided hit him so hard that it would be slightly possible that his head would have a concussion from the all the force she used on him.

"I didn't kill him, did I?" Su wondered out loud.

Lin checks his pulse and pauses for a bit. "Nope, he's still alive."

Su gives out a sigh of relief which causes her sister to chuckle. Tenzin and Lin stop in front of the door while Su gives a two-one-three knock which the guard opened immediately as soon as he heard it.

"Captain Beifong?" A man approaches them to help carry Ace and Lin nods for him to continue. "A man was looking for you in the emergency hotline and one of your subordinates took the message for you."

"Which subordinate, do you mean?" Lin raises her eyebrow at the man suspiciously.

"Uh…The one with a double…?" The man says slowly.

"Ah, the twins. I'll talk to them immediately." Lin says as she leaves.

"Take this man into a secluded room. Tie him up and put a muzzle on him." Su orders the man. "No one is allowed to enter that room without my permission, are we clear?"

Korra was feeling lightheaded, she tried to open her eyes but only to shut those entirely due to the light which seem brighter than usual. She felt herself being carried by someone; she doesn't know who it was and where that someone was taking her.

She also hears someone talking. She can't make out what the person was saying. Who was this person? Who was this person talking to? Was it to her? Or to the person carrying her? Or to themselves? Or to someone else? She doesn't know.

By then, her head begins to throb uncontrollably and she yells out from the pain. She hears something. Someone was screaming before darkness takes hold of her. It was a woman. And she was screaming.

"Korra…!"

"Captain!" Joe rushes towards Lin. "Ducky called in while you were out."

"Ducky?" Lin inquires. "What happened?"

"No, nothing bad happened. He was able to identify the bodies that were brought in from the bar." Joe pauses. "And you're not going to like it."

"What's not to like? A customer and one of my men got killed." Lin frowns at him. "What could be worse than that?"

"It's…uh…complicated." Joe exhales. "Mike's…Mike's not in the morgue." Joe holds in his breathing as he looks at his Captain's reaction.

Lin widens her eyes. "What? That can't be. He was there. Everyone saw him go down! He was there when we…when we…when we left him."

"Maybe so, but the body Ducky got lying there on his table isn't. It looked like him though, despite the burning... He had the same build and height as Mike but dental records confirms that the guy in the morgue isn't Mike." Joe states slowly. "I don't know how but Mike…may be alive."

"If he's alive then where the hell is he?" Lin demanded.

"We've secured most parts of Zhao Fu." A woman says as they scan their map and points to an area where they haven't. "They are most likely held up here in this area. Get a squad ready."

"No." Amon says this time. "We'll be patient about this. We'll just have to wait for them to come out."

"Come out, sir? With all due respect, what would make them come out at their fortified base?" The woman asks but Amon just smirks at her.

"Are you sure you got it in her, Mike?" The woman demanded. "It would be such a waste if you didn't."

"Do you really think I would pass out that perfect opportunity?" Mike hisses then smiles. "I got it in her. It's going to react to her system in a few hours or so and then we wait."

"I do hope you're right, Mike." The First speaks to him. "If we do have the Avatar under our control, the Red Lotus would be honored and pleased to have us in their Circle if this succeeds." He smiles. "We have achieved something they couldn't!"

"What if they found out that it's in her though?" The woman paces back and forth worriedly. "They could take it out and then we're back to square one! Or they could get the…you know."

"Hush!" Mike smirks at the man. "Don't worry; they won't know it's in her."

"What happened?" Pema inqured as she sees an unconscious Korra on the bed. "Is she alright?"

"We think she's alright." Kai answers. "But we found her like this in the middle of the forest."

"She woke up earlier." Asami continued. "And I tried talking to her but it seemed like she was far gone then after a while she lost consciousness." Asami was hit with worry as she holds her girlfriend's hand.

"We found this on her, mom." Kya gives Katara a dart. "Do you think they got the Senshi in her already?"

Katara examines the dart before licking the tip of the dart to her daughter's horror.

"What are you doing, mom!?" Kya exclaimed.

"Relax, honey. It's only horse tranquilizer." Katara chuckles. "Would you mind lifting Korra's shirt up, please?"

Kai widens his eyes at what Katara requested and left the room in a hurry, leaving Asami and Kya to do the task. Asami lifts Korra shirt and sees bruises and scratches from the night before.

"She still hasn't healed quite well." Kya says as she helps Asami take Korra's shirt off. "What are we looking for exactly?"

Asami examines Korra's torso and she unconsciously runs her hand across it.

"A puncture wound." Katara states as she brings up a syringe. "It would be the same size as the needle on the dart."

"There it is. I'm guessing she got hit by the dart." Asami points at a barely visible hole on her stomach. "This wasn't here earlier."

"How would you know that?" Kya asks in amazement.

Asami blushes. "I…uhmm…Well, you see…"

Kya begins to laugh while Katara gives her a small smile. "You don't need to explain anything, dear."

Katara then proceeds to wipe Korra's arm with a wet sterile cloth and proceeds to inject the syringe to get Korra's blood.

"If she has the Senshi in her, a blood test would know." Katara states as she finishes up and cleans the arm.

"But how would you know, mom? How would anyone know?" Kya asks. "It's not like we know what Senshi is. We have no idea what to look for in her blood!"

"An anomaly perhaps or an irregularity." Katara suggests. "Whatever it is, I'm sure we would know but it's not going to be easy."

"I don't get it." Asami frowns. "Why would they leave Korra alone in the forest? They could've just taken her. It's the perfect time to kidnap her and get the Senshi in her but here she is. With us."

"I don't like this either." Kya says as she observes the unconscious Korra. "Something isn't right."

"What's the situation up top?" Su asks.

"From the information we gathered from the men Korra set free, most of Zhao Fu is under control by the Red Lotus." Bolin gestures on the map. "They brought in reinforcements once they knew they got in and we were out. Joe, Mako, Wing and the Captain Beifong are stationed a few meters away from our entrance. They will be our lookouts. If they decide to show up, they would know."

"What about Vulture?" Su asks. "Did she arrive with them? I received a report about her."

"Vulture arrived as our prisoner, apparently. But as soon Opal questioned about them knowing about Vulture, they open fired at her." Kai states. "We heard shots and got Opal and her men out as fast as we could. But we weren't fast enough."

"You brought in Vulture, right?" Joyce looks at him. "Maybe we can get out some information from her."

"That won't be necessary." Kai admits.

"Why?" Joyce asks. "What's wrong?"

"Because Vulture's dead." Tenzin shakes his head. "An arrow straight to the heart courtesy of out very own Miss Sato."

"Asami killed her? How?" Bolin asks with surprise in his voice.

"According to Asami, Vulture was too focus on Korra and hadn't notice Asami to begin with. And about her shooting, Korra taught her earlier on how to shoot an arrow."

"Very wise of Korra to do so." Su gives a small smile. "Asami has my thanks for saving Korra from demise."

"Speaking of Korra, how is she?" Bolin turns to Kai. "Will she be alright?"

"She's alive, if that's what you're asking. She got hit by some horse tranquilizer dart though. Strong stuff." Kai says. "Katara's going to do some blood analysis, just to be sure."

"I'm glad they didn't get her, I wouldn't know what to do." Tenzin sighs. "She's like a daughter to me. If anything were to happen to her…"

"We're all worried, Tenzin." Su places a gentle hand on his shoulder. "She'll come through. She always does."

"It's getting too quiet out there." Mako says as he scans through the night vision binoculars. "Shouldn't they be back by now?"

"Give them a few minutes." Lin tells him. "They'll be back."

"What if they ran into trouble?" Mako sighs. "Shouldn't we do something about it?"

When Lin was about to answer him, both heard a rustling sound from the bushes nearby. Lin signaled Mako to keep quiet before they approached. When they almost reached their destination, a fox came out suddenly and scurried it's self away from them.

Mako let out a sigh of relief when suddenly Joe and Wing came out of nowhere which made Mako hit Joe on the shoulder out of panic.

"OW!" Joe screamed. "What the hell, Mako?"

"Don't do that! You scared the hell out of me!" Mako exclaims. "And what took you guys so long? We thought something bad might have happened."

"We ran into a bit of trouble on our way back." Wing answerd for both of them. "But everything is alright now."

"So, what's the situation?" Lin asks as they walk back to their area.

"They got patrols stationed outside the borders of Zhao Fu." Wing explains. "Though the patrols have our uniforms on so getting outside help won't do us any good."

"Republic Police Force is out of the question, even with the S.W.A.T." Mako sighs. "Do they have any idea where we're hold up thoug?

Joe and Wing look at each other with uncertainty before Joe speaks up. "I'm not really sure, so maybe. There were a few soldiers stationed just a few meters away from here but they're more like of a lookout than a search party."

"Generally, they may have an idea where we are but don't know where to start looking for us." Wing continues. "Or they'll just starve us out."

Korra shot up from her bed suddenly and was about to rub her eyes to get a clearer view on where she was but realization hit her when she found out her arms were bound to the bed and she struggles to break free. She then notices a weight near her legs shift and when her eyes meet with emerald ones, she relaxes.

"Jeez, I thought I was with the Red Lotus." Korra lets out a sigh of relief as Asami hugs her tight. "It's really good to see you, 'Sami."

"You're not. You're safe." Asami hugs her tighter and notices Korra wince a bit. "How're you feeling?"

"Still a bit sore but I'm alright." Korra says. "But I would feel a lot better once these are off." She gestures to the bindings on her arms. "It reminds me of the time when we…"

Asami clasps her hands on Korra's mouth before she could continue on that sentence. Korra instead gave her a wink and Asami couldn't help but give a small smile.

"Wait here, I'll go get Pema and Katara." Asami says as she kisses her girlfriend's cheek.

"Yeah, no problem." Korra shrugs. "It's not like I'm going anywhere."

"We need a plan. We can't just sit here and do nothing." Tenzin states. "Does anyone have any ideas?"

Everyone ponders a bit on what they could do to take back Zhao Fu. They were clearly outnumbered and who knows what weapons they brought into the compound. Taking it back with force was not an option. Well, not entirely.

"What about we dressed up as them?" Raf chimes in with his arm over Bolin. "Or more like dressed up as them who're dressing up like us?"

"What gives you the idea that they are still dressing up like us?" Bumi asks.

Bolin spoke up. "I received word from my brother. Apparently, the patrols outside Zhao Fu are still wearing our uniforms while the men inside the compound aren't."

"Then the smart thing to do is get some of us into their uniforms." Tenzin says as he strokes his beard. "Then we would know what they're really up to and what's making them wait."

The First enters a room with a huge monitor in front of him. He proceeds to approach the woman in front of the monitor.

"I think it's about time we set our plan into motion." Amon smirks. "Is it ready yet?"

The woman taps a few things into the computer for a few minutes; she turns on switches and few of them she turns off then a green light appears at the topmost part of the monitor.

"All systems are a go, sir." The woman replies. "But we may have slight technical difficulties due to the amount of distance we are from the project."

"It'll be fine."

"Alright, Korra." Pema says. "You still have a few bruises on you but other than that, you're alright." Pema turns to look at her straight in the eyes. "But that doesn't mean you can go out to the field anytime you want."

"Yeah, yeah." Korra shrugs as she gets off from the bed and does some stretching. "But wait, what about the blood analysis?"

"Katara is still working on it and she asked not to be bothered about it yet." Pema tells her. "It's going to take some time but I'm sure you have nothing to worry about."

Wing and Joe came to Tenzin and the others with the Red Lotus uniforms on. Mako and Captain Beifong were now stationed at the lookout station with the uniforms as well.

"They're still our lookouts but they got a better view than ever before with the change of scenery." Wing stated. "And they might be the first ones to hear about anything that would be coming this way. They'll radio in when something comes up."

"It's risky, we know." Joe continued. "But it's worth a shot. Mako can be a pain, sometimes but he knows how to handle himself. And the Captain, well, we don't have to worry about her. She's a BAMF."

Su couldn't help but chuckle at Joe's last statements. "I have to agree with you on that one." She turns to her son. "Wing, you and Joe are going to infiltrate and find out what's got them waiting and since you know your way better than Joe, you make sure you get both of yourselves out without any scratch on either of you. You got that?"

"You get my brother back here safely, alright?" Joyce chimes in to the conversation.

"Same goes with my brother, Joe." Wei pats the shoulder of his twin. "Watch each other's back."

Korra was on her way to meet up with everyone else when she suddenly stopped in a dark hallway. In her head, everything seems to slow down or that time had suddenly stopped. She tries to move but felt like she had no control on her body. She felt heavy. She tried speaking but nothing came out. Not even a whisper. She suddenly hears a voice.

She doesn't notice that there were three soldiers approaching her and greeting her.

"Hey, Avatar!" One of the soldiers greets her with enthusiasm. "How're you feeling?"

"I heard you took down Vulture." The second continues. "That's pretty awesome!"

"I told you already that Asami was the one who killed her." The third one sighs.

"Yeah, right." The second one says. "No one would think Asami made the killing blow, right Korra?"

Korra doesn't acknowledge any of them. She doesn't notice how they were trying to get her attention.

"Hey, Korra?" The first soldier waves his hand in front of her. "Are you there?"

Korra's eyes started to black and hollow which made the three men look at each other with concern.

"Umm…Are you alright?" The third soldier asks. "We'll go get Pema and or Katara alright?"

When they were about to go and get help, Korra suddenly starts moving. She grabs one soldier and shoves him straight to the wall, making him lose conscious. She tries to grab another but was quickly evaded. She then pulls out her sword and begins to assault the two soldiers who were now pinned to a corner.

She doesn't hear them screaming and yelling her name to snap out of it as she attacks them one by one. She doesn't realize what she's doing when she stabs them repeatedly when they fall to the ground. The unconscious soldier wakes up and sees his friends lying on the ground with blood all over them.

He turns to look at Korra. "Please…" He begs but Korra just stands over him and gives him a sly smile before she impales him and he screams. Korra couldn't hear anything. And all Korra could see was total darkness.

Wing and Joe didn't draw anyone's suspicion when they entered the compound. They walked around the entire compound to get good information on what they would be up against and what to expect.

"They got a lot of heavy stuff here." Wing radios to Mako and Captain Beifong subtly. "Should we do something about them?"

"Negative." Beifong answers. "Not until we know what they're up to."

"Copy that." Joe answers. "Is there anything in particular we should be looking for?"

There was silence in the radio for a while before Beifoing started talking again.

"Try to find out where they're keeping the Senshi." Beifong pauses. "It would be better if we had our hands on that thing before they decide using it against us."

"Roger that." Joe replies. "Over and out."

Korra walks up to another hallway with a few soldiers stationed there. No one questions why she's there. They just greet her and she casually nods and walks onwards. She meets someone familiar on her way.

"Hey, Korra." Kai greets her without looking up from what he was reading. "What brings you here?"

Korra gives him a small smile. "Nothing really." She pauses. "But maybe you might help me with something."

"Sure." Kai shrugs. "What can I help you with?"

"Sim's still alive right?" Korra asks. "I was wondering if you could tell me where she's being held."

"Continue walking down this hall then turn to your first left." Kai says. "Why do you need to know?"

"I wanted to talk to her about the Senshi and what else she could tell me about it." Korra says as she continues walking forward. "I'll be on my way."

Kai puts down his reading material and turns to look at her back and scratches the back of his head. "Okay, then."

"This is way better than I expected it to be!" Mike exclaims with a giant grin on his face. "They really have no idea!" He turns to smirk at the Lieutenant. "I told you I wouldn't let you guys down."

"Do you really think she can get away by killing Sim though?" The Lieutenant asks. "I'm sure they'll be questioning on what had happened."

"Relax. It's nothing the Avatar couldn't handle." Mike shrugs. "And besides, if she does get caught, we can just let her start killing everyone and let her wake up to see what she had done."

"I don't think Amon would approve of this." The Lieutenant says.

"Well, he's not here." Mike smirks. "And he left me in charge of this so it's all good."

Sim was tied to a chair with a blindfold on her. She doesn't know how long she's been sitting there but was glad to hear that a door had opened with footsteps coming into her cell.

"Who's there?" She asks but the person doesn't respond, instead she begins to pull down the blindfold off of her and there in front of her were two blue eyes that had turned hollow.

"Korra?" Sim couldn't help but swallow the lump that had grown into her throat. "What…What're you doing here?"

"Hello, Sim." Korra says with no emotion. "I'll get straight to the point. I've been sent here to end your life."

"What?" Sim exclaims as she tries to loosen the rope that had tied her hands. "Sent by whom?"

Korra leaned back and gave her a sly grin. "Oh. Don't play dumb now, Sim." Korra gives a small chuckle. "You know who sent me."

Sim was about to scream when Korra's hand landed on her mouth to silenced her. She began to use the blindfold to the gag the tied woman.

"To be honest." Korra says as she pulls out a small dagger from her pocket. "You had this one coming."

Asami entered the lab where Katara was staying and was hoping to find her girlfriend there but as she entered, she frowned when she found out that she was not there but found Katara deep in Korra's blood analysis.

"Is Korra not here?" Asami asks though she already knows what the answer might be.

"Oh, Asami." Katara was startled but the sudden disturbance. "No, Korra is not here."

"Oh." Asami sighs. "Do you have any idea where she might be? They sent a few men to go and get her into the War Room but we haven't heard from them either." She pauses. "I'm starting to get worried."

"I'm sure she's f-" Katara suddenly stops talking and proceeds to grab another glass slide and places it on the microscope beside the one she was using and she gasps.

"Where's Korra?" She suddenly turns to Asami.

"I don't know." Asami shrugs. "That's why I went here to ask if you knew where she was. Why? What's wrong?"

"No time to explain." Katara exclaims. "We need to find Korra now."

Katara proceeds to hurry herself out of the lab before Asami could begin asking her more questions. Instead, Asami proceeded to look at the microscopes Katara was looking on to earlier before she went full panic mode.

As she went back and forth on both microscopes to compare the results of Katara's finding. She suddenly realized why Katara wanted to know badly where Korra was. She was about to go after her when someone steps into the lab and was now blocking her way.

"Joe, are you sure we're going the right way?" Wing asks as they hurry down a corridor.

"Well, that's what the soldier said when we asked!" Joe exclaims while shaking his head and turning a corner. "

"And what makes you think he was telling the truth?" Wing asks him.

Joe slowed his running and turned to face him. "Look, I don't like it either but what choice do we have?"

They walk down further and were greeted by a door at the end of the hallway.

"Well, this is it." Joe listens in to the door and hears nothing.

They both enter the room and find cabinets with a lot of vials with different sizes inside. One gets Joe attention with the label of Senshi. He opens the cabinet up and to his surprise, the vial was already empty.

"We've got a problem." Joe says as he turns to Wing.

Asami wasn't sure who she was looking at right now. It looked like Korra but at the same time, it didn't look like her. She couldn't move towards her but Korra didn't seem to have any problem with approaching her.

"Asami?" Korra's voice was so soft. "What's wrong?"

Asami couldn't move. She tried opening her mouth but no words would come out. The closer Korra got to Asami, the more she had the courage to step away from Korra.

"…Asami?" Korra looked at her confuse.

She held her hand out when she noticed her hand was covered with blood. Korra looked at her other hand and found blood in them too. She began to inspect her whole body and there was blood everywhere.

"Is this blood…mine?" Korra asked to no one in particular.

"Captain." Joe radios in.

"What?" Beifong answers. "What's the problem?"

"The Senshi, Captain." Joe says. "It's empty. It's not here."

Beifong and Mako immediately stood up from their seat. "What!"

"We might have missed them a few hours or minutes earlier." Wing says. "But I'm not really sure about that."

"I think we have to secure Korra." Joe continues. "It's the safest way to make sure that she doesn't get it in her."

"And if it's in her?" Mako asks with worry. "What are we supposed to do then?"

"Do the same thing." Joe sighs. "It would be better for her and for us if she's secured."

"We'll radio them in." Captain says. "Get your butts out of there, right now."

Asami doesn't know what to do but back away from a horrific looking Korra. She doesn't know whose blood is it on her but she's sure it's not Korra's due to the fact Korra had nothing wrong with her clothes. No tears and no holes.

"Asami, what's going on?" Korra says with concern and begins to approach her cornered girlfriend.

But then her head begins to throb and she falls to her knees with her hands on her head.

"What's happening to me?" Korra screams as she curls into a ball.

Asami snaps out of it when running towards her screaming girlfriend. She cradles her head into her lap and tries to calm her down.

"Sssh, Ko-Korra." Asami tries to stop herself from shivering. "I'm here, it's alright."

Korra begins to thrash here and there into her girlfriend's arms and screams in pain.

After hearing the news from Lin and Mako, everyone started running around and went looking for Korra and Asami. Bolin met up with Kai and after Kai told him what had happened between him and Korra. They immediately went to Sim to check if she was alright.

"Holy…" Kya says as she looks at the scene before her.

What they see before them was not what they were expecting at all. Sim was there alright. She was everywhere. She was cut into pieces and each piece was pinned to the walls with arrows. Blood was smeared all over the wall with writing.

Hail, the Red Lotus.

Joe and Wing tried to act casual as they run out of the hallway of the building. They passed by the double doors when Joe suddenly stops right in front of it. He puts his ear into the door and hears a familiar screaming and without thinking, he bursts through the doors.

"Korra!" He yells.

But as soon as he realizes that Korra wasn't around the room, he was immediately tackled to the floor by the people in the room. Wing surprises them though by firing a few arrows and throws a smoke grenade into the room and they hurry their way out of the room.

"What did you do that for?" Wing says to him as they run out of the building.

"I heard Korra screaming and I thought they had her." Joe says slowly. "But she wasn't even in the room but I saw Asami on the monitor."

"Monitor?" Wing asks. "Does that mean they have cameras on us?"

Joe shakes his head. "I don't think so. But maybe on Korra though and she's with Asami."

"We better hurry."

As soon as they make a turn, they were immediately hit in the head by something hard and metallic which got them both blacking out.

Korra began to black out again. She stops shaking in Asami's hold. She hears whispering in her head and her eyes start turning hollow in Asami's eyes. She suddenly stands up and gives her lover a sly grin which got Asami backing away into a corner.

"Hey, Asami." Korra says blankly as she pulls out her sword. "Wanna play?"

Tenzin, Kya, Bumi and Su went running towards the laboratory to warn Katara and hopefully find Korra and Asami there. But halfway there, they ran into Katara.

"Mom!" Kya immediately hugs her mother. "I'm glad you're alright."

"Where's Korra?" Su asks urgently. "We need to find her and secure her."

"I thought she was with you." Katara answers. "But we really have to find her, her blood analysis came positive with the Senshi."

"What?" Tenzin says. "How is that possible?"

"I compared her blood test from before when we took her to the one I took recently." Katara answers. "There's a virus destroying her or eating up her cells but they were able to regenerate right after to form into a new virus."

"We need to find her and Asami." Bumi insists. "Have you seen Asami?"

"She was with me earlier." Katara states. "She might still be in the lab."

And that's when they hear a horrifying scream coming from the direction of the lab which got them running faster into that direction.

Korra was cornering herself into a corner from the scene in front of her.

"What have I done?"

A/N:

And here's chapter 9! I'm sorry for the delay, I've been doing errands from my parents which got me out of the house most of the time and when I do get home, I'm just really tired. I did had a hard time writing this chapter with all the scenes but I hope it turned out alright. :D

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