The Marvelous Legends of Republic City
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Chapter 12: When Push comes to Shove
Korra rode Naga through the night streets, hoping to find Kuzon on his nightly patrol of the city. Kuzon had been active as Nomad for two weeks and so far the public's reaction was astoundingly positive, even if they didn't know that this Nomad was actually the original. Kuzon wanted that to stay a secret however as he still wanted a private life and, if what Korra had to deal with by being The Avatar was any indication of what a hero with a public identity had to go through, he'd make sure that secret was one he'd take to his grave.
As Korra rode she saw a group of men in purple and grey armor in the distance, loading people into a couple of vans. Korra decided to see what was going on and had Naga speed up. She also saw Councilman Tarrlok standing among the armored men.
"What's going on here?! Where are these clowns taking those people?" Korra asked as she hopped off of Naga and marched up to Tarrlok. The Councilman simply chuckled and replied,
"These 'clowns' as you put it, are my new task force. Hired personally by me and fully sanctioned to deal with all Equalist agents, supporters, or sympathizers. Also for future reference they're called Sentinels."
To say Korra was angry would be an understatement.
"As for where we're taking these people, they'll be held in an internment camp until this whole Equalist business is dealt with." Tarrlok said.
"The Avatar? Help! We didn't do anything! We're not Equalists!" A man from inside one of the vans shouted desperately once he noticed Korra.
"I'm not an Equalist! My grandson is a waterbender!" An elderly woman cried from another van.
"This is wrong. As The Avatar I demand you let these people go." Korra ordered, but Tarrlok just chuckled.
"Ah, but you aren't the Avatar. You're just a half baked Avatar that can't even airbend, so leave this to the grownups little girl." The Councilman said, his voice laced with slightly hidden malice as Korra looked on, both hurt and angry at his words.
Before Korra could do anything she would possibly regret, Kuzon as The Nomad leaped down from the top of a building.
"What's going on here?" Nomad asked, in an almost rehearsed no-nonsense tone, as he stepped in-between Korra and Tarrlok.
"Ah, The Nomad, just the man I wanted to see." The Councilman said as he gave a sickeningly friendly smile.
"And why would that be?" Nomad asked with a raised eyebrow under his mask.
"I was hoping you'd join my task force. I feel that a trusted hero to the people would be a great addition and since Korra here had already made her choice clear, I'll just ask..." Tarrlok began but was cut off by Nomad holding up his hand, signalling him to stop.
"Sorry, but no thanks. This task force of yours is meant to be a solution to the Equalists right?" The Man out of Time asked, receiving a nod from Tarrlok.
"Well all I see here are people being arrested and taken away with no trial or basic rights. This isn't a solution, because it's no different than what the Equalists are doing now or what the Fire Nation did during the war." Nomad said, glaring at the Councilman.
"Well then. I have no choice but to order for your arrest Nomad." Tarrlok said as he snapped his fingers and ten Sentinels surrounded them.
"I was hoping you would join us so as to avoid this, but seeing as how you want to be difficult we'll do it the hard way." Tarrlok said as his men began to close in on Kuzon. Korra was about to do something, when suddenly a thwiping sound filled the air. Soon Tarrlok and all of his Sentinel's were covered in webbing as none other than Spider-Man swung down and picked both of them up.
"I can't leave you alone for a second can I?" Spider-Man asked as he swung the duo away, Naga following from the ground. They landed in a small lot several blocks away where Spider-Man set them down.
"Thanks for the help son." Kuzon said, holding out his hand. Spider-Man shook it as Korra then saw Mako and Asami driving up the street.
"Korra thank goodness we found you! Oh, and The Nomad too." Asami said as she got out of her car.
"What am I chopped liver?" The arachnid hero asked no one in particular as he crossed his arms.
"We got trouble, these guys in purple are rounding up almost every non-bender in the city. They're claiming that they're Equalists or Equalists sympathizers, but I know there can't be that many in the city." Mako said, earning surprised looks from Korra, Kuzon, and possibly Spider-Man though it was hard to tell due to the goggles he wore.
"We need to go free those people now." Korra said as she hopped up on Naga.
"No Korra, not now." Nomad said as he stepped in front of the polar bear-dog.
"What?! You can't be serious!" Korra snapped out.
"I am. We can't just run in, free those people, and run out. We need to shut down Tarrlok first, otherwise they'll end up right back in those cells in no time." The Nomad said in a tone that left little room to argue. Korra sighed as she hopped off of Naga.
"All right, so what do we do?" Korra asked.
"We split into two teams. Korra, you and these two try to find anything you can on Tarrlok, because I have a feeling an operation on this scale isn't entirely legal." Korra, Mako, and Asami nodded as Kuzon continued.
"Spider-Man and I will scout around the internment camps and figure out how many there are and how many people are being held there. It'll make things easier once we move to break them out. Everyone clear?" The Nomad finished.
"Crystal." Everyone replied as they began to head out to do their respective assignments.
It was an average night in Bolin and Mako's apartment building. Shizuo Bana was reading in his apartment, sweet old Miss Mai was making tea, and Bolin was on the roof. This last part was not so average. He was shirtless and had dirt lines smeared all over him in tribal patterns and sat within a dirt circle which was in the shape of yet another tribal pattern that roughly looked like the number four if one were to look hard enough at it. Bolin then began to chant in an ancient tongue. If science would not return his bending, then he would contact the spirit of the Earth itself to restore it.
It was not long before Sentinels reached the apartment building. They knocked down the door and arrested Miss Mai.
"What until my Pahka hears about this! He works for the paper and he'll have this travesty of justice on tomorrows front page!" Mai yelled. Three Sentinels then busted down Shizuo's door.
"You are to come for questioning regarding your views on the Equalists, please come quietly or we will use force." One of them said. Shizuo sat his book down and said,
"I can tell you right now I am not now, nor have I ever, been affiliated with the Equalists." The three men looked at each other before one said,
"Are you a bender?" To which Shizuo replied,
"No I am not." The Sentinel's moved on him as one said,
"Then you're coming with us." They took hold of him forcibly and threw him out into the hall, Shizuo hitting the wall and falling down.
"Please stop! You're making me angry!" Shizuo pleaded, but this only made the Sentinels laugh.
"Oh, we're making you angry huh? Well we wouldn't want that." One said as he kicked Shizuo hard in the gut. Suddenly Shizuo started twitching and was soon writhing around on the floor in pain.
"Man, you must be a real wimp! I didn't kick ya that hard." Suddenly the sound of fabric ripping could be heard as Shizuo was seemingly growing out of his clothes.
"I told you to leave me alone!" Shizuo yelled in pain as his skin began to turn grey. Soon a seven foot, six inch tall grey skinned behemoth was looking down at the Sentinels.
"Well, well, well. You must be the idiots that riled the Doc up enough to let out your's truly." The monster said, his red eyes almost burning into the three men's souls.
I guess I should introduce myself, so I'm The Hulk." The grey skinned monster said. Suddenly it grabbed one of the Sentinels heads and lifted him up.
"And you're dead." It said as it threw the Sentinal straight up, sending him crashing through the floors of the building and threw the roof.
A green ethereal light surrounded Bolin as he continued his chant. He could feel his bending beginning to come back as the light shined brighter shades of green. However suddenly a man blasted through through the roof, which destroyed half the dirt symbol Bolin had made. This made the former earthbender stop chanting and scream in surprise. Soon the green light became bright orange as it then exploded, sending Bolin flying off the roof and into the park that was on the other side of the building.
Bolin got up, his body feeling oddly numb, as he walked through the bushes and into the empty nighttime park. He lumbered over to the small pond, disoriented. His foot steps sounded oddly heavy to him, as he collapsed in front of the water. The streetlight shined down on the river and he caught his reflection in it.
"AAAAAAAH!" He yelled in a deeper, more gravely voice. Bolin was now a lot larger, roughly six feet, seven inches tall, and he was now bald and his skin was an orange rock-like substance. He also had four large fingers and four large toes. He quickly got up and ran into the park, knowing the world had no place for the thing he had become.
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