Chapter 8 – Captured
Air Temple Island
Days had passed since the Sato Mansion Incident, and Mako, Bolin and Asami moved in with Korra in the island. Today, Tenzin and Korra went to the city for the inauguration of the new Chief of Police since Lin Beifong had stepped down from the position after the incident. Thor stayed in the island since he had no political power, and no one knew he was a god.
"It is boring to stay here." Thor said, clearly showing his ennui feeling.
"Aw, you miss Korra don't you?" Pema said.
"Aye, I do." Thor said truthfully. Thor sat on a couch that looked at a window; Pema was sitting on a chair drinking tea.
"They'll be here in a couple of minutes, don't worry. This inauguration won't take long." Pema assured him. "You like Korra don't you Thor?"
"Since the first time I gazed unto her eyes, but how can I a god be with a mortal?" Thor said, wondering.
"Well, I don't know about gods but love can go through any walls, even divine ones." Pema said.
Thor began think of what he should do, maybe he should take it to the next step, but he wasn't the God of Love or something, he was the God of Thunder and Lightning, but he would his best.
After thirty minutes, Tenzin and Korra came back from the inauguration. Thor stepped to tell Korra how he felt.
"Korra I…" Thor was about to say but he was interrupted.
"Not now, Thor. I need to be alone." Korra said, brushing the Son of Odin aside. She walked towards the other side of the island, which looked at the statue of Aang. Thor was worried, something had happened in the inauguration.
"Friend Tenzin, what happened?" Thor asked Tenzin as he was putting Oogi in the Bison Keep.
"Councilman Tarrlok insulted Korra, I would give her some space. She is trying to meditate." Tenzin answered.
Thor knew he had to do something, but he would wait a while. Give her some time to meditate.
After some hours he called for the others to go and look for Korra. They went to the other side of the island. Korra was sitting alone on the edge of the cliff, looking at Aang. The words of Tarrlok were still fresh in her mind, she began to cry quietly. She felt like the worst Avatar in history.
"Koooooorrra!" Bolin screamed in order to get a response.
The gang stepped out of the bushes and found Korra sitting alone with Pabu which had just gotten there.
"Korra, art you okay?" Thor asked her as he got closer.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Korra responded while she stood up.
The rest stepped closer, Pabu ran back to Bolin's shoulder.
"Don't listen to Tarrlok, Korra. He doesn't know what he's talking about." Bolin said.
"But I am the worst Avatar ever." Korra said as she looked down into the ground.
"When Aang entered the hundred year war he was just a little kid, he hadn't learn any element aside from airbending. But he had his friends to help him." Mako said.
"Yeah, we are here for you Korra." Asami added.
"The New Team Avatar!" Bolin proudly said.
"Thanks you guys." Korra said as she rubbed her eyes, she put their hands together, all except Thor.
"Come on Thor, join in." Asami said.
Thor looked reluctant at first, feeling that his place was still in Asgard with the Warriors Three, Balder and Sif, but he shruged that feeling off and placed his hand on top of theirs. Thor was now a member of Team Avatar.
"Republic City prepare to get patrolled by the New Team Avatar!" Bolin exclaimed as he looked at the lively city ahead.
"Come on guys, let's hop on Naga." Korra told the others.
"I don't think that Naga has enough space for me." Thor said.
"You are right, anyone have any other ideas?" Korra asked around.
"I have an idea." Asami said.
Sato Garage
Asami entered the huge garage and came out with a top of the line satomobile , these were both powerful and fast. Everybody looked at the car with awe.
"Get in you guys." Asami said.
They all hoped inside, Mako was co-pilot, and Bolin, Korra and Thor sat in the back, in that order.
"I like the New Team Avatar's style." Mako said, clearly impressed with Asami's satomobile.
They headed towards the city, in order to get their minds off what had happened the past week.
Republic City, Midgard
Asami turned on the radio-looking device, voices from what it seemed to be police officers.
"My father installed police scanners in all of his cars, now I know why." Asami said.
They all listened attentively; they stopped in a red light.
"We have equalists escapees, copy we have equalist escapees. They have been freed by other equalist in a black truck!" a police officer's voice said through the scanner.
As they finished hearing that, the black truck pasted by them, it being escorted by two equalist motorcycle riders. Team Avatar rushed in to the pursuit, seeing that no Police Air Ship was giving in to the pursuit.
The motor cycle riders noticed them following in close, they threw poisonous gas grenades at them to stop them; Thor using his air control moved the poisonous gases away into the sky. The riders noticed that, so they held just a bit so that Team Avatar had reached their speed. Once they did, the equalists jumped on top the car.
Thor grabbed one by the collar as he fell on top of him, he used the inertia of the man's fall to pull him to the other side, and the equalist fell into the road. The other one was electrified by Mako's lightning as he tried to grab Asami's hair.
"We are getting closer to the truck, Korra, Bolin use earthbending to topple the truck!" Asami yelled through the loud noise of the pursuit.
They both stood up and with a smooth and synchronized movement created two pillars to come out of the ground and hit the moving truck, making it topple. Asami stopped her sato mobile, they got out to see the truck's occupants. They were all knocked out, but alive. The police arrived in that moment along with the media.
The metalbenders began to close the road, preventing the cameramen from taking pictures of what had happened. Tarrlok came out from one of the police trucks.
"What do you think you are doing?" Tarrlok said to Korra.
"We caught the bad guys for you." Korra said as she pointed at the equalists as they were being arrested once again.
"No, what you did is cost the city thousands of yuans in damages. A lot of businesses were destroyed by random lightning bolts, flying rocks and flying motorcycles!" Tarrlok madly said.
Korra just looked at him with a 'really' face. Tarrlok began to get agitated by her attitude.
"You and your little group are prohibited from doing this 'vigilante' justice. Leave it to the cops, Avatar." Tarrlok said as he walked back to the truck. Korra just sighed.
"We are not going to stop doing this, right?" Thor asked, expecting Korra's answer to be…
"Of course not, this is too much fun." Korra responded, just what he expected.
A couple of hours passed by, and they were waiting for the police scanner to report anything. Bolin was eating a bag of duplings, Thor was looking at the mirror adjusting his long blonde hair, Korra was napping, Asami was putting lipstick on her lips and Mako was just playing with his scarf. Then the scanner turned on, attracting everybody's attention.
"Every officer closes by report to the Dragon District for equalist round up." The dispatcher said.'
"The Dragon District? That district is mostly full of non-benders." Mako informed the group.
"We better check what's going on, let's go." Korra said.
Dragon District, Republic City
The team arrived to the district but found something odd…
"Why are all the lights out?" Korra asked.
"Something must be going on, head for the plaza." Mako said.
They arrived at the plaza, Asami parked the car at the beginning of the street. There they saw dozens of police officers, and the new Chief of Police, Saikhan, telling the people inside the barricade to relent to the officers, a tent nearby, Korra saw Tarrlok talking to his secretary.
She went ahead to see what the officers were doing, they were rounding up innocent people for no reason at all.
"Stop! What are you doing?!" Korra yelled at the officers, she earthbended the people down, they were being suspended up in groups by the officers.
"You have to help us, you are our Avatar too!" a woman holding a baby in the crowded said.
"Don't worry, I'll find a way to stop them!" Korra yelled.
She and the team went to confront Tarrlok on what he had done to those innocent people.
"Tarrlok, you have to stop this, these people did nothing to be treated like this!" Korra yelled at him.
"Avatar, I don't know what you are yelling about. These people are not innocent, they are equalists." Tarrlok responded. "You have no authority here, Avatar."
"I won't let you get away with this." Korra said defiantly.
"I just have had enough of you, Avatar. You are not only going against the law of the city but by going against me you go against the city as well. These people are outside when a non-bender curfew has been established!" Tarrlok said.
"You can't do that, it's not fair!" Asami yelled.
"You, you are a non-bender out on curfew and daughter to a known equalist conspirator, officer arrest her!" Tarrlok ordered a close-by metalbender.
The officer used his metal cables to arrest Asami, Mako saw this and he got furious.
"Hey, you can't do that!" Mako yelled.
"Arrest him too for interfering with the law, and the rest of these meddlers!" Tarrlok ordered.
One of the officers tried to arrest Thor, but he just pulled the metal cable and made the officer fall to the ground. Others had to come in and tied Thor completely, so he could be unable to move his arms.
"Tarrlok!" Korra screamed while bending two huge chunks of rocks on the air.
"If I were you I would play nice if you want to see your friends again." Tarrlok said with a grin.
Korra had no choice but to place the rocks down on the ground.
"Good, so sad to see your little group disassemble this way, but at least you had your fun." Tarrlok said as he turned around and left Korra alone. Thor from the open window of the police truck that they will be fine with a simple nod.
Republic City Police Department
"Saikhan, I want those kids out of prison." Tenzin asked the new Police Chief.
"I am sorry; Tenzin, but I only follow orders from Councilman Tarrlok. You will have to wait until he says otherwise." Saikhan said.
"You are the worst Police Chief ever!" Korra said while she grabbed Saikhan's little beard.
"Calm down Korra, I will find a way to get them out. I will talk with Tarrlok in the morning, but you are truly the worst police chief ever." Tenzin said to Saikhan as he left with Korra.
Air Temple Island
Korra couldn't sleep; the thought of her friends in prison made her utterly furious, she had to g and demand their liberation, theirs and all of the innocent people that Tarrlok arrested unfairly. She had to do it now, it couldn't wait. She got up from bed and woke Naga up.
"Wake up girl; we are going to free our friends." Korra said to Naga.
She sneaked out of the island and swam towards the city.
Council Building, Republic City
Korra rode towards the council building; she hid Naga in an alleyway close to the building.
Inside his office, Tarrlok did some late night paperwork which consisted of writing, reading and stamping, the usual boring paperwork. At least today he had some progress in obtaining political power.
"Sir, I am leaving now." Tarrlok's personal assistant said.
"You may go." Tarrlok said dismissively.
Tarrlok was now alone in his office, which was big and had a wall which literally ran water. He was about to fall asleep from the constant paperwork until he felt a cold breeze come into the room.
"Tarrlok." He heard her voice, her so annoying voice.
"Avatar, how can I serve you?" Tarrlok said.
"I want you to let my friends and the people go!" Korra exclaimed.
"I will if…" Tarrlok continued, "…you re-join my task force and stay away from my business."
"No! I will not fall for your stupid ultimatums anymore." Korra said.
"Then you won't see your friends until I say so." Tarrlok responded while he looked at his wall covered with water.
"If you won't then I'll make you! Liberate those people, they did nothing against anyone!" Korra yelled.
"You and I are similar; we both resort to extremes to get what we want." Tarrlok said.
"Shut up! You blame innocents for the wrong doings of others, you…YOU ARE JUST LIKE AMON!" Korra exclaimed.
That last comment broke a nerve in Tarrlok's mind, he couldn't be like Amon, and he can't be.
"I wish we could have sorted this out nicely, but now I see that we cannot." Tarrlok said while he still faced the water-wall. Korra waited for the worst.
Tarrlok quickly turned around and three ice daggers at Korra which he took out of the water-wall. Korra dodge them, but two of them sliced her shoulder and right cheek.
"Agh!" Korra painfully said, feeling the coldness in her open bruises.
She bended fire and threw two fireballs at Tarrlok, he used the water behind him and created a water dome to protect him from the fire blasts. He began to throw more ice daggers, Korra bended the earth on the ground and created two rock walls which protected her from the daggers. She used all of her strengths to bend the water on Tarrlok's wall and the wall below it, it moved and pushed Tarrlok with such for that made him fly though the door of his office.
Tarrlok held onto a metal bar that prevented him from falling towards the Council Room below. Korra stepped out of the office, her hair messed and face full of anger. With such force she bended the floor of rock which pushed Tarrlok off and made him fall. He was beginning to get tire, he knew he was going to lose unless he used his last resort. Korra jumped off the balcony and created an earthquake once she landed by using her advanced earthbending abilities, she got closer to Tarrlok. She was about to punch him with fiery punch when she just stopped moving.
"Huh?" Korra said when she saw that she was frozen in place, her body didn't respond to her commands.
Then she began to twist and hover on the air, she saw that Tarrlok was moving his arms waterbending style, she couldn't believe it.
"Y..you are a bloodbender." Korra said with a strained voice. "But it's not even a full moon."
"There are many things you don't know about me, you left me no choice, Korra. I am doing this for the best." Tarrlok said as he threw Korra's body unto a pillar. She couldn't move she only saw the ceiling before falling unconscious.
Tarrlok took Korra to a truck and threw her inside it, she began to regain consciousness. But it was already too late, she was trap inside.
"Let me go! Let me GO!" Korra screamed as she punched the metal walls of the truck.
"I'm going to take you somewhere where no one will find you." Tarrlok said he was exhausted; the fight had taken much of his energy.
He started the vehicle and headed for the mountains outside Republic City.
Republic City Prison
"Thou dare to keep the Son of Odin behind a metal door like he was an animal!? Thou do not my power!" Thor yelled to deaf ears.
He sat on the metal bed, he looked at his hands, these hands once could break worlds, touch stars like they were but a warm breeze, bend uru and rip it apart but now they couldn't even dent simple steel. He needed his divinity back to help this world and his, to protect those in need. He now understood that he was the god of the people of Midgard, he has always connectivity with the realm. Now he had fallen for a mortal, the Son of Odin, an immortal had fallen for a mortal, but not any mortal but one with the soul and spirit of an immortal.
"Korra…I hope that thee art fine." Thor said as he laid on his back, to wait.