Ch 7 Extremes meet
Khan sat in his room, going over the recent events. Hiroshi is allied with the equalists. Amon is out large, gathering his army. No, he already has an army and is planning his next move. Khan wrote some ideas down on paper.
If I was Amon, I wouldn't take the city by force right now. No. I'd plan it out. Stage multiple attacks across the city at different intervals. Keep the police busy and bottled up, then when I hit with my full force, the city will fall with little resistance. But where would I strike now?
Khan put his notes away, when someone knocked on his door.
"Come in." Khan said.
"Saikhan is getting sworn is as chief of police. You're to come and see it." The person says.
Khan was suspicious, but goes anyway. He meets up with Korra and her friends.
"Hey Khan." Korra said.
"Hey Korra." Khan said.
They watched as Saikhan was inducted as chief of police, and watch him state that he'd give any and all information about the equalist to Tarrlok.
"Great. Welcome to Fascism." Khan said.
"What do you mean?" Tenzin asked.
"Tarrlok has control of the police force. Now, he can use it anyway he wants. He'll use as his own private army. I can see it already. People being dragged out of their homes, arrested in plain sight, executed, maybe sent to some prison or concentration camp." Khan said.
"That's pretty deep. As shady as Tarrlok is, I don't think he's stupid enough to do such radical measures. That would hurt his standing in the population's eyes." Tenzin said.
Khan looked on as Tarrlok tried to recruit Korra into his force.
"There's no way I'm rejoining your vanity project." Korra said.
"That's a shame. I'm sure you'll come to your senses like you did in the past." Tarrlok said.
"You forget one thing. I'm the Avatar. You may need me, but I don't need you." Korra said.
Khan face-palmed himself. Boasting never works. It's a sign of weakness and leaves you open for attack.
"You're not, in fact, the Avatar. You are merely a half-baked Avatar in training, which reminds me, how is your airbending going? Made any significant progress with that? I didn't think so. If you will not be part of my task force, then you had best stay out of my way." Tarrlok declared.
Tarrlok then turned his attention to Khan.
"Khan. Just the man I wanted to meet." Tarrlok said.
"I'm not joining anything you have in mind." Khan said. Then he turned around, and left.
"By the way. You might want to check up on Lin." Tarrlok said, catching Khan's attention.
"Why?" Khan asked.
"It would be a tragedy if something were to happen to her. You seem to be friends with her. Maybe you should stay next to her until she gets better." Tarrlok smugly said.
Khan walked up to Tarrlok, deep into his face.
"Before this war's over, I will kill you, if Amon doesn't beat me to it first." Khan growled. He was heavily reminded of Admiral Marcus.
Khan went back to his apartment, and threw all the important documents into a briefcase, which he cuffed to himself. He then destroyed all the other documents and useless items so nobody could use them.
"Khan, what are you doing here?" Tenzin asked, seeing Khan at the temple, with a briefcase.
"I'm moving to the temple. Seems to be the safest place in the city away from Tarrlok." Khan said.
"I'll take your word for it." Tenzin said.
Khan found a room and put his stuff away. He grabbed his sword, daggers, black trench-coat and left towards republic city.
Why did Tarrlok ask me to watch over Lin? And he said it'd be a tragedy if something was to happen to her. I see it. I'm protecting Lin, and out of the way so I don't interfere with whatever Tarrlok has in mind.
A dark thought entered Khan's mind.
What if Tarrlok assassinates Lin? Saikhan would be in charge of the police force, which would give Tarrlok more power in the long run. This will end badly. Best course right now, smuggle Lin out of the city and to the island.
Khan grabbed his motorcycle (he bought one while in the city a while back) and headed towards the hospital. Upon arrival, he headed to see Lin.
"Hey Khan." Lin said.
Khan didn't say anything, but surveyed the room. He looked for anything that appeared out of place. So far, nothing.
"What are you looking for?" Lin asked.
"Just paranoid. It's good to see you too, Lin." Khan said.
Khan turned around to leave, but stopped for a second.
"If someone comes to give you trouble, take these." Khan said, giving Lin his sword and daggers.
"Thanks." Lin said.
Khan was still paranoid that someone would attack Lin. Only to intimidate him, which would be a bad problem for said person. That night, he listened to Korra talk with her friends.
"Yeah. Aang had his friends helping him. The stadium is shut down, but we're still together. The new team avatar." Bolin said.
"We got your back, Korra. And we can save this city." Mako said.
"Khan, you want to join?" Korra asked, noticing him.
"No thanks. Isn't my type of thing." Khan said. "I'll fight the equalists on my own terms. By the way. Asami, you have any more of the electric gloves?"
"I got some more." Asami said.
"Good. I'll take one." Khan said.
As team Avatar left to fight the equalists, Khan rigged a portable police scanner to carry around. He armed himself with Dao swords, mounted his motorcycle and headed into the city.
Khan overheard an outbreak by the equalists. Khan dismissed it, knowing that team Avatar would deal with the threat. However, another message quickly came, and this one gave Khan the chills.
"We got equalists at the hospital. Chi blockers and other unknowns are attacking the hospital. Multiple casualties. Any and all units, respond immediately!" was heard.
Khan raced towards the hospital, fearing the worst. He quickly entered the building, fighting several equalists. He grabbed one, threw him down the stairs, stabbed another, and ran towards another floor.
Khan heard screaming, as the equalists attacked anyone in sight.
"Shit." He muttered.
Khan crept closer to Lin's room and heard a thudding noise. Opening the door, he saw Lin pulling a sword out of a dead equalists.
"You alright?" Khan asked.
"I'm fine. Somewhat." Lin said. Then she collapsed, holding her gut.
"You're not alright. I'm taking you to air-temple island." Khan said, throwing her over his shoulder.
However, an equalists made his escape using Khan's motorcycle. But that didn't stop Khan. He ran towards the docks nonstop. As Lin went unconscious, she noticed that Khan's heart was beating like a drum that'd never stop, and he was running really fast.
"How did you become like this?" Lin muttered.
Khan stole a boat and made his way to the island. He knocked the door down, and headed towards his room.
"You'll be fine here." Khan said.
"What's going on?" Tenzin asked, approaching the both of them.
Khan turned around and calmly looked at Tenzin. He moved aside, and let Tenzin see Lin.
"What happened to her?" Tenzin asked.
"Equalists attacked the hospital. I killed several and rescued Lin." Khan said.
"Thanks for saving her." Tenzin said.
"You're welcome." Khan said.
Meanwhile, the lone equalists that escaped on Khan's bike made his way to Hiroshi Sato's underground workshop.
"Hiroshi. Make me some new plates for this bike." He said.
"Where'd you get it?" Hiroshi asked.
"At the hospital. Man, we got that bitch, Beifong real good. Along with the other benders in the place." The equalists boasted.
Hiroshi looked at the bike, and when recognizing that Khan owned it, he flipped.
"Get the fuck out." Hiroshi said, grabbing an electric glove.
Later, Amon called Hiroshi.
"You intimidated one of my men. Why?" Amon asked.
"He stole Khan's bike and attacked Chief Beifong." Hiroshi said.
"Oh…" Hiroshi said, before hanging up.
Said equalist was in serious trouble with Amon. Amon brought him in, and he was pissed.
"You know, I'm not happy. Not at all. It's not because what you've done, but who've you done it to." Amon said.
"Who, Khan? One man is no threat. He's a nobody." The equalist said.
"That nobody, is Khan. He's a superhuman. Stronger, faster, more endurable than anyone else. From what I've learned from the newspaper reports, he's a man of focus. Commitment. Sheer will and strength. I once saw him kill three of my equalists with a pencil. A fucking pencil." Amon said.
"And we're in the process of trying to take over republic city. He's siding with the police and Avatar. You attacked the chief of police, one of his friends. And steal his motorcycle." Amon continued.
"Amon, I can make this right." The equalist said.
"Oh, how do you plan on doing that?" Amon asked.
"By finishing what I started." The equlist boasted.
"Did you not listen to a word I said? Your dumb ass is going to die, and there's nothing I can do to stop it. Your stupidity may have killed this movement before we finished our plans." Amon said.
Amon produced a knife, and stabbed the equalist in the heart, killing him.
"I have no room for stupidity in my outfit." Amon said.
The next night, Amon witnessed from the shadows as Korra's friends were arrested by Tarrlok. Khan was deeply reminded of Admiral Marcus, and how he threatened Khan's crew to gain his cooperation.
"Tarrlok, you're a dead man." Khan muttered.
Khan followed Korra into the city hall, and observed the two benders fight. Considering how destructive it was, he choose not to get involved. But was stunned with Tarrlok stopped Korra dead in her tracks.
"You're a bloodbender!" Korra said, despite being in incredible pain from the bending.
"Observant." Tarrlok spat.
"It's not a full moon. How are you doing this?" Korra asked, trying to figure it out.
"There's a lot of things you don't know about me." Tarrlok growled, before knocking Korra out.
Khan watched as Tarrlok took Korra into a truck, and left. Khan ran behind the truck and followed its snow trails, eventually heading into a mountain region. Not wanting to get lost at night, Khan headed back to the island. He's continue the search in the morning.