Tenzin, Opal, Iroh, and Naga stood at the bottom the tower that Korra was on the top of. Mutants stood guard around the building not letting them get close but not attacking them either. Lin, Mako, and Tahno pulled up on the scene jumping out of a jeep.
"What's going on?" Lin asked walking up eyeing the mutants that were scattered around the building. Iroh gave her quick run down about everything.
"Damn any ideas?" Tahno asked looking around for any openings.
"No since they are not easy to deal with." Tenzin huffed.
Their attention was grabbed when a spirit portal was opened. Before they could think about it Korra had leapt off the building. "Korra!" Opal shouted as a white light blinded them. When it was gone Korra's body impacted the ground creating a huge crater.
"Fuck!" Mako yelled as he was snatched up by Naga so he wouldn't get crushed in the crumbling and crackling ground.
The mutants surrounded the crater as the three from the task force was placed back on the ground. "Shit!" Lin yelled as Naga charged in not caring if the others were coming or not.
Lava suddenly shot out of the ground and pooled around three mutants melting them down. Ice shards and a bullet of water took down two more. They looked back to see Bolin, Eska, and Desna running up. There was no time to question it as Bolin punched the ground sending several mutants flying in the air.
"Hurry! We need to clear the way so Naga can get to Korra and get her out of here!" He yelled making them move into action.
Naga growled as her path was blocked again. "We got it from here!" Mako yelled as his electrical blade ripped through one blocking her way.
Naga shot up in the air but was quickly surrounded. Opal and Tenzin were there in a second sending them flying away. She darted her way over to Korra's lifeless body. She went to pick her up but Korra's body repelled her sending her flying a few feet. She shook it off with a growl. She opened a portal below Korra's body but Korra didn't not pass through it like she hoped. She growled in frustration as she walked back up. Ice formed at her feet as she walked around Korra's body. The ice touched Korra's body but she didn't repel it. Naga coated her teeth and muzzle in ice. She carefully picked up Korra's body up her strong jaws. She looked around and for a opening through the fighting. She made eye contact with Desna and he nodded. He turned spiraling up towards the sky creating a ice tunnel. Naga wasted no time in escaping through it. She made in through just in time before a mutant burst through it alerting the rest to her departure. The mutants were ready to give chase but Bolin raised a huge slab of earth blocking the way.
"Don't forget about us!" Iroh shouted sending fireballs flying at them.
Naga busted through the garden's door and made her way through the house. She Korra's body wouldn't be able to phase through the building. Jinora was there to meet her leading her down to the lab.
"Lay her down there." Jinora said pointing to a cleared up table.
"No!" Naga yelled pulling Jinora back by her arm. "If you touch her you'll get pushed back through that wall. It has enough force to push me back a few feet."
Jinora nodded taking her arm back. Jinora stared looking Korra's body over. "Since we can't touch her do you think maybe you can encase her whole body in ice?"
"Won't that hurt her?" Naga asked unsure. She didn't want the avatar to freeze to death.
"No she should be fine. Her body doesn't seem to be reacting to anything." Jinora said walking away to get some equipment. "I need to do some test on her."
Naga nodded and set forth to wrapped Korra's body in ice. "Where are the others?" Carter asked as he watched Jinora came back to the table.
"They're still out there fighting those things." Naga growled. Just thinking about it had her wanting to go back out there and kill them all.
"We can watch her if you need to get back out there and help." Carter offered.
Naga shook her head. "No they can handle it but I do need to go and but up a wider barrier. One that will be more useful to us. Do you think Ember and Kuvira will want to help out. I'm not saying that you two can't handle it. It's just that if something goes wrong again we'll have extra help."
"I understand." Carter said nodding. "I'll see what I can do." Naga whined taking one last look at Korra's body before leaving. "Will you be fine here by yourself?" Carter asked going over and bumping Jinora's thigh with his shoulder.
Jinora smiled down at him petting behind his ear. "Yes I should be fine. I'm only going to be scanning her. Plus I have all the alarms set so if something goes wrong I'll call you back in a hurry."
"Hopefully I'll be quick." Carter said opening a portal. Jinora gave him one last pet before he leapt into the portal.
"Shit. What should we do?" Kuvira asked Ember as they looked around at the chaos that was unfolding in the city.
"I'm not sur-" Ember was cut off by a bright light.
"Fuck! What was that!" Kuvira asked trying to adjust to her eyes after the light was gone.
"Avatar." Ember gasped beside her not put off from the light.
"What? The avatar? She did this?" Kuvira asked confused looking around.
"No something has happened to her." Ember said warily as she looked around.
"Kuv!" Baatar yelled running up beside her with Wu. "Are you ok? Once the it was clear we came as quick as we could?"
"Yeah are two ok?" Kuvira asked eyes running over Wu to assure herself even as he nodded. "
What's happening?" Wu asked looking flinching as things blew up and went off in the distance.
"Ember said something happened to the avatar. So I can only guess that The Restarters and the task force are fighting right now." Kuvira said looking down at her spirit who looked like she was ready to bolt into action.
"Is that so?" Baatar said activating his spirit eyes. "The spirit energy is going crazy." The other to activated theirs as well.
"We should be there helping or I should as least." Ember growled as she started to pace.
Kuvira bent down to pet her. "Hey if she needs us she can call for us. The avatar has the power to call out to bonders if she needs to." She said trying to calm her down.
Ember jumped back away from her touch. "Not if she's hurt and unable to!" She sneered making Kuvira jump in surprise.
She frowned. "Hey I'm-"
A portal opened in front of them and Carter jumped out.
"Carter!" Wu yelled in surprise.
"Oh good there's more of you." Carter said and Ember jumped to his side.
"The avatar!" She almost whined.
Carter bumped her with his head calming her. "That is why I am here. I need you and your bonder."
"Need us?" Kuvira said standing back up.
"We need help guarding the avatar. She's hurt badly and everyone else is out there fighting." Carter said then looked over at Wu and Baatar. "It would be greatly appreciated if you two came along also. Extra hands would be welcomed at this point."
"Alright." Wu said and the other to nodded.
"Good lets go." Carter said opening a portal. Everyone followed ending up behind Jinora.
"Wha- Jinora why are you here?" Baatar asked confused.
"I'll explain later guys but I assume Carter has told you why you're here?" Jinora said as she scanned Korra's body.
Ember came up beside her. "Is she going to be alright?"
Jinora finished her scan and sighed. "I'm not sure her body is going through some kind of comatose state."
"What happened to her?" Kuvira asked walking up and getting a closer look. "And why is she ice."
"Because her body isn't letting us touch her and-" Jinora sighed sadly. "And she absorbed a bomb into her body that was a smaller version of the spirit portal bomb." Ember whined ears dropping as she went back to Kuvira's side.
"How good can you guys sense spirit energy?" Jinora asked breaking the silence.
"I'm very good at it if I focus." Wu said stepping forward.
"OK can you do that right now? We don't know if the enemy has something else up their sleeve or not. And I would rather not have anymore surprises like them knocking on our front door." Jinora strained as she pulled up the security cameras. Wu nodded as he took a seat on the floor and got to work.
"What would you like us to do?" Kuvira asked wanting to help out too.
Jinora looked down at Carter and he nodded already knowing what she wanted to ask. This would be his first time bonding with someone else but it was okay with him. He trusted Baatar. "Baatar I know you're probably only use to bonding with earth spirits but would you bond with Carter? I want you to go see if Naga needs help putting up her shields." Jinora asked. She saw everyone snap their heads to the avatars body. Only Kuvira turned back to her with a question dancing on her lips. "Later I promise just right now no questions just roll with it okay." Jinora pleaded because it wasn't the time to tell them and she didn't think she had the right to tell them.
"Ok then what would you like me to do?" Kuvira asked instead of what she was dying to know.
"Can you bond with Ember and stay here? The elements seem to be the only thing allowed to touch the avatar's body. If something does happen before anyone makes it back you can grab her and escape." Jinora explained to her friends.
Carter trotted over to Baatar and brushed up against him. Baatar smiled and scratched behind his ear. "Thanks for allowing me to bond with you." He said before they bonded. They waved before they were up and floating then phasing through the wall.
Kuvira and Ember easily bonded. They went to stand guard by the avatar's body. Jinora glanced at Wu who was still sitting on the floor with his eyes closed. She wondered how far out he could see but even ten feet in front of him was better than nothing. She sighed and looked back at her scan results. Everything had turn to shit so quickly.
"I think that was the last of them." Eska said slipping down her ice ramp.
"Alright good." Lin said closing her eyes. "I'm not sensing anything. What about you guys."
"No it's all clear." Tenzin assured her.
"Then you think it's safe to go to Korra now?" Opal asked as she floated in the sky scanning the area.
Lin nodded. "Yeah I that's a good idea." She turned to Mako and Tahno. "You two can head over there as well. I'm going to regroup with the force and the police. I want to get a report on everything."
"Chief are you sure?" Mako asked not liking the idea of her being alone.
"Don't worry kid." She said waving him off.
"Yeah I'll be going with her." Iroh said from his spot beside her. "After all I'm her hired hand." He said smiling at them.
"Hired?" Tahno questioned. It was to much of a mess before to worry about why the General was there at the moment.
"Yeah I needed more people I trust without a doubt and Iroh happened to be free." Lin said pulling up a screen on her Sato watch. "Anyway get going I'll be over when I'm done." They sensed they were dismissed so Tenzin opened a portal for them. Lin watched them leave a she called her wife.
"Lin! Oh thank goodness that you're ok but Mel and even the kids say they sense something is wrong with Korra!" Kya said in a panic as she answered.
Lin smiled happy that she still got to hear Kya's voice it meant she made it. "Yeah I'm fine and how did the new brats know Korra wasn't alright?" Lin asked as Iroh and her made their way to the thrown over jeep.
"Oh um-" Kya said unsure what to how to explain it.
"Well whatever. Can you get over to their place?" Lin sighed as Iroh flipped the jeep back over and jumped in the drivers seat.
"How bad is it?" Kya wondered as Mel appeared at her side.
"I'm not sure myself just yet." Lin said as Iroh maneuvered through part of the messed up city.
"Alright we'll be on our way but Lin get looked at." Lin was about to protest but Kya cut her short. "And don't try to lie about it. You know I felt it. Why you even try yo lie I have no idea." Kya said frowning as she shook her head.
"Okay." Lin said laughing a little. "I need to go."
"Oh yeah so do I. I love you." Kya said right before she bonded with Mel.
"Love you to." Lin said ending the call.
"Where to first?" Iroh asked swerving around a hole.
"You tell me you're in technically in charge." Lin said smirking as he rolled his eyes.
"Whatever it's just the two of us." He mumbled. Lin could be so difficult sometimes.
Lin barked a laugh. "Still the same I see kid. Take us to the rest of my men. I had them retreat so it would be less casualties."
"That's better." Iroh said smiling at her as he speed up.
"The others are coming." Wu said alerting Jinora, Kuvira, and Ember just as a portal opened and The Restarters came through it.
"Someone else is coming but I can't recognize their spirit energy." Wu said frowning.
"It's my sister." Tenzin said relaxing everyone as another portal opened and Kya, Ikki, and Kai came through. Everyone unboned except for Kya who walked up to Korra.
"Is she repelling you when you touch her?" Kya asked running a hand over the ice.
"Yes." Naga said as she phased through the wall with Baatar and Carter. They unboned and went to stand with everyone else.
"I know you're worried about her but you should go get yourself healed." Kya said patting the large spirits head that came to her shoulder. Kya looked over to Eska and Desna who both had little water spirits at their sides. "Will you to ask the spirits with you. If they don't mind bonding with you again so you two can heal everyone? I need to focus on Korra for a bit." Kya asked smiling at them.
"Of course." Desna said turning to the little spirit beside him. Who was all to happy to bond again.
"Go on." Kya encouraged Naga who whined but went over sat in front of Eska.
Kya turned back Korra and melted the ice but kept Korra's body submerged. Korra heart beat was there but it was weak. White lines were spread out over the parts of flesh Kya could see. The amount of spirit energy floating inside Korra right now was way more than her usual amount even when she was in avatar state. Kya was surprised that her body was holding up. That explained the lines on her skin. It must be the spirit energy trying to leave but what could have caused it. "
Korra saved everyone." Bolin said from beside her. Kya glance at him out the corner of her eye. "She took a bomb that was the smaller version of the spirit portal bomb into her body to stop the explosion."
"Yeah and I think she's in some type of comatose state or that's at least what my scans say." Jinora said speaking up from her spot behind Kya.
"Yes that's right. Her body has trapped all of the explosion inside of her. That's why she's not waking up. Her body is probably dying and fixing itself just as fast. I don't know when she's going to wake up or if she will at all." Kya said returning the water to its solid state.
"So what do we do now?" Opal asked holding Juicy close to her chest.
"Well there's nothing we can really do besides keep a close eye on her." Kya said as her and Mel unboned. She carefully took the spirit into her arms cuddling it. "Besides that I think we can all relax and get our bearings. It looks like we have new people to add into The Restarters. And that means a long explanation."
"She's right and we have the best shields up and enough people to handle a situation if something goes wrong." Tenzin said looking over at Korra. "Naga you are more than welcome to stay down here with her. We all understand." He said petting her as he went by.
One by one they all filed out and made their way upstairs. The spirits stayed behind however and surrounded Naga. They cuddled up to her as she rested her head on the ice that held Korra.
Asami didn't move for what felt like hours from behind the flipped over table. She wasn't scared of spirits. The thing that had attacked the spirit in her office however did scare her. It looked deformed and nothing like any spirit she had seen before.
"Asami!" She heard her mothers voice shouting for her.
That's when she forced her body to move. However as soon as she stood up her crumbled back in on herself. Pain erupted from her chest and traveled all through her body. Then it was gone as quickly as it came.
"Asami!" Her mother yelled again as she came to her child's side. "Come one we've got to get you out of here." Yasuko said as she helped her up.
"No wait! Somethings wrong with Korra!" Asami gasped trying to catch her breath. "It was just for a second but I felt it."
Yasuko gasped when she seen tears in her daughters eyes. "Ok well first lets get you someone where safe then we can worry about this Korra." Yasuko said guiding her daughter out of the room.
"My people are they safe?" Asami said looking around for anyone.
"Yes I had them all evacuate." Yasuko said forcing her daughter to move again.
Asami had been none stop pacing in front of her mothers couch for a while now. Ignoring anything her mother was offering her even not bothering to rest. She had been trying to call Korra leaving her message after message. And even her friends but no one was answering.
"Honey you said she works with the police so she's probably not going to be able to answer since she working." Yasuko said trying to get her to sit down again.
Asami fell beside her mother with a huff. She sighed into her hands. "I know you're right but it's so hard to just sit here when something's wrong."
"Hey if you don't feel anything anymore then she should be fine. Right?" Yasuko said wrapping a arm around her shoulders and pulling her close.
"Yeah." Asami mumbled reluctantly.
"Now get some rest. I'm sure you've had quite the day." Yasuko said running a hand through her hair.
"Whoa." Baatar said after Opal had told them everything.
"Yeah who would of thought that Korra was the avatar." Kuvira said as she held Opal close.
"Apparently the spirits new." Jinora said leaning her head on top of Kai's.
"Well of course they would know. They're spirits." Ikki said rolling her eyes as she played with Mako's fingers.
"Yeah anyway um can we stay here tonight?" Kuvira asked sheepishly. "It's just that I don't think anyone wants to leave their partners side right now." She explained quickly as she looked at Tenzin.
Tenzin looked around the room and side. "I guess it'll be alright. It's what Korra would have wanted anyway."
"Someone's coming." Wu said opening his eyes from where he sat next to Tahno.
"It's Lin." Kya said smiling as she stood up.
"Well I hope she's the last one so we can all relax." Bolin said as a portal opened.
Lin stepped out and unboned. "Thanks again Lily." Lin said as she pet the little butterfly snake spirit.
"No problem." Lily said.
"I'm going to the others." Lily said going to the other spirits and Korra.
"Lin!" Kya said jumping into her wife's arms.
"Hey." Lin said kissing her and Kya giggled. "So I guess we're staying here tonight."
"Yup." Kya said smiling at here.
Lin shook her head as she went to go sit down. Kya happily got situated in her lap. "Alright tell me what I missed."