Authors note: A very long chapter, you've been warned!

Jun (2 hours before Khai's kidnapping)

"Your problems don't concern me Jun, this, Khai of yours doesn't impress me one bit and since he's not a bender, he does not peak my interest.", Amon said. The light howls of the wind whipped, down the corridor of the Jaded hotel, a very expensive but classy hotel that Amon liked to use for his private meetings.

"I know, but this man is important to me and he must be caught!", Jun implied. The hooded, masked man, the leader of the Equalists, starred down at Jun, he had no idea what this Khai person was and he could care less.

Amon didn't want to be bothered by some, minor detail of a Equalist turning on their own. It's true he came from a powerful family but Amon knew his dad, he knew Bao and knows that he would never betray him. Besides, what could a mere young adult do to their whole plans? He had know knowledge of them, he was to weak to stop anyone by himself and the mention of a member of The Pride's murder did not amuse him either.

The Pride to him were nothing more then just nationalists trying to get support for their own selfish cause. In fact Amon liked having them around, they were disgracing the WLP and assassinated their VP, if they continued the Equalist party would have more reason to recruit. As long as Amon was around he could care less what happened to his officials that worked in the districts, just mere pawns doing his paperwork of propaganda, he was the real prize.

"This Khai, is your annoyance, not mine! I still have to deal with more of my Revelation speeches, let alone I have the avatar on my back, the last thing I need is some brat whose barely 19 to worry about!", Amon shouted. His mask was of an emotionless face, only symbolized with a red circle on its forehead.

Jun didn't want to argue, not after all he's accomplished in his years of medical experience. Loosing all that and knowing that Khai and his family are still alive, would completely leave him with nothing. He would be crushed beyond repair, as much as he hated to admit it, he needed the Equalists.

"Yes, sir", Jun said, saluting to his superior.

"And what of this Porter person? I understand he comes from the same place as Robertson?", Amon asked, voice intrigued but heart enraged with anger.

"He's just a minor setback sir, you have nothing-"

Amon shot up from his chair, he had been sitting behind a mahogany desk, "A minor setback?. Jun, anything that has to do with that man, is no minor setback!", Amon paused slightly and an awkward silence filled the room, "I want Porter captured now, so far were in league with Robertson but only because of his technological advances! He protects us, we cooperate and I will not have this city fall under his command when we have accomplished so much. The era of true Equality has begun, we will not stop fighting for what is true equal, do I make myself clear?", Amon finished.

"Yes, sir but we have Porter already, he has already been treated with a new mixture of mine.. and Robertson's, but he will surely not survive the hallucinogens that he has come in contact with. They are of a high dose, and are very deadly.", Jun said. Amon paused for moment, scrambling through his drawer he pulled out a stun baton, and gave it to Jun.

"We have nothing left to discuss, my Lieutenant will show you out.", Amon said. Just like Amon's last words, Jun walked out of the room, unimpressed, angry, and obedient.

Khai (present)

I finally started to pull through. A jolt of pain continued to ripple throughout my body. I had no idea what time it was and with my whole body aching from numbness of those stun batons, I really couldn't care. If I were to even think about moving I would instantly feel the after affect of the baton's devastating electricity burns, that had been left on my stomach.

I had already been removed from the satomobile, my hands still cuffed together, I sat diligently along to far side of the long metallic room. The air was thick and hard to breathe, I panted and gagged for air. My eye sight blurred for a moment, going in and out. I could see a door. At the long end of the room it stood still but I still couldn't move but my arms weighted me down, my legs heavy, and my body numb.

Don't worry, the effects will wear off.

My mind was talking to me, but honestly I didn't know whether this was a torture or if I was going insane. My vision got a little clearer but nothing in the room different then what I witnessed while unconscious. Darkness surround the long four metal walls and cobwebs infested every corner.

Your a murderer! A monster! A deceiver!

My mind became violent, whatever had happened to me during my abduction was making me hear things. My eyelids became heavy, my brain pulsed uncontrollably, and my heart tried to break free of it's internal prison. It took me every once of force to move my head, I spat on the ground. My mouth overflowed with drool, whoever had abducted me had neglected to give me water. For some reason for all my life, I had always needed more water than anyone. I had just been like my father.

Your father, Your Brother, Your just like them all!

My father. This was probably his doing, determined to punish the failure of a son he "attempted" to raise towards his liking of a bender hating prick. My brother. Should I even blame him or was he taking order just from my father, he was taking order from somebody. Was it still his fault, does he hate me to? I laughed to myself, why do I care? He was probably going to be the one ordered to finish me off, I didn't like to use hatred as a method of extra energy. Honestly, i'd rather to the work myself. I needed to become strong and I wouldn't give up without a fight.

Do you even know who I am Khai? Do you remember me? Do you know what your family fucking did to me!

That voice it wasn't mine. I wasn't going insane after all but it seemed so familiar. My eyes, blinded by the flashing lights as they all came on at once. I could start to move a little without the effects of a stun baton going throughout my body. Apparently, according to my brother, stun baton's have a more lasting and painful effect on non benders.

My eyes blinked uncontrollably. The whole room was empty, no tables, lockers, or even camera's had been in the room. The only thing that decorated the walls were cobwebs and grime. There had been a long and reinforced window that I hadn't spotted before that connected the two rooms together, however the room wasn't empty.

Two Equalist soldier stood in an respected stance, as if waiting for nearby orders. Their lit green goggles shown furiously through their mask. However, most of my attention had been on the man in the middle, he was around my age, scruffy blonde hair, and wore an Equalist officers robe.

"The days since Kyoshi have been good to you, well that was before my friends found you that is.", a slight evil laugh had escape his mouth. I had found myself panting hard but rapidly gaining my strength back, the shocks have started to wear off, and fast.

"Who are you?", I asked exhaustively.

This had seemed to anger him, he swiped his hand across his forehead, pushing the hair out of his eyes. He let up off the speaker button, he whispered something to the guards standing next to him and they left without hesitation. His face had come up in my mind a million times in my mind but I added the College of Kyoshi to it and it all came together. However my mind filled with confusion.

"Jun, your Jun. You never talked."

"Well I'm glad you remembered so much of me. But yes I never talked, never had anything to say. Especially to you.", Jun said. It was if I could almost see the anger coming out of him, but what did I do to offend him? Whatever I was here for, I didn't want to look weak. I used some of my strength to get to my feet, I grunted as my muscles seemed to be straining.

"Please don't hurt yourself, that's my job."

"What the fuck do you want with me, we barely spoke! I've done nothing to you!", I shouted.

There seem to be a short pause in his voice but when he spoke he spoke with great irritation and absurdity, "Are you kidding me! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE!", he paused, leaning his head forward on the glass and slammed his fist into the window. I thought he was going to pass out at first, his body stumbling back and forth, using his other hand to stable himself.

"Your families a bunch of murderers, your brother, you father. Now I finally get to kill you..", he said. At that point my heart stopped, I knew my family was bad but murderers? I didn't think they would go that far, no they could, I refuse to believe they would stoop so low. Then again I couldn't sworn I saw my brother on the day of the attack on Kyoshi.

Jun's fingernails dug into the glass, after years of isolation and oppression he would finally get what he wanted. Then after he dealt with me, he would go after they rest. I won't let you get away with such unjustly acts Khai. I will kill you today!, Jun thought, pressing his nails further and further into the glass, chipping looked back up up at me with blood lust in his eyes, he pressed a button on the control panel on his side of the room.

I could here the locks on the door pull away, the metal door immediate swung open but retracted slowly.

"The door is unlocked, go and we will meet shortly.", Jun's voice teased with aggression and hate. What could I loose, my whole families burden was on my back and I barely knew anything about it. The sad part was, it was probably true. Despite my hands still being cuffed, I walked only slowly to keep my strength in my legs. However I never got to the door alone, the two Equalist soldiers that had once stood by Jun had been waiting for me. They grabbed me and kept me close to them, releasing my wrist of the metal cuffs that had once surrounded them, they held my arms around my back, the pain shot through my arms as they tugged further.

I grunted softly as we walked down the metal corridor. Steam had shot out from pipes, it burned worse and worse as they shot out onto my wrist. My jacket had been removed, probably for weapon searching. I had on my red shirt with my darkened jeans, but they had done a number of ruffing them up for reasons I will never understand. My face and body was bruised and sore, ripple of pain often came from my torso area and other from my face. Burns of the stun batons had my left their marks as well.

It wasn't long until I was forced outdoors, I has been shoved without any information on my whereabouts or what I was suppose to do but the one thing I had on my mind was Jun.

This guys insane, I've never spoken to the guy let alone murder his parents!, I thought, trying to get sense of things. Was my family really responsible for the murder of his?

I was forced into a what seem to be a general compound of shipping crates and boxes. Pallets stacked on top of one another until they had began to topple over. However this wasn't normal, it was like I had been in hell. Papers, posters, and old news articles had been posted on every inch of the wall. The scary part was that this compound wasn't an actual compound. It had been set up, maybe for a duel, maybe for an execution arena, I don't know but I could tell from the stains of blood on the cement ground that I hadn't been the first one here.

I could see the edge of the compound from my side. It hadn't been very large but it hadn't been real but I had been completely boxed in. For all I know it could've been storage. I walked forward, gradually taking step by step, being very cautious for I didn't know what to suspect around any corner. The torn articles that made up of the walls all read the same thing, "Family of four slaughtered, one missing" or "Murder of WLP family, increases tension". One picture actually showed the dead body from the autopsy that had been done on them, but something told me that those weren't in the news paper. It didn't matter where ever I was, was made for slaughter.

"Impressive huh?", Jun's voice rang our throughout the boxed compound, echoing off every wall which made it hard to decipher where it had came from. I immediately swung around, my heart jumping beats like crazy. This wasn't my fault!, my mind screamed to convince myself of the murder I was accused of, but in my heart, somehow I knew I was guilty.

"JUN! Come out, please! I know you have a lot of hatred in you right now but we need to talk about this!", I shouted. I didn't direct my voice towards anyone. Did it matter? I couldn't even see him.

"Talk.. I've heard all the talk, I've seen the evidence! And that evidence talked back Khai. It had been your family that killed mine, why should I be the only one that suffers? WHAT ABOUT YOUR FATE?", Jun's voice shrieked with pain and sorrow. It had reminded my of the demon that I had fought, possessing Kessen, a member of the bending supremacist group known as The Pride.

I backed up against the wall, still unaware of his location I tried to slow my heart rate down by breathing slower. If I'm going to fight this guy, I need to be prepared and focused.

"I'm forced to hide myself because of you! My uncle died a while ago.. so know I'm alone. But it won't be long now, soon you'll feel like me! My pain, my suffering for years! You'll finally know.", Jun began to get hysterical but still even if he didn't know the whole story, I needed to defend myself by all means necessary. I ran, my heart running faster then my feet, I tried to dodge around every blood stained obstacle I could find, but everywhere I went seemed to be the same old pallet, crate and giant metal box.

I stopped and rested my arms on my knees, I couldn't keep this up. I was only loosing energy for no reason. I swiped my hair that had been in my eyes, I didn't even know when I had taken a shower last, I could feel the knots as I ran my fingers through my greasy hair. I had wandered into a forest of tires mounted on one another just for the sick purpose of someone to hide behind, and then end it all right there and then.

A trailer stood at the end of the what seem to be a labyrinth of tires, a white rusted trailer with its windows all boarded up. Its paint peeled but made an excellent factor to strike fear in someones heart and mind. The thing that I liked though was that there wasn't any blood on the tires or at least none that I could see anyways. It could have blended in nicely, Jun what the fuck is wrong with you, I asked myself, as if he would respond within my own mind, but he did in reality.

"Your a coward, you hind behind your lavished wealthy life, while others die from your political hand, stand and FACE ME!"

"Where are you?"

"STAND AND FACE ME!", Jun voice was more terrifying then ever at this point.

"Then where the fuck are you Jun!", I strained my voice, my blood boiled inside me, my own personal adrenaline rushed and it seemed all time stopped and then, my heart froze entirely.

The trailer door opened and a man, dressed fully in a black Equalist robes, and a mask that ripped my heart out. I started to sweat in fear, that mask was like staring into the eyes of a pure demon, I felt the inside of my chest heat up exponentially. It had an armored round helmet on top but the face was that of a gas mask. It's spiraling eyes were enraged with anger and it's mouth held chambers for the actual oxygen breathers.

He wore a black hood over the metal helmet, this mechanized gas mask was the new technology for the Equalist party and a shipment like this could change the entire outcome for the revolution. This new Mechanized Equalist Soldier (MES) was Jun. His suit would drop any armies moral directly to zero and with a whole Equalist army with this technology, they would be unstoppable and would be a pain in the ass for Avatar Korra.

Jun shrugged, pulling out to what to be a small pipe but with a quick flick of his wrist it turned out to be a thin 6 foot retractable spear, a devastating weapon for Equalist assassins. Which had now been aiming at my throat.

"How does it feel to be in presence of death itself Khai? How do you feel, please elaborate on your pain.", Jun said. The gas mask had even made his voice sound more robotic.

Dammit! How am I suppose to beat him with only my hands, should I play it safe?, I didn't know how to settle this, maybe I should just fight, "Wait Jun, I would never kill anyone, I swear. We never even spoken in school, why the hell would I murder your family?", I tried to ask.

"You've never killed? Really, I bet Kessen and that man at Kyoshi College would still be alive if it weren't for you", Jun said taunting my with every breathe he took.

"That was differn't Jun! Kessen hurt my friend, or so I thought. And the man at Kyoshi was attacking Kya, an innocent bender! Why are you working for these people, when you know they deal so much violence to the world!", I shouted.

"To get to point A to point B, blood must be shed. Lives of the false innocence and immoral assholes that corrupt our world must be killed off to achieve full salvation. How do you think we'll obtain true peace Khai? Tell me, by standing around? Action must be taken, salvation must be secured for true peace Khai, and the immoral shall be forgotten.. forever!", Jun praised. A scary thing that annoyed me was that I didn't even know what side he was truly on. Was he just using the Equalist party to achieve "salvation"?

I didn't even speak not would he let me talk, he charged my and in the suit he surprisingly moved fast. He brought back his arm, getting nearer to me he started to thrust out his arm, the spear inches from my neck, but it would soon be a lot closer to the tires. I ducked nearly just in time but felt a tiny breeze of air swipe against my cheek, which could have easily been the blood from my neck if I didn't take quicker action.

The spear dug itself tightly into the rubber tires and was hard to pull out, even for Jun but my chance was there and I took it. I stepped out of the way, twisting my hips, I executed a perfect round house kick to his ribs but my expectations were much, much higher then it should've been. My foot connected yes but with the metal plating of his under armor which I hadn't notice.

The metal split my shin, it was if I had just kicked a metal pole.. but with my shin. Jun slammed his elbow into my leg, the blood curtailing twisted pain burned deep. He immediately followed up by slammed his fist into my chest sending me back into the tires, but he wasn't done. I grunted heavily as his fist closed tightly around my throat, gasping and choking for air, my throat begged for the pain to stop.

"You must realize that the world is done with you, your a useless human who desire for violence must stop", Jun said. I couldn't stop thinking about the irony, as Jun wanted revenge and my death, as he was praising about achieving peace. In the situation that I was, I could help but laugh, which had surprised Jun. Even though I couldn't really see his face, my change of attitude had definitely confused Jun.

"J-jun", I couldn't say anything else. His hands had been fitted with thin metal plating but enough to feel it crushing my windpipe. I wrapped my arms around his grabbing his elbows and I purposefully fell backwards. The tower of tires rolled, and we crashed onto the ground, our limbs tangled up but still we were thirsty for blood.

I would try and convince him by any means necessary, even if that meant knocking him conscienceless. Jun lifted himself up and starred at me, his demonic gas mask showed know emotion but it was only a shield for Jun's true devastating emotions.

He came after me, his fist swung wildly but with great force. Every block I made, forearm or just palm is didn't matter, it had left a stinging pain and a pulsing bruise. I caught one punch, ignoring the pain I followed up with an elbow strike to his chest. I struck metal but it wasn't as bad as my shin. I repeatedly bashed Jun in the chest but this time I was getting messy and unorganized, following up with fist, palm, elbow, and hammer strikes hoping to do some damage.

The only thing I was doing was pushing him back but only about a couple centimeters. I focused my energy on my last elbow strike, curling my fist into my chest, I lashed out. To my disadvantage he had already seen this coming, catching the strike in a single catch with his other fist around my other wrist, struggling to get free.

Dammit Jun!, he had begun to turn my elbow inward, my skin going the opposite way, burning with agony with every centimeter his fist got closer to my chest. He lurked forward and my back started to bend inwards. His face was nearly over mine, I shouted in pain because I had accidentally put pressure on my injured ankle, sending a warm stream on blood down into my shoe and soaking into my sock.

I bent down on my uninjured knee, resting my my bloodied ankle straight on the ground. His dark mask leaned over me, ready to silence me for good at any second, I hollered in pain as he bent my arm inward, my skin began to split, blood ran through my arms. His armor and new technology was to strong, I would be afraid that the MES units would be to much for even Porter.

"Your a coward, your mind betrays you into thinking you someone your not! Your hopeless, spineless, soulless, you'll never fit into this world and anymore Khai, my world.", Jun said, his mechanized voice echoed in my head, but I will not give up.

"Dammit Jun, I'll prove to you I didn't kill your family! Even if that means I have to break every one of you fucking limbs!", I was the loudest my voice had ever gone. My new serious attitude had kicked in and it had been fierce with new pride, original pride.

I fell backwards once again, my hand still around Jun's, he toppled over with me. However, since I was planning this, he had landed on my good foot instead of my whole torso. Pushing up with my foot I threw the bastard over my whole body, he flew and crashed into a metal bin, his metal crashing into the other pieces of scrap metal that had been in the bin.

I had struggled with the kick. I had only used one leg and I was hauling the iron giant over my whole body. I got to my feet as quickly as possible, blood rushed down my ankle as I got up, leaving a small pool of blood in its place.

My whole body was soar, I was clutching my arm, trying to keep as much weight of my foot as possible, and trying to survive the tin man. Not knowing where he was at, my mind only focused on one thing I needed to possible defeat Jun. I had once tried to remove Jun's retractable spear from its prison within the tires, once before but Jun's hand that had been around my throat had the advantage then.

I kept hopping, the spear only a few feet away from my hand. I stumbled a bit, only to my luck I had caught myself on the spear. The extra push I need to defeat Jun but that was only a false glimpse of hope for I tugged and tugged as hard as I could. I cursed, the retractable spear had been lodged deep within the tire, I couldn't pull it out.

Straining my arms I pulled harder only to feel the presence of another person behind me. I turned around in horror to see the mechanized soldier standing right behind me, his dark gas mask gazed down upon me, he hadn't even bit bruised.

"If it means anything to you, I've been behind you.", Jun said mockingly. He shot out his arm, his fist nailing me in my solar plexus. I flew back onto the ground and grunted in severe pain. I didn't know what to do, I usually had a plan but know I had just been crawling backwards with my bloodied hand clutching my chest. My free hand dug into the warm gravel, reaching beyond and hitting the dirt.

"Jun, I never killed anyone. I don't know how your family died but you just can't blame mine!", I said. He didn't reply. I had pulled myself just enough to have had reach the trailer steps, Jun had been walking the whole time, shouting obscenities the whole way, trying to break my spirit.

I had managed to lift myself to my feet, bringing myself up by holding the handle on the trailer door. Jun began to laugh deeply.

"You know your place Khai, so why don't you go there. GO THERE AND BURN!", Jun shouted and walked faster towards me, but he had already provoked me enough.

"FUCK YOU!", at that point all of my pain could just go to hell. My eyes locked and pierced through his metal mask. I knew he was like me on the inside. He wanted to become stronger and he would choose any target just to get it, like i did with my own father and brother. However, that didn't excuse the fact that his family was murdered by mine, as he accused me of.

I launched my whole body at him, I tackled him, our body collapsing and kicking up dirt. My wrist had gone around his neck and I repeatedly slammed his head into the ground, cursing the whole time. His arms flailed all over, trying to get a good grip on me but he was to disoriented.

"Listen to me! Whatever happened with your family, I'm not involved with it but my relationship with my father and brother is my problem, not yours! If they had anything to do with your family's murder, then I'll handle it, I have enough shit to deal with it so just get the fuck out of my damn way!", I slammed is head again into the ground once again to make sure he gets the point.

"You don't know what it's like Khai, loosing your whole family in a single night, changing your name and living with you dying Uncle. How could you even imagine what I've been through. You were born with everything and that attack I called out on Kyoshi was merely just to get to you, I wanted the Equalist party to fall from what they've done but yet their popularity remained the same, lucky for you right?", His voice had changed, it was calm and soothing and slight brush of sorrow had come over him, I had great sympathy for him but was replaced by anger.

My knee was on his chest, as he laid still in the gravel. My fist up high, as if it was ready strike again but I knew it would only hurt me.

"Why? Why would you deliberately call upon an attack which killed young adult? People like me died because of you, your own classmates! How they hell would your own people agree to such a thing?", My mind was boggled, unaware to comprehend the motive. Jun laughed.

"Classmates? Oh get over yourself Khai, I called that attack to destroy the Equalist Party, not kill kids for the fun of it. And if you think I had any sort of relation with the students their your just as stupid as the avatars plans to fight Amon alone, he can take away bending you know." Jun had immediately changed the subject by I had still been on course.

I would be lying if I said Amon's new ability hadn't intrigued me but I was still focused on Jun's story, for I was not a bender so it didn't even concern me, "Why would you disown your own people?", I asked, which only made him laugh harder.

"Boy, you really are a dumb ass aren't you? (I slammed his head into the ground once more, which had shook him up pretty good), hey it's not my fault you can't keep up. Your family, both brother and father are important people in the Equalist party, true it makes me want to slash my own throat to work for them but I just need to get a little closer, and get the Equalist a little more chaotic then usual. Just to the point where they shake themselves apart and there won't be anymore political leader. I've always hated Amon but work is work, so once he's killed by the avatar or some other poisonous accident, I'll take charge and bring a whole new meaning for the word salvation!", Jun said.

I was shocked and amazed, that he could even hold such evil inside him but he needed to be stopped. I hadn't even noticed his left arm, free and moving incredibly fast, a fierce sharp pain had entered my ribs.

I hollered in pain and rolled off Jun, who had helped to push me off. Jun got up, unharmed, twirling a medical scalpel in between his fingers. Drops of blood, ran down the blade and onto his fingers, dropping softly onto the dirt. I screamed in pain, a third body part had been bleeding severely, except my hand and shin had started to heal.

"You see Khai, your weak", Jun said as he raised his scalpel higher, bringing it down for one last strike. I hadn't additionally seen the last strike but I could remember tiny spots of blood appearing on my face, a quick hollow scream echoed throughout the abandoned compound. My foot recoiled, a perfect side kick had struck Jun in the middle of his stomach sending him flying back into his own retractable spear, still sticking out of the tire but now through his chest.

The tip dripped blood and Jun grunted. He got quieter and quieter but everything eventually got silent. Not even a bird chirped on this day. I couldn't help myself feel bad for Jun, my family had caused him so much pain that it had eventually killed him. I laid on the ground, I had found myself to weak to move but now I knew I could relax. I swear to honor Jun though, I will bring down the Equalists, my father, and my brother. By any means necessary.

"A good fight Khai, I must admit I underestimated your intelligence and strength!", The body said.

My blood froze, my whole body went numb, and my eyes were locked onto the dead body of who I thought to be Jun.

"I'm sorry I didn't get to fight you personally but rest assured your death will come, right now I have more important things to do, this was just to see you abilities in combat. To defeat a MES soldier, is impressive but try fighting a whole army of them, you barely killed one!", Jun's voice had come from the Mechanized gas mask but still no movement.

I looked up, on the roof on the compound building, a bit away from here was a man in a brown cloak, accompanied by another man wearing the same outfit. A speaker and transceiver had been implanted into the mask, and I had been fighting a random Equalist soldier. Jun had deceived him, Khai had been pitying Jun but in reality, Jun could have killed him at any time, he had underestimated him!

"Coward!", I screamed as loud as possibly could with the little energy I had left.

"Call me what you wish Khai but I had more important things to accompany to.", Jun tried to say more but was interrupted by a blaring alarm that had come across the intercoms.

"Speak of which, I have to go, Monna your with me. Let's leave our friend here to bleed out while he can."

They left in a blur, my head woozy and body exhausted from fighting.

I will regain my energy, I will fight Jun, and I will win, but this time I must not underestimate him. He had played me like a fool.