Okay, next update. I might get another one in after this, or at least I will aim to. Thanks for all of you who are reading! I hope I can do this story justice, 'cause sometimes the ideas get all jumbled up in my head.
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They all settled down in a room that only contained a long table with lots of chairs around it. Chairs that had wheels. Chairs that, Korra soon figured out, spun.
She gave it an experimental twist, her face the picture of perfect astonishment. Then she pushed her chair away from the table, and spread her arms out. Air streamed from her hand, causing the chair to spin faster and faster. Suddenly, it stopped. The big one, Thor, had a hand on the back of her chair, and was smiling at her.
"Young one, you should know that too much of the spinny chairs causes the previous meal to reappear. I speak from experience." Korra gave a laugh, before noticing that the rest of the room was staring at her.
"What?" she said defensively. "All the chairs back home are completely stationary."
"Great," groaned Tony. "Another one from somewhere else. Where you from, kid?"
"My name is Korra," she said, crossing her arms. "And I'm from Republic City. It's in another world."
Fury cleared his throat. "If we could start this meeting, then I could inform you all of Korra and her abilities, as well as why she is here and where she is from."
Korra pulled herself back over to the table. Fury stepped over to a glass wall, pressing a few buttons. Then information flooded the 'wall', which was really just a really big screen, Korra later learned, and that it was full of all of their (the Avengers) info.
Fury tapped a section and a very tiny portion of text popped up. It was Korra's, of course. The rest of the team quickly scanned it before they all looked at Korra.
Korra found herself going on the defensive, something that she felt that she had been doing a lot of lately. She sighed.
"I'll give you guys the abridged version. I was in my world, where there are four nations, earth, fire, water, and air. The air nation is very small, due to a recent annihilation of sorts that they are just recovering from. Anyway, some of the people in this nation can manipulate their element to do their will. The Avatar is someone born into a repeating cycle who can bend all of the elements. I am… or I was the Avatar." Korra took a deep breath at that, feeling some of her usually forward nature deflate at the thought of once being anything.
"Then, in our big city called Republic City, there was a man named Amon. He wanted to take away everyone's bending, to make everyone equal. He also had the ability to take away people's bending, which only Avatar Aang has ever had. Anyway, there was a big war, you could say, and since it was my job to keep world peace, I had to fight it. With my friends of course, but that's beside the point. We defeated Amon, but my friends and I were all killed. The next Avatar should be born by now…" And with that, Korra trailed off into deep thought, completely ignoring the looks of everyone in the room.
Tony looked in awe, Steve and Bruce were both concerned that anyone as young as this girl was fighting and dying in any war at all. If Natasha and Clint were impressed, they didn't show it, only studied Korra all the more closely. Thor was just staring into space, probably thinking about food or something inane like that. People Korra's age fought all the time in his world, why would this be cause for concern?
Fury yanked them all back to reality by saying, "We need to get down to the ground to assess Korra's ability, so I need everyone to file to the Helipad accordingly. Korra, if you will follow me, I will get you some acceptable clothes."
Everyone complied, with grumbling only on Tony's part. Korra followed the Director down several long hallways, questioning everything in sight. Once there, Korra had some rough fabric pants called jeans thrown at her, and a yellow t-shirt. Yellow. Korra then asked for something in blue, trying-but-really-not-trying to irritate Fury. A blue t-shirt was immediately thrown at her, along with a baggy shirt called a sweatshirt that was also blue. Once Korra had donned the clothing, she was given a backpack to hold everything else.
Korra flatly refused to take off her boots, though. And when the director suggested that maybe they should do something about her hair, Korra pinned him with an icy-blue gaze that even he felt slightly uncomfortable with.
Once on the helicopter, Korra got restless. They had been in the air for what seemed like forever, and while Korra was an airbender she wasn't an airbender and she really wanted to feel something solid underneath her feet again.
Tony was quizzing her nonstop about technology in Republic City, and Korra found it very irritating. They had electricity, and they had Sato-mobiles, but that was about it, and no Korra didn't have any clue what a computer was and what in the world was a mobile phone?
Steve visibly brightened at Korra's complete lack of knowledge in all things modern, and started questioning her more about her culture instead of the lack thereof.
It was about this time that Korra realized they had stopped steadily dropping in altitude and looked out the window. Then, she couldn't stop the all-too-childish grin that spread across her face as she saw that they were near the water. The ocean.
"How far inland is this place where I'm gonna show off?" Korra questioned innocently.
"A few miles," replied Natasha. "Why?"
Korra eyed the distance to the ocean, thinking hard. Then they started to drop in altitude again, and she could see the land not that far away. She looked down at the ocean again, and saw that they were about fifty feet above it.
"I'll meet you guys there, ok?" she said, and before anyone could even guess what she was about to do or even make a move to stop her, she launched herself out the door and into open air.
She could hear their astonished gasps and one call of "Korra!" before she drowned it all out in a delicious snort of laughter. She fell freely for a moment, and then with years of practiced ease formed a perfect dive. She brought her arms forward, and then slashed them up, bringing a funnel of water to meet her halfway.
Then, with a half-mad cackle and barely a splash, she plunged into the sparking, rippling ocean.
Korra could have cried in happiness, if she did things like that. This was her element, this was water, and she was loving it. She surfaced quickly, waving at the helicopter to make sure they knew she was okay.
Before she knew it, she was riding on a self-made wave toward land, zigzagging and looping all over the place. All too soon, she reached the shore. After bending all of the water off of herself, she started jogging inland, where she could see the field where the helicopter landed.
Upon examining her surroundings, she noticed that there was a city not too far away that would have positively dwarfed Republic City. The buildings were huge. By the time she had finished gawking, she had arrived at aforementioned field.
"What were you thinking?" yelled an irate Captain America. "You could have been killed!"
Recognizing a worried temper-tantrum when she saw one (spirits knew that Tenzin had them often enough), Korra just let him yell before calmly stating, "I've jumped off of way further up platforms than that, believe me." And then she turned and walked to the center of the field without another thought.
They gathered over near the helicopter, watching her intently. Korra had a sudden flashback to when she was younger, training at the compound with all of the White Lotus members watching her.
She knelt down, placing one hand on the earth beneath her to calm her sudden influx of nerves. Suddenly, she jumped into action whipping around and sending a spurt of fire at an unseen enemy. Stomping her foot, she sent two pillars of rock flying up only to have them sliced to bits by two water whips that flew into existence.
The water was then immediately swept into a vortex of air that Korra spun around her before freezing the water into an ice wall. With a kick and a slash of her fist, fire flew out to vaporize the ice, and she created a ball of air for her to ride around on, circling so fast that she created a tornado that she sent tendrils of fire creeping through.
After that, Korra lost herself in imagined battle, letting instinct and training take over. Her mind went into a kind of haze of fury and sadness as she blew of steam the only way she know how: action.
Korra didn't know how long she 'fought', she only know that when she was done, she dropped to the ground panting with near exhaustion and wiping sweat from every ounce of her body.
She jumped a mile into the air when Clint whistled low from right next to her, and she leapt up again, forgetting that she had an audience and automatically dropping into defense mode from sheer habit.
"Easy, there, tiger," said Tony. "That was quite a show. Somehow I think you were doing a little more than just showing off."
Thor was looking at her a little too closely, but he didn't say anything and Korra found herself feeling surprisingly thankful that he kept his mouth shut.
"So," said Korra, clapping her hands together. "Fury said something about a tower where I will be staying. Care to share?"
As they all trooped back to the helicopter, Korra found that while the 'fight' had been kind of relaxing in an I'm-too-exhausted-to-move-any-more kind of way, her brain was whirring non-stop, and she was really beginning to realize that she was alone in a way that she had never been before. There had always been Tenzin, or Mako and Bolin, or even Naga. But now she was completely alone.
It was then that her mind latched onto one of the things that Aang had told her.
"You will even be joined by three companions, who you will find when the time is right."
Korra sure did hope that the time was soon, because she was lonely. Maybe she could ask Aang later, when she had time to stop and meditate.
And this is where I leave you for now. I may take a computer with me on vacation, and then I could upload there, but that's questionable for now. Stick around, please. I will update as soon as I can get all of my ideas straight and on screen. Thanks.