The moment Aang's thumb connected with her forehead it felt as if a dam had broken. Her energy began to flow smoothly, and very strongly. Light overtook her eyes and wind began to circle around her, cutting the restraints. The Avatar had returned.

"Do you know what you need to do, Korra?"

"Yes." the emotionless, harsh, voice answered. With all the decisions made, the spirit of Aang turned to the sky.

"Yue, please." Witnesses didn't know whether to concentrate on the humanized force of nature at was the avatar, or the moon that began to show brighter than anyone had ever seen. It brought the night to the same brightness of a cloudy day.

"Impossible." Amon was stunned...just stunned, but a fiery roar and a strong wind blowing him into the ocean below was all it took to make him realize that now would be a good time to panic. It hadn't taken any of his people that long, as they were already well on their way to shore. But they weren't the avatar's concern, she was solely after their leader. Without putting a single thought into it, he created a water vortex to bring him out of the ocean. The power from the moon gave him a surge of energy and he lashed out at his enemy.

Emotionless at the brutality that her opponent was showing, the avatar brought up a wave to intercept the attacks with very little effort. He whirled around to attack from a different angle, but he was intercepted. He tried again. And then again. Every attack proved to be as useful as the first. The moon enhanced Korra as well, but she also had the help of her past lives. So, like any wise man, Amon made a run for it, trying to propel himself out to sea, but the avatar created a wave that forced him into the city. Gathering up every drop of water, the most he'd ever worked with, he made a path of ice along the street and skated with all his might. When he exhausted his supply, he used the water in the city's storm drains and ran further.

Fire licked at his feet, causing him to move faster. Air pushed him off of his ice path, so he would create a new one. The earth disappeared in front of him, forcing him to take another path. All he could think about was why she didn't just finish him off?

"What's that Commander?" The ship's captain asked as they both looked through their scopes. A spotlight illuminated a mast of a anchored ship, and tied to the mast was a person. A Water Tribe woman by the looks of it. All of the sudden, the woman's eyes opened and glowed. Even out at sea they could feel the raw energy irradiating off her.

"That, my good Captain, is a fully realized avatar." Bumi grinned like an idiot , "Haven't seen one of those since the Eastern Raiders trapped my entire platoon a desert cave. Boy, was my dad upset!"

"Do they even need reinforcements anymore?"

"We'll be there if they do. Now, all we need a masterful plan." A light came down on them. They looked up, ready to reprimand some newbie for shining a spotlight on them, when they saw the sky change it's colors from a black night to a grayish day, "Or we could just use unnaturally powerful waterbenders, that could work too." Bumi smiled, guessing the effects this strange moon would be like Sozin's Comet for waterbenders, "Waterbenders, to the shore. Advance!" The commander shouted with a crazed smile and pointed arm. Every waterbender, including the captain, jumped ship and sped towards the mainland, "Those new machines won't stand a chance. Wahoo!"

Bolin and Iroh kept their heads low while waiting for the united forces, something that was excruciatingly hard to do. Something that became unbearable as an unconscious avatar was being hoisted up the mast. It'd been devastating to know that Amon got to Korra, too, and the young earthbender couldn't stand for it. He wanted to do something stupid, he would have, too, if not for his cousin putting him into a headlock.

But as they observed their enemies from their hiding place, the flag of the anchored ship started to whip around without an incoming breeze, the ropes snapped, and Korra freed herself. They watched in amazement as she flouted up.

"Look at that! She's still a bender. Yes!" Bolin cheered so loudly that it gave away their position, not that it hurt anything, no one was paying attention to them. Then the ocean was lit up by the moon, "Is she doing that?"

"I don't think so." Iroh replied with wide eyes. Eyes that got even wider when they saw the equalist leader start bending water.

"Wow, what a day, huh?" Then Bolin thought about it for a second, "Or...water day, right?" Silence. The joke was even enough to make Iroh break his train of sight on the two benders to give his best tired glare, "Right. Stupid joke. I'll just shut up now." Oh, who was he kidding? Watching his friend go all avatar on Amon's ass was just too exciting, "Go Korra!"

Lin put the dart of her whip through the hand of an equalist and pulled her to the ground. The woman screamed in agony, but not for long as the handle of whip met the woman's forehead and knocked her unconscious. Another guy kicked her knee as she went to retrieve the weapon, she went down, but shifted her weight and used this new position to leg sweep the man, bringing him down to her level and knocking him out in the same fashion.

With a split second evaluation, she realized that the equalist reinforcements would be too much for them to handle. She was just about to sound the retreat when light suddenly illuminated the street. The combatants instantly stopped their attacks, many of them in mid-punch, to look at the spectacle. With the glow of the strange full moon, Lin would've thought it was a dismal spring afternoon.

"Waterbenders!" She broke everyone out of their daze. Water flowed from the storm drains and to the benders' hands, and then at the equalists with alarming speed and power. The tide had just been turned in their favor and the opposition was defeated in a matter of minutes. Lin looked over the flooded streets and fallen enemies, and with a grateful smile, turned her head toward the moon, "Thanks again, Yue."

"Look out!" Someone shouted. Lin looked both ways so that she'd know whether to zig or zag. In the zig direction, there was no immediate danger. In the zag direction, a wave had just turned a corner and would surely drown anyone in it's path. Zig it was. She jumped off the street, when the wave landed, it turned to ice. And soon after a masked man came sliding down it. Lin's eyes followed him as he continued to run.

"Amon!" So Tarrlok had been telling the truth. What was could possibly make Amon blow his cover?

"The Avatar!" What? Whipping her head to the direction that Amon had just come from, she saw a somewhat familiar sight. A fully realized Avatar. And that fully realized Avatar had the equalist leader on the run. But...didn't she see Korra lose her bending at the arena?

"Amon's going down!" Kewi cheered along with the rest of her officers. Lin shook her head at their enthusiasm, but she couldn't stop the smirk from reaching the surface,

"Go get 'em, kid."

"Come on, Chief, we gotta see this!" How? Only the waterbenders could even hope to catch up to those two. As much as she would love to see this, as much as she's been waiting to see this...she'd have to pass and hope someone got a photograph.

"No. Get to the docks!" She shouted, the order was repeated at least twenty times by a dozen different people, but finally, the march towards the docks began. They'd help the United Forces, then with their combined manpower, they'd finish taking back their city.

A crowd was gathered at city hall, everyone listening to the loudspeakers that were hooked up to the radio news station. The newsman was rattling on a mile a minute, but nothing seemed to be cohesive. First, the avatar had been equalized, then she wasn't. Earlier the police radicals weren't a serious threat, now they were. The equalist air force had been out, but an aircraft was seen flying away from the city just a few minutes prior. They had no explanation as to why the moon was so bright. With no clear answers or leadership, it was close to a full scale panic.

Amon saw the crowd and tried to go the other way, but he found it impossible. The moon dimmed and now left without that power, he couldn't even run. She broke his ice trail with earth, evaporated the water with fire, and threw him into a speaker post with air. Her plan to simply play owlcat and bunnymouse finally made sense. She wanted him to show his bending to as many people as possible, and ruin any chances for him to revive his cause.

The crowd gasped as the equalist leader was shown to be nothing but a waterbender. The moon no longer held the light of day, but the lampposts surrounding the block effectively illuminated the man's struggle as he found himself encased in earth.

"Amon." the avatar's voice, a voice that sounded so cold to everyone's ears that it sent a shiver up many spines, "You have used lies and fear to upset the balance of this city. Now you will be equalized." One strong hand gripped his shoulder, the other tore off his mask. The supposed scar was running down his face thanks to the dip in the ocean. His final lie exposed. Korra's thumb came down on his forehead like lead and he finally felt the pain of all his victims, "You will not use your bending to hurt anyone again." The light in her eyes dimmed. Suddenly, Korra's legs couldn't hold her up anymore.

"..." Alright, so apparently the United Forces had this one covered. The ocean water was up to Lin's ankles while she stood on the broken docks. Bits and pieces of mecha tanks laid all around her. United soldiers rummaged through the mess with lanterns and flashlights, taking prisoners and helping the wounded.

"Don't think they needed the help, Chief." 'You think, Kewi?' Lin thought sarcastically.

"Help the wounded." She had to find Bumi.

"Yo, badgermole!" Speak of the spirit. She rolled her eyes as she turned to the voice.

"Bumi. We need to gather what forces you can spare and get to Headquarters."

"Already on it, Ma'am." He stood straight with salute, but the grin gave him away, "We'll be shipping out in ten minutes, Ma'am."

"Good." She'd ignore his childish antics, he wasn't worth the effort at the moment.

"Oh, and your boy's over there."

"Bolin's here?"

"Oh, yeah." he stuck his chin in the air with pride, "Boy takes after his uncle."

"Damn." What the hell had her boy done this time. If it was anything Bumi would do, it couldn't be good. Heading off to find her son, she decided to use the direct approach, "Boy!".

"Mom?" He was facing away from her, his concentration on the boards he was lifting, "A little help?" Rushing over, Lin helped him lift the heavy weight up and over to the side, "There you are!"

"A sealhound?"

"The last of the wounded. Come here, boy." Bolin beckoned the animal. It tried to obey, but something was wrong with it's right shoulder, "That's okay, I'll come to you." It whined as it was picked up and brought closer to the lantern light were a medic would take care of it as soon as he finished with his human patients, "Oh, you're a police sealhound." he saw the police insignia on it's leather collar, "Psst, I'm a fugitive. You won't turn me in will you?" The criminal asked as he rubbed the sealhound's head soothingly. Lin rolled her eyes at her son before coming around the other side so they could talk face to face.

"What the hell happened to you?!" Lin finally got a good look at her son, and he didn't look good. Bruises and cuts covered nearly every visible surface.

"I'm fine." he waved her off. She glared, he caved, "I... may have jumped off an airplane-but it was close to the water!" he made sure to add that little tidbit. If his mom thought he'd jumped off an aircraft while it high off the ground, she'd kill him, "Besides, it barely even hurts."

"That means it's gonna hurt like hell tomorrow." She warned him. His lower lip moved to form a pout,

"I know." he whined. Tomorrow was going to be a very bad day.