Weeks of street fighting rained havoc on the citizens. Most of them attempted to flee as the triads and the Equalists were fighting dirty with killing not only each other, but the innocents and few metalbending officers left in the city. News had even reached the Fire Lord's ear that a reporter from Caldera City had his bending taken away and then was strung up to die in the streets. The Fire Lord's warnings only fell on deaf ears as the Avatar and Amon pushed aside worries of intervention.
The United Forces' navy took what people they could to the Fire Nation before being attacked by the Avatar. The ships were left in the harbor as a reminder to those that tried to oppose her. The soldiers and sailors were later given an ultimatum of joining her or going down with their commanding officers.
The Earth Queen soon started to blame the Fire Nation for the fighting in Republic City, stating that the Harmonic Restoration Movement was a failure and that the Earth Kingdom would soon work on retaking their former land.
Fire Lord Izumi was forced to sending a telegraph to the Avatar, asking her to stop the nonsense or she could not promise that the United Republic would cease to exist. Her telegraph was quickly answered. It arrived after her son returned to the Fire Nation and it was an answer she expected from Korra.
LET THEM COME STOP WE ARE READY STOP TELEGRAPHS ARE OLD STOP STOP USING THEM TO CONTACT ME STOP PICK UP THE TELEPHONE LIKE MODERN RULERS STOP WE DID NOT SPEND ALL OF THOSE YUANS FOR THIS (censored) STOP IT COSTS ME MY PERSONAL MONEY TO SEND THIS STOP EAT A COOKIE BEFORE YOU HAVE A STROKE FOUR EYES STOP LOVE KORRA STOP
The Fire Lord's father let out a great sigh after reading it. All he could do was advise his daughter on the next set of actions. No one was going to be happy.
It had been another long day as Amon walked the halls of his underground base with his lieutenant beside him. Two of his masked followers were trailing behind them before stopping outside of the leader's room.
"The Avatar doesn't hide her location very well. We could gather for one final fight and take her out." The Lieutenant said.
"Or you can stop there."
The two leaders of the revolutionist group stopped to see the Avatar sitting in Amon's chair. She and two of members of the triads were standing behind her. All three of them were wearing Equalist uniforms without the masks. He could tell that taller one was a probending firebender at one time and the other probably was some Red Monsoon deputy. The two Equalist that were following them stepped in and turned out to be waterbenders too.
"Give up Noatak. You had your fun run. Let me finish it for you." Korra said with her legs crossed on the table before her.
"Noatak? What is she talking about?"
Amon hushed the man, "So you came to finish this here, I presume?"
"Can't two siblings have tea at first before we try to destroy each other?" she said as she held up a tea pot with one hand under it.
"I am not interested in tea."
"Alright." She responded before pushing herself back and kicking the table out at the nonbenders.
They avoided the table as the metal door was slammed shut and locked from the Avatar's power. Amon started his attack at the Avatar, ducking and pushing the two benders out of the way before swinging out at Korra. His attack was neutralized when she bended the two benders to collide into him. She removed her henchmen to attack the masked man while he was on the ground.
Amon knew he was stuck. Without revealing who and what he was, the masked leader knew that he was about to receive quite the beating until his sister decided she was bored with playing with him. He knew that he could rival his sister's talent but doing so would lose his followers.
He was engaged with his fists, trying to work his way out of the room until the electric weapons of his lieutenant hit him in the back. Korra had no remorse on which fighter she used as a weapon against him. Then he was lucky with hitting her with a punch. Suddenly she forgot her urge to mess with him and dropped the two Equalist on the ground with a flick of her wrist.
"Alright City Boy," the Avatar smirked, "Want revenge for your brother? Give Amon's henchman the taste of his own weapon."
The firebender looked slightly disturbed and in pain from being tossed about.
"You want me to shoot him with lighting?"
The Avatar nodded, "And while you do that, talk me through it. I want to learn how now."
The young firebender looked slightly worried and surprised. He was a bit hesitant until the Avatar's grin changed into impatience. Then he began to talk through the steps, producing enough lightning to cause pain.
"Show me again."
A sickening feeling came to the masked revolutionist as his follower continued to receive the vicious attack. Right before the firebender released his arm tensed up and an explosion went off. It knocked the Avatar over and Amon continued to hold the triad members under his mercy. They all fell to the ground as he got to his feet.
Korra struggled to get up after the explosion. She laughed through her pain, "You finally decided to reveal your nasty secret."
"No one else in this room will make it out to tell. I will make sure to end their lives."
"Tsk, tsk," the Avatar started shaking her head as she got into a fighting stance, "No one gets to kill my men in front of me but me."
The walls came crashing in. The masked man rolled out of the way before using one of the Avatar's men as a shield from her fire attacks. The triad member screamed in pain before being tossed away by his boss. Amon was forced to sway around the fire blasts before the same, now unconscious, triad member was thrown into him. It was a duel between the two best bloodbenders in the world and everyone else in the room was only a weapon to them.
The Lieutenant watched with a conflicted mind. While he despised the Avatar, the utter betrayal of Amon tugged at his values. He was fortunate that they had forgotten his presence and continued to lie down as the fight continued. The triad members were taking the brunt of the fighting and for that, he was happy.
Amon managed to overpower his sister's bloodbending with his own, knocking her to the floor. He stood above her with a clinched hand, "I do not think that your past lives will be as willing to return your bending this time, little sister. You were lucky the first time."
Korra grinned as he stepped closer. She waited for his hand to extend before recovering control of her own body and tore a bit of the wall off. As the metal went into its new place in the opposite wall, the man's hand followed.
"This was fun." She responded as she got back to her feet, "Too bad I don't have any more brothers to do this with. Get up City Boy! We have a victory to present to the world."
A silent mover, often with someone in person to narrate, circulated the world showing the identity of the masked man. People watched it showed the grinning Avatar take away the man's bending to show his followers the fraud he was. While the Equalists were still fighting, it was less coordinated now. Their spirits were broken after hearing who their leader was. The Avatar also declared that she would not forget those that fought against her. The Red Monsoons began searching for former Equalist members and made sure that they 'disappeared.'
With the Avatar having full control over the younger nation again, triad members had free reign to do what they wanted as long as Korra allowed it. Very few former benders were given their power back and they were mostly members loyal to the Avatar.
The Family of Blood was what their collective name was called. People were stunned to find out that all three of the infamous gangster's children were in Republic City and all had at some time tried to rule.
Korra decided to embrace it and renamed the Red Monsoons to fit the name. The only triad that continued to fight her was the Agni Kais. The firebending triad would become the next focus until word about the Earth Kingdom's army arrival. The former factories of Future Industries and Cabbage Corps were back to work after they could find workers.
He could not believe it. After spending two whole days rehearsing, Mako was shut down as soon as he mentioned that his brother's bending was still gone. Avatar Korra hushed him and told him that his brother was not a concern of hers. Actually, she did not return bending to anyone else that had lost it. They were tossed aside as second class citizens like the rest of the nonbending populace.
And after all the work he did for her!
"Wake up Bo!" he shouted after entering their apartment.
"Wha- Did the Avatar say that she'd give me my bending back?" the former earthbender asked as he rubbed his eyes.
"No. We're leaving this city. Someone has to stop her. She's completely nuts."
Bolin jumped up from his bed, "Oh no. You've heard the stories. She'll make sure we're dead."
Slamming down two bags, the firebender started to fill them with what clothes they had. He then paced around the room.
"We have to try Bo. Someone has to stop her."
The brothers would wait until nightfall before heading east to the border. The Earth Queen would do something, right? That was the reason for her armies coming? Either way, Mako was not going to stay and he was unwilling to leave Bolin.
For those that have an issue with the telegraph, I used the word stop to signify a period. From some samples I read, it was used. Other telegraphs I read did have proper punctuation. I thought stop would be fun...