Book Five: Resurrection

Chapter Five: Bonds

Beifong smashed her fist on the table. "We know you're working for someone! Spill it! Who is it!?"

Night Walker scoffed. "Again, with the yelling, can we not be sensible civilians?"

"Civilians? As of now you're a criminal."

Night Walker turned to the glass pane across from him. "Oh, right because of the fight...but to be honest with you i'd much rather speak with Korra."

Beifong got into his face "As of now you're in my custody, you will follow my rules!"

Night Walker sighed and looked up. "I hate the authorities always so commanding."

Beifong walks around the room "We already found quite a bit of information on you, you're 5'11, lived in many places around the fire nation, although you have a tanned color skin, and your real name is.."

Night Walker immediately cut of Beifong "Aah, ep, lalalalala not listening! I will only speak to Korra a la la la" He sung like an annoying child.

On the other side of the glass Mako, Korra, and Bolin were observing the interrogation. "Guys check this out, boy he's quite the traveler!" Bolin exclaimed

"Hey, knock it off we shouldn't be going through those files." Mako shouted.

"C'mon bro, isn't it important to know more about the enemy!" Bolin said pointing his finger at Mako.

"He, does have a point there." Korra mumbled.

"You're never on my side." Mako mumbled looking at Korra.

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Korra shouted back.

Bolin butts in between the argument. "Look at his name though it's so weird!" Bolin point to the paper over at Korra.

"For someone who's lived around the fire nation that sure is unusual…" Korra muttered.

Mako walked over to look "Well that's a J...and then an A" he said.

"Well, that's an M...an E...and a S?" Korra said in confusion.

Bolin confused flipped through to find more information "Well you guys can't be bothered by my distractions. Remember, you have an important interrogation to look over, right!" Bolin stuck up his nose and continued to snoop.

Minutes went by and Beifong got nothing from Night Walker. "Im, going in!" Korra told Mako while opening the door.

"Korra, wait!" He said only for her not to hear.

"There she is, I knew you would show up!" Night Walker praised.

"Wheres Asami and why are you camped out in the spirit world!" Night Walker thought for a minute then answered "Well, you did open up the spirit portal both ways did you not? And as for Asami well again she's at HQ and if you follow me…."

He was immediately cut off by Beifong "What do you make of us fools! Why would we follow you, into your home base."

Night Walker looked at Beifong and turned back over to Korra "Okay, well if I wanted to attack you I would've already done it, I mean you did tie me in metal handcuffs and bonds…"

Korra thought for a moment and mumbled "Metal...Handcuffs.." she turned over to Beifong who was now agitated by Night Walkers persona "He's a metal bender!" Korra blurted out.

Night Walker looked dazed by both Beifong and Korra "You...didn't already know, ugh my sword changed like so many times, never mind that look, see I already gave away my element of surprise what more would you like from me?"

Korra looked over to Beifong "No, cant really be considering.."

Korra cut off Beifong mid sentence "Its the fastest way to get to Asami!" Korra shouted.

"Oh, man you're right. Time is of the essence, there isn't much food in the spirit world so I haven't exactly been able to feed her…" Night Walker mumbled under his breath. Korra broke half of the interrogation table with her fist and asked "Would you care to say that again?" Night Walker looked up.

"Nope, no, nothing at all." He said nervously.

Beifong groaned and turned to Korra "Fine, I'll call over two guards and we will do a run through this HQ of his. While we do that, you can grab Asami and we will head right out understand?" Korra nodded in agreement. "It might take a while to get him ready to go. So if you have anything you wanna take with you, I suggest you do it now."

Korra looked at Mako and Bolin and thought to herself. "I might need to check in with Varrick. Make sure he's ready to warn President Raiko to evacuate incase something happens."

"Nothing is happening except for these goons' arrest." Beifong grunted.

Korra smiled. "Always did like your spirit, Lin."

Beifong crossed her arms and looked away."Just go already." She grunted.

Korra mimicked the solute jester. "Yes ma'am." She quickly makes her way out the Police station.

As Zhu Li held her clipboard close and began to mark her checklist, Varrick finished molding his metal plating together with a blowtorch. He lifted his protective mask over his head. "Whew! Halfway done hun. It's looking pretty darn good if I do say so myself."

Zhu Li cleared her throat, causing Varrick to turn to her and babble. "Uhh...of course I couldn't have done it without you, my precious desert flower…"

He squinted his eyes and made a box his fingers to take a closer look at his invention. "I wonder what we should call it…" He said as he turned to Zhu Li, only to find Korra standing in front of him.

"GAH! Where'd you come from!" He squealed.

Korra put her hands on her hips and grunted. "What exactly is this" She points to the machine.

"None of your business. That's what is!" Varrick replied.

Zhu Li raised a finger. "Uh, actually it really is. It's for..spirits." She stated.

Varrick groaned in frustration and turned his back to Korra.

The avatar walked around the contraption in both shock and aggravation. "What's this for? It looks like some kind of...weapon. In fact...it looks like Kuvira's colossus…" She growled.

Varrick shook his head. "Hah! That's where you're wrong! This is clearly smaller."

Korra crossed her arms. "I don't care how big it is. I wanna know why you thought it was a good idea to build something like this!"

"Well, all that talk about this 'Avatar whatyamacallit' really sounded like a pretty bad guy. So that got me thinking. You said he was a spirit…" Korra raised an eyebrow. "Yeah? So what?" Varrick began to tinker with his machine a bit as he spoke. "So...I used what was left of that spirit energy in Kuvira's spirity shooter and my humming bird designs to make this here man-powered, mechanical spirit fighter. Ooh! I think I've got the perfect name for it! THE SPIRIT BUSTER MECH!"

Korra's eyes widened. "You plan to kill innocent spirits!?" She shouted. "I want this thing destroyed now! I can't let you do this. Varrick shook his fingers. "And undo all my hard work. No dice! Look I know you get all hippy like when it comes to spirits. But when that 'Avatar thing' comes through and starts attacking, your going to have to make a choice. It's either them...or us." Varrick went back to his machine.

Korra sighed and looked at Zhu Li. "I'm sorry, Korra. But he's right."

"Everytime." Varrick added.

Korra shook her head. "I came here to warn you. I caught the man who took Asami. And he's leading The chief and I to the source of all this. I need you to promise me that in case we don't make it back, you have to tell President Raiko to evacuate the city as soon as you can."

Varrick put on his protective mask again. "Yeah, sure."

Korra lifted the mask off his face. "Promise me!"

"I promise! I heard you the first time." He exclaimed.

"Good." Korra then walked off and left the warehouse.

"Hmph. More reason for me to use this anyway." Varrick chuckled as he put his mask back on again and began to tinker with his spirit buster.

When Korra arrived back at the Republic City Police station, she saw Beifong and a squad of policemen dragging Night Walker to their military van. She walked towards them and looked at Night Walker. He smirked at her and winked as he was loaded into the back of the van. "We're all set to go, avatar. Get in."

A couple minutes passed by, Korra and Beifong got into the military van loading two guards, Night Walker, Mako and Bolin.

"Soo Night Walker huh?" Mako looked over to Bolin a bit angered by his decision to speak with the prisoner. "How is it you pronounce your unusual name?" Mako nudged Bolin and he sighed and turned around. Night Walker chuckled staring up at the roof of the car to keep amused.

Once they arrived at the new spirit portal, Beifong opened the back of the van and ordered, "Alright, look alive. Mako and Bolin, stand guard. We wouldn't want to be ambushed by anymore of his people. Men, with me." The guards quickly jumped and grabbed Night Walker up from his seat and walked to the portal Korra and Beifong Walked along behind them.

They entered into a realm of violet flowers and blue Glaciers "You're gonna wanna take a hard left." Night Walker mumbled to one guard.

They began to walk through the ice and into a pathway leading only straight path. "Hey, y'know if Beifong isn't paying you as much, I may be able to.."

Beifong yells from behind the group "Keep your trap shut!" They walk into a wide building with many inscriptions. As they headed inside, Korra looked around in awe and mumbled, "How in the world did you manage to build this in the spirit world?"

"Two years is a long time, Korra. Anything is possible when you got the right amount of gullible saps to get the job done. The trees here were really sturdy material." Night Walker said with a smirk.

They finally enter a room with spirits flying all around them and the end, two thrones and there seated were two entities.

One was much larger than the other, almost ten feet and had white scales surrounding its humanoid body. On it's head were two large, sharp horns and on its arm were countless spikes growing from the skin. Two huge black spikes stuck from his back. They might have been as big as Jinora.

The other creature was shorter and looked at them all with a more sadistic and sinister stare. His head held what looked to be six horns in total, each with a curved point and in between them were four antennas. His skin was a mixture of black and red. His arms were also covered in spikes but not as much as the other beast beside it. Each of their eyes had no pupils, just a blank white glow. They continued to stare at their visitors with anticipation.

"Here they are. My masters! Welcome to our somewhat humble abode" Night Walker shouted with a smirk.

One of the creatures spoke in what sounded like two voices. "Why are you in chains?"

Night Walker looked up to the guards carrying him. "Well, this was all part of the plan you see, there were a couple setbacks, but I managed to get us back on track!"

The creature squinted its eyes and frowned. "I see…" It spots Korra and sees the shock on her face. His smiles reaches the corners of his face. "You didn't…." Night Walker brushes off of the guards.

Beifong shouts. "Hey, Stop!"

Night Walker turns to her and shows his hands free of the cuffs. "Nuh uh, not so fast. We still have a ton of explaining to do!"

Korra's eyes expanded coming to the realization of who the entities were "Your, the one who Iroh was warning me about!" she exclaimed.

The creature walked down from its cave. "And you are the Avatar!" He looks to Night Walker and laughs happily. "Well done, my boy. You kept to your word. I knew you would come through one day."

Night Walker turned to face Korra and the others. "Well I may be a criminal, but I'm no liar!"

Beifong was quick to shout "You lied about there being a passcode and that Asami would be here!"

Night Walker pointed at her shaking his fist "Right, well one of those are actually true. Now if you would let me get to the whole evil backstory part and do your job and cower, I can release your damsel in distress!" Night Walker began to pace around the front of the thrones. "Well, you see the whole 'Plague' thing was something I created. You see we needed people. And to make people do things we have to give them something to believe in, and thus Plague was created."

"You lied to that innocent girl..." Korra clenched her fist. "Her...family."

"Yeah they won't get any better now. Poor girl." Night Walker sarcastically.

Beifong cried out "That doesn't explain why your aligned with these beasts!"

Night Walker nodded his head and continued speaking. "As, I was saying! The three sisters you see were all pawns in this...mission. I feel kind of bad actually...told them the medicine for their sick family I promised was in the building where we first met…" Beifong scoffed and looked at Korra in confusion who listening carefully to what he had to say "And as for Asami well.." Night Walker points to the ceiling where Asami was held up in vines.

"ASAMI!" Korra shouted from below.

"Korra...please...help me!" Asami choked as the vines squeezed her body tighter.

"Yes, Avatar...I know of your little companion here. I know that her father died from a giant metal hand crushing him to death." The creature chuckled. "I'm sure it wasn't easy to clean that mess of the streets, was it, Mrs. Santo!?"

Night Walker quickly looked over to his side. "Wow that was dark…" he mumbled to himself.

Korra self consciously shouted "You monster! I'll make you suffer!" Korra gritted her teeth furiously and raised a fist, preparing to burn the creature in front of her to a crisp.

The dragon looked at her and grinned. In an instant vines similar to the ones holding Asami shot down and wrapped around her arm. "What…" She grunted as more of them wrapped around her body and pulled her onto the ceiling. She viciously struggled to free herself. "What...is...this!?"

"These aren't the same vines you see around your city, Avatar. Everything in the spirit world belongs to me now, including you!" The dragon grunted.

Beifong ran to her aid but the dragon saw her coming from a mile away. "Omega!" He barked.

Just then the other creature who had been sitting on his throne leaped in front of her. He landed with a boom, sending shockwaves around him. The two guards trembled a bit and drew their metal blades from their wrist.

"Great now things have escalated more than they needed to.." Night Walker said with a sigh.

Omega looks at his foes and roars causing the guards to tremble even more. The other dragon yelled from behind. "Omega! Now that we have the Avatar in our grasp, we can finally enter the surface."

Beifong quickly looked to the guards and shouted "No, Do not let them near the portal at all costs!" Beifong rushed in, getting Omega's attention. He growls and airbends at her, sending her crashing through the door and to the outside.

As he made his way to finish her off, his arm is snatched by one of the guards' metal wires. He roars again and pulls the guard to him. He grabs his face and throws him to the other, knocking them both down.

Omega runs down the hall and reaches the outside. His sniffs the air for her scent grumbling as he does.

Using the element of surprise, Beifong drops in front of Omega and cuts his arm, drawing a scream of pain. "Come on, you freak! Give me a challenge!" She shouted.

Omega snarled and slashed at her with his claws. Beifong moved to the side to avoid him, but feels the tips of the attack and tries to go in for a close hit. She manages to slash his cheek but he snatches her blade and snaps it in two. He grabs her by the arm and hangs her high above the ground. Beifong tries to raise her other arm to rip a boulder from the ground to use it against him. The dragon grabs her other arm and holds her still. He growls as he head butts her fiercely, knocking her unconscious. He airbends her to the side of the glaciers and traps her in the ice.

Night Walker looks at the dragon in front of him. "I think that's your cue, Alpha." He whispered.

Alpha mildly chuckles and looks up at Korra. "I'm sure you are wondering why we haven't killed you yet." He hollered.

Korra grunted as she struggled even more. "Why don't you get me down from here and find out!?" She blasted a stream of fire from her mouth.

Alpha puts his hand out and blocks it from reaching him leaving the rest to spread around the cave.

Night Walker uses his metal to shield himself. "Hey, watch it! Don't crease the suit."

Alpha smiled as he explained to Korra. "We are now on our way to the material world. After we walk out that portal, we'll destroy everything you love! Just as you did to us!"

Korra stopped struggling and looked at him in shock. "I...never did anything to you…"

Alpha cut her off immediately. "Silence! I know of your Avatar cycle, Korra. You may not have killed our father in this life, but I know you did in your past life! Now if you'll excuse us...we're off to kill your loved ones! And I'll enjoy saving...Mrs. Sato for last."

"No! You can't!" Korra cried.

"You just wait. After we finish our fathers work...we will finally end your misery." Alpha laughed as he walked out the throne room and headed outside. He patted Omega on the back. "You did good brother." He looks at the two guards still on the ground. "But next time…" He shoots lightning from his finger frying them both. "...finish the job." Omega look at the guards and sighed. "But there's still more work to be done." They both walk through the spirit portal.

Night Walker looks up to see Korra's eyes filled with tears he lays up against the wall "Man, things got awkward real quick." he groaned