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"Lieutenant Song, where is Sergent Beifong?" Said chief Beifong, walking into her office.
"Not sure Chief. She's two hours late." Stated Lieutenant Song, standing at attention.
"Send a patrol car to my home and call master Katara on Air Temple Island, see if she knows where Lin is." Lieutenant Song left her office with a salute, closing the door behind him. "Where are you badgermole?"
A knock at her door interrupted her thoughts. "Mum?"
"Come in Suyin"
The thirteen year old walked into her mother's office. "Why did you send a patrol car to the house?"
Toph let out a sigh. "Lin is three hours late and no one knows where she is. Do you know anything?"
"She said she was going out to dinner with Tenzin last night. That was the last time I saw her." She sensed her mother's distress at her words. "Don't worry mum, it's Lin we're talking about, nothing will happen."
"I hope you're right." A moment passed before her phone rang. Toph quickly answered it. "Lin!"
"Sorry Toph." The voice on the other end of the phone replied.
"Oh, Katara. Have you seen Lin? She's three hours late for work."
"I haven't and I don't know where Tenzin is either. He said he was taking her out last night but I haven't seen or heard anything since."
"Katara, I want you to come to the station."
"I'll be there soon."
"What are you going to do?" Suyin asked.
"I'm going to assemble teams to search for Lin and Tenzin." She walked out of her office to address her officers. "Listen up! I want everyone on this floor to pair off. We have two missing adults Lin Beifong and Tenzin, son of Avatar Aang. You are all familiar with their profiles. I want you to check every known triad base and any place you deem suspicious. Move out!"
"What do you want me to do?" Asked Su, tapping her mother on the shoulder.
"we are going to stay put. You are staying here, I in the meantime, am going to manage things in the radio room. Send Katara in when she arrives."
"Yes ma'am" Lin muttered when Toph left the room.
Lin opened her eyes, only to be met with darkness. She groaned as she rolled onto her side, feeling her leg was bent at an awkward angle. It was broken.
"Lin?"
"Tenzin? Where are you?" She crawled on her forearms, trying to work through the pain.
"I'm over here."
She crawled over to where she heard the voice, only to stop dead in her tracks when the pain got too much. "Tez, I need you to come to me."
"I'll, try." He summoned his strength, moving towards her. He collapsed onto his back when he reached her. "I feel really numb."
She felt the sides of his face, running her hands along his chest, down to his stomach. She felt something wet on her hands. "Damnit. You have a wound on your side."
He heard her metalbend her armour off. "What are you doing?"
"I don't know how large the wound is. I'm going to stop the bleeding with my armour. I know this is going to hurt but I need you to sit up for me."
He let out a groan as he felt the metal attach itself to his body. "That wasn't too bad."
"I'm not done." He felt the metal begin to bend to the shape of his body, pressing tightly against his wound. "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" He squirmed under her hold as she kept the metal stationary, tears rolling down his face.
She lowered him on to his back. "it's done." She could hear him taking in deep breaths of air. "It's okay, breathe in, now out, good." A moment passed before his breathing evened out.
"Can you feel a way out of here?" He asked, closing his eyes.
"Yes but from what I can tell I have a broken leg. It would take hours for me to bend us out of here without the correct form. I think we just need to sit tight for now."
"Any word Toph?" Asked Katara, walking into the audio room for what seemed like the hundredth time in the last hour.
Toph let out a sigh. "Nothing. I called Sokka and told him that he and Aang need to get back to Republic City as soon as possible. They should be here in ten minutes. You have any speculations on what we're dealing with?" She was met with silence. "Katara?"
"It's a full moon tonight." She said stoically
"Mmm." Toph groaned. "Why tonight of all nights?"
"I just hope we're not dealing with a bloodbender."
Toph nodded in agreement. "They're here."
Aang and Sokka burst into the room, walking over to their partners. "Any word on where they are?"
"Not yet sweetie." Answered Katara, hugging her husband.
"My officers have searched everywhere. They turned up nothing."
Aang placed a hand on his cheek, contemplating their next move. "I was meditating as we flew back here, I think I may have come up with an idea."
He walked over to Toph, reaching a hand out to her. "What are you doing?" She questioned, taking a step back.
"Everything is connected. You are connected to the earth, through this you find a connection to Lin and Su. I figured I should be able to find them through you." Noting that she understood, he placed a hand on her on heart, closing his eyes. A bolt of light lit up in his mind, winding it's way through what appeared to be the streets of Republic City, coming to a stop outside an abandoned platinum factory. "I found them, they're in an abandoned platinum factory on the outskirts of the city.
"Lets go." Toph led them out of the room to the roof where Appa currently waited.
"Did you find them?" Asked Su, walking next to the adults.
"Yes."
"Can I come?"
Toph stopped in her tracks. "Su, stay, here." She continued on her way, not caring if she upset her youngest daughter, she would handle it when both her daughters were safe.
"So who do you think captured us? The Terror Triad perhaps?" Speculated Tenzin, trying to stay awake.
His question was answered when the lights turned on, briefly blinding Tenzin and Lin. "Hello Beifong."
"That voice. It sounds so familiar." Lin blinked a few times, trying to get rid of the blurriness in her eyes. "Maya?"
"That's right." Maya walked up to them, kicking Lin in the stomach. "You can not believe how long I've waited for this moment."
Lin gasped, trying to reclaim the air that had been knocked out of her. "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to rid the world of the filth that is the Beifongs. Starting with you." A well placed kick landed in her ribs. She went in to attack again, when a gust of wind knocked her off balance. She glared at Tenzin. "Oh you were always such a pain in the ass. You are such a fucking weakling. Look at you. You think you're all high and mighty, being the second last airbender. Let me tell you this, the fire nation didn't kill your people because the Avatar was amongst them, they did it because you were all a bunch of weaklings." She punched him in the face, sufficiently knocking him out.
"Leave him alone!" Lin tried throwing a rock at her, which was easily dodged as it was too slow.
"That's cute." Maya raised her hands to the canteen of water at her hip, creating daggers made of ice. "You know, I've been practising a lot these last few years. My favourite time to practise is during the full moon. The power is so addictive. The way it flows through my body is indescribable."
She stretched her left hand out toward Lin, raising her body off the ground into the air. Lin's face contorted in agony at having been bent against her will. Maya bent her water into smaller ice daggers, raising them to level with Lin's body. Maya slowly drilled one into her thy, laughing as Lin screamed in pain.
"I remember in the sixth grade, that you said something along the lines of, 'Beifongs don't cry.' I'm going to see if I can disprove this theory." She bended Lin's arm straight and began to slowly apply pressure to the elbow. Lin struggled against the grip Maya had on her, as she felt her bone strain against the hold. After a minute the arm gave way, the bone protruded out of the skin, blood dripping onto the floor forming a puddle.
"That looks like it hurt."
"Go, fuck, yourself." Lin spat the small amount of blood in her mouth at Maya, landing the spit on her face.
Maya wiped it off in disgust. "I'm getting real tired of you breathing." She slowly drilled another ice dagger into Lin's chest, pressing it through the ribs. It entered her lung, effectively puncturing it.
Lhe began gasping for air as her lungs began to fill with blood. Her vision blurred. I am not going to fall asleep. Sleep means the end and I will not let this be the end of me. Come on mum, I know you will find me, just hurry up already!
As she finished the thought, her mother, Katara Aang and Sokka burst into the room, ready to attack.
Katara, Aang and Sokka dropped their stances, looking at Lin gasping for air, left leg twisted in a frightening angle, the bone in her right arm sticking out of its skin casing, a hole in her thy. Katara covered her mouth in horror, having seen nothing like it before.
"What do you know Linny, mummy showed up to save you. Just like usual." She let out a sickly chuckle at the situation.
"Katara," Toph whispered, "I can't feel where Lin is. How bad I the situation?"
"It's bad." Katara began to retch. "It's really bad"
Maya moved towards the group, a sick smile on her face. "Who's first?"
Aang stepped forward. "You are." His face contorted in anger as he entered the Avatar state.
Maya took a step back, loosing concentration on her captive, allowing her to fall.
Sokka ran forward, catching Lin in his warm arms.
"You have abused your privilege as a bender, therefore I am taking away your bending, for good." He placed a hand on her head, the other on her shoulder. In a flash her bending was gone. She fell flat on her face due to having her energy taken away.
"Aang I need you!" Called Katara from her position at Lin's side
"Can't, breathe, can't."
"I know sweetie, just hold on. I'll help you, I promise." Said Katara, tears pricking her eyes.
"What do you want me to do?" Aang knelt down on the other side of Lin's body.
"I need you to airbend fresh air into her lungs." She let out a sigh. "I need to use bloodbending to remove the blood from her lungs, it's going to hurt. A lot." She turned to Toph seeking her permission.
"Do it." Toph ordered placing a hand on her daughter's forehead. "Sokka go check on Tenzin."
He didn't need to be told twice, so he moved to check on his nephew.
"Lin, it's okay to close your eyes." Said Katara, knowing her body must be weak and tired.
She was met with wide eyes as Lin's breathing increased. "No, n-"
Katara gave up, knowing now wasn't the time to argue. "Aang start bending. Try to direct it around her system. You should be able to move the air into her lungs and out."
Aang gave her a nod in acceptance of her instructions.
"I'm really sorry about this Lin." Katara began bending the blood out of Lin's lungs, feeling her arch her back in pain, wanting to scream out but unable to do so. Silent tears ran down her face, falling onto her mother's pants.
Toph moved from her position to lie on her stomach, resting her forehead against Lin's. "It's okay badgermole, you can close your eyes. I promise I won't let you leave this world."
At the sound of her mother's promise, she let her eyes close.
"I've closed the lung. You can stop now Aang. Start healing her broken leg."
Toph winced as she felt the bone being set. Shedding a tear of her own at her daughter's pain, not moving from her position.
"Mum? Dad?"
Both Katara and Aang looked up, not stopping in their actions. "Why are you wearing Lin's armour?" Asked Toph, not moving from her position.
"I have a wound on my side, Lin didn't know how big it was, so she clamped it onto me to stop the bleeding. I think it worked. I can't feel the wetness anymore." He knelt next to Lin's body, holding her left hand in his, careful not to jostle her. "How is she?"
"She'll live. We should be able to move her in five minutes." Answered Katara. "What happened?"
"I remember meeting Lin at the docks, we decided to walk to the restaurant. On our way something hit us on the back of our heads, a metal pipe I think. The next thing I know I'm waking up in here." He turned to Toph "what is going to happen to Maya?"
Toph let out a growl. "If it were to me she wouldn't be breathing. But it isn't. I'll see to it she is placed in an isolated cell on boiling rock. Sokka, go to the portable radio on Appa and call my squad."
He left quickly, following her instructions on what to do.
"Toph, do you mind removing the armour so I can check Tenzin's injury?" Asked Aang, stopping in his actions. "She bent the safety release closed."
"Yeah. Tenzin, lift your arms." She bent off the armour, taking it into her arms she brushed her fingers over the chest plate, bending the armour back into the shape it used to have.
"It's stopped bleeding for now." Aang said. "Katara, are we alright to move?"
"Yes. All bleeding has stopped. Lets get them to the island."
"Do you want me to carry her Toph?" Asked Aang.
"No. She is my soldier and as her commander, I will carry her."
Toph stood up, taking her daughter's limp body into her arms. Sokka opened the door allowing the officers to file in. Seeing their Chief walking towards them, with an unconscious and wounded Lin in her arms, they formed a guard of honour for their injured comrade.
Once outside she bent herself onto Appa's back, placing Lin down in the middle.
She leaned down, whispering in her soldier's, her comrade's, her daughter's, ear "Work through the pain."