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"Are you sure we should be hanging out here?" Asami said as he sat in a booth at Genji's club together with Bolin and Asami.
It had become a refuge for bender's and non-bender's alike, who wanted to escape the oppressive Equalist regime. Most of them were brought here after Korra, Ichiro or Mako helped them escape. Some of the non-bender had tried to help bender's by hiding them before being discovered by the Equalist's or defending their bending family members, friends, or just random strangers.
"Would you suspect people to be here? No, because it would be to stupid to consider!" Genji said as he stood behind the bar, fixing himself a drink, "Besides, I'm not sleeping in the sewers."
Asami is watching in amusement as Bolin plays with Pabu. She glares as she hears the door to the basement open and out of it stepped Korra and Mako, having used a secret passage to enter the sewers.
"You two were gone a while." Asami said suspiciously.
"We were doing reconnaissance." Mako said looking annoyed.
Some time later, Ichiro is sitting on a bar stool, an untouched plate of food in front of him as the entire time he had been staring at Korra who is sitting next to Naga.
"What are you doing?"
He was snapped out of his thought by Genji suddenly standing before him with only the bar between them. "Why are you sitting here, staring at her the entire evening like some love struck loser?" he continued as he leaned against the bar, looking to Korra himself, "Damn hard to catch a girl like that. Only hope you've got is they feel a pang and stop to wait."
"What?" Ichiro said, "Why do you care?"
"I don't." Genji said as he began to fix himself a drink, "If you don't start to act, you might lose your chance. If things were different, I would go after her myself."
Korra had barely touched her food, the plate was resting on her near her feet as she was deep in thought about recent events. She was snapped out of it when she heard footsteps approach her, looking up she saw Ichiro walking towards her.
"Not hungry?" he said, sitting next to her.
"No, I have this awful pit in my stomach." Korra said, somewhat happily, "It's so crazy. A few months ago I was in the South Pole practicing for my firebending test, and now I'm in the middle of an all-out war."
"I get it. A few months ago I was still looking into that Tokuga case... hiding I can do this." he said airbending her spoon in a small tornado of air, "Back then, I didn't even know you. And now, I-I just can't see my life without you. Wouldn't want to."
He rubbed a hand through the back of his head, looking down at his feet as Korra looked surprised at him. From behind the bar, Genji was looking on with a smirk.
"W-what I-I mean is..." he said, "You're the most loyal, brave, and selfless person I known."
"I think you're pretty incredible too." Korra said blushing, "But... you already knew that."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Genji whispered excitedly with a wide grin.
Ichiro and Korra look at each other, but Korra looks away abruptly. "I-I should probably try to get some sleep." she said.
"Y-Yeah." he muttered as he stood up, "Me too. Good night."
"No, no, no!" Genji yelled angrily.
The following morning, a thick fog had set in over Yue Bay. Team Avatar is hiding in the drainage pipe. Mako steps out and beckoning to the others. The six run out of the pipe and climb an access stairway to an observation deck above. They crouch by the railing as Bolin scans the bay with a telescope.
"Once the United Forces arrive, we need to be ready to help in any way we can." Korra said.
"Some action would be nice." Genji said bored.
"Some action!?" Ichiro said with a slight glare, "If it was up to you, you had marched up to Air Temple Island all on your own to retake it."
"And I would have done so." Genji said, "If it wasn't for Asami talking me out of it."
"Can you please take this serious?" Mako said.
"No." Genji said as he caught sight of a dim shape through the mist, "...Where is the Equalist resistance? Something's not right."
An explosion erupted close to a nearby ship, followed by more blasts as mines float up. Team Avatar watching the explosions from the docks. Korra leaps off the edge and uses waterbending to pull herself into the bay, and she begins to swim toward the conflict.
A buzzing sound came from above, Genji looks up and from behind the skyscrapers, a group of flying objects can be seen in the mist, which resolve themselves into two fleets of biplanes.
"Where does Hiroshi find the time to keep inventing new evil machines!?" Bolin said angrily and confused.
"Rich people have a lot of free time." Genji said casually, "I speak from experience."
The planes fly over the ships dropping bombs from their underside, causing major damage. One plane drops down two torpedoes and Korra dodges them only for them to hit the side of a ship. The explosion forces Korra back but she swims to the ship again.
After the destruction of the alliance fleet, Korra had managed to fish general Iroh out of the water, they took him to Genji's club and they were now gathered inside the penthouse. They propped him up on the sofa, where Korra was using her healing abilities on Iroh's wound.
"I was prepared to deal with Sato's mecha tanks, but not these new high-speed aircraft." Iroh said as Genji placed a glass on the table and filled it with a strong drink, "No, thank you. I don't drink."
"Your Zuko's grandson..." Genji said bluntly, "You drink." as he drunk straight from the bottle.
"I..." Iroh said surprised, "What?"
"That's just Genji, ignore him." Mako said as Genji flipped him his middle finger.
"Amon is winning so far, but we're not out of the fight yet." Iroh said as he stands up, clutching his wound, "A second wave of reinforcements is on the way, but I need to warn them."
"We got a telegraph machine down in the basement." Ichiro informed him.
"I have one of those?" Genji said confused, "Oh Spirits, I have two of those!"
"Why would you need... Never mind." Ichiro said knowing he shouldn't be surprised anymore at the Shashou's antic's, "So who is going to be the recipient of this message?"
"Commander Bumi." Iroh said, "Second division of the United Forces. Bit of a wild man, but the bravest commander you'll ever meet."
"My nephew?" Genji said surprised.
"Your not Aang's brother." Mako said, annoyed at how casual Genji had been the entire time.
"Tattoo on my back says otherwise." Genji said, opening another bottle.
"After we send that message, we need to ground those aircrafts." Iroh said, "Otherwise, Bumi's fleet would never be able to retake the city."
"The airfield is over the mountains." Genji said, taking another drink, "I should be able to pin point it."
"How would you do that?" Mako said.
"The reason I'm so good at what I do, beside being immortal. It's because I observe, a lot." Genji said taking another shot, "I'm good at reading people, observing my surroundings and improvising on any situation."
"A good quality in a soldier." Iroh said with a nod, "Everyone get ready, we leave at dawn."
"I'm just going to say it in case I don't have the opportunity later." Genji said as he placed the empty bottle down, "But I can't get over the fact that you sound exactly like Zuko."
"You talk like you know my grandfather." Iroh said.
"Did Zuko never mention me or some shit!?" Genji said frustrated, "He never mentioned Genji Chirayus? The guy who dragged his sorry ass out of the desert!?"
"Hold on, your Genji Chirayus?" Iroh said before his eyes widen in realization, "Grunkle!?"
"Now he realizes it." Genji said with a roll of his eyes as he spotted the troubled looking Korra, "What's eating your ass?"
"I'm sorry." Korra said, "But I'm not..."
"What a fine ass it is." Genji said casually.
"Genji!" Ichiro said annoyed.
"Yes, yes. Yours is nice too, runs in the Beifong family, it was the main reason I got together with Toph." Genji said as if he was trying to get a rise out of him for his own amusement, "Though they have nothing on Asami's."
"I... Thank you again, Genji." Asami said, a bit flushed, "Yours is nice too."
"Nice too? I'm the ass king!" Genji said, "Now I got that out of my system. Korra, continue."
"I'm not going with you tomorrow." Korra said.
"What?" Ichiro said concerned, "Why not?"
"I'm sick and tired of hiding from Amon. It's time I face him." Korra said, "I'm not waiting for him to hunt me down. My guts tell me it's time to end this, on my terms."
"Korra, this is not a mission you should be handling alone." Iroh said diplomatically.
"Then I'm going with her." Ichiro said at once, "They don't know what I can do. It will give us the edge."
"I agree with the detective." Genji said.
The following morning, the final preparations where made. Genji comes out of the elevator, wearing his black leather Shashou gear, with both his swords on his back. As he walked towards the bar, he overheard Mako talking Asami as he began to make himself a drink.
"I'm sorry things got so messed up between us." Mako said, "But whatever happens today, I want you to know how much I care about you."
"I care about you, too." Asami said as she kisses him on the cheek before walking towards Bolin and Naga.
"Barf." Genji said as he stirred his drink.
"Does making childish remarks make you feel better about your sad, single, life?" Mako snapped at the Shashou.
"It actually does." Genji said as he downed his drink as Iroh comes walking up to them.
"Wait, did Mako break up with Asami?" Iroh said as he watched the former couple, "That could be a dangerous factor to the mission."
"It is really unclear." Genji said casually.
"Okay, I'm just going to say it in case I don't have the opportunity later." Iroh said as he leaned on the bar, "But I can't get over the fact that I'm actually seeing real Shashou gear." with a hint of excitement in his voice.
As they track through the mountain, with Bolin, Mako and Iroh riding on Naga through the snow with Genji and Asami on a motorcyle. Above them flew by a few biplanes.
"I think we've found our secret airfield." Iroh said once they had taken a lower position and were studying the base, "Bolin, once we get down there, I need you to tear up those runways. We can't let those aircraft take off."
"Aye aye, captain!" Bolin said as he salutes, "Ooh, general, general."
The group approach the Equalist base which seems to lack a perimeter fence; there are posts but no wires.
"Why would there be fence posts but no fence?" Asami said suspiciously as she got off the motorcyle.
"Hold on a sec, sweet cheeks." Genji said as he revved up his motorcycle before accelerated and shooting forward.
They watched as Genji drove it right into the middle of the fence posts, but he was thrown off as the motorcycle subsequently exploded as he was electrocuted.
Genji laid in the snow as he began to fade in and out of unconsciousness.
Genji woke up when he felt a hard slap against his face. Shaking his head, he found himself sitting on some chair, but he had a feeling he wasn't in the airbase anymore. His hands were tied behind him and legs tapped down.
He was surrounded by five Equalists and in front of him stood Amon himself, holding Yamato in his hand.
"Ah, your alive?" Genji groaned disappointed, "How was prison Amon? Did you became a prison bitch?"
A sharp blow was delivered in Genji's face, forcing spit and blood out of his mouth and onto the floor.
"You will speak when spoken to, relic." Amon said before striking Genji in the face once again, "I have been reading your history, Shashou. You were once married to Toph Beifong, settled down. How did you manage that?"
"In a relationship, really. Me and Toph never married, neither of us where those kind of people." Genji said corrected him, "Luck I guess."
"A loving girlfriend, money, status, you had it all, then you disappeared." Amon said, "And when you returned, you opened a night club and you went right back into your old ways of a killer. That night, you unleashed yourself upon me and my revaluation. But no contract was made for you to hunt us down and the only contract you accepted was of the police chief to protect them at the Sato Mansion. We had no intention of coming after you. So my question is, why did you decide to come after us?"
"You want my reason for going after you and your little cult of extremists without a contract? Fine." Genji scoffed as he glared, "Your lackey's wracked my car."
"Your... Your car?" Amon said reeling back in shock at the sheer callousness of the Shashou, "You killed countless of my Equalist brothers and sisters... All because of a fucking car!?"
"Just a fucking car?..." Genji said with a dry laugh, as he lowered his head, "Amon?"
"What?" Amon said with disgust.
"When I returned, I had lost everything again. Do you know what that is like? To be a man out of time? That the world you find yourself in is now so different from the one you left? That the entire world had moved on." Genji said in a low voice, "When I went to the bank, I found a something left for me. A final gift from Toph. A car. Inside of it was a letter. Reading it, it was that moment, I realized what I meant to her... That is what that car symbolized... And your Equalist brothers and sisters took that from me!"
"Oh, come on..." Amon said rolling his eyes.
"People keep asking variations on if I'm back." Genji shouted as he looked back up, "And I haven't really had an answer."
Amon turns around to face the wall as the platform began to rise. The ceiling opened and light shined down on them.
But in those precious few seconds, a loud crash was heard followed by noises of struggle. Amon turned around just in time to see that Genji had freed himself, breaking the chair and killed the Equalists surrounding him.
"But now, yeah." Genji said as he readied himself for combat, "I'm thinking I'm back!"
After their visit to Air Temple Island, where they had a run in with a now de-bend Tarrlok, having been captured by a second squad of Equalists after Amon had been captured by Genji. It was then he revealed to them the truth about Amon. How they were brothers, sons of Yakone and how both where bloodbenders.
The duo wear Equalist disguises and stand guard on a balcony with their hands behind their backs. They nod at each other, ready to expose Amon as a fraud.
They turn around to see Amon, locked in mortal combat with Genji to much surprised and shocked gasps form the crowd.
Amon attempted to strike Genji with his own sword, who evaded just in time to deliver a double strike to his upper body, knocking Yamato out of the Equalists leaders hand when Genji grabbed the front of his shirt and kneed him right in the mask.
"Stings doesn't it?" Genji said with a smile, his sword embedded in the floor. He looks around to find himself surrounded by more Equalists, led by the Lieutenant.
"More lambs to the slaughter." Genji said as he picked up his sword, "A warning for the audience, the following fight is going to be very graphic. Those on the first row are going to get wet."
"Everyone! Wait!"
The attention was drawn towards the balcony where Korra and Ichiro are standing on. They both proceed remove their chi blocker masks.
"What is this?" Amon said as he stood up, as his mask began to crack, shards of porselein falling down to the floor, "Trying to save your friend, Avatar?"
"I'm not saving Genji! I'm saving your people from him, Amon!" Korra said, "Or should I call you Noatak? Amon has been lying to you. The spirits didn't give him the power to take people's bending away. He uses bloodbending to do it. Amon is a waterbender!"
The Crowd gasps in surprise. Even the Equalists seemed taken aback by this, even some doubt bled into the Lieutenant, "What is this nonsense?" he demanded of his leader.
"You're desperate, Avatar. You and your friend both!" Amon said, as he looked at the balcony, "Making up stories about me is a pathetic last resort.
"Your family wasn't killed by a firebender." Korra said before turning to the crowd, "His father was Yakone, and his brother is Councilman Tarrlok!"
The Lieutenant sports a doubting look at first before inquiringly looking at Amon.
"An amusing tale, but I will show you the truth." Amon said as he removes his hood, and removes what remained of his mask. The crowd gasps in surprise as at the sight of his 'scarred' face, "This is what a firebender did to me."
"What?" Korra said surprised as she looks to Ichiro, who was just as confused, "I'm telling you! He's a waterbender."
Genji took his flash from jacket, downing the content in his mouth before spitting it out, spraying it all over Amon's face.
"Motherfucker!" Amon shouted in pain, covering his face as some of it came in his eye.
"Relax, it's only Omashu Vodka." Genji said casually, storing the flask in his pocket, "Oh, it seems to be working."
Amon removed his hands, the burning liquid washes away his 'scar'. He turns to see the people looking at him in shock.
"The scar is fake." shouts came from the crowd, "The Avatar was telling the truth!"
Amon looks angrily at Korra, which she reciprocates, before jumping off the stage and making his escape through a nearby door in the confusion.
"Your not getting away!" Genji shouted, running after him, weapon in hand.
Genji runs through the halls, looking around see where Amon has gone. He hears a door swing and enters that room. He hears footsteps when suddenly he writhes in pain as Amon bloodbends him into the ground before levitates him high into the air.
"Amon." Genji said with difficulty, "You won't get away with this!"
"You and your idiot friends have ruined everything!" Amon shouts and bloodbends him to the ground, "This time I'm gonna put you to sleep for good!"
Genji groans in pain as Amon levitates him into the air and begins contorting his body to painful and near death positions.
He was forced to stop to evade a continued attacks of firebending from Korra, as she and Ichiro had arrived. Amon dodges each attack and bloodbends the duo into submission by lifting them into the air. He slams all three on the ground and bloodbends Genji and Ichiro in place on the floor, and Korra in a kneeling position.
Amon walks around Korra and places his hand on her neck. The two could only watch in horror as Amon places his other hand on her forehead. Amon lets her go as her body slumps on the ground, "I told you I would destroy you." he said, "Finally, you are powerless."
Korra tries to hit Amon, but is too weak from the loss of her bending to do it and misses. Suddenly, Amon's eyes widen as the voice of the Lieutenant comes from behind him.
"Amon! Everything the Avatar said is true, isn't it? I just saw you bloodbend her." Lieutenant said as he removes his mask and smashes it with his feet. His face shows an angry look, "You traitor! I dedicated my life to you!"
The Lieutenant takes out his kali sticks and runs forward to attack Amon. Right before he gets there, however, Amon glares at him and he is lifted into the air with bloodbending.
"You've served me well, Lieutenant." Amon said before the Lieutenant aside into a pile of wood and walks toward Ichiro.
He bloodbends his hands, but Ichiro manages to hit him with an airblast strong enough to throw him away. He sends two firebending blasts at Amon, but the blasts hit the surrounding wood and trap him.
"Detective!" Genji shouted as he stood ready to fight.
"Shashou!" Ichiro shouted back before the two charged.
Amon attempts to bloodbend the two, only to be struck by an air enchanted punch from Ichiro, blindsiding him to four punches to the side and arm. He staggers forward with a grunt, to be met with a knee to the stomach from Ichiro. Countering with a fist to the face, Amon began to evade and weave through the two attackers.
Amon took the opening to punch Genji's side, who staggers and drops his sword as his arm went limp.
Blocking a punch from Amon, Ichiro gave Genji the opening to kick him into the stomach. Amon headbutted Ichiro, breaking his nose. He threw a punch against Amon's face, sending him through into the ground.
Genji used his left fist, he jabbed a few placed to regain functions of his arm before joining the Detective. Ichiro went for a wide swings but Amon nimbly evades them. He preforms a quick air punch combo to Amon's chest, rocketing him back.
Landing with a backflip on the floor, Amon begins with an all-out assault, but Genji and Ichiro block and dodge the first and second strike, before counterattacking with a quick spinning kick, sending Amon crashing into the ground.
Ichiro decides to come closer to end the battle quickly, but Amon blocks his dropping punch. With his free hand, Ichiro attempted to blast Amon with air, but he was quickly thrown against the wall.
Genji blindsided Amon, repeatedly punch him in the face, kneeing him in the stomach before throwing him against the wall. Ichiro sends an air blast at Amon, who dodges and tries to attack with once again, but Ichiro evaded the strike against his face by rolling away, right next to Yamato.
Punching him against the stomach, Amon's chest was staggered back by the spinning kick from Genji.
"Genji!" Ichiro shouted, picking up the sword next to him and throws it as hard as he could.
Amon turned around to evade, but the sword was caught by it's owner and with one quick deceive slash, it cut through Amon's lower body like a hot knife through butter. He held his lower stomach slumming to the ground as his clothes began to stain in his blood as his guts began to spill out and drop onto the floor.
"I told you I would..." Genji said as he cleaned his blade, "Damn it! I had something for this."
The two walk over the weakend Korra, Ichiro picks her up bridal style and the trio began to walk out of that room.
"Ichiro..." Korra said weakly, "...My bending."
"I know..." Ichiro said.
"Everything will be all right!" Genji assured them, "Somehow it always does!"
A day or so later, at the Southern Water Tribe's White Lotus compound. Where Pema is changing Rohan under the watchful eye of Ikki and Jinora, while Meelo is sleeping on Tenzin's lap. Ichiro, Bolin, Mako, and Asami sitting on the same couch, all with dejected expressions on their faces.
Korra's parents, Senna and Tonraq, where sitting on a different couch. Senna has her eyes closed while resting sadly against Tonraq's shoulder, who has his arm around his wife. Lin is sitting beside him, both stare sadly toward the ground in front of them.
Genji meanwhile was leaning against the wall, his arms crossed. Even he wasn't making any smartass remarks, though one thing he wanted to say that he understood where Korra got her good looks from.
Upon hearing the sound of a door sliding open, the three adults and Genji quickly raise their heads and turn to the door.
An elderly watertribe woman, her expression sad as she opened the door. Korra is sitting in the room behind her, though is blocked from view when the elderly healer shuts the door behind her. As she ventures further into the waiting area, all people present stand up and look expectantly at her.
"I've tried everything in my power, but..." the woman said but diverts her eyes to the ground, "I cannot restore Korra's bending."
"But you're the best healer in the world." Lin insisted, "You have to keep trying!"
"What she said." Genji said.
"I'm sorry, there's nothing else I can do." the woman said shaking her head, "Her connection to the elements has been severed."
Lin looks disappointed as Korra exits the healing room, sadly looking at the ground. She stops and eyes everyone upon noticing all the people in the room staring back at her.
"It's going to be all right Korra." Tenzin said.
"No, it's not." Korra said.
"Yes, it is!" Genji said defiantly, "Pack your things where going to Ryu Basho." But Korra looks angry and disappointed and leaves the house. Ichiro wants to talk to Korra, but he hesitates at first.
"The fuck are you doing, Detective?" Genji shouted, pushing him towards the door, "Go after her!"
Ichiro becomes determined and walks out of the house to follow Korra.
"It's going to be okay." Genji said to the others, "Things like this always work out in the end."
"Genji is right." the elderly woman said, "Though it mostly just works out for him."
"How does she..." Genji said with a frown as he looked better at the woman. His eyes widen in surprise when the realization hitting him in the face like a pair of balls on Avatar Day. She always had been shorter than him, but age had increased that size difference even more. Her once beautiful dark brown hair had become white. But he still recognized those same shiny blue eyes, which hadn't changed at all by the passing of time.
"Katara." Genji said with a smile, slightly bending his knees to embrace the elderly woman, who in turn returned the embrace, "My Sugar Queen! Look at you! You have aged like a fine wine."
"Oh, flirt." Katara said with a laugh, despise the sadness of the situation with Korra, she was happy to see her old friend again, "You haven't changed at all."
Korra arrives on a cliff above the sea. A tear rolls down her face and the glistening tear falls into the ice below. Korra sits on the ground and begins crying.
"Korra." Ichiro said gently.
"Go away." Korra shouted angrily.
"No." Ichiro said standing behind her, "I'm here for you."
"No, I mean, go away, back to Republic City." Korra shouted as she stood up to face him, "Get on with your life."
"Why would I do that?" Ichiro said patiently.
"I'm not the Avatar anymore." Korra said, turning away from him, "You don't need to do me any favors."
"Why would I care if you're the Avatar or not?" Ichiro shouted back, "Korra, I... I love you."
Korra turns around so she can see him, but to her surprise. They weren't alone. A particular man, dressed in Air Noman clothing drew her attention the most.
"Aang?" Korra said confused, "How?"
"When we hit our lowest point." Aang said as all the previous Avatars from the cycle began to appear behind him, "We are open to the greatest change."
"Korra?" Ichiro said surprised as he looked around, not able to see them, "Is everything alright?"
In the Avatar State, Aang put his hands on Korra's forehead and shoulder and restores her bending. The eyes and, in the case of the Air Nomads, tattoos of the other Avatars glow as well before they all fade away.
Korra opens her eyes, showing her entering the Avatar State. She raises herself into the air with airbending and sends a blast of air, fire, and earth. She bends the sea at the bottom of the cliff to make a large wave. Korra exits the Avatar State and looks back to see the confused Ichiro.
"...What just happened?" Ichiro said confused. But he didn't got an answer, instead Korra runs, jumps on Ichiro and hugs him. She places her hand on Ichiro's cheek to guide him in for a soft kiss on the lips.
As they break their kiss, they remain close together with their foreheads touching. "I love you too." Korra said.
Some more time later, after Korra and Ichiro got back to the village where Korra uses the technique that Aang showed her on Lin to restore her bending.
Korra's eyes glow as she enters the Avatar State and light emanates from her thumbs as she uses energybending. When Korra has finished, Lin climbs to her feet and simultaneously lifts several large rocks into the air at once.
Everyone watches with awed expressions on their faces, Bolin's eyes almost popping out of his head.
"My girl." Genji said with a proud grin.
"Genji, there is something you need to know." Katara said, making her old friend turn to her, "About Toph."
"I know. I found the letter in the Satomobile." Genji said with a nod, "I... I'm not sure how to word it, but I don't like how we parted ways. This is a new feeling."
"No, not about that." Katara said taking a deep breath, "It's about her and Kanto..."
"You mean her and Asshat." Genji said, this time a very familiar feeling burned inside him upon hearing that name, "Can't believe she and him could produced someone like Lin. Thought the Beifong genes wouldn't survive contact with his."
"No, Genji. It's not about that." Katara said, turning dead serious, "Whatever you might think, Toph has never slept with Kanto."
"What? She didn't? Then who is Lin's dad?..." Genji said his eyes widening as the realization set in, like the time Ty Lee landed ass first in his face, but that time she was completely naked, "... Oh fuck."
Tenth chapter which ends the Amon arc and set's up a new mystery. Hope you enjoyed.
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