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Korra

The front doors of the conference centre were knocked off their hinges by a burst of flame, and a moment later Mako ran through, dragging King Wu with him. A moment later, Asami and Korra followed. The assembled press who had been waiting around for the ceremony to end but who hadn't been invited inside by Kuvira went suddenly very quiet, taking in their dishevelled appearance and Asami's electroglove, before a barrage of questions began.

"where's the Satomobile?" Mako demanded.

"Over there!" Asami pointed. Sure enough, the vehicle, which she had brought with her in the airship to Ba Sing Se, sat about 50 metres away. As the group made their way towards it, the doors behind them opened again, and Korra turned to see what seemed like hundreds of agents of Kuvira's police burst out. Immediately the press began to disperse, clearly sensing that they had found their way into the middle of something dangerous.

They reached the Satomobile, and Mako threw open the door. He almost bodily threw Wu into the back seat, and beckoned for Korra to follow, which she did. Then, he got into the passenger's seat and Asami took the driving seat. She mashed a button on the dash and the Satomobile's engine burst into life.

"Mako!" Wu called. Korra turned to see the police closing in, their fists outstretched.

"they're going to metalbend us!" Asami warned. She slammed the Satomobile into gear and hit a pedal. They roared backwards, forcing one man to jump out of the way, and Asami spun the steering wheel, swinging the car around 180 degrees. However, when Asami hit the pedal, nothing happened. The wheels of the car spun uselessly.

"Do something!" Asami yelled furiously. Mako looked lost for a moment, and then shrugged.

"Well, when in doubt..."

He leaned out of the window and made a small hand movement. All the hairs on the back of Korra's neck stood up and a brilliant flash of blue light lit up the courtyard. There was a yell, and one of the metalbenders collapsed. His hold on the Satomobile disappeared, and the other man was unable to hold it on his own. Suddenly, they were moving forward very quickly, and then they had rounded the corner and sped away up a street, having to take extra care in Ba Sing Se's cramped environs.

"This city was not designed for this at all," Asami groaned, as she tried to ease her way past a cart pulled by an Ostrich Horse. "We just need to reach the airship, and then we can get out of this city."

Fortunately, their journey was entirely located in the upper ring, which was less busy and had wider streets, but it was still a difficult and slow journey. Wu kept checking the rear window, terrified that they would be pursued. Korra sat in silence, and thought.

She had lost again! Kuvira had had her at her mercy. She had come back too soon, she thought. She wasn't ready for this!

Wu noticed the look on her face. "Are you alright?" He asked.

Mako's head whipped around, and so did Asami's- though she had to look back a second later to stop herself from crashing the Satomobile.

"I'm fine," Korra tried.

"You're clearly not," Mako pointed out. "You had to be dragged out of there and you've just sat in silence the entire journey."

"it's just..." Korra hesitated for a moment. "What if I'm not ready to return?"

"You're ready!" Wu told her.

"Kuvira beat me. She had me at her mercy. If I can't win against her then what chance do I have if another Unalaq or Amon come along?"

"Both of them are long gone," Mako pointed out. "And you have us, remember? Nobody said you had to do this alone."

Korra tried a weak smile. "Thank you," she told him sincerely.

"We'll get through this," Asami told her, looking at her through the rear-view mirror. "No matter how long it takes, we'll get through this."

Korra was just about to thank her as well when Wu squawked in alarm.

"We're being chased!"

Sure enough, a huge silver van was moving at great speed towards them, catching them at an incredible rate. Asami saw it too, and put her foot down, swerving out of the way of another street stand as the Satomobile began to stretch its legs. But the van kept on coming, and two smaller vehicles moved out from behind it and overtook it, beginning to catch up themselves.

"Korra," Mako told her. "Now would be a good time for a rock wall!"

Behind them, men of Kuvira's secret police leaned out of the windows of the pursuing cars.

Korra nodded, but then Asami pulled on a panel on the dashboard, which flipped out of the way to reveal a whole bunch of hidden switches.

"No need, I've been looking for an excuse to try these out," she said.

"what are those?" Mako eyed them warily.

"Products of the Sato Industries Research and Development Division," Asami replied proudly. "I wanted them installed on my car for the search for Korra because I wanted to be prepared for anything. It seems I was right."

By now, one of their pursuers was right on their tail.

"doesn't this thing go any faster?" Wu asked.

"Yes," Asami told him. "But if it did I couldn't do this!"

She flicked one of the hidden switches and a spurt of a black liquid flew out of the back of the Satomobile and all over the windscreen and bonnet of the following vehicle.

"Mako, burn it!" Asami told him. Mako leaned out of the window and sent a small fireball towards their attacker. The black liquid went up in flames incredibly easily, and suddenly the entire front of the pursuing Satomobile was engulfed in brilliant flames. It began to veer left and right wildly, before the driver was smart enough to slam the brakes and bring the vehicle to a controlled stop. He and his passengers then jumped out as the second vehicle sped past them.

"Interesting trick," Wu observed, as the flaming wreck receded in their mirror, "but how much of that stuff were we carrying?"

"Not enough for all of them," Asami conceded. "Otherwise we'd be too heavy to move. But it isn't the only thing we have."

Asami pressed another button. There was a sharp thud coming from the underside of the vehicle, but otherwise nothing seemed to happen.

"what was that?" Mako asked.

"Hold on!" Was Asami's only response, as the second vehicle sped up next to them, until they were alongside and Korra could see the driver of the other Satomobile, and swerved into them. There was another thud, but the collision hurt the other machine much more than it did Asami's Satomobile. One flank now had a terrible gash in it and the back wheel on that side was obviously flat; it had still fared better than the front wheel which was obviously missing.

Korra leaned out of the window and saw an enormous silver blade protruding like a wing from the side of the vehicle, glinting menacingly in the sun. Asami flicked a switch and with another mechanical thud, the blades withdrew back underneath the vehicle.

"We wouldn't want to go too close to pedestrians with those extended," Asami explained. She yanked her steering wheel and the Satomobile veered off the road. A great old building rose up in front of them. The Palace of the Earth King greeted them in silence, as Asami drove past it at full speed. Behind them, the silver van continued its pursuit.

Asami made her way onto the courtyard where all the airship were kept. It was very busy, filled with airships of all shapes and sizes, and in the colours of all the nations. Many bore the colour schemes and symbols of the companies that had built them rather than any nation, and it was one of these that Asami looked for as she raced past one blue one, then a red one, then a green one, then two more red ones and-

"There it is!" Asami shouted proudly as her aircraft came into view. "Mako, get out and open it!"

"How!"

"Press the button on the back! Quickly!"

Mako jumped out and ran towards it. He didn't run far, but it still felt like an age as he briefly searched the rear of the craft. Finally, he found what he was looking for and hit the button. The back of the passenger compartment split in two, with one half going in either direction, and a ramp extended with a hiss of steam. As soon as it hit the ground, Asami was moving again, climbing the Satomobile up into the airship. Behind them, Mako hit the button again and dashed in behind them just as the doors closed.

"No time to secure this!" Asami called. "We have to take off now!" She was out of the vehicle before she had even finished the sentence, running towards the cockpit. Wu and Korra were soon out after her, and while Wu stayed with Mako in the back Korra ran towards the cockpit. She found Asami already in the pilot's seat, her hands flying over the controls as the airship began to judder into life, its engines beginning to spin at first slowly but with more power by the second as they awoke.

In front of them, they saw the silver van screech to a stop, and the driver got out to open a door on the side, but just as more of Kuvira's men were piling out of the door on the side Asami pulled back on her control stick, and their pursuers could only watch as the airship rose into the air, away from the confines of Ba Sing Se and towards the freedom of the skies. Republic City awaited.