Gotham's East End
8:35 PM
Somewhere in the same run-down apartment complex that Katara and Zuko were once at, in an alleyway between two apartment buildings, there was one sixteen-year-old male who was sitting and resting his back against a wall.
"...Uuugh..." groaning, the young man put a hand to his forehead. "What...What happened?"
Lowering his hand off his head and opening his eyes, he sees...a wall a little way from him. Sluggishly, he turned his head left and right to see where he was at.
Upon finally coming to, the young man, who was known as Sokka, blinked and looked around the area.
"Huh?" Sokka then looked up at the building that was in front of him. "...Am I in Ba Sing Se?"
...Wait...
Sokka blinked as he sat there, "Uh...hel-lo? ...Sok-...ka...uh...what is this...language I'm speaking out of?"
While he was figuring that out, he stood up...and also realized...his hair was down.
"Wha?" Sokka ran his fingers through his hair, it being long and short, stopping above his shoulders. "What the...? What happened to my wolf-tail?"
It was then he noticed something else about himself...his clothes felt different.
"Huh?" Sokka looked down at himself.
He was wearing a dark aqua-blue shirt with a white horizontal stripe across his chest, some green and black camouflage shorts, and white ankle-high socks with some black sneakers on.
"...What in the...?" Sokka stood there baffled, until he came to a realization, "Oooh, wait a minute! Okay, okay! I seem to be dreaming! Yeah, that makes sense! I mean, I was probably knocked out while Toph, Suki, and I were falling out of that air...machine...wait..." his eyes went wide, "...Wait a minute, am I...a-are we..." he looked at his hands to see if there are any damages to them. He felt his chest, his back, his knees, legs, and his feet to see if he had any broken bones...but he wouldn't be standing if that was the case. "...Wait..."
If I am in the Spirit World...then...wait, I was there in the Spirit World one time...and this whole area doesn't feel like it's the Spirit World...so...
"...Okay, something fishy is going on here," Sokka put his hands on his hips, clearly confused, "We were falling for one minute, and then all of a sudden, I'm wearing weird clothes, my hair is down, and I'm here now in some...wait, where am I?" Sokka blinked. He looked to his left and saw that there was a path out of this alleyway. "...Well, only one way to find out."
As Sokka rushed out of the alleyway, avoiding some trash and metal dumpsters(which let him stop for a moment to see what they were, before continuing on), he can only hope for one thing.
Oh, man...I hope Suki is alright...
He also hoped Toph was alright too...in fact, he hoped everyone else was okay. Including his sister...
When he exited the alleyway, he froze in his steps as he looked at his surroundings...
...And quite frankly, what Sokka was seeing, only led to even more questions about where he was.
"Wha-...whoa..." Sokka's eyes widened as he saw the tall buildings, the different architecture, and other oddities that were littered out in the dark sky, and in the far distance of this...place? He also looked around the area he was in and saw that he was in some sort of courtyard, which was littered with trash, and had people sleeping on benches, and people walking around, most of them being women...in...rather revealing attire.
"...Okay, I can safely say that I'm definitely not in the Spirit World," Sokka muttered to himself. "But, where am I then? Wh-What is this place? Is this a city? S-Somewhere in the Earth Kingdom? Fire Nation? W-Where!?" he asked himself...until blinked, "Why am I talking to myself? ...Actually, why am I even talking in this language?" he shook his head, "I-I got to find someone. M-Maybe I can find Suki, Toph, Katara, Aang, and even Zuko!"
So he looked around to see if anyone would be helpful enough to guide him where he should go. Upon seeing a woman with a fur coat and a raven bob-cut hairstyle walking through the courtyard, Sokka decided to go over to her and ask her where he was, "H-Hey, Lady!"
"Hm?" the woman turned her head to Sokka, who was coming up to her.
"Hey, look, listen, I, uh, I'm not from here, so, I need help with trying to find out where I am. So...where am I?" Sokka asked her.
"..." The woman sighed, rubbing her temple with her middle and index fingers, "Oi, what am I, an information bureau?" she muttered, "You're at the East End of Gotham."
"The East End of Gotham? What...What's a Gotham?" Sokka asked in confusion.
The lady just stared at him with a deadpan look.
Upon knowing what that look means(he always makes that look when he's exasperated), Sokka tries to explain, "No, really! What's a Gotham? Is this city named Gotham? And is this city in the Earth Kingdom or in the Fire Nation?"
"...Okay, we're done here, kid," the lady said as she walked away. "Shame, 'cause you're not really that bad-looking."
"Wha-hey!" Sokka exclaimed, "I'm serious! Where am I!?"
The woman kept walking away...
Looking incredulous, Sokka just shouted, "That's no reason to be rude!"
"Hey, young man, you seem to be stressed," said a woman with blonde hair and revealing attire who came up to Sokka from behind.
"Well, yeah, of course I'm-" Sokka turned around and saw that the woman was in fishnet stockings, boots, a really short skirt, and a shirt that revealed a lot of cleavage. He yelped, "AH! Wha-What are you wearing!?"
"My outfit. You like~?" the woman asked him with a smirk, not once flinching from his reaction.
"Wha..." he then soon realized... "...Oh..." his eyes then widened as he blushed, feeling nervous all of a sudden.
Oh Spirits...I think I'm in the...in the rough part of this city! And she's a prostitute!
Sokka looked around the area and saw that the women stopped to look at him...a look of hunger and...lust...
...Oh my Tui and La, they're all prostitutes!
"So, what do you say, cutie? I can give ya something simple since you look a lot younger. Do you have five dollars on ya?"
"...Wh-What? Dollars?" Sokka stuttered anxiously.
"Well, yeah. I got to make a living too, ya know."
"Wha..."
Dollars? Is that...currency?
"...I-I don't have any dollars! Nope, nooope, no dollars for me! I don't even know what those are! In fact, I am poor! Sorry for wasting your time! I'll just go-" Sokka said as he turned around to run, but was grabbed by his arm by the woman, "ACK!"
"Ah, hell, I'll just give ya a freebie. You just look too handsome and cute to pass up," the woman said with a smile, her gaze longing.
"Wai-Wait! I just want-I just want to find my-my-" Sokka began to say, but was interrupted by two other women who were coming up to them.
"Ooooh, hey, Stacy, maybe we can share him?" asked the other prostitute, her hair and attire black and just as scantly clad.
"Yeah, maybe make it a foursome?" said a prostitute who had dark skin and was also scantily clad with highlights in her hair.
"Wh-What!?" Sokka's eyes widened, not believing what he was hearing.
"Ugh, Tammy, Lashawna, do you always have to steal my meal?" Stacy asked them.
Meal!?
Sokka was beginning to panic inside. "L-Look, I-I'm sorry, I'm-I'm just not interested!"
Stacy looked back at Sokka with a pout, "Awww, don't say that. Aren't we pretty enough?"
"How about we make him get interested?" Tammy said with a devious smile as she went behind and placed her hands on his shoulders, holding him down.
"H-Hey!" Sokka tried to wrestle and shrug the woman off of him, Stacy still holding onto his arm.
"I got this!" Lashawna flipped her hair back with a smirk, "Stacy and Tammy may be attractive with big assets, but I got even bigger goods!" she leaned over and displayed her bigger cleavage to Sokka.
"O-Oh sweet merciful-!" Sokka exclaimed, not finishing his statement as his eyes went wide in shock.
"Haha! Told ya!" Lashawna said with a smirk as she grabbed Sokka's other arm by his wrist, "Come here, stud. How about a feel?"
"W-W-Wait! No, I-I-I just want to-" Sokka tried to resist the woman's grasp, but oddly enough, she had a good grip on him. "P-Please, I-I'm just trying to find-"
"They're reeeaaal~," Lashawna cooed.
As she got his hand near her breasts, Sokka could only think in horror as his eyes were tearing up, not believing the situation he was in.
OH SPIRITS, SOMEONE HELP ME! I JUST WANT TO FIND EVERYONE! I WANT TO FIND SUKI!
"HEY! LET GO OF MY BOYFRIEND, YOU SKANKS!" shouted...Suki!?
The three women, who paused their advances on Sokka, turned their heads to a girl with short and long brown hair that stopped above her shoulders, wearing a dark green-checkered plaid jacket over a white sleeveless tank top and some denim jeans, with black boots on.
Sokka also looked over at where the voice was...to see that the girl was none other than Suki!
"SUKI!" Sokka exclaimed as his eyes went wide while smiling in relief.
"GET OFF OF HIM!" Suki shouted in a rage as she reared a fist at the hooker that was letting him cop a feel.
"ACK!" Lashawna backed away quickly, letting go of Sokka as Suki only punched the air. Suki then twirled on her foot to kick the side of Stacy, which knocked her down, letting go of the young man.
"AH!" Stacy fell down on her side.
"WHOA! Hey!" Tammy let go of Sokka, putting her hands up in surrender, "Okay, okay, you can have him! I'm not gonna get my ass kicked by a psycho bitch!"
"Yeah!? Well, be thankful this psycho bitch doesn't have a weapon right now!" yelled Suki angrily at Tammy.
"Girl, you crazy!" Lashawna shouted as she backed away from her, "I mean, I get it, but it ain't nothing for you to get feral over!"
Suki gritted her teeth, "BEAT IT, YOU HAGS!"
"Hags!? I'm only 26!" Tammy retorted as she got Stacy back up.
"NOW!"
"Ugh! Girls, let's just go!" Stacy said as she groaned in pain once she got back up, thanks to Tammy, "It's not worth it now! Just let her have him!"
"I'm not complaining! The guy is fine, but I'm not gonna get broken bones out of it!" Tammy said as she, Stacy, and Lashawna backed away.
"Yeah! Let the Asian chick have him, I don't care!" Lashawna said in fear of facing her wrath. The three women turned around and ran away from the two teenagers.
Suki huffed, the anger easing away.
Sokka couldn't believe it! Suki was also alive and well! He grinned big and was about to give her a big hug...
...When Suki turned around and glared at him, stopping him in his tracks.
"What were you doing!?" Suki asked her boyfriend accusingly.
"Wh-What!?" Sokka's eyes widened in shock, "Whoa, Suki, calm down-"
"Calm down!? Were you just going to let them...just, let them get you to fondle them!?" Suki exclaimed.
"Wha-whoa, no! Suki, that's crazy! I-I didn't want to be in that situation! I was trying to get away from it! I was trying to find you and everyone else!"
Suki looked to have calmed down when he said that.
"Really?" Suki softly asked.
"Of course! I mean, I used to have a sexist view on...well, you know, women, but I wouldn't go that far with them! My dad told me to respect women...and you surely made me respect women even more when I started this Avatar journey," Sokka explained.
Suki just gazed at her boyfriend...and smiled warmly. "Sokka..."
"Hey, seriously, Babe, I was scared out of my mind! They were trying to let me touch them! I mean, I wouldn't want to go anywhere near those women! I'm just glad you came when you did...man, those women really had a grip on me. I mean, what kind of desperate-"
Then Suki dove in and kissed Sokka on the lips, eyes closed as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"...Mmm!?" Sokka's eyes bugged out as his girlfriend kissed him...but he returned the kiss as he gently wrapped his arms around her and closed his eyes.
They stood there, lip-locked...until they let go, each of them staring at each other in the eyes.
"Hey! Get a room!" hollered a homeless person on a bench that was trying to sleep. "I'm trying to sleep over here!"
WIth that moment ruined, Sokka and Suki cringed, but the former just realized something.
"Hey, wait a minute! You could've just helped me out back there!" Sokka exclaimed at the hobo on the bench that was a few feet away behind them.
The hobo just looked at him with a wry expression, "Do I look like a bodybuilder to you, kid? Besides, I don't want their pimp after me," he then turned around in his sleeping position, facing his back at them.
...Suki then turned her attention to Sokka, "Um, let's just find a place to gather our bearings."
"Oh, uh, sure," Sokka agreed. "Um...lead the way?"
Suki smirked at him and grabbed his hand to, as previously said before, lead the way.
They ran through the complex for a while, finding a place to recover themselves. They passed by some hookers and some shady people as they ran, and soon, they both found another empty alleyway to go in.
Once they entered it and were hidden away from any eyes, Suki began to say and apologize, "Sokka, I am so sorry. I-I should've known that you wouldn't take advantage of that situation."
"Hey, no worries, Suki. I'm just glad you came in before those women did anything else to me," Sokka said with a soft tone and a warm smile as he placed his hands on the side of her shoulders.
Suki smiled back, a blush on her face. "You know...you do look even more handsome with your hair down."
Sokka chuckled, letting one of his hands run through his hair. "Well, I'm glad you think so. Still, I prefer my old wolf tail, though."
Giggling softly, Suki said, "Well, I think it's a nice look for you. Make's you even manlier."
"Even manlier, you say?" Sokka smirked.
They looked lovingly into each other's eyes and were about to go into another kiss, when Sokka snapped out of it and said, "Wait a second! This is serious!"
Suki blinked, and she also realized the situation they were in. "Oh! Wait, yeah! Just, where are we? And...why are we speaking in this language? Also, what is this attire?" she asked as she picked at her jacket.
"Exactly! I remembered us being on an airship with Toph and then all of a sudden, the Jerk Lord threw a fire blast at us!" Sokka recounted.
Suki gasped, "Oh no, Toph!"
"Yeah," Sokka nodded with a worried frown, "Aw man, I hope she's okay as well. In fact, I hope everyone else is...Zuko, Aang...Katara..."
Putting a hand on his shoulder, Suki reassured him by saying, "Hey, don't worry, Sokka. We don't really know what's going on here, but maybe if we're here in this...place, wherever this place is, then maybe the others are here as well."
"Yeah...yeah, right..." Sokka nodded, feeling at ease for the time being. He looked at Suki and said, "And as for where we are, I asked someone about it, and they said we're in...the East End of Gotham."
"East End? Gotham?" Suki asked curiously.
"Yeah, that's my reaction. That's all I know, though. But so far, I think we're in some kind of...city," Sokka said as he looked at the end of the alleyway to see the skyscrapers.
"Wow...talk about a city," Suki said as she also looked in Sokka's direction as well.
"Yeah...do all these buildings look like Earth Kingdom architecture or even Fire Nation to you?"
"No...not one bit."
"...We got to know what's going on here," Sokka said seriously.
"I agree," Suki then turned her attention to the opposite way of the alleyway, "We should probably get moving and see if we can find any help. Maybe even find our friends and your sister."
Sokka looked in the direction Suki was looking, "Right. I guess at this point, we can only move forward."
The two teenagers rushed through the alleyway and exited it, maneuvering and running through the streets as they tried to find anyone who could point them in the right direction. But so far, no one could help them, as these people were either hobos who wouldn't want to talk to them, some prostitutes that they avoided (and Sokka was not going to ask either one of them again), and others who acted a little too skittish for their own good. They didn't ask for help from any of those people, not liking how they kept muttering and twitching to themselves.
It was only then, that they felt like they were going around in circles, the city being so large.
Sighing in exhaustion, Sokka plopped down on an empty bench, "Man, this is not helping us. The only people that could've helped us were those homeless people, and yet they didn't want anything to do with us."
"I know...this isn't a very nice city so far," Suki said as she sat down on the bench next to Sokka. "There has to be someone that can help us."
Sokka looked around the area they were in, a street with worn-down brownstone buildings. It was then he saw a person, a man, wearing an unusual outfit...almost like a uniform? He was burly-looking and had a permanent scowl on his face.
Suki also looked at where Sokka was glancing at, and she asked him, "Who's that?"
"Babe, you're asking the wrong person," Sokka said, "But maybe...we can ask him?" he turned to his girlfriend with a shrug.
"I mean...it's worth a shot," Suki agreed.
Sokka nodded, and he stood up, calling out to the man, "Hey, sir!"
The man stopped his trek and turned his head to Sokka, "Hm? Yeah? What?"
"Uh, we just...uh...want to know if you can help us?" Sokka asked a little lamely as he came up to him.
"...With what?" the man asked as he turned to them.
"Um," Suki got up as well, coming up to them, "We're trying to find our friends. One is a little blind girl with dark hair that keeps it in a bun-"
"Wait, Suki, I just thought of something! What if our friends look totally different here in this place as well?" Sokka said to her.
Suki's eyes widened, "Oh...yeah, you're right. Would they even look like what they last looked like before we...uh, got here?" she said discretely, just so the man in front of them wouldn't think they were crazy.
"That I don't know," Sokka said. He lowered his head to quickly think of something, "Um...actually," he lifted his head up at the man, "We're a little lost. Is there any place we can ask for help?"
The man just looked at them stoically, "...Stay here. And don't take anything or buy anything from druggies."
And with that, the man walked past them and was about to enter an alleyway.
"...Druggies?" Sokka said to himself and looked at Suki, who in turn just shrugged, not knowing what that meant. He turned back to the man, "Hey, where are you going!?"
The man paused and turned his head to give him a glare of all things, "Police work. Now stay here."
He then walked into the alleyway, leaving the two teens behind.
Sokka and Suki both looked confused.
"Police work?" Suki said, looking at her boyfriend in question.
"Hey, don't look at me," Sokka said, "...Although..." he looked at where the man went into the alleyway with a frown, "I don't like how that guy looked."
Suki gazed at where Sokka was looking, "...He did seem a little...strict."
"I wonder what he means by not taking anything and buying from 'druggies'?" Sokka wondered out loud.
Still gazing at where the man walked into the alleyway, Suki made a thoughtful expression on her face, "...Hey, Sokka, how about we follow that guy?"
"Huh?" Sokka looked at her with a blink, "I mean...he did say to stay here."
She looked at him with a 'really?' look. "Sokka, you just said you didn't like how that guy looked."
"Well, yeah, but..."
"And why would he tell us to wait here without an explanation?" Suki asked him.
"...Okay, that was a little suspicious," Sokka agreed, "I mean, it's not like he knows us or anything..." he glanced at the alleyway and back at his girlfriend, "You know what? Sure, let's follow the guy."
"Alrighty then! Let's go," Suki said as she went ahead of Sokka. Sokka kept up his pace to keep up with Suki, and soon they ran in sync.
As they entered the alleyway, they went through multiple turns, making lefts and rights in other alleyways. When they saw the man go around a corner when they were about to round one, they hid behind the corner so they wouldn't be spotted. Once they saw that the coast was clear, they rounded the corner and went through the path the man went into. Once they neared the corner, they hid behind it, Sokka at the front, while Suki was next to him. The young man craned his head around the corner to see what was happening.
From where Sokka was, he could see some metal trashcans and a dumpster...he could also hear voices in the near distance talking.
"Ah, Bolles! You're right on time!" said what sounded like an older man with an accent, "Can't wait to get paid, eh?"
The man they encountered known as Bolles spoke out, "I would've come here sooner, but I was clearing out some of your work areas away from your rival drug dealers. You're back in business."
"Ah, good man! Just for that, I'm gonna tip ya an extra thousand!" the older man said jovially as he sounded like he was handling something.
"Hm. Thanks, Carmine. To be honest, you pay a lot better than GCPD."
"Heeeey, I only try to make my customers and friends happy as much as they can, ya know!? Speaking of, you and the rest of the boys are gonna see the fight later on tonight, right?" the man named Carmine asked.
"Of course. Brother against brother, the Gusnov Twins. Both are brutal, ruthless, and savage enough to put each of their own down. My money is on the one with the scar."
"Ah, Slavani? Care to ask me why?"
"The more scars he has, the better he can take the pain."
"Haha! Nice observation! By the way, um, sorry for asking you this all the time, but, uh...you came alone, right?"
"Well, I was dropped off by one of the rookies in the force, his name being Blake. He doesn't know about this, so you don't have to worry."
"Ahh. Teaching him the ropes, aren't ya?"
"Well, Blake's a little too...I guess I should say 'boy scout'-ish. He carries the feeling of 'goody-two-shoes'. Wants to try and make a 'difference'."
"Hmm...so a good cop then, huh?" Carmine said in a way that almost carried disgust.
"Well, yeah. If you ask me, he won't last a week in the force, especially in Gotham, so I give him exactly a week tops before he gets killed in action," Bolles stated.
"Heh. You know...if he's bothering you, I can make his time in GCPD a little shorter."
"...Hmm…" Bolles sounded like he was thinking, "...You do that for me?"
"Bolles! Buddy! I always help my good friends who help my business!"
"...Well, since you're offering, I think you can just let your men give the rook a nice beating. Don't actually kill him though. Maybe just cripple him."
"Haha! What's this? You got a conscience for the good cop?"
"...Ah hell, you know what? Forget what I said about crippling him. Just beat him up and put him out of his misery when he's all broken up. If he's crippled and alive, then I think the Commissioner would just honor him or something. And then I would have to be there with the rest of the force to pick up his 'spirits'."
"Ha! Atta boy! Heh, and yeah, that sounds just like that Commish. And hey, maybe we can set something up right now for when the shmuck comes back! How long will that be?"
"I told him to pick me up around thirty minutes near the apartment complex in the East End, the one with an open courtyard. That was...probably seventeen minutes ago."
"Ah, great! I know which one you're talking about! I'll get my guys here to do the job then! Do you want them to sneak up on him, or act like they're attacking you and the rook?"
"Hmm...I think you should just let your men come up to the police car and shoot him, without me present, of course. It's just a lot simpler. Besides, I need to help out some kids who said they were lost."
"Even better! Haha! Okay then, let's do it! Boys, follow Bolles to the scene and heed his instructions. I'll call the chauffeur from here to go on home."
Meanwhile, with Sokka and Suki...
"Whoa...damn," Sokka whispered, "Maybe we should-wha-wait, what-SUKI!?" he then said in a normal tone.
Suki then rounded the corner and made herself known to these thugs, getting into a fighting stance.
"What kind of people are you!?" Suki exclaimed at them in anger.
The man, Bolles, and Carmine, who was an older Caucasian man in a fur coat with a slick suit, shades on, his hair all brown and graying as he has a brown mustache, all turned their attention to Suki. There were also two big guys on each side of Carmine, the outfits they had on being black trenchcoats, sweaters, and black pants and shoes. One was a Caucasian white male while the other man was an African-American male.
"What the hell is this!?" Carmine asked, gesturing to Suki.
Bolles angrily scowled at the young woman, "You damn brat! You followed me here!?"
"Not just me!" Suki exclaimed at them.
"Oh for-Suki!" Sokka then came out of his hiding place and looked at the men in front of them. "Awww, man."
Bolles gritted his teeth, "I thought I told you two to wait!"
"Actually, you said to stay here, which apparently should be there, which we didn't do, so...uh, Suki, I think we should just run," Sokka told her.
"Are you serious, Sokka? They're planning to kill someone!" Suki asked her boyfriend incredulously.
"Look, I would jump in and pull out some punches as well, but...we don't have any weapons," Sokka made it clear to her. "Like, where are your fans? I don't have my sword! Even my boomerang I don't have!"
"..." Suki looked at the three big men that were accompanying the older man. She realized that basically, it's four to two, maybe three to two if this Carmine guy isn't a fighter. She may have jumped in too soon, but this won't deter her resolve. "...I still think we can take them. I mean, you know how to fight too, right?"
"Well, yeah, but...hoo boy..." Sokka ran a hand down his face. Soon he got into a fighting stance, "Okay, okay. I'll just take the Bolles guy or whatever his name is and I'll take the guy on the left."
"How about we make this easy? I'll take the two guys and you take the Bolles character?"
"I mean...well, okay, if you want. I was just trying to be gentlemanly, you know?"
"Sokka, Hun, while that is sweet, you should know me by now."
"...Okay then, I'll just take on the Bolles guy. Maybe even the old guy if I can."
"What the hell is going on here!?" Carmine exclaimed, "We got a couple of action kids here!? What do you two think you all are, Batman!?"
"Batman?" Suki asked, a little confused.
"Bat-man?" Sokka looked at them oddly, "You mean a lemur-bat...man?"
"Ah, screw this shit!" Carmine got a gun out and aimed at Suki, "Since you popped up, I'll pop ya first!"
Then-
WHA-WICK!
...A thin whip appendage wrapped around Carmine's gun, letting him be in shock for a moment, until the whip forcefully got out of his hand with a pull.
"ACK!" Carmine yelped.
Bolles and the two thugs looked up their left, while Sokka and Suki also looked up at the direction the whip came from.
The whip appendage went up as well as the gun, the weapon being pulled up and then tossed behind the person who was perched on an emergency ladder platform on the side of the building.
The person...was a woman. She was wearing a black bodysuit and had cat ears of some kind that were on top of her head. She was carrying a long whip in her right hand, and her face was bare. She seemed to have dark skin with a bit of short black hair coming out from the top of her head in her bodysuit.
She spoke out, "Wow, Carmine, pulling out a gun on two teenagers. Just what would your kid have to say?"
Carmine seethed, "Damn it, Kittycat! You won't quit, will ya!?"
"Kitty...cat?" Sokka looked up and blinked.
"Whoa, who's that?" Suki asked anyone while she looked up at the woman in curiosity.
"Catwoman!?" Bolles exclaimed irritably, "Shit. Well, let's just see if you really got cat-like reflexes then, huh!?" he got his gun out, aimed, and prepared to shoot her.
"No, you fool! Don't shoot her!" Carmine yelled at Bolles.
"What!?" Bolles said incredulously at Carmine.
The woman named Catwoman sneered, "Gee, thanks for the save, Carmine."
She then lept off the ledge and used her long legs and heels to point and shoot down at Bolles.
WHAM!
"Ooff!" Bolles got knocked back a few feet and slammed against a wall, the back of his head hitting the wall, the impact letting him have a slight concussion. Catwoman backflipped off of him and landed on her two feet gracefully, like a cat.
Carmine growled, "Why must you always interfere with my meetings, Kittycat!?"
"I don't always do, ya know?" Catwoman said as she got into a fighting stance, letting her hands out as her fingers looked like claws, cat claws. "But when you threaten kids, all bets are off."
Gritting his teeth, Carmine snarled and told his two thugs, "What are you two waiting for!? Smack her around a bit so she can learn some respect!"
One of the thugs, the Caucasian male, grimaced, "Uh, r-right, Boss!"
The other, the African-American male, also stuttered, "Uh, y-yeah, sure!"
The two thugs went over to Catwoman, fists ready to pummel her.
When one of the thugs threw a punch at her, Catwoman dodged it by side-stepping away from the hit. Twirling on her heels, she delivered a side-kick to the side of the thug, knocking him off balance. The other thug also took a swing at her, but she ducked under the punch and delivered a side chop to the side of his head, the sharp nails cutting his face.
"AUGH!" the thug, being the African-American that had his face cut, growled at her, "You little bitch!"
Catwoman smirked, and then, just as if she predicted it, turned around and swipe-blocked a punch from the Caucasian thug, and proceeded to do some fast punches at him, directed at his chest, shoulders, and to his face last.
"ACK!" the thug yelped, as she delivered one last punch to his face.
The other thug then decided to get serious and got a switchblade out of his right hand.
"What the hell are ya doing!?" Carmine yelled at his thug in what sounded like anger and shock.
"Don't worry, Boss, I'm just gonna cut her a little bit! Just enough that she gets the picture!" he said to him. Then he ran up to Catwoman with the blade in his hand.
Suki and Sokka, who were on the sidelines, watched the fight in interest, but Suki then told her boyfriend, "Sokka! I'll face the guy with the blade! You'll face the other one that this Catwoman is fighting and maybe the Bolles guy!"
"U-Uh, okay!" Sokka said to her in slight alarm, "Just, um, just be careful, alright!?"
"Don't worry, Sokka, I will! You be careful too!" Suki assured with a nod and rushed over to the thug, delivering an upward kick on the thug's right arm to let the switchblade in his hand go up while he was fighting Catwoman.
"ACK!" The African-American thug yelped, now his attention to Suki, "You little-you want some of this!?"
"Question is, do you want to get beaten up by a girl?" Suki said with a cocky smirk.
"RAAAARRRGH!" the thug yelled as he rushed up to her and pushed the blade straight toward her.
Suki dodged it by side-stepping and used her left arm to wrap the man's blade arm, and then used her right hand to push it up, flipping the thug and tossing him over to a wall, letting his back slam hard against it while he was upside down.
"UGH!" The thug then landed on his head in a pair of metal trash cans and on the ground, "OGH!" and just like that, he was out like a light, as his body went back on his front as he lay there unconscious.
Suki smirked a little broader. "I guess you do."
Sokka went over to Catwoman, got next to her, and got himself into a fighting stance as he said, "Uh, hey! Mind if I help?"
Catwoman glanced next to her at Sokka in question with a raised brow, and said, "Um, sure, kid. Do you know how to fight?"
"Um...in a way!" Sokka admitted.
Before Catwoman could reply to that, the Caucasian thug got up as well and Bolles, who recovered from his slight concussion, all looked ready to pounce on them.
"Quickly, which one do you want to fight?" Catwoman asked Sokka as she turned her attention to the two brutes.
"Uh...the Bolles guy?" Sokka said as he pointed at him.
"Good enough for me!" Catwoman smirked and rushed to the Caucasian thug as she delivered a left side-kick, which he swiped and blocked with his arm. However, Catwoman twirled and jumped in her left direction, letting her left hand touch the ground, and using her right hand on the ground to twirl her deadly legs into a circle. Once she positioned herself to let the thug face her from behind, she crouched and bent her legs to propel and shoot toward the thug, hitting him in the stomach.
"UGH!" the thug exclaimed, knocking the wind out of him. He slammed against a wall, and Catwoman wasn't even done yet. Once she landed on her feet, she twirled and jumped forward, doing a front flip and hitting the right heel of her boot on the cranium of the thug's skull, sending his face to the pavement and knocking him out.
Two down, one to go.
Sokka looked at the display of fighting skill and couldn't help but say one thing.
"...Wooow..." Sokka was impressed...and she wasn't bad looking at all either, noticing those curves on her.
"Sokka!" Suki exclaimed at him, "Look out!"
Sokka looked at where Bolles was...to see he was charging at him with some kind of object that was sparking electricity in his right hand!
"Whoa!" Sokka jumped out of the way to his right from the object's line of aim.
Bolles then turned around to inwardly swing the object at him again, while Sokka used his left arm to block and shoved the burlier man's arm and the object away from him. The bad cop then used his left arm to rear back and try to strike the kid in the face, but Sokka ducked under the swipe and went in to throw punches at Bolles's stomach and chest.
Sokka was not known as a martial artist by any means, but he liked to think he pulled out some pretty good punches at the guy. Hearing Bolles's grunts of pain felt satisfying to hear, so Sokka kept going.
After what felt like the fifteenth punch, Bolles can pretty much say he felt the affliction on him. The man was partly hunched over, wheezing and coughing. But Sokka wasn't done yet.
"And for the finisher!" Sokka said as he reared his arm at Bolles, aiming it at his head. He shot his arm at the side of the cop's head and-
WHAAAM!
-punched him in the face!
Bolles went to his side and fell on the ground, landing on it roughly as he was now on his back, unconscious.
Sokka cheered victoriously. "WOOOOO! Now that's how it's done!"
"Not bad, kid," Catwoman congratulated, hands on her hips as she smirked at him.
"Oh! Uh, th-thanks!" Sokka grinned with a thumbs up at Catwoman.
Suki looked at both her boyfriend and Catwoman. She did see that Sokka gazed at Catwoman a moment ago, and saw that he was looking a little too giddy when he was looking at the older woman as of right now, decided to come up to him and smack him on the back, "Yeah, Sokka! Great job! Those lessons I taught you certainly did the trick!"
Sensing the tone in her voice after he was off-balanced a bit from her slap on the back, Sokka straightened up, turned to Suki, and said in a nervous tone, "O-Oh, yeah! U-Um, th-thanks, Suki! Y-You were great too! Really, you were! Like, you took care of that guy single-handedly! Atta girl!"
Suki looked at him with a smirk and a raised eyebrow.
Aw, don't be jealous, Suki. He's just being a guy. I mean, I can't blame him for finding that Catwoman attractive.
"DAMN IT, KITTY CAT!" Carmine yelled out to Catwoman. He turned to his two thug bodyguards and yelled at them, "You're both dead to me!" he turned his attention to Bolles, "And next time, Bolles, check behind who's following ya!" he then began to leave, but he was stopped by someone grabbing his fur coat, "What the-!?"
"Hey, you're not going anywhere!" Sokka exclaimed as he held onto his fur coat.
"The hell you doing!? This is an expensive coat, you brat!" Carmine raised his hand, which was encrusted with diamond and gold rings, and swatted the young man away.
When Sokka released his coat to get away from being swatted, Suki came up to help her boyfriend as she caught him from behind.
The Kyoshi Warrior Captain glared at Carmine, "You're not getting off that easily!"
"Yeah!" Sokka said as he stood up after being helped by Suki, "We don't know too much about you, but planning hits on people? You're going down, old-timer!"
"Old-timer!? Who the hell you think you're talking to, ya little bastard!? I got connections, both in the police force and in the district courts! You better make sure I don't come after you and your family or your girl, 'cause you walkin' on thin ice, pal!"
"Funny you should say that, because we don't live here! And I can walk on thin ice as well! It's not that hard!" Sokka retorted.
"You mockin' me, kid!?" Carmine sneered at him, "You're lucky I don't have my gun right now, or I would end you in a heartbeat! You'd be another dead druggie on the side of the street! And when the Penguin gets elected for Mayor of this city, I'm going to make sure you're on my hit list, kid!"
"Go ahead with this 'gun' of yours!" Sokka exclaimed, "We'll see who's left standing when I put my sword up your-"
"That's enough!" exclaimed Catwoman.
"Huh?" Sokka turned to the woman in confusion, as well as Suki.
Catwoman just turned to Carmine with a glare, "Just leave, okay, Carmine? Don't be threatening to kill just one kid. That wouldn't look good on your reputation in the criminal underworld, now would it?"
Carmine stared at her, not saying anything...until he said, "Just keep that kid's mouth shut."
"Sure. Whatever," Catwoman rolled her eyes with a sneer.
Sokka and Suki looked even more puzzled.
The older man then turned around and walked off...until he stopped and turned his head to Catwoman to say, "You know, you're gonna have to stop disrespecting your old man, Selina."
Both teens looked back at Catwoman.
Selina?
Catwoman - Selina - just glared at Carmine.
"...See ya around, Kitty Cat," Carmine then walked off, leaving the three alone in the alleyway.
...When Carmine was gone, Sokka was the first to say, "Uuuh...do you happen to know that guy?" he asked Catwoman.
Catwoman just stood there for a moment and turned to Sokka, "I just saved your life, kid...hopefully. Just don't piss off any crime lords in the future."
Sokka and Suki both glanced at each other for a moment, until Suki asked, "You...didn't really answer my boyfriend's question."
...The older woman said, "Do you both seriously don't live here? In Gotham?"
Both teens blinked at her not answering the question.
"Um...no. We don't. We...uh...um..." Sokka tried to think of something good for him to lie about their situation.
"We're, uh, we're from out of town!" Suki jumped in, "A-And we're finding our friends! We've been separated from them, and...yeah!" she nodded to affirm it.
Catwoman looked at the kids for a second...until saying, "Well, my place is around here. I guess you two can stay there for a while. Follow me," she then began to walk off down the alleyway.
"Wait! You still didn't answer my question!" Sokka called out to her.
The older woman stopped in her tracks. She sighed and turned her head to say to them, "Carmine is my father, okay?"
…Surprised at that revelation, Sokka and Suki's eyes widened in shock.
"I'm nothing like him, don't worry..." Selena then turned her head forward to look ahead. "Now come on. It's getting late. You don't want to be out here at this time of night." She then kept walking...
...The teens glanced back at each other, and back at Catwoman, known as Selina.
"...Should we...follow her?" Sokka asked Suki.
"...Hey, she saved us from being...uh, dead, I guess?" Suki said with a shrug at Sokka.
"...Well, who knows? Maybe she can help us find my sister and our friends?"
"Maybe..." Suki looked back at Selina, who was still walking. "...I think we can trust her."
"...Yeah. I mean, she saved us, and she said she's not like that Car-mine guy or whatever, so...yeah, she seems pretty cool."
"Uh, guys?" Catwoman called out to them, looking at them with a raised puzzled brow, "Are you both coming or not?"
"Uh, y-yeah! Sorry, uh..." Sokka then grabbed Suki's hand, "Come on, Suki, let's go!"
"O-Okay!" Suki said hurriedly
And they followed Catwoman - Selina - to the streets of Gotham's East End...
End of Chapter 5
And that's chapter 5! Tell me how I did with Sokka, Suki, and Selena's personalities, please! :D
I hope the fight scenes were comprehensible, I tried to match Catwoman's fighting style as well as Suki's. I don't think Sokka has a fighting style, but I made him have one anyway. XD
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-TSP