The Legend of Korra : Mark of the Moon

Retaliation

CAMERAS FLASHED and murmurs spread as hungry reporters massed around the steps of city hall. A frown crossed Detective Nobuyuki's face, one he tried feebly to mask as questions flew in:

"Will the four nations respond to the declaration of war?"

"Do you know anything about the Anarchist?"

"What're you going to do about the assassinations?"

"Is the Water Nation behind the Mark of the Moon?"

"How will this affect the summit?"

Nobuyuki sighed and calmed his mind, masking his irritation. "Investigations are underway as we speak. We currently have no real information about the Mark of the Moon and their leader, but with the Avatar's help, we will bring him to justice. The ambassadors have been moved to highly secure locations away from their embassies and for the time being, the summit will be postponed."

More questions flooded in as he stepped off the podium, followed by other soldiers as a man stood before the horde of journalist. Behind the crowd stood Korra, stewing with anger as she folded her arms and scoffed.

"'THE AVATAR'S cooperation', can you believe that?" Korra slapped a newspaper on Mako's desk, slumping on a chair. "The guy takes all the evidence we'd found then up and lies that we're helping him willingly."

"I think you're missing the point here." Mako grabbed his coffee.

"Really? Cuz you should be just as pissed off as I am."

"I am, it's frustrating, but we need to focus on the war declaration and whoever this Anarchist guy is."

"Yeah, guess you're right." She sighed and sat back. "Well, at least we now know that they have an align themselves with waterbenders and wants to stop the treaty from happening – definitely put a wedge in the way of its signing."

"They most likely have a connection with the Equalists. With the tattoo you'd spotted when you fought one of them and the image from one of their bases, they must be linked."

"Or they might be enemies." She stroked her chin.

"How?"

"Well, they have similarities, but their goals are different." She sat up. "The Equalists wanted equality for benders and non-benders alike while the Mark of the Moon want the waterbender supremacy."

"It is possible." He sifted his mind. "But, it could just be something the Anarchist said to disrupt the summit. It could just be a means to an end to ensure the Fire Nation and Water Nation would have a fallout that'd stop the treaty altogether."

"Maybe, but it doesn't matter now cuz Nobuyuki took all our evidence." She crossed her arms.

"Not all of it."

"What do you mean?"

"I had my assistant make two copies of the files that were in the lockup." He stood and walked up to shelf to the left of his desk. "The one at my place was the second one and I kept the first ..." He fished out a duffel bag. "Here."

"This's awesome! Now we can continue our investigation." She grinned and she moved up to him and opened the bag. "Where should we start?" She picked up some documents."

"Let's try to prove our theories by checking the Equalist bases." He fished out a folder. "If there's anything linking the Mark of the Moon to them, we'll find it there."

"Or we'll find that I'm right about their goals being different and that they're hiding behind them to lead us on a wild goose chase."

"You didn't say that earlier."