You and I [Desami Fanfiction]

Chapter 30: The Invasion

Asami

I pull a pair of goggles over my head and hit the gas of the plane. I look to my left and right. Mako and Bolin are hanging on to the wings of the plane, ready for battle. I give them both a quick nod before taking off into the air.

Oogi and Tenzin aren’t far behind. They catch up to us as we approach Unalaq’s camp. I see that the spirit portal is swarming with dark spirits. Below it, troops circle around. I take a deep breath as I call to Bolin, “Are you ready?”

“I’m an earthbedner strapped to the wing of a plane hundreds of feet in the air, so no?” Bolin replies. I try not to laugh.

“Don’t worry, there’s no way they’ll be expecting this!” Mako yells.

As we fly closer and closer to the portal, more and more troops come in to view. Behind them sits a row of mecha tanks- my mecha tanks!

“I think they were expecting it!” Bolin says to us.

I grind my teeth together as the plane swoops down towards the ground. Dozens of ice shards are thrown up at us. I jerk the wheel, flying the plane out of the way. Bolin screams as I dip the plane down.

“Get ready!” I yell. “Fire!”

A blast of fireballs flew from Mako’s hands to the terrain below. Buildings went up in smoke instantly as more ice shards came at me.

The mecha tanks attacked us too, but Bolin took care of them. He bent Varrick’s bombs at the machines. They blew up in seconds.

The ice shards still didn’t stop. I circle the spirit portal as many times as possible, jerking the wheel every which way. Finally, one hits us on the back propeller. Smoke explodes from my back, and I try my best not to crash the damaged plane.

Soon enough another blow got us in the back just after Bolin threw down another round of bombs. This hit knocked me completely off balance, and the plane crashed into the snow. I just barely climbed out of the cockpit before blacking out.

Desna

            “Asami!” I yell just as a pile of snow turns to water, and my sister thrusts it at the Future Industries plane. “Eska, what are you doing?”

“My job,” she growls. “You love that girl too much. Look what you were willing to sacrifice to save her.”

I listen to Eska and look around. Half the camp is on fire. Men are running around, trying to stop it all but the damage is too much. I know those bombs came right from Asami’s plane. “No,” I whisper to myself.

“Yes,” Eska argues. “You need to stop worrying about her. Soon, Father will have her and her friends.”

“And then what? He kills her? Let’s her watch as he burns down the world?” I yell, tears stinging the back of my eyes. I’m sure Eska could see them, but I turn away anyway. “I need to go get her.”

“No, you don’t,” she says, holding me back.

“Let me go!” I yell. I feel ice surround my feet and I look at my sister in surprise. She had never waterbent me before.

“It’s best that you stay here. Father won’t have you ruining his plans,” she reminds me. With a sigh of defeat I let Eska lead my feet back to camp while my heart follows Asami.

Asami

            I wake back up on the back of a camel. A water tribe soldier is in front of me, and my hands and feet are bound. I try to look around but I can’t seem to find the strength.

The next thing I know I’m being thrown into a tent. Mako and Bolin land by my sides. Korra is already in there, and I think I catch a glimpse of Tenzin and Kya, too. My attention is drawn away from them when someone else enters the tent. Unalaq.

I can hardly focus one him because of the figure standing by his side. Desna! My heart instantly begins to race as I try to say something. My words are quickly cut off when I realize what’s going on. Desna isn’t here to save me; he’s here with his father and sister. I squeeze my eyes shut as I try to make sense of it all. Desna would never be apart of this kind of thing, would he? I was sure my Desna wouldn’t, but this was a different person entirely.

Desna

            She was right there. If I had reached out, I could have touched her. Could have hugged her, told her I missed her. I couldn’t take my eyes off of her, but she couldn’t seem to look at me.

That’s right, I was the enemy now. I was helping the other side, the bad guys. And she wasn’t like me.

“Freeing Vaatu won’t make you powerful, it will only make you a traitor to everything good that’s happened over the last ten thousand years!” Korra says to my father. Vaatu…I remembered the name from my studies on spirits. Vaatu was the spirit of darkness and chaos, said to be imprisoned by the first Avatar ten thousand years ago. It only made sense that this had happened so long ago. Harmonic Convergence only came every ten thousand years. What was Father planning to do with such a terrible spirit?

Father went on about the Avatar, how they caused nothing but chaos. These were the speeches I had grown up hearing, of course. And I had always believed them, but Korra seemed to have an argument of her own.

“When Harmonic Convergence comes, I will fuse with Vaatu, and together we will become the new Avatar. A Dark Avatar. Your era is over,” Father explains. Eska and I both look at him in pure horror. Now I was sure he had lost all sense. There was no way he had thought this through. A Dark Avatar? Stopping the world from, what, good? It was preposterous and insanely risky. I was about to say all of this when Eska shot me a look. She had to be thinking the same thing I was, but she said nothing.

“Keep them locked up. After Harmonic Convergence, I will come for Korra,” our father says to us. And what about the rest of us? I think.