A/N: Hello and Merry Christmas! Your gift is a collection of short snippets of stories I am either working on or will be working on this coming year. Some of them may get posted this year. Fingers crossed.

The first is from the Future Avatar project.

It was her again.

Korra had thought she had long since banished the phantom, but here it was again. It stood limply, but with a firm resolution in its eyes that were glowing a brilliant white, as if she were the Avatar. In all the years that had passed since Kuvira's war, she looked like Korra had when she had faced Zaheer, hair wild and manacles still affixed to her wrists and ankles.

Wordlessly, she hounded Korra and Asami through the warehouse, blasting through walls of crates effortlessly. All attacks failed to slow her down long enough to get away, if it that were possible in the first place.

"Korra, I still can't see her," Asami said.

"Just keep running," Korra answered. "Bolin and Opal should be here in a minute."

Appearing in front of them, the doppelganger slammed her foot down, knocking the duo off of their feet. Korra rolled backwards and to her feet and filled the pathway between them with fire. Korra stood ready, helping Asami back to her feet.

The wall of fire parted, the doppelganger flying through. Wind whipped around her arm like a drill as she closed in on them. Korra moved to intercept, but was swatted aside as her opponent gunned for Asami. The non-bender dove out of the way, but the doppelganger changed directions in an instant and lunged.

There was no stopping it as the conical current of air bit into Asami's side.

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172 PCW

Main West Line, enroute to Zaofu

Hei's eyes shot open when he heard the blanket rustle next to him, followed shortly by whimpering. Glancing over at the bundle tucked next to him, Hei looked around the train car they were in. No one had cottoned on to their presence yet, and hopefully it would stay that way until they reached their destination.

"Go back to sleep," Hei said gruffly.

Settling back against the wall, the boy's eyes slipped shut again. Hopefully, when they woke up, they would be in Zaofu, and then they would begin their metalbending training.

A/N 2.0: The origin of this project came from a thought I had when looking at the progression of technology in the world of Avatar. By the end of LoK, we saw power suits, mag-rail trains, and a HUMONGOUS mecha that fired frickin' laser beams. How far would that progress through Korra's lifetime, and what sort of world would the next Avatar inherit?

Like a number of things I'm working on, this story is still in its early stages, not even having a rough plot outline (something that Naruto: RE has), so you won't be seeing this show up anytime soon. *sad face*

Anywho, I will be posting more in the coming days.