Korra didn't like this idea one bit. Her team of five, including herself, were about to enter an abandon building. Don't get the wrong idea; her team is the best choice in the SWAT and she was confident they can get the job done. But something wasn't right; it was too quiet for comfort.
No people on the streets, no dogs barking, and all lights were out. If you drop a needle right there and right now, she's pretty sure she can hear the impact when it touches the ground. She could just let herself and her team walk away but no, orders were orders. And she had to follow them even if she didn't like them. It just wasn't her call.
They received an anonymous tip early morning that a deal was going down tonight in this abandon building and if what they were told is true; big guns were going to be found there, very big guns. We're talking about rifles, submachine and machine guns, rocket and grenade launchers.
"I don't like this one bit." Korra whispers to herself.
They were rallying up at the back alley, waiting for Korra's orders to go in.
"Well, we could just knock and see if anyone's home." Mike tells her.
Korra rolls her eyes at his statement but smiles nonetheless.
Mike, the second in command and Korra's best friend. If Korra gets incapacitated or worse, he takes over her position. He's the clown in the team, well, not the best one. They've known each other since they were in high school. Apparently, Mike was getting bullied in the hallway by the lockers one day. Korra couldn't stand it so decided to interfere but ended up getting a few bruises herself that day and the two became inseparable. Korra trusts him and he trusts her.
"Shut up, will you? You'll give away our position." Raf glares at him and turns around to watch their back.
Raf, the competitor. He doesn't really like Korra and Mike but puts up it with them for the team. He's been trying to get away from Korra's team to have his own group but got shot down every time he requests it. The captain told him he was too impatient and too violent when it comes to getting the job done. Korra doesn't know much about the guy except the profile she was handed by the captain. He had a dishonorable discharge in the army due to the lack of respect to those superior to him. Korra didn't want him on her team but the captain said they needed muscle and he was it.
"Hey, ease up. No one's around here except for us and the people inside. It shouldn't be too much of a problem." Joe tells him.
"Hey, bro. You're forgetting about our truck parked two blocks around the corner." Joyce tells her brother.
Joe and Joyce, the twins. It was hard to tell who was who when they arrived at the station a year ago. They both had the same height, face and hair cut, a boy cut according to Joyce. Both had tried to ask Korra out a few times but Korra shot them down, politely. Korra was interested in someone else, a certain raven hair girl with jaded eyes and she made it perfectly clear to them but they either ignored her or didn't quite get the message because they still kept asking out either way. Korra loves them both but not in the way they want her to.
"Yeah, man. We're important too. We're your eyes on the outside and your extra eyes on the inside." Bolin tells them through their earpieces. "No problems with the cameras attach on all five people, Captain." He says to the woman beside him.
"And cut the chatter; focus on the mission at hand." Beifong tells her team sternly while looking at the monitors labeling each to Korra, Mike, Raf, Joe and Joyce.
Beifong, the Captain. Lin Beifong, Korra doesn't really like her that much but she has a whole lot of respect for that woman. In one of her missions, Beifong was the sole survivor when her team got ambushed and was tortured to death but Lin stayed strong and stayed silent until reinforcements came to her rescue. She had emotional scars after that mission but was given a promotion for it but she turned it down to become Korra's captain. She said she didn't want to get rewarded after getting her men killed in action.
Bolin, the Co-Captain. Bolin was supposed to be their captain but he said that he'd rather take orders than give them. Either way, he was given the rank as Co-Captain. Bolin's a good guy; his heart is in the right place. He's like an older brother to Korra, he stays and listens to her when no one else would and watches out for her when they go and hang out with his older brother and his older brother's girlfriend.
Korra sighed. "Alright, enough talk. I want this nice and clean. We don't interfere until we see the goodies, got it?"
"Got it."
"Okay, get a mirror under that door." Korra tells the twins.
Joe and Joyce move up front and place the optiwand, a fiberoptic camera used to look under doors and around corners, under the door to see if anyone's behind it.
"All clear, no trip wires and no guards patrolling. There are two corners at the end of the halls, one at the left and one at the right." Joe tells them while keeping the equipment and sidestepping to the right side with Joyce at the left side of the door. Joyce checks to see if the door was lock, but surprisingly it wasn't.
"Well, that's weird." She says. "You think a big deal coming down tonight and they decide to not lock the door."
"Maybe it's because they weren't expecting a surprise party since they're the only ones invited." Mike tells her.
"It doesn't matter; it's easier than picking a lock." Raf tells them.
"No, she's right." Korra tells him sternly. "When we go in, keep your eyes open. I don't want any surprises."
They all nodded in agreement.
"Let's do this." Mike tells them.
"Open the door, Joyce." Korra tells her.
Korra came in first who went directly to the right and was followed by Mike who went to the left. The twins followed behind Korra and covered her back while Raf went the other way and covered Mike's back after shutting the door quietly behind him.
Joe and Raf begin to take out their optiwands to look at their corners. Raf spots a man sitting and reading a magazine while guarding a door, Joe on the other hand spots a room with the lights on and she suspects there might be one or two men inside.
"Got one guarding a door, he seems to be alone." Raf tells the team while he keeps his optiwand.
"I got maybe one or two in a room up ahead and two more rooms at the end of hall but it looks to be desserted." Joe says back, keeping the equipment after.
Raf was about to approach the guard but Mike tapped his shoulder for him to stop on his tracks and turn around. Mike was holding out a bottle and Raf got the idea. Raf got the bottle out from Mike's hand and threw it behind him and Mike. There was crashing and breaking sound and got the attention of the other team.
"What the hell was that for?" Korra whispers through their earpiece but got no response it return. But she sees Raf take down the guard who walked right towards them and knocking him out cold.
"Enemy down." Mike says to her.
"We're moving up." Raf tells them and begins to turn to their corner.
Korra and the twins do the same but were stealthier so they wouldn't alarm the people in the room. Joe and Raf begin to use their optiwands under the door to see what was behind it.
"Holy shit." Joe and Raf say at the same time. "You won't believe what's on the other side of that door."
On Raf's end, the Captain can see through Mike's camera to what Raf was looking at. There were two crates that were in the corner of the room but what really caught both their eyes was the fact there were four bodies hanging from the ceiling. And by the looks of it, those were the men who they were suppose to apprehend tonight.
On Joe's end, however, Bolin was horrified. Looking through Joyce's camera, he can see that Korra was stunned at the sight they were seeing from the optiwand. Inside the room were none other than his brother, Mako and his girlfriend, Asami and they were knocked out and chained up to the wall. Luckily, none of them had any serious wounds.
Mako, older brother of Bolin. He's not really a great guy from Korra's POV but she knows he'd do anything to protect his little brother and she has to give him a little credit for that. Korra remembered the first time she met Mako. Bolin called for dinner and apparently wanted Korra to meet his big brother but when she came inside the restaurant, someone caught her eye. That someone was sitting a little too closely to what Korra assumed to be Bolin's brother. She didn't see it coming; she never did or could ever imagine it.
Asami Sato, her Asami. She wasn't hers anymore though since Asami and her father had to move away after they both graduated college so they had to break up and after that, they lost contact with each other for a year. Korra tried to move on but it was hard for her, she just couldn't stop thinking about her. She tried contacting her but found out her number was no longer in service. She tried emailing her but got no responses and yet here she was, sitting between Mako and Bolin, right in front of her but still too far for her. They caught up with each other after that night, reminisce their days before and became best friends, unfortunately for Korra but at least she's back.
This happened two months after Bolin was assigned to Korra's team. That was three months ago.
"Korra!" Joyce snaps her out of her thoughts.
"Korra, get my brother and Asami out of there. NOW!" Bolin yells at her.
Korra got to her feet and broke down the door with all her might. She checked the room for anything that seem suspicious and found none and proceeded to unchain Asami while Joyce unchains Mako and Joe guards them from the outside.
"Asami?" Korra says while lifting Asami to her arms. "Come on, wake up. Please."
Mako was able to regain conscious but had a hard time standing up.
"Where am I? What's happening?" He asks Joyce who throws his arm over her shoulders for support.
"We're getting you out of here." Korra says to him and he nods.
They were now leaving the room with Joe leading them out but stop when they heard the Captain speaking.
"Don't head back to your entrance earlier. It's surrounded by armed men and I don't recognize their uniforms." She tells her team while looking at the blueprints of the building. "Go to the second floor, and turn left at the first corner. Go straight until you reach the end of the hallway and turn left, you'll see the fire exit there."
Joe does what he's told and begins to lead them to second floor with Joyce and Korra following behind him. Asami begins to stir in her arms. "Korra..?" She mumbles before passing out again. Korra smiles to herself and holds Asami tighter in her arms.
By the time they turned left at the first corner, Mako was able to walk again but behind them were four heavily armed men and they were picking up their pace which made Joe, Joyce, Mako and Korra run faster.
When they reached at the end of the hall, one of the men fired a tazer gun at Korra and it hit her on her right thigh which made her lose her balance and fall on her back, keeping Asami out of harm's way. Asami was blinking her eyes rapidly to see what was going on, she sees Korra's worried face but she was clearly in pain. She hears people yelling both their names but her focus was on Korra.
"Korra? What's happening? A-are you okay?" Asami tries to talk but it only comes out as a whisper.
"Asami, listen to me." Korra says between her breathing. "Go, you have to get out of here."
"Why? I don't understand." Asami was clearly crying now.
"Please, just go." Korra says to her with tears falling as well. "Joe, get her out of here!"
Joe was now running towards Asami pulling her up to her feet but she was trying to break free from his hold.
"No, wait! What about Korra?!" Asami yells and successfully breaks free from Joe's hold. She runs back to Korra only to have her being pulled back again by Joe and this time with more force.
"Let me go! KORRA!"
Korra tries to put a big smile on her face despite the pain. "I love you, 'Sami."
Asami was now crying even harder when she heard Korra's words but wasn't able to do anything but stare as four men grab Korra, she tries to fight back and surprisingly knocks two of four men down but gets a clean cut on her left eye and gets knocked out by getting her head hit to the wall. The last thing she hears before she blacks out was Asami screaming her name over and over again.
Mike and Raf met them at the end of the staircase. When they arrived, they saw a trembling Asami, Mako not looking at any of them and a person missing.
"Where's Korra?" Mike slowly asks Joe.
Joe couldn't reply to him, none of them could.
"WHERE IS SHE?!" He yells at Joe and grabs him by the collar and pushing him towards a wall. This outburst startled Raf who was watching the corner of the alley.
Joyce approaches him and places her hand on his shoulder, getting Mike's attention and quickly letting go of Joe, she looks at him straight in the eye. She was holding back her tears while shaking her head telling him their team leader didn't make it. They were able to escape since the men were too busy taking Korra out and the hostages were the top priority when presented.
A few seconds later, a truck came with Captain Beifong coming out of a truck and Bolin on the steering wheel.
"We have to get going." She says to them while watching her surroundings. "They'll be here any minute now."
They all quickly get in. Asami was hesitant at first but didn't have the energy to fight off anyone who tried to pull her in. Just as she entered, she sat at the end of the truck just staring outside the window with the twins beside her. Mako was in between Raf and Mike, looking down at his shoes.
"When we get back, you and I are having a quick chat." Bolin hisses and glares at his brother before driving off to headquarters.