Mako's POV:
We crashed through the doors of city hall, taking down any guards that came against us. Dai Li and Metal Dynasty blocked our way as we descended further underground, but it didn't seem to slow us as we barrelled through them. Korra was using air bending to knock them around as Asami used her electric gloves to knock them out while they were off balanced. Bolin and I bended side by side, using all our pro-bending and fighting experience to propel us past our pursuers.
"Over here!" Korra yelled as she sent vibrations through the ground to locate our target.
We burst through the giant metal doors to come face to face with thirty Dai Li men, waiting for us. At the back of the room we watched as Wian and the two lava benders guided someone from the room out a second door. My blood boiled; that coward was running away. With a yell, I charged into the room shooting fire ahead of me to clear a path.
"Don't let him get away!" I yelled above the fighting. Korra flew over our heads and through the door.
"Wait Korra!" Bolin shouted. "The lava benders are-"
He never got to finish as she came tumbling back into the room; lava melted the floor in front of her. She swore , wiping sweat from here face. Quickly she tried to cool the floor with air bending as the rest of us made our way through the final Dai Li soldiers. Bolin helped her and soon we were able to run/slide across a sheet of ice Korra bended between us and the still hot floor. We chased them up several flights of stair and back out onto the streets of Republic City. Most of the soldiers had been shepherded towards or into the bay by now and we couldn't see any more soldiers from either side on the streets. Leo must be doing a good job helping General Iroh, I thought distractedly.
"Mako watch out!" Asami pulled me back as a wave of lava almost hit me. Wian was guiding Wun towards the bay presumably to catch up with their troops and left his lava bender pets behind to handle us. I growled and sent two large fire balls at the benders who gracefully dodged them. Korra and Asami flew over the lava Bender's heads and continued to follow Wian and Wun while Bolin and I kept these guys busy. Bolin had begun lava bending as well and the street turned into a fiery mess of molten rock. Climbing up a lamp post, I began lightning bending at the lava benders. Bolin easily moved in sync with my bending, but the lava benders were thrown off. The man stumbled first as he jumped back to dodge both my lightning and the lava he'd just made as a counter attack. Bolin seized the opportunity to encase him in rock. The woman lava bender, distracted by her brother's capture, also stumbled as she both tried to help her brother, dodge lightning, and defend herself from Bolin's lava. Bolin encased her feet in rock, immobilizing her, then encased her in rock next to her brother.
"Nice work," I hopped down from my lamp post.
"Uh, that wasn't me," Bolin scratched the back of his head. "I was lava bending."
"Then how-"
"Leo," Me and Bolin said in unison as the lava benders were further encased in a ball of stone and sucked into the earth.
"It's nice to have a god helping," Bolin commented jokingly as we ran to catch up with Korra and Asami.
"Yeah," I mumbled, smiling to myself.
Korra's POV:
We chased Wian and Wun down the streets of Republic City as they surfed a wave of earth they'd created. As they went, Wun and Wian pulled down the buildings around us trying to knock me out of the air. In my arms, Asami curled in closer to make sure she didn't get clipped by falling rubble. Finally in anger, I sent a blast of air at our opponents. They tumbled off their wave of earth and continued running the last few meters before they met up with their soldiers by the bay. We landed in front of the Republic City army and made ready to fight when a wall of water rose around the back edge of the Metal Dynasty troops, trapping them between our troops and the giant wall of water.
"Hey Korra," Percy walked up next to me with Annabeth. "Glad you found the last of the stray rats."
"Wouldn't be a win if we let the biggest ones escape would it?" I replied cooly.
"At least we got them to the bay," Annabeth sighed, wiping a bit of blood from her cheek.
"Aw we missed all the fighting," Bolin exclaimed as he and Mako joined us.
"Don't say that so quickly," Mako warned.
"Where are the lava benders?" I asked worriedly.
"Leo's got them," Mako reassured me with a smile.
"You fools!" Wun yelled catching our attention. He stood right before the water line, clearly trying his best not to step in the bay. "You think you have won? You've won nothing! My army may be worn now, but my backing is large and wealthy. I will rule this kingdom and see it returned to its former glory under my illustrious rule!"
"Dude," Percy sighed. "Accept defeat, seriously. You are surrounded and out of your element, literally. You don't stand a chance."
"How dare you commoner speak to the king with such impudence!" Wian yelled, trying to look proud and regal despite the fact his was being buffeted by waves. "You aren't even from this world. What right do you have to meddle in our affairs?"
Percy paused for a moment then smiled, "I was reminded of something just recently, it was something I'd taken for granted. Back home, there is no king who dictates the land. I have the freedom to do as I please, within reason. I have the right to live my life in the manner I see fit, not as someone tells me to. It isn't something you think of until someone reminds you that there are others who don't have those rights. I used to think the affairs of this world weren't my concern, but now I see I was wrong. The people want their freedom, it isn't in my nature to turn a blind eye and not help if I know I am capable of doing so. Especially if there is someone trying to steal the rights the people are fighting to have! That's why I'm here."
"Rights are unnecessary," Wun growled. "You are meddlesome and unwanted here."
"That's only because we aren't on your side," Annabeth smirked.
"Give up Wun," I commanded. "This rebellion is over."
Suddenly from the mist obscuring the mouth of the bay came a loud battleship horn. Through the fog, the silhouettes of giant ships began to emerge.
"Oh I don't think so," Wun grinned fiendishly. "Your plan was sound to push us to the bay, but you unwittingly put our backs to our allies!"
My heart rose in my throat beating so fast I thought it might just jump right out of my body as my skin turned clammy with fear. Hadn't Iroh said Woo had gone to sea? If Woo went to sea by the bay mouth then he would have run head long into Wun's reinforcements. Glancing back at Mako and Bolin, I could see they were having similar thoughts.
"What no clever remarks?" Wun taunted. "Did you really think I'd be so careless as to not have reinforcements on the sea?"
"No I don't think you are careless," General Iroh stepped up next to me. "But you may have made a slight over sight."
"What?" Wun turned to look at the ships, his eyes growing wide with shock.
Tension released from my body as I realized those weren't Metal Dynasty ships, they were Water Tribe and Fire Nation. The help the air benders had sent from the other nations had arrived and standing on the prow of the leading water tribe ship was Prince Woo. He was squinting towards the shore, leaning as far as he could safely, Frank standing right behind him , and making sure he didn't fall. I smiled at the sight, he's okay!
"I guess putting a fleet of earth benders on the ocean wasn't your brightest idea," Iroh smirked at the flustered nobleman.
"That's-No!" Wun yelled, enraged. He whipped around flinging a giant slab of earth at Iroh! It never reached its target. Hanging mid air, the slab gently replaced itself in the earth from which it came.
"That's quite enough," Leo walked onto the beach. His body was glowing green, his feet seemed to melt in and out of the ground below him, and veins snaked around him as he moved, circling his body and the sand beneath him. His eyes glowed and for the first time since I'd heard his story about Gaia I truly believed he was a god. Leo walked down onto the beach purposefully. "You've done enough, caused enough war, caused enough blood shed, and caused enough sorrow. WUN," His voice echoed as if it rose from the center of the planet, reverberating down the beach and out into the bay. "YOUR ACTS OF VIOLENCE HAVE DISTURBED THE PEACE OF THIS LAND." Suddenly Wun and all of metal dynasty were picked from the bay floor in tendrils of thick mud. "I DON'T SEE A KING, I SEE A CHILD TRYING TO BE KING. I SEE A MAN WHO IS TRYING TO DRAG HIS WORLD BACKWARDS WITH BLOODY CONQUEST WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS STRUGGLING FORWARDS. YOU CANNOT RULE A KINGDOM THIS WAY. IT WAS NEVER YOURS TO RULE IN THE FIRST PLACE. NOW I PLACE YOU AND ALL YOUR MEN IN THE HANDS OF THE LEADERS OF THIS WORLD SO THEY MAY DEAL WITH YOU IN THE MANNER THEIR LAWS AND PEOPLE SEE FIT."
The whole army was pushed together into a clump in the air and the clay dried into solid rock instantly leaving all the soldiers encompassed in rock up to their necks. Then four pillars of rock rose from the ocean to support the giant mass of the army. Leo took a deep breath and slowly he began to stop glowing and the ground and veins around him fell away. When he opened his eyes the irises were now completely green, but he had regain some of his normalcy before turning back to us.
"They should probably be moved soon," He smiled cheerfully. "But I'll leave that up to you."