Counterattack(6)

I followed behind Korra and Amon taking Tarrlok with me. I ran as fast as I could to help my friends fight the blood bender. I arrived just as Amon took Korra's bending away, while Wu was standing at the door bewildered at what just happened. I've told him the truth about Amon but till now he didn't believe me.

"Do you see it, master? Have you finally seen the truth?"

He just looked at me, not saying anything. Reality came crashing down, and he wasn't ready for this. All this time he thought Amon was his messiah, turning out to be a fraud shook him to the core. The righteous cause that he fought for until now didn't see so righteous anymore.

"I told you didn't I?"

"You were right all along... Oh, Ethan, I'm so sorry I didn't believe you, I'm sorry I doubted you, I should have known better, I..."

"There is no need to apologize right now, let's kick Amon's ass!"

I entered 'limbo state' and turn on the fourth stage of my overclock for my armor. I didn't want to take any chances. I made a signal at Tarrlok to follow me and burst into the room. This took him by surprise, allowing me to hit him. Unfortunately, he quickly came to his scenes before I could use one of my poisonous needles.

"Tarrlok now!"

Tarrlok started to blood bend his brother and I rushed him to use the bending suppression poison. I had him, or so I thought. I was so close but he pulled out a bending move I didn't see before, he bent his blood making a spike out of it, using it to pierce me in the chest directly above my heart.

It went straight to my armor, that split that took the spike to move through my armor and into my chest felt like an eternity. I used 'limbo state' to push my perception to the maximum, slowing down everything around me. I tried to use my inner energy to defend, to make a lair of energy under my skin. It didn't stop the spike's momentum but it bought me more time to think of a solution.

If I couldn't defend I needed to dodge, but the spike started to touch my skin so I couldn't move my body in time so I did the next best thing, I moved my heart. It hurt like hell, even with 'limbo state' on I felt like my heart was ripped out of my chest. If pain was the only problem the I wouldn't have complained, but the amount of energy I needed to move my heart without damaging it was insane, moving it half a centimeter to the left felt like I had carried ten tons on my back the entire day.

Time started to flow normally. The spike entered my chest and made me collapse on the ground.

"ETHAN!"

Master Wu and Korra yell for me, unfortunately, I couldn't respond, not because I was dead but because it took me every last bit of energy to protect my heart. Something useful I found out while doing this is that I can take energy from my surroundings and convert it to my own, while it's not a lot it helps. I managed to save my heart and didn't die immediately but I was still bleeding. As I absorbed energy from my surroundings I started to patch up the hole in my chest.

The hole wasn't big but neither was my energy pool but with me, both the energy from the outside and the one that my body produced on its own I managed to patch it up. If patching it wasn't hard enough already I needed to maintain it as well while I started to redirect the energy back in my body.

I finally opened my eyes and saw Amon approaching Mako. Tarrlok was on the ground in a comatose-like state so his bending was already taken away and Wu was lying on the ground on the opposite side of the room in the same condition. This made my blood boil, I push my body and got back up, with blood spilling from my mouth and chest, my sudden move did wonders in destabilizing the patch I made. If I looked menacing now I look terrifying.

I launched at Amon with my hidden blade now painted red by my own blood. I managed to hit him, plunging my blade into his shoulder, giving Mako time to escape with Korra. I then braced myself for getting hit, and good thing that I did because Amon used his blood bending to swing me across the room, making me hit the wall next to Wu. He didn't have time to finish me off because he had to catch up with the escaping avatar.

I was two meters away from Master and I crawl to check on him. I tried to use my internal energy to check on him, it took a few tries but I manage to do it. He had an internal hemorrhage, and I didn't have the equipment or the medical skills to do anything. I tried to take control of his internal energy and guide it to the place where the rapture was. I wasn't that successful, I used more of my energy than his to close the wound. Fortunately, once his wound was fully covered it started to heal, slowly but it did.

I heard a window being blown and then I could here footsteps coming closer. I armed my grappling hook and aimed at the door waiting to see who come, it was Korra. I look at her and said weakly.

"Save him!"