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[The video feed, when it clicks on, is a bit chaotic, the picture jerking about roughly. What landscape that can be discerned in the image, however, seems to be near the border of the badlands. Something large, mechanical, and sharp suddenly slashes into the frame and then back out again, like a weapon being thrust toward the camera.]

AAhhhhh! Cease and desist at once, you arachnid annoyance!

[Perceptor briefly flails into view for a moment, looking a bit flustered, before he ducks out of view again under another swipe of that weapon. Or rather, not a weapon, as the view shifts wildly to pan across a massive robotic spider with very large fangs lowered threateningly toward the camera.]

[As the view swings wildly again, there are muffled thuds and thumps and the thick clang of metal against metal that seem to hint at an epic struggle. Perceptor looks much more harried when he bounces into view again.]

I, ah, seem to have stumbled into a bit of an inconvenience... wherever this location is. If anyone is nearby, assistance would be greatly appreciated!

[There is an odd, almost liquid sound that splatters into the feed, and a sudden yelp from Perceptor as a stream of thick, greyish goop blasts past his head.]

As soon as possible?

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[Oh, Korra, Perceptor will definitely need your help here. You just did something Very Interesting! And that has quite thoroughly distracted Perceptor from the Big bad Monster.]

[Perceptor has never seen Bending, has never even had the concept hinted to him, and so, the moment that the ground under Korra's feet begins to shift, he can only assume that it is some unexpected attack of the monster. Somehow. He starts to turn to try and offer her soe assistance, remembers the spide, and pauses, undecided for the moment it takes for Korra to reach Naga again. That's when he actually sees the movements Korra performs, and how they seem to influence the ground to move for her.]

How are you--

[He takes a spider leg to the head for his distraction, and goes tumbling down with a startled shout.]

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Naga, just stay there!

[Korra leaps from her rock cover and blasts another wave of fire toward the spider thing.

Then she bends a wall of earth to stop the newcomer's fall.

She bends the earth again, dropping it out from under the spider thing, trying to bury it.]

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[She is creating fire again, and that motion of the ground is definitely at her direction, and Perceptor had really better start paying attention to the monster, rather than letting his curiosity distract him like this!]

[The spider grabs the edge of the sudden hole under it with a couple of it's front legs, preventing it from tumbling away completely, but it's clearly losing ground against gravity, if the scrabling noises are anything to judge by.]

Are you capable of forcing the hole to close around and over it once again?

[Perceptor shoots his blaster at where those legs are bracing the spider, knocking them loose. There's a loud hissing shriek of anger as the spider begins to slide down the hole.]

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Sure am!

[And Korra quickly bent the earth close around and over the spider thing as it slid after the guy had blasted its legs. Naga gave an encouraging bark.]

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[Almost as soon as the spider is swallowed up by the closing earth, Perceptor is turning back toward Korra and her mount. He stares at her incredulously, before turning back to where the hole had been and creeping cautiously forward. The ground is solid there, as if it had never been disturbed, and there is no sign of the spider monster. After a long moment, he tucks his weapon back into subspace and turns back to her.]

Remarkable! How is it that you are capable of manipulating the matter around you in such a way?

[He scratches absently at a patch of spider-spit as he crouches down beside her, staring at her with bald fascination.]

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[Naga immediately went up to sniff the new guy.]

Where I'm from, we call that kinda manipulation 'bending.' [She frowned.] I go through martial movements to bend the earth, but I never thought about...how that works exactly, or where bending comes from.