Zaheer apologized, stating he could not sleep, and when asked by the young airbender what he was reading, he explained that it was a poem of Laghima, whom he credited as the wisest airbender to have ever lived. Their conversation was cut short by the arrival of Kya, who told her niece to go back to bed, before questioning Zaheer about his knowledge of airbending history.
He replied that he had always admired the culture, though Kya recognized him and attacked. Zaheer grabbed an airbender staff and used it to shatter the ice bullets aimed at him before bending himself out of the window and gliding away. His escape was short-lived, however, as Kya managed to catch him with a water tentacle and slam him down in the temple's pond. Recovering, Zaheer managed to avoid being frozen and blasted Kya back, though before he could escape, two firebending White Lotus sentries arrived.
By the time he had done away with them, Kya was back on her feet attacked him with spirals of water. Ducking away, the airbender retaliated with a strong current of air, knocking Kya out cold against a wall, and escaped on the glider. Zaheer and the Red Lotus plotted their escape from Republic City.
When asked by Ghazan if he wanted to try to take out President Raiko , Zaheer stated they would deal with him later as they were leaving the city. Hijacking a truck and forcing the driver to smuggle them out of the city, they made it as far as at a security checkpoint on a bridge, where they were discovered after their driver ran away.
As one of the police officers turned the handle on the back doors of the vehicle, Zaheer blasted them open to keep the police back, while Ming-Hua drove away, with Ghazan and P'Li taking care of their pursuers. Taking refuge in a forest, Zaheer meditated and determined that the Avatar was with the Metal Clan in Zaofu.
Zaheer initially managed to kidnap Korra , though they were discovered and eventually forced to leave without the Avatar.
Zaheer and his gang traveled to the metal city and, with the help of Aiwei, were able to enter Suyin Beifong 's estate without being noticed. Having cut an opening in the window to Korra's room, they were caught by Naga , who tried to attack. Although Ming-Hua bent three shirshu-spit darts into the polar bear dog to quiet her, Korra awoke to the sound of Naga falling and attacked, prompting Zaheer to quickly bend another paralyzing dart at her as well.
With the Avatar in tow, the group began to escape but ended up boxed in by metal plates in the estate's courtyard after Mako and Bolin alerted the Metal Clan to their presence. After Ghazan created a lava moat, melting the plates and creating a distance between the two groups, Zaheer attempted to use the smoke coming from the moat to create some cover by spinning his staff over his head.
However, this motion enabled one of the guards to reel him in with a metal cable. Although he managed to free himself, he was forced to take on two metalbenders. When he noticed that Suyin and Lin Beifong had managed to save Korra, he attempted to pursue, though found himself grounded after Suyin pierced the wings of his glider with four metal arrows. Landing near his friends, he angrily declared their mission a failure and used the smoke to cover their retreat.
Zaheer and his companions made camp in a cave located at the outskirts of the Misty Palms Oasis , where he meditated into the Spirit World at sundown to meet Aiwei at Xai Bau's Grove. He blamed the truth seer for the Red Lotus' failure at Zaofu and the fact that they had now been compromised. Although Aiwei assured him that all incriminating evidence had been destroyed, Zaheer labeled Aiwei to be a loose end himself. As he grabbed him, Zaheer noticed Korra's presence, though before the Avatar could do something, the airbender teleported to the Fog of Lost Souls , where he condemned the truth seer to an eternity in the mental prison.
Returning to Xai Bau's Grove, he learned that Korra had tracked him down by following Aiwei and offered her a chance to talk and find some answers. He revealed that he and his companions were members of the Red Lotus and told the Avatar of the organization's origin and purpose. Meanwhile, in the physical world, he secretly revealed Korra's location at the Misty Palms Inn to his associates, who were guarding his body. Zaheer distracted Korra by giving her the option to have an open conversation, resulting in a talk about the origin and goals of the Red Lotus.
In the Spirit World, Zaheer kept the conversation with Korra going by elaborating on Unalaq's idea to kidnap her as a child, which was meant to bring balance to the world as she would have been used to re-open the spirit portals and release Vaatu. Rebuffing Korra's statement that they had different ideas of balance, Zaheer suggested that opening the spirit portals should only be the beginning, as the idea of separating the world in nations and governments was as foolish as separating the human from the spirit realm.
He pointed out that she had already had to deal with a " moronic president " and a " tyrannical queen " and reminded the doubtful Avatar that it had been the Fire Lord 's ambition for world dominance that had led to the Air Nomad Genocide.
Stating the natural order to be disorder, he believed that true freedom could only be achieved when oppressive governments were dismantled and cited another one of Guru Laghima's sayings to emphasize his point: "New growth cannot exist without first the destruction of the old.
He warned Korra that once change began, it could not be stopped. At her request to know what would happen if she was captured, he merely told her she would have her answer soon enough, assuming his accomplices to have captured her body by that point, and vanished. Upon his return to the physical world, Zaheer was informed by Ming-Hua and Ghazan that Earth Queen Hou-Ting's army had gotten to the Avatar first, though that they had managed to capture Mako and Bolin.
Zaheer instructed them to load the brothers in the truck, telling them they were going to Ba Sing Se. Upon gaining an audience with Earth Queen Hou-Ting, Zaheer assured her they wanted no bounty and that the brothers were merely a "thank you" gift for her taking time to talk to them.
Zaheer used the location of the "stolen" airbenders as a bargaining chip to trade with the Queen for Korra, as he reasoned that if she were to imprison the Avatar, she would invoke the wrath of the other nations, whereas if she handed Korra over to him, no one needed to know and she would still be rid of the Avatar while being able to get her airbenders back with no interference. With a deal having been reached, the four were escorted to an antechamber by Grand Secretariat Gun. As the group relaxed, Zaheer noticed a Dai Li agent moving rapidly toward the queen's throne room.
Intrigued, he used his airbending to secretly follow him and he overheard the agent telling Hou-Ting that the airship transporting Korra had crashed in the Si Wong Desert. Relaying the information to the others upon his return, it became clear that they would not be able to get to Korra before the Queen and Zaheer decided that he was through chasing her, declaring that it was time to make Korra come to them. Zaheer blasted open the doors to the throne room and told the queen of their disappointment regarding the news on Korra.
Deeming their eavesdropping actions to be punishable with imprisonment, the Red Lotus was offered the chance to evade arrest if they would give up the location of the airbenders.
When Zaheer warned her that was not the deal, a fight ensued between them and the Dai Li, who were ordered to imprison them all. After the group easily defeated the earthbenders , Zaheer confronted the now defenseless queen.
Stating he did not believe in queens, he used his airbending to pull the air from her lungs. While suffocating her in a sphere devoid of air, he told her that freedom was not something she could give or take on a whim, but that it was just as essential as air to her people and that without it, there was no life, only darkness. He emphasized his words by using his airbending to suck the breath from the Queen's lungs, asphyxiating her. After murdering Hou-Ting , Zaheer proceeded to announce via radio that he had done so.
With the queen murdered, Zaheer, Ming-Hua, and P'Li went to the city's radio control room, asking the operator how he could make an announcement to the city. As the man did not immediately cooperate, Ming-Hua grabbed him with a water tendril, prompting Zaheer to tell her to let go, as their goal was to help citizens like him. After the operator turned on the radio, Zaheer told the citizens that he and other revolutionaries had brought down the queen.
Without revealing his identity, he simply told the people he was returning the city in their hands, as he believed they had no need for leaders telling them what to do and were free to find their own path.
Afterward, Zaheer ventured to the prison underneath the Earth Kingdom Royal Palace and released all the prisoners, save for Mako and Bolin. After dodging a fire blast from Mako, he threw the brothers back with airbending and implored them to listen to him. He calmly explained he was releasing them so they could relay a message from him to Korra.
The trio threatened the new airbenders. He jumped down onto a walkway and intercepted Tenzin and his family as the rest of the Red Lotus gathered the temple's occupants into a courtyard. There, Zaheer expressed his pleasure to meet a "true airbending master" and told the group he wanted nothing, saying if they cooperated, everyone would escape unharmed. Asked by Tenzin why he came, the airbender stated he wanted Korra and had enough of the chase for her, telling Tenzin he would be using the airbenders for leverage.
He also told him he had no choice, but, along with Ghazan and Ming-Hua, was promptly attacked by the master. After an intense fight, Zaheer was able to defeat Tenzin with the help of his associates. Zaheer recovered and dueled with Tenzin. The criminal was forced to rapidly scale the temple's walls as he was continuously attacked. Zaheer tried to counter, but his foe merely broke up his attacks, continuing to force him on the defensive as they climbed to a walkway ledge.
At one point, Zaheer was knocked down but recovered, and jumped over Tenzin, nearly attacking him from behind. Tenzin again blocked the attack and soon knocked Zaheer down a second time.
Just as the Red Lotus leader was about to be finished off, however, his associates swarmed in, with P'Li knocking Tenzin down from the ledge with a combustion beam and back into the courtyard. With the help of his friends, Zaheer gained the upper hand, though was briefly knocked down again by an air blast.
With the master refusing to yield, Zaheer dodged a quick air blast and countered. After this did not work, the three Red Lotus members began a relentless barrage on Tenzin. In the Northern Air Temple's radio room, Zaheer was informed by Korra that she would agree to his terms. Wanting to sustain leverage, he told her to meet her at Laghima's Peak at noon on her own; once she was in his captivity, he would release the airbenders. Afterward, he made his way to a small room with a statue of Laghima in it, reciting the guru's writing about letting go an earthly tether and entering the void.
He was soon approached by P'Li, who told him the airbenders were secured. Zaheer thanked his girlfriend for her loyalty and told her he thought about her every day while in prison.
Afterward, she thanked him for freeing her from a warlord and showing her true freedom. The airbender assured her the whole world would soon know as such, and the two expressed their love and shared a kiss. Zaheer took Korra into his custody as part of their deal. Zaheer and P'Li went to the top of Laghima's Peak; upon Korra's arrival, the airbender demanded she drop her airbender staff and surrender, threatening to come after her if she refused.
He was told to tell Ghazan to let the airbenders go first, but he told her it was not a negotiation and she would have to do what he said.
With the Avatar still hesitant, Zaheer radioed Ghazan to wipe the airbenders out, but promptly told him to stand down when Korra decided to surrender.
He told his associate they had Korra secure before he and P'Li led her to their airship. Before they got there, Korra found out the Red Lotus had double-crossed Team Avatar and Zaheer was attacked with air, fire, and earth. On Tuesday afternoon, the complainant said he received a call from Zahir, son of Zakir Jaffer.
Zahir informed Mukadam that Noor was not with him. It has been alleged that Jaffer, an American national, planned the murder of Noor Muqaddam.
Furthermore, it is being reported that Jaffer is mentally ill. Sources have claimed that earlier he was deported from the UK on rape charges too. July 22, Ali Abbas. They just move freely, like the wind. Whether that's a good idea is a different question entirely.
This is something that sets Zaheer apart from the likes of Zuko or Admiral Zhao or other hot-headed villains. By contrast, Zaheer knows what he must do, but he's willing to plan far into the future and wait to take action. For example, he shaved his head and joined the newly reborn Air Nation under a false name, so he could gather intel about Guru Laghima, playing nice with everyone else there the entire time.
Also, he took his time assassinating the Earth Queen, and he operated on her behalf before deciding to turn on her. Like Suyin Beifong, Zaheer was never content to stay in one place or settle down for the same job for the next forty years. Instead, he traveled all over the world on behalf of the Red Lotus and possibly for other reasons , learning much on the way.
This allowed Zaheer to learn many different martial arts and bending styles in a sense , and he combined many different fighting styles into his own to make it truly unique. Like the real-life Bruce Lee, he's not constrained by a singular style. In , the third Christopher Nolan Batman movie hit theaters, audiences were treated to the villain Bane, who reclaimed Gotham for the common people and threw it into anarchy, including capturing all the police and releasing prisoners everywhere.
Zaheer did something like this when he committed regicide, and he brought chaos to Ba Sing Se in a similar fashion, including jailbreaks. Zaheer even went on the public radio to announce the new "order" in Ba Sing Se, and Bolin and Mako were caught in the middle of it. Zaheer is the second known person in the Avatar universe to achieve certain things, and one of them is the attempt to assassinate the avatar. Years ago, princess Azula shot lightning into Aang's back whole he was in the very avatar state, and it nearly killed him.
His death would have ended the avatar cycle, too. Much later, Zaheer attempted something similar, except he had been planning this, including building a cave base for the job.
He chained up Korra and fed her a mercury-based poison to weaken her and force the avatar state to appear, and he and his minions tried to assassinate her.
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