[ Creatures of battle, huh? Pretty much the opposite of everything she's ever learned in airbending training, in history lessons about their culture, in all the things she'd done since she was a child, day in and day out. The goal isn't to cause violence eases the idea, and she'd had the notion for some time that Pokemon were something like probenders. The phrases honor at stake and advance to the next level only emphasize that idea, and Ikki thinks for a second that Korra would probably love this.

She's suddenly a little worried. She trains daily, but she's not certain she's the best choice for a partner in battle when there's always at least one voice in the back of her head telling her to find a different path. Then again, she's fought before, or at least has defended her home, for what little good that did.

I know how to airbend, though. Like Soren did(n't). And she knew a few things more than that, since coming here, and Soren was kind of looking at her now like Masaomi was, and, well, she could always at least learn. That was always an option. And he was one of her best friends. And she didn't want to say no. She'd always done everything she could to help the people she cared about before, and even if this seems so much heavier than anything else, she nods, slowly, trying to remember everything anyone has ever said to her about pokemon, and trying to think about Chien and Soren and what she's seen of Masaomi and Linda, and even if she's nervous about somehow doing something wrong, she thinks she does understand it.

Ikki has a million and one questions about all of this, but somehow she feels like Masaomi's saying something too serious and important to disrupt it. It's a new feeling. ]

...I'll work really, really hard to learn whatever I need to learn, if you'll both help teach me, then. Um. That is, if you'll help?