Several days have passed since the arrival of Zero, the impressions behind his eyes had vanished, and his hair seem to grow back on the left side of his head covering up most of the scar. Tenzin had told Zero the ground rules saying he shouldn't use his powers outside the island unless in a emergency, and if he ever leaves the Island to make sure he's disguises himself and to never go out alone.

Jinora has kept her promise on teaching Zero how to read and write, but miraculously within those short days Zero had became literate, Jinora has never seen someone learn to master how to read and write in such short amount of time. It was unbelievable. Jinora tried to ask Zero what he meant on the first night they spent together at dinner, but everytime she brought it up Zero refused to answer. On one night right before Jinora was about to turn in Zero warned her not to open her bedroom door no matter what, but before Jinora can ask why, Zero ran off to bed.

All night Jinora heard strange scratching sounds at her door like a small animal trying to claw its way into her room, and at one point Jinora swore she heard someone call out her name because she heard it being whispered into her ear. She hid under her covers beging for the sun to come up already, she kept repeating to herself to not open the door, taking heed what Zero had told her assuming if she opens that door it will be the end of her.

It was the longest night Jinora has ever been through she hardly got any sleep that night, she was exhausted. Jinora went looking for Zero finding him reading in the library, he was surrounded by books like he was building a fort, "morning. Jinora," Zero greeted clearly seeing the exhausted face. "Zero what was outside my room last night?" Jinora demanded Zero can hear the fear in her voice, he can even smell it, or she needs a bath, "I heard them. Saying they want. to hurt. You," Zero spoke still struggling to speak. "Who's they Zero? is it the people you refuse to talk about, If it is you have to tell me," Jinora demanded for answer and this time Zero can't brush it away.

"Yes. They're trying to get. To you. But can't up doors," "why not?" "because. They're not really here. Not like you. And I anymore. Keep door closed. They can't enter," "but who are they?" Zero paused for a long time thinking on what he's doing. Zero then grabs Jinora's arm, dragged her to an isolated part of the library, and pulled her in closely, "promise. Not to tell?" Zero asked,

"What?"

"Promise," he repeated,

"... Yes Zero I promise, now tell me who they are,"

"They. Are. Me... When I was. Locked up,"

"What was this place?"

"Think. It was hospital. But much horrible. People who run it. Never let me out. Except when. They cut me open,"

Jinora could not believe what she is hearing they cut him open, is that how he got his scar? "so these people treated you and others like you as if you're weren't even human?"

"No. Just me. And three others," Zero corrected, this threw Jinora off, she thought these people treated him and his people like animals.

"Why just you and three other? and why those three?" she asked.

"Like said. I'm original. Other three. were the first. Names are. Alpha. Bravo. And Charlie. But them and others aren't born like copies. Of me... I hated it there." Zero turned to face the corner in silence, Jinora can feel that Zero was angry. And sad, "so it "was" just you," Zero turned to face Jinora puzzled on why she said "was" that way, "was?" he questioned.

"I'm saying you're not alone anymore, you're part of this family now," Jinora told him and then embraced him in a hug, Zero let out a few tears and hugged her back because what Jinora said was true, "but wait?" Jinora broke off suddenly realizing something. "How'd they get passed the White Lotus without anyone noticing?" Jinora asked, "because. They're dead," Zero bluntly answered. Jinora's eyes were now wide open, "how could they be dead? you said you overheard them wanting to hurt me,"

"It's the copies. Hospital took my blood. Make more of. Me. Not strong as me. But strong enough. For consciousness. To wander."

"But how did they die Zero?" Jinora asked.

"Uhh... I. Killed them," Zero answered hesitantly, "WHAT!" Jinora wanted to yell out the words, but she whispered it instead, "how could you kill them?" she demanded, "They were made. As an army. Many would've die. So. I killed them. But couldn't save. Other three," Zero told her. "You mean Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie?" Jinora asked and Zero nodded, "why didn't you tell them, they probably would've rebel," Jinora suggested, but Zero shook his head in disagreement, "knew the whole time. don't care," Zero added, "... You had to do it," Jinora concluded. She see the sorrow on Zero face growing and a growing feeling of malice she knew she had to help Zero, but how?

As if a lightbulb had popped over Jinora's head she had just came up of a way to help her adoptive brother, "Zero I have an Idea," Jinora proclaimed, "are they still gonna try to get me?" she asked which Zero nodded, but asked why, "just trust me, I got a plan."

As night approached Jinora had told Zero to go to sleep and everything was going to be alright, when Jinora closed the door to her room she started meditating, "O.K, hope this works," Jinora waited and waited, but for some reason her spirit form didn't fly out of physical form she was still sitting on the floor in the middle of her room in the material world. "C'mon, I done this plenty of times," Jinora got up from the floor and started pacing around the room trying to figure why her ability wasn't working.

She then walks towards her window, but something was off, the bright lights of the capital city that lit up the night was missing, Jinora saw nothing out her window. It was all pitch black. Jinora turned around, but to her shock she saw herself sitting on the floor still meditating.

Turns out Jinora's spirit really did left her body, but where is she? and where are the other spirits? Jinora tried to renter her body, but she just phased through her physical body, she was stuck here. Where ever here is?

Jinora exhausted all other options, she had to venture out from her room, Jinora walked up to the door and pressed her ear up to it to listen on what's on the other side; she heard nothing. Presuming it was safe to come out Jinora carefully slid the door open and she found herself in a odd brightly lit and silent hallway, "where am I?" Jinora pondered to herself seeing that she wasn't in the temple anymore.

Jinora turned to go back to her room, but the door had vanished. Jinora wandered down the eerie hall, the lights had a blue hue to them, and made the hall look spotless and empty. The hall seemed endless and Jinora can feel her feet ach, but after a while Jinora was about to come up to a fork in the hall, but as she approached it a man in a long white coat just stormed from the left side to the right catching Jinora's full attention, "excuse me, but can you tell me where I am?" she called out.

However the man didn't respond he just disappeared into the next hall, Jinora chased after the man hoping for his help, but as she turned the corner Jinora saw another endless hallway and it seemed the man had disappeared entirely, but he seemed to have dropped something. Jinora picked up a strange, small, rectangular device she couldn't make heads or tales on what it was so she just put in her pocket for safe keeping. She looked behind where the man had came from and saw in her view a massive heavy double metal door, with small rectangular windows, and a large lever handle. Jinora poked hear head up to the small windows and saw more people all dressed in long white coats.

Jinora saw all sorts of strange devices, she seen strange writings on a wall with numbers and what Jinora assumed were letters of some sort. Every single person in the strange room looked to be hard at work scrambling from one desk to another, handling glass jars of colorful liqued, and typing away at a device that Jinora figued had to be some sorta type writer, however in the midst of all of the commotion Jinora spotted Zero, but something was different about him.

Zero seemed rather calm, the clothes he wears wasn't like the ones he was found in, and the scar on his left side of his head wasn't there; Jinora tried to push the door open, but it refused to budge until finally she figured she was to push the large lever down to open the door. Once inside everyone didn't seem to notice her. Like she wasn't really there. Jinora walked passed the busy people to get to Zero, but when she finally made passed the crowd her mind went blank to what she is seeing.

There were five of him and they all look completely identical to one another, same goes for their clothes expect for the numbers on there chest, "how are clones 81 through 85?" one man said over a desk with one of the strange type writers, "the clones will be combat ready within a week other than that they're fine," another spoke who was holding a small light up to one of the clone's eye. "Good, have the operating room ready for subject zero," he instructed.

Jinora took in all of the information provided by the men's conversation, but when she heard the words "subject zero" she wondered in they were talking about Zero however she wasn't given enough time to think for all of a sudden darkness flooded the entire room. Everyone and everything that was in the room had vanished from Jinora's sights as they were swallowed by the darkness. Jinora stood absolutely still too afraid to move until she heard something breathing, she wasn't alone, someone or something was in there with her.

Jinora can hear it breathing deeply, taking in a large amount of air, but then the room was now flooded with light by a door swinging open, Jinora saw that she was no longer in the room she was previously in; the room she is in now is much small, the lower parts of the walls and floors were covered in deep scratch marks and stains, and it was mostly empty, but the thing that caught her the most was a small boy. "Zero?" Jinora spoke realizing who the boy cowering in the corner of the room seeing him in a white jacket with its sleeves wrapped around his belly and tied behind his back and for some reason had these strange small clamps on the sides of his head right behind his eyes.

Zero was then carried away by six people, then strapped to a gurney, Jinora saw six people struggling to strap down Zero as he tried to free himself, "WHAT ARE DOING TO HIM?! LET HIM GO?" Jinora yelled at them. She tried to use her airbending, but nothing seem to happen, all she can do is watch, then one of the people had stuck a needle into Zero's neck, and almost instantly Zero fell right to sleep. They rushed Zero down the hall, and into a large room with people dressed in thin blue clothing and had their faces covered; she spotted strange devices everywhere in the room, but the things that bugged her were the trays and tables full of knives, saws, tweezers, and even a hammer.

Zero was then placed in the middle of it all with big lights shining down on him like the star on a play, they unstrapped him from the gurney, untied the jacket, and removed the metal clamps. The sound of a sharp blade meeting human flesh, a skull being cracked open, and the occasional drops of blood dripping onto the floor everything Jinora had witnessed made her sick to her stomach, "hey Folly, do think this kid lived out his use? we got what we need," said a woman in the crowd, "yeah, his practically useless after this," said the man named Folly, "so what will we do with him then? we put him down or what?" she asked, "no, he may be useless to learn anything more, but we still need him to provide D.N.A. if we need to make new clones," Folly informed.

"So we just keep him locked up in his cell for the rest of his pathetic life?" the woman asked once more, "pretty much, it's not like anyone cares about this freak, he's no different than a stray dog," Folly finished. Jinora was disgusted on what she just heard and how they can treat a child so poorly. It was sickening she just wanted to blow them all away with her bending, but out of the blue one man was thrown across, into a wall, and his neck made a loud snap sound. Zero was now awake.

Jinora had now realized that the strange devices that were clamped behind Zero's eyes were made to nullify his powers and it seems that whatever they injected into Zero to keep him sedated had now worn off much quicker than asspected. Now with the clamps removered and the drugs no longer having an effect on him anymore Zero decided to return the favor. All of the doors in the room locked up, everyone in the room was trying desperately to pry the doors open, but one by one Zero killed off every single person in the room, he hung them with stay wires, electrocuting other by smashing them into the lights, he even used the same tools that were used to cut him open on them, Zero had covered the walls with blood with nothing more than his thoughts, and when everyone else was killed Folly was the last one standing. Zero has left the best for last.

Zero corned Folly, but he didn't stung him up, he didn't fry him with the lights, or he cut him open with the knives. No. Instead Zero with his powers lifted Folly up, Folly's arms and legs were being pulled into different direction, Folly screamed in pain as he can feel his limbs being stretched until they were ripped from his torso. Blood just sprayed out of where his limbs were supposed to be, Folly kept on screaming, but even louder as the pain grew more and more unbearable, until whatever is left of him just blew up.

Jinora looked away, she cover her eyes, and kept her head pointed to the blood soaked ground the gore was just too much for her to handle. Jinora wasn't sure when to looked up again so she took a quick peek, and then she found herself in the middle of a hallway several yards away from her Jinora spotted men wearing what she can only asume was armor laying dead on the floor drenched in blood and a trail of red foot prints leading further down the hall.

Jinora followed the trail and the further down she goes she noticed that Zero wasn't leaving anyone alive she sensed a growing anger as she continued down until she came up to a opening with a cracked sign hung over it which she could not read (clone housing), it has seem that the doors were blown off their hinges, and Jinora saw one of Zero's copies crushed under one of the blasted off doors.

When Jinora entered the room there she saw Zero standing in one end staring down an army of his clones, both Zero and the copies stood there silently, the clones know exactly why Zero has come. He's come to kill them. Jinora now understood what was going on, she is in Zero's memories, witnessing all he's been through, and now she is about to witness Zero about to do away with his imitations. It all happened in a flash Zero tore through the crowd like a hot knife through butter.

Beds, pipes, lights, wires, and all sorts of debris was thrown across the room however as the battle progresses Jinora now understood that Zero was right, the clones weren't as strong as he is, but for every clones that Zero has slain Jinora sensed malice coming from them. They were once hundreds of them, but Zero reduced that number to three, the room, the whole place was on fire, and crumbling to the ground. The remaining clones stood in formation to surround Zero, two of them rushed at Zero in hopes to tackle him to the ground, but the training they had was focused on their physical strength while Zero the whole time in a cell, and maybe in theory when he was sedated with the clamps removed he learned more about himself.

Zero tripped the first making him slide away while he caught the second by his throat, Zero threw the clone on the floor, then placed his foot on his neck; the first one got back up and tried to shoulder bash Zero off his comrade, but the attempt was in vain for Zero managed to stopped him with on hand, and repeatedly punch him with the other. While they were busy with each other the third was scavenging through the corpses, taking off what looks like the clamps that were used on Zero.

After the third clone was done tinkering with the clamps he rushed in on Zero from behind and tried to clamp it down his head, but something went wrong the device just sparked up and fell apart. Zero screamed in pain and with his powers he snapped the last three clones' necks; Jinora now knows why Zero's enemies came back to haunt him, the device that the clones tried to use on him blew apart and pieces of it must still be lodged in his mind and maybe they've used his unstable mind to follow him.

The fire was spreading faster and the roof was caving in Jinora didn't know, what to do everyway out was blocked off, and the room was being engulfed into the dark once more as the fires were dying down from lack of oxygen, "the whole place must be built underground," Jinora noted to herself for she just noticed for the whole time she was here, she hasn't seen a single window. Jinora had her back against the wall, she tried to follow the walls to see if she can find a way out, but then she saw something ran across in the dark, Jinora tried to scan for what was running around in the dark until she saw someone poked his or her head out of the shadows.

Jinora saw the the blank stare of the person's eyes, but soon Jinora started to see more and more faces poking out of the dark all with the same expression, it was every person Zero has ever killed, and they were slowly walking towards her. Jinor felt corned her heart was racing, "GET BACK! GET AWAY FROM ME!" she cried, there was no way for her to get away Jinora was trapped.

Jinora closed her eyes too afraid to see what happens next, but then Jinora felt someone grab her. From behind. Jinora was pulled back into the wall she screamed, she flailed her arms, trying to get them to let go, but then she heard three familiar voices trying to clam her down. Jinora opened her eyes and saw three Zeros, the three first clones Zero told her about, "... Alpha?.. Bravo?.. And Charlie?" she asked wondering if it's really them and they all nodded their heads to confirm it. Jinora looked around to see where she is, it was all darkness, but she can see herself and the clones clear as day like she's in some sorta void. "How did I get here?" she asked, the clones glaced at each other and answered her, "we just opened a door and pulled you in," said the third one, "a door?" Jinora wondered last time she checked she had her back up againsted wall, "we can open portals," the second stated.

Jinora took a good look at the three even though they had the same pale skin as Zero Jinora noticed that the first three clones actually had diferent hair and eye colors, the first has blonde hair like Zero's, but had grey eyes, the second has both brown hair and eyes, and the third has a shaved head and has eyes were blue, but even with different hair and eye colors the still look like Zero. "You need to go back," said the first one, "what? go back where?" Jinora asked, "you need to go back to your world and save our father," said the third one, "your father? who is he?" Jinora continued, "you know him as Zero," said the second one. Jinora was taken back from the answer, how can these clones be Zero's children, "how can he be your father? you're like the same age as him," Jinora questioned the trio.

The first spoke up to explain why, but when he did he spoke with maturity and wisdom, "because my brothers and I came from his blood. He his the closest thing we have to a father, and I want nothing more than to see him and my brothers to live freely so when we heard he broke free we took our chance and broke ourselves free." he expressed proudly as if he were free man, because he is, "so we need you to wake up," the first told her, "what?" Jinora stopped, "you need to wake up," they all said together, "wake up, wake up! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" the phrase echoed in Jinora's head, her whole world began spinning, she felt like she was falling.

Jinora eyes shot wide open, her heart racing, breathing heavily, she was in her room again with the city in full veiw out her window, she's back home, but she felt a powerful tremor shaking the eniter temple, throwing everything down to the ground, and cracking the wooden floors and walls. Jinora got to her feet trying to keep her footing as the earth shook, Jinora had to get to Zero's room, but she struggled to stay on her feet so she decided to take a page from Ikki's and Meelo's book and make an air scooter. Jinora raced through the halls passed monks scattering around the trembling temple.

Jinora made it to Zero's room and saw that everything was in a cyclone spining around Zero as he hollered in agony like he was being operated on without being sedated. Jinora rushed to his side trying to get him to wake up as she held Zero in her arms Jinora was all of a sudden pulled back into the void in her own mind. From there everything looked like it was caught in a tornado because she saw all the debris that came from the hospital being thrown around; Jinora held on tight to Zero's arms, but she wasn't the only one that was holding onto him.

Holding onto the other arm Jinora saw the most grotesque thing, it appeared humanoid with its skin in a web pattern like his flesh was burnt, his lips were fused together, but Jinora can see his teeth clenching behind them, and wearing nothing more than ragged pants. Jinora looked at him with a sense of horror for she saw trying to pull Zero away from her trying to drag him down, "GIVE US HIM!" he angrily demanded, "WE WILL BE SET FREE!" his voice sounded like multiple people speaking at once, "NO! I WON'T LET YOU TAKE HIM!" Jinora roared back at him.

Jinora held on as tight she can to Zero's arm as the mysterious creature tried to pull him down to what looked like a portal, Jinora saw that it was burning spewing flames that took shape as hands trying to reach out to them, Jinora couldn't see how she's gonna make it out of this she couldn't see anything until she heard a voice calling out to her, "Jinora!" the voice called out concerningly. Jinora looked above her and saw a bright light calling her name, "Jinora wake up!" Jinora recognized the voice as her father trying to bring her out of her trance state.

Jinora took this as her way out and to save Zero so she kicked the creature in the face causing him to loosen his grip on Zero, as Zero was free from his grasps Jinora hurled him up to the light.

In the real world Zero awoke from his state of mind seizing the tremors and causing everything fell back down to the ground, Zero looked to see Tenzin and Korra in his room with worried looks, and saw that Jinora was still in her trance. From inside her mind Jinora was about to follow Zero into the light, but something caught her foot, Jinora looked down, and saw that it was him clasping onto her ankle. "LET GO!" Jinora tried to kick him off, but he just climbed up on her bringing her face-to-face with him, Jinora looked into his scornful eyes that were just two plane black dots that just burn deep into her soul. "YOU CAN NOT STOP WHAT'S TO COME! HE WILL DIE!" he stated coldly and Jinora felt her wrist burn as if they were on fire.

She screamed in pain for it felt like she was being branded, she kept screaming and screaming as everything spun around her, but then she found heself laying on the floor of Zero's room being held in her father's arms, "Jinora are you alright?" he asked concerningly, "yeah, but what was going on here?" Korra questioned as she made sure Zero was alright. Jinora looked at her wrist and saw that they were just fine, "yeah, I'm alright, but Zero and I have something to tell you," Jinora told the two glad to see the nightmare was over