Korra, Mako, Asami, and Bolin were walking down the halls that they were totally not comfortble with as their were no sounds besides their own footsteps, until one time they thought they heard an added set of steps echoing across the halls. The gang then came up with a stairwell with two signs one point up and the other down, but Korra and the others couldn't understand them (level-A pointing up, level-B pointing down), "which way should we go?" Bolin asked looking up and down the stairwell.
"neither, let's go back," Mako answered thinking it might be a trap, the group all agreed on the decision so turned back, but then the lights way down started going out one-by-one, "I don't like the looks of that," Bolin stated shaking. Soon they started hearing noises, like a hoard of human like screams crying out menacingly, Mako and Korra both threw fire balls at the dark halls to see what was in the shadows, but to their horror saw disfigured faces of people for a bleak moment before they snuffed out the flames with their bare feet pressing on towards them. "Let's go up," Korra spoke a bit frighten of the incoming threat that wants to tear them to shreds.
They ran up the stairs and when they got passed the second twist the light underneath them turned off and halted along with the screams, "looks like we're not going back that way," Asami noted swearing she can still hear them breathing within the dark. The gang continued upwards wondering where might these steps lead them, they looked down and up between the stairs and it seemed that it could go on forever. However they finally arrived to level-A and saw that a huge door stood infront of them with a sign hung over it which they could not read (cloning incubation chamber).
The gang slowly walked up to the door and slowly opened it and inside they saw giant glass tubes everywhere, some were broken, some were dusty, and others look like they were still full of murky liquid. "What is this place?" Korra asked looking around the room, "I don't know, mayb-," "AAAAAAAAHHH!" everyone turned to see Bolin screaming, "Bolin what's wrong?" Bolin was shaken trembling, he raised his finger at one of the filled tubes. Korra slowly approached the foggy glass, she wiped the glass clear, and took a peek inside, there floated a twisted, deformed, and unfinished clone of Zero, but then its eyes shot open.
Korra stumbled backwards seeing it still alive, "what is it?" Mako asked concerned, however a deafening cry filled the air, the room shook, and the walls started to bleed. The gang covered their ears from what sounded like a pain filled scream, Korra knew that the cry was coming from the tube she looked in maybe the unfinished clone was trying to incapacitate them. Korra looked down to a panel of buttons and the one that call to her attention the most was the one with yellow and black strips with something wittern above it (FAIL SAFE), Korra lift a plastic lid that covered the button, and slammed on it as hard as she could.
The tube then came to life, steam spewing out of the edges, electricity lit up the insides showing the outlines of the unfinished clone, and then the cries were no more, the tube then drained itself along with its contents. After that was over everyone took a breather from the sudden scare, "what the heck was that?" Bolin asked between breathes, as he rested his hand on top of a desk witch had an audio recorder. Bolin accidently pressed a button the small hand held device came to life with a deep and ruffled voice.
"This is Prof. Douglas: Log date 97; When I first saw them. I was pretty proud. The first three successful clone prototypes we dubbed them Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie, the hair and eyes might be a bit different, but that wasn't the issue. The issue was that they only seemed to carry one of each of Subject: zero's traits. They all had telekinesis, but they couldn't carry the other attributes their "original" has all at once." The gang thought for a moment, other traits, what is he talking about, but they got their answers when the recorder kept on going.
"Alpha seems to carry the ability to mix two or more energy sources together to create a new one, like mixing fire and ice together.
Bravo can manipulate his cells to a point where he can grow claws or even armor, I once saw him tearing through the door to his cell so we had to replace it with titanium about a feet thick, lord knows where we got that kind money from.
And last but not least Charlie. he doesn't talk much just like the original, but there's something about 'em that scares me. He can somehow generate this energy. This dark, unsatble power source I never seen the original do that, but that's not it Charlie seems like the only one that's experminting with the telekintic side for instance the other day the guard that was suppose to look over him killed himself with his own rifle, he was screaming at nothing saying that "it wasn't his fault" all the while with Charlie watching.
One time Subject: zero managed to quietly walk away from his guards and wander into the chamber where the three's cells are located. That's when he saw them for the first time. He saw them sleeping peacfully, and that's when I noticed a tear running down his cheek, I didn't know why. The other day the three asked me did their "father" just came to see them. They called him their father. That's surprising."
The recorder then turned off leaving the room silent, "that's something interesting," Mako commented on the new information, "we should keep an eye out for more," Asami suggested. They soon walked down to the other end of the chamber to door that wouldn't budge, "so was that Charlie that ran passed us?" Bolin asked as Korra kicked down the door, "yeah," she answered, "sounds like he's dangerous," Mako commented. Korra frown at him, "well I guess being locked up in small dark room makes you do things," she retorted.
What lay ahead of them beyond that door was a hall. A hall of cells with all the doors hanging wide open, the gang looked into one of the rooms and to their horror was a dead clone of Zero laying on the floor. Blood was splattered on the wall with them leaning on it, all the rooms in the hall were either empty or bloody, "what the heck happened here?" Korra asked a bit tensed up, "they looked like they've been executed," Mako answered. When reaching a certain point of the hallway Korra had stumbled upon another recorder, "hey guys look I found another one," "what are you waiting for? play it," said Bolin.
Korra fumbled with the device in her hand trying to get it to play, but eventually found the play button, "Prof. Douglas: Log date 101; some of the newer clones at times can be more freewill just like the other four and the researchers don't like it. They call them "Disobedients" like calling a machine "defective" like they were nothing more than broken toy that no kid wants. If they fail to become obedient they take them away and... Euthanize them, an- "
"Douglas can you put down the recorder and help out with the next batch of Disobedients already?" another man spoke up in the background.
"Uh y-yes sir Prof. Folly I'll get right on it." the recorder then stops there.
"they just kill the ones that refuse to comply with them, that's just sick," Asmi commented disgusted, "you guys noticed that the man recording started to sound a bit depress?" Mako asked the gang. It didn't cross their minds, it did sound like the man had trouble trying to speak at the end, but nevertheless the gang pressed on. They passed through door after door until they came across an office door off to the side with the door slowly swinging wide open, like it was inviting them in.
They approached the room cautiously thinking it might be a trap, there they saw in the small room with a desk, book selves, and a file cabinet, but the chairs were knocked over, and pages were all over the floor. As Asami approached the desk their she saw a man dead behind it, he was leaning on the wall with blood splattered on it with a pistol in one hand and a recorder in the other. Mako reached down and carfully pulled the recorder off his hand, then pressed the play button.
"Prof. Douglas. These are my last words. I can no longer live knowing what I've done... I can still hear them screaming, their cries haunt me... They've done nothing wrong, but they are subject to such horrid practices, and for what? In the name of science... This isn't science... This is hell. I now know why subject: zero cried on that day, he is their father, and for a father to see his children locked in cages breaks a father's heart, seeing that they have no choices. No hopes. No dreams. And no freedom... Hearing the sounds of his chidren cry as they are dragged away to die drove him mad. A father wants nothing more than to see their children live happy, to run free, to love... But there is no life here in this hell. Only pain... So. Much. Pain."
A sound of sirens could be heard going off in the background of the recording, "Subject: Zero is now free. He is coming to punish us all. I'm might not be a man of god, but I pray he have mercy on us... Zero, if you ever find this *click* please forgive me... BANG!..." The recording then fell silent.