AN:

Okay, I knew I said there wouldn't be another chapter up for two weeks, but my vacation was delayed due to a snow storm. I'm leaving tomorrow morning instead. I would reply to the comments like always, but I really don't have time to do that, because I'm shuffling just to get this chapter finished. Sorry if they're any grammar errors or spelling mistakes, but I really don't have time to proof-read this because I have to go pack! Like always, GR © MoA.

"What is the meaning of this!" An angry White Knight shouted at Yin, Six, and Holiday. He had called them into his office about an hour ago. "Why was Rex not training this morning?"

"We needed to perform surgery on the boy." Six said. White raised an eyebrow at the agent. "Well…they did." He said while gesturing to Holiday and Yin.

"Why?" White asked.

"There were corrupt nanites in his system. We needed to remove them, or else there was a chance that he would go through another blackout." Holiday answered.

"How do you know they're gone for good?" White asked.

"We're not sure. They were mutated, corrupt." Yin started. "There is a chance that the process could repeat itself."

"Well make sure it doesn't, and-"

White was cut off by Holiday. "We can't control what his nanites do. They act on their own."

"Well if it does happen, just make sure you keep it under control." Knight said to Holiday. "And you two," He said while looking towards Six and Yin, "get Rex back to training." Then the screen went blank.

"He's still out cold, you careless jerk!" Holiday yelled while lunging towards the screen.

The agent caught the woman before she was able to reach the screen. "Holiday, we don't need another broken screen." Six said.

"Another?" Yin asked while raising an eyebrow at Holiday.

"It's a long story…" The doctor answered.

"Okay then." Yin said.

"How long until Rex is conscious?" Six cut in. Holiday and Yin stared at each other, before Holiday decided to give it her best guess.

"I'd say about two to three hours. But his nanites could affect the amount of time he remains unconscious." Holiday said.

"Let's just hope he wakes up before White slaughters us for not training him." Yin commented. Suddenly, the room turned red from the light of the red alert sirens, which were at an ear shattering volume.

Six, Yin, and Holiday all looked at each other simultaneously. "Rex!" They all shouted before running out the door and down to Holiday's lab.

When the three got to the lab, they say Rex lying on a hospital bed. But the boy was not laying peacefully. His body was pulsing erratically, and it appeared that the boy was having a stroke. Holiday immediately ran over to the boy, whereas Yin ran over to the computer screen, which was spitting out binary codes on the screen.

"What's wrong?" Six asked, with tones of both harshness and worry in his voice.

"I don't know!" Holiday frantically replied. Six walked over to Yin and glanced at the computer screen. The sequence; 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001111 01010010 was repeated throughout the screen.

The agent glanced over at Yin. "It's saying 'ERROR' over and over again." The girl said while hanging her head.

"That's it?" Six asked the girl. She nodded her head, remaining speechless. Six placed his hand on the girl's shoulder and looked into her eyes-well…right eye that was. She looked up at him, and knew he was trying to speechlessly tell her that everything would be alright. Six removed his hand from the girl's shoulder, and walked over to Holiday. She then thought about his glance once more, and realized that maybe she wasn't the one he was trying to reassure about this…

Yin thought it over for a second, but then walked over to join Holiday and Six. "It just says 'ERROR' a bunch of times." The girl solemnly told Holiday.

Holiday shut her eyes for a second, but then reopened them and looked at Rex's face. 'He looks so…peaceful. Well, at least his face does.'

"So what's wrong with him?" Yin asked Holiday.

"It's likely that some of his other nanites mutated. If they reach his brain; they'll knock him out and he'll lose all memory." Yin noticed a tear beginning to form itself in the doctor's eye.

The girl looked Holiday in the eyes. "It'll be alright. We'll see an end to this. A positive end." Suddenly Rex woke up in a gasp for breath. His stroke had immediately ceased following his wake-up.

"What's going on!" He yelled.

"Well he's…awake." Holiday noted, trying to stay optimistic.

"Your nanites are mutating. We thought we had removed all of the mutated nanites, but it looks like more grew in their place." Yin explained.

"Well, are you sure it's really a mutation?" Rex asked, calming down slightly. "I mean, some weird things go on with my nanites."

Yin and Holiday turned to face one another with questioning glares plastered on their faces. "Um…maybe…it's not?" Holiday hypothesized.

"Maybe, but then what's up with the binary?" Yin pointed out.

"I don't know…" Holiday said.

"Maybe…his nanites were trying to trick us." Yin theorized. She immediately received 'are you crazy?' glares from Six, Rex, and Holiday. "Think about it; maybe Rex' nanites needed to be filtered, so they tricked us into doing it. If the situation wasn't dire, then we most likely would have just pushed it aside and worried about it later. Maybe the nanites tricked us into thinking the situation was dire so that we would get the job done sooner."

"So why would they be doing this?" Six questioned.

"Maybe they're not controlling it. Maybe this is just a side effect from removing some of Rex's nanites." Yin replied.

"That's actually a good theory…" Holiday sounded shocked.

"Well, does that mean I'm still going to black out?" Rex asked, sounding a little exasperated at Yin's theory. His nanites might have tricked him! Well…they also tricked two geniuses, so maybe being tricked by them wasn't that bad.

"No." Holiday said. "If Yin's hypothesis proves to be true, then that means you were never in any danger at all."

"My nanites have restarted my heart before…they could probably give me a fake stroke a come up with some fake binary just as easily." Rex noted.

"Well, I'd say you're most likely safe to go." Holiday said. "Just come back here every once in a while, just so I can make sure." The doctor advised.

"Will do, doc." Rex jumped off of the hospital bed, and stood up. "I don't suppose you would want to be escorted to your room by someone who just almost died." Rex said, trying to use a strangely pathetic pick-up line on Yin.

"Kid, you didn't almost die." Six pointed out to the boy. Rex glared angrily at the agent.

"You're my nanny, you should be concerned." Rex said.

Six raised an eyebrow. "Concerned about what?"

"Never mind." Rex said. He held out his hand to Yin. In turn, she rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"I'll walk with you, but I'm not holding your hand." She smacked Rex's hand away so that it was out of reach of her own.

The two walked out of the lab, and started towards Yin's room.

"So…what's amnesia like?" Yin questioned. Sure, she had studied the disorder, but she had never experienced it first hand.

"It's just…it's scary." Yin froze at Rex's comment. He didn't sound like the fifteen year old boy he was. He sounded like a scared, confused little kid.

"It's okay to be scared Rex. You have every right to be." Yin said. "Not knowing who you are, anything about yourself; that's scary shit right there." Rex laughed at the girl's blunt comment.

"Thanks Yin. Just wondering…what scares you?" Rex asked as the two continued walking down the hall.

"I don't get scared." She replied.

"Everyone gets scared."

"I don't."

"Sure you don't…" The boy smiled slightly at Yin. The girl stopped and opened her room door. "Goodnight." Rex said before he continued walking down the hall to his room.

Yin walked into her room, opened a drawer, and picked up a picture. She glanced over it and then placed it face down on her bed. "I don't get scared…at least, not anymore."

Flashback

The six year old was running away from two rabid dogs. They had looks in their eyes that just screamed 'I'm killing you'. She was frightened, and just kept running. Eventually, the dogs had chased her into an alley. She had nothing else to do, so she did the only thing she knew how; she fire bended. Yin didn't kill the dogs, but she was able to send them whimpering and running at the sight of the fire.

There was one problem though; she had just fire bended in public. This was something she knew not to do, but she didn't know how else to react to the dog's attack.

"Hey, freak!" Yin turned to face the boy who just yelled.

"Oh wow, she responded!" Another boy said as he began to laugh.

"Let's see if she responds to this." The first boy to speak took a plastic cup and threw it at the girl. It hit her in the head, and she soon found herself drenched in soda.

"Leave me alone!" She yelled at the two.

"Aw, isn't that cute. She wants us to leave her alone." The first boy said.

"So cute, Roger." The second boy confirmed Roger's previous statement.

"Derek! I told you to stop calling me Roger; it's Roj."

"Sorry Roj." The two boys stopped arguing and turned to face where Yin was once standing. "Where'd she go?"

"How the hell should I know?" Roger asked. "Let's go find her."

Yin could feel the two boys walking closer to her. She was hiding in an alleyway. A six year old girl was hiding from two teenage boys, who were possibly trying to kill her. She realized this, and she was scared.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Derek said.

"There you are you little freak!" The boy named Roj said as he walked up to her. He delivered a punch directly to her left eye. The girl who was previously sitting was now lying face down on the ground.

"What were you doing with that fire, freak!" Roj taunted as he continuously delivered kicks to her rib cage in addition to punching her in the left eye once more. The six year old moaned in pain. Her eye was bloody, bruised, and numb, and it was likely that some of her ribs were broken. She wanted to fire bend and defend herself, but she was too weakened to focus.

Roj delivered a kick to her left arm that sent the girl flying out of the alley onto the sidewalk. He grabbed her by the shirt collar so that her head was lifted up and she was standing. With his other hand, Roj started punching her in the eye and ribs.

"Roj, don't you think this is taking it too far?" Derek interjected. He could see that the girl was in pain, but Roj seamed not to care.

"This freak's had enough when I say she's had enough." The boy lifted the girl up so that her feet were no longer touching the pavement. He pulled her face close to his own. "If you want me to stop, freak, you'd better beg." He hissed at her.

"Just stop…please, just stop…" The girl said, using the little amount of breath she had to articulate those words.

"What was that? I can't hear you, freak!" Roj taunted.

"Get your fucking hands off me." The girl said.

"You didn't just tell me to do that, right freak? Cause if you did, I'd have to do this." The boy threw the girl into the road and ran over to her. She was bleeding heavily, but the boy didn't care. He kicked her across the street so that she hit the sidewalk with great force. He was walking over to her, about to do more, when Derek interrupted him.

"Roj, enough is enough."

"I'll tell you when it's enough!" The boy pulled out a dagger and stabbed his friend in the chest. The boy's body immediately fell to the ground. The six year old didn't know what to do, so she just screamed. She expected the boy to take out his dagger and stab her as well, but instead he ran off.

Yin was lying on the edge of the sidewalk. Her hands were wrapped around her knees, which she had tightly pressed against her chest. She was crying, she was scared, she was confused.

"Uhh…" The six year old heard a small groan come from the boy named Derek's throat. With caution, she slowly moved over to him. He was still alive, but barely. Using all her strength, the girl stood up. She then took the boy and placed one of his arms around her shoulder.

"Don't worry…it'll be okay." She reassured him. Or…was she really reassuring herself?

Yin carried the boy to the local sheriff's office. When she walked inside, she received a variety of looks. Some people looked scared, some people looked intimidated, some angry, and some just confused. Basically everything she was feeling at the moment.

The girl lugged the boy over to a desk and placed him in a chair before she blacked out.

When Yin awoke, she was lying in a hospital bed with a variety of machines surrounding her, and multiple tubes running into her arm. Derek was laying in the bed across the room from her, alive. Not well, but alive.

While lying in the hospital bed, the girl looked at her reflection in the room window. Her eye was black and still had some dried blood on it. Her vision was heavily impaired in her left eye. She could just barely see out of it, and her vision was completely blurred. The girl examined her reflection closer, only to see that she had stitches on her eyelid, and some surrounding her eye.

Not wanting to look at her eye anymore, the girl turned away from the window. She instead looked down at her arms. Her left arm had a huge red slash covered with stitches extending up from her elbow to her shoulder. The six year old now had, at the very least, two scars.

The scars she was thinking about back then were only the physical ones though. She hadn't even begun to imagine the mental scars that would come with this act of hatred. The girl now knew what human nature was like, how people acted when they didn't know how to act or what to think.

She was fine with admitting it back then, so she did. "I-I'm scared…" She voiced aloud.

"It's alright." One of the nurses said. "You have every right to be."

End Flashback

Hatred…that's what she was afraid of. The way people act…she had seen it from an early age, and she learned to fear it. Of course, Yin experienced much more hatred and other terrible acts when she was a child.

Yin walked to the mirror above her dresser and pulled her left side bangs behind her ear. She looked at her eye in the mirror before throwing her hair back over her eye. Yin's eye was red from the blood with had flowed into it both during the fight and when she got her stitches. That was another thing. She had a trail of stitches traveling diagonally down around her eye. They began at her forehead, stopped at her eye, and then continued to travel town a quarter of her cheek. The doctors did all they could to restore her eye and her vision, but it just wasn't enough. She was blind in her left eye, and the scars, stitches, and the discoloration of her actual eye would be there forever most likely. She had even tried to heal it using her water bending. Nothing.

Her right eye was red too, but it was nothing in comparison to her left eye.

Growing tired of looking at her reflection, she grabbed a sai off of her dresser and struck it against the mirror, causing it to shatter. Then she walked back to her bed and sat down.

The girl picked up the picture frame she was previously holding. The picture was a photograph of Derek. For the time the two were in the hospital together, they had developed a strong friendship. Yin laid down on her bed and held the frame against her heart. "Rest in peace Derek." She allowed a single tear to run down her face while thinking of her deceased friend. Derek had never made it home alive from the hospital.

AN:

Well that was…darker than I expected it to be. But this is where Yin will begin falling apart. And…it's up to our favorite green clad agent to fix her. No, there will be no sex, and/or romance between the two. Maybe a hug, but that's it. Yin is seventeen, and I picture Six to be about thirty. That's just too big of an age gap for me to write a romance about. A lot more of Yin's past is going to come into this story, and I'm even going to add (my hypothesized version of) Six's past into it. Oh, and of course more Holix. Now, I have to go pack, so like I said before; no updates for two weeks unless I get a WiFi connection and some free time!