Avatar: What if - Book 1

What if... Xiànshí decided to intervene?? Part 3

-I found you Raava, even though you are from another universe I can distinguish you from all these humans...

With that said Vaatu throws a beam of energy toward Aang, Lu Ten, Sokka, and Suki.

They quickly dodge them but they know they have to do something, that's why Sokka is the first to respond.

-Run!

None of the other three question him because they soon start running too while Vaatu leaves when he sees the decision they have decided to make. But he wasn't going to let them escape, with his tentacles he began to try to catch Aang or try to crush him, he hadn't decided but before he killed him like the other Avatars and other versions of Raava he would have fun with him.

With that in mind, he brings his tentacles to the ground and the vines proceed to come out of the ground, blocking the path of the four and proceeding to catch them.

Katara, who was watching over the imprisoned Vaatu agents, noticed something was happening, so she turned around momentarily to see her friends facing Vaatu who had broken free. Her distraction helped her other version break free from the ice column that had her trapped, summoning water to cut the ice and get out free. Once free, she raises her hands and begins to control Katara's blood.

The others were taken by surprise and were about to attack when Evil Katara then sought to control their blood as well.

Katara opened her eyes in surprise and saw how Evil Katara looked at her with a malicious smile.

-That's right, this shows that I'm better than you, I've seen many other versions of us that could do this, I don't doubt that you are the same but they all fell by my hand as soon as you joined them.

Just like that, he began to twist the bodies of Hama, Iroh, and Zuko, as well as his own, to the point that he made them kneel while prolonging their suffering.

While that was happening, Evil Zuko was regaining consciousness of where he was trapped, so determined to free himself, he invoked the fire breath created from within, which helped weaken the ice enough so that he could escape and see what was happening, and what he saw was amusing.

First, he went to Prince Zuko who was trying to maintain his composure and trying to resist the effect of the bloodbending but his efforts were not achieving much.

"You don't look so confident anymore, do you, Little Prince?" Evil Zuko said as he grabbed Zuko's head, straight from the bun, which caused him great pain.

When he did so, he examined him with his head and a peculiar idea came to his mind- Although to be honest, you don't look much like me, maybe we need to make some adjustments.

Iroh opened his eyes in shock that Evil Zuko would hint at what he was thinking and he confirmed it when he saw Evil Zuko raise a hand and proceed to light a flame around it.

Prince Zuko opened his eyes in disbelief at what that version of him was planning to do when he saw the flame in his hand and then the scar he had on the middle of his face, he shook his head and stopped moving to avoid it, but Evil Katara stopped him.

While on Hama and Katara's side, they opened their eyes and held their breath. Shocked and horrified that Evil Zuko was going to do that to a version of himself.

But the one who couldn't believe it the most was Iroh, remembering the last time he had witnessed something similar, he went back several years ago, with a little 13-year-old Zuko being marked by his father, he could have avoided it, he could have done something, but because he was a coward he hadn't done it.

He was not going to allow history to repeat itself, and with that in mind, the Dragon of the West re-emerged determinedly.

Channeling his inner fire, Iroh lived up to his nickname and launched a large flame from his mouth, it was so strong that it reached Evil Zuko who, seeing what had happened, stopped what he was doing to repel the blast that was coming at him, although he was barely able to stop it, as some of the flames reached him and burned his hands.