Bionicle Legacies: The Return

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The Return

Prologue
The Mata Nuian sun slowly set on the final day of the matoran civilization. A civil war had erupted because of one matoran—Ahkmou. This civil war had lasted many years and destroyed many lives. The Toa had divided between the sides and only two remained. A Toa of Fire and a Toa of Ice. They had once bitterly split their team apart in the early years of the war, but now were more than just friends.

The Toa of Ice, one of the few females, stood overlooking her final home, the icy landscape of Ko-Wahi on the ancient island of Mata Nui. Her great grandfather once watched over this land, Toa Kopaka Nuva. She came from a very direct line of Toa, Kopaka and Gali being the first known Toa relatives of hers. Often, her long deceased parents would tell of the great deeds that had been done by the Toa Nuva. Remembering these tales brought both joy and sadness.

Hearing footsteps behind her, she turned and saw her friend walking up the slope toward the lone Toa of Ice.

The Toa of Fire had been there at the start of the war, when the Po-Matoran and agent of the Brotherhood of Makuta, Ahkmou, had openly rebelled toward the matoran. Surprisingly, more than half of the matoran had sided with Ahkmou. Within the first decade of the war, the two sides had reduced each other to a very small fraction of what they had been. The Toa Nuva had all sided with the Mata Nui, the group that still believed that the great spirits still existed. Ahkmou’s group on the other hand, had lost all faith in the legends, and eventually had succeeded in destroying all but two Toa. The remaining Mata Nui destroyed Ahkmou’s followers in a sacrifice that would have been remembered had anyone survived.

“Good evening, Kolana.” The Toa of Fire said when he reached her. They caught each others eyes before Kolana turned away.

“Takano…” She said as a tear escaped from her eye. She wore a pearly white Akaku, as did her ancestor, Kopaka. Instead of the traditional design though, she’d had the late Turaga Vakama craft an x-ray visor to replace the three lenses and used the basic shape of a Calix for the design.

“Kolana, my friend, please stop.” He spoke softly as he stepped up and put his hand on her shoulder. She turned toward him and looked into his dimmed orange eyes. He saw pain and grief, but also some joy and love. She saw only love and peace.

“You know what we are to do.” Kolana said as she looked away and out over the horizon.

“Yes.” Takano said as he began to walk to the former site of Ko-Koro. She soon followed as they trudged across the cold, snowy wasteland.

As they entered the ruined gates of the village of ice, an eerie silence fell over them, a silence that had been in the village as long as any matoran could remember.

Tears began flowing from both of Kolana’s eyes as she remembered the days of her childhood. She pictured young matoran running across the slippery ground, doing the best that they could to try to make the older Ko-Matoran laugh. Every once in a while they would get a smile, and sometimes they could even get Turaga Nuju to laugh at their antics.

When they reached the entrance to the sanctuary, there was no crystalline ice skylight, but instead there was only the shattered remains and a gaping hole in the ceiling. Takano led her down the abandoned halls to the chamber that held the canisters that the Toa Nuva had arrived on Mata Nui in. The two Toa stepped into the center of the room and looked around before turning to each other.

“Takano.” The Toa of Ice spoke softly, fear rattling through her voice.

“What is it, Kolana?” Takano impatiently asked.

Instead of answering, Kolana stepped closer to him, wrapped her arms around his body, and put her lips over his in a passionate kiss. At first the Toa of Fire stiffened up, but relaxed shortly before they pulled away from each other.

“I-I love you, Takano.” She said shyly as she began to pace.

The Toa of Fire, for the first time in his life, was speechless. He too loved her, and suspected that she loved him, but had never expected that she would say anything about it. He had nearly given up hope on it when she finally told him.

“Kolana, I love you too.” He smiled and sighed.

She laughed when she realized that he had been hoping that she would say something about their unspoken love for each other.

“C’mon. We need to leave before we lose all light.” She said as she headed toward the transport with a snowflake carved into the side. He followed her and they exchanged one last kiss before he went to the transport with the flame carved into it. They climbed in and soon the hatches covered them. They could see out of the glass domes built into the hatch. Looking out at each other they both could see tears running down each other’s masks. Using the primitive radio-like system to tell each other the one last thing before no communication was available: “’Till Mata-Nui summons us again!”

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Chapter 1
Tyler Mirado looked out the window of his room and onto the dark rain covered street. He wished that it was sunny and not raining outside so that he would have something to do other than play with his eight year old Lego Bionicle sets of the Toa Olda. Shortly after the adventures on Voya-Nui, Tyler had lost interest in the Bionicle series of Legos. He had barely had enough money to acquire the original six Toa, before he lost his job and his only way of getting the sets. He followed the story line through the comics and checking out the books from the library. Turning on his computer, he went straight to the only Bionicle related thing he still liked, the Bionicle Library on BZPower.com. He loved reading the various fan fiction stories that expanded on the original storyline, or altered it completely. Checking on his favorite epic series, a story beginning with “The Alliance”, he found that T-Hybrid had still not added the next part of Terry’s story.

Walking back to the window, he saw that the rain had somehow cleared and the sky was clear. He hadn’t thought that he was going to see the strange objects that flew across the sky every night at around that time, but was soon proven wrong as two meteor-like objects streaked through the sky. One of the streaks was red, while the other was white. That night though, was different than other nights. It was a night of destiny. The two objects flew past in their usual location, but partway seemed to stop, and instead get brighter and bigger.

It is time for the return…

Tyler looked around his room for the source of the voice that he had just heard. As he turned back to his window, he was met by a blinding flash and large explosion that knocked him to the floor of his second-story room. When his eyes cleared, he got back up and looked out of the window. Two large canister-like objects sat in the crater that had once been the center of his street. Absent-mindedly, he grabbed a Toa canister that had been stripped of its wrappers and held his Toa Kopaka model. He ran down the stairs, past his frightened parents and older sister, and out the front door. As he approached the two canisters, He lifted Kopaka’s canister up to his eye. He quickly deduced that either he was dreaming, or the Toa were real.

Suddenly, steam erupted from the tops of both canisters and the tops popped off. While the rest of the crowd backed off, Tyler curiously stepped forward. His mother called for him to come back to her, but he was too focused to hear. Slowly, two figures emerged from the canisters. One was holding a sword that had flames dancing along its blade, while the other had a glowing arrow trained at Tyler’s head. His mother shrieked when she saw the arrow, and almost ran to save her son, if not for her husband’s strength. As the steam and fog dissipated, the figures shapes became clearer, and so did their colors. The one with the sword was a dark crimson color, and the one armed with a bow was a pearl white color. Both wore masks over their heads, masks that Tyler soon recognized as variations on two of the original Bionicle masks.

“T-Toa Tahu?” Tyler nervously asked.

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Both Toa deactivated their weapons in pure shock that this strange rahi had said the name of Tanako’s ancestor.

“Who-no-What are you?” a larger one of the rahi asked.

“A Toa!” One of the small, apparently young rahi answered with what appeared to be a large smile.

“It can’t be. Bionicle is a toy line, they’ve never really lived.” Another young one stated.

“Stop!!! Do not speak of the ancient legend that way, rahi!” Kolana shouted, already calculating what they were going to do next. She reactivated her weapon and moved from one rahi to the next until stopping again on the rahi closest to them.

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Tyler was struggling with the concept that the Toa were here, and that they were endangering his life.

“Wait.” Tyler said boldly as he opened the Bionicle canister that he still held. He pulled out the model of Toa Kopaka and set it gently on the ground standing upright. The white figure again deactivated her bow and arrow and set them on the ground before walking up to Tyler and picking up the toy.

“Where did you get this?” She quietly asked, so that Takano couldn’t hear her, after examining the model.

“It was made by a toy company called Lego.” He answered softly out of fear. “You’re not Toa Kopaka, are you? You have a feminine voice, but you look like him so much.”

She paused for a moment as a tear ran down her mask. “No, I’m not him. I’m his great granddaughter.”

“I’m guessing that the Toa of Fire over there isn’t Toa Tahu either.” Tyler questioned the ice Toa.

“No, I’m not.” Takano interrupted as he walked up beside Kolana. “I am Toa Takano, Toa of Fire, and descendant of the great Toa Tahu. You know much about our past, don’t you?”

“Well, I know about the Toa Nuva, and the Toa Inika, and even the Toa Metru and Hagah, but I’ve never heard either of your names before.” Tyler replied.

“Those are all Toa from Mata-Nui and Metru-Nui.” Kolana gasped.

“I figure that you’re not a Rahi either. You don’t look like any that I’ve ever seen.” Takano inquired.

“That’s right. I’m not a rahi, but I and everyone you see around here are basically what you would call matoran.” He explained to the two heroes. “Why don’t you come inside, out of the watchful view of the neighbors? You can trust me and my family, but I don’t know about the other families here.”

Kolana looked pleadingly at Takano, begging to learn more about these strange matoran.

“All right,” he sighed, “We’ll come with you.”

“OK. Let me take care of something before we head in.” He walked toward the center of the circle of people before telling them not to call the police, and to not be afraid of the two Toa. While he was doing that, the young child that had been the first to recognize them as Toa ran up to the heroes with a Disneyland autograph book When Tyler noticed this he stiffened, but his fears were false, as the two Toa took the kid’s pen and signed the book in matoran. This just reaffirmed that the strange, armored creatures were friendly, and even got some of the gathered crowd to cheer.


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Chapter 2

So…It has begun…The heroes have returned…

A hulking figure stood next to an elderly matoran. The matoran looked up at its master and smiled before heading back to his chambers.

“The two Toa are still alive after all.” The matoran said to himself as he wrote in an ancient journal. “This couldn’t have been stopped. I and my master were too weak to destroy them ourselves. Now though, now we have gained back strength and power. We had influenced various leaders in preparation for their return. The few righteous replacements of matoran were beginning to grow thanks to that toy company, Lego. They had found a former lair of my master’s, and rescued some of the history of their world. It was too strange for the historians and scientists to believe, so Lego took advantage of that and produced its first ever toy series with a story. They had modified things, lessening the amount of violence, and completely rewriting the history at the end of the records that they had. In the early years of the toy, my master had influenced a tribe that called themselves the Maori, and helped them to have Lego repair the names to what they really were in the records. We shall finally have our revenge on those Mata Nui. All will serve Makuta and his humble servant, Ahkmou!!!” He let out a little dark chuckle at the last part. He knew for certain that Makuta would end up falling, and only he would be the leader of the world.

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Tyler led the two ancient heroes down to a room in the basement, away from the curious eyes of his neighbors. Kolana followed eagerly, while Takano kept a close eye on the strange matoran. Once they had reached the room, Takano asked if there was another room private enough for him to meditate. Tyler showed him to the small closet hidden under the staircase and quickly left the Toa of Fire to his meditations. He then ran to his room to grab his laptop and brought it to the Toa of Ice. Accessing the two websites he knew would help him most, BZPower and BioSector01, he showed her the pictures from the three original movies and scenes from Lewa11’s first Bionicle movie, Bionicle: Quest of the Toa. Kolana watched and examined everything that he showed her while gathering various questions in her mind. He even pulled out his old Bionicle keyboard and attached it to the Computer. After which he activated a special translator that Anaglyph and Flamewave gaming had produced for Internet Explorer that converted every piece of text on the screen into matoran glyphs.

“Mata-Nui!” She exclaimed when she saw her great grandfather for the first time in a picture from Mask of Light. “He looks more noble than I ever imagined. The legends were true about them and Toa Takanuva!”

“What ever happened to Takanuva?” Tyler asked the intrigued Toa.

“No one knows for sure.” She sighed. “One day he was there, not long after the Toa Inika and Toa Nuva returned, the next he disappeared. The only ones known to have seen him after that was his wife, Nixie, and Turaga Vakama. He had returned long enough for the Turaga to summon a daughter for him and Nixie. Their daughter was one of my grandmothers.”

“So one of your family members is the Toa of Light?” The young boy asked disbelievingly.

“Yes. Nixie died only a week before her and her husband’s wedding.” Tears began streaming down her mask as she thought of the pain that her entire family had gone through.

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Takano sat in the small room meditating, trying to figure out why they were at last summoned. He thought and thought while Kolana and Tyler chatted about the past of the world. Not long after he began, he got a terrible vision of death and destruction. Then, out of nowhere, a beam of light shot down next to where the Toa of Fire stood. As he looked over to the Toa that had arrived next to him, he caught a glimpse through the eye of strange mask the Toa wore and saw, not a Toa’s face, but the face of one of the strange matoran. A face that was familiar, yet not recognizable at the same time. The vision faded and he was returned to his body. He looked around the small room again before exiting into the room that Tyler and Kolana were in.

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“We have to contact this toy company, Tyler.” Kolana said to him as Takano stepped through the closet door.

“I know how to.” He replied as he opened up a PM window on BZPower. “The person who writes the comics and books is a member of this place. He works for Lego and is on the story team, so he probably knows where they got the history of the matoran.” Tyler soon had finished writing the PM and sent it off to GregF, the only person he knew of that could help him at that time.

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Greg Farshtey checked through his PM box on BZPower, looking for stuff of interest. He skipped over a few PMs including the one from the member Tyeran entitled “Urgent: I Have a Problem.” He was about to delete the spam-like PMs when something told him to open Tyeran’s.

Dear Mr. Farshtey,

Though this may sound very strange to you, I have two Toa sitting here in my basement with me. I’d send pictures, but my digital camera isn’t working. Their names are Takano and Kolana. They are descendants of Tahu, Takano that is, and Kopaka, Kolana. Please don’t pass this off as a good idea for a story. I’m telling the truth, you must believe me. You’ve seen my posts and other questions, I’m sure, so you would know that I wouldn’t bug you about something that wasn’t important. Please reply.

Tyler Mirado a.k.a. Tyeran

Greg immediately got on the phone with the chief of the story team and the CEO of Lego. From the news earlier that evening that two strange tubes had crashed into the center of a residential street and no one in that neighborhood would give a straight answer, he knew for sure that something was up.

As he spoke with the two Lego employees, he replied to Tyler’s PM asking for his street address and a back way to his house.

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Tyler had Kolana refresh the page every little while as he waited for a reply from Greg. He had been upstairs talking with his parents and keeping a watchful eye out the windows. He had just noticed that a Police car was pulling into the driveway when Kolana called for him. Reaching the bottom of the stairs just as the Police officer knocked on the front door, he quickly read and replied to Greg’s PM before having the Toa hide under the stairs so that he could go back upstairs.

The Police officer had just sat down when Tyler came back up the stairs.

“Good evening, Mr. Mirado.” The officer said. “I’m officer Glade. I’d just like to ask you a few questions if that’s all right with your parents.”

“Y-yes, officer, th-that’s fine.” His mother said, scared that Tyler or his friends might be in danger.

“Mr. Mirado--"

“Tyler.” Tyler corrected.

“Tyler, I’ve heard various reports about two strange creatures coming out of those tubes outside, and that you had something to do with it. I know that there is something, because I have proof.” The officer said as she pulled out a Disneyland autograph book that Tyler recognized as the kid’s from earlier that evening. “So you do know something.” Officer Glade said when she noticed Tyler’s expression.

“Maybe I do.” The boy said rebelliously.

“You might as well tell us. My fellow Officers and I are going to be searching this house momentarily. We have a search warrant for all of the houses in the area. That’s how we found the autograph book.” She reached for her radio and called for the others to come search the house. They entered the house and began poking around. Tyler tensed up every time the officers got near the door to the basement. He frantically searched around for a weapon of some kind to help defend his friends, if they needed an escape. The time finally came, and he was still weaponless. He ran in front of the basement door and, knowing that they would be listening mentally, called for the Toa.

“We’ve found them!” One of the officers shouted into his radio. Soon, the entire police force of his small town had Tyler surrounded, some with their guns drawn, some with tazers, but all were trained at his heart.

“Mr. Mirado, please step away from that door. You do realize that you are protecting something very dangerous, don’t you?” Officer Glade asked harshly, her kind yet slimy tone becoming mean and commanding.

“You will never take the Toa!!! Not with me alive.” Tyler shouted, hoping that it wasn’t his last words.

“Then, DIE!!!” Officer Glade darkly gave the signal and all at once the Police men and women that held guns fired.

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Chapter 3
Tyler could never exactly recall what happened next, but less than a hundredth of a second after the guns were fired, a beam of bright light burst through his house and hit him square in the chest, knocking him through the basement door and down the steps. Not one bullet grazed him and the police all dropped their guns, all that is, except for Officer Glade. She continued firing at Tyler even as his body was transformed from a simple young boy, into an armored, elemental hero. At the sound of the gunfire Takano and Kolana bolted from their hiding place and blasted their combined elemental energies at Officer Glade. Somehow though she escaped, uninjured, to her waiting patrol car and drove off in the direction of downtown. The rest of the officers also left at the sight of the Toa and their powers, but they went to their homes to tell the story to their families.

Takano slowly turned toward his new friend and saw the great Toa from his meditations lying unconscious in place of the young boy. Kolana, who had been trained as a healer before she became a Toa, ran to Tyler’s side and checked his vital signs where she knew they would be in a Toa. She turned to Takano and smiled before walking up the steps and into Tyler’s family room where his mother and father sat frozen in shock on the couches.

“H-he’s d-dead, isn’t he?” His mother asked, frightened to know the answer.

“No, he’s very much alive. Probably more alive than you’ve ever seen him.” Kolana sighed as she sat down on a chair across from the two parents. “I don’t know how to explain it in a way that you’ll understand. Tyler isn’t a matoran anymore. The Great Spirit Mata-Nui has called upon your son to become something more. He is one of us now. He is a Toa.”

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Tyler awoke later the next morning in his old bed. He vaguely remembered the events of the night before, but they seemed so much like a dream. The last thing he remembered was being blasted backward less than a second after being shot at by the protectors of his town. Sitting up in bed, he looked at his alarm clock and found that it was already ten o’clock. He rushed out of bed and into the bathroom, not even noticing his changed appearance as he got ready for school. When he finally got downstairs, his parents were sitting on the couch watching TV.

“Why didn’t you wake me up?” Tyler quickly asked as he searched for something to eat. “I’m going to get a detention for being late for school again.”

“You’re not going back, Ty.” His mother grimly stated.

“What do you mean?” He asked whipping around to face his parents.

“Have you not noticed?” His father questioned.

“Noticed what?”

“Tyler. Son. Y-you. You aren’t exactly what you used to be anymore.” His father continued.

“What?” he asked, even more confused than he was used to being. His mother pulled a small mirror out of her pocket and handed it to Tyler.

It was then that he noticed that his arm had changed. Instead of being covered in just skin, he had golden armor and silver pistons covering his forearm up to his shoulder. He looked down at his legs where his shorts didn’t cover and found not human feet, but robotic with bits of muscle peaking through some of the gaps. His legs were heavily armored and he could feel pistons working as he bent his knee. He pulled off his shirt and looked at himself through the mirror. His torso was covered in gold and white armor that moved with him as he stretched. Building up the courage, he finally looked at his head in the mirror. He was surprised when he found that it hadn’t changed except for a metallic cover over his ears.

“What am I?!” He screamed.

“You, Tyler, of all matoran should know what you are.” A feminine voice behind him said. He turned and came face to face with the Toa from the night before.

“But, how? I thought that you two were that last of the Toa.”

“We did too. But it’s now time for a new generation to pick up the torch. Welcome, Tyler to the life of a Toa.”

“What about a mask?” Tyler asked.

“I left it on your desk, Ty.” His mother answered.

As he ran to his room, a gentle knock came from the door. The two Toa hid themselves in the basement as Tyler looked curiously out his closed blinds. When he saw who was at the door, he nearly fainted with relief. Standing at the door was none other then his writing hero, Greg Farshtey. Tyler ran down the stairs and got Kolana and Takano out of the basement before walking to the door himself. He moved past his nervous mom before giving her a reassuring smile and opening the door.

“Greg? Greg Farshtey? You really came!” Tyler exclaimed with joy as he brought his guest into the family room where the Toa were standing.

“You must be the two Toa.” He said when he noticed Takano and Kolana. Next he introduced himself to Tyler’s parents before finally turning to Tyler. “Amazing. This must have been from that beam of light I saw shoot down on my way here. I’m sorry. You must be Tyler.”

“What’s left of him at least.”

“Nonsense.” Greg smiled at him. “Any Bionicle fan would kill to become what you’ve become. That’s why most of the BZPower fan stories are based off of the author becoming a Toa or at least a Bionicle character. You, on the other hand, get to live it.” He turned to the Toa. “I’m very pleased to actually meet you. I’m the only one on the story team to have actually guessed at your existence, what with the two missing transports at the ruins of Ko-Koro. Now, tell me your names.”

“I am Takano, Toa of Fire and descendant of Tahu.” Takano said.

“And I am Kolana, Toa of Ice and descendant of Kopaka.” She finished.

“Now, tell me everything that truly happened after Voya-Nui.”

As the two Toa related the tales of their ancestors, Tyler, with Greg’s permission, posted in his BZBlog what had happened in the last twenty-four hours. Most BZPower members actually believed him, especially after what Greg had posted in his Blog less than twelve hours before. Meanwhile, Greg was taking photos of the Toa and eventually Tyler joined them for the pictures. Later in the day, after Greg had been talking with Tyler’s parents, and Tyler had been training with his mask, a Kanohi that combined many of the classic powers into one mask, they all gathered in the family room. They still hadn’t been able to figure out what his elemental powers were until Greg made a connection between Takanuva’s disappearance and Tyler’s armor style. It was decided that Tyler was the second Toa of Light in the world’s history.

Tyler was about to go back into the basement with the two Toa, when there was a gentle knock at the front door. He rushed down into the basement as his parents opened the door. He faintly heard the voice of a young girl, and immediately perked up. Hurrying up the stairs and through the door, he came face to face with his best friend, Emma Brooks.

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“Tyler? Tyler, what happened?” Emma asked him worriedly.

“I’ve become a Toa.” He replied with a shy smile.

“But, Tyler, they aren’t real. They’re just a toy series.” She disbelievingly told him.

“Not exactly true.” Kolana said as she and Takano came up behind Tyler. Emma almost passed out when she saw them, their sleek, armored bodies and strange, masked faces reflecting the sunlight of outside.

“That does explain the two containers they took away last night. And you, Tyler, explain the bright flash I saw after I went home.” She moved closer to Tyler and gave him a crushing hug as tears came to her eyes. “Tyler, I was so worried about you after the gunshots went off. I knew that they came from your house. I don’t want anything to happen to you, ever. You’re my only true friend.”

“Thank you, Emma.” Tyler said through his own tears as she backed off. “I really needed that from you.”

It is time for the Toa of Water to come forth…

“What was--" Emma’s speech was cut off as a bright flash filled the room, knocking everyone but her to the ground. She stood with a shocked expression on her face as the light enveloped her body and transformed her into a blue armored Toa of Water. When it was all over, she lay motionless where she had stood seconds before, looking as peaceful as ever.

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Tyler sat silently next to what normally was his bed, watching his friend as she slept. Her golden hair tied into a ponytail. She had bright green eyes that contrasted with her tanned face. The rest of her body, apart from her hands, had been covered in dark blue armor that gleamed in any light.

“Emma… I’m sorry about all of this.” He sighed before continuing to talk to the sleeping Toa. “I-I don’t know if I should tell you this now but I…” He stopped as she sat up in bed.

“T-Tyler?” She asked groggily. “What happened to me?”

“You also have become a Toa. Probably a Toa of water, judging by your armor color.” He paused. “How long have you been awake?”

“Long enough to know you were going to tell me something.” She grinned at him.

“Emma…” Tyler looked down at his hands as he thought about what he was going to say. “Emma, I-I like you. I-I want to be more than just friends with you.”

“I also want to be more than just friends, Tyler.” She smiled before reaching for him and hugging him.

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They walked down the stairs holding hands and smiling brightly. The two new Toa had already found a true friendship and caring for each other that couldn’t have been made any other way. As they turned the corner into the family room, Emma couldn’t help but laughing when her single mother, who had been invited over, gasped at her and Tyler’s appearance.

“E-Emma?” Her mother asked as she looked her daughter over. “How could this happen to you? How could a toy be real? How?”

“I understand it as much as you do, Mom.” She said as she walked over to her parent. “All that I know is that it is needed. The world is in danger, and new heroes are needed. I am one of those new heroes, as is Tyler.”

“But why?” Emma’s mother asked, tears streaming down her face. “Both of you are only 16. Sixteen-year-olds don’t save the world in modern times. It was even rare in the past.”

“Ma’am.” Kolana interrupted. “I’ve calculated out about how old Takano and I were in human aging when we became Toa, and we were only 15 when Mata-Nui first called upon us.”

“I’m sorry, Mom.” Emma said. “If I could reverse it, I would, for you.”

“No you wouldn’t, Emma.” Her mother replied. “I wouldn’t allow you to. If you are destined to be a hero, then so be it. I’m just having trouble letting go.”

“I love you, Mom.” Emma told her mother with a smile and hug. She was walking back to Tyler when there was a sharp, heavy knock at the front door. They all looked around at the windows and saw that the State Police had been called and had surrounded the house.

“Come out with your hands up!” A familiar voice yelled through a megaphone.

“We’re all going to be killed!” Emma said before she panicked and ran through the front door, blasting water at the various officers. “Get out of there!” She yelled at the remaining three Toa.

“Kolana, Takano, get our parents out of here. We’ll hold off these Vahki.” Tyler commanded the two heroes before running outside himself. When he finally reached Emma, she was close to passing out from the use of her elemental powers. He quickly activated the Hau power in his mask and deflected the bullets that were being fired at the pair.

“Tyler…Put your shield down…We’re too weak and inexperienced…” Emma spoke softly between gasps for air. Tyler hesitantly did what she asked and immediately was tackled by the SWAT team that had been called. While the police were all distracted, Takano and Kolana took the opportunity to run with the three parents. Tyler could hear his mother screaming and crying as she saw them get surrounded by the SWAT team. The last thing he saw before being shot with a tranquilizer was Officer Glade laughing over the two friends.

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Takano ran from the car as they began to pull away. He was going to try and rescue the two young Toa from certain death. He slashed his way through the crowd as he worked his way to Emma and Tyler. Before he could reach them though he was shot in the back by a young policeman. He thought that he was about to be killed when a sudden peace came over him. Knowing that these were likely to be his last moments alive, he fought like never before, but collapsed just short of the two Toa.

Kolana had seen all of this happen and jumped from the car not long after they had began to leave. She soon was injured but reached Takano before being hit by a tranquilizer fired by none other than Officer Glade.

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Chapter 5

Takano awoke with a splitting headache. Immediately he looked around the bright white cell that he was being kept in. Laying next to him was Kolana and through a large window he could see the already awake Emma and Tyler, both pacing through their cell. He then checked his back where he had been shot and found that Kolana had healed him before going down herself. Emma soon noticed that he was awake and began trying to speak with him through the thick glass. She then remembered that all Toa have a mental connection of sorts and was able to contact him that way.

Takano. Are you and Kolana all right? She spoke in his mind.

I think so. How are you and Tyler? He replied.

Never better. She sarcastically answered as Tyler walked to the glass.

What are we going to do? I don’t see any way out of here. Takano asked.

Tyler’s already figured out how we were placed in here, and is in the process of figuring out how to get out. Emma answered before turning to Tyler.

“Hey, Emma.” He said. “I-I’m sorry about all of this. I can’t figure out how we’re going to get out. I can’t get my powers to work.”

“Its all right, Tyler. We’ll figure something out.” She looked at him and smiled.

Anything, Emma? Takano asked.

Not yet. We can’t get our powers to work. She replied.

Help is coming…

What was that? Emma wondered allowed.

Suddenly there was a huge crash and the power flickered. Dust soon filled the air of the two holding cells, choking their prisoners. As the dust cleared, a pair of figures stood in a hole in one of the walls. One, covered in black armor, pulled of its mask and revealed the face of a young girl. The other, covered in brown armor, wasn’t wearing a mask. He quickly broke the glass separating the two cells and released Emma and Tyler. The six Toa ran from the room through the trashed hallways of what appeared to be a hospital.

When they finally reached the outside, they found that they stood in the center of a large army base. They were surrounded, not by rolling prairies, but instead by mountains and cacti. Then it hit Tyler, they were in Area 51. The government thought that the Toa were aliens. Waiting on a nearby airstrip, was a small jet. Sitting at its controls was one of Tyler’s other friends, Cory Joel. Tyler had once commented that if Cory was a matoran, he would for sure be a Le-Matoran, because of his attitude and love for flying. Now Tyler was proven correct for as they entered the plane, Tyler caught a glimpse of Cory’s emerald armor.

“Welcome aboard, my friends.” Cory yelled from the pilot’s seat. “We’ll be flying to a place we have all wanted to go to, Lego’s Headquarters in Denmark. So—“

“Cut the chatter and get this thing flying!!!” The girl in the black armor snapped as gunshots began going off outside the plane. Cory gave an ‘if you say so’ glance back at her before pushing the plane to full throttle and quickly getting out of the base. The occupants of the plane were thrown against their seats as the plane quickly gained altitude.

“Um, Cory, We’ve got company!!!” Tyler shouted as he looked out the window at a formation of fighter planes.

“Don’t worry, guys. They’re from Denmark. Greg sent them here as soon as you four were captured.” The boy in brown armor told the other four Toa. “Anyways, my name is Keith Lay. I’m the Toa of Stone in our group.”

“And I’m Kylana Porter, but you can call me Ky. As you probably have guessed, I’m the Toa of Earth.” The girl in black said before turning to Kolana and Takano. “How are you two doing for your first flight in an airplane?”

“I’m s-scared to death.” Takano said through clenched teeth.

“It’s not too bad. It’s like the airships of Metru-Nui, only faster.” Kolana laughed at Takano.

“That’s good.” Ky said.

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Tyler and Emma had sat down next to each other and were chatting with each other when the plane finally touched down twelve hours later on the Lego runway in Denmark. Immediately after the doors to the plane opened, two Lego employees checked the plane for any stowaways and then allowed the Toa off. Tyler and Emma held hands as they walked along a forested trail to the only gateway to the ruins of the matoran civilization. It led them down into a cave and into a huge, dark cavern, that showed signs of a previous civilization. Across a large, ocean like expanse, a dim light glowed in the distance. They knew what they were looking at, but none of them believed it. No Toa had set foot down there in many millennia and yet to the two Mata-Nuian Toa, it felt like nothing had changed. They knew that in the morning the twin sun holes would shine over Metru Nui again, like they had throughout the absence of the civilization.

“We’ll make camp here tonight, and in the morning we will travel to the only still standing monument to the matoran civilization,” Keith explained. “Metru Nui.”

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Tyler heard a large splash not far from where he was trying to sleep. He immediately sat up and looked around. His powers of light allowed him to see clearly even in complete darkness. Nothing had changed, but he saw one other Toa sitting up and looking around. The Toa pf Light got up and quietly walked over to the other. Kylana was sitting there crying, but stopped when Tyler walked over.

“Kylana? You all right?” He asked.

“Yeah.” She replied. “I’ve just been through a lot recently.”

“Like what?”

“Officer Glade had my parents killed when they tried to protect me. I don’t know what happened to my little sister. For all I know, she too was murdered.” Kylana sobbed.

“When did this happen?” Tyler said.

“Two days ago. You were captured two days before that.”

“How’d they keep us asleep for that long? Why’d we wake up when we did?” Tyler questioned.

“As far as I know, they were putting sleeping gas into the holding cells we found you in until it was time for all of you to be ‘examined’.” She explained. “Lego did find your parents, alive and well, if you were wondering. Emma’s mother was with them.”

“Thank goodness.” He sighed. “Where are they now though?”

“Already on Metru-Nui. That’s part of the reason we’re going there. The other reason is the Great Temple still has Toa Tools inside of its Toa Suva.”

“Well, it was nice talking to you. We probably need to get some sleep though.” Tyler said, ending the conversation. “See you in the morning.”

“’Night.” She replied.

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The group awoke late in the morning to the gentle sound of waves hitting the shore. Slowly, one by one, they sat up and looked around. They looked toward Metru-Nui, but couldn’t see it because of the fog that came off of the Silver Sea. Looking back the way they had came, it was nothing but a dense forest, with not a sign of any life. The trees and life thrived in the area, all because of the protodermis that still filled the Silver Sea. They looked up and saw the sky for a little bit before it ran into the cavern’s tall entryway.

Tyler stood and walked over to Emma, who was just waking up, and told her about Kylana and his talk during the night. They hugged before going over to where Keith was preparing the boats.

“Good Morning, Tyler.” He said happily. “Hope you all got a good nights rest. Today we’re traveling to Ga-Metru, the district of water. As we begin rebuilding the matoran city, we will also be training each other at the guidance of Kolana and Takano…”

The six Toa listened as Keith explained what they were going to do while in Metru-Nui. As he spoke, Tyler’s thoughts wandered from one thing to another. He remembered when he first met Emma back in Junior High. It was lunchtime on the first day of eighth grade. Tyler didn’t have many friends then, and the friends he did have were in a different lunch. He looked around the cafeteria for an empty seat until he saw a girl his age sitting alone at a table. He didn’t recognize her, but he felt like he needed to sit with her.

“Hello?” Tyler said when he sat down. “Are you new here?”

“Yeah, why?” she replied

“No one else was sitting here.” Tyler paused for a moment. “Anyway, my name is Tyler Mirado.”

“I’m Emma Brooks.”

And so their friendship began, and grew over the years.

A loud splash brought Tyler back to reality. Keith had jumped into the water to pull the large motor boat closer to shore. Tyler looked back toward the forest one last time before climbing into the boat and sitting down next to Emma.

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Chapter 6

The seven Toa stood on the shore of their new home. Tyler and Emma smiled at each other as their parents ran up and greeted the group. They all exchanged greetings before being led down the path to the new home of Tyler’s family.

It was a large house for matoran standards, and included various things similar to what humans had created, such as a small computer, and a refrigeration unit. In some ways, it was very similar to the Mirado’s former home, back in Illinois, but in many others it was completely different.

Just prior to the Matoran Civil War, the peoples of the matoran world, organic and biomechanical, began to thrive with each other. They borrowed various forms of technology, and eventually created the weapons that would destroy themselves.

“Tyler, we will meet at the entrance to the Great Temple Complex in two hours.” Keith explained to the Toa of Light. “You can explore Ga-Metru during those two hours, but do not leave the region. We will go into the other Metrus once we are properly armed. In any case though, there is a secondary weapon up in your room, for use against the various animals, and few Rahi that still inhabit this Metru.”

“Thanks, Keith.” Tyler replied. “I’ll come with you guys, after I’ve grabbed my weapon.”

Tyler hurried up the flight of stairs to the only room on the second floor. Inside was an entire collection of the Bionicle sets and promotions. Lying on the bed was a short sword with a very decorative scabbard. It reminded Tyler of the scabbard that Link carried in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, that had just been re-released due to its lasting popularity.

Tyler picked up the blade, and unsheathed it. The hilt was just as intricately designed as the sheath, but it was perfect for his hand. He swung it around a few times before putting it back and strapping it over his shoulder. Hurrying back down the stairs, he failed to notice the shadow detach from the wall behind him and scurry into his room.

“You guys ready?” Tyler asked.

“Yep, we’ve already gotten our secondary weapons.” Emma told her friend.

“All right, Tyler.” Keith said. “I’ll see you guys later. I’m going to be at Greg’s house if you need anything. Be careful.”

The six remaining Toa followed Keith out the front door and into the street. As Keith headed toward Greg’s Metru-Nuian home, Tyler and the others waited outside his front door.

“Takano, Kolana, have either of you been to Metru-Nui before?” Emma asked the ancient Toa.

“When we were very young we visited this once great city.” Kolana replied. “It was in worse condition than it is now. Poverty was everywhere. Ga-Metru itself was almost destroyed, but look at it now! It has flourished with your kind more than it ever did with the Matoran.”

They all smiled at that comment.

“Takano, where would a good place to have lunch be?” Tyler asked as his stomach growled.

“Probably at the park across from the Great Temple.” He answered. “That was where my family picnicked when we visited.”

Once Takano finished, Tyler ran back inside to grab the picnic that he had noticed his mom making before he had gone outside. When he came back out, the group of Toa headed down the street in the opposite direction that Keith had gone, toward the tall towers of the Great Temple.

They soon reached the park that they were going to. Great waterfalls fell from above them as they began to eat on the island park. Bridges over the protodermis had provided them safe entry to the park that also held the bridge that led to the Great Temple complex. Though the main building of the Great Temple had twice been destroyed, it modernly stood, great and majestic, above the rest of Ga-Metru. The rest of the complex was built after the start of the Matoran Civil War, and had protected the Great Temple until the last year of the War.

After the Toa were done eating their peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, they began to walk around. For over an hour, the six Toa walked through the Metru, admiring the ancient structures, and stopping whenever they would reach a landmark. Their last stop, before heading back to the Great Temple, was at Takanuva and Nixie’s house. Quietly, they walked inside. Dust covered everything, and sunlight barely was coming through the front window, but nothing seemed to have changed since Takano and Kolana were there on family vacations, before the War reached Metru-Nui and Mata-Nui. They were about to leave when they heard footsteps behind them. Slowly Tyler turned around, scared as to what he might see. Standing in the main hallway was none other than Toa Takanuva.

“Get out.” The ancient Toa of Light said, his voice worn, and aged.

Instead of leaving, the six Toa silently dropped to one knee, heads lowered in respect for the great Toa.

“Who are you?” He asked, calmed down from being angry.

“Toa Takanuva, we are the Toa Century.” Tyler quickly spoke for the group. “The Toa of our generation.”

“That can’t be, all of the Toa except me are thousands of years dead!” He exclaimed.

“That isn’t true, Grandfather.” Kolana told him as she rose.

“G-g-granddaughter?!” He spoke softly, tears coming to his eyes.

“Yes, I’m your granddaughter. One of the last two Matoran based Toa. This is my best friend, Takano.” She said as Takano and the rest of the Toa stood. She then introduced the rest of the group to her grandfather.

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