Author's Note: Somehow you have stumbled your way into the Bionicle and RWBY crossovers section. Are you mad? If so then that makes sense, if not then I'm questioning your sanity. So little known fact: Bionicle is easily one of my favorite franchises in the universe, I even put it above RWBY (heresy, I know). I fell in love with it at an early age. If for some reason you remember my earlier stories from years past I started writing out Bionicle stories, but I would rather not talk about those anymore. Finally, I apologize if my knowledge of Bionicle lore is rusty, I haven't kept up on it in a very long time and even then it wasn't the best (thank god for the internet, am I right).
Chapter 1: The Storm
It was a blustery day at Beacon academy, a rather uncharacteristic weather pattern, the trees swayed relentlessly as grey clouds were coming into view. Classes were over since the break before the second semester was nearly over. Despite their freedom that was going to end soon most students had decided to retreat to their dorms. The weather was off, that was for sure. Beacon never usually had windstorms to this degree. Some of the weaker trees were bending to angles that shouldn't be physically possible. The howl of the breeze reminding everyone of its presence. Something was going to happen in Vale, something dreadful…
Team RWBY had been cooped up in their room for several hours now, and it was starting to show. Ruby was about to bounce off the walls of the room, Weiss' patience was nearing a breaking point with the young red reaper, Yang had been playing a video and and even she was getting bored with it, Blake was just about finished with the book she started yesterday. They didn't know what to do, what could they do? Logically, one could say go outside but you might be blown away. Team JNPR, on the other hand, were perfectly calm, happily studying using their time wisely. The howling wind replaced the silence like hearing waves on the beach, a calming noise in the background. That was until Nora, the bubbly and probably most volatile girl in the school, slammed her book on the table.
"I'm bored!" She yelled startling everyone, except Ren, "I can't stay in this room all day!" It was true, it was only midday and the weather wasn't going to let up anytime soon, the idea of being stuck in their room all day was going to be a reality. Nora grabbed her hammer and held it menacingly at her teammates. "Do you want to go train?" Her voice filled their leader, Jaune Arc, with enough dread and fear to lead packs, and packs, of Grimm to the school. Nora had a certain work ethic unparalleled by anyone, literally anyone she appeared to be superhuman in some regards. The thought of having to do Nora's routine for what was going to be a few hours did not sound enticing to anyone in the room.
"Nora," Ren calmly spoke, "perhaps now isn't the best time to go train."
"But Ren," she childishly protested, "if we stay in this room any longer, my head's going to explode!"
"Ugh… Nora," Ren tried to reason.
"It's fine Ren," their team leader said to the green ninja, it might do us some good to get out of this room. It's starting to get a little stuffy in here anyways."
"YAY!" Nora exclaimed at the top of her lungs.
Nora was like a child, sometimes just as much as Ruby, she had mischievous ideas, a child like mind, and an odd love of pancakes. During their initiation Jaune still had a hard time believing that Nora had ridden an Ursa killing the beast in the process, how Ren dealt with her Jaune never understood. He stood us and stretched out his back, sitting too long made it sore, he groaned with each sound of his back popping. After much negotiating with what they were going to do, it was more like trying to argue against Nora not breaking them during training, the group left their room, weapons in hand heading for the training room. What they found in the sparring room left them speechless…
The Tower of Beacon stood above all else, watching the landscape like a lighthouse. In it, the watchman, Professor Ozpin looked to the clouds making their trek to the academy. His eyes narrowed as the clouds soon flashed within themselves. Taking a sip from his cup he kept his gaze on the dark blobs, thunder soon ensued the flashes of lightning. Something caught his eyes though, in the flashes from far away it was a shape. It's shape was mainly fuzzy but the initial shape appeared to be a person. What could a person be doing in that kind of storm? The winds began to pick up as Ozpin's thought finished, almost as if on cue. It howled louder, becoming more violent. The clouds came faster, lightning flashed more frequently and thunder rang out like gunshots. Rain began to drizzle, then fall, then it began to pour. The sudden deluge of rain began to flood the school grounds. Barely five minutes had passed since the storm swept across the water and reached the cliffs of Beacon. The flashes of lightning were almost constant at this point with thunder in a long drawn roar. With a final, blinding, flash it seemed to be over. The rain calmed, thunder ceased, and the lightning subsided. But what came next was unexpected…
-A few minutes ago-
Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee stared out the window as the storm raged throughout the campus. They could barely make out any shape as the water warped the outside world.
"Jeez," Ruby noticed, "what's going on?"
"I don't know," Weiss was stunned, Beacon had all four seasons but rainstorms of this caliber never usually happened. A flash of lightning happened causing both of them to shield their eyes.
The faunas of the team, Blake Belladonna, seemed a bit tense, almost nervous by everything around her. While the faunas were not a hundred percent animalistic certain aspects remained. Animals were in tune with nature so much they could tell when something bad was going to happen, humans have lost this ability long ago, the faunas though kept a small bit of this ability. Every crack of thunder, every flash of lightning made the cat faunas jump a little. This action, for the most part, was ignored by Ruby and Weiss. Only the blonde boxer noticed and this time she got up to Blake and sat by her shoulder.
"You scared Blake?" Yang teased with a smile.
"No," Blake lied, "I'm fine."
"Aw come on Blake, it's fine if you're scared, if you want to I can sleep next to you so you don't get scared."
"Not funny."
Yang stood up from the bed of the on edge faunas. "You know what, I'm going to the cafeteria for a snack, you girls want anything?"
Weiss turned to the blonde. "Is that really a good idea?" Weiss did have a good point, the cafeteria required her to go outside. And outside was disgusting.
"Oh come on it will be fine," Yang reassured her teammate, "it's just for a quick bite, it's not like I'm making a gourmet meal."
"Just be careful," Ruby told her sister, still looking out the window, "and bring me some cookies."
"Okay sis I'll try, see you guys later," Yang left the room and only the rain was there for noise.
A flash of lightning came again followed by thunder and the sound of Blake squealing a tad caught the attention of both girls this time. "You going to be okay?" Ruby asked her. Ruby didn't get an answer as the lightning began to flash more frequently until only a constant white flash shined with the thunder sounding off unrelentlessly. Then it stopped, nothing, just silence. The rain became calm, now a light drizzle, the lightning disappearing and the thunder had been silence. Weiss sighed as the storm appeared to be over. Then from the silence came the sound of something crashing onto the school grounds, crashing hard. This was followed by the screaming of one Miss Yang Xiao-Long. Instinctively they grabbed their weapons with haste and made their way to where the noise came from…
-To the present with Yang-
Yang wasn't sure just what had happened a few minutes ago. She had just left from her room to get some delicious goodies, then the storm picked up in its ferocity. The lightning blinded her for a while and the thunder was deafening at the peak. The side of her head had become wet because of the wind and rain, drenching part of her hair. It all stopped though and it looked like the worst was over. Then she saw what came next. From the clouds came two individuals locked in combat. One was being pinned by the other with his feet as they fell to the ground. Where they had come from was a total mystery. The two looked like they were on a crash course for Yang, naturally the most logical thing she did was scream in fear while ducking as she didn't have time to run. It had been a long time since she felt enough fear to scream, she usually brushed off fear, but by the looks of one of them could send shivers down anybody's spine. They both looked armored, almost like knights from some bygone era. The only one she could make out was the one doing the pinning. The armor appeared gothic in nature, almost bat-like, sharp edges with spines all over their body, on the feet the toes were clawed and looked like it hurt to be kicked by them . As they got closer she noticed the armor was colored a deep crimson and black, whatever it was they had two blades in their hands but Yang couldn't make out exactly what shape they were. The weird gothic, almost victorian, armored person kept eye contact with the other individual not noticing Yang in the foreground, perhaps they didn't care. With a loud *crash* dust and dirt were sent into the air, clouding the immediate area making it impossible to see. When the dust settled the black and crimson warrior stood above the other individual. It was human, at least, and they were tall. They could give Yatsuhashi of Team CFVY a run for his money. In their hands were two scythe like blades, as in they looked like blades on top of a scythe but whoever they were they held the blades. Yang had gotten up from her position and ran up to a nearby wall, Ember Celica had been turned on and was ready in case things got messy. As she got closer Yang began to hear the voice of one of them, she assumed of the one standing over the crater. She deduced the voice was male, it was dark, deep, bone chilling even. She couldn't really make out anything he was saying besides common words like 'the' and 'you'. She stepped in to get a better listen but she nearly tripped and her foot made a noise. The figure's head shot up and his body turned, Yang was not mentally prepared for what she saw. The man was wearing a mask, not a mask like what the White Fang wore. It covered his, even if it was a him you can't tell if they have a mask, entire face leaving only his bruning, fear inducing, red eyes. They almost looked as if they were shining. There was something in the middle of his chestplate that caught her attention, it was spherical and orange, and it almost looked clear. The figure surveyed the area going back over the immediate landscape slowly beginning to walk over toward the vicinity of Miss Xiao-Long . Yang quickly moved away from the wall and breathed as quietly and as nervously as she could. She didn't know whether to peak around the wall to see if he had gone back to the crater. With her mind made up she took a calming breath and began to turn her. What her head met was the man looking directly at her from around the corner. His eyes could've burned into her soul if he didn't move, but he moved primarily his mouth.
"Hello, flesh creature," he said. That's when Yang became more horrified. His mask mouth moved with his mouth and the mask was already terrifying enough. With each word the three fangs carved into the mask on top moved with the two on the bottom moving. Inside the hole the mouth made revealed a dim light of orange. The man grabbed Yang by the throat and lifted her up as he stood revealing his whole height. "You should have known better than to sneak up on Makuta Antroz." Yang had no clue what 'Makuta' or 'Antroz' meant but she really didn't care asher struggled to get free of his grip. He was strong, almost unnaturally strong, the orange orb in Antroz's chest began to glow and he looked down at it, a small chuckle came from the Makuta. "Let's see what one of these does to a flesh creature such as yourself. I will need a new servant now."
The words 'new servant' didn't sit well with Yang, it probably didn't sit well with anyone but Antroz at this current point in time. Yang struggled to get free, the orange orb was glowing brighter, she couldn't make it out she was getting angry now, the light was nearly blinding now. Out of rage she shot the ground where Antroz's clawed feet were and he fell releasing his grip and the orb's light went to a dim glow. Yang, now free, jumped back and loaded another shell into Amber Celica. Antroz, now ticked, brought up his two blades. Behind his mask, his two eyes glowed with anger. Yang was the first to strike by charging in with a punch. Before the punch connected Antroz stepped to the side and grabbed the arm. In a quick motion he swung Yang over his head and slammed the girl into the ground, hard. He then proceeded to stomp on her with his clawed covered feet. Yang's semblance flared up and a small explosion of fire caused Antroz to back away shielding his eyes. When she got back up she launched herself at the Makuta. Raising her fist she landed a punch to the stomach causing Antroz to reel back a little, his clawed feet scraping against the ground. Antroz then ran and jumped at Yang angling his feet down at her. She fired a shot at the man only to miss slightly and got slammed into the ground once again. Antroz however didn't let her sit on the ground this time. He picked her up by the neck and chucked her up into the air. Then using one of his blade he swung at Yang. Tired, and unable to avoid it, Yang took the full force of the hit. She was sent careening into the wall, her aura was gone and you could see a cut on her arm from the blades. Antroz now walked up to her, the light in the orb began to glow once more. He placed a blade under Yang's chin and lifted it up so she could into his eyes.
"You have great anger flesh creature," Antroz noted, followed by him smiling like the devil himself, "I can use that in a servant."
The orb began to glow brighter and Yang closed her eyes, she had been defeated. She couldn't move even if this mysterious Antroz wasn't there. A tear fell from her eye, she didn't know what was going to happen to her but she knew it wasn't good. Hell, 'wasn't good' seemed like a step up from what this was, this was pure evil. Then just as Antroz's orb was about to let loose whatever was inside of it something spoke from the side.
"NOO!" The voice boomed from the side.
Antroz turned to see the figure he thought defeated charging his shoulder in him. With little time Antroz could only bring up a blade to defend himself with and was sent tumbling with the other warrior. Yang was now awake to see the second warrior who came from the crater. Like Antroz he was a shade of red, but this was more like the red, almost scarlet colored red. He too was a male, the voice was more heroic, daring, and just. Even though he only had spoken one word, he seemed like the good guy. His armor was a bit different than Antroz's. It appeared to be more knight-like, even though there were certain elements of bulk on the shoulders and chestplate. In the middle of the chestplate was a black dot. The armor appeared more streamlined and slick compared to the spiny and spiky armor of Antroz. He was a bit shorter than Antroz, about six foot maybe six foot one (1.8288 meters), but still had the same style of body. For the most part the armor was colored scarlet with other parts colored silver.
Antroz stood back up after the unannounced attacker threw him from their tumble. He looked up to see the Toa he thought would be dead after a fall like that, Toa Tahu, then again this was a time for surprises. Antroz had just been lied to by the Makuta he had worked with for a long time, the energy storms had taken him to a place filled with these disgusting flesh creatures. Antroz had not been happy, when was he ever happy, he just wanted to kill someone now. He wanted to kill Tahu, then maybe he would begin creating more faithful servants, Rediak was now gone so he needed subjects. Antroz ran at Tahu preparing his two blades while Tahu brought up a single sword. Strange, Antroz thought, I don't remember Tahu having that. The Makuta quickly brushed his thought to the side. It didn't matter what he had, he will kill this Toa that was being a pain to him for a while. Antroz brought one of his blades down with an overhead strike but was blocked by Tahu's sword. Tahu made a fist and punched the Makuta square in the jaw. Antroz spun back with the momentum the fist brought. Before he could react Tahu walked up to him and slashed his chest with the sword. Antroz was sent into the hallway back and landed on his back with a solid *thud*. Tahu took a minute to look at the Makuta and then remembered about the girl from earlier. She was still in the wall trying to budge her way out. The Toa of Fire walked up to the blonde and her head turned from her previous task to notice his face, or at least his masked face. It was more sleek, much like his armor, it was slicked back into with odd cuts made in the cheeks and on top of the head leaving a black void where his face should be. Where his mouth should have been was an odd circular shape cut into fourths. When her lilac eyes met Tahu's she could tell he was different. The eyes were an orange, almost amber like, color but didn't seem as threatening. She got a good look at his sword too. It was about the size of any regular sword and was colored red, like a fire. The shape was of flames, like a fire. The way he handled it was like fire, brash, unrelenting, and tons of fun to play with.
"Are you alright?" Tahu asked the girl. The four pieces of his mouth moved slightly outward revealing an orange void, much like Antroz, and the cuts into the cheeks lit up slightly. Yang was still dazed, and a tad wary, and didn't register his question at first. After she shook her head a few times and came to grip with reality she nodded. "Good, now let's get you out of here matoran."
She didn't understand the word 'matoran' much like many of the words that were being said at this moment. It would have to wait as the two tried to move Yang from her wall prison. Yang looked behind the red colored warrior and saw Antroz was getting back to his feet. "Look out!" Yang yelled.
Tahu looked behind to see Antroz leaping towards him, his blades raised up. Pointing the tip of the fiery sword at Antroz. It began to glow at the tips, turning from red to orange, soon the whole sword was engulfed in flames. The heat was immense, Yang had to avert her eyes, little flickers of sparks rose in the air and were quickly extinguished. Then without warning a solid beam of flames shot out towards the Makuta. The power was too much for Antroz as he was sent flying into a wall, the beam still hitting Antroz in his Tridax Pod. While focusing more on the beam Tahu increased the power of the beam and it covered most of Antroz's chest. After about thirty seconds of doing so Tahu quickly raised the sword up and the beam ceased, the sword cooling down. He placed the sword on his back and looked back at Yang. The Toa of Fire raised an arm to the shoulder of Yang who turned away for fear of what he might do.
"Don't worry little one," he assured Yang.
When he touched her shoulder his hand felt warm, soothing, relaxing. With a breath she exhaled and calmed down and with a quick move Tahu pulled Yang from the wall which now began to crumble. Tahu then turned away from Yang and then turned his attention to the Makuta who he lodged into a wall much like how the Makuta placed Yang. He was then stopped as a different voice came from behind him, where the blonde flesh creature was.
"Hey!" The new voice said, it sounded feminine, inexperienced. The Matoran Universe didn't have the concept of 'age' really. The way you told someone's experience was by how their voice sounded. He turned to see three more, what Tahu assumed to be, females. One looked like Ko-Matoran, an Onu-Matoran, and a Ta-Matoran. "What'd do to my sister?!"
They are Toa? Tahu thought to himself. Usually only Toa referred to each other as 'sister' or 'brother'. They didn't look like Toa. Where were their masks? They had weapons. Why didn't they help him fight off Antroz? He ignored the little red one and walked over to the unconscious body of Makuta Antroz. What happened next he didn't expect. With a trail of flower petals the red girl, Ruby Rose, zipped in between Tahu and Antroz. She pulled out Crescent Rose and loaded a bullet into its chamber. Tell me how this is Rediak? Tahu thought, he was beginning to lose his cool. "Matoran can you please move?"
"And why should I do that?" Ruby asked.
Tahu didn't have to answer to whatever creature she was, he was a Toa, a protector, it was his job to save others. The Makuta were evil creatures, they've enslaved, murdered, and manipulated hundreds and thousands of people. And here was this flesh creature questioning him? He was beginning to boil. "Now you listen here little one, I have slain the Bohrok, Rahi, Rahkshi, and countless evil creatures that you could not possibly fathom! So I ask you: please stand aside."
"No, how do I know you aren't the bad guy"
That comment made the temperature rise in the room, his hands beginning to glow. Yang was barely conscious by this point, still recuperating at this point, but she still tried to speak. Wobbly she stood up and tried to walk to Tahu's side but began to fall. Blake ran out and managed to catch her before she fell over. "Sis…" she barely managed to get out along with many more incoherent ramblings.
"See!" Ruby pointed to Yang, "how do I know you didn't do that to my sister?!"
Tahu was about to blow. "Stand aside!" He ordered, practically hissed is more like it.
"No!" She repeated readying her weapon.
The sword on his back practically begging to be used. "MOVE!"
"No!"
Annnnnnd she got him angry.
"Fine then!" Tahu grabbed the hilt of his blade and brought it down on Ruby, the sword was engulfed in flames. Ruby was taken by surprise at the sight of the fiery sword. She didn't notice how close the sword was to her until it was too late. The sight of fire filled her eyes and fear filled her mind.
Yang eyes opened to the sight of the warrior who saved her about to attack her sister. "Ruby no!" She shrieked as she was helpless to do something.
From behind Blake, Weiss, and Yang came the sound of running footsteps and a voice, a female voice. "Tahu STOP!" It commanded.
Even though Tahu was quite far from the group that came running in, it pierced through the distance and Tahu stopped where he was inches from Ruby's face. The fire stopped immediately and with a sigh the young girl moved away from Tahu. The Toa of Fire turned to see who just spoke, but he already knew the answer. He thought he had lost her in the Energy Storms.
"Gali?"
-Back with Team JNPR about an hour to half an hour ago-
Team JNPR were doing a basic simulation trying to ignore the storm that was raging. It was a basic horde scenario, the robots were unrelenting, vicious, and more importantly annoying. Pyrrha chucked her shield at one and knocked it out bouncing off two more before returning to the spartan. Nora smashed multiple machines at breakneck speeds while giggling along the way. Ren leaped off the head of one and kicked the head of another before slashing one in the chest as he landed. Jaune bashed one with his shield and jabbed his sword at another. What he didn't see was one grab his leg which prompted the knight to look down. Because he was distracted a machine was able to sock Jaune in the mouth sending him sprawling. Another robot joined in the fight and soon a pile of robots swallowed the area where Jane Arc used to be. A loud buzzer rang in the entire room and the other three members of Team JNPR looked to where the pile of robots were beginning to remove themselves.
"Oh, not again," Nora booed.
"It can't be helped, he's an easy target," Ren noted. Jaune, after all, was the weakest member of the team, maybe the worst fighter in the school.
"Guys come on," Pyrrha told the others trying to stop them from ragging on Jaune, "let's help him."
From the pile came a single human arm reaching for daylight almost like a zombie movie. Pyrrha grabbed Jaune's hand and pulled him up. "Bah," he spat out a bolt from one of the machines then look to his team, "thanks by the way."
"I think we've done enough training for one day," Pyrrha announced.
"Yeah please," Jaune begged. He was tired, very exhausted from doing the training sim.
The group of four closed the door and began to make their way back to the dorm room. That's when they all noticed there was another practice room in use. They didn't see it on when they came in, and they didn't hear anyone come in, so they naturally grew curious.
There was a lone woman meditating in the middle of the room, a small smile on her face as she enjoyed the silence. She had long blue colored hair, much like how Pyrrha has her in a ponytail, it reached her waist. Her face seemed at peace even though the rain could still be heard from above even in the depths of the sparring room. She had a slender frame as the top part of her body was covered by a silver chestplate that exposed a bit of skin under her neck, the bottom half of her stomach was exposed. Her shoulders were also covered by silver pads that caressed around them. Black, long sleeve, fingerless gloves went along her forearms, the fingers were protected by metallic plating, so in actuality the gloves weren't 'fingerless'. Her arms, except for the gloves, were exposed with one arm having strange tattoos in the form of some kind of writing. She wore armor, the same color as her chestplate and shoulder armor, down her legs that reached her knees. From there blue and silver leggings that interweaved with each other covered the rest until the ankles. Starting from her waist was a piece of cloth colored two different shades of blue, it covered one of her legs and left the other exposed. Two, black, opened toed high heels were connected as she meditated.
The team of four were about to knock until from the side a robot turned on. It charged the woman who hadn't appeared to notice it yet. Jaune was about to run in until her right eye opened slightly, a smile still on her face. With a quick, almost unrealistic, movement she pulled out a large shining battle axe. The woman threw it with ease, still in her meditating position, spinning to the machine. She threw it so the axe barely was above the ground and it swept the legs of the robot. From the other side a second machine came and met a similar fate from a second axe she pulled out. Then two from both sides came, with no weapons at her side. The four hunters in training got closer to the door in anticipation as to what she was going to do next. She raised the arm with the tattooed writing on it and a massive formed from behind on of the robots that pursued the mechanical object. It caught up and swept the machine off its feet and carried it past her and into the other robot. The two crashed into the wall. What Team JNPR didn't know was that she had noticed them.
"You may come in if you wish," her calming, soothing, and kind voice said to the four kids. Her eyes still closed as she welcomed the four in.
Cautiously the four entered, they were still enamoured by the wave of water she summoned with ease. When they got close to her the woman opened her eyes fully for the first time. They were a bright yellow but they carried a look of care and kindness none of the four had truly experienced.
"Um, hello," Jaune said nervously, he noted how beautiful and calm she appeared to be.
She stood up from her position to face the four. Even with heels on she appeared to be about as tall as Jaune. "Hello," she greeted with serenity in her voice.
Hew words echoed in their minds for a while. It was as if a song was sung in a cave and the echo went on for miles, it soothed the soul. Pyrrha was the first to speak. "Hello, who are you?"
The woman smiled and chuckled a little bit. "My name is Gali," the Toa of Water told the group.
"That is a beautiful name," Ren told her.
"I guess it is," Gali said to the green ninja. Gali never thought of her name being seen as beautiful, oh how this world was full of surprises. The female Toa began walking over the ends of the arena to pick up her axes. When she returned the two axes hung off an apparatus on the back side of her armor that made the two weapons swing with each step.
"So Gali," Jaune said getting back to their conversation, "how long have you been here?"
"Oh, just a few hours."
A few hours? How did they miss her? Surely they would have noticed a woman like Gali walking into one of the room, she could anyone's head her direction. She was graceful, elegant, and beautiful. "Okay then," Jaune went on, "where you from, I don't think we've seen you here before. Are you here for the tournament?"
Gali paused, she didn't think she would run into anybody from this world. She had only been in this strange place for a day now, she didn't have the best plan if she ran into question. "Oh, I'm just not from around here," She told them in her calm reassuring voice. It wasn't a lie, just not the full truth. It probably wouldn't be the best idea to spill all the beans at once so she would have to lie when she knew she could trust them. But by their first impression it wouldn't take long.
"Hey what's that?" Nora asked pointing at the floor behind Gali forcing her to turn and the other three to peak their heads around the Toa of Water.
Behind the feet of Gali was a carved mask. The bottom of the mask was flat with the top curved. What looked like filters were at the bottom of the jawline, spines ran along the sides and the top of her mask, at the top of the mask was a cut into the top The mouth looked like a triangle with a flat top with two eye holes being the last of its defining features. "Don't worry about thing," she disregarded her Kanohi Kaukau Nuva trying not to answer too many more questions, "it's just an old heirloom from a long time ago." Just as she finished her sentence a loud crashing sound came from above. They didn't know it but it was the same crater caused by Antroz and Tahu. Gali's eye narrowed at the ground above the five people. It was when an incredibly muffled scream was heard from above that she grabbed the mask from below. "We have to go," she told the group putting on her mask. When they looked back to Gali her two yellow eyes were shining brightly.
-Back to the present where we left off-
Tahu stared at what he assumed to be Gali, she looked different. She looked like on the flesh creatures that surrounded the immediate area. Tahu looked down at his hand realizing for the first time since he had fought with Antroz that he appeared to be one of them as well. He looked back to Gali who appeared to be wearing her old KauKau Nuva. He wondered why she had her older mask on seeing as how it had been different on Karda Nui. But seeing Gali filled Tahu with more questions.
"Gali is that really you?" Tahu asked.
Gali removed her mask revealing her face, yellow eyes, and the full amount of her long blue hair to Tahu. "Yes Tahu, it's me," she was smiling, happy to see her friend once again.
"I thought we lost you," Tahu depressingly recalled. He remembered seeing Gali get swept into the storm and losing sight of her after that, "we all did."
"You did for a while then I woke up here."
"It was only for a few hours but we assumed the worse. I was out looking for you when Antroz intercepted me and we both fell into the storms."
"Oh? It has only been hours since I disappeared?" Gali was genuinely surprised by this, "It has been a full day since I arrived here."
How was that possible? Tahu asked himself, Were the two worlds out of sync in their time? It was possible and Gali wasn't one to lie about something like this. "Well can I ask where 'here' is?"
"Sure but take off your mask first."
"Gali you know that our masks hold our power, right?"
"Just do it."
He sighed and removed his mask. When he turned the front to face him he noticed that it looked like his original Kanohi Hau. Did the Adaptive Armor kick in? It had to, it was made the most sense. "Happy?" Tahu asked turning his attention back to Gali.
Gali got a good look at Tahu's new, human face. In her short time on Remnant she had already learned a good deal of the basics of their language. Tahu had blue eyes that looked unimpressed with a flat lined mouth, that too looked unimpressed. Short brown barely stuck out above his head. For some reason a scar had been scraped across his jawline to his cheek bone. It perplexed her for a bit then she remembered the incident with the Lerahk back in Ta-Koro back when they were finding the Seventh Toa. She then smiled when she took in all of Tahu's face.
"Yes Tahu, very."
"Now then can you answer my question?"
A new voice answered this question. "I believe I can."
The two teams of hunters, Gali, and Tahu looked to the side to see Professor Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch off to the side. Glynda was behind the headmaster looking at the mass of Antroz who was beginning to come around, but was still out of it. Ozpin simply had two hands on the top of his cane.
"And just who are you?" Tahu asked, hostility beginning to creep into his voice.
"Someone who wants a few answers as to why two individuals came crashing down onto my school's ground, then one of them begins to threaten one of my students, I believe I am owed many answers." Tahu and Gali remained quiet, Ozpin was right. "You will come with me along with the other one over there. You eight come as well."
Tahu looked at the body of Antroz and, reluctantly, picked up his body. In the cracks of his armor he could see the same skin that he and Gali both had. So either we all became like this, or he could still shapeshift in this world.
Ozpin's office was quiet, except for the movement of the clockwork pieces. Tahu, Gali, and the unconscious Antroz sat in three chairs while the eight hunters stood behind guarding the door. Glynda tapped on a tablet while Ozpin just stared at the three Bionicles. Tahu met his gaze as his mask was back on, he didn't trust this man one bit. Gali felt uncomfortable and proceeded to start the conversation.
"So I suppose we should tell you who we are," Gali said to the professor.
"Yes," he said slowly.
"My name is Toa Gali…" she then begins to go over the tales of the Bionicle. Mata Nui, the Makuta, the Toa. The whole shabam. It seemed like hours had passed as she told this story. "... And then I got injured and got swallowed up by the Energy Storms on Karda Nui and the next thing I know I arrived on your planet."
Ozpin just sat there, Glynda and the other seven kids were in disbelief, his gaze never straying from the three figures in chairs. "So what about you?" He turns his attention to Tahu.
Tahu didn't trust this 'Ozpin' fellow, something seemed off and he didn't want to answer him. To all their surprise it was Antroz who had spoken. "I intercepted the Toa of Fire while I was evading the energy storms. I assumed he knew a way to evade the storms. We soon engaged in combat and got sucked into the storms."
"I don't believe I was asking you," Ozpin hissed, there was plenty of hostility in his voice. After seeing what the Makuta had done to Yang, who was in the medical ward, he didn't have the patience for interruptions from the likes of Antroz. Antroz did not take his tone lightly and began to activate his Tridax Pod slowly, he wanted the element of surprise. Glynda and the other seven were shocked, they had never seen Ozpin so angry.
"Ozpin it is true what he said," Tahu told the headmaster calmly, "I was trying to find Gali when he attacked me."
"So then that prompts the question," Ozpin swiveled his chair towards Antroz, "why did you attack him?"
"Did you not just here what the Toa of Water told you? Makuta and Toa have fought for thousands of years, you think we are any different."
"Is that all?" Ozpin knew something else was behind Antroz's ambush.
Antroz couldn't keep his bluff or his pent up frustration any longer, his orange core was glowing brighter, soon it would be noticed. "Fine then you want to know so badly? I was betrayed by my own brother! He betrayed me and my brethren Makuta. I saw them swallowed by the storms and destroyed like insects. He never cared for us! We were just pawns in his game! So I needed to kill something, something simple and easy. Then I found the Toa of Fire and attacked him. Are you happy?"
"I would be happier if you didn't attack my student."
Antroz was at his breaking point, why did he have to listen to this fleshling? He is Makuta Antroz! He has lived for over a thousand years, instilled fear into the hearts of Matoran and Toa alike, and nearly conquered the Matoran Universe until the traitor revealed himself. His Tridax Pod began to glow brighter and soon everyone noticed. Tahu and Gali's eyes widened as they noticed what Antroz was about to do, they couldn't react in time. The orange sphere in Antroz's chest opened and a small, blue creature rocketed toward the headmaster. He raised his hands in defense since his cane was out of reach. Glynda, thankfully, pulled up her riding crop and stopped the creature in mid-air. It was revolting, it was a light shade of blue and only had a mouth. It stopped in the air still biting at the air before Tahu pulled out his sword and cut the creature in two. The bits fell to the floor after Glynda released it, the flat faces where it had been cut were smoldering. Tahu turned to Antroz and was about to kill him where he was before Antroz fell to the floors and onto his knees. His eyes were wide open as if he realized something, then Tahu saw that the inside of his Tridax Pod had changed from a bright orange to a crimson red. Antroz then screamed in pain.
"AGHHHHHH!" The Makuta exclaimed clutching the sphere, "Great Beings! What's going on!?" He opened the Tridax and put his hand in it, when it came out his whole hand was covered in a red liquid he had never seen before. He held his blood covered hand to the headmaster. "What is this?!"
"Blood," Ozpin said surprisingly calm about the situation that had just occurred.
"Why you little flesh demon!" Antroz yelled trying to stand but was too weak. Back in Karda Nui they didn't have nearly as many nerves as he did now. Also blood wasn't really a thing so this was a new experience for the three new intruders. But something didn't add up, why did the Shadow Leech burst out of the inside of his chest? It couldn't be, Antroz realized looking back at the hole in his flesh body, the other half of the Tridax can't be inside me? It had to be the only logical explanation.
Glynda had become furious, she wasn't sure just what had transpired but she became angry. She raised her crop back at the bloody mess that was Antroz and demanded answers. "What did he just do?"
Gali stood up and walked over to where Antroz was sitting, his breathing becoming more sparse and weak. Kneeling down she opened the Tridax Pod in his armor and saw the hole the Shadow Leech had left. Gali didn't know a whole lot of human anatomy, but if they didn't act fast, Antroz was going to die. "We need to act fast," she helped Antroz up and slung his arm over his shoulder, "Tahu get the door."
"Now wait a minute!" Glynda commanded. Gali stopped and turned to face the older huntress. "Where do you think you're going?!"
"Antroz will die if his wounds aren't attend to."
"Gali," Tahu said in a low voice, "why are you helping a Makuta?"
"Because Tahu," Gali raised her voice, a rarity of the usually calm Toa of Water, "here it doesn't matter if we are Toa or Makuta. We all have been given a second chance."
"A second chance? You think he deserves a second chance?!" Tahu asked, a little bit angry.
Gali was going to speak before she felt Antroz's breathing grow to a slight chuckle. "Look at you, Toa of Water, helping a Makuta. If the rest saw you like this you would be exiled." Antroz then pushed himself away from Gali and leaned on a wall in the middle of everyone. "I recommend you look away," his eyes began to glow a bright orange, with one hand he opened the Tridax Pod and with the other a dark red and black swirling energy wrapped his hand. He plunged the hand into his chest where he began to cry out in pain once more. The Makuta, as a species, had the ability to shapeshift, it proved useful many times when trying to deceive others. However now he was using it to repair his damaged body. "Tren Kom!" He yelled in pain as the hole in his chest began to seal, "If I ever see Teridax I will personally rip out his eyes!" In a quick move his pulled out the fist and closed the pod to his chest. If you were to look inside it you would see that his chest was now pristine and looked as if nothing had happen. The lights in his mask began to dim as his consciousness faded out and everything went black, Antroz began to fall. Gali quickly caught him and eased him down, she laid his head on her lap while she knelt on the ground.
Glynda, still angry, asked again, "What is going on?"
It was Tahu that answered, he pointed his sword at the remains of the Shadow Leech. "That right there is a Shadow Leech, a creature able to drain all the light, all the goodness out of you, and replace it with anger, and shadows. Antroz had been tasked with deploying Shadow Leeches all over Karda Nui to remove the possibility of future Toas of Light, and having a loyal group of fighters as well."
"So why did he do it if he was going to be injured?" Ruby asked, this was the first time any of the seven kids had spoken since arriving in Ozpin's office.
Tahu turned to the little girl. "Two reasons. One we are not completely biological so it was on the outside of his body and not the inside. Two: the Makuta are composed of a material call 'Antidermis' and have 'evolved', so to speak, beyond needing a body constantly. If their body gets destroyed them become a cloud of mist until they find a new body to inhabit, whether or not it is already occupied."
"So what did he do just then?" Ren asked.
Tahu looked down at the body of Antroz who was still breathing. "The Makuta have the ability to shapeshift, it seems like when we crossed over into this world we still retained all of our powers. I guess Antroz thought he could fix himself using his shapeshifting abilities."
"And it appeared to work," Gali noted looking into the sealed chest of Antroz.
Tahu suddenly turned to Ozpin. "Ozpin I am deeply sorry for the trouble we have caused. As a Toa I am ashamed to have brought harm to one of your pupils."
"It is fine Tahu," Ozpin waved off, "but I'm going to request that you stay here for the night."
"Sir as much as I would like to, I don't trust Antroz when he wakes up."
"You will place Antroz in the medical wing and you can watch him until he wakes up. Glynda has volunteered to stand by as well, in case he attempts more Shadow Leeches."
Glynda's head shot up. "Ozpin I don't think-"
"Gylnda…"
"Oh fine then," Glynda didn't look too happy at her new assignment which was basically babysitting, albeit babysitting a madman in her eyes. She turned to Ruby. "Miss Rose, it is probably beneficial if you take Yang back to your room, she should be ready to move now."
"Ok Miss Goodwitch," she replied and the other six went downstairs with her.
Tahu assisted Gali carrying Antroz while Glynda opened the elevator door. "We will continue this conversation tomorrow Miss Gali and Mister Tahu," Ozpin said before the door closed, "and we will talk about what to do with you."
The door closed before any of them could give an answer…
And that brings a close to the first chapter. To avoid confusion, yes Tahu's armor is styled like his Toa Mata form, yes Gali is styled like her Toa Nuva form, and yes I know Antroz did not seem as evil as a Makuta should be. I do plan on going into that, before you worry I'm not going to make him a goody-goody guy, that defeats the point of including him into the story. See ya later suckers.