(Author Note: This takes place a few hundred years after the fourth Bionicle movie. The Toa have become corrupt, and the Matoran live in a separate village known as Rooma-Nui. If there are any inaccuracies from the actual storyline, just ignore them please. Enjoy!)

The Necessary Force

Tanma

The Green Av-Matoran slammed against the sandy ground, and felt his Katana slice a gash in his arm. the Skakdi looked down at him, threw his head back laughing, and walked away, making sure to kick sand all over his mask and into the now bleeding cut. Tanma winced, and pulled himself up. Fresh blood was now splattered where old blood had long since dried. As the brutish fool returned to his cave, Tanma glared in his direction, wishing so much he could teach him a lesson. It would have looked quite foolish though. A puny Matoran attacking a heavily armed Skakdi. He sighed, and sat down on a nearby rock. There was no point in washing the blood away. It would be soon replaced. Hanging his head, he though back to the time when Toa and Matoran lived in harmony. Such precious days. Back then, there had been no 'New Brotherhood', and you didn't have to draw your blade when you saw someone approaching you. What wonderful days those had been.

Dekar

Hydraxon clasped his hands, and left the prisons, the Barraki snarling behind him.

In such another world, a very important Mask was bumped into. Consciousness flooded back, with one thought; Many lives were taken. I must help. A light shone out of the Mask, up into the heavens. It would only been seen by those who were looking.

As Hydraxon swam, he suddenly felt a compelling urge to turn. Behind him, a light shone from the surface. He realized he was approaching it, but didn't know why. In another life, he remembered it. But that was another life. When he put his hand in the beam of golden light, it changed. From a large, silvery claw to a small, orange hand. He gasped, and moved slightly forward. Instantly, he was rocketing upward. As he shot out of the water, and up into the sky, he felt his body change and warp. He began coughing up water as he left the atmosphere. His last moments were watching a planet approaching.

Tahu noticed the Mask of Life was slightly out of place, and re-positioned it.

Dekar spasmed on the ground, as water poured out of his mask. Suddenly, he felt himself being dragged through sand. Was he back on the surface? What had happened to the strange Mask he had been trying to destroy?

Idris

Idris watched curiously as Berix carried a Matoran into the village. Was he dead? When she saw him shaking, she raced over. "Berix! What's going on?" He was clearly nervous. "I-I don't know! Help!" She assisted in carrying him over to a flat rock. He was actually leaking water, as if he had been drowned. But how could that have happened? It was then she saw his mask. It was so eerily familiar.