The autobot base was in panic, the three children; Raf, Miko and Jack, were in the human area watching Ratchet rush around between different consoles while the comm system kept getting reports from the autobots in the field facing three robotic creatures with staffs.
As Ratchet powered up the groundbridge the other autobots rushed in with multiple injuries and burn marks. Optimus, Bulkhead and Arcee looked like they had fallen down a steep cliff face, Smokescreen looked like he'd seen his worst fears and Bumblebee looked utterly exhausted from it all.
"What in the pits of koaon were those things?" arcee groaned as she slouched against the wall which the human area was built upon.
"Not sure, but one of them had this inside it, looks gross." Smokescreen told them as he pulled a glass cylander from his back,a eel-like creature, green in color with silver blades on it's back thrashed around in it.
"That, is a Krata!" Miko shouted in shock. "Dude, I haven't seen those things in ages, which means...oh no..."
"What Miko, what's it mean, and how do you know of this thing?" Ratchet asked critically.
"The Makuta have returned, those things you faced, they are called Rahkshi." Jack told them.
"The shadows that cower in the depths." Raf gulped in worry. "Jack, should we...you know?"
"Yes we should." Jack nodded as he pulled out a blue stone from his pocket, it glowed slightly and was shaped like a cylinder. He placed it on the table and Miko and Raf added another stone each, Miko's being green, raf's being white as snow. The stones floated up slightly and there was a flash, four masks appeared, one green, one white with a teliscopic lense, a golden one and a mask that was blue with breathing apperatus attached.
"What in the name of primus..." Arcee awed at the sighed as Ratchet looked on in shock.
"You mean what in the name of Mata Nui." Jack chuckled lightly as he picked up both the blue and the gold masks, Miko picked up the green one and Raf picked up the white one. "We are Toa."
"What's a toa?" Ratchet asked.
"Valient warriors from a world far off from here." Miko explained as she examined the green mask closely, it resembled a oak tree leaf made of green metal with eye holes, a mouth guard and two holes either side of the face. Raf's mask resembled a cybernetic face with a teliscopic right eye and a comm unit over the mouth peace. Jack's golden mask resembled a metallic face with three off shooting rectangular prongs on the top and a flat place eitherside of the mouth. His blue mask resembled a scupa mask and goggles on a welders mask.
"Each toa represents one of their elements." Raf explained as he donned the white mask, a glow enveloped his body and he was suddenly in a white and silver armor. The front of his legs were armored, just as his arms and chest. His shoes were clad in white metal. "I am the toa of Ice."
"Toa of wind!" Miko giggled as she donned the mask, her armor was very simular to Raf's only it was green and more streamlined.
Jack looked at both his masks but hung them from his belt instead of wearing them.
"Why aren't you using your kid?" Smokescreen asked in confusion.
"One, Blue mask is a kanohi of water breathing, useless here, two the golden one is emergancy only." Jack explained. "The mask of light is powerful, but I burn a lot of energy using it."
"So, what do their masks do?" Ratchet asked in confusion.
"I have a mask of Xrays, it's got over thiry vision modes." Raf explained proudly. "Miko has the mask of levitation."
"Ever-Yes!" Miko called as she floated up in the air and did a backflip in the process. "I love to WINDFLY!"
"Yeah...she likes to talk like her mentor Lewa." Jack explained. "but she acts like both him and Whenua."
"Me? Not-never." Miko lied as a smirk was visible across her mask, stunning the bots.
"My mentor was Kopaka, Toa of Ice." Raf explained. "He didn't talk much, but he taught me a lot about technology."
"I had Toa Gahli as my mentor, she's the toa of Water." Jack explained with a shrug. "Then after the event with the Seventh Toas, I also Takanuva as my second mentor."
"So, how is this thing related to all that?" Smokescreen asked as he gestured to the canister with the krata in it.
"That is Krata, a peice of Makuta, they're basically like decepticons but hundreds of times worse, yeah...Jack and Takanuva killed one." Miko shrugged absently as a brown blurr shot into the base, it was a girl in silver and brown armor with a brown mask which looked like wind carved stone.
"Guys, got the becon and WHAT THE HECK?!" The girl asked as she drew two devices from her hips which looked like two bladed bent claws.
"Relax, they're with us." Jack told her. "Sierra, calm down okay?"
"If you say so..." Sierra said warily as she clipped one of the claw devices back to her waste armor but kept the other in her left hand. "How do you know they're not Borok?"
"They're not from Spherus Magnu, they're from cybertron." Jack told her. "About three galaxies away."
"Right, so why does that one have krata?" Sierra asked.
"Oh, smokescreen just pulled it from the only Rahkshi they flattened." Miko snorted. "By the way, isn't June coming yet?"
"She is, saw her coming in her car, she looked worried." Sierra told them.
"So...these toa, where are they and what are they?" Optimus Prime asked.
"They're Biomechanical beings Optimus." Jack told him. "Currently they're on Spherus Magnu, but Brutaka will bring them here soon."
"Who is Brutaka?" Bulkhead asked as he scratched his helm.
"A guardian of the legendary Kanohis." Raf explained. "He can sort of be a bit rude and recless but he's alright once you get to know him."
At that very moment June's car screeched into base and a red clad woman with a kanohi which looked organic in nature climbed out with a worried expression, then she saw the Krata smokescreen had captured.
"They're back, aren't they?" She asked.
"Yeah...they are, bots got their afts kicked by three rahkshi." Miko said absently as she floated up and down on the spot.
There was a golden flash as a bright gateway opened up and seven silhouetted figures stepped through.