Gali swam as fast as she could. She was responding to a distress signal in NTT, the drum language used by various cavalries and guard forces on Mata Nui. It came from Leva's Pyramid, a tiny island jutting out of the tip of the East Po-Wahi peninsula. A small Ta-Koro Guard outpost was stationed there, commanded by a very eccentric Matoran named Sxa.
The signal from Leva's Pyramid said that a tsunami was approaching the base at a rapid speed. Only Gali with her elemental powers could stop the great wave from colliding with Leva's Pyramid and potentially destroying the outpost and wiping out all Guards stationed there.
However, Gali had no elemental powers. Her mask had gone completely gray, and she could barely stop a bubble from a Ga-Matoran soap-blower, let alone a huge tsunami. As Kopaka so rightly put it, "Suddenly problems that could've been solved the day before threaten to become disasters."
After about ten minutes of swimming (if she had had her elemental powers, she would've gotten there in about forty seconds) she finally arrived on the shore to be greeted hastily by two Ta-Koronan sentries.
"Thank Mata Nui you're here!" one of the sentries said hastily. Gali's heart sank. She had no elemental powers, and the Matoran did not know.
"We've been waiting for hours!" the second sentry said. "We've done some calculations, and according to them, the wave will be here in 20 minutes!"
As quickly as she could (a lot slower than usual), she ascended the hill. By the time she got up, the tsunami was very visible.
Gali tried as hard as she could to shift the molecules so that they stopped and reversed. She failed in her efforts, only causing her axe blade to leak a little bit. The tsunami kept on coming. [iIf these Matoran all die, it'll be all my fault,[/i the Toa of water thought.
Large waves started to pound against the rock. A dikapi panicked and clambered up the side of the pyramid as a number of hahnahr scrambled into the nearest cave. Utterly determined, she tried as hard as she could, baring her axe-blades hopelessly.
Then it came.
Gali was immersed in the water as the rock began to crumble. Panicked shouts were heard as a maha bleated and was hurled off the cliff. Several Matoran screamed, descending the stairs urgently and plunging head-on into the water.
Gali felt herself sinking. A portion of the rock crumbled, and Gali plunged headlong off the cliff, carried by the water. She fell 900 feet and landed on a palm leaf, where she slid off onto the beach below. The water came after her, pushing her across the beach and knocking her out.
When the Toa of water came to, she noticed herself surrounded by Matoran. Dead maha were littered around her like rocks. The pyramid in the distance was devastated, diminished by about half. The fortress lay in ruins.
"Gali! Are you okay?"
The familiar face of Jala loomed over her head. Behind him stood Kemanii, Jala's aide-de-camp, and a weeping Sxa.
"Is anybody dead?" Gali asked Jala.
"A third of our Maha and a sentry named Kojevzon."
Gali burst into tears. "I'm sorry...my elemental powers...thieves took them from the suva...the Bohrok-Kal..."
By the next morning, every outpost on Mata Nui had heard from NTT that the Bohrok-Kal had stolen the Toas' elemental powers. The entire island fell into panic.