A/N - Hey everyone! Here's my next one-shot! Obviously…
Anyways, this is something fun that I thought you would enjoy, cause… well, it's in the bottom A/N.
Inspired by Omicron the IceQueen's story "'The Dot' A.K.A. The Evil Thingy". It's super funny, so please check it out! Omicron is an amazing writer, so please give her some love!
Set in Chapter 3 of Book 1 Arc 2, just after they leave the temple but before Onu-Metru (you'll have to read my story to understand).
Disclaimer: Don't own Bionicle, only my OC.
Emma resisted the urge to growl as she watched the Air Hordika stalk off with his head held high, sharing a grin with his Stone brother. Why you little-! I'll get you for that Matau, and you too Onewa, one way or another!
Why was she grumbling? Simple. The group had left the Great Temple behind them following the stream, and they were now resting close to the edge of Ga-Metru/Po-Metru Border. The five Hordika, after hearing about Emma's 'pouncing lesson', had wanted a try. Sadly, without Iruini around, the human had ended up being the 'test dummy'. But while the majority of the Hordika had been nice enough not to give her a bad fright, Matau and Onewa had had no such reservations.
Grumbling and growling under her breath, Emma stalked off, shoving her gloved hands into her pockets as she did. The girl ignored Norik's apologetic look, as well as Whenua, Nokama and Nuju's pitying ones.
She walked for a good distance out of sight, making sure that she remained in hearing range in case any Visorak were around - she had absolutely NO desire to run into one alone. As The human girl approached an old statue of a Toa long before the Metru - now Hordika's - time, she slowed to a stop. She stared at it for a long moment, before sitting down on a stone slab - potentially an old bench - and sighed.
Emma wasn't sure how long she sat there, pouting, when she felt her bottom grow numb from sitting for so long. Grumbling, she shifted… and felt her hand come into contact with something in her pocket. What…?
The girl raised a brow as she pulled out a small, cylindrical object, with a small, round button on the side. Her eyes widened in shock, before she was quick to press the button. A savage grin began to form on the human's face as she found herself with a means of revenge.
Emma felt a plan come to mind, an evil, glorious plan that would make even Makuta tremble. They wanna pounce huh? Let's see those two try THIS on for size.
Night had come and gone, and seven forms - five animalistic, and two bipedal: one rahkshi-like, the other organic - were laying asleep around the remains of a fire. The only movement came from the stream besides them - until the organic, bipedal form moved.
Emma grinned as she maneuvered herself out of Nuju's hold, only freezing when the Ice Hordika twitched, and then darted as quietly as possible to a stone structure. The large, old structure half sheltered their camp, and had perfect climbing holds as well as a perch for her to hide on.
The girl grinned, fingering the small device in her left hand while holding a small stone in her right. Ready… Aim…
Matau jerked when a decent sized pebble bounced rather unpleasantly off of his muzzle. Grunting and grumbling under his breath, the green and orange stripped Hordika blearily opened a red-orange eye. When he saw nothing but the slightly lightening sky, he closed it, hissing under his breath.
The barely half-awake Hordika had just begun to go back under when a larger pebble beamed his tail, and with a startled yowl he jumped upwards. Matau's wedged shaped head jerked from left to right, his sail fully raised and orange stripes almost neon in colour. The Air Hordika snarled, pacing as he tried to figure out what in Mata Nui woke him - when something moved.
Matau tilted his head, curious about the twitching red thing by both awakening instinct as well as the fact that it was moving. He reached out, slowly, cautiously, with one paw like hand to slap at it. The Air Hordika jumped, before his eyes narrowed as her focused on the little dot that skittered out from under his claws, heading over his still smarting tail. He lashed it away, his recently lowering sail again raising from head to tail in alarm.
Skittering to the side, Matau watched as the red dot jerked about, and his Hordika instincts screamed that the thing was sick or curious. But one thought dominated all others - this twitchy red thing was prey. Snarling, Matau crouched, pulling forwards his memories of his pouncing lesson - and trying not to laugh as he remembered his 'prey's' face - and froze. The dot was jerking towards his brown coloured brother, and Matau growled as he realized it's intent.
He tensed - then lunged.
Emma nearly died from holding in her laughter, watching with tear filled eyes as Matau oh-so-nimbly crashed head on into Onewa. The Hordika of Stone yelped, jerking awake as he tried to fend off his 'attacker'.
The girl had to grab onto the ledge with her free left hand, the other holding the device, and her form shaking so hard as she fought to breathe. Below, the two Hordika lay in a snarling, tangled heap.
Onewa snarled as he untangled himself from his green brother, before snapping. "What was that for?!"
Matau hissed at him, but turned his attention elsewhere. Onewa growled, his sail lowering as he began to crouch, ready to tackle the other - and froze. "Matau, don't move."
The Air Hordika turned his head anyways to ask, and stiffened when he spotted the red thing sitting on the base of his tail.
Several things happened at once:
Matau let out a panicked and none-too-masculine screech, and the former Air Toa leapt practically six feet up and several to the left, scrambling up over Whenua's black form.
The Hordika of Earth, not expecting the sudden claws on his hide, jumped up with a yowl of his own, sending his green and orange striped brother tumbling.
Nuju and Nokama were both woken by the sounds, their wedged shaped heads snapping up in surprise. Both sails - white and blue - rose in alarm.
Norik was woken as well, and with a shout tumbled off his rather cozy perch on a small boulder. The Rahaga landed in a completely undignified heap, blades whirring in surprise.
Emma knew that she was either going to pass out, or give herself away at some point. The girl had all but shoved her left fist in her mouth to muffle her laughter - but it was just so hard!
She seriously wished that she had a camera right then. Who knew that Hordika could be so entertaining?!
Nokama watched puzzled with an exasperated Norik as Matau and Onewa stalked about, clearly agitated about something. Both males had their sails raised, and their respective stripes - orange and brown - were flushed fully with colour.
Whenua was grumbling, sitting off to the side as he attempted to lick his injuries - and freezing as he realized what, exactly, he was trying to do. He fought his instincts for a moment, before giving up with a sigh.
Nuju was pacing to the side, sniffling the ground as he tried to locate Emma. The human was nowhere to be seen, but he could still smell her. Letting out a confused chirp - and surprising himself when he did - the Icy Hordika looked around, ready to activate his scope to find her.
However, Nuju stiffened when he spotted what had most likely startled his brothers. His armoured, white hide twitched and his sail began to raise as he turned to face Whenua. The black Hordika had settled down by then, watching his pacing brothers with lidded emerald green eyes, not noticing the red, twitching thing come up behind him.
Nokama had noticed her icy brother's movement, as had Matau. The green Hordika instantly spotted the twitching thing, and joined the other in crouching. Whenua noticed the Air Hordika's movement, stiffening when he realized that those eyes were focusing in his direction. The Earth Hordika began to rise, and move out of the way - when a brown form slammed down a top his tail.
Whenua screeched, rearing up before bolting. Onewa, not expecting such movement, yowled as he was was suddenly sent tumbling across the stony ground. Nokama had jumped, startled at her black brother's cry, before giving chase as he raced around in a panic.
Matau and Nuju both jumped when their Earth brother bolted, and then the latter lunged when he spotted the red dot twitching off to the side, as if laughing. It bolted as the white Hordika gave chase, the green Hordika falling in besides his icy brother to join in.
Norik was valiantly attempting to keep his cool, confusion overtaking his anger at the abrupt wake-up call as he watched the two males - soon joined by their stony brother - chase something across the camp. He could see what the three green, brown and white Hordika were chasing, but he had never seen a creature like it before. In fact, if he narrowed his eyes, the Rahaga could swear that it looked more like…
Faint, muffled laughter reached the former Fire Toa's ears, and Norik stifled a chuckle as he glanced upwards at large structure to the side. Ah, so that was where she had disappeared too. The Rahaga grinned. Things just got a little more amusing - though he did plan in talking to a certain human about timing.
Norik jumped as a loud crash sounded out along with the thudding of several bodies. Rotors spread in alarm, Norik turned - and lost his composure at the pile-up before him.
Four Hordika darted about the clearing, following after a bright, glowing red and very twitchy dot. The fifth - blue coloured and the only female - was half-wondering if her remaining brothers had finally lost it, or if she was actually seeing the dot itself.
Matau snapped his jaws as he sprang forwards, only to slide and near-crash as the dot made an abrupt turn. Almost seconds later was the green Hordika chasing after it again, only now behind his three brothers.
Onewa - now in the lead - let out a small roar of surprise as the dot did a one-eighty and race towards him. The brown Hordika reared back, his white and black brothers swerving to avoid him. The dot seemed to have vanished as it darted under him, and the former Toa of Stone hissed as he noticed such. As his Ice and Earth brothers came up beside him, the former using his scope and the other with his nose to the ground.
It was Matau's yowl got their attention, and three wedged shaped snapped to the side as the former Toa of Air raced past, a certain red thing darting ahead of him. The three gave chase, following Matau as the green Hordika followed the dot. All four were so focused on catching the thing, that when it seemed to fly upwards, none of them realized in time how the dot had done so.
Matau slammed muzzle first into one of the camp's walls, instantly crumpling into a heap. Onewa, who had been right on his brother's tail - literally - was unable to stop in time, and tripped over the green tail, tumbling over and landing upside down a top the green Hordika. Nuju screeched, digging his claws desperately into the ground, only to howl as Whenua - unable to stop fast enough - overbalanced and tripped over his front paws, ramming into his icy brother.
The result was a pile of startled and stunned Hordika, all tangled up in another's limbs.
Nokama raced over in concern, moving to examine the groaning pile - only to freeze as she spotted the cause of it twitching to the side. Blue eyes narrowed as she tensed, instincts coming in full force, tail twitching as the dot seemed oblivious to her presence. The Hordika of Water tensed, then sprang forwards at the red thing, which instantly darted away.
As the Water Hordika gave chase, Matua - despite how badly his muzzle smarted - lunged after it as he finally extracted himself out from under his brothers, and like a kitten on catnip chased the dot across the camp floor with Onewa soon following behind and hissing for revenge. Nuju and Whenua also picked themselves up, and with enraged snarls joined their three siblings in chasing the dot.
Norik struggled to stay upright as he watched the five dig at a shallow crevice the red thing had 'vanished' into. Glancing upwards, the red Rahaga held back his laughter as he watched the shaking form cling to the ledge she was laying on with one hand. The other was curled into a fist, most definitely holding onto the object that projected the red dot that had driven the five Hordika crazy.
The Rahaga finally gave into his laughter as Emma did, watching as five startled heads turned towards the now-howling-with-amusement human. His laughter only doubled as the girl - despite being semi-winded from holding in her laughter for so long - fled, screaming "I HAVE NO REGREEEEEEEEEETS!" at the top of her lungs, five now very pissed off Hordika on her tail.
Hordika were amusing, yes. But young humans with devices that could drive a group of Hordika bonkers was even more so.
A/N - So, good, bad? It's my first attempt at a humour story, so I hope you can enjoy.
As for how the laser pointer survived so long, I got a waterproof one in my house 'cause my cat dropped the first two in her water fountain - for reasons I still don't know why!
Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed my attempt at humour, cause the next one-shot I'm working on and the posted chapter 6 and upcoming epilogue of Book 1 Arc 2 are more on the mature/hurt-comfort side.
'Till next time!
