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Chapter 1: Chosen?
Three weeks ago...
Far outside of the country of New Mata Nui, another, slightly larger country rested hundreds of miles to the southern part of the new oceans. In this country, Egypt had become a state, surviving the second collision in the year of 22,000, along with several other countries who were still peacefully inhabited with humans. In the desert populated area of said state, a team of archeologists, consisting of several Minicons, Matoran and Humans, were searching the sands of the massive desert area and digging intensely wherever a metal detector would go off. Among these many people was a Ko-matoran with white arms and legs, a green chest-plate and red eyes that gazed curiously at its surroundings from behind a white metus helmet. This Ko-matorans name, was Joey.
Surprisingly enough for a Matoran of his kind, he enjoyed being in hot temperature areas, always being willing to do whatever kind of work was possible outside of his underground storage area in his home back in Tommyville. Next to being Fireman's gadget provider and a genius inventor, Joey also spent quite a bit of time helping out on archeological expeditions or other forms of work back home, wanting desperately to make things easy for his girlfriend Galva. After being freed years ago from a spell under Teridax, he really thought the last thing she needed to do was work on something Joey could easily do for either himself or for her. Sure, this would sometimes lead to some sort of discussion of disagreement, but every-time it was ended by Joey admitting he didn't want her to do anything that made her think back to the time she was a slave for Teridax. He had already seen her do so a few times and he swore it nearly killed him inside. But then again, Galva was never exactly one to just sit around and do nothing, and she had constantly tried to get a job just to prove it.
Immediately deciding to focus more on the sandy surroundings, spotting the several other Minicons, Matoran, other transformers and even humans who had agreed to come with him on this "look" to make sure there was something here worth finding. Of course he knew there was. After all, he HAD just gotten a phone call a while back. Something about a few hundred thousand year old temple being hidden beneath the sands. Upon hearing the word temple, Joey had immediately decided he was going. If there was one thing he considered as fun as making his own inventions to save and protect innocent people back home, it was taking a long look inside of old and abandoned temples just to see what had been hidden inside. After all, anything could've been inside. Maybe even something people had been searching for back in the 2000's without any success. Like the Ark of the Covenant for example. Or maybe even the spear of destiny.
But For now, Joey would let these suspicions wait as he then looked to the others and loudly asked: "You guys find anything yet"?
One of these workers, a Ta-matoran, placed his shovel deeply into the sand, then looking up to the Ko-matoran and responding in the form of a shout: "nothing yet Joey"!
All of the others simply looked up at him, each shaking their heads in reply as they met Joeys gaze.
"Well let's just keep digging for now"., Joey responded. "The sooner we get finished, the sooner we all get to go home".
Though Joey really enjoyed the hard labored work, he always tried his best to be mindful of all of these other Matoran and how THEY felt about said work. For even HE knew the risks of prolonged exposure to the suns rays in a hot area like this. Again, seeing as Joey was a Ko-matoran, he wasn't exactly sure as to how or why he could withstand these temperatures for so long. Sure, he was a Matoran, meaning it would take longer for the sun to do harm upon him than it would a regular human. But the fact that he was a Matoran of Ice made it all the more strange to both him and those who knew him. Then again, he WAS half Agori, and those guys could withstand a LOT of heat like it was nothing. Even Iconox-Agori as surprising as that kinda was.
Joey was once again dragged away from his thoughts when a familiar voice behind him kindly said: "As fun as I do think these things normally are, I do believe there's something I should ask about before we continue".
Joey turned with a kind smile to the green, gresh-faced Agori before then responding: "What's up Grün"?
For many years now, Grün had been one of Joeys closest friends. Ever since middle school, the two always seemed to share a bond, almost as strong as one between brothers. He said almost because there were some occasions where they didn't exactly want to talk nicely on certain topics to each other. But nonetheless, they had always been there to support each other whenever they could. Even when Joey had been extremely shy on asking Galva out, Grün had helped him out, giving him the mental support he needed. For all of the ways they would normally help each other, most would actually say they were best friends, a term neither of them would argue or disagree with despite an argument on a daily basis. Especially since they were pretty much helping each other out right now.
"What exactly are we looking out here for"?, Grün asked him. "I sort of got rusty on the details when you called me earlier, but it sounded important".
After making a light grin in hearing that, Joey immediately removed a small detection device off of a clip on his belt, an ESD 3.0, then showing the screen to Grün as he responded: "My energy reader picked up this immensely powerful energy signature somewhere in this area". "And just a few hours ago too".
Grün frowned at his friend for a second, asking: "You mean after those guys called you about the temple thing"?
Joey ginned back at Grün, humorously responding: "So you DO pay attention".
Grün rolled his eyes as he and Joey then shared a laugh, then asking him: "But still, what's so special about THIS ES"?
Joey turned back to his friend with a grin, responding: "You remember what they said about that other relic up in Turpinville"?
Grün immediately nodded, looking more interested now than he originally had been. Like almost everyone around the world, Grün had heard of the conflict that had erupted back in that old and abandoned city in Turpinville. From what the reports had said on just about every news station, it had been between two sides of a race called Bioformers. Or at least he THOUGHT that was what they were called. Anyways, from what Grün had heard, the conflict had been over an immensely powerful and ancient relic that could apparently reform planets, or at least he thought. But regardless, it was still a relic and it was still ancient, and nowadays ancient things were worth a lot of money. Keeping this in mind, he wasn't exactly sure whether or not finding something like this would be a good thing for them. What if it got the Turaga Council on their tails? Still, he guessed it wouldn't hurt to at least know what it was. Plus it wasn't exactly likely that it WAS something like that.
Looking back down at his Energy Signature Detector, Joey responded: "Well, what if this is something similar"?
Grün just looked at him with a confused expression, thinking: What could Joey possibly mean by something similar? Sure, that Sphere had intense amounts of power stored inside of it, but from what he had heard, chances of actually finding some sort of relic like THAT nowadays was like finding a needle in the worlds largest haystack. But in then deciding to consider whether or not it really WAS an ancient relic, he had to go over all of the numerous possibilities. Truth be told, it could've been anything at this point. From a piece of Golden Armor, to a Toa's Kanohii mask. For all he knew from recent studies, it could've even been an ancient weapon forged by the elemental lords or the Dynasty of Primes. Either way, one thing was certain: Whatever Joey was picking up on the ESD scanner was extremely powerful. Hopefully not powerful enough to kill via touch., Grün though.
Then looking back at Joey who continued to follow the ESD to wherever this object of mystery lied, Grün responded: "I guess it COULD be a relic".
Joey nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I thought so too. But whatever it is, I just hope we can keep this one safe and intact without injuring ourselves". "Or anyone else".
Something easy to do when you didn't really know what you were doing with it., Joey thought.
"Yeah"., Grün responded. "Hopefully".
As Grün had made that last response, an alarm-like sound erupted loudly from the ESD in Joeys hand, jolting both of them out of their current discussion. Joey immediately looked back down at the ESD, taking a rather long look at the small, multicolored screen at the top. Grün also stared down at it, noticing just what Joey was looking at. They both exchanged a look almost immediately. From what Joey and Grün could instantly tell from their first look at the screen on the small device, whatever was giving off those intense energy signals was right underneath of them.
Almost immediately, Joey made a loud shout to the other Matoran, calling for them to bring a couple of shovels over and help them out ASAP. Upon then receiving the shovels, Joey, Grün and at least five other Matoran got to work, quickly removing shovel-full after shovel-full of the sand beneath their feet. In both Joey and Grüns opinion, their current pace of work was quite a relief. If there was indeed an ancient relic down there in the sand, who knew WHAT they would find. Regardless of what it was, it was powerful, they knew that much. Deep down, Joey and Grün, although he still considered risks of getting involved with the Turaga, were both dearly hoping that it was ancient. The kind of ancient that would make millions at auction. It would be excellent pay for each of them and Joey wouldn't have to use any of the money he earned from managing his weapons manufacturing company, money of which he used to pay his bills for both the house and the massive basement beneath it. And to better support his girlfriend.
Just to elaborate, yes, as hard as it might've been for everyone to believe, Joey had a girlfriend. And he had already proven it to most of the other Matoran. And that she also lived with him. So despite their disbelief, they had no reason to call him a liar on that. Truth be told, Joey had actually met her when he and his friends had decided to eat out at a fast-food restaurant. They were all having a pretty plain discussion filled with positivity and laughter, some of the usual stuff. Then Joey saw her and he had immediately gone silent. She had used to be a shadow Matoran and was revived back to being an Av-matoran, so not too many people could exactly call her attractive. Nor did some people call her trustworthy. But the very second Joey saw her, something deep inside of him convinced him that she was the most beautiful female Matoran he had ever seen. In fact, he didn't think she was ugly at all. And when they had started getting to know each other a little better, those feelings grew even stronger. So much that it came to him as a shocker when she asked him out just the next day via phone call.
Joeys head managed to immediately escape from these thoughts when he heard his shovel suddenly make a clanking sound against something embedded into the sand. Something hard. He instantly looked down at where his shovel was, immediately seeing what appeared to be a floor composed of yellow stone bricks. Joey tilted his head as he continued to look at the stone floor. From the looks of it, it may have been there for at least 500 years. But how...
Before Joey could ponder this further, he felt Grün tackle him, propelling them both quite a ways from the exposed stone flooring. The two Matoran landed hard onto the sand, a part of Joeys arm becoming buried in it. The second he and Grün got back up onto their feet, Joey was about to ask Grün just why the heck he did that. But Joeys attention was directed back to the sand surrounding the stone-like plate in the ground as it started to make a loud pouring sound. Immediately, a large portion of the sand sunk into a gaping crack-shaped hole, making a sort of slide into whatever rested inside. Curious, Joey and Grün both walked as safely close to the edge of the hole as they could and peeked inside, both seeing a silver interior with bronze stone pillars. Immediately, as the two continued to look inside, it hit them. What they had just found seconds earlier hadn't been a floor or tablet like Joey had originally thought. It was a ceiling to an ancient temple of some sort. And that could only mean that the said temple was buried underneath many many layers of sand, adding a bit to how major of a discovery this might be.
Joey widened his eyes, so amazed by said discovery that he almost didn't hear himself say: "Whoa".
"Yeah whoa"., Grün said in response. Then looking wondrously inside, asking him: "What do you think's inside"?
Still gazing into the gaping hole, Joey responded: "I dunno, but I'm betting that whatever this is, it isn't nothing".
Grün nodded in agreement.
As Joey continued looking down into the hole, his curiosity grew larger and larger. Just what was in there?, he wondered. And why was it built here, in a place where it could be easily buried and hidden for hundreds of years? Of course he had started to consider the possibility that something dangerous might have been hidden here, but surely it wouldn't be TOO dangerous of a thing. Besides that, the building itself was valuable of silver and bronze. If anything, it was probably worth a billion a pillar. And that was depending on whether or not it was actually silver or bronze. So regardless of what was waiting down there, there was only one way for Joey to be sure.
Then taking out a flashlight, Joey looked over at Grün and told him: "I'll go take a quick look inside". "You and the others keep digging in case there's another entrance"., then jumping down onto the slide-like hill of sand and stone leading inside without waiting to hear Grün's opinion on the matter.
But in truth, Grün didn't even try to warn him of what could've been inside. After all, anybody who had known Joey for long enough more than knew that when Joey had his mind set on something like this, chances of talking him out were as likely as finding a needle in a haystack. As were the chances of either one of them winning in an argument of any sort. But regardless, Grün still couldn't help but worry for his best friend as he simply turned around and ran to get help from all of the other matoran, also praying that whatever lied in there, wasn't what he was starting to think it was.
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Just a distance away, a small, Matoa sized Skakdi of earth was standing alone on a tall and sandy hill, a rust-colored cloak covering his face and body as he continued looking through a pair of iron goggles into the direction of the Matoran surrounding the area around the buried temple. Said Skakdi growled irritably as he continued to feel the suns hot rays shine brightly down at him. If there was one thing that he really hated, other than TVPD, it was heat. Personally, he also hated the fact that he was an Onu-Skakdi. Sure, he had some pretty valuable intelligence, valuable enough to get him away from the police whenever he had tried to steal something for his master or his friends. But there was still the fact that he hated the heat.
Back in the older days when Onu-bionicles lived in those dimly lit, underground caves, he really HATED it when just outside, the weather was close to 80 degrees in heat. It made things in the caves a lot worse since the rock wall practically absorbed hot and cold temperatures. This alone made it so worse in his case that he would often sneak out and go to the Ko-villages and rest in the snow for a while. Personally he preferred the cold more. A part of him just... Loved it. In a way that he just couldn't describe. Part of it might've been because he loved waking up and then digging himself out of heavy layers of snow to develop his upper body strength. Maybe it was also because he was coldhearted, which he proudly and admittingly was.
He smirked to himself for a second before then catching sight of the Ko- and Le-matoran who gazed down into a gaping hole in what appeared to be an ancient stone ceiling. Kakan moved the goggles a bit so he could look at the engraved symbols in the stone, looking as closely as he could with said goggles. After a few minutes of careful observation, his eyes widened. This was exactly what his master had been looking so furiously for! Kakan then let out a growl in anger as he saw the Ko-matoran slide down inside. He was going to get to it first!
Immediately, Kakan removed a small walkie talkie from his cloak, pressing a button and speaking into it: "I'm here sir, but I'm afraid someone else found it first".
A few seconds of silence passed before he heard a slam and then a Dracula-like voice reply: "Are you CERTAIN it's one of them"?
Kakan made a dark grin as he looked back over at the temple and responded: "As sure as I can be sir".
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Upon getting a few feet closer to the bottom of the slide-like hill, Joey jumped off and landed carefully onto his feet which appeared to make a loud echo across the inside of the temple after his feet made impact with the floor of silver stone. Joey waited for the echo to die down before standing back up to his full height. He tried to look around, only managing to see the sun dimly reflect on the silver floor. Joey went into a bit of a slumped posture as he tried to see past the darkness, being unsuccessful no matter how hard he tried. Crap., he thought as he tried to piece together the thought of whatever structure was in this dark temple in his head. Surely there had to be SOMETHING in here!
Then, in still being unsuccessful to see in the dark (face-palm), he removed a silver plated LED light from his belt, then turning it on and pointing it all across the inside. Joey's eyes instantly widened at the sights he saw as he continued shining the light back and forth inside the old and massive temple. There were eight pillars of silver stone on both walls. Four on the left wall of bronze and four more of silver, a silver pillar in front of a bronze one. The left wall was completely silver, the right wall, a slight shade of a lime-green on top of slight signs of silver.
Though Joey was more than excited over the fact that he had found this thing at all, the inside looking old in structure, he was even more impressed with all of the markings and hieroglyphics on the walls that were somehow still intact. Unfortunately though, these said markings weren't at all readable (At least, not by HIS standards), but something about them seemed to be of great beauty to him. At a first glance, this might have seemed to go back to the earth days where the Bionicles hadn't even inhabited it yet. But, could it really have been THAT old? For some reason, he wanted to say it was. At this point, only a computerized scan would tell him whether or not that was true though.
But this discovery that God had put before him today was still amazing in his eyes. This temple was magnificent in detail! And in age! For all he knew from his constant studies, this discovery could've been worth more than he had originally thought! And if it was, he could only imagine all of the breaks it would give him, his friends and his girlfriend! He could practically pay off all of their bills and take them all out on a massive number of vacations! Oh how great this discovery truly was to him now. He almost wasn't sure how this could get any better.
But then as he looked back down then at the silver floor, taking admiration in its flat and reflective detail, he decided to see just what was ahead of him. As Joey looked up and shone his light straight ahead, something curious had instantly caught his eye. Joey looked closer in a curiosity that only continued to grow as he stared at the small blue platform-like structure centered in the large, rectangular room. What..., was all Joey could think as he slowly walked closer towards it, keeping his light on it as straight as he could.
As Joey had continued to walk slowly closer, already seven or eight steps away from said platform, he almost immediately noticed what had appeared to be a golden vase resting on top of it. At a five steps distance, he also noticed that this vase was ancient, with some sort of angelic design that seemed to make a sort of bright blue glow. The blue only continued to glow brighter and brighter blue as he continued to step closer and closer. In all senses of honesty Joey had to admit that this felt a little... actually he didn't know how to describe it. But in a way it sort of felt like it was only calling for him to come closer and closer, almost as if it wanted him if that made any sense. Then, as Joey was finally within a reaching distance of the said vase, the symbols growing a brighter shade of blue than he had ever seen, he carefully pulled on a rubber glove, not wanting to get fingerprints onto the handle.
"Hello beautiful"., Joey thought aloud, then touching the warm gold handle. "What treasures do you hold"?
As Joey then proceeded to slowly lift the handle off of the vase, he looked carefully inside. Immediately, Joey jumped back, his back hitting the floor as a bright and massive blue mist started to emerge from the opening, the vase still resting on top of the platform and its glow starting to fade as the blue mass continued to exit it. As Joey then slowly crawled back a distance, staring up at the rising mist with awe and confusion, the mist had finally fully emerged from the vase which no longer held its glow. The mist turned a shade of blue so bright that it illuminated the entire temple and emitted a rather comforting warmth down at Joey as he got back to his feet, still being unsure as to what to thing of this.
After a few seconds passed in silence, a calming voice boomed from said mass: "JOEY, THE LORD HAS CHOSEN YOU".
Joey just tilted his head, a million questions immediately popping into his head as he pondered just what this thing was talking about. What did it mean that The Lord had chosen him? And what exactly was it choosing him for? Better yet, who was speaking through the mist? Was it... Jesus?
"WIELD THE POWER OF AN ANGEL"., was the last thing the calming voice in the mist said before then moving quickly towards Joey.
Joey widened his eyes in surprise a bit, being unable to make any movements as the mist surrounded him, still emitting a calming warmth as it started to shoot into him, the glow of the mist and the mist itself shrinking as it continued to enter him. As the mist continued to shoot into him, Joey began to feel a bit tired, the warmth making him want to rest. But at the same time he had started to feel stronger. Stronger than he had ever been in his entire life. And his light was beating faster, as if it was also gaining power as he also started to feel a powerful presence of positive emotions holding no negativity, all seeming to tell him not to be afraid of what was happening.
Then, as all of the mist had finally entered him and the light faded in the room, Joey closed his eyes and collapsed, unconscious.
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Kakan growled angrily from behind the scope of a rifle as he saw the Ko-Matoran collapse in the temple. He came here with ONE mission: Find that ancient golden relic and bring it back to Aldus as quietly as possible. Now that this power was currently within the body of a Matoran who was a Scientist, Adventurist, and owned a gun manufacturing company, keeping this job quiet was NOT going to be easy. No doubt, Aldus would be ticked once he told him.
"My oh my, what a wonderful day"., Kakan sarcastically said aloud. Then turning on the walkie talkie and putting to his exposed teeth: "Sir, it's inside of Ko-Matoran. What do you want me to do now"?
There was a short silence before he heard Aldus respond: "I want you to watch his every move. Make sure no one tries to kill him either. As careless as I am for the lives of random Matoran, I need him alive if I'm going to get that power out of him".
Kakan let out a quiet sigh of relief before responding: "Sure thing. Hey Skull King, hypothetically speaking, what would happen should I fail"?
He heard Aldus make a low growl before responding: "You won't if you want to live"., then hanging up.
Kakan shuddered a bit as he put the walkie-talkie on the belt he wore around his body, then looked back down at the temple. He saw another Le-matoran run into the temple, apparently having seen the light show. 'Strange'., Kakan thought upon seeing the Le-Matorans facial expression. It was as if this Le-Matoran actually KNEW what was happening. Kakan scratched the top of his Kanohii Garai in a growing curiosity. 'Could it be one of the members of that other gang that was fighting against Aldus's other forces'?, he thought. 'AH, what did it matter at this point'?! Regardless of who the Le-Matoran was, he was going to get that Ko-Matoran back to Aldus! Even if it meant having to kill a few more Matoran.
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Biomarvel740: Well that's the first chapter to Ghost Warrior. Did you all like it? Be sure to leave me a review if you did, or PM me for any questions, thoughts, and/or concerns in regards to the story. I thank you all for reading, expect the next chapter to this story, along with another chapter to Bioformers 2 Part 1, soon, and please have a God-blessed day! XD