Tyler Mirado looked out the window of his room and onto the dark rain covered street. He wished that it was sunny and not raining outside so that he would have something to do other than play with his eight year old Lego Bionicle sets of the Toa Olda. Shortly after the adventures on Voya-Nui, Tyler had lost interest in the Bionicle series of Legos. He had barely had enough money to acquire the original six Toa, before he lost his job and his only way of getting the sets. He followed the story line through the comics and checking out the books from the library. Turning on his computer, he went straight to the only Bionicle related thing he still liked, the Bionicle Library on . He loved reading the various fan fiction stories that expanded on the original storyline, or altered it completely. Checking on his favorite epic series, a story beginning with "The Alliance", he found that T-Hybrid had still not added the next part of Terry's story.
Walking back to the window, he saw that the rain had somehow cleared and the sky was clear. He hadn't thought that he was going to see the strange objects that flew across the sky every night at around that time, but was soon proven wrong as two meteor-like objects streaked through the sky. One of the streaks was red, while the other was white. That night though, was different than other nights. It was a night of destiny. The two objects flew past in their usual location, but partway seemed to stop, and instead get brighter and bigger.
It is time for the return…Tyler looked around his room for the source of the voice that he had just heard. As he turned back to his window, he was met by a blinding flash and large explosion that knocked him to the floor of his second-story room. When his eyes cleared, he got back up and looked out of the window. Two large canister-like objects sat in the crater that had once been the center of his street. Absent-mindedly, he grabbed a Toa canister that had been stripped of its wrappers and held his Toa Kopaka model. He ran down the stairs, past his frightened parents and older sister, and out the front door. As he approached the two canisters, He lifted Kopaka's canister up to his eye. He quickly deduced that either he was dreaming, or the Toa were real.
Suddenly, steam erupted from the tops of both canisters and the tops popped off. While the rest of the crowd backed off, Tyler curiously stepped forward. His mother called for him to come back to her, but he was too focused to hear. Slowly, two figures emerged from the canisters. One was holding a sword that had flames dancing along its blade, while the other had a glowing arrow trained at Tyler's head. His mother shrieked when she saw the arrow, and almost ran to save her son, if not for her husband's strength. As the steam and fog dissipated, the figures shapes became clearer, and so did their colors. The one with the sword was a dark crimson color, and the one armed with a bow was a pearl white color. Both wore masks over their heads, masks that Tyler soon recognized as variations on two of the original Bionicle masks.
"T-Toa Tahu?" Tyler nervously asked.
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Both Toa deactivated their weapons in pure shock that this strange rahi had said the name of Tanako's ancestor.
"Who-no-What are you?" a larger one of the rahi asked.
"A Toa!" One of the small, apparently young rahi answered with what appeared to be a large smile.
"It can't be. Bionicle is a toy line, they've never really lived." Another young one stated.
"Stop!! Do not speak of the ancient legend that way, rahi!" Kolana shouted, already calculating what they were going to do next. She reactivated her weapon and moved from one rahi to the next until stopping again on the rahi closest to them.
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Tyler was struggling with the concept that the Toa were here, and that they were endangering his life.
"Wait." Tyler said boldly as he opened the Bionicle canister that he still held. He pulled out the model of Toa Kopaka and set it gently on the ground standing upright. The white figure again deactivated her bow and arrow and set them on the ground before walking up to Tyler and picking up the toy.
"Where did you get this?" She quietly asked, so that Takano couldn't hear her, after examining the model.
"It was made by a toy company called Lego." He answered softly out of fear. "You're not Toa Kopaka, are you? You have a feminine voice, but you look like him so much."
She paused for a moment as a tear ran down her mask. "No, I'm not him. I'm his great granddaughter."
"I'm guessing that the Toa of Fire over there isn't Toa Tahu either." Tyler questioned the ice Toa.
"No, I'm not." Takano interrupted as he walked up beside Kolana. "I am Toa Takano, Toa of Fire, and descendant of the great Toa Tahu. You know much about our past, don't you?"
"Well, I know about the Toa Nuva, and the Toa Inika, and even the Toa Metru and Hagah, but I've never heard either of your names before." Tyler replied.
"Those are all Toa from Mata-Nui and Metru-Nui." Kolana gasped.
"I figure that you're not a Rahi either. You don't look like any that I've ever seen." Takano inquired.
"That's right. I'm not a rahi, but I and everyone you see around here are basically what you would call matoran." He explained to the two heroes. "Why don't you come inside, out of the watchful view of the neighbors? You can trust me and my family, but I don't know about the other families here."
Kolana looked pleadingly at Takano, begging to learn more about these strange matoran.
"All right," he sighed, "We'll come with you."
"OK. Let me take care of something before we head in." He walked toward the center of the circle of people before telling them not to call the police, and to not be afraid of the two Toa. While he was doing that, the young child that had been the first to recognize them as Toa ran up to the heroes with a Disneyland autograph book When Tyler noticed this he stiffened, but his fears were false, as the two Toa took the kid's pen and signed the book in matoran. This just reaffirmed that the strange, armored creatures were friendly, and even got some of the gathered crowd to cheer.