Man, I finally got an idea for a chapter, I only hope I can finish it before I start exams!
Disclaimer: how many times do you need to hear it? I. DON'T. OWN. BIONICLE!
"Take a stand, hold your land"
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"Okay team, gather 'round!" Vakuri said as she appeared in the hall. "You have a special mission the Order wants done. Quick and no questions asked. You could call it real life training"
"Yeah right! You mean training like the Exo-Toa exercise or like the klakk thing?" An angry Kyros replied as he remembered the Klakk Incident. "What will it be this time, infiltrating Destral? Odina? Metru Nui perhaps?"
"Actually it's the Tren Krom Peninsula with a side trip to Daxia, but yeah, pretty much" Vakuri answered as she took out a scroll detailing the mission. "According to this letter, your mission is to reach the Tren Krom Peninsula, infiltrate the fortress of Makuta Gorast and retrieve a strange sphere she has taken; also" Vakuri paused a moment to catch her breath. "If you happen to find a matoran named Krakua, you are to give him a mark -whatever that is- it also mentions that they're sending two especialists"
"Well, that makes things clearer" Kalnur said with sarcasm. "We only need to steal something from a Makuta!"
"So what?" Kreya retorted. "It's not as if we're helpless little matoran anymore -no offense chronicler- we can take anything on!"
"Enough jabbering! You'll make my ears bleed!" Vakuri shouted in the middle of the argument. "You!" She pointed at Kalnur. "Drop it off or the gem won't work that well. And you!" She pointed at Kreya. "You've been cranky at him ever since that accident, so shut it!"
An annoyed grunt was both Toa's only answer, but the fight was forgotten the moment Artakha made an entrance in the room. (A/N: Yeah, that's right, these Toa know Artakha personally; beat that Greg!)
"Okay, stop it! Now!" The ruler said as he took out a key. "I doubt any of you will change your arsenal for this mission, so I'll only introduce your mission partners" He added as he opened a locked door.
"Hello everyone, besides Vakuri, I'm the new addition" A Toa said as he stepped out of the guest room. "Nice to meet a new team"
"And who are you, if we may ask?" Kalnur spoke the question everyone was asking.
"Why, I forgot!" The Toa answered in what seemed to be a surprised tone. "I'm a Toa of Air; my name is Nidhiki" (A/N: Le Gasp!)
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"Sooo. . . . you're a Toa of Air?" Kalnur asked skeptically.
"That's right!" Nidhiki replied.
"With red armor? And claws" Kreya added.
"Nah, the claws aren't natural, and the armor is just for the mission; it's a special camo armor" The Toa explained.
"Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. . . . . . 'nutjob'. . . " Kalnur said.
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(Meanwhile, in the Tren Krom Peninsula)
"Tell me exactly what you were thinking" Makuta Gorast said as she gave a sickeningly sweet smile to the group of Boggarak and Rahkshi standing in front of her. "Because I remember telling you explicitely to get those spheres without being seen! And I also said NO CASUALITIES!"
"Jkjsji kjsjiksj kjsji ijkjsji kjsijsij jsjsijk kjskjsi! Kskjsisij kjjkksjksisi jjkssi! (Translation: B-but it w-wasn't our fault! T-that m-matoran managed to s-spot us somehow!)" One of the Boggarak answered. "Jsksjkskji kjksjsjijii jskjksiskiii kjsjsjiijks! (Translation: Please let us go back to kill him!)"
"It's too late for that now. WAY TOO LATE MAGGOTS!" She yelled as she used her power over plasma to incinerate the whole group. "And that's why you don't anger Makuta Gorast"
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(Somewhere at sea)
"Here, these are scrolls containing the details of our mission" Nidhiki said as he floated said scrolls to the hands of each member. "We will touch shore right besides the Acid Falls, from there we will advance through the shoreline up to the village in the mountain, there we will rest, restock and infiltrate Gorast's fortress"
"And what happens after that?" Tarken asked.
"We'll split in two groups" Answered Vakuri as she stepped up. "Kalnur, Likai, you and I will silence any guards; Nidhiki, Kyros and Kreya will go for the sphere, we will meet back at the Falls if nothing goes wrong"
"And we all know that missions always go exactly as planned" Likai replied in a monotnous voice. "Nothing EVER goes wrong!" She fumed a bit. "So what's the backup plan?"
"Oh, it's rather simple: we tear everything down, get the sphere and hope to survive this with only a scratch or two" Toa Nidhiki replied as if he had done it a hundred times. "We will try to be as subtle and quiet in the meantime"
"So, why did we get arranged in these teams?" Kyros asked puzzled. "Why don't we simply go as one big unit"
"Ah, mon ami! That's exactly the point" Tarken answered the question unexpectedly. "Kalnur controls shadows, so he can keep the team under cover, Likai is fast and can paralyze anything that moves with her power -believe me, I know first hand- Vakuri can absorb the air around something to stop sound or flash-freeze it, and I can do pretty destructive things" He took a pause, caught his breath and proceeded. "On the other hand, you can tear annything in there to pieces and handle anything they can throw -literally- at you, Kreya can cover all of you in darkness and handle almost everything a Makua has, and Nidhiki is your infiltration specialist"
"Ok, now that everything's clear, I have only one question" Nidhiki said as he turned to face Tarken. "Where did you learn chutespeak?"
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(Same time, Gorast's fortress)
"And?" Makuta Gorast asked one of her inferiors with an annoyed tone. "What else happened?"
"kjksjisj kjsjksjs kisjkjsijksiiij kijsjii ijkksj iksj ksisjkisi is j sksi j sisj skisi kjksi (Translation: One of the matoran spotted the team and sent a message to someone unknown)" The off-colored visorak answered as it cowered in fear. "kjskji jsk j isjksjis kj sijskj(There is an unknown boat approaching, though)"
"Very well, little visorak, it's your lucky day" Gorast said as she waved her hand dismissively "I have already killed enough minions today, you get to live another day"
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(In the Acid Falls)
"Ok, we are all ready and set to go, you know what to do" Vakuri said with a serious tone. "Let's try to do this as quick and without noise"
"See you soon, and try not to get in trouble" Nidhiki said as cheerful as ever. "We don't want to save you more than it's needed"
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(Half an hour later, inside Gorast's castle)
"Shut up, they're going to hear us!" Tarken said angrily as his squad seemed to hit EVERY FREAKIN' THING in the fortress. "Can't you stay quiet?"
"No, we can't; in fact, I'm about to make a lot of noise" Kalnur answered as he took out his sword and Likai did the same. "We are about to be uncovered"
"What do you think this is? A game?" Tarken said as he grabbed the Toa of twilight and slammed him against the wall. "Are you planning to betray us?"
"I think you misunderstood me. I don't think this is a game" Kalnur replied as he used the merest fraction of his power to fire at the ceiling of the room they were in. "And they don't think so either" He added as he pointed to a dozen Rahkshi that had been lurking in the shadows.
"Well" Likai said as she took a step forward. "We should go and say hi"
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(With the other squad)
"So, do you like him?" Nidhiki asked Kreya as if their team was in a field trip. "You looked disappointed when I announced the squads. . . " He added as he created a vaccum around a guard and knocked him out from the lack of air.
"We are on the middle of a mission!" Kreya hissed back as she blinded another guard and threw him off a cliff. "How can you ask that kind of things?"
"It helps to relieve my stress" He answered as he unlimbered his scythe. "Now, this is the part where we stop skulking around and get to kick things"
"Ah, just the way I like it, and not a moment too late!" Kyros said as he stepped out of their cloak of shadows and started felling Visorak and Rahkshi while shouting something like 'Run, piggies, run!'.
"Should I take you evading my question as a yes?"
"Shut up!"
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(Back with the others)
"There are four of us, about three dozens of you and another three hundred more sprawled in the floor" Tarken said as he talked to the rahkshi. "Do YOU really want to keep fighting?" He added as he tried to avoid cooking more kraata; those things smelled like a zivon's behind.
The rahkshi in question assesed his odds: these three Toa and the one that looked like one but obviously wasn't had taken on three hundred of them without breaking a sweat, even Makuta Gorast couldn't hold that record; and the worst of all: there was a Toa of light! . . . A. FREAKIN'. TOA. OF. LIGHT!!
Likai watched as all the rahkshi dropped their staffs and backed away to let them through, trying as hard as possible not to show their obvious terror at the small squad.
But even as one of them tried to send a telepathic message to squads further ahead and another one to Makuta Gorast in her chambers, Tarken's Faxonn copied said kraata's ability and the Toa of flame incinerated the armor and worm in seconds.
But when they entered the next chamber, the floor collapsed upon itself and sent every Toa and "matoran" in a different direction.
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(With Nidhiki)
"Satisfied with the claw sharpening or should we lure some more guards?" Nidhiki asked as he tried his best to avoid steping in a visorak's leg or the remains of what he hoped was a kraata. "We can safely say that our trip here won't go unnoticed"
"Who cares about that? We came here to get this thing" Kyros said as he picked up the metal sphere with his claws and stored it in his pack. "We're here, we did that. Now let's get the others and get out of here"
But even before the last word left his mouth, the floor beneath them disappeared and each Toa fell in a different direction.
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(Gorast's throne room)
"Now little Toa" Gorast said as she left her seat and took for the dungeon. "Let's play a little game"
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Well, that's the end of the first part of this mission, I'll try to hurry up with part 2; also, here's some things that'll happen in part 2:
-Alliances will shatter and enemities will be forged.
-Shattering truths are revealed.
-Destinies revealed.
-Cubes.