Chapter 11:
1 week later
"Alright, your trip is a go. Head down to the loading dock and get on your ship, it will be the medium blue one. Also there has been a change in plans. Tavera is being deployed with you, she has some knowledge of the base," said Xplode.
"What! Why is that tramp coming!", said Hahli
"Okay, we'll be there soon," said Jaller. "Alright Mahri, lets load up and get ready to go."
"Jaller no, no no I refuse to let that hut wrecker tag along!", protested Hahli.
"Hahli," said Jaller as he put his hand on Hahli's shoulder, "Please, come with. We are going to be in an ocean, that is where you are most powerful. Not to mention you know how I love it when the water shimmers off your mask." Hahli blushed and said, "O-okay I'll go."
The Mahri grabbed their weapons and went down to the ship. They strapped in and took off. About four hours later they reached their destination. The ship dropped the back door and the Mahri unbuckled and went to the edge. "Wait you forgot the scuba gear!", said the pilot.
"We don't need it," said Hewkii.
"What?", said the pilot.
"Just trust us," said Nuparu.
"Okay, the randeyvu at the large rock over there," said the pilot. Then the Mahri all dove into the water and began to swim down. Since Matoro gave the Mahri the power to be amphibious they had no trouble breathing in the vast ocean.
"Look, there is the lab. Lets get this done quick-fast be get out of here," said Kongu. The Mahri swam towards the lab and found the port Xplode told them about. Nuparu used the hacking device and the Mahri were granted access. After the cabin depressurized the Mahri were in.
"Alright, Tavera is a no show. We'll proceed as planned" said Jaller as he viewed the holographic map of the facility, "The armor we are looking for is on the tenth floor. We're on the fourth right now. The air vents are too small to go through so we have to go the hard way. The security room is on the third floor so we need to send someone up there. Nuparu, your going to use your mask power to sneak into the security room and then radio us back when you have taken the room. After that you'll direct us to the armor. Understand?"
"Yes, see you guys later," said Nuparu. Suddenly Nuparu disappeared and the Mahri waited for him to take over the room. Nuparu walked down the hall on the next floor up, not seen by anyone. He looked ahead to see two massive guards at the other end of the hall. Whoa, those guys are as big as Maxilos. After he slipped pass the guards Nuparu was at the security door. Great, its locked, well maybe if I-, thought Nuparu when suddenly the door opened up and a guard walked out. Now, Nuparu slipped through the door and was in. There were three workers all in chairs, with a huge screen with all sorts of images. Nuparu snuck up behind the guards and bashed them in the head with his shield knocking them unconscious. After he tied up the guards and put them in the corner, Nuparu used his shield to lock the door and then took a seat in front of the monitors. After getting the hang of the controls he radioed the team. "I'm in."
"Good, alright Nuparu where do we go?", asked Jaller.
"Go down the hall and take a left, then you will be at a staircase, you can take that down to the ninth floor, from there take right and go down the hall then there is a locked elevator at the end of the hall. I can get you into it and then bring you down to the tenth floor.", said Nuparu.
The four Mahri ran down the hall and found the stairs that Nuparu told them about, but suddenly Jaller stopped the team, "Stop, there are two guards behind the door"
"Guys, there are two guys behind the door!", said Nuparu.
"Jaller beat you to that one," said Kongu.
Behind the door...
Evo and Nex were walking up the stairs. They were assigned to guard the new armor, they revived word form security that the air lock opened. They were pretty sure it was a malfunction but they didn't want to leave anything to chance. Just as Nex pushed the door open and walked in between the door and the frame it suddenly slammed onto him bringing him to the ground.
"What the heck?", cried Evo before the door suddenly opened and a brown fist cold-cocked him in the face. Evo took a step back before a sudden gust launched him down the one flight of the staircase and slammed him into the wall. Nex had gotten up only to be meet with a red and orange knee to the face knocking him onto his back. Then a ball of water went around his head, Evo looked up to see his friend being drowned and cried out, "Nex! No!" Evo grabbed his weapon and launched his spear at the Toa only for it to fly straight up into the ceiling. By this time Nex had passed out and laid unconscious on the floor, until he suddenly lifted up into the air and flew right at Evo and hit him square on. Nex laid on top of Evo. Hahli flew over to Evo and put her claw to his throat. Evo looked at the Mahri and suddenly had a realization, "Wait a minute, your that Team thats being hypnotized!"
"Hypnotized? We aren't being hypnotized! At least I don't think so. Are we?", said Kongu.
"You are now." The three male Mahri turned around to see Tavera, then she blew a pink dust into their faces. All of a sudden the three's eyes widened and they said in unison, "What can we do for you master?" Tavera walked over to Jaller and kissed him.
"YOU BITCH!", screamed Hahli at the site of this. Tavera just laughed and said, "Hes mine now." Hahli rushed at Tavera preparing to slash her chest, but before she could Tavera blew more of that dust and Hahli fell to the ground, "You deserve him more mistress, I'm not worthy of him." Tavera laughed and looked at Evo.
Evo quickly grabbed Nex and ran down the stairs as quick as he could, until suddenly he was picked up and thrown against the ceiling and fell back to the ground. Then four more figures loomed over him. Evo looked up and said, "You'll never get away with this. Those Hero's friends will come and find them."
"I doubt they can find them, now to send them that message.", said Tavera. Suddenly all the Mahri started to savagely beat the Hero until he was bleeding a liquid from his chest and had multiple parts broken. "Now then, time to get that armor." Tavera walked over to the elevator and used a pass that she stole and unlocked the elevator.
Meanwhile...
Nuparu listened and watched this all go down. This is bad, really really bad! And did that Hero say friends? No time to think about that, what am I going to do, come on Nuparu think. She doesn't know that I'm here, I can pretend to have lost contact and not heard that. Now the question is how do I resist her dust? Nuparu looked around the room and got incredibly lucky, A respirator, perfect! Alright Nuparu time to save your friends. "Hey guys I lost you there for a minute, did you take care of those guards?"
Jaller received the message and turned to Tavera, "Mistress our friend Nuparu, what do we do? He doesn't know that we are with you now."
"Tell him its all good, I'll get him later now grab the armor and lets go.", said Tavera.
"We're fine Nuparu, we'll meet you at the air lock, we got the armor, now go.", said Jaller.
"Alright meet you there in a minute," said Nuparu. Nuparu popped out a copy of the recorded video and wrote a note, To the Heroes who receive this note, I Nuparu am the lone member of my team who has yet to be hypnotized. A yellow Hero said friends of ours are here to help, I do not know who is here but I wager that they know me. I will try to stay in contact. I would normally wait here until you arrive but I can't leave my friends. The video will show my team being hypnotized before they critically hurt the yellow Hero proving they were not in control of their actions. I hope to meet you soon. Nuparu activated his mask power and put in his respirator and went to Evo. As he was going down the stairs he ran into his team. Nuparu tucked into a corner and let them pass by him. Then he ran to Evo and left the note and video, he also bandaged Evo's chest wound as best he could. Then ran as fast as he could to the air lock. Just as he rounded the corner he became visible again and approached his former allies, "Sorry I had to deal with a guard. Hey I see Tavera showed up. Did you guys get the armor?"
"Yeah, and much more," said Jaller as he pulled Tavera close to him.
"What do you mean?", asked Nuparu.
"Here I'll show you," said Tavera as she blew more pink powder into Nuparu's face. "What the- how can I serve you master?"
"Ha ha ha ha," laughed Tavera.
Well that worked well, thought Nuparu.
"Come on lets get going," said Tavera as she and the Mahri and her swam to the pick-up location and loaded up into the truck and headed back to base.
