Chapter 13:

The next day Xplode ran into the Toa's and Tavera's room early in the morning and told them all it was time to go. "The situation has changed, now its a hostage situation. You need to leave now." Tavera and the Mahri grabbed their gear with Kongu, Hewkii, and Nuparu all packing some Hexfruit, and loaded up in the ship.

"Where are we going?", asked Tavera.

"Thats classified, now go, time is of the essence," said Xplode. Kongu, Hewkii, and Nuparu all looked at each other and buckled up. "How long is this flight going to take?", asked Tavera.

"Four minutes," replied the pilot.

"What? How?", asked Tavera.

"Thats classified," said the pilot. Everyone buckled up and the ship and it took off. Once they left the planet's atmosphere they heard an engine rev up and suddenly the ship speed off faster than any of the occupants have gone before and within minutes they were on the other side of the galaxy. As the ship made its decent to the planet it suddenly shook. "What was that?", asked Kongu, he soon got his answer. A hole appeared in the back of the ship ripping Tavera and Hahli out of the ship. "Hahli!", yelled the remaining Toa Mahri. Jaller unbuckled and ran over to the cabinet that held parachutes. He was tossing one to Kongu and Hewkii when the two were suddenly ripped from the ship like Hahli and Tavera. Kongu and Hewkii screamed as they were flung out the cabin. Jaller went to grab another for him and Nuparu only for the cabinet to go flying out. Nuparu and Jaller looked at each other when suddenly the front of the ship was blown to pieces and the back compartment that Nuparu and Jaller went into a free fall. Jaller and Nuparu screamed as they fell to the ground. Jaller just barley strapped himself back into his seat belt as the cabin they were in crashed into the trees violently. The crash knocked both of them unconscious. Nuparu slowly opened his eyes to find himself dangling on a tree branch. He looked around to find Jaller on the ground. Nuparu cut the strap to the seat belt and fell ten feet to the ground. He ran over to Jaller who was still unconscious. All kinds of thoughts were racing through Nuparu's mind, What happened? Who shot us down? Are the others okay? Then Nuparu realized that he lost his Aqua Blade Blaster during the fall. He did have his pack still which had his shield, and the hexfruit. Nuparu took his shield out and put it next to him, then he found his hexfruit, all of them squished. "No! This is terrible! How will I free Jaller and Hahli now!", said Nuparu. Then Jaller stirred, "Nuparu? W-what happened? Where are we?", asked Jaller.
"Jaller, is that you? The real you? Whats the last thing you remember?", asked Nuparu.
"Last thing I remember is, we were at that water planet, and we ran into those heroes. Then it becomes a blur," said Jaller.
"You are back! I'll fill you in on what happened since you were gone," said Nuparu as he filled Jaller in on all that happened in the last few days. After Jaller was caught up he asked Nuparu, "So where are we now and what happened?"
"That I don't know, check your weapons, and eat this paste," said Nuparu.
"What, why?", asked Jaller as Nuparu put a yellow and blue paste in his hand.
"It will ensure that the hypnosis is broken," said Nuparu. Jaller ate the paste and checked to find that his sword wasn't in its holster. He looked around and found it lodged in a tree a few yards away, right next to some spare cordak missiles. Jaller put his sword back and put the spare missiles in his pack. The two checked to see if there was anything else salvageable from the wreak. All they found was some water and bandages. "I say we start looking for the others, my mask hasn't turned anything up yet but once we get close to them, I'll know," said Jaller. "Hey Nuparu what is our mission on this planet?"
"I don't exactly know, all I found out is that there are some individuals here who have taken over and we are the only ones who can stop them. Xplode also said that it was now a hostage situation but he didn't say who. So I guess we're on a rescue mission..", replied Nuparu as the two started to walk into the jungle.

Meanwhile...

"Well that was fun," said Kongu sarcastically as he brushed the dirt off of him.
"Sorry that my mask and your air powers couldn't land us softly," snapped Hewkii, "At least we're alive." Hewkii looked around and found that he had lost his spear and cordak launcher. Kongu had lost only one of his launchers, and most of his spare ammo. Hewkii picked up a large tree branch and a rock and started to carve himself a new spear. Given his crafting skill from when he was a matoran he was done in no time. Hewkii looked up and saw smoke above and said, "Hey tree-head go up there and see where that smoke is coming from." Kongu shot him a glare and climbed to the top of a tree and called down to Hewkii, "The smokes coming from over there. Wait theres more smoke coming from over there, it looks almost like a village. I can also see a tower and, what the heck is, AHH." Kongu jumped out of the tree and landed with a look of terror on his face, "Kongu, why do you look like that?", asked Hewkii.
"Talk-chat later, run now!", yelled Kongu as he ran off into the forest. Hewkii looked up to see what his team mate was freaking out about and saw a giant bi-pedal bug creature flying overhead, then it suddenly went into a dive. Hewkii threw his spear at it only for the creature to spit acid at it melting it in seconds. Hewkii turned around and ran as fast as he could after Kongu.

Jaller and Nuparu were walking through the woods when Jaller stopped Nuparu and said, "Hold up someones coming." Just as Jaller said that the two were suddenly knocked to the ground. They saw it was Hewkii, "Hewkii what the hec-," started Jaller before Kongu hurdled over the group with Hewkii getting right back up and running after Kongu. Jaller and Nuparu got up and looked at each other, then Jaller said, "Wait someone else is coming." The two looked over to where Kongu and Hewkii came running from and saw a giant wasp flying at them. They quickly joined Kongu and Hewkii in running away.

"Look its Hewkii's staff," said Hahli as she picked it up. Hahli and Tavera were walking around through the forest looking for the others. Well Hahli was walking, Tavera was on Hahli's back since she didn't want to walk. The two had been wandering around after Hahli had saved the two by using her wings to fly the two to safety.
"Do you hear that master?", asked Hahli.
"Shut up so I can," said Tavera as she back handed Hahli. She quivered in pain. Tavera listened and heard what sounded like heavy breathing. She looked ahead to see the bushes in front of her start to rustle. Tavera hopped off Hahli and took a step to the side. A few seconds later Hahli and four other figures were on the ground. Tavera stepped in front of them and asked, "What the heck are you doing?" All five of the Mahri pointed behind her. Tavera turned around to face a giant yellow and green wasp. It was foaming from the mouth and its eyes were blood red and slash marks covering its body. It looked down at Tavera and picked her up with its four arms. With out warning the creature spit acid into Tavera's face. She screamed in pain as the acid burned her face. The creature's mouth opened wide and bit Tavera's head off with one bite. The Mahri looked in horror as the creature started to feast on Tavera's insides. Kongu turned his head to the side and threw up. The beast flew off carrying Tavera's dead corpse. The Toa laid there, mouths wide open with looks of shear terror on their faces. After ten minutes Hahli broke the silence, "M-master?" Kongu and Hewkii looked at each other and rushed Hahli and Jaller. "Nuparu we got them down! Feed them the fruit! Here," said Hewkii as he tossed some Hexfruit to him.
"No guys wait, I'm free! I'm free! Now get off of me Hewkii, thats an order!", cried Jaller.
"Thats exactly what a hypnotized person would say!", said Kongu.
"Guys hes telling the truth let him go," said Nuparu. Jaller shoved Hewkii off.
"Um guys, little help," said Kongu as Hahli started to fly up with Kongu dangling from her feet. Hewkii and Jaller jumped onto Hahli holding her down as Nuparu forced the food into her mouth. Hahli's eyes widened and she looked around, "Guys, what the heck are you doing?"
"Hahli!", cried the four Toa as they all gave her a big hug.
"Yeah I'm back, where did I go?", asked Hahli. "All I can remember is we were fighting those heroes and then Tavera showed up and, Tavera! Where is that bitch I want to give her a piece of my mind!" The four male Mahri all looked at each other and then looked at Hahli,

"Umm Hahli, shes ah, shes dead," said Hewkii.

"What how do you know?"

"Well um, she was ah, she was just murdered right in front of us ten minutes ago by ah, by a giant wasp," said Jaller.

"Wait where was I?"

"Hypnotized, you were hypnotized," said Nuparu.

"Well can you tell me more?"

"We'd rather not," said Kongu looking a little greener than usual.

"Alright lets forget it, we came here for a mission so lets go and do it," said Jaller.

"But what if we run into another one of those things?", asked Hewkii.

"We use your mask to send it to space, because next time we'll be ready, now come on lets go," said Jaller.

"Well before I was chased out of the tree I was in I saw what appeared to be a village," said Kongu.

"Great where?", asked Jaller.

"That way," said Kongu as he pointed his finer.

"Great lets go!", said Jaller as he and the Mahri started to head off. Before they went Hahli returned Hewkii's spear. "I'm glad to see you again, thanks Hahli." After about three hours the Mahri finally reached their destination. "Look, there it is, on the bald-land," said Kongu. The Mahri looked to see a variety of different creatures, all having glowing red eyes and with slash marks all over them just like the wasp that they ran into earlier.

"Why do you think they all are like that?", asked Hahli.

"I think I found your answer, look over there," said Nuparu as he pointed to a giant podium. The Mahri looked to see four figures sitting in thrones, with one throne being empty. There was a whip at the foot of one of the thrones feet.

"Who do you think they are?" asked Jaller.

"I know who," said Kongu.

"Who?", asked Jaller who was still trying to identify the figures.

"Them," said Kongu pointing over his shoulder. The Mahri turned around to see Kongu pointing to Mantax who was holding a sword to Kongu's back. He shot the Mahri a wicked smile and said, "Well well well, look at who we have here. Get out there and drop your weapons or Kongu gets it." The Mahri did as they were told and walked out into village center dropping their weapons.

"Ha ha, well done Mantax! You brought us all a gift," said Pridak as he looked at the Mahri. He looked at Jaller and said, "Didn't I kill you?"

"It takes more than a small dagger to kill me. Believe me I would know," replied Jaller.

"So it would seem, no matter, minions bring them to the jail cell," yelled Pridak. Soon after a red and blue monkey came over to the Mahri and brought them over to a jail cell. It was made of the same material that lined the prison cell in Hero Factory cells.

"Jaller, what are we going to do?", asked Hahli.

"What we always do, figure a way out and defeat the Barraki, again. All we have to do is figure out how," said Jaller.

"You must be the Toa Mahri, I've heard great things about you," said a figure in the shadows of the jail cell.

"Who are you?", asked Nuparu.

"My name is Von Nebula, and I'm the one you were sent to save," said Von Nebula.