Out in a cracked wasteland, a black bird sits on its perch in a leafless tree. It stares at the six strange creatures that just suddenly appeared in a flash of light. Now, they're just lying there, unconscious. The bird flaps its wings and descends to the ground to inspect them further. They look like Landwalkers, but not like any Landwalkers it has ever seen before. They also seem to be made of metal. This observation's confirmed when the bird taps the red one's helmet with its beak. Out of the corner of its eye, the bird notices one of the creature's hands flex. The bird caws in fear and flies away. Groaning, Vakama slowly lifts his head as he opens his eyes. Immediately, he shields them from a bright light with his hand. At first he thinks he's still in the room where they found that strange crystal. Though after his eyes get used to it, he discovers that the bright light is a sun. 'What hit me?' he asks himself as he rubs his head, then he notices the other Toa. "Brothers, sister, wake up," he says as he gently shakes the Toa of Air's shoulder. Upon hearing his voice, and groaning, the remaining Toa awaken.

"What happened?" asks Nokama.

"How did we get here?" Onewa questions.

" I don't know," Whenua responds, taking the words right out of Vakama's mouth, "But, the last thing I remember is that weird crystal shoots lights at us, and everything goes black."

"Where are we?" inquires Nuju.

"Looks like somewhere out in the desert of Po-Metru," says Onewa, "but it's no area I'm familiar with." Then, the Toa hear a rumble and see a cloud of dust off in the distance.

" What now?" Matau groans.

"Could it be that Kane-Ra?" asks Vakama.

"I doubt it," answers Nokama, "and it doesn't sound like a Kikanalo herd either."

"What do we do now? We're still too exhausted to run," says Onewa. Vakama observes the group and sees that his brother's right, leaving them with only one option.

"Then we stand our ground," he declares, and the group forms a circle. As the dust cloud comes closer, they discover that it's a group of large streamline built reptilian creatures being ridden by completely organic creatures wearing metallic armor. As they surround the Toa, the Toa take note of the steeds' armor on their legs, heads, chests, shoulders, hindquarters, and tops of their long, whip-like tails. The riders point their spears at the Toa as one of them, whose helmet has a feathery crest running from the top of his head down to the middle of the back of his neck, steps forward.

"Which tribe sent for you?" he questions.

"No one sent for us," Vakama answers, "We were brought here against our will."

"Explain," the leader demands.

"The last thing we all remember is finding a room with a large crystal standing out of the center of a rock, and, after Matau touches one of the symbols on the rock, the crystal shot out bolts of light, and we were transported here," Vakama explains. The leader rubs his chin, thinking and considering the truthfulness of the strange one's story.

"This rock with the crystal," he speaks, "was it, by any chance, a pentagonal shape?"

Vakama thinks for a minute, "Yes, it was."

"Captain," a soldier whispers, "It would seem that these strangers came in contact with a crystalgate."

"Indeed," the Captain nods in agreement, "That would account for their mysterious 'deliverance'."

"Excuse me," says Nokama, "Could you tell us where we are?"

"You're in the kingdom of Lord Daskus on the island of Emor, and you are our prisoners," the Captain answers with an evil grin, "Seize them!" As the soldiers move forward, Vakama takes out his disk launcher, loads a disk, and fires at the Captain, knocking him off of his mount. The Toa follow his example and unsheath their weapons. First, the soldiers gallop around the Toa on their lizard creatures, then when they are all knocked off, they attack on foot with spears and swords. The Toa Metru, in turn, fight back with their Toa tools, as well as with their elemental and mask powers.

"Nokama, behind you!" calls out Nuju and he uses his ice powers to turn the man into an icicle before he can hurt her. The Toa Metru of Ice knows the ice will eventually melt due to the hot temperatures, but it will keep the man still for a while.

"Thanks, NujuDuck!" and Nokama whips out one of her hydro blades. Nuju drops to the ground in the nick of time, and the weapon clangs with the soldier's helmet. The man falls onto his back, unconscious.

Realizing what his sister had done for him, just as he had done for her, Nuju nods, "Now we're even." Elsewhere, two soldiers are about to skewer Vakama, when, right before their eyes, their quarry disappears.

"Where'd he go?" asks one.

"How'd he do that?" asks the other one. As they look around for the Toa, one of the soldiers feels a kick at his leg.

"Hey, what did you do that for?"

"Do what?"

"Don't be cute," the soldier brushes his companion and continues searching for clues about where Vakama went, when he gets another kick. He turns to the other soldier, "Oh wiseguy, heh?" and kicks him.

"What was that for?"

"Because you kicked me."

"I didn't kick you."

"You did too."

"Did not."

"Did too." Suddenly, both men feel a finger, accompanied with a whistle, tap their shoulders. They turn their heads and, right before their eyes, Vakama reappears.

"You," they cry out, startled, and Vakama punches them. They're out cold. Hearing a chuckle, he turns to face Whenua.

"Not bad, mask-maker," Whenua winks, and turns back to the soldiers.

"Hey, get off," says Matau as he struggles with a soldier, who has him pinned to the ground and is trying to bring the handle of his spear onto the Toa's throat. Matau, on the other hand, strains to keep the weapon away from him and get the man off of his waist. Onewa spies his brother's predicament and activates the Komau's power of mind control to get into the attacker's head.

"Attack the others," he mentally commands. Just when Matau can't keep the spear away any longer, the man goes as stiff as stone and he notices the goldish-brown glow in his eyes. He steals a look at Onewa, who nods at him, and sees the Toa of Stone's mask glowing. Smiling, Matau looks back to the man sitting on top of him. The soldier's entire body is glowing with the same goldish-brown color. Obeying Onewa's command, he gets up, and attacks his fellow soldiers. The Captain observes the chaos created by one of his own men helping these strangers attack his remaining forces. He knows something's not right, but he can't quite put his finger on itthat is until he spots Onewa, whose 'face' is glowing the same color as the man.

'So that's it,' he muses, 'That one's controlling the man's mind.' Carefully, he sneaks around so he's behind Onewa. Reaching for his belt, he grabs a whip.

Tired as they still are from their flight from the Kane-Ra, the Toa are able to put up a good fight. In fact, just when they feel they may be able to make a break for it, they hear a scream. It's Onewa. To their horror, they notice that bolts of blue electrical energy are covering the Stone Toa's body and they seem to be coming from a whip that's wrapped around his upper torso. The energy disappears, and Onewa falls to the ground. Totally forgetting about the other soldiers, the Toa call out his name and run to his side. However, with their backs turned, they do not notice the other soldiers take out whips similar to the one in the Captain's hand, and they lash them out. Five of them hit their targets and, like flies, the Toa fall to the ground, unconscious from their shock treatment.