Koey found Takan months later, in a cave dug on the side of the Great Mountain. A small stream of lava fell from the ceiling into a hole in the floor. Takan was sitting, staring blankly into the stream when Koey entered the cave. His foot touched the ground and immediately pulled back. Takan had flooded the floor with his poison.

"Funny, huh. I surround myself with evil and now no help can come." Takan's eyes never moved from the lava. It poured slowly, the heat radiating off.

"You don't have to hide yourself Takan," Koey stepped into the poison, his feet sinking into it.


Hoei looked at Tadan. His red armor shining brightly, his fire sword melting the ice beneath it, and his blank stare far down towards the matoran. He looked just the same as the man in his dream.

Lopek was the one that spotted a lone Gukko bird flying up as fast as it could, trying to reach the top. When it landed, Turaga Stohn and the bird's rider came off, a nameless Le-Matoran with no significance to the story at hand.

Hoei ran up and dropped to his knees in front of Turaga Stohn, "I'M SORRY!" he belted.

Turaga Stohn stood there, looking down at the massive Toa, "If you fear a single Turaga, how will you face evil? Get up, Toa Hoei. There is much to discuss."

Hoei did as told and went back to the group of Toa looking at Stohn. Their leader for all of the time. There had been no Turaga other than Stohn. He was the wisest being on Barordak and said not to fear him, there would be much worse.

Stohn explained that the Toa Nebula had constructed the altar as a failsafe. If they died, their Toa Power would go to the altar and wait for a matoran to find it. Their plan had worked. Now the Toa had been born again, ready to protect Barordak from evil.

"But what evil, Turaga? Everything has been eaten by the Glacier and the small stretch of land we have left is plains. Nothing lives there but us?" Nekora asked

"I don't know what or where evil is, other than it is real. Planning our demise and death this instant,"

"Maybe the evil is the Glacier itself?" Lopek laughed at it, but Stohn said there might be merit in that. Maybe the Toa would melt the Glacier, restoring all of Barordak to the matoran.

"What do we do, Turaga?" Cas asked. It was the question everyone had. Sure they had powers and had defeated a beast. Should they find more of those?

"What does one do when they first sit on a Gukko? They learn. You six must learn how to master your powers before you can Unite and become a real team of Toa."

So Turaga Stohn sent the six Toa separate ways to discover and master their powers. Cas had been sent deeper into the Glacier, to discover anything that might be dangerous to the matoran. Hours of wandering across a barren plain did nothing to help her morale. It probably got worse, wondering how all the matoran could live on such a bleak plain.

Then she saw something strange, a small hill or mound was jutting out of the ice. It didn't dissipate like a mirage when she neared it. On the side of the mound was a hole into which Cas could crawl. So she did, lying on her stomach and crawling into the hole.

It spiraled downwards at an easy angle for a while, then sharply turned left. It was a long tunnel that then turned into a sharp angle down, sliding Cas down to a small room. It was empty and squarish but dug out by something. At the opposite end of the room from Cas, a blurry image was coming through the ice. It was hard to tell what it was as the ice blurred it beyond recognition.

She stood up and bonked her head against the ceiling. It was low. Extending her hands out, Cas tried to move the wall of ice. It rumbled a bit, shook some as well, but didn't crumble. Then she tried punching it but quickly stopped. The blur had moved closer, or gotten bigger at the very least.

Knocking against the wall, "You there! Can you hear me?" Cas yelled and the blur got even bigger. A smaller knock was heard but no voice.

Cas again tried to do something to the wall with her ice powers. She even tried creating an ice fist to smash the wall to no avail. It wasn't until she remembered being in space that she got an idea. If Hoei's mask brought them to space, what could her mask do? She stopped all she was doing and stood there, focusing her mind on the mask.

She felt her body lose weight, become almost a feather, and moved. Moved faster than she had ever experienced before, a speed faster than the Gahlok they had fought or a dive-bombing Gukko. Then she was across the wall next to the deblurred blur, which was a Le-Matoran.

"AACK! P…please don't kill me!" he said falling and crawling away.

"I'm here to save you…(I guess)" Cas extended her hand out to the matoran who shakily took it and stood up.

"S…sorry"

"That's fine. I'm scared myself. I think I just teleported."

"I think so too stranger,"

"Call me Toa Cas,"

Eventually, all the Toa came back to Turaga Stohn's tent. Hoei was the first as he had to see if an old farm had good soil. Hoei moved each grain of dirt and soil to find life, but to no avail, and instead created a dust storm he had to control. When he returned, Turaga Stohn was pacing around.

"Ah! There you are Hoei! I was hoping you would be the first!"

"Why's that?"

"You've been first to everything! First to have a dream, then first to find the altar!"

"Nekora was the first to become a Toa though,"

"Ah, true. Anyways, I've trapped myself worrying about tiny things,"

"What things? Can I help?"

"I've been worrying about who the leader of your team is,"

"...Uh… you?"

"No, I won't follow you to every adventure. You need a leader to think of plans and unite you all,"

"Why is it necessary to have one?"

"To make sure you all put in your effort and act as a team! To make sure no one is left out or acts alone!"

"Can't everyone do that?"

"I don't see why not,"

"Turaga Stohn… you seem different now that we're Toa. Before you always knew what to do, you were a leader coordinating everyone and everything. Yet you were silent. Everyone talked to you first. Now you're worried about who's a leader? Why does that matter? You're our leader! You lead the matoran up the Glacier because we have no one else to turn to!"

Stohn stood there. Hoei was right, why WAS he worrying about this? Was he trying to repeat history? No, that was the opposite of what he wanted. There should be no leader or a singular powerful Toa. They should be equal on all levels.

Then the others came into the tent. Tadan learned he could shield himself and others with his mask. Cas could teleport, Lopek spins himself or what he touches, and Nekora couldn't find out. He tried as hard as he could but nothing would happen. Stohn said it would be used in a dire situation, then he could master it.

Then Stohn turned to Hoei and told him to use his mask. Bring all the Toa and Stohn to his pocket dimension, or as Stohn described it, a Nebulaen Realm. Hoei focused and brought the seven into his mask.

It was different than last time. Instead of being in space, they were in a large meeting room. There was a long table with six chairs on the side and one at the end. Doors lead out in all directions except south, where a large window was, showing the outside space.

"Hoei? Where are we?" Lopek knocked against Hoei's mask. It was hollow.

"Hoei wouldn't know this place," Stohn said sitting in the chair at the end. "Come on everyone. Take a seat."

The Toa sat in the chairs and faced Stohn. "This realm isn't space. It's a shared conscience or dream. I dreamed of this place before entering here, so it exists here. You six can also dream of new rooms or furniture to add."

"How do you know this?" Cas asked

"The old Toa of Earth for the Toa Nebula had the same mask power. This was the sanctuary of the Toa Nebula. With the Earth Toa's help, they could escape the real world and relax here."

"Awesome!" Lopek said, opening the north door and revealing a large, tropical-themed bedroom. It was very green. "Just what I was thinking!" Lopek said as he jumped into a hammock.

Tadan went over to the east door and opened it. Inside was a long hallway with 2 doors on each side and the opposite end. "We should communicate about which rooms we're making before this place turns into an unnavigable maze,"

Nekora walked over to Lopek's door and tapped the right side of it. A map started to be drawn on the wall detailing the floor plan of the realm. In the center was the meeting room, to the north was Lopek's room, and to the west was a hallway. "There. A map will be put in every hallway with position markers,"

"Man, you guys never let me have happy-fun. All I did was make a room!" Lopek sighed and stretched in his hammock.

"Turaga Stohn, if we are here, are our bodies still in reality?" Cas asked

"Yes. It shouldn't be used to escape conflict as your body will go limp," Stohn replied and opened the east door. "This room will be your training hall. You will have everything you need to practice in here,"

The Toa created their rooms in the hallway Tadan made. Nekora specifically filled his room with rows and rows of empty books. He would be the Chronicler. Hoei decided to test his powers once again, could he bring others in and out without their permission? He could and everyone was whisked back into their physical bodies where Gawae immediately noticed something. In Hoei's mask, she couldn't feel any texture, heat, or smell.

Cas got up and went over to Turaga Stohn, "Why did you know so much about that place?"

"As I said, the Toa of Earth for the Toa Nebula had the same power,"

"Why do you know that?"

"Legends get forgotten when they aren't told,"

"You're the only one who hasn't told anything, Turaga. Answer me. Why do YOU know so much,"

By this time all the Toa had gotten up and watched the conversation. Stohn looked out on the crowd and looked into Hoei's eyes, "I was the Toa Nebula of Earth,"