Ok, for this chapter we're all gonna see what's going on with the Toa group from earlier. Hope you like it! :0) Lego owns Bionicle and Hasbro owns Transformers.
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Chapter 4: Forest
As the scorpion-like Bioformer known as Scorpio continued to crawl down the dirt trail that led far across the forest, he tried his absolute BEST to not only look but also listen closely to his surroundings as to not miss ANYTHING else that might have held life. Just a while ago, War Machine and Shut Down had had the existence of their race rediscovered, being spotted by a group of eight. Seven Toa, and one transformer. All of which would be a pleasure for him to kill had he ever gotten the chance. HECK, he might've been merciful enough to just bring some alive so that the OTHERS would have a chance at killing them. He rolled his eyes then, remembering the fact that his superiors were still listening to him through a mic that he could never turn off. And this BURDEN of a mic had been given to him after these said superiors deemed him as one who enjoyed his job of assassinating a little too much. Of course THAT was because he had killed another Makutacon in an argument. But with all of the time we had been away due to a worthless hatred, should they really blame me?, Scorpio thought.
But as of right now, he also couldn't be happier that his mic was permanently on, for now there was ANOTHER reason why each Makutacon had to stay into contact with each other. When the trio of said Makutacons had landed on Earth and tried to pick whatever Bionicle-vehicle transformation that they could find (Which was agonizing since most of them wouldn't stay still for long enough), they had picked up another energy signature. One of THEIRS. And from what their highly advanced ESD's (Energy Signature Detectors) told them, it was the third in command of the entire Makutacon army: Killer Prime. And if those reading were right, then their battle with the Toabots on this earth was about to get MUCH more... easy. Or as Scorpio would gladly rather put it, more FUN.
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Billy took another quiet breath as he looked back down to where the Bioformer was currently walking around and waiting to catch its prey. Which from HIS point of view in a deathly high tree branch was obviously THEM. Billy pulled the upper half of his body back up then as silently as his training had taught him how, turning to the other Toa and Ops as they sat very quietly, not even bothering to say a single word as they heard Scorpio threateningly rattle his tail far below them. Not even Edward, who usually commented a little too harsh a little too much in these situations, bothered to make as much as an insult.
But these guys were Toa, weren't they? Were they not the ones who protected the weak from beings who were STRONGER than even THEM? Yes., Billy thought. We ARE. And they weren't just ANY Toa. They were the ones who were sent out to accomplish missions that other groups of Toa NEVER could. So normally, they wouldn't hide from the enemy. But this said ENEMY, was clearly beyond ANYTHING they had ever been trained to fight before. These things, were MUCH more powerful. And there was only ONE solution for them to choose in THIS kind of situation. And that solution was to watch it from a hidden point of view. To STUDY it, and find whatever weak spots they COULD. And if there was ANYWHERE on this things armor that they could shoot at and at the same time INJURE it, they needed to find it. And they needed to find it SOON.
"Is it still down there"?, Gahu quietly asked.
Billy looked down once more, seeing Scorpio still crawling from tree to tree. Billy turned back to Gahu then, and silently nodded.
"Well fudge"., Edward commented.
Billy ignored him and continued watching Scorpio, looking very carefully at his armor. Surely there must have been SOMETHING there. But still, he found none. There were at least a hundred scratches on the white back plate of his armor, but none the less, this said back plate looked like it was ready to take a missile strike. And whoever put those scars there, obviously didn't have very much luck. At least not as much luck as THEY had at staying hidden. CRAP!, he thought.
As Ops saw the worry in the side of the Toa's beetle-like face, he quietly cocked his rifle and waited for Billy to turn to him before then saying: "Well we can't stay up here forever". "It's inevitable for him to find us if we do so".
Nodding in agreement, Billy cocked his SMG and replied: "Very well".
The others cocked their weapons as well, making sure to be as quiet as bionically possible while doing so.
"How many bullets do you all have"?, Billy quickly decided to ask.
Maze checked his battle rifle.
"Twenty-seven"., He responded.
"Forty"., Ops told him.
From there, they continued looking at the ammo markers on their weapons. Billy had thirty, Outilisa had ten, Pow had eighteen, Edward had five (which really wasn't all that surprising to the rest of the Toa), Gahu had seventy (Not bad for a newbie), and then there was Robert.
Robert just looked up at the others and responded with a voice of serious sarcasm: "Mine no-have rahi crap".
Edward glared at him, then saying: "You know, you could've just said NONE".
"He was JOKING Edward"., Pow quietly scolded.
"I knew that"., Edward said in an equally negative tone.
Pow quickly felt the urge to knock Edwards head off of his shoulders with the butt of his rifle. Seeing it in his face, Robert just rolled his eyes. Edward was never really that much a fan of jokes. He had never even TOLD one. Not once in his entire life. More than likely, it was because Edward was always too serious. Too serious to even make anything close to a wise crack. And every time some one made a joke, he more than gratefully responded with an insult. It was really no wonder why no Bionicle, Transformer or Human wanted to be around him. Or better yet LIKED him.
And Pow was about to say JUST THAT until Billy quickly turned back to them and ordered: "SHH"!
Outilisa close to jumped upon hearing this, then asking: "What is it"?
"I think I hear him talking to somebody"., Billy told her.
And with that, each Toa remained quiet and listened closely to the Bioformer that was now underneath them. Whatever he was saying, it could've been important. Especially since these things were as of right now, a huge threat. If they were gonna figure out how to stop it, they were gonna need all the info they could possibly get.
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"And you're sure it's HIM"?, Scorpio asked, looking now into his earpiece.
"Positive"., Shut Down loudly responded from his side of the mic. "It DID carry his unique energy signature". "Or at least, the transmission we received did".
Scorpio's eyes widened in a sickening sense of accomplishment.
"True, but the Toabots DID figure out a way to fool us with that"., War Machine responded. "REMEMBER"?
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Billy turned to the others with a face of new found curiosity.
"TOABOTS"?, Gahu quietly asked them.
Everyone else shrugged in confusion. This was the first time this elite group of Toa had ever come across this race of... WHATEVER these things were. And what were Toabots? Also, did their Turaga KNOW about this before they were attacked? No. There was No WAY that they did. They would never keep ANYTHING from them. Or the People. Well, there WAS the hidden location of Storm Central, but THAT was for another story.
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"I'm well aware of that War Machine"., Shut Down's voice responded from his side of the mic. "But if there ARE Toabots here, we'll kill them, or SCORPIO will if he runs into them". "Now stop complaining so we can get a move on". "You too Scorpio".
Scorpio grinned then, looking down at his right claw where a GPS was implanted (Yes, he put it there himself) in it, displaying the location to what he hoped would be Killers ship.
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"Incredible"., Maze suddenly said.
The other Toa immediately looked to their ice Toa, seeing him pull a piece of bark from the tree they were sitting in.
"What is it"?, Billy asked him.
"The interior of this tree seems to be made of some sort of metallic substance"., Maze explained.
Each of the Toa's eyes quickly widened as Maze moved himself far enough to the left for them to see the sheet-like layer of metal that had rested beneath the piece of bark that had originally covered it, shining brightly against the rays of sun that reflected off of it.
"Whoa"., Pow said in his current state of amazement.
To each of them, this all seemed very unreal. METAL, of all things, growing inside of a TREE? Though the Toa DID have an organic, metal skin of their own (Simply called Min), they knew very well that something like this normally didn't happen to trees. And according to all the biological and scientific knowledge that even MAZE possessed, this was impossible! Keeping that in mind, several questions began forming in their heads.
Gahu was the first to ask one of these said questions: "What kind of metal IS it"?
"I'm not entirely sure"., Maze answered as he looked more and more closely at the metal in the tree. "I've never really seen anything like this, it COULD be alien".
NOW the Toa were confused.
"Alien HOW"?, Gahu asked him.
The other Toa and Transformer looked to him then, all sharing this same question as well as the same concern as to why this tree was even metal in the first place. Matter of fact, they would OFTEN ask the alien question whenever they found a new and completely undiscovered metal. Or a new undiscovered ANYTHING to be matter of fact. Not that any of them were exactly COMFORTABLE with asking the kind of question that pertained to race or species (Bionicles, Transformers and Humans). But it WAS helpful to them whenever they actually got an answer, for it often lowered a long list of suspects behind the crimes of which they asked about.
"Alien, as in we are NOT alone in this universe"., Maze explained. "This metal shouldn't even EXIST either". "It's not a part of any of the three periodic tables".
Each of the Toa's eyes got wider as a deafening silence started to pass. THIS was rather shocking to them. And a little irritating at the same time. First they had a transforming bionicle on their tails, and now they had discovered an ALIEN METAL that neither of the three races who inhabited the earth had ever seen before! Now they weren't gonna get ANYWHERE with these things. And the only thing they could even do to make all of this believable was to somehow find something that pertained to the existence of these transforming bionicles. And it wasn't like they were gonna be able to pull cold hard evidence out of their imagination.
"I'm gonna take a sample"., Maze told them, then taking out a miniature drill and a small glass container from his back.
"And if it's too strong for you"?, Billy asked him.
"Even a spark will do"., Maze answered, then turning on this said drill and starting his work on the silver interior, being mindful of what might come as he put the opened container underneath of it.
Billy looked back down then, deciding to watch for that scorpion thing as Maze drilled into the metal of the tree. Billy immediately widened his eyes as he then saw needle-like tracks in place of where that thing had been. Crap!, Billy thought. Yeah, he heard him on his communication device when he told him to report to... well, whoever HIM was. But then again, maybe this was their chance to find out more about these guys. Though there was no doubt in Billy's mind that sneaking into a base of superior beings who wanted to kill them would be about as risky as stuffing his own head in a buzz-saw, it would DEFINITELY be a good start to figuring out who they were and how to stop them. Or if they even COULD stop them.
Billy turned then to Maze who had just gotten a small chunk of the metal out of the tree and into the glass canister. Maze put the container in his back and gave Billy a nod, indicating that he was finished. Billy looked quietly then from Toa to Toa to Transformer, wondering what the team would think of his current plan. And it wasn't exactly like it was an OPTION at this point. After all, the world could've been at stake. But the one thing that came to his mind and in a horror never seeming to leave, would they all make it? Of that matter, he truly wasn't sure, but as he looked to his wife who looked back to him in a combined expression of worry and concern, ONE decision became even clearer: If they should ever come to be in danger, he would make Outilisa his first priority.
"What do we do now"?, Gahu decided to ask.
Billy gripped the handle of his rifle tighter as he looked to the rookie Toa of lava and replied: "We follow them".
The others looked at him, a little surprised by his answer.
"But stay in the trees"., Billy ordered. "The last thing we need today is to get spotted".
The other Toa nodded in agreement, then getting up and following Billy as he stealthily jumped from tree to tree, keeping his eyes on the tracks below.
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Well, that's chapter 4 for you guys. You like it? The next few chapters will go back to Green's zoo. Some dealing with his emotional troubles and others dealing with a certain Toabot who will eventually make his first appearance in what I expect to be chapter 7. Anyways, please leave a Review or PM me, for any thoughts and or concerns. And if you like this story enough, be sure to click the link below (follow, story) to be updated on whenever I post another chapter. Thank you all again for reading and please have a God-blessed day. :0)