Zakita clenched his teeth as he focused on the screen. His avatar, a Zyglak with a wicked grin, fired its weapon at a Frostelus, which was controlled by Trelex. The Frostelus fell back as it took heavy damage. Zakita flicked the joystick and his Zyglak rushed at the Frostelus, ready to deliver a crushing blow.

Zakita smirked and pressed down the attack button… but nothing happened! He pressed again and again, but the button wouldn't go down. He began to panic as Trelex's Frostelus began to close in on his character. The Zyglak jumped out of the way to avoid the Frostelus's vicious claws, but he couldn't hold out for long; he was taking damage fast. Zakita frantically pressed the attack button again and again, but it was stuck. Suddenly his health bar disappeared and the Zyglak exploded.

"Darn controller," Zakita muttered, "The attack button's stuck!"

Trelex leaned back on the sofa with his hands behind his head. "I love my mask."

Zakita stared at him blankly, then laughed as he understood what the Toa of Electricity was saying. "Oh, I see what you did there, my attack button wasn't stuck; you used your Mask of Friction to increase the friction around it so I couldn't press it!"

"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about," Trelex said innocently.

"Hey, guys, what's up?" Aroda's voice called out from behind them.

"Nothing much," Zakita replied, "Just playing some video games. Care to join us?"

"Don't mind if I do," the Toa of Stone said as he picked up a controller and sat down. He selected his character, a buff-looking Skakdi, and picked out a map for the fight.

"So what's been happening over here while I was out?"

"Friction Face over here is being a cheater," Zakita jerked his head to indicate Trelex who gave a huge grin in response. "What about you?"

"I just got attacked by a Ba'aru in an alley," Aroda said nonchalantly, eyes glued to the screen. "I was taking a shortcut and boom, he jumped me. But I beat him. For all I know he's still stuck in that dome."

"That's awesome!" Zakita said, "Can you show me? I've gotta see this!"

"Sure!" Aroda beamed, "I can take you there!"

The three Toa left the room in such a hurry that they forgot to pause the game.

"You didn't tell us you killed him too! Why the Karzahni did you do that?" Zakita practically screamed at Aroda. The three Toa had arrived at where Aroda had fought the Ba'aru. Much to their surprise, they had been greeted by a one-eyed Ba'aru cadaver.

"I didn't!" Aroda protested, "His claws were stuck in the ground and I made the dome around him! Then I walked away, I swear!"

"Then why is this guy lying out here with his guts spilling out?" Zakita demanded.

"I swear to Mata Nui that wasn't me!"

Trelex was squatting next to the corpse and examining the wounds. "Zakita, I think he's telling the truth. Look at this, it looks like he was ripped open, probably with a serrated weapon of some sort."

"See?" Aroda said to Zakita, "I told you I didn't do it!"

"But who – or what – did?" Zakita wondered. "None of us or the other Toa have a weapon like that, and I have a hard time believing that a Turaga or a Matoran would have been able to kill a Ba-aru."

"And wouldn't he have teleported?" Aroda asked.

"He's got a point," Trelex agreed, "Whatever it was that killed him must have caught him by surprise.

"Maybe it was that four-armed thing that Verau saw this morning," Zakita suggested.

Trelex scratched his chin thoughtfully. "Maybe, maybe not. Whatever it is, something fishy is going on in Gundaru Nui."

"Ugh," Aroda gagged, "I hate fish."