"Aroda, please, not now," Trelex groaned.

"I'm serious!" The Toa of Stone pointed to the sky. "Look!"

Zakita and Trelex looked in the direction that Aroda was pointing. What they saw indeed looked like four birds flying without wings. They were flying in a V-shaped formation

"Zakita, have you got any idea what those things are?" Trelex asked.

"Just because I'm a Toa of Air doesn't mean that I know about everything that can fly," Zakita huffed. He looked back up at the "birds." They were flying towards them at an extraordinarily rapid speed. He turned back to his comrades. "You guys stay here," he told them, "I'm gonna go check those things out."

"As if we could follow you!" Trelex called to him as he shot off the ground.

For a few seconds, everything seemed normal to Zakita as he approached the "birds." He was much closer to them now; close enough to tell that they weren't wingless birds, but still too far away to tell what they were. They had the body type of a Toa more or less, and they were all flying in a posture that looked vaguely like meditation. At this distance could tell their colors as well. One of them was black and brown, one of them had a red and orange, one was black and white, and one was tan and brown.

Suddenly, the tan-and-brown one shot something at him. He tried to pull up, but he was too slow, and the projectile struck him in the torso. The momentum of the projectile overcame his own and he was sent flying backwards, then he gradually began to plummet towards the ground.

He tried to reactivate his jetpack, but he was too dazed to use his powers. Below him, Matoran screamed as they bolted for cover. He hoped they would all be able to get out of the way. It would be a real shame if any of them were crushed under his falling body. It was a pretty silly way for a Toa of Air to die, he thought. Who ever heard of a Toa of Air who died from a fall? He hoped his mask wouldn't be too beat so the rest of the Toa could make a decent memorial stone.

Zakita jolted to his senses. His Mask of Density! Why hadn't he thought of that before? He focused his thoughts on activating his mask, increasing his molecular density tenfold. "Get outta the way!" he yelled at the screaming Matoran as he descended. "Get outta the way get outta the way get outta the way-OOF!" His impact with the ground was so hard that it created a crater in the street and knocked nearby Matoran off their feet.

"Wow!" Zakita called as he stepped out of the crater. "That was scary!" Matoran stared at him wide-eyed, hardly believing that they had just seen a Toa fall almost two kio and live.

"Hey, Zakita, if you're done patting yourself on the back, we could use a little help over here!" Zakita turned to see Trelex and Aroda struggling to fight off four hideous creatures. They were huge, easily a head taller than a Toa, with lizardlike heads. They were all hunchbacked, with long spines running down their back. In their hands, they each carried a double-ended staff, and from the looks of it, they all knew how to use them.

It took Zakita a couple seconds to figure out that these were the things that had shot him down. He felt a strong urge to get revenge.

"Let me at 'em!" he cried, and he launched himself forward with his jetpack. He flew towards the black and white one, both shuriken spinning in his hands. He had barely left the ground when something shot out of the creatures staff towards him, and he began spinning rapidly.

"What the-," he began, but he wasn't able to finish his sentence, because the cyclone that he was caught in sucked the air out of his lungs. "This reminds me of when I was transformed into a Toa," he thought, "but somehow I don't think I'm gonna come out of this with awesome powers."

Suddenly, he was thrown to the side like a rag doll. He instinctively increased his density, and struck the wall of a nearby building.

"Could you guys please stop throwing me around?" Zakita pleaded, "This is the only armor I've got."

He saw the creature point its staff at him again, and he rolled to avoid another cyclone. This time, Zakita responded with a cyclone of his own. The creature wasn't expecting this, and was quickly caught in the twister.

"Not so fun when you're the one being spun like a top, is it?," Zakita asked the creature while he maintained his cyclone. "See? I can make cyclones too. But for a Toa of Air like me, cyclones are Matoran's play. Let me show you real power over air!"

Zakita ceased his cyclone, and directed a powerful gust of wind at the creature, and it was sent crashing down the street and into a building. He grinned as he admired the cloud of dust and debris that was kicked up by the impact. "That should put it out of commission for a while," he said to himself.

His grin disappeared when he saw the black-and-brown creature flying towards him. It swung its staff at him, and he used one of his shuriken to deflect it. The creature flew past him, landed, and turned around. Its face opened up, revealing a slimy, worm-like object. The wormy thing split its own face open and let out an earsplitting screech, and Zakita was taken totally by surprise. "Whoa! That was freaky!"

The creature's faceplates closed, and it leaped towards Zakita. The Toa of Air threw a shuriken and cut right through the creature. It fell to the ground with a huge gash in its armor. Zakita used a gust of wind to bring the weapon back to him.

"Never mess with Toa Zakita," he told the prone creature before him. In response, the thing jumped to its feet lunged with its staff, and Zakita blocked with both his shuriken.

"How the Karzahni did are you still fighting?" Zakita asked, bewildered. "You just took a hit from my shuriken!" He glanced at the creature's side, where its armor had been sheared open. To his shock there was not a scratch to be seen where merely moments before there had been a gaping hole. "C'mon, that's just not playing fair!" he complained.

He struggled against the creature, refusing to give ground. He stole a glance at Aroda and Trelex. Aroda was ducking and dodging both blasts of the same hot gassy stuff that the tan-and-brown creature had thrown at him earlier and laser beams from the eyes of the red-and-orange one. Trelex was busy crossing blades with the tan-and-brown creature. He could see that his friends were getting tired. Maybe if he could draw their enemies away…

"Hey, Trelex," he called, "I'm gonna try to get some reinforcements. Maybe I can lure some of these things away from you guys at the same time."

"Great idea!" Trelex grunted as he used his shield to block a thrust from his opponent's staff. "Good luck!"

Zakita blasted the black-and-brown creature backwards into a wall. "Hey, creepy double spear-wielding lizard things!" he yelled, "Come and get me!" Then, without looking back, he took off towards the Toa headquarters. On the ground below, the red-and-orange and tan-and-brown creatures leaped into the air and flew after him.