Lego owns Bionicle and the name Ketongu. Hasbro owns Transformers and the name Xanthium. Galem owns the characters: Tali, Ava, Amber, Iris, Diego, Alyan, Adhira, Valera, and Kasar.

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Chapter 20: Back in the forest

Adhira hovered in the air, lightning balls sparkling and hissing above her hands like mini stars, as she continued to train her glare at the cycloptic Makutacon that threatened to lives of her young friends and family. "So...what is your answer, Con?" She snarled with a smirk, a rush of adrenaline already flowing through her veins, memories of saying that to many a Decepticon back during the Great Cybertronian War on Earth. And while this one did not exactly bear the same title, she would treat him as such. She kept her gaze on his optic, waiting for him to make his move. 'Come at me, Con.'

But KillShot still made no move. Instead, the Makutacon remained silent and gazed upon the Guardian Toa of Lightning as if she were no threat. As if she were not capable of intimidating or hurting him. Almost as if he thought this was going to be an easy task. The silence itself was almost threatening, and was sending shivers down Slash's spine. In the numerous times Slash had seen him in battle, he had never seen him do this, and he didn't like it.

Adhira's smirk slowly melted into a frown in response. 'Why was he taking so long?' The only Con who had ever stared her down like this was usually Megatron, but still this was too long even for him, unless he was doing something else. The tactician within her warned her to stay alert, this could be a trap. She looked at his body language. Calm, relaxed, uninterested. Everything that reminded her of a snake before it strikes. She resumed her smirk. If he thought he could outmaneuver her, he was going to be severely disappointed. Her logical side reprimanded her pride and warned her that just because she was a seasoned warrior did not mean this youngling could not surprise her. 'Be ready for anything'. With a sigh, she relaxed her muscles a until her body language mirrored KillShot's.

Immediately after this, KillShot pointed his multi-gun at the Guardian Toa and fired before quickly lowering the gun. The bullet flew out too fast for Adhira to react, embedding itself painfully into her shoulder whilst still searing hot from it's recent emergence from the weapon.

Adhira roared in pain as she felt the bullet slice though her shoulder. 'Okay, wasn't expecting that.' She admitted to appease her logical side before hearing Tali's voice cry out her name in concern. "I'm fine." She called back, ignoring the agonizing burning sensation along with the slight tickle of tricking blood running down her arm as she looked back at Killshot, and smirked as though in victory. "I'll take that as a yes."

As fast as anyone could blink, her entire body became engulfed in blue flame as white tendrils of lightning crackled across her wings and arms. An eager gleam flitted through her glowing blue eyes before she sent bolts of lightning at Killshot.

KillShot expertly and swiftly flipped and rolled away from each bolt, then took the opportunity while Adhira was too distracted with fighting him, to fire an explosive shot up at the tree where Ops, Tali, and Slash sat. Ops had seen the shot coming though. the second he saw KillShot look at them, he knew what was going to happen.

"Everyone, jump"! Ops shouted, grabbing Tali and jumps off with Slash just in time before the tree exploded, sending wooden shards into Adhira's left arm as the force of the explosion knocked everyone but KillShot to the ground. KillShot simply smirked as he saw the wounded Adhira on the ground, and reloaded his weapon. 'All too easy'. He thought.

But Adhira had never been one to go down so easily as she quickly was back on her feet and up in the air again before soaring towards Killshot in rage. Once she got into range, she attempted to pummel him with rapid fire of bolts. But Killshot was still too quick, rolling away from and dodging all of her shots expertly, whilst also getting a few hard punches in to her mask and her wounds to agitate her. KillShot then waited for Adhira to send a large bolt of lightning towards him, and pretended to look shocked for a moment to make her believe that she had the upper servo before spinning away and firing his multi-weapon at her again. This time his searing hot bullets entered Adhira's ribs, painfully fracturing a few of them.

Adhira grunted from the pain but pressed on. She'd had worse and was not about to let him succeed. Summoning a chain of lightning, she tripped up Killshot and wrapped him in it so that he would not be able to move. Keeping her gaze on him, she pulled out of subspace her signature weapon, her trident. A beauty of ancient design from the time of the first Toa team, she rises it high above her as she prepared to strike.

But KillShot smirked darkly upon being wrapped up and immediately untangled the lightning from around himself and tossed it violently towards her. Though most Makutacons had thought his element to be light, that was not the case. It had been a deception in fact, as lightning had always been his true element. He was just so expertly skilled with the elemental power that he could manipulate it to look like light. Now that assumption had the potential to be this Guardian Toa's downfall.

Quickly, Adhira created a shield and angled it so that the chain crocheted off of her and back at KillShot. KillShot quickly rolled away from the shot, then noticed Slash, Ops and Tali retreating. Having seconds to spare, KillShot aimed at Slash's shoulder and fired a shot at him. Slash heard the odd sounding gunshot just in time and turned quickly, swinging his left wing shaped sword and deflecting the bullet towards KillShot. KillShot was too quick for this strategy to prevail however, then shooting another bullet at the approaching one, stopping and hitting it perfectly.

Then noticing Adhira charging towards him from the left corner of his single optic, he unseathed a throwing knife from a compartment in his hip and tossed in towards her. The knife flew through Adhira's left side, making a large cut in it, blood leaking quickly and painfully from the wound.

Adhira screamed louder than ever as the pain ripped through her, causing her to pant and clutch her side. But she couldn't stop yet. With her logic now drowned out by her rage, protectiveness, and pain, she went for the last resort. Gripping her trident in her hand, she began to summon a lightning storm from which she could draw more power to fry this Con to oblivion. She had had enough.

"Slash! Get Tali and Op's out of here, NOW!" She roared, never taking her eyes off of Killshot and nimbly dodging another blow. Val was going to kill her when they got home.

Slash shook his head. "I'm not leaving you here"!

After all of her help towards the Toabot cause, and her efforts to keep them safe, there was no way Slash was going to just abandon her. She didn't deserve that. Thinking and acting quickly, Slash pulled out his only smoke grenade and tossed it between the two. The grenade went off on impact to the ground, smoke dispersing heavily through the area.

KillShot held in a chuckle. 'If those idiots truly believe smoke is going to keep me from killing a Bionicle, they are wrong'. KillShot activated the infrared vision in his optic then, spotting a confused Adhira just a few feet away, lightning still trickling in her hands. KillShot smirked darkly. 'This will be a much easier kill than before'. The Makutacon thought before then aiming his multi-gun at her mask, at the center of her forehead. 'Once I give the Toabots another funeral to attend, their anger will make killing them too easy'.

But just as KillShot was about to pull the trigger, Ops had spotted him from within the smoke and quickly pulled out and fired his dad's old Ion Blasted at the Makutacon's mask. KillShot screamed in rage and pain as the energy blast grazed across his single optic, shattering it and blinding him. As KillShot clutched the bleeding wound tightly, Slash jumped in from the side, kicking KillShot harshly into a tree, cracking it.

KillShot continued to cry in rage and pain as he rose to his feet, and clutch his open optic socket. "Toabot scums"! KillShot cried before then reverting to his hovering battering vehicle mode and speeding down the path he had memorized home. 'Hopefully I can get my optic replaced'! KillShot thought. That, and hopefully he had bought the Makutacons enough time for them to get there before the other Toabots could. Otherwise, Killer and Xanthium would probably remove something else from his body.

Seeing Killshot being forced into a retreat, Adhira dispersed the storm she had summoned thus draining the last of her energy, causing her to collapse exaustedly to the ground, unconscious.

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Biomarvel740: 'All too easy'., is a reference to Darth Vader from Star Wars. KillShot's thought on Adhira's assumption being her "downfall", is a reference to the Bionicle Legends novel of the same name. KillShot's scum insult is from Transformers 3: Dark Of The Moon.

Galem: whew! That was intense!

Biomarvel740: Well I did make KillShot to actually be dangerous so...

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