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

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Chapter 22: Attack on the TATF base

As Armor and Ava stood at the front doors to the base, both of their guards up and trigger fingers ready in case either were needed, both thought about how Ops, Tali, Z, Slash, Outilisa, Pow, Amber, and Billy had not yet returned from their missions. As they were all the best in the field, it was highly unlikely that they would have been gone for this long. Considering those facts alone, this was very troublesome. 'But surely they would've been smart enough to retreat and call for back up if their chances of making it out were incredibly diminished'. Armor thought. 'Even Paradox was too smart to go into a battle like that without a plan regardless of their numbers'. Regardless of what was taking them so long, Armor prayed that they would return home okay and mostly unharmed.

But Armor's attention was pulled away from these thoughts by the sound of plane engines headed their way. Armor looked over to the sound to notice a heavily armored, Bionicle-made jet heading towards them. 'A rather familiar looking one too'. Armor thought. if it's him, I'll be sure to give him a few thousand thank yous for the people slaughtered yesterday'. Of course by thank you, he meant bullets. Then again, the Turaga were also known to fly these kinds of jets so it could've been them too. A stolen relic was definitely a good enough reason for one of them to visit anyways.

"There's a plane coming." Ava growled, brandishing her katanas, ready to stand down if it was a friendly, or attack if it were an enemy.

Noticing Ava's stance, Armor told her calmly: "Lower your swords Air-Toa. I'm sure it's just one of the Turaga coming here about the relic".

Armor's calm stance became tense then as he saw multiple parts on the plane shift into Solar Scream's Toa mode, whom hovered and smiled sinisterly down at the Toa and Toabot. Armor let out a groan then and readied his two blasters to fire as he told himself: "Shut up Armor".

"You were saying?" Ava didn't wait for Armor to answer as she swung her blades, sending a strong wind attack to knock Solar Scream to the ground.

But even in Toa mode, Solar Scream was quick. Solar Scream expertly and swiftly moved his body to the side and re-positioned the boosters behind himself to dodge the blast of wind. Solar Scream let out an amused chuckle before hovering a bit closer towards his foes.

"Toabot idiots"! Solar Scream exclaimed. "I do not wish to continue this fight, but if you do not surrender, then our forces will attack, and they will block out the sun"!

Armor simply aimed his blasters and shouted back: "Then we will FIGHT IN THE SHADE"!

"Agreed!" Ava shouted in agreement, muttering to Armor, "nice line."

Solar Scream's smile grew wider then, as this was the answer he had wanted to hear. "So be it". Solar Scream responded. Then shouting as loud as his lungs could allow: "MAKUTACONS, KILL THEM ALL"!

Not even a second later, Armor and Ava heard loud shouting and engines roaring towards them. Armor's optics widened in horror then as the sources of theses noises came into clearer view. For now, thousands of Makutacon soldiers, super soldiers, tanks, and Xtronian battle ships run, drive, and fly towards their base. As Armor then looked past the trees, he could only see more and more and more coming, farther than his optics could see. Armor didn't waste another second and began to fire as quickly as he could at the approaching Makutacon armada. Though Armor knew that there was no way he and Ava were going to finish this army off by themselves, maybe they could hold them off for just long enough until someone noticed and got back up. 'Scratch that'! Armor thought. 'We need to hold them off as long as possible to get everyone out of here! No way are we going to beat all of these Makutacons without more forces'! Sure, they had many soldiers and weapons at their disposal, but Armor hadn't even considered the possibility that he might have to build weapons to fight off war ships and tanks. 'How did they even get all of those weapons HERE'!? Armor wondered. Last he saw, the Makutacons had been too concerned with escaping Planet X with their lives to get this many weapons off planet.

"We are so in trouble." Ava deadpanned, doing everything in her power to not let her jaw drop in shock at the armada in front of them.

Just a few seconds later, as Ava and Armor were in the middle of shooting their foes, Armor caught sight of a hundred or so missiles flying towards them. Armor looked closer. 'Wait a minute'. He thought. 'The way those approaching missiles are tilted upwards. They shouldn't be able to hit us at all'. His optics widened then. 'They're trying to hit the base'! Hopefully the people inside had noticed by now because when those missiles hit, they were going to kill a lot of people, and they had lost enough as it was. That, and the resulting explosion would send debris at them. Though Armor would be fine as his min was thick enough to resist most earth materials, Ava was a normal Toa. Though highly skilled, still normal. Armor didn't waste time in tackling the Toa to the ground and covering her with his body just in time before a loud boom echoed behind them, and debris deflected off of his back.

Armor waited for the feeling of things hitting his back to stop before rising to his feet and turning around, his optics widening once more at the sight of their now half destroyed base. The entire roof had been obliterated, and many areas in the now bare inside had been caught on fire. This sight was then followed by the sound of panicked screams and running footsteps all over the base, and behind them. With the enemy approaching quickly, Armor turned back to the Toa Rahayu of air and offered her his servo.

"Come on, hurry"! Armor ordered loudly in case she were in shock.

As much as Ava would have berated him for tackling her as she could take care of herself, she didn't bother as there was no time to quarrel. They had to get the others now! "Yes, let's go!"

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Meanwhile, inside of the base, many were panicking. The sounds of screaming and running filled the base as more missiles began to fly into the base, destroying more and more of the interior with each passing second. But whilst most of these people were running around in fear, others were on the concrete floor on their hands and knees, desperately praying that God would offer mercy and allow them a way out, or for safety of their friends and families, or that if this should be this last day on earth, that their families and friends would forgive and pray for the Makutacons who killed them, for they had had their hardships too. All Bioformers had as a matter of fact, and they were blessed to have any still willing to defend them after what the Turaga had done all those years. Even after all of this, in their heartlights and sparks, they knew what the Makutacons truly deserved, was compassion.

Through all this carnage ran Iris, desperately looking for her friends while following the one signal she had on her radar. "Diego!"

The young Praxian Toabot turned around at her voice and ran to her, wrapping her in a tight hug. "Iris! You alright?"

"Yeah, for now." She smiled in relief as she returned the hug. Glancing behind her at the destruction she could see, she prayed in her heart that the others would be able to find each other wherever they where and make it out safely.

Suddenly out of a pile of rubble next to them, rose Robert who gazed around the base in fear, searching for any sign that Ava had still made in. One second, he had been saying bye to her as they both had different tasks for today, and the next second the entire ceiling had exploded and collapsed. 'Obviously a Makutacon attack'. Robert figured that much as they had proven themselves capable of much destruction in the past two battles they had had with them. But again, that wasn't what was important to to him. What was important to him, was finding his girlfriend Ava.

"AVA"! Robert shouted. "Where are you"?

"ROBERT! Can you hear me?!" Ava's voice echoed faintly from a few hallways down. The Toa Rahayu of air was dodging falling rubble and debris as she searched for her boyfriend.

Robert felt his heartlight beat faster as he heard her voice. "AVA! Over here"!

Ava ran through the end of the last hall leading into the larger front room and made straight for him the second she caught sight of him. "ROBERT! Robert!"

Robert turned his head towards her and smiled in relief as he ran towards her, hugging her tightly the second he reached her, then silently thanking God for sparing her life in this attack.

Red was among the few Toabots who had just survived the missile storm and was currently scanning the area for any other survivors under the rubble, whilst also keeping his mask power activated to shield himself and anybody else he found in case of another attack. While Red was busy with that task, Rack ran to the closest fire alarm, smashing the glass and pulling it down as quickly as he this attack had most likely already gotten everyone into a panic, after all of the people they had lost yesterday, no way was he taking any chances.

Ava cringed slightly at the fire alarms and clung tighter to Robert as she heard people screaming and scrambling to evacuate the building while they still could. She prayed that they all get out safely and without any further loss of life.

A few seconds later, everyone was greeted with the sound of a massive bell ringing loudly as if someone was repeatedly striking it ragefully. Athena had just entered the room, armed with a rifle as the bell sounded, stopping in her tracks with widened optics. 'That bell... it couldn't be...'

"What was that?" Ava asked, her voice giving away her trembling.

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls". Athena responded, then readying her rifle and aiming it towards the large gaping hole that led outside as the Makutacon masses slowly walked inside, marching towards them.

Armor rolled next to them, aiming both of his weapons at the approaching Makutacons as well as he added: "It tolls for thee".

Just when Armor though he would never have to hear that sound again, though he understood why after seeing the army before everyone else. It was a Makutacon attack bell, made to strike fear into the liarks of unsuspecting Toabots or other Bioformers of an approaching attack that they may not escape alive from. It was one of their best tactics and it would normally work if a majority of the Toabots were inexperienced rookies or civilians who did not wish to fight in this war. Armor had actually been one of those rookies and remembered barely making it out. If it weren't for Paradox and his reinforcements arriving just in time to save him and many others, he may not have made it out. But Paradox wasn't here, and though they had many allies, Armor wondered if it would be enough to fight them off, to grant their allies time to escape. After that, Armor prayed they would make it out as well. with all of their other allies evacuated, Armor had no clue how much longer they would last. But regardless of how stacked the odds were against them, he would try.

Ava's eyes widened as fear grew in her heartlight with each strike of the bell. It penetrated her to her core and she found it difficult to even think logically.

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The Makutacons were just now entering the massive hole in the front of the base, Xanthium and Killer leading them with determined and happy looks. Though Xanthium was much happier that this day had finally arrived. This was it. This was the day where he would put an end to the pointless cause he started, and the one his less significant brother had tried to continue. Xanthium had already hurt them emotionally by killing Toa and Autobots, and he divided them by taking away their leader. They were outmatched, outnumbered, and unprepared. 'What better time to kill as many as we can than now'? Xanthium thought. 'It's what they deserve after all. After I had tried to protect the Turaga, the ones whom had enslaved us, they refused to show mercy. They had exiled us off of the Earth, not caring where we would end up. Today we take away their most powerful defenders, and after that they will fall'.

Xanthium chuckled darkly then upon hearing Solar Scream ring their war bell a short distance behind them and turned to Killer. "You think the Toabots remember that old warning brother"?! Xanthium shouted over the harmonic screaming inside the base.

Killer shrugged before then removing his Skrall sword from the magnetizer of his back. "Regardless, this war must come to an end".

Immediately after saying that, Killer loaded the Thornaxx fruits into the thornaxx launcher in his sword and fired quickly at every Toabot that came into sight. Some Toabots were hit instantly, their corpses collapsing to the ground while others dodged the shots and dove behind the metallic lunch tables, lifting them up so they would serve as cover before firing back with bullets and elemental powers. The Toabots, Toa, and Autobots who joined them had no idea how much longer they would last, but regardless, they would fight as long as their bodies would allow to ensure that everyone else would escape with their lives. After all, they had all seen the tanks and super soldiers and warships still approaching towards the ready to collapse base. No way were they going to win the battle today, but at maybe if they helped enough people get out, they would live to fight and ultimately win another day.

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Biomarvel740: The fighting in the shade quote is actually a double reference to 300, and to the Guardians of Ga'hoole book series finale: War of the Embers. The bell tolls reference, I got from the Walking Dead game, which again, I don't play anymore.

Galem: The bells tolls is actually from an old poem, Bio. I read it in high school.

Biomarvel740: ... well I got it from a video game so...

Galem: lol!

Biomarvl740: (blushes)

Galem: you okay, Bio?

Biomarvel740: Yeah, I'm okay. (Gives her a reassuring smile, looks to the readers) How did you all like the chapter?

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Biomarvel740: We thank you all for reading-

Galem: and please...

Biomarvel740 and Galem: Have a God-blessed day! XD :D