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Chapter 23: Battle in TATF base

As Killer witnessed the death of numerous Toabots, Toa, and Autobots at the hands of his own army, he began to feel something strange in his liark. As if somehow this just cause was not as just as it seemed. Killers expression became more and more guilty as the sounds of screaming filled his audio receptors. 'All of this suffering'. Killer thought. 'I had always thought if I had seen them suffer the way we all did, that I would begin to feel better and that my rage would be fulfilled, maybe even satisfied. But it isn't, and I only feel worse for trying to inflict this similar pain on others. But why'? Then Paradox's words ran back trough his head: "Killer, I know you more well than you may think. The old you CARED about mercy". "You were once the one who said and I quote: "We all, no matter what race, are all the same"! Where is that Killer now brother"?

Killer growled viciously at his thought processor then. "SHUT IT, Killer". He told himself. "They deserve it". 'But do they really'? A part deep within him thought. Killer decided to ignore himself for now, before then shouting: "ONWARD MAKUTACONS"!

Every Makutacon in his massive army obeyed immediately, then charging forward in a loud scream of rage that echoed across the half destroyed base.

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Suddenly, a staff of lightning shot out from a hallway opening, killing two Makutacons at once, before being quickly followed by Diego, Iris and Valera. Without a second's delay, he charged the oncoming enemy. "Not gonna happen, Cons!" He roared, swinging his sword as he cut down three more Makutacons before blasting a fourth in the head with his acid blaster. Iris transformed into her alt mode and tore ahead of Diego, running over Makutacons before jumping up, transforming in midair and taking down a Con with a roundhouse kick while shooting five others with her twin blasters. Landing in a roll, she leapt to her feet and proceeded to smoothly kick and punch her enemies before blowing their heads off. Meanwhile, Valera had taken on her old fighting style and used her sword to slice any Con in her way in half, vertically and horizontally. Using her skills in Diffusion and Earth's martial arts, she moved quickly from target to target. It made Diego briefly think of the lightsaber battles in the Star Wars Clone Wars series. He smirked a bit but then it faded when he saw her signature move. Valera had faked out a Con, leapt over and landed behind him before whipping around in one move and shoving her armored hand through his back and chest, her hand holding his Liark. Diego stared wide eyed at the sight of his aunt's viciousness and caught her lips moving to form the words, "you left me no choice", before she crushed it and yanked her arm out of the Con's corpse before charging her next target.

Robert stood close beside Ava, both of them firing their weapons at the optics of every charging Makutacon that they could without accidentally hitting Iris, Diego, or Valera. Robert ducked quickly, pulling Ava down with him to narrowly dodge a bullet before rising back up quickly, shooting back into the optics of the Makutacon who was about to fire another shot and ducked back down in case he missed. He let out a sigh of relief as he heard a body collapse on the other side. Ava twisted and moved her body in a way that made her look like she had no bones as she shot off multiple rounds from behind their cover, each finding their targets perfectly. While the two shot Makutacons together, Robert caught sight of a Makutacon aiming his rifle in Ava's direction and quickly tackled her to the ground, cushioning the back of her head with his hand so as not to cause a concussion.

"We're gonna get our butts handed to us"! Robert shouted over the gunfire.

Maze hovered near them, firing both of his laser shoulder cannons at every Makutacon that came in sight as he spoke: "You've said that before. But I agree. What can the rest of us really do"? 'Seriously, there are 158 Makutacons piling in every five seconds. If everybody doesn't hurry up and get out of here, we're not going to get out either'.

"We keep fighting". Athena said next to them, reloading her riffle within seconds before firing again, expertly hitting each approaching Makutacon in their head or Liark chamber.

"I agree with Athena." Ava got up, giving Robert a thankful smile before the sound of blasters caught her attention. "And besides," she smirked, seeing Iris shoot down three more Makutacons, "I am so not letting my friends have all the fun." With a gleeful giggle, she picked up her blaster and ran over to Iris to help her out.

Ava came to a stop as a missile landed a few feet away from her, destroying part of the concrete floor, chunks barely missing her. Ava looked up quickly, spotting Solar Scream in his Toa form, laughing as if he were watching a comedy as he shot his left arm pistol at every Toabot he caught sight of. Then as several Toabot rolled to cover, then aiming at Solar Scream, suddenly a Toabots head was blown to bits. Ava looked to the source of the gunshot, spotting Orange smiling proudly with a Makutacon symbol on his chest.

'What the...? Is that Orange?!' Ava stared in shock before it turned into anger. 'Alright then, kid, this is what you get for picking the wrong side!' Hefting up her blaster, she fired at Paradox's wayward son and watched as it hit his shoulder.

Meanwhile, Amber and Iris where standing their ground back to back as they gunned down the enemy. Diego managed to pick off five new Cons before spotting his aunt take off like a phoenix and attack Solar Scream with a white-hot fireball. The fireball hit Solar Scream in the left wing booster, causing him to spiral out of control towards a radiator. Solar Scream screamed as he spotted it, just a few seconds before he made impact, causing an explosion that knocked him into a crowd of Toabots whilst on fire.

Valera burst out laughing at the sight, remembering how Starscream had always fallen for that move. "Ha! Serves you right, Con!" Still chuckling, she headed off towards Athena to help even the score.

Diego had just finished cutting down another Con when he caught sight of Xanthium, the mech he had been so happy to call mentor a few days ago, standing over a growing pile of Toabot, Toa, and Autobot bodies, the smile on his face so malicious, so twisted, so sickening that it snapped something in Diego. "YOU!" He roared as he charged the traitor. Hearing his furious voice, Ava turned around just in time to see Diego run down an adjacent hallway. And when she caught sight of his target, she felt panic briefly seized her.

"Diego, don't!" She cried, afraid that Xanthium will kill him.

Xanthium had just ripped the spine from a now slowly bleeding to death Toa as he spotted the charging Toabot. Xanthium grinned widely, making sure Diego was still watching as he shoved the spine through the same dying Toa's neck and passed by the now suffocating and bleeding Toa carelessly, approaching Diego with a grin. 'This boy thinks he can take me on'? Xanthium thought. He had trained Paradox for years and he had beaten him within minutes. He hadn't even taught this excuse of a Bioformer the basics. Victory was already his.

"Hey Diego"! Xanthium shouted enthusiastically. He grinned wider then as he taunted: "Did I hurt your feeling earlier, you pathetic excuse of a student? And after your failure mother came back, right!? I think I got her too. She didn't put up much fight for a Guardian Toa"!

Okay, it was bad enough the this blow-horn betrayed him by making him think he cared about him like a student but calling him a pathetic excuse was a whole new low and...oh. Oh. No. He did not...he did NOT just insult his mother! Diego felt the rage from that revelation feed him, giving him a burst of power that he applied to his charge. He was going to make Xanthium pay. And if he dared to touch even a hair of his mother's head, he'd take Xanthium's head from his shoulders so fast, not even Killer would see it coming. Despite his rage, Diego managed to recall the lessons he had been taught growing up. Quickly calculating the distance, he waited until he was a few feet away before bringing his sword up and swinging it down in a swift and clear arc. True, his mother never trained him, but that didn't mean his father hadn't.

But Xanthium saw the attack coming, and quickly raised his claw-like arm shield, easily blocking it before giving him a midair roundhouse kick too fast for Diego to react.

Refusing to be bettered by a jerk, Diego rolled back up onto his feet and charged Xanthium again, this time channeling his element through his sword, causing it to glow like the legendary Star Saber. But instead of swinging it , he dropped to the ground and attempted a swipe at Xanthium's pedes, already planning his next move should Xanthium dodge it. But Xanthium continued to be quite the unpredictable foe, jumping into the air and headbutting Diego.

"GAAH!" Diego growled, angry to have missed seeing that headbutt coming. Determined not to let Xanthium get the upper hand, Diego swung his blade, faking a left, then kicking Xanthium in the abdomen as he changed his fighting style to the hand-to-hand combat of Diffusion and karate. Xanthium reeled back for a moment, pretending not to see the attack coming, then waiting for an attempted roundhouse kick before dashing forward, grabbing him by the thigh and turning around and tossing him violently forward. Diego flew forward a few feet before hitting the hard concrete ground face first. Diego coughed a bit as he got up slowly, only to meet a violent kick in the face, causing him to rise up all the way, unfocused and a bit dizzy. Xanthium used the opportunity quickly, his right foot hitting Diego in the face in a jumping back kick, then putting him in a headlock and tossing the Toabot behind himself into a metal pillar centered in the hall.

Xanthium circled the still dizzy and now partially bleeding Toabot from a safe distance with a sadistic chuckle as he taunted: "You think you stand a chance"? Then pointing towards the battle in the reception room where Makutacons continued to charge and fight against Toa, Autobots, and Toabots that became fewer in number: "You think ANY of them stand a chance". Xanthium smirked down at him. "I am going to rip you all apart, and just like Paradox, and everyone else I've battled, you will never see me coming".

Diego spat out some blood and glared up at Xanthium's sickeningly smug face. There was no way he was going to let him win this. He would protect his friends and make Xanthium pay for his treachery. Suddenly, something came back to his memory with a vengeance. Back during his training as an Autobot, he had been passed a note on his way to his room. When he opened it, he saw the words, "Your mother wanted you to have this", in his father's handwriting, and another note. Opening the second note, he read, " To my darling Diego, I know I haven't been there for you as much as I wanted, and I know you are struggling with hiding you elemental powers. Don't be afraid of it. And don't be afraid to ask for help. You have family all around you but I won't tell you who. You're a smart mech, just like me and your father. You'll figure it out. And when you do, train hard, train carefully. Be true to who you are but keep your head down. The world isn't ready for you yet. Look out for your family and friends, and your future teammates. And remember, when the time comes to let your light shine, Release The Storm."

"Release the Storm." Diego muttered to himself, finally understanding. Closing his optics for a minute, he focused on his element, feeling it spread out throughout his body, giving him a second wind. Unknown to him, his body began to glow and crackle as tendrils of lightning wrapped around his arms like bands and covered his doorwings making them look a bit bigger than before.

"Not if I stop you FIRST!" He roared, optics snapping open to lock his white hot glare on the traitor, before slapping his hands together and firing a powerful lightning bolt at Xanthium.

Xanthium waited for the bolt to get close enough before outstretching his servo and allowing both to make impact. Immediately afterwards, the traitor closed it into a fist the bolt disappeared. Xanthium waited a few more seconds, absorbing the lightning and shifting it a bit in his fist before opening it back up to reveal a plasma-like, lava colored ball surrounded by lightning. It was his elemental power, and one of the rarest of all, supernova. "You cannot". Xanthium said confidently, before then shooting it in a ray of lava-colored energy covered in lightning.

"DIEGO!" Ava, Iris and Valera screamed in horror as Diego disappeared in the ball of charged plasma. Nearly falling to her knees, Valera did her best not to cry but her heart wept at the thought that her young nephew...was gone.

But in having not heard a scream, and having not seen blood splatter on the walls instantly upon impact, the traitor was not convinced. Besides, it had not been that strong of a blast. If he had made one strong enough, it would have made Diego even stronger. Though he did want that to happen later, he decided to try to play with him a bit for now. 'If I allow this young Toabot, blinded by his own youth, to believe he can win, I will soon have the upper hand'.

Suddenly, a fist struck out and uppercut Xanthium, sending him flying into a wall. "I can and I will." His voice growled as the smoke pulled back, revealing him unharmed, to his friends' delight.

Xanthium rose back up to his feet quickly, also unharmed as he let out a roar of laughter that sent chills down the spines of Toabots, Toabot allies, and Makutacons nearby. "That didn't even TICKLE"! Xanthium exclaimed before opening both palms and firing rays of supernova energy at the Toabot. 'Time for the second phase of my plan'. Xanthium thought with a grin.

Diego charged towards Xanthium again, this time nimbly dodging each blast while processing the position he was in. 'I can't just run directly at him, he'll be expecting that. But if I try to go for his legs again, he'll jump over me. I need to hit him from below in a way he wouldn't expect.' A picture flashed in his head and he smiled. 'Perfect. Let's do this.' Still dodging Xanthium's attacks, he quickly formed a trident in his hands which he spun to repeal a few blasts back at Xanthium before stabbing it into the ground, and sending his element through the ground like snakes towards Xanthium's feet.

But Xanthium grinned inside when he saw this, giving Diego a shocked and scared look. 'Good, now he's using his elemental power'. Xanthium remained still and allowed the lightning to hit and paralyze him.

'Got 'im!' Diego cheered within himself as Xanthium collapsed. But just to make sure that he was both down and out Diego continued to shock him. 'I have to make sure that it will take him a long time to get...back...whoa.' Diego caught himself swaying a bit. He shook his head, suddenly dizzy. 'Wha...what's going on? What's happening?' Diego tried to stop his element so that he could try to figure it out, but began to panic when the strength of the lightning increased instead of decreased. 'What's going on?! I can't stop!' He stared in horror as his trident faded from his hands, sending him sprawling onto the floor, panting as he felt as though someone was trying to rip out his very Liark. His arms shook as he struggled continuously to stop the Lightning but to no avail. He realized in fear that he had lost all control of his element.

Xanthium chuckled darkly then as he rose to his feet slowly, then saying: "This is too easy. I suppose you're wondering why you're feeling weak"? Xanthium began a slow artistic dance, raising a leg and manipulating the electricity around him with his servos as he continued: "What you feel right now is what your body was feeling when it thought I was giving it power".

Xanthium stomped his raised foot and outstretched a hand, releasing all of the lightning and driving it towards Diego, only for it to stop between him and Diego. Xanthium flipped his servo and slowly closed it as the lightning became like fluid and swirled around in a large circle until it formed like pixels in a video game into a flat, white, square shaped and stone like object with a lightning bolt on it. The second the object had formed, the electricity stopped emerging from Diego's body. Xanthium chuckled again before pulling the object toward himself and grabbing it, then relaxing, the ritual he had learned from a scroll he had stolen from the Turaga Council before his exile. The art of stealing ones element. An art known by the Toa Mangai, and created by Dume as a Toa. It was an art that was only meant to be used if absolutely necessary. The punishment for disobeying this rule was exile or death. 'Lucky for me, I as a Bioformer am invincible to anything a Toa can throw my way'.

"Do you not see"? Xanthium asked, holding the symbol out for Diego to see. "The more you fought, the more of you I took. And now you're as powerless at the Toa Nuva were against the Bohrok-Kal".

Diego stared wide-eyed at his symbol.'Whoa, I never knew my symbol looked so cool!' Then he shifted his gaze to Xanthium's smug face as he let his words sink in. 'Tch, does this fool really think he's got the upper hand? Idiot.' Shifting a bit, he managed to get back on his feet with a smug look of his own, quickly getting over the dizziness. "And just like my uncles and aunt, I will keep fighting despite the lack of my element." He growled, drawing out a javelin, ready to fight again.

Xanthium gave Diego an unamused look as he responded: "Only they won by overcharging them like batteries. And I am not a battery".

"Doesn't matter!" Diego skillfully threw the javelin, hitting Xanthium right in the shoulder. Running up to him, he proceeded to punch him in the abdominal plates and uppercut him with surprising strength. In one motion, Diego yanked the javelin out and rammed the butt of it into Xanthium's face. Xanthium growled in anger then, catching the javelin between his hands before it could penetrate his skull, then grabbing and tossing him into the wall behind him, making a crack in it. Then, still having a hold on the javelin, Xanthium heaved it downwards, into one of Diego's doorwings, pinning him to the ground. Though Diego was an irritation to him, Xanthium didn't want him to die just yet. Xanthium still had plans to enact, and he wanted Diego to see and suffer through it all.

"It does dear boy". Xanthium told him simply before turning around. "It does". Xanthium finished before reverting into his Xtronian comet-shaped jet form and flying away.

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Biomarvel740: The jumping back kick, and the ? were from the YouTube video title: TOP 10 MARTIAL ARTS MOVES YOU SHOULD KNOW, by FUNG BROS. The element of supernova is actually from a YouTube series n made by... I think it was Jetfire28(RIP). I could be wrong about that. Send me a review on the matter if that wasn't him. that "the more you fight, the more power I take"., is a reference to the Hulk 2003 movie. Lego owns the Toa Metru and Dume. That battery thing is also sort of a reference to The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

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