BC3 - Nuva Merge

In the jungle near Le-Koro, Gali was primed for battle. “Ready?” she asked.

Kopaka nodded. “Ready.”

“Me, too,” Lewa added. “Let’s do this.”

Gali closed her eyes, gathering and focusing her energy. She concentrated on the other two Toa Nuva, allowing her own mind to flow and merge with theirs…

A moment later, the Toa Nuva Kaita known as Wairuha opened his eyes. Created from the mental and physical uniting of the three Toa, he combined their powers into one form.

“It is time to put an end to this threat,” he rumbled, moving toward the Lehvak-Kal that was searching a boggy area nearby.

The Lehvak-Kal stopped what it was doing. “So this is how it will be, Kaita? Then so be it.”

As Wairuha moved toward it, the creature let out a series of shrill calls. Seconds later, two more Bohrok-Kal appeared — the Kohrak-Kal and the Gahlok-Kal.

Wairuha gathered his powers. To his surprise, the creatures ignored him and turned instead toward one another. There was a blast of energy — and all of a sudden a single, larger creature stood where three had been a second before!

Wairuha gasped. The Bohrok-Kal had merged into their own Kaita being!

The creature attacked, flinging a solid mass of flickering sound toward him. Wairuha ducked, but it was too late.

The orb caught him and trapped him within an airless, magnetized vortex of sound. Every part of his body was pulled toward every other part by the intense magnetic field, while his mouth gasped for air and his mind shrieked against the pummeling scream of sound.

No, Wairuha thought, struggling to retain consciousness. Must — fight — against —

“Ooof!” Kopaka grunted as he hit the ground a second later, flung out of the unity by the force of the attack.

Nearby, the Bohrok-Kal Kaita dissolved its own merging, returning to three separate forms. “That was almost — fun,” the Lehvak-Kal said with a metallic laugh.

“Yes,” the Kohrak-Kal responded. “But we must not think of that. We have to find the queens.”

The three creatures turned away from one another and, without further discussion, scuttled off in different directions.

Kopaka watched them go as the strength slowly seeped back into his body. Finally, he was able to lift his arms, testing them for injury. “That was not fun,” he said succinctly.

“Not even a little,” Lewa agreed, his voice heavy. “If even the Toa Nuva Kaita can’t stand against these creatures, what hope is there?”

Kopaka had to agree with him. No matter how he looked at it, there seemed to be no solution. The Toa Nuva could not stop the Bohrok-Kal — they couldn’t even slow them down.

Is this the end? he wondered hopelessly. Is it our destiny to fall before this unstoppable enemy — to fail in our duty to protect Mata Nui?

He glanced over at Gali, expecting her to protest against the Air Toa’s pessimistic words.

But Gali merely shook her head, her expression downcast. “I fear that at this point, all we can hope is that the creatures’ search will turn out to be fruitless,” she commented wearily. “That Cahdok and Gahdok really are gone for good as we had hoped.”

Kopaka nodded along with Lewa. But he had his doubts.

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“Are you two going to tell me what this is about?” Tahu Nuva asked.

Pohatu Nuva could tell that the Fire Toa was reaching the end of his meager store of patience. “Soon, brother,” he said soothingly. “It will be easier to discuss it when we’re all together.”

Onua, who was in the lead, glanced over his shoulder and nodded. “A Matoran told us he saw Gali, Lewa, and Kopaka here in the jungle. We should be with them shortly.”

Tahu sighed loudly, but didn’t protest further. Pohatu was relieved. If what he and Onua had just learned was true, the Toa Nuva had much more important things to do than bicker among themselves.

Soon they heard voices through the trees, and a moment later the other three Toa Nuva emerged in a clearing. Gali spotted them first.

“Brothers!” she called, hurrying toward them. “We were just talking about coming to find you. We’ve had a rather disturbing experience that we thought you should hear about.”

“You’re not the only ones,” Pohatu replied. “Wait until you hear what Onua and I found out.”

“Yes,” Tahu said irritably. “I have been waiting for that. Too long.”

Onua nodded at Gali and the other two Toa Nuva who had just hurried up behind her. “Why don’t you three go first?” he suggested.

“Well, it all began with Gali’s ideaplan,” Lewa said. “See, she and Kopaka had just help-found me after I had a tangle with the Kohrak-Kal, and —”

“Why don’t we try the short version of the story?” Kopaka interrupted. “We merged into Wairuha. Three Bohrok-Kal formed their own Kaita. They beat us.”

Lewa rolled his eyes. “Some storyteller you are,” he muttered.

Pohatu hardly heard him. He was too shocked by what Kopaka had just said. “The Toa Nuva Kaita,” he exclaimed. “And it was no match for the Bohrok-Kal?”

“Not even close,” Gali admitted. “Its power — it was astonishing. It disunited us, leaving us helpless. Fortunately it seemed to have no interest in fighting us further and left — heading toward the north.”

“We might know why it went that way,” Onua said heavily. “Come, let’s walk that direction ourselves as we talk — you’ll understand why in a moment. Pohatu, why don’t you tell them what we learned?”

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- BIONICLE Chronicles 3: Makuta's Revenge, Chapters 9 and 10