BL9 - Doom Vipers

By now, Mutran and Antroz had regained their footing. Lewa and Kopaka had retrieved their weapons and, along with a newly revived Toa Ignika, were ready for them.

“The doom vipers,” said Kopaka. “Back when we first got back to Metru Nui.”

“Gotcha,” said Lewa. “What about our silent friend?”

“He’ll figure it out,” said the Toa of Ice.

Pohatu suddenly reappeared, the three Matoran in tow. “Whatever we’re doing, we better do. The other Makuta are right behind me.”

“Doom vipers in Ga-Metru,” Kopaka replied.

Pohatu smiled. “Oh, yeah. Good choice.”

One of the things that made Kanohi Nuva masks unique was the ability of the user to share their power with whomever happened to be close by. In this case, it was Pohatu conferring the power of super speed on the other three Toa and the Matoran. Before Mutran’s eyes, all six seemed to vanish.

“Move, you fool!” Antroz snarled. “I can hear them. They are headed for the vats!”

It was already too late. The speeding heroes smashed the vats to shards, sending half-formed shadow leeches tumbling out onto the cave floor.

Chirox and Vamprah arrived just at that moment. “Stay there!” Mutran yelled. “Block the exit!”

Pohatu wanted to stay and fight. Racing at top speed had been enough to confuse and defeat a half dozen deadly doom vipers, after all, so it might work as well on Makuta. Speed was one of the few powers Makuta didn’t have. But a tap on his shoulder by Kopaka signaled that retreat was the better option.

Concentrating, he used the mask to set all six bodies to vibrate at just the right frequency. Then the party shot forward, actually vibrating right through the bodies of Chirox and Vamprah. Unwilling to leave without a parting shot, Pohatu slowed everyone down just enough that their passage disrupted the Makuta’s substance. The two cried out in excruciating pain.

Then Pohatu and his team were out of the hive mouth and into the sky.

“Let’s bring it down,” said Kopaka, pointing to the hive.

Lewa, Pohatu, and Kopaka combined their powers, striking at the relatively slender stone cord that held the hive suspended. But it remained intact, the damage they did being healed almost as quickly as they made it.

“That’s not normal stone,” said Pohatu. “It looks almost organic.”

Toa Ignika suddenly pushed forward, shouldering the other Toa aside. Before they could react, he had triggered his own unique power, weakening the living stone. It snapped in two, sending the hive plunging toward the swamp below. The Toa Nuva could see the Makuta and Matoran fleeing from it as it fell.

“What just happened?” asked Lewa Nuva, giving Toa Ignika a long look.

“We won!” shouted Solek.

Kopaka shook his head. “We survived. And we made them angry.”


- BIONICLE Legends 9: Shadows in the Sky, Chapter 7