*POV 1st Person Nova*
Myself and the rest of my team were sat around at a large planning table along with Teridax and some of his Makuta; Antroz, Vamprah, Mutran, and Trixie. Also present were Brutaka, Discord, Sombra, Tirek, and as far from the Makuta as possible, in a poorly lit corner, were some of the Separatist Makuta; Miserix, Trigidax, Red Dawn and Gilda, all leant against the wall glaring at the Makuta with their arms crossed. Luna entered the room and placed a selection of files on the table, all of the files were marked “Highly Classified” I picked one up and began reading through it as Luna began
“The mission you have all been gathered here for is of utmost secrecy.” She said, “You have been chosen because your abilities and knowledge which will prove vital during the time spent of the mission. You are not to speak a word of this to anyone, if you do then we have the right to terminate you and have any awards for past duty revoked, are we clear?” everyone voiced their acknowledgment
“48 hours ago we received notification that multiple secure containment facilities located on Terra-10 suffered a simultaneous containment breach.” Luna said “Whilst the less dangerous objects were quickly recaptured, a small number of extremely dangerous beings, sapient and non-sapient, escaped and through means that still escape us, managed to flee to the Great Spirit Robot, located in the Fenua Magna region roughly 200 Kilometres south of New Altero”

“So some of you are going home, it seems” Scar said, glancing at the gathered Makuta.

“Uh, he’s the only one from this ‘verse” Antroz said, jerking a tump towards Teridax. “So it’s a new experience for us too”

“Right” Scar muttered.

“If you’ve quit finished?” Luna pressed. Both Scar and Antroz gestured for her to continue “Thank you, from information provided by Teridax and Brutaka, we have been able to establish that, so far as we know, most of the Islands except for Metru Nui are largely intact.

“But that was 400 million years ago” Brutaka cut in “So it is anyone’s guess until we actually get down there”

“Please tell me any hell spawn your Makuta created doesn’t evolve” Minion said, looking at Teridax, who, surprisingly, shrugged and gave an expression which may as well said “hell if I know”

“A few thousand years isn’t long enough to observe the effects of your humans’ theory of evolution” he said simply.

“For this mission the priority is capture and contain” Luna said “but for a few select entities, the option to terminate with any force necessary is open to you”

“Like what?” Vinyl asked.

“WPC-682” I said, chucking the document on the table “Codenamed ‘Hard to kill reptile’”

“Sounds simple enough” Red Dawn piped up from his corner.

“Except it has rapid regeneration and an adaptive ability that would make you Makuta envious” I said “There’s even a list of all of the things they’ve tried to kill it”

“And?” Tirek asked.

“They did fuck all” I said “they dropped the idea of nuking it out of fear it would adapt to the radiation”

“So in short…” Vinyl said.

“Unless we have a serious trump card up our sleeves, I have a hard time picturing how we could defeat it” I said.

“Good thing where we’re going is uninhabited and any damage we cause is of little consequence” Bitil said.

“That’s true” I said “But it won’t be easy”

“There is one more thing” Luna said “all of you are going to receive specialised equipment, and in the case of the neu-Toa and ponies-turned-Makuta, upgraded adaptive armour. Due to the period of time the Great Spirit Robot has laid dormant, the air will most likely be unbreathable, so Sombra and Tirek will receive breathing apparatus, I assume you will be able to handle yourself, Discord”

“I can assure you, your highness” He said “I don’t need to breath like some lower lifeforms” I noticed he glared at Tirek, he was never anything but cheerful most of the time, so for him to react so vehemently towards any individual was unusual, then again it was Tirek he was directing it towards.

“Good, I expect each and every one of you to study the files on the table whilst your equipment and upgrades are provided” She said “Nova, Teridax, Miserix, if you could come with me” the three of us stood up and followed her out. She led us out into the hallway of the defiance and the door shut behind us.

“Yes?” I asked.

“I know your three teams don’t exactly get along…”

“Tell us some we don’t know” Miserix cut in, a glare from Luna silenced him.

“But I am asking you to…well, at least try not to kill each other”

“Don’t tempt me and I won’t” Teridax said, walking down the hallway “and if I find out this is some half-botched attempt to kill me, none of you will be left alive. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to return to a form more…befitting of one such as me, I’m not going down there unprepared” and with that he skulked off down the hallway.

“I don’t like it” I said to Miserix “Teridax and his Makuta are too much of a loose cannon, if they decide to turn against us it could go bad very quickly”

“Why do you think Princess Luna brought us here?” Miserix asked, referring to his team.

“Still, we need to keep an eye on them, Teridax especially” I said, Miserix nodded

“I’m more than capable of keeping them in line if the need arises” he said, before walking back into the planning room.

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Sometime later I found myself walking down the hallways of the Defiance. I had just undergone a systems refit, which entailed adaptive armour, higher quality Protosteel and updated targeting systems and Head up display, which catalogued and labelled just about everything I saw. suddenly a massive bang echoed through the halls, causing myself and any and anyone else working on the Defiance to turn towards the source of the noise, curiosity over coming me, my HUD displayed a map of the Defiance with a beacon pointing out the origin of the noise. I was nearing a large room when an electronic device punched through the door and embedded itself in the opposite wall; my HUD confirmed it to be the suppression device that had been implanted in Teridax, as per the terms of his reformation. Looking inside the room, I saw Teridax ripping the various bits of suppressing technology that had been added on by the Equestrians. As well as absorbing random bits of other equipment in order to bulk up.

“You know Luna won’t be happy” I said, leaning against the wall.

“Welp, I could slay you where you stand” he said, his voice getting deeper, until it reached a level that was all-too familiar. He grew in size and his armour began to change. He then began to let out a cackle that shook the ship and sent chills down my spine.

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*POV 3rd Person*

Autumn was going over the equipment that she, along with most of the other Makuta and Neu-Toa, would be receiving. The equipment she would be using included, among other things: one TUA standard A.R.-150 battle rifle (Minotaur variant). A pocket dimension generator, which was a small pistol like object that when activated imprisoned the target in a pocket dimension and “time-locked” them, meaning that a billion yours could go by in the outside world, but to the captive individual not even a femtosecond would have passed. She also had about 6 arcane grenades and was just finishing packing her equipment away when she heard a deep, booming laugh.

“What in Tartarus…?” she muttered, looking towards the source of the laugh.

“That…” Antroz said, taking stock of his equipment and weapons “was Teridax.” he then picked up a battle rifle and began stripping it “I would watch my back from now on if I were you”

“For someone supposed to be loyal to Teridax, you don’t seem very trusting of your leader” Scar said, hefting up an arcane minigun before muttering “I think I’ll keep this”

“I’m loyal, for sure” Antroz said, beginning to reassemble the battle rifle “I never said anything about trusting him, I read up on what he did to this planet’s Brotherhood, needless to say I trust him about as far as I can throw him”

“Then why follow him?” Red Dawn asked.

“I’d rather follow someone who can competently plan and come up with numerous contingencies,” Antroz said, looking down the sight of the rifle “blah-blah-blah winning side speech, you get the idea”

“Well I got out as soon as I could” Red Dawn replied “I swore to myself I would never work with the likes of him again”

“Good fucking luck with that now” Minion said, picking out a plasma cannon, similar to his old one, before turning to Boris “this one looks like it suits you” he then tossed a large sniper rifle towards the Neu-Toa of air, who caught it before looking down the scope

“This will do nicely” he said, before reaching behind him and placing the rifle in his hammer space. Just as he went to walk away Minion stopped him and whispered into his ear.

“If there is any sign of Teridax or the others turning, you don’t hesitate” He said. Boris’ expression became serious.

“Yes, Brother”

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Sometime later our assembled group was stood outside a massive cave, we were traveling light, and had brought only what we could carry. Myself and the other Neu-Toa were recording the following events for the SCP foundation.

“Well” Minion said, the mouth piece on his mask shifting into a breathing apparatus, causing his voice to become somewhat distorted “whatever happens down there’s, it’s been fun”

“We aren’t down there yet” Brutaka said, hefting a massive shotgun. We then began to descend into the cave. It was dark and we had to rely on head mounted lights to see, and even then, we could barely see 10 feet in front of us, as we made our way through the caves they seemed to stretch out for eternity.

“Watch yourself!” Scar said, grabbing Trixie’s shoulder to stop her falling down a large hole.

“Thanks” Trixie said.

“We could do with a Toa of light right now” Vinyl said, before noticing scowls from the collective Makuta “No offense”

“None taken” Antroz growled.

“Hold up” Minion said, raising his fist “Scans are showing a large cavity ahead”

“How big?” I asked.

“Massive” he responded.

“Alright, Vinyl, Minion, you’re up.” I said “Everyone else, stand back” everyone back-tracked a hundred yards or so.

“One wonders” Scar said.

“What?” I asked, activating my Hau and shielding us all from the impending blast

“If these escaped entities made their way in here” he said, readying his Gatling gun “Why isn’t the way already open for us?” I went to answer, but a loud bang cut me off. After a few seconds I lowered the shield.

“We’ll figure that out later,” I said “For now, let’s concentrate on getting inside” Walking forward I could see Vinyl and Minion peering through an opening in the cave, I looked out of the gaping hole and gasped. Behind me I heard Brutaka exclaim.

“Mata Nui!”

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