*pov 3rd person*

Garnet woke up in his room, the memories of what happened came flooding back and he looked at his right arm. He sighed deeply before getting off of the bed and placing his back legs on the ground, followed by his left arm and finally a metal right arm which depressed slightly in the middle, a row of springs compressing slightly to support his weight. It was silver in colour, reaching up to his shoulder. The arm consisted of several metal panels, with all of the mechanical workings were hidden away. At the end was a robotic claw, a mirror of his left claw. He took a deep breath before taking a step forward, searing pain shot through what was left of his right arm and he collapsed to the floor. He slowly got back up and hobbled to the door. The mechanical arm seemed to respond to his thoughts and he could ‘feel’ with it, he clumsily lifted the arm up and grabbed the door handle before twisting it, he hobbled back to open the door to find his Vuur Koning standing there, about to open the door. His dad looked at him with a sad look on his face and knelt down to comfort the kirin, who hobbled forward and collapsed into his arms, sobbing.

“I am so, so sorry I wasn’t there to protect you” Vuur Koning said, stroking Garnets back “this shouldn’t have happened”

“Why would they do this, Dad?” Garnet asked between sobs, causing Vuur Koning’s heart to break.

“I don’t know” he said, his eyes watering, he then looked the kirin in the eyes “but we can overcome this, okay, if you need me, I’m here for you” Garnet nodded before sitting back and studying his robotic arm.

“How can I still feel?” Garnet asked, sniffing.

“It uses magic” Vuur Koning said, shrugging “it’s removable, so we can replace it when you get bigger, there are also optional extras” Garnet’s ears perked up at that.

“What do you mean?” the kirin asked.

“Well, for starters, you could have it replaced with an arm that can switch between a hand and a weapon, or tools” Garnets eye widened, Vuur Koning noticed the look on his face “let’s not get too ahead of ourselves, you need to get used to walking first” Garnets ears drooped.

“Maybe for Hearths Warming if you’re good and can walk around using that” Vuur Koning said, Garnet nodded before standing up, gingerly applying his weight to the metal arm. Vuur Koning stood up and supported him.

*pov 1st person: Vuur Koning*

I helped Garnet into the corridor, after a few meters walking he started to walk unsupported, if with a slight limp in his step. We soon reached the room where Garnet, Ruby and their friends usually hung out in. I opened the door and Garnet was tackled into a hug by Ruby

“Ow! Watch the arm, Ruby” he said, although his expression said that he didn’t mind.

“Sorry” Ruby said, she then began studying the arm “can you feel with that?”

“Sort of” Garnet said, he then looked at the arm and frowned “it feels weird though, it’s like I can feel with it, but at the same I can’t, it’s hard to explain” I then took them both to the dining hall, better to get it out of the way. The moment we entered the usual chatter of the dining hall began to die down until it was deafly silent…except for the quiet *clink* *clink* *clink* of Garnets new arm. All of the crew were looking at Garnet, with looks ranging between sorrow and pity. Garnet just frowned and carried on walking, the limp in his step becoming rather noticeable as he sped up. Eventually the usual chatter began to return as we ate, although Garnet seemed disinterested and hardly touched his food.

“Garnet?” I said “if you have a problem, just tell me” he sighed before sliding his plate out of the way and resting his head on the table.

“I hate being the center of attention, Dad” he said, bitterly “now I’m even more of a freak than before”

“You want to know something” I said.

“What?” he grunted.

“Where I come from, we don’t have replacement limbs like that” I said, he just grunted “I personally think it looks rather cool, I mean, now you’re a cyborg”

“You mean like that pirate in Treasure Planet” Ruby asked, I nodded.

“Exactly” I said “just think, you could have an arm that turns into a cannon” his ears perked up slightly.

“You’d actually let me get one like that?” he asked.

“Maybe” I said “but when you’re older, we’ll start off with something like a short sword or gun first, okay”

“Garnet’s a space-pirate” Ruby said, giggling. Garnet chuckled and lifted his head off of the table before squinting on eye.

“Avast thee scurvy space-lubbers” he said in a pirate’s voice, I tussled the small patch of mane on his head and chuckled.

“You might just give Blazewing a run for his money” I said, he started to eat his food now with more enthusiasm.

“Ye called?” Blazewing said, walking over to the table with a tray of food, he noticed Garnets metal arm “well…tha’s jus’ unfotiona’, I’m guessin’ tha’s wha’ people mean’ when they mentioned an ‘incident’”

“You’d be correct” I said, he snorted in anger.

“Tha nerve o’ some people” he muttered, I gave him a look and mouthed ‘drop it, not in front of Garnet’ said Kirin was totally oblivious to our conversation, he was too busy watching his hand rotating like a drill-bit, I raised an eyebrow.

“That’s interesting” I muttered, I then spoke up “that could be very useful”

“How so?” Garnet asked.

“For one thing, if you were in a fight, you could use that to flip someone over” I said “or use your hand like a drill” he thought for a moment before the arm split into thousands of metal pieces and reformed until it was a pneumatic drill, much like Whenua Hordika’s ‘thumper’.

“Cool!” Garnet said.

“How did you do that?” I asked, he shrugged.

“I just thought about using my hand like a drill” he said, the drill changed into a cannon, like Minions “I thought you said I would need to replace it”

“I thought you would have to as well” I said, he then began changing it into different tools, he essentially had Hordika weapons as well as a Rhotuka launcher and other tools.

“Why do you have a Rhotuka Launcher?” I asked.

“I saw the third movie” he said, shrugging “seems whatever I think of, it turns into, although I need to know what they do” I got up.

“I think I need to have a word with someone” I said “Blazewing, watch the kids for a few minutes” I found doctor Blutaderstauer quicker than expected. He was sitting at a table, eating some food.

“Guten tag, Vuur Koning” he said, I stood there with my arms crossed

“Care to explain why you gave my son a universal weapon?” I asked

“Taking precautions” he said, shrugging “I may have also asked Mata Nui to give me a hoof with the power source”

“How exactly is giving him a robotic arm that turns into any weapon or tool he can think of ‘taking precautions’?” I asked.

“Vhat if he gets into another fight, hmm?” he asked, I didn’t answer “vhat about vhen you are no longer able to protect him? Vhat if he decides to follow in your hoofsteps?”

“Okay, you are just trying to help” I said, in an annoyed tone, I walked back to the table. Some of the other Toa were sat there and Garnet was replicating their weapons, much to their amazement.

“Looks like someone will need to be taught how to use all of those weapons” Minion said, Garnet then turned his arm into a smaller version of my sword and it ignited in flames.

“Looks like someone’s taking after me” I said, his cheeks flushed and he changed the arm back to its default form.

We all began to teach Garnet how to properly defend himself, using his new arm to great effect. He had a habit of changing his tool every few seconds, making him unpredictable, however, if a tool was working well for him, he would stick with it. He seemed to take a preference to a smaller version of my sword or other fire based weapons, looks like Garnet had a little ‘Firespitter’ in him, to use the words of a certain green griffin. I made Garnet a set of armour and a mask that had the combined powers of all toa, but at a greatly reduced level, they also only worked for a very limited amount of time and needed to recharge afterwards. I also made Ruby a set, but Autumn and I would wait until Hearths Warming to give the armour to them, along with a short sword for Ruby. The new ‘elemental’ armour would be the prototypes for the armour that we would give all of the crew eventually. Garnet had his mechanical arm painted the same shade of red as the rest of his body, with a dragon scale pattern as well so it didn’t stand out too much, although if you looked twice you would realise it was a metal limb.

*a few months later*

After months of flying, we had finally reached the southern lands. Besides a few countries lining the coast, the southern continent was mostly thick forests. We briefly stopped in a Zebrican city before continuing on our way, after a while of flying over forests the scenery began to change and the wildlife became more prehistoric, greatly resembling dinosaurs on earth, much to the surprise of everyone on board. We eventually stopped for the night and I couldn’t resist going down onto the ground. The other Toa shared my opinion, and we all ended up going down, along with a small group of scientist for each of our teams. Lyra, Captain Jack Harkness and a few Equestrian scientists accompanied my team, as well as the Kirin twins and Aurora.

“Alright” I said “tonight we’re only having a quick look around, okay? We can explore further tomorrow” the scientists nodded and we picked a direction before walking in said direction. We eventually came to a large clearing and stopped dead in our tracks, all kinds of prehistoric reptiles were grazing, and all of them were herbivores, thankfully, I turned to Aurora.

“Remember what I said about dinosaurs?” I asked, she nodded, I noticed some of the scientists were wandering off, studying the great reptiles “Be careful of predators!”

“Oh, lighten up, Vuur” Lyra said, rolling her eyes.

“Actually” Minion said “he’s right to be cautious, these are totally undiscovered animals, who knows what’s out there?”

“I think we both have a pretty good idea” I said, he looked at me before nodding in understanding, Garnet and Ruby walked towards a group of large iguanodonts with really big thumb-claws.

I carefully followed the two Kirins and kept an eye on them as they marvelled at the dinosaurs.

“These things are huge!” Garnet said, a large one regarded use with curiosity for a few moments before walking off. I noticed that none of them strayed too far away from their herd.

“Safety in numbers” I noted, for about half an hour the scientists noted down all the different types. But eventually we regrouped, we were just about to head back to the ship when we saw a huge therapod dinosaur with three large spikes on its back, lurking at the edge of the forest on the other side of the clearing.

I turned to the scientists “you might want to watch this next bit closely”

“What is that!?” Garnet asked.

“I do believe it is a type of Tyrannosaur” I said, the scientists began taking notes “although it’s not like any fossils I’ve ever seen, any ideas” I looked at the scientists as I said this.

“Powerful hind legs appear to be designed for long sprints, the spikes on its back are probably for display and intimidation, the large teeth and claws are obviously meant to deal out some serious damage, large eyes mean it has a keen eyesight and it probably has a good sense of hearing and smell” a biologist said, as he said this the tyrannosaur looked our way and narrowed its eyes, the biologist then added nervously “as it has just proven, we should move before it decides to make a meal out of us” I quickly took a picture before nodding. We turned to walk back to the ship, only to find a large pack of orange and black-stripped raptors pointing spears at us.

“Tahw ni eht eman fo eht Laitselec Rothem era uoy!?” one of them said, it’s voice laiden with what sounded like surprise.

Tools and armour:

Robotic arm: as well as serving as a prosthetic limb, it also has the ability to replicate any tool or weapon the user can think of. However, the user must have a basic understanding of what the tool or weapon is capable of, he/she can't just see a weapon and instantly replicate it.

Elemental armour: has the ability to channel most known Toa elements (besides shadow as this can actually negatively effect the mind of the wearer), but at Turaga levels and only for a couple minutes at a time, requiring a short recharge time afterwards. once a power is used it becomes locked until the user has used two other elements

Mask of Kenohi powers: has the ability to channel most known Kenohi powers (besides legendary or 'immoral' masks), but at Noble Kenohi levels and only for a couple minutes at a time, requiring a short recharge time afterwards. once a power is used it becomes locked until the user has used two other mask powers

p.s. the arm, mask and armour are the first 'Bionicle' items of power that I've created. That's right, they are totally unique to this story, however, I have given them weaknesses. If you look at the Kenohi Mask powers, you'll see they all have strengths and weaknesses, for instance, the mask of healing can't heal amputations or mortal wounds, the Kenohi Hau can't shield against unexpected or surprise attacks, and the Kenohi Kakama, despite vastly improving the wearers speed, doesn't improve reflexes or reaction time (unless it's a 'Nuva' Kakama).

yes, if you write your own Bionicle crossovers, you are allowed to use the mask, armour and Robotic arm in your story, as long as you ASK first and credit me for the idea. If you ask then nine time out of ten I'll say yes.

and no, this does not mean Garnet or Ruby will be Toa. they're both 13 years old, plus to be a Toa they would both have to undergo a physical transformation into a 7-8 foot biomechanical biped with one elemental power each.

the Dinosaurs are from this group The Known World and the ideas for them ultimately belong to The Changeling Prince 2, please go and check out his group(s), they are full of awesome ideas and the forum threads are a great read, there are even a few Bionicle species in there.

the native locations of the species mentioned in the threads are not cannon to this story, however, the societies of any sapient dinosaurs in this are as true to the original ideas as possible