“What?” Vinyl asked.

“Rahkshi” I said “shadows that cower in the depths, they are the bastard sons of the Teridax, there are 42 different types all together, originally led by Teridax, until he was killed”

“So what’s the problem?” Vinyl asked.

“Evan Teridax was reluctant to use them, because they destroy everything in their path” I said “and when they aren’t under his influence they are extremely territorial and aggressive, if they’ve got Garnet and Thel…oh god”

“Right!” Minion said, stepping forward “we need to go after them, get Garnet and Thel, and destroy every last fucker left”

“I thought Toa weren’t supposed to kill intelligent beings” Midsummer said, we all looked at Mata Nui.

“I think we can make an exception this time” he said, we all nodded before running into the clearing, it was totally empty.

“Scar?” I asked “can you find any tracks?” he quickly looked around before nodding and pointing at a mud pathway.

“Over there” he said “fresh tracks” we began following the tracks until we reached a dark cave.

“Vinyl, send a sonar ping down there” I said, she nodded before a loud ping resonated through the jungle and into the cave, but it stopped after a few feet.

“Something’s blocking my mask power” she said, I got out my spell rifle and sword.

“Alright, we’re going in” I said “Vapaa, you’re up front lighting the way” the Toa of light nodded and he began to glow, the effect of the light only stretched a few feet in front of us, we then began walking into the cave. After several minute of walking through the darkness we came to a fork.

“Well, shit” Echo said, suddenly we all heard a hiss from our left and looked to see a creature. It was a Rahkshi alright, but it was unlike any I had ever seen. It was gunmetal in colour with a long, segmented tail, and its jaw was open to reveal a jawed tongue, saliva drooled out of its mouth and onto the cave floor.

Minion looked at it in disgust for levelling his plasma cannon and firing, the round hit the Rahkshi and it shrieked before exploding and sending green blood splattering against the wall. After a few seconds the wall began to dissolve and bubble, Minion scoffed.

“If it wasn’t bad enough that they even exist” he said as we walked past “they are also fucking xenomorphs now, fucking great!”

“Alright guys” I said “whatever you do, do not let its blood touch you”

“You don’t need to tell me twice” Vinyl said, she then retched as she walked past the body “by Celestia that shit stinks!”

“Hydro-sulphuric acid” I said “alright, I can’t stress enough how careful we need to be, don’t use melee attacks unless you absolutely have to, elemental and ranged attacks only” as we walked on the tunnel began to slope down, after several minutes the tunnel opened up into a large cave to reveal…oh shit. Hundreds upon thousands of individuals of various races from Spherus Magna were attached to the wall in much the same fashion as with the real Xenomorphs. Small, unopened cocoons hung in front of each one, surprisingly none of the captives were actually dead.

“What the fuck is going on here!” Vapaa shouted, some of the captives stirred and began calling out for help.

“Alright” I said “start freeing prisoners, but make sure they don’t leave yet” Vapaa agreed to stay at the door and everyone else nodded before splitting up to begin freeing people, I heard Garnet calling and ran towards the source of the shouts.

“Dad!” he called, he was imbedded in the wall, next to Thel “We’re over here”

“Oh, my god” I said “I’ll get you out” I cut down the cocoon in front of them both before cutting them out, it turned out to be a Kraata, which I promptly stamped on.

“Dad…” Garnet went to say, but was cut off by a voice.

“Is someone there?” the voice asked, I followed the source of the voice to find a matoran. The matoran gasped when he saw us “are you… a Toa!?” honestly I looked just as shocked as he did

“Yes, we’re here to get you out” I said, I cut him out and he slumped to the floor, his body was almost entirely covered in rust, I helped him up and Garnet began supporting him.

“400 million years I’ve waited for rescue” the matoran said, seemingly overcome with emotion “and finally it’s here”

“What is going on here?” I asked.

“These…Rahkshi, they appeared a few hundred years after Teridax was killed, just after the ‘event’” he said “they capture people and just keep them here, for what exactly, no one knows, but they keep them alive, for longer than should be possible” he began to get excited

“Shh” I said “take it easy old timer, you can tell us after we’ve got everyone out” the matoran nodded, after a few hours we managed to free everyone. Those that could stand on their own offered to help, to which we agreed.

“Alright!” I called “your freedom is through these tunnels, but I warn you, the world above has changed” and with that, I led then up to the surface.

We soon reached the mouth of the cave and most of the prosoners exclaimed at the bright daylight. We then led every one onto the beach, there wasn’t just Matoran or Agori or Glatorians, there were individuals from most sapient species, except for Toa. I was counting up all the individuals when Vapaa pulled me aside

“We are getting Celestia here, and we are going back down there to exterminate every last one of those things!” he spat, I placed a hand on his shoulder.

“Not yet” I said, I then scowled “tonight, we go back down there with all the guards from our ship, and eradicate every last trace of them until there is nothing left” he nodded and went to say something when I heard someone exclaim, we both ran over to find Mata Nui stood in front of a very familiar, albeit very aged, fire tribe Glatorian in rusty, pitted armour.

“Friend!?” Mata Nui asked, he voice filled with disbelief.

“By the great beings!” the Glatorian said “is that really you!?” They both stood there, open mouthed

“A-Ackaar!?” Mata Nui asked “how can this be?”

“Holy shit” I muttered “we’ve just rescued a prime Glatorian” Mata Nui then took a step back and his mask glowed, he then began to rise into the air and all of the former prisoners began to glow as well. They soon began to change, becoming younger, the armour on the Spherus Magnans began to renew itself and eventually all of them looked as though they were brand new. Eventually Mata Nui finished and he lowered to the ground and stumbled slightly, his armour was slightly duller now. I ran over and supported him.

“Are you okay?” I asked, Mata Nui nodded, but accepted my help all the same

“Tahu!?” Ackaar asked, I chuckled slightly and shook my head.

“No” I said “if anything, I’m closer to a Glatorian than a true Toa. I’m Toa Vuur Koning, leader of the Wolfpack team of Neu-Toa and captain of the Jörmungandr”

“Neu-Toa?” I heard a female voice ask, I looked to the source to see Kina, a Glatorian from the Water tribe.

“Unlike regular Toa, we don’t start out as Matoran” I said “we are each a different species, for instance, I’m a Human”

“I thought some of you looked odd” she said, eyeing me warily.

“Oh, by the way” I said smirking “I’m also from another dimension” Kina’s eye twitched before she feinted with a groan.

“I think you just broke her” Echo said, walking forward, Ackaar’s eyes widened as he beheld the four armed, winged Toa.

“What are you?” Ackaar asked.

“Warrior caste changeling” Echo said, before changing into an exact copy of Ackaar, he then changed back “we’re natural shape shifters” for the rest of the day we began counting off all the different former prisoners. Most of the Glatorians I recognised were there, but none of the Toa were anywhere to be found.

“Where are the Toa?” I asked.

“Oh, you mean those backstabbing, no good traitors?” Kina asked sarcastically “the fired off a nova blast and left us here to the Rahkshi”

“What!?” I exclaimed “the Toa would never do that” Kina scoffed.

“How do you think we ended up in that pit then?” she asked.

“I’m sure there is a very good reason for why they would have let of a nova blast” Vapaa said “Toa only use it as a last resort, it must have been a very serious threat” Kina scoffed before storming off.

“Kina, wait!” Gresh, a second Glatorian from the jungle tribe, said, before going to chase after her, but Ackaar held him back.

“Give her time” Ackaar said, he then turned to us “we don’t know what exactly happened, some say it was a nova blast, others remember seeing a spectrum coloured wave of energy”

“That sounds a lot like the elements of harmony” I said, seeing their looks I explained “its six items of power, each representing a different element of friendship; Loyalty, Laughter, Honesty, Kindness, Generosity and Magic”

“That sounds a lot like a team of Toa” Ackaar said.

“Not quite” I said “I’ll admit, there are similarities, but there are just as many differences as well, we’ll figure it out, some way or another. For now, let’s focus on eradicating those Rahkshi” Ackaar nodded and we began planning, Ackaar seemed sceptical as to how many guards we had.

“I doubt you have 50’000 battle ready warriors” he said, scoffing.

“Oh, ye of little faith” I said, I then tapped something on my phone and a few minutes later the Jörmungandr landed on the beach, the Glatorians jaws dropped when they saw the size of it “Behold, Jörmungandr: the Midgard serpent” Gresh pointed at the ship.

“Boat” he said, dumbly, a few minutes later a white flash filled the sky and I saw a golden shooting star, followed closely by a silver one.

“You guys might want to move” I said, before walking back a couple feet, the Glatorians ran back and with a loud bang, Celestia and Luna hit the beach, kicking up clouds of dust. They were both wearing armour, Celestia had Gold armour and Luna had silver. And they both wielded stylized spears, levitated in their magic “Glatorians, allow me to introduce my friends, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, did I mention them move the Sun and Moon in their spare time?” Celestia rolled her eyes and walked over.

“I would hardly say we move them in our spare time” she said “but yes, what he says is true, although you really need to stop relying on me so much, you’re lucky Twilight was so understanding”

“Why would a time of day be understanding?” Ackaar asked, once he had gotten over his shock, Luna giggled.

“Twilight Sparkle is a pony, and a princess” Luna said “if we are both called away she watches over the Kingdom for us, but my sister is right, you should stop relying on us so much”

“Two things” I said “one, I’ve only requested your assistance all of two times including this time, and two, I’m just making sure we have enough fighting power to totally irradiate every last Rahkshi down there” Celestia and Luna’s eyes widened.

“Surely thou can’t be serious!?” Luna said. Myself, the rest of the Neu-Toa, all of the Glatorians, Skrall, Bone hunters, Vortix, Steltians, Skakdi, Matoran and Agori deadpanned. Luna chuckled nervously “Just how serious a threat are they?”

“Enough to warrant eradication” a voice said, I looked to the direction of the voice to see Turaga Vakama walking over “Rahkshi are foul creatures, sons of Teridax himself, they should not even exist, these Rahkshi are mutated, organic beasts, a shadow even of their former selves, even Teridax would want them destroyed” the two sisters glanced at the assembled Spherus Magnans.

“Surely you can’t be thinking of actually wiping out an entire race?” Celestia asked.

“Okay” I said “let’s see you get trapped down there for 400 million years and still be merciful”

“Ah” Luna said “thou point is duly noted”

“I thought so” I said, we then began planning and eventually, we had an attack plan, we would go into the caves and go up the other tunnels, destroying any Rahkshi that we saw, we began arming all those that could fight with spell guns and teaching them to shoot using them, Ackaar and the other Glatorians with elemental weapons kept their weapons but also acquired an arcane gun.

“I prefer the feel of a blade over a ranged weapon” Ackaar said, but took an arcane pistol anyway. Kina picked up a type of arcane shot-gun, often call a buck-shot by the royal guard, she pointed it at a tree, holding it in one hand. Before she had a chance to fire I tapped her on the shoulder and shook my head.

“If you fire it like that the kick-back will rip your hand off, hold the barrel with your other hand” I said, before taking another one and showing her, I cocked it back before firing. Pain shot through my right arm and I dropped the buck-shot. I began shaking my am, trying to ignore the pain…it didn’t work “AHH, YOU FUCKING BITCH!” Kina fell on the floor laughing.

“What was that about holding the barrel?” she asked.

“It’s not funny” I said, rubbing my arm to try and alleviate the pain “let’s see you try it then” Kina scoffed before aiming the buck-shot and firing, she yelped.

“AHH, THAT REALLY HURT!” she exclaimed, before launching the shot gun across the beach

“I told you” I said.

“Looks like you both need to find yourselves better weapons” a female voice said, I groaned in exasperation before turning around.

“What the hell do you want, Roodaka?” I said, crossing my arms “because I’d much rather not have to deal with a two timing, double crossing, back stabbing, seductive, and above all annoying bitch like you” she growled before striking for me, I spell-jumped behind her before kicking her legs out from under her, she fell to the floor and both her and Kina looked at me in surprise.

“H-how did…?” Roodaka went to say, but I cut her off.

“Magic” I said, spell-jumping several times, before levitating a spell auto gun over to myself “is a wonderful, wonderful thing” I said.

“That’s my line” Discord said, appearing in a pink mushroom cloud, he then glanced around in surprise at the Bara Magnans “Well, you’ve been busy”

“Discord!” I said cheerfully, holding my arms out “glad you could make it”

“What is that!?” Roodaka said.

“I could say the same about you” Discord said “but where are my manners, I’m Discord, reformed god of chaos” he the conjured a chocolate milk of glass and drank it, before chucking the center away, which landed in a fire ball. Roodaka stared at Discord wide eyed and her eyes reduced to pinpricks

“Mata Nui, he’s worse than Vezon” she said quietly, I smirked.

“And guess who gets to work with him” I said, patting her on the shoulder Roodaka’s eyes got even smaller and she went pale slightly.

“Who is this Vezon that everyone keeps talking about?” Discord asked “he sounds like he’d be fun”

“He has an obsession with the severed heads of his enemies being mounted on the wall of his dwellings” I said, Discord frowned.

“Urgh, gag” he said, sticking his fingers down his throat “honestly, what’s the fun in killing your enemies when you can just do this”

“Do what?” Roodaka asked, confused. Discord smirked and snapped his fingers, Roodaka then turned into Queen Chrysalis…coloured bright pink with yellow polka dots. Both me and Discord fell about laughing.

“Nice to see I’m not the only one to notice that” I said, giving Discord a high five, Roodaka realised what had happened and screamed.

“You turn me back right now!” she said, stomping a forehoof, her voice now possessing the same buzzing voice of chrysalis, her eyes widened “AAH, MY VOICE” Kina started laughing as well

“You might have something in your throat” Kina said

“YOU CHANGE ME BACK RIGHT NOW!” not-Chrysalis shouted.

“It’s kind of ironic” I said “seeing as you always like mutating others so much” not-Chrysalis seethed.

“Okay Discord” Celestia said, walking over “you’ve had your fun, turn her back” Discord huffed before snapping his fingers, Roodaka turned back to her original self.

“Thank you” Roodaka said.

“You’re still working with him” Celestia said, before walking off, Roodaka’s eye twitched.

seriously, Roodaka and Chrysalis have the same voice actress, so I kind've had to put that little scene in