We were approaching the village at the foot of the mountain the Jade Palace was located on when Glück Bolzen called out.

“Uh, Vuur Koning?” she said “Ve might have a problem” I got out of my seat and walked into the cockpit, I looked out the window and saw an equestrian ironclad warship of some kind hovering over the city, it also had Teridax’s emblem painted on the side.

“Shit” I muttered “Glück, open the rear hatch”

“Are you crazy?” she asked “at this altitude?”

“Just wait for my signal” I said, before walking back into the passenger area “alright guys, Teridax has decided to show his ugly face in the town, we’re gonna drop on him”

“What!?” the Furious Five and Po exclaimed.

“You can’t be serious” Luna said, I deadpanned “point taken” all of the Neue-Toa stood up and walked towards the rear door before getting their weapons out.

“Now! Glück” I shouted, the door opened just as Teridax’s ship started to fire on us.

“You are crazy!” Po said, clinging onto the wall.

“Probably” I replied, getting out my sword before jumping out and adapting my armour into its flight mode, I could see Ruby jump out of the Manticore in her Kaita Slayer armour, followed by Garnet. I pulled up from my dive and banked towards the town, I could see that there was also bandits as well as Rahkshi and I aimed for a group of about ten wolves that were cornering some of the villagers, I impacted into the pavement, causing a small crater and kicking up a cloud of dust. I stood up and walked towards the bandits, who were looking at me in confusion “Guten Tag”

“Are you friend or foe?” one of the wolves asked, walking forward

“I’m Vuur Koning” I said, before punching the wolf in the chest and sending him flying into a building “and you’ve made a very bad mistake by attacking this town” the remaining wolves growled before charging. One came at me from the left and went to cut me in half, only for me to block him, shattering his sword in the process and then kicking him away. Another came from the right and I uppercut his chin with my left hand, whacked the side of his head with the flat of my sword and kicked him into two of his comrades, sending all three of them crashing into a building. The rest of my team landed beside me.

“This is the part where you run away” Vinyl said, twirling her swords and causing them to buzz.

“Oh, I don’t think so” one of the wolves said. Minion lifted his sword up and flicked it to one side, causing all of the wolves to go crashing through a wall

“We gave you to option to run” he said, before turning to the villagers “are you all alright?”

“Yes, we’re fine” a goat said “Thank you”

“You can thank us later, you should find some place safe” he said, before aiming his plasma canon at an approaching Rahkshi and firing, vaporising the creature of darkness, the towns people all nodded before running off. I heard a deep, booming laughter and groaned.

“Even without you elemental powers” Teridax said, walking forward out of the smoke “you still surpr…”

“For once in your life just shut the fuck up!” Minion shouted, firing his plasma canon at Teridax and sending the Makuta flying down the street before crashing into a wall.

“Well” I heard a voice say “aren’t you all the interesting bunch” I looked up to see Tai Lung leaning against a chimney.

“Give me one reason why I shouldn’t shoot you right now” Minion said.

“Maybe I don’t have a good reason” Tai Lung said “but he does” he pointed behind us. We turned around to see Kraata-Kal, a Dark Hunter, walking over holding an unconscious Garnet and Ruby, the latter’s motion suit was torn and scorched and I could see what remained of her Kaita Slayer, it had smoke pouring out of the back where Kraata-Kal's sword was embedded.

“Sorry” Kraata-Kal said, chuckling “I kind of broke her armour, I’ll send you a check with the repair money, shall I?”

“If you fucking hurt them!” I shouted.

“Oh, please” Tai Lung said, jumping off the building and landing beside Kraata-Kal “that would mean I wouldn’t have a bargaining chip”

“What do you want?” Autumn asked.

“Your surrender” Tai Lung said.

“And if we refuse?” Scar asked.

“I get to keep these two as my pets” Kraata-Kal said, his gaze lingering on Ruby as he spoke.

“Surely you can be reasonable” Tai Lung said.

“Not today” Minion said, before releasing an electro-magnetic blast that physically knocked Tai Lung back and temporarily disabled Kraata-Kal’s suit. Boris activated his mask of speed before flying towards Kraata-Kal and snatching Garnet and Ruby away. Boris and Scar carried Ruby and Garnet away whilst myself, Minion, Autumn and Vinyl stood our ground “and now you going to find out how fucking stupid it is to threaten our family” Kraata-Kal chuckled.

“I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting that” he said, getting up “which is why I’m going to enjoy killing you all”

“And I’m going to enjoy what happens next” I said, before turning to Vinyl “NOW, VINYL!” Vinyl slammed the flat edges of her blades together, sending forth a high frequency hum that only Tai Lung and Kraata-Kal could hear, disorientating them both.

“Yaaah!” Tai Lung yelled, covering his ears. I ran towards him before kicking Tai Lung high into the air as Minion did the same with Kraata-Kal, sending them both sailing through the air and out of the village. Vinyl ceased the sonic hum.

“That Dark Hunter is probably going to be going after us from now on” Autumn said.

“Yeah” I said, sighing and nodding “probably…anyway, we should probably get back to fighting, I think I hear some bandits on the other side of the street” Minion smirked before saying.

“Leave that to me” the Toa of Magnetism then levitated into the sky with an audible hum until he was looking over the entire village. He raised up his sword, causing all of the Rahkshi, Bandits and Dark Hunters to levitate into the sky “BEHOLD, THE TRUE MIGHT OF A TOA!” and with that, he thrust his blade forward, sending all of the enemy forces flying away from the village and out of the valley. He then turned towards Teridax’s ship and ‘shoved’ it out of the valley. I heard a commotion behind us and turned to see Teridax flying after the ship, I got out my pistol and took a few shots at him, only to miss as he flew away covered in thick, smoke-like shadows.

“I’ll stop him!” Minion said over the com-link, taking aim with his cannon.

“No!” I said “let him go, we have other things to worry about” Minion sighed before lowering his canon and levitating towards the ground.

“Well” Minion said “I suppose we better go find the others” we all turned around only for a portal of some kind to open and a man in a red a black suit to fly through said portal riding a shark with explosives and a jet engine strapped to it.

“WHAT THE BUCK!?” Autumn exclaimed as we all jumped out of the way. The man stood up on the shark and back flipped off of it, landed on the ground, pulled a taco out of his back pocket, lifted up part of his mask and began eating the taco as the shark exploded on a scale that would make Michael Bay proud.

“*sigh*” he said, taking a bite of the Taco as he watched the fire raging “I love the smell of C4 in the morning”

“Oh dear god” Minion muttered, letting his head drop to the ground “why Deadpool? Of all the characters to inexplicably appear, why Dead-fucking-pool!?” he repeatedly bashed his head against the ground as he said this. Deadpool turned around.

“Someone say my name?” he asked “and furthermore, who the hell are you, you look like a bunch of Iron Man rip-offs” I stood up and walked over.

“We’re Toa” I said “and I’m looking to hire someone of your skill set”

“Not interested” he said, I responded by pulling a bag of roughly 1’000’000 bits-worth in solid gold coins out of my hammer space and letting it drop on the ground with a thud, I actually saw dollar signs appear on his eyes “What do you need me to do?”

“We need you to follow us around and help us to defeat a being of darkness and pure evil” I said, putting on a sinister tone “also, if he succeeds in taking over the universe he will enforce a total ban on tacos” he looked at me as if I’d just shot a puppy.

“That evil bastard!” he said, getting out his katanas “where is he?”

“Actually” I said “you just missed him, but follow us around and you’re sure to bump into him at some point, did I mention I know royalty who can provide suitable compensation and I have a ship with an armoury containing any weapon you desire?” he thought for a moment before saying.

"I'll do it"

*later that day*

We were all stood in a line in the square at the jade palace, whilst Shifu thanked us for our help, meanwhile a certain mercenary was leant against one of the walls eating another bloody taco, he goes through those things like a chain-smoker goes through cigarettes.

"I must personally thank you for saving our village" Shifu said "not only from the rage of Tai Lung, but also from this Teridax that you are at war with"

"It is merely our duty as Toa" I said "to save those that cannot save themselves, much like your Kung Fu masters" Shifu nodded

"They tell me you have a request" Shifu said.

"Yes" I said "they have displayed exceptional skill, even by our standards. I was thinking maybe they could join us on our quest, help us to defeat Teridax, especially if he has managed to sway Tai Lung to his side, you know the saying; fight fire with fire" Shifu hummed in thought before nodding.

"Very well" he said.

*POV 3rd person*

Garnet awoke with a groan and sat up before opening his eyes to find himself in the medical ward of the Jörmungandr.

"Garnet!" he heard Thel exclaim, before tackling him in a hug "thank gods, your okay" Garnet put his arms around the Atquean and noticed she was shaking.

"Thel, are you okay?" he asked, looking her in the eyes "Your trembling, what's wrong"

"Nothing's wrong" she said "Garnet...I'm pregnant" Next Chapter: Chapter 16 Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 41 Minutes