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Journey for Two


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Note for anyone reading this: is there a place to save drafts on here? I don't want it stored on my local drive. Also, how do I see all the posts i've made? it's been a while since i've logged on haha.

 

Introduction

Yes, the title may have been inspired by a certain Netflix series, but this is a G1 epic. The setting is simply the Matoran Universe - not during a particular time or anything. Perhaps it's not even in the main universe, who knows - it's meant to be somewhat non specific. There are several differences from the established canon though, that I thought I'd document here in order to make the story less confusing:

 

1. There are much fewer elements: ice/water, fire/plasma, stone/earth, light/shadow etc. are the same element. Any differences between the matoran tribes is strictly cultural. Light/shadow are basically two sides of the same coin, although I don't think we'll really see that come up in the story at all, considering right now I don't have plans to include a toa of light. Iron and lightning are still elements, "the green" is referred to as Wood. Gravity, magnetism, sonics, and psionics are not elements.

2. MU anatomy is a little more fleshed out (no pun intended) here than in official canon, although I don't think it contradicts too much. Matoran Universe Inhabitants (MUIs) basically have organic organs and such, and a metallic, clockwork-mechanical exoskeleton.

3. Clothing is worn more often in this version than in official canon as well, mostly for the same reasons that it is in the real world.

4. Genetic material used to create new matoran comes from existing matoran/toa, (just like in the real world... well, not just like IRL...) so it is possible to have actual siblings - a little nod to the fact that in official canon, many characters refer to each other as brother or sister.

5. All gender/element correlations from official canon are out the window. forget about them. they don't exist. all elements have both males and females.

6. Memory crystals are the bionicle universe's version of pensives from harry potter. see author's note before the prologue.

I may add to this list periodically as I think of stuff, but there's nothing too drastic to be changed.

 

One other note: since it fits with the story, and I'm horrible at coming up with character names, pretty much all my characters will simply have nicknames. I'm going to try to have the characters use these as little as possible, given how cringeworthy they all are.

 

This story is also probably going to be told out of order, similar to ABC's Once Upon A Time, if anyone is familiar with that.

 

Characters

 

Mister - wow, that's a bad pun if I've ever seen one. truly sorry for this one. (Mist? like water?) A male Ga-matoran scientist from metru nui who works for a laboratory. While traveling for work, he became a toa. Main character. Mata feet, inika legs/arms, faxon. carries a pair of bladed oars that can be used separately or attached together to form a staff.

 

Frosty - oh jeez, can these get any worse? (yup!) A female Ko-matoran from metru nui, she also works for a laboratory, and goes on the same work trip as Mister, where they both become toa. main character. mata feet, inika legs/arms, kaukau. carries an elongated shield and a weaponized ice-pick. shield can be used as a sled.

 

Rusty - I told you these would be bad... He's a Fe-toa from an unspecified island. he knows mister from the past when they were both matoran; i think he was his contact for work on another island. main character. Miru. carries two projectile launchers (they're totally handguns) and almost always has an ammo belt or two. (he's a total Rambo bada**.)

 

Volts - sorrynotsorryanymore. a female vo-toa from... somewhere. she's with rusty. main character. undecided mask, probably a rau. carries an electrified pike, or, ahem, a lightning rod, if you will.

 

Naho - omn (oh mata nui) a "normal" name! This is basically Naho from canon, sort of. she's a ga-matoran from metru nui, and is mister's twin sister. after the lab they both worked for found out that mister became a toa, and thus didn't work for them abroad anymore, she was sent to take his place and finish his work. Kakama.

 

Table of Contents - subject to change.

Prologue.

     Naho receives a gift from an unexpected guest.

Chapter 1

     Mister and Frosty sail towards their mission.

Chapter 2

     Mister gets a mission

Chapter 3

     Mister and Frosty meet an old friend.

Chapter 4

     The foursome work on their mission

Chapter 5

     Something goes wrong

Chapter 6

     Whodunnit?

 

That's all I have time for now, this will be updated periodically. Please post in the review thread to talk about this. Does any of this make any sense? is anyone actually looking forward to reading this?

 

here's the review topic link: http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/23517-journey-for-two-review-topic/

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Author's note: i should have mentioned this in the OP's background info section, but a memory crystal works just like a pensive from Harry Potter. You hold it to you head like a wand to extract memories, and that draws them out into the crystal, and then that is the receptacle for your memories instead of a basin/sink-like object. You look into the crystal the same way you'd look into a pensive, and it's pretty much the same from there.

 

PROLOGUE

 

     At the end of a long day in the field, Naho walked along the narrow path to her makeshift house, somewhere on the Northern Continent, shedding her lab coat as she walked. She had been living here for almost a year, doing work for a laboratory company in Metru Nui on their Matoran Genome Project. Her brother had originally been chosen to lead the research team south, but a little while after leaving, his data shipments stopped coming. Eventually a letter followed, explaining that he had become a toa, of all excuses. Naho had already known this, of course, since he'd sent her an encoded message explaining as much, but she hadn't expected to be chosen so quickly to replace him.

 

     As she rounded the corner and approached her house, a small makeshift hut that could be assembled and disassembled easily, she noticed her mailbox, attached to the hut beside the door, had a small parcel in it, which she grabbed. It was a small plastic canister. She fumbled with her keys, unlocked her door, and stepped through the doorway. Inside, she hung her labcoat on the wall, then moved to a small table in the kitchen area, where she set down her mail. She looked out the window at the rolling, grassy hill beyond that led to the beach, then turned her attention back to the small canister. Sitting down, she twisted the lid off, and peeked inside: it was a collection of several parts of what she guessed would become a LEGO action figure. These figurines were an uncommon, but usually effective, method of private, secure communication, used for short messages. The plastic or metal parts fit together to form a crude likeness of the exoskeleton of either the sender or receiver, and somehow, a message was to be derived from it. Unfortunately, that was how they were so effective at being private: the message was often difficult to decode. As she fit the pieces together, Naho recalled the first time she had received a package like this. It had been her brother's way of telling her he had become a toa before telling their boss at their lab: in that canister, there were two figures, one of her brother as a matoran, and another of his new toa form, with a simple note scratched on a piece of paper: "this job has changed me a bit."

 

     It didn't take Naho long to finish assembling the figure. She wasn't surprised that it depicted her brother, since he was one of the only people she knew who used this method to send messages, but there was no note, or anything else she could see, that hinted at the meaning of the message. I better figure this out soon, she thought to herself, I have to meet the others in an hour to go fishing for dinner. After trying all sorts of poses, and examining each of the parts, she noticed something funny: the last figure she had gotten from him had a Kanohi Hau on its face, like he wore as a matoran, while this one had a Kanohi Faxon. He wouldn't go to this trouble just to tell me he got a new mask... She pulled it off the figure's plastic face, and examined it more closely. Then she saw it: etched on the inside of the tiny mask, near the forehead, was the message she'd been looking for: "C U soon. Shh!"

 

So he's paying me a visit after all this time... and apparently doesn't want anyone else to know about it!

 

 

 

 

     Nearly a week later, the plastic figurine stood on Naho's bedside table, and she had nearly forgotten about it - who knew when her brother would show up? Today's routine was, for now, pretty much exactly as any other. Get up, meet with her neighbors, and walk to work, then walk back at the end of the day. It was boring after doing it for so long, but she knew it was important work. As she rounded the corner on the path to her house from work however, she noticed something different. In front of her house, there was a large statue sitting on her porch. Passing by the other houses in the row, she came up and examined it more closely. It was of a toa, sitting in a meditative pose. So bewildered was she, she never heard her neighbor's door open. The male ko-matoran stepped out, and greeted her with a friendly "Hello!" while reaching for his own mail, scaring Naho slightly. Ko-matoran usually aren't so unnecessarily social, but this one was apparently interested in information from her.

 

"That's quite a delivery you've got there!" he noted, pointing.

 

"No kidding! Did you see who delivered it?" Naho asked, stepping off her porch to talk.

 

     The ko-matoran shook his head. "No, I've just gotten home a little while ago myself," he said. "Although I wish I could have seen that thing brought in! I can't imagine the regular postman hauled that himself!"

 

     They finished their small talk, and the ko-matoran went back inside without saying goodbye. Naho turned her attention back to the statue. What in Mata Nui's name am I going to do with this?? she wondered. Almost as if in answer, the small flat tray the statue was sitting on filled with water, spilled over the sides, and froze solid, making it much slipperier and thus easier to move. Naho then realized something important: this statue looked just like how she imagined her brother would, if his Lego shipments were anything to go by. Again, almost as if in answer, the "statue's" eyes turned from stone to a glowing blue, and its head turned to stare Naho in the face. Grinning at the sheer irony, or brilliance, of it, Naho grabbed the rope on the statue's tray and dragged it inside.

 

 

 

 

     When  it was fully over the threshold, and Naho had closed the door, the statue stood up, and its stony texture changed rapidly to the smooth metallic exoskeleton of a Toa of Water. He was notably shorter than most other toa, and he wore a Kanohi Faxon, with two bladed oars strapped to his back in an "X" harness, and a small backpack clutched in his hands.

 

"It's so good to see you again, sis," the toa said, grabbing Naho in an embrace.

 

She returned the hug, "You too! How have you been? Are you okay? What have you been up to?"

 

"Unfortunately I don't have much time, but I did bring an answer to some of your questions," the toa smiled, and reached into his pack. "Also, I've been going by the nickname Mister... don't ask, it wasn't my idea," he added.

 

"You've got to be kidding me," she teased.

 

"Nope," he affirmed, and emerged from his pack holding a large-ish crystal, about the size of a matoran forearm, that glowed a faint blue.

 

"That was a neat trick becoming a statue, how'd you pull that one off, "Mister"?" Naho asked.

 

"Kanohi Faxon," he said, pointing at his mask. "Let's me imitate Rahi powers. You ever hear of a Visorak Roporak?"

 

"No..."

 

"Be glad. Nasty little f*ck*rs, but they have the ability to camouflage themselves pretty well, so that's worked out nicely a few times for me. Here, take this," he said, pushing the crystal into her hands.

 

"Is this a... memory crystal??" Naho looked at him with surprise.

 

"Yes. It's mine, but I think it got cracked a little when I shipped myself to you. The memories might be a little bit out of order."

 

"But why..." Naho shifted her head to look at him slightly sideways.

 

"There's more: it's a toa stone too. You have to become a toa, Naho. I don't have time to explain, but I'm going to Metru Nui. That crystal will show you a couple of the things I've done, and while you're watching it, the toa power inside will turn you into one."

 

     Naho staggered back and leaned on the wall. The crystal suddenly felt much heavier now. "But... wha... I need a minute to process all this. How do I even use this? I've never used a memory crystal before."

 

"You stick it on your mask, and just... look into it? I guess that would be the best way to describe it. I wish I had more time with you right now, I've missed you so much. I've got to go though. You also can't work for Lab Corp anymore - meet me in Metru Nui as soon as you can. Nothing else matters anymore. We'll rendezvous at the Coliseum."

 

     He grabbed her in a final embrace. "I'll see you soon - bye, and love you. I'm so glad you got my message."

 

"Love ya..." she weakly echoed. And just like that, he was gone. He pulled a hooded cloak from his bag, and his mask glowed slightly, and he shimmered from thin air, just like a Fader Bull. That wasn't exactly the kind of visit she had been expecting. She wished she had more time to talk to him, but then again, what did she expect? She knew from his Lego message that it was to be a discreet visit, so why didn't she expect something like this? So stunned was she by the sudden turn of events, that Naho went and sat at her table staring at the crystal he had given her for a long time, thinking about what this meant for her future, and what she'd say to her co-workers in their makeshift neighborhood. The blue glow of the crystal shimmered and swirled back and forth inside, and as she turned it over and over in her hands she felt a tiny crack along one of the tapered, chamfered ends. Finally, she took a long, deep breath, and turned the clear flat side to face her. As she raised it to the eyeholes of her blue kakama, she could almost hear the whooshing sound of the blue glow getting louder and more anxious, which she now realized were memories, getting louder and brighter as they swirled inside. She peered through the little window into the blue fog, and with a small "clink", the crystal attached to her mask, and the outside world, if anyone had been watching, no longer could see the bright glow coming from the crystal's little viewing window.

 

     She felt as though she was still moving forward into the glowing blue fog more and more, and then she felt like she was falling, although she knew her body was still sitting in her hut. Soon, the glow began to subside, and a scene came into view before her........

 

 

to be continued in Chapter 1

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