These are a few characters from my Bionicle alternate universe that I’m naming the Dark Fates AU. In this universe, the events of the Ignition trilogy are cut short as the Toa Mahri fail to reach Karda Nui. Instead, the team is crushed by the combined forces of the Barraki and the Makuta.
The Mask of Life is accidentally destroyed in the battle, killing the great spirit Mata Nui.
Now, with Mata Nui dead, his body can no longer be activated, however Teridax has seized control of most of the Matoran Universe under the rule of the Empire of the Makuta with Metru Nui as its capital.
The order of Mata Nui is disbanded, the Toa are scattered and on the run and The Shadowed One has formed a flimsy alliance with Teridax, coexisting by splitting the islands amongst different Dark Hunter or Makuta warlords.
Toa Matoro:
After failing to accomplish his destiny, leaving his team for dead after barely escaping with his life and allowing the Mask of Life to be destroyed, Matoro lives with the greatest shame of a Toa. Stripping himself of his powers, he has donned a powerless Akaku, the same as when he was once a Matoran. Bent by grief and shame, his quest has become vengeance at all costs, he travels the Matoran Universe liberating small towns and fighting injustice wherever he can in hopes of eventually becoming strong enough to take out Makuta Teridax.
Weapons and Abilities:
-Twin Cutter
-Ice
Toa Takua:
In his dying moments, the great spirit Mata Nui foresaw what would become of the world and used the last of his strength to speak to Takanuva. He told him that this quest to reach him in Karda Nui was fruitless as the Matoran Universe as he knew it was about to undergo a Final Cataclysm. Transforming him into a Ta Toa that resembled his orignal Matoran form and isolating his light powers within the Avohkii so as to disguise him, Mata Nui gave Takua the most important mission of all. He had to reunite what was left of the Order and the Toa, reclaim the world from darkness and free the Matoran.
Weapons and Abilities:
-Kolhii stick
-Flamethrower
-Great Pakari/Mask of Strength (greatly increases user’s strength)
-Fire
Toa Takanuva:
Takua can wear the Avohkii to become Takanuva, swapping his fire powers for light. As a fail-safe to Mata Nui’s plan, the Avohkii will now grant any wearer light powers and an Av Toa form equal in power to the purity of the wearer’s soul. If Takua was to die, so long as the Avohkii was undamaged, a new herald could eventually find it and inherit the power and the mission of the Toa of light, while a twisted soul would corrupt it.
Weapons and Abilities:
-Staff of Light
-Great Avohkii/Mask of Light (grants the user light powers, the ability to bring understanding to the hearts of others and sense moral light in others)
-Light
Fallen:
After the defeat of the Toa Mahri during the Final Cataclysm and the disappearance of Toa Matoro, Toa Jaller was thought to be the sole survivor. His battle-damaged body was brought to the Shadowed One by a Makuta messenger as a peace offering so that the two factions could rule more or less side by side. The offering was accepted and Jaller was tortured, mutated and brainwashed until he became one of the Darkhunters’ deadliest weapons. The great Calix (mask of fate) that he wore as a Toa Inika was retrieved and reforged to resemble his Matoran mask, the Hau. It still retains its mask powers. His true name and past have been long forgotten, he serves only the Shadowed One and he goes only by “Fallen”.
Weapons and Abilities:
-Double assassin’s blades
-Reforged Great Calix/Mask of Fate (allows wearer to perform acts at the absolute top of their natural physical abilites, to pull off feats others would consider impossible, ie: incredible leaps or dodges).
Zahnok:
A damaged Nuhvok Va became separated from its swarm and wandered until it found itself in a junkyard on Karzahni. Somehow, due to a fault in its memory it felt compelled to deliver the Krana Za on its back so, using the Matoran scraps from the junkyard it built a vessel and activated it, just before it finally died from its wounds. Not much else is known about Zahnok except that it was taken in as a Darkhunter due to its sheer strength, destructive capabilities, heightened intelligence and telepathic powers. It was appointed as Fallen’s partner, the two are some of the most infamous Darkhunters in the world, feared by Toa, Matoran and Makuta alike.
Weapons and Abilities:
-Claws
-Krana Za (telepathic communication with Bohrok, mind reading)