Avohkii's Child

Avohkii's Child is the first episode in the epic series of Parallel, which stars the  group of Matoran with the ability to travel through time and also into different timelines to alter disastrous events which will happen in the future.

WARNING: Contains themes that may be harmful to young children.

Prologue
What would you imagine hell or horror to be like? Your worst nightmares? The end of the world? Tell that to someone who has been through hell, and he'll say it's an understatement. Hell is a constant battlefield fighting over something so valuable yet at the time seems so worthless. Even though you know you're doing it for the right reasons you know that you're not leaving this place without a souvenir, and not a good one.

The battlefield echoed the evil laughs of murderous beasts, agonizing screams of those who were either dying, sitting there staring at the space where their legs had used to be, or screaming at the pain of a Skakdi shoving their marauder's knife into their victim's throat.

Onepu sat behind a rock, holding his Plasma Repeater in both hands, trying to gain confidence from it being there. None came. So far, he hadn't been noticed. All the others in his group had. Kongu was lying there dead with a massive chunk blown out of him and several knives sticking out of the few places where he didn't have bullet holes. Hafu was resting on a sharp rock, now covered in blood, with an injury Onepu couldn't imagine how painful it was to receive. And Nuparu had been separated from the group by a bunch of bloodthirsty Skakdi, and Onepu could still hear his dying screams echoing in his ears. There was no hope. No hope at all.

But the Skakdi hadn't won. They had defeated the Toa and their Matoran army, but they still had the Vortixx and Visorak Horde to deal with, the Brotherhood of Makuta, and also the Glatorian from the desert of Bara Magna. What were they all fighting for? Power.

Ever since the two moons of Bara Magna had rejoined, the once-wasteland had become a beautiful planet full of every type of landscape imaginable. Each landscape had its own massive amount of Energized Protodermis, which is useful for forging anything imaginable.

The Toa wanted this to build a Makuta-free dome to protect their 13 villages from any further pain and suffering the Makuta brought. The Makuta wanted the Energized Protodermis to painfully destroy every Toa resistance left and harshly enslave the Matoran. The Skakdi wanted the resource to achieve ultimate glory and kill everything that exists in every universe. The Vortixx want it to turn the new planet of Spherus Magna into their own home where they will mutate and conduct painful experiments on everything that has tried to keep them away from the Energized Protodermis. The Glatorian wanted the Energized Protodermis to get rid of all the other armies so that they could have the new planet all to themselves.

So basically, the Toa were the only good guys in this war, and it was not going well for them.

Onepu closed his eyes and began taking in deep slow breaths. He stood up and walked away from the rock. Just in time too. A Zamor blast hit it and the rock exploded into dust. If Onepu had been there any longer he would have been evaporated.

"Get him!"

Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad. Onepu thought.

Onepu avoided the next Zamor blast and then the next. The Skakdi were out to kill him. Amazingly he did a backflip over one, which barely missed his mask and landed in the perfect position to send a quick but powerful shot at one of the attacking Skakdi. The orange beam hit the Skakdi square in the shoulder, and its flailing weapon arm smacked its companion right in the face. Being such a dumb species, the companion Skakdi saw this as an attack and shoved his marauder's knife deep into the injured Skakdi's heart, instantly killing it. But by the time the Skakdi turned around to continue its assault on Onepu, the Onu-Matoran was gone.

Chapter One
"Onepu? Onepu, are you alright?"

The Onu-Matoran's vision returned to him. In front of Onepu's eyes were Nuparu and Taipu, Onepu's two best friends.

"What happened, Onepu?" Nuparu asked.

"Yeah! We were all building a cool little android to scare Tehutti and Damek's masks off and you just passed out!" Taipu laughed.

"I what?"

"He must have hit his head pretty hard, Nuparu..." Taiup whispered.

"I heard that, Ussal-head!" Onepu reached out for Taipu's mask, but couldn't be bothered to keep his hand in the air for so long. Feeling the need to not look up so much, Onepu sat up and shook his head, trying to get rid of the sick dizziness he had.

"So, where were we with this android thing?" Onepu stood up. Nuparu and Taiup stood up as well.

"Why don't I show you, as you probably don't remember!" Nuparu laughed, and pointed to a large silver contraption.

It had two big bulky arms and short stubby legs with two wheels on each. Unlike any other of Nuparu's inventions, the machine didn't have a cockpit. Instead, it had a radio strapped to its back and Nuparu was holding a remote control.

Taiup grabbed a rusty Kanohi a clipped it into the front of the machine. "There! Done! Now, let's go freak out Tehutti and Damek!"

''Something's not right here. It's as if I've been here before.... ''Onepu thought. I vaguely remember Zemya being here right about...

And there was the Onu-Matoran. Strolling down the Onu-Koro tunnels was the all black Zemya, member of the Onu-Koro Council.

...now.

"Hey, Zemya!" Nuparu greeted the Onu-Matoran, staying very close to him, trying to make sure the Matoran didn't see the machine he had built.

"Yeah, bye Zemya!" Taiup waved goodbye.

I remember this day... Onepu thought. Something terrible is about to happen.

Suddenly Nuparu was pressing a button on his remote control, and the gears on the silver contraption began to malfunction and release smoke.

"Look what you've done, Ussal-head! You broke it!" Taipu cuffed the Onu-Matoran engineer lightly on the head.

"Well, I'll fix it!" Nuparu shot Taipu a look and leapt onto the back of the machine.

"Nuparu, I'm not getting a good feeling about this!" Onepu said.

"Don't you think I can fix this, Onepu?" Nuparu asked.

"No, I don't think you can fix it."

Nuparu ignored him and began to fiddle with some of the cogs, which just rattled more.

"Look, you're not doing it ri-" Taiup began to walk up to the machine, but Onepu yanked him by the arm just before the machine exploded into flames and wires. Nuparu's scream was cut short as his body evaporated into ashes.

Taiup screamed in pain. Onepu looked in his direction. His left leg was on fire and sizzling, also pointing at an odd angle. Onepu grabbed the fire extinguisher that was attached to the wall of every tunnel junction and put out the fire on Taipu's leg. The Onu-Matoran still screamed in pain. Onepu grabbed Taiup and flung him over his shoulders, and began the long journey back to Onu-Koro.

Chapter Two
When Onepu regained consciousness he was standing before a grave, next to Taiup. But Taiup was different. He was taller, and over his shoulders was a Turaga's cloak. Onepu immeadiately looked at the Onu-Matoran's sizzled leg. It wasn't there. Instead, a robotic replacement was there. Taipu held a Badge of Office to help him stand up properly.

"I remember the day that you pulled me away from the exploding machine, Onepu," said Taiup. "You saved my life that day."

"Just trying to help," Onepu replied.

"I just wish Nuparu had survived. I didn't care about becoming Turaga due to my injury, all I cared about was one of my best friends dying because of what I did," Taipu said.

''Taiup? A Turaga? ''Onepu thought. ''That means I was in the past! And if I hadn't done what I did, Taipu wouldn't have survived. ''

"I wish there was something I could do about it."

"No. We must all learn from our mistakes. Nuparu did, in a way no one should ever learn. Death is, however, not the worst of fates, Onepu. Had he still lived for a couple of minutes after, he would have been in agony, so he was lucky, in a way," Turaga Taipu said.

"Wasn't it better though, Turaga, that Nuparu died? If he hadn't and the machine had worked until it reached Tehutti and Damek, it would have killed them. We never meant to hurt anyone," Onepu replied.

"Yes, but if we had never built the stupid machine in the first place, Nuparu would still be alive," Turaga Taipu finished the conversation, walking away from the grave and leaving Onepu there alone with the stone that stuck out from the ground.

The Onu-Matoran read it:

Here lies

NUPARU

Onu-Koro's Greatest Engineer

Died in malfunction of latest invention

We shall always remember him

"Yes, we shall..." Onepu said, and walked away.

Onepu was back again. Zemya had left the tunnels and Nuparu was pressing buttons on his remote control. Onepu looked around, confused.

Smoke was coming out from the silver machine.

"Look what you've done, Ussal-head! You broke it!" Taipu cuffed the Onu-Matoran engineer lightly on the head, just like last time.

"Well, I'll fix it!" Nuparu shot Taipu a look and leapt onto the back of the machine, just like last time.

"Oh, Mata Nui..." Onepu muttered.

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