The Gunner Chronicles



The Gunner Chronicles is the story of Toa Gunner and his adventures, brushes with death, and other close encounters.

Chapter 1. The Toa Alpha
Gunner felt like he had only been asleep a few minutes, then once again, Toa Fernox was rousing him for another mission. That was the problem with being a member of the Toa Alpha. No rest. Only life threatening Missions.

"What is it this time?" yawned Gunner as he picked up his twin handguns.

"A horde of Chardask demons are marching toward the city on Gonda Nui. We have to stop them."

Suddenly Gunner was wide awake. "Where's the team? we're going to need a plan." Gunner was strategist on The Toa Alpha, an elite team of eleven toa who specialized in highly dangerous situations. They had trained hard to carry out tasks normal toa teams could not.

"Everybody else is arming themselves with weapons," replied Fernox. He was the leader of this five-star team and he led it well. Gunner slipped his bandolier on and followed Fernox out of his sleeping quarters and into the main hall of the Alpha Base. A large helicopter stood ready, blades spinning as the two toa leaped inside it. The helicopter sailed into the sky as the elven toa prepared for battle.

"Hey Gunner, what's the plan? asked Lhurini, a toa of are who was fingering his long blade lovingly.

"Well, I suppose we could dig a trench and have half of us wait in it for the Chardask to come and have half lure or drive the in that direction. From the trench, we could take them out one-by-one with a couple of well-aimed shots." Gunner finished his briefing looked around.

"I've got the trench digging covered," grinned Whenapu, a muscular toa of earth. "As for placing a few well-aimed shots, got that too." He a rocket onto the launcher he carried with him. Every toa on the team had special-built weapons that that took a lot of skill to use, but were among the best weapons around.

When the helicopter arrived at the island, it hovered and the toa disembarked, sliding down a rope to the ground. Fernox gave orders to dig the trench and set up artillery as Gunner studied their position.

"I see them! The Chardask are advancing this way! Hurry everybody!" Gunner yelled and the toa worked faster. The wind was howling around them and Fernox had to shout just to be heard.

"To positions everybody!" Fernox was leading a band of six toa, including himself, to attempt to lure the Chardask towards where Gunner and the remaining four other toa were positioned in the trench.

Gunner watched as the Chardask drew closer. The fight had began.