the fight between the toa nuva and the blind and mutated makuta rages on in the swamp. krika deals a heavy blow that stuns gali, and he carries her deeper into the swamp. while there, krika claims that if the toa awaken mata nui, a horrible future will come to pass, so gali must leave to prevent that. no sooner than when those words left the makuta's mouth, a powerful blast of light flew across krika's face. he looked skyward to find the worst fear of the brotherhood of makuta: takanuva, the legendary toa of light, with his power lance still aimed at the makuta, ready to destroy his armor. krika retreated into the swamp. gali, confused at the toa's transformation, wanted answers, only to be told to wait until the toa were assembled. pohatu arrived shortly after and remarked on takanuva's new coloration. when the trio arrived at the codrex, there was a great battle between the toa and makuta. fortunately, takanuva arrived from the space between dimensions, using the deceased dark mirrors demension's brutaka's mask of dimensional gates, and manages to drive off the makuta krika, who was menacing gali, with his power lance. a soon as the toa were reassembled, ignika (now able to speak) arrived. ignika quickly reported that he was on a countdown to the elimination of everything in the universe. he told of how he was forged, and that the great beings intended him as a failsafe if the universe ever went wrong. takanuva then reported that when the toa reawaken mata nui, a massive energy storm will erupt in karda nui, and destroy everyone and everything in the cavern. no sooner than when he finished the report, the makuta returned, and a massive battle erupted once more. the toa rushed to fit the keystones they retrieved into the codrex. with the energy field down, they entered the complex, unaware that antroz was silently following them. before the other makuta could get in, tahu retrieved the keystones to raise the energy field once more. inside the codrex, the toa nuva discovered niches in the floor, similar in size and shape to the canisters that they used to make their way to the island of mata nui. onua hit a button on a nearby console, and the floor slid down to a cavern far below. the niches were then replaced by large light stones, and three metal cocoons erupted from the floor. the cocoons then disappeared, leaving behind three vehicles. then antroz sprang from the shadows into the cockpit of one of the ships, the jetrax t6. his mind merged with the ship, allowing him to see through the ship's sensors. lewa and pohatu both jumped aboard the axalara t9 and rockoh t3, and pursued antroz out of the codrex. outside the codrex, takanuva meets up with tanma and photok, and they dragged radiak into the swamp, unaware that they are being followed by kirop, chirox, and bitil (with his past selves). vamprah, gavla and gorast had gone to track down icarax, as had tahu, solek and ignika, and krika and mutran had vanished. mutran's assistant, the shadow matoran vican, meets takanuva, photok, radiak and tanma. he reports that the scream of a klakk shattered the hold shadow had over him, and he no longer served the makuta. takanuva, seeing the truth in his eyes, began search for the klakk. ironically, radiak was the one to find the creature. he attacked the rahi, intent on destroying it, but the ceature's cry broke the shadow spell. although radiak's mental state was restored, his armor, mask, and elemental ability remained as when he was fully in shadow. radiak then reported the makuta actually wanted mata nui to awaken for reasons he did not know. takanuva ordered the four matoran to leave karda nui before the energy storm erupted, but as they left, takanuva was attacked by chirox, kirop, and seven incarnations of bitil. under the sway of shadow, he lost control to rage and started attacking them all, taunting them that their greatest wish, a toa of shadow, was now in existence and they could choke on the knowledge he was not theirs, and declaring that this battle would not be a kolhii masquerade; that any makuta that got near him would die. he blasted a hole in chirox's armor and charged into the midst of the makuta, never noticing one of the bitils was about to strike him down. meanwhile, antroz fought pohatu, lewa and kopaka in a battle on board vehicles.