the next day, lewa happened to knock kirop out of the sky in battle. kopaka captured him and with lewa's help, led him to believe the toa would be launching an attack on the shadow leech hive in a few hours. kirop found a way out and escaped to the shadow leech hive, exactly as the toa had planned. they followed him, along with tanma, solek, and another av-matoran named photok.