after a scuffle with vezok, the toa meet the matoran rebels and compare notes on what they know. armed with zamor launchers built by velika, they split up into three groups: jaller and hahli go to free enslaved matoran, hewkii and matoro go visit axonn, and kongu and nuparu sneak into the piraka stronghold to search for the toa nuva. while jaller and hahli's mission has no problems; hewkii and matoro find axonn badly injured by brutaka, telling them to stop his former partner even if it means killing him. worse, kongu and nuparu are discovered and faced with all six piraka and brutaka.