back in metru nui, celebrations have begun. but just as turaga dume finished his victory speech, a shadow fell across the land, and the stars align into the kanohi kraahkan, great mask of shadows. teridax announces that when mata nui awakened, teridax slipped into the great spirit's mind, possessing his body and banishing mata nui's mind into the mask of life (the only thing to escape the storm, teleported away to safety). teridax tells the toa that he has also banished the mask from the universe. he now is the matoran universe, and the toa have no hope of defeating him.