in the present, right before feeding on gali's light, gorast is picked up by onua and slammed into the ground so hard she almost snaps into pieces. gali turns out to be all right, and onua and her escape, gorast and bitil wildly on their tails. they eventually arrive at the scene of tahu's dismay, and a short battle ensues. chirox, another makuta, is seen falling out of the sky, and the other three rush to help him, leaving the three toa nuva alone. they are guided deeper in the swamp by an av-matoran who had appeared to help them escape. they eventually arrive at a small ground surrounded by lightvines. the nuva are horrified by what they see in the middle: matoran-like forms are undergoing strange changes. suddenly, the forms change into bohrok, leaving the toa puzzled. the av-matoran explains that the first bohrok had evolved from av-matoran, and the transformations came naturally. gali takes her eyes off of the robots for a moment, and when she looks back, they are gone. the matoran guide hands onua a keystone, and then lies down and transforms into a bohrok, and disappears like his other brothers. tahu then expresses his subtle rage toward the fact that that was the price to be paid for mata nui's awakening.