mata nui waits for the skrall to honor his deal with tuma. but then metus appears, revealing himself to be the traitor, and orders the skrall and the bone hunters to kill mata nui. the former great spirit makes click escape, but the scarabax returns along with hundreds of its kin, which gather in a huge form resembling malum, which temporarily scares the skrall and bone hunters. mata nui frees kiina and berix, even as the glatorian and agori arrive to fight the skrall and the bone hunters, and click rejoins mata nui. tuma, even though he is imprisoned, manages to escape into the desert, along with telluris, who has regained possession of the ruined skopio xv-1. as tuma escapes, his bodyguard, stronius temporarily takes control of the united skrall army, in tuma's absence.