Bionicle 2:Legends of Metru-Nui
The film opens with Turaga Vakama describing a land that existed before Mata-Nui called Metru-Nui. Warriors called the Toa protected the residents of Metru-Nui but all of the Toa were defeated except Lhikan. Before he was captured by two Dark Hunters, Nhidiki and Krekka, Lhikan gave six Toa stones to six Matoran. The six were Whenua, Nuju, Matau, Onewa, Nokama and Vakama, who met at the Great Temple in Ga-Metru. They were transformed into six new toa, calling themselves the Toa Metru. They then seek to recover Great Disks, called Kanoka, hidden throughout Metru Nui, described to be in unfimiliar areas of the common. Only with these Kanoka, they can convince the leader of the city, Turaga Dume, that they can protect them.
The story also centers around Vakama's story, for when he started getting visions of the future after Lhikan got captured. He was ordered by Dume to create a mask of time known as the Vahi, but the reasons for it were unknown. The six new Toa brought the Kanoka disks to the coliseum, but Dume issues that 'the small gifts' wouldn't confirm them as Toa. Turaga Dume then tests them by encountering a sea of rising metal in the alkilini coliseum, but the Toa fail to cross it. Dume denounces their existence as Toa and unleashes the Vahki law enforcers upon them, along with a tornado. Three of the Toa, Onewa, Nuju, and Whenua are sucked into the tornado and then got put into the Prison of the Dark Hunters, while Matau, Nokama, and Vakama escape. They pass through a chute system to escape the coliseum, but the chute was backed up by the Dark Hunters. They end up almost falling off the chute systems hanging from about 1500 feet, but they made it, and Matau discovers his Toa tools let him fly.
When they ended up back on the ground, Vakama discovers that the Great Disks can be fused together, then creates a Disk of Time. During the time, he spots a Toa Star in the sky, which represented that Lhikan was alive. They hitch a ride on a Vahki transport system to follow the star. When they land in the barren Po-Metru, they encounter the Dark Hunters in person; Matau gets paralyzed by Nidihki. Then, a stampede of Kikanalo, kangaroo-bull hybrids, start to attack both factions and crush the Dark Hunters, but Nokama manages to stop the horde with her mask power of Translation. She talks with the leader of the horde, and they say Lhikan was hidden in the Canyon of Unending Whispers. They are led by the horde to a large canyon guarded by Vahki. They manage to pass all of the Vahki, including the Dark Hunters (it was especially easy to bypass the Dark Hunters for Matau's shape-shifting mask power by turning into both hunters momentarily).
Meanwhile, Onewa, Whenua, and Nuju had been trying to break out of the Dark Hunter's prision through a large panel with many airholes in it on the ceiling. They all fail, but they discover a Turaga hidden in the shadows of the cell. He explains that mask powers are needed to escape, and how they can be found. Whenua is put to test by being blindfolded and directing himself around the cell, and Nuju is tested by creating a large statue out of stones. Onewa was the last one to get tested, but due to his humor against the others, he is told to do both Whenua's and Nuju's tests at the same time. He and Whenua get into an argument, with Onewa discovering his mask power of Mind Control, but Nuju ends up breaking the fight up with hurling rocks at the wall using his mask power of telekinesis , and the wall ends up with a large hole inside it. Onewa ends up mind-controlling Nuju for a bit, who drops the debris of the hole into a large column. The Turaga tells them to depart, and they end up traveling through a dark tunnel underground.
Whenua provides illumination via his mask power of night-vision, causing a large beam of light. However, he is then attacked by a Vahki, who ironically turns out to be Matau using his mask power. Nokama and Vakama end up with the crew too, and all the Toa became reunited. However, the Turaga removes his helmet, and it turns out it was Lhikan, who used his Toa power to make the Toa Metru, reducing him to a Turaga. Vakama finds a small canister holding Dume, and Vakama discovers a terrible truth about the city. They are all attacked by a horde of Vahki, and the Toa and Lhikan end up using a spare Vahki transport to pry out of the caves.
When they came out, the Matoran were told to gather at the coliseum for some reason. When they all suddenly disappear, Dume removes his mask, and it turns out to be Makuta. He plunges the Great Spirit, Mata Nui into sleep, and the city goes into a catastropic state of shadow. Whenua locates the Matoran, who were underneath the Coliseum and placed into Matoran Spheres. After Vakama surveys them, they discover only a few of the Matoran could've been carried by the Vahki transport, and the rest had to wait for another rescue. They all pack up all the Matoran Spheres they could carry, and they travel to the Great Barrier, leading to the island of Mata Nui. Makuta along the way ends up using a large shadow hand to absorb the Dark Hunters and Nivhawk into his form, killing them, and it causes him to grow more immense with two large wings.
Vakama along the way begins to work on the Mask of Time using the Disk of Time, and then all his visions equal up to one conclusion: Makuta planned this to get control of time, and the Toa had to follow the light, meaning beyond the Great Barrier. However, Makuta attacks them along the way, and crushes the transport, demolishing the entire vehicle, and spilling all of the Toa, Matoran, and Turaga Lhikan. Nuju floats Vakama to fight Makuta himself. Vakama attacks Makuta using the Mask of Time, who counter-attacks him with the same large shadow hand that absorbed the Dark Hunters, which turns out to be more powerful than the Mask of Time's rays. Lhikan then comes in and takes the blow, causing him to gradually die. The Mask of Time flies off of Vakama's mask to another area of the barrier, and Makuta flies to find it.
Lhikan becomes gradually weakened and explains to Vakama that he was truly a Toa, and then hands his mask, the golden Hau, before dying. Enraged, Vakama accidentally turns on his mask power of invisibility. Makuta was about to put on the Mask of Time, but Vakama shoots a disk at the mask, which flies off into the water. Makuta constantly tries to attack Vakama using the shadow hand, but he can't since Vakama was too fast and invisible. At one last blow, Makuta ends up grabbing a large block of stone, and when he pulls the shadow hand back, it knocks him into the barrier's wall. The Toa Metru then use their Toa powers of Unity, and seal Makuta in a glass/ice mineral called Protodermis. Despite the loss of Lhikan, the vehicle, and the Mask of Time, all the Toa carry the pods holding the Matoran all the way back to Mata Nui.
When all the Matoran were put on the beach of Mata Nui, Vakama explains that Lhikan sacrificed power to create the Toa Metru, so they had to do the same for the Matoran. They all discharge energy into the Matoran Spheres, and they awaken all the Matoran from their deep slumber. In the process, all the Toa are turned into Turaga. One of the Matoran's mask was shattered, but Vakama replaces it with Lhikan's gold Hau, and it transforms to become his. This Matoran would then later be known as Jaller.
