Battle of the Great Furnace
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- "No, Morbuzakh, you have had your season. The time of harvest has come!"
- — Vakama, Seeds of Doom
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The Battle of the Great Furnace was a momentous clash between six novice Toa Metru and the King Root of the dreadful Morbuzakh plant. After a near-fatal encounter with Morbuzakh seeds in an abandoned forge in Ta-Metru and another struggle with Morbuzakh thorns in the outer chamber of Ta-Metru's Great Furnace, the Toa Metru finally encountered the King Root in the Furnace's inner chamber. Over the course of the battle, the Toa exhausted all their Elemental Power before finally defeating the King Root with the power of the Great Disks.
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[carve] Goals
[carve] Toa Metru
- Find and defeat the Morbuzakh King Root.
[carve] Morbuzakh
- Defeat and enslave the Toa Metru.
[carve] Summary
[carve] Prologue
After the successful collection of the six Great Disks, the Toa Metru regrouped in the Great Temple in Ga-Metru to plan their next course of action to stop the Morbuzakh's reign of terror over the city of Metru Nui. Toa of Ice Nuju revealed the existence of a King Root of the Morbuzakh, and the Ta-Matoran named Nuhrii accurately guessed the King Root's location to be the Great Furnace. Toa of Water Nokama put Toa of Fire Vakama in charge, as the Toa were traveling to his home metru and he naturally knew it better than they did. Over their objections, the six Matoran who had discovered the locations of the Great Disks - Nuhrii, Vhisola, Orkahm, Tehutti, Ahkmou, and Ehrye - came along as well.
[carve] Morbuzakh seeds
The journey to the Great Furnace was interrupted by a sighting of Vahki order enforcement mechanoids. The Toa and Matoran quickly took shelter in an abandoned forge. Suddenly, Nuju felt something hard strike his armor and bounce off. After it happened twice, Nokama retrieved the object. Just as she noted that it looked like a kind of seed, more began to fall. As soon as the Morbuzakh seeds hit the ground, tiny vines emerged from the shells and grabbed onto whatever was closest with an unnatural strength. All Matoran and Toa were quickly overcome by the onslaught - save one. Nuju had anticipated the danger, quickly taken a deep breath, and let it out when entangled to give himself some extra room to freeze the vines that captured him. He then quickly rescued Nokama, and the two rescued the others. The eleven heroes quickly made their escape and, on Vakama's orders, Nuju and Onewa destroyed the building, burying the plants.
[carve] Morbuzakh thorns
From there, the Toa progressed unimpeded to the Great Furnace. Upon entering its outer chamber, the Toa encountered small, seemingly undefended Morbuzakh vines. Nuju almost exhausted his elemental ice power attempting to hinder the vines' growth, and the Toa were suddenly beaten back by a hail of thorns from the walls of the furnace. The six Matoran were also trapped in the outer chamber by the thorns. From his memories of a carving in the Archives, Tehutti ordered his fellow Matoran to concentrate. The result was a single being named the Matoran Nui, formed by the merging of the six Matoran. The Matoran Nui dodged the thorns, smashed the door to the Great Furnace's inner chamber with one blow, and commanded the Toa Metru to enter and defeat the Morbuzakh. The Toa charged in to the final conflict while the Matoran Nui, its task complete, made its escape from the furnace.
[carve] Morbuzakh King Root
Upon entering the inner chamber of the Great Furnace, the Toa discovered that the Morbuzakh King Root really required no seeking - it was there, in the heart of the furnace. After a brief speech, the Morbuzakh proceeded to do battle with the Toa. The Toa fought well, but with no experience in rationing their elemental powers, they exhausted them and were slowly but surely driven back. Vakama suddenly stopped fighting, as did the other Toa. Falling for the trick, the Morbuzakh grabbed the six Toa and brought them close to the King Root once again. As Vakama and his fellow heroes held up the Great Disks, pure power emerged from the disks, forming a sphere around the Morbuzakh King Root that cut it off from its vines and its energy source. As the Toa made their escape, the Morbuzakh destroyed the Great Furnace in a desperate struggle for survival even as its vines crumbled to dust. The sphere lifted the King Root into the air. Suddenly, the sphere dissipated, and the King Root fell back into the rubble of the Great Furnace with a resounding crash and crumbled into nothing.
[carve] Aftermath
With the King Root gone, Morbuzakh vines around Metru Nui turned to dust. The Morbuzakh plague was thusly ended. The Toa Metru realized themselves to be heroes, and decided to travel to the Coliseum to introduce themselves as Toa to Turaga Dume. What the Toa could not know was that the Morbuzakh had actually been working under orders from Teridax, who was also disguised as Dume.
[carve] Appearances
| Battles |
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| Pre-Metru Nui Saga |
| Battle Against the Barraki | Raid of Artakha | Raid of a Brotherhood Fortress |
| Metru Nui Saga |
| Battle of the Great Furnace | Battle in the Archives | Great Barrier Battle | Battle of the Tower of the Toa | Battle of Metru Nui | Battle for the Vahi |
| Mata Nui Saga |
| Battle for Kini-Nui | Battle of Mangaia | Siege of Po-Koro | Battle for Ga-Koro | Bohrok Nest Battle | Second Bohrok Nest Battle | Battle for the Mask of Light | Conflict of Takanuva and Teridax |
| Ignika Saga |
| Conflict with the Piraka | Battle Against Umbra | Battle of Axonn and Brutaka | Battle Against Vezon | Siege of Mahri Nui | Battle of Matoro and Pridak | Battle of Brutaka and Teridax | Battle of Nocturn and Hydraxon | Battle of the Barraki and Teridax | Battle for the Ignika |
| Karda Nui Saga |
| Siege of Karda Nui | Battle in the Shadow Leech Hive | Battle in the Sky | Battle in the Swamp | Battle for the Codrex |
| Alternate Dimensions |
| Battle at the Light Barrier | Rebellion Against the Toa Empire |
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