Comic 12: Absolute Power

"In the end, the only power that could defeat them was their own." — Gali Nuva

Comic 12: Absolute Power Comics Outside/Alt. Title All Our Powers Against Us  Author  Greg Farshtey Illustrator(s) Randy Elliot Absolute Power is the twelfth comic and shows the defeat of the Bohrok-Kal, and the rise of the Rahkshi.

Plot Summary
Tahu uses the Kanohi Vahi and slows time around the Bohrok-Kal at the last moment. Their Krana-Kal Xa turn silver, and project an impenetrable forcefield, apparently leaving the Toa with no way to stop them. Onua tests that forcefield by throwing a stone at it, and it does no damage. Gali tells the Toa that they have a link to their symbols and pool their willpower, so the Toa reach out mentally to their Nuva Symbols, feeding power to the Kal. The Kal's own powers increase, and they pause, falling prey to their own egos, thinking that with this power, they could rule alongside the Bahrag. The Kal's powers go out of control, and each is destroyed by their own powers; Nuhvok-Kal's gravity power turns him into a miniature black hole. Pahrak-Kal's plasma power melts the surrounding ground and he is sent plummeting into the earth. Gahlok-Kal is able to place one symbol on the Nuva Cube, but is crushed by pieces of the Exo-Toa that are pulled by the Kal's magnetic power. Lehvak-Kal is blasted through the rock and sent into space by its Vacuum power. Tahnok-Kal is imprisoned by lightning. Kohrak-Kal is disintegrated by intense sound. Only some of the the Krana-Kal survive.

With the symbols retrieved, the Toa's powers return, and they leave the chamber, by an ice staircase made by Kopaka Nuva, and several weeks of peace follow.

Meanwhile, Teridax has regained his power, and releases the Rahkshi to find the Mask of Light