Zardok

**Zardok** was a malevolent Makuta with a hatred for Rahkshi.

## History

### Arriving at the House

Zardok, along with his Makuta teammates Cyphor, Sawdris and Intor, arrived at the House in 2017. The group brought two Heat Vision Rahkshi with them, who soon became Photez and Katuna (then named Rahkshi). They soon encountered a team of Toa inhabiting the same area, declaring war upon them.

### Easter Egg Hunt

Zardok was a participant of the first Bionicle Easter Egg Hunt, in which he located one of the eggs only to be attacked by an Abductoid, which incapacitated him.

### Rahkshi Are Violent

Shortly after, Cyphor spoke to Zardok about Intor punching an unspecified man in the face, although Zardok paid no attention to him and instead sang a “random annoying song” which caused Cyphor to leave. He continued to sing to himself, irritating Rahkshi and causing her to kick him in the crotch. He painfully screamed as a result of this, and collapsed on the ground, while muttering about his dislike of Rahkshi as a species. Orzehk overheard his hateful words, and consequently cut one of his arms off.

Later that day, he described his misfortunes to Evil Makuta, who became angry at him and cut all his limbs off in fury, afterwards claiming that he, in fact, *was* a Rahkshi and didn’t appreciate Zardok’s hurtful statements.

### Cyphor Wants Doughnuts

Zardok later accompanied Cyphor, Intor and Rahkshi to the Sweet and Doughnut Shop, intending to purchase some doughnuts. However, upon entering the building, they realised that Rawzak had infiltrated the store and was posing as the manager. Zardok threatened him with his Missile Launcher, but was quickly taken out by Vorcan, who dropped on top of him. Later in the skirmish, a large tissue manifested on top of Zardok. It is unknown where this tissue came from.

### Replacement

Zardok soon faded into obscurity and was replaced by Memphis, making the Makuta extremely vengeful. While in the background, he created Techatron as an experiment for his Rahkshi Fusion idea, but this resulted in failure as Techatron was extremely docile and harmless. He tried again with Cutter and Vortex, succeeding this time and gaining a pair of loyal servants. Before he could continue his work, he was sent to the Retcon Universe as a result of his general inactivity with more prominent characters. He somehow managed to escape in the three years he was kept there, swearing to enact his revenge on Katuna and the other Rahkshi.

### Search for the Retcon Staff

After regrouping with Cutter and Vortex, he enacted a new plan to steal the Retcon Staff from the Hero Factory Secure Storage Facility, intending to use the weapon to retcon the Rahkshi. He began his quest by decimating every Hero Factory outpost in the area, hoping that one outpost would give up the facility’s location. During this massacre, he managed to murder everyone at the Beta Team outpost, including Krusher.

Regrettably, the Heroes accidentally revealed the bunker’s location by pretending to be an inside source supplying Zardok with information. The source told him to head back south, so Zardok deduced that it was trying to lure them away from the bunker, and that he and his minions should instead continue north, with only the Alpha Team outpost standing in their way. Due to this, Zardok ordered Cutter and Vortex to kidnap Vorcan, to which they obliged. Once they delivered the Toa to Zardok, he drained his Lightning powers in order to gain enough power to stand a chance against the heroes of Alpha Team.

While That One Guy was a fairly easy opponent, the trio found the battle against Raf a lot more challenging. Finally, Zardok managed to defeat her by shooting her with a concentrated beam of electricity. With no more heroes in the way, Zardok and his Rahkshi infiltrated the bunker and stole the Retcon Staff. To demonstrate its power, Zardok retconned the bunker itself.

### Battle with the Purple Hand Gam

Suddenly, the group was ambushed by the Purple Hand Gam, who surrounded Zardok and Cutter while Mr Bonkle duelled Vortex. Zardok attempted to use the Retcon Staff again, but was foiled after learning it required a day of cooldown before it could be used again. Regardless, he still managed to beat the Gam by using the energies in his Arm Blade, despite the Gam’s use of Project: Highway to defeat Cutter and a barrage of air-to-ground missiles.

Zardok left Cutter for dead and spent the rest of the day repairing Vortex, who had lost his arm in the missile strike.

### Revenge

Once 24 hours had passed, Zardok and Vortex ambushed Katuna, Memphis and Intor at their campsite. He activated the Retcon Staff and used it to Retcon all three of his former allies, removing his main opposition against ruling over the entire population.

As such, by the time the morning came he had set up a podium and gathered the residents of the House around it. He performed a speech to the crowd, who initially mocked him for his uselessness back in 2017. They had a change of heart when Vortex blew up Inkwad, now scared into submission. He then ordered the inhabitants to construct his Palace.

### Freeing Bohrok Nui

Once the palace was very near-complete, he allowed his military personnel to inhabit the building, with a select few high-ranking Matoran permitted access to the more luxurious areas. When Vortex was having his massaging session in the palace’s Starbucks chain, Zardok approached him and questioned what he was doing. Dekar, Zardok’s personal servant, interrupted the conversation and informed him about a resistance force threatening to blow up the palace with a large accumulation of heavy weaponry. Upon hearing this news, Zardok decided to take “extreme measures”, teleporting himself and Vortex into Cell 23 of the Hero Factory Maximum Security Prison. Immediately after arriving, they cloaked themselves and began conversing with the cell’s lone prisoner, Bohrok Nui.

Zardok eventually came to an agreement with Bohrok Nui, promising to supply him with an unlimited supply of fresh Starbucks coffee in exchange for him aiding against the resistance. Consequently, the broke him out of the cell and teleported back to the palace walls, where the resistance was rioting. Bohrok Nui quickly incapacitated the operatives, but they escaped thanks to a distraction organised by Tanma and Vex.

### Resistance Battle

The resistance later assaulted the palace equipped with full armaments, with Dekar again informing Zardok of the attack. Zardok used the palace’s lift to descend to the ground floor and then exited through the front gate, only to be greeted by the entire resistance prepared with vehicles, turrets and many troops. As a result, he ordered Commander Mantiz to deploy his own soldiers, initiating a brutal battle. Zardok observed the battle from the palace’s balcony, alongside Bohrok Nui and Vortex, who left at some point to get popcorn.

Eventually, Tanma and Mazeka used jetpacks to fly up to the balcony and hold the three at gunpoint, demanding that they surrender. Zardok had other plans, however, and released a trapdoor in the floor which dropped the two Matoran into the palace’s basement.

### Destruction of the Palace

After the battle, Zardok decided to relocate his palace to an area that wasn’t consistently attacked. He made a phone call to many other villains from other universes, anticipating a final battle would occur soon. Suddenly, Cutter completely decimated the Palace, now supercharged with power. This led to a three-way shootout between Zardok, Cutter and Vortex, which Zardok was the victor of. Once Bohrok Nui clambered out of the debris, Zardok combined with his minions’ remains and killed him as well.

### Final Battle

The resistance then summoned Solek, who immediately began fighting the mutated Makuta, even managing to revert him back to his normal state. However, his efforts proved futile, as Zardok managed to use his manipulation of shadow to corrupt Solek and force him to fight Tanma. Eventually, Tanma’s life was saved when Katuna, Memphis and Intor returned to their usual universe alongside many beings from other universes. This new army, alongside the resistance, attacked Zardok’s similar army of villains and eventually won when Katuna threw an Abductoid at Zardok before kicking him in the crotch so hard he flew into a bin, which then collapsed and exploded, killing him.