Hakaan - Ultimate gas pocket

Hakann stopped. He smiled — not easy to do when your face is in the dirt. There was a chance, maybe a slim one, and if his plan worked, he would probably wind up dead. *But with any luck, Thok will go first,* Hakann thought.

Hakann unleashed the power of his heat vision. He fired twin blasts into the earth, willing them to penetrate through soil and rock. In his mind’s eye, he pictured the searing beams of heat melting everything in their path until they reached the target he hoped was down below.

Then the time for hoping and wishing was over, as a cataclysmic explosion tore the ground to pieces and sent both Piraka hurtling into the air. Of the two, only Hakann was smiling about it.

(...)

Toa Jaller saw the flames in the distance, followed by the huge explosion. “Well, at least they aren’t making it hard to track them.”

Nuparu took off into the sky and zoomed over the devastated area. He couldn’t see either of the Piraka in all the smoke and dust, but he knew the two of them being disintegrated was too much to hope for. He turned back and landed beside Jaller and Hahli.

“I’m surprised that didn’t happen before,” said the Toa of Earth. “A Piraka with heat vision on a volcanic island probably riddled with gas pockets. One glance in the wrong direction and boom.”

Toa Kongu ran toward them. “They’re both alive, but thought-jumbled. We need to strike now!”

(...)

Even with Brutaka’s power added to his own, Hakann hurt. Not surprising, considering the explosion had vaporized a huge chunk of forest and sent up a fireball that could be seen all over the island. It was amazing that he had survived, and it would be a miracle if Thok had done the same.

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Power Play, Chapter 8