"Interesting...I never thought I would hear us(Aftermath) being compared to Pokemon. My friends, we have arrived."
-MT, after Aftermath(and the TBTTRAH Series as a whole) was selected as one of the two mainstays of the Great Comedy Crossover.
00:23, March 18, 2011 (UTC)00:23, March 18, 2011 (UTC)~~
Aftermath is a BZP epicomedy written by Toa Zehvor MT. It takes place right after his first comedy, The Bionicles Try To Run A House. It chronicles the events of the Toa Zehvor, as they attempt to rid the Earth, and then the universe, of a mutagen known
as Xenon. Aftermath is MT's longest comedy, ahead of even TBTTRAH, and currently is one of the most popular comedies in the forum.
One of the logos for Aftermath, picturing the portal between the two dimensions in the background.
Accolades
Aftermath has gained multiple awards/accolades throughout it's nearly 3 year lifespan, including multiple nominations for both best comedy of 2011 and best script comedy of all time. It has amassed over 1,300 posts and 30,000 views, as well as a couple stays on the hot topics list. In addition to all this, the 1,300 posts make it the longest comedy on BZP ever.
In 2011, Aftermath was selected as one of the mainstays of PurpleBouncy's Great Comedy Crossover.
Plot Overview
Season 4(cont. from TBTTRAH)
The story picks up with Mete, a villain from TBTTRAH, using Xenon to corrupt the minds of the government and get them to attack the House, the home of the Zehvor and their companions, who have shrunk down to the size of plastic Bionicles to avoid detection by the people. The house is destroyed, and the Zehvor are forced to flee and go through a wild series of events, until at last, MT and two of his friends, Omega Turtle and Vecolity, manage to defeat Mete and destroy all Xenon on Earth.
Season 5
After a while, the Zehvor end up on another planet called Mandex and they all(save for MT, because it was his invention that is doing it) figure out that only while on Earth they must be in their tiny forms. MT and Mesonak head out and find Kpik(who was MT's friend thousands of years ago), and end up going 10,000 years into the past to find a device which saves the nearby village from being frozen solid. Meanwhile, two more Toa, Levacius and Assassin, defeat a rather comical egomaniacal tyrant named Slatenin, and get a tip that Xenon itself might be controlled by a singular being. They dub this being, "The Dark Lord." The Zehvor then begin their quest to rid Xenon from the entire universe, and find out that that is going to be a lot harder than expected. The house is eventually rebuilt, and the Bionicles move back in. After a while, MT and Levacius are attacked by a Xenon infused clone of MT and infused with Xenon themselves, which threatens to turn them into mindless slaves of Xenon or destroy them altogether. 4 of the Zehvor then head out to other planets to try and destroy Xenon, and are eventually all lead to planet Rankar, a friendly planet that is amassing an army to launch an attack on a Xenon base. However, before the attack can commence, TM arrives in orbit with an army of his own, and begins pounding the Toa army into the ground, and the Zehvor barely escape, save for MT, who gets buried under a pile of rubble at the end of a fight with TM.
Season 6: The Nightmare
To make matters worse, a new shadowy creature known only as "Nightmare" appears during one of MT's exploits with Tarakavarbiter, and begins a quest to mercilessly hunt MT down. MT awakes, and then meets Blackout, a Makuta/Toa hybrid, and after a short trip, enters the Xenon core of Blackout's home planet. After a fierce battle with a huge Rahi, Nightmare appears and attempts to kill MT, but is blocked by Blackout. MT and Blackout escape, and Blackout's home planet is returned to normal. The house spends the next few days quietly until Tahu decides that they should all go on a vacation. The Bionicles arrive at their hotel in Florida for the first time since the house was destroyed at the end of TBTTRAH. Nightmare notices this(what a stalker) and disguises himself as Omega Turtle with a shape shifting device. He kidnaps Tahu and Shoebox, Brenmac's gremlin pet, but his identity is found out after Brenmac becomes suspicious and uses his own shapeshifting powers to fool Nightmare into revealing who he is. Nightmare then battles Brenmac and MT, but flees when he realizes that he can't defeat someone with control over so many elements and shapeshifting abilities. MT then takes the Zehvor and chases after Nightmare, while Tahu Nuva leads the rest of the Bionicles back home. The Zehvor eventually find Nightmare(on another planet) and a wonderful new weapon called the "Sun Beam," however, it does very little against Nightmare. Nightmare picks a fight and manages to take down about 3 of the Zehvor before Mesonak impales Nightmare with his sword. Nightmare disintegrates, and the Zehvor return home, though without finding either Tahu or Shoebox. A while later Pridak comes to MT and claims to know the location of TM's base, though ruins his good standing with MT by then informing him that he sent a note to TM taunting the Toa. MT devises a plan, which will require the help of multiple space fleets: one planet will "dare" TM to attack it, thus taking TM's main fleet away from its home base of Onex, and another planet will send an invasion fleet of it's own to attack the planet. The IUPD agrees to the plan since they are desperate to defeat TM, and the scheme is set in motion. TM sends a fleet to attack the planet and the invasion begins. MT, TA, Mr. Matoro, and Brenmac all steal onboard a huge Terna destroyer, set it to self destruct, and then run for their lives, but they run into a revived Nightmare. Nightmare claims that they can never kill him, which is when Sonu and Burnmad arrive in their own ship, crash through a wall, and blast Nightmare away. The 6 Zehvor flee the burning ship and the now overrun planet and head to Planet Onex. When they arrive, they find the invasion about to begin, and decide to head to the planet surface in hopes of encountering TM, but their ships are separated as they head to the planet. When TA, Mr. Matoro, Brenmac, and MT arrive they find a portal, which takes them to a separate dimension of the planet. The three journey through the planet for a while before Mr. Matoro gets caught during a long jump. Not realizing they are missing a fourth of their power, the other three Zehvor continue on and run into Nightmare yet again. Nightmare says that he will take them to TM, which MT agrees to, since they were attempting to find TM anyway. However, when the group reaches TM, he acts rather strangely, causing Nightmare to ask what is wrong. TM then drops to the ground, helplessly, and a large black armored figure appears. The figure reveals himself to be Ihr, and that TM is just a puppet. Nightmare goes crazy when he realizes that Ihr possessed TM, so Ihr attempts to calm him down by explaining that they both serve the will of the Dark Lord. It does nothing to calm Nightmare's fury, and the 9 armed monster goes crazy and attempts to charge Ihr. Ihr simply raises a hand and blasts Nightmare into unconsciousness. TA follows up by kicking Nightmare off a cliff. Ihr then offers the Zehvor the opportunity to take TM's place. MT flatly declines, and is promptly knocked out as well. MT later awakes and finds Sonu, Burnmad, Mesonak, and Mr. Matoro by him. MT explains what happens, and the group sets off to find Ihr, and Brenmac and TA, who are nowhere to be found. They eventually encounter Ihr, and battle him and Shoebox, who has grown to gigantic proportions. After Shoebox is killed, Ihr knocks all the others out, and having believed that he won, turns his back on the Zehvor. TM shows up and blasts Ihr in the back, saying that he isn't finished. Ihr battles TM, who due to insane exposure to Xenon, manages to hold his own. TM eventually kills Ihr by tackling him off a cliff into a pool of Xenon, which overloads and destroys both of them. The Zehvor then leave the planet, and some measure of peace, justice, and the American way is restored.
Season 7: The Lovable Mr. Tahu
The next chapter begins 3 months after Ihr's destruction. In that time, the Terna became docile, due to a lack of a leader to tell them what to destroy. The IUPD used this opportunity to begin hunting them down, but their genocide was stopped when the Terna suddenly became hostile again. This event coincided with contact being lost with a Toa planet. To figure out what happened, the IUPD sent several squadrons of soldiers, along with MT and TA, to figure out the problem.
MT and TA arrived and entered a seemingly empty city. After hearing a cry for help, the two made their way to the top of the tower where the call came from, only to find that there was no need for help after all. Instead, there was 4 Mask, who had set a perfect ambush.
MT's appearance in season 6/7
4 Mask battled the two Toa and managed to get rid of them easily enough before setting the city to self destruct. MT and TA narrowly escaped the explosion and headed back to the house, where they found 4 Mask yet again, only this time accompanied by a Giant Turtle, one 10 times the size of Omega. 4 Mask left, the Giant Turtle was incapacitated, and MT and Omega followed a hole through the floor into the Coffee Mines. Inside, they found information that suggested that 4 Mask was receiving DNA from the person in control of the Coffee Mines, Pridak. He was using this DNA to create a legion of now dead...and alive...house inhabitants.
The Zehvor set out to stop 4 Mask. Eventually, MT and 3 other Zehvor, Kpik, TA, and Shadrahk, a newcomer, received a distress signal from Planet Vundas. It was being attacked by 4 Mask. The Zehvor rushed there, and, after receiving a tip from an injured Toa, headed under a building. There they found 4 Mask's cloning devices. This didn't seem to make sense, as 4 Mask wouldn't usually attack his own equipment, but MT resigned himself to the fact that none of this made much sense anyway.
A little more exploration in the facility revealed why 4 Mask might have been so eager to get rid of this facility. An incredibly durable clone of Mete showed up and proceeded to beat the living daylights out of the 4 Zehvor, and was only stopped when an army of cloned Vecolitys(MT's old friend) showed up. The Vecolitys told the Zehvor that the planet was doomed and that they were to leave. Which they then did.
After their return home, MT received word that Sonu and Mesonak had gone missing. He took Brenmac and went to an odd floating plain high in the air above Planet Mandex, the last place Sonu and Meso had been seen. While there, they found Mete again, except this time he had been infused with Xenon, which increased his power. However, it gave him a weakness, and the two Zehvor were able to exploit it until Mete had to run away before he was killed. Brenmac and MT chased him out and saw Sboog leaving the plain as well.
The two Zehvor then tracked Sboog to a derelict space station, where they found Mete, dead. After an ambush by an "Omega" Sboog and finding yet another re-animated house villain, the two Toa decided that the space station was too dangerous to be left around. Thus, they blew it to kingdom come and left.
Back at the house, Tahu Nuva was rudely awoken in the middle of the night by a yellow Bionicle type set he had never seen before. The stranger introduced himself as Rotor and informed Tahu Nuva that they were invading the house. Tahu Nuva sliced Rotor's arm off and got Omega Turtle to eat him, and then decided to try and make contact with the HF sets the next morning.
Contact with the HF sets went poorly, and resulted in Omega setting the trash can on fire. Meanwhile, Levacius and TLhikan found Von Nebula(or, as he preferred to be called, Von Black Hole) in their fridge eating their breakfast. Annoyed by the infestation of creatures, Lev sent out a request for a exterminator that resulted in the Fire Lord arriving, which prompted Brenmac to send out his own request in an exterminator, which ended in the HF 2.0 sets arriving.
Meanwhile, Pridak, due to a complicated series of events that involved him trying to kill Mesonak, had his arm sliced off by the Shadow Toa. Pridak decided to sue Mesonak, and then hired Nektann as his lawyer. Tahu, annoyed by Pridak and his lack of any case whatsoever, decided to rule in Pridak's favor, but only in the amount of one cent, so that Pridak would have to pay Nektann much more than he won.
Characters
- MT: Toa of Light, leads the Zehvor and their mission to destroy Xenon. Wears a now broken mask of teleportation with a HuD, wields two swords, one able to use multiple weapons. Works as a bounty hunter sometimes.
- Sonu: Toa of White Fire, 2nd in Command on the Zehvor. Best known for his role as Zehvor leader when MT, Mesonak, and Omega Turtle dissapeared.
- Mr. Matoro: Ko-Matoran, and an incredibly good fighter despite his size. He has won the title of "best fighter in the House" twice, and rarely loses a battle.
- Brenmac: Toa of All Elements. MT's assistant, has a army of Bohrok. Wears a mask of shapeshifting that once allowed him to trick Nightmare into believing he was an ally.
- Levacius: Toa of Lightning. Incredibly self confident, he has an evil clone named Suicavel that recently fell under the influence of Xenon. Uses a spear that seems to be unshatterable.
- Gorgnak: Giant rock Toa. His huge size makes him an immense threat, although some smaller beings have been able to use this to their advantage. Is currently looking for a way to return him to a Toa.
- Assassin: Toa of Unknown. Wields an incredible amount of cannons, both long and short range. He was the first to learn that all Xenon was controlled by a single entity.
- Tarakavarbiter: Huge Toa of Unknown. Wields a huge amount of both offensive and defensive weapons, and his armor is as close to unbreakable as possible. Holds a less than friendly rivarly with Levacius, and has even tried to eat him on multiple occasions.
- TLhikan: Toa of Fire. Still looking to prove himself, although he has demonstrated much potential in the past. One of MT's most trusted teammates.
- Dakama: Toa of Fire and Metal. Had a twin named Golie that dissapeared, Dakama now fights to figure out what happened to his twin.
- Mesonak: Toa of Shadow and Light. Wields a lightsaber like sword called Death Whisper. He is especially famous for killing Nightmare, one of MT's arch rivals.
- Samzoraz: Toa of Lightning. Joins MT sometimes in exploits to destroy Xenon on other planets. Keeps to himself most of the time.
- Kpik: Toa of Ice, one of MT's best friends thousands of years ago, he has met up with the Toa of Light due to recent events. Orchestrated the invasion of Nightmare's castle.
- Shadow: A Makuta responsible for the mutation of fellow Zehvor Blackout. She has a relatively short temper, but is deadly in battle. Wields a scythe.
- Blackout: A Makuta/Toa hybrid, he once helped to destroy the Xenon on his own planet. He is the inventor of the race of giant dragon Ragnoks, although he won't admit to it.
Famous Jokes
Although it has a serious underlying story, Aftermath has several famous jokes, some of which have carried over from The Bionicles Try To Run A House
- Tahu Nuva's Window Obsession
- Brutaka's issue with stairs
- 5 Mask's(a Rahkshi) obsession over coffee
- The TV in the House always breaking
- Tarakavarbiter's failed attempts at eating Levacius
- The Neighbor's dog always getting hurt by the Bionicles
- 404 Error: The number 404, appearing everywhere and ruining things, including an ICU machine
- Mesonak's Vuvuzela