on a planet called spherus magna, agori inventors called the great beings built giant robots. then some time passed and spherus magna broke into 3 pieces

the league of six kingdoms decided to rebel against the great spirit mata nui but got caught by the order of mata nui and banished to the pit

makuta teridax seized control of the order of makuta, an organization originally created to create living beings, and put a virus in mata nui to put him to sleep

in a big city called metru nui, dark hunters nidhiki and krekka try to hunt down nidhiki’s former teammate toa lhikan while lhikan is distributing toa stones to six matoran, who use the toa stones to unite and become toa heroes and evacuate the city when it is revealed that metru nui’s turaga leader, dume, is actually teridax, trying to gain the legendary mask of time and enslave the city’s people (by putting them in balls which the toa steal). on the way out the toa throw the mask into the ocean and freeze teridax in a wall

the toa wind up on a wild island they name mata nui for some reason and go back for the rest of the matoran. when they get back these gnarly spiders capture and mutate the toa into fuckin freaks. so everybody except the fire toa goes to try and get unmutated by keetongu, who is bigfoot (never talks, op, probably a myth). toa of fire gets angry people don’t respect him and decides he’s going to be the spider queen’s twink bf. but the spider queen’s actual bf is teridax, still frozen in the wall. she tricks the toa into freeing teridax with their final move in the big spider battle, and tricks her fake bf the spider king into getting beat up by keetongu (bigfoot). her twink bf the toa of fire gets turned good again and escapes with the rest of the toa and all the metru nui matoran (in their balls)

the toa get back to mata nui but all the matoran are asleep in the balls. so the toa give their power juice to the matoran to wake them up, which turns the toa into short wrinkly old turaga

everyone chills on mata nui just vibin for a while but teridax shows up and starts making the rahi animals (tigers and bugs and shit) crazy evil. everything is going bad so one matoran hits the call flight attendant button and a bunch of toa show up in pills on the beach. the toa beat up the rahi, and then they beat up the bohrok (cleaning bugs) trying to clean up the island and everyone living on it. also they beat up the bohrok queens, whomst are chickens

the same matoran who hit the big red button finds a random super great mask of light in some lava because he didn’t feel like playing soccer. he and his goalie friend go trying to find the seventh toa whose mask it is. the goalie finds out the real toa was the friends we made along the way and so takanuva the ex-soccer-skipper goes and kicks teridax’s ass and everyone goes back to mata nui.

some random skakdi assholes who are too asshole even to get a job with the regular assholes go to mata nui and find teridax gas. the teridax gas tells them to go look for the mask of life on voya nui, so they decide to go look for the mask of life on voya nui. but not before one of teridax’s toys, the spear of fusion, splits one of the dumb skakdi assholes into a dumb skakdi half and an asshole skakdi half. asshole skakdi half runs away, immediately finds the mask of life, and gets his dumbass cursed to guard it from on top a giant spider bug

the gang goes to voya nui, finds a bunch of miserable matoran on a miserable island and immediately enslaves them with teridax gas. the skakdi assholes make the matoran dig up a volcano to try and find this mask. the toa from mata nui come from metru nui and try to fight the skakdi assholes but one of their friends is an ex-order of mata nui jerk named brutaka and he’s juicing on teridax gas, so he one-hit ko’s all six toa. then a bunch of matoran on metru nui notice the toa from mata nui are like gone, and get curious. so they try and find them and immediately wash up in literal hell. karzahni (satan) tries to make them stay forever but they get away in pills. the pills get struck by star lightning that makes the matoran toa and not the wimpy kind, but the edgy lightning kind, then they wash up on voya nui. they meet up with the matoran who still haven’t been enslaved and also brutaka’s ex-bestie axonn. then there’s a big fight and boom everyone’s asleep.

skakdi assholes wake up first and go to the mask of life but there’s a bunch of jerks trying to stop them. they fight the jerks. the toa do the same thing but on different jerks (they’re in different tunnels to the same place). when everyone gets there the cursed skakdi half-an-asshole beats em up and then gets frozen and the toa take the mask, which yells stranger danger and hurls itself into the sea.

so the toa go back to the cave and follow it all the way underground. meanwhile the mask sinks to a village from voya nui that got sunk underwater and sits over the deep fuckin pit. water there will mutate you into a fucking creep. a bunch of mutated fucking creeps who used to be the league of six kingdoms want to be the league of six kingdoms again, but they’re too mutated to breathe air. so they wanna take the mask of life and unmutate. the mask doesn’t like that and mutates the toa into water-breathing creeps as well, then starts to commit sudoku. the toa befriend the evil freaks while trying to steal the mask from them and wage guerrilla warfare against the sunken village, whose people are so poor they have to grow air. ice toa meets teridax, who’s in a robot and who forces him to raise people from the dead. at some point people figure out mata nui (great spirit, not island) is gonna die soon. so the toa shoot the cord between voya nui and the village (pretty sure axonn evacuated everybody). and voya nui falls on them but then a voya nui sized hole in the floor opens up so the toa fight off the creeps and the toa of ice takes the mask of life and races the island into the hole. he gets there first and puts the mask on, saving mata nui (guy) and sending his friends home so they don’t get eaten by fish. then he dies rip

meanwhile the mata nui (island) toa unleash the bohrok on mata nui (island) cuz someone gave them a checklist and that was the first thing on it

then they go to artakha (builder, bit of a dick) who gives them special gear

then the gear teleports them to the big giant sky cave under the hole the ice toa fell into while he was dying/saving the universe

in the hole, the toa find a bunch of makuta jerks trying to enslave matoran. also the codrex, a big sphere of plot significance. they save the matoran and find the plot significance rocks that open the codrex. meanwhile the mask of life has animated some swamp shit into a body because it’s inspired by that ice toa guy. it wants to be a toa too. but then it finds its way to the codrex with the other toa and finds out the toa are dicks when they ask it to commit alt+f4 to awaken mata nui (guy). but it does, and mata nui is awake again!!!! oh wait what’s that green teridax gas

oh shit the entire universe is a giant robot and that robot is evil

evil teridax robot stuffs mata nui (guy)’s soul into the mask of life and yeets it into the cosmos. it lands on bara magna, the middle piece of spherus magna. bara magna is a giant shitty desert and the locals have brutal arena fights over who gets resources like bones and sand and shit. mata nui (guy)’s mask turns his soul into a body. then it turns a random fuckin bug into a rad shield, and some poor fuckin scorpion idiot’s tail into a rad sword. mata nui (guy) decides to be the best arena fighter

then some random chaotic neutrals with a black and red color scheme start a war, so mata nui (guy) uses mask of life to give his best friends superpowers (nepotism) and beats em up. then they realize the villages are part of a mini giant robot, so they put it back together and switch it on.

giant robot teridax hears em flip the switch and jet rockets over there to end it once and for all with his rahkshi army (evil lizard children). there’s a giant robot fight and a battle of the ages and then toa of fire from mata nui (island) uses golden clothes to beat the bad guys and distract giant robot teridax for long enough for mini giant robot mata nui (guy) to smack giant robot teridax with aqua magna (another piece of spherus magna). teridax dies and everyone lives happily ever after the end