Krika (OU)

Krika was an insane Makuta scientist and inventor who worked for the Brotherhood of Makuta and the ZFT.

Early Life
Krika was one of the Makuta who participated in the Vrai War when it ravaged the Matoran Universe, fighting alongside Caiaphus on the battlefield on at least one occasion.

Krika was once blown into 'tiny pieces' by Blackout, but a plothole meant that Krika survived and returned to Blackout's service with apparently no hard feelings.

In 150,080 CMT, Krika was stationed aboard the Twilight during the Makuta-Agrippa War. Krika, Vamprah, Chirox, Ferox, Grahmah, and Mocax all encountered the Fellowship of Kakamu when the Fellowship boarded the ship.

Later still, Krika was aboard the Makuta Space Station when a Puddle Jumper carrying John Sheppard and Rodney McKay arrived on the station. Bitil punched through the Jumper's windshield but was immediately incapacitated by a drone weapon, so Krika intervened by immobilizing the Jumper with a forcefield and attempting to question Sheppard and McKay. When McKay mockingly pronounced Krika's name as "Crick-er", Krika was so enraged that he contemplated killing the human, but he managed to restrain himself.

During the Makuta Civil War, Blackout ordered Krika to prepare an array of canisters that contained antidermis-eating microorganisms to use against the Brotherhood of Makuta splinter faction commanded by Antroz. At Blackout's command, Krika launched the canisters at the splinter faction's fleet. The canisters burst open and the microorganisms began to consume all forms of antidermis onboard, including that which Antroz was composed of.

Mad Scientist Madness
After Blackout kidnapped Artrix, Treveya, and the Norman, Blackout established a telepathic link with Klak and ordered two Rahkshi to take Treveya to Krika's laboratory aboard Darkmount because he was sure that Krika would appreciate the chance to dissect a Shadow Toa. Upon hearing the threat to Treveya's life, Klak teleported in front of Krika and threatened to destroy his lab unless he stayed quiet and followed Klak's instructions. Krika momentarily agreed, but pressed a panic button under his desk that summoned Brawl and a full squad of Exo-Toa. Krika justified his treachery by gloating that, although Klak had told him to stay quiet, Klak had "not said anything about sounding the alarm". Krika then had Brawl imprison Klak inside a prototype prison chamber while he prepared to dissect Treveya with a scalpel. However, before Krika could make the first incision, the Treveya on the operating table disappeared and was replaced by the real Treveya behind him, who explained that the Treveya that Krika had restrained was a mere Shadow Clone that she had created using her elemental powers.

Meanwhile, Klak threatened to break out of the prototype prison through brute force, which caused a pre-recorded message from Krika to play. In the message, Krika warned the generic occupant of the prison that the prison was powered by their own life force, which meant that the longer that anyone remained inside the prison, the weaker they would become. However, the recording of Krika clarified that the prison was designed to keep its occupant alive and conscious even when drained to their fullest, leaving them trapped indefinitely. Meanwhile, the Krika of the present blasted Treveya with chain lightning and went into an enraged frenzy, pummelling the Toa until she was dazed enough for him to strap her to the operating table. While Krika made the first incision into Treveya, Klak attempted to convince the Makuta to release him from the prototype prison, but Krika viciously replied that he would not stop until he had seen all of Klak's friends die in never-ending torment, including Nadle and D-Klak, who Krika was aware were also nearby. As if on cue, Blackout teleported Nadle and D-Klak to Krika's laboratory, where they were strapped to chairs in front of a video screen that showed, in order, Klak being forced into his new prison, Krika beginning to dissect Treveya, and Brawl singing every Lady Gaga song known to mankind 122 times over.

When Sasuken and Blade short-circuited Darkmount, Krika was teleported onto an identical Darkmount that Blackout summoned from an alternate universe before the first Darkmount could crash into the surface of BZPower. The Norman and Treveya were also teleported to the new Darkmount, but Klak, Nadle, and D-Klak escaped and met up with the Makuta Anima to plan a counteroffensive. Krika continued to torture Treveya aboard the new Darkmount by lowering her into a tank of liquid nitrogen until he was interrupted by Blackout, who ordered Krika to proceed with "Phase 2" of Operation Xanatos/Genesis. Krika obeyed, pressing a button in his new laboratory that revealed a pool of charged antidermis and several empty Makuta shells that the antidermis then began to drift into. While Krika returned to lowering Treveya into the tank of liquid nitrogen, he was too distracted to notice when Starscream's antidermis flew into the room and possessed one of the empty Makuta shells. Krika was also caught off-guard when Treveya created a Shadow Hand that she used to grab one of the Makuta shells and slam it into him, which dazed him long enough for her to cut her restraints with a shuriken and leap onto the floor of the laboratory. Before Krika could subdue Treveya, she blinded him with a smoke bomb and escaped.

New World Order
By 150,082 CMT, Krika was one of many Brotherhood of Makuta members who had joined the ZFT. Inside a ZFT base on Teruga Prime, Krika was in the middle of an important project that involved injecting chemicals into a cocoon when Shockwave burst into the room and ordered Krika to leave because the security team were performing a sweep of the entire base. Krika persuaded Shockwave that he needed to stay because his project could not be interrupted and because it had been commissioned by Blackout, who outranked Shockwave's boss TBP.

Krika later called a meeting between himself, Shockwave, and Roodaka to reveal the outcome of his experiments. Krika explained that he had been studying the DNA of Yon in an attempt to discern what exactly had happened to give him his unexplained powers. After much experimentation, Krika had discovered that not only had the Architect's energies transformed Yon's DNA, but that he had also found a way to replicate the transformative process to create as many super-powered Terugans as the ZFT desired. Shockwave commented that the ZFT could have their own team of "X-Terugans", but Krika disliked the reference, replying that he would "not go as far as to reference Earth comic books". After the meeting, Krika returned to his lab and injected several unwilling Terugan test subjects with his formula.

Later, David Robert Jones ordered Knock Out to call Krika because he wanted an update on the status of Krika's "X experiments".

Later still, a small surgical drone informed Krika that the mutations of all of his test subjects had been completed. Krika called Shockwave over to watch video footage of the mutated Terugans testing out their new powers in a training environment. Shockwave was impressed with what Krika had achieved with only a few test subjects, but Krika informed him that the test subjects were "only the beginning" because he planned to create an army of superpowered Terugans for the ZFT once given access to more Terugans to convert. Shockwave decided that he wanted to see the mutants in combat firsthand, so he gathered a group and teleported them and himself away to attack a random location. Shockwave and the mutants, which he dubbed the "X-Yen", materialized on the Stouttish Islands.

Shenanigans
In 150,083 CMT, Krika was reading a book in a ZFT laboratory on Earth when Shockwave entered the room. Seeing that he had a visior, Krika stood up to make himself some tea and offered to make Shockwave a cup too, commenting that he had heard that tea was "lovely with some cytosol". Krika then collected a teaspoon of cytosol from a container and added it to a cup with water and a teabag to make tea. Shockwave expressed his disgust but quickly moved on to the reason for his visit, which was to request an injection of the formula that Krika had used to create the X-Yen. Krika did not understand the reason for Shockwave's request because Shockwave was already exceptionally more powerful than most Terugans, but he complied regardless and injected Shockwave with a dose of the formula. While Shockwave waited for the formula to take effect, Krika informed him that another virus that he had developed was almost ready for testing. Shockwave asked Krika how the ZFT would be able to spread the virus over such a large area, to which Krika cryptically replied.

In 150,084 CMT, Krika and Shockwave confronted TBP in his office after the Dong Squad killed Vok, demolished the Spire of Conquest, and destroyed half of the ZFT ships that were stationed around the planet. Krika and Shockwave delivered the news that TBP had been fired from his position as the Governor of Teruga Prime and had been sentenced to death for his failure to stop the Dong Squad. While TBP was handcuffed by two guards and dragged out of his office, Krika watched as Shockwave assumed command as the new Governor of Teruga Prime.

The Mazkertis Paradox
On Day 76 of The Mazkertis Paradox arc, Krika was one of the villains who haunted Klak's subconsciousness during Klak's Mazkertis-induced coma. Kakamu recognized Krika's silhouette among the army of darkness that tore through one of the levels of Klak's subconsciousness.

Abilities & Powers

 * Absorption: As a Makuta, Krika could presumably absorb the mass of other biomechanical beings into his own body to increase his size and strength.
 * Elemental Shadow Powers: As a Makuta, Krika wielded the elemental power of Shadow. This enabled him to fire destructive blasts of shadow energy as a means of attack, as well as create shadow constructs such as Shadow Hands and cloak areas in darkness.
 * Telepathy: As a Makuta, Krika possessed telepathic abilities that enabled him to read, detect, communicate, and interact with non-shielded minds at a surface level.
 * Kraata Creation: As a Makuta, Krika could presumably create Kraata slugs of varying types, which could then be turned into Rahkshi through the use of Energized Protodermis.
 * Kraata Powers: As a Makuta, Krika presumably had access to the full range of Kraata powers, which would grant him the abilities of increased accuracy, instant environmental adaptation, anger induction, chain lightning, camouflage, confusion induction, cyclone creation, darkness creation, density control, matter disintegration, attack dodging, elasticity, electrical field creation, fear induction, increased resistance to fire and ice, gravity manipulation, eyebeam generation, energy draining, illusion casting, insect control, temporary invulnerability, magnetism manipulation, mind reading, molecular disruption, plantlife control, plasma generation, poison generation, power scream generation, rapid healing, Rahi control, shapeshifting, object shattering, sound dampening, sleep induction, slowness induction, sonic wave generation, stasis field generation, teleportation, vacuum creation, and weather control.