The Science Laboratories

Antermina studies her iridescent lizard and Kraata-kal alternatively, scribbling down notes.

Lomois stares at the ray gun he developed. He glances at the plans and crumples them in his fist. "Now, Artidax. There is more than one way to remove the teeth from the Muaka."

Antermina pries open the matoran's jaw and pours a mix of viruses down his throat.
"Our supply of matoran test subjects is far too low. If this works, you will have the honor of being all of them."
The matoran's eyes widen and he struggles further, trying to shut his jaw, but the damage is already done.

Derrin eyes the Makuta. He could flee, but she would probably kill him before he got a foot.
"Yes, I would."
Derrin flinches. Telepathy. Right.
"Now, matoran, you know how to fire shadow bolts. Focus as you would when firing one, but instead focus on creating another of yourself."
Derrin's eyes widen and he focuses as he is told. Did she give him cloning powers?
A flicker of green energy is visible from his hand. A moment later, the same energy flows forth from every pore of his body and coalesces in front of him, forming an exact clone of himself.
Derrin looks at himself in disbelief. He leans in to see if it copied a scratch on his armor at the same time his clone does, and ends up bonking heads. They step back.
"Uhh..."
Antermina smiles.
"Perfect. Enjoy your new ability, but keep in mind this does not exempt you from being a lab rat."

Antermina decides her idea is a good one. She makes a virus and drags her lizard and her kraata-kal toward a vat.

     The struggling rahi and kraata begin to fuse as small sparks of energy illuminate the water. The process is rather slow, but the vat seems to be holding against the thrashing of the two creatures. She decides to do something else while she waits, and runs through her mental list of funny or just plain interesting rahi to make. Pet rock? No, somebody already made that. Flying Kikanalo? Might be a good prank, if she could figure out how to make them stampede the air... Dragons? Varieties of dragons were always interesting. Might even make for a decent battle partner.
     Antermina starts making viruses.

Antermina teleports off.

The two rahi finish merging. The new monstrosity puts it's claws on the edge of the vat and pulls itself up. It looks at the Kra-matoran watching it hungrily.
"Uh... Antermina?"
Derrin backs away toward the door.
"ANTERMINA!"
Antermina is nowhere nearby. The lizard leaps out of it's vat and bounds across the room to Derrin, whom it sniffs... and sniffs... and sniffs.

The winged lizard thing explores the lab for a few minutes before venturing outwards.