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[Jay] Mechs 'N' Motors?

Mom, what do you and Dad know about mechs?

That's just it! Nothing!

Absolutely nothing!

-[both laughing] -Oh, darn tootin'.

[laughing]

No, you see, once Kreel expanded her huge junkyard here in the Crossroads,

well, there was less demand for our quaint little Scrap 'N' Junk, you know,

so we pivoted to mech sales.

He tried to put a T-1 Flux Engine

into a Borg Veridian 9-Alpha.

Ha! Good luck.

Oh, what can I say?

I still like cars that are only cars, you know.

Not like Jay.

Growing up, he always wanted his cars to turn into robots or spaceships.

He built so many robots outta junk parts.

[chuckling] Well…

None of them ever worked.

[laughs]

[sighing] I remember that.

Well, most of it.

Good to know your memories are still coming back.

And speaking of which, I, uh, brought ya something.

Now, where did I put the darn thing?

Weren't you two worried when you didn't hear from Jay after the Merge?

Sure, but I knew, wherever he was, whatever he was doing,

he'd find his way back.

I'm sure you knew he'd find his way back to you, too.

It wasn't exactly a straight line.

When we converted the Scrap 'N' Junk into a Mech Dealership,

I uncovered this.

It came wrapped in your baby blankets

when we found you on the doorstep.

Must've belonged to your birth mother.

[alert beeping]

[Lloyd] Ninja! There's trouble in Ninjago City.

Sorry. Work calling.

[screaming]

[Riyu growls]

[roaring]

[people screaming]

[roaring]

Yes, you have all been cast as extras

in my new one-man show,

The Fall Of Ninjago City!

Please hold your applause until the end!

Ninjago City under attack?

Some overconfident villain mouthing off?

Just like old times.

But in old times, we'd all have our Elemental Powers working right.

Yeah, not these wonky, fritzing powers I don't enjoy one bit!

[powers surging]

[gasping] Well, this can only mean one thing…

[people screaming]

♪♪

[Kai] Lloyd!

It's not like I don't always love to see you,

but now that you stabilize our powers when you're around,

you're my new best friend.

[Lloyd] What did I miss so far?

[giant puppets roaring]

[smashing]

Just waiting for you to say the thing.

Ninja…go!

♪ Lost in the unknown ♪

♪ So much to see ♪

♪ Jump up, kick back Whip around and spin ♪

♪ Together we will rise ♪

♪ Whip around and spin ♪

♪ Together we will rise ♪

♪ For what's right ♪

[growling]

[Lloyd] So, Arin,

you know what kind of pie you're baking for tonight?

[Arin] You think I could get away with only making one type?

Yeah, right!

'Cause some Ninja are very picky about what kind of dessert they'll eat.

Haah!

[Nya] Is he talking about me?

I am not a picky eater.

I've eaten actual mud.

[Sora] He's talking about me,

just 'cause one time I got sick

from his way-too sweet candy mushroom cream pie!

[smashing]

[panting]

[Frak] I taught Arin how to make that pie,

and it is delicious!

[Cole] Why always pie?

Doesn't anyone make cake around here anymore?

[power surging]

[rocks rumbling]

[Cole grunting]

[Frak panting]

[Frak] I tried baking a cake once.

It made Sora's pies seem almost edible.

[Sora] I heard that!

[Frak grunting]

[rumbling]

[Euphrasia] I can get us the greatest pie and cake recipes in the Merged Realms.

Cloud Kingdom has all that stuff!

[growling]

[Zane] Doesn't Cloud Kingdom spend its time

inscribing what it believes to be the destinies for all?

[Euphrasia] And collecting good recipes.

Five points!

[Kai] Hey, we said heads are only two points!

I changed the rules. Deal with it!

[Riyu roaring]

[blade slicing]

[roaring]

[growling]

[smashing]

[slurping]

[Nya] Jay! Really?

[Jay] What?

We didn't get to actually eat with Mom and Dad!

Hold on. [slurping]

[grunts]

[shuddering]

Ha!

[roaring]

H'yah!

[sizzling]

Nine points!

[giant puppet roaring]

[laughing maniacally]

It is time for your curtain call!

D'oh!

Didn't want to have to do this. It can be pretty draining.

[roaring]

[Kai] Ooh, count me in on this!

No fair! I barely missed it!

[Kai] Too slow!

My point count is about to go through the roof!

H'yah!

[giant puppet roaring]

Ah! No fair doing your own stunts!

[Kai] H'yah!

Whoo-hoo!

[claw blades ringing]

Exit… stage left!

[Kai] Whoo-hoo!

[smashing]

[heroic music]

[Lloyd] H'yah!

-[smashing] -Aah!

Alas, the curtain call to which I referred

has, in a twist of dramatic irony,

turned out to be mine own!

End scene.

Even Intelligent George has to admit,

with the Ninja all together, the Merged Lands have never been safer!

Beatrix and her Weapon of Desolation? Stopped!

Crime? Down!

It's so safe in Ninjago, our city's been chosen

to host the upcoming Summit of the Merged Realms.

And speaking of safe, today's episode is sponsored

by Fyko's New Formula Hand Cream,

now no longer causing monstrous transformations.

♪♪

Oh, Ninja, you're back!

I was just wondering what type of pie

is on the menu for tonight.

Still figuring it out, Mr. Frohicky.

[groaning sleepily]

What happened to him?

He dragoned up off of Lloyd.

It's even more exhausting if you're not the Legendary Green Ninja.

[groaning]

[Frak] Rontu said she had to go to the Northern Spiral for a while.

Something about a dragon ritual?

I just love that you all have these family dinners now.

Family is so important,

and we've lost so much time with our own daughter.

[quietly] Why are you trying to avoid your parents so much, Sora?

What? Uh, no, I'm not.

You just made us hide behind furniture.

Look, it's just…

my whole life, they completely rejected me for who I am,

and now they show up on our doorstep acting like they want to be family again?

Isn't that a good thing?

I mean, sure, they've made mistakes,

but they're here for you now…

unlike some people's parents.

[sighing] I…

I'm not sure I trust them.

None of this behavior is like them at all.

I don't blame you, Sora.

Ras, Lee--

we've dealt with a lot of big-time liars recently.

Trust is something you need to earn.

[Cole] Secret meeting?

[Sora] What?

No! Totally just hanging in our favorite new spot.

So comfy.

Good, 'cause we need you to clean up the courtyard for family dinner.

We just got back from a big, city-saving battle.

Can't we chill out for, like, a minute?

Being responsible is part of being a Ninja, Frak.

[sighing] You're right, Cole.

On it.

Hey, you're not the only ones.

We're headed down to clean up the Ninja cave.

We'd never ask you to do something we wouldn't do.

[energy crackling]

[Cole laughing] Yes! I'm in the groove,

but we should probably be working?

Nah. We just got back from a big, city-saving battle.

We need to chill out for a minute.

[video game music playing]

What? You started without me?

[laughing]

Wow! Check this out!

Watch this move!

Ha! Whoa!

-Ah! -Ugh!

Aah!

[energy crackling]

Ugh!

-Oh, no, the Weapon of-- -Desolation.

[creaking]

[Jay] It's unstable!

[Cole] The weapon is activating!

[Kai] On its own!

Aah!

[snarling]

♪♪

[screeching overhead]

[messenger dragon screeching]

Oh! [laughing] What's this?

Probably not a love note from Roby or anything.

You have a boyf--?

Don't get her started.

She'll never stop, and it will… be… mushy.

Not a love note. News.

Weird news.

Roby says the Monastery of the Gates is… missing.

-Missing? -What?

The whole building? No way.

What could make a big building disappear like that?

[monster snarling]

[Kai yelps]

H'yah!

[snarling]

Ugh, Kai! What did you do?

Me? You blasted me into it!

Stop blaming each other.

It was both your faults.

You slammed into us!

"Watch this move." Dumb move!

Ah! H'ah!

Stop that thing!

Huah!

[blasting]

[rocks crumbling]

Good job, Jay, for once,

but we need to get rid of it permanently.

[monster snarling]

Ugh, trying, but apparently I'm only a mild annoyance to it right now!

Don't sell yourself short. You're a mild annoyance always.

Be a lot easier to beat these things while we're all dragoned up.

[Cole] That's it. Let's do that.

No, we can't do that!

We can only dragon up when Lloyd does, and we can't ask him to,

because then he'll figure out Kai broke the Weapon of Desolation free!

That was all of us!

Right after we lectured the young Ninja about being responsible.

[all groaning]

So we have to get rid of this thing without Lloyd or the trainees finding out.

I've got an idea.

I know that portraiture is an art,

not a science to be objectively measured,

and yet, I calculate this painting

will be 97.3% spiritually fulfilling.

Aah!

Zane! We need your help!

I'm not going to like this, am I?

Zane, whatever this is, can you do it later?

-I'm in the middle of-- -I must paint you!

Oh… the portraits you're making?

Sure. Does it have to be right now?

I have been struck by inspiration,

and must work while the artistic vision is upon me.

Oh, well…

okay, then.

Now, make a fist and ease it up under your chin.

Good.

Now imagine being weightless in the middle of the ocean,

surrounded by tiny seahorses.

Good.

Now, dragon up.

Wait, what?

It is my artistic vision that you be painted

with the noble visage of a dragon.

Oh.

Uh, I'm still feeling a little drained from before.

[sighing] But okay, I guess.

[roaring]

♪♪

[Zane] Perfect.

Artistic vision may now commence.

[Jay] Hold onto your-- Uh-oh.

[Cole] Not good. So not good.

That thing could be anywhere.

[Kai] What are the chances it just, like, turned into energy and blew away?

Yeah, prob-probably not.

[Jay] This is not a problem.

[chuckling nervously]

Okay, yes, it's a problem, but the solution is obvious.

We split up, find it, and get rid of it before it attacks anyone.

[rumbling]

[Riyu grumbles]

♪♪

I made five different pies,

zero percent candy mushroom cream.

Hope everyone's happy.

Sora…

Where are they? Everyone's waiting.

Probably off somewhere being totally and completely responsible.

I'm sure the smell of noodles

will bring them out of the woodwork.

One of the last things Master Wu ever told me was this…

"Remember, family is key."

That's proven true in so many ways.

When I woke up after the Merge in this empty monastery,

I never imagined it'd be so filled with love and family.

I know if Master Wu were here today--

[thudding]

What was that?

Did--?

[monster snarling]

[panicked screaming]

[bellowing]

Yaah!

[grunting]

[monster roaring]

[bellowing]

[Zane grunting]

[Nya grunting]

[monster bellowing]

[tense music]

[monster bellowing]

[slamming]

[roaring]

[Jay] Found it.

[claw blades ringing]

[Arin] Hey!

Tangauv-Hab!

[monster roaring]

[Lloyd] Great job, Arin.

Well, I am the only Ninja who can safely touch this thing,

but that doesn't explain why its Containment Unit

was busted open.

Busted Containment Unit?

And you three in scales?

Are you the reason for all this?

[Kai, nervously] Who? Us?

[Lloyd] How could you be so irresponsible?

It's just…

we were all hanging out, like old times.

You know, it's been a while, and--

But these aren't old times.

You need to be mentors, not act like students…

really bad students.

Exactly. Quite regressive.

Don't think I forgot about you helping them, Zane.

-Ha, "artistic vision." -[sighing]

As boneheaded as they were…

[sighing]

…something like this was bound to happen.

The Weapon of Desolation is incredibly dangerous,

and Elemental Masters can't even touch it without their powers going wild,

yet we're keeping it in a monastery that's filled with Elemental Masters.

But what can we do? We can't trust anyone else with it.

In the past, an unknown individual managed to split it in two

and hid it in trees across the realms.

But even that didn't stop it!

The moment some Source Dragons pulled their powers from the world,

that thing started popping out monsters!

Bottom line, we need to destroy it…

somehow.

But as far as we know, it's indestructible.

If there is somewhere in the Merged Lands to dispose of the Weapon,

we haven't explored enough to find it.

[Frak groans]

I think I know someone who might have explored that much.

[Cecil Putnam] I'm sorry,

but this building is for Explorers Club members only.

They're with me. I have a family pass.

Fracture Slitherbottom, here to see my father, Reginald.

[gasping] Young Slitherbottom!

You and your guests are most welcome,

but must be accompanied by your member-sponsor, of course.

[Reginald] Son?

We're just here for info, Dad.

It's important, or we wouldn't have come.

Ah, of course. Good show, jolly good.

Come in, chaps.

You want to dispose of an item of cosmic power,

that's the place--

the Abyss of Eternal Night in the Never Kingdoms--

what used to be called the "Never Realm" before the Merge.

Anything hurled in, no matter how powerful, never comes out.

No one going in after it ever comes back, either.

In fact, legend says a great Formling king

was marching his troops across the area one dark night,

but his son, the prince, warned him not to.

The king ignored the prince,

and half his army was lost to this abyss.

Well, goes to show, some fathers don't always listen the way they should.

[Frak gasps]

So… good.

That's where we go.

[sighing] Not easily.

Since the Merge, one can only enter the Never Kingdoms

if one had visited before everything merged.

Huh?

What does that even mean?

Well, no one can explain it.

People inside the land can leave and return,

and those who went there before the Merge can enter again.

Everyone else gets stuck by an invisible barrier outside the land.

[Lloyd] So, since we original Ninja

once, uh, had an adventure in the Never Realm before the Merge,

we're the only ones who can take the Weapon of Desolation to be destroyed.

[coughing] You're going without me? How will you survive?

We need you to help keep an eye on Ninjago, Wyldfyre.

I humbly accept this noble mission.

And because the Monastery Portal Gates are still mysteriously shut down,

we'll be rolling out in the new Land Bounty Pix just built.

Road trip!

Sorry. Hate to point this out,

but none of you can even touch the Weapon safely.

Even Cole can't use it again in case he turns into solid stone.

That's what Sora's containment unit is for.

We'll hurl the whole unit into the Abyss.

But there is a challenge for you Ninja who are staying.

Being near Lloyd is the only thing that keeps Elemental Powers stable.

So when he leaves, our powers will go all wack-a-doodle again?

It's not a perfect plan, but no plan is.

For you young Ninja, it'll be a chance to train your other skills

without relying on Elemental Powers.

For us, it's the only way to get rid of the Weapon.

We have no choice.

[adventurous music]

You sure they'll be okay?

No, but one thing my trials in the Temple of the Green Ninja taught me--

everyone needs their own time and experience to grow.

I'm worried about experiences that will stop them from growing…

permanently.

There are new rumors hitting the street

that the original Ninja are all leaving Ninjago

on a mission out of the--

[Loyalist 1] Our insider got the schematics.

[Loyalist 2] Let's get started.

[closing theme]