The Day Ninjago Stood Still The Day Ninjago Stood Still is the twenty - first episode of " " . Story . The episodes begins with the Serpentine rejoicing at the fall of Garmadon and the beginning of Skales ' s reign as the snake king . Skales says that now that he is king , they can focus on their original goal : Get revenge on the surface dwellers to secure their place as rulers of Ninjago . He tells them that he plots to have the Constrictai burrow beneath Ninjago City , to knock the city " back down to size " . Meanwhile , at Grand Sensei Dareth ' s dojo , the ninja are training Lloyd to fight without using his eyes . Dareth tells them that he is teaching a class later and that he doesn ' t want them to make a mess . The fight begins , and Dareth ' s trophies are nearly destoryed . On board the bounty , Sensei Wu grimly looks at a photo of him , Garmadon , and Misako taken back when they were younger . Misako comments on how pale Garmadon was back then , and startles Sensei . She then shows him all of her research on the green ninja prophecy and asks him to go over it with her . Sensei tells her that it will take days , and examines a scroll . Misako smiles at him and comments " I should have chosen you " . Sensei tells her the past is the past , but there is always the future . Their romantic moment is interrupted by a sudden earthquake , which Sensei fears is caused by unnatural causes . The two of them arrive in Dareth ' s dojo with the ninja , who are watching a news report talking about the unnatural quakes . Gail Gossip , female news reporter , comments that scientists still haven ' t figured out the cause , and that the quakes keeps getting worse . Cole wonders aloud what is causing this , and Kai tells him he thinks it ' s Garmadon ' s doing , since they haven ' t seen him for a while . Misako tells them it couldn ' t be Garmadon , because even though he is evil , he would never do anything to put Lloyd in danger . Zane sends the falcon out to search the city for danger in the streets . Deep below Ninjago City , the entire Serpentine army ( led by Skales and the generals ) marches down tunnels , which are being drilled by Constrictai . The tunnel is filled with puddles of devourer venom . Skales comments on how " disgusting " the devourer ' s venom is , before running into Snike . Skales angrily asks him why they stopped , and Snike tells him they ' ve hit something that they can ' t dig through . Skales tells him that ' s impossible , until he sees a giant stone wall a few feet in front of them . Skalidor comments on how it looks ancient , and it might even be older than the Serpentine themselves . On the dark island , Lord Garmadon reaches the top of a mountain , yelling at the Overlord , " This is madness ! You dare test me , Ninjago ' s rightful ruler ? ! " The Overlord tells him to be patient , for at the top of the next mountain is the key to the greatest army in history . Garmadon gets a second wind , and continues climbing onto the next mountain . Back in Ninjago City , citizens are panicking and fleeing from the quakes . A woman sees her dog barking , and runs to save it . But before she reaches it , the ground underneath her collapses , and she falls into a deep hole . The ninja arrive and make a human ladder to pull her up . After the woman runs away with her dog , Misako tells them that her scrolls told her about the earthquakes . They say it is a sign for something worse to come . She tells them that she found the giant stone warrior below the city , and there might be more down there . Sensei tells the ninja to be on guard , so they are ready for whatever comes their way . Back bellow the city , Skales tells his minions that he will not accept defeat , and that wall " must " be destroyed . Skalidor tells him that one of the symbols on the wall looks like Skales . Skales tells him that ' s impossible , but then notices a hidden button . He pushes the button , and the wall opens up like a door . Skales walks right into a dark , pitch black room . He finds a lever , pulls it , and the room slowly lights up . The room is shown to be gigantic , and filled with thousands of Stone Warriors ( who are all still statues ) . The Serpentine start exploring the room , and a few of them start making fun of the stone warriors . Suddenly , pools of devourer venom start to seep through the ceiling , and start dripping onto the warriors , in a matter of seconds , the entire army is brought to life . Skales is shocked , and orders the Serpentine to attack . They discover quickly that none of there powers have any affect on the Stone Army . Acidicus asks Skales if they should retreat , but a surrounded Skales replies " No retreat ! We ' re Serpentine ! We " FIGHT ! " " , and knocks the warriors away . The Serpentine fight back , and knock down hundreds of warriors . However , this victory is very short - lived , as the warriors get back up without a scratch . Within a matter of minutes , all of the Serpentine are lying on the ground , too injured to fight . The Stone army marches out of the tomb , and the door starts to close behind them . Realizing they will be trapped underground again , Skales screams and runs towards the door . He trips and falls a few feet from the door , and it closes right in front of him . He screams as loud as he can , and begins to weep . That was the last anyone ever saw of the Serpentine . Minutes later , the Stone Army starts to break through the ground of the already - in - panic Ninjago City . Causing citizens to scream and hide . The army begins to terrorize the city and its inhabitants . Almost instantly , the Mayor calls for a massive evacuation , advising everyone in the city to leave . Mother Doomsday is shown running away from Doomsday Comix , Cole ' s former boss from the bank locks himself in the vault , and the mailman jumps on his bike and rides as fast as he can . A stone warrior breaks into Dareth ' s dojo , and almost kills the students there . Dareth jumps in front of him to protect his students , and tells them to run . Dareth tells him he has picked on the wrong dojo , and grabs a sword off his wall . The warrior grabs the sword and throws it . Dareth grabs a scythe off his wall , and begins to rapidly beat the stone warrior . When nothing happens , the warrior punches Dareth and throws him at the trophy shelf . Dareth gives up and flees . When he gets outside , Dareth accidentally runs into the news reporter Gail Gossip ' s camera man . The camera man quits and runs away , so the Gail makes Dareth her new camera man . A stone warrior runs up to kill Gail while she is reporting , but Zane kicks the warrior and saves her just in time . The other ninja ( minus Lloyd ) arrive to help him , as a swarm of warriors charge toward them . The ninja get ready to fight , but the Ultra - Sonic - Raider drives up from behind and crashes all of the stone warriors . Lloyd , Sensei , and Misako jump out of the raider . Sensei tells the ninja that they need to find as many people as they can and get to the evacuation point . Nya appears on screen of the USR and tells them that they don ' t have an evacuation point , because she can ' t find a safe place to land the bounty without being attacked by Stone Warriors . Gail tells them that there is a helicopter pad on the roof of the NGTV building . Sensei orders Lloyd to tell Nya to head there . Gail turns to the camera and tells the citizens who still haven ' t evacuated the city that they need to head to the NGTV building if they still want to escape . Patty Keys , Mother Doomsday , and the banker all run out of there hiding spots and head towards the NGTV building . Another swarm of stone warriors charges toward the ninja team , and the ultra dragon lands and tries to scare the warriors . Lloyd uses his elemental quakes to make a ramp out of the street , and the dragon freezes it . The USR ramps over it , and rushes to the NGTV building . Back on the dark island , Lord Garmadon finally reaches the top to find a gigantic clock , and a helmet on a stand in front of it . The Overlord tells him that the clock was created to countdown to the final battle , and once Garmadon takes the helmet of shadows off of its stand , the clock will start , and it cannot be stopped . Garmadon takes off his helmet , picks up the helmet of shadows , and puts it on . The clock starts ticking , and the countdown to the final battle has begun . The Overlord says that now that Garmadon has the helmet , he has control over the Stone Army . The ninja arrive at the building , while a crowd of people are running inside . As soon as they get in , they barricade the doors with furniture . Everyone starts running up the stairway , except Dareth , who thinks that there are too many stairs and that it would be easier to take the elevator . But when the elevator door opens , a stone warrior is inside , and Dareth suddenly has enough energy to run up the stairs with the ninja . It doesn ' t take long for him to get tired though , and he wants to rest . The stone army breaks the barricade , and starts charging up the stairs . Dareth is scared and sprints up the stairs so fast that he bumps into Misako . When he bumped into her , he accidentally made her drop her research without her knowing . When everyone gets to the top of the stairs , the ninja decide to hold off the army so everyone can escape . They all uses spinjitzu and start going down the stairs , knocking the warriors off and to their " doom " . But once they hit the ground , they get back up like nothing happened . On the roof , the bounty finally arrives , and all of the citizens start boarding it . Misako realizes that she doesn ' t have her research , and runs back inside to get it . She runs down the staircase , barely dodging the stone warriors . Back on the roof , everyone is on board , and the army finally arrives . They charge toward the bounty , and start beating the side with their weapons . One warrior breaks one of the engines . The ninja realize they have no choice but to leave Misako behind , or else the warriors will make it on board and kill everyone . Sensei Wu jumps off the ship as it is leaving and runs inside to save Misako . When Misako finally reaches her container full of reasearch , she falls and ends up hanging from the side of some stairs with only one hand . Up the stairs a little ways , Sensei knocks a warrior off the stairs . The warrior falls , but grabs onto Misako ' s bag , trying to make it fall with him . She loses her grip on it , but catches it with her foot . She realizes she can ' t hold onto the ledge much longer . Sensei runs down the stairs as fast as he can , fighting Stone Warriors , so he can save her . But she loses her grip , and starts to fall . Sensei Wu reaches over the ledge and barely grabs her hand while she is falling . He pulls her up back onto the staircase . They run into a room , and realize that the only way out is to jump down 15 stories to the ground . They both use Spinjitzu to fight off warriors as long as they can , until they finally decide to jump . They turn around , smile , and jump to their doom . The bounty flies right underneath them , and they land on the deck , unharmed . Sensei ' s hat blows off , and it and the photo start to blow away in the wind . Misako catches his hat , but the photo is gone . They look at each other and decide : " The past is the past , but there ' s always the future . " While the bounty is flying away , the ninja watch in dismay as the stone army continues to destroy the city , smashing things , lighting things on fire , and throwing things at other things . The episode ends showing Lord Garmadon on the Dark Island , cheering loudly " Garmadon is back , Baby ! Garmadon . . . is . . . BACK ! ! ! "