Misfortune Rising Misfortune Rising is the fourth episode of the sixth season of " " , as well as the fifty - eighth overall in the series . Official Description . " The ninja are on a collision course ; to find the map to stop Nadakhan , they must first find him . " Plot . The Ninja split up and search for the Sky Pirates through looking for their whereabouts , but do not find any traces of them . Jay and Nya infiltrate the police , while Kai and Zane find the " Destiny ' s Bounty 2 . 0 " in a vehicle impound , but are chased off by the owner . Elsewhere , Lloyd and Cole check Gypsy ' s Beach , the last known location of the Sky Pirates , but didn ' t find them nor any trace of them . Meanwhile , the Sky Pirates are traveling in the skies on " Misfortune ' s Keep " , which has been converted into an aerial VTOL . Nadakhan and Flintlocke begin making plans to trap the Ninjas ' souls in the Sword of Souls , so that the Sky Pirates are powerful enough to conquer Ninjago , and Nadakhan teleports away . Flintlocke then accidentally steers the ship into a mountaintop . Elsewhere , Jay and Nya finish their infiltration and have lunch , where they speak to each other and Nya reveals that she knows about Jay ' s feelings which she tried to ignore but eventually couldn ' t . Nadakhan spies on the two from a distance and appears to Jay after he walks away from Nya to clean off his shirt . Nadakhan grants Jay a wish , where Jay wishes to not have been born in a junkyard , and that he could be wealthy so that he can give Nya anything that she wants . The mailman rides up to Jay in a bicycle and informs Jay that his father passed away , and that he inherited his wealth . Jay quickly rushes to the Junkyard in a fit of panic , where he believes his adoptive father , Ed has died , but Ed turns out to be alive and reveals to Jay that he was an adopted child and Edna hands Jay the key and address to his father ' s home . Jay travels to his father ' s home , where he finds out that his father was Cliff Gordon , who played his favorite TV character , Fritz Donnegan . He reads a book in Cliff ' s home about how to attract girls , and is greeted by Nadakhan , who attempts to manipulate Jay into being trapped in the Sword of Souls , but fails , and Jay quickly wishes that he wasn ' t alone with Nadakhan . Suddenly , Nya appears at the door , and tells Jay that she found him by asking his parents . The two then go back to meet up with the Ninja . Meanwhile , Nadakhan returns to his crew , who ' s ship struck the top of a mountaintop , but safely managed to land on it . Flintlocke greets Nadakhan , and offers the idea of attacking Ninjago City to distract the Ninja , so that they can be trapped . Nadakhan agrees , and they begin setting their plan into motion . At a fighting club , the Ninja discuss about finding Nadakhan , where they are interrupted by a news report that shows that the Sky Pirates have attacked Ninjago City . The Ninja quickly rush out to save the city , and temporarily work alongside the reluctant police chief , and battle the Sky Pirates . Kai is suddenly ambushed by Nadakhan , and is teleported to a beach , where he manipulates Kai into wishing to " go back , " causing him to be teleported to Ninjago City , but decades back from the present . Kai sees a young version of his father carrying weapons , who falls and asks Kai for assistance in picking up the weapons . Frustrated by Nadakhan ' s word - twisting , Kai refuses to meddle with the past and in desperation makes another wish , where he is teleported into a reality where all of the girls are " crazy for him " , and runs away from them , boarding himself up inside of a building . However , the girls break in and proceed to drag him off , and Kai is manipulated by Nadakhan to wish " for it all to go away " , and is successfully trapped inside of the Sword of Souls . In Ninjago City , the Ninja are fighting the Sky Pirates , and Cole jumps onto Misfortune ' s Keep and grabs the lantern that contains the map to Tiger Widow Island , but is ambushed by Flintlocke , who fires his gun at Cole in an attempt to kill him , but the bullet travels right through Cole , since he is a ghost , and ricochets into the Realm Crystal , accidentally shattering it to pieces . Cole then runs from Flintlocke with the lantern , along with Jay . Nadakhan returns to Flintlocke and his crew , and reveals that he has acquired Kai ' s soul , and the Pirates fly away from the city on their ship . The Ninja meet up and examine the map , but realize that Kai is not with them , where they suddenly hear a loud crashing noise . Meanwhile , the owner of the impound hears his dog barking , and walks out from his shack only to see an enormous crater , where a large piece of Ninjago formerly was , revealing that Nadakhan successfully rose most of Ninjago up into the sky , turning Ninjago into a chain of floating islands .