Ninjago S7 E7

## Plot

Krux and Acronix promote General Machia to the rank of Supreme Commander of the Vermillion Warrior Army after they captured Wu and got both time blades back. Raggmunk and Blunck aren't happy about having to report directly to her. Back at the temple, Zane tries to locate the time blade with his temporal scanner. However, it was damaged during the attack. I swear, that title drop was unintentional. Nya can see if the scanner on the Bounty still works, and suggests that the others head to the museum to look for a secret hideout. Kai offers to help her. Cole wonders how they're supposed to get to the museum, since their vehicles were destroyed by the snakes. Ed is still trying to fix the Super Sonic Raider jet. Cole and Jay can take the new lightning bike, and Kai and Nya still have their old ones. Lloyd and Zane can take the Destiny's Shadow, something Misako was working on for Lloyd's birthday. Oh, like how the bike was a birthday present for Jay! That's a ridiculously subtle callback. I love it! She tells them about what happened to Wu during his fight with Acronix. This just makes them more determined to find him. However, Lloyd is having trouble figuring out how to control his sweet new ride. That is literally how I described it to my sister when she thought the horn was the oven beeping. Destiny's Bounty 2.0 is still airborne, somehow. Nya still wants to figure out who stole her Samurai X suit. Kai tells her that she's obsessed, and she points out that he's still fixated on the snake helmet. She can tell that something's been bothering him. She doesn't know who the stamp belongs to. Kai tells her that it belongs to their father. Pixal is still offline. The others arrive at the museum. Kai tells Nya that a blacksmith puts his stamp on everything he makes, and their father's is on every single Vermillion Warrior helmet they've found. He tells her what Krux told him, and points out that their parents could've forged armor for the Vermillon Warriors, and they weren't in the huge painting with the other elemental masters. Nya refuses to believe that their parents could have been traitors without real proof though. Kai hitting the console in anger finally gets the scanner to start working. However, stuff shorts out and catches fire. There goes that plan. They decide to meet up with the others at the museum. They split up to go on their own detours. Nya heads back to the Samurai X cave, and Kai heads back to the old blacksmith shop. At the museum, Zane is fully functional again, except for his continued inability to interface with Pixal, and voices how frustrating it is. Cole has got his earth punch under control… for the most part, since he accidentally punches a hole in the wall. However, this uncovers a secret room. Kai sees the same stamp at the shop, Nya sees the new samurai at the cave, and the others see the Vermillion Warrior hatching situation in the secret room. Kai hits the symbol, and also uncovers a secret hatch leading to a secret room. Nya wonders if the new samurai is really a Vermillion Warrior. They can mimic other people's voices, like Ronin, Dareth, Misako, etc. Ronin's leg is broken though, and Dareth is Dareth. Nya and the samurai fight. Misako has too much honor to steal the suit. Garmadon is dead. The samurai also mimics Kai, and says that they're not Nya's enemy. She loses her patience though, and demands that they reveal their identity. The others see the breeding tank for the snake eggs. They discover a door that leads to the sewers. Kai sees an old helmet, and it's identical to the new one. He says that there's only one person who could possibly understand what he's going through. Nya compliments the samurai's fighting style, noting that they've probably mastered multiple different types. They mimic Wu's voice. Nya accepts that she's no longer Samurai X, but the Water Ninja. She uses her powers on them, and demands that they reveal their identity. They mimic Cole's voice, and then her's. They're hiding their identity to protect the innocent, and their friends and allies. They think that they'd be in danger if anyone knew who they were. No! I've always found this trope to be stupid. I understand why it'd be bad for the general public and the bad guys to know the hero's secret identity. But their family, friends, and allies, most of whom could probably keep the secret? No way. There's *no* reason for them not to know except to artificially manufacture drama, and that's a stupid out of universe reason. Nya stops fighting them. The guys take the Destiny's Shadow through the sewer tunnels, since it can reconfigure itself into a boat. Nya tells the figure that they've proven themselves to be worthy of being the new Samurai X. They use a new male robotic voice now. She gives them the cave and a car. She leaves to go meet Kai somewhere. She suggests that the samurai pick a new color scheme, and guesses that they're Skylor. The figure plays along with her assumption. The guys are flying through the tunnels, which are difficult to navigate. They run into Skales and Skales Jr. They and some Constrictai are tracking the Vermillion Warriors, so they can avoid them. Skales tells the guys that the Vermillion are the pure, first generation progeny of the Great Devourer. *Oh.* The breeding tanks would start the process, but to make enough of them for an army, the specific environment would have to be a swamp. Skales can tell them where it is, but refuses to take them there. He gives them a map instead. Nya meets Kai at Chen's noodle house. She sees that Skylor is there, and learns that she isn't the new Samurai X. Kai talked to her because her dad was evil too. He shows Nya the different helmets. This proves that their dad was a traitor, and that he's still alive. Skylor tells them that no, they're not destined to turn evil. They choose who they become. I feel like the characters already learned this lesson from just knowing Lloyd, who is their leader, but whatever. The guys arrive at the swamp. Wu and Borg are down there somewhere. They call Nya and Kai. If they found Krux and Acronix's base, then that means that they've found Kai and Nya's father.