Ninjago S11 E16

## Plot

Pixal has a nightmare about Zane's "death." The others come in when they hear her screaming. She claims that she's fine; she's just having trouble accepting that he's gone. Wu tells them that he's alive. Aspheera banished him to the Never-Realm. The first spinjitzu master told Wu to never go there. He went there once, and almost didn't find his way back home. Wu is going to use Aspheera's staff to send himself there, find Zane, and then use Traveler's Tea to bring them both back. He refuses to let the others come with him, thinking that what happened to Zane is his fault, so this is his responsibility. It sounds like he's taking the lesson he learned in the first half of the season too far. Now he's taking responsibility and blame for things that aren't even his fault. They convince him to meditate on it for the night. While he does, Lloyd steals the tea leaves. They head down to the base to get the staff. There's a tracking device on the Titan mech, so assuming Zane is still with it, they should be able to find him with a radar. They know Wu will be pretty upset when he finds out they're gone. He's already mad. He knows what they're trying to do, and already grabbed the remaining scroll of forbidden spinjitzu. The scroll is making him act aggressive. Lloyd knocks it out of his hand, and Cole and Jay tie him up. They gag him before he can tell them something important about the tea. Why would you do that? There was no need to. Pixal banishes them and the Land Bounty to the Never-Realm. When she unties Wu, he tells her that he was trying to warn them that Traveler's Tea from Ninjago won't work in the Never-Realm. That's why he wanted to go alone. Now the others are lost, just like Zane. It's called the Never-Realm because they may never return. We hear a young girl we've never heard before give us a brief history lesson on her home, the Never-Realm. Sixty years ago, it was taken over by the Ice Emperor, who imposed his will on everyone, and destroyed the girl's people. Now there is no one left to stand up against him. One day though, she believes that someone will. She believes that heroes still exist. Cue the ninja arriving in the Never-Realm. That definitely reminded me of Katara's narration from the opening of *Avatar: The Last Airbender*. The Land Bounty falls off a cliff, and the ninja get out just in time. Unfortunately, Cole lost the Traveler's Tea. Now they have no vehicle, no supplies, no way to get back home, and they're in the middle of a blizzard with nothing on the tracker. They find people frozen solid in ice. They're still alive. Cole can't break them out with his Earth punch. Nya picks up a faint signal from the mech. They fight wolves. Nya can't use her powers on the frozen water. They're saved by people who take them to Great Lake, their village. They meet an old woman there named Sorla. They explain that they come from a place called Ninjago and are looking for their friend Zane. Sorla tells them that her tribe is the only one that still lives on the ice. The others have all fled south, and they will have to go soon as well. The cold is too strong, and the ice is too thick. Sorla uses the fire to find out where Zane is. He's been taken prisoner by the Ice Emperor. They can't save him. The only people who go there and come back out are the Emperor and his Blizzard Samurai, and they're inhuman. The ninja tell Sorla that they're not giving up. She tells them that Zane is fortunate to have friends like them, but the Emperor's chancellor, Vex, controls the dark ice, and sees many things. If he finds out they're here, he'll warn the Emperor, and send fearless and emotionless Blizzard Samurai to wipe them out. He already knows they're there. He tells the Emperor, who is voiced by Graeme Palisade. Yes, that's a strange name. He's very menacing as the Ice Emperor though. I love his performance so far, and he's only shown up for one short scene.