Ninjago S5 E2

## Plot

I forgot to mention it in the previous episode, but the guys get cool looking new outfits again. Jay hysterically calls Wu out on not telling them about Morro. Also, he's called that because he always wanted more. Wu had no idea that there was a secret message engraved on the staff. Morro gets on the Bounty and pulls out two swords. Wu needs ink and parchment to make an imprint of what's on the staff. He, Kai, and Zane head downstairs to their quarters while Cole and Jay fight Morro. Nya wonders out loud why she's steering the ship and activates autopilot. However, Morro zaps the console with electricity and the ship starts going down. Morro goes after the others. Kai and Zane try to hold him back while Wu keeps going. Nya tries to stabilize the ship. Morro says that the team will fall apart without Lloyd to lead them. Kai says that he'll lead them then, and make sure that he goes down. They're both the kind of people who will never give up. Cole and Jay help Nya with the ship, and it *barely* rises above a mountain. Morro tries to use his wind powers to blow Kai out of a hole in the ship. Wu throws the staff out, and Morro chases after it. Zane saves Kai. Morro gets the staff and rides away on his dragon. The Bounty crash lands in a forest. Wu managed to make a rough imprint of the message on a wall. It's three symbols. Wu's father once told him that he would leave him a message leading him to his final resting place. After he died, Wu looked everywhere for it, not knowing that it was in the staff this whole time. But if you weren't there when he died in some mysterious place, then how did you know that he had died? Anyways, the symbols will lead them to the tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master. The problem is that even Wu doesn't know what any of it means. Morro is also trying to find the tomb for some unknown reason. They decide to get Misako to come over and look at the symbols since she's an excellent historian. Zane releases the falcon to give her the message. Aw! Now it looks just like Zane! That night, Wu tells them more about Morro. He was his first student, but also his greatest regret. Garmadon had just gone off to train under Chen, so Wu decided to try his hand at teaching. He trained and cared for Morro, a street urchin looking for food to eat. He was the perfect student, and did everything that was ever asked of him. Wu learned that he was a descendant of the elemental master of wind, and thought that he could be the Green Ninja. He told Morro this, which turned out to be a grave mistake. After that, Morro became more ambitious and arrogant, and was driven by an intense desire to become the Green Ninja. However, the weapons didn't react to him. Wu says that destiny has spoken. Morro refused to believe it and became angry. He wouldn't listen. He became obsessed in proving Wu and destiny wrong. He thought he was invincible and nearly got himself killed until Wu saved him. It was then that a young Wu learned that he couldn't teach those that wouldn't listen. Morro was still determined to prove himself worthy, and left to look for Wu's father's tomb. He never returned. Wu didn't know that he had since become a cursed spirit, which saddens him. It's weird to hear the voice of someone who is clearly an adult come out of a small, adorable child though. That green stripe in his hair was so cute! This definitely explains why Wu didn't tell the others about the green ninja though. He didn't want a repeat of his first student. They wonder how they're going to defeat Morro without their powers. Kai says that real power doesn't come from their hands, but the heart. Lloyd is at stake. Failure is not an option. At a bar, Morro finds the message and uses the armor to summon one of his ghost friends. Kai has a nightmare about Lloyd. When he wakes up, he sees that Misako arrived. The first symbol, a tornado, means Airjitzu. It's a lost martial art created by Sensei Yang, who died years ago. If someone masters it, it allows them to fly temporarily. The scroll of airjitzu is well guarded in the ancient library of Domu. Zane's records reveal that it was recently stolen by a man they know as Ronin, a thief, mercenary, and bounty hunter. It's his first mention in the show, but there's a technically non canon video game that bridges together seasons 4 and 5 that has him as an antagonist. If Morro doesn't know that the scroll was stolen, then he'll be heading to the library. The guys know that Ronin is most likely in the village Stiix, a bit of a shantytown surrounded by water and made entirely out of wood. Yes, village Stiix, River Styx, the writers are so clever. The guys will head there while Misako, Wu, and Nya head back to Steep Wisdom and try and decipher the next two clues. Nya wants to go with the guys, but Wu says that she has to sit this one out, because there's too much to be done here. Morro reaches the library and learns that the scroll was stolen by Ronin. Kai's leadership skills gets the others lost, so they decide to let Zane lead instead. Wu said that the path they seek is never a straight line. They must look to each other to guide themselves. The Bounty heads back to the still ruined tea shop. Misako says that Wu needs to tell Nya something, but Wu says that she's not ready. Misako points out that he waited this long to tell them about Morro, and now look where they are. Why do mentors do this? They only tell their students everything about a potential threat until after said threat has already been unleashed again. Wu knew about the Serpentine, the Great Devourer, the Overlord, he waited forever to do something about his brother in the pilot, he knew about Morro, and as we'll see later, at least two future villains, including literally the *exact moment* one of them would return! Wu admits that there's something he hasn't told Kai and Nya about their parents. However, Nya reveals that Kai actually told her about what Chen said to him last season. They already looked into it, and learned that their father was an elemental master of fire, which, given Kai's powers, wasn't exactly newsworthy. What they didn't find out is that their mother was an elemental master of water, and Nya must train to become one too, and a ninja. She promptly faints. At night, the guys still haven't reached the village. They wonder why Morro is so interested in the tomb. Wu just said that it holds unspeakable power. They decide to stop and take a break. They're attacked by one of Morro's friends. Their weapons go right through him because he's a ghost. Before he can tell them what Morro wants in the tomb, he's inadvertently done in by his own weapon. It causes a water tower to collapse on him. Water can destroy ghosts. They keep heading to Stiix.