Ninjago S11 E18

## Plot

Two fishermen hear Blizzard Samurai coming and run to warn the village. Sorla gives Lloyd a map of the area. There are only two ways to the Emperor's castle, and the safest way is through Mala-Wojira, but they have to be silent, or Wojira will strike them down. The signal on the tracker for the Titan mech keeps cutting in and out. The cold shouldn't matter. It's like the signal is weak, but the mech was brand new. The fishermen reach the village and tell everyone that the Blizzard Samurai are coming. The elders debate on what to do. Some want to hide, but others don't want to abandon the Fire. Some refuse to hide in the village of the Formlings, believing it to be cursed after what happened there. Sorla says they have to protect the Fire. The winters have grown too cold for them to light a new fire. They have kept the hearth fire going by adding wood every morning and every night. It's burned for decades. If it goes out, they'll die. Lloyd suggests transporting it somehow with torches, but Sorla says the risk is too great. They decide to stand and fight, and the ninja agree to fight with them. Kai wishes he still had his elemental powers to help them make a new fire. Sorla tells him that elemental powers come from within, like courage. Sometimes it wanes, and sometimes it waxes, but it can never be stolen. The Blizzard Samurai arrive that night. Some of them are frozen warriors, and others are just made of ice. The ones that are frozen people are being controlled by the ice. They're able to defeat the samurai, but the leader, Grimfax, is able to extinguish the hearth fire. Kai is able to reach deep down and use a spark of his elemental powers to relight the fire, and the villagers nickname him "Fire Maker." Vex is displeased at this. In the next episode, Cole realizes that ice is basically frozen water and asks Nya if she can use her elemental powers to clear away all the snow and ice. She can't control water when it's frozen. Meanwhile, Kai is relaxing and receiving praise for being the "Fire Maker." Nya is glad that his powers are returning, but she tells Sorla that her own don't work in this realm. The water here is frozen, and she can't control ice. There can be no ice without water. Sorla tells Nya to speak more clearly if she wants the water to listen to her. She gets angry, and Lloyd asks her what's wrong. She feels useless without her powers. Seriously? Kai already had to learn this lesson in this season! Remember when Nya refused to accept her destiny as the water ninja and felt like she'd be more useful in season 5 as Samurai X? This is basically that in reverse. It definitely feels like some of the characters' personalities have been reset so the new writers can have them learn the same lessons they did before. The original four in particular have already lost their elemental powers so many times. You think they'd have learned by now that their real power never came from their hands, but from their hearts. Lloyd asks Nya to protect the village with the others in case the Blizzard Samurai come back. He's going to sneak into the ice castle and rescue Zane while the others have the Emperor's attention. Nya gives him the radar in case he gets close to the Titan mech. Vex sees him leave and tells a silent prisoner with unique abilities that he may soon have some company. The prisoner refuses to join the Emperor. Lloyd is attacked by wolves, but he's saved by a white one with three tails. He gives the wolf a fish. He starts heading through Mala-Wojira, but a sneeze blocks the way he came. He's attacked by Blizzard Samurai. There's too many of them, so he deliberately triggers an avalanche. He's once again saved by the white wolf. He thanks them for saving his life and introduces himself. He follows the wolf to the wreckage of the Land Bounty. Even if he rescues Zane from the ice castle, they still have no way home. He can't do this alone. He decides to go back to the village tomorrow and make a new plan. He and the wolf wake up when they hear a beeping sound. It's the tracker for the mech. If it still works, it could give them a chance against the Ice Emperor.