Zane/History

## Early life

Zane was created by Dr. Julien in a small workshop, located deep in the depths of Birchwood Forest. He spent many happy years with Dr. Julien, who taught him life skills such as cooking. During this time, Dr. Julien also built the Falcon to act as a companion for his artificial son, and the mechanical bird would continue to aid Zane throughout his life.

One day, Zane and his father were visited by an old man, the Elemental Master of Ice, who they took in for the night. The man took an interest in Zane, and after he left them, Julien stated that Zane was "acting strangely", implying that Zane had gained his Ice Power. The next day, Master Wu visited to find Zane chopping wood. After Zane asked whether Wu needed wood chopped, Wu replied that he did not, but that someday, Zane would be needed to accomplish a far greater task than he could have imagined.

Eventually, Dr. Julien passed away from old age, with Zane at his side. On his deathbed, Dr. Julien told the saddened Zane that he had a great destiny ahead of him and told him that he was built to protect others and that he had become the son Dr. Julien had never had. Expressing his love one more time, the dying inventor's final act was to turn off Zane's "Memory Switch," so his son would be spared the pain of heartbreak as he moved into the next stage of his life.

After being "reset," Zane went out into the world, believing that he was an orphan, with no recollection of his past memories. Master Wu found Zane meditating at the bottom of a frozen pond, and recruited him as a member of his team of Ninja, alongside Cole and Jay. He began training at the Monastery of Spinjitzu and started to learn the way of the Ninja.

## Pilot episodes

### Way of the Ninja

After they had trained together for a time, Master Wu assigned them to attack his newest student, Kai, as part of the latter's final test. While he was preparing for bed, he, Cole, and Jay snuck into Kai's room in the monastery and battled him. After this, Master Wu broke up the fight and revealed that Kai was to join their ninja team. At first, Jay, Cole, and Zane all objected but consented to Master Wu's will. Master Wu then used his Spinjitzu to give them all-new outfits, Zane gaining a white Ninja gi. Wu pronounced him the white Ninja of Ice, the Ninja with the sixth sense. After Wu explained their purpose, he announced that they would now leave to claim the first Golden Weapon and rescue Kai's sister Nya.

### The Golden Weapon

Upon arriving at the Caves of Despair, Kai ran off on his own, and Zane was forced to follow with Cole and Jay. They caught up with him at a Skulkin lookout tower where Zane used a shuriken to steal the map to Golden Weapons from Samukai. The Ninja soon located the Scythe of Quakes and hoped to sneak out while the Skulkin were busy, but Jay unintentionally alerted the skeletons to their presence. Thus, the skeleton army was waiting when the Ninja emerged from the caves. The Ninja faced their foes and in the process managed to unlock Spinjitzu. The Skulkin quickly retreated and Zane mentioned that Wu had said something about a guardian protecting the weapon, as the Ninja, unfortunately, had awoken the Earth Dragon. After Kai attempted to use the Scythe to stave off the beast, they all used Spinjitzu to escape.

### King of Shadows

After obtaining the Scythe, the Ninja set out to find the next three Golden Weapons. Traveling by boat the Ninja sought the next weapon, the Shurikens of Ice. While on the boat, Master Wu informed the four about the Tornado of Creation and what it is capable of doing. At the Ice Temple, Zane approached the Shurikens and was frozen upon contact with them so the other Ninja were forced to carry him out of the temple as they were pursued by the Ice Dragon. With the Shurikens in possession, the Ninja then ascended to the Floating Ruins for the Nunchucks of Lightning. Using one of Jay's inventions, they escaped to the Forest of Tranquility.

That night the Ninja celebrated their success thus far and even told a joke. Later that night, the White Ninja was awoken by the Skulkins who captured him, Cole, and Jay, and reclaimed the three Golden Weapons. After they left to unite the weapons in the Underworld, Jay managed to free the three and they gave chase, quickly catching up to the Skull Truck. Zane managed to knock several Skulkin off the truck until Samukai knocked him off just before he accelerated the vehicle into the Underworld.

### Weapons of Destiny

    Cole, Jay, and Zane journeyed to the Fire Temple in search of Kai and Master Wu, but Zane sensed that Wu and the Sword of Fire were no longer there and instead in the Underworld. However, the Fire Temple quickly split in half, revealing Kai and Nya on top of the Fire Dragon. Kai explained what had happened and revealed that dragons can cross into the Underworld, allowing them to follow Master Wu and the Skulkin, but Cole—in an attempt to avoid flying on a dragon's back—claimed that they will not all fit on the Fire Dragon's back. However, this inspired Kai to recruit the other three elemental Dragons, and Zane ended up riding the Ice Dragon as the beast crossed over to the Underworld.

Upon arriving in the Underworld, the Ninja attempted to sneak past the skeletons by using stalactites, but they dropped right outside Garmadon's fortress after they mistakenly grabbed a Spykor's legs instead. Surrounded by hordes of spiders and skeletons, Jay suggested using the Tornado of Creation. Despite concerns about the potential "disastrous consequences" Master Wu had spoken of, he and the Ninja decided to perform the technique allowing them to defeat their foes.

With the path clear, Zane and the other Ninja entered Garmadon's fortress to find Master Wu battling Samukai with the Golden Weapons. He watched as his mentor was beaten by Samukai, who took up all four weapons and threatened to usurp Garmadon. However, the power overwhelmed Samukai, transforming him into a portal that he escaped into. With their enemy gone for the moment, the Ninja rushed to help Master Wu, taking the Golden Weapons for their own use.

Cole and the other Ninja then journeyed to Four Weapons Blacksmith where they reunited with Nya and vowed to be ready when Garmadon returned.

## Mini-movies

### Flight of the Dragon Ninja

Master Wu had told the Ninja to train, but they decided to have a race with their Dragons instead. Jay was trying to convince them that he was the best out of the four of them since he won the last time they had raced. Zane said that they should be training to avoid angering Master Wu, but Kai convinces him to race by telling him that riding their Dragons was a form of training. Cole sets the terms of the competition, stating that whoever wins the race will be Dragon Master for a month and the group speeds off. Kai and Zane battle hand and hand for a little bit, before Zane, takes the lead. The group approaches the "finish line" but Cole speeds across first by throwing a roasted chicken in front of Rocky's nose. Cole lands first, but Kai says they'll beat them tomorrow. Cole protests that they agreed on that the winner would be Dragon Master for a month, but Zane claims not to remember agreeing to that statement.

### Battle Between Brothers

One day, Zane noticed that Master Wu was wearing a new kimono. He complimented it as "most extraordinary," and learned that it had powers against evil—more importantly, it reminded Master Wu of the day Lord Garmadon was banished to the Underworld. After revealing details of his battle against his evil brother, Master Wu told Zane that there were many years of peace after Garmadon's downfall. On cue, Jay soared overhead on the back of the Lightning Dragon, and Zane quipped that those days seemed to be over.

## Rise of the Snakes

### Rise of the Snakes

With peace throughout Ninjago, Zane and the other Ninja fell out of training and instead spent their time playing video games. After a three hour marathon, they were interrupted by Wu who unplugged the TV, who encouraged them not to put off tomorrow what could be done that day and start training again to prepare for his brother's return to Ninjago. In response, Zane pointed out that Ninjago has had nothing but peace and the Ninja returned to their video games.

At that moment, Nya rushed in bringing word that Garmadon was spotted in Jamanakai village. The out-of-shape Ninja then rushed out the door and down to the dragon pen where Kai accidentally opened the gates while Zane was underneath.

Eager to get back in the fight, the ninja raced each other to Jamanakai village, but upon arrival, Zane insisted that he had arrived first. They were interrupted by the sound of evil laughter from the village and drawing their weapons, approached the village ready for battle. However, the White Ninja was surprised to find that it was Lloyd Garmadon, the dark lord's son, who was causing trouble by threatening to release the serpentine, an ancient race of snakes which once ruled Ninjago unless they gave him candy. The Ninja tied him to the top of a sign and embarrassed him in front of the villagers as they mocked him by eating candy.

As they prepared to return to the monastery, Kai discovered the prophecy of the Green Ninja in Wu's bag which he had taken by mistake. Zane translated it for them and believed himself to be the Green Ninja as did the others so when they returned to the monastery, the four Spinjitzu masters challenged themselves to a tournament for the title. Zane faced off against Cole in the first round though lost. However, the tournament ended when Kai lost control of the Sword of Fire and the Ninja were scolded by Master Wu.

Determined to be the Green Ninja, Zane and the others devoted themselves to training. They were soon ordered back to Jamanakai Village by Wu however as Lloyd had unleashed the Hypnobrai tribe of Serpentine. Zane once again mounted the Fire Dragon upon arriving at the village, met up with Nya. After discovering they would need the anti-venom from the General's staff to save the village, the Ninja split up and after a fight with the snakes, sent them retreating. After the villagers had been cured of their hypnotism, Zane and the other Ninja met up with Wu and apologized for their lazy behavior earlier. With a new threat now upon them, Zane and the others returned to the monastery determined to unlock the secrets of their Golden Weapons and to reach their True Potential.

### Home

Over the next few days, Zane exhibited several unusual traits including eating all the food except for cheese, walking into the bathroom to comb his hair while Cole was using it, and finding a sad movie that he watched with Jay and Nya humorous.

With the Hypnobrai and Lloyd Garmadon still at large, Zane resumed training with his comrades, only to interrupt their training with his regime. The other three Ninja began questioning Zane's "odd" behavior, despite Master Wu telling them that brothers are often quite different. After a mail delivery, Jay wondered why Zane never receives any letters from his parents, prompting Zane to reveal his past as an orphan. The reminder of his mysterious past left Zane in a mild depression, even after Master Wu told him that his home was the Monastery.

Zane made dinner for his friends that night, only to fail to understand their laughter when they saw his pink apron. In an attempt to make the Ninja of Ice laugh, Cole started a food fight, but Zane remained puzzled. As Zane went outside to take out the trash from dinner, he met a falcon that mimicked his every move. When the bird flew off, Zane decided to follow it, and it led him to Lloyd's treehouse fortress in Wildwood Forest, prompting him to summon his fellow Ninja to the location the next morning.

After analyzing the structure, Kai decided that they should target the ropes holding the fortress up, and Zane joined Jay and Cole in moving to one of the trees with the support ropes. Zane cut his rope with Spinjitzu and rendezvoused with Kai and Jay on the roof, only for Cole to suddenly attack them (due to Skales's hypnosis).

As the fortress began crumbling beneath them, Zane suggested that Jay try to shock Cole out of the spell with the Nunchucks of Lightning, but the blast only fazed the brainwashed Ninja of Earth. Zane futilely pleaded with Cole as the latter prepared to sever the final support rope, but Master Wu breaks the spell with the music of a flute. Zane joined his comrades in jumping aboard Flame's back as the fortress fell apart completely, but the victory was soured when they returned to the Monastery and found it in flames.

After Cole freed the other dragons from their burning pens, Zane ordered Shard to put out the fire. Realizing that the Hypnobrai had destroyed the Monastery while the Ninja were destroying Lloyd's fortress, the other Ninja blamed Zane for the destruction of their home. While Master Wu chastised his pupils for their rashness, Zane left astride his dragon for an unknown purpose.

The next day, Zane arrived at the makeshift shelter his comrades had erected and explained that he was following the Falcon he had seen earlier, which led him to the *Destiny's Bounty*. As the Ninja celebrated their new home, Zane told Master Wu that he no longer needed to search for his family—it was right here, among the Ninja.

### Snakebit

Jay's parents, Ed and Edna arrive at the ship to visit, much to Jay's annoyance. After being embarrassed multiple times by his mother, Jay ushers his parents back to their own home. Ed and Edna are bitten by the Fangpyre, while other members of the tribe infect vehicles in the yard for their uses. The next day, Jay keeps his promise to his father and visits the junkyard with the others on foot, as the Ninja's Dragons migrated east to begin a transformation in their stage of life. When they arrive, the place is quiet. He finds Ed and Edna captive and beginning their transformation into Serpentine. While the Fangpyre fight the Ninja, Master Wu explains the only way to change Jay's parents back is to get the anti-venom from the Fangpyre Staff. After discovering their Golden Weapons can transform into vehicles, Jay uses his Storm Fighter plane to steal the staff from the Rattlecopter. Nya creates the anti-venom before accidentally losing the staff, and Ed fixes the defense system of the *Destiny's Bounty* that Jay was working on the day before, allowing them to take flight and escape the Fangpyre.

### Never Trust a Snake

One night, Zane had a strange dream involving the Falcon speaking to him, Lord Garmadon attacking him aboard the *Destiny's Bounty*, and the Green Ninja appearing before him. The dream caused him to oversleep, and Zane told the other Ninja about his dream when they questioned his uncharacteristic tardiness. Their excitement over the dream left them unable to focus, getting them in trouble with Master Wu. Their mentor punished them by forcing them to train until they could answer his riddle about the best way to defeat an enemy.

Unable to think of the correct answer, the Ninja grudgingly accepted their punishment. The moment Master Wu was out of earshot, however, Zane told the other Ninja more about his dream. They all began speculating over which of them was the Green Ninja, with Zane pointing out that the Green Ninja's possession of the Falcon and that it was his dream implied that it must be him.

The Ninja's training was interrupted when they were sent to Darkley's School for Bad Boys, where Lloyd was spotted with the Anacondrai General, Pythor. The Ninja were forced to climb to the top of the building, only for Zane and Kai to set off a booby trap that stuck them in place with goo. After Pythor betrayed Lloyd by stealing the Map of Dens, the Ninja took the would-be-evil overlord into their custody. Zane joined his comrades in suggesting punishments to Master Wu, with Zane's contribution being that Lloyd "sit in a corner for a century."

To Zane (and the other Ninja)'s astonishment and fury, Master Wu read Lloyd a bedtime story instead of punishing him for his mischief. When the Ninja went to complain to their Master, he merely asked if they have finally solved his riddle, prompting the Ninja to protest that they've thought of everything without coming up with an answer. Finally, Master Wu revealed that the best way to defeat an enemy is "to make him your friend," causing the Ninja to realize that Lloyd was now being turned away from the path of evil.

### Can of Worms

Lloyd's conversion to the side of good was not instantaneous, and the Ninja had to deal with a series of pranks from their new companion. Zane greeted Lloyd while taking out his laundry, only to learn that his outfit had been mixed with Kai's in the wash, turning his garments pink. He initially blamed Kai for the mishap, only to be accosted by Jay in turn, who claimed that Zane had tinkered with the sparring bot without his permission because there were some malfunctions. The four-way argument was broken up by Master Wu, who revealed that Lloyd was behind all of the pranks and explained that this was a lesson on the destructive potential of rumors (although he admitted that he made that one up on the spot since Lloyd had stolen his lesson book).

Zane was present for Nya's deduction of a pattern to the location of the Serpentine Tombs, allowing the Ninja to deploy to the last two in hopes of stopping Pythor from releasing the rest of his brethren. Zane and Cole were sent to the Mountain of a Million Steps in search of the Constrictai Tomb. Along the way, Zane had to endure Cole's quips about his pink gi, as well as the mild indignity of riding piggyback as the Ninja of Earth rapidly scaled the steep mountain. A short time later, they discovered the Constrictai's prison near the top of the mountain, only to find it seemingly empty.

While searching the tomb for the snakes, Zane discovered strange paintings on the walls. He told Cole that the drawings detailed a prophecy; when the five Serpentine tribes unite as one, they can find the Four Silver Fangblades and unleash the Great Devourer to consume all of Ninjago. Before they could leave the tomb, the two Ninja were attacked by Skalidor, who revealed that he had been waiting to ambush them ever since Pythor opened the tomb. Zane and Cole had difficulty fighting the Constrictai General, with their attempts to use the Sacred Flute stymied by Skalidor's choking coils, but Zane eventually managed to play the melody, leaving Skalidor open to an attack from Cole. With the General downed and their objective failed, Zane and Cole fled the tomb to reinforce their allies.

Unfortunately, the other pair's luck had been no better; by the time Zane reunited with his comrades in the Toxic Bogs, the Venomari Tomb was open and empty. The Ninja were then ambushed by the Constrictai (minus Skalidor), the Venomari (including General Acidicus), and Pythor himself. Heavily outnumbered—especially with Kai under the influence of Venomari venom—Zane tried to use the Sacred Flute against the snakes, but Pythor snatched it out of his hands before he could weaken the surrounding Serpentine. Forced back onto a log sinking into the corrosive sludge of the bog, the Ninja were only saved by the arrival of the mysterious Samurai X.

Back on the *Destiny's Bounty*, Master Wu was relieved by his pupils' survival, but concerned by their failure to stop Pythor from freeing the rest of the Serpentine. His concerns were only compounded when Zane revealed the loss of the Sacred Flute and Cole mentioned the prophecy they found in the Constrictai Tomb; realizing that Pythor sought to fulfill the prophecy and unleash the Great Devourer, Master Wu sent the Ninja to find the Serpentine and prevent them from uniting. The Ninja immediately leaped into action, although Zane's outfit was still pink (much to his dismay).

Landing in Ninjago City with the help of his Snowmobile, Zane noted that the Serpentine were nowhere to be seen, despite the Ninja landing directly on their supposed coordinates. The Ninja soon realized the snakes were hiding in the subway tunnels below them and came upon a massive gathering listening to Pythor's talk of unity. To disrupt the meeting, the Ninja threw insults among the crowd of Serpentine, with Zane commenting that the Constrictai's digging "must have given them dirt for brains."

Although the plan caused the snakes to begin arguing again, Skales spotted the Ninja and sent the Constrictai in pursuit. Only Zane escaped capture, and his pink outfit allowed him to camouflage himself against a poster when the Serpentine came looking for him. The Ninja of Ice then returned to the gathering and swung in on a rope, knocking Pythor and Skales aside and freeing his friends. With the full Serpentine army in pursuit, Zane used the Shurikens of Ice to freeze part of the tunnel, allowing the Ninja to escape on his Snowmobile while the snakes slipped and slid on the ice.

The Ninja returned to the *Destiny's Bounty* to report their success, with Zane commenting that Lloyd's prank had helped him avoid capture and save his friends. On cue, Lloyd arrived in the dining room, having washed the pink out of Zane's clothes, and the Ninja of Ice joined everyone else in laughing when Cole fell for the former would-be evil overlord's final prank.

### The Snake King

After critiquing Lloyd's wild plans on how to battle a Serpentine and receiving new suits in the mail, the Ninja were made aware of a Serpentine sighting in Mega Monster Amusement Park. When they arrived, however, the snakes had already been defeated and tied up, with an admiring crowd claiming that Samurai X had dealt with them. After Master Wu suggested that the Ninja use the new competition as a learning experience, Zane interpreted his words as a hint that the greatest Ninja was the one who could defeat the Samurai.

To this end, the Ninja decided to have a friendly competition; whoever could unmask the Samurai was most likely to be the Green Ninja. However, none of their efforts were succeeded in capturing or even upstaging the Samurai. Zane tracked a small group of Hypnobrai to the Glacier Barrens, only to find Samurai X tying them up—he could only shake his fist and curse the warrior's name as the Samurai Mech flew off.

The hunt for the Samurai was postponed when Lloyd went missing. The Ninja went to his last known location—the Kiddie Arcade—where security footage showed the boy heading down an alley in a Rattla costume. Zane identified Lloyd's footprints as the Ninja explored the alley, but noted that they suddenly stopped near a set of tire tracks. Realizing that Lloyd had taken some form of transportation, the Ninja summoned their vehicles and followed the tire tracks into the Sea of Sand.

The trail led to the Lost City of Ouroboros, recently unearthed by Pythor. Sneaking past the guards, the Ninja arrived outside the Slither Pit arena, where Zane observed that the Serpentine had united at last. When Cole spotted Lloyd in a cage on the other end of the arena, the Ninja charged into battle—or would have, if a cage had not been dropped on them.

### Tick Tock

As part of his continued training, Zane decided to try and beat his old breath-holding record by sitting underwater while the others timed him. He sat on the seabed for over ten minutes without any apparent fatigue before deciding to come up and check his time, learning that he had easily beaten his original record. As Zane climbed back aboard the *Destiny's Bounty*, Jay commented on how far all of them had come in their training, prompting Zane to suggest that they had reached their full potential.

The Ninja sought Master Wu's opinion on the matter, only to find him packing his things for a journey. Master Wu explained that they had yet to unlock their True Potential, and revealed some of his past with Lord Garmadon—specifically, how the latter's fall to evil began when he was bitten by the Great Devourer. The old master charged Zane and the others with preventing the Devourer's awakening by finding the four Fangblades before the Serpentine could, and then set out to find help in their quest to rescue Lloyd from Pythor's clutches.

While putting up signs advertising their search for the Fangblades, Zane spotted the Falcon once again. Despite his comrades' misgivings, he convinced them to follow the bird across Ninjago—however, the other three eventually tired out, leaving Zane to continue the chase alone. He followed the Falcon into the depths of Birchwood Forest before the bird suddenly fell from the sky. When Zane approached it, he was stunned to discover that the Falcon was a robot.

As Zane picked up the Falcon and continued exploring the forest, he was attacked by the Juggernaut, who identified him as an intruder. Using all of his skills, Zane was able to disable the robot, discovering that it was similar in design to the Falcon. After the battle, he found the hidden workshop the Juggernaut was guarding and entered with the offline Falcon in tow. Within the workshop, Zane found the Falcon's blueprints and successfully repaired his mechanical friend. In the process, he stumbled upon his blueprints, discovering that he was a robot as well.

When the other Ninja arrived, Zane revealed his true nature to them. After a moment of shock, the other Ninja insisted that they thought no differently of Zane than before, but the White Ninja refused to accompany them out for a time. While reflecting on the revelation, Zane noticed mention of a "Memory Switch" in his blueprints; when he found the switch in his body, he was able to restore his memories of Dr. Julien. Shedding a single tear for his creator, Zane finally found the strength to move on, letting the Falcon perch on his arm as he ran to tell his friends the good news.

When Zane emerged from the workshop, he found his fellow Ninja being overwhelmed by a group of Treehorns. He immediately jumped into the fray, fighting off the monsters with a passion that the Ninja had never seen. When the Treehorn Queen appeared, Zane boldly challenged her, declaring that learning his true identity had freed him of all doubts. With that, he unlocked his True Potential and defeated the Queen, causing the other Treehorns to flee as their leader was frozen solid.

The strain of using his True Potential caused Zane to nearly pass out, but his friends were there to catch him. After recovering from the effort, Zane explained that he had regained all of his memories, and theorized that his inability to remember his past had been the obstacle in his heart that prevented him from reaching his True Potential. With that decided, Zane led his friends out of the forest, more determined than ever to bring down the Serpentine.

### Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Zane and the Ninja are listening to Nya give a lesson on how they think that if someone were to wildly raise their heart rate, then it could potentially reverse the effects of a serpentine bite without the anti-venom. When Nya reveals she is allergic to perfume and confronts Kai that he said it was "men's cologne", Zane is high fived by Kai, and he turns his "humor switch" off. Kai decides they should start looking for the Fangblades, and Zane and the others join him.

Later, they find out that the serpentine have been spotted at Mega Monster Amusement Park. Zane suggests that there could be a Fangblade buried underneath it, and the Ninja decide to go check it out.

The Ninja (besides Jay, who is on a date with Nya) arrive at the park and find Pythor and the serpentine inside a horror ride. Pythor unearths the Fangblade right as the Ninja arrive. They start fighting, and Zane uses his newly acquired True Potential abilities to freeze the snakes, but it backfires, causing him and the Ninja to get stuck in a block of ice. Pythor escapes with the fangblade and fights with Samurai X.

After Jay unlocks his True Potential, and the Ninja discover Nya's identity as Samurai X, Zane says that she fooled him, and he would never have guessed it was her. Kai reminds them that they made a bet that whoever found out Samurai X's identity first would be the Green Ninja, but the others pretend not to remember the conversation.

### The Royal Blacksmiths

While discussing the location of another Fangblade, Jay is still gushing over the fact that Nya is the Samurai. Kai tells him to be quiet, and Zane says he may be angry because he has not unlocked his full potential yet and found inner peace. Cole remembers that he has a picture of the next Fangblade. He reveals that his father was a dancer, and they gave away the Fangblade as a trophy for whoever wins the dance competition.

They decide later that they're going to go undercover to meet Cole's Father and ask for the Fangblade. Zane and the others go to his house (with their Golden Weapons concealed) to talk to him. Cole's father (who mistakenly assumes the Ninja as a quartet) tells them that the only way to get the Fangblade is to win the talent show. Since there is no other way to get it, they let Lou train them to dance so they can enter the competition. During training, Lou points out that the others are dancing sloppily but Zane is "like a machine."

At the talent show, Zane and the ninja are preparing for the dance, when Cole accidentally says out loud that he plans to steal the Fangblade and his father overhears. Cole reveals to him that he is really a ninja. Lou walks away, ashamed, and they decide to go on with the competition, but their own way. Zane and the ninja dance, while also fending off serpentine, and they win the competition.

After the show, Pythor appears and steals the Fangblade after crashing some set pieces onto Lou and Cole, and it is revealed that Cole has found his True Potential by repairing his relationship with his dad.

### The Green Ninja

Zane, Jay, and Cole are training at the upper deck of the *Bounty* with a serpentine replica. Zane uses the power of the Shurikens of Ice on it when Nya asks where Kai is.

They find him training in front of a mirror wearing the Green Ninja suit. He reveals that he thought wearing it would unlock his True Potential, and Zane points out that the only person allowed to wear the suit, is the Green Ninja himself, and that Sensei Wu will most likely be very upset. Just then, Wu arrives back home.

The Ninja go to greet him, and tell him about how Zane is a Nindroid, to which he replies "Zane is a- *what*?" Wu shows that he has brought Lord Garmadon with him (who now has four arms), and so Zane throws himself in front of him to protect Sensei. He reveals that he only brought him to help find Lloyd.

Later, Zane's Falcon finds Pythor carrying Lloyd through the forest on their way to the Fire Temple. Nya points out that the volcano is now unstable, so the Ninja should refrain from using their Golden Weapons so that the Temple does not explode. They arrive at the Temple and enter to investigate with Wu and Garmadon. They find the Serpentine digging away at the crater of the volcano, and they find the third Fangblade. The ninja interrupt them and attack. Kai uses his Fire Sword and causes the volcano to begin erupting.

The serpentine make their escape, and Pythor orders some Constrictai to make the volcano unstable. Garmadon runs after them to save Lloyd, and Zane and the others run to safety. Kai stays behind to get the Fangblade after the snakes have already escaped, and the others exit the volcano without Kai and Lloyd, as it becomes increasingly unstable. They retreat to the Bounty and watch as the volcano explodes... they think Kai and Lloyd dead until they see a ball of fire come out of the eruption. Kai is revealed to have unlocked his true potential after figuring out that he was not destined to *become* the Green Ninja but to *protect him.* It is then that it is revealed that the Green Ninja is Lloyd. With this reveal, they realize that it is Lloyd's destiny to defeat his father in the final battle. . . .

### All of Nothing

When the Serpentine became suspiciously low-profile, the Ninja began tracking whatever leads they had in hopes of figuring out what the snakes were up to. Zane helped corner a Venomari Soldier who revealed that Pythor was already halfway across the world, digging up the final Fangblade; in response to the snake's gloating, Zane pointed out that the Serpentine would likely be consumed by the Great Devourer along with the rest of creation.

When Nya found the Serpentine's underground fortress. Zane joined the Ninja, Nya, and Master Wu in invading the fortress to reclaim the Fangblades. He used his Falcon Vision to circumvent the effects of the Venomari's venom, allowing him to clear the way for his allies. Unfortunately, Pythor had booby-trapped the path to the Fangblades; when the Ninja tried to retrieve the artifacts, a cage sprang up around them.

Separated from their weapons and held high in the air, the Ninja could only watch helplessly as Pythor returned with the final Fangblade in his grasp. Zane attempted to meditate during his captivity but joined his allies in swinging the cage around so Kai could make an escape attempt. Sadly, this only led to them being restrained even further when Pythor caught them in the act, although Zane tried to lighten the mood by quipping that they couldn't even play checkers anymore.

### The Rise of the Great Devourer

He was first seen on the *Bounty*, with the others. Then in another scene, when he was with the other Ninja he was holding the Hypnobrai Fangblade. Unaware that Pythor has snuck aboard the *Destiny's Bounty*, the Ninja plan to throw the Fangblades into a volcano. This fails when Master Wu nearly falls off the deck and is left clinging to the side, only for Zane and the other Ninja to save him. Pythor sneaks behind them but Lloyd warns them of his presence. Before the Ninjas can react, Pythor escapes on a Rattlecopter with the Fangblades and takes control over a tour bus. Zane fights off Serpentine on the bus but eventually, Master Wu detaches the engine from the rest of the train and confronts Pythor, much to the Ninjas' dismay.

The bus crashes into the Lost City of Ouroboros, halting the Ninjas' transportation. Fortunately, Lloyd arrives and takes them aboard the *Destiny's Bounty*. Just as Kai and the others attempt to save Master Wu, Pythor unleashes the Great Devourer.

### Day of the Great Devourer

As Great Devourer breaks free from its prison beneath the Lost City of Ouroboros, Master Wu tells the Ninja that they "must do everything in their power to stop the Great Devourer." The Ninja are devastated over the loss but are forced to retreat as the giant snake spots them. They all flee to the *Destiny's Bounty* and take off, the Great Devourer close behind them.

As they head for Crashcourse Canyon, the Devourer begins to gain on them; in response to Zane's prediction that they won't make it in time, Nya tells everyone to throw all of their belongings overboard to increase speed. However, the Great Devourer begins eating the items that were thrown. Nonetheless, the lost ballast allows the *Destiny's Bounty* to reach Crashcourse Canyon, weaving away from the Great Devourer.

Just as the Ninja think they've lost the snake, it strikes the flying craft with its tail, and they're all forced to abandon ship. Once they retreat to safety, the Ninja watch as the Great Devourer bites their home in half, leaving the scene afterwards. Zane says that they must go warn others of the event.

The Ninja arrive at Ed & Edna's Scrap N Junk, and Jay comes to the conclusion that his parents left. Kai whips out some blueprints for the Ultra Sonic Raider, and Zane confirms that he has a recording of the Sacred Flute stored in his databanks. As the Ninja discuss their plan, the Mailman appears with mail for Ed and Edna, and the Ninja tell him that he should be leaving. The Mailman doesn't understand the situation and thinks they're referring to the Take Back Ninjago Rally—apparently, everyone is gathering in Ninjago City for an anti-Serpentine rally. While the Mailman is talking, the Great Devourer creeps up behind him, prompting him to hide inside a garbage can.

Ready to fight, the Ninja use their Tornado of Creation to draw in spare parts from the Junkyard and build the Ultra Sonic Raider. Kai tells Zane to play the recording of the Sacred Flute, but the Great Devourer dodges the attack. After several failed attacks from both sides, the Ninja use a grappling hook to keep the snake still long enough to use the Sacred Flute against it. As the monster writhes in pain, Kai notices a tiny weak point on its head—while he elaborates to his friends, however, the Great Devourer strikes the Ultra Sonic Raider with its tail, destroying the sonic cannons playing the melody of the flute.

The snake retreats from the Junkyard and Zane emerges from the attacked portion of the Ultra Sonic Raider, mostly unharmed save for the exposure of the robotic parts on the left side of his face.

The Ninja then headed toward Ninjago City to confront the Devourer. Even with the return of the Ninja’s dragons, it’s not enough though. Luckily, Garmadon showed up to use the Golden Weapons to destroy the beast.

Everyone then proceeded to celebrate over their victory and the survival of Master Wu but Garmadon went missing with the weapons. But the Ninja vowed to train and prepare Lloyd for the final battle against his father to protect Ninjago once again.

## Legacy of the Green Ninja

### Darkness Shall Rise

The Ninja are house hunting. The only house they can afford turns out to be a one-bedroom, one half bath apartment without lighting. Jay and Kai argue they need a better place to train Lloyd and agree to buy an expensive hero suite that's out of their price range. To help pay for this, Zane takes on a job as a professional chef, but then got distracted by news of a bank robbery, he accidentally drops an egg on a Darkley's student and was fired as a result, leaving as his skin to cover the damage during the attack from the Great Devourer started peeling off. While fighting snakes, Zane shows the Ninja that they can use makeshift weapons.

### Pirates vs. Ninja

Zane and the other Ninja began to train Lloyd in their apartment, though soon realized their conditions were unsuitable for the task. They set out into the city to search for a better place and soon came upon Grand Sensei Dareth's Mojo Dojo.

Following their first session training Lloyd in the dojo, the Ninja exited to find the city under attack by Captain Soto's pirates. The Ninja quickly boarded a bus and raced towards the boat. After stopping by Wong's Costume to disguise themselves as pirates, Zane and the others boarded the ship and confronted Soto's crew. After a brief fight and with the help of the Ninja, the pirates were eventually subdued.

### Double Trouble

Zane and the Ninja are training Lloyd in Dareth's Dojo, but Lloyd can't get the hang of it. Nya enters and hands Master Wu a note to Lloyd from his old school saying that there is going to be a ceremony, and they want to give Lloyd an honorary degree of excellence.

The Ninja ride the Ultra Dragon to the school, and discover that they've changed from being a boarding school for bad boys to a school for "great children." When they enter the school, they find that there are no teachers around. They encounter one of Lloyd's old classmates "Gene", who knocks out the other Ninja and take Lloyd captive. The four ninja wake up locked in a room with the teachers, who reveal that the children locked them in there, and lured Lloyd there to make him their leader.

Zane activates his "battering ram mode" to bust down the door, but it doesn't work. They make several more attempts to escape, but none work. Zane points out that the school was built for evil, so there may be some hidden passageways around. Jay finds a book switch that opens a hidden door, and the ninja escape through it. Zane uses a lightbulb function to make his face glow like a lamp and reveals that there are spiders all around them in the passageway.

While the children are interrogating Lloyd, the Ninja Doppelgängers arrive at the school, and the kids try to fight back, but the doppelgängers prove to be too strong, and the students flee. Zane and the real Ninja arrive and meet the doppelgangers, and attempt to fight, but they and the doppelgängers are equal in strength, and the fight seems to be endless, with no clear winners.

Lloyd and the students devise a way to help the Ninja defeat the evil ones. They come out of a classroom, all dressed as Ninja, and help the main four defeat the evil doppelgängers. Their plan works, and the evil ninja are slowly eradicated.

### Ninjaball Run

Lloyd is training in Dareth's dojo with Zane the other Ninja balancing on top of him when a wrecking ball smashes through the window and knocks them over. Dareth tells them that a company called Darnagom Enterprises wanted to put a golf course in place of Dareth's dojo, and if he can't come up with 50,000 dollars by tomorrow, the dojo is gone. Zane realizes that Darnagom is an anagram for "Garmadon", and that Garmadon is trying to get rid of his dojo so that Lloyd can't train. Nya interrupts and says that there is a racing competition that's prize is 100,000 dollars, and the Ninja agree they will all enter to help dareth.

The next day, Zane and the other Ninja get in line to race in the Ultra Sonic Raider, and Lloyd is racing with the Ultra Dragon. The race begins, and around the middle, Garmadon crashes the race in the Dark Bounty to try and stop the Ninja from winning. Garmadon drops serpentine on the USR to slow them down while they transfer fuel from Jay's parent's ride to theirs. They quickly get rid of the snakes and make a quick addition to the USR, and they race on.

Near the end, it's just them and Garmadon, and they show off the new mode for the USR that allows part of it to fly away, allowing them to win the race just in time. At the finish line, Lloyd takes the Bounty back with them, and Garmadon escapes with Skales.

### Child's Play

    The Ninja are trying to train Lloyd, however, the latter wasn't interested. When Nya told them about Garmadon's break-in at the Museum, they headed to the Ultra Stealth Raider to stop him. They did stop him from reviving the Grundle, however, when chasing the Serpentine and get back a stolen sarcophagus, they realized they've been turned into kids. When the police arrived, they accused the children of the theft.

The Museum Curator explained that the Grundal skeleton was missing. Zane theorizes that the Mega Weapon did work, but the Curator and officers doubted it. They snuck away by disguising themselves in the clothes they stole from other kids. They called the *Bounty*, asking for Lloyd to meet them at Buddy's Pizza with their weapons. Lloyd told them he knows who can help defeat the Grundal.

They enter the comic book store, where they meet Rufus McCallister. He explained Ninja weapons are useless against it and that they're nocturnal; an illumisword will do the trick. They must be won in a trivia battle, and they encouraged Lloyd to win it.

Later, Lloyd lost the trivia battle. When the Grundal came, the Ninja tries to open the door, but it's been blocked by the fallen debris. Grabbing the illumiswords, they tried to defeat it, but they easily broke. When Wu gave them tomorrow's tea, the Ninja were reluctant at first to turn Lloyd into a teen. However, Lloyd used it for them, shocking the Ninja when they find him as old as they are.

### Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Zane and the Ninja are training Lloyd in his new, older body on the Bounty. The Falcon comes back and gives news that the serpentine and Garmadon have returned to the Lost City of Oroborus, so they set a course for there.

The Ninja arrive, and Garmadon retreats to a nearby house and wishes he could go back in time and make it so the ninja were never formed in the first place, and he leaves through a time vortex. The Ninja (except Lloyd) follow him in and find themselves on the day that Master Wu found Kai, the day that Nya was taken by Garmadon.

Master Wu tells them that if you change anything, it changes everything. Zane reminds them that if they do anything in the past to alter something in the future, the future would radically change. They see past Wu, and take him to ask him for help stopping Garmadon. He agrees to help protect past Kai as best he can.

Wu goes on with saving past Kai, but Garmadon prevents Samukai from taking Nya. Zane says that no matter what, Wu needs to convince Kai to train and become a ninja, or else Lloyd will never become the Green Ninja. Kai goes with Wu, but he seems disinterested. Zane says that they must follow them to make sure Kai still becomes a ninja.

At the Monastery, the ninja realize that past Kai is totally disinterested in becoming a ninja, so they come up with a plan to kidnap Nya at night, and deliver her to the skeletons so that Kai will get his motivation back. That night, they dress as skeletons, and take Nya, but unfortunately they find their past selves trying to intervene. They get rid of them, and take Nya, thus convincing Kai to become a Ninja.

They follow past Kai into the Fire Temple where he is supposed to take the Fire Sword and save Nya, but this time future Garmadon helps past Garmadon. Zane and the others intervene to help past Kai defeat Garmadon. They realize that everything they've done has so far already *drastically* altered the future... Zane points out that the only way for them to theoretically erase the events they've altered, would be to destroy the Mega Weapon by using the separated Golden Weapons, as they have equal power. They all use the weapons on the Mega Weapon, causing it, and the Golden Weapons to shoot up into space and explode. Nya and past Kai start to disappear, and the events of the future are set back on track. In the future, they realize that the Mega Weapon had been erased from existence.

### The Stone Army

The Ninja are woken up early in the morning, with Zane last to get up, for a "sunrise exercise." Master Wu comes in to tell them that the Ultra Dragon made a mess outside, and someone had to clean it. Lloyd is picked to do the cleaning, and after it is done, he laments about how his mother left him at Darkley's when he was young. As he finishes, Nya comes in to tell them they have a mission at the Ninjago Museum.

At the Museum, the curator tells them that the Devourer venom has seeped into the sewers and caused the Stone Warrior dolls to come to life. Zane and the others handle it, and one of the Stone Warrior dolls run away. Wu chases after it. After crushing it, he turns around to see Misako, Lloyd's mother. Zane and the others come to see what's going on and they are introduced. Lloyd at first resents her, for abandoning him, and walks away.

Misako and the Ninja follow Lloyd into a room with a large sinkhole in it. Misako goes on to explain the story of the Stone Warriors. She tells the usual story about how the First Spinjitzu Master created Ninjago, but tells the rest of it and how where there is light, there must be shadow. Zane asks if Master knew about this, and he says he did. Misako goes on to say that the Overlord existed to combat the FSM, and created the indestructible Stone Warriors. When the FSM couldn't defeat them, he split Ninjago in two, and on the other half, he exiled the Overlord and his army there and dubbed it the Dark Island.

Meanwhile in another room, the museum curator shows off their newest exhibit, which is a giant Stone Samurai Warrior, which comes to life after a drop of Devourer guts falls on it. The Stone Samurai Warrior barges in on the Ninja. Zane points out that the Devourer's venom awakened him. They attempt to destroy it, but they can't. They run away and escape to a nearby room where they devise a plan for Lloyd to defeat it. Lloyd crawls into an air vent while the Ninja distract the Stone Warrior. Thy drop a skeleton on top of it, and Lloyd lures it into the sinkhole that Misako found earlier.

### The Day Ninjago Stood Still

At Dareth's dojo, Zane and the Ninja are training Lloyd to fight without seeing, when there is an earthquake, that Master describes as something that was not caused naturally. Zane sends his Falcon to look for danger, and find the source of the earthquakes. The quakes start to cause rifts to form in the ground, and a woman falls down a cliff, but the Ninja save her just in time. Misako comes and tells them that in the prophesy, earthquakes would be a warning for something... She also reveals that she found the giant Stone Warrior underground, and suggests there could be more of them there.

Suddenly, the Falcon discovers more Stone Warriors coming from underground. The Ninja attempt to fight back, but the army is indestructible. Master Wu tells them that they have to evacuate the remaining people out of there on the Bounty. Zane and the Ninja go to the rendezvous point and start evacuating people out, all the while fending off Stone Samurai Warriors. When they get to the top, the citizens and the Ninja board the bounty except Misako. They wait for her, but she takes too long so Wu goes after her. Zane and the others fly away, and catch Wu and Misako as they jump out of the building to evade the Stone Warriors.

### The Last Voyage

Zane and the rest of the Ninja sail to an island with a prison tower. When the Ninja get to the top, Dr. Julien greets them and takes them in. Inside, he seats them and haves a robot serve them tea. There, Dr. Julien tells Zane what happened after his apparent death. After Dr. Julien turned off Zane's memory switch, he really did pass away, but Samukai revived him with a special elixir in return that he create the Skeleton Army's vehicles. When Dr. Julien refused, Samukai locked him in the prison tower with a Leviathan to keep guard, promising the doctor if he did what he said, he would see Zane again. However, time passed and Dr. Jullien wondered if he'd ever see Zane again.

After he finished telling his story, the Leviathan comes and sends out a tentacle with eyes to check on Dr. Julien, while the others hide. After it goes away, Dr. Julien and the Ninja work together to fix the *Bounty*'s rocket boosters. As the *Bounty* takes off, the Leviathan grabbed the ship. Zane jumped into the water and freed the creature from its chains using Starteeth. Finally freed, the Leviathan lets the *Bounty* go, and they fly off to the Island of Darkness.

### Island of Darkness

Zane and the Ninja are shoveling dirt and sand onto the *Bounty* to hide it from the Stone Warrior Scouts. They say they want to fight them, but they are indestructible. Wu mentions that they have to find the Temple of Light. Misako goes on to tell the tale that if they go to the Temple, then they could receive pure elemental powers. They, however, do not know its location, the only thing they have that might help them find it is a medallion. The Ninja head off to find it, with Lloyd staying behind.

Later, at a cliffside, they are looking through the medallion like a spyglass when Zane spots his Falcon at the Stone Warrior camp. He says he needs to get it back, to give to his father to fix. To the dismay of the others, Zane sneaks into the camp and takes it, and in the process, reveals his location to the Stone Warriors. He is backed into a corner, so the others come to help. They escape onto an unstable bridge, and are cornered once again. Zane says he knows how to get them out of the mess, and when the bridge gives way, and the Ninja each grab a wooden plank to ride to safety.

They run back to their base and inform the others that they were spotted, but they found the Temple of Light. Zane's father introduces the vehicles they have built for them. All the Ninja now drive the Earth Driller to the Temple, with the Stone Warriors not too far behind. They get to the base of the mountain, so Kai unpacks his new Fire Mech that all the Ninja ride on. They get to the top and enter the Temple, they find that on the wall are all the events that led up to them finding it. Lloyd goes to the center to strike the bell, and Zane and the other's Elemental Blades appear, along with Lloyd's Golden Dragon. As this happens, the Stone Warriors attack and the Ninja show off their now power, and how they are finally able to defeat them.

### The Last Hope

The Ninja are on a beach, relaxing and testing out their new powers and "witty quips," when Cole shoots a rock blast at the Falcon. Zane saves it, and says he is glad they are reunited. The Ninja meet with the others, and Misako reveals that there is a way for the Final Battle to be averted, but she needs Ninja help.

Zane and the others dress as Stone Warriors, and escort Misako to the Stone Warrior camp. When they arrive, General Kozu takes Misako to Garmadon, and the Ninja retire behind a rock. A few moments later, Kozu returns, and tells the Ninja that they must help out with the construction of the Ultimate Weapon. They start working on the scaffold, when their identities are revealed, and they flee. They find Misako, who has the Helmet of Shadows, and they escape on the Earth Driller, with Garmadon not too far behind. They are stopped by Garmadon, when Lloyd saves them.

They make it to the Celestial Clock, and look for the pedestal for the helmet. When they are unsuccessful, they are backed off a cliff by the Stone Warriors, who kidnapped Nya. They return back to their base, dismayed at their defeat.

### Return of the Overlord

The Ninja get ready to go and fight Garmadon. They get to the camp to find it abandoned, and that the Ultimate Weapon has been taken to the beach. They go there, after fending off an evil Nya, and find that the Overlord has crossed over into their world by possessing Garmadon. Lloyd fights the Overlord, and loses, and the Overlord opens a vortex to Ninjago City and leaves them all on the island.

### Rise of the Spinjitzu Master

The Ninja are on the beach of the Dark Island, with no way to Ninjago. They all express their misfortune on that evil has defeated them. Lloyd pep talks them into rejoining the fight. Misako tells them that there may be a way back.

They go back to the Temple of Light, and uncover an old Golden Mech that belonged to the First Spinjitzu Master. Lloyd takes control of it, and with the help of the Ultra Dragon, head back to Ninjago.

When they make it back, they find out that the Overlord has turned everyone evil. Zane notices that the Overlord has completed his transformation, into a large dragon that is perched atop a tower. The Ninja realize they need to get Lloyd up there, so they take him to it, fending off Stone Warriors as they go. They are almost defeated, when Dareth puts on the Helmet of Shadows and controls the Stone Army. Now the Ninja help Lloyd up the tower to the Overlord. One by one, the Ninja are all corrupted by evil until it is just Lloyd left. He gets to the top, and unlocks his Golden Power, and defeats the Overlord.

After he is defeated, Zane and everyone else is turned back normal. Zane awakes with the others at the base of the tower where the Overlord was once perched. Lloyd returns to them, and finds his father shows up, but he is no longer evil.

## Rebooted

### The Surge

Following the battle with the Overlord, the Ninja taught at Wu's Academy—which has replaced Darkley's School for Bad Boys—training a new generation of Ninja. Later they are invited by Cyrus Borg for a field trip to Borg Industries' Borg Tower.

Once they arrived, they are greeted by Borg's assistant, P.I.X.A.L. P.I.X.A.L. takes an interest in Zane and asks what his name stands for. To which Zane states that it doesn't stand for anything. P.I.X.A.L then scans him and notices while Zane is made of spare parts, she cannot figure out his power source. She then directs the Ninja to Borg's office.

As the Ninja arrive in the office of Cyrus Borg, the Ninja were all very happy to meet him. Cyrus shows them to a gift he wanted to give them: an automated statue of himself. It looked like a regular statue, but Cyrus tells Kai that he should protect "them" with his life and to not let anyone know he had them. Walking into the elevator with their gift, they accidentally drop the statue, yet they discover it is hollow and is filled with new suits as well as the Techno Blades. Suddenly a robotic security voice in the elevator says that they should drop the blades. The Ninja refuse and the elevator drops toward the ground at high speed. The Ninja luckily escape into an elevator going up right next to it and manage to get their new outfits on for battle in their escape from Borg Tower.

When they get down of the tower, Master Wu takes the Techno Blades and says that he wants Zane and Kai on the air. Then, Zane helps Kai to hack a jet with his Techno Blade, making it Kai's Fighter. At the moment they almost get destroyed, Lloyd comes on the Golden Dragon, defeating the robots. As the Ninjas get back into the vehicles and get on the road outside of the city, Overlord spots that Wu is getting away with the Techno Blades so he sends two copters that capture him on the building roof. However before that happened, Wu quickly dropped Techno Blades into Kai's Fighter so the Ninjas could safely get them out of the city, while Wu gets captured by Overlord's forces.

### The Art of the Silent Fist

After escaping from New Ninjago City, the Ninja hide their vehicles. Misako then greets them and shows them to the Monastery, but Zane offers to stay behind with the Techno Blades, as Garmadon (who is now "Master Garmadon,") forbids any weapons in his monastery. While everyone is inside, Zane catches P.I.X.A.L. and ties her up, then returns to the Monastery as the Ninja come out to see what is going on. Zane then uses his Techno Blade to hack P.I.X.A.L.'s systems, freeing her from the Overlord's control. Grateful to Zane for saving her, P.I.X.A.L. tells the Ninja of Master Wu.

Suddenly, P.I.X.A.L. realizes she did not come alone and Nindroids surround the place. Ninjas successfully defeat the Nindroids by trapping them into a mill wheel which then rolls out. However, Cryptor destroys Ninjas' vehicles. After that, the Ninja decides to split. Jay, Zane, Cole, Kai, and Nya gets an idea to shut down the power in the city to stop virus controlling machines in the land.

P.I.X.A.L helps repair Zane while traveling to the power station. There, she notices Zane's unique power source and wonders why it is so unique. Zane responds that while everyone is different, he feels something special while with P.I.X.A.L. But the latter does not believe she is different and finishes Zane's repairs.

As night falls, they arrive at the station, but with a high guard of Nindroids. They manage to get inside but can't find a way to break the power charge. Outside of power station, Cryptor captures P.I.X.A.L., who climbed to the station to help Ninja. Zane decides to help her but fails as Cryptor throws his Techno Blade one stage lower. Then Cryptor sends Nindroids inside, Kai remembers Garmadon's lesson of fighting without fighting, so they decide to lure Nindroids to destroy the charge which then explodes and all the power disappears, including P.I.X.A.L. who gets shut down.

### Blackout

The Ninja have gone to Ed & Edna's Scrap N Junk to look for parts that would enable Zane's hover-copter to run on solar power while Nya transfers half of Zane's power source to P.I.X.A.L. Unbeknownst to the Ninja, Techno Wu arrives via hover-copter and powers Cryptor, along with a few Nindroid Warriors, using Electro-Cobrai. After activating a few Nindroids, Min-Droid sneaks and gets access to Ed & Edna's crane. The tiny droid uses the crane and launches the truck at a garbage pile. Kai realizes and quickly informs his friends; the Ninja perform Spinjitzu and get out of the fallen vehicle, But, Zane falls with P.I.X.A.L. on the hard ground. The Nindroid notices that since he has given half of his heart, he can't finish his task. Then, Cryptor attacks him and P.I.X.A.L., but Zane uses his Techno Blade as a shield. The Ninja of Ice soon gets captured by the Nindroids. The enemies threaten to push Zane into a shredding machine. But P.I.X.A.L. leaps into the air and saves Zane. Realizing that they must work as one, the two robots fight and perform Spinjitzu together.

Now, the Ninja assists Kai. However, Wu traps the Ninja in a corner, but Zane and P.I.X.A.L. come with a magnified vehicle and pick up Wu since he is now part metal. The Ninja are excited but quickly ends when a Stranger frees Wu and flies away with their via hover-copter. However, the Stranger leaves a scale behind. Nya decides to give Lloyd and Garmadon a message.

### The Curse of the Golden Master

The Hover-copter was eventually converted to solar power, the Ninja returned to New Ninjago City with Nya and P.I.X.A.L. There, they reunited with Borg and explained their suspicions as to who stole the hard-drive containing the Overlord.

They eventually came across the tomb of the Stone Army, only to find the seal had been opened. Upon confronting Skales, they learned that the Serpentine had reformed and the Snake King even had a son. The Ninja and Nya were lead to a campfire where Acidicus told them of the Curse of the Golden Master, and how they believed it was referring to Lloyd. While the Ninja discussed the curse, Nya expressed her confusion that if the Serpentine didn't take the hard-drive, someone else is the culprit.

Both questions had to be put on hold though, as Nindroids suddenly attacked the place, and Kai ordered the other Ninja and Nya to protect the Serpentine. The Ninja found out that the Electro-Cobrai's are their power source. Skales tells them at the Curse of the Golden Master is upon them, and says that they would not be able to assist the Ninja because they're choosing to stay out of the conflict. The Ninja then return to the surface, but not before Skales telling them the one Serpentine that is fond of electrocobrai: Pythor.

### Enter the Digiverse

In the top of the Borg Tower, Borg prepares the device that will lead the Ninjas to the Digiverse, a digital world where they will be able to gain access to the Tower's central computer and fight the Overlord directly. When Jay points out that the hard drive is still missing, Borg explains the device will "download" the Ninja themselves, along with the Techno Blades, into the computer where the Overlord dwells. He also explains that this is the only method to succeed, as it will be a matter of time before the Digital Overlord fully drains Lloyd's power. Although apprehensive, the Ninjas are "downloaded" successfully, and they wake up in the Digiverse. In no time, they begin mastering the advantages of the digital world, except for Kai. the Ninja begin their trek down toward the Tower's central computer—ironically below the Tower, where the Overlord had been defeated years before. When the Overlord realizes they are close to him, he attempts to immobilize them but fails due to P.I.X.A.L. electronically interfering from outside. He then turns the digitized New Ninjago City upside down, but the Ninja keep moving with their digitized vehicles. Kai almost died when he tries to jump off the digital Borg Tower because his vehicle disappeared, but gets rescued by Zane. Together, they get to the top—that is, the bottom—of the tower and insert the Techno Blades, only to find the Overlord severed the circuit to the motherboard.

The Ninja are severely beaten by the Overlord as he consumes more of Lloyd's Golden Power, proclaiming his becoming a true "golden master" of the real world and the digital world. Strengthened by Lloyd's proclamations that the Ninja always have each other's strengths to fight together, Zane fights off the Overlord's influence and turns gold as well as the other Ninjas and, using Lloyd's shared power, reroute the circuit to the motherboard and destroy the Overlord virus from the system, initiating a reboot.

### Codename: Arcturus

At the Temple of Light, Lloyd gives up his Golden Power to restore the Ninjas' elemental powers. Later, Wu and Garmadon stay in Borg's office and try to solve a puzzle about a secret code that Zane and P.I.X.A.L. found, named "Project Arcturus." Garmadon mentions that Arcturus was an old Serpentine general that was defeated and named for a star constellation. P.I.X.A.L. detects Nindroid convoy going through a road near where Kai is. When the Fire Ninja gets captured, they call Jay, Cole, and Nya to help them.

Cole, Jay, Zane, and Lloyd discover the secret of Arcturus and head for Ouroboros. When they arrive, the floor opens, revealing the OverBorg's ultimate creation, Codename: Arcturus—a rocket designed to reach Arcturus, the star that contains the lost Golden Weapons.

The Ninja secretly release Kai and board the rocket, preparing to go somewhere they never expected: space!

### The Void

Shortly after the rocket entered space, Zane and the other Ninja came into contact with Wu, Nya, Garmadon, and P.I.X.A.L. who had returned to Borg Tower and recovered the rocket's blueprints. As Zane was the only one who could survive in space, he left the cargo hold and secured the other Ninja spacesuits. The Ninja then made their way towards the cockpit to take command of the vessel. However before they could reach it, Cryptor dispatched several Nindroids to stop them while he piloted the rocket into the tail of the comet.

When Zane and the other Ninja awoke after the landing, they found themselves on the comet not too far from where Arcturus had landed, though Cryptor had taken the launch key. The Ninja discovered lunar rovers in the cargo hold and they set out crammed in one to find where the Nindroids had gone. They soon arrived in a large cave where the Golden Weapons had landed, though before they could reach the launch key, the Ninja fell under attack by a swarm of alien bugs. The Nindroids used them to their advantage to escape, but Zane and the others pursued, only to arrive at the launch site to find Arcturus destroyed by the bugs, thus stranding them on the comet.

### The Titanium Ninja

In space, the Ninja despair after repeated failed attempts to escape. However, Lloyd refuses to give up, suggesting that they use their elemental powers and everything around them to restart the ship. Heartened by Lloyd's words, the Ninja repair the ship and use Zane as a power source. Though Zane gets overheated by the strain, they manage to fly back to Earth—to land safely, the Ninja use a new technique: elemental shields.

P.I.X.A.L. uses a motorcycle to catch up with her friends, using her power to land them on their vehicles. As the Ninja reunite with their allies, Cyrus tells them that they should head for the Temple of Fortitude, a place where the Overlord and a place where the Overlord and the First Spinjitzu Master battled long ago. He claims there's a shield at the place, so the Nindroids won't harm them, and there is something he wants to give them that may help them save the world.

The Ninja start traveling to the temple but pause when they see the Golden Master's path of destruction. Lloyd reminds his friends that the only way to save Ninjago is to reach the Temple of Fortitude, but the Overlord sees them and uses a massive Spinjitzu tornado against them. The Ninja swiftly run back, rendezvousing with Cyrus Borg, Wu, and Garmadon. There Cyrus Borg gives them the ultimate weapon—a pill. Borg then explains that it was no ordinary pill, it could make anyone shrink. Garmadon and Wu decide to would hit the pill straight into the Overlord's mouth. Borg gives the Ninja armor which protects them from some attacks from the Overlord.

The Ninja go into Ninjago City when an item hurls at them but are protected since they have on the armor. Wu hits the pill, which heads straight to the Overlord's mouth, but Pythor sacrifices himself and swallows the pill instead. As a result, Pythor shrinks down to the size of a worm. The Golden Master is outraged that the Ninja tried to shrink him. He obtains the Ninja with his Golden Power only to miss Zane. The Ninja of Ice tells his friends to support him one last time, and the Ninja bounce him. Although, during the process, he landed and touched the Golden Master's gold. He refused to let go, admitting the fact that Ninja never quit, which frees his friends.

He remembers his past and freezes the Overlord which also killed him and the Golden Master. The Ninja are broken that Zane has passed, and proceed to his funeral. However, it turns out that Zane was sent into the Digiverse again and built himself a new body out of titanium, with P.I.X.A.L. being the only person to know. He asks her if they are compatible now as she expresses joy at his restoration.

## Before The Tournament of Elements

After he rebuilt himself, Zane and P.I.X.A.L. were somehow kidnapped and transported to Chen's Island by Ronin. While there, Zane had his Element stolen from him before he was placed in a cell chain to the walls by the villains who intended to lure his friends to the island.

## Tournament of Elements

### The Invitation

As Chen prepared for the Tournament of Elements, he looked into a dark room, remarking that he "holds all the cards" before walking off. Inside the room, Zane is shown to be bound in chains and strapped to the wall.

### Only One Can Remain

While not making a physical appearance, Zane is mentioned by the ninja who attempt to locate him. When they witness Chen steals the elemental power of Karlof, they realize that Chen's goal is to steal all the contestants' power. Cole had noticed that Chen used Ice while stripping Karlof of his power, which means he already stole Zane's power as well.

### Versus

Still locked up inside the room, Zane has a nightmare where he is walking through a blizzard and stumbles into an icy cave, where he encounters a colossal dragon. The dream horrifies him, but he is awakened by P.I.X.A.L. who is in a nearby cell. With Zane's memory drive wearing out and the thoughts of his past disappearing, he is unable to recall her until P.I.X.A.L. helps Zane remember his friends and how he was rebuilt which triggers some of his memory. When Zane uses a drill from his chest compartment, he tries to use it to cut himself free, until he hears several Anacondrai Cultists coming his way. He quickly closes the drill and pretends to be unconscious or asleep.

In a second attempt to get free, Zane succeeds, climbing into the cell next to his to get P.I.X.A.L. and escape with her. To Zane's surprise and disappointment, he finds P.I.X.A.L.'s body was scrapped and her memory drive was the only thing remaining, via a computer, though she tells him to leave her behind. However, Zane soon took P.I.X.A.L.'s memory drive and put it into his processor allowing her to be apart of his circuitry and continue the journey with him. Unbeknownst to him, Clouse and some of the Cultists had snuck up behind him, with Clouse using an electric rod to electrocute him shutting him down and locking him back in his room with chains that Clouse instructed to be strong enough to prevent Zane from escaping.

At the end, Zane's beacon emits a signal to Nya's computer and she is shocked by this discovery. However, this led to her learning where the ninja were located and their reason for leaving the city and she decides to go there after contacting Wu.

### Ninja Roll

Zane was still encaged, telling P.I.X.A.L. that the new chains were unbreakable. While a recently eliminated Cole and the other losers in the Tournament pass by the cell, Cole overheard Zane speaking and stops to talk with him as Karlof covers for him from the guards. Cole was overjoyed to see Zane was alive, complimenting his new form as Zane was happy to see him again. With a newfound hope, Cole promised both Zane and Karlof that he would get Zane free.

### Spy for a Spy

Zane slept in his cell where he had another nightmare about the Titanium Dragon until he is awoken by Cole (who managed to steal one of the guard keys) and freed by him. The two Ninja quickly make their escape but face trouble due to the guards noticing Cole's escape and releases Clouse's pet. Unfamiliar with the sound of its howls, Zane questioned it as a scared Cole recognized it and quickly instructed Zane to run as they do so the serpent pursues them through the caverns with the two powerless Ninja running away from it in vain as it circles around them.

As the serpent begins to close in on them, Zane asks P.I.X.A.L. for instructions while Cole is amazed to hear that he integrated her into his programming. At her instructions, Zane uses his exploding shurikens to create a hole below them allowing them to escape. Afterwards the two hide from passing guards, Cole then overhears one of them stating that the defeated Elemental Masters will pay for the Ninjas' escape. Zane tries to get Cole to go the latter states he promised to free Karlof and the captives from Chen. Cole tells Zane to go on as he will keep his promise. Despite being imprisoned for so long, Zane decides to go with Cole by stating Ninja never leave one another behind. Cole thanks Zane for this and promises to get them off the island one day before they head back to the factory.

### Spellbound

Cole and Zane managed to sneak back into the factory and hid inside barrels. After Karlof motioned that the guards had left, the two emerged from their hiding place and using his holographic eyes, revealed their plan of using the sewer pipes to escape. Before the plan could be executed however, Dareth was soon thrown into the factory having being captured. Dareth then greets the restored Zane noting on how different he seemed because of his new body. Due to how unstable the pipes were, the added weight of the Brown Ninja would not make it possible and they returned to the drawing board.

The elemental masters threw around several ideas, including roll themselves into giant eggrolls but all seemed flawed until Karlof mentioned that he used to build Roto Jets back in Metalonia. Dareth meanwhile began building a machine to make puffy potstickers, inspiring Zane to suggest they build a Roto Jet out of old factory parts as well.

### The Forgotten Element

The Elemental Masters begin their plan when more defeated contestants arrive, among them is Jay, who spots Zane and Cole. Jay is happy to see Zane again and compliments him on his new form. They reveal to Jay that the guards still think they have escaped, which goes along with their plan of building a Roto Jet to bust everyone out.

After much time, the jet is completed and Cole uses it to get through the guards and the factory wall, which collapses on Clouse's pet serpent, saving Nya and Garmadon. Nya hugs Zane saying she's happy that he's back (which he misinterprets as literal) before the Elemental Masters rush break into the Ancondrai Temple to battle the Cultists. As this happens, Zane reunites with Lloyd who is happy to see him as Zane states it was good to be back. Very soon, Kai breaks Chen's staff, thereby returning the elements to their wielders, allowing them to overpower their enemies.

Reunited with his friends, Zane and the other Ninja soon finish off the remaining Cultists using Spinjitzu. However, Chen and Clouse, along with few henchmen, manage to escape with Skylor as their hostage. With Chen in hiding, the Ninja and their new allies then take control of the island. During the celebration, Zane turns on his funny switch, entertaining the alliance.

### The Day of the Dragon

With Chen and his henchmen in hiding, the Ninja await their villains next move before Griffin tells them that Chen is trying to use Skylor's power to complete the spell and that she has escaped him. Now aware of Chen's plans, the Ninja split up to find Chen and stop him. Zane hops in a buggy and goes with Jay but drives too fast in the jungle and ignores P.I.X.A.L.'s warning that he crashes into a hole. He tells Jay to go on without him. While in the hole, he remarks he should have listened to P.I.X.A.L. before he sees the Titanium Dragon from his dreams and gets scared again although P.I.X.A.L. tries to assure there is nothing there, but Zane is too terrified to believe her. P.I.X.A.L. then tells Zane that he is the Ninja of Ice but he tells her that he is just a replica and since his powers have no effect on the dragon, he fully admits his fear.

P.I.X.A.L. soon tells Zane that he needs to close his eyes to calm himself but he still hears the dragon's roar and says repeatedly he is not the White Ninja. P.I.X.A.L. then asks him who is he then, as a rejuvenated Zane states he is now the Titanium Ninja and acknowledges the dragon isn't real. P.I.X.A.L. then notices his elemental power rising as Zane once more states "I am the Titanium Ninja!" before he is engulfed in light.

After Chen and his forces manage to escape after completing the spell, the stranded Elemental Master wonder what to do as Lloyd states he will go after them alone since he was the only elemental master with a dragon. However, Zane states that its not the case anymore as he appears on a dragon telling everyone that he has faced his fear which had allowed him to unlock his ability to summon a dragon. Sure enough, Kai and Skylor appear on a Fire Dragon confirming his words which motivates the Elemental Masters to summon their own dragons and head after Chen's army.

### The Greatest Fear of All

The Elemental Masters fly to the Ninjago a day after Chen with Zane carrying Dareth on his dragon. They arrive in Ninjago only to find that Chen has not attacked yet for some reason. The Ninja have their allies scour the city while they go off to deduce Chen's next move. Arriving at Samurai X Cave, Zane is reunited with the Falcon, Wu, and Misako. The assembled group soon begin to assess Chen's next move and soon decide to visit Kryptarium Prison to see Pythor for a way to defeat them. Although hesitant to speak with them, Pythor changes his mind when seeing Garmadon as an Ancondrai while P.I.X.A.L. soon tells Zane that Chen and his men have been searching the prison databanks about Pythor warning him they may attack, which they do after a while.

As the other Ninja go off to fight the Ancondrai Cultists, Zane stays with Wu and the others before he notices Garmadon's hand changes after some of Pythor's venom fell on it. This causes him to realize that was why the cultists came for Pythor since he holds the key to completing the spell. Wu and Lloyd realize that Chen needs him to attack Ninjago and state they will make sure the Cultists don't get their hands on Pythor while having Zane join the other Ninja in keeping the Cultists at bay. However, things get worse when some of the prisoners escape with two of them being Nindroids that attack Zane who defeats them while stating he wasn't an outdated relic anymore. The Ninja soon decide that fighting the old enemies would be meaningless and move to escape with Cole destroying walls of the prison as the inmates pursue them. They make it to courtyard where they join Wu and the others but lose Pythor to the cultists. When Wu forbids Cole from destroying more walls so the inmates can't escape, Zane volunteers in escaping by creating an ice trail which he and his allies use to leave the area as Kai destroys it to prevent the prisoners from escaping allowing the Warden and the guards to arrest them.

They arrive at the Samurai X Cave and informed by Nya that Chen has put his plan into action by having noodle trucks ship out. Zane does an estimate at how many Ancondrai cultists they could be carrying. Nya contacts the Elemental Masters for aid until the ninja can join them but to everyone's surprise the trucks head separate directions with the Ninja and their allies deciding to pursue them due to the villages in the area. Zane freezes the truck and subdues the driver only to discover the truck, he was pursuing was empty.

In the end, it turns out to be trap to separate the elemental masters so Chen's army can invade without hindrance. The revelation that so many people are in danger causes them to lose control of their dragons out of fear at being unable to stop the chaos.

### The Corridor of Elders

Zane, along with the rest of the Elemental Masters, received a mental message from Lloyd (through Neuro) to reconvene at Samurai X Cave. Once there, they see the progress of Chen's invasion with Zane doing an exact estimate of the odds against them. He then listens as Lloyd moves to motivate everyone using Zane's "death" as a way for the Ninja to get stronger. Wu tells everyone they must make their stand in the Corridor of Elders to defeat Chen once and for all. To strengthen their numbers, Zane goes to the park where his statue is to enlist the aid of the people there telling they all fight for the same future.

He then takes part in the battle against Chen with his friends managing to hold them off for a while but the enemy soon gets through. Zane later takes notice of Lloyd as he viciously attacks enemies wondering what got into him as Kai states he doesn't know but the enemy is getting past them. Zane then bears witness to as a portal to the Cursed Realm opens and Garmadon goes through it before the spirits of the Anacondrai generals emerge and cursed Chen and his army, banishing them to the Cursed Realm and ending the battle causing the gathered army celebrate their victory.

The Ninja and the Elemental Masters celebrated their triumph over Chen as they become friends before they part ways and promise to help each other in any future conflicts.

Much later, the Ninja, Wu, and Misako then pay their respects to Garmadon and the Anacondrai generals for helping them achieve victory and see another tomorrow.

## *Shadow of Ronin* (non-canon)

After relocating to Spinjago, Zane listened to Kai retell the events on Chen's Island, though pointed out that he was still held captive when they visited his temple. Following his story, the Ninja began to train but that was interrupted by the arrival of Ronin, who stole the Ninjas' memories using the Obsidian Glaive.

In the hopes of finding a way to restore their memories, Wu sent the Ninja to speak to Hibiki at Kryptarium Prison. After dispatching with Ronin's goons, they learned of the Inky Lemonberry in the Toxic Bogs and went to pick up Nya from Ed & Edna's Scrap N Junk.

Once arriving in the Toxic Bogs, Zane drank the Tea of Insight and learned that the Obsidian Sais were hidden in the Ice Temple in the Frozen Wasteland.

Deeming Kai's fire abilities useful for the Frozen Wasteland, the Ninja (apart from Jay) agreed to get the Obsidian Sais next and they traveled to the Ice Temple. There, Zane remembered that Ronin was the one who took him to Chen's Island and listened as Kai and Cole recapped Zane's death for Jay. Before they could go to the Lightning Ruins to retrieve Obsidian Nunchucks, Nya called Kai reporting that the Nindroids were attacking Ninjago City.

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## Possession

### Winds of Change

Zane and the Ninja used their Elemental Dragons to capture a Fangfish that had been terrorizing a local village. Upon returning successful to Wu's new tea shop Steep Wisdom, Zane, and the others were sent by their Master into Ninjago City to advertise the new store, yet without using their powers. While they obeyed their master at first, after failing to attract anyone Zane decided to use his Elemental Dragon to create a giant teapot out of ice.

Unfortunately, Morro possessed Lloyd's body and the other Ninja lost their elemental abilities. This led to Zane losing his Elemental Dragon. They returned to Wu for answers just as the tea shop fell under attack by the Master of Wind. Zane attempted to use a shuriken to fend him off, but in the end, the Ninja were forced to retreat with Wu and Nya in the *Destiny's Bounty*.

### Ghost Story

    Morro soon caught up to them using his Elemental Dragon and while the masters of earth and lightning fended him off, Kai and Zane escorted Wu to their quarters for him to make an imprint of the staff's secret message. The ghost ninja crippled the flying vessel however and crashed in the Forest of Tranquility.

The Ninja made camp and Wu told them of his past with Morro. The next morning Misako arrived and discovered that the first symbol means Airjitzu, a martial art created by Master Yang. The Ninja mount wallopers and the Titanium Ninja followed Kai towards Stiix where Ronin was keeping the scroll.

Unfortunately, their head start was lost when Kai leads them away from Stiix rather than towards it. After Zane pointed this out, Jay and Cole elected to follow Zane instead and they soon came across train tracks leading to Stiix.

After nightfall, they came to a train station and stopped, intending to rest. However, they were soon beset by Wrayth on the Chain Cycle and engulfed in a frenzied battle against the ghost menace. Incidentally, he defeated himself when his chain hooked on a nearby water tower and poured its contents onto himself. The Ninja were left stunned by their discovery, but after realizing that a passing train was headed to Stiix, they quickly ran after it.

### Stiix and Stones

The Ninja eventually arrived in Stiix and confronted Ronin in his shop. The thief demanded a high price for the scrolls, but due to Kai's horrible negotiating skills, it was raised even higher. To earn money, the Ninja were hired to build a dock and Zane used a shuriken to keep the Strangle Weed off it. Unfortunately, a fly damaged the Titanium Ninja's language database and they ended up accidentally destroying the bridge. With Zane unable to speak, Jay took charge and decided that they should simply steal the scroll.

That night, the Ninja snuck into the pawnshop and located the scroll. Unfortunately, Morro was there as well and the Ninja pursued him through the rooftops of Stiix. Zane however lagged behind and eventually met up with the others, only to discover that Kai had sold all of their shares of the tea farm to Ronin in exchange for an alternative way to learn Airjitzu.

### The Temple on Haunted Hill

The Ninja went into Yang's Haunted Temple to learn Airjitzu. Zane was no longer talking backward, but his voice was very loud due to the volume being stuck. He and the others then sneak into the Temple to obtain the Scroll of unlocking the art and did their best to try and make it out of before sunrise. Zane, Kai, and Jay make it before wondering what happened to Cole, who soon appears with the Scroll causing the Ninja to be shocked when he is revealed to have turn into a ghost.

### Peak-a-Boo

After training Airjitzu, Zane, who now talks in a pirate accent, and the others went to the briefing room, where Misako explained to get the Sword of Sanctuary, they need to go to Cloud Kingdom via climbing the Wailing Alps.

When they arrive on the mountain, the Ninja climbed onto their mechs and donned a coat, which has a communication device. They trekked up the mountain, with P.I.X.A.L. telling Zane a set of footsteps belongs to Morro. When Bansha created an avalanche, Zane allowed Cole to possess his mech, making up for the distance they lost.

At the Hanging Temple, the Ninja fought with Morro's allies, with Morro getting away. Once they caught up, the Ninja used Airjitzu to go up the rest of the way. After encouraging Cole to do the same, they went into the Blind Man's Eye, leaving the Ghosts behind.

### Kingdom Come

Upon reaching the gates of Cloud Kingdom, Zane and the other Ninja were greeted by Fenwick. They were then shown inside the writing hall where the Ninja learned that the citizens of Cloud Kingdom were the writers of destiny. It was then that Zane's voice returned to normal as one of the destiny writers had written it so.

Fenwick proceeded to inform the Ninja that Morro sought the Realm Crystal hidden in the tomb to unleash the Preeminent, before ushering them into a building filled with toys to meet the "master writer." They soon discovered it was a trap and they were in fact locked away with Nimbus, a terrifying creature. With Cole's ghost abilities, the Ninja managed to escape and discovered that Fenwick was actually working for Morro.

The Ninja soon ran into Nobu who informed them where the Sword of Sanctuary was kept, though the Ninja arrived just after Morro claimed the sword. With it in hand, the ghost was able to escape from Cloud Kingdom though, after an intense chase down the Wailing Alps, the Ninja emerged the victor with the sword in possession.

### The Crooked Path

With all the items gathered, the Ninja knew it was only a matter of time before the ghost make their move and set up booby traps to prepare for them. However, later on, Ronin is forced to take the Sword of Sanctuary to the ghosts in order to pay off his debts; the Ninja try to stop him but accidentally spring their own traps which incapacitates them and allows Ronin to escape. The Ninja later get a message from Ronin telling them they will find Tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master in the Caves of Despair to which they are skeptical but go there anyway. Once there the ninja explore the cave and find Morro's corpse, the cave is soon attacked by Ghoultar, causing the Ninja to realize it was all a trap Morro set up to get rid of them. Ghoultar causes a cave-in to trap the Ninja as P.I.X.A.L. tells Zane of an opening as a geyser. They prepare to go as Cole plugs it with a rock but Zane states he multiplied the danger before the Ninja escape to the opening using Airjitzu. After which the lava erupted out of the geyser, the Ninja escape into a minecart, resulting in a wild ride around the cave and them defeating Ghoultar before they are saved by R.E.X.

The Ninja board the ship and are contacted by Ronin, who apologizes for taking the Sword before giving the real location of the Tomb. He gave them permission to use R.E.X. to travel stating this was something he needed to do to make up for his theft while saying this will be the last they hear from him. Ronin's coordinates tell the Ninja that the Tomb is really in the ocean, causing them to realize why no one ever found it. The Ninja used Ronin's ship to travel to the Tomb in order to stop Morro and the ghosts once and for all.

### Grave Danger

Zane goes to the Tomb with the Ninja and while there they face several traps, which they narrowly avoid. When they face an obstacle with a clue, Zane realizes its meaning and uses Spinjitzu to solve it which is successful in getting them to an area with the golden staff of the First Spinjitzu Master. They try to obtain the staff but after realizing they cannot get it, they dive into a chasm made by their attempts sending them down an ice slide where they find a room of ice mirror. While looking at one, Zane sees his reflection which has him wearing a Master uniform as he realizes they are a vision of the "future." The Ninja are soon attacked by Morro who using the Sword of Sanctuary to predict their moves is able to overwhelm them before Kai's quick thinking allows him to immobilize Morro and the Ninja make their way through the area.

With Jay's deduction, they solve the next clue and after digging tirelessly they locate the Tomb with the item they needed—the Realm Crystal. Kneeling in respect of Ninjago's ultimate creator, Zane carefully extracts the Realm Crystal before wondering on how it works before Morro shows up holding a weak and semi-conscious Lloyd at sword point. The ghost demands they hand over the item if they want Lloyd back. A standoff ensues, as the Ninja regain their powers because of Lloyd being released but the crystal falls in the water with him but they rescue Lloyd. However, Morro gets away with the crystal.

### Curseworld, Part I

Zane and the other Ninja returned to Steep Wisdom only to discover that Wu had sold his business and used the money to pay Cyrus Borg to build them some new vehicles. The inventor himself appeared and Zane was then introduced to an upgraded version of his Ice Mech.

Zane arrived at Stiix on a ferry and disguised as a cleaner, distracting several ghosts for Nya to sneak by. Once the Ninjas' presence in the city had been revealed, he mounted the Ice Mech and used it to attack the ghosts.

### Curseworld, Part II

Zane walks around in his Ice Mech, watching, with the other Ninja, as the Preeminent arrives. he tells the others that she is the physical manifestation of the Cursed Realm. They try using their powers against her, but she is unstoppable. Zane and the others are told to evacuate to a ship, to put as much water as they can between them and the Preeminent, while Lloyd fights Morro. Lloyd instructs the others to take out the stilts the Preeminent is on, so she'll crash in the water.

In retaliation, the Preeminent puts together armor made of the houses around it. The Ninja continue to try to stop it from reaching the ship. Zane freezes its leg, but it doesn't even slow her down. Zane discovers that they can defeat ghosts by combining his and Kai's powers, but even that doesn't stop her.

They make it back to the boat, and make a plan to send the Preeminent into Hallows Trench. When they reach it, Nya unlocks her True Potential and defeats the Preeminent. Lloyd returns, and they sail off into the sunset.

## Skybound

### Infamous

Following the defeat of the Preeminent, the Ninja's reputation rose in popularity and began being treated as celebrities. During their down-time aboard the *Bounty*, Zane would often play Jay in Minidroid Chess and win every single game. At some point before this, Jay had confided in Zane that he saw himself with Nya in his future reflection in the ice labyrinth.

Following the discovery that Clouse had managed to escape the Cursed Realm before its destruction, Zane and the other Ninja headed to Stiix to stop him, taking a brief detour to the hospital for Lil' Nelson's Grant-a-Wish.

***The following events were undone due to Jay's final wish, and thus, did not happen in the current timeline.***
Upon arriving in Stiix, the ninja were unable to locate Clouse and discovered to their horror that they had been framed for a crime spree. Now wanted criminals, Zane and the other Ninja were forced to split up to avoid detection.

### Public Enemy Number One

After a brief meeting with the other Ninja where they discovered that a Djinn might be behind their framing, Zane and Lloyd headed to the Library of Domu to do further research. However, upon arriving at the library, Zane was hacked and captured by Ronin, who had been paid to round up the wanted Ninja. Once all six of them had been captured, they were led onto a bus bound for Kryptarium Prison.

### Enkrypted

While at Kryptarium, Zane was quickly singled out by the Mechanic who saw the Nindroid's spare parts as compensation for being put out of business by the Ninja. Zane and the other Ninja also learned from Captain Soto that this Djinn was none other than Nadakhan, a feared pirate captain whom Soto had trapped himself centuries ago. At lunch, a food fight starts and the Mechanic secretly kidnaps the master of Ice. The Mechanic along with the help of two inmates open up Zane and admires the spare parts. As the Mechanic was about to take Zane apart P.I.X.A.L. shoots out a bolt of electricity from Zane’s chest freeing her love. That night, as part of Lloyd's prison break plan, Zane froze the halls, slowing down the pursuing guards.

### Misfortune Rising

Zane and Kai went to a junkyard to take back the *Destiny's Bounty* but are chased out by the guard and his dog. Zane helped the ninja fight Nadakhan and his Sky Pirates and take Captain Soto's map.

### On a Wish and a Prayer

Zane helps the Ninja find the Tiger Widow island in Cliff Gordon's house. He then aids them in sailing out to the island aboard the boat. However, a sudden lightning storm forced Zane to retreat below deck, as the electricity was attracted to his metal body.

Although Jay tells the other Ninja not to go down alone, Zane leaves the party and stays below deck, where he is confronted by Nadakhan. The two engage in a game of chess as they talk where Zane revealed that he is well aware of the Djinn meeting with Jay, because of his odd behavior and assures him that he will not disappear.

Believing that he could outsmart Nadakhan, Zane made two out of three wishes for Nadakhan with the first being for his words to not be twisted so Nadakhan could exploit any loopholes, and for any harm done to his body was to be multiplied onto Nadakhan tenfold. An amused Nadakhan granted his wishes while noting Zane must be the smart one amongst the ninja since he never heard those kinds of choices. Before Zane can make his final wish, Nadakhan deletes P.I.X.A.L. from Zane's memory banks, stating that deleting information did not count as harm. Too shocked and heartbroken to think clearly, Zane wished for it all to go away as he couldn't bear to live without P.I.X.A.L., sucking him into the Sword of Souls.

Zane was the second ninja to be absorbed and Nadakhan later gave Zane credit for his intellect and putting up a good fight.

The other Ninja soon became aware of Zane's fate and were worried as they lost their friend.

### Operation Land Ho!

While floating around within the Sword of Souls, Zane would be rescued from it by Jay and the rest of his imprisoned allies, their release resulting in the defeat of several Sky Pirates converging on their position.

Zane also meets his counterpart Echo Zane who he is surprised to see.

### The Way Back

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While Nya is dying, Zane puts his hand on Kai's shoulder to comfort him.

***The following events occurred after Jay made his final wish, and thus, happened.***
When Jay uses his last wish to undo the events of Skybound, Zane is teleported back to the moment where he and the others were on the rooftops, with P.I.X.A.L. being restored and Zane having no memory of the events. He smiles when Jay and Nya become a couple again with the others while wondering if something prevented Clouse from finding the teapot.

## *Dark Island Trilogy*

### Dark Island Trilogy, Part 1

Zane and the other Ninja were summoned to the Samurai X Cave by Master Wu, who informed them that Misako and Ronin had gone missing off the coast of the Dark Island. The Ninja quickly readied the *Destiny's Bounty* and they set off towards the island.

### Dark Island Trilogy, Part 2

Zane awoke with Cole standing near, the two of them having landed near a volcano. After being carried over the island by a gigantic bird, the two discovered Digger's Deep just as Misako and a couple of captured fishermen were being escorted in by Sky Pirates. They began planning an attack, but were interrupted when Lloyd appeared, under the effect of Dark Matter, and attacked the pirates. Zane and Cole rushed in to help and managed to free Lloyd of the effects.

While Lloyd and Misako went to free the other fishermen, Cole and Zane went in search of transportation. They soon encountered Monkey Wretch whom Zane was able to communicate. As Zane was able to speak the monkey's language, he bartered him into revealing the location of the newest vehicles Monkey Wretch had designed; the Ultra Stealth Raider and Titanium Ninja Tumbler. Shortly after discovering the vehicles, Nya, Ronin, and Jay arrived and using their elemental powers, the Ninja were able to rid the vehicles of Dark Matter. Zane boarded the Ninja Tumbler and used it to ambush the Sky Pirates, who had surrounded Lloyd, Misako, and the fishermen at the entrance to Digger's Deep. The pirates fled and the Ninja pursued them, with both parties heading toward the Temple of Light to stop Chen.

## Day of the Departed

Zane could be seen with other Ninja racing through the Sea of Sand to Ninjago city, especially, to the Ninjago museum of history. When they arrived, they met Master Wu and Misako.

The Ninja are then racing to the Museum merchandise shop to buy Day of the Departed lanterns. They then met Dr. Saunders and he showed them new exhibition of the museum, the Hall of villains, where are statues of Ninjas' past villains located (except Lord Garmadon, Overlord and Nadakhan). Zane and other Ninja didn't notice that Cole is fading away and Dr. Saunders continues in his tour, showing the Ninja the Yin blade.

After the tour, they drove their vehicles to places where they want to celebrate Day of the Departed. Zane was going to the Birchwood forest, his birthplace and home of his father, Dr. Julien. He made an ice statue of Dr. Julien to honor him but was interrupted by General Cryptor with Nindroids, who destroyed the statue. Zane then started to fight the Nindroid ghosts. The Nindroids proved easy to defeat, but Cryptor started to take the upper hand by copying Zane as they fought. However, Zane defeated him by causing him to accidentally hit himself with his Departed Blades and the spirit of Cryptor faded away.

Zane then returned to the Museum, where he met the other Ninja (except Cole) telling them what occurred to him and learns they went through similar events. The gathered ninja wondered what brought the ghosts back as Master Wu arrived telling them it was Yang's plan of distracting them as Morro arrives confirming this. Seeing Morro, the ninja prepare for battle but Wu stops them by stating Morro's intentions turned out to be good. Zane and the Ninja then learn from Morro of Master Yang's evil plans and how part of it was tricking Cole into opening a rift to return to Ninjago. When Jay wondered how Yang tricked Cole, Zane pointed out Cole wasn't there as the ninja realized that they forgot Cole and Wu told them to head the *Destiny's Bounty* to travel to the Temple of Airjitzu, where Yang and Cole were located. All but Morro (who returned to the Departed Realm) then headed for the Temple to stop Yang.

When they arrived, there was a huge storm, by the rift, summoned by Yang. Yang's students and Cole, with help of Airjitzu, flew through the rift, which then ended, just as the storm. Zane and the Ninja then landed with the *Bounty* and searched for Cole. When they started to despair, Cole appeared, back in his human form with the Ninja celebrating his return. At Cole's suggestion, they made the restored Temple of Airjitzu their new base and celebrated the Day of the Departed by a fireplace.

## The Hands of Time

### The Hands of Time

The Ninja are cleaning up the museum when Nya finds the painting of her and Kai's parents. After reflecting on their past with their parents, Cole ushers them to check out another painting they found, which was of the battle where the Elemental Masters fought with Krux and Acronix. Cole asks if anyone recognizes the battle, and Zane asks P.I.X.A.L. to analyze it. She tells them that the battle took place 40 years ago during the Serpentine Wars. Then, when Dr. Saunders comes in to offer the Ninja refreshments, Lloyd asks about the painting. Saunders calls it "minor skirmish" and tells the Ninja that it has no historical significance, which prompts Zane to tell ask him "Even if it is a myth, who are these men Masters Wu and Garmadon supposed to be fighting?" Dr. Saunders tells them about the Hands of Time, and how they can manipulate time, and their names: Krux and Acronix.

Following the Fast-Forward Blade's arrival at the Monastery, and time skipping an entire minute, the Ninja are sent from running out of the museum to standing at the bridge of the *Destiny's Bounty*. With alarms going off all around them, the Ninja are wondering how they ended up there. Zane mentions that his circuits are picking up an energy displacement. Zane and Nya then try to figure out the location of the energy displacement, while Jay freaks out about the noises in the background. They find out that the energy displacement is temporal energy, and is coming from Wu's Monastery. After remembering that Wu is there, they decide to check it out.

They go there and find Acronix fighting with Wu. They step in, and "defeat" him, but Acronix merely used the Time Blade to warp away. The Ninja find Wu holding on to a tree branch about to fall, and help him up.

### The Hatching

The Ninja have returned to the Temple of Airjitzu to rest Wu, and ask him questions about who they just fought. Wu tells them all about Krux and Acronix, before he fell asleep which left the Ninja having nothing to do anymore. While they're cleaning up the Temple, they see on the News that a samurai warrior (a Vermillion) is attacking the Borg Store. They race down there to find out who will fight him first, and when it ends up being a tie, they ask Zane to use his digital die to decide. Each of them gets a chance fighting the Vermillion, but it's too strong for one at a time so they all fight at once. The fight continues into the store, and Zane finds out that the Vermillion is trying to kidnap Cyrus Borg, so he takes him away from the fight and into an alleyway before Borg sees Dr. Saunders, and asks him why he's there before Zane is suddenly struck down.

After dealing with the Vermillion, the Ninja find Zane unconscious in the alleyway, alone.

### A Time of Traitors

After asking Master Wu about the Vermillion, the Ninja (except for Kai, who went to the museum to ask Dr. Saunders about the Vermillion) meet at the Samurai X Cave to figure out how to reboot Zane. After trying multiple times, and nothing works, a video of Zane's last moments awake plays on the screen. After replaying it, and slowing it down some more, they realize that Acronix was the one that disabled Zane and that Acronix and Saunders are working together. The Ninja leave Zane in the X-Cave on a restore and reboot protocol so they can go warn Kai. As they leave, P.I.X.A.L. appears on the screen above Zane and tells him to wake up and that Kai needs them.

The Ninja return to the X-Cave after finding out that Saunders is actually Krux, and finally reboot Zane. He wakes up without leaving the bench and says the numbers "4721" in that order before falling back asleep.

### Scavengers

After rebooting Zane's system, Nya thought she succeeded but found he was only speaking gibberish. P.I.X.A.L. tries to explain to Nya that she's trying to unscramble Zane's neural pathway, unaware that's causing him to speak nonsense. Nya then left to retrieve a binary power cord, much to P.I.X.A.L.'s dismay.

After a confrontation with the Vermillion, Nya came back to the cave but found Vermillion trying to take Zane's metal. She fended them off, but Zane was unable to fight. P.I.X.A.L. sent the electricity to his chest, shocking the Vermillion, and killing them. Nya took Zane with her back to where the Vermillion were stealing metal from buildings.

The Ninja stop the Vermillion and try to find a way to get Zane's power back, and they figure they can go to the Power Plant. At this time, Lloyd also goes there to meet the Ninja. When they arrive, they enter to find no Vermillion inside. Zane says something in gibberish, and Nya translates that there are Vermillion all around them. They start to fight them (except for Zane, who is walking into a wall.) Nya and Jay find the main core and hook Zane up to it after defeating the Vermillion and do something that causes Zane to reboot, and return to normal. The others fill him in on what's going on and see on the news that Mega Monster Amusement Park is being invaded by Vermillion. The Ninja leave to the Park (except Jay, who goes to make sure his parents are ok.) Before they drive away, Zane asks P.I.X.A.L. something, but she does not respond.

### A Line in the Sand

Zane and the other Ninja are fending off Vermillion in Mega Monster Amusement park, when they are cornered, which prompts them to wonder where Jay is, as he had disappeared.

Jay finds his parents in trouble with the Vermillion at their Junkyard when the second Time Blade arrives. The Vermillion takes Edna, to go after it, and Jay tries to go after her but his bike was broke. His father gives him his early birthday present which is an early version of the Desert Lightning that breaks down when touched, so Jay fixes it up and goes after the Vermillion. Meanwhile, the Ninja go after the Vermillion who left the Amusement Park. Before they leave, however, Zane starts reciting the numbers 34 and 28. The Ninja assume he got knocked offline again, but Nya tells them that he was referring to latitude and longitude. Zane recalls that Nya updated her Temporal Scanner, so now he knows the Time Blades location, which is in the Eastern Sea of Sand. They take off on the Ultra Stealth Raider. The Ninja and Zane meet Jay chasing the Vermillion while attempting to retrieve the Time Blade before them. In the chase, Zane and Nya are knocked off their Ultra Stealth Raider bike, as well as the other Ninja, so now they run after the Time Blade on foot.

After a quarrel with the Time Blade being possessed by the Vermillion, the Ninja finally retrieve it and escape by slowing down the Vermillion and then flying away on what was left of the Ultra Stealth Raider Jet, while Zane helps stabilize the wings.

### The Attack

After returning to the Temple after retrieving the Time-Blade, Cole, Zane, and Jay are relaxing by fooling around with the blade. Cole accidentally almost hits Nya in the head with the Blade, and she tells them to cut it out. The three boys mention how she's been trying to locate her Samurai X suit since it was apparently stolen by the Vermillion, and also how Kai has been reading through many history books to, unbeknownst to them, figure out where he's seen the symbol under the Vermillion's helmet before. Kai says something about finding a clue, and the others return to playing with the Time Blade. Cole and Jay proceed to run at each other, while Zane slows them down. Lloyd enters in the middle of this and reminds them that they should have hidden it. Cole makes fun of Lloyd, and Wu enters saying the same thing word for word, plus how they should not let victory cloud their vigilance. As he finishes talking and starts walking away, a Vermillion egg crashes through the window. The Ninja discover that outside, the Vermillion are all lined up and ready to attack. They get into a battle with the Vermillion, and one Buffmillion. The Vermillion still attack, so Lloyd tries to defeat the Vermillion on the ground. During this time, the Destiny's Bounty is attacked, and it crashes to the ground. The time twins later intervene and fight the Ninja, and Wu and the Ninja end up taking the Fast-Forward Blade. At this time, the Samurai X Mech steps in to help. Nya thinks that the Vermillion stole her suit, but it turns out that the new Samurai X is no Vermillion, however, they refuse to reveal their identity. Sam-X flies away but is knocked out of the sky by an egg. Now, the Ninja fight the Time Twins, and they think they've won, but General Machia swoops in from the air and steals *both* Time Blades, and returns it back to the twins. Before they escape, Machia kidnaps Wu.

### Secrets Discovered

At the Temple, Lloyd is giving a pep talk to the Ninja about how even though they lost, it can be good thing that they took the time blade because then they can follow the Hands of Time back to their base. The Ninja split up and Kai and Nya go to Destiny's Bounty to see if the Temporal Scanner works. Cole and Jay go with Lloyd and Zane who take Destiny's Shadow to the museum to find any clues. While on the Shadow, Zane asks P.I.X.A.L. a question but then remembers that she is still "offline". Zane, Jay, Cole, and Lloyd search the museum for anything, all the while, Jay is throwing artifacts all over, which leads Zane to tell him to stop, as he catches everything he throws. Lloyd comments on how he's glad Zane is fully functional, and he agrees, except for the fact that he can no longer talk which P.I.X.A.L. which angers him. Then, Cole accidentally punches a hole in the wall which leads to a secret room off of the museum. They enter, and find Vermillion eggs incubating in a tank. Off of the secret room is *another* secret door that leads to the sewers. They enter the sewers and Zane reconfigures the Destiny's Shadow to float on water. It picks them up, and they use it to navigate the sewers. Along the way, they meet Skales and his son who tells them that they're tracking the Vermillion in hopes to avoid them. They tell the Ninja that they're the spawn of the Great Devourer and that they are very powerful if they are a horde. He also tells them that their base is in the swamp, and gives them a map that lead there. They reach the swamp and call the rest of the Ninja to meet them there.

### Pause and Effect

When Kai and Nya arrive at the swamp, they make a plan to rescue Master Wu, and Cyrus Borg. They split up, Zane is to use his scanner to find Borg. Zane locates Cyrus Borg and moves toward him. Moments later, the signal disappears, which causes Zane to fall to his knees and sulk about how P.I.X.A.L. is gone and that it's "no good". After sulking for a few minutes, Zane's scanners pick up Borg's signal once again. He runs towards it and meets Lloyd halfway. Lloyd tells him that he found Wu, but lost him again. Zane consoles him and then picks up Jay and Cole's signal. Lloyd and Zane hear them yell, and meet them battling the Vermillion, so they help out. They appear to finish them off and see the Time Twins in the air with Wu, Ray, Maya, Kai, and Nya. They begin to Airjitzu after them, but Blunck and Raggmunk ambush them with more Vermillion.

### Out of the Fire and Into the Boiling Sea

Zane, Cole, Jay, and Lloyd make a "strategic retreat" because they can't handle all the Vermillion. Zane covers them with Ice so they can escape, but he picks up Borg's signal again and he says he's going to get him. The others join him in avoiding the warriors and escaping. When the Vermillion realize that the Ninja have gone, they all go back to their main base which is unfortunate for the Ninja because they need to go there too. Lloyd suggests they disguise themselves as Vermillion in order to enter, and it works. At the entrance of the dome, they meet Cyrus Borg and they get him to escape. First, Jay asks why the Twins kidnapped him in the first place. He reveals that they were making him create the hub for the Iron Doom, that would be used for time travel. He tells them that with all four time-blades, it will be active. Borg tells them that he put in a self-destruct code so that they could stop it, but he did not have the time to enter it in so they had to do it now. Borg tells them that they have to sneak in (to the dismay of Jay). Just then, Blunk and Raggmunk enter and order the disguised Ninja to escort Borg away from the Iron Doom, but Jay breaks character which causes their identities to be revealed. They get into a battle with the Vermillion once again, and this time, the new Samurai X shows up with new armor and starts to help them. They battle, and Borg tells Sam-X that he needs to get to the Iron Doom, so they bring him to the top to input the code. Zane uses Airjitzu to fly up with them, and helps Borg remember the code, which is the first line of code for programming a Nindroid. They are about to finish the code when the Time Twins return with all four Time Blades. They use the pause blade to stop Zane from finishing the code and order the warriors to enter the Iron Doom. They place the Time Blades into the Iron Doom and push Zane, Borg, and Sam-X off the platform. Zane falls and Cole catches him. They watch now, as Kai and Nya use the Fusion Dragon to enter the same portal the Time Twins do.

### Lost in Time

The Ninja sulk about how Nya and Kai had just traveled back in time, and are introduced to Ray and Maya who tells them that the only way to help Master Wu (as he had been hit with a Time Punch, that causes him to rapidly age) is to get the Reversal Blade back. During this time, Jay tries to figure out Samurai X's identity, but they refuse once again.

Once Krux and Acronix had gone back in time to change Ninjago, their machination of the past altered the future so that there was no more technology. This act caused Zane's form to change back human in present-day and he is shown shut down, since he doesn't have power source in this timeline.

After Kai and Nya stopped the Time Twins, and Wu sacrificed himself on the Iron Doom, the siblings return to present-day Ninjago, where Zane has returned back to titanium and questions what occurred.

The Ninja then nominate Lloyd as their master. Zane listened as Lloyd made his first decision to get rid of the Time Blade and find Master Wu.

## Way of the Departed (non-canon)

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## Prior to Sons of Garmadon

At some point over the course of the next year, Zane gained new abilities.

One week before the team was reassembled, Zane, having been alerted by the Police Commissioner of a new criminal group making recruits, contacted Kai and planned to investigate Borg Industries and search online for further information.

## Sons of Garmadon

### The Mask of Deception

It is revealed by P.I.X.A.L. that the Ninja, besides Lloyd, are on "active missions throughout Ninjago" while he chases Mr. E.

The last to be seen, Kai and Zane are stationed in a port town, similar in features to Stiix, fighting the Mechanic, who now wears a ripped red jacket instead of his prison uniform. P.I.X.A.L. tells Zane—who is now in his human form but with blue eyes. Through an earpiece that Master Lloyd requires his and Kai's assistance in Ninjago City, with which he replies "this is serious" while watching Kai fend off the Mechanic. He tells P.I.X.A.L. that they'll be with them shortly, and hangs up to use his ice power and freezes the Mechanic before he could attack Kai. He lifts his hood, revealing his new *The LEGO Ninjago Movie* hair, and his brand new cloaking ability that lets him transform between titanium and human whenever he wants. He tells Kai they should move but sees he froze him as well.

Zane and Kai meet up with Lloyd and the others at Borg Tower, where the Mask of Vengeance was stolen. Lloyd shows them why he brought them there and pulls up a picture of the Sons of Garmadon's symbol on his phone to show everyone. He begins to tell them what it is before Zane interrupts him to say "The Sons of Garmadon. A mysterious criminal syndicate growing in prominence in Ninjago City." Lloyd tells them what they stole before Hutchins comes in and tells them about the Oni Masks, and how there are only three in existence. Jay gets confused and asks how there can be three when they stole the "only" mask. Nya corrects him and tells him that he said *Oni* Mask, which prompts Zane to say, "The Oni are said to be all-powerful beings; demons that predate Ninjago." Hutchins tells them that the three masks embody the main Oni Warlords and has unknown consequences when united.

Hutchins tells them that the Emperor is going to give a public speech tomorrow, and he is worried that the SoG might show up, so he asks for their help in protecting them.

At the palace, Zane is perched on the top of a building with his bow and arrow, and points that Lloyd seems to like Harumi. He then seems to spot something suspicious, and the crowd clears out, but it was a false alarm.

Zane and the others are invited into the "Palace of Secrets" as a reward for protecting the Royal Family. When they reach the throne room, Hutchins introduces the Emperor and Empress as well as Harumi. Harumi does a sort of "roll call" where she runs through the Ninjas' names and powers. She describes Zane as "The cold and calculated android" which prompts Zane to drop his human disguise and correct her by saying, "I'm a Nindroid, your highness."

The Royal Family invites the Ninja to stay at the palace until the threat of the SoG is gone and so Hutchins takes the ninja on a tour of the Palace. He shows them the buffet, and Cole mentions how he's watching his diet, and Jay refers to him as a "party pooper," which Zane does not understand.

Hutchins tells them that the Oni Mask they hold in the Palace in the Mask of Deception, while the Mask of Vengeance was the one stolen from Borg. When asked who has the third mask, Zane says "No one knows the location of the Mask of Hatred but my senses tell me that it will not stay lost for long."

After the tour ends, Zane asks Cole what a party pooper is, and when he tells him, Zane does not entirely understand and says "It is nice to have a pooper at the party!"

### The Jade Princess

The day after Lloyd returns from talking with Harumi, Zane and the Ninja are training in the Palace Courtyard. The Ninja are remarking that Lloyd technically went on a "date" with Harumi, to which Lloyd replies that it was not a date. Zane, while training with Kai, gives Lloyd the definition of a date. He also gives Lloyd the definition of "step up your game."

Later, when the Palace is attacked, Zane uses his visor to find Harumi who was stuck under a piece of wood. He helps her out and tells her that they need to get out of there. On their way out, Zane uses Inverted Spinjitzu (upside down) to save Hutchins from Ultra Violet, causing her to become frozen.

Zane manages to escape the Palace with the other ninja before it collapses and meets Lloyd and Harumi on the *Destiny's Bounty*. Nya breaks the news to Harumi that the Emperor, Empress, and Hutchins didn't make it, and Harumi remarks on how she's all alone. Lloyd promises her that they're going to find the people responsible for this, and they fly off on the DB.

### The Oni and the Dragon

Zane and the other Ninja are sailing on the *Bounty* when Harumi thanks the Ninja for taking her in. Jay tells her that she's safe with them, to which Zane corrects him by saying that they know little about the SoG. He also notes that the third Oni Mask is yet to be located and that it's as if it "never existed." Nya tells them that the police have one of the SoG in custody and that they should question him.

On their way to the station, Jay, Cole, Zane, and Lloyd take a quick stop at Mystake's Tea Shop to get a tea that would make the suspect talk. Mistake goes to the back to grab the tea, and on her way back in, Lloyd spots a strange painting on the wall. She tells him that it's of the Oni and the Dragon. Lloyd wants to hear more, but Zane says they only have time for a quick stop. Lloyd tells Cole and Zane to go to the station with the tea of truth to meet the suspect while he and Jay stay to listen to the story.

At the station, Zane hands Cole two cups, one of the tea of truth, and the other for Cole to drink. When a prisoner breaks loose and causes havoc, it causes Cole to mix up which drink is which.

They enter the interrogation room and meet the SoG member in the white mask: Luke Cunningham. Zane demands him to tell him who he works for, but Luke doesn't tell him. Cole tries to give him the tea to make him talk, but he mixed them up and drinks the tea himself and starts telling Luke his secrets including where the Princess is and what kind of power Lloyd has. This reveal of all the secrets causes Luke to mistakenly tell them about their hideout, at Laughy's Karaoke Club. Zane takes note of this and they leave with the lead.

Zane and Cole watch as Ultra Violet and Mr. E arrive at the club. Cole gets ready to go in, in a disguise called "Rocky Dangerbuff." He offers to make Zane a costume of his own, but Zane declines and creates a disguise with his hologram ability. Cole dubs him "Snake Jaguar."

They proceed into the club and notice that Dareth is running the bar. He tells them that he bought the bar so that he'd be able to hold on to the "glory days" where he fought "side by side" with the ninja, but the SoG made it their hangout spot. Cole asks Zane how they're supposed to gain their trust, and Zane tells him that there's only one way—and that's for Cole to sing (which he is afraid of).

Cole gets up to the mic and starts singing terribly. The bikers get angry and start to kick him out. Cole fights back and asks for Zane's help but he only helps the SoG. . . .

At the *Bounty*, the other Ninja are watching and P.I.X.A.L. tells them to trust Zane. They head over to the club to help Cole and start chasing Mr. E. They chase him up to a dead-end where he climbs up a clothesline wearing the Mask of Vengeance. He fights with the Ninja until he gets to the top where he fights with Lloyd for a moment until Lloyd is stopped by Snake Jaguar, who helps Mr. E escape. Lloyd tells the ninja that it was Zane's plan all along to gain their trust. . . .

Mr. E takes Snake Jaguar on his bike with Ultra Violet. She says, "You're taking him to the *big man*?" before they drive away.

### Snake Jaguar

The episode begins with a flashback of Wu meeting Dr. Julian in his home. Wu asks him where Zane is, and he is informed that he is out back chopping wood. Julian makes note that Wu has been their second guest in a while, as an old man visited them last night who needed shelter. He also says that when he arrived, it was as if winter had followed him there, to which Wu remarks that it was the Master of Ice. They gave him shelter and food and was intrigued by Zane. Ever since he left, he has been acting stranger than usual. Wu meets with Zane, and Wu tells him that they may meet again one day.

Zane awakes from his flashback on a subway train with the Sons of Garmadon on their way to their base. They take a shortcut through the subway that leads them to a hidden place. As they step off the train, Ultra Violet tells him it's time to meet "the big man."

He enters their hideout and meets Killow (the big man). Zane asks if he is in charge, Killow laughs and says that it is not him that is in charge, but the Quiet One. Killow says that if he wants to be a Son of Garmadon, he has to ride with them at "The Teeth." Ultra Violet remarks that Zane has no bike, so Killow gives him Ultra Violet's for now.

After his meeting with Killow, he uses his cloak feature to sneak past the guards as Ultra Violet to visit Cole, who has been locked in a cell. Cole asks to be broken out because they found the key to the final mask to resurrect Lord Garmadon. Zane doesn't break him out because he has to race now. Zane leaves Cole and gets in line with the other SoG.

They start, and as they ride, Ultra Violet gets a call (presumably from the Quiet One). They tell her that Snake Jaguar (Zane) is a spy, and Killow tells the rest of the racers to make sure Zane never finishes. They ride through the subway until they emerge in Ninjago City, and Nya gives Zane a new bike to combat the SoG's high tech ones. During the race, Zane spots the Mask of Deception on Killow's bike. He tells P.I.X.A.L. that he doesn't know who's in charge, but that he is called the Quiet One.

Zane continues racing into the Sea of Sand and uses some of his new bike's features to knock out more bikers. Killow wears the Mask of Deception and uses it to telepathically throw spikes of rock at Zane to slow him down. Zane uses his new falcon to destroy the rocks and continues racing.

Killow tells Mr. E that it was he that brought him in, so he should deal with him.

Killow rides on, and Mr. E stays behind to deal with Zane. He rides next to him and steers his bike, as well as Zane's, into a nearby cliff. Zane says "You're the Quiet One, aren't you? You're the one in charge? Who are you!" and they jump off the bikes before they fall into the cliff. Zane gets up and sees Mr. E on the ground twitching . . . and he gets up and puts his arm back on, which fell off in the crash. Zane says that Mr. E is like him—a Nindroid. . . .

### Dead Man's Squall

Picking up where the previous episode left off, Zane has confronted Mr. E at a cliff and has begun asking him multiple times if he is The Quiet One. Mr. E runs at Zane and almost throws him over the cliff. They continue to fight (With Mr. E winning) and Zane attempts to freeze Mr. E solid, but he breaks out. He then kicks a severely damaged Zane off the cliff. He jumps down to him, and Zane goes offline. Mr. E opens a compartment in Zane's chest and places something in it. He then turns around and says "The trap has been set" in reverse, and leaving Zane.

A few hours later, it is dark, and the Ninja fly over the desert in the Bounty looking for Zane. They finally spot him submerged in sand and unconscious. They put him on a gurney and bring him up to the ship. He is placed on a table, and P.I.X.A.L. says that it may take a while for Zane to reboot himself. The Ninja plan to abandon Ninjago City to get away from the Sons of Garmadon so they can get a handle on things. They find out later that in Zane's last moments of consciousness, he intercepted a call between Mr. E and the Quiet One. P.I.XA.L. says she could track him, but the storm is interfering. Later, while the Ninja are gone, a mechanical spider (placed there by Mr. E) comes out of the compartment in Zane's chest and enters the computer, damaging P.I.X.A.L. and the tech. The Ninja find out, and P.I.X.A.L. informs them that something is approaching the Bounty. She says that it's Samurai X and that she is her. But Samurai X flies in on her mech (being controlled by the Quiet One) and tries to knock them out of the sky. The ninja leave Zane to fight with the Quiet One, and Nya stays behind to try and find whatever screwed up the computers.

She finds the Mechanical Spider, and it starts to attack her, and it's not until Zane wakes up, that it is defeated. P.I.X.A.L. managed to wake Zane up, and commenced a full system reboot, thus, freeing Samurai X from The Quiet One after he knocked Lloyd and 'Rumi into the jungle. However, he still did massive damage to the Bounty, which causes it to crash. Nya breaks the fall with her elemental power, and they land in the bushes ok.

When they land, Samurai X removes her mask revealing she really is P.I.X.A.L., and Zane says that from now on there will be no more secrets between them.

### The Quiet One

Zane and the Ninja work on the Bounty after it crashed in Primeval's Eye. Zane and P.I.X.A.L. search for Lloyd and Harumi through the jungle, but they are unable to find him. P.I.X.A.L. suggests that they get the computers running again, and they go to the bridge.

At the bridge, they figure out that they won't be able to find Lloyd and Harumi unless they fly over the trees. They test the thrusters, but it only makes things worse so they turn it off.

Nya enters with the Samurai X mech and shows the others that Lloyd wrote them a note telling them that they're going to find the Oni Temple for the third mask.

Zane and P.I.X.A.L. return to fixing up the computer, and after many unsuccessful attempts at turning it on, Zane detects frustration in P.I.X.A.L.'s voice and asks if she's alright. She asks if she is more useful in the computer, and says she prefers having a body, but also just wants to be useful to the team. Zane says that it is her choice and that he also prefers her body rather than in the computer, and they continue working.

After trying to fix the computers, Jay and Cole are working on the thrusters when the baby (dubbed Cole Jr. by Cole) hands Jay a wrench. The other Ninja meet up with Jay and see that the baby is now walking, talking, and drinking tea. Jay realizes that the baby isn't Cole Jr., but Master Wu.

They wonder how he got so young, and Nya points out that he was touched by the Reversal Blade, and that it not only fixed his rapid aging, but he is now rapidly de-aging. Zane points out that by that logic, he should be rapidly aging again until he returns to normal. They are interrupted by the Sons of Garmadon's attack, and the Ninja scramble to get the Bounty in the air.

They try to get the Bounty flying before they find out that the trace program they ran to find the location of The Quiet One has finally finished. They find out that the transmission came from the *Bounty*. Zane points out that that can't be, as the only people on the ship were them and Harumi, to which Nya states: "Harumi is The Quiet One!"

Zane says they have to warn Lloyd, but they are interrupted by the Sons of Garmadon, who have infiltrated the *Bounty*. The Ninja fight them off best they can, but they are cornered by the S.o.G. and Mr. E, and Killow putting on the Mask of Vengeance, and Mask of Deception.

### Game of Masks

The Ninja, now taken captive by the Sons of Garmadon on the *Bounty*, are tied up in the middle of the S.o.G. flying the ship looking for Harumi and the Oni Temple. Killow says he looks forward to Garmadon's resurrection, to which Zane remarks that usually when a bad guy tries to unleash an ancient evil, it usually doesn't end well for them. Ultra Violet says "Good thing then that this bad guy is actually a bad *girl*."

Later, Little Wu gives Nya the keys to unlock their chains, and the Ninja fight back against the S.o.G. Zane points his bow and arrow at Mr. E and they have a standoff before the Sea Monster crashes the fight and starts hurting both sides. The Ninja and the S.o.G. work together to weaken it before Harumi (who now is known by everyone to be The Quiet One) and the biker gang escape on the *Bounty* with all three masks.

Before they escape, Zane and Nya help Lloyd up into the air so he can stop them . . . but Lloyd is captured when he lands.

### Dread on Arrival

Zane and the Ninja (along with Baby Wu, and P.I.X.A.L.) arrive at the Ninjago City Police Station on the Sea Monster. One of the guards is confused as to why they brought the Sea Monster, and Zane says "The best way to defeat your enemy, is to make them your friend."

They arrive at the Police Commissioner's office and start bombarding him with saying that they have to vacate the city and stop the Sons of Garmadon, and he calls in the police force to help them out.

Zane and the others get on snorkel gear, and hop on Kai's Katana V11 and ride under the Palace moat. They arrive at the Resurrection Ceremony, where Harumi (now wearing her Quiet One outfit) has already opened the portal to the Departed Realm. They also see that they have Lloyd and Misako captive. They interrupt the ceremony and start attacking the Sons of Garmadon. Harumi reveals that they can plunge Lloyd or his mother underwater, and they are forced to save one of them. Zane tries shooting Harumi with his arrow, but he is intercepted by Mr. E. He continues to fight Zane when he is knocked to the edge after dropping his sword, and Zane pointing an arrow at his throat. Cole saves Misako and Lloyd from their cages, and the team tries to stop Harumi from completing the ceremony, but the energy around it is too much for any of them to do it.

Lord Garmadon begins to arrive, and Zane is confused as to how it is happening, to the dismay of Jay. Lloyd tries using Spinjitzu to intercept Harumi, and Zane and the others follow. They knock over Harumi, and the cops enter, arresting Harumi and the Sons of Garmadon.

The Ninja see Harumi off, and Lloyd goes to speak to her, and then she is taken away.

### True Potential

Zane and the team (except for Lloyd) are celebrating at Dareth's bar, singing The Weekend Whip with baby Wu. They are having a good time when Lloyd stops the music and points to the TV, where the news shows that Lord Garmadon is back—and he has broken Harumi out of prison. Misako offers to take Baby Wu somewhere safe so the Ninja can investigate, and they head off.

They get to the police station and find that the police officers could not stop them, and the Police Commissioner notes that it seems like the man Garmadon once was, is gone. They try to find their location when the news pipes up again and says that Garmadon and Harumi have broken into Kryptarium Prison.

They board the *Bounty*, and Zane notes that they could barely beat the S.o.G. *with* the help of the police force last time, and now they have Lord Garmadon on their side. They try to brainstorm ideas on how to stop them, but the only one they've thought of is for Lloyd to face him alone, which Zane and the others dislike. Zane notes that Lloyd's past may be clouding his judgment.

Soon after, Lloyd tricks everyone into the bedroom and locks the door, and takes the *Bounty* to the Prison to face his father. A little while later, they break out and find that Lloyd has abandoned the *Bounty*, and taken his car. They try to track it, but the navigation system was locked, which Zane is unable to hack. They keep trying, but then Lloyd's battle with his father is broadcasted nationwide, and the Ninja are forced to watch their leader's defeat.

### Big Trouble, Little Ninjago

Zane and the Ninja are at Mistake's tea shop watching over Lloyd, who is unconscious and hurt from his battle with his father. Mistake gives him a tea that will heal his wounds but may take away all of their powers. Zane says immediately that it is no question—and he'd give up his power for Lloyd. The team comes up with a unanimous decision, and agree to give up their power. They use their power and transfer it through Lloyd, who's eyes flash green before fading back into black.

They wait a few hours and find that they still possess their powers, but Lloyd still hasn't woken up. Mistake is making a special tea "*to go*" and says "In a time of need, remember *to go*" and hands Jay a small bag. As she does, the ground shakes, and they find that the citizens of Ninjago City are fleeing from something that is wrecking the city, and Zane notes that only something of great size could cause that much damage. As buildings crash around them, they go to find out what's happening, and Nya stays behind to watch over Lloyd.

The Ninja chase the being around the city, with the help of P.I.X.A.L., and they find that Lord Garmadon has created a giant Colossus out of rock that's terrorizing the city. Garmadon tells the police commissioner to kneel before them, and they do. The Ninja call attention to themselves and the Colossus attacks them. The Ninja fight back, and are unable to put a stop to it, and flee to the Bounty.

A little while later, they find Lloyd fighting Harumi on a moving train while holding baby Wu, and tell him to jump onto the Bounty with them, but he is unable. He tries to make the jump, but Harumi pulls him back, and only baby Wu manages to make it aboard the ship. They try to make it back to Lloyd, to save him from Harumi, but are caught by the Colossus and are crushed by it. Baby Wu tells them they have *to go*, at first, they do not understand, but Jay realizes that's what Mistake told them when she gave them the bag. Jay opens it and golden stars float all around them. In a few moments, they disappear, just before the Bounty is crushed by the monster.

They wake up later, battle-worn, on a desert beach. Zane notes that Mistake gave them travelers tea, and they aren't in Ninjago anymore. A dragon flies by them and they realize they are back where it all began—the Realm of Oni and Dragons.

## Hunted

### Firstbourne

Zane, along with the first three Ninja and young Wu, are stranded on an island in the Realm of Oni and Dragon trying to piece together some parts to make a transmission device that goes to Ninjago. They are unsuccessful in their first attempt, to the dismay of the others, except Jay, who "accepts the situation," which the other Ninja find extremely weird.

Young Wu says that he is hungry, as Zane asks him if he has any useful guidance he can give them, but he does not. Zane mentions that by the rate that Wu is accelerating aging, they will have their old Master back soon enough.

While Cole and Wu go get food, Zane and the others attempt to retry the transmission device in the dark before Cole and Wu get back. As they do so, Zane and Kai note that Jay has lost his grip on reality. It appears the radio works, as they hear a transmission. When Kai doesn't understand some phrases they use, Zane translates them to him by stating that they are talking about an ambush. Zane is worried when Kai realizes that they are targets and that they're not alone, and are being chased by the island's inhabitants. The three of them run, with Zane being the first to be taken away by the hunters and dragged through the fog.

Held captive, Zane and his friends are brought blindfolded into a settlement known as Dead's End by their captors who are known as the Dragon Hunters. As they are taken inside the throne room, Zane hears Jay wonder aloud if they are playing hide and seek (blindfolded) before being stopped in their footsteps. He also hears Kai attempt to fight back against one of the Hunters escorting them in, but with no success, before the captive trio are shoved to their knees, with Zane warning the pair to be careful. Three of the Hunters then take off their blindfolds one at a time for them to meet Iron Baron, who taunts them before he and the Hunters laugh.

### Iron & Stone

Now brought before the Iron Baron, Zane and the Ninja are declared to be Oni, and are to be sent to The Pit to face "Slab."

They are taken outside through Dead's End by Daddy No Legs. They are shown a glimpse of the Dragon Hunter's lifestyle. Kai says that they think they're Oni... and Jay says that they thought it was the other way around. Zane points out that their entire culture appears to be built around the hunting of Dragons, and the exploiting of their Elemental Power. Soon after, Zane is approached by another Dragon Keeper, Arkade, and is asked if he can have his parts after he "expires."

As they continue on their way to the Pit, Jay continuously shows he is not in the right state of mind. Zane points out that Jay's mental state will not be helping them, and that he hopes that Cole and Wu can rescue them.

Later, the three of them are shoved into a room. They assume they're in the Pit, but Chew Toy comes out and reveals that they aren't in the pit yet. Chew Toy signals to the rest of the Dragon Hunters to bring them up and the room they're in heightens into the *real* pit, which turns out to be an arena where they will be put up against a dragon for entertainment.

Chew Toy warns them about Slab and he is released into the Pit. It is revealed that Slab is a green Dragon that possesses the power of Earth. Chew Toy mentions that they must have upset Slab because Dragons hate Oni.

The Ninja are forced to fight Slab, and Jay tries to play with it, using Chew Toy's bell. They are chased throughout the arena, and Zane tells the others to not use their Elemental Power, as not to reveal their true identities. They soon see that Cole and Wu have come for their rescue, Zane tells Cole that Wu has to leave, as his mere presence (being half Oni) is making things worse for them. Wu gets the idea to throw a Vengestone chain to them, which helps the Ninja subdue Slab. After it is on the ground, it is about to use it's earth breath to blast Jay, but Zane uses his Elemental Power to block the blast, thus revealing their identities to the Iron Baron and the rest of the Dragon Hunters.

Iron Baron and Heavy Metal yell to the other Dragon Keepers to hunt them down, and the Ninja prepare for round 2.

### Radio Free Ninjago

Zane, Jay, and Kai are cornered by the Dragon Hunters and have no choice but to use their Elemental Power. When Kai does an estimate on the foes, Zane corrects him on the exact number and he states Zane was better at counting. After Jay starts to freak out about things, Zane points out to Kai that he's finally back to normal.

They use their Elemental Power to fend of the Hunters when Heavy Metal jumps down with the Dragonbone Blade. They try to use their power on him, but as Zane points out, the blade attracts their Elemental Power. Now unable to use their power, they are chained up by Heavy Metal and put in the back of the Dieselnaut.

Held in place by the hunters with Vengestone, Iron Baron approaches them and admits his surprise at them not being Oni, but trained in the ways of the First Spinjitzu Master. Zane was shocked by Baron's familiarity with him as the labels calling the Spinjitzu master a coward who ran away to Ninjago. After Kai asks if he knows how to get them back, Baron responds no but states he had no interest in helping them, anyway. He then declares they are hunting Dragons and hopes that the catch he makes will be good.

Iron Baron tells them that there is much the Ninja can do for them, and that "power attracts power," which will help them hunt Dragons. He then turns on the machine and it releases strange energy that triggers an elemental reaction in them to use them as bait to catch a Dragon.

Soon after, a Wind Dragon is attracted to the Ninja. Meanwhile, Cole and Wu (who are disguised as Hunters,) "accidentally" knock the other Ninja off the stand. They try to rescue them, but the Ninja are immediately put back into the back of the Dieselnaut by Daddy No Legs.

Now in the back of the vehicle, they are forced to sit back and watch as the Hunters reel in and eventually capture the Wind Dragon.

Cole promises to figure a way out of this situation for them, and the Dragons.

### How to Build a Dragon

While being transported back to the Dead's End in the back of the Dieselnaut, Jay hears Lloyd on the radio, which prompts Zane to say Jay has lost it again until Jay states he really did. that they hope Cole can get them out of there. Kai says all, including the Wind Dragon.

Now at Dead's End, Zane says that if only Firstbourne paid Iron Baron a visit, then they would have a distraction to escape. This gives Jay the idea to *create* a fake Firstbourne to trick Iron Baron into thinking they're under attack. Zane agrees with the idea, and Cole and Wu agree to help them build the plan as long as Jay designs it.

Later on, the Ninja are put to work by the Iron Baron, and Jay draws the blueprint for the fake dragon in hidden. While Zane and the others assemble parts and send them off to Cole and Wu, the two of them assemble the Dragon away from the camp.

Soon after, at night, Iron Baron gets ready to cook the Wind Dragon, and Zane and the others wait for Cole and Wu to "attack" the base with their creation. They are tied up, and watch the skies and then finally, with Wu controlling it, the fake dragon appears over the camp, and Zane and the others act like it is the real thing which spooks the Hunters.

While the Hunters scramble to their stations to capture it, Cole maneuvers to the others and frees them from their chains. They make their way out, and at the same time, Wu is shot out of the sky. At first the Ninja don't see it, and see the *real* Firstbourne in the sky and mistake it for Wu. When they realize it's the real thing they freak out and attempt to flee.

Wu stops them and tells them that she is there to protect her Wind Dragon, but the Ninja assisted in capturing it. The only way for them to get out would be to save the Wind Dragon.

Zane and the others make their way to the Dragon, who is tied up, and get caught in a fight with the Dragon Hunters. Kai breaks off from the fight and frees the Wind Dragon. It helps the Ninja fend off the Hunters, and the Ninja also help the other imprisoned Dragons escape.

Zane and the Ninja flee the scene, and Iron Baron says they are going hunting again . . . for the Ninja.

### The Gilded Path

Zane and the others are camped out in the middle of nowhere, and Master Wu wakes up, now in a teenager body. Zane points out that because of his augmented growth cycle, it is normal for a teenager to grow fast. Wu tells them he had a dream that he was fishing with his father and brother. The Ninja realize that he may be getting his memories back, and as they press him for more questions, they are ambushed by Heavy Metal.

He asks Wu if it's true that he is the son of the First Spinjitzu Master. He tells him, and Heavy Metal reveals who he really is. He takes off his mask to reveal a woman with black tied back hair. She says that Heavy Metal is the Hunter name Iron Baron gave her, and her real name is Faith.

She asks Wu if he is back to take the Dragon Armor, which the Firstbourne guards. Wu points in a direction and says that's the way the Armor is. Zane and the others are skeptical, but Wu tells them to "have faith."

The Ninja and Faith take a Speeder in the direction they are going. As they haul the Speeder, Faith tells them her story, and how Iron Baron didn't want the others to think that their best hunter was a woman. She tells them the legend of the First Spinjitzu Master, and how he and the Firstbourne had a connection, and together they worked to bridge the divide between the Oni and Dragons. He and the Dragon built the Dragon Armor, but then when he realized that it was impossible to end the war, he left the First Realm, and created Ninjago.

After her story, they are apprehended by Muzzle and Daddy No Legs. Faith pretends to be Heavy Metal in front of the other Hunters, and pretends she caught the Ninja. Muzzle realizes that Wu is taller, and so Kai trips the Hunters with a chain. Zane and the others tie them up, and they steal their Speeders. Now heading towards nowhere, Wu tells them to have faith to find the armor, and then, back to Ninjago.

### Two Lies, One Truth

Zane and the others take a break from flying to rest and fuel up their speeders. Zane watches as Jay and Kai fight over water, and Faith asks him how he's survived with them so long.

They realize that the Hunters are close by, and fly off. The six of them are chased by Jet Jack and her crew, and the Ninja destroy a few of the Hunters' speeders. They eventually run into a sleeping Ice Dragon, and wake it up, causing it to get angry and get in on the chase. The Ninja fly into a canyon to lose the Dragon, while it takes care of some of the Hunters. Faith shoots the Dragon with her hook, causing it to fall, leaving the Ninja all set.

They keep going, and end up at a fence made of Dragon heads on spikes. Faith tells them that past that way is Oni territory. Wu tells them they must go through there to find the Dragon Armor. Faith warns them about the Oni, and asks if Wu is sure the armor is there. Wu is skeptical to say yes, but goes with his gut.

They travel through the Oni land and meet a dead end. They find a statue of an Oni, and a gate beneath it that leads to an Oni stronghold, and it's already opened. They enter the stronghold and find it abandoned and in ruin. Zane points out that no one has lived there for centuries. Faith points out that Iron Baron lied to them and said not to cross the border because of the Oni, but the Oni are nowhere to be found. She is skeptical about Wu saying there's the real Dragon Armor, and he admits he made it up.

While she freaks out, Wu examines the gate they came in through and find out that it's a map to the Armor.

### The Weakest Link

Faith wakes Zane and the others up in the morning, and she says that there isn't any time for breakfast, and that they will eat when they get the Dragon Armor to return to "Ninyeego", to which Zane corrects her: "It's *Ninjago*" and remark it's really not that hard to pronounce." Zane thinks that because the Firstbourne is waiting for the return of the First Spinjitzu Master, she should be happy to meet his son. Faith says that might be true, but it might not be. She tells them they must be masters of the chains to survive in this world.

She asks Kai to demonstrate "catching" a rock to practice, and she realizes they all need some help. He says the first person to catch the rock wins.

While the other Ninja have a hard time using their chains, Zane gets it on the first try. He asks if he won, and Jay says they thought he was the judge. Wu joins the others in trying to successfully wrap their chain around the rock, and when the others get it except him, he gets frustrated. Kai gives him some confidence, and he returns to the others and wraps the chain around the rock.

A few moments later, they see the Stormbringer Dragon flying above them, and they attempt to prove themselves by catching their first Dragon. Zane and the others hold her with the chains, and Wu hops on top of her and rides her for a moment before she knocks him off.

Later on, Faith tells them that to get to the Armor, they must get past the mountain in front of them. They hear the other Dragon Hunters behind them, and realize they were being tracked. They fly through the mountains caves while they're chased, and Iron Baron says finds out that Wu is the son of the First Spinjitzu Master. He tells his Hunters to not go after Faith, but Wu instead. They all get through the cave, with some of the Hunter's men being left behind, and the Ninja realize there's no way to stop the Hunters unless they take Dieselnaut.

The Ninja work together with their new chain wrapping skills, and board the Dieselnaut. They take control, and use their chain riffles to knock out some more of the Hunters. The Hunters grab the Dieselnaut and while trying to defend it Faith is caught by Jet Jack. She lets the Ninja get away without her, while unhooking the back end of the machine, getting the Hunters off their trail.

### Saving Faith

Zane and the others are hiding behind a rock and observe what appears to be Faith buried in the ground with only her head above. Wu says they have to go save her, but Zane points out that it's most likely a trap. Wu convinces them, and they go down there to help her out.

When they get down there, they remove a gag from her mouth and she tells them they shouldn't have come, as it was a trap. Dragon Hunters pop out from all around them, and capture them. They are brought to their camp, and are tied up on stakes. The Ninja try to lighten the mood by making a few jokes, and Iron Baron notices. He prompts Faith to reveal Iron Baron's selfishness to his camp, to which he spreads more lies, and uses the Elemental Amplifier to silence his captives.

At that moment, Wu regains his old memories, and Jay points out that he grew a moustache and a goatee.

Zane and the others watch as Master Wu fights with the Hunters, and as he reveals to the Iron Baron that he *really is* the son of the First Spinjitzu Master. Iron Baron makes a deal with Wu, saying that if he helps him take the Dragon Armor, he would send him and his Ninja home (to the dismay of the Ninja.) Wu tells them to have faith, and he walks off with Iron Baron.

### Lessons for a Master

Zane and the others were still stuck on the wooden stakes. Above them, two vulture-like birds fly above them, and Kai asks if they are Zane's falcon. Zane remarks that his data picks up that they are a group of avian scavengers, that will pick them apart upon their demise. Faith confirms this, and Jay freaks out.

They notice that the other Hunters are arguing down below. While they're distracted, they try to rock their bodies side to side in order to knock the stakes over. Zane remarks that it will not be helpful, but considering they have no other choice, they do it anyway.

The rocking seems to be working, and they cheer. As they do, Jet Jack asks them what they're doing, and she cuts them down. Zane was skeptical of their intentions and was shocked when Kai told them to eat Cole first. However, Jet Jack tells them that the Hunters no longer want to follow Iron Baron because he only wants to have the Armor for himself. They want the Ninja to help them find Iron Baron and Wu, and stop them from getting the Armor.

They arrive at a bridge that leads to the armor, and find that it's too late, as the bridge has fallen.

Zane and the others return from the bridge to give the bad news to the other Hunters, and just then, Wu bursts through the mountain riding Firstbourne without chains, and wearing his father's Dragon Armor. The Ninja cheer as he lands, and they hug him. He tells them that Iron Baron has been killed, and the Hunters cheer. The Ninja remember that they have unfinished business in Ninjago, and Zane asks Wu if the Firstbourne can give them all a ride. Wu says it's up to her, and she roars, which causes four Dragons (each of the Ninjas' elements) to come out of the mountain and in front of them. Zane gains a new Ice Dragon and is amazed by its appearance.

The Ninja mount their Dragons, and they take off, following behind Wu. In the air, the Dragon's spin like they did when the ninja first traveled between realms, and a portal to Ninjago opens. They fly through the wormhole, and speed off into the distance, finally returning home.

### Green Destiny

Zane and the Ninja return to Ninjago through a vortex in the sky. They notice that the city has been totally demolished, before they wonder how their friends are. Nya speaks to them through radio and tells them they're okay, but they need some help. Zane locates their transmission, and leads the others to them.

They find Lloyd and Nya being cornered by the Sons of Garmadon, and Zane uses his Ice Dragon's powers to make the Sons of Garmadon scatter. Zane and the others rest their dragon on the ground, and greet the other Ninja. Zane asks where P.I.X.A.L. and Misako are, and Lloyd reveals that they have been locked away in Kryptarium Prison. Lloyd tells them that his power has not returned, and that Mistaké is no longer with them.

Wu tells the stranded ninja to take down the Colossus, and for Lloyd to join him in stopping his father. The Ninja mount their Dragons, and help the remaining citizens escape. The Ninja confront the Colossus, and attempt to chain him up using the powers they learned from Faith. They realize it's not working, and they are almost out of chain. Kai gets the idea to board the Colossus, and use the chains they already shot to bring it down.

While Zane and the others distract the behemoth, Kai jumps on it and wraps the already used chains around the Colossus even more, and cause it to topple over. They celebrate, but only momentarily, as the Colossus stands up again. Zane remarks that it was weakened, as Wu appears with Firstbourne using his chain gun while the rest of the Resistance returns to help them out. The Colossus falls for the last time, and while Garmadon's power fades, the life within the Colossus fades.

Zane joins the Ninja in watching as the Sons of Garmadon are finally arrested, and they find out that Lloyd's power is back, and Garmadon is gone. Zane meets with P.I.X.A.L., and they hug.

Now, the city must rebuild, and the Ninja help clear the Royal Palace. As they clean, Wu returns in his Master form once again, and tells them there is trouble again, and he needs their help. They race out of the Palace to find the citizens of Ninjago gathered together, to thank the Ninja for what they've done. Live music plays, and the Ninja celebrate.

Zane hugs P.I.X.A.L. who smiles at him and they hold hands, officially becoming a couple while the celebration goes on. The fight is over, for now.

## Tales from the Monastery of Spinjitzu

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## March of the Oni

### The Darkness Comes

Zane, P.I.X.A.L., and Cole are riding the Earth Driller 2.0 on their way to Ninjago Harbor for a special unveiling from the Commissioner. They are ten minutes late due to traffic, and instead of waiting, opt to make it on foot.

Zane and P.I.X.A.L. runoff as Cole trails behind with his foot asleep until they find a man riding a golf cart. The three of them board the cart until they reach the harbor where the Commissioner and a small crowd are waiting patiently.

They arrive on stage, and the Commissioner (along with Cyrus Borg) unveils their gift to the Ninja for their years of servitude. Zane hopes the gift is something similar to the Bounty and is delighted to find that it *is* in fact the Bounty, rebuilt by using the original blueprints. The three Ninja are excited about their gift, and Cole points out the absence of the others. Zane tells him that Jay said he had something important to do.

Much later, the three return to the newly rebuilt Monastery of Spinjitzu to find that Firstbourne and Faith have arrived in Ninjago and that a mysterious darkness has consumed the First Realm, turning people into statues when they come in contact with it. The two are both injured, but they will recover. Lloyd reveals that after visiting his father at Kryptarium Prison, he was told something similar, that a darkness would consume *Ninjago* too... he called them the Bringers of Doom.

Wu is distressed and shows the Ninja a book from his father. There is an illustration of a demon above dark clouds, engulfing a city. Wu tells them that it is an Oni, and his father once believed that they would return to Ninjago and take over everything, turning it all into darkness. They realize that they must warn Ninjago City of the impending darkness, and they board the new Bounty.

On the Bounty, they attempt to ride to the City, but Zane finds that someone wired the control lever wrong. Zane fixes it, and they take off. They eventually make it to the City, albeit with some small inconveniences with their new ship, and find that strange dark clouds have been engulfing the whole City.

They arrive just in time to save the Commissioner from the dark clouds and help them escape.

Zane and the other Ninja face the dark clouds, and each of them attempts to thwart it with their Elemental Power. The clouds, however, are not affected, and the Ninja retreat. Cole is suddenly caught by the clouds, but he is swiftly saved by Lloyd. They go out to save some more people and have a small faction of citizens spared on the Bounty.

The Ninja are distressed about their new foe, and Cole tells them that when the darkness touched him, it was the coldest thing he's ever felt. He also reveals that he saw an Oni in the cloud. Lloyd accepts that they are unable to fight the darkness, and reveals that he knows someone else who can.

Lloyd takes the Ninja to Lord Garmadon's high-security prison, and they plead to him that he help them, considering the only thing that can defeat an Oni, is another Oni. They are reluctant, but eventually open Garmadon's cell, letting him free.

### Into the Breach

Zane and the Ninja are boarded the Bounty on their way to Ninjago City. Each of them are freaking out over Garmadon being with them, who they freed from prison the previous episode. Lloyd is unsure if he can be trusted, but they have no other choice, since he is the key to defeating the Oni.

While they speak, Garmadon shuts off the engine and the Bounty begins falling to the ground. Zane presses the switch to turn it back on, and they gain control, only to show how devious Garmadon is. Zane suggests that Lloyd accompany Garmadon during his stay there to prevent any future mishaps.

Later on, Zane calls all the Ninja to the bridge for an announcement from Garmadon. He tells them that the only way to stop the Oni from invading, they must destroy the portal from their world to theirs, the Realm Crystal. Since Garmadon is quarter oni, he is to go down there himself. Lloyd also volunteers, being able to survive the dark clouds, since he is an eighth Oni. To venture into the void, Garmadon requires a weapon, to which Zane and the others are reluctant to give him.

They arrive in Ninjago City, and Lloyd and his father get ready to depart. Cole hands the Dark Lord a sword, and he is immediately attacked. Garmadon initiates a brief brawl, only to regain his powers, then he departs into the darkness, and Lloyd is quick to follow suit.

Zane and the others group around the monitor in the bridge to watch Lloyd's endeavor through his head-cam. They watch as Lloyd lands in Ninjago City, and just barely survives from the clouds. As they continue to watch, Lloyd sees the true power of the dark clouds, which is turning all of the citizens to stone. Lloyd is quick to stumble upon Cyrus Borg, who was also frozen. P.I.X.A.L., while watching the feed, is distraught to see her father's fate, and Garmadon reveals that he is in fact alive, but the only way to help him is to destroy the Realm Crystal.

Moments later, Zane receives a distress signal from the City, which he triangulates to a radio station at the edge of the City. Zane and the Ninja volunteer to go check it out, to see if there are any survivors, while P.I.X.A.L. stays behind on her Mech to watch out for Lloyd's return.

Meanwhile, they watch as Lloyd and Garmadon encounter two Oni, who they fight and only barely defeat, so they can enter Borg's Tower and find the Crystal. They do so, and find the Realm Crystal has been spewing black smoke, and has turned pitch black. Garmadon tries to destroy it, when his blade is stopped by The Omega's Staff who flings him backwards. Lloyd also tries to attack, but it easily defeated and damages the camera the Ninja were using to watch what was happening.

a large Oni with a staff similar to Borg's Tower.

Garmadon attempts to fight it, but the Oni is far too powerful, and he and Lloyd are knocked aside, which cuts off their feed to the other Ninja.

### The Fall

Zane and the others make their way to the distress call at the NGTV News Station.

They arrive, and take in the survivors, including Gayle Gossip, from the roof. As Jay and Cole are boarding the citizens onto the *Bounty*, the black clouds close in, and the two Ninja are quick to climb back up the latter.

Nya presses the ignition switch, which she forgets is labelled backwards, and an engine blasts Cole off his ladder, and he falls into the clouds. Zane and the others watch as he is submerged in the blackness, and is lost to the darkness. Zane consoles Kai, as they all mourn his loss.

They are forced to fly away as the clouds close in, when Nya gets a message from P.I.X.A.L. saying that she has Lloyd and Garmadon, and need to be picked up due to her running out of fuel. They are saved in the nick of time, and Zane hugs P.I.X.A.L.

Zane and the others break the news of Cole's demise to Lloyd. Garmadon attempts to get them back on track, but they get mad at him for not understanding their loss. Garmadon appeals to Zane, who he assumes is the only one thinking logically, but Zane remarks that he is incapable of logical thought at this time. Garmadon walks away, holding the Armor of the Golden Master.

### Endings

Zane and the Ninja arrive back at the Monastery of Spinjitzu, and break the news of Cole's supposed demise to Master Wu and Misako. The Ninja are at a loss of hope, when Garmadon reveals the Golden Master's Armor, and Nya reveals that their plan is to reforge the Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu from the armor, in order to defeat the Oni once and for all.

Kai takes it to the forge, and successfully remakes the Golden Weapons. Zane shows off his new Shurikens of Ice, when the Darkness arrives. Omega and his army marches up the steps of the mountain, and the Ninja prepare to fight back.

Equipped with their newly forged weapons, Zane and the others fight back as best they can. Zane freezes several Oni and sends them flying over the edge, when all of a sudden, Cole's Earth Driller comes from the ground, and Cole reveals himself to have survived his fall. Together the Ninja, as well as Garmadon, fight back but it is not enough. They are eventually forced to pull back and take cover in the walls of the Monastery.

The Ninja say their goodbyes to each other, as this appears to be their end, when Jay asks Nya to be his Yang. She accepts, and the Ninja prepare for their end.

It is at this time that Lloyd notices the Ninjago history mural, and the Tornado of Creation. They decide that the only way to destroy the Oni is with the power of creation. Everyone, including Wu, Garmadon, Lloyd, and Nya join in on the tornado, and the Oni are pushed back.

Everything goes white, and the Ninja wake up. The darkness has been destroyed, and the Oni are gone. As the light fades from the Golden Weapons, the Ninja rejoice as they have survived.

They realize that Lloyd is missing, and Zane points out that he is laying motionless underneath a pile of wood. He does not wake up, and Wu says that there is no helping him. Suddenly, Lloyd wakes up, and the Ninja celebrate.

A little while later, the Ninja and their friends celebrate the Oni's defeat, and Zane and the other five Ninja paint one last mural on the monastery wall.

## Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu

### Wasted True Potential

Zane is asleep in the Monastery of Spinjitzu when he wakes up to a rumbling sound coming from outside. He goes to investigate and finds the Monastery wall door shaking and glowing. The door suddenly opens, and Aspheera, holding a staff, appears and attacks Zane. She says that she wants revenge.

Zane suddenly has several visions. He sees another, larger serpentine wreaking havoc in Ninjago City and sees a frozen palace. He sees a vision of a man with familiar glowing eyes and clad in samurai armor sitting on a throne, and then a legion of Pyro Vipers marching through Ninjago City terrorizing the people. He then sees an Ice Dragon freeze over a small village, freezing several people solid, including the other Ninja. Jay calls out to him to tell him that Cole has almost beaten his high score in *Lava Zombies*.

Zane wakes up again to find that it was all, other than the part about Cole beating his high scores, a dream. Zane tells Jay about the dream, and how it was surely a vision. He also other times his visions occurred before Jay tells him not to worry about it, and to watch Cole with the others.

He joins the others as they play a game on the TV. The Ninja are engrossed in this game, and Cole eventually beats Zane’s score, which Zane congratulates him for. They get the idea to go hang out in the hot tub, so they do. Kai uses his fire to make it hotter, and the Ninja relax. Master Wu barges in and tells them that they are slacking and have forgotten what it means to be Ninja, reminding them that it had been months since they'd defeated the Oni. He takes them out of the hot tub and tells them that they’ve gotten weak. Inside the Monastery, he tells them that long ago, the monks in the Monastery built high walls to keep out beasts, but failed. To defend from the beasts, these monks became Ninja. Wu tells them that if they can survive in a room with the beast for five minutes, they can prove themselves. The Ninja end up getting the beast into a box, but Master Wu tells them that he will be training them more.

Throughout the day, each Ninja would find booby-traps all around the Monastery, leaving them all exhausted. Eventually, they would meet Master Wu outside, and he challenges them to a fight. If they could defeat him, they'd prove that he was wrong.

Each Ninja attacks Wu, but none of them are strong enough to defeat him. Even their elemental powers had weakened at that point. Zane and the others are knocked into a pile, and Wu says that they have all failed, before siccing the lightning chicken at them.

### Questing for Quests

Zane and the others are in the Monastery courtyard, trying to think of a way to get back in action. They try to take a dip in the hot tub to see if that will help them think while debating what villains they could go after to pass the time. They find that all of the villains still around haven't been causing any trouble, so they decide to go to the Commissioner to see if he has any jobs for them.

They meet with the Commissioner, and he tells them that Ninjago City has had nothing but peace for a long time. An officer eventually comes in and gives them several jobs to do around Ninjago City, but all of them are busts. They try to save a bank robbery, but it's staged for a TV show, they try to break up a fight at the prison, but it was already resolved. After wasting the day looking for things to do, and ultimately failing, they return home and put on the TV.

Gayle Gossip comes on with breaking news. In the Desert of Doom, she meets with Clutch Powers. He tells the TV that he has dug up a mysterious pyramid within the Desert and would need the help of the Ninja to explore it. The Ninja quickly run off to the Desert to investigate. The TV shows an ancient plate that appears to have the Serpentine from Zane's dream on it.

### A Rocky Start

The Ninja are scrambling around the Monastery trying to get ready to go investigate the Desert of Doom.

Once they’re all packed, P.I.X.A.L. shows them to the hangar bay, where she has made several new vehicles for the Ninja, including the *Land Bounty*. Zane, Jay, Nya, and Lloyd board the *Land Bounty*, while Kai and Cole take their own vehicles to the Desert.

When they finally arrive, they set up a camp around an oasis they have found. Zane reads a book about the Desert, telling them that long ago, an ancient tribe once lived in the Desert. They worshipped a thousand-year-old giant scarab beetle called Beohernie. One day, the beetle went out of control, and destroyed the civilization, seemingly for no reason. The beetle suddenly appears and attacks, and the Ninja make a run for it to the *Bounty*.

As the beetle chases them, Cole is knocked over and is almost left behind. He recuperates himself, and the Ninja are continued to be chased by the giant.

While making a run for it, a major component to the *Land Bounty* is devoured by the Beetle, and the Ninja are left stranded on a plateau, surrounded by two more scarab beetles.

### The Belly of the Beast

Zane attempts to repair the *Land Bounty*, but it will be impossible to escape without the component the beetle ate.

That night, Zane says that the *Bounty* is useless without the component, and the only way to retrieve it is to go to the belly of the beast itself. He then gets the idea that one of them has to be strapped to a rope and sent into the stomach of the beetle. They play a rock-paper-clamp tournament in order to decide who goes in, and Zane ends up being the winner.

The next morning, they hook up a wire to Cole's Dirt Bike and tie it to Zane. Once Zane is inside, he suddenly has another set of visions. He sees an enormous snake made of fire emerges from a pyramid in the Desert, and sees the female snake from his previous dream attacking him in the Underground base. His visions continue, and he sees himself hurt in a world made of ice and snow.

He then awakens in the stomach of the beetle and finds the component. The Ninja get him out quickly, and they reattach the mechanism to the *Bounty*, and head off, finally escaping from the three beetles.

### Boobytraps and How to Survive Them

Zane and the others meet up with Clutch Powers in his camp in the Desert of Doom. Clutch refuses to enter the temple. The Ninja tries to convince him, but he is unwilling. Zane points out that his book, *Boobytraps and How to Survive Them*, is key in helping explorers enter ancient tombs and whatnot. Clutch suddenly gets a call from the Explorer's Club, saying that since he hasn't explored in over ten years, his membership will be redacted. In order to preserve his place in the Club, he tells him that he will now be exploring the ancient pyramid.

Clutch and the others enter the Pyramid and find that it is filled with booby traps and ancient markings. He tells them that his book is key in surviving. Their first obstacle is a rickety old wooden bridge. Zane and the others stumble across, but they survive without trouble. Clutch tells them they got lucky, but luck runs out.

As they continue through, they trip over a trap that sends them all sliding down a corridor to a pit of spikes. Kai blasts the spikes with his fire, securing their lives. At the bottom of the pit, they find a dead explorer called Hageman, who failed to read Clutch's book about cobweb traps before heading down a pathway to the next room.

Finally, they find the main chamber, where several sarcophagi are lined out. In the next room, they find a large puzzle on the wall, and Zane points out that when solved, might lead them to a treasure behind the door.

While Jay and Nya attempt to solve it, Zane inspects the ancient markings on the walls. He translates the writing, which is a warning to those attempting to enter the tomb. It tells the story of a serpent whose anger almost destroyed Ninjago until a foolish boy locked her away. He suddenly has a vision of his dream with Aspheera and warns the others not to open the door. He is too late, and the sorceress is awakened. She asks the Ninja where the "Treacherous Deceiver" was hiding. The Ninja doesn't know who she is talking about and Zane and the others attempt to fight her with Spinjitzu, but she knows the art, and they are unable to stop her.

She takes an interest in Kai, calling him a Fire Elemental, and tells him that for thousands of years she has been locked up, cold and alone. She starts to steal his power from him, and the others are no match for her, and she successfully steals his powers and becomes empowered by fire.

Clutch runs away as the Ninja are tied up in chains by Aspheera. She escapes the pyramid and unleashes her army of Pyro Vipers onto Ninjago City.

### Ninja vs Lava

The Ninja are tied up in the ancient pyramid, as lava erupts from within it. The temple begins to collapse upon itself, as Jay attempts to calm himself with Clutch Power's book. They are under the impression that Clutch has abandoned them.

Zane inspects Kai, who has fallen unconscious after his fire was taken. He says his vitals are fine, and he will recover shortly. The lights suddenly go out, and lava floods the room. Lloyd leads the others to break the chains binding them to the wall, which frees them (albeit, still being tied to each other.)

They get out of the crypt, all the while evading the rising lava and dragging Kai behind them. They return to the room of sarcophagi and find that they are filled with ancient Serpentine mummies. As the lava flows around them, the vipers return to life. The Ninja attempt to fight back, but are unable while chained together.

They eventually escape and come across Hageman's skeleton once again. They find that it has several exploring tools in his backpack, and use them to further advance out of the pyramid. After passing through the wooden bridge again, they exit the temple to find that it is absolutely surrounded in lava, with no way of escaping.

They have failed each other. The Ninja accepts their fate, and sit, making no more attempt to escape... Suddenly, P.I.X.A.L. arrives in the ShuriCopter to save them. She tells them that Lil Nelson told them where they were after Clutch Powers spread the news in Ninjago City.

Kai suddenly awakens, and the Ninja rejoice. They make plans to now return to Ninjago City to stop Aspheera.

### Snaketastrophy

The Ninja arrive in Ninjago City just in time to save Fred Finely from being eaten by an Elemental Cobra. The reporter tells them that Aspheera is on her way to the Ninjago Museum of History with Gayle Gossip and her cameraman, Vinny.

The Ninja, after saving Fred Finely, take off for the museum, ready to defend the City and to stop Aspheera from getting the weapon that the Treacherous Deceiver used against Aspheera.

### Powerless

Along their way to the Ninjago Museum of History, the Ninja save the Police Commissioner and his crew before heading off to the Museum without Kai.

The Ninja are able to get to the Scroll first, and upon Lloyd reading it, the scroll's power begins to rush through Lloyd's body and leaves him paralyzed before Nya knocks the scroll out of Lloyd's hands. After the Ninja questioned what the scroll did to Lloyd, another door opens which turns out to be Aspheera and her army. With the scroll now on the ground, Char spots it, informs Aspheera, and both sides attack.

Zane fights the Elemental Cobras while Lloyd fights Aspheera and ultimately losses to her. She then performs Spinjitzu against the Ninja and successfully defeats them. Aspheera then used her staff to destroy parts of the roof and cause the debris to fall on the Ninja. After that, she reawakens the Pyro Vipers still in their tombs and tells them to follow her out of the museum, and the Elemental Cobras to finish off the Ninja.

Before the Elemental Cobras destroy the Ninja, Jake comes in to shield the Ninja, but Kai catches up and rescues Jake out of trouble while turning on the fire sprinklers to distract the Elemental Cobras before Zane finishes them using his ice powers.

### Ancient History

Lloyd, Zane, and Nya head off to stop Aspheera by taking a shortcut using Zane's GPS system. After arriving close to Aspheera, Zane headed off somewhere and promised to return.

When Lloyd and Nya were surrounded by Pyro Vipers, Zane arrives in his Shuricopter and creates an ice barrier, giving Lloyd and Nya enough time to escape.

### Under Siege

While Lloyd, Nya, and Zane are in Ninjago City looking for Aspheera, Cole notifies them that she is on her way to the Monastery. In addition, he tells them to find Clutch Powers; believing he knows the second Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu's whereabouts.

When Lloyd, Nya, and Zane arrive at the Ninjago City Hospital, Clutch Powers tells them that the second scroll is at the Explorers Club, but he refuses to leave. When Nya pulls him from his bed, Clutch calls the nurses who escort the Ninja away.

### The Explorers Club

When Lloyd, Nya, and Zane enter the Explorers Club, they are welcomed by Cecil Putnam, and the trio explains that they need the second Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu. Luckily for them, the Explorers Club possessed the scroll; however, the Ninja needed a membership for the club. Since the Ninja didn't have a membership, they were pushed out from the building.

The Ninja tried again, but this time, they used Zane disguised as Clutch Powers. Once Zane entered the building, he is confronted by Putnam who tells Zane that his membership had been suspended and cannot obtain any artifacts.

After the two failed attempts, Nya decided to be bold by sneaking in the building and stealing the scroll. Lloyd and Zane follow up, and all three reach the rooftop. The trio then shut down a fan by using Lloyd's sword and Zane's ice to prevent it from moving and made their way down the ventilator using a rope hook. Suddenly, the fan broke free causing the Ninja to fall and crash into a middle of a meeting between Shippelton, Smythe, and Underhill. Lloyd tried to come up with an excuse by saying they were working on the air conditioning, but his sword came tumbling down. Shippelton knew he was lying and calls for security, causing the Ninja to flee into a room.

After more searching, Lloyd came across the Mirror of Fears and it showed his greatest fear of becoming his father. For Nya, her greatest fear was just being a normal citizen, and for Zane, his greatest fear was having no life. While Lloyd was talking to Zane, something crawled on Nya, causing her to freak out and throw the mysterious object onto Lloyd and Zane. Then, the door opened and the security guards tried to seize the Ninja, but they were able to enter another room.

Zane realized they entered the entomology room prompting Nya to tell Lloyd to not touch anything, but Nya knocked down a glass containing Venomasicus Tigrus which happened to have the second-most painful stings. The Ninja tried to outrun the sworn of wasps, but they are stopped by Cecil Putnam and his security forces; nevertheless, the wasps attack them. Putnam is able to get away from the wasps and shoots a blowdart at Zane, but it deflects off him and hits a glass holding Vastodectrus Venomous which happens to have the most painful stings. Amongst the chaos, Nya told Lloyd and Zane to regroup and they enter another room.

This time, Nya found the second Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu, so they wrapped it up and exited the building, leaving everyone else inside the Explorers Club in disarray.

### Vengeance is Mine!

Zane and the others battle Aspheera who used the power of the Scroll and her sorcery to make the Titan mech disappear instead. After his friends used the other scroll to battle Aspheera, she overcame them but after getting the scroll Zane used the Scroll to freeze Aspheera and the Pyro Vipers. Jay questions Zane on how he was able to do that and Wu replies that it was the power of the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu and asks Zane to give the Scroll to him. Under the influence, Zane hesitated to hand it over at first but regained his wits long enough to try and give the Scroll to Wu.

However, before Zane could, he noticed Aspheera has managed to break her arm free from the Ice and aim her staff to use one final hit at Wu but Zane pushed his master out of harm's way causing him to be hit instead and was seemingly destroyed. The Ninja, Wu, and P.I.X.A.L. were heartbroken that Zane is gone once more.

When visiting an imprisoned Aspheera, Wu criticized her for supposedly destroying his pupil. However, she informs him that Zane was not destroyed but banished to the Never-Realm, something that horrified him.

In a snowy area, the Titan Mech is laying on the ground while Zane's footprints are shown leading away from it.

### Corruption (flashback)

Zane fell from a portal in the sky and landed in the distant past of the Never-Realm, where he dropped the staff and found himself in another world. After waking up, he called out for help but received no answer and soon tried to repair the mech and find shelter. He attempted to create a board, but the crash landing had damaged him, so he had to reluctantly use the scroll. After dealing with an attacking Ice bird, Zane makes an encampment in its cave. While repairing the mech, Zane records a message to anyone who finds it.

After the message, Zane attempted to reboot the mech, only for Vex, who had been tailing him since his arrival and after his failed attempt to use the Scroll, to remove the plug, erasing Zane’s memories as a result. Upon rebooting, Vex tells the amnesiac Zane that he is his advisor and that Zane is the Ice Emperor, who was overthrown. Handing Zane his scepter, he tells him that they can take back what is "theirs."

Manipulated by the Formling, Zane uses the staff holding the scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu to attack Grimfax at his castle. Zane subsequently overpowered and turned most of the soldiers to his side by corrupting them and forced Grimfax into submission. Given new armor, Zane became the **Ice Emperor** with Vex serving as his advisor. He then sent an eternal winter across the land.

### Time in the Never-Realm

At some point, Zane created the Ice Dragon Boreal and was slowly corrupted by the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu, with his face becoming deformed by ice from the over usage of the staff, which became covered in ice while his voice changed by becoming distorted and deeper. He then created the Blizzard Samurai, Blizzard Sword Masters, and other Blizzard Archers. He later ordered the deaths of the Yeti and conquered the realm as the Ice Emperor.

### The Last of the Formlings (flashback)

After the Formlings didn't pledge alliance to Vex, Vex persuaded the Ice Emperor to attack the Formlings' Village after lying to him that they are war driven tribe and a threat. The Ice Emperor and Boreal proceeded to freeze the village of the Formlings, leaving Akita to be the only survivor. With the Formlings gone, the trio left the area to continue their reign of terror on the realm and took Kataru as a prize.

### The Never-Realm

When General Vex went to his throne room, Ice Emperor questions him on why he had disturbed his thoughts. Vex tells him that strangers had come to the Never-Realm, are looking for their prisoner and want to stop his rule. Ice Emperor says that the strangers should be punished, but Vex suggests that they should be destroyed. The Ice Emperor agrees and orders for his samurai to destroy the strangers and adds those who aid them to the lists once Vex suggests it.

### The Message

Lloyd came across Zane's message when he stumbled upon his camp. In the message, Zane stated he had lost track of how many days it has been since he was banished to the Never-Realm. He spent his time trying to repair the mech but was unable to finish it and had now given up hope of ever being rescued. He told the viewer to give his friends a message:

*"This is the last recording of Zane. Master of Ice. Son of Dr. Julien. Student of Master Wu. I was built to protect those who cannot protect themselves. I have tried to fulfill this purpose. I have no regrets. I had the best friends anyone could ask for. P.I.X.A.L., I love you. Farewell."*

### Secret of the Wolf

When the remaining Blizzard Samurai return to the castle, Grimfax steps forward to report their victory. Vex is quick to tell them that they actually failed, after displaying the fire still remains and how their numbers are lacking. Ice Emperor is displeased at this and starts to freeze Grimfax whom Vex persuaded him to punish. However, he stops midway and tells Grimfax that he will atone for his mistake. When Vex tells him of a green outfit stranger approaching, he seems to be momentarily perplexed by this news. He determines to finish the Ice Fishers with Boreal and says that "the green one will meet a different fate."

Later, Ice Emperor summons Boreal from his resting spot with his staff.

### My Enemy, My Friend

When Boreal injures Lloyd, he is instructed to bring him to Ice Emperor. Vex brings him before the emperor. When Lloyd recovered from his trance, he comes face to face with the Emperor is shocked to see his friend corrupted by the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu.

### A Fragile Hope

When Lloyd referred to the Emperor by his real name Zane, he was confused, not remembering Ninjago, Wu, P.I.X.A.L. or Kai. Lloyd continued to try and get through to him by reminding him of his banishment and asking if he remembered the time Lloyd once turned his white gi pink; all of which Vex convinces him are just lies.

Believing it was the Scroll corrupting him due to holding it for decades (due to the difference in the passage of time in the Never-Realm,) Lloyd attempts to take it from the Emperor but is incapacitated by him.

As Vex tries to persuade him into killing his friend, Zane instead orders him to have the unconscious Lloyd thrown in the dungeon, and harshly orders him to comply.

### Once and for All

When Akita burst into the throne room, the Emperor was disturbed by her presence and fought her, thinking she was after his scepter as well. He learns that she wanted revenge for the freezing of her people, the Formlings, who the Emperor states were war driven because of what Vex told him.

The two fought until he froze her and moved to finish the latter before Lloyd showed up to finish their talk.

### Awakenings

Still denying his past, the Ice Emperor fights Lloyd as well as froze Akita until he froze him by the steps. Vex then attempted to get his master to kill his friend, but he relents.

When Vex planned on doing it himself and said the word "protect." this got Zane to remember what his father told him about protecting those who cannot protect themselves and soon recovered every memory he had while breaking free of his corruption. As Vex prepared to kill Lloyd, Zane quickly blocks the attack before removing the lower part of his helmet, returning his face to normal, and struck the Formling aside before destroying his scepter, returning the Never-Realm back to its original state.

Zane proceeded to help Lloyd to his feet as his friend was happy to see him back to normal. Thanking him for restoring his memory, he inquired about their friends before he saw that Vex was attempting to kill him but was frozen in place, defeating the corrupt general. The other Ninja soon arrive and see Zane back to his old self, and the latter greets them with a hug.

Sometime later, Grimfax took back power and he along with the Formlings came to the mutual decision to banish Vex to the outskirts of the never realm for his crimes. Zane returns to the Great Lake with his friends and learns there was no way to return to Ninjago until Cole finds a way by showing the berry he had been saving and a portal is open.

Returning home, Zane greets his Master Wu who hugged him before Zane has a touching reunion with P.I.X.A.L., who happily embraces him.

## Prime Empire Original Shorts

### Upgrade

Zane and the rest of the Ninja were chasing The Mechanic after he robbed a bank. However, The Mechanic was able to flee quickly. When Nya and Jay join the Ninja late, Lloyd asked about their previous whereabouts and Jay and Nya lied about what they actually did.

### Gayle Gossip: A Closer Look

While Benny was advertising his arcade, Zane interrupts the broadcast by telling Gayle Gossip that *Prime Empire* is dangerous. However, Benny interrupts and continues to advertise.

## Prime Empire

### Would You Like to Enter Prime Empire?

Zane and the other Ninja apprehend the Mechanic at a warehouse where he is attempting to steal some sort of motherboard. Zane is knocked over by the Mechanic and his henchmen while the rest of the Ninja attempt to steal the motherboard back from him.

The Mechanic escapes with the motherboard and the Ninja board the Katana 4x4 and chase after him. They pursue The Mechanic on the streets, but he pushes the Katana 4x4 onto a building, which causes it to lose control and stay behind. Cole remains on The Mechanic's tail, sticking a cable to his truck and tying it to a pole, which ultimately causes the truck to malfunction. As soon as The Mechanic gets out of his Noodle Truck, the Ninja surround him. Jay takes the motherboard from The Mechanic, but is confused by its design.

The Mechanic escapes with the motherboard and the Ninja board the Katana 4x4 and chase after him. They pursue The Mechanic on the streets, but he pushes the Katana 4x4 onto a building, which causes it to lose control and stay behind. Cole remains on The Mechanic's tail, sticking a cable to his truck and tying it to a pole, which ultimately causes the truck to malfunction. As soon as The Mechanic gets out of his Noodle Truck, the Ninja surround him. Jay takes the motherboard from The Mechanic, but is confused by its design.

The Ninja decide to examine The Mechanic's headquarters, where Jay finds an old arcade cabinet for an old legendary game called *Prime Empire*. He attempts to plug it in but to no avail. He offers to stay behind to investigate while the others explore the rest of the hideout.

Zane and the others find the Mechanic's many hats when all of a sudden feel a surge of energy and a red light.

Kai sees notes with the same logo on the motherboard on The Mechanic's bulletin board, and Lloyd finds a notebook which also has the logo. A monitor boots up behind some books, so Zane pushes them aside to see it. The monitor questions the Ninja if they found the motherboard, and Zane responds typing in the keyboard. The monitor replies back, saying that Unagami is pleased that they found the motherboard and tells them to activate *Prime Empire*, then turns itself off. Lloyd questions on who Unagami is, and return to Jay, and find that he’d disappeared...

### Dyer Island

Zane and the others call for Jay after he mysteriously disappears from the Mechanic's hideout. Zane points out that there is always an explanation for these types of things.

Nya fiddles with the *Prime Empire* arcade cabinet, and finds that it opens up to a secret chamber. Cole points to a security camera nearby, and Zane boots it up to a computer. The Ninja watch as Jay releases some sort of energy wave from the *Prime Empire* game, then he disappears through it. They realize that this is no ordinary game, and maybe to find Jay, they also have to play the game. Zane points out that this would be dangerous, and they need answers first.

The Ninja go to the police station where they begin to interrogate The Mechanic. Zane has searched the database for all known criminals, and points out that Unagami doesn't show up. The Mechanic reveals that Unagami can control the database, and will eventually control it all.

The Commissioner enters and announces to everyone that all over Ninjago City, *Prime Empire* is booting up on consoles that were never originally meant to play the game. Kai wonders if that pulse of energy that they saw shoot out from the game on the security footage has anything to do with it...

The Mechanic laughs and says "it's starting, just like he said." He avoids more of the Ninja's questions, and the Commissioner takes him away as he laughs and repeats what he said earlier.

Zane says that *Prime Empire* was created by a man named Milton Dyer. If anyone can tell them about the game, it's him.

The Ninja board the *Bounty* and Zane pulls up a picture of Dyer. Zane reveals that nobody has seen him in 30 years, and that they are on their way to his island, Dyer Island.

They arrive, and find that the front gate and garden are run-down and overgrown. They traverse through a hedge maze, overgrown with plant life and vines, and then enter the courtyard. They knock on the front door of the Dyer Mansion, but get catapulted away. Realizing that they set off the whole security system, the Ninja are attacked by several more booby-traps, including robot dogs, and statues that shoot lasers at them.

The booby-traps suddenly cease, and a man in a bathrobe comes up to them. Cole mistakes him for Milton Dyer, but he reveals his name is Bob the Intern.

Bob apologizes for the mishap, he was in the shower. He invites them into the Mansion, and tells them how he's worked for Dyer for 31 years. Milton Dyer hasn't been around in a long time... Bob has been waiting for his return.

The Ninja ask Bob about *Prime Empire*, and Bob pulls up a VHS tape of Milton explaining the game. He created this tape the day he finished the game.

Dyer says that *Prime Empire* is not just a game, but a ticket to another world... almost like magic. The VHS suddenly cuts out after a bright light entrances Dyer, and he walks into it. The Ninja remember something very similar happening to Jay...

Bob takes the VHS tape out and tells them that something went wrong with the game. Milton Dyer was fired from Vast Industries because of "creative differences." *Prime Empire* was never released because Dyer made unauthorized changes to the game. Bob reveals that Dyer told him that "they'd be sorry one day."

Zane and the others realize with all these clues . . . Milton Dyer is Unagami.

### Level Thirteen

Zane and the other Ninja arrive at Borg Tower to find out if Cyrus Borg has found any more information about *Prime Empire*. Borg is intrigued by Milton Dyer’s technology. He reveals to them that it’s even more complex than his Digiverse.

He also says that over 800 players, including Jay, are trapped in the game, and the game is controlled by Milton Dyer from the outside.

Borg says that there are two ways to stop Unagami, find his Avatar in the game, and seek out Dyer in real life. He says that Zane and P.I.X.A.L. cannot enter the game or else the code of the game could overwrite their memory, so the two of them will search for Dyer in real life. Cole boots up the game to reach level 13 so that he and the others can enter and find Jay.

Zane and the others soon see that The Mechanic, Ultra Violet, and Captain Soto have broken out of Kryptarium Prison and are on their way to them. Borg tells them to let his security system deal with them so they can stay behind to work on beating the game.

The others watch as Cole pounds away at the controls, meanwhile the Kryptarium prisoners continue to make their way through the tower.

The prisoners finally reach the 100th floor, and Zane fends them off with the others while Cole finally reaches level 13. While fighting the Ninja, The Mechanic reveals that Unagami wants him to serve at his side as his “Player 2.”

The *Prime Empire* console opens and Cole begs the others in. Zane wishes Lloyd luck inside the game, and Lloyd wishes him luck in finding Dyer.

Borg takes Zane and P.I.X.A.L. to the roof to fly off on his private helicopter. P.I.X.A.L. worries what The Mechanic will do with the original game, but Zane reveals that he yanked out the *Prime Empire* motherboard just before Cole went through, leaving the villains unable to enter the game.

### One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Zane, P.I.X.A.L., and Master Wu are investigating Milton Dyer's past. The trio find Milton Dyer's childhood home, where his mother still lives. They meet with Mrs. Dyer and Zane tells her about the trouble with *Prime Empire*.

Mrs. Dyer reveals she doesn't know where he is either, but she invites them inside to search for clues. She shows them his childhood bedroom, which are lined with miniature replicas of vehicles and characters that appear within *Prime Empire*. Mrs. Dyer says "it all went bad with his final game." and he disappeared.

Zane picks up a photograph of young Dyer and another boy. Mrs. Dyer says that's one of his friends, but cannot remember his name. She begs Zane and the others to bring her son home... They thank her and then leave.

### Ninjago Confidential

Using a silly detective voice, Zane narrates the story so far. Using cliches from classic detective stories, Zane tells a nonexistent audience that he and P.I.X.A.L. are tracking down a lead that will lead them to Milton Dyer.

P.I.X.A.L. approaches Zane and is confused with Zane's sudden change of personality. Zane tells her that he downloaded hundreds of detective movies, and has adopted the same methodology as them in solving mysteries, as everything else he's tried has failed. Annoyed at the silliness of Zane's new attitude, she reveals that she found a lead. Milton Dyer's friend from the photo from his childhood works at Laughy's Karaoke club.

They enter the club, and all eyes are on them. Zane narrating the state of the club and his blunt observations of the people inside cause several men to get angry. One man, who introduces himself as Fugi-Dove's brother, starts a fight, and Zane and his partner engage with the rest of the people in the club, and a fight breaks out.

With Zane narrating his every move, his opponent is able to gain the advantage on him. When Zane is cornered, P.I.X.A.L. steps in to help him out. Once the fight subsides, the barman reveals that he is the one they are looking for.

He introduces himself as Tony, says that he and Dyer were friends when they were kids. Apparently, Dyer had a spot he often went when he needed inspiration he called "Videogame City," inside a pizzeria called Buddy's Pizza.

Buddy's got shut down after the City's "videogame prohibition," that started after the disappearances of the children playing *Prime Empire*. Zane and P.I.X.A.L. go inside and find nothing out of the ordinary, until the Mechanic arrives and pins them down. Zane is knocked into an arcade cabinet where he short-circuits and blacks out, and P.I.X.A.L. is knocked out cold. When she wakes up, she realizes the Mechanic captured Zane, as he isn't around.

### The Prodigal Father

Zane wakes up in the Mechanic's warehouse with a blindfold over his eyes and unable to move. He then hears the Mechanic himself taunt him before ordering one of his henchman to remove his blindfold. Once it's taken off, Zane sees himself chained up in a chair and surrounded by the villain and his goons. The Mechanic then reveals his goal: creating the Manifestation Gate that allows Unagami to enter the real world. Zane points out that the energy required to transport the game information into the real world would have to be massive, to which the Mechanic points out that that's why so many kids get trapped in the game, so their energy can be harvested to be used to fuel the portal.

To finish their preparations, all the Mechanic needs left is the *Prime Empire* motherboard, which Zane says he destroyed. In order to goad him into telling the truth, the Mechanic reveals to have captured Master Wu.

After having threatened to hurt him, Zane breaks and reveals that he hid the motherboard in his chest. The Mechanic takes it and inserts it into the Manifestation Gate, powering it up.

The Mechanic reveals that the last thing he needs... is Zane. Using his power source, he is going to hook him up to the gate and channel his energy to stabilize the gate. Zane objects, pointing out this could destroy him, but the Mechanic is apathetic.

The henchmen drag Zane to the gate and chain him up. The Mechanic plugs him into the mechanism and lights it up, causing his power to be sapped. P.I.X.A.L. arrives and attempts to deal with the henchmen, but it is too late, and the gate is opened...

### Game Over

The gate has been opened, and *Prime Empire* enemies begin to pour out of the portal. Zane continues to struggle in his chains as he is used to power the portal. Seeing this, P.I.X.A.L. helps him out, when Jay arrives on the Blue Dragon. Zane is unhooked, and recovers. He notices that Jay isn't with the rest of the Ninja, and he is told that the four of them have been turned into energy cubes used to fuel the gate.

Jay begins rambling on about what to do next, and makes a plan to get Unagami and Dyer to reconcile. He reveals that Unagami isn't necessarily evil, but confused. Dyer, who P.I.X.A.L. brought with her, reveals he had no idea Unagami was alive, and made a mistake shutting the game down. Jay forms a plan, and orders the others to get Dyer to the top of Borg Tower, while he lures Unagami there.

Unagami, who has taken the form of a massive dragon, scours the city searching for his creator, as he and the other video game characters wreak havoc on the City. Jay finds him, and chases him to the tower. Meanwhile, Zane, the others, and Dyer make their way there as well.

Having reached the top of the tower, they find Jay and Unagami already there. Jay has confronted him, and tries to convince him that being angry is of no use. Dyer interrupts and attempts to reason with his creation.

He reveals why he abandoned Unagami, and tells him he was not made to instill fear and suffering, but joy. Revealing his true form, as a young boy, Unagami reminds his creator that he abandoned him. Dyer says he was scared of what he created, panicked, and shut the game down at the orders of Vast Industries.

He apologizes to Unagami, and hopes to make amends, to bring him home. Unagami returns to his child form, and releases all of the players that he took from gate, as well as returning the players who choose to back to the game.

All of the lost players return from the gate, including the rest of the Ninja. Zane, Jay, Wu, and P.I.X.A.L. reunite with their friends, and Cole asks where Unagami is. Jay then replies by saying that he's where he belongs: home.

## Master of the Mountain

### Shintaro

Weeks after the battle with Unagami, the Ninja are cleaning up the Monastery after being gone for so long. Zane is assisting P.I.X.A.L. with fixing the sentry cannons.

The Mailman soon arrives and delivers an invitation to the Ninja. The invitation is to the Ivory City of Shintaro, which Zane points out are exceedingly rare. The city is the most beautiful city in the world, and the people there have wings. The King Vangelis invites the Ninja to his city to celebrate his daughter Vania's birthday.

Zane points out that little is known about the Kingdom of Shintaro, except that up until recently, it was still considered mythical.

The Ninja board the Bounty and fly through the beautiful Mountains of Shintaro. Zane says that his optic circuits can't even convey the grandeur of the moment. While admiring the view, the Ninja are suddenly attacked by a vicious species of bat called Dire Bats.

The bats wreck havoc on the ship, which causes its sails to fall, and the Bounty goes lopsided. The heroes prepare for impact when the Bounty suddenly starts floating again. To their amazement, the ship is being supported by the Army of Shintaro.

The Ninja are greeted by Hailmar, the right hand of King Vangelis, who welcomes them to the Kingdom of Shintaro. He explains that the Bats are the reason why people rarely visit the city. As they pass the mountains, the heroes come into full view of the beautiful Ivory City.

### Into the Dark

The Ninja are astounded by the beauty of the city and are taken by Hailmar to the throne room where they meet King Vangelis. The King welcomes them and introduces the royal Princess Vania. It was her idea to invite the Ninja, as she is a big fan of them. She asks them all sorts of questions about their adventures and takes an interest in Cole.

Vangelis takes the heroes to their quarters, where they will sleep for the night to prepare for the party tomorrow.

Late at night, Cole assembles the Ninja in the 47th-floor lobby. Cole explains to the groggy Ninja that he saw a creature in his bedroom, and it disappeared. The weirdest part was that the creature was holding his mother's necklace.

The Ninja are skeptical and believe that Cole may have dreamed the scenario up. Without any proper evidence to convince them, the Ninja are convinced that Cole made it up. Wu suggests that he goes back to sleep, and the seven of them can discuss it in the morning. The other Ninja return to bed, with Cole still feeling troubled.

### The Worst Rescue Ever

Zane and the other Ninja are strolling through the magnificent gardens, and realize that Cole is missing.

Suddenly, Princess Vania appears from out of a tunnel in a frenzy, telling the Ninja that she went into the Dungeons with Cole and found something terrible. There's an underground mine filled with little creatures forced to mine by black skeletons. Cole stayed behind to rescue them and told her to get help.

The seven of them go to tell King Vangelis, and he is angry at his daughter for disobeying his orders, endangering their guests. He says that he'll send his guards down at once to find Cole, but he will not allow the Ninja to go. The Ninja realize that the creature that Cole saw in his bedroom was real all along.

The Ninja leave the throne room and make secret plans to enter the dungeons behind the King's orders. Vania agrees to show them the way into the dungeons, and she leads the way back to the garden.

Wu agrees to stay behind with Vania, feeling as though he'll slow the rest of them down. The Ninja enter the cave and find that Vania was telling the truth. Zane detects simple weapons and crude fortifications from the skeletons, and the others suggest that they bust up the bags of bones, and rescue Cole nice and quickly.

They all agree, and steal the keys to Cole's cage, and free him at last. In order to delay their capture, Zane blocks an entrance off for the skeletons with his shuriken. Cole tells them to keep the volume down, as there's a winged masked man who lives in the temple in the center.

The two tribes of creatures that live in the dungeons, the Geckles and Munce, start to quarrel with each other, causing a ruckus. This alerts the Re-Awakened, who begin to attack the Ninja. Lloyd orders Jay and Nya to take our the warriors, while the rest of them run away. Zane and the others are in shock, watching the Geckles and Munce call each other "blade stealers." Meanwhile, the Ninja find that the Re-Awakened go down without much trouble.

While trying to defend themselves, Zane realizes that his Elemental Powers are no use in the dungeons.

All the commotion causes the masked man to exit his temple. The man reveals himself as the Skull Sorcerer, a masked man in a black gown with wings, wielding a glowing green skull. The Skull Sorcerer uses the green skull in his hands to awaken the black skeletons around him, overwhelming the Ninja, leading to their defeat and eventual capture.

### The Two Blades

Zane and the other Ninja are put to work by the Re-Awakened, forced to mine heaping amounts of Vengestone, which explains their inability to use their powers.

After causing a ruckus, they are locked up in a cage with several Geckles. When one Geckle picks a fight with an approaching Munce, the Ninja begin to wonder where their feud started.

The Geckle explains that long ago, a hero named Gilly (who the Munce argues was named "Milly,") entered the mountain with two blades to defend the Geckles and Munce from a terrible dragon known as Grief-Bringer (who the Munce argues was called "Mief-Bringer.") After defeating the dragon, "Gilly" left behind her blades as gifts to the Geckles and Munce— leaving the Ivory Blade of Deliverance to the Geckles, and the Shadow Blade of Deliverance to the Munce.

The two tribe's feud started when the Munce apparently stole their blade, however, the Munce argues that the *Geckles* were the ones that stole the blade. The Ninja come to the conclusion that it was actually the Skull Sorcerer who stole both blades, in order to get control over both tribes. While the tribes fight over themselves, they can't fight the Skull Sorcerer.

Lloyd puts together a plan to get the two tribes to make a truce so they can all break out. Word is passed around through Geckles and Munce about a secret meeting after lunch, and when the time comes, they discuss retrieving both Blades by defeating the Skull Sorcerer.

Later, the Ninja break out of their cages by getting a Mino to eat through their chains. The Ninja split up, while Cole and Lloyd attempt to find the two blades, Zane and the others go about releasing the remaining Geckles and Munce. A few minutes later, chaos ensues, as Cole and Lloyd are chased away by the Skull Sorcerer.

In the commotion, the Ninja are split up so that Jay, Nya, and Lloyd go one path, while Zane and Kai go down another. Cole is further separated from the group as he is chased by the Skull Sorcerer.

### Trial By Mino

Zane and Kai walk for over an hour in the caves after being separated from the other Ninja. On one of their several loops around, noticing the same rock over and over again, a group of three Geckles arrive singing a song retelling the story of "Gilly" liberating them from the terrible dragon and gifting them the Ivory Blade of Deliverance.

One of the Geckles spills moss-milk onto Kai, which reveals their location to them. The Geckles mistake them for Re-Awakened and take the two of them to the Geckle Strong-Cave to meet with Chancellor Gulch.

Zane and Kai meet the Geckle's Chancellor, who decides to test whether the two Ninja are truly skeletons or not through a trial by Mino. Kai and Zane are then dropped down below the Geckles Court into a dungeon where they are forced to fight a Mino.

Unable to use both their Elemental Powers and Spinjitzu against the beast, Zane deduces that the Mino is not angry by nature, and takes off its uncomfortable armor to calm it down, defeating it.

Gulch declares the two of them "not skeletons," and notices that the two of them are Elemental Masters, similar to the legendary Gilly. Gulch asks them if they know Gilly, but they do not. Gulch then decides to promote Kai to Chancellor Red Ninja, Who is Not a Skeleton. Kai's first real motion as Chancellor is to learn the origins of the Skull Sorcerer.

Gulch takes the two Ninja to the Geckles' Story Cave, where he reiterates the story of Gilly freeing them from the dragon, and the Munce stealing their Blade. He then goes on to say that the story of the Skull Sorcerer began with three adventures who ventured into the old tunnels where Geckles are forbidden. They awoke an ancient evil from the "old world," that being Hazza D'ur, and the Skull Sorcerer rose with his army of re-awakened warriors. He then forced the Geckles and Munce to be put to work mining Vengestone.

Zane and Kai realize that the Skul Sorcerer is the Geckles and Munce's common enemy, and as Kai's next act as Chancellor, he motions that the Geckles and Munce work together to stop this great evil— although it might take some convincing.

### Grief-Bringer

The Geckles argue over whether the Munce are to be trusted, and so the former Chancellor proposes a "matter by slug," to decide whether to trust the new Munce Queen.

The slug race starts, the rule is if the Ninjas' slug wins, the Munce can be trusted, if not, they ambush them. In the middle of the race, a Geckle named Gleck approaches Kai and Zane. He reveals that he believes them, that the Munce are not their enemies. While talking, Kai notices Gleck's necklace and realizes that he is the same Geckle that Cole saw in his room the other day. Looking inside the necklace, the Ninja find pictures of Cole's parents, Lou, and his mother Lilly. Realizing that the legendary "Gilly" is actually Lilly, Kai tells Gleck that she, unfortunately, passed away a little while ago, however, they promise that they will help them, and stop the Skull Sorcerer.

The Ninja return to the slug race and Zane uses his powers to cheat in the race to get their slug to win. The Geckles are in agreement, and the meeting is on.

On the way to the meeting, Zane and Kai are fitted with gold armor over their Ninja suits as a precaution in case the Munce try to ambush them. Finally, they arrive at the meeting spot and discover that the new Munce Queen is none other than Nya, who is accompanied by Jay and Lloyd. The Ninja finally reunite and are hopeful for the Skull Sorcerer's defeat.

Suddenly, they are all attacked by the fearsome dragon known as Grief-Bringer, resurrected by the Skull Sorcerer. Nya Kai and Jay lead the Geckles and Munce to safety, while Lloyd and Zane keep the dragon back.

They manage to knock it over, only for it to get back up. The two Ninja quickly run away, followed by the Skull Sorcerer and his army. Kai and Zane make it over a lava pit and reconvene with the others, while the Skull Sorcerer watches them flee, saying that grief is coming for them.

### The Darkest Hour

Zane, the Ninja, and the Munce and Geckles continue to run for their lives from Grief-Bringer and the Skull Sorcerer's army. They soon approach the Geckle Strong-Cave, where the former Chancellor agrees to temporarily let the Munce in. Once inside, the dragon and army of skeletons are fast approaching, and the door is stuck.

In order to slow them down, Kai, Jay, Zane, and Lloyd defend the Strong-Cave. The door is finally shut, and the four Ninja make it back inside.

Now that they are safe for now, the Geckles and Munce are still at odds. From outside the door, the Skull Sorcerer promises to spare the two tribe's lives if they hand over the Ninja— both of them decline the offer, and Grief-Bringer continues its attack on the cave.

After realizing that their hope to escape is futile and that their common enemy is the Skull Sorcerer, the Geckles and Munce put aside their differences and agree to a truce.

Grief-Bringer manages to break through the cave door and prepares to attack, but Lloyd stops them, saying that the Ninja will surrender, so long as the Skull Sorcerer no longer forces the Geckles and Munce to do his work. The Skull Sorcerer agrees, and the Ninja are taken by the skeletons. Unfortunately, the Sorcerer lied, and the Geckles and Munce are surrounded by the Awakened Warriors...

### The Upply Strike Back!

The Geckles and Munce are now put back to work, and the five Ninja are locked in a cage... The Skull Sorcerer comes to them and tells them that he will make an example of them, and use Grief-Bringer to end them. The Ninja are confident that Cole will return with King Vangelis and put a stop to him, but the Skull Sorcerer reveals that he *is* King Vangelis and that he cast Cole, Vania, and Wu down the mountain to their doom.

The Ninja mourn the loss of their friend and their Master, and the Skull Sorcerer prepares to release Grief-Bringer from his cage. All of a sudden, the Geckles and Munce are freed from their chains, as Cole and Wu have returned with four new allies: The Upply.

Plundar and Adam of the Upply arrive and break the Ninja out of their cage. The five of them join the Geckles and Munce against their fight with the Re-Awakened, meanwhile, Cole is in a duel with the Skull Sorcerer, using the two Blades of Deliverance that once belonged to his mother.

### The Son of Lilly

Grief-Bringer is released from its cage and begins to fight against the Ninja, Geckles, and Munce. While Cole continues to battle the Skull Sorcerer, Princess Vania arrives with the entire Shintaro Army to help against the Re-Awakened.

While fighting the Sorcerer, Cole unlocks the Spinjitzu Burst, a power his mother used to defeat Grief-Bringer long ago, and destroys the Skull of Hazza D'ur, causing King Vangelis to lose his powers. The Shintaro fleet apprehends Vangelis, and he is taken away.

Much later, all of the Geckles and Munce, as well as the Ninja and the Upply, gather in the Kingdom of Shintaro to celebrate Princes Vania being crowned Queen of Shintaro. She promises to uphold the laws of the land, and protect the people of the above, and below.

Now it is time for the Ninja to say their goodbyes. They board the *Bounty* and head off for home— However, Wu says that he wishes to continue onward to another adventure. When asked where they will go next, he says wherever the wind takes them.

## The Island

### Uncharted

Cecil Putnam, manager of the Explorer's Club arrives at the Monastery with the unfortunate news that Misako's membership has been revoked, effective immediately, on the grounds that she is presumed lost at sea. The Ninja are concerned with Misako, who is revealed to have been on an expedition along with Wu and Clutch Powers attempting to navigate the storm belt off the coast of southern Ninjago. She was attempting to prove her theory of an uncharted island, but has not made contact with the club for several weeks, and is now considered by them to be lost.

Later, P.I.X.A.L. explains that the storm belt is an area off the southern coast plagued by storms, where numerous ships are known to have gone missing. Zane says that to his knowledge, there is only one person to have emerged from the storm belt, a man named Timothy Batterson. He was part of a balloon tour that was blown off coarse, and eventually crashed on this uncharted island. Lloyd orders the team to find out where this Timothy Batterson is, and to pack for the trip.

The team arrives at Batterson's place of residence, and are greeted by the man, who wears unkempt clothes tattered from an apparently treacherous journey. Batterson introduces himself as "Twitchy Tim," and offers the Ninja fuel for their ship. Lloyd questions Tim about the island, but Tim is unwilling to help. He goes into a frenzy, twitching every few moments, yelling about monsters and storms that make the island extremely dangerous. Tim reveals that he was struck by lightning 12 times there. He twitches again, and asks the Ninja once again what type of fuel they would prefer. Lloyd tries to steer the conversation back to the island, and discusses that they are desperate for help, as Tim is the only person who can help them navigate. Tim denies their request again, and after a series of twitches, once again asks them what their preferred fuel is. He eventually comes around, and boards the ship.

The team, along with Twitchy Tim, make their way to Southern Ninjago, and enter the storm belt. Their radar is unable to see past the fog belt, and Twitchy warns them that the island does not want them to find her.

Tim tells them the story of how he became stranded, and reveals that he spent days afloat in his air balloon in the fog, when he was apparently knocked out, and woke up on the blue sanded shores of the uncharted island.

The bounty continues through the storm, and P.I.X.A.L warns them that there is a sharp rise in electrostatic levels, meaning it would be unwise to continue in the storm on the bounty. She deploys catamarans for the Ninja to board, and they make their way through the waves this way. Each of the Ninja board the ships, and maneuver through a bank of sharp stones, which Zane notes attract the strange purple lightning that surrounds them.

They finally reach the blue sanded shores of the island, and P.I.X.A.L. deploys jungle choppers to the Ninja's location so they can more easily navigate. Three sets of bikes arrive, and the Ninja take off. Further down the beach they find Misako and Wu's settlement, which is now abandoned. Zane points out a rock formation nearby that spells out "help," and they come to the conclusion that this was left here in case anyone came after them. They make it their mission to find them, and take the choppers further into the jungle. Twitchy warns them of monsters that look like statues, but the Ninja are prepared, and take off.

### The Keepers of the Amulet

Zane and the others continue through the jungle, and make note of an animal that appears to be following them through the bushes. They eventually come to a dead end, and prepare to take the rest of the way on foot.

They are suddenly met with the animal that followed them, which is revealed to be a docile dragon, whom Jay names Zippy. He appears to be friendly, and loving of coconuts. While the Ninja play fetch with Zippy, Lloyd recommends that they get back on track with finding his mother and uncle. Nya sends a coconut off into the distance, to which Zippy chases after, and the Ninja continue through the brush.

As they make their way through the jungle, they find a stone totem, which suddenly comes alive and begins attacking them. Two other totems appear, and a battle ensues between the lot of them. The Ninja are unable to damage them, and quickly discover that the totems channel the team's Elemental Energy, and spits it back at them. Twitchy Tim runs away in fear, and the Ninja are soon to follow, realizing that they are unable to defeat these stone golems.

The Ninja make a run for it, and soon realize that in their desperate attempt at escape, they have lost Lloyd and Tim. The five remaining Ninja reach a cliff, and discover a rickety rope bridge. They make their way across safely, and continue on their escape. Zane and Jay are the last ones across, and discover that Kai, Nya, and Cole have disappeared. They hear something that sounds like an electrostatic shock, but are unable to comprehend what it was, as the two of them are shocked by purple lightning, and are knocked unconscious.

The Ninja awake soon after, strapped to catamarans piloted by men with glowing purple skin. The catamarans are outfitted with glowing purple stones, reminiscent of their captures skin and the lightning that surrounds the island. The men lead the Ninja to their side of the island, and are brought to the throne room of their leader.

Their leader, who is adorned with traditional tribal ornaments, mistakenly assumes that the Ninja have come to the island to steal "the amulet," which many others have attempted to steal. The Ninja attempt to tell him that he is wrong, but the leader does not believe them. He introduces himself as the chief of the Keepers of the Amulet, and they have made it their vow to protect the Storm Amulet, an artifact that was pried from the head of the Sleeper of the Deep, she who existed long before Time had a name, Wojira. The Keepers took a sacred oath to protect the Storm Amulet from those who seek it, and harnessed the power of lightning and become one with the storms. Their forefathers kept the oath, and theirs before them, all the way back to the beginning.

Zane attempts to persuade him to let them go, as they have no intention of stealing their artifact, but seeing as how they have seen it, the Keepers will take them prisoner forever, in the name of Wojira.

### The Gift of Jay

Zane and the others are surrounded by the Keepers. Their chief orders that the Ninja be locked up, all but one, and refers to this individual as "the gift." Jay pipes up and questions if all the pushing, poking, and stabbing is really necessary. He introduces himself to them, and the chief orders the Keepers to take him as the gift. Jay is taken away, to the dismay of the others, and the remaining four Ninja are locked up.

The Ninja are shoved into a cell by the Keepers, and discover that Wu, Misako, and Clutch Powers are locked in there with them. Misako reveals that the Keepers have treated them quite well, and it seems that the tribe are less violent than they are just protective of the amulet. Nya and Cole question whether Clutch had actually intended to steal the artifact, to which he at first denies, but eventually comes clean and says his intention was to study it and bring it back to his place.

Kai tells Misako that Jay has been taken by the Keepers, and Lloyd is still out there, probably on his way now to look for them. Moments later, Lloyd arrives and breaks them out of their cell, with the help of Zippy the dragon. Lloyd reunites with his mother and uncle, and they split up to locate Jay.

Eventually, the lot of them reconvene, none of them having found Jay. They soon come to realize that Clutch isn't with them either, and wonder if he is stupid enough to go back to the altar to steal the Amulet.

The Ninja return to the Storm Amulet's altar and find Clutch trying to take the artifact off its perch. The Ninja try to convince him to put it back, and Zane warns that the Keepers are likely to return. Moments later, the group is zapped by the Keepers' lightning staffs, and they are knocked out.

They eventually regain consciousness and find that each of them have been strapped to poles on the beach overlooking a sacrifice. The Keepers' chief reveals that Wojira has awakened, and the only way to appease her is with a human sacrifice. Jay is then carried over to the edge of the docks, where he is strapped to a boat, and is revealed to be said sacrifice, "the gift of Jay."

The other Ninja watch in horror as their friend is cast out to sea, and a great beast looms in the fog.

### The Tooth of Wojira

Jay yells out that he sees something in the water, and describes it as an enormous sea serpent. The Ninja worry that it is indeed Wojira, and they break through their ropes to save their friend. They meet opposition from the Keepers, but make their way to the edge of the docks safely. Zane freezes a path over the sea for them to walk on as they chase after Jay's raft.

They eventually reach him, and discover that the beast is getting ever closer, shooting fire balls at them that just barely miss hitting them.

They approach Jay, and Lloyd tries to undo his ties, but he is too late, and the beast swallows him. The Ninja are heartbroken as Jay is cast away by the monster, but Lloyd has his doubts. The group returns to the island shore, and confront the Keepers about sacrificing their friend to a monster. Lloyd reveals that whatever they just sacrificed Jay to was *not* Wojira. He reveals that it was a contraption, due to the wooden tooth that fell of it, and that the Keepers have been conned.

Lloyd demands that the Keepers chief tell them the truth about why they protect the amulet. He starts from the very beginning, and reveals that the First Spinjitzu Master tasked them with guarding the artifact thousands of years ago, and if it were ever to return to the sea, the great storm spirit Wojira would flood the world. Wojira had been sleeping at the bottom of the sea for a millennia, until recently it began to awaken. At first they attempted to appease it with gold and other treasures, but it always returned, wanting more. Eventually they came to the conclusion that they required a human sacrifice to calm the angry beast, and so they used Jay to fulfill this requirement.

Now, the Keepers are regretful, realizing that they have been sacrificing to a false deity. Now the Ninja need their help finding Jay, and ask them to chart a map of the island so that they may locate any spots where someone might be hiding a fake monster.

They discover a cave on the other side of the island that is apparently abandoned, and head there immediately. They get there just in time to find Jay being attacked by men in prison uniforms, who are standing next to the faux Wojira they meet earlier.

The heroes fend off the escaped prisoners, when suddenly, Ronin appears, and reveals that he has been taking advantage of his job to track down the escaped convicts, and was now using them to get gold and riches from the Keepers, pretending to be the mythical Wojira.

He attempts to escape on the faux Wojira he created, but he is stopped by Twitchy Tim, who crashes into the fake monster, causing it to sink into the sea. The heroes apprehend Ronin, and throw him and the other crooks into one of the Keepers prisons.

They return to the alter of the Storm Amulet, where the Keepers chief apologizes for what they all did to them. As he prepares to thank them for stopping Ronin, he realizes that the amulet is missing from its perch.

The ninja quickly find Clutch Powers at the shore of the island holding the amulet for himself, and they stop him before he can get away.

## The Virtues of Spinjitzu

### Curiosity

Zane entered the courtyard a little later than the rest of the ninja after Wu was shocked to see a giant hole in the middle of the wall. Wu asked Jay, Kai, and Nya what the six Fundamental Virtues of Spinjitzu, but they didn't know. Wu then asked Zane, but Zane said he had to take portions of his memory offline in order to defrag them.

With the ninja forgetting the virtues, Wu ordered them to medidate immediately. While medidating, Zane caught a cookie that was thrown into the air by Jay. While Wu was attending to the door, Zane continued to medidate even when Nya heard a roar in the background. When Nya investigated by opening the door, they was shocked to see Wu grasped by a green dragon. The ninja tried to fight the dragon, but the dragon was able to deflect their attacks and escape through a portal. The ninja then entered the portal hoping to save their master.

### Balance

The ninja exited the portal and saw the green dragon across a pool of lava. Watching Jay and Lloyd attempting to cross the lava, the rest of the ninja are ambuhsed by the Pyro Whippers. After defeating a couple of soldiers, he attempted to cross, but Jay fell from the ceiling and nearly knocked him over. Fortuantely, he is saved by the Fire Dragon and entered the next portal.

### Wisdom

Zane and the ninja raced in the Speedway Five-Billion attempting to reach the portal at the finish line. However, the Whack Rats were blocking their way and kept respawning every time they were defeated. Lloyd then realized they needed to be defeated in order to get across and after he "died", he respawned near the portal. The rest of the ninja followed suit and entered the next portal.

### Honesty

Zane and the ninja were trapped in a cage and watched as Kai and Jay jousted in order to earn their freedom. After Jay told the truth of falling in his win, the Ice Emperor was pleased Jay told the truth and freed the rest of the ninja. The Ice Emperor then opened the next portal for the ninja to find Wu.

### Generosity

Zane and the ninja fought the Awakened Warriors in the Mines of Shintaro. While fighting, Zane saw the Geckles helping out the ninja by launching boulders at the skeletons. However, the lever to the catapult broke, so Zane ran to the Geckles. He was greeted with pebbles being thrown at him and when he asked if the Geckles had any spare levers, Gulch told Zane they were all destroyed in a Lever Bonfire Festival. Realizing his arm could act as a lever, Zane took off his arm and attached it to the catapult. The Geckles were able to use their catapult as they fired at the remaining warriors. Now in the clear, the ninja were about to run to the portal, but Zane caught sight of the Awakened Warriors surrounding the Geckles. Zane convinced the ninja to protect the Geckles which they do. After saving the Geckles from the warriors, the ninja used the catapult to launch themselves to the next portal.

### Courage

Zane and the ninja found themselves on the Island of the Keepers with Zane commenting on how his arm was restored after sacrificing it to the Geckles. They discovered Wu held captive by the Legendary Dragon along with three other dragons surrounded by a forcefield. As a strategy, Zane suggested they can win over the dragons instead of fighting them, but Kai disregarded all of the strategies suggested by the ninja and took the dragons head on. Kai destroyed the forcefield allowing Cole and Zane to defeat one of the smaller dragons. Despite the ninja defeating the dragons and saving Wu, their master informed them it was merely a lesson to teach the six Fundamental Virtues of Spinjitzu.

## Seabound

### A Big Splash

Zane and the other Ninja are defending a farm village somewhere in Ninjago from a villain that calls herself Miss Demeanor. Demeanor and her henchmen ride three trucks filled with Vengestone through the fields, being apprehended by the Ninja. Zane and Nya run along a ledge to stop her, and the two of them coordinate an attack using their Elemental Powers. Suddenly, Nya's powers go out of control, and a large water tornado starts enveloping the land beyond Nya's will. Miss Demeanor escapes, and the Ninja are suddenly forced to protect the nearby village from the out of control vortex.

Zane attempts to hold the vortex with his ice, but the attempt is futile, and so he and the rest of the Ninja prepare to evacuate the village. Zane takes a young villager to a save distance, as the entire village is flooded, and the vortex is dispelled. The Ninja stand in shock at what just happened.

Later, at the Monastery of Spinjitzu, five of the Ninja, excluding Nya, relay the information they just gathered to Master Wu. They tell him that Demeanor was carrying a large shipment of vengestone, but for what reason they do not know. He tells him that the plan to stop Demeanor was a failure because of an accident involving Nya's powers. Nya suddenly enters the room and frantically explains that what happened back there with the water was a temporary accident and minor mistake on her part. She doesn't know why it happened, but she tries to convince the others that it isn't a big deal. As she says this, the sprinklers go off, presumably because of her.

Master Wu takes the Ninja to the Monastery library, where he reveals a scroll listing every Elemental Power. On that list there is no mention of Water nor Wind. Wu reveals that his father, the First Spinjitzu Master, used to tell him stories of how he mastered the Elemental Powers, but never water or wind. This is because they were not his to command, and belonged to someone else: Wojira. Zane puts it together that Wojira was the same of the storm spirit that was worshiped by the Keepers on their island.

Wu tells the Ninja that Wojira commanded the powers of Water and Wind, and when combined became the ultimate force of destruction. Long ago, the First Spinjitzu Master conquered Wojira with the help of the Merlopians, sea folk who lived in Ninjago before the First Spinjitzu Master. In the midst of the battle, a Merlopian warrior with a helmet and a trident fought Wojira, and pried from the serpents head two amulets, the Storm Amulet and the Wave Amulet. When Wojira was defeated, the seas calmed, and the beast went into an eternal slumber.

The Ninja recall that the Storm Amulet was being protected by the Keepers back on their island, and put it together that Nya's powers might be linked to this mighty serpent. Wu suggests that they enlist the help of Maya, Kai and Nya's mother, in order to try and help understand the problems Nya is facing with her powers. Kai recalls that Nya might not want her help, since she has been absent all of Nya's life, she has become fairly independent.

Later on, after Kai had discussed meeting their mother, Nya storms off into the Monastery and wrecks havoc on the water inside, causing Zane to get soaked while doing the dishes.

Nya returns to the courtyard and is followed by Zane and the others when there is a knock on the main door. On the other end is Nya's parents Ray and Maya, who have come at the request of Kai to help Nya with her powers.

### The Call of the Deep

After Ray and Maya settle in at the Spinjitzu Monastery, Zane and P.I.X.A.L. go off on a mission, and specifically refrain from mentioning this to Nya, because it was a water rescue, and seeing as Nya has been having trouble controlling her water powers, this might not have been the best idea.

Zane in his Shuricopter and P.I.X.A.L. in her Samurai-X Mech approach a ship in need of rescue in the middle of the Endless Sea. The two of them feel bad for excluding Nya, but because of her current state it's likely that she would only cause more harm.

The two of them apprehend a ship that is being attacked by a large octopus. Zane expresses his confusion about the situation, as octopuses are usually peaceful creatures who live on the bottom of the sea and seldom return to the surface. P.I.X.A.L. attempts to calm it down, as something has clearly agitated it. While Zane rescues the sailors, P.I.X.A.L. is suddenly grabbed by the creature and pulled into the sea.

As she is continually pulled deeper into the ocean, a strange purple energy pulse is released from the ocean. As it envelopes P.I.X.A.L., her mech malfunctions, and she is plunged deeper into the ocean with no way out. Zane sends down a hook line to help her, but it is no use, and he instead tells her to reboot the primary ignition of the mech. She does this, and returns to the surface, now with the creature nowhere to be found.

With the two of them reunited, they express their concern about the energy pulse. Zane looks into his diagnostics and discovers its origin at the bottom of a trench in the Endless Sea. They realize that the pulse not only affected that creature, but also likely Nya's powers. The two of them return to the Monastery to warn the others.

They arrive back at the Monastery to find the others cleaning up the messes that Nya has caused because of her power malfunctions. P.I.X.A.L. reassures Nya that these fluctuations in her powers are not her fault, and are likely being caused by an energy signal from back out at sea. She reveals that the pulse originates from the bottom of the Tartarus Trench, the deepest known point in the ocean. The Ninja make the decision to venture deep below the sea to explore this unknown energy signal in the submarine that P.I.X.A.L. has developed that she calls the *Hydro Bounty*.

### Unsinkable

P.I.X.A.L. takes the Ninja and Wu to the Ninjago City Docks and unveils to them the Hydro Bounty, which has been in development for the past several years. Nya is worried about how positive they are that the underwater pulse they saw was actually related to her power malfunctions, but Zane reassures her that he is about 97% sure. She debates whether or not she should sit this mission out, but she is eventually convinced to go.

The Ninja return to the Monastery to pack, while Wu, Kai, and Cole stay behind to watch over Ninjago City, Zane joins P.I.X.A.L., Jay, and Nya as they board the Hydro Bounty.

Zane, having downloaded thousands of hours of pirate movies, begins shouting sailor gibberish to the others, who become increasingly annoyed with him as it goes on. Before they take off, P.I.X.A.L. runs a diagnostic on the ship and discovers movement in the cargo area, but deduces that it's probably some sort of malfunction, and ignores it.

Eventually, they reach the open sea, and a few hours later come across the Tartarus Trench, the deepest and darkest part of the ocean that also happens to be unmapped. The three Ninja leave the brig to hang out below deck, and meet each other in the hallway (they also discover that Zane has begun walking as though he has a peg-leg.) The three of them discuss the fact that all of the chores around the Bounty are mysteriously getting done without their knowledge, and they speculate as to what may be causing this. They search the halls and discover that it was Maya, Nya's mother, all along. She tagged along in order to be there for her daughter, but Nya is insulted and takes this as her mother wanting to baby her.

P.I.X.A.L.'s voice rings out over the intercom and tells the others to return to the brig. They soon come to find that they are entering what looks to be a graveyard of sunken ships, when suddenly they are attacked by something underwater. They try their best to defend themselves, but the Hydro Bounty takes critical damage, and is forced to land on a nearby rock formation, now totally defenseless with no way out.

### Five Thousand Fathoms Down

Zane and the others are stranded at the bottom of the sea, and tensions are high. Zane, Jay, and Lloyd eavesdrop while Nya and Maya squabble in the engine room attempting to find the source of their problems, and quickly try to act auspicious when Nya catches them listening. She tells them that the engines are shot, and the only way to get back is to use some sort of power source. Jay suggests they use his lightning, but this would be extremely dangerous, as Zane brings up he was once hooked up to a machine like that, and it almost proved fatal (remembering the time The Mechanic used him to power the gateway into Prime Empire.)

Maya suggests they find the energy pulse in the sea to power the ship, and the Ninja agree this is the only option. P.I.X.A.L. brings the group to the cargo bay where she has two underwater mechs there waiting for them. Nya and Maya board one each, and Maya promises to help Nya if any more problems with her powers occur, seeing as she was the previous Master of Water.

The two of them take off, being guided by Zane and the others through a body cam and mic as they traverse the endless oceans. The two of them dodge hydro-thermal vents, and eventually find their way to the source of the energy signal, which appears to be behind a large underwater temple. They enter and discover an air pocket. In the underwater cave they discover a large stone door with ancient Ninjargan text on it, that Zane predicts predates the First Spinjitzu Master. He translates it and reveals that it is a warning telling of the "sleeper of the deep," who shall only be awoken during the end of days. Nya and Maya enter the stone door while Zane sits back to try and translate the name of this mysterious sleeper.

Moments later, he suddenly wakes up and reveals to them the name on the warning: Wojira. It is too late, as Nya and Maya have stumbled into a large chamber where Wojira herself is being experimented on by a race of sea people. These people are attempting to awaken Wojira, and it is revealed that their experiments are what's causing the energy signals. One of these signals is shot out again and hits Nya point-blank, causing her to glow, which alerts the attention of the creature's leader. They begin to attack the mother and daughter duo, who attempt to make their escape.

Zane and the others watch through the cams as the sea creatures seize Maya and Nya, and their leader boasts that he has been waiting for the Master of Water for a long time, the usurper, who will help him become the ruler of the Endless Sea.

### The Wrath of Kalmaar

Zane, Jay, Lloyd, and P.I.X.A.L. remain sitting ducks at the bottom of the Tartarus Trench. P.I.X.A.L. estimates they only have one hour before their oxygen runs out. With the power still off, and with no way to save Nya, Jay suggests that he use his powers to recharge the battery, however Zane warns him that this effort could prove to be fatal.

Their next attempt to bring the power back is to try to reroute all existing power back to the hull, but this proves to be futile. Their situation becomes worse as water begins flooding the lower decks, and Jay leaves the group in order to retrieve "oxygen tanks." The others quickly realize that that is not what he meant, and go down to the lower deck to find Jay locked in a room flooded with water attempting to recharge the battery. He uses his powers, and the attempt is a success, causing the lights to turn back on and the water level to lower.

Zane and the others worry that Jay has been hurt, but he opens the door to reveal that he is fine.

The four of them return to the brig where they finally take off, and Jay vows to save Nya.

### Long Live the King

Zane and the others delve deeper into the trench and are able to save Nya and Maya from being attacked by sharks just in time. With the group reunited, they return to the Hydro Bounty, only to be apprehended by Merlopian guards, who arrest them for trespassing in their kingdom.

Zane and the others are brought before King Trimaar of the Merlopians, are are accused of trespassing in their kingdom. Nya explains that they had no idea this kingdom even existed, but they also had no choice seeing as their ship was shot down by Kalmaar, the King's son. She further explains that Kalmaar tied them up, *and* he is attempting to awaken Wojira the storm spirit.

Kalmaar enters the throne room and does not deny these accusations. He goes on to berrate his father for not taking action against the surface dwellers, who stole the Endless Sea from them when they arrived thousands of years ago. Trimaar is content that Ninjago is at peace, but Kalmaar is not, and stages an insurrection, murdering his father in front of the Ninja and blaming it directly on them.

Zane and the others are forced to flee from the guards, and make their way through the palace. While they make their escape, the palace halls are flooded, causing them all to put on their scuba masks. Zane puts one on, even though he doesn't need to, because it completes his look.

More sharks are sent to attack them, and Zane creates an ice wall in front of them to block them from the attack. The Ninja attempt to open a door out of there while the sharks break through the ice...

### Escape from Merlopia

The sharks manage to break through the ice, but they are sent away by Benthomaar, the late King's adopted son. He helps them escape from Merlopia by bypassing the guards and breaking into the hangar bay to retrieve the Hydro Bounty. Zane and the others fend off several Ma Array Guards while they make their way to the bounty. They are able to escape, with Lloyd hanging on to the back of the ship inside a mech, but are continuously pursued by Kalmaar and his troops.

The chase is on in the dark depths of the Endless Sea, and as the Hydro Bounty dodges missile attacks, Kalmaar is accidentally destroying the Merlopian city nearby. The Ninja eventually see a cave where they are able to make their escape, and deploy three Master Wu shaped bombs to block the exit off as they go.

Now finally in the clear, Nya introduces the team to Benthomaar, and he tells the group that Kalmaar wants to awaken the sleeping Wojira, and their father told him to do everything in his power to stop them. Nya reassures him that the only way to awaken Wojira is with the second amulet, and they know where it is. P.I.X.A.L. sets a course for the Island of the Keepers.

### The Tale of Benthomaar

Benthomaar details the story of how he was adopted to the Ninja. He tells them that several years ago, when he was just a young boy, he was found by Trimaar and Kalmaar getting attacked by eels. He has no memories from before this moment, and he doesn't even know who his real parents are. In that moment, Trimaar defended him, and adopted him as his own.

In the coming years, Trimaar would treat Bentho as his own, training him to become a fantastic athlete and loving him as a son. All these years, however, Benthomaar tried all his might to be noticed and appreciated by Kalmaar. Kalmaar spent their entire childhood obsessed with ancient scrolls and texts detailing an ancient mythical creature, and resented Benthomaar, as he saw him as a sign of his father's weakness.

One day, not too long ago, Kalmaar discovered the well-kept secret of a temple that exists at the bottom of the Tartarus Trench. He confronted his father about this, but was sent off, as the trench is too dangerous for any one man to journey alone. Kalmaar ignored his father's warning, and decided that he would manipulate his adopted brother to make the trek in his stead.

He met with his brother, and swayed him with words of encouragement and praise, which Bentho had never heard from Kalmaar before. Wanting to finally spend time with his brother, the two of them set off to the Tartarus Trench, where Kalmaar made sure Bentho set off the traps on the way there in order to protect himself. When the two of them finally reached the Temple of Wojira, Kalmaar sent Benthomaar off, saying that the two of them will never be brothers. Heartbroke, Benthomaar returned home, finally realizing that Kalmaar is too stubborn, and he will never love him as a brother.

As Benthomaar finishes telling this story to the Ninja, he tells them that King Trimaar was the only one who loved him, and now he is gone. The Ninja reassure him that they appreciate him, and together they're going to stop Kalmaar from awakening Wojira.

### The Storm Amulet

Zane, Jay, and Maya listen in while Benthomaar describes the situation with Wojira. In the serpents head are two holes, one of them currently being occupied by the Wave Amulet, and the other empty in wait for the Storm Amulet. If both amulets were to be returned to her, then she will be awakened, and destroy Ninjago.

As his explanation concludes, P.I.X.A.L. calls the Ninja to the upper deck, where they find that they have finally returned to the Island of the Keepers. They meet with Chief Mammatus and explain to him their situation, and he agrees to lend them the Storm Amulet to protect it from Kalmaar. He grants Nya the guardian of the amulet, as the First Spinjitzu Master did thousands of years ago to his ancestors. She accepts the job, but Zane notices something odd about the amulet. A piece chips off, and he comes to the conclusion that the real Storm Amulet was taken by Clutch Powers and is currently at the Explorer's Club in Ninjago City.

The team heads back to the Bounty where they radio in Cole, who they tell of the situation. The group is suddenly attacked by Kalmaar and his troupes, who heard everything. Instead of killing them, he destroys their ship, leaving them hopeless and defeated. He leaves, briefly followed by Nya, who eventually returns to the Bounty, unable to breath underwater.

Nya is hopeless and depressed, but her mother Maya helps her see the bright side, and reassures her that she's confident that she will find a way off this Island.

### Riddle of the Sphinx

Zane returns to the brig of the Hydro Bounty to see if any of the machinery is salvageable, but soon comes to the conclusion that is is unable to be saved. He meets the others on the upper deck to tell them that all hope is lost.

Benthomaar suggests that Nya just call over a whale to pull their ship, but she says that isn't in the wheelhouse of her powers. Benthomaar disagrees, as she is the Master of Water. Nya is confused, and Maya explains that Nyad, the First Master of Water, was able to not only control water, but all sea creatures.

Nya steps into the ocean and gives it her best shot, and eventually several whales appear to their aid, and the heroes regain hope. Their next stop is Ninjago City.

### Master of the Sea

Benthomaar goes into detail about the story of Nyad and Wojira.

Thousands of years ago, the First Spinjitzu Master discovered the world in a chaotic state, ruled by Wojira. He knew that life could not prosper in this world of storms, so he teamed up with the Merlopians and the Keepers in order to cease the calamity. Wojira was too powerful for them, and so a Merlopian warrior, Nyad the First Master of Water rose up and took on the challenge. She realized that the only way to defeat Wojira was to unlock her ultimate power and become the sea itself, meaning she gave up her physical form in order to finally defeat the serpent, sacrificing herself.

The First Spinjitzu Master was able to pry the Storm and Wave Amulets out of the beast's head, causing it to enter a deep slumber, and he entrusted the Storm Amulet to the Keepers, and the Wave Amulet to the Merlopians. Following this, he was able to create Ninjago.

Benthomaar finishes his story and the Ninja reassure him that they will stop Kalmaar, whatever it takes.

Some time later, they arrive back in Ninjago, just in time to aid Kai, Cole, and Wu in fighting Kalmaar for the Storm Amulet on the surface. They battle it out, but Kalmaar seemingly gets away. Nya briefly catches up to him and gets close enough to apparently steal the Storm Amulet back from him.

The Ninja rejoice and return to the Monastery. They give Benthomaar a tour of the temple, and invite him to stay with them for a while. Ray and Maya are also getting ready to leave, and they say their goodbyes as well. Benthomaar asks Zane and Jay where the Storm Amulet is currently being kept, and they reveal that it was sent to the Kingdom of Shintaro for safe keeping... unaware that the real Storm Amulet still resides with Kalmaar, and they only retrieved a fake...

### The Calm Before the Storm

Zane, Nya, Jay, Benthomaar, and Wu are called to the police station, some days after apparently winning the battle against Kalmaar. There they find Glutinous, who has come to warn them that Kalmaar has successfully awakened Wojira two days ago, and is on his way to Ninjago City right now.

He tells them he had a change of thought after she was awakened, and felt that he had to warn them.

Wu realizes the crisis they are in and calls for an emergency evacuation of the city, and for P.I.X.A.L. to finish working on the undersea subs she has been developing.

The evacuation is sent into order, as Wojira rises out of the sea with Kalmaar at her forehead, and the city is flooded.

### Assault on Ninjago City

Zane, Kai, and Benthomaar are sent out into the flood to help save civilians, while also fending off Merlopian warriors. Cole returns from Shintaro to help out, and the four of them assist Lloyd in saving as many people as they can.

Wojira eventually makes contact with Ninjago, as it wrecks calamity throughout the water ridden city. Zane and the others make their way to the Bounty, which has been sea bound because of an attack. They fend off Wojira as best they can, when Nya finally arrives to help.

### Nyad

Zane and the others continue to defend the city as best they can from Wojira and Kalmaar, but they are too powerful. Why Nya fends them off, they are approached by Merlopian guards, and are forced to retreat. They make their rounds around the city and discover Jay has crashed and is about to suffocate underwater. Benthomaar helps him out, but he falls unconscious before he can reach the surface.

They bring him back to the Bounty, when Wu tells P.I.X.A.L. to put it on autopilot. The group and the refugees hide inside a nearby building, letting the Bounty off as bait. They lay Jay down, when Nya walks in, and they tell her that he is not in good condition, as he has a lot of ocean water in his lungs.

The Ninja are somber as the sea continues to rise and Kalmaar is in search of them. Zane is asleep with the others, when he is awoken to find Nya rush out of the room. Benthomaar tells them that she plans on becoming one with the sea, like Nyad before her, sacrificing herself to destroy Wojira.

Zane and the others rush outside to stop her, but they are too late, and Nya becomes one with her Elemental Power, now an ultimate master of water. She goes after Wojira and begins to attack.

### The Turn of the Tide

Zane and the others climb to the top of a building to watch as Nya fends of King Kalmaar and Wojira. She is holding her own, now made of water itself, Kalmaar can't penetrate her body. He is able to electrocute her, causing her to dissipate into midair. Jay is infuriated and goes in to attack, and when he is unable to stop him, Benthomaar also takes his hand at fighting with his adopted brother.

Neither of them can defeat him, but after Wojira ate Kalmaar whole, Nya suddenly returns, now in the form of a large water dragon, and battles Wojira and in the process destroys the Wave Amulet.

After Wojira was defeated, the Ninja rejoice, as they have finally won, and tell Nya that they will find a way to return her to normal, however she does not want to. The sea calls to her, and she is calm. The Ninja try to stop her from leaving, imploring that she fight the call to the sea, but she is intent on departing. She says her final goodbyes, and Jay says he loves her for the last time, and she takes off into the sea, with the water level finally lowering.

Some time later, Zane and the other Ninja hold a memorial for her at the Monastery. All of their friends and family come to pay their respects to Nya, and in memory of her, the five remaining Ninja and P.I.X.A.L. pour water out into a vase as they say their final words.

## After Seabound

### The Sea Beast!

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## Crystalized

### Farewell the Sea

It has been one year since Nya's disappearance, and Zane, Cole, and P.I.X.A.l. are the only Ninja who remain at the monastery. Zane has turned his emotion meter off so as not to have any unwanted emotions and increase productivity.

Him and Cole see on the news that the new mayor has hired a group of New Ninja to help track down the copious amounts of Vengestone being stolen. Realizing that this is going to be an issue, the two of them attempt to get the team back together.

They first track down Kai, who is now a Master at his own dojo teaching children. He teaches them that the best defense is to obliterate your enemy before they see you coming. Zane and Cole succeed in recruiting Kai back, and move on to find Lloyd.

In Ninjago City, Lloyd is working on cleaning windows. Lloyd is still depressed over Nya's sacrifice, and wants to be left alone. Zane, Cole, and Kai leave him for now, hoping to have better luck with Jay.

They take the Destiny's Bounty to the Lighthouse Island to find that Jay has become a recluse. He has grown a full beard, is obsessed with painting Nya, and believes that he can "talk" to Nya through half-empty water glasses that litter the lighthouse. They try to reason with him, but Jay is reluctant to rejoin the team. He is swayed after he sees the enormous outpouring of love from Ninjago City citizens for Nya.

The four of them leave the Lighthouse and meet up with Lloyd and make the decision to root out the mystery of these Vengestone shipments together, for Nya.

### The Shape of Nya

At the Monastery, the five Ninja discuss how the Vengestone is being moved. It can't be transported from the air or underground, so they're at a loss. Jay pipes in and realizes that it *can* be transported from underground, if it's moved through Ninjago's discontinued N-Line.

They make their way there, and they put it together that the city stopped building this tunnel, but it's possible that "someone else" did. They find a bricked off wall and wonder if it's possible that there's some hidden mechanism that opens it, but Zane scans it and disproves this theory. They suddenly hear rustling from behind them and find a whole cart of Vengestone inside it, and an old man with a clipboard. The old man presumes that they're the ones that are there to purchase it and asks for their signature.

Suddenly, the group is attacked by Miss Demeanor and her thugs. The Ninja are unable to use their powers, as the Vengestone nearby them prohibits it.

The Ninja result in having to use their weapons to fight low level thugs, but their lack of practice wears them out, and their fight is interrupted by the group of New Ninja, who easily wipe the floor with the thugs.

Humiliated, the Ninja leave the fight to them and watch as they get the recognition for their arrests. They thank the New Ninja begrudgingly, and realize how different they are from this new group.

Back at the Monastery, the Ninja are upset about the fact that they're replaced, except for Zane. Zane isn't reacting emotionally to this situation, after turning off his emotion meter. In a fit of anger, Jay and Kai start fighting with each other, which Zane attempts to stop. Suddenly, Nya returns to them in her water form, but she is unstable. She pleads for their help, saying that there's some way for her to be normal. She says that if they can drain her power before she loses her shape they can help her. Zane freezes her in her current state before she can fade away.

Contemplating what she just said, they realize that if they drain Nya's powers in the same way that Aspheera once drained Kai's powers, she may be able to be saved. It's a tough decision, but the team comes together once again, and unanimously decides to break Aspheera out of prison to save Nya.

### A Mayor Problem

Zane stays behind keeping Nya frozen, while the other Ninja go to Mayor Trustable's office to ask for his assistance in getting Aspheera out of prison. They plead their cases, but he refuses to let them break her out for the sake of Nya.

The four of them return and decide that the only way to save Nya without the mayor's help is to break her out of prison illegally. Lloyd devises a plan to break Aspheera out of Kryparium and steal her staff from Borg Tower. He decides that Kai, Zane, and him will go to Kryptarium to break her out, while the others go for the staff.

Zane is hesitant, as he is needed at the Monastery to help keep Nya frozen, but Lloyd already has that covered. Skylor comes in and says she's there to use Zane's power to keep Nya cool. Now Zane can come with them to help them past Kryptarium's new thermal-sensor security equipment.

Zane, Kai, and Lloyd break into Kryptarium Prison wearing neutral colors so as not to be spotted. In order to get by the thermal sensors, Zane freezes the other two Ninja solid and carries them across the hall. After they unthaw, Zane lifts up a hatch in the floor that leads directly to Cell One, where Aspheera is being contained.

They lower themselves to her and coherce her to come help them. They break her out and hurry back the way they came, but Zane's laser pointer is knocked out of his hand, and the rope holding the cell together is severed, alerting all the guards.

The four of them are forced to make a daring escape, now on the run from the cops.

### Public Enemies 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5!

Zane and the others finally arrive at the Monastery, just as Skylor is about to lose access to her power over Ice. Zane re-cools Nya to keep her shape, and tells P.I.X.A.L. and Skylor that Kai and Lloyd are showing Aspheera around the Monastery.

She is brought to their secret base and inform her of the situation, but she is unfortunately unable to help Nya without her staff. Cole and Jay then arrive empty handed, saying that the staff was moved from its vault under Borg Tower. They call Cyrus Borg, and he informs them that the staff is a part of a guarded convoy through the city. Zane analyzes the best place to intercept the armored vehicles.

P.I.X.A.L. prepares the five Ninja new vehicles in a short matter of time in order to pass by undetected. They enter the roads on their new treads, once again wearing neutral colors, and promise each other not to use their names or their powers.

Zane uses his new jet to track the guarded convoy, and the five of them intercept the truck with the staff in it. Zane uses a grappeling hook to magnetize the jet to one of the trucks, turning it airborn. Zane flies the jet, which is propelling the truck in the air, while the other four Ninja enter inside to take the staff.

There are complications, as the New Ninja are inside of it, having been waiting for their arrival. The two groups of Ninja fight each other, and the Teal Ninja throws an explosive at Zane's jet, which causes them to lose altitude.

The truck crashes on top of a building, and the Ninja detatch it from the jet to make a quick getaway. They have also been unmasked, which makes them figitives on the run.

### A Painful Promise

The five of them return to the Monastery, once again just in time to freeze Nya in place once again. Lloyd returns Aspheera's staff to her, but she turns her back on them and starts attacking. She starts screaming for revenge and shoots them all at random. The police and the New Ninja suddenly show up, ordering them to come with them, as they are under arrest.

They convince Aspheera to save Nya while they fight off the police off, and promise her a way out of the Monastery so that she won't get caught. This plan works, and Nya finally returns to normal. Everyone is knocked out, and Jay and Nya embrace each other finally. Lloyd leads Aspheera out of the Monastery, where she escapes.

Now the Ninja are finally under arrest, and they go peacefully.

### Ninjago City vs. Ninja

The Ninja are brought to court before a judge, with Dareth as their lawyer. Their trial goes by extremely fast, and the Ninja are convicted to five years in prison for their crimes.

The five of them are shoved into their cells, and Lloyd recommends that they sit in there and wait for Dareth to find them a way out legally, rather than break themselves out. During yard time, all the other prisoners stare at them. They are approached by Ronin, who is still vengeful after they locked him up for what he did on the Island of the Keepers. Tensions are high, but the group are broken up by a guard who tells Lloyd that a visitor is here to see him. He is taken away by a guard, and is gone for quite a while.

After some time, after Zane and the others have returned to their cell, Lloyd is shoved back in in handcuffs. He reveals to them that the visitor was a masked man who told him that an individual known as the Crystal King is assembling a council of the Ninja's greatest enemies in an effort to totally obliterate them. Zane runs "Crystal King" through his databases and finds no matches.

### Kryptarium Prison Blues

The next day, Dareth and Skylor visit the Ninja to inform them that the only way to get them out is to call for a mistrial. Zane informs him that they do not have the grounds for a mistrial. To pack onto the bad news, Skylor informs them that King Vangelis in Shintaro has been broken out of his prison. Lloyd speculates that the Crystal King is behind this. They ask Dareth to investigate, and he tells them he has one last strategy that might work.

Their time for meeting ends and they are brought back to their cells.

Later on during yard time, the Ninja meet Pythor, who they haven't seen since the Day of the Departed. Pythor was apparently busted by the New Ninja, and he himself hopes that the Crystal King will recruite him to join his council. Pythor engages a fight with the five of them, and the other prisoners join in. The fight is broken up, and Pythor swears his allegiance to the Crystal King as they are brought back to their cells.

Later in the middle of the night, the Ninja are woken up by a group of Crystal Spiders entering Pythor's cell. Pythor is broken out of his cell, and the Ninja give chase. The Crystal Spiders carry Pythor out, while officers attempt to stop the Ninja from escaping themselves. A helicopter arrives to carry Pythor out, and the Ninja aren't quick enough to stop him from escaping. Now sitting ducks, the guards apprehend the Ninja and return them to their prison cells.

### Hounddog McBrag

The Ninja are asleep in their cells when they are woken up early for work detail. They board a prison bus along with several other prisoners, including Fugi-Dove, and are driven away. Some time later, the bus is stopped in the middle of the road by an older man who has stopped his car, blocking their passing.

It turns out to be Dareth, stalling the cops to wait for Nya to appear in a new Samurai X mech, who then helps break the Ninja out. They get in the car with Dareth, and he reveals that this was his last "strategy" to get them out. He also brought them new ninja suits, compliments from P.I.X.A.L. They also discover Fugi-Dove in the back seat, who followed them.

Meanwhile, the police are giving chase with them. They end up losing them and the car breaks down, which means they can't escape by car anymore. They make the plan to split up so they don't all get caught. Twitchy Tim's gas station is close by, so they make decide to reconvene there. Zane, Kai, and Dareth go one way, while the others go another.

### The Benefit of Grief

Zane, Kai, and Dareth have been walking for hours, and Zane doesn't break a sweat. The other two are exhausted but spot a van driving on the highway nearby. A young woman named Sally picks them up and gives them a ride. Zane puts on his human disguise so as not to be recognized.

Sally tells them that she's moving to Ninjago City to be a singer, and puts one of her own songs on the speaker for them. Dareth and Kai are moved by the song, but Zane remains emotionless. He doesn't understand that music is supposed to make you feel something. Zane points out a picture of Sally's parents and she breaks down crying. She reveals that she actually ran away from home because she wanted to go to Ninjago City, but her father said she wasn't old enough. She stole her father's van and bruised the bumper. Her story is interrupted by a police helicopter who calls out to them that they are under arrest. Sally misunderstands the situation and thinks her father called the cops on her, and she makes her getaway.

Zane and the others board the van to try to reason with her. Zane deactivates his cloak to show her that they are actually the ones the police are after, but she doesn't listen. In a fit of emotions, Sally rides the car to the edge of a cliff and accidentally falls off the side of it into a river. They are continually pursued by the police, which include Ninjago's top sheriff, Hounddog McBrag.

McBrag follows them into the river and chases them through the rapids. Zane uses his powers to stop him in the middle of the river, and Sally and the others drive away. They finally part at the end of the river, and Sally gets out of the car, ecstatic at the adventure they just had. After their temultuous journey, their car breaks down, and Sally goes into a crying fit. She claims to wish that she could turn off her emotions as well.

Zane sees this and begins to see that having emotions, even upleasant ones, serve a purpose. He reveals this to Sally, and reassures her that her parents will forgive her, despite her worries. They take Sally back to her parent's house and watch as her parents greet her at the door and embrace her, having been worried sick.

Zane turns his emotions back on, having realized that there is a benefit to emotions, even grief. The three of them take off, as Sally looks back at them with a smile.

### The Fifth Villain

The three of them arrive at Twitchy's shop and are given plenty of water and food. Sometime later, the rest of the Ninja arrive after a long and difficult journey. After recuperating, Lloyd devises a plan to infiltrate the Council of the Crystal King by posing as the next villain they recruit. They go over the next candidates, and recall that Vangelis, Aspheera, and Pythor have already been recruited.

That leaves Captain Soto, Killow, and Ultra Violet, but they are only small-time criminals. Kai brings up Krux, Acronix, or Garmaon, but Lloyd reminds him that their wherabouts are currently unknown. Jay then suggests the Mechanic, and so the Ninja make the plan to go back to his layer and scope it out.

Unfortunately for them, the police are still hot on their tail, and they are forced to hide in Twitchy's cramped shop. Sheriff McBrag enters the shop with three other cops, and Twitchy accidentally reveals that he's harboring the fugitive Ninja. With their hiding spots compromised, they scramble to escape, and are able to make it out unscathed with the help of Fugi-Dove, who distracts McBrag and the cops.

Later that night the Ninja return to the Mechanic's old layer and are met with the man himself. They engage in battle with him, attempting to hold him down, but he uses his mechanical arms to do them in. Eventually he is caught under a *Prime Empire* arcade cabinet, which gives Lloyd the opportunity to disguise himself as him.

Lloyd, disguised as the Mechanic, waits inside of his layer for Kabuki Mask to appear. Elsewhere, in one of Master Chen's noodle trucks, the other Ninja are able to watch Lloyd's location using a tracker that Zane built out of Mechanic's scraps. The Mechanic is tied up next to them as they operate.

It doesn't take long for Lloyd to be approached by the Crystal Spiders, and he is recruited by the Kabuki Mask to join the Council of the Crystal King.

### The Council of the Crystal King

Zane and the others watch as Lloyd makes his way through the tunnels under Ninjago City. They follow his beacon from above in the city streets until Lloyd stops at the abandoned N-Line they were at earlier. Suddenly, Lloyd's beacon begins moving at ridiculous speeds in one direction, much faster than the maximum velocity of a regular subway train.

They take off as well, in an attempt not to lose him. A fight breaks out in the trunk now that the Mechanic has freed himself, which Cole and Jay barely have under control. Mechanic uses his machines to knock the noodle truck on its side, allowing him to make his escape. The four Ninja chase after him into the subway and battle him while trains fly by. The four of them are no match for the Mechanic, as they are still out of practice from their year off. The Mechanic is able to take off on the train, and the Ninja attempt to contact Lloyd about the situation at hand. If the real Mechanic shows up, Lloyd will be comprimised. Unbeknownst to them, a crystal spider watches and listens in on their conversation about Lloyd's infiltration, and takes off to report it to the council.