Ninjago S7 E4

## Plot

Oh my gosh, the sheer amount of hoops I had to jump through to find this… I legitimately thought about skipping the rest of this season and going straight to season 8. Even the creators themselves expressed their frustration at how long it took to air this season of the show in the U.S. Anyways, Wu, who seems much better, is taking a walk through the park with Misako. Suddenly, the day turns dark, and Krux, Acronix, and their Vermilion Warriors show up. Wu is about to fight them, when he sees Misako *turning into dust*. Yeah, it's obviously a nightmare. He's still bedridden at the temple. Misako says that she'll always be at his side, as he will be for her. He admits to her that something bad happened at the temple during his fight, and he hasn't told anyone yet. Back at the cave, Nya is still trying to fix Zane. She told the others to head back to the temple. The only thing left to try is a total system reboot. It works, but now he's talking nonsense *again,* and can't walk right. Pixal is trying to unscramble his neural pathways so he can rescue Borg, which is what's causing it, but Nya can't hear her from inside Zane's head. Nya thinks that he needs a new binary power core, when she really needs to realign his neural inputs. Wu finishes telling Misako what happened. He's aging rapidly because of the time punch from the acceleration blade. He ages one day every hour, and will continue to do so until he dies. Lloyd comes in, and Wu tells Misako to say nothing about what he just told her. She reluctantly agrees. Lloyd thinks that he failed Wu by not being there when he was fighting Acronix. Kai, Jay, and Cole are training outside. Cole notices that Kai has been acting different since he fought Krux, but he doesn't tell them what he said. They want to bring one of the snake warriors there for Wu to question, but Lloyd says that that plan won't work, since Wu is still out of commission. Lloyd is put in charge, but the others remind him that it's temporary, and he's still in training. He says that they need to stay at the temple to come up with a real plan. Meanwhile, all of the metal in the city is being stolen by the snakes. Ronin and Dareth tell the guys that the snakes are stealing metal. Kai, Cole, and Jay want to leave to pummel them, but Lloyd wonders why they're stealing metal. It could be a diversion to leave the temple unguarded so Krux and Acronix could finish off Wu. But they can't just ignore the damage that the snakes are causing. Lloyd orders them to stay, but they ignore him. He tells Ronin and Dareth to leave. Nya *finally* comes back with the part she needs… and finds a bunch of Vermilion Warriors trying to take Zane, who is made of metal. He can't fight in his current state. Pixal reroutes all of his power to his chest again, causing an electrical overload and making the snakes retreat. This means that Nya has to reboot him again though. She sees that the snakes stole her Samurai X gear. She uses a vehicle to power Zane back up. They meet up with Jay, Cole, and Kai. Ronin and Dareth help out too. A variety of stuff happening leads to Dareth accidentally breaking Ronin's leg. The plan to steal metal has failed, so the snakes go forward with General Machia's idea. It's to distract the ninja to give the other two generals time to steal more metal. Lloyd is mad at the others, but he's also worried about them, and Wu. He feels like he disappointed him. Wu explains that he wishes the whole team had been there to help him fight Acronix. However, it was his own stupid decision to fight alone, and no one has disappointed him. Lloyd still feels bad because he failed at being in charge, and asks what he should do now. Unfortunately, Wu passes out again. Misako tells him that Wu makes a lot of mistakes too. Yes, someone finally said it! It turns out that Wu is faking being asleep. Misako says that the true measure of a leader isn't whether or not they make mistakes, but if they learn from them. Lloyd realizes that he should be fighting with his friends and heads out to find them when a blackout occurs. Misako knew that Wu was pretending. Lloyd has to learn to make his own decisions. He beats the others to the power plant. When all the power went out, he figured that they'd be at the source, and he was right. They apologize to each other. Nya tells Lloyd that Zane can short himself out, creating a massive blast of power, and an electromagnetic field that picks up the armor. If the snakes have no armor, they can't reform. The turbines in the plant are basically big rotating electromagnets. Nya plugs Zane into one of them directly. They don't have enough power. Luckily, they have an elemental master of lightning. The plan works, and the little snakes retreat. They get the power and Zane back online. He's finally speaking normally again. They learn that the snakes are attacking the amusement park to steal more metal, and head there. It looks like Kai will finally tell Nya about what Krux said after they deal with it. Zane can no longer make contact with Pixal. Jay realizes that more snakes are probably attacking his parents' junkyard for metal, and heads there instead, without telling the others. Why is this season so boring and slow? It's just "Go here to deal with this problem, go there to deal with that problem, rinse and repeat for several episodes in a row while manufacturing false tension by having none of the characters communicate properly and keep secrets from each other as opposed to being a real team and family who actually tell each other stuff."