Ninjago S11 E4

## Plot

The ninja pack for their quest, but most of them are treating it like a vacation instead of a dangerous mission. Pixal tells Wu that this would be a good opportunity to test out the new tactical vehicles. They built a whole new high tech secret base area. It's the Samurai Cave 2.0. They've been working on it for the past six months. Pixal built a version of the Destiny's Bounty that can drive, called the Land Bounty. Gee, what an original name. Zane reads about the Desert of Doom, and says that local tribes once worshiped a giant scarab beetle named Beohernie, who became displeased with their prayers for some reason and destroyed a local village. They stop at an oasis for lunch. They see the cooler disappear, and wonder if it was a mirage, but Zane says that optical illusions don't eat coolers. Plus, he's a robot, so in my mind, things like that don't affect him. They're attacked by Beohernie, and their new vehicles and weapons don't even bother it. The engine of the Land Bounty is overheating. They try to make it to a cluster of rocks to get off the sand, but it's a mirage. They make it onto a real rock, but the Land Bounty is damaged, and now there are *three* giant beetles circling the rock, just like the Graboids in *Tremors*. Zane tries to fix the Land Bounty as vultures circle them. Nya tries to reach Pixal on the radio, but can't. There's something wrong with the long range transmitter, but she can't figure out what. They have less than a day's supply of water, the ATV and the Dune Bounty are wrecked, and the Rock Cycle isn't fast enough to outrun the giant beetles. Even if it could, it can only carry one of them. Lloyd suggests that Nya could use her elemental powers to draw some water out of the air, but that's not possible with the heat and the humidity. Zane tells the others that the Bounty's engine won't start without a critical component, but Beohernie tore it out and swallowed it. They can't use the ATV's inverter because it was also damaged, and the Rock Cycle's is inadequate for a vehicle the size of the Dune Bounty. I'm glad they decided on a slightly better name for it, but that name is really only appropriate for the dunes and the desert. One of the beetles grabs Jay. The others try to pull him back in, but the beetle is too strong. Kai throws a fireball at it to make it let go. That night, Zane says there's only one option. The digestive system of a beetle is very slow, so there's a good chance that the inverter is still intact, but one of them has to be eaten alive in order to go inside Beohernie to get it back. The others tell him that's a crazy idea, but they can't come up with anything else. They fight over who should do it. Zane and Lloyd volunteer, but the others fight about it after Kai makes a joke about Jay being expendable. Now *that* is funny! I think that's the first time I've actually smiled at a joke during this season. They play many one on one rounds of Rock, Paper, Clamp to decide who will go. Oddly enough, it's the person who *wins* that goes. Zane beats Nya, and tells the others not to worry. He's the logical choice, and his metal body will be harder for the beetle to digest. That depends on how strong and corrosive its stomach acid is. Zane is tied to a rope so the others can pull him back out once he radios in. Beohernie eats him, and he has another vision of himself fighting the fire Serpentine, and the ice castle and dragon. "Oh my." Don't steal George Takei's lines. After almost an hour inside, he's able to contact the others and says that he has the inverter. I personally would've liked to have seen his journey. The others use their elemental powers on the beetles when their plan to reel Zane back in hits a few snags. Zane gets out, puts the inverter back in, and they leave the rock and lose the beetles.