Ninjago S15 E22

## Plot

In the rice field village, Cole's engine is fried, so Jay saves him, and then they're both saved by Nya, who finally shows up in the Bounty. She tells Jay to tow Cole's car back to the Samurai X cave. They may have found a way to stop all this, but it's easier to just show them. The guys meet Lloyd, Wu, Skylor, and Pixal there. Wu explains that their enemies may be impervious to elemental power, but not the power that comes from the Oni form. In the beginning, there were dragons and oni. Order and chaos. Creation and destruction. They've been taught to harness their elemental power, which comes from the dragon, but the oni have an equal and opposite power, and the highest form of that power is the Oni form. They learn that Garmadon is there, and once again, the guys are prepared to defend themselves, their friends, and for Zane in particular, their master, with their powers. Wu says that against a crystal and vengestone army that nullifies their elemental powers and a temple that can drain power from their vehicles, Garmadon teaching Lloyd how to achieve Oni form may be their only chance. He's a really terrible teacher though. He makes Toph look gentle. When he says that all things have an opposite, Wu realizes that an equally powerful Dragon form might also exist that they can use. Misako is still at the library of Domu, and he and Pixal contact her offscreen to see if she can find out more. The temple has reached the city. Mayor Trustable tries to encourage people to stay calm, but the new ninja are quickly defeated and crystalized, at which point everyone panics and flees. Garmadon drops a mountain of continuity nods and callbacks on us by saying that even though he's been to the Realm of Madness, the Underworld, the Cursed Realm, and the Departed Realm, he's never been in a more hopeless situation than this one. However, when he says that it's like Lloyd wants Ninjago to fall to the Overlord, and that Harumi would've at least understood what he was getting at, Lloyd's fury is strong enough to make his hands glow with purple fire. He panics when he sees it though and they quickly go out. Wu and Pixal return. The guys decide to get out there and save everyone the old fashioned way. Pixal has modified their vehicles' shielding and weapons so they can now use a boost to actually destroy the crystal vengestone warriors, but if they use it for too long or too often, their engines will burn out. Garmadon tells Wu that they don't stand a chance. Everyone cheers on the old ninja. Meanwhile, in Kryptarium, some inmates hope that the ninja will fail, but Ronin finally regains his character development and chews them out. Right now, they're risking their lives to save all Ninjago, including them, and they're not doing it for money or infamy. That takes guts. Lloyd, Nya, Wu, and Garmadon are on the Bounty. Wu is wearing an upgraded version of the Dragon Armor from season 9, which is incorrectly referred to in dialogue as the Golden Armor (which was melted down and reforged into the Weapons of Spinjitzu, which the villains currently have). Wu also has the Dragonbone blade. There's no way he's sitting out the most important battle of their time. Lloyd leaves after asking Garmadon why he even came if he's convinced that they'll fail, and Wu goes after him. Garmadon is carrying around what remains of Christofern in a can. He tells Nya that this was the only green in his life. He hoped it would grow and thrive, and maybe forgive him, but now it's gone, and he's all alone. It's clear that no matter how much he tries to deny it, he's really talking about Lloyd. Nya tells him that this type of plant is extremely durable. They look dead, but they come back. There's a tiny bud. Garmadon just needs to re-pot it, and it'll sprout… as long as it has water, which reminds her that her powers are gone. Some time later, Zane successfully attacks the temple this time, which surprises Harumi and the Overlord. Nya tries to pull the temple away from the city, so the Dragonides are released again. Lloyd, Nya, Wu, and Garmadon fight them off. Harumi leaps on a Dragonide and destroys one of the Bounty's thrusters again. Lloyd once again tells her to stop this. It seems hypocritical of him to be willing to give her another chance, but not his dad. Wu leaps off of the Bounty and deploys new wings in the armor that let him fly. He goes to the temple and fights the Overlord himself. It's glorious, although according to Garmadon, this is the titular brave yet foolish act of the episode. Kai's vehicle is picked up by a Dragonide, and he can't shoot it off since his weapons only fire straightforward blasts. His vehicle is dropped on Cole's car upside down, and the two crash into the side of a building, which is the last we see of them for multiple episodes. Zane's jet also goes down and crashes into abandoned cars on a road after being attacked by a Dragonide, and this is also the last time we see him in this episode. He wasn't able to eject. The Overlord asks Wu if he really thinks he has a chance against him. Wu tells him that even if he didn't, he'd still oppose the Overlord until his last breath. His father used to tell him stories about the Overlord's viciousness. As a child, he was afraid of him, until he realized that all of the stories ended with the Overlord's defeat. However, he tells Wu that his father never won. All he did was maintain the balance by dividing the island in two. He only delayed the inevitable. And this episode came to Netflix exactly ten years later in the U.S. Now the end is upon them. No more peace, no more balance. Wu once again says that he'll oppose the Overlord for as long as he lives. The Overlord makes him lose the Dragonbone blade, and says that's why Wu must be the first to fall as he blasts him off of the temple. Lloyd and Garmadon see him fall, but luckily, he regains consciousness and activates his wings. The Overlord sends out a blast that crystalizes all of the buildings. He fires a blast at the Bounty that causes a fire. Jay sees this and is worried about Nya, which makes him crash into crystals. Nya says the air brakes are their only chance. Garmadon, you have *wings*. You can *fly*. Why can't you do it yourself? Lloyd activates them with a button press and their only thruster, but it ends up splitting the Bounty in half, with Nya falling in one half with the sails and Lloyd and Garmadon crashing somewhere else in the other half. The episode ends as the Overlord says the end begins, which isn't in the original YouTube version for some reason. The full episode was eventually uploaded to LEGO's channel… almost two months later, on December 5, 2022.