11x10 - Ancient History

[bunniefuu]

[theme music]

♪ Go, Ninjago ♪

♪ Jump up, kick back
Whip around ♪

♪ Hey, go, Ninjago ♪

[Cole] "Ancient History."

[people clamouring]

[suspenseful music]

[tires screeching]

[laughs]

[hisses, laughs]

Look at them.

[Aspheera] Scurrying
like frightened field mice.

[chuckles]

What is your command?

Shall we conquer the city?

Build you a new empire?

I have no desire to rule
a weak and timid rabble.

I seek one thing...

Revenge!

Revenge, yes.

Wonderful, sweet revenge.
Against whom?

Who do you think?

Against the Treacherous Deceiver
who betrayed me.

Who imprisoned me for ages
inside a crumbling pyramid.

Ah. Him. Him.

That's what I thought, just...
Just checking.

I will repay
his treachery tenfold.

With the power
of the Forbidden Scroll,

I will banish him
to the most forsaken place

in all creation.

But how will you find him?

With this. It belonged to him.

It bears his scent.

Fire-Fang.

To me.

Lead me to
the Treacherous Deceiver.

Find him, Fire-Fang.

[foreboding music]

[growling, hissing]

[sniffs]

[roars]

He has it. He has the scent.

[foreboding music]

My revenge is at hand.
[groans]

Go, Fire-Fang.

Lead me to the one
who betrayed me.

Go!

[all grunting]

That way.

[suspenseful music]

Come on.

[Fire-Fang shrieking]

[people clamouring]

We gotta stop that thing.

Wait, Lloyd.

Aspheera has beaten us twice,

and with the scroll,
she is more powerful than ever.

We can't just give up.

I am not proposing that.

But Master Wu taught us to think
before rushing into battle.

We need to know more about her
and this Deceiver.

Perhaps then, we will
find a way to defeat her.

You're talking ancient
Serpentine history.

Yeah, who do you plan to ask?

[Jay] What about Scales?

Well, he's Serpentine.
Maybe he knows.

The Serpentine don't
usually get involved.

Only one way to find out.

Okay, Jay, Cole and Kai,
you guys track down Scales.

-Find out what you can.
-Well, what are you gonna do?

We're gonna see if
we can slow Aspheera down

and get that scroll back.
Come on!

Aw. Why does Scales
have to live in a sewer?

Doesn't the smell bother him?

It smells like Cole's socks.

Hey.

[ominous music]

[Cole] Oh, great.

I don't suppose either of you
know how to read Serpentine?

Nope. Not me.

Ah. We should have brought Zane.

[Kai] Well, we might as well
flip a coin.

[Jay] Oh, what's the difference?
Which tunnel was it again?

I say we go back and...
[gasps]

[hisses]

[people clamouring]

They must be headed
for the south side of the city.

But why? There's nothing there.

We must assume
the Deceiver is there.

Zane, can you plot us
a shortcut?

So we can get ahead of her?

Cross-referencing
alternate routes.

[beeping]

[Zane] I have plotted
the fastest route.

[all panting]

[Zane] This way.

[suspenseful music]

Jump!

[all grunt]

[Lloyd] There she is.

[Zane] Now!

So, what's the plan?

I have an idea.

But Aspheera's over there.

I will return.

You distract her while I try
to get that scroll back.

[tense music]

Here goes nothing.

Hiya, fellas.

[grunting]

[sword clanging]

[Nya] Ninja, go!

Again?

These Ninja are a plague.

Fire-Fang, destroy them.

[grunting]

[Fire-Fang growls]

Sorry. But I have other plans.

[screeches]

[groans]

Lloyd. I hope this works.

Hey! I'm not done yet, fireworm!

Destroy them!

Nothing will stand in the way
of my vengeance.

[Nya grunting]

Hang in there, Nya.

Again. Blast it again,
Fire-Fang.

[Lloyd] Surprise.

-[grunts]
-[groans]

[both grunting]

[screams]

[grunting]

[Aspheera] There! Get them.

[all snarling]

Lloyd!

Where's Zane?

Beats me.

[helicopter droning]

[Aspheera] You!

[all snarling]

[suspenseful music]

[Aspheera] This grows tiresome.

Fire-Fang, destroy them.

[Zane] Hop on!

[both grunt]

[snarls]

What now?

I sure hope the others
are doing better than we are.

[tense music]

[grunts]

Hey, watch it.

Yeah, we're friends
with Scales, you know.

And he's not gonna
be happy when he hears

-you were shoving us around.
-[door opens]

Is that what we are?

Friends?

Sure we are, right? Pal?

Every time you come down here,

it's because someone is trying
to destroy the surface world.

Ah.
[chuckles]

You're right. We're here
because someone's attacking

the surface world,
and we need your help. Okay?

We need to know about Aspheera
and the Treacherous Deceiver.

Aspheera is part of our history.

But this other name...

Treacherous Deceiver.

This, I have never heard.

But there is one who may know.
Follow me.

[light music]

[all gasp]
Whoa.

This is Acidicus.

He runs our library.

He loves books.

They wish to know about Aspheera

and the Treacherous Deceiver.

Aspheera...

who tried to overthrow
King Mambo the Fifth.

And the Treacherous Deceiver
who betrayed her...

[gasps]
Yes...

I know this tale.

In the time of
the First Spinjitzu Master,

there was a truce between
humans and Serpentine.

Humans were forbidden to enter
the valley of the Serpentine,

and the Serpentine were
forbidden from human lands.

But one wilful child
disobeyed the law.

[Acidicus] A boy went among
the Serpentine and was caught.

He would have been punished,

but he was rescued
by a Serpentine girl.

The girl and the boy
became friends.

But the boy was evil and
corrupted the Serpentine girl.

He turned her
against her own king

and was betrayed by the boy.

[Cole] Hey...

Does that look
familiar to anyone?

That's the scroll Aspheera
stole from the museum.

It is the Scroll
of Forbidden Spinjitzu.

Oh, boy. I think I just realized

who the Treacherous Deceiver is.

-Who?
-Yeah, spit it out.

Ugh, think about it.

Who is, like, super,
super, super old,

and is treacherous enough
to befriend a snake

and then betray her?

[Cole and Kai] Garmadon.

[tense music]

There's an evil Serpentine
sorceress called Aspheera

-attacking the city.
-Aspheera?

Yeah, Garmadon betrayed her
and locked her in a pyramid

for a thousand years.

And she is ticked off.

She's not gonna stop
until she finds him.

She is not looking for Garmadon.

She is looking... for me.

[closing theme music]