03x16 - Under the Light of a Mechanical Moon

[bunniefuu]

[sinister music playing]

[clanks]

[mechanism clanking]

[hissing]

[bubbling]

Master, I've done it.

[harsh buzzing]

Endless interruptions by the Ninja,

but at last,

we have another Source Dragon Icon.

We're one step closer to our goals.

[harsh buzzing]

I know exactly what I must do next,

and no one, not even the Ninja,
will get in our way.

[harsh buzzing]

Hmm...

Yes, Master.

The time of your glory
will soon be at hand.

[intense music playing]

A mortal using the Forge of the Forgotten

is a grave insult!

No one still living
is allowed to touch it.

And yet, I have already done so.

There's only one solution.

We must make it
so the one who used the Forge

is no longer living.

[blades ringing]

You're welcome to try.

♪ Lost in the unknown ♪

♪ Together we will rise ♪

♪ We fight ♪

♪ Be a Ninja for what's right ♪

[thunderclap]

[unearthly screeching]

[gasping]

As if we didn't have
enough problems already.

[Lee groaning vacantly]

Sorry, Lee, gotta run.

[zombie-like moaning]

[moaning]

[moaning]
You're my best friend...

What happened to Lee?

[Arin] Spectral Dragonians.

You can't see them, but trust me.

[grunting with effort]

Get to cover!

[Lee moaning and mumbling]

Did all the Lees just decide to sleepwalk

at the same time?

Is this another one of his dance numbers?

No, this is something weird.

This is something weird?

[Sora] The same thing happened
when we were in Mysterium.

Sora! When did you get here?

You bring Ras too?

Long story, but no.

Ugh! I was really
looking forward

to kicking him in the gut.

What "thing" happened in Mysterium?

[unearthly screeching]

Those look like Dragonians.

Yeah, but the kind that,
if they touch you,

they drain your souls or something.

[unearthly screeching]

What's with all the--?

[shouting]

Whatever you do, you cannot touch them!

Who would want to?

That's what throwing fire is for!

[grumbling] Ah!

I'm better at hitting things I can see!

Yeah, that's why I made this thing

out of a prismatic blade.

Is it safe to come out yet?

[shouting]

We need to light this
whole place up with your lamp!

Great idea.

Problem.
How's that possible?

I've got an idea.

Nya, get me to the top of that house!

Get ready for a big boost.

Whoa-oh-oh!

Ugh!

Thanks!

- [panicked screaming]
- It's not safe out here!

- Go inside!
- But what happened to Lee?

[screaming]

[gasping]

[tense music playing]

Okay, Sora, you got this.

This better work.

[Jay] Aah!

Great, more of Lee.

What was that all about?

[unearthly shrieking]

[everyone gasping]

[panicked screaming]

It was less horrifying
when we couldn't see those things!

[snarling]

Now that I can see you, I can arrest you!

You think you can just drain souls

without a stamped
Certificate of Soul Handling?

No!

[roaring]

[grunting with effort]

[unearthly shrieking]

Huh?

Why won't this thing work?

[blades clashing]

Ah!

H'yah! Huah!

Lloyd!

Arin!

Um... Lloyd?

I, uh...

Arin... I...

[both] I'm sorry.

- [unearthly shrieking]
- [gasping]

[growling] Powers don't work
on these things,

which is really just stupid!

Luckily, Ninja are more
than just our powers.

H'yah!

I was starting to think
you left, McCoolGuy!

Not yet,
but now's a good time to do exactly that.

- Come on.
- What?

We're saving people here!

The mission is over.

We came for the parents.

Let's grab them and go!

For Ninja,

saving people is always

the most important mission.

Then you, Ninja, are a bunch of clowns.

You mom is a bunch of clowns!

[blowing spectral note]

Zarkt? Are the Forbidden Five
the ones doing all this?

Maybe?
But they're really out of it,

like they're asleep.

Playing those weird musical instruments

that the souls go into.

What's really going on here?

[blowing spectral note]

[blowing spectral note]

[Thunderfang]
My time has never been closer.

[gasping]

Lloyd! I think we're
the only ones left!

These things aren't going to
stop until they get every one of us!

- [unearthly shrieking]
- Don't tell me

I finally found my parents
just to lose it all...

[shrieking]

[heavy clanking]

[gasping]

- Finally!
- Huh?

What? Hop on!

[beeping remote]

[grunting with impact]

Maybe the Ninja aren't
as stupid as I thought.

[triumphant music playing]

H'yah!

The Bounty?

How did--?
Where did--?

Auto-pilot remote Roby installed for me,

but it took forever to get here!

[cackling]

[mechanisms activating]

Oh, you saved us.

Let's not assume we're safe yet.

Wyldfyre is driving.

Wait, just how bad is she?

[gasping] Uh...

- [powering up]
- [cackling]

[all yelping] Whoa!

Whoa!

[humming]

[Arin] ...then we were trapped
in Imperium,

which is from another realm, like I said,

and then things got really complicated,

but Sora, remember she thought

her powers were from Riyu,
the little dragon?

- Well she--
- Uh, Arin?

- Yeah?
- You haven't stopped talking

since we got onboard.

I just have so much to tell you!

You don't have to tell us
everything right now, honey.

We have time.

I think...

I think I need a hug.

Well, we don't have Ninja skills,

but we do have hug skills.

[crying]

I tried not to lose hope
you were still out there somewhere.

I'm sorry I didn't find you sooner.

Oh, we should have found you!

We got tricked by Lee's lies,

like all those people in there.

So everyone in the Land of Lee
are someone's lost loved ones?

Pretty much.
It was a very convincing lie

Lee pulled off.

We should have seen through it, though.

What kind of amateur detectives are we?

Oh, that's another story!

I solved a mystery at a tournament!

I even have my old notebook

from when we used to play detective games!

[somber music playing]

I had the same feeling
when we escaped Mysterium.

You know what I'm feeling?

[ship thudding, all yelping]

[Wyldfyre calling]
Sorry! Not sorry!

If it's guilt about not being able to help

all those people that were attacked?

Yeah.

Huh.

We're more alike than I realized.

We need to figure out

where the Five are taking their souls,

and find a way to get them back.

I thought for sure Thunderfang ate

the Forbidden Five or something.

Maybe they were released

when Arin hit Thunderfang with that elixir

that released all his trapped souls.

Someone say my name?

We're trying to figure out

how the Forbidden Five are still alive.

They don't look too alive.

It's like they're hollow.

You think someone
drained their life-forces?

Maybe. I don't know.

My instincts haven't been the best lately.

That's not true.

[sighing] Lloyd, come on.

Don't be so hard on yourself, Arin.

I'm the one who failed you.

I should have made finding your parents

a higher priority.

But you did find them!

I fell for Ras' lies.

[Jay] Hey, kid!

I'm the one that really
found your parents!

Can't you just let them have this moment?

Whatever. I just happen
to know the truth.

- [grunting]
- Whoa! Ah!

I see he hasn't un-shattered his goodness.

Or recovered his memories.

There are some memories
I wish I didn't have.

Going with Ras was a disaster.

All of you were right.

The journey was bumpy, sure,

but your parents are alive,

and you have them back

That's all that matters.

Yeah. I feel like

I finally have a place I belong again.

You also belong with the Ninja.

Really? I don't have
an elemental power.

The only way I could learn real Spinjitzu

is when an evil
tiger-toothed jerk taught me.

You always told me I was special,

but I'm not special, Lloyd.

I don't think I'm a real Ninja.

Arin, don't say that.

[Arin] But it's true!

[Lloyd] I know you're special,

maybe the most special Ninja
there ever was.

Egalt said the same thing.

He made me promise
to teach you properly...

the teachings my Master Wu
would have given you.

The same Master Wu that caused the Merge

and all that chaos that came with it?

When you told me
my uncle caused the Merge,

I think I was in denial.

I couldn't accept it.

I wish I could ask him why he did it,

but I've come to accept that Wu passed on,

sacrificed himself

in the process of creating the Merge.

Actually, no.

He isn't dead.

- What?
- When I was with Ras,

I had to go to the Spectral Lands

to find that elixir.

I met a departed Ninja

who insisted Master Wu
didn't pass through there.

Wu must be alive,

somewhere, somehow.

"The Spectral Lands"?

Yeah, they used to be
the Realm of the Departed

and the Cursed Realm,

now all mixed together.

The Spectral Dragonians who attacked us

looked kinda like the creatures
who attack the dead there.

- [ship creaking, all groaning]
- Dead like Thunderfang

- and the Forbidden Five?
- If they really died,

they'd've had to pass through there.

I had another vision

and overheard the Source Dragons.

They claimed Thunderfang
was still a threat.

Could he be in the Spectral Lands?

I... suppose it's possible.

Change of course.

We need to go to the Spectral Lands!

[tense music playing]

[munching]

[spitting]

- Still terrible!
- How can you eat

when we just saw proof
a Source Dragon was k*lled?

I didn't eat!
'Cause it was gross!

[distant shouting]

[battle raging]

[grunting with effort,
unearthly shrieking]

Ha!

[gasping]

[groaning]

[groaning]

[gasping] Oh, no!

[groaning]

What is happening here?

[gasping]

I don't know.
That fog rolled in

out of nowhere with that weird music!

[playing spectral note]

Nokt?

That guy's back?

Aren't the Forbidden Five dead?

Cole! You've gotta see this!

[unearthly shrieking]

Geo, take the Finders

to the Monastery for safety.

We've got a villain to catch.

[anchor clanging heavily]

[all gasping]

[Wyldfyre] You're welcome!

[Barry] We're not going in there, are we?

Well, you're not.

[mechanism activating]

[Sora] I'm programming the jet

to take you back
to the Monastery in Ninjago.

Aw, why do only they get to leave?

I'll find a way to get you more treasure

if you come with us.

We're gonna need all the help we can get.

Especially Ninja help.

Not a Ninja,
but not gonna pass up treasure.

Are you sure you should go in there, Arin?

The Land of Lees is filled with
other people's missing loved ones.

I have to do whatever I can
to release their souls,

and I'm the only one

who's been in the Spectral Lands before.

When you're done here,

we should go to the Livoti Springs,

like we used to every summer.

Yeah, it's not there anymore,

but we definitely need a family vacation.

[sighing]

[Lloyd] Arin?

Should we have seen something by now?

Anything?

Yeah, it's weird the soul-suckers

don't know we're here,

or that departed Ninja I met.

Found something.

[all gasping]

None of this looks good.

[playing spectral note]

That's the Well of the Lost.

It's where I got the Elixir that saved Ras

and destroyed Thunderfang.

What's down that well?

And where did those flying ghost things

that were with that guy go?

[unearthly shrieking]

[all yelping]

[grunting with effort]

H'yah!

Haah!

We gotta get out of here!

[gasping]

[unearthly shrieking]

[roaring]

[unearthly shrieking]

It's like they're sleepwalking.

Well, sleeping or not,
I'm sure they're thirsty.

Hmm, fetid tea it is!

[jet engines arriving]

Visitors?

Is this the Monastery?

Hello?

Anyone home?

Um, who are you?

[stammering]
Are you supposed to be here?

I think so.

Sora put the jet on autopilot.

We're Arin's parents.

What a pleasure!

I'm Mr. Frohicky,

Assistant Keeper of the Monastery,

and I'm thrilled to see
my belief in your demise

was incorrect.

Uh... thanks.

We don't want to intrude,

but we heard our old house is gone,

and something called
the Crossroads is there now?

All true, all true,

but we have a place here you can stay.

Arin's old room!

Make yourself at home.

Unfortunately, I'm needed
to help our other guests.

[gasping] Is that...?

Our old porch swing!

Arin kept it!

[soft music playing]

[grunting with effort]

[unearthly shrieking]

- [grunting with impact]
- [blades clanging]

What is that thing, now?

[unearthly shrieking]

[Sora] It's trying to lead us that way.

[Arin] Should we follow it?

[blade clanging]

[Lloyd] I don't have any better ideas.

[unearthly shrieking]

In here!

Haah!

[grunting with effort]

Is this another...

[Nya] Monastery.

[Sora] Which means...

[Sora] A Portal Gate!

A way back to the Monastery of Spinjitzu!

No! We need to go
to the City of Temples!

Not exactly the time
to visit your boyfriend.

Not for Roby.
Well, kinda for Roby,

but more 'cause Thunderfang
got beaten really hard

back in oldy-times, right?

At the Battle of the City of Temples!

It was in Roby's book!

Yeah, so if there's a way to defeat him,

Roby will know!

[Sora] That is...

strangely logical.

[Lloyd] To the City of Temples!

[portal activating]

Was there an invasion here, too?

None of those Dragonian things.

[grumbling] And no Roby.

[door banging]

[banging on door]

[moaning]

[tense music playing]