Darkness offspring

Dead man's squall

After their bikes fell off the cliff, Zane tries to get Mr. E to talk.

Zane: Are you the Quiet One? (Mr. E cracks his neck) Are you the Quiet One?! (They attack each other.) Who are you? Who...is...in...charge!? Who? You don't have to do this. (Mr. E kicks him off the cliff) Who... (He shuts down.)

Mr. E: (He opens Zane's chest and puts something inside him.) tes neeb sah part ehT. (The Trap has been set.)

The ninja find Zane.

Lloyd: Zane! Zane, can you hear me?

Nya: What did they do to him?

Jay: Say something, Zane. Can you hear us? Zane?

Acid: not again, you have a habit of being shut down.

Lloyd: P.I.X.A.L., lower the gurney. Zane's in bad shape. Hang on, buddy. Hang on. (They put Zane on the gurney and hook him to the Bounty.)

Nya: Okay. Winch him up, Pix.

Lloyd: How bad is it?

P.I.X.A.L.: He has extensive damage to all systems. His neural net and cognitive cores suffered severe failures.

Nya: Can you save him?

P.I.X.A.L.: I've diverted power to critical life functions, but Zane will have to do most of the work. He must reconfigure his system and reboot himself.

Harumi: Isn't there anything we can do?

Lloyd: We have to keep moving or the Sons of Garmadon will find us. They'll do anything to get their hands on the child.

Kai: I just don't get how a baby can be a key.

Cole: I don't either, but that's what they said. They called him the key to the third mask.

Lloyd: If Cole's right, we need to disappear. Get as far away from Ninjago City as we can.

Jay: Hmm. Doesn't seem right. Abandoning Ninjago City.

Acid: we did it before.

Lloyd: We're not abandoning. There are others who will protect her.

Kai: Like who?

Nya: There's always Samurai X. Whoever that is.

Lloyd: Whoever it is, they're going to have to cover for us until we get a handle on things. P.I.X.A.L., set a new course. Anywhere but here.

The baby cries.

Lloyd: Maybe he's thirsty. Give him some milk.

Cole: I tried. He doesn't like milk.

Acid: wait, how'd you get milk?

Jay: What else do babies drink?

Kai: Don't ask me. Ask him.

Cole: He's a baby! He hasn't learned how to talk yet.

Jay: Oh! Maybe he needs a diaper change.

Cole: Oh my gosh. Do we even have diapers?

Lloyd: Why would we have diapers? We're ninja!

Acid: Jay might have some.

Jay: hey! ... Ooh! Maybe we can use one of our hoods instead.

Kai: Not my hood.

Lloyd: We'll draw straws. Loser gives up their hood.

Acid: heh, I don't have a hood.

Harumi: (The baby stops crying.) The spider's in the house. Sleep sleep. The spider bit the mouse. Sleep deep. Don't wake up or else you'll find a spider in your mouth.