Kai was starting up the gaming system when Lloyd walks in "Hey Kai, wish you saw it, Cole beat your high score last night"
"Uh you must be talking about another game, this is Fist to Face 2, nobody can beat me at my game" Kai declaired
"Huh, thought it was, see ya later Kai" Lloyd said walking away
Kai smiled as he turned back to the screen but quickly changed to angry when it showed the top high scores as Cole.
Inside the dining room, Cole is preparing Violet Berry Soup, he raised the spoon to taste it. He quickly spit it out, it tasted horrible.
Lloyd walks by "Hey Cole, I saw Jay messing with your soup last night, later"
On the deck, Jay activates his Sparring Robot for training, but it begins malfunctioning.
Lloyd then walks by "hey Jay, I saw Zane tampering with your robot"
"Wait Lloyd come back" Jay shouted as Lloyd left, leaving him to deal with the aggressive robot alone.
Later, Zane walks onto the deck to grab his laundry when Lloyd passes by.
"Hello Lloyd, how are you doing this evening" Zane smiled
"Good, Aria asked me to pick up Kai's laundry, she washed his ninja suite with yours" Lloyd said picking it up before walking off.
Zane's smile quickly changes to a frown when he notices that his white ninja suit has now turned pink.
Lloyd then walked into Aria's room "hey Aria, Kai wanted me to give you your locket back. He said he had to borrow it"
Aria sat up in bed and looked over at her dresser. Lloyd set it down and quickly left. Aria stood up and picked up the pieces of her locket, it was broken.
Meanwhile the 4 boys meet up inside the Bounty to argue.
"You knew that was my game!" Kai shouted
"It took me 3 days to make that soup!" Cole shouted
"Don't mess with my robot!" Jay shouted
"How am I supposed to strike fear in this! It's pink!" Zane shouted
"Enough!" Wu shouted and moved the curtain revealing Lloyd was responsible for their troubles.
"I get first dibs!" Kai shouted cracking his knuckles
"No dibs" Wu ordered "I had purposely ordered Lloyd to sabotage you to teach you all about the destructive power of rumors"
"No offense, but thats a stupid lesson sensei" Cole said
"Well i seemed to have misplaced my lesson book" Sensei Wu admits
"You mean this one" Kai said taking the book out of Lloyd's pocket.
"It was the perfect plan until you ruined it" Lloyd whined
The ninjas all jumped back when a knife lodged into the wall next to Lloyd. Lloyd shouted and moved over.
"That almost killed me" Lloyd said
"Next time I won't miss" the ninjas looked at the door to see Aria holding throwing knifes, her eyes were filled with tears, she was pissed.
"Aria it was just a prank" Jay said trying to calm her down
"this is NOT just a prank!" Aria shouted and she threw another knife at Lloyd
Wu gasped as he looked into her eyes. He ran over to her and tapped her chest with the end of his staff. He caught her when she fell over and helped her stand back up.
"What happened Sensei?" Aria asked
The rest of the ninjas stared at them. How could she forget.
"Do not worry about it, now what happened?" Wu asked
Aria wiped the tears from her eyes and held out her broken locket
"Ah i see, do not worry, I will fix it" Wu smiled and she hugged him
"I'm sorry if I scared you" Aria said sadly to the ninja
"You didn't scare us" Cole said
"Yeah don't worry about it" Jay agreed
The ninjas all nodded in agreement. They didn't want her to feel bad for something she couldn't control. Wu told them her powers might be acting up because she isn't using them yet. All her elemental powers are building up and controlling her emotions.
Suddenly they hear Nya through a speaker in the room"every one come to the bridge"
The ninja looked at each other suspiciously and head there.
"Pythor is on his way to the last two Serpentine tombs" Nya informed
"Kai, Jay, and Aria head out to the Venomari Tomb, Cole and Zane the Constrictai Tomb. Quickly, we must not let Pythor open those tombs" Wu commanded
"I want to go too" Lloyd said
"No, you can fix those pranks of yours, starting with Aria's locket" Wu ordered and Lloyd whined
On their Blade Cycle and Storm Fighter, Kai and Jay arrive at The Toxic Bogs. Aria was riding with Kai. They stop to observe the acid lakes.
"We're going to have to go the rest of the way by swinging across the vines" Aria said
"Good idea" Kai agreed
After going across the vines the three find the Venomari Tomb's entrance, but when Jay opens it they find the tomb is already empty.
"We're too late" Aria said sadly
"That can't be right" Jay said looking into the tomb more.
Kai leaves Jay and Aria's side as he investigates the Toxic Bogs more, only to encounter Spitta who was hiding inside an acid lake.
"Guys!" He shouted before Spitta sprays venom into his eyes.
"Guys help" Kai calls as he begins hallucinating.
The Venomari and Constrictai all come out of the acid lakes, cornering Kai as he starts to see the Serpentine as Gingerbread men and Christmas elves.
"Jay quickly" Aria said as they ran to Kai's side
Cole and Zane both arrive as backup. However, Pythor jumps out of the empty Venomari Tomb.
"He wasn't in there before" Jay said
Aria took out the Sacred Flute and started to play. The Serpentine all covered their ears and Pythor used his tail to steal the flute.
"No" Aria said and Cole held her back
"It's too dangerous" Cole said to her
As the Serpentine close in on the Ninja, they step back onto a sinking log in the acid lake.
"I'm too young to die" Aria whined and hugged Kai
"We're not going to die" Cole said
"Yeah we'll figure something out" Jay said shakily
Before the log could completely sink and erode, a rope suddenly appears before them and allows the Ninja to climb to safety. A mysterious figure known as Samurai X flies down, sending out a large net toward the Serpentine which forces them to retreat. The figure inside the large mech jumps out, and the boy Ninja approach the Samurai to show their gratitude.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Aria said worried
The Samurai sprays them with a gas that causes all four Ninja to lose consciousness, to which the Samurai gets back into the Samurai Mech and flies off. Aria jumped onto the ground next to them and sat down.
Above the unconscious Ninja, the Destiny's Bounty flies overhead, shining a light onto them. Aria smiles and waves.
Later on in the night, the Ninja are conscious again inside the dining room of the Destiny's Bounty, each discussing the Samurai.
"Guys we should concentrate on the Serpentine not the Samurai" Aria lectured
"Aria's right, the Serpentine are the danger right now" Zane agreed
and while they fearfully speak of the Great Devourer Zane informs Sensei Wu that Pythor stole the Sacred Flute.
"This is all my fault, none of this would've ever happened if I didn't release the first three tribes" Lloyd said sadly
"We can only change the future, not the past" Wu reminds him
An alarm goes off and the Ninja run to the bridge, the monitor showing Serpentine activity in Ninjago City.
"Let's go" Cole said and they all headed out
The Ninja jump off the Destiny's Bounty and Zane and Cole use their vehicles to safely land in Ninjago City, Aria was with Cole, while Kai is still experiencing the effects of the Venomari Venom, hitches a ride on Jay's vehicle.
"I don't get it, we are supposed to be standing in the middle of a massive Serpentine gathering" Zane said confused
Aria looked confused then looked through the manhole in the sidewalk.
"Found them, they are snakes after all" Aria said
While Pythor presents to the large group of Serpentine a speech, the Ninja sneak around making bad comments to get them riled up. The Serpentine begin to lose focus on Pythor, and Skales spots the intruders, sending groups of Serpentine after them.
"Run" Aria shouted and they all went quickly
Cole, Kai, Jay, and Aria are quickly captured, leaving Zane to flee on his own. He uses his pink suit to his advantage and camouflages himself by a pink poster, the small group of Constrictai being unable to see him.
The Serpentine continue fighting among themselves as Skales tells Pythor that he has captured three of the Ninja. Zane swings in above the crowd on a rope, knocking Skales and Pythor over to save his teammates.
"Yay Zane your the best" Aria cheered
"Let's go, quickly" Zane instructed
All five Ninja swing above the crowd in order to escape, making a run for it upon landing. The Serpentine follow and Zane freezes over the hallway with his Shurikens, giving the Ninja the opportunity to jump aboard Zane's Snowmobile. The group of Serpentine begin slipping on the ice, allowing the Ninja to escape.
"yay that was so cool Zane" Aria cheered and hugged him
"thank you Aria" Zane
Back at the Destiny's Bounty, Cole begins talking about their day, noting that they had used the destructive power of rumors to their advantage. As they continue the discussion, Lloyd comes into the room with Zane's ninja suit.
"After a couple hundred loads it's finally white again" Lloyd announced
"thank you Lloyd" Zane said
"Here's your locket, I'm sorry for breaking it" Lloyd apologized giving Aria her locket, Aria just nodded
"here let me see" Kai said taking her locket from her, he went behind her and put her locket on for her
"thank you Kai" Aria said hugging him
"As an apology to Cole, you can have these" Lloyd said, handing him a can of nuts.
"oh no, I'm not falling for that" Cole said being skeptical about opening it and goes to the fridge instead, where dozens of rubber snakes fly out at him.
The ninja and Lloyd all laugh.
"yeah yeah" Cole said rolling his eyes which made Aria laugh more.