(Gayle Gossip reports on the Pyramid.)
Gayle: This is Gayle Gossip from the desert, where a mysterious pyramid has been discovered. What's inside? Nobody knows. But at this moment, the ninja team have arrived and are preparing to enter the pyramid with famed explorer, Clutch Powers.
(It shows Clutch's book. Clutch tosses it aside. He starts drinking juice.)
Zane: (To Clutch.) Your assistance will be very helpful.
Clutch Nope. No way. (In German) Nein danke.
Lloyd: But nobody knows what's inside. There could be valuable historical relics.
Kai: Treasures!
Jay: Gold!
Styx: (Gasps.) And diamonds!
Jay: Yea!
(Clutch continues drinking his juice and shrugs.)
Crystal: You're the foremost expert on ancient structures.
Zane: And your book, Booby Traps and How to Survive Them, is considered a seminal work.
Clutch: Flattered! But still no. (He continues drinking the juice.)
Nya: Professor, isn't there anything we can do to convince you?
Dwayne: (Comes out of no where) Professor Powers! There's a call for you! (He holds out his cell phone.)
Clutch: Now, Dwayne. I told you I didn't want to be disturbed.
Dwayne: But it's...The Explorer's Club!
Clutch: (He tosses his juice.) W-What? Give me that! (He snatches Dwayne's phone.) Ahem. This is Professor Powers.
Styx: What's "The Explorer's Club?" (The Ninja shrug)
Cecil Putnam: Professor Powers, Cecil Putnam at The Explorers Club. I regret to inform you, sir, your membership is being revoked.
Clutch: What? This is an outrage! I demand an explanation! (He stomps his foot while leaving the team confused.)
Cecil: Of course. The club's exploration clause requires all members to explore. You, sir, have not explored in over 10 years.
Clutch: I just discovered a pyramid!
Cecil: But you have not explored it. And as we are not the discovery club, I'm afraid I can't count that. (Clutch stomps his feet.) Sir? (Clutch face palms.) Are you there?
Clutch: Yes, yes, I'm here! And don't cancel anything! I'll get back to you. (He hangs up and tosses Dwayne's phone.) Ugh. Well guys, looks like you're in luck. Clutch Powers is open for business. (The team get excited, while he opens a chest and takes out an amulet and two flashlights.)
(It cuts to the team and Clutch entering the pyramid. Clutch turns on a flashlight. He runs and then stops. He shines the light at the team.)
Clutch: Now before we take another step, I hope each of you has read my book. It could save your life.
Zane: Of course!
Crystal: Uhhhhhh-
Kai: Yeah! I love...that book. (Clutch turns around and Kai winks at the other ninja while Styx facepalms.)
(Clutch and the ninja walk into a room with a bridge.)
Team: Woah!
Clutch: Chapter Eight: Rickety Old Bridges. (He turns around.) Only one way to cross them: fast and first. (He runs across the bridge.) Last person in line usually doesn't make it!
(The ninja all look at eachother)
Crystal: I think we should go togeth- (The other ninja start for the bridge. Crystal sighs in annoyance.)
(Nya runs across the bridge. Kai and Jay trip. Cole jumps over them. Lloyd jumps over as well, bumping Kai's head, and stunning him for a moment.)
Kai: Augh!
(Kai shakes his head still dizzy. Zane runs behind running across.)
Crystal: (Sighs) Come on guys. (She walks across the bridge and takes Jay and Kai with her. They cross the bridge, unharmed.)
(The ninja sigh in relief.)
Jay: That wasn't so bad!
Kai: Yea!
Cole: Huh! It was actually pretty sturdy!
Clutch: Yeah, we got lucky. But luck runs out.
(They all walk down a hallway and come across stairs. In front of the stairs is a cobweb. Jay starts walking toward the stairs, but Clutch stops him.)
Clutch: Don't!
(He pulls up his eye patch, and reveals an unhurt eye. He starts inspecting the cobweb and Jay sees Clutch's eye.)
Jay: (Gasps. To Cole, Kai, and Crystal.) Did you see that?
Cole: (Looks at Clutch with his eye patch) See what?
Jay: He just- (Points at Clutch)
Crystal: Just what? I don't see anything.
Kai: Same here.
Clutch: (To the team) I don't like the look of these.
Styx: Uh. They're cobwebs.
Clutch: Yeah, well, that's what they want us to think! Jump over, like this! (Clutch jumps over the cobweb.)
(Kai, Lloyd, Cole, Nya, Crystal, and Zane all do the same. Jay shrugs and steps on the cobweb, snapping it.)
Jay: Ah!
(They all hear a sound.)
Styx: And we're screwed! (Facepalms)
Clutch: Gumdrops!
(The stairs fold, causing Clutch and the ninja to slide down the passageway.)
Lloyd: Grab onto something!
Styx: I'm literally on a Crystal's shoulder!
Lloyd: I mean the others!
Kai: I'm trying!
Jay: There's nothing to grab!
Crystal: Jay's right! it's too smooth!
Cole: (He see's something) Guys, guys, GUYS!
(A spike pit appears in front of them.)
Styx: What do we do!?
Kai: I got this!
(Kai blasts the spike pit with fire, destroying some of the spikes. They all fall into the pit. The team all groan.)
Styx: (Groaning) I will never doubt you're fire power again.
Kai: (Groans) Thanks. (Smacks his head on the ground)
Cole: (To Jay.) He said to step over them!
Jay: I did!
(Jay looks at a piece of cobweb attached to his foot and smiles sheepishly.)
Crystal: Really Jay? (Helping Lloyd up and they both see something behind Cole.)
Cole: If you did, we wouldn't be lying here in a pit with...(He sees the others looking at something.) What? What are you guys staring at?
Nya: You might want to look behind you.
Cole: (He looks behind himself and falls backward.) Ah!
(It shows a skeleton with a hat stuck on a spike.)
Zane: I wonder who that was.
Kai: Someone who didn't stop in time.
(Clutch walks over to the skeleton and pulls up his eye patch. Jay follows Clutch and looks at his eye, shocked. He turns to Kai, Crystal, and Zane and points at Clutch's eye. Clutch turns around with his eye patch pulled down. Jay becomes disappointed and walks in another direction.)
Clutch: Hmm.... Hageman. A competitor. He was good. Very good. But, he didn't read my book. And it cost him his life.
(Zane picks up a book from the floor.)
Zane: Actually, he did read it.
Clutch: Now, let me see that! (He snatches the book from Zane and opens to a bookmarked page.) Aha! He stopped on chapter eight. Cobweb traps are in chapter nine. (He tosses the book and it hits Hageman's head, causing it to fall off, along with the rest of his skeleton. Clutch shines a flashlight down a hall and they start walking towards it. Jay shakes his foot and the remaining piece of cobweb falls off. The latter picks up the Boobytraps and How to Survive Them book and follows the others.
(The team and Clutch enter a crypt with sarcophagi in it.)
Kai: Wow! Would you look at that!
Clutch: Nobody touch nothing. (They stumble upon a broken pillar blocking the path.) Gumdrops.
Styx: Hah! Nothing we can't handle.
Kai: You got that right.
Lloyd: Cole?
Cole: I got this. (Cole activates his lava arm and lifts up the pillar. Clutch shines the flashlight down the hall.) Any. Day. Now!
Jay: Oh, right.
(They all run under the barrier.)
Crystal: Come on! (Crystal pulls on Cole's arm and runs down the hall.)
Cole: Woah!
(The barrier comes crashing down, blocking the exit. They enter a room with tiles on the wall.)
Lloyd: What...is this?
Zane: (Scans the tiles.) It appears to be an ancient locking mechanism. If the image is properly assembled, the chamber will open.
Jay: Ooh! Like a puzzle game! Oh-ho! I'm good at these!
Styx: (Appears on Jay's shoulder) Use that bone.
Jay: (Jay picks up a large bone to move the tiles.) Hmm...
Nya: Slide that one over there.
Jay: Oh. Yeah.
Nya: Wait, wait, wait. What about this!
Styx: Yea, move that one.
(Zane walks over to a wall with hieroglyphics on it.)
Jay: No, that's not right.
Nya: Try this one.
Styx: Yeah!
(Lloyd, Clutch, and Crystal walk up to Zane)
Crystal: What does it say?
Zane: "Beware, ye who enter the serpent's tomb." (Jay moves another tile.) "For her anger nearly did consume"..(Jay hands Nya the bone.).."all Ninjago, until a foolish boy"..(Nya moves a tile.).."with a staff of power" (Nya move another tile.) "her evil did destroy."
Lloyd: What does that mean?
Clutch: Gobbledygook, who knows? I haven't met and inscription yet that made a lick of sense. I just ignore them.
Crystal: Wait a minute?
Zane and Crystal: (Remembers their nightmares about the snake in their dream.) No! Don't!
(Jay moves the last tile. The tiles made up a drawing of the snake. The room starts shaking and the tiles explode. The ninja and Clutch all fall down. The Snake laughs and slithers out of her tomb.)
Snake: Free at least.
Lloyd: (Look's at the snake and groans) Ugh.
Snake: Where is he?
Lloyd: Who?
Snake: The treacherous deceiver. The one who imprisoned me. Tell me where he is! And I, Aspheera, will show you mercy.
Styx: Aspheera? Treacherous deceiver? What is she talking about?
Zane: I believe she's looking for the boy mentioned in the hieroglyphics.
Lloyd: What do I tell her?
Nya: Tell her the truth. We don't know!
Lloyd: Umm... (Magic starts coming out of Aspheera's staff.) That was a while ago.
(She shoots Magic at Lloyd, hitting him against a wall. The ninja get up and put on their masks.)
Jay: (Charges up with lightning.) Let her have it! (He throws Lightning at Aspheera, but she blocks it with her staff.)
Clutch: Uh. I'll get help. (He runs off.)
Styx: (Scoffs) Looks like the brave explorer went to save himself.
(The ninja all try attacking Aspheera with their Elemental Powers.)
Aspheera: (Laughs. She points at Crystal.) You! You're a Light elemental?
Crystal: Yeah! And the name's Crystal! (He throws her light at her. She blocks it with her staff.)
Aspheera: (She smiles.) Your light warms me. For too long I have been trapped in this cold, dark place. I will take your light!
Crystal: Really?
(Aspheera creates a shock wave with her staff, and the other ninja fall back. She lifts Crystal in the air using her staff.)
Crystal: Ah! Let go!
Lloyd: Crystal!
Kai: (Gets up and runs at Aspheera) Hey you snake! Put her down!
(Kai charges at Aspheera making her drop Crystal. But Aspheera instead holds up Kai and pushes Crystal back with her magic)
Kai: Ah! Ah! Argh! Ah. Ah...
Nya and Crystal: Kai!
(Aspheera starts absorbing Kai's Fire.)
Cole: What's happening?!
Zane: She's stealing his Elemental Powers!
Crystal: We have to stop her now!
Ninja: Ninja-go! (They all do Spinjitzu and move towards Aspheera. Aspheera spins and knocks back the ninja.)
Lloyd: She knows Spinjitzu.
Styx: I thought we were the only one's who new Spinjitzu!
Cole: We do!!
Jay: Then how can she do it?!
Cole: I don't know!
(Aspheera finishes absorbing Kai's Fire and drops him on the floor, unconscious.)
Crystal: Kai!
(The ninja all run towards Kai. She grows fire hair and has golden scales.)
Aspheera: I thank you, Elemental. In return for your gift, I shall spare your lives.
(Aspheera points her staff at the ninja and lifts them up. She chains them to a wall.)
Aspheera: May you enjoy your time in this place as much as I did. Farewell! (She slithers away.)
Crystal: (Struggles against the chains) You won't get away with this!
(It cuts to Clutch escaping the pyramid.)
Clutch: (Pants.) I made it! I'm alive! Oh, I gotta tell someone what happened.
(Aspheera slithers behind Clutch.)
Aspheera: You!
Clutch: (Turns around.) Gumdrops!
Aspheera: Take me to the nearest village.
Clutch: Village? There's...nothing for hundreds of miles. Nothing...until Ninjago City.
Aspheera: Take me to Ninjago City.
Clutch: N-Never!
(She points her staff at him.)
Clutch: (He holds out his amulet.) This is an ancient Minkan Amulet of Protection. Y-You cannot harm me.
Aspheera: Are you sure?
Clutch: Yeah, I'm sure! Pretty sure. (He scratches his head.) I hope so. I'd be really bummed if he lied about it.
Aspheera: Let us find out.
(Aspheera casts a spell and lava bursts out of the pyramid. The lava starts flowing down the pyramid.)
Clutch: Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah! Woahahaho! (He slides down the pyramid.) No. Please be real! Please be real! Please be- (He gets blasted away on a rock.) Hohohohoho!
(The Fire Fang slithers out of the pyramid.)
Aspheera: (She laughs and climbs onto the throne atop the Fire Fang.) Take me to Ninjago City. Revenge shall be mine!
(Aspheera laughs maniacally and heads to Ninjago City.)