LEGO Nexo Knights

Harmony reigns in Knighton as the Knights pursue their civilian lives: Lance has a TV talk show; Axl is the singing chef on the show; Jestro is the weatherman; Clay is teaching at the Knights’ Academy; Macy, Ava and Merlok 2.0 travel the land in the Fortrex making sure the kingdom’s defenses are ready (part of a plan she and Clay have); Aaron and his hover shield is travelling the land setting extreme records. Robin is at his workshop at the Knights’ Academy doing an “independent study” – he’s working on some top secret project for Merlok 2.0. It all seems excellent! We even see the Knights new vehicles – which have been optimized for civilian life (except for Clay’s.) But storm clouds are brewing. Well, one storm cloud is brewing: the Cloud of Monstrox! Yes, the Book of Monsters has reconstituted himself and is now a cloud who needs a man on the ground to enact his new evil plan. He follows his old buddy Jestro as he goes across the realm on the weekends apologizing for being evil. ZAP! With one bolt of his evil magic lighting, the Cloud of Monstrox turns Jestro evil again (only this time a bit, well, too evil.) The evil duo are back together – and bring stone to life for the first time in the form of Gargoyles from the town of GHOULIA. Now they must gather the Forbidden Powers so that the Cloud of Monstrox can destroy the entire kingdom! A battle breaks out in the Lava Lands, where Lance and Alice Squires are reporting from the opening of the Cuthbert Richmond funded Lava Lands Amusement Park, rebuilt from the remains of Jestro’s old HQ. Jestro and the Cloud are after something in the remains and as Merlok 2.0 sends out a call for the Knights to help Lance. Can Lance (with an assist from King Halbert in his Mech) hold-off Jestro, the Cloud and their new army of stone fighters?!

As Jestro and the Cloud of Monstrox head off on the Evil Mobile to “store” the Forbidden Power in a secret location, they encounter…THE SCULPTOR. His real name is ROBERTO ARNOLDI. He’s a sensitive and odd artist who has been laid off by the king (the King ordered a “smashing” statue of the Queen, and the Sculptor made a statue of the Queen literally smashing monsters. He takes everything very literally.) Jestro instructs him to make a “bad” statue that he can use to attack the knights. The Sculptor sets to work. Meanwhile, the NEXO KNIGHTS are discussing the COMBO NEXO Powers, the Forbidden Powers, and what all this means. Lance, meanwhile, decides that since his talk show career is on hold, he thinks he’ll install cameras in the Fortrex and do a Big Brother-like expose show on the Knights (he decides NOT to tell the others.) Merlok 2.0 and the Cloud of Monstrox (each talking to their cohorts) explain the history of the Forbidden Powers: it’s a history lesson about the WIZARDS’ COUNCIL, the Forbidden Powers, and how they were stopped long ago. This visual montage leads Jestro to…MOUNT THUNDERSTROX. The Cloud of Monstrox shows him the circle of ten Standing Stones where he will insert the Forbidden Powers. “What’ll happen after that?” asks Jestro, curious. “Oh, I don’t want to spoil the surprise,” says the Cloud. They insert the first Forbidden Power, Relentless Rust, and it locks into place on its stone. They go off to battle the Knights and collect the “bad” statue the sculptor is making. But he’s made a literally bad statue…it’s terrible ... garden gnomes. Like an amateur art student. And…it’s not even finished. (“You can’t rush bad genius!”) The Knights attack with their newly modified vehicles and they succeed in destroying the Evil Mobile. They then try to use a COMBO NEXO Power, but can’t…it had to be perfect to work (Ava and Merlok need to work on it.) As Jestro and the Cloud retreat, Merlok again talks to Clay about turning to stone! Merlok calls in Robin…he will need him to build something to help Clay as he becomes more and more impaired.

Jestro and the Cloud of Monstrox find a second Forbidden Power near the falling down Swamp Castle: RAVAGING ROT. With this power, they can make everything in the kingdom rot – food, vegetation, anything that grows or is natural. And that’s exactly what they do! It’s awful and makes everything stink. The Sculptor start to sculpt a portable HeadQuarter for his master, Jestro. Jestro expects it to be done when they return from ravaging the land. Axl is very concerned – he’s into organic food ... and now food starts to rot. Merlok 2.0 and Ava are continuing to work on perfecting the COMBO NEXO Powers. We see display screens of MANY of the NEXO Powers. But there’s a huge power consumption issue with these new-fangled combos. “I’ll have to find an algorithmic power curve consumption solution, magic man,” says Ava. “I always just sort of choose them by, uh, feel.” “What do you feel like?” “Uh, a ham sandwich, a banana, and dragon fire,” responds Merlok. “That produced a combo with 2% efficiency,” says Ava. “This is why we have to actually THINK about and study perfec Combos. We need automatic power integration.” The Knights must stop Jestro from rotting all the food and living plant matter in Knighton and Axl leads the charge. But as they finally confront Jestro, who’s trying to rot a field of beans near Fruitbridge, they’re hit by his finally completed ROLLING HQ (the Sculptor is proud of the “artsy” elements.) … it’s not exactly perfect though … he took the idea of Head Quarter a little too litteral and created a big head. Finally, in this conclusive battle where the knights get strapped on a rotting bridge, Clay emerges in a sleek, new BATTLE SUIT that Robin built for him because he was starting to have trouble moving around (the whole turning to stone thing.) It’s smaller and more high-tech than the bigger Mechs of the past. Clay’s able to drive Jestro off. Jestro, at the end of the episode, puts the Forbidden Power of Ravaging Rot into Mount Thunderstrox. Meanwhile, back at the Fortrex, Axl makes an organic food feast for all his fellow Knights.

In the petrified forest of ROCK WOOD, strange things are happening. Rich folk who travel through the wood (we see JORAH TIGHTWADs TIGHTY KNIGHTIES) get robbed. It turns out to be ROBOT HOODLUM, a squirebot who leads his band of MERRY MECHS, and whose mantra is “Steal from the rich…” to keep their forgotten and disused squirebots in working order. But when Jestro invades the woods and uses the Cloud of Monstrox to bring the petrified trees to life (it turns out the “trees” are actually petrified monsters, the result of an old battle with Merlok) they clonk Robot Hoodlum on the head and his new mantra becomes “Shields from the rich…” He then breaks into the Fortrex and steals the Knights’ special shields! They’re forced to follow him into the now living petrified forest to track down their shields. A metal scrapyard in the woods turns out to be his HQ and he uses the petrified “trees” for all sorts of funny things (hat stands, clothing racks, etc.) But with the Knights in the woods hunting their stolen shields, the Cloud rains down lightning on the entire forest bringing the petrified monsters back to life. They attack! Robot Hoodlum helps, but he’s his own guy. And…he won’t give them back their shields! (This whole time Aaron is freaked-out by the idea of wood turning to stone. “Trippy! Is it wood? Is it a rock? Is it wood-rock?”) Clay helps hold off Jestro and the petrified monsters in his BATTLE SUIT but he’s battered and bruised? As the knights try to get organized, Ava downloads to Clay a great BATTLE-SUIT-COMBO NEXO Power (which her new program put together.) It turns out that his BATTLE SUIT is powerful enough to download three powers. Clay uses the COMBO NEXO Power to beat the living forest and Jestro. At the very end of the episode, Robin presents ALL the Knights with BATTLE SUITS. But Aaron is still confused. Are they steel? Are they wood? Are they wood-rock? At the end, we see Dennis leave Lance’s service to join Robot Hoodlum and his merry band. Also in this episode, we will see Merlok 2.0 and Clay have a private conversation. Clay’s condition is getting worse. They must think about a successor to Clay to lead the Knights…but who?

Axl gets a disturbing message from friends in the Hill Country where his parents live…people are going missing! Axl decides the Knights must investigate and Merlok 2.0 concurs. “Strange things are happening in them hills.” It turns out that Jestro and the Cloud of Monstrox are in the hills digging up the THREE BROTHERS STATUES. They were buried there by the Wizards’ Council as it was the site of an old battle, but the Cloud of Monstrox wants to bring them back to life. They figure the big statues will give them an edge in battling the NEXO KNIGHTS once brought to life. The Sculptor, and the enslaved villagers of the Hill Country, must chisel the Three Brothers out of the stones (like dinosaur bones.) The Three Brothers come in three sizes: regular, mini and BIG. But the biggest brother’s body gets ruined when Roberto Arnoldi tries to chisel him out of the rock. Jestro is mad. “We need to get him rolling again!” says Jestro, knowing the NEXO KNIGHTS are on their way. The Sculptor takes him literally and creates THE RAMMING VEHICLE, using the Biggest Brother’s head as the battering ram. The three brothers bicker like crazy (think Three Stooges), but with their vehicle they’re dangerous. The Knights use their new Battle Suits to get into the mountain and fight Jestro’s newest monster team. They can’t get COMBO NEXO Powers inside the mountain, but the Cloud also can’t penetrate the mountain to re-zap any monsters. The Knights use a regular download power and then they can freeze the monsters in the mountain. Desperate, the Cloud decided to try to penetrate the mountain to help Jestro. But as he goes, his misty essence is absorbed by the rock. He turns out being the size of a small steam cloud and he talks like a hamster (too much of him was absorbed by the porous rock in the mountain.) Jestro has to use the empty book cover from seasons 1 and 2 to scoop up the cloud and get him out of there (he’ll be the Book of Monsters briefly at the end of this episode, and enjoys it as he can play his harmonica again.) With Jestro, the Cloud, and the Three Brothers gone, the Knights freeze the rest of the monsters under the mountain and free all the enslaved villagers. The Knights end up back in Diggington for some Axl-made “stone soup.” As Clay is growing more and more stiff, we see he and Merlok 2.0 briefing someone…telling them they will be Clay’s replacement. Who is it?

King and Queen Halbert have journeyed to the town of Cleanington to open the brand new Scrubbery Barn at the invitation of Roger the Scrubber (seen in 104.) Meanwhile, the Book of Monsters drags Jestro to Snottingham – one of the coldest places in Knighton where everyone coughs, has a runny nose and is generally under-the-weather. The BOM demands that Jestro feed him a “snotheiser” ball which will probably make him sick. The BOM explains that if he is sick, he may just produce a whole new breed of magical monsters … some that the knights would NEVER expect. The BOM gets sick and starts coughing up phlegm globlins and bloblins. The Knights arrive, alerted to what they think is an attack on the town by Snottingham’s mayor, Hack Coughmeier. The sickened, sneezy, snotty monsters infect the knights and, more importantly, the knights’ NEXO-Shields. Now their NEXO-Powers are infected. As they try to download something to fight the monsters, they realize the powers they get are off; strange, infected versions of their powers. The knights drive Jestro and his snot monsters off and they turn in for the night. And, overnight, they all get sick. Meanwhile, the BOM order a nice, hot lava bath…he’ll feel fine by morning. But the knights wake-up with colds and they feel terrible. Ava and Merlok 2.0 thinks it will pass in a day or two…it’s just a typical Snottingham cold. Each knight gets sick in their own funny way and their illnesses play right into Jestro and the BOM’s hands: they’re headed to Cleanington to kidnap the king! The citizens of the ultra-clean city hate the sight of monsters, but then feel caught in between when the sick, sneezy, snotty knights arrive on their Fortrex. The fight goes terribly for the knights. They try to download the Nexo-power “Glorious Griffon” but instead get just feathers. So they improvise and tickle the monsters! Ava finally comes up with a way to use some anti-virus tools on their NEXO-Shields and just as Jestro is about to take the king and queen away, the NEXO-Knights get their normal powers back! They defeat Jestro and save the king and queen.

Jestro and the Cloud have located another forbidden power: BLAZING BURN. They find it in the village of BURNINGHAM. The Forbidden Power is in the center of the town square with a Rogul Statue. But, we discover something odd about this village: it is populated by the old Lava Monsters that came out of the Book of Monsters and were freed when the Book blew up. And…now they’re all hippies, trying to live together in peace and harmony (“make fire, not fighting.”) They have lots of “fire sales” of fire related products and are generally peaceable. But when Jestro attacks them, they send Magmar (he’s renounced his general title) to the Fortrex to beseech the Knights for help (“Well, this is awkward, isn’t it?”) The Knights agree to help, it’s what they do, and they go to Burningham and fight WITH the Lava Monsters against Jestro. Jestro must have that Forbidden Power! But during the fight, the Lava Monsters, helped by the Knights, stage an elaborate ruse and paint Beast Master up to look like the Rogul statue. Jestro runs off with it and the Cloud finally has to tell him he got the wrong “stiff.” So where’s the real FP? Turns out that Magmar gave it to the Knights who are keeping it safe in the Fortrex where Merlok 2.0 and Ava can study it. Clay and Merlok again brief the unseen person who will be Clay’s replacement. It can’t be Lance…can it? During this episode, Lance has problems with his Knight-Pad. It crashes and he didn’t back it up. Ava gives him a lesson in backup and recovery and explains that she has Merlok 2.0’s system backed up automatically to Merlok’s library servers in Merlok’s castle tower. “ You always gotta have redundant systems.” Maybe ther is important forgotten memory there?

Jestro delves into the dark side by kidnapping Queen Halbert! She’s taken from the Palace by…THE HARPIES – three stone sisters who work as a team. The King is outraged and stomps around in his Mech. Macy, the Knights assure him they’ll get the Queen back, and they take their vehicles and race off after the Harpies who have been tracked to the HINTERLANDS – a rocky place of desolation. Macy is so mad she can hardly think (Clay and Merlok 2.0 reflect on this…she’s the future monarch; will she make a good leader of the Knights? Is it too much to risk?) As the Knights fight the Harpies across the Hinterlands, we discover that this is all an elaborate ruse: Jestro is using the distraction to attack the Fortrex and recover the Blazing Burn Fobidden Power! He uses the Three Brothers’ Vehicle to ram the Fortrex and take the FP! But the Knights can’t help; they’re focused on saving the Queen. As the Knights get bogged down fighting the Harpies and their allies, Clay takes the lead in his Battle Suit and moves off to save the Queen as the others deal with other Stone Monsters. “Trust me…I’ll save your mom,” Clay tells Macy. Clay races off and finds the Queen being halued away in a strange prison vehicle driven by an ELECTRICAL WITCH (Ruina Stoneheart). Merlok 2.0 sends him a perfect COMBO BATTLE SUIT DOWNLOAD and he uses it to rescue the queen. As the Queen escapes she finds the other Knights finishing off the Stone Monsters. “Clay…he saved me,” says the Queen. As the Knights race over to find Clay, they find his Battle Suit, in a victorious triumphant pose and we tons of monsters turned to statues around him during the fight. The Knights are overjoyed! Clay did it! But then, they move to get Clay out of his suit they discover that he’s finally, and totally, turned to stone. He saved the Queen …how will they ever save him?

Things seem dire: Clay has turned to stone, Jestro has taken the Forbidden Power the Knights were safe-keeping, and the Knights seem leaderless. At the start of the episode, we see Jestro plug the FP of Blazing Burn into the standing stones atop Mount Thunderstrox. Something happens: The Cloud of Monstrox laughs with triumph and grows dramatically in size. It uses this lightning to chisel into Mt. Thunderstrox to reveal a face: the giant stone face of the COLOSSUS. The Cloud explains that it is their ultimate goal – get ebough Forbidden Powers locked in the Colossus’ crown, and then bring it to life. “The Stone Colossus,” says The Cloud. “He will soon come to life and we will use it to lay waste to this land.” But, right now, there are other things to do. The big, roiling black cloud leads Jestro off toward KNIGHTONIA! His real goal in this episode? Use his now his huge self and over powered lightning to overload and destroy Merlok 2.0’s core memory being stored in Merlok’s Tower at the castle. If they can do that, Merlok 2.0 will never remember how to defeat the Forbidden Powers. As the cloud advances towards the capitol, the Cloud rains lightning to bring many, many small statues to life to help in the fight. Alarm bells ring in the damaged Fortrex. As the Knights put the stone Clay in the command center (“You must act as if he is still with us…still normal,” Merlok instructs them. Lance LOVES this idea. “So, I can call him uptight knight all I want and hear nothing back?”) they realize they’re defeated, leaderless, and don’t know what to do. They see the Cloud advancing on the capitol. “We must do something!” Macy pleads. “We will,” says Aaron stepping forward. “It’s time for me to step up.” We reveal that it’s AARON that Clay was talking to the whole time about becoming the leader. Yes, says Merlok 2.0, he and Clay had been preparing Aaron to lead the group; Someone who thinks the sky is the limit, can thing on the fly and is daring and fearless. Aaron says they must defend the capitol and find a way to knock-out the big, black Cloud of Monstrox! Meanwhile, the Cloud hovers in over the city and knocks out the power. Then he brings EVERY STONE STATUE IN THE KING’S GARDEN to life! The King tries to fight them in his Mech. The Knights arrive and dive into battle, but Aaron is having challenges trying to lead them. (“I know what I’m doing,” says Aaron. “What am I doing?” he says to himself.)