LEGO Nexo Knights

As the Knights battle Jestro, they discuss the fact that Jestro never wins and that they’re always getting over on him. Despite defeating the jerky Jester and his evil Book, Merlok 2.0 discovers that something about the attack on the village is tied to the Knights’ Academy. It wouldn’t hurt for the Knights to go “back to school” to watch for Jestro and for some refresher training. Merlok is sure Jestro wants something at the Academy. The Knights are very much “fish out of water” at the academy. When Jestro attacks, the Knights help organize the students and there’s a big fight versus Jestro and his Monsters. They drive Jestro off without letting him steal any books! Victory! But as Jestro leaves, we see him holding what the Book of Monsters really wanted: a snow globe with a castle in it that was sitting on the librarian’s desk. In the Lava Lands, Jestro throws the snow globe into a volcano and it frees the massive Castle of Monstrux from its snowy magic prison

Jestro’s not sure what to do with his new castle in the Lava Lands. “Every castle needs a big chamber filled with treasure” says the Book of Monsters so they’ve got to go out looting! The BOM convinces Jestro to call forth GENERAL MAGMAR, and Jestro appoints him as “general manager” of “castle operations,” much to Magmar’s dismay. Meanwhile, Jestro and the BOM find the BOOK OF GREED. This will allow them to make greedy, rapacious monsters that will bring them all the treasure they want to fill their castle! They’ll head to the richest town in the realm – AUREMVILLE! Meanwhile, in Auremville, the NEXO-Knights arrive for a huge “Gold is Good” ball at Lance’s house. When the Monsters finally arrive in Auremville, a battle breaks out and the greedy monsters make off with everything…including Lance’s parents, Goldie and Cuthbert Richmond who are clad in the finest golden garments and so look valuable! Lance will now be forced to live…poor.

King Halbert instructs the Knights that they must take his valuable Ned Knights comic book to the “Knight-a-Kon” in Bookingham. It will be the first be first prize at the Knight-a-Kon. But the Book of Monsters wants the book, too. Having devoured Ned Knightly comic books in it’s down time it has become fanatically obsessed with the storyline. General Magmar suggests they simply attack the place and take what they want, but Jestro tells them they can’t: everyone will be in costume and they’ll be thousands of comics there. This calls for a clever “infiltration” mission (which will also allow Jestro to see the Kon, which he’s always wanted to do.) So Jestro goes into the Kon with the BOM and some monsters. And it’s easy because everyone is in costume; Jestro, the BOM and their monsters fit right in at the convention and Clay and crew have their work cut out for them trying to separate fiend from fan.

It’s the King’s birthday! To celebrate, the Queen and Macy always throw him a great, big birthday party consisting of a feast on birthday eve and a tournament the next day. At the birthday banquet is JORAH TIGHTWAD. He’s goading the King and going on and on about how his knights are better than the NEXO-Knights. The next day, the NEXO-Knights square off against Tightwad’s knights. Tightwad makes fun of the NEXO-Knights as his knights do well. Jestro and the Book of Monsters discover that Tightwad has the Book of Envy and he and his monsters attack the tournament. Then we learn that Tightwad’s knights might be good tournament fighters, but they can’t handle real fights and the NEXO-Knights must save them! The NEXO-Knights successfully defend the king, but Jestro gets away with the Book of Envy.

Knighton celebrity chef GOBBLETON RAMBLEY announces that he’s developed the hottest chili recipe ever created. Now, he intends to give the recipe to the winner of his “Hottest Chili Cook-Off Competition” cooking show on Knighton TV. He’ll turn over his famous Chili Cookbook with the hottest chili recipe on the last page. It’s so unique it can’t be recreated without it. Jestro and the Book of Monsters think they MUST have that recipe. “Hot chili makes hot monsters!” Merlok knows that this recipe, in the wrong hands – meaning Jestro’s – could be dangerous. But when the Knights appeal to the egomaniacal chef, he says the only way to get the recipe is to win it from him. So Axl and Chef Éclair decide to enter. The team that creates the hottest chili will win Rambley’s cookbook. Chef Éclair is unsure that Axl has the skills to help them win the competition, but, as we see through funny cooking show bits, Axl is quite good and they become a pretty good team.

Clay needs a vacation. Or, actually, the knights need a vacation from Clay! Clay is so super-focused that sometimes they just can’t take it: training, training, maintenance, the Knights’ Code tests then…more training. Even Merlok 2.0 is exhausted and he has no physical form! So, the Knights send Clay off on a holiday against his will (arranged by Lance because if there’s one thing he can do it’s plan a vacation.) But unbeknownst to the other Knights, Jestro and the Book of Monsters are tracking an evil book. A book that they suspect is located near the resort “Exalted Towers” renowned for its exquisite service, where Clay is staying. It’s the BOOK OF CRUELTY and Clay notices that it’s affecting the “high class” resort where Lance has booked him: the service is terrible, the staff is nasty, and everyone seems to take joy in being cruel to him (and to each other.)

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. 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.

Jestro and his monsters are in attack formation moving to pillage the town of Funnyton. But when they arrive, ready to tear into the place, they see that nobody’s in town. Then, they hear…laughter?! The entire town is there listening to a stand-up comic JOKES KNIGHTLY. He’s hilarious. He commands such power, such attention, and such loyalty. Jestro and the BOM decide they must become funny. They order all kinds of book on comedy from Spamazon: books on parody, irony, insult humor, slapstick, satire, knock-knock jokes, elephant jokes, “my monster is so fat” jokes, etc. They work-up a ventriloquist act with the BOM sitting on Jestro’s lap. They start doing their act and, surprisingly, they’re funny. They’re very funny. The Fortrex arrives and the knights rush out, ready for battle. They fight through a string of monsters just outside the town, but discover they’re only working as “bouncers” to keep too many people out of the comedy club.

We finally REVEAL that Jestro has given the Book of Betrayal to…Clay. He tells Clay what it is and how Mike Knight used it. And it seems that the Book of Monsters believed it to be the final ingredient in some ‘Master Plan.” Suddenly, they realize Monsters are after them! Clay retreats with Jestro and the Book of Betrayal to rendezvous with the other Knights at the Fortrex. The Fortrex isn’t fast enough; they’ll need their own vehicles. They decide that they need to split up and go in multiple directions to make the monsters expend their resources on a chase. It’s a huge chase, being covered like a crazy news event by the Knighton News Network. We see a montage of the monsters stopping and capturing all the Knights vehicles. However, as they do, they realize that the Knights have used Squirebots in Jestro Fan Jester hats as decoys. They think Axl has the Book of Betrayal in his BRICK containment unit, but it turns out to be the Ned Knightly Comic.

The Redoubt of Ruination readies the final ceremony to call forth MONSTRUX, the arch-necromancer of the past. Clay, holding the Book of Betrayal walks to the gates of the spooky place. Inside, Clay hears strange…singing and music. It’s like a twisted Broadway show of some kind. Meanwhile, the Knights all realize Clay is gone and so is the Book of Betrayal. Macy says Clay must be up to something. They have to trust him and, more importantly, they have to find him. At the Redoubt of Ruination the ceremony has already begun! The Book of Monsters wants the final ceremony that calls forth Monstrux to be like a really great show! The BOM then barfs up all the BOOKS OF EVIL into their places around Jestro. He’s just missing the BOOK OF BETRAYAL, which Clay has.