Beyond the Phantasm Cave/Transcript

(In the Cloud Kingdom, Cinder dons a Wolf Mask. Ras hits the Gong of Shattering with the Mallet of Shattering. Cinder undergoes a Shatterspin transformation, with his Wolf Mask morphing into his armor and his eyes glowing red. He unleashes a series of attacks on several clay pots by destroying them.)
Ras: Your skill in Shatterspin grows more precise, Cinder.
Cinder: I can feel the gong resonate inside me, Lord Ras, shattering the parts of my soul that hold me back.
Ras: Mm.
(Ras leaves. Cinder looks at Jordana, who is engrossed in studying Theroxian scrolls.)
Cinder: You see that, Jordana?
Jordana: What? Smashing some vases?
Cinder: No, me becoming the boss's new favorite. There can only be one second-in-command, Sorry. (Laughs.)
(Jordana scoffs in jealousy. She walks over to Euphrasia and Suetonius, who are restrained in handcuffs.)
Jordana: What are you looking at? With that Vengestone medallion we found in the archive around your neck, you can't even use your pathetic Wind powers. You are as useless as your ninja friends.
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(In the monastery's hangar bay, Kai destroys crates using his elemental mech.)
Nya: Destroying all our storage crates won't help us save Cloud Kingdom.
Kai: It's helping me work out of my anger.
(Kai destroys a crate.)
Kai: But I don't even think our elemental mechs could stop Cinder and Ras. What else we got?
(Kai many more crates using Fire from his elemental mech. Meanwhile, Nya still tries to find information in Wu's notes about the banned teachings.)
Nya: There's nothing in Wu's notes. The pages we still have anyway, about Shatterspin. And I can't find anything about these Forbidden Five Ras wants to bring back, either. It's like it was all scrubbed from history.
Kai: Well, someone stopped the Forbidden Five before. We have to figure out how they did it fast!
(Kai throws a crate in the air and blows it up.)
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(In the relaxation room, Sora is building a hook-like weapon as Arin is training on a punching bag with Riyu observing them both.)
Arin: Take that!
(Arin uses Spinjitzu to knock the bag off its chain.)
Arin: Ah, heads up, Sora!
(Sora dodges the punching bag. Riyu then catches it behind her.)
Arin: Sorry. Kind of lost control there.
Sora: I get it, Arin. We're all on edge. Losing that battle was crushing. I'm trying to be helpful by building useful gadgets, but it probably won't make a difference.
Arin: Yeah, I'm training 'cause I just don't know what else to do.
Sora: Why are you practicing in here and not in the courtyard?
Arin: Because Lloyd is out there meditating on his visions. If he doesn't come up with a way to stop Ras and Shatterspin, I don't know what we're going to do.
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(Lloyd is out meditating in the courtyard, in front of Wu's altar. At night, Lloyd is awoken from his meditation by a fly. He bursts out in anger.)
Lloyd: I've been here for hours, and nothing! Why do I have visions of everything that can go wrong, but none about how to make it right? (Yells to the sky.) Source Dragons, are you out there? Can you hear me? Is this just a game to you? I need answers!
(Lloyd crumbles to his knees and sees seven tiny, glowing dragons approach him from the sky, flying in a circle together. They surround him and fly directly into his chest. Lloyd falls to the ground before his eyes glow brightly. When Lloyd wakes up, he is surrounded by the symbols of the seven Source Dragons.)
Motion Symbol: This is the mortal?
Energy Symbol: The one who released me from my captivity. Yes.
Strength Symbol: He wields an element. Who among us claims him?
Life Symbol: He's one of mine, a descendant of the first.
Motion Symbol: I sense danger from the mortals.
Strength Symbol: Bah! Coalescence or not, the mortals cannot touch us.
Energy Symbol: I thought that once, before my imprisonment.
Strength Symbol: Hmph. This mortal doesn't seem like much to me.
Energy Symbol: He was conduit to my unbridled energy.
Life Symbol: A mortal exposed directly? The effects could be profound.
Energy Symbol: He's no ordinary mortal, and he asks for help.
Motion Symbol: You know as well as I, we do not involve ourselves directly in mortal affairs.
Energy Symbol: I ask you to reconsider. He liberated me from my prison. I am in his debt. Perhaps we all are.
Motion Symbol: Very well. We shall start him on the path, but the journey has to be his own.
(The Motion Symbol emits a beam of red light into Lloyd's chest, and his eyes glow a bright green once more. Lloyd yells, and he has a vision of a metal door with dragon-like symbols, a pit with a bright light at the top, and a dragon flying towards him. The vision repeats over and over again, getting faster each time. Lloyd wakes up back at the monastery, and sees that he is floating above the ground. He falls to the ground as his eyes stop glowing. Arin and Sora arrives shortly after and sees him on the ground.)
Sora: What in the—?
Arin: Lloyd!
Lloyd: I saw a vision of... I think they were the Source Dragons, uh, kind of, but... but I can't... They filled my head with, like, pieces of a puzzle. It's too much to process. There was a metal gate, a place we can learn, a teacher to seek out.
Sora: Are you sure, this is on the level? You've been out here all night and I—
Lloyd: No, this was real. I mean, I believe it was. I think there's an old Master out there who can teach us how to fight Shatterspin.
Arin: That's amazing!
Sora: If it's true. We sure it's true?
Lloyd: As sure as I can be right now.
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(In the dragon stables beneath the monastery, Wyldfyre turns in her sleep near Heatwave and feels pain in her leg. Kai taps her.)
Wyldfyre: Kai? Time for an adventure? Yes! What took you so long? Ow!
(Wyldfyre gets up and feels pain in her leg again.)
Wyldfyre: I'm fine. My leg doesn't even hurt.
(Wyldfyre feels pain in her leg once again.)
Kai: You need more time to let your body heal. The rest of us are going on a mission, so you—
Wyldfyre: Without me? That's the stupidest thing I ever heard! Who's going to save all of you if I'm not there?
Kai: Wyldfyre, there's no shame in getting injured. If you want to be a ninja, you need to stay and rest. It's for your own good. Cool?
Wyldfyre: Ugh. You better be going on a super-boring mission.
Kai: (Laughs.) Totally, the boringest.
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(The ninja prepare the Destiny's Bounty for their mission. Kai appears with his mech.)
Nya: The Bounty will be all set soon, but set for where?
Lloyd: I only have a sense of how to find this hermit teacher. Like, I'II know when we get there?
(Nya looks at Lloyd without a response.)
Lloyd: This is ridiculous, isn't it? Would Master Wu take us on a mission based on half-understood dreams?
Nya: None of us know what Master Wu would do. We're in new territory here.
(Mr. Frohicky walks past them holding a crate.)
Mr. Frohicky: Don't worry, everyone. Ninja Zane will be here in case any emergencies arise. And I personally assure that the monastery will stay in tip-top shape while you're gone.
Kai: Um, Mr. Frohicky? Also, keep an eye on Wyldfyre for me. But don't let her know you are, 'cause she thinks she can do everything herself.
Mr. Frohicky: Count on it. I have a batch of fetid swamp tea in the cauldron right now.
Kai: Feted swamp tea? I'm not sure that counts as taking care, but okay.
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(In the Cloud Kingdom, Jordana approaches Ras holding a crystal ball, while the Writers of Destiny are being forced to write from the Theroxian scrolls.)
Jordana: Lord Ras, I have found the location of the final component.
Ras: Your aptitude for the mystical arts is growing, Jordana.
(Jordana smiles, while Cinder gets jealous.)
Jordana: I have learned much from the hidden scrolls and your mentorship.
Ras: Excellent. We leave immediately.
(Ras leaves. Jordana stops and turns around to taunt Cinder.)
Jordana: There can only be one second-in-command. Sorry.
(Ras, Cinder, and Jordana go to the motor room.)
Jordana: The motor hasn't been used for hundreds of years. The Monks just let the Kingdom drift whatever the Destiny would have them go.
Ras: Fools. Turn the engine!
(The Writers of Destiny turn the engine, and all of Cloud Kingdom begins to tilt and crumble, with the main island floating away the others.)
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(The Bounty flies through a foggy area. Lloyd steers the ship while sleeping. Nya wakes him up.)
Nya: I hear steering a ship is a little easier with your eyes open. What's wrong?
Lloyd: The previous visions I had were like nightmares. This one was like an instruction. I could see a metal gate, sense a teacher we need to find, and feel a direction to go. But I'm still on edge. I'm not sure I trust what's in my own brain.
Nya: I don't trust your visions either, but I trust you. The legendary Green Ninja has never let us down.
Lloyd: You and I have seen so many battles. I know you can handle yourself, but if I'm leading us into a trap, what about the younger ones?
(Lloyd and Nya watch Sora unpackage her hook-like weapon, and Arin attempts to perform his Object Spinjitzu on a rock, but fails.)
Lloyd: They're not ready.
Nya: They might surprise you. And I don't think they'd rather be anywhere else.
(Lloyd and Nya hear a sound of the engine crashing.)
Nya: Not a good sound to hear coming from the engine compartment.
(Everybody on board rushes to the trapdoor that leads to the engine compartment.)
Sora: Sounds like the rotor slipped the drive belt.
(Everybody hear a sneeze.)
Lloyd: And now it sounds like the rotor sneezed.
Arin: Which they can't do, I'm assuming. Right?
(Sora checks the compartment.)
Sora: Yeah, not a standard part.
(Wyldfyre was revealed to be hiding in the engine compartment the entire time. Sora helps her up.)
Kai: Wyldfyre? What are you doing here?
Wyldfyre: Good news, I'm all better.
(Wyldfyre tries to balance her broken leg but falls over.)
Kai: What part of "stay and heal" was hard to understand?
Wyldfyre: The part where staying and healing is boring.
(Kai groans in frustration.)
Sora: How'd you get past Mr. Frohicky?
Wyldfyre: I came up with the plan so cunning, so original, that no one else could ever have thought of it.
Sora: Did you stack a bunch of rocks under a blanket to make it look like you were in there sleeping?
Wyldfyre: (Gasps.) How could you possibly know that?
Kai: We have to take her back.
Nya: Too late.
Kai: Why?
Lloyd: Because it looks like we're here.
(The Bounty reaches a cave.)
Sora: We supposed to go in there, Lloyd?
Lloyd: Yes, I think so.
(The Bounty flies into a hole in the cave. While in the cave, everyone looks at it in wonder.)
Sora: I ever tell you about the time I was little and broke down the family vacuum cleaner so I could build a robot to do my chores?
Arin: Yeah. (Laughs.) Then it turned your chore of the week was to vacuum the house, and no more vacuum cleaner.
Sora: When my mom found out, she was so mad. So I ran off into the tunnels under Imperium. I went so far down, I got lost for two days.
Arin: How'd you get out?
Sora: That's not important, but let's just say it was gross. The point is I didn't want to be found, so I hid away in the most impossible place I could find.
Arin: So?
Sora: So, this teacher Lloyd wants to find. If they're all the way out here, maybe they don't wanna be found.
(The Bounty continues flying through the cave. The ninja see the cave's opening upon reaching its inner chamber.)
Lloyd: (Gasps.) That's the place! Or a place, at least.
Wyldfyre: Pfft! Every place is a place!
Lloyd: No, I mean, I saw it in my vision. I think it means we're on the right path. We should go up.
Nya: Not in the Bounty, we shouldn't. The ship's too big to fit.
(Lloyd and Nya looks up at the opening in the cave.)
Kai: Bet we could squeeze through.
Arin: That's probably what the captains of those ships thought too.
(Kai walks up to the edge of the ship, where he sees a lot of wrecked ships.)
Kai: So we're not squeezing through. Any other ideas?
Sora: As a matter of fact...
(The ninja soon receive their hooks.)
Nya: Woo-hoo!
(Nya activates her hook and swings onto a ledge.)
Nya: When did you make these?
Sora: After we got back from Cloud Kingdom. Lloyd said he wanted a grapple like Arin's. I thought they'd be cooler if we could use our Elemental Powers with them!
(The other ninja swing around the cave with their hooks.)
Arin: Fun, right? Even without Elemental Powers, it's still cool.
(Kai uses his weapon while on the Bounty.)
Kai: Sweet. But two problems. We got a dragon that can't fly.
(Riyu growls and turns his head away.)
Kai: No offense, buddy. Just the truth. (Turns to Wyldfyre) And we also have an injured ninja who was expressly told to stay home, who came upon irresponsibly.
Wyldfyre: Who's he talking about?
(Riyu shakes his head. Sora lands back on the Bounty.)
Sora: Good points. Then maybe it's time for a little elemental Tech Power.
(Sora uses her Tech powers on the ships and Kai's hook to form a red mech.)
Kai: Nice! And it comes in my color.
(Kai uses the mech to pick up Wyldfyre and Riyu and gets them out of the cave, while the other ninja use their hooks for the exact same purpose.)
Kai: You two okay out there?
Wyldfyre: I guess. My turn to pilot yet?
Kai: (Scoffs.) As if.
(Lloyd and Nya stop on the wall.)
Lloyd: This is feeling right.
(Lloyd continues up the wall.)
Nya: And you were worried we might not be able to trust your—
(A tentacle grabs Nya. Lloyd sees Nya getting taken away by the tentacle.)
Lloyd: Nya!
(Kai also Nya getting taken away by the tentacle.)
Kai: Huh?
(Kai fights off the tentacle. Meanwhile, Arin gets grabbed by another tentacle, which Sora sees.)
Sora: I'm coming, Arin! Don't move.
(Sora swings over to save Arin.)
Arin: Yeah, not a problem.
(Lloyd swoops down to save the others. Meanwhile, Kai is fighting a tentacle. He throws Riyu and Wyldfyre up in the air, strikes the tentacle, and catches them. Sora continues to swing toward Arin.)
Sora: Arin, I'm coming in hot!
(Sora bounces back by the tentacle holding Arin.)
Sora: Whoa. Or not.
(Lloyd continues down the wall.)
Lloyd: Let's see how these things handle Spinjitzu!
(Lloyd uses Spinjitzu and knocks the tentacle holding Nya back into its' hole. Sora continues struggling to save Arin from the tentacle grabbing him.)
Arin: Oh, this thing's trying to make me a lot thinner, Sora.
Sora: I can't do Spinjitzu to help!
(The tentacle grabs Kai's mech. Lloyd and Nya then uses Spinjitzu and knock the tentacle back into its hole. Upon seeing Sora struggling to save Arin, Lloyd uses Spinjitzu and knocks the tentacle away. Arin falls down.)
Nya: Heads up, Kai!
(Arin lands on the front of Kai's mech.)
Kai: Hey, kid. Nice of you to drop by.
(The ninja finally make it out of the cave. Sora goes up to Arin.)
Sora: Arin, I'm sorry. I tried everything I could. I just don't know—
Arin: Spinjitzu. It's okay. I don't have Elemental Powers. Maybe that's why together...
Sora: We make such a good team.
(Arin and Sora embrace each other. Nya walks up next to Lloyd.)
Nya: So where do your feelings tell you we need to go next?
Lloyd: I believe the teacher we're looking for is through there.
(Lloyd points to the same cave from in Lloyd's vision, which is directly in front of them.)
Kai: And there aren't going to be deadly tentacles grabbing us in there?
Lloyd: I didn't say that.
(The ninja walk into the cave. It gets darker further in.)
Arin: How can it be so dark in here? The cave mouth is right behind us. Huh?
(Arin and Sora suddenly turn around.)
Kai: I got this. Time to shine.
(Kai uses his fire powers as a light source. The cave gets darker despite the fire.)
Nya: Is it getting darker? (Echoing) Darker? Darker?
Kai: Ah, technical difficulties. I'll have us back in a sec.
(Kai finds himself alone.)
Kai: There you g— Hey, where'd everyone go?
(Arin also finds himself alone.)
Arin: What?
(He sees two figures in the distance.)
Arin: Sora? Lloyd? Is that you?
(Arin runs toward the figures and rubs his eyes. The two figures are revealed to be his parents.)
Arin: Mom? Dad?
Arin's mother: Why haven't you found us, Arin?
(Arin tries to run toward them, but he doesn't go anywhere.)
Arin's mother: Are the ninja your family now instead of us? Did you forget us?
Arin: What? No! I love you! I miss you!
(Arin's parents turn around and disappear from view. Meanwhile, Sora sees a static screen in the distance.)
Sora: Kai? How did you get so far ahead?
(Sora runs up to the screen.)
Sora: Wait, how did—
(A picture of Beatrix and Ras appears on the screen. Sora gasps. Beatrix's mouth suddenly turns into a wicked smile. A charge of lightning comes from where Beatrix's hand is on the middle of the screen. The lightning charge goes right into her chest. A hand suddenly emerges from the screen.)
Sora: No!
(Lloyd also finds himself alone.)
Lloyd: Hello? Can anyone hear me?
Wu: Of course they can't. They're lost.
(Lloyd turns around and sees Master Wu.)
Lloyd: Master Wu! Where did you—
(Lloyd walks toward Master Wu.)
Wu: Your team needed strong leadership, and did not receive it.
Lloyd: But I had these visions and—
Wu: (Sighs.) I blame myself, nephew. I felt you were ready to take over for me, but I was wrong.
(Ras appears behind Wu.)
Wu: You will never...
Ras: ...be good enough.
(Ras and Wu disappears. They suddenly appear in front of Lloyd, getting larger each time. Nya, who also found herself alone, runs into Jay.)
Nya: Jay! Jay! I found you!
(Jay turns around and looks at Nya in confusion.)
Jay: Huh? Who are you?
Nya: Ha ha. Your sense of humor is still terrible. How'd you even get here?
(Nya hugs Jay, but he pushes her away.)
Jay: Stop acting like you know me. I've never seen you before in my life.
Nya: What? Jay, don't you dare tell me— Wait, this isn't happening, is it?
(Nya rubs her eyes and wakes up. She finds herself still in the cave, seeing her and the others hanging from green electricity. She disconnects herself from the electricity. She looks up at the source of the electricity, which is a giant tentacled creature.)
Nya: What even are you?
(The creature looks at Nya. She uses her Water powers to scare the creature away, waking the others up from their nightmares.)
Arin: You all didn't see what I saw, did you?
Sora: No, I think I saw my own thing. File that under the absolute worst. (To Wyldfyre) What was in your vision?
Wyldfyre: The Wasting... (Gasps.) Nothing. Never mind. I don't wanna talk about it.
Kai: Huh.
Lloyd: How did you know it wasn't real?
Nya: I saw Jay, the love of my life, but he didn't know who I was. I know the real Jay could never forget me. It couldn't be real. (To the others) We should keep moving. Who knows if that thing is coming back, maybe with even uglier friends.
(The ninja walk toward the exit of the cave.)
Arin: Light! Over out!
(The ninja walk out of the cave. They end up on a cliff.)
Arin: I can't see anything. Now what?
Lloyd: The teacher we're seeking, I feel like he's just through here.
Kai: Just through what could be a massive drop into nothingness? You sure?
Lloyd: The Source Dragons wouldn't have put us through all this just to reach a dead end. I'm pretty sure. I think.
Nya: Then it's time for a leap of faith.
(Nya prepares to jump off the cliff, but Lloyd stops her.)
Lloyd: Wait, I'm not a hundred percent if—
Nya: Lloyd, I'm sure. We trust you, and you should trust you, too.
Kai: Complete agree.
(Kai puts on his hood and jumps off the cliff.)
Kai: Ninja, go!
(The other ninja look down at the fog.)
Lloyd: Kai? Kai!
Wyldfyre: Did Kai just leap to his—
Kai: Where is everyone? Get over here.
(The ninja sigh in relive at the fact Kai didn't die from the fall.)
Wyldfyre: I knew he was fine.
(The other ninja reach the ground. They land in front of a metal door with dragon-like symbols and statues, the same door from Lloyd's vision.)
Lloyd: That's the metal gate from my vision. We did it. We're here. The teacher who can help us learn to defeat Shatterspin should be right behind—
(The ground starts to rumble, and a dragon flies over the door. He lands himself in between the door and the ninja. The dragon roars, preparing to release a white-blue blast. Lloyd and the other ninja gasp, with the former recognizing him as the same dragon from his vision.)
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