Garmadon joins the team/Arriving at Omega's Castle

This is how Garmadon joins the team and Arriving at Omega's Castle goes in Darkness Rises: To Where and Back Again.

[Starlight, Trixie, Harumi, and Faith teleport out of the castle]

Faith: The Oni have all the heroes! We are doomed!

Harumi: Maybe not. Omega said that they only took Luna and Celestia, and obviously, Twilight, Lloyd and the others.

Starlight Glimmer: But maybe Cadance is still safe. Our best bet is to get to the Crystal Empire before the Oni do. That way--

Thorax: There's no hope coming to the Crystal Empire. [appears from the bushes with Mystake]

[Trixie screams in fear as Starlight puts her in a bubble]

Harumi: Mystake?

Mystake: Yes.

Harumi: You're... different.

Mystake: I guess I am.

[Faith unsheathes her sword]

Faith: How do we know you are not some other Oni pretending to be Mystake?

Mystake: You were there when Mac defended me to the Dragons.

Starlight Glimmer: Trixie, this is Mystake. She's a reformed Oni. She's on our side. Understand?

[Trixie nods her head]

[Starlight removes the bubble]

[Mystake approaches Trixie]

Mystake: It is an honor to meet you.

Harumi: What did Thorax mean there's no help? Did the Oni get Cadance, too?

Thorax: They took Cadance, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart! P.I.X.A.L. sent us to get Princess Twilight and Master Lloyd's help, but it sounds like it's too late for that, too!

Harumi: What are we gonna do, Starlight?

Starlight Glimmer: I-I don't know! There has to be someone else who can handle this!

Trixie: There is *no* one else! Everyone with power magic and elements is already gone!

[Harumi, Faith, Starlight, Trixie, Thorax, and Mystake hear Garmadon]

Lord Garmadon: You know whenever ponies and others talk about powerful magic or elements, they always leave me out. If I weren't so evolved, I might decide to take it personally. Well, isn't this quite a combination for secondary characters? Where are Lloyd, Twilight, and the others?

Harumi: First, how do we know that you're really you?

[Garmadon does Spinjitzu]

[He does purple fireworks]

[Garmadon then stops]

Lord Garmadon: Shall I continue?

Faith: Omega and the Oni have returned. They have kidnapped our allies. Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Shining Armor, Flurry Heart, Twilight, Lloyd, and their friends.

[Garmadon is shocked and angered]

Lord Garmadon: They took Lloyd, my son?

Starlight Glimmer: Yes.

Lord Garmadon: Where?

Harumi: Omega's Castle. With you on our side, maybe--

[Garmadon teleports him and the team to the outskirts]

Lord Garmadon: Odd. I was taking right to Lloyd, but there is no Lloyd.

[Trixie looks scared]

Trixie: I think I have a pretty good idea where he would be.

[Trixie points at Omega's Castle]

Mystake: I hoped to never see that place again! [to Starlight] Now what?!

[The team looks at Starlight as she is frightened]

Lord Garmadon: Oh, this is so strange. We're here, and that's there, and I clearly meant for us being there and not here.

Mystake: Well, I can probably explain.

Lord Garmadon: Oh, well, if at first we don't succeed.

Harumi: Shouldn't we come up with a plan first?

Lord Garmadon: A what?

Trixie: You know, figuring out the best way to do something *before* you actually do it?

Lord Garmadon: [chuckles as he ruffles Trixie's mane] That's adorable. But, you see, unlike you, I can do anything.

Mystake: Eh, actually--

Lord Garmadon: That's all very nice, but, really, a waste of time. We have me, and what else do we possibly need?

Trixie: An Oni with Dragon blood *and* half a brain might help.

Lord Garmadon: Why are you here again? I mean, [pulls Trixie out her hat] can you really stop the Oni by pulling a rabbit out of a hat? At least, my powers can do something.

Mystake: The thing about elements here is--

Lord Garmadon: Like this! [conjures a Destruction Dragon] For Lloyd!

[But his dragon goes away as he conjures another one. It goes away as well]

Mystake: I've been trying to tell you! Nothing other than Oni powers work here! Omega's throne is carved from an ancient dark stone that soaks up outside powers the same way Oni soak up energy. It's how he keeps his Castle safe.

[Starlight tries to use her magic, but it is soaked away as well]

Faith: What plan are you thinking of?

Starlight Glimmer: Without magic or elements, I have no idea. But nobody else is coming, so someone better come up with something.

[Thorax gets an idea]

Thorax: This throne, if we get into Omega's Castle and destroy it, we could get our magic and elements back!

Mystake: Brilliant, Thorax!

Lord Garmadon: Well, that's a terrible idea. How are we supposed to get into Omega's Castle?

Trixie: We walk.

Lord Garmadon: I haven't walked *that* far in a millennia.

[Starlight and Trixie groan as we view the team walking into the outskirts]

Lord Garmadon: I do not understand how you unicorns were unable to disappear and reappear whenever you want.

Trixie: Well, I, for one, miss you being able to disappear.

Starlight Glimmer: Give Garmadon a break. None of us knew we were unable to use magic or elements.

Mystake: I did.

Faith: If we ever get separated, it makes sense to we are who we say we are.

Lord Garmadon: Oh, like a secret code. How about I say, "We are", and you say, "Doomed"? Or you say, "Rescue", and I say--[falls down]

Harumi: Maybe if we say "Ninja", and you say, "Baron".

Faith: "Ninja Baron". Works for me.

Thorax: I'll definitely remember it.

[Garmadon looks unamused]

[The scene changes to Omega's Castle as the team enters]

Thorax: I'm glad you came. I never knew how we could find our way without you.

Mystake: You wouldn't.

Trixie: [sees the doorway closing] Uh, where's the way out?

Mystake: It's an Oni Castle. It shifts and changes like we do, and we're the only ones who can navigate it. It's total chaos to non-Oni.

[The team enters another hole]

Lord Garmadon: Well, it's decent chaos. I don't know if I could call it total.

[The scene changes with the team infiltrating the Castle]

[Garmadon is concerned]

Lord Garmadon: Are you sure that I will get my powers back after we destroy the Omega's throne?

Harumi: If Mystake's right, then yes.

Lord Garmadon: Well, that's reassuring.

Faith: How do you propose we destroy the throne if we find it?

[Faith and Garmadon surround Harumi]

Harumi: I... don't know.

[Faith and Garmadon are unamused]

Faith: [sarcastically] That's reassuring.

[She suddenly notices Garmadon searching her purse]

Lord Garmadon: I don't suppose you brought any throne-destroying tool along with these useless armor pieces.

Faith: Ask the *King of Shadows*, who can't go for a walk without whining non-stop.

Lord Garmadon: Yes, but when the throne is destroyed, I'll be able to rib the very fabric of reality to save our friends, while you'll still be a self-absorbed, below average Hunter!

Faith: Self-absorbed?! Why, you--

Harumi: Cut. It. **OUT!!!**

[Harumi breaks up Garmadon and Faith]

Harumi: I'm just barely keeping it together, and it would be wonderful if you two could try to help instead of bickering like Serpentine. [walks off]

[Garmadon and Faith get along]

Lord Garmadon: Okay.

Faith: How can we help?

Harumi: Don't ask *me*! I couldn't handle giving advice at the Ninjago Sunrise Festival, and I had elements then, and all of us are completely useless. But at least Mystake knows what she's doing.

Mystake: Uh, guys? I think we're lost.