Season 1: The New Defenders

**Season 1** of Beyond: The Golden Age, subtitled the New Defenders, is preceded by Rise of the Titans and succeeded by Season 2: Eyes of the Dragons. This season covers events such as Deployment of the New Ninja Force, War of the Bounty Hunters, Return of the Vengestone Guild, Traitors of the Ninja Force, and Fall of the Guild. The mascot characters of the season are Jaxon, Daniel, Martin and Ella while the Ninja Force is focused upon as a whole. The Ninja Force and their allies serve as the heroic factions. The Vengestone Bounty Hunters and Vengestone Guild serve as the villainous faction while their supposed leader, Cable serves as the main antagonist.

## Overview

Deployment into the field of life! It's been a few good months since the defeat of the Shometsu Warlords and their graduation exams, and since those days the new Ninja Force has been tasked with fighting and dealing with simple criminals. Aside from these responsibilities, the Ninja have continued training to reach their True Potentials. While most of them work well together in their singular units, they struggle to work together in their singular units, they struggle to work together as a force. Jaxon and his unit are progressing rapidly as they begin to discover their connection to their Kyojin Beasts. Monitoring these new Elemental Masters, are the mercenaries and bounty hunters from the shadows of Ninjago City's Criminal Underworld. When the heroes fight these mysterious foes, they are defeated and pushed back easily by vengestone weapons, which haven't been around since the days of the original Six Ninja. They soon realize that someone or something within their ranks is working with these new members of the Vengestone Guild and spilling secrets on how to defeat them. A mole in the Ninja Force. Can our heroes learn to work together and trust each other? Will they be able to find the mole and stop the Vengestone Guild? They better...

## History

#### Deployment

After a short few months of training with his father and uncle, Jaxon Walker finally reunites with his friends as they are deployed on their first mission to figure out the whereabouts of the remaining Prime Syndicate members; Reese, Angela and Scotty approach Vincent with a question that's been on their minds; Donny Destrevan gets an unexpected visit while in Kryptarium Prison.

#### New Heroes

Jaxon works with his unit comprised of himself, Martin, Danny, Josie and Ethan on a case involving the rumored return of an old crime alias that has been used by many felons; Vincent tells Reese's squad about Alessia, Brad and Chad and where they went after the war; Keith meets with Natalie and Digital who are curious to hear about what he saw in the other realms as he trained Jaxon; an operation to break Donny Destrevan is commenced.

#### Racing Lightning

With the new and upgraded Pyro Maniac having revealed himself to the light of day, Jaxon, Josie, Danny, Martin and Ethan leap into action to stop him before things heat up too much; Natalie and her assistant get an unexpected visit at the International Ninja Academy; Maurice, Melissa, and Luis visit an old village that is suffering from an unnatural drought; news of Donny's escape from prison reaches the mechanical ears of Vincent.

#### A New Assignment

Shortly after she stopped the Pyro Maniac for them, Natalie assigns Jaxon's team to show Storm Carrow the ropes while she and the BDC question Alessia on where she's been since the war; Luis, Maurice and Melissa travel to a peak a few miles up from the village to trace the source of the drought back to its origin; Donny Destrevan is taken to the HQ of his liberators to meet their boss.

#### Dark Horse

Upon finding that a large fleet of drones are messing up the weather patterns around the village's perimeter, Maurice, Melissa and Luis must face off against an Elemental Master of Poison who is piloting the drones; Storm's backstory and details on where Alessia has wound up in the past few years begin to surface as Natalie's interrogation goes farther; Keith joins Digital in a scouting mission while Akosua helps Ethan fix up one of his signature moves.

#### Shadows of the City

Keith, Digital and their scouting group go undercover to infiltrate the recesses of Ninjago City's underworld in hopes that they can find out who broke Donny out of prison; when tensions begin to rise between the Feudal Council and Natalie, who is trying to figure out who held Alessia and her daughter in captivity for all those years, Lucas decides to take the Ninja Force to an old training ground in the Forest of Tranquility to test their might; Maurice's team returns after saving the village from the Weather Drones' manipulation to report the discovery of a new Elemental Master of Poison.

#### Primal Desire

Keith and Digital find themselves witnessing Donny Destrevan's meeting with the leader of the Vengestone Guild who has come in possession of a girl with a new and unique Elemental power; the Ninja Force go up against the Golden Ninja in a test that will decide if the Old Guard made the right call; Natalie hires Viper Z to put Alessia in witness protection while she tells everything that Alessia told her to the Feudal Council who begin to realize that an old but longtime enemy of the Elemental Masters might be making the move for a return.

#### Since That Day

After his kama mysteriously activates during the group's test, Jaxon is taken aside by Lucas to recall the events of their battle with the Shometsu Warlords and figure out if that was when it first emerged; Digital and the rest of the scouting group rush back to report their findings to the Feudal Council while Keith stays behind to fend off their escape from Donny Destrevan and the rest of the Bounty Hunters; the other ninja ask Storm who she received training from.

#### Return of the Guild

After Keith narrowly escapes the Bounty Hunters and barely makes it to his residence, the Ninja Force and BDC are summoned by the Feudal Council to make battle plans for their inevitable clash with the Guild which is on its way to infiltrate Borg Tower; Lucas and Akosua join up with Lydia, Digital and Vincent to get a quick overview of the history of their new but old enemy.

#### Secret Plans

Digital and Lydia lead the Black Delta Corps to defend Borg Tower while Akosua and Vincent work to get the Ninja Force away from it; Martin and Reese discover that the trap that they were lead to was ordered by somebody else from outside the Feudal Council; Donny Destrevan and a group of Bounty Hunters arrive at the Garmadon Residence to take out a weakened Keith.

#### Walls

Digital and Lydia's attack force finds themselves struggling to stop all the Bounty Hunters from breaking through their lines as their defense begins to stagger; Ethan, Martin, Reese, Angela and Scotty rush to save Keith from danger as Donny's siege of the Garmadon Residence begins to get ugly; a chase between the fleeing heroes and the Vengetone Guild ensues as they race to get out of the city; Vincent deploys a new vehicle to help the heroes defend themselves without using their powers.

#### Day of the Guild

After foiling their attempt to escape the city, the Vengestone Guild awaits their leader's arrival to inflict his judgement upon the Ninja Force; in an old hideout under the International Ninja Academy, Keith, Ethan and the other four who separated from the group formulate a plan of rescue; Natalie comes face to face with Donny Destrevan who is eager to put an end to the Elemental Masters; one of the young heroes unveils their secret to create and opening for her friends to escape.

#### The Counterattack

Keith and Ethan's group launches their surpise attack upon the Guild to save their friends and comrades from danger; Danny and Jaxon work together to save the Feudal Council from a bomb rigged to explode at any moment; Vincent tries to reason with Donny while Natalie and Lucas face off against Cable who unveils his masked hatred for the Elemental Masters.

#### Aftermath

After the Vengestone Guild flees from the city after being ambushed by Keith and Ethan's group's attack, the Feudal Council awards the heroes for their bravery and courageous act against the Guild; Martin and Reese tell Vincent and Digital about their discovery while Jaxon expresses his concerns to Keith; Sabrina has an emotional reunion with her sister.

#### Battle Scars

While Sabrina lets Alessia and Storm stay at the Walker Family home, Jaxon stays with Keith who is seeing to the rebuild of parts of the Garmadon Residence; Natalie, Lucas and Vincent discuss their current ordeal with the Guild while Akosua and Lydia oversee the Ninja Force's recovery from the battle.

#### Blinding Lights

Jaxon has his first meeting with spirit of Supaku in a long while to figure out what he can about his new ability; Reese and Martin work to figure out who spilled details on where their comrades would be and when and where they'd go; Luis, Maurice and Melissa express their theory that the Elemental Master of Poison may be a former classmate of theirs; Kordi, Angela and Scotty discover that two members of the Ninja Force are acting strangely.

#### Orders

Keith tells Natalie and Vincent about the girl he saw in Cable's possession and ponders on what they should do to rescue her and stop the Vengestone Guild; the rest of the Ninja Force is alerted by Kordi and Scotty to the fact that Luna and Maxwell are acting strangely; Cable and Donny Destrevan meet with the failed student from the International Ninja Academy's Final Exams.

#### Traitors

The rest of the Ninja Force go to confront Luna who Angela has cornered while Aleph puts his skills to use to help Luis and some of the others track down Maxwell; Josie finds that Storm is also acting strange and acts on her own to figure out why; Natalie orders Digital and to look through public records for anything on Cable while Keith and Akosua travel to the Holy City of Domu to find clues on the girl.

#### Conflicting Ideaologies

A battle between the Ninja Force and their two new enemies ensues as Ella swoops in to break up the fight between Josie and Storm, who was only acting strangely because she had been stuck with a drug from Maxwell; Jaxon utilizes the kama when Luna's magic causes a fire that blows out of proportion; Keith discovers a book about the Beast Element while Natalie discovers the origins of Cable only for him to show up right on the BDC's doorstep.

#### Screams of the Lost

While Luna is able to make a swift escape with a captured Charlie and Melissa, the Ninja Force is finally able to pin down Maxwell and learn what they can about why he, Luna and now the Elemental Master of Poison from the ToE are doing what they're doing; Keith comes in to save his sister and the BDC's generals from a vicious assault while Vincent mobilizes the troops for a final strike against the Guild.

#### Trust

After discovering that Cable was merely a pawn in the grand scheme of things, Keith, Natalie, Digital and Lydia scramble to stop the Guild and Order 25's plans from unfolding; the Ninja Force must find a way to help themselves trust each other before they go to rescue their friends; Lucas faces down Luna after tracking her down.

#### Charge

The Ninja Force and Black Delta Corps launch a swift attack upon the underground stronghold of the Vengestone Guild and are met by the Bounty Hunters' defense; Keith and Jaxon break through a hidden pathway to join Lucas who is attempting to reason with the enraged Luna; Storm, Josie, Scotty and Luis clash with the Elemental Master of Poison; Maurice works to free his sister, Charlie and the girl from their prison.

#### Confrontation

Jaxon is joined by his teammates as they work to break through Luna's windstorm and get to her before her magic causes the city to flood and be destroyed; Lucas and Magnus work with one of the Arsenals to get the moon back into its alignment before it causes the earth to go into chaos; Keith learns from Cable on the origins of Emma; Maurice and Melissa join Luis to stop Benjamin from poisoning Storm, Josie and Scotty; Alessia and Sabrina step in to help Keith and Lucas.

#### Fight of the Fittest

The Police and MPC step in to arrest the members of the Guild while Luna, Maxwell and Benjamin are locked up in Blackwell Asylum among other former foes of the Elemental Masters and Ninja Force; after discovering that Emma has no family or home to go back to, Keith, Natalie and Lucas debate on who should take her in; Akosua returns from her mission on Earth-62 to help the Ninja Force celebrate their win; Cable's warning to the heroes haunts Jaxon who is beginning to realize that life as a hero has its lows.

## Cast

### Heroes

#### The New Ninja Force/Defenders

* Jaxon Jett Walker - Dylan O' Brien
* Ethan Garmadon - Robbie Daymond
* Josephine Garmadon - Lexi Medrano
* Martin Roberts - Diego Luna
* Daniel Kurosu - Emile Hirsch
* Reese Arnold - Bumper Robinson
* Angela Howard - Danielle Nicolet
* Scotty Brown - Taylor Gray
* Aleph - Brandon McInnis
* Anton Simmons - Lex Lang
* Ella Miller - Jamie Chung
* Charles Holland - Clifford Chapin
* Maurice Allen - Kyle Hebert
* Melissa Allen - Vanessa Marshall
* Luis Bowman - Matthew David Rudd
* Kordi Daniels - Ashley Eckstein
* Maxwell Barnes - Josh Keaton
* Katrina Zastrow - TBA
* Luna Wiseman - TBA

#### Ninja Force/Old Guard

* Keith Garmadon - David Vincent
* Natalie Walker - Tiya Sircar
* Lucas W. Garmadon - Tony Oliver
* Vincent Roberts - Freddy Prinze Jr.
* Sabrina Walker - Laura Bailey
* Alessia Carrow - Katie Cassidy
* Akosua - Zoe Kravitz
* Digital - Erica Luttrel

#### Ninja Allies

* Viper Z - Nicolas Roye
* Lydia Kurosu - Stephanie Beatriz

#### Kyojin Beasts

* Magnus - Jake Johnson
* Supaku - Mark Hamill
* Chikyu - Henry Rollins
* Tsunamei - Lydia Mackay

### Villains

#### The Vengestone Guild

* Cable -
* General Waxer -
* Ming -
* Ziggy -
* Iggy -
* Emma Denney -

#### Prime Syndicate

* Donagan Destrevan - Luke Evans
* Maki - Tara Platt

## Sets

* 74501 Vengestone Guild VS Pyro Walker
* 74502 Bounty Hunter Duel
* 74503 Jaxon's Street Charger
* 74504 Elemental Beast Attack
* 74505 Martin's Glacier Tank
* 74507 Anton's Gorilla Mech
* 74508 Ming's Attack Shuttle
* 74509 Super Stealth Raider
* 74510 Vengestone Guild Stronghold
* 74511 The Eclipse Titan

## Season Intro

**Opening 1:** First Time - ILLENIUM & iann dior

**Opening 2:** Headphones - WALK THE MOON