Beyond: The Golden Age - Bonds

**Beyond: The Golden Age - Bonds** is an animated movie, part of one of the many shared universes of the Beyond Franchise which has ran from 2028 to the present day. It takes place two years after the events of Beyond: The Golden Age's third and devastating season. Bonds takes place some time after the Resurrections movie and is followed by Season 5: Corruption. The film covers the return of the Ninja Force after their recent leave of absence and their conflict against an unstable wizard who has erected dark forms of them from to bring them down for some unthinkable act they committed against him. The mascot characters and focus characters of the story are the Ninja Force as they must face down themselves if they hope to overcome their past insecurities and failures. The Reverse Ninja Force serves as the villainous faction while Morgan, the Mad King, serves as the main antagonist of the story. The movie has a runtime of 149 minutes and is the third film installment to Beyond: The Golden Age.

## Overview

A return to action! It's been about two years after the tragic events that took place at the Devil's Dunes, and the Ninja Force has matured and grown into more experienced warriors in the wake of their failure to stop the Dark Order from wreaking havoc. While some of them are choosing to move on and let the past go to create a new future, others have chosen to dwell on their errors and pains of the past. Jaxon and Daniel have returned from their training with Lucas in the Final Realm to join back up with their comrades who have been under the supervision of Jason Walker in the absence of his sister. As Lucas and the two boys set foot in the realm, they get an urgent distress signal from many villages detailing of twisted nightmares that have emerged to terrorize their homes. After neutralizing the threats to the best of their ability, the Ninja Force attempt to return to Mount Ninja to find it under the occupation of other variants of themselves. Dark variants. As it turns out, a ruler from the Realm of Madness with dark magic at his disposal has created doppelgangers of each member of the team to wipe them out for their past crimes against reality. Can the heroes unite toegther and be able to discern each other from the dark sides of themselves or will they fall apart? Just who is this ruler and what is his problem with the Ninja Force? Will the heroes be able to overcome their inner demons and past insecurities to stop this new threat? Find out in the newest installment to the hit series, Beyond: The Golden Age.

## Plot

### Prologue

In a recap from the voice of Aleph, the history of the team that is the Ninja Force is shown in a scroll-esque art containing their most triumphant and their darkest moments. As the young time elemental recaps the final battles of their last adventure, the art begins to catch fire and burns to a complete crisp as scenes from Keith and Natalie's funeral are shown. In another realm, the view slowly shifts back into color as the once mighty castle of Morgan Sato burns to the ground as a masked figure sets down rocks as a makeshift grave for the people it killed. Soldiers' helmets lay around him as he pulls a burned corpse into a grave. After making the final touches to the grave, the masked figure picks up Morgan's Spell Book and Staff before setting out for the hangar his airship is located within.

### Chapter One - A Series of Returns

Morning rises upon the streets of Ninjago City as early traffic begins filling them up with blurs and movements of color. People bustle up and down the streets as things seem to be at peace. In an alleyway behind the old shutdown Chen's Noodle Shop, a few members of the Dark Horizon syndicate map out their plans to sabotage the launch of the newest Walker Industries Roadster. One of the young crooks messes around with a can and discovers two shadows on the trashed asphalt but discovers there's no one else with them. As he turns to rejoin the others, he find that they are gone and nowhere to be seen and is caught in a shock net trap. Maurice and Melissa taunt the criminals as Angela marks down the fourth crime they've prevented that week. On the same rooftop, a Police Gunship pulls up and takes away the criminals as Reese and Luis arrive on the scene after reporting the news to the Feudal Council. As Luis and Melissa watch Maurice mess with some seagulls on his hoverbike, Reese remarks to their small group that Jaxon and Daniel should be returning soon. Angela assures the group that things should go back to normal once the ego of Jaxon returns to the group and they all remark how Daniel could have unlocked his Golden Power. Luis says if they want their assumptions to maybe come true then they should head back to Mount Ninja and they set out.

At Mount Ninja, Ethan sits upon the edge of a clearing on the face of the mountain and looks across the forest line to where he can see a flcok of birds flying through a gust of leaves. A small breeze touches his shoulder as Ella sets down next to him and asks him how he's doing in a flirtatious manner. Ethan runs along with it before Ella unintentionally asks him about if he's been able to visit the last two livings students of Landon in the recent months. He remarks how things with the government have become complicated after the decision to decommission the Military Police. Ella, not wanting to see her friend low, remembers what she originally came up to tell him and the two head down to the others who are eagerly sitting in the garage awaiting their friends' arrival. A Green Dragon stes down upon the hangar's runway platform and Daniel first unmounts the dragon now sporting a small stubble. After him, a young man that looks like Jason gracefully hops off the elemental avatar beast. The group soon realizes that its Jaxon and greet their two teammates as Lucas deactivates his ride and walks over shaking hands with Jason himself who has a reunion with his son for the first time in two years. The Ninja Force and their mentors sit down for a lunch made by a friend of Luis from his village and Jaxon and Danny share stories of their time in the Final Realm. Before they can finish the meal, Digital rushes into the common room and turns on the TV where reports of strange creatures attacking Garmadon City show. Before Luis's friend can come out with desert he finds that Charles's Hundun pet known as Trevor is the only one left.

In Garmadon City, strange creatures with black, sludge-like skin tear through the streets and houses as some Forgotten Samurai that once served Morgan Sato face down the city guards. Some villagers run for a bunker and a woman loses the grip of he daughter's hand in the chaos. As the little girl is about to be pounced upon by one of the creatures, a slashing sword sound can be heard as Danny appears in front of the group of villagers using the Green Flash ability. The other heroes pop up across the city and quickly take to elimnating the creatures. Ella uses her power to clear debree as Dane uses his uncle's Bulk Monger Silent Streak suit to pull a roof off some trapped villagers. Josie and Storm engage some of the samurai and use their skills to quickly plow them down as Martin passes by them wreaking his ice spikes upon the monsters. On the rooftop of the City Hall, the hooded figure watches his forces quickly get taken down by the collective efforts of the team. A woman fleeing for a bunker with her two children sees Jaxon and asks him if the Ninja Force is back and he answers her question by saying that they never left. After guiding her into the safe undergorund catacombs, Jaxon notices the figure and leaps up on to the rooftop before unleashing an array of plasma blasts upon the cloaked phantom. In the smoke of the series of small explosions, an orange glow can be seen as the figure unloads his own attack upon the hero. In a quick moment, Kordi, Ethan, Angela, Reese and Charles leap on to the roof to assist their friend. After surrounding the figure, Jaxon asks the phantom who he is and the man speaks one word: Madness.

### Chapter Two - The Forgotten Sorcerer

Before any of the group can make another move, a stallion-like creature leaps up on to the rooftop and the man jumps on to its back before using his magic to open a portal that he jumps through. Charles throws a blade after him just before the vortex closes and the group is left wondering what they just witnessed. Martin and the others join back up with them saying all the creatures have been eliminated and the Forgotten Samurai seemingly disappeared. After meeting with city governors to tell them that the threat has subsided, the heroes return to Mount Ninja. Luis apologizes to his friend who has made friends with Trevor while the heroes discuss what they learned from the attack. Kordi says that the hooded figures magic may be related to the legendary sorcerer known as Morgan Sato who avenged the death of his clan at the hands of the Overlord's Shadow Forger General. As the heroes try to come in contact with Mother Lin of the Mamoru Nomads, Vincent tells the group about what Zane told him of an encounter with Morgan and how he never seemed to have much resentment towards their realm. Jaxon explains how he's gotten quicker and that Mogran must still be in top shape if he was able to dodge all of his attacks.

Mother Lin finally picks up the call and accepts the heroes gratitude for helping fill them in on Morgan's past. She tells them how he was taken into the Realm of Magic's underground city to be trained up until he reached the age of 18 and would set out to take down a remnant of the Overlord's original Shadow Forgers. After taking down the general who slaughtered his family and clan, he would return to the realm for a time and serve as part of the Guard. In his free-time, the young Morgan would devote his time to learning the dark arts and gaining more power to prevent more loss. In an attempt gain more power through the transference of life from a dying Kyojin, Morgan would be mortally wounded and was thought to have died until his grave was seemingly robbed. However, they would soon discover that the operation had been successful and Morgan had gone into a stasis to fully adapt to his new abilities. And that was the last that would be heard of him other than whispers of a strange airship venturing across the realms. After Mother Lin hangs up to attend to her duties, the heroes remark how it all adds up before Reese turns on the TV to reveal headlines of the Ninja Force saving Garmadon City but also headlines saying that they orchestrated the attack themselves. As the heroes try to learn more about why they are being framed, footage of Jaxon, Charles, Martin, Reese and Ella wrecking a village shows on screen. Knowing that Jaxon and the others have been with them, the Ninja Force sets out aboard the Destiny's Bounty to figure out what is going on.

### Chapter Three - Shadows of Sin

While aboard the Bounty, the members of the Ninja Force review the footage of their doppelgangers attacking the villages and begin to cosnider the fact that they could be dealing with Oni, until they get a report from Metalonia saying that Josie and Danny are attacking the community of villages. Upon arriving at the main village, Anton leads the group to the scene of the attack where they find the other Josie and Danny causing chaos in the village square. Realizing that they're seeing a false illusion created by another enemy, the Metalonians and Simmons Family help assist the Ninja Force into containing and removing the doppelgangers from the village. Daniel quickly subdues his upon realizing that its power set is limited but Josie's is not easily taken down due to its power set being more accurate, forcing the heroes to get their anti-magic tech to dissect it. After realizing how they can take down the creatures assuming their false forms. After getting new gear from the Metalonians, the Ninja Force sets out for the city where they believe Morgan and the other doppelgangers are headed.

### Chapter Four - Clash with Sin

Upon arriving in the city, the Bounty's sensors pick up more of the beast posers moving for the subway station near the City Circle. Using the Super Stealth Raider, the Ninja Force is able to catch up to their enemy. Leading the charge, Ethan use both of his Elemental Powers to wall in the Negative Ninja Force but quickly gets held up by his doppelganger. As he and some of the others fend off against some of the creatures, the others follow Morgan and his other dark ninja into the subway where a chase ensues aboard the subway. After Jaxon takes down the creature pretending to be Kordi, she and Dane move to the front of the train to stop it from crashing at Central Station. As the train moves further and further, Jaxon, Martin and Daniel get to the middle of the train where they find Morgan is. The three engage in a fight that results in Martin getting thrown to the outside of the train, where his doppelganger attacks him again. While the two fight on the outside of train, Kordi is also knocked out of the train by more of Morgan's creatures. At the middle of the train, Maurice and Melissa get all the citizens into the back train car which they detach from the rest of the moving vehicle to keep them safe. The two join Danny and Jaxon's fight and attempt to pin Morgan down but fail as his anger grows causing the train to rupture and fall of the tracks, crashing into Central Station.

Storm, Emma and Ella evacuate the people while Katrina and Anton leap into the wreckage to pull their friends out. Dane is able to haul himself and the Shadow Twins out of the train, unhurt, but Danny is injured from a spell exacted upon him by Morgan who is now lashing out at Jaxon. Josie, Ethan and the others arrive on the scene and attempt to help their friend. Morgan uses a combustion spell to blow up the station in an attempt to escape but Aleph reverses the explosion giving Jaxon an opening to take Morgan down. As he moves in to strike, Morgan breaks himself from Aleph's reversal and gets his mask sliced off, revealing the man beneath. With the entire Ninja Force now converged upon the station, a strange entity reveals itself by taking over Morgan and causing him to create a magic web that catches every member of the Ninja Force except for Jaxon who is released by Jason, who arrives on the scene. The entity reveals itself as the Kyojin Morgan absorbed centuries ago and expresses its hate for Supaku and how he went soft by trusting humanity. Hyozan, Magnus and Chikyu attempt to help Supaku reason with Talon. But the furious entity is unphased by their incompetence and silences them before moving in to capture Jason and Jaxon. The Stormbreaker fights Morgan and Talon but is overwhelmed by the Book of Spells Morgan has. Before he can do anything else, Morgan banishes him to a pocket realm to deal with him later. With Morgan's army of Chaos Creatures having been unleashed upon the city and his friends captured and unresponsive, Jaxon finds himself alone with the Mad King and Talon, who is ready to demonstrate his power by destroying the realm.

### Chapter Five - The Sorcerer's Secret

Now alone with Talon and Morgan, Jaxon is aware that he is seriously out of his league attempting to fight them alone. Instead of trying to attack with his fists, he attacks with his words. The young lightning ninja questions Morgan for why he's doing what he's doing and the sorcerer drops the detail that he is not the Earth-21 Morgan. He is from another reality where his two sons were taken away from him by a darkness caused by the Ninja Force. Morgan then explains that he has made it his mission to end all Ninja Forces everywhere so that his sons couldn't suffer in those realities. Talon explains that he betrayed Earth-21 Morgan after seeing that this other Morgan was way more powerful. Jaxon gets mad that they took the life of a hero and tries to release some of his friends with a lightning blast but gets taken out. Morgan then peeks in on Jason in the pocket realm who is fighting the Mud Monsters that were stationed there and looks at Jaxon. After using his magic to restrain Jaxon, Morgan and Talon read through his memories and taunt him by making fun of Keith and Natalie's deaths. However, they recover memories that Jaxon didn't even know was there. Memories of being in the Dark Order's testing facilities and being sent to kill Jason Walker and Sabrina Carrow. Morgan reveals to Jaxon that he is the clone of Jason Walker, gifted with the powers of both Jason and a Plasma Elemental, and created to kill Jason for destroying a critical occupation.

Jaxon is taken aback by the reveal and begins to go into denial, the stress and anger causing his kama to activate. During his training with Lucas, he was able to unlock the second and third stages and those are displayed as he breaks out of his restraints and attempts to kill Morgan by using his blade. Talon shatters the blade and merges back with Morgan and quickly moves to rid of Jaxon. Seeing that Jason is more valuable, Talon uses a combustion spell to send Jaxon flying out of the station, through a building and into one of the city canals. With the last member of the Ninja Force now eliminated, Talon takes over the now self-realizing Morgan and leaves the station to begin preparations to wipe the city from the face of the earth. He leaves the web of fallen heroes to his samurai to guard.

Ethan wakes up after hearing a loud explosion and sees that the entire team, minus Jaxon, has been caught in the same web as him. He tries frantically to break free from his restraints but is stopped by Aleph who says its no use. Their powers have been blocked by the web's magic and the only way to free themselves would be an otherworldly power. Ethan suggests using kama and the others doubt he can actually do it as he hasn't used it since before his parents' death. Ella and Reese don't doubt him however, and encourage him to try and connect with it. Ethan uses Jason's training to close his mind and he shifts into absolute darkness.

### Chapter Six - To Fill The Void

Jaxon wakes up in a villager's home and finds hismelf surrounded by several citizens who have taken refuge in the homes of the Old Town Canal. Jaxon questions how they found him and they explain that he drifted down the canal towards them. Jaxon remembers what happened and begins doubting himself as an individual but is stopped by an elder who says that he isn't like his father because he protects them when Jason is away saving the multiverses. Realizing that what they're saying is true, Jaxon decides that he has to try and face down Morgan again and attempt to convince him that what he's doing is wrong. The citizens of the Old Twon decide to back him against his better wishes and they head for where Morgan is. Upon their arrival at the City Circle, Akosua's regiment of the Attack Division finally arrives on the scene. Jaxon tells her what happened to the others and she sends Amber to free them. Jaxon tells her his plan and she agrees to help as they've ran out of options. The citizens and MPC Troopers distract the creatures while Akosua and Jaxon make their way up the titan creature Talon made Morgan create.

Ethan awakes in a void of white light where he can see two shadow figures standing over him. The two are revealed to be his parents and he tries to reconcile with them. Natalie assures her son that he did nothing wrong and that he got caught while trying to do the right thing. Keith then approaches his son and reminds him that the kama can be used for good if the user has the right state of mind. Finally overcoming his guilt and grief, Ethan activates his kama and breaks free from the web before using his lava powers to send the Forgotten Samurai into a pool of lava. He then breaks the others free and they rush to find Morgan and Jaxon. They bump into Amber and her squad and join up to assist their allies.

Jaxon and Akosua break through the magical barrier put around Morgan's alter and face down Morgan in a duel. Jaxon's kama causes his energy to surge and temporarily immobilize the large creature. Talon becomes infuriated and dislocates his arm before letting him fall to his doom. Kordi and Dane catch Jaxon and the Ninja Force is reformed once again. Now fighting as one, the heroes begin bringing hell down upon Talon and his creature. In the chaos, Jaxon gets help from Aleph and frees Morgan from his corruption. After helping Morgan realize that the heroes of his reality were just trying to help him and his grief made him easily manipulatable, Jaxon finds out that Morgan's adopted children were Michael and Landon Hayate. Morgan decides to help the heroes fix his mistake and they combine all their powers into one to kill Talon's dying spirit once and for all, taking out all the creatures in the process. Aleph uses his powers to reverse the toll taken upon the city and all is well.

### Chapter Seven - Resolution

After being placed in Blackwell Asylum for a month where Jaxon and other members would visit him for a time, Morgan is released and is taken back to his reality. Upon their arrival there, Morgan thanks Jaxon for helping him see the errors in his ways and goes to resolve his conflict with the Ninja Force of his world. In their flight back to Earth-21, the other members of the Ninja Force learn the truth about Jaxon's origins but don't care if he's a clone because he's become his own man and their friend. Jason apologizes to Jaxon and the others for keeping thr truth from them and they accept his apology. Lucas reveals that he was the elder who gave Jaxon the advice in Old Town and Jaxon regains his confidence. The heroes head home as they share their thoughts on the whole thing.

Morgan returns to his reality with the Golden essence pills given to him by Brad and Vincent and uses them upon his children who were placed into a coma by dark matter. After a few hours, Michael and Landon awaken and have an emotional reunion with their adoptive father. Seeing that there's still twelve pills left, the boys and Morgan realize that they can restore the protectors of the Ninjago Realm. The Ninja Force of their reality can be revived.

### Epilogue

With Jaxon now narrating, he tells that after Morgan's death someone would need to watch over the Realm of Madness. Akosua takes the responsibility of guarding of the realm while also visiting her boyfriend on Earth-50 every now and then. The Ninja Force would come back into action as a whole again and would defend their reality while Jason and Lucas would return to their multiversal duties.

On some unknown reality, a red-clad figure stands over the dead body of a Green Ninja. When lightning strikes, the figure is revealed to be Kai brandishing the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu. As he walks through the rain towards his X-1 Charger, a portal opens up behind him and a Time Keeper captain requests his assistance with a dire development.

## Cast

### Heroes

#### The New Ninja Force/Defenders

* Jaxon Jett Walker - Dylan O' Brien
* Josephine Garmadon - Lexi Medrano
* Ethan Garmadon - Robbie Daymond
* Martin Roberts - Diego Luna
* Daniel Kurosu - Emile Hirsch
* Storm Carrow - Sarah Michelle Gellar
* Reese Arnold - Bumper Robinson
* Angela Howard - Danielle Nicolet
* Aleph - Liam O' Brien
* 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
* Dane Williams - Justin Timberlake
* Kordi Daniels - Ashley Eckstein
* Katrina Zastrow -
* Emma Denney -

#### Ninja Force/Old Guard

* Jason C. Walker - Steven Yuen
* Vincent Roberts - Freddy Prinze Jr.
* Lucas Garmadon - Tony Oliver
* Digital - Erica Luttrel
* Amber Brown - Karen Fukuhara

#### Ninja Allies

* Akosua - Zoe Kravitz
* King Benthomar -

#### Kyojin Beasts

* Supaku - Mark Hamill
* Magnus - Jake Johnson
* Hyozan - Ted Danson
* Chikyu - Henry Rollins
* Tsunamei - Lydia Mackay
* Blade - Sam Witwer

### Villains

#### The Forsaken Forces

* Morgan -
* General Shang - Brent Miller

#### Dark Order

* Samara Yokotawaru - Scarlett Johansson
* Sirius Borg (flashback) - Jason Liebrecht

## Sets

* 74526 The Slithering Stallion
* 74527 Metalonian Tank
* 74528 Morgan's Magic Dragon
* 74529 Samurai X Mech Rumble
* 74530 Subway Station Escape
* 74531 Talon's Spider Titan
* 74532 Subway Train Chase