Beyond: The Golden Age - Rise of the Titans

**Beyond: The Golden Age - Rise of the Titans** 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 13 years after the events of Season 38: Crossroads which was the last installment to the previous trilogy. The story is continued through Season 1: The New Defenders. The film covers the newest generation of Elemental Masters and their partaking in the Tournament of Elements; which is the final exam of their tests to become true heroes; which is quickly interuppted by enemies from their predescessors past. The mascot, focus and main character of the story is Jaxon Jett Walker as he looks for his place in he world while working his ways to the top of his generations' ranks. The Shometsu Warlords serve as the main antagonists and villainous faction of the season. This movie has a runtime of 151 minutes and serves as the first installment to the new sequel series, Beyond: The Golden Age.

## Overview

The New Age begins! It has been almost 15 years since the end of the Power Wars and a new era of peace has been established and taking place. But with the rise of the Fourth Great Generation and their final phases of training, a new threat rising has become inevitable. Under close supervision, these new Elemental Masters are ready to become legends and continue their ancestors' task of protecting their home. Among these aspiring heroes is Jaxon Jett Walker, the son of the legendary Jason Walker, who is trying to follow in the footsteps of his idols by training tirelessly to become an elite ninja. But being the son of a demigod comes with its hardships, as Jaxon wants to become his own man, many think he is just a repeat of his father. With the I.N.A's Final Exams coming close, the children of heroes prepare to amaze. Their unique performances get them far in the tournament and they get close to their goals, that is until a group of five rogue Hason Demigods, claiming the title of warlords, emerge from the depths of space. Their goal is to hunt down any enemies pointed out by their creators and one of those happens to be fellow demigod, Jason Walker. With these new enemies threatening Ninjago, can our heroes unite their forces to take these maniacs down? Will Jaxon find his own way to be different from his father? Who are the other new heroes and what are their goals? Everything will be revealed in the rise of the new guardians of Earth-21...

## Plot

### Prologue

In the ruins of an abandoned palace of the Realm of Shadows on Earth-7789, a group of MPC Specialists and their captain investigate the cosmic disturbance manifesting itself there. As they arrive at the site of the ruins, one of the troopers remarks what appears to be a crashed Oni Starfighter on the outer walls. As the captain and a few of the troops investigate the crashed ship, a few curious troopers stumble into a meeting of five mysterious warriors who instantly subdue and kill them. After hearing the commotion, the remaining troops and their captain are ambushed by the five beings who reveal themselves to be demigods as they shoot down the transport that is attempting an escape from the realm.

### Chapter 1 - The Children of Heroes

As the sunrise of the morning hits Ninjago City and its vast metropolis of activity, Jaxon and some of his friends wander through the downtown district as they get their own breakfast and see a news report about their upcoming final exam. As the excited trainees discuss their plans for the event, Jaxon reminisces upon the absence of his father as he sees some kids playing with an action figure of the great Jason Walker. Noticing his friend's disappointment, Daniel assures him that he feels the same way about his own father but is quickly interrupted as a jumbotron tv displays Lucas meeting with talk show hosts to give reassurance on the recent success of the MPC's expanison. Upon seeing the new announcement, Martin suggests to the group that they should go visit Daniel's mother's workshop to see what cool new vehicles she could be working on.

Ethan and Josie Garmadon awake in their father's estate to see that he is home discussing some details upon the Final Exams with Digital and Vincent. After learning that the exam will be named after Master Chen's former underground fighting competition, Josie becomes hyped up while Ethan shows interest in what groups of students will be attending the event. After getting ready for their day and bidding their father farewell, the two set out for the academy on foot but are sidetracked as they must stop a biker gang from attacking the city transit station. They are soon assisted by Akosua and her Pyro Battalion as they send the rogues on a truck heading for Kryptarium. After a short exchange with their mentor, the two continue towards the academy and meet up with Jaxon and his group to find seats for the exam briefing.

As the students and staff file in to their seats in the audotorium, Natalie and the exam team give a presentation on how the "Tournament of Elements" will go and how the new candidates for the Ninja Force will be picked. As the students begin to talk amongst themselves and remark on how the staff team looks super exhausted, a cloaked man enters the audotorium and files towards the stage. He takes off his hood to reveal that he is indeed Jason Walker and he gives his own announcement on how he will be supervising the exam. After he walks off the stage and has a reunion with his sister, Martin, Ethan and most of the students crowd around Jaxon to hear his opinion on his father's sudden arrival. The young lightning elemental explains how he doesn't care that his father is there and how he will be gone very soon once another demigod pops up somewhere. After seeing his peers' reaction to his frustration, Jaxon leaves the academy to think but witnesses a police chase and quickly hops in on the action to see how he can help.

### Chapter 2 - The Struggle of Being A Demigod's Son

Upon joining on the chase, Jaxon hijacks a pizza vespa and joins in on the chase in an attempt to stop the escaped convicts from getting away with the cash. Despite the cops yelling to him to stay out of it, Jaxon is able to stop one of the trucks from getting away but quickly gets blown away into a city canal when one of the convicts is revealed to be in possession of Prowler tech. After landing in a fisher's boat, Jaxon scrambles to rejoin the chase while being pursued by some of the criminals he just stopped. As he finally catches up after manuvering through the city's bustling streets, Jaxon witnesses as Keith stops the reamining trucks from getting away while also showing off impressive abilities such as his kama and Earth Punch. The young lightning elemental rushes over to try and say hi but sees that his uncle is already gone. The police come on to the scene and one of Sabrina's friends on the Police Force takes Jaxon and escorts him home to where he sees his concerned mother. After her friend gives Jaxon some insight on why it isn't good to dabble in Police Force business when you're not even an official ninja and leaves, another person comes to the door. Thinking that it's the officer coming back to lecture him more, Jaxon swings open the door and prepares to cuss them out but realizes its Keith at the door returning his phone, some of Sabrina's old gear and other things. Jaxon quickly apologizes and begins asking Keith if he can give him some training on how to unlock his own unique move. Once he gives Sabrina her old Ninja gi he recovered from the Monastery of Spinjitzu, Keith looks on Jaxon's phone to see his wallpaper is one of the newest hoverbike models. After the two have a conversation about their similar interests, Keith tells the young aspiring hero to meet him at the dockyards the next day for his first day of training.

That same night, Jason reunites with more of his former teammates to discuss his discovery on Earth-7789. Concerned that some of their best troops could be so easily slain by some unknown force, Vincent and Digital express their concerns upon the matter while Natalie remarks that its good to have their makeshift family back together. Lucas points out the absence of Alessia, Brad and Chad until Akosua explains that they're off on their own paths. Jason becomes suspect to the theory that the murders could be the work of Hason Demigods but Lucas quickly dismisses the theory as the MPC purged dozens of their bases a few years ago. Keith arrives on the scene and greets Jason by mentioning how he met his son and returns Jason's old headband to him. Vincent reassures the group once again that he and Digital will look more into the matter as Natalie, Lucas and Akosua leave to go confirm some things with the INA staff team.

The next morning, Jaxon wakes up eagerly to tell his friends about how Keith agreed to train him and Josie teases him about he's gonna be riding a hoverbike into every mission they face. Ethan tells Jaxon to have patience with Keith as he has a habit of running late to certain things. Later that day, Jaxon arrives at the dockyards prepared to train but finds that Ethan was wrong and Keith is already there, prepared with a training course for him. The two get right to it and Jaxon explains how he isn't too jazzed to see that his dad has returned for such a silly event when he can't even make it home. Keith tells the frustrated hero about how he felt the same way about his own father before he died and how once you reach adulthood, responsibilities increase drastically. After a week of training, Jaxon unveils his new signature move: "The Kinetic Punch" and the two go to show it off to Sabrina who is happy to see that Keith has raised Jaxon's mood.

On Chen's Island, the five demigods from earlier unveil themselves as the Shometsu Warlords and explain their mission to Donny Destrevan who is eager to get a rematch against his half brother, Vincent Roberts. The two groups make a pact and agree that they will attack during when the Tournament of Elements takes place.

### Chapter 3 - The Tournament of Elements

At the International Ninja Academy, festivities are underway as citziens and relatives of students file into the stadium to watch the Tournament start. Jaxon his friends prepare for the first test in the lockerrooms where he hears that his dad is up in the VIP stand with the other officials of the event. Ethan remarks that Jaxon shouldn't hate on his dad so much when he is the reason that peace remains in their reality. This reminds him of earlier exchanges with Keith as they file out on to the field where Martin is excited to see that Viper Z will be acting as one of the referees. While Natalie gives the announcement on the podium, Jaxon spots his father up in the stands but sees Keith and waves. Keith nods to him and his two children from the stand with a confident look on his face. Akosua remarks on how Josie and Ethan will smoke the competition before Cody says that his daughter Angela will leave all their children trapped in the smoke. The first challenge starts as the trainees must display their flexibility and agility as they must weave through a makeshift village and and temple to procure Jade Blades and ensure they will move on to the next round. Several students are knocked out of the competition early but most of them manage to get their hands on one to proceed to the next round.

The next challenge is all about teamwork as the trainees must group up to participate in a team race to get their fake golden weapon around the track at least a dozen times before traversing the ropes course with their aeroblades to throw them into fake ghost targets at the top of a rock wall. Jaxon and Josie's groups clash head on during the race as Josie displays her Pyro Fox summoning with creates complications for Jaxon until Martin causes the creatures to dissipate with his Ice Arrow Trap. After many grueling laps of fighting other teams to reach the beginning of the ropes course. Akosua cheers for Josie as she pulls ahead of Jaxon but is blindsided as Daniel and his team blitz to the top of the rock wall where they place their aeroblades at the top first. Josie and Jaxon's groups tie and Maurice who was on Josie's begins scuffling with the Mind Elemental known as Reese who quickly uses a mind technique to cause Maurice to fall asleep. As his twin sister beats him up while trying to wake him up, Josie compliments Reese for his power while Jaxon heads over to the break stand to get a drink of water. Keith shows up at the stand to congragulate both his son and his student on passing the first two challenges and ensures that Jason was impressed by Jaxon's leadership. Despite knowing that he is actually happy to hear what his father thinks of him, Jaxon shrugs it off saying that he hasn't seen the best of his abilities yet.

After all the teams finish the second challenge, the officials announce that the third and final part of the Tournament will take place in one hour. They also reveal that the losers of the next round will not all be disqualified as they need a certain number of them to fill the brackets for the new Ninja Force. Jaxon and his squad grab a bite to eat but are interrupted as Jason himself comes down to congragulate the students on their success. Jaxon tries to leave and head over to the market stands but is stopped by Jason who compliments him on his skill in decision making and leadership before turning to leave. Jaxon yells to his dad that he will soon surpass him and that he should train him when he gets the time. Jason acknowledges his son's challenge and tells him to keep up the good work as he heads back to the VIP stands. Jaxon begins to realize that it isn't so bad to have his dad around watching him progress into becoming a Ninja.

In the City of Akai, the Shometsu Warlords face off against Jimmy and Digital's battalion and easy subdue them and force them to give them details on where Jason Walker is and whether he will be at full strength. After Jimmy spills that Jason is watching over the Tournament of Elements carefully, the demigods known as Amida and Kappa become overexcited that they can take down the future Ninja Force and kill the Stormbreaker if they go about this ambush right.

### Chapter 4 - To Prove One's Self

As the time for the third and final part of the exams comes underway, Natalie and the officials reveal that it will be a series of one versus one matches that will see how far the new Elemental Masters have come as warriors. The crowd begins to cheer for the new ninja as they file out into a single row as the jumbotron screen starts deciding who will fight who in what order. After the brackets are made, Jaxon prepares for his match against Daniel as the matches fly by pretty quickly. In the first match, Maurice faces off against his own twin sister Melissa and it ultimately ends with a draw as the two are evenly matched. Josie and Ella come to blows in the second match and the two show off their incredible abilities. In the end of that match, Ella becomes startled by a sudden ambush from Josie and hits her with a large wind gust that knocks her out of the ring. Ella helps an embarassed Josie up who uses her cloak to hide herself from the gaze of her amused parents.

The third match sees the master of lunar magic face off against the master of animals and it results in the defeat of the Elemental Master of Animals. After the two leave the ring, Viper Z calls up Daniel and Jaxon to begin their fight. As the two shake hands, Daniel tells Jaxon to go easy on him because he hurt his leg while climbing the rock wall. Jaxon is unable to see through the obvious bluff as they begin their fight and the mistake nearly costs him the match until he uses one of Keith's techniques to keep himself from losing. The two continue fighting until Daniel starts using Green Flash to speed around the ring at super sonic speeds to throw off Jaxon's focus. But as he becomes more and more frustrated by the predicament, something in Jaxon's left eye activates; allowing him to see Daniel's movements more clearly. Once he finds an opening in Daniel's pattern, he takes it and uses the Kinetic Punch to knock the Green Ninja out of the ring. Viper Z announces Jaxon the winner and the crowd goes wild and murmur to themselves that Jason had never showed off that ability. Jaxon becomes proud of his victory but a bit discouraged when the crowd seems to be comparing him to his dad's powers. Despite his frustration with the crowd's reaction, Jaxon helps Daniel up before the two are congragulated by Lucas and Keith who tell Jaxon that Jason was caught off guard by the striking technique. Jaxon gets overexcited as he leaves the ring and is nearly hugged to death by his overjoyed mother. Danny remarks to his father that Jaxon seems to be more happy when his father is around and when everybody is complimenting him.

As Ethan's fight against Martin is about to begin, a large explosion can be seen from the Sea of Sand prompting the city to go into lockdown and for the exams to be postponed. The Black Delta Corps are deployed to find the source of the explosion while the Police Force get everyone in the city to get to safety. As the arena's crowd goes into panic, a portal opens at the far end of the arena wall and the Shometsu Warlords emerge sending a large blast towards the ring where Ethan and Martin are standing. Viper Z shields the two kids as Keith uses his kama to absorb the attack as Jason and Lucas leap into the arena to confront the enemy.

### Chapter 5 - Shadows of the Past

Akosua and Vincent help Natalie and the BDC evacuate the crowds of people from the arena as the Shometsu Warlords' Aino blisters the stands with fire. Josie and Reese help get the other trainees out of the arena while Sabrina stops Kappa from attacking them. Jason, Lucas and Keith speak to the Shometsu Warlords as Viper Z tries to get Martin and Ethan out of the arena. But as they try to escape, Destrevan's men swoop in to try and cpature them until Jaxon comes in clutch to help Viper Z and his friends fight them off. The Shometsu Warlords quickly reveal their intentions before launching their attack upon the three. The fight is short as Jason is prompted to lead the five warlords out of the realm so they can't cause further damage. As he and the enemy disappear through a portal, the Prime Syndicate's attack on Ninjago City is put into full swing as Donny rushes to face off against Vincent.

Night falls upon the Domain of Sand Realm as Jason leads the five warlords into the canyons in hopes that he can separate them and take them down one by one. Their fight gets more and more intense as Jason is forced to call upon Supaku as he summons his elemental dragon avatar to increase his defense. Amida, the Demigod of Death, resurrects several former Sky Scavengers from a nearby graveyard as his allies face off against Jason and soon deploys them to weaken the defense and focus of Jason's avatar. Jason accesses his Final Form in an attempt to finish the fight quickly but the five demigods combine their abilities to become one great avatar that is a worthy match for him. Because of all the fighting he had done before arriving back on Earth-21, Jason declines out of Final Form quickly and is forced to surrender as they overwhelm and capture him.

Back in Ninjago, Keith, Lucas, Akosua, Natalie and Vincent meet up to discuss their options as the Prime Syndicate has called off their attack to regroup. Digital arrives on the scene and warns them of what the five warlords intend to do with Jason and Keith takes action saying that he will lead Akosua, Natalie and Lucas with him to the Domain of Sand with some troops to save Jason before its too late. As they set out to leave, Jaxon convinces his mentor to allow him to aid them in their fight. After a short disagreement, Natalie agrees with Keith that the ability Jaxon used to track Daniel's movements could be of use to them and they set out for the realm. Vincent and Digital stay behind to rally the BDC and MPC Troopers they have for the Prime Syndicate's second attack.

### Chapter 6 - Stormbreaker

In the Domain of Sand Realm, the demigod Kura Okami chains up Jason with restraints designed to keep a Kyojin at bay while the other four begin making plans to transfer his Final Form power evenly among themselves so they can become all powerful and continue the creator of the Hason Demigods's mission. Jason asks them who their leader is and Amida merely refers to him as the Author. As begin their transference they are soon interrupted by Keith's group as they begin their rescue mission. With some help from Keith, Jaxon is able to communicate with his father and tell him that they'll get him out of his restraints. Natalie, Akosua, their troops and Lucas go head to head with Inari, Kappa, Aino, and Kura Okami and a ferocious battle as Keith and Jaxon free Jason from his Kyojin chains. Jaxon reassures his father that they'll get him out until they realize that a large portion of Jason's energy is missing. As they discover this, a powered up Amida reappears with his magic fully charged.

Back in Ninjago, Vincent, Digital and their forces go head to head with the Prime Syndicate in an all out battle. Viper Z helps get the evacuating people out on one of the Destiny's Explorers but is forced to fight Donny's second-in-command known as Maki. After some persuasion from Reese, Sabrina lead the Ninja Trainees into battle to help assist Vincent and the others and the young heroes show off their feats of power as they go. During their battle, Martin, Josie and Ethan realize that Jaxon is missing from the fight and become concerned about his whereabouts. That is until Maurice informs them that he saw Jaxon leave with Keith's group as he was leaving the Nurse's Station. The four rejoin the battle and hope that Jaxon is alright.

Amida uses his paralysis magic to hold Jason and Jaxon at bay as he fends off against Keith who proves to be a pain in his side. Lucas and Akosua team up and take out Kura Okami and Inari with a magma-armored avatar of Magnus's dragon form but Akosua is injured by Kappa who tries to suck the life out of her using his water abilities until Natalie and some of the troopers use their explosive and pyro abilities to finish him off. Lucas uses his powers to heal Akosua as the troops move on to stop Aino from interfering with Keith's battle. Realizing that three of his comrades are down, Amida is forced to paralyze the other including Aino who is taken out by Akosua who ascends above the range of the paralysis circle thanks to Natalie.

As Akosua is captured in the paralysis, Jason and Keith confront Amida while Jaxon prepares to strike from one of the demigod's blind spots. Natalie and the others begin to taunt Amida to throw off his focus as Lucas prepares to obliterate the paralysis by going into his Golden Ninja form. As Jaxon launches a rocket from one of the MPC Troopers' launcher, Amida stops the redirects with his gravity orb and sends it flying at Jason and Keith. With quick thinking, Jaxon takes his father's blade Kiri and chucks it at Amida's gravity orb causing it to blow up and injure Amida's left arm. With the paralysis down, Jason, Jaxon, Lucas and Keith team up to finish Amida off. During their battle, Jason persuades Supaku to lend some power to Jaxon and with that the father and son take down Amida once and for all with a their signature moves combined.

### Chapter 7 - Beginning of a Golden Age

After the battle, Keith and Jason sit on a rock and Keith declares that he has set up Jaxon for greatness and now it is the father's turn to take the student under his wing and teach him what he knows. Akosua, Lucas, Natalie and the troops talk with Jaxon before his father and mentor approach the group saying that it's time they go home. Before they leave, Jason and Jaxon reconcile their differences and agree that they've both learned from this experience. Upon returning home, they find that a large portion of the Prime Syndicate was captured and put into Kryptarium Prison by Vincent and Sabrina's forces but Donny Destrevan and Maki escaped using his private jet he had. The news reporters come up to the group and the Ninja Trainees pose for a picture with the Old Guard and even Viper Z is included in the picture.

A week after the Shometsu Warlords' Attack, Jaxon and his friends attend their graduation ceremony after the exams were finished and the Feudal Council declare them as the New Ninja Force. After the ceremony, Jaxon heads to the parking lot to meet with his mom as expected but finds Jason and Keith waiting there for him. Jason gifts his son with his own blade and shield forged from the same metal as Kiri and Keith tells Jaxon that his father has a little more time on Earth-21 before he has to leave. The father and son leave to go train while Ethan, Josie and Natalie join Keith who watches them gallavant off. Lucas and Daniel help rebuild the Academy's gate as the other newly pronounced Ninja go out to celebrate their graduation as the Storm Phoenix flies over the city before opening a portal to the Storm Realm.

### Epilogue

Back in the Domain of Sand, one of the Dark Order's airships lands on the site where the final battle with the Shometsu Warlords took place. Four hooded figures lead some of the Loyalists over to the corpses of the demigods to scavenge what they can find. Upon discovering that Kappa is still alive, the loyalists knock him out before taking him and the stable Aino to the ship. The three smaller hooded figures look to their leader who removes his hood to reveal the face of Landon. He looks up one of the canyon walls to see that Jaxon had engraved his own little message to anybody in the realm that a new Stormbreaker was rising in him. Landon sees this and smirks before turning to follow his loyalists back to their ship.

## 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 - Gina Rodriguez
* Maxwell Barnes - Josh Keaton
* Benny Valerio - TBA
* Katrina Zastrow - TBA
* Luna Wiseman - TBA

#### Ninja Force/Old Guard

* Jason C. Walker - Steven Yuen
* Natalie R. Walker - Tiya Sircar
* Keith Garmadon - David Vincent
* Lucas W. Garmadon - Tony Oliver
* Vincent Roberts - Freddy Prinze Jr.
* Sabrina Carrow - Laura Bailey
* Cody Howard - Troy Baker
* Amber Brown - Karen Fukuhara

#### Ninja Allies

* James Brookstone - Jack DeSena
* Akosua - Zoe Kravitz
* Viper Z - Nicolas Roye
* Digital - Erica Luttrel
* Jessica Wald - Bryn Appril

#### Kyojin Beasts

* Supaku - Mark Hamill
* Magnus - Jake Johnson
* Hyozan - Ted Danson
* Chikyu - Lydia Mackay

### Villains

#### Shometsu Warlords

* Amida - Richard Armitage
* Kappa - Malcolm McDowell
* Inari - Liam O' Brien
* Aino - Cindy Robinson
* Kura Okami - Yuri Lowenthal

#### Dark Order

* Stella - Dorothy Elias-Fahn
* Chuckie - Jeremy Shada
* Macy - Emily Swallow
* Landon Hayate - Yuri Lowenthal

## Sets

* 73579 Temple Arena Brawl
* 73580 Syndicate Vendor Battle
* 73581 Tournament of Elements: Arena Match
* 73582 City Street Syndicate Battle
* 73583 Electric Fusion Dragon
* 73584 The Shometsu Starship
* 7775819 Rise of the Titans Minfigure Dojo Accessory Set