Beyond: The Golden Age - Unbroken

**Beyond: The Golden Age - Unbroken** is an animated movie, part of one of the many shared universe of the Beyond Franchise which has from from 2028 to the present day. It takes place two years after the fallout of Season 12: Resurgence's events and a month after the Spellbound movie, which is its predecessor, and is succeeded by the final season and installment to the Golden Age series: Season 13: Defenders of the Universe. The film covers the journey of Josephine "Josie" Walker as she must overcome the hard truths about her rival to save her from a dark scheme hatched by the Dark Order. Josie and Storm Carrow serve as the main protagonists of the story with the Defenders serving as the heroic faction. Circe, Dahn and Rone serve as the main antagonists as they have been turned too far gone by the Dark Order's Drafting Operative. The 57th Dark Order Division serves as the villainous faction as they are chosen to collect the future members of their initiative. The movies as a runtime of 127 minutes and serves as the fifth and final film installment to Beyond: The Golden Age.

## Overview

Insight into a dark past. After their mission to stop the Raijin Raiders from using their leader Kage as a vessel for the Storm Realm God Rai, the Defenders find themselves facing political pressure as the government is installing a system of accountability for any and all heroes’ actions. The new terms established nominate Reese Arnold and Kordi Daniels to become representatives for this minority to keep their behind-the-scenes works active. Despite their attention to the outcome of this new deal, the Defenders have to keep their eyes on the movements of organizations such as the Agents of Chaos and Dark Order. With the recent increase of activity from the AoC, Kordi and Dane’s partnership with the Black Delta Corps is being well used to counter the public attacks. Within the continuation of their secret war with the Injustice Order, Josie’s search for clarification on the past of a certain team member leads her to exploiting the alliance with the BDC and looking to see if they anything. Under the supervision of Commander Higgins, Josie stumbles upon official documents regarding Storm Carrow’s disappearance alongside her mother in 2068 and reappearance in 2078. As she pieces together the horrible truth of what happened in the 10 year gap that the two were missing, Josie discovers that her friendly rival has been experiencing calls from an unknown source. Now becoming more understanding of Storm’s dark past, Josie’s quest for the truth brings her to Alessia who’s memories can complete the puzzle. Enter a faction of the Dark Order seeking out past targets and loose ends. Despite wanting to give herself time to better understand the implications, Josie tells Reese and Ethan of her fears and uncovering of the dark reality of Storm. The three assemble the team and set out to find where Storm is before the enemy does but find that the Injustice Order’s AoC are also on their trail to sabotage their attempt to keep the peace with their comrade. No matter what gets thrown at her, Josie’s passionate pursuit to do the right thing and protect her friend from being dragged into darkness will proceed. Will she be able to connect with her rival on another level and gain her ultimate acknowledgement? Can peace between the group be maintained? What are the AoC willing to do to make chaos spread? Why did the Dark Order wait this long to retake Storm? The truth might be the only thing unbroken in the chaos.

## Plot

### Prologue - On That Day...

A ball rolls into focus as a child goes to pick it up and run back over to his friends as the small village of Tara has its mid-day market and trade center open. Among the gleeful kids is a young Storm who seems to be more of one to play ball with the boys than gossip and talk with the girls. This is partially because of her lack of interest in things they do. As the game heats up, the bulker kid is set up to kick the goal into the makeshift net but accidentally sends it in the direction of the girls, breaking one of their tea cups. The leader of the girls' group begins degrading the boy and calling him names but Storm sticks up for him alongside two of his friends. Through the confrontation, she learns that most of the girls are the same ones that create lies for clout and attention and begins to clap back with insults but is interrupted by a rumbling. Suddenly, Alessia's Phoenix Titan Avatar crashes into one of the clusters of trees outside of the village's entrance with Dark Order Loyalists' avatars looming over hers. A shuttle settles a few feet away from the village entrance and Brute Troopers march in and capture Storm before getting their Mind Elemental to wipe the village's inhabitants' memories of the event. The new offenders of the Dark Order bring Storm alongside her badly beaten mother to the feet of a loyalist who takes her hood off to reveal Liberty who tells them that things are about to change for them. The shuttle along with the loyalist avatars takeoff with a cloaking technology masking their presence as the village continued on, having been forced to forget that the two were taken and had been convinced that they were going offworld to visit an old friend.

### Chapter One - Defenders From the Shadows

The Elemental Masters utilize their new formation as Defenders in a thrilling assault upon an oil rig that seems to be harboring members from the Kainotami and Verglas Warriors. Lead by Ethan and Reese, the team quickly finds that the Agents of Chaos have been harboring these past foes to adapt their goals into their own mindsets of chaotic schemes. The battle heats up with the Defenders coming close to winning until an Ice Dragon avatar is created, forcing Chad, Josie, Ella and Luis into using their own major defensive and offensive measures. Storm and Maurice sink the rig down to its top platform with Shadow Pull and Water Tentacles. Ethan finds Agent I attempting to escape and captures him using his kama and magic to create a pocket prison. The other Agents of Chaos escape through a portal created by a sorcerer user within their ranks, taking the information they gained with them. Although dissatsified with the outcome, Reese orders that the team retreat and allow the Coast Guard and Damage Control to handle the clean-up so it can be kept under wraps. On their way out of checking for any more agents, Ella and Luis find that Charles had to fulfill his deal with Blade and slaughter the agents they captured in exchange for the power he used during the mission. The two agree that it's still unsettling to see so commonly now and move on to join up with the others.

Josie absorbs the flames caused by the explosion an agent triggered earlier as the team load on to Cody's gunship and fly back towards the hangar where he's been allowing them to stay for the past few months since the Secret Police had to clear out the mountain bunker. Upon their arrival in the hangar, Maurice makes a celebratory announcement that the dinner for Ella's birthday will be on him as his gift to her and the group separate to prepare for the dinner that night. While she prepares in her shipping container she converted into a bedroom with closet, Josie is reminded of life in Neo Genesis City (formerly Ninjago City) at the estate her parents were gifted by Walker Industries. Although for the later half, it was just her and Ethan living there, it still felt familiar. On her way out, Josie runs into Storm who seems to be on call with someone. Josie tries to see if it is a boyfriend or someone special but is told to buzz off by Storm who says she might be late to the dinner.

Later that night, Storm comes in after the bill is paid by Maurice, leading Josie to ask if he knows anything. Maurice tells her that she rejected him over the two year time slot between the final battle against Arya and the recent conflict with the Raijin Raiders and he moved on to dating someone from Katrina's clan. Since then, he hasn't been able to connect with Storm much as she's been running off to meet with some old ally of hers. Josie finds that this series of occurences hasn't just been happening to her and Maurice and goes to Ethan for guidance. She apologizes to Ella for Storm's behavior and asks the newly engaged couple if they have any clue on why she keeps disappearing. A bit doubtful of it just being fulfillment of Brad's dying wish, Josie thanks the two for their input before going to Reese at the BDC agency since he most likely knows more.

### Chapter Two - The Secrets Held Within

Josie arrives at the Agency HQ via her father's upgraded hover-bike and is verified by two agents who recognize her from the mission to stop the Raijin Raiders, then giving Reese a call for her as she waits in the lobby. While she waits there Kordi gives a quick hello before joining a squad of new Silent Legion Drones to go deal with a bank robbery heist in Neo Genesis City. Reese is accompanied by Commander Higgins as he greets his girlfriend and learns about her need to learn more about Storm's past and takes her into a sound-proof briefing room where he explains they have some documents detailing the data they collected upon Storm and her mother before and after their ten-year disappearance. When Reese is called to a meeting on dealing with the sustaining of the new Silent Legion, Higgins escorts Josie to the vault as she too knows little to nothing about Storm. They rummage through the section upon the "Ninja Force/Defenders" and find Storm and Alessia's files. After Higgins manages to bypass the code, the two sees very familiar terms that they wished they hadn't. The BDC figured out where Storm and Alessia had been all those years through a blood-test taken in 2079. They had been under capture of the Dark Order's loyalists and had been experimented upon by the same division Sirius Borg and Methuselah once hailed from. Josie is shocked as she reads through the medical files. Storm has been taking a supplement to repress some kind of seal placed upon her gut but recently one of the key ingredients of the medication was completely exhausted through other forms of medication for other patients. Josie realizes that this might be what's causing Storm to be so distanced from the team and absent from gatherings.

Water splashes in a pond as Storm tests her water-spirit-healing on intoxicated animals with an old man watching her from atop a pile of stone slates. With narrow success, Storm is able to remove the toxins and the animals run off free into nearby woods of the monastery she has been visiting for the past year and a half. Adam hops down from the pile to compliment her on her success but notices that she seems exhausted. He hops in the water to stop her from falling foward and notices that the seal they've spoken about is visible on her stomach again. Two monks help carry her over to a cot where the old master uses an ancient magic formula to repress the sinister marking on Storm's torso. She thanks him before taking a drink of the water they offer her before explaining that when she sleeps, the nightmares show her forgotten memories from when she was experimented upon by the Dark Order. Tommy asks if it's time for them to visit the place Storm was meant to be raised and she reluctantly obliges as they load up into his old muscle car to drive to the Samurai Valley where the village of Tara is located.

Storm looks out upon the mountains and farms they pass as they drive on the main road that leads to the Villages in the Valley. The peace and balance she feels in this part of their nation eases her nightmare and dayterror-ridden mind. They finally arrive at the village which has changed a significant amount since Storm was last there nearly twenty years ago at the age of five. As they walk through the bustling main street, leaving the car in a secure parking lot, Storm sees figments of her younger self and children running about and having the times of their lives. Adam finds a Ramen Bar for them to eat at and Storm sees a familiar face: the stout kid she always found within her friend group. It was George. Storm reintroduces herself and the two chat with Storm having to play along with the lie that the village was forced to believe. After the meal, Storm and Adam continued on. The old man noticed that this was helping her reconnect to her past but that the lie was still something she wanted to debunk.

### Chapter Three - True Darkness

Agent I awakens, dangling over a nest of venomous snakes with Ethan, Luis and Dane looking at him from the platform. Maurice has the crane ready to drop the agent if he can't spill any information. Ethan uses the name Reese gave him to reveal "I"'s true identity: Isaac Bermani. The trio ask the necessary questions with Isaac eventually giving up resisting and giving some but not all of the insight upon the Injustice Order's movement. He states that they've been trying to pull out of the war with the Terra Realm's governement and defenders to deal with a crime syndicate that has been causing their movement some setbacks. This is a fraction of the truth as the Injustice Order knows about the absence of Storm through a bug placed upon Luis's staff. Ethan destroys the staff with his lava powers before telling Maurice to lower the cable further down. Isaac is unbothered by the closeness of the serpents as he sees that piece of information means something to the group. He taunts them with threats about what they'll do to her, Alessia and Jason once they find out where they're being held. Charles cuts the cable himself, causing Isaac to fall into the pit and be supposedly be devoured by the snakes. However, Isaac's body disintegrates as the snakes try to dig into his body; it was an antimatter clone. Maurice and Dane look over at Charles who has a confused look on his face. Charles then states that a cold feeling washed over him when Isaac had been on the cable. An impulse took over. Ethan knows its Blade becoming cocky as Charles killed the ten Agents of Chaos from earlier and tells Charles to go rest while Dane and Maurice put the cover back over the pit, realizing that something is off about this entire thing.

The City of Akai's buildings and towering structures reflect the red-orange light of the setting sun as a shuttle stealthly slips through a hover-gate checkpoint, then settling into a hangar where hooded figures await its arrival. Off the ship comes a clone of Liberty leading Loyalist Crimson Guards and Brute Troopers down the boarding ramp and into the incomplete circle of hooded figures who reveal themselves to be allies from across the realms. Among them are a specific three: Circe, a sorcerer from the Realm of Magic's Undercity, Dahn, a former captain of the Dragon Liberators' Elite Guard, and Rone, a mysterious man who seems to have something that keeps him special but he chooses to conceal it with cybernetic enhancements. These three are part of a vast group of children who were selected as new warrior loyalists to carry out missions and tasks to grow the Dark Order's influence. The three are given a briefing by the clone of Liberty who reveals one of their prime targets: an awol warrior candidate that could've been the next vessel for Samara to post over the Earth-20s and Earth-30s of the multiverse, Storm Carrow. The three, although jealous of her after all these years for her potential to be so great, heed the commands and warnings of their superior as they prepare their hover-bikes and ships to head out for recon across the provinces of the Terra Realm to find her. Circe's memories pulsate with images and scenarios of when she saw or encountered Storm, and a sinister smile on her face soon turned to a scowl as she looked at the illusion of Storm on the magic-pad.

The sunset settled upon the horizon as Martin and Angela stood on the porch of their villa within the recently constructed village that will act as a continuation of the Howard/Roberts/M. Frost bloodline and legacy. Jason is also staying at their villa as a measure of security as the Injustice Order has had it out for him as of late. One of the village guards spots a jet heading their way. Martin recognizes Josie's jet and sees to her finding a safe place to land on the snow flats. Josie tells the three of her discoveries and Jason reveals that he knew but they wanted to keep it behind curtains especially after the Dark Order had involvement in the deaths of Chad, Keith, Natalie, Scotty and others at that time. The increasing amount of foes over time pushed the reveal farther and farther out with the BDC eventually believing that the team would have too negative of a response to such a uncovering, especially after the fallout of Arya's reveal as an enemy loyalist. Josie states that it isn't the same as Storm won't willingly turn on them and Jason partially agrees stating that like Jaxon, Storm only trusts and looks to so few members of the team. Martin and Angela promise not to say anything as they agree with Josie that Storm's hate for Samara Yokotawaru's cause ensures that she won't turn without foreign powers making it so. Martin and Jason stay back in the Village of Higalik as Josie and Angela set out to find where Alessia is so they can learn what actually happened over those ten years.

### Chapter Four - Challengers of the Peace

Back at Cody's warehouse in Island Nation of Foo, Ethan and Dane gather the others to figure out the next move of the Agents of Chaos with a transmission from Reese being received telling that Josie is on her own solo mission. From atop a nearby building, Dahn and two other loyalists watch them with keen interest to see if they know the whereabouts of Storm. Elsewhere, Rone recruits a inner from the Agents of Chaos to help keep the Defenders busy once the time comes and they will be paid handsomely with the location of a Gurostone Refining Core on a parallel reality. Through her ability to hear whispers in the wind, Ella senses that their group is being watched and Cody sends his drones to come up from behind the trio of loyalists while Dane comes from the front. Through Dahn's wrist-mounted flamethrowers, the drones' scanners are fried and the three are able to teleport away before Dane can pounce on them. Ethan and Danny become concerned about the presence of Loyalists in all this and decide to split into two squads: one to locate the enemies and one to meet up with Josie and find Storm so the team can be at full strength in the case of an invasion.

At sunrise, Storm and Adam hike up to the ruins of the house she and her mother lived in before their abduction. Adam advises her to sit down and meditate so the seal doesn't act up while he makes a call to make sure his monk friends are managing the monastery correctly. Although her ability to focus is strained at first, Storm is able to overcome her block through her connection to Tsunamei and is able to clear her mind for a few seconds. Within those quick moments, she sees flashes of loyalists in some kind of hallway, a bridge, a raging fire and other distorted imagery before she is broken out of it by a voice; Brad's voice. His dying wish of her to stay close to her friends and never forsake those bonds as they are what keep her strong with memories of her time with him flashing by. She then is faced in front of her five-year-old self who asks if they're going to be okay. Storm doesn't have an exact answer as the floor turns to rubble and heads get blown off of people and Arya appears impaling her upon an elemental energy blade. Storm wakes up from her trance to find Adam's arms on her shoulders. He was concerned at how far she went. She senses danger is coming their way and that its her responsibility to deal with it.

Cody takes Luis, Dane and Danny aboard the Wendigo Airship to the ruins of Mount Ninja which have recently been discarded by the government as they couldn't find anything valuable in the wreckage anymore and saw no point in guarding rubble and disrupted mountain. The airship settles upon the remnants of the hangar deck which is a few hundred feet below a secret entrance in the rock that only Luis or Ethan could open. Once inside the untouched section of their old home, Dane suspects that the Loyalists might be connected to Storm's absences and suggests they find something to keep them guessing until Josie and Ethan reach Storm. Danny, knowing they must have a way to track them through his and Ethan's unbothered kama, looks at the doppelganger of his friend in hopes that it'll keep the loyalists off the trail long enough.

After convincing Adam to head back to the monastery, Storm bids him farewell for the time being before watching him leave. Suddenly her transmitter picks up on a call from Jason. Knowing she can rely upon him as her uncle, Storm answers and listens to what he says. Although not comfortable with the prospect of fully opening up to Reese, she knows that it could help clear up things as she knows he has a way with personal matters. Sure enough, the BDC gunship lands and Reese is the only one to come out of the troop hold. The two begin talking and Storm finds herself unable to lie to him and tells him about the seal and what she remembers from the ten years. Before she can get into detail, a plasma blast pierces through the gunship, killing the rest of Reese's task force and knocking her and Reese back a few steps. A few feet up from the burning ship is a hooded figure with a glowing blue hand. Reese questions if it's Jaxon before a compressed earth punch sends him flying back through the treeline. Circe leaps down to Storm and utters one word: Trapped.

### Chapter Five - The Puzzle Comes Together

Josie's jet settles down upon a grassy meadow as she and Angela walk towards an old cabin past the large field of flowers. The two knock and a Zastrow Clan guard opens and allows them in seeing as they aren't any form of shapeshifter or imposter. They are taken to the kitchen where Alessia is sitting, giving off a worried vibe. She asks if they've found where Storm is going and Josie doesn't give her an answer, realizing that it's an act. Alessia knows. Realizing that she can't lie to Natalie and Cody's kids like so, Alessia reveals that Storm has been visiting an old friend of the Carrow family and has been learning to suppress the recently awakened "Gunnar Seal". She also explains how until Storm came in contact with Arya's kama directly, neither could remember anything that happened. It was the seal Arya placed that triggered the Gunnar Seal, a formula placed upon any future elite warrior of the Dark Order that could become powerful enough to bend the energy around them to their best interest and serve Samara more efficiently than a regular loyalist. She also explains that Storm doesn't have kama and that their memories of the ten years were locked away by Methuselah until Storm's seal was activated by a high-ranking loyalist general. That was when they were returned Earth-21 without any record of what had happened. Josie realizes how much danger her friend is in and rushes out to her ship which is now blocked by Ethan, Charles, Maurice and Ella.

Josie explains what she learned from Alessia to the four and Charles becomes hesitant on whether they should even protect Storm when the enemy probably had premeditated this. Despite the confliction, Ethan, Ella and Maurice acknowledge that Storm can handle herself until they find her and head to the location of Adam's monastery.

At Mount Ninja, Rone and his warriors converge upon Cody's ship and check it for the elemental masters. Rone uses his kama to sense Danny's above theirs and the loyalists climb up to the entrance before blowing it open to find the Storm poser waiting for them. Rone senses that this is a trap but his men are already within the grasp of Luis's vines. Dane and Danny knock over the idle nindroid and face Rone who isn't too pleased with this outcome. Cody takes out the Brute Troopers still outside the ruins with help from Luis's tree monsters. Rone decides to learn the location of Storm by force and attacks Danny and Dane who are already prepared for this.

Back at the ruins of the Tara Village Carrow Cabin, Storm attacks Circe and the two engage in a fierce duel with the Water Elemental being able to stand up against the variety of magical attacks thrown at her. Reese rushes back from where he was sent flying and joins the fight but can only do so much with his guns and knives as his powers are basically useless against a Loyalist with kama. Storm knows that her water can be absorbed by Circe but uses her powers cleverly to outplay the sorceress. Before Storm can strike a critical final blow, Circe creates a puppet clone that stabs Reese through the chest with a water blade upon removing his protective armor. She then activates seventh stage kama and puts Storm in it for a few seconds to break free. Reese calls for back-up from both the Defenders and BDC as he bleeds out, left to watch as Storm breaks free from the trick due to the seal and runs over to him. She uses her recently strengthened healing powers to close up the wound and stop all the bleeding all before a lapsed Circe can get to her knock her out with a vengestone staff to the face. She then moves in to break Reese's neck but is hit by a blast from a surviving BDC agent's rifle. Upon killing the last agent, she kicks Reese over the ledge and moves in to proceed with her masters' plan.

### Chapter Six - The Fall

Ethan gets a call from Jason saying that Storm is with Reese in Tara village and assures him that they'll move in to protect her as soon as they get one more person who can help her. The ships land outside of Adam's monastery and the squad of six rush up to back pond where Adam is watching the waterfall. Ethan tells him to take them to where Storm is but he refuses to give up her location until Josie says that Reese is with her and that no matter what Storm says, it's obvious that he can connect with her better than anybody. Realizing that these are Storm's friends that actually care for her, Adam joins them as they head for Tara where things have gone south for Storm. Circe decides to attempt to absorb the seal to take the power for herself but gets the air sucked out of her lungs by the clone of Liberty, who saw this coming. She then activates the full power of the Gunnar Seal and commands Storm to do one more thing to reach her full potential: kill her loved ones so she has no tethers left on this reality. Circe is able to pick herself up but begs for forgiveness in her treachery. Liberty says that if she can somehow best Storm in a fight then she will regain her status. However, the seal suppresses Storm's true feelings and morals and amplifies her hate for loyalists, leading to Circe's murder at her hands. Dane's gunship comes in on the scene and the five hop out and on to the cliffside. Ethan attempts to throw a Compressed Earth Punch at Liberty but the Agents of Chaos show up and the clone of the former ally escapes. Storm mentions her mother as her seal is clashing with her inner self, which is fighting to regain control. Ella hears this and attempts to stop her alongside Ethan and Josie, after seeing their friend is not herself.

Storm gets away from Ethan and Ella through a water clone trick and Charles uses his magic to teleport back to Alessia's cabin where he finds Dahn attacking. The Scarlet essence user defends the mother of Storm alongside the Zastrow assassins in a desperate push. Josie then tries to get her friend out of the trance through Angel's Sight but nearly gets her eyes slashed out. Liberty realizes how to make this easier and teleports Josie, Adam and Storm to the Hole Reserve a few miles away from the Corridor of Elders. Ethan, Ella and Maurice are left to fight the Agents of Chaos until the back-up from the BDC arrives.

Danny and Dane's battle with Rone reveals him to be a Formling that can shape shift into a literal wendigo with technological enhancements. Dane points out the irony of Cody's ship being named after the creature before he works with the former Green Ninja to bring down the beast, or as Cody calls it after his gun can't pierce its hide: "A dense ass furry". Through Dane's Heavens Angel Speed Barrage and Danny's kama, the two manage to defeat the Formling with Luis holding him in place with roots and vines for Cody to take the final shot. It nails Rone through the forehead but he drops an explosive charge sending Danny and Luis down a shaft and knocking out Cody. Dane becomes too dazed by the shock of the blow to move and tries to sit down to refocus but is attacked by a battalion of Brute Troopers Cody didn't get to. Just as he believes he's about to die to budget Terminators, Kordi shows up and webs up the androids before using Dane's repulsor to blow up the exposed chest of one of them, taking the other troopers with it in its explosion.

### Chapter Seven - Rivals

Josie and Adam find themselves on a wide footbridge that leads to a shrine temple in the middle of the Reserve's lake with Storm at the end. The two try to reason with her and get to her true self and nearly do so as she is fighting the corruption herself. Jsut as Adam is about to make a breakthrough, the seal tightens and Storm stabs him with her short blade. Josie cries out for Storm to stop before using Inferno Avatar Hands to try and grab her. Storm evades them before chucking Adam's body into the water. Josie leaps in and pulls him out before jetting over to shore where Adam encourages her to use her bonds to save Storm while there's still time. As he dies in her arms, Josie lets go of her optimism and walks back on to the bridge. She remembers one detail Alessia explained to her and Angela before she ran off to try and find the monastery: the seal can't remain active for more than an hour until Samara herself verifies that it's time to use it and makes it permanent. Realizing she only has to face down her friend for an hour, Josie readies up before approaching Storm who is still standing on the bridge. As Josie says she'll help Storm get out of this, Storm taunts her by saying she only has to kill a few more people to reach her true potential. The two charge at each other and the battle begins. The battle of rivals and best friends.

The two's battle starts off with taijitzu (hand-to-hand combat) mixed with Elemental Attacks upon the bridge with Storm throwing surges and waves of water at Josie who narrowly avoids them with fire and her Angel's Sight at her disposal. Inferno Clones are brought into to help her when Storm's arsenal of offensive and defensive measures outweigh hers. While they fight, the seal attempts to alter Storm's memories by making her think that Josie is the girl bully from her village and the one to take her father's life. However, Storm's good to okay memories of Josie emerge and suppress these false ones; a ploy by Storm, herself. Realizing that Josie is beginning to get the advantage despite them being over a lake, the Gunnar Seal forces Storm to siphon some of her Ocean Mistress mode's greater energy and form her Water Phoenix Avatar which quickly deforms into a sea creature with the release of dark energy. A few seconds pass before Josie accesses her Inferno Angel Avatar and the fight takes a large step up to a kaiju fight until the two create powerful enough counters to the other's primary attack, cancelling each other out and exploding.

Josie washes up on shore a few hundred feet away from Adam's corpse and she coughs up water that got caught in her lungs from the fall into the water. Storm appears, walking on the rough waves created from the wake of the explosion and attempts to drown Josie but is nearly burned by a Black Flame attack. Josie activates Pyro Vision and the two fight hand-to hand once more, with five minutes left. If Josie can only hold on for that long. Her desperation turns to despair when she sees that Storm is stealing her elemental chakra. Lilith reaches out from the recesses of Josie's mindscape and offers a large amount of her power to help Josie do what needs to be done and destroy the Gunnar's Seal with Angel's Judgement. Despite fearing it could hurt Storm further, Josie accepts the offer and does it just as Storm impales her with several water spikes and using a forbidden technique to stop her bloodflow to her arms and legs for a minute. The two young women cry out in pain as the angelic technique destroys the seal and Storm's last corrupted attack temporarily paralyzes Josie.

As everything around them in the real world goes to white, Josie awakens upon the Spiritual Plain with bubbles all around her. As she takes notice of the bubbles, she sees that they are Storm's memories. She then hears the voices of Brad, Adam and other familiar people resonating through the meadow that looks similar to the one outside of Alessia's cabin. As she sees everything and hears Storm's thoughts from over the years, she understands what her best friend's next move is. Unbeknownst to her, Storm is seeing her memories and thoughts from over the year. The two have become understanding of each other and know the other's next moves in life. As they accept the outcome of their battle and final chapter in their rivalry, the two are brought back to the real world and out of each other's heads.

The thunder storm above them subsides and the sun shines down upon the area of sand where they lay. Storm eventually stumbles on to her feet but doesn't help Josie as she looks out to the end of the lake and up the stone walls of the Hole Reserve. She's finally free and all thanks to Josie. She thanks Josie for the help but then realizes what she needs to do. She needs to track down the final remnants of the Dark Order divsion that destroyed everything her father worked for and destroyed her and her mother's lives when she was a child. Although Josie is resistant on letting her friend go and do this alone, Storm tells her that she'll seek help from the Hayate children and that she should stay to find a way out of the Cycle of Chaos Arya warned them of. Liberty is infuriated but abandons Storm to find someone else strong enough to rule over this section of the multiverse.

### Chapter Eight - Rain After the Storm

After bidding Josie farewell until their new missions are completed, she releases the paralyzation before contacting Sam and Letita Hayate. Josie watches Storm stand over the body of Adam and promise to remember everything he taught her and then walk to the end of the not destroyed part of the bridge. A few minutes pass before she is picked up by a ship that resembles the one used by the Outsiders and it jumps away. Josie is deeply conflicted as Storm is free from control and oppression and is going out to complete her goal but there's also the problem of the Cycle of Chaos for herself and many others. While she sits upon the sands and thinks, the others arrive upon the scene and rush over to her. Out of earshot from the BDC agents, Josie gives a quick explanation of what happened and then tells the others to cover it up by saying Storm went rogue with the Dark Order. Since its only Reese, Ethan, Ella and Maurice, they agree since they know what really happened. The five follow the agents back on to the gunships with Adam's body being carried on a gurney.

With the other loyalists having been killed or forced to retreat from the reality altogether, the Defenders eventually end up back at the warehouse in the Island Nation of Foo, after a week of questioning from the Feudal Council which still is skeptical of everybody other than Kordi, Dane or Reese. The team attends the funeral for Adam with Josie representing Storm alongside Alessia. After the funeral, Alessia thanks Josie for saving Storm from the Gunnar Seal. When Alessia leaves alongside her bodyguards, Josie is left alone with Ethan at the back pond as the others are busy giving condolences. The two accept that they may not see Storm for a while and that they shouldn't interfere with her mission but rather deal with their own problems as getting involved in other people's affairs is what started the Cycle of Chaos in the first place. Josie watches the reflections of birds fly over the pond as she turns to leave with Ethan. While they walk away as brother and sister, mirroring Jason and Natalie or Kai and Nya before them, a clown mask surfaces in the water with Injustice Order branding upon it.

### Epilogue - Shattered Sky

Jaxon, Maureen, Veto and Domino look down upon the ruins of a village on Earth-62. As they discuss the sight of the atrocity and prepare to go down, the Shifter and Green Flash show up. The two point their weapons at Jaxon and threaten to end his life unless he does some explaining. Jaxon states calmly, despite being a slash away from decapitation, that this wasn't him but other clones of Jason Walker that have been activated to taint the image of the multiversal hero and cause chaos greater than the cycle on Earth-21 that he (and now Storm) broke out of. Aiyana and Kylie lower their blades before Jaxon says that he'll need to be pointed in the direction to find the true version of his father that is behind this.

Far away from the group in an undisclosed location that could be anywhere in the multiverse, several vats break open in a labratory to reveal freshly whipped up clones of Jason C. Walker who clothe themselves and armor up to carry out a distorted voice's command.

Charles wakes up in his room back in Mount Ninja and wanders around for a bit until catching a glimpse of something that wasn't in the base before its destruction. A insignia for Blade smeared upon the walls in the blood of people he has killed. Blade's laugh can be heard as Charles tries to wake himself up from this nightmare. Blade has been in control for the past two years without Charles taking notice and now he's taking the driver's seat rather than assisting. His goal is unclear but Charles can tell that it is something sinister.

## Cast

### Heroes

#### Defenders

* Ethan Garmadon - Robbie Daymond
* Josephine Walker - Lexi Medrano
* Storm Carrow - Sarah Michelle Gellar
* Martin Roberts - Diego Luna
* Daniel Kuorsu - Emile Hirsch
* Reese Arnold - Bumper Robinson
* Angela Howard - Danielle Nicolet
* Ella Miller - Jamie Chung
* Charles Holland - Clifford Chapin
* Maurice Allen - Kyle Hebert
* Ada Zastrow - Ashly Burch
* Luis Bowman - Matthew David Rudd

#### Black Delta Corps

* Dane Williams - Justin Timberlake
* Kordi Daniels - Gina Rodriguez
* James Wheathers - Toby Leonard Moore
* Colleen Higgins - Ayelet Zurer

#### Allies

* Cody Howard - Troy Baker
* Jason C. Walker - Steven Yuen
* Adam - TBA

#### Kyojin Beasts

* Lilith - TBA
* Tsunamei - Lydia Mackay
* Blade - Sam Witwer

### Villains

#### Dark Order

* Liberty Brown/LC-F57 - Erica Lindbeck
* Circe - TBA
* Rone - TBA
* Dahn - TBA
* Monty/Loyalist-Z87 - TBA

#### Agents of Chaos/Injustice Order

* Isaac Bermani/Agent I - TBA
* Gigabite - TBA
* Cartridge - TBA
* Golden Swordsman - TBA

## Sets

* 74632 The Woodlands Monastery
* 74634 Silent Streak Mountain Crawler
* 74638 Dark Converge Shuttle

## Credits Outro

**Ending:** Business - Becky Hill & Ella Eyre