Bad Thing No. 3

**Bad Thing No. 3** will be the eighteenth episode of the second season of LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life. It will be paired with "Pinkie Pie: Hyper-Helper" in the North American airing, but in production order, it was paired with "Sun-Crossed".

## Synopsis

**Teletoon**: *Rarity tries to get rid of her bad luck before it can ruin her relationship with a new friend, and she receives some much-needed advice from an unexpected source: herself.*

## Plot

### Part 1

It's Friday the 13th in Ponyville, and Rarity alerts Pinkie Pie to a crisis she has at Sugarcube Café. She explains that while modeling a new headband the day before, she ran into Fancy Pants, who invited her to go on a stroll in the park with him the following evening. While speaking with him, she accidentally spills a potion on her headband; Fancy Pants warns this might be a bad omen and that "bad things happen in threes". As Fancy leaves, Rarity suffers a second bad omen by tripping over the potion bottle.

Rarity was crying over an interfered conversation with Nya and Megan about the bad omens that faced by Fancy Pants. Nya then explains that on Friday the 13th, some people may have interfered with bad lucks throughout the day. Last Friday the 13th will be the worst for Nya, she had a bad omen that Nya was unable to control ice in winter. Rarity will not want the third bad omens caused by Fancy Pants, but eventually what caused bad luck on that day, as people were affected by a fear of this day. All those bad luck causes Princess Twivine Sparkle to summon a Thorntus named Unlucky Charmer, to extract the victim's Eternity Crystal.

Rarity worries that the third bad omen will get in the way of her stroll with Fancy Pants and wants to make it happen before then. In addition, the potion she spilled on her headband causes it to reveal terrible truths to whoever wears it, so Pinkie Pie leaves it in the Sugarcube Café pantry. After failing to trigger an argument between Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle and countering Kai and Lloyd with a terrible fight, Rarity decides to resort to deliberate sabotage to make "bad thing number three" happen before her stroll with Fancy Pants, all while slowly losing her sanity.

### Part 2

Nya was having a bedtime routine when she encounters a teller named the Unlucky Charmer. Since she noticed that tomorrow is no bad luck, since it is on Saturday, but Unlucky Charmer bought her that it Rarity cannot handle any bad omens by the end of Saturday the 14th, she will lose all her memories. Nya wonders that there is Saturday the 14th. Oriana also arrived at her room, and she met the Unlucky Charmer. Nya and Oriana don't believe her opinions, as Saturday the 14th don't exist.

The next day arises on Saturday the 14th. As Pinkie Pie practices souffles for the next round of the Royal Jelly Juggernaut, an increasingly unhinged Rarity plots to steal Pinkie's souffle recipe in order to make "bad thing number three" happen. This leads to a physical altercation between her and Gummy that ends with her crashing inside the pantry and the magic headband falling on her head.

Inside Rarity's mind, her inner voice tells her that "bad thing number three" has already happened. Because she has focused on the negative instead of living in the present, she is now trapped inside her own mind (literally and figuratively). Rarity's inner voice also says that, while seconds pass inside her mind, entire days pass in the outside world, meaning she has missed her park stroll with Fancy Pants. Then, she met Unlucky Charmer who wants that now they all have "bad thing number three", she will erase all her memories of her life by extracting the Eternity Crystal. Rarity then shoved aside from the Unlucky Charmer, but she will follow if she leaves.

When Rarity's friends find her hallucinating in the pantry, they remove the headband and tell her she was only gone for a short time, and Fancy Pants has arrived for their stroll together. When Rarity continues to stress about "bad thing number three", her friends tell her to go with the flow and not worry about something that may or may not happen. While strolling with Fancy Pants, she then realized that an Unlucky Charmer hunts down with her and steals the Eternity Crystal. Oriana transforms into her Crystal Guardian form and attacked an Unlucky Charmer. She ruthless tell Fancy Pants to get away, or else he will suffer from any bad omens. Unlucky Charmer uses a Amok Staff to erased Oriana's memories, until Sailor Sky and Hero Nya arrived, but she saw Oriana cannot remember them outside the Realm of the Sun. Unlucky Charmer then possessed Rarity in her mind and faced against them. Sailor Sky wake Oriana up, but she had lost her memories, realizing that she forgets everything. As Unlucky Charmer has no chance to possessed Rarity that she is "bad thing number three", she will forget everything she wanted. Just then, her Sunshine Scepter calls out to another Crystal Guardian, Gaia, as she told Rarity to remember everything she always live without, her friends. She then gives Rarity her new weapons, the Ribbon of Generosity, which is similar to a wand, but shoots out a long ribbon to kill enemies. Rarity then uses the Ribbon with the spell, Generosity Jewel Wrap against Unlucky Charmer. Sailor Sky uses the Rainbow Crown Magic to eradicate her.

As Oriana regains her memories when the Amok Staff is destroyed, she was relieved to have all her memories back. She then saw Rarity knew who caused "bad thing number three", Fancy Pants turns out to be very vain and narcissistic. Rarity realizes that she does not like Fancy Pants and that he was "bad thing number three" all along, and she quickly leaves. Back at Sugarcube Café, Pinkie Pie says she is proud of Rarity for not letting bad omens control her, and as there is no such thing as Saturday the 14th, Rarity is glad that her obsession with bad omens did not jeopardize Pinkie's chances in the Royal Jelly Juggernaut.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Fancy Pants - Trevor Devall
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gaia - Diana Kaarina
* Gummy - Trevor Devall
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams/Sailor Sky - Kelly Sheridan
* Nya/Hero Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Oriana - Erin Matthews
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity/Unlucky Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Twivine Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Unlucky Charmer - Shannon Chan-Kent
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Sugarcube Café
		- Ponyville Park
* Ninjago
	+ Ninjago City
		- Boba Sweets Shack
	+ Mountains of Impossible Heights
		- Monastery of Spinjitzu
	+ Shintaro Mountain
		- Dungeons of Shinatro
			* Skull Keep

## Spells Used

* Sunlight Beam Blow - Used by Oriana against Unlucky Charmer, but failed.
* Generosity Jewel Wrap - Used by Rarity against Unlucky Charmer and free from her possession.
* Rainbow Crown Magic - Used by Sailor Sky to defeat Unlucky Charmer.

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Rarity
* This is the first episode in which Oriana's transformation into her Crystal Guardian form is seen.
	+ It is also the first episode to have Oriana in her causal sundress.
* This episode takes place on Friday the 13th, which is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition.
	+ As this episode released in 2020, it is stated that this takes place either March or November.
* This is Fancy Pants's first appearance in the spin-off.
* It is stated that there is no evidence that there is Saturday the 14th, according to Unlucky Charmer. The writers thought that Saturday the 14th is the in-universe concept of Friday the 13th, the latter day is when they lose all of their memories.
* Rarity is the third of the Mane Six to become evil, the first is Twilight Sparkle who was Midnight Sparkle, and the second is Fluttershy as Flutterfrost.
* This is the third episode where the expected target is one of the Mane Six, the first is "Princess Probz," and the second is "How Applejack Got Her Hat Back," although the former got almost successfully extracted the Eternity Crystal and the another only extracts the Eternity Crystal from Derek.
* Rarity has a new weapon in this episode, the Ribbon of Generosity.

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* Rarity got possessed by an Unlucky Charmer, when all the three bad things have happened. In the actual episode, she was controlled by Fancy Pants.
* This episode did not takes place on Friday the 13th.
* The conversation at Boba Sweets Shack was added in this episode.