Harvesting Memories

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**Harvesting Memories** is the eighth episode Wonderful Memories mini-series based around the Ninja and the Mane Six in the future timeline, taking place sometime after the series finale of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Masters of Friendship*.

In this episode, Applejack and Cole reminisce about their past moments of honesty and inner strength without revealing their true intentions to Twilight Sparkle during the news report.

## Plot

Gayle Gossip is reporting a breaking news about Twilight's upcoming coronation and she is discussing with Applejack about how the food preparations are going for this festival. She has set up some cider as well as applesauce needed for the coronation gathering. Gayle Gossip brings P.I.X.A.L., Spike, and Starlight Glimmer and they asked Applejack to reminisce on old times with Twilight Sparkle so that they can collect more memories for the magical scrapbook. Gayle also forgot to bring Cole along, as he is going to reminisce his memories of being a strongest Ninja in the team. Cole comes in and meets up with Lloyd and the others and P.I.X.A.L. asked him and Applejack to go on an interview with Gayle Gossip, alongside Lloyd and Twilight. Despite the less-than-honest nature of their task, both accept, but Spike decides to stick around on the farm and do all the talking for her in case she cannot help her open truthfulness and his core strength. Spike brings Twilight to the farm under the pretense of needing her to inspect the apples that Applejack is using for Twilight's upcoming coronation, while Lloyd brings Cole to make a cake for the coronation, AFTER the interview have ended.

When Twilight arrives to the farm, Spike and Gayle immediately initiate a conversation about her favorite times when Applejack was honest, like saving Twilight from a cliff fall, being a fashion contest judge, and revealing the truth about Flim and Flam's miracle tonic. Spike also recalls Applejack's least honest moment. Before Applejack becomes too honest about her motives for bringing Twilight to the farm, Spike mentions Applejack's love for her family, like when she organized the big Apple family reunion.

Lloyd interviews from Gayle about how he and Cole were friends. Cole was once a good leader for the Ninja, before Lloyd took over. he was once a mountain climber when his mother passed away, and Wu eventually found him. He also discovered what Cole have his honesty in different ways, like his father respected him for who he was, not what he wanted him to be, strengthening their relationship, unlocking his True Potential. Whenever Lloyd feels down, Cole and the other Ninja support Lloyd. He still remembers the time that he something’s hide the truth, like when Cole turns into a ghost, after finding out that he never escape to the temple by sunrise, but later on he always accept that he is different. He also cut down the sweets seeming that his body is a temple, but he found a new appreciation of eating cake that is seemly enjoyed by most people.

Spike and Gayle shove Twilight and Lloyd into the barn, and they, Vinny, P.I.X.A.L. and Starlight urge the two to be more secretive so that she does not spoil the surprise. Applejack believes letting Spike do all the talking will rouse Twilight's suspicion, so Starlight allows her to speak more freely. Inside the barn, Applejack offhandedly recalls the time her family raised a barn from the ground up, and Twilight remembers Applejack's bizarre original method of doing chores. Cole remembers the time he beats Zane's record when playing *Lava Zombies*. This causes Twilight, Applejack, Lloyd, Cole, Gayle and Spike to recount past moments of Cole and Applejack's weirdnesses, like reading a bedtime story to a tree, adopting a fashionista alter ego, shrinking to miniature size, becoming overly protective of Apple Bloom, adopting a country singer alter ego, singing a song to the crowd, but turns out spoiling a show, handling Baby Wu, unsuccessfully did the dragon test flight, forced him and Little Wu to find food but being chased by Stormbringer and falls off the *Bounty* when Nya pushes a thrust lever in a wrong way.

Unable to contain her honesty any further, Cole and Applejack reveals the real reason she brought Twilight and Lloyd to the farm: with all the craziness from saving Ninjago and Equestria and planning the coronation, both just wanted to spend some quiet time reminiscing with the two. Twilight and Lloyd are more than happy to accommodate the two's wishes, and they start recalling their favorite memories of the two bravest duo, such as when they first met, taking part in Winter Wrap Up together, facing Queen Chrysalis together, uses his Earth Punch on Yang, meeting Krag for the first time and then Krag accepts Friendship, helping Torque Wrench about the Rainbow Generator that needs to work and helping Candy Sweetcake and her mother to bake treats for the Rainbow Festival. Applejack also realizes that if she had not ever met Twilight or Cole never left to meet Lloyd, they never would have gone on adventures to Manehattan, the Peaks of Peril, the Flame Geyser Swamp, the Realm of Oni and Dragons and even the Never-Realm.

As Twilight, Lloyd and Spike leave to take care of other coronation duties, Gayle tells Starlight Glimmer that she, P.I.X.A.L. and Spike should have let the two handle things on her own. The two remarks that they may be honest, but even they know how not to spoil a surprise. Gayle ends a report, which she needs a break for the coronation going on.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Apple Bloom - Michelle Creber
* Big Mac - Peter New
* Candy - Tabitha St. Germain
* Chimera - Ellen Kennedy
* Chloe - Marÿke Hendrikse
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Dareth - Alan Marriott
* Faith - Kathleen Barr
* Filthy Rich - Brian Drummond
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gayle Gossip - Kelly Sheridan
* Granny Smith - Tabitha St. Germain
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Krag - Brian Drummond
* Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
* Lou - Kirby Morrow
* Masked Nurse - Tabitha St. Germain
* Masked Pony - Brian Drummond
* Mrs. Sweetcake - Britt McKillip
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pedestrian Pony 1 - Colin Murdock
* Pedestrian Pony 2 - Andrea Libman
* Photo Finish - Tabitha St. Germain
* Pony 1 - Ashleigh Ball
* Pony 2 - Tabitha St. Germain
* Queen Chrysalis - Kathleen Barr
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Ruby - Tabitha St. Germain
* Scar the Skullbreaker - Michael Adamthwaite
* Shining Armor - Andrew Francis
* Spike - Cathy Weseluck
* Starlight Glimmer - Kelly Sheridan
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Vinny - Gavin Langelo
* Wu - Paul Dobson; Kelly Metzger; Madyx Whiteway
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Sweet Apple Acres

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Applejack
* This is the second short where the main focus doesn't cry at all in the episode.
* It is the first time in the short that to not contain dialogue for all the Mane Six, as Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash appear but don't speak.
* Kai is the first Ninja to not have a dialogue in this short.
* This is the only short where someone collects memories other than Starlight Glimmer, Spike or P.I.X.A.L., in this case, Gayle Gossip.
* This short was paired with the Pony Life short, "Manhunt" on 9GO! Australia airing.