The Black Hole Problem

**The Black Hole Problem** is the first part of the thirty-fourth episode of the third season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*, and the 138th episode overall. Along with "Escape from Detention Zone", it aired first in English on April 13, 2021, in the UK. It aired in the US on May 8, 2021, paired with "The Rarest of Occasions" and "Portal Combat".

## Synopsis

*Courtney lends Kimberly the Black Hole Scepter to protect her precious items from being lost. However, losing a Scepter cause a bigger problem.*

**Extended**: *When Kimberly realized that today they are having art class, she doesn't bring her art materials, so Courtney lend Kimberly the Black Hole Scepter to prevent her item from being lost. However, something chaotic is going to happen when she accidentally dropped the scepter into the Black Hole. Kimberly and Courtney have to retrieve it inside, or else anything else will get sucked into the hole as well.*

**Tiny Pop**: *Kimberly borrows the Black Hole Scepter from Courtney, in order to travel without carrying bulky items. But, things make worse when the scepter itself drops into the black hole and Kimberly and Courtney had to retrieve it!*

**Teletoon**: *Kimberly uses the Black Hole Scepter to prevent her precious items that she needs was lost.*

## Plot

Shortly after the events of "Portal Combat", Lloyd and Zane build a portal with a bunch of mechanical parts, and using the Traveller's Potion as a battery. They call the portal as the Anywhere Mirror. Lloyd made this portal for the Wild Siders or any people in other realms can go back home and visit anytime as they want. Wu thought that Faith will see them doing now from the First Realm, Cole will invite Krag from the Never-Realm to have a hangout with the Upply and Kaya want to see Lil' Cheesecake and Marmalade at the Candy Empire. Jay wonders why the Anywhere Mirror doesn't lead to *Prime Empire*, as Lloyd explains that since *Prime Empire* have restricted security codes like any other video games, the Digital Teleportation Brew will be used instead. Much to their amazement where they can travel the portal through the Sixty Realms anytime, Kimberly realized that today was her art class, and she don't want to lose her art supplies. She thinks the Anywhere Mirror will work for her materials, but Zane said that not even the object can travel from one place to another.

Meanwhile, Michella ordered Courtney to find some crystals for her project, but she lost her favorite tea towel. Wanting to prevent herself from losing the objects, she saw a black scepter inside one of the magic balloons in "Close Encounters of the Balloon Kind", and realized that she can create a black hole. Courtney drops her favorite tea towel into the black hole, and creates another hole where it come out. As Kimberly was walking to school with her art supplies, Courtney then help Kimberly to transfer the art supplies to her school with the Black Hole Scepter. As the scepter works, Kimberly borrowed it for her safekeeping. After art class, Kimberly creates a black hole to transfer her art supplies back to the monastery, but she accidentally dropped the scepter into a hole. Much of her disappointment, Kimberly yelled Courtney to get the scepter back. The gravity of the black hole is so strong, so that it can suck people and objects into it.

When the Ninja, the Young Ninja, the Mane Six, the Williams sisters and the Wild Siders react to the news about a black hole in a school compound, they are worried about Kimberly. Back in school, Kimberly asked Courtney to retrieve the scepter, as it falls into a black hole. The girls used a rope and dived right into it. The team went to the school compound, only then they saw a large black hole sucking the objects and the people surrounding it, even from those from far away. Kimberly and Courtney finally found the Black Hole Scepter inside the black hole, and she calls her friends to reel them in. However, the gravity causes the phone to suck even further. Unable to reach back on top, she wished her friends are here. Luckily, the Ninja, the Young Ninja, the Mane Six, the Williams sisters and Michella, although being an enemy, rescue the two from the black hole with Cole and Damien using RX powers to reel them in. Kimberly creates another black hole to release any objects and closes it.

Kimberly apologized to her friends for not able to carry an important object for school, without being guilt, so Gleam uses her Dream Magic to create a candy crystal into a magic bag for Kimberly to keep her art supplies. What is more important is that her friends are able to help each other, as they are easier than it used to.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Caralisa - Tabitha St. Germain
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Courtney - Tabitha St. Germain
* Damien - Andrew Francis
* Echo - Connor Parnall
* Eileen - Brittany Allen
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gayle Gossip - Kelly Sheridan
* Gleam - Marÿke Hendrikse
* Jake - Nicholas Holmes
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kaya - Nicole Bouma
* Kimberly - Shannon Chan-Kent
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Lightning Chill - Bethany Brown
* Lloyd - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams - Kelly Sheridan
* Michella - Cathy Weseluck
* Molly Williams - Chantal Strand
* Nelson - David Reynolds
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
* Potion Nova - Chanelle Peloso
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Sugar Snap - Ana Sani
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Wu - Paul Dobson
* Yvonne - Jennifer Copping
* Zachary - Gavin Langelo
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Featured

* Ninjago
	+ Mountains of Impossible Heights
		- Monastery of Spinjitzu
			* Hangar Bay
	+ Ninjago City
		- Ninjago Middle School
			* Art Room
			* Principal Amanda's Office
			* Michella's Research Room

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Kimberly
* This episode first aired in France on March 3, 2021, as part of sneak peak for the season's main arc.
* This episode, along with other episodes of the third season's second arc, was leaked on Pop! On-Demand in the UK on April 2, 2021.
* A sneak peak featuring Kimberly borrowing the scepter from Courtney is shown on Tiny Pop YouTube Channel on March 29, 2021.
* Lloyd and Zane created the Anywhere Mirror, so that the Wild Siders and any other people from the other realms can transverse between Ninjago and the Sixty Realms.
* A black hole can suck many objects and people at the most distant point, similar to how it sucks light in real life.
* Gleam can create the crystal from the Cotton Candy Comet into a object that a person really needed for something important, using the Dream Magic.
* According to Lloyd, the Anywhere Mirror cannot lead to virtual worlds such as *Prime Empire,* as these worlds have secured codes to prevent any viruses from entering the world. In order to enter the virtual world, a Digital Teleportation Brew is used instead.

## Continuity

* This episode takes place shortly after "Portal Combat", as with some references from Twilight Sparkle making a doorway for the Wild Siders travel to their dimension to the Mane Six's dimension, Lloyd and Zane created the Anywhere Mirror, not only to transverse between any part of the Sixty Realms, but they can travel to Equestria much easier than before, despite the two realms are close proximity to each other.
* This is the first episode where one of the Detrimental Potion Busters help the Ninja to solve the problem, in that case, Courtney and Michella. The second time it got happened is "Faithful Ambitions".
* Faith, Krag, Lil' Cheesecake and Marmalade are mentioned throughout the episode.
	+ Since the transfer from WILFilm Aps to Boulder Media Limited, this is the first episode where Faith was mentioned.
* Eileen, the Young Ninja's Biology teacher, makes her first appearance in the series, although she makes her physical debut in 71741 Ninjago City Gardens.

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* The magic balloons in "Close Encounters of the Balloon Kind" appears when Courtney retrieved the Black Hole Scepter.

## Errors

* When "Research is Required" and "A Cute Mystery" was released on Polish VOD service Player on April 13, 2021, this and "Escape from Detention Zone" was played accidentally instead of the two initial episodes.
* In one scene, Lloyd was in a Hero suit instead of his Armor suit that he wore in Rainbow Roadtrip and most of *Living the Pony Life* episodes.
* When Kimberly attempts to retrieve the Black Hole Scepter, her hair colour is darker brown, as opposed to pale brown.
* After the team forgives Kimberly, Sugar Snap's horn is miscolored as blue, green and violet, instead of red, orange and green.