Damien's Lucky Charm

**Damien's Lucky Charm** is the first part of the twenty-eighth episode of the third season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*, and the 132st episode overall. Along with "The New Kids on the Block", it aired first in English on April 8, 2021, in the UK. It aired in the US on April 18, 2021, paired with "Time After Time Capsule" and "The Great Cowgirl Hat Robbery".

## Synopsis

*In the timeline set between "Questing for Quests" and "The News Never Sleeps!", Damien has to prevent a time loop from changing the past, while Cole, Jay, and Kimberly have to find what Irma has gone up to.*

**Extended**: *Cole, Jay, Kimberly, Damien and Kitonaru transported back into the timeline where the Ninja go on a quest at the Desert of Doom, before Aspheera invades NINJAGO City. Damien have to overcome those obstacles to prevent falling into a time loop: Beohernie being frozen, Aspheera working with Irma and saving Nelson from the Elemental Cobras. Their plan was successful, and they went back into the time zone.*

**Tiny Pop**: *In the timeline between the Oni Invasion and Aspheera and the Pyro Vipers invading Ninjago City, Damien has to prevent some series of events that can alter the future.*

**Teletoon**: *Damien has to prevent a time loop from Irma, as she wants to team up with Aspheera to destroy Ninjago.*

## Plot

As the Ninja, the Young Ninja, the Mane Six, the Williams sisters, Kitonaru and Gleam are separated through the portal to different timelines in "Time After Time Capsule", Cole, Jay, Kimberly, Damien and Kitonaru landed at the Monastery of Spinjitzu, only to find out that they are in the timeline before Aspheera's invasion in Ninjago City. Jay was obvious that when they kept their precious things in the time capsule, one of it is the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu, meaning that they were sent back in time where Aspheera steals her first scroll to banish the treacherous deceiver to the Never-Realm. Cole sense that Irma is changing the past, as she wanted to team with Aspheera to awake Wojira and destroy Ninjago. The five have to seek help from someone who already know from the past. As the ninja returned to the monastery, they got tired and papercuts from the day's work. The five sneak in and ask Wu that they are from the future, and someone tries to team up with Aspheera from the Desert of Doom. Wu doesn't know who is Aspheera or Irma so the five went to inside the monastery to find out.

After the Ninja packed their items and bring it to the *Land Bounty*, Irma came in from the portal and saw the Ninja going on the quest. The five then split up, Jay, Cole, Kitonaru and Kimberly will have to go to Ninjago City to see if any problems happened, while Damien have to fight Irma and get his Time Pendant. He then leaps onto the *Land Bounty* and straight forward to the Desert of Doom. However, a series of changes have seen using a Time Pendant and her Elemental Amulets: Beohernie being frozen in Ice and Irma persuades Aspheera to awake Wojira and find the treacherous deceiver at the same time. As Damien found Aspheera before chaining the Ninja as an exchange, the two escape through the portal, and Damien follows it.

In Ninjago City, the quartet also saw Nelson and Antonia delivering the newspapers, but the Elemental Cobras attacked Nelson until Damien saved him. He then saw Aspheera and Irma, although he thinks it is just an illusion. Both have to find the treacherous deceiver and Wojira at the same time. As they ordered the Elemental Cobras to find the deceiver and Wojira, P.I.X.A.L. in her Samurai X mech appear fighting three Elemental Cobras, and the five need to have a private talk. She had seen that the timeline has altered because someone changed the past. Cole remembers what Master Wu have said is that "if she changes anything, she changes *everything*." To prevent a time loop, Damien went inside the portal by stealing the Time Pendant, but Irma chases him as she jumps through the portal.

As Damien changes the timeline back to normal, everything that affects the timeline, including Aspheera's arrival, also changes back to the way it was. Irma was furious about Damien's actions, so she steals the Time Pendant and she will go to the future as her second chance. The five thanked P.I.X.A.L. as they changed the alternate timeline back to its original state. What they have realized is that Aspheera's Staff that she was holding earlier is revealed to be the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu. Antonia gives Cole the scroll, since the other scroll that Aspheera did not took was in the Ninjago Museum of History. With the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu in Cole, Jay, Damien and Kimberly's possession, a portal opens to take them back to their own time period.

## Cast

* Antonia - Bryanna Drummond
* Aspheera - Pauline Newstone
* Clutch Powers - Ian James Corlett
* Cole/Island Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Damien/Island Damien - Andrew Francis
* Irma - Chanelle Peloso
* Jay/Island Jay - Michael Adamwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kimberly/Island Kimberly - Shannon Chan-Kent
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Lloyd - Sam Vincent
* Nelson - David Reynolds
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
* Wu - Paul Dobson
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Featured

* Ninjago (alternate timeline)
	+ Mountains of Impossible Heights
		- Monastery of Spinjitzu
	+ Ninjago City
	+ Desert of Doom
		- Ancient Pyramid
			* Aspheera's tomb

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Damien
* This episode first aired in France on February 26, 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 Damien undoing the time effects in the timeline was shown on Tiny Pop YouTube Channel on March 29, 2021.
* According to Bragi Schut, he makes some alterations to the Season 11 timeline, similar to Season 2 where it altered the timeline in Pilot Episodes.
* It is stated that without the Time Pendant, the portal will open when an object from the Time Capsule was in possession.

## Continuity

* This episode takes place between "Questing for Quests" and "The News Never Sleeps!", as stated in the episode synopsis.
* Cole remembers the quote that Wu and Kai said in "It's About Time!" and "The Shadow Play" as "change anything, change *everything*".
* Damien found his upgraded Elemental Powers that Cole had in "Down and Under". This is because Damien inherits his elemental powers from Cole.
* This is the first episode to feature the double transformation of Jay and Kimberly transforming into Islander Ninja.
	+ They are also the fifth pair to feature Islander Robes during the transformation sequence, after Lloyd, Nelson, Nya, Caralisa, Cole, Damien, Zane and Zachary.
* This episode marks the first appearance of Aspheera since "Friendship Gems", but in the alternate timeline.
* The episode plot resembles the episode "Curseworld - Part II", when Starlight Glimmer alters the timeline to prevent Rainbow Dash doing the Sonic Rainboom, resulting a change of the future ruled by villains.

## Changes

### Changes from the Ninjago cartoon

* The original Ninjago episode did not show Aspheera appearing in Ninjago City, until "Snaketastrophy"