Portal Combat

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**Portal Combat** is the second part of the thirty-third episode of the third season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*, and the 137th episode overall. Along with "The Rarest of Occasions", it aired first in English on April 13, 2021, in the UK. It aired in the US on May 8, 2021, paired with "The Black Hole Problem" and "Escape from Detention Zone".

## Synopsis

*The portal between Ninjago and Equestria and the Unikingdom and the Wild Side is closing, and Rainbow Dash and Jay are stuck with it. They both have to face off against Joyce and the evil Podroid!*

**Extended**: *During break-dancing, Rainbow Dash and Jay got stuck in an inter-dimensional portal to different realms. Not only that, Lloyd, Twilight and their friends have to stop Joyce and the Podroid, Whirler. In the end, Twilight Sparkle managed to stabilise the portal to prevent Joyce from reawakening Wojira in the process.*

**Tiny Pop**: *Rainbow Dash and Jay are stuck in the inter-dimensional portal to different realms, until they figured out by Lloyd, Twilight and Zane to stabilise the portal easily.*

**Teletoon**: *Lloyd and Twilight have to stabilize the portal to rescue Jay and Rainbow Dash from being stuck in the inter-dimensional space.*

## Plot

At Michella's Research Room, Joyce was planning to reawaken Wojira with the power from the inter-dimensional portal to various realms. However, due to its instability, the portal swirls out of control. When Michella explained to Joyce that the uncontrollable portal are able to find Wojira easily, she had no intention to use too much of Traveler's Tea, so she summoned her Podroid, the Whirler, to follow. Eventually, the Whirler accidentally shoot the portal to Ponyville Park.

In Ponyville Park, Lloyd, Zane, Nya, Caralisa, Nelson, Zachary and Twilight Sparkle watch Jay and Rainbow Dash practice their breakdancing. As the two practice a particularly tricky dance move that bounce them around the park, the portal to the Wild Side and the Unikingdom dimensions appears and, reacting to Jay and Rainbow's kinetic energy, starts to pull her inside. The two uses their Lightning speed to stop themselves from being dragged all the way inside the portal, but they are unable to escape its black hole-like pull, leaving them stuck in place. Additionally, the portal is slowly closing, and Echo, Unikitty and Puppycorn worry they and their friends will be trapped in the Mane Six's dimension forever once it fully closes. As Lloyd finds a solution to bring Rainbow and Jay out of the portal, he and his friends realize that Joyce and the Whirler are the ones who travel through the portal to reawaken Wojira. The team split up, Nya and Caralisa have to warn P.I.X.A.L. about the portal, while Lloyd, Zane, Nelson, Zachary and Twilight have to find a way to stabilize the portal.

At the Golden Oak Library, Twilight invents a machine to stabilize the portal, but when she uses it, it fails. Now under immense pressure to both save Rainbow Dash and Jay and keep the portal from closing, Lloyd, Zane and Twilight races to come up with a solution. Applejack and Pinkie Pie later bring the three a stress-relieving treat that combines both their passions: apple pie. The trio still feels guilt over this situation, having pushed Jay and Rainbow Dash during their breakdancing practice, but her friends assure her it is not her fault.

Nya, Caralisa and P.I.X.A.L. find out about Joyce and the Whirler to reawaken Wojira. The two use the elemental powers on her, but she jumps into the portal anywhere she goes. The two use Spinjitzu against the Podroid, but it was ineffective. Eventually, the girls aid Megan to stop the Podroid, since she can destroy her with the golden scepter. Megan transforms into Super Sailor Sky and joins Nya and Caralisa to stop Joyce from opening those unstable portals.

After eating a warm apple pie, they realized that Applejack and Pinkie Pie's apple pie gives Twilight the idea to use her machine on both sides of the portal instead of just one side. When she uses her machine again, the portal becomes stable, and Jay and Rainbow Dash is freed from its pull. The stability causes the Whirler to get weaken, and Super Sailor Sky destroyed the Whirler with Golden Heart Crystal Elimination. With the Whirler destroyed, Joyce transported back to the research room where she got fired by Michella. A silhouette of Courtney appears when she saw Joyce being fired.

With the portal become stable, Unikitty and Puppycorn wondered if they can enter the portal for instance. Lloyd and Zane gave Twilight an idea to build a portal with a doorway. Using the machine a third time, Twilight combines the portal with one of the doors at Sugarcube Café, creating a dimensional doorway that the Wild Siders, Unikitty and Puppycorn can use to travel back and forth between their dimensions and the Ninja and the Mane Six's dimension any time they please. With this solution, Lloyd and Zane have an idea to create a doorway from Ninjago and Equestria to the other Sixty Realms.

### Friendship 101

**Zane**: Hello there, in today's episode, Twilight was able to solve a problem of stablizing the portal to rescue Jay and Rainbow Dash.

**Lloyd**: Like I said, everyone have such problems. But if we can manage the problem with various solutions, that is called problem solving.

**Echo**: Yeah, Lloyd. I think solutions are endless. There are six steps in problem solving, in order to stabilize the portal.

**Lloyd**: First of all, you need to identify what problems you have recently. For example, when Rainbow Dash and Jay got sucked into the portal, you might have realized that the portal is slowly closing. This is the problem you have faced.

**Twilight Sparkle**: Secondly, generate possible solutions. Be creative on what solutions are manageable. An example is that a machine is used to stabilize the portal, but it ended up being unstable!

**Nya**: The third step is to evaluate alternatives. Think about the time when Pinkie Pie and Applejack baked apple pie to de-stress yourself. If Applejack and Pinkie Pie make up as a delicious apple pie, then you come up with an alternative: fusing objects with the portal.

**Zane**: The fourth step is to decide what solution as we planned. If we sure that the portal is unstable, how about doing it now as it seems.

**Echo**: Then you need to implement the solution, and finally evaluate the outcome whether it is effective or not. With the fusion technique, the portal is stabilize and enable for us to travel between dimensions back and fourth.

**Lloyd**: See, problem-solving is easy. Learning to solve problems effectively will help you to minimise the level of stress in your life and improve your overall sense of well-being.

**Zane**: Well then, until later.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Caralisa - Tabitha St. Germain
* Courtney - Tabitha St. Germain
* Echo - Connor Parnall
* Jay - Michael Adamhwaite
* Joyce - Sabrina Pitre
* Lloyd - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams/Super Sailor Sky - Kelly Sheridan
* Michella - Cathy Weseluck
* Nelson - David Reynolds
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
* Puppycorn - Grey Griffin
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Whirler - Kelly Sheridan
* Zachary - Gavin Langelo
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Featured

* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Ponyville Park
		- Golden Oak Library
		- Sugarcube Café
* Ninjago
	+ Ninjago City
		- Ninjago Middle School
			* Michella's Research Room

## Spells Used

* Golden Heart Crystal Elimination - Used by Super Sailor Sky to destroy the Whirler.

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Rainbow Dash
* 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 Twilight Sparkle able to stabilize the portal is shown on Tiny Pop YouTube Channel on March 29, 2021.
* The episode title is a play on the *Mortal Kombat* video game franchise.
* Twilight Sparkle finds out the idea from fusing the portals with an object from the treat that Pinkie Pie and Applejack have made; since the names of **Apple**jack and Pinkie **Pie** make the words **apple pie**.
* Whenever Jay and Rainbow Dash speaks to Twilight and the others, the voice slowed down due to the strong gravity of the portal.
* It is shown that someone's kinetic energy was applied will suck into the portal, due to the strong pull. This was seen when Rainbow Dash and Jay got sucked into the portal due to its kinetic energy.
* The episode plot bares some resemblance to the original Ninjago episode, "The Kaiju Protocol". Both feature P.I.X.A.L. and also featured a character to stabilize the portals.

### Friendship 101

* **Hosts**: Lloyd, Zane, Nya, Twilight Sparkle and Echo
* This episode showcases the six steps for problem-solving.
* **Moral**: Learning to solve problems effectively will help you to minimise the level of stress in your life and improve your overall sense of well-being.

## Continuity

* This episode ends the trend of Joyce's plan of reawakening Wojira, as Michella fired her.
* **Foreshadow**: After Twilight Sparkle able to stabilize the portal by merging the doorway to the vortex, a portal between Equestria and the Wild Side was formed, leading to the creation of the Anywhere Mirror in the next episode.
* Jay was breakdancing in a same style as he did in "Let's Dance!".

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* Some scenes from the original Pony Life episode are heavily edited.
* The episode begins with Joyce making the portal out of control.
* The fight between Nya, Caralisa and Joyce are added in the middle of the episode.

## Errors

* During the fight against Nya and Caralisa, Joyce's Elemental Amulet is missing in one shot.
* When Lloyd finds out about fusion of two objects, his eyebrows are miscolored as dark brown.
* After stablizing the portal, Nelson was missing in one frame.