A Parasitic Friendship (Transcript)

(Title card showing Lloyd, Megan, Cole and Applejack meet Reinako, the giant caterpillar, while at the giant vegetable garden.)

**Lloyd**: *A Parasitic Friendship*

(Morning at Sugarcube Café brings the Sun's rays shining through. Cole opens the window and smells the fresh air.)

**Cole**: (Sighs.) Ahh. Nothing like a beautiful day to start with.

**Lloyd**: Exactly Cole. The weather is so perfect today, so that we're going to grow our own vegetable garden to earn our Trail Trotters Gardener Badge!

**Cole**: Yeah, I can't wait to grow our own vegetables that we are needed for an upcoming Fall Harvest Matsuri!

**Megan Williams**: Fall Harvest Matsuri? What was that?

**Cole**: It was an annual holiday where families and friends gather to thank the nature for bringing us sustainability life. Harvesting our vegetables and fruits is a common tradition before the Harvest Festival occurs.

**Megan Williams**: Oh, I see. I can't wait to celebrate the Fall Harvest Matsuri!

**Cole**: Yeah, but unfortunately, the festival takes place a month later, after Summer.

**Megan Williams**: (Shows her sweat face expression.) Oh, bummer.

(Applejack brings the gardening equipment.)

**Applejack**: Good thing we managed to bring an equipment for gardening.

**Cole**: Great, Applejack. Now we're heading towards my mother's garden. She always grows vegetables without any faulty marks and even spoilage items.

**Fluttershy**: (In shrunken size.) You mean you have your own garden?

**Cole**: Yes, Fluttershy.

(Fluttershy grows herself back to normal. Rainbow Dash came to tell Cole.)

**Rainbow Dash**: Cole, have you seen Twilight, lately?

**Cole**: Uhh....

**Twilight Sparkle**: (Brings the heavy magical fertilizer. Grunting.) Actually, I bought the magical fertiliser.

**Pinkie Pie**: Uh, what does this contain?

**Twilight Sparkle**: (Explains the magical fertilizer when it shows a microscopic view.) It gradually contains 100% organic manure from animals, some dead leaves and sprinkled with the magical dust from the Flories, the Flower Fairy creatures from the Enchanted Garden.

(Zooms out from the magical fertiliser to the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan.)

**Nya**: Whoa. This ensures the efficient growth of the crops without using chemicals.

**Lloyd**: So, what are we waiting for? Let's grow our own vegetable garden!

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: (Cheers happily.)

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan arrived at Lilly's Garden Patch.)

**Cole**: Okay, we all have these equipment needed for gardening. Kai, Applejack, Fluttershy, Zane, Megan and I will put some vegetable seeds in the soil. Twilight will take care with the fertilizer, and Nya will use her water powers to make it grow.

**Kai**: Thanks for the tip, Cole. I have managed to have tomato seeds.

**Applejack**: I also bought some carrot seeds.

**Zane**: I bought the seeds from the eggplants.

**Fluttershy**: I have corn seeds!

**Megan Williams**: And I managed to have pumpkin seeds on my own. What about yours Cole?

**Cole**: Jay and Lloyd bought radish and cucumber seeds. So that will be enough for us to harvest.

**Jay**: Then let's get growing!

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: (Cheers happily.)

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan planted the vegetable seeds in the soil. Twilight uses the fertilizer onto the soil, and Nya uses her water powers to make it grow. Oriana, Kaguya, Miyu and Kaze saw them doing their gardening.)

**Oriana**: Wow! Is that what you are doing right now?

**Zane**: Yes. We are doing gardening to earn our Trail Trotters Gardener Badge.

**Applejack**: And we are preparing just in time for the harvest before the Fall Harvest Matsuri.

**Kaze**: Fall Harvest Matsuri? But, we are still in Summer, two months before Fall have occurred.

**Miyu**: And besides, it takes several weeks for some vegetables to grow.

**Nya**: Twilight usually brings the magical fertilizer to speed up the growing process, as long as we get into such right conditions.

**Kaguya**: Okay then. We will see how your vegetables have grown when we came back. See ya.

(Oriana, Kaguya, Miyu and Kaze left.)

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: Bye!

**Lloyd**: Alright then, we have planted all our vegetables with the magical fertilizer.

**Cole**: Thanks, Lloyd. Let's see how the vegetables have grown over the next day.

(A time card shows "The Next Morning".)

**Lloyd**: The Next Morning...

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan came to check the vegetable garden they have grown.)

**Pinkie Pie**: Oh, my god! We are going to harvest our vegetables?

**Zane**: Hopefully, it will take some time for the vegetables to grow, depending on what seeds you have chosen. In fact, (Gasp.)

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan made awestruck sounds as the vegetable garden was grown huge, with giant vegetables.)

**Jay**: No way!

**Rarity**: Look at all those vegetables! Tomatoes, pumpkins and carrots are huge!

**Lloyd**: I believe that we are smaller than the garden that we've grown!

**Rainbow Dash**: Hey! (Shows Rainbow Dash on the giant Radish.) I'm on the giant radish! I'm the top of the garden! (Laughs.)

**Nya**: (She, Jay, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are on the giant corn.) I can see bird-eye view of the garden!

**Pinkie Pie**: Yeah, and there is a giant corn leaf that is look like a slide!

(Jay, Nya and Fluttershy joins her to slide down the corn leaf.)

**Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy**: (Slide down.) Whoo-hoo!

**Jay and Nya**: (The couple then slide down.) Wheee!

(They all landed, and they giggled.)

**Applejack**: (Walking with Megan to harvest the vegetables.) Well, Megan. I think we are going to harvest our vegetables.

**Megan Williams**: You sure bet. I will pick a large tomato first. (She saw the tomato has a bite mark.) Huh?

**Applejack and Megan Williams**: (Screams.) Ahhh!!!

**Cole**: (Runs to Applejack and Megan Williams.) What just happened?

**Applejack**: Somebody ate our vegetables!

**Megan Williams**: The tomato has been eaten!

**Cole**: Don't worry, it's all part of... (He saw some pumpkins with a bite mark. He gasps.) The pumpkins are also been eaten!

**Twilight Sparkle**: Uh, guys. One problem!

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan saw some bite marks on some giant vegetables, making them terrified.)

**Rainbow Dash**: Who ate all those crops?

**Fluttershy**: Oh, dear! We won't be able to have the Gardener Badge if the crops got eaten.

**Jay**: Then I'll have to find who ate it. (Jay then leaves with the remaining Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan.)

**Rarity**: Be careful!

**Nya**: Please don't get lost, Jay!

(Jay was looking for the culprit who eat the giant vegetables, but he shivers himself with fear when the creature zips in.)

**Jay**: This must be it. (He founds a creature, but the creature was revealed to be a pink worm, who tries to swallow Jay. He screams.) Ahhh! (The rest of the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan hear Jay's cry.) Help me!

**Pinkie Pie**: (Gasp.) Jay!

**Rainbow Dash**: We're coming!

(The rest of the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan run to help Jay.)

**Jay**: Please don't eat me!

**Pink Worm**: Whoa! A blueberry can talk? This is delicious!

**Jay**: I'm not a blueberry, you giant pink worm! You tried to eat me, think that I'm a delicious blue fruit?!

**Pink Worm**: I.. I'm so sorry! (She cries with tears.)

**Jay**: (Gasps) Oh, dear.

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan saw the pink worm crying. Lloyd comforts her.)

**Lloyd**: Don't cry. It wasn't our fault. You need to apologize.

**Pink Worm**: Well, I'm sorry, Jay, for confusing you as a blueberry.

**Jay**: Aw. I'm sorry for your misunderstandings. Who are you?

**Pink Worm**: I'm just a pest worm. My name is Reinako, and I lived in the giant vegetable garden! I love eating all those giant vegetables!

**Applejack**: Yes, Reinako. But the bad thing is the vegetables have been eaten by you. This makes us feel ashamed because of this!

**Kai**: You should not eat all those giant vegetables, we need it for the harvest!

**Reinako**: Okay! I'm just a bit too hungry to eat, because I love to eat what I want, especially when I feel sad. (She shows her crying face.)

**Nya**: Poor Reinako. I think we need some food for her to eat.

**Zane**: Actually, pest worms have leaves as its main diet, other than the vegetable crops. Many farmers use this biological way for the pest worms to eat leaves, without killing it using chemicals or putting predators.

**Lloyd**: That's a great idea, Zane! Hang on, Reinako. We will get something for you to eat, when you are hungry. (The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan went to the Flower Field.)

**Pinkie Pie**: Wow! You also owned a flower garden?

**Cole**: Yeah, my mother always cultivate flowers too!

**Megan Williams**: Hey guys! (Shows Megan with the wheelbarrow with leaves.) I found something!

**Nya**: What is it?

**Megan Williams**: I found all the leaves, but the main problem is that it was very small to fit for the giant worm's appetite!

**Kai**: Don't worry, I will use the Growing Potion to enlarge it. (He pours the potion onto the leaves. It then makes a rumbling sound.)

**Rainbow Dash**: Incoming!

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: (Screams.) Ahhh!!

(The leaves starts to enlarge into giant leaves.)

**Lloyd**: It work!

**Kai**: Now we can feed Reinako with all those leaves.

(The scene shifts to Reinako as she was so hungry, but she realized that she was unable to eat the vegetables because of the promise given by Lloyd.)

**Reinako**: I'm so hungry. When am I going to eat something?

**Lloyd**: We're back, Reinako. (The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan brings some giant leaves to Megan.) I know you love eating our vegetable crops but... this is actually what pest worms always eat.

**Megan Williams**: You can ease your appetite if you want to eat those giant leaves.

**Reinako**: Leaves? All this time, I always eat all those vegetable crops you have given, and why these?

**Applejack**: This ensures you fill your appetite more quickly then you eating our vegetables we've grown. Now, eat up.

(Reinako then eats the giant leaves, and she seemly enjoyed eating it.)

**Reinako**: Wow! It taste so good! The leaves were scrumptious and minty! I can't wait to eat more of those! (She eats more giant leaves.)

**Rainbow Dash**: Now she loves eating leaves, instead of our vegetable crops.

**Cole**: Good thing she managed to eat leaves without harming our garden.

**Lloyd**: (Went close to Reinako.) Reinako, I just have to tell you. We decided to treat you with leaves, in order to fill your appetite, especially when you feel lonely. Promise not to eat our vegetable garden, okay.

**Reinako**: I promised too.

**Fluttershy**: Geez, we shall find out the next morning if this improves.

(A time card shows "The Very Next Morning".)

**Lloyd**: The Very Next Morning...

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan then check the garden to see if the vegetables are growing.)

**Jay**: I hope Reinako will not ever eat all those vegetables they grown. If it does, then I'll be.. (He gasps.) Look!

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: (Cheers happily.)

**Cole**: More vegetables are growing!

**Rarity**: Oh, darling. They have plenty of them than yesterday.

**Lloyd**: Reinako kept her promise, that's the reason why more vegetables are growing!

**Applejack**: Why don't we thanked her?

**Ninja**: (Simultaneously.) Okay then.

**Mane Six**: (Simultaneously.) Well said.

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan went to look for Reinako, but they realized that she is gone.)

**Rarity**: She's gone?!

**Kai**: (Gasp.) Oh, dear. I thought that she was here all this time.

**Jay**: Oh maybe, she've might be eaten by a giant bird!

**Zane**: (Off-screen.) Wait!

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: Huh?

**Rainbow Dash**: Uh, great. What is it?

**Zane**: Actually I found Reinako. But she was inside a brown shell!

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: The Brown Shell?

(The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan saw the brown shell that Reinako was inside.)

**Fluttershy**: Wait a second. How did Reinako was hiding inside the brown shell.

**Zane**: The brown shell is actually the pupa stage, which is a large cocoon.

**Jay and Pinkie Pie**: A large cocoon?

**Lloyd**: So, that means that Reinako is not a pink pest worm. It's a caterpillar!

**Twilight Sparkle**: Boy, we were all wrong if we call her the giant pest worm who turn into a brown shell!

**Fluttershy**: Speaking of which, Reinako was breaking out of the cocoon! Watch!

(Reinako emerges herself out of the cocoon, while she grow her wings, becoming herself into a butterfly.)

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: Ooh!!

**Jay**: Wow!

**Rarity**: That was beautiful!

**Reinako**: Can't you see clearly I'm a butterfly?! I can see all of you while on air!

**Nya**: Can't believe you have outdone yourself becoming a butterfly!

**Kai**: Way the go! Reinako!

**Lloyd**: And guess what, (He shows them a Gardener Badge.) We have finally earned our Trail Trotters Gardener Badge!

**Ninja, Mane Six and Megan Williams**: Whoo-hoo!

**Reinako**: Thank, guys. But I guess I'll have to make a move. I want to see all my family out there.

**Fluttershy**: Oh, Reinako. But you will definitely see us anytime soon.

**Reinako**: Okay then, goodbye my friends!

**Lloyd, Jay and Nya**: (Simultaneously.) Come back, soon!

**Kai and Zane**: (Simultaneously.) We'll miss you!

**Rainbow Dash**: (Simultaneously.) Miss us!

**Pinkie Pie**: (Simultaneously.) Bye-bye!

**Rarity and Twilight Sparkle**: (Simultaneously.) See you soon!

**Cole, Applejack, Fluttershy and Megan Williams**: So long, Reinako!

(Reinako then flies up into the sky, as the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan made goodbyes to her.)

(End of the episode. For more information, click here.)