The Origins of Twivine

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**The Origins of Twivine** is the first part of the fifty-fifth episode of the second season of LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life. This and the next episode are based on the LEGO Ninjago episode, *The Skull Sorcerer*. Along with "Who's Really Who?", it was paired with "Down the Mountain Hole" and "Rock Bottom".

## Synopsis

*Princess Twivine Sparkle tells her life story of how she befriended the Skull Sorcerer.*

**Teletoon**: *Upon getting attacked by the Dire Bats and giant spiders, Cole, Applejack, Kitonaru and Megan are saved by Vania and Princess Twivine Sparkle, who have decided to work with her new friends instead of trusting the Skull Sorcerer.*

## Plot

Back at the Kingdom of Shintaro, Vania is wondering what if she should save the Ninja and the Mane Six or hope the Ninja are alright and hopefully they can save themselves. She asks Chompy, and the dragon believes she should relax.

However, Cole, Applejack and Megan are in deep trouble as they hang off a branch overlooking a deep abyss below, while screaming for help, in which Kitonaru and Gaia came over to rescue them. Cole tries to come up with a plan and spots a skeleton holding a hook. Without notice, the branch breaks, but Applejack is able to hang onto the skeleton's legs, with Cole and Megan holding onto Applejack's hooves. She then lassoes the hook onto a rock, but the skeleton breaks as well. Cole tries to climb using the hook and rope, but the rock also breaks. Luckily, they hang onto a cliff and scream for help. Gaia and Kitonaru heard them screaming, and Kitonaru sniffs on its way to rescue the three. Princess Twivine Sparkle also heard the noise that someone is in trouble, and she carried over, but she encountered a Dire Bat. Fortunately, Twivine uses her dark plundervines to entangle it.

Suddenly, they encounter Dire Bats and one of them picks Cole up. The others tried to clasp Cole, but it results in Cole falling until a third Dire Bat takes him and begins flying away from the group. Somehow, Applejack and Megan are also caught by the Dire Bats. While being chased, Cole uses his Earth Punch to slow down the other Dire Bats, freeing Applejack and Megan. He then is able to break free from the Dire Bat who had Cole and runs to a cave. Unexpectedly, the Dire Bat retreats and Cole brags on how superior his abilities are, but he, Applejack and Megan run into a sticky situation.

An enormous spider comes down from their web and tries to eat them. At first, Cole is able to hold up until the spider shoots webs at Cole's hand, and eventually their entire bodies. Facing certain doom, Gaia, Kitonaru, Vania, Chompy and Twivine appear out of nowhere to fights the spider. Chompy tries to give aid, but the spider simply swipes the small dragon. Vania then hurls her spear at the spider, but the spider defect it. Gaia then attacks the spider with Liana Chain Breakout, but it frees himself. Vania gets frustrated at the spider, and unknowing to Vania, Chompy turns into a gigantic dragon, so the spider flees and traps in the plundervines. Cole tells Vania about Chompy, but Vania thinks it a joke. Gaia came to tell Cole, Applejack and Megan was alright, but she got infuriated by Princess Twivine. Twivine decided to help the others instead of taking the Skull Sorcerer's advice, which Applejack knew what just happened to Twivine since the battle during the Fall Harvest Matsuri. Just then, her magic causes Kitonaru to speak fluently, realizing that Kitonaru can talk. Princess Twivine eventually tells the others and Kitonaru about her life story.

Twivine was first started out when Twilight Sparkle decided to return the Element of Magic to the Tree of Harmony. However, she had noticed the dark shadow who is shaped like a sorcerer, until it disappears. When she realized that the sorcerer was stranged, she saw dark plundervines entangled her. The mysterious sorcerer then drains Twilight's magic and her DNA sample, and later he then disappears, leaving Twilight weak. Eventually, Twilight got healed by Lilly, Pear Butter and the previous Princess Eternity with her healing magic, and Princess Celestia tells Twilight to recover herself from the damage she had done.

However, this in turn that Princess Twivine was awakened when the mysterious sorcerer combined with the dark plunderseeds that was native in the Dungeons of Shintaro, so he instructed Twivine to gather all the magic from the Pegasi, Earth Ponies, Unicorns and Alicorns and feed it to the Everfree Forest. The combined magic with the mysterious sorcerer and herself awakens the Grief-Bringer and cause terror for the Munce and the Geckles, until Lilly, Pear Butter and the previous Princess Eternity saved them by killing Grief-Bringer and the mysterious sorcerer, restoring all the magic in Equestria. They managed to lock Twivine in the dungeons, until one day, she got freed from the Skull Sorcerer and became his loyal servent.

As Twivine concludes the story, she tells the truth that she wanted to learn from mistakes, as she did not want to harm the creatures under the depths of the Shintaro Mountain. Cole, Applejack and Megan realized that Twivine decided to brush up on her mistakes she made.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Gaia - Diana Kaarina
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Lilly - Erin Matthews
* Megan Williams - Kelly Sheridan
* Pear Butter - Terri Hawkes
* Princess Celestia - Nicole Oliver
* Queen Eternity - Kelly Sheridan
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Twivine Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Vania - Sabrina Pitre

## Locations Visited

* Ninjago
	+ Shintaro Mountain
		- Kingdom of Shintaro
			* Vania's Bedroom
		- Dungeons of Shintaro
			* Dire Bats' Nest
			* Skull Keep (flashback)
* Equestria (flashback)
	+ Everfree Forest (flashback)
		- Castle of the Two Sisters (flashback)
			* Tree of Harmony (flashback)
			* Twilight's House (flashback)

## Spells Used

* Liana Chain Breakout - used by Gaia against the spider, but failed.
* Cosmic Friendship Power Reform - used by Queen Eternity, along with Lilly and Pear Butter against Hazza D'ur and the Grief-Bringer, restoring the magic in Equestria.

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Twivine Sparkle
* This episode was first broadcast in Turkey on Cartoon Network on August 22, 2020, the same day where "Zound Off", "Unboxing Day", "Our Own Hotpot" and "Lantern Crafting" aired in Canada.
* This is the thirty-sixth episode to mention a character's name, the other thirty-fifth being "Return of the Overlord," Codename: Sunset Shimmer," "Princess Twilight Sparkle," "Twilight's Kingdom," "Princess Spike," "Make New Friends But Keep Discord," "Dungeons and Discord," "My Dinner With Nadakhan," "A Flurry of Emotions," "Firstbourne," Saving Faith," "Lloyd's Seven," "The Big Mac Question," "The Fate of Lloyd," "Princess Snowblossom," "Pinkie and the Candy Beans," "Nice to Meet You, Kaya," "Superstar Rockin' Jay", "Pinkie Pie the Unicorn," Okino the Samurai," "My Name is Megan," "The Return of the League of Jays," "How Applejack Got Her Hat Back," "Pinkie Pie: Hyper-Helper," "Seven Times Two," "Caralisa's Birthday Crisis," "Bighoof Walking," "The Fluttershy Effect," Cole and a Quillcat," "Discord's Peak," "Vania Visits the City," "Potion Nova Returns," "Kitonaru and Chompy," "Scott's Worst Day," "Lilly's Perfect Rhapsody," and "Queen Murtessa".
* The episode showcase Twivine's past, and how she was born and absorbing her magic from the Pegasi, Unicorns, Earth Ponies and Alicorns and feed it to the Everfree Forest to make the evil sorcerer powerful.
* Kitonaru can now speak fluently in this episode.
* This episode marks Pear Butter and Queen Eternity's first speaking appearance. Pear Butter's voice actress, Terri Hawkes, replaces the academy award-winning actress Felicia Day.
	+ Formerly, Terri Hawkes preciously played Serena Tsukino/Sailor Moon in the DiC adaptation of *Sailor Moon* and Love-a-Lot Bear from *Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot*.
* Princess Celestia only appears in the flashback.

## Changes

### Changes from the Ninjago cartoon

* This is one of the few episodes to be heavily edited, as mentioned in the episode title stated above. The episode suggests:
	+ Applejack and Megan are stuck at the cliff alongside Cole.
	+ Gaia and Kitonaru are searching for the three, as they hear their shrilled voice.
	+ Princess Twivine Sparkle fight against the Dire Bat.
	+ Some of the scenes where Cole fights the Dire Bats are omitted.
	+ Princess Twivine tells the story about how she got awakened until she got locked up.
* The scene where Twilight Sparkle got drained by the plundervines was inspired from the clip made by the YouTuber KingSpartaX37. You can see the video here.
* The Everfree Forest and the Tree of Harmony were designed in *Pony Life* forms.