The Calm Before the Storm

**The Calm Before the Storm** will be the first part of the twenty-eighth episode of the second season of LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life. This episode was the eleventh episode of the Masters of the Mountain Arc, despite the second part not being part of the main arc. Along with "A Parasitic Friendship", it was paired with "Badge of Shame" and "Discord's Peak".

## Synopsis

**Teletoon**: *A bad weather emerges in Ninjago City, and Jay and Rainbow Dash went to Cloudicut to repair its damage, with the help of the fourth Shintaro Crystal Guardian, Prince Kaze.*

## Plot

It's raining heavily at the Monastery of Spinjitzu and Fred Finely reports the weather in Ninjago, as Ninjago City is expected to have a heavy thunderstorm with chaotic winds. He told the members of the public to stay indoors. Seeing this, the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan are unable to revive the Trail Trotters badge, due to the bad weather. Miyu the look through the Siren Telescope to look at what was wrong with the intensive bad weather. When she takes a look, she saw that the Cloud Control orb is spinning out of control, so she, Oriana and Kaguya asked Jay and Rainbow Dash to fix the Cloud Control orb at Cloudicut, a cloud city near the Cloud Kingdom, where Claves, the cloud elves, lived. Jay rides on Rainbow Dash to fly towards the stormy clouds to Cloudicut, while the others think that they were all be okay.

While at Cloudicut, the duo went to the Cooling Cloud Castle, where Chief Cirrus, was looking at the damaged Cloud Control orb, and Kaze, the Prince of the Sky, was witnessing what Cirrus did. Jay and Rainbow Dash meet Cirrus, and his nephew, Kaze. He told them that the Cloud Control orb was used to control the weather of all the Sixty Realms, but when the Skull Sorcerer uses dark magic using the Skull of Hazza D'ur to damage the orb, it will spin out of control. Kaze brings with the duo to the Cloud Control orb at the Weather Port, but it was guarded by the tough Clave named Arcus. He must tell them to restore the Cloud Control orb, they have to face against him. Jay and Rainbow Dash transform into their Hero and Crystal Guardian forms, and face against Arcus, but since he was too strong, they were unable to fight. Kaze asked Gaia using his Windy Wand and she grants Rainbow Dash a new Ring of Loyalty. She then uses the ring to defeat him using the spell, Rainbow Lightning Boom. As Arcus think that they were too powerful to defeat him, he lets them go to the Cloud Control orb to restore it. The Cloud Control orb has no protection due to the crack, so Jay decided to restore the Cloud Control orb using Spinjitzu Burst. Eventually, the orb was restored, and the weather in Ninjago are started to go back to normal.

Cirrus then thank Kaze, Jay and Rainbow Dash for saving Cloudicut and the rest of the Sixty Realms, and Kaze promise him to join the Shintaro Crystal Guardians to stop the Skull Sorcerer. As they went back to Ninjago, the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan were worried whether they got harmed, and Jay finally unlocks his Spinjitzu Burst. Cole was looking at how Jay managed to unlock, so Kaze then joins the guardians, making them four. The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan went back to the Monastery, as the sky is clear.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Arcus - Giles Panton
* Cirrus - Deven Mack
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Fred Finely - Bill Newton
* Gaia - Diana Kaarina
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kaguya - Rebecca Shoichet
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kaze - Ian Hanlin
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams - Kelly Sheridan
* Miyu - Kazumi Evans
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Oriana - Erin Matthews
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Ninjago
	+ Mountains of Impossible Heights
		- Monastery of Spinjitzu
* Cloudicut
	+ Cooling Cloud Castle
	+ Weather Port

## Spells Used

* Rainbow Lightning Boom - Used by Rainbow Dash against Arcus.

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Jay
* The title is a spoof to the phrase "calm before the storm", which means a period of unusual tranquillity or stability that seems likely to presage difficult times.
	+ The episode title is later used in *Seabound* as the same title in the original *Ninjago* episode.
* The original title of this episode was *Cloudy with the Chance of Darkness*.
	+ It is a reference to the 2009 film *Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs* and it animated prequel series.
* Despite "A Parasitic Friendship" is not part of the main arc, it is the eleventh episode of the Masters of the Mountain Arc that began in "Uncharted".
* This episode marks Kaze's first appearance.
	+ It is the only episode to feature his Prince form.
	+ It is also the first episode to feature his Crystal Guardian form.
* This is the only episode of the Crystal Guardian debut appearance to not feature a Thorntus.
* Rainbow Dash had received a new weapon, the Ring of Loyalty in this episode.
* The Cloud Control orb is responsible for controlling the weather in the Sixty Realms.
* Jay finally unlocks his Spinjitzu Burst in this episode, making him the first Ninja to use Spinjitzu Burst.

## Changes

### Changes from the Ninjago cartoon

* Jay did not unlock his Spinjitzu Burst in the original Ninjago episode, alongside the other Ninja (except Cole).