A Parasitic Friendship

**A Parasitic Friendship** will be the second part of the twenty-eighth episode of the second season of LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life. Along with "The Calm Before the Storm", it was paired with "Badge of Shame" and "Discord's Peak".

## Synopsis

**Teletoon**: *The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan are growing a vegetable garden to earn the Trail Trotters Gardener Badge, but they encounter a large caterpillar who tries to eat up the vegetables they grown.*

## Plot

A beautiful morning shines around Ponyville, and the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan are preparing to grow a vegetable garden to earn the Trail Trotters Gardener Badge. Cole told them that this ensures some time to prepare for the upcoming Fall Harvest Matsuri, which expected to happen around one month later, after Summer. He then explains that Lilly has her own vegetable garden to help the Apple Family deliver the needy and poor. The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan geared up with the gardening equipment, vegetable seeds, and a magical fertilizer that Twilight Sparkle has created.

At Lilly's Garden Patch, the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan then planted the vegetables into the soil, then Twilight uses the fertilizer to the crops they needed to grow, and finally Nya uses her Water to make the vegetables grow. While doing their gardening, Oriana, Kaguya, Miyu and Kaze went to see if the garden has gone well. The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan were eager to see the vegetables have grown. Until the next morning, the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan saw the vegetable garden was a giant, as Lloyd thought that everyone was tiny because of the magic fertilizer. They then started to collect the vegetables, but when Megan and Applejack saw the vegetables have been eaten with a bite marks, the other Ninja and the ponies began to worry, as less vegetables were needed for harvest. Jay then spots a creature who ate the vegetables, but a large worm almost eat Jay, thinking it was a blueberry.

A worm then cry because Jay made rude remarks about her, but Lloyd and the others tell him that she was making a mistake. Eventually, the worm introduce them as Reinako, and the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan befriended the creature once more. Twilight Sparkle ask Reinako not to eat the vegetables they needed for the harvest, and Zane come up with an idea that worms can eat leaves. As the Ninja bring some tiny leaves, Kai uses the Growing Potion to enlarge the leaves to fit for the giant worm. Reinako then enjoyed eating the leaves, thanks to them, and Lloyd always makes a promise to her to take care of the garden by not eating the crops.

Another morning came, the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan saw the vegetable garden was filled with more vegetables, but they realized that Reinako is gone. They always searched everywhere to look for Reinako, but Zane tells the others that he found Reinako, but in a brown shell. He then explains that the brown shell is the pupa stage, revealing that Reinako is a caterpillar, not a worm. However, a shell then breaks and Reinako emerges herself, as she transformed into a beautiful butterfly. The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan were elated that Reinako is still alive and being different. Reinako sadly tell them that it's time for her to leave, but they were gladly see her again when the time comes. As they make a farewell, Reinako flies through the sky.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* 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
* Reinako - Kelly Sheridan
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Sugarcube Café
* Ninjago
	+ Ninjago City
		- Lilly's Garden
			* Garden Patch
			* Flower Field

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Lloyd
* The original title of this episode was *Garden of Horrors*.
* The plot of the episode is similar to *The Powerpuff Girls* reboot episode, "In the Garden of Good and Eddie", where Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup grow the remaining beans that they have, and also ends up growing a caterpillar in their garden, which later turn into a butterfly at the end of the episode.
* Cole has his own garden in this episode, as his mother, Lilly, used this to grow the vegetables and some flowers needed for Fall Harvest Matsuri and Winter Wrap Up.
* The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan finally earned the Trail Trotters Gardener Badge in this episode.
* Reinako is the second insect to be gigantic, the first is Beohernie.
	+ However, Reinako was once a large caterpillar, and then she becomes a butterfly at the end.
* This is the second time Jay was almost eaten by a gigantic insect. The first is Beohernie in "The Belly of the Beast".
	+ She was confused that Jay was a blueberry, which cause him to make rude remarks to her.
* According to Zane, Reinako's diet is eating leaves, but she eats vegetable crops that the Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan cultivate. This was spoof to *The Very Hungry Caterpillar*, where the caterpillar eats fruits for five days and desserts, processed meats and dairy products, until he comes with the stomachache. He later eats leaves to make him feel better.
* This is the first episode to feature Kaze's civilian clothing.
* Like Beohernie, Lloyd promised Reinako not to eat the crops. He also uses Wu's lesson of the best way to defeat the enemy by befriending them with her.

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life cartoon

* This episode is a filler. None of the events happened in the cartoon.