A New Friend for Nya

**A New Friend for Nya** is the first part of the twenty-second episode of the third season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*, and the 126th episode overall. Along with "Torn Between Worlds", it aired first in English on March 21, 2021, in the UK and Ireland. It aired in the US on April 10, 2021, paired with "The Comet Section" and "Cotton Candy-Colored Glasses".

## Synopsis

*Nya meets a lost extraterrestrial alien from the Cotton Candy Comet, who wanted to seek help from the Ninja.*

**Extended:** *While making a wish from the shooting star, Twilight uses her celestiascope and realized there is a medium-size meteorite falling from the Cotton Candy Comet. As the team approach, Nya meets an unusual cute alien who uses the comet crystals into various objects!*

**Tiny Pop**: *The Ninja and the ponies discover a shooting star, but it turns out to be a meteorite from the Cotton Candy Comet and crash-landed Ninjago! Nya then discovered a mysterious cute alien outside the solar system, which has the special Elemental Power, Dream Magic.*

**Teletoon**: *A meteorite falls into Ninjago, and Nya discovered an unusual and cute extraterrestrial alien beyond the solar system.*

## Plot

At the monastery, Jay and Pinkie Pie creates new popcorn flavors for the Ninja, the Mane Six, the Williams Sisters, P.I.X.A.L. and the Young Ninja, as they are watching the premiere of the alien movie, *Invasion: The Impact*. The rest of the Ninja (except Jay) thought aliens are evil invasive species from distant galaxies, as Lloyd remembers there are insect-like alien parasites eat through metal from spacecrafts. Twilight Sparkle then reads a book *Strangest Aliens that Ninjago have never seen* that many aliens are evil like the Slugzeriod and the Arachators. She also remembers if aliens do exist when the asteroid lands from the information of *The End of Equestria, Volume 16*. Although panicking, P.I.X.A.L. tells everyone to not get panicked as aliens do not exist.

As they started watching the movie, Kai needs to go to the bathroom to hold his urine and Jake lets him to go. After doing his business, Kai spots a wishing star in the sky, and tells the others that they are going to make their own wishes come true. Pausing for a moment, the team went outside of the monastery. They then make a wish from the wishing star, but when Twilight gets suspicious about the wishing star, she checks the celestiascope and realized that the wishing star is revealed to be a meteorite from the Cotton Candy Comet. Twilight warns the others that the it is not a wishing star, but a meteorite suddenly crashed near the base of the mountains. Thinking that this is the end, Lloyd tells them not to panic and go down to the base to see what was wrong.

The team and P.I.X.A.L. reached the crash-landing site, as the Ninja and the ponies are trembled with fear that aliens do exist like in the movie. Nya has to check if there are any aliens like the meteorite crashed into Ninjago previously. She then slowly walked through the meteorite and encounter a strange blue alien with black buldging eyes and glows like a luminous bulb. Nya was terrified that the alien is indeed evil, but Jay and Cole remarked that the alien is very cute and adorable. The strange alien yelled "Gleam" many times, as Twilight then read back the same book she had previously. She explains to them that this alien comes from the Cotton Candy Comet known as the Dream Aliens, aliens which possessed Dream Magic to make everyone’s dream came true. The Ninja, the ponies and the William sisters make a misunderstanding that not all aliens are evil and invasive. The blue alien was carried by Nya and the team went back to the monastery to continue watching the rest of the film.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Caralisa - Tabitha St. Germain
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Damien - Andrew Francis
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gleam - Marÿke Hendrikse
* Jake - Nicholas Holmes
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kimberly - Shannon Chan-Kent
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Lloyd - Sam Vincent
* Megan Williams - Kelly Sheridan
* Molly Williams - Chantal Strand
* Nelson - David Reynolds
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
* Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Zachary - Gavin Langelo
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Ninjago
	+ Mountains of Impossible Heights
		- Monastery of Spinjitzu
			* Relaxation Room
			* Kitchen
			* Bathroom

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Nya
* This episode first aired in France on February 23, 2021, as part of sneak peak for the season's main arc.
* A scene where Nya meets Gleam was shown on Tiny Pop YouTube Channel on March 29, 2021.
* The popcorn flavors that Jay and Pinkie Pie made were caramel, seaweed, truffle, chocolate and cotton candy.
* When asked by Bragi Schut about unexpected space creatures, he adds this characteristics with kawaii and adorable traits. This is to give some girls more "kawaii" through looks.
* The scene where Kai needs to hold his urine to the toilet during the movie was cut in Tiny Pop broadcasts as it mentions "dick", which is another term for penis.
* The film, *Invasion: The Impact*, draws some reference to the 1988 film *The Blob*, which shows an acidic, amoeba-like organism crashed into Earth from a meteorite, which devours and dissolves anything in its path as it grows.
* When Twilight reads *Strangest Aliens that Ninjago have never seen*, the slugzeroid resembles Jabba the Hutt from the *Star Wars* franchise while the arachators resemble Klyntar from Marvel comics.
* It is revealed by Twilight that a wishing star is revealed to be a meteorite.

## Continuity

* This is the fifth episode to have the Ninja's name in the episode title. The first is "Lloyd's Seven", the second is "The Fate of Lloyd", the third is "Superstar Rockin' Jay" and the fourth is "Cole and a Quillcat".
	+ In this episode, the episode title that used is Nya.
* The Ninja remembers the Astro Parasites in "The Void" as metal-eating alien parasites, as it can eat metal from spacecrafts.
* This is the first episode to feature Gleam, although not named.
* The meteorite crashed at the base of the mountains and the Ninja and the ponies went to the crash-landing site is the similar panning shot in "The Beginning of the End: The Darkness Comes", when Firstbourne crashed at the mountain base until the Ninja, Wu, Misako and Dareth runs to the crash-landing site.

## Changes

### Changes from the Pony Life Cartoon

* *The End of Equestria: Volume 16* from "Cute Impact" is seen when Twilight read the information about the fallen meteorite.