Nervestruck

**Nervestruck** is the first part of the ninth episode of the fourth season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*, and the 157th episode overall. Along with "One Pulse Move", it aired first in English on April 27, 2021, in the UK, paired with "One Last Wish" and "Wild Heartbeats".

## Synopsis

*When Tako uses the dream-sucking parasites and attacked inside Nya, the Ninja and the ponies went on an adventure inside her nervous system to destroy those creatures.*

**Extended**: *As Kalmaar orders Tako to bring Remcobrai inside Discord to steal chaos magic, some other Remcobrai wanted to extract Nya's beautiful dreams. As a result, Nya lost her control of her emotions and some of her dreams are gone. The ninja and the ponies have to help Nya by shrinking down the Hydro Bounty and went inside Nya's nervous system to stop those creatures.*

**Tiny Pop**: *After the Remcobrai invaded Nya's brain, the ninja and the ponies have to clear away those parasites by entering her nervous system.*

## Plot

Sometime after "Journey to the Center of the 'cord", Kalmaar instructed Tako to steal Discord's chaos magic by entering his brain. That night, some of the Remcobrai went inside Nya, while she's asleep.

The next morning, Nya woke up in a nightmare that her dreams are removed. When the other ninja, the young ninja, the Mane Six and the Williams sisters are having breakfast with Ray and Maya, Nya angrily hates her breakfast by accident. The team realized what was wrong with Nya's behaviour this morning. Later, P.I.X.A.L. checks on Nya using her x-ray stated that tiny creatures known as the Remcobrai attack inside Nya's brain, which is the reasons why Nya is acting so strange today, especially her dreams are removed. In order for her dreams and emotions to be restored, the ninja and the Mane Six shrink themselves and the *Hydro Bounty* down to small size, and enter Nya's body. The ninja (sans Nya) and the ponies board the *Hydro Bounty* and P.I.X.A.L. shrunk the *Bounty* using the shrink potion. Caralisa gives Nya a warm glass of water to drink, with the *Hydro Bounty* in it. As she goes to sleep, she, the young ninja and the Williams sisters will see how the ninja and the ponies are doing.

The ninja and the Mane Six landed inside Nya's stomach and Jay was worried that the *Hydro Bounty* will dissolved in stomach acid. However, the *Hydro Bounty* was pulled by a whirlpool of stomach acid, until Cole and Applejack manage to pull it out using his RX powers. As they went inside her bloodstream to her brain, Lloyd suggests finding her removed dreams in the deepest part of the brain. The ninja and the ponies arrived at her nervous system, filled with the network of neurons. However, the Remcobrai started to attack the *Bounty*, so the ninja and the Mane Six geared up with their Scuba and Crystal Guardian forms and fight it back. They went to the center of the brain, where they met Nano Nya. One of the Remcobrai named Somnia, attacked the ninja and the ponies that she and her gang are stealing Nya's beautiful dreams. Somnia then kidnap Nano Nya, and the ninja and the Mane Six must follow her.

Nano Nya doesn't want Nya to suffer from nightmares, but Somnia wanted the dreams for Kalmaar to awake Wojira. The ninja and the ponies arrived and before Somnia strikes them with her trident, some of the neurons electrocuted her and the Remcobrai, expelling out of Nya's body. Nano Nya thanked the ninja and the Mane Six for restoring her nervous system. As the team went to her nose to escape, the young ninja wake Nya up. When Damien sprays perfume on Nya, she sneezes, letting the *Hydro Bounty* out of her body. After understanding that her friends are true helpers, the ninja and the Mane Six hugged each other.

While having lunch, Nya apologized Ray for an angry outburst and realized that she loves her breakfast that Maya made. Ray and Maya then forgive each other. Soon after, Discord realized that most of his cosmic wishes are gone. Nya angrily scold Discord that Wojira is his mother and the cosmic wishes from the Cotton Candy Comet. The episode ends with the cliffhanger, with Discord being guilty.

## Cast

* Applejack/Crystal Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Caralisa - Tabitha St. Germain
* Cole/Scuba Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Damien - Andrew Francis
* Discord - Peter New
* Fluttershy/Crystal Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gleam - Marÿke Hendrikse
* Glutinous - Sam Vincent
* Jake - Nicholas Holmes
* Jay/Scuba Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai/Scuba Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kalmaar - Giles Panton
* Kimberly - Shannon Chan-Kent
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Lloyd/Scuba Lloyd - Sam Vincent
* Maya - Jillian Michaels
* Megan Williams - Kelly Sheridan
* Molly Williams - Chantal Strand
* Nelson - David Reynolds
* Nya/Nano Nya - Kelly Metzger
* Pinkie Pie/Crystal Pinkie Pie - Andrea Libman
* P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
* Rainbow Dash/Crystal Rainbow Dash - Ashleigh Ball
* Rarity/Crystal Rarity - Tabitha St. Germain
* Ray - Vincent Tong
* Somnia - Murry Peeters
* Tako - Marÿke Hendrikse
* Twilight Sparkle/Crystal Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Zachary - Gavin Langelo
* Zane/Scuba Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Featured

* Endless Sea
	+ Merlopia
		- Kalmaar's Lair
	+ Ninjago
		- Mountains of Impossible Heights
			* Monastery of Spinjitzu
				+ Dining Area
				+ Nya's bedroom
				+ Hangar Bay
* Nya's body
	+ Stomach
	+ Bloodstream Highway
		- Road to the Brain
	+ Brain
		- Hippocampus
	+ Nose
		- Nasal Passageway

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Nya
* This episode was first broadcast in the UK on April 26, 2021.
* A sneak peek of the episode the ponies and the ninja at the Library of Memories is shown on Tiny Pop YouTube channel on April 25, 2021.
* It is implied that Nya still has feelings about her parents after she had done angrily to them. However, with her nervous system restored, she thinks that the parasites caused her emotions to lose control.
* It is revealed that the *Hydro Bounty* can shrink and enter someone's body, like the *Sub Bounty* did.
* The Ninja and the Mane Six shrink down and ride the *Hydro Bounty* inside Nya's brain, the same thing SpongeBob and Patrick do in the *SpongeBob SquarePants* episode "Squidtastic Voyage", or in *The Magic School Bus* episode: "Ralphie Strikes A Nerve" in which the characters go inside Jyoti's (and later Ralphie's) brains.
* The episode plot is similar to *Sailor Moon SuperS* episode "A Teacher’s Lesson", where the Remless went inside Chibiusa's mind to find Pegasus.
* According to Bragi Schut, Nano Nya and the Guardian of Water are not related.

## Continuity

* This is third episode where ninja and the ponies travel inside someone's brain, in that case, Nya. The first is "Don't Look a GIF Horse in the Mouth", when Applejack went to Pinkie Pie's brain and the second is "Journey to the Center of the 'cord" when the ninja and the ponies went to Discord's brain.
* Nya is the second Ninja where her human body is revealed. The first is Lloyd.
* This is the fifth time the Ninja enters someone's body using the smaller *Bounty*. The first being "One Small Caring", the second is "The Secret of Friendship", the third is "Pinkie and the Candy Beans", the fourth is "Night of the Living Coronavirus" and the fifth is "Sick Day".
* Nya's perfume allergy is revealed again since "Once Bitten, Twice Shy".
* The hug that the Ninja and the Mane Six did is similar to the ones in "Cute-pocalypse Meow", "One Click Wonder" and "The Debut Taunt".

## Changes

### Changes from the Ninjago cartoon

* Jay's line from "The Belly of the Beast" is reused when he thought that they were dissolved in stomach acid.