The Friends of the Fireflies

**The Friends of the Fireflies** is the second part of the forty-sixth episode of the second season of LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life. Along with "Lilly's Perfect Rhapsody", it was paired with "Don't Look a GIF Horse in the Mouth" and "The Root of It".

## Synopsis

*The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan decided to search for the lost fireflies.*

**Teletoon**: *The Ninja, the Mane Six and Megan team up with a young entomologist, Julianne, was searching for the lost firefly species that was commonly seen during the Fall Harvest Matsuri.*

## Plot

At the monastery, Zane was reading some books about entomology, and he discovers that this species of fireflies, heike-botaru, was found during the colder Seasons in Ninjago. The other Ninja, the Mane Six, Megan and the Shintaro Crystal Guardians were awfully struck at heike-botaru fireflies that occur during fall and winter. As they went outside, they saw that none of the fireflies appeared at the bush.

Linette, Maylia and Bubbles came to tell that they will be going off to Shintaro Mountain to find the Lowly, but they told them that the fireflies were nowhere to be found. The Ninja and Mane Six look for the heike-botaru fireflies, but the Mane Six were attacked by the glowing phoenix hornets in the forest, while the Ninja mistaken the glowing gut beetles as heike-botaru inside Beohernie's stomach. When they came back, an entomologist from the Explorers Club, Julianne, were discovered that the heike-botaru fireflies were discovered by early entomologists that usually exist in mountainous gardens, due to a cold climate.

At the Skull Keep, Princess Twivine Sparkle and the Skull Sorcerer know that the Fall Harvest Matsuri draws near, and they decided to extract the target's Eternity Crystal for his power of the Skull, when the crystal was used to gain more power with Vengestone. Julienne brings her friends to one of the garden spot in the mountain area, where they spotted some fireflies there. However, Julianne save the firefly from being poisoned by the dark Plunderseed, but her sacrifice turns her into a Thorntus named Waspy. Linette and Maylia tried to fight back, but Waspy has extreme flight speed against them. The Hero Ninja, the Crystal Six, the Shintaro Crystal Guardians and Sailor Sky came to stop Waspy.

As Waspy tries to endanger the heike-botaru fireflies, Kai was showing his anger and unlocks his Spinjitzu Burst, defeating Waspy, and later healed by Sailor Sky using Rainbow Prism Healing Activation. The heike-botaru fireflies have came out, and Julianne make some discoveries that this type of fireflies are more prone to hiding against predators. Appreciating their beauty, the Ninja, the Mane Six, Megan and the Shintaro Crystal Guardians enjoy looking at the fireflies in the garden.

## Cast

* Applejack - Ashleigh Ball
* Bubbles - Andrew McNee
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Fluttershy - Andrea Libman
* Gaia - Diana Kaarina
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Julianne/Waspy - Sienna Bohn
* Kaguya - Rebecca Shoichet
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kaze - Ian Hanlin
* Kitonaru - Andrea Libman
* Linette Leng - Tabitha St. Germain
* Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
* Maylia - Grey Griffin
* 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
* Skull of Hazza D'ur - Michael Adamthwaite
* Skull Sorcerer - Ervin M Jordan
* Twilight Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Twivine Sparkle - Tara Strong
* Vania - Sabrina Pitre
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Locations Visited

* Ninjago
	+ Mountains of Impossible Heights
		- Monastery of Spinjitzu
		- Impossible Garden
	+ Desert of Doom
		- Oasis
			* Beohernie's stomach
	+ Shintaro Mountain
		- Dungeons of Shintaro
			* Skull Keep
* Equestria
	+ Ponyville
		- Forest

## Spells Used

* Liana Chain Breakout - Used by Gaia against Waspy, but she was ineffective.
* Deadly Thorny Split - Used by Gaia against Waspy.
* Rainbow Prism Healing Activation - Used by Sailor Sky to heal Julianne.
* Critter Chime - Used by Fluttershy to call the fireflies in.

## Transcript

* The Friends of the Fireflies (Transcript)

## Trivia

* **Narrator**: Kai
* This episode was first broadcast in Turkey on Cartoon Network on August 1, 2020, the same day where "Friendship Gems", "Dol-FIN-ale", "Wildflowers Come Growing In" and "The Green Heart of Growth" aired in Canada.
* Julianne is a member of the Explorers Club, as she was expert in studying entomology.
	+ Zane remembers that entomologists of the Explorers Club were great at discovering new species of insects, and they keep their insect specimens in the Entomology Room.
* The heike-botaru fireflies are the special types of fireflies that occurs during the colder seasons of the year, usually takes place in Autumn and Winter. It is most common in East Asian countries like Japan and Korea.
	+ Adult heike-botaru fireflies were found from April to November each year, specifically shows that adults were survived in warmer seasons, in real life.
* Kai is the fourth Ninja to unlock Spinjitzu Burst, after Jay, Lloyd and Nya.
* This is the first episode where Gaia uses her spells to attack an enemy, she has two spells.
* It is stated that Linette, Maylia and Bubbles were going to the Shintaro Mountain to look for the Lowly, who were stuck at the Rock Bottom.
* When Lloyd questions how they got squeeze their way through the hindgut from Beohernie's stomach, he was mentioning the events of the "The Belly of the Beast" where searching for fireflies were taking longer than finding the inverter, which was almost an hour.
	+ Like in the former episode, the Desert of Doom takes place at night.
* Fluttershy has the Creature Calling Carillon as the weapon in this episode.
	+ This is the only time Fluttershy uses the weapon to use other than attacking its enemies.
	+ It is stated that Gaia received the weapon to her before this episode.

## Changes

### Changes from the Ninjago cartoon

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

## Errors

* When inside Beohernie's stomach, the Ninja were covered in slime. In the next shot when crossing the lake filled with stomach acid, the slime on Cole got disappeared. When Nya set to wash herself and the other Ninja, the slime on Cole came back.
* As Fluttershy uses the Creature Calling Carillon, the positions were changed in order: Applejack, Megan Williams and Cole. But when the fireflies came out, the position was changed back with Megan Williams, Cole and Applejack.