A Perilous Picnic

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## Broadcast

### Air date

Feburary 9th, 2022

**"A Perilous Picnic"** is the twenty-first episode of *Twinkle Catch! Teenieping*, and the seventy-third episode of the Catch! Teenieping series altogether.

## Synopsis

*When Heartsping has a nightmare about Maskping, she tries to cancel the picnic Romi had planned, but she’s already invited Jennie and the other Jewel Teeniepings along without telling her! Things only get worse when their relaxing time is interrupted by an intervening Maskping!*

## Summary

### Major events

* Maskping does battle with Heartsping for the first time.

### Magic used

* Heartsping: uses a powerful version of the Lovely Tune with her magic harp.
* Maskping: uses a flute that distracts the Jewel Teeniepings, making them follow her and uses a magic shield to make them fall asleep, trapping them inside.

## Plot

In a nightmare, Heartsping is seen running in a black void from a boulder and dodging it. Soon a crow flies at her threatening to attack, but it flies away... Then she sees the Jewel Teeniepings being led away by a floating flute, playing some entrance music, and walking into a bright entrance. Heartsping tries to chase after them, but is too far away to catch up... Soon Heartsping wakes up from these terrible visions, realizing it was just a dream.

In the Emotions Kingdom’s Magic Taxi, Jennie & Onlyping are seen inside and carrying a basket of food with them. Meanwhile, at the bakery, Heartsping breaks the news that the picnic is cancelled which frustrates the Jewel Teeniepings since they really wanted to go! Wanting a reason, Heartsping says she won’t give them all the details; Romi overhears this and Heartsping says she has a bad feeling about the picnic. But Jennie enters the bakery ready to take the others along!

When Heartsping asks why they’re coming too, Onlyping fills her in that Jennie overheard that Romi invited her over and brought Onlyping along against her own will. Heartsping asks Romi why she didn’t tell her about it, but Romi chuckles it off, saying that it could be a good chance for Heartsping to get to know Onlyping, which leaves Heartsping worried. Jennie invites the Jewel Teeniepings along, showing them the lunch she packed all morning, and lets them onto her basket. Romi brings Heartsping along, against both of their better judgment.

At the beach, Romi is seen setting up the picnic while the Jewel Teeniepings play along. Jennie brings a volleyball to play with, while Heartsping is teased by Onlyping after she wanted to cancel the picnic all because of a dream she had. The volleyball goes loose and rolls toward Heartsping — which reminds her of the boulder from her nightmare — and she tries to stop it, but it rolls past her... This worries Romi, but Heartsping tells her it’s nothing.

As the Teeniepings enjoy their lunch, Joahping sees a pigeon and offers it a bite of her cookie. Heartsping sees it, thinking it’s the raven from her nightmare, and that the pigeon might attack her, shoos the pigeons away and they fly off. This surprises the Teeniepings, who worry about Heartsping, but she again tells them it’s nothing...

As Romi tries to tell Heartsping to relax, she suddenly notices that the Jewel Teeniepings are gone. Jennie tells her it’s because they went to play hide-and-seek, which surprises Heartsping!

Wishping, Buddyping, Timidping and Ladyping all try to work to find some nice places to hide, appointing Timidping as their leader to help them out, but Heartsping approaches and tries to stop them from hiding, which they brush off saying that they won’t get lost since they’re used to the Jewel Forest, and tell her not to worry again. The Teeniepings try to convince her to join the game, with Teeheeping even startling Heartsping with her party popper and appointing her as it for the first round of hide-and-seek! Heartsping runs after them, telling them not to go too far. Meanwhile, Maskping appears behind a rock, having noticed this surprising development! After some time, Romi and Jennie try to find them since they’ve been gone for a while.

Meanwhile, with the Royal Jewel Teeniepings, they celebrate being this far out and getting to play. But some flute music starts to play which starts to attract them, and they all start to walk away. Soon the other Jewel Teeniepings come out from their hiding places to join in. Maskping says they’ll take them somewhere where no one can disturb them.

Heartsping is seen searching for the Jewel Teeniepings, who tries to get their attention by saying they win hide-and-seek, but sees that the Jewel Teeniepings are being led into a cave, just like in her dream! Soon, Maskping — along with the Jewel Teeniepings — enter into the cave and a magical barrier starts to surround them, created by the magic flute, which causes the Teeniepings to start to fall asleep.

Heartsping enters the cave, and asks Maskping about what she’s planning, attempting to break the barrier to free the Teeniepings but fails. Maskping tells her she wants them to “have fun” in a dream forever, and that she should give up. Heartsping shuts her down, using her magic harp to try and stop Maskping’s magic. Maskping retaliates with magical music from her flute, and this cancels the magic out!

Maskping continues to strengthen the barrier by playing music from the flute, but Heartsping answers by using the magic from her Royal Symbol to play a song to try and dissolve the barrier, knocking down Maskping and waking up the Teeniepings from their slumber! Heartsping reunites with the Jewel Teeniepings, as the Royals tell them of a weird dream they had, but they were able to recover from it because of Heartsping’s song, while Maskping flees the scene, having failed to make Heartsping’s alleged nightmare come true.

As Romi and Jennie are still searching, Jennie points her to Heartsping and the other Teeniepings who managed to bring them back from Maskping. The Teeniepings praise Heartsping for being able to save them, while Romi wonders how Maskping was able to show up to where she was, while Jennie tries to cover up the flute Maskping used in some leaves.

## Characters

### Major

* Heartsping: has a nightmare about Maskping, tries to stop the Jewel Teeniepings from going to the picnic but winds up joining anyway, gets scared in various incidents, goes to find the Jewel Teeniepings during a game of hide-and-seek but sees them getting led away by Maskping, stops her magic and frees the Jewel Teeniepings with a song from her harp.
* Maskping: leads the Jewel Teeniepings into a cave with a magic flute to make them fall asleep, fights against Heartsping's magic but fails and flees the scene.
	+ Onlyping: lets Heartsping know Jennie forced her hand when it came to joining the picnic, teases Heartsping for trying to stop the Jewel Teeniepings from having fun because of a dream she had.

### Minor

* Romi: tells Heartsping she didn't let her know about the picnic she set up with Jennie and Onlyping, worries about Heartsping and goes to find her and the Teeniepings with Jennie when she notices they've been gone for a while, finds them from a cave and hears that it was because of Maskping, wonders how Maskping could've known she was at the beach.
* Jennie: joins Romi on the picnic and to find the Teeniepings when they go missing for a while, covers up Maskping's flute.
* Royal Jewel Teeniepings: get upset when they find out Heartsping wants to cancel the picnic, join Jennie & Onlyping anyway, seen playing and eating at the picnic, get led away by Maskping's magic flute and start to fall asleep, but wake up because of Heartsping's music.
	+ Teeheeping: surprises Heartsping with her party popper.
	+ Trustping
	+ Joahping: seen offering a piece of her cookie to some pigeons, but is stopped by Heartsping.
* Jewel Teeniepings: get upset when they find out Heartsping wants to cancel the picnic, join Jennie & Onlyping anyway, seen playing and eating at the picnic, get led away by Maskping's magic flute and start to fall asleep, but wake up because of Heartsping's music.
	+ Timidping: is appointed as Wishping, Ladyping & Buddyping's leader during hide-and-seek.
	+ Ladyping: appoints Timidping as the leader of her group during hide-and-seek, tells Heartsping not to worry as they play.
	+ Buddyping: tries to tell Heartsping not to worry as they play hide-and-seek.
	+ Wishping: offers to let the others hide in her magic lamp during hide-and-seek, tells Heartsping not to worry as they play.
	+ Tickleping
	+ Owwping
	+ Patping
	+ Tidyping
	+ Yummyping
	+ Cozyping
	+ Memoping
	+ Giftping
	+ Sculptping

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to hint at Jennie’s possible relationship with Maskping, as she tries to cover Maskping's flute after Romi finds Heartsping and the other Teeniepings.
	+ She also doesn't mention anything about Onlyping's "disappearance."
* This is the second episode where Romi is featured a minor character.

## Errors

* When The teeniepings are finding hiding spots, Ladyping, Buddyping, Timidping and Wishping are seen together, but when the Teeniepings are attracted to Maskping's Flute, Wishping is replaced by Patping.