A My Little Pony Movie: Twinkle-Eye Rescue!

**A My Little Pony Movie: Twinkle-Eye Rescue!** is a 44 minute special which originally aired on Netflix in 2021.

The movie features Port-o-Bella and Lickety Split as main characters, with the titular Twinkle Eye ponies appearing in the film.

## Synopsis

Port-o-Bella and Lickety Split are on a quest to curate the best ice cream flavor for the upcoming Fillydelphia Edition Food Face-Off Fantasia. Among other ingredients, they see that they need to find rock salt available just off the edge of the town! One problem-it's deep in an underground cave! Who knows what else they might find?

## Plot

### Competition in Town

Lickety Split is sleeping soundly in her bed and wakes up suddenly. She excitedly leaps out of her bed and whinnies while leaping around her room. A disgruntled looking Port-o-Bella with disheveled hair slams the bedroom door opens and demands to know what the commotion is about. Lickety stops in mid-air and gasps, in disbelief at her friend's ignorance. Lickety explains that once a year, the top Pony chefs in all of Ponyland and beyond travel by wagon to a randomly selected town. As they pass through each other town, they recruit chefs and bakers to come make the journey with them. After 11 hard months, the entire group of travelers will finally arrive at their destination town and hold a competition to find the best regional cuisine. Lickety tells of her dreams to be crowned the best cook of the bunch, and sheds a tear of excitement when describing the book deals, sponsored cookware, and ad deals that come from being selected. Bella is still quite grumpy from lack of sleep, but says she can help find an old recipe in the morning. Lickety responds that it is morning and they're going out to look right now.

### The Pursuit of Recipe-ness

Lickety Split and Port-o-Bella set out to Lickety's childhood home in hopes that one of her grandparents or older had left a few recipes behind. Bella reminisces on her old family back in Ponyville and wonders what kind of cooking her grandparents made over there, but is interrupted by a dusty book falling onto her head. After coughing a bit and shaking the dust from her mane, she reads the title: *The Pursuit of Recipe-ness*. Lickety is ecstatic and explains that her mother would always try to hide that book away from her. The two ponies open up the book and find a compilation of hand-selected recipes signed by an earlier Lickety Split. Most of the recipes are from neighboring towns, but two are from Fillydelphia. The first one is Blubbery Ice Cream and appears to only require local ingredients. The other recipe is Gruel Cheesecake. Lickety recoils at the second recipe and decides to make the first one.

### Ingredients Gathering

Port-o-Bella and Lickety Split part ways to gather ingredients: Lickety heads off to the market for fresh cream and sugar while Bella brings her basket to gather Blubberies from the forest. While on the way, she sees Blueberry Baskets picking some Strawberries from her garden. The two have a small conversation about the upcoming competition and Bella mentions the recipe Lickety has chosen. Blueberry seems taken aback at the title and explains that she remembers when her old friend Gingerbread tried to make that recipe not long ago. There is an ingredient that can only be found in the caves on the outskirts of the town, and Gingerbread went to get it by herself. She was missing for weeks and no one had seen her since. Blueberry looks upset as she tells her story and warns Bella to be careful or pick a different recipe. Bella looks confused and tries to assure Blueberry Baskets that since Lickety won't be alone, things will be alright. Blueberry doesn't look convinced. They wish each other a good day and Bella continues to the Blubbery bush. As she picks, she worries about what could happen to Lickety if she were to go in the cave. She tries to brush it off, since she won't be alone and Bella can always run to get help before anything horrible happens.

### Rock Salt

Bella returns to her and Lickety's house and bumps into Lickety as she opens the door. Lickety explains that she had just dropped off the ingredients she got at the market, but she still needed to go to the cave and get the rock salt. Port-o-Bella excitedly says she'll meet Lickety at the cave and goes off to grab some equipment. Lickety retrieves her saddlebags and gets a head start.

On the way to the forest, Lickety stops and watches the old empty bakery get a "For Sale" sign staked into the ground. Confused, she goes to approach the salespony. She asks where the owner of the bakery is, and he says that she disappeared years ago. Lickety remarks that that's an odd circumstance. Bella calls over to her while she's in thought, asking if she's ready to go. Lickety shakes her head and goes to follow her friend.

The two follow a few different signs that point to the cave, with some red wood staked in random places but no accompanying words. Bella begins to grow worried, remembering Blueberry Basket's tale. Lickety is excited though, so she just vows to be careful. The two reach the cave and Bella gulps, still nervous. Lickety dons one of the spelunking hats and excitedly heads inside, only to slip on some rocks and almost fall over a ledge. Bella pulls her back up, and Lickety says they should just get the salt and get out, much less excited now.

### Trapped!

Lickety sees the salt down a tunnel, but it is deep down. She is lowered into it by Bella, only to have the rope snap and dump her on a small ledge. Bella quickly slides down to meet her, tying the other side of the rope to a rock, but the rope snaps as she tries to pull them both back up the tunnel and they fall into a large pool of water at the bottom of the cave. Thankfully, they find the shallow end of the water and are both unharmed but rather shaken. They see light coming from one end of the cave and go to follow it, finding a lovely string of magic crystals. While talking amongst themselves, they hear a third voice-it's Gingerbread! She is just sad to see someone else has come down the cave. Bella and Lickety stumble around the cave but Gingerbread navigates flawlessly.

### Enslaved

While Bella tries to find the exit to the cave, Lickety is recruited by the Diamond Dogs and set to work on the cave, excavating valuable gems.

### Escaped

Bella finds an exit and goes to get Blueberry Baskets, telling her her friend is alive. They go and try to save the enslaved ponies. The enslaved ponies get diamonds in their eyes when Bella destroys the diamond dog throne, giving them magical ability.

### The Competition!

Lickety loses to Cupcake, who made Gruel Cheesecake. Gingerbread finds her old recipe book and passes it on to Lickety, full to the brim of ancient desserts and magical concoctions. Lickety is touched and the Twinkle-Eye ponies are welcomed to Fillydelphia.

## Cast

* Lickety Split
* Port-o-Bella
* Blueberry Baskets
* Gingerbread
* Cupcake