Royal Teeniepings' Face-Off!

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## Broadcast

### Air date

December 29th, 2021

**"Royal Teeniepings' Face-Off"** is the fifteenth episode of Twinkle Catch! Teenieping, and the sixty-seventh episode of the Catch! Teenieping series altogether.

## Synopsis

*The Royal Teeniepings — minus Happying — have decided to visit Earth! They don't think the Royal Jewel Teeniepings are trustworthy when it comes to catching the remaining Jewel Teeniepings. They challenge them to a duel to prove them wrong. Who will come out on top?*

## Summary

### Major events

* The Royal Teeniepings — minus Happying — visit Harmony Town for the first time.

### Magic used

* Teeheeping: uses the Surprise Show of Laughter to summon a slingshot and a ladder to support their team during the box tower game.
* Trustping: uses his magic umbrella to create a tornado to raise up boxes to Teeheeping during the box tower game.
* Joahping: uses the Patting of Kindness to summon some ants to help hold up the ladder for Teeheeping during the box tower game.
* Dadaping: uses the Flapping of Earnestness to place the boxes back into place during the box tower game and to defend their team’s tower.
* Gogoping: uses the Flash of Courage to stop the boxes from falling in the box tower game.
* Lalaping: uses her magic electric guitar to sabotage the Royal Jewel Teeniepings’ tower during the box tower game and to defend their team’s tower.
* Timidping: uses his magic accordion to make Romi smaller so she can watch the games (off-screen).

## Plot

At the radiant walls of the Emotions Kingdom, Maskping is seen walking and readies to use her magic key. But she's stopped by Happying, who demands that she take off her mask. The masked Teenieping takes off her mask, and Happying prepares to take her in, but the mask duplicates and it flies at Happying! Happying is able to get out of dodge and fires bubbles with her bubble shooter, trapping one of the masks. But the other mask comes back at her and collides with Happying, knocking her back!

The duplicate mask knocks the original mask out of the bubble and lands back in the hands of Maskping, and she escapes using her magic key to create a portal through the radiant walls.

Gogoping gets a call from Happying alerting him of what's just happened, and doesn't seem pleased that their mission has failed. Chachaping clarifies that Maskping seems to travel between Earth and the Emotions Kingdom often. While Lalaping wonders what she could be doing, Dadaping says it's time to move to the next course of action...

As Romi returns from school, she finds that the Royal Teeniepings have arrived at Heartrose Bakery! She's delighted to see them but hears that the Royal Jewel Teeniepings are in trouble: they say that they can't help Romi with catching the remaining Jewel Teeniepings anymore, and that they should return to the kingdom and leave it to the teachers to get it taken care of!

When asked why, Dadaping reveals that Maskping has been traveling to Earth in secret and that the Royal Teeniepings are disappointed at their students for not catching the Jewel Teeniepings sooner. The Royal Jewel Teeniepings plead that they still want to save their friends and just need a little more time, so Gogoping offers them a deal: to prove that they're worth trusting when it comes to catching the Jewel Teeniepings, they must be them in a series of three games. If they beat them in just one, they can stay with Romi. If not, they'll have to return to the Emotions Kingdom. The Royal Jewel Teeniepings agree to the challenge, but they begin to realize their competition is pretty tough to beat!

The first game is macaroon making, where the winner is the team who makes the most macaroons in the given time. The game begins, and the Royal Teeniepings quickly make theirs and put it in the oven, and the Royal Jewel Teeniepings trail behind! Yummyping tries to tell them the proper steps, which doesn't work as they wind up making a big mess after Trustping sneezes and gets batter all over the place.

Time runs out, and the Royal Teeniepings have already made a stack of nine macaroons! Chachaping clarifies the game was to see if they could carry out tasks without making any mistakes, which doesn't seem to help the students...

The second game is Single Log Cross where members of each team duel to try and knock one another off with dueling sticks1; the last one standing earns a point, and the team with the most points wins the game. Gogoping steps up first to meet Trustping; the two’s gloves collide and Trustping gets knocked back and into the water, and Joahping falls in too! Teeheeping steps up to try and stop Gogoping. This goes well for a start (since strength games are her speciality), but Teeheeping gets distracted by Lalaping, who’s behind Gogoping, and almost falls in the pool below!

With just one tap, though, Teeheeping falls into the pool and Gogoping’s team makes it to the other side. Chachaping then clarifies the game was for testing the Royal Jewel Teeniepings’ strength & balance.

As the other Jewel Teeniepings try to cool them down, the Royal Teeniepings remind their students that there’s only one game left and that they have a chance to quit. The Royal Jewel Teeniepings demand not to, saying that they want to see the last game through! Their teachers remind them that this last game decides whether or not they’ll stay with Romi.

The third and final game is the box tower, where each team has to stack a huge pile of boxes higher than each other. The one who stacks the highest in the given time wins. And, as a bonus, both teams are allowed to use magic!

The game gets under way and each team starts to stack their boxes. Dadaping’s team’s boxes almost fall, but Gogoping manages to save it from falling by freezing them into place with the Flash of Courage. Dadaping then uses the Flapping of Earnestness to place the boxes back up properly. Impressed by their work, the Royal Jewel Teeniepings speed things up, but they’re knocked back by Lalaping’s Tinkle Puff to sabotage them!

Since they’re willing to stoop to that level, Teeheeping uses the Surprise Show of Laughter to summon a slingshot with chocolate balls that fire at Dadaping’s team’s tower. But Dadaping & Lalaping are able to block it with their separate magic! Gogoping is also able to use a baseball bat to knock the balls out their way.

While Teeheeping & Joahping defending themselves, Trustping is in the back standing guard with his umbrella. One of the chocolate balls goes into his mouth (which he savors), while another knocks all the Royal Jewel Teeniepings down! What’s worse, Trustping falls into the box tower and all their boxes come crashing down!

With a minute and a half left in the game, urgency increases for the Royal Jewel Teeniepings to get their box tower back up. But Teeheeping comes up with a plan to help them get back on track: she uses the Surprise Show of Laughter, while Joahping uses the Patting of Kindness to summon ants to help keep the ladder in place and support Teeheeping’s stacking. Trustping uses his magic umbrella to create a tornado to raise the boxes up to Teeheeping while Joahping places boxes inside of it to get up to Teeheeping. With progress swiftly being made, time eventually runs out and the teams stop stacking.

While the Royal Teeniepings’ stack is balanced, the Royal Jewel Teeniepings’ stack is barely holding up, with one of the chocolate balls (shot by Teeheeping earlier on) being used to hold up some boxes! The ball eventually cracks and causes only a few boxes to fall to the ground, but fortunately the stack is taller than the Royal Teeniepings’, so it means the students win! The students celebrate along with their fellow Jewel Teeniepings, as the Royal Teeniepings declare that they can stay with Romi from now on.

The Royal Jewel Teeniepings — as well as Heartsping — thank their teachers for helping to prove themselves and improve their skills with a competition. Romi then asks Dadaping to tell Happying to be careful (with what’s going on with her & Maskping), and he promises to do so, The Royal Teeniepings take their leave aboard their own magic car.

## Characters

### Major

* Royal Jewel Teeniepings: accepts the Royal Teeniepings' duel, fails at the games, but are able to work together through the box tower game to stay with Romi and catch the remaining Jewel Teeniepings.
	+ Teeheeping: battles Gogoping in the dueling sticks game but gets knocked down because of a distraction, uses the Surprise Show of Laughter to summon a slingshot and a ladder to support their team during the box tower game.
	+ Trustping: uses his magic umbrella to create a tornado to raise up boxes to Teeheeping during the box tower game.
	+ Joahping: uses the Patting of Kindness to summon some ants to help hold up the ladder for Teeheeping during the box tower game.
* Royal Teeniepings: depart the Emotions Kingdom to go to Harmony Town, warns Romi and the Royal Jewel Teeniepings about the threat of Maskping, express their doubts about the Royal Jewel Teeniepings and their abilities in catching the remaining Jewel Teeniepings, work together during the macaroon-making game, the dueling sticks game and the box tower game, congratulate the Royal Jewel Teeniepings on their victory and leave to the Emotions Kingdom.
	+ Dadaping: uses the Flapping of Earnestness to place the boxes back into place during the box tower game and to defend their team’s tower.
	+ Gogoping: challenges the Royal Jewel Teeniepings to a duel to prove they can still catch the remaining Jewel Teeniepings, knocks the Royal Jewel Teeniepings down during the dueling sticks game, uses the Flash of Courage to stop the boxes from falling in the box tower game.
	+ Lalaping: uses her magic electric guitar to sabotage the Royal Jewel Teeniepings’ tower during the box tower game and to defend their team’s tower.
* Chachaping: hosts the games involving the Royal Teeniepings and the students and explains the purpose of each game, congratulate the Royal Jewel Teeniepings on their victory.

### Minor

* Maskping: is cornered by Happying but is able to beat her out with her magic and escapes through the radiant walls of the Emotions Kingdom.
* Happying: encounters Maskping and battles with her near the radiant walls of the Emotions Kingdom, but gets outclassed by Maskping's power.
* Heartsping: joins the Jewel Teeniepings to watch as the Royal Jewel Teeniepings compete in the games against the Royal Teeniepings.
* Romi: is told about the threat of Maskping to the Emotions Kingdom, watches the games between the Royal Jewel Teeniepings and the Royal Teeniepings, asks Dadaping to make sure Happying is okay.
* Yummyping: watches the games, tries to remind the Royal Jewel Teeniepings of the proper instructions when making macaroons during the game, and celebrates when they win alongside the other Jewel Teeniepings.

### Background

* Jewel Teeniepings: watch the games and celebrate when the Royal Jewel Teeniepings win.
	+ Tickleping
	+ Owwping
	+ Wishping
	+ Patping
	+ Timidping
	+ Tidyping
	+ Cozyping
	+ Memoping

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of this season where the Royal Teeniepings (excluding Happying) visit Earth.
* This episode reveals the name of Dadaping’s Tinkle Puff: the Flapping of Earnestness.
	+ This name was never mentioned throughout Season 1 despite Dadaping using his Tinkle Puff before.

## Errors

* Romi is seen looking noticeably smaller when she watches the competition.
	+ This could be because of Timidping’s magic making her smaller so she can watch it with the other Jewel Teeniepings, but this isn’t actually shown.