Heartsping in Danger

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## Broadcast

### Air date

March 9th, 2022

**"Heartsping in Danger"** is the twenty-fifth episode of Twinkle Catch! Teenieping, and the seventy-seventh episode of the Catch! Teenieping series altogether.

## Synopsis

*Maskping has kidnapped Heartsping! Jennie & Romi rush to the cave in the Emotion Kingdom to rescue her. Meanwhile, Heartsping finds something mysterious inside the cave...*

## Summary

### Major events

* The Jewel Dragon is introduced for the first time.
* Maskping is revealed to be Onlyping.

### Magic used

* Romi: uses her magic to create a forcefield for her and Jennie to travel through, and shields to protect herself from the Jewel Dragon.
* Jennie: uses the magic from her bracelet to trap Maskping in a magic rope, to attack the Jewel Dragon when it tries to attack Romi, and to harm the Jewel Dragon.
* Maskping: uses her magic key to fire a beam at Heartsping and duel with Heartsping, and creates a shield.
* Heartsping: uses the Melody of Love on Maskping in her duel.

## Plot

This episode starts the same way the last episode ended: with Maskping racing off to the sky with an entrapped Heartsping. Romi tries to race after her with the magic taxi, but Chachaping stops her, saying that it’s too slow. Feeling out of options, Romi starts to cry and Maya, Marylou and the Teeniepings go to comfort her.

Jennie approaches and tells Romi to pull herself together: she’s the princess of the Emotion Kingdom and shouldn’t give up on her friend too easily. She helps Romi up and Romi echoes a statement from her grandmother: that if two princesses work together, they can achieve anything. The two set out to get back Heartsping, as the others wish they return safely.

The two hold hands and travel up to the sky in a magic forcefield, but along the way, they drop the Imperial Stone!

Happying then appears in her patrol outfit and asks the Royal Teeniepings where Romi has gone off to, and Lalaping tells her she went with Jennie to stop Maskping. Happying looks noticeably worried when she hears this...

In their forcefield, Romi & Jennie are able to catch up to Maskping & Heartsping, and decide to keep going. Meanwhile, as Heartsping is trapped, she checks where she’s going and she dives right into the Lake of Light. She crashes and falls upon landing inside what looks like a mysterious cave inside the Lake, which is filled with jewels.

As Heartsping checks her surroundings, she comes across something odd: a Jewel Dragon, who’s asleep and looks to be trapped by some magic power!

Before she can do anything, Heartsping hears Maskping arriving through her trap, and goes into hiding. Maskping tells Heartsping to come out since she knows she’s already here; Heartsping then asks Maskping why she brought her here, but Maskping tells her not to rush. She then expresses her wonder about who would miss Heartsping if she had vanished from this world, and fires off a beam from her magic key!

Heartsping gets out of dodge and counters with the Melody of Love, but Maskping dodges it easily with a protective shield. Maskping tells Heartsping that she’s now fallen into her trap: because she’s in a place surrounded by jewels, Maskping’s magic is much more powerful...

After some time, Romi & Jennie arrive in the cave, and Romi saves Jennie as she almost falls down. Since the paths down the cave are narrow, Romi says she’ll lead the way, but Jennie backs up, saying that they don’t know what dangers lurk inside the cave. But Romi tells her she’s getting a signal for Heartsping and that she’s counting on her for help.

As Heartsping & Maskping continue their duel, Romi & Jennie arrive to rescue the weary Heartsping, with Jennie trapping Maskping in a magic rope. As Romi goes to check on Heartsping, Jennie & Maskping stare each other down...

At Heartrose Bakery, Happying asks why they had let Romi travel alone, to which Gogoping asks if she knows Maskping’s secret. Happying says she had discovered her secret lair in the Jewel Forest.

We cut to a flashback where Happying aims to stop Maskping, pointing her bubble shooter at what looks to be Maskping. She uncovers her signature cloak to find that it was just a plant. Happying then notices white pearls on the ground, but before she can do anything, she’s knocked to the floor! A Teenieping then approaches and tells her they’ve finally found her...

Happying then says she was able to escape but only after Maskping was gone; when she woke up, she managed to take one of the white pearls she found before she was knocked out, which she had seen her burying before. Teeheeping brings up that it’s a common practice for Jewel Teeniepings to bury their jewel in the ground when their jewels lose power. Dadaping then thinks back to the white pearl, and comes to a shocking realization!

At the cave, Heartsping is rescued by Romi and she and Jennie hear a rumbling from somewhere in the cave. They go to discover that it’s the Jewel Dragon, looking unusually aggressive. Jennie is scared at the sight, but Romi tells her not to worry since Jewel Forest Dragons are gentle — only to have to protect themselves with a shield as the Dragon breathes fire at them!

Realizing they must’ve made it upset, Romi then advises that they leave, but Jennie stops her and points out that the Dragon seems to be protecting something: there’s a magic circle with light emitting from the center under its paw.

Jennie thinks that — with their magic — they can find out what it’s protecting. Jennie then brings up how only members of the Royal Family are able to tame Jewel Dragons, but Romi hesitates against her idea, saying it’s too big of a risk and that rescuing Heartsping is more important.

Jennie then says that she thinks that the Jewel Dragon being trapped has something to do with the Jewel Forest deteriorating, and that this may be her last chance to save it. She also believes that — as the successor to the Emotion Kingdom’s throne — Romi would be more capable of doing it. Romi then agrees and decides to go for it.

The girls teleport down to the floor of the cave where the Jewel Dragon is, but Jennie backs away, leaving Romi to try and approach the Dragon on her own. Romi tries to talk to the Dragon, expressing that she wants to save the Jewel Forest by seeing what the Dragon is hiding. The Dragon starts to sit down, allowing Romi to grab something from the magic circle it was protecting, but the dragon hisses at her!

Romi rushes in and, from the circle, she pulls out a spellbook! But this seems to anger the Jewel Dragon and aims to attack Romi, but Jennie is able to fend it off with a magic beam. She calls out for Romi to pass her the spellbook, but the Dragon falls to the ground, causing Romi to fall and drop the spellbook! The book slides over to Jennie, as she picks it up... but turns around.

Romi celebrates (seemingly) saving the Dragon, and Jennie looks to be celebrating with her. But the Dragon targets Jennie and breathes fire at her. Suddenly, Maskping appears and saves Jennie by sacrificing herself with a shield! The fire tears through Maskping’s cloak and knocks her back, causing her to fall to the floor and revealing Onlyping, as the magic key malfunctions and turns into her magic staff!

Jennie approaches and picks up Onlyping, then uses the magic from her bracelet on the spellbook, which causes magic crests to pierce through the dragon to harm it! Confused by what’s going on, Romi asks Jennie why she’s with Onlyping and is using the spellbook to hurt the Dragon. Heartsping breaks down in tears as she confesses that she suspected Maskping was secretly Onlyping, even though she hoped it wouldn’t be, but didn’t tell Romi anything.

As Romi tries to believe it was just a misunderstanding, Jennie comforts a weary Onlyping and congratulates her on doing so well. Then she stands up and tells Romi it’s finally time for her to explain everything...

## Characters

### Major

* Romi: joins Jennie to try and rescue Heartsping, leads Jennie through the cave hidden in the Lake of Light, saves Heartsping and decides to stop the Jewel Dragon after being convinced by Jennie, pulls out a spellbook from the Jewel Dragon to “save” it, but finds out that Maskping had protected Jennie from getting attacked by the Jewel Dragon.
* Jennie: joins Romi to try and rescue Heartsping, follows Romi through the cave hidden in the Lake of Light, traps Maskping and joins Romi in stopping the Jewel Dragon, convincing her to save it (and by extension the Jewel Forest) instead of escaping with Heartsping, claims the spellbook Romi pulled out from the Jewel Dragon’s magic circle, uses her magic to harm the dragon and comforts Onlyping.
* Heartsping: is sent to the cave by Maskping, finds the Jewel Dragon in the hidden cave, duels with Maskping, is rescued by Romi & Jennie, joins them in trying to save/stop the Jewel Dragon, breaks down when she realizes that Maskping was secretly Onlyping even though she didn’t want to believe it and never told Romi.
* Maskping: duels with Heartsping and gets trapped by Romi & Jennie, protects Jennie from getting attacked by the Jewel Dragon, causing her to lose her disguise, revealing herself to be Onlyping.

### Minor

* Royal Jewel Teeniepings
	+ Teeheeping: tell the Royal Teeniepings that Jewel Teeniepings bury their jewels underground when their jewels lose their power.
	+ Trustping: notices that Romi & Jennie have dropped the Imperial Stone which they might need.
	+ Joahping
* Royal Teeniepings
	+ Happying: appears to talk about what she’s been up to, tells of what she found when trying to find out who Maskping is, and shows the white pearls she retrieved after she was knocked out by her.
	+ Dadaping: makes the connection between the white pearls that Happying shows them after she returns from the Emotion Kingdom to Maskping.
	+ Gogoping: asks Happying about who Maskping is.
	+ Chachaping: reminds Romi that the Magic Taxi may be too slow to catch Maskping.
	+ Lalaping
* Jewel Dragon: is seen resting in the hidden cave, acts aggressive towards Romi & Jennie, starts to calm down when Romi tries to approach it, but gets angry when Romi tries to take the spellbook from inside its magic circle, is harmed by Jennie’s magic and the magic coming from the spellbook.

### Background

* Maya & Marylou: comfort Romi after Maskping kidnaps Heartsping.

## Trivia

* There are numerous hints throughout the episode that Maskping is secretly Onlyping:
	+ In their fight, she tells Heartsping that her magic is much more powerful since she’s in a place surrounded by jewels.
	+ She doesn’t do anything when Jennie traps her with her magic.
	+ In the flashback with Happying searching for Maskping in the Jewel Forest, the design of the Teenieping who approaches a knocked-out Happying looks similar to that of Onlyping’s.
* Following the last point, there’s also hints that Jennie could be working with Maskping:
	+ She hesitates a number of times while Romi is the one to take the lead.
	+ She convinces Romi to save the Jewel Forest by saving the Jewel Dragon from whatever magic it’s trapped in, instead of just leaving with the rescued Heartsping.
		- She managed to do this having previously trapped the Jewel Dragon with her own magic and the spellbook that is inside the magic circle the Dragon is seen protecting.

* There’s an interesting double meaning to Jennie saying that, as the true successor to the Emotion Kingdom’s throne, Romi should be more than capable of saving the Jewel Dragon.
	+ She means that either Jennie sees herself as the successor to the throne as the next Princess, or that Romi could become the next Queen (like her mother and grandmother) and, should she save the Jewel Dragon (and by extension the Jewel Forest), her earning that position in the future is guaranteed.
		- While this could mean both things, the first seems to be more true as Jennie eventually betrays Romi and the end of the episode (and justifies her actions next episode).

## Errors

* Despite appearing last episode for the graduation, the bakery staff are not seen in this episode.