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Megumi and Hime! Help my Friend Big Operations!! (めぐみとひめ！仲良しおたすけ大作戦！！) is the 5th episode of Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!.

Synopsis
As the trio walk from school, Yuko asks Hime how she feels so far. She sees that she is still uneasy, so she offers her another piece of candy. She is asked how to make them, but refuses to say anything other then her love being it's secret, key ingredient. Then she takes off after mentioning she has work to do at home. Once she does, Megumi offers Hime to come over to her place and brings up that her mother will be making pancakes. Which Hime is quick to accept and get excited!

While they walk home, Hime is still pretty excited until she suddenly realizes that this will be her first time coming back to Megumi's place. This causes her to panic and worry she may have another nervous breakdown in front of her mom, but Megumi simply tells her not to worry. They find a can on the ground, and then some paper. Megumi finds the boy responsible when they see him toss an empty drink bottle into the lake nearby and she tells him to stop. But the boy pays her no mind and he continues to walk. Which upsets Hime, who always makes sure to throw away her trash and she uses the Police PreCards to harshly lecture him. She then brings him to the garbage can to throw away his trash and it seems to make the boy change his mind about littering, then they let him leave.

They stand by the garbage cans, where Hime is reminded about the pancakes until a dog approaches them. They see that it is hurt, so they use their Nurse PreCards to heal it. Then a boy comes by to claim the dog and thanks them for their help and leaves. But before they can do the same, a little crying girl comes by, having been seperated from her mother. They once again use PreCards to locate the girls mother and reunite Mi with her. At this point in time, Hime complains about being worn out but Megumi has already located her next cause to help.

They approach a young man hiding behind a tree, thinking he is suspicious. But the male reveals that the girl he's been watching is his girlfriend, and he was hoping to propose to her but now lacks the courage to do so. To fix it, Megumi flees and changes into a flower woman, with a cart of beautiful flowers. Hime points her out and they come by to examine all of the lovely flowers and she brings up how much girls love them. With that in mind, he finds a pretty yellow bouqet and asks the girl, Yukiko to marry him. She accepts while the two girls watch from the distance.

They think about how cute the proposal was while on their way home. Hime asks Megumi if she's tired of helping people, then asks why when she claims not to be. Megumi explains that this is becase she loves to see people happy and smile. Hime is really hungry by now and when she voices her struggle to keep happy now, Megumi attempts to get her to perk up. They are approached by Yuko once more, who came out for a delivery. Hime really wants the food, but since Yuko can't give it to her, she gives her more candy instead. Hime explains to Yuko what they have been doing, and she complains that while she does feel nice for helping others, she is pretty worn out. So Megumi suggests they run the rest of the way home instead and she pulls Hime along.

At home, Megumi tells her mother that she brought Hime along with her, and her mother is quick to comment on how much she resembles a real princess. They sit down to eat pancakes, only for her mom to remind her that she forgot one special ingredient, her handmade jam. Hime is confused, but Megumi explains to her that it goes great with pancakes.

Hime then tries a bite of it, with the jam and deems it to be very good. She claims that she does what she can to see Megumi smile, which makes everyone feel happy.

While Megumi walks Hime back home later on, Hime mentions how nicely Megumi gets along with her mother. Megumi asks her about how well she gets along with her parents, only for Hime to reveal they are locked inside the mirror. Along with the rest of the citizens of her land...

With that said, Megumi promises that they will save everyone and she will see to it that Hime's wish comes true. Which makes Hime ask Megumi what she would wish for, when that happens. Megumi reveals that she wants her mother to get well, and explains that she has a very weak body and has to take a lot of medicine. They then share a small cheer of how they will see to it that both of their dreams come true!

Meanwhile, in the Phantom Empire, Queen Mirage is tired of losing and tells one of her assistants to go and deal with it. Hosshiwa voluneteers after voicing the fact that they only keep losing because of the Pretty Cure.

At the bridge further down the pathway, Hime begins to ask Megumi why she enjoys helping others out so much again. Megumi claims that it is simply due to the fact she is happy when others are happy. It's suddenly that they hear a woman screaming and shouting, running from a hoard of Choiarks.

They transform into Cure Lovely and Cure Princess and quickly begin to attack while the girl watches. They see that there is no end to the Choiarks though, so Ribbon suggests that they change forms in order to rid of them all. Megumi changes into her Lollipop HipHop PreCard form and uses Pop'n'Sonic to defeat them.

Megumi, and Hime stands by the bridge as they both talk, however a woman appears and shouts over the fact she is being chased by Choiarks. Seeing this, Megumi, and Hime both transform to get ready to battle. Cure Lovely, and Princess, both surrounded by many Choiarks, then start to fight, while the chased woman stands aside. Cure Lovely then ends all the Choiarks, by using her Lollipop HipHop PreCards, and doing Pop'n'Sonic Attack. Later both Cures go again to see if the woman is okay, however the woman then suddenly thanks them for a second, however then changes onto Hosshiwa, which shocks both Cures, as well as Ribbon. Hosshiwa then reveals her true form to them. While Ribbon and Princess felt that something was off, Lovely is beyond angry that she tricked them into thinking she really needed help and she claims that it makes problems for those who really do need it. Hosshiwa then claims that Megumi was only tricked because she helps people so much and calls her out for the fact she fell so easily into her trap. Princess then interupts, angry also, by saying that Lovely was only tricked because she is an honest person. But this falls flat as she fails to think of anything else to say...

Lovely voices the fact that she honestly doesn't know why she likes to help people as much as she does. But she knows that she needs to lend a hand to those in need, no matter what. At first, Hosshiwa is a little curious, but she quickly reveals the hidden Saiark she had planned for the fight, trapping the girls by grabbing them in its hands.

Hosshiwa insults Lovely and Princess by saying they should only worry about themselves first and claims everyone else does it anyway. She even says that they may do things to be nice girls but in the end it's for their own sakes, and that they probably feel its worthless if they don't get any thanks in return.

Megumi claims that while this may be true, she wants to share the happy feeling people get from helping others out. Even if things don't work out she'll be fine as long as everyone else is happy. Hosshiwa orders the Saiark to finish Lovely and Princess off at that instance and she tells Lovely it's her own fault for this entire thing, because she got a friend involved by wants to feel good about herself. She then accues Lovely of feeling selfish, which causes Ribbon much grief seeing that she is beginning to lose hope.

But suddenly, Princess interupts by saying that she isn't selfish. While she finds helping others out to be a pain, she enjoys the warm and fuzzy feeling that she gets from it and it's because of Lovely. So she will not let Hosshiwa talk that way about her friend!

Princess bursts out of the Saiarks hands, summing her wings to help. Then she proceeds to kick it, causing it to release Lovely. She thanks Princess and claims to feel the same way about her because of their friendship. They then proceed to attack together while Hosshiwa tries convincing them how pointless friendship really is. But this doesn't work and Lovely unleashes her Lovely Beam on the Saiark, while Princess uses Explosion Bomber. She then tells Lovely to purify it by using Precure Pinky Love Shoot!

Hosshiwa then storms off in defeat while claiming how pointless friends are again. They change back to normal and go back out to the bridge, where they had been before. Megumi thanks Hime, much to her surprise, and she explains that it was because of her and becoming a Pretty Cure that she's began to feel so happy again too. This makes Hime feel happy too and suddenly, Ribbon gives them a brand new set of PreCards. They put them into the book and she explains they ended up getting a lot today because they helped so many people. Hime then takes to hear what they both say and realizes that it's a great feeling she wishes to experience more often and they run off!

Unknown to them though, Fortune happens to be watching...

Major Events

 * Megumi uses Lollipop HipHop form for the first time.
 * She also performs Pop'n'Sonic Attack for the first time.
 * Hime and Aino Kaori see each other for the first time.

Trivia

 * Cure Happy does the 10th Anniversary Message for this episode.

Pretty Cure

 * Aino Megumi/Cure Lovely
 * Shirayuki Hime/Cure Princess
 * Cure Fortune
 * Cure Happy (in the opening only)

Mascots

 * Ribbon
 * Glasan

Villains

 * Hosshiwa
 * Namakeruda
 * Queen Mirage
 * Deep Mirror
 * Saiarks
 * Choiarks

Secondary Characters

 * Omori Yuko
 * Aino Kaori