A Sweet Beginning

A Sweet Beginning is the first episode of "Glitter Force KiraKira".

Synopsis
Iris Burton wants to make a perfect cake for her mother's arrival home, but after finding out she won't make it in time, she feels discouraged. She meets the mysterious pixie named Peck and gets dragged into something very unexpected.

Plot
As a little girl, Iris Burton loved to watch her mom bake. As she lovingly watched her decorate a cake, she described it's completed form as "Sugar Magic" catching the attention of her parents. Her father remarked that she must see something special in it, and Iris agreed. She loved her mother's cakes more than anything.

Overflowing with joy, Iris makes her way through town while greeting the various residents and picking up some eggs from a grocery store. As everyone begins to watch her, nobody is aware of the battle going on far in the mountains. She takes three large steps and upon landing, a large blast alerts her and everyone else to the glittery cream now covering the area, and after grabbing her bag she happens to spot clouds resembling various sweets. She reaches out for the shortcake and becomes excited again, anticipating the delicious cake she's going to make.

Other girls also see shapes; a pudding, ice cream, macaron, and chocolate.

At home, Iris prepares to whip up a cake, but for each attempt it fails to rise and ends up burning. Her dad tries to make her feel better but she forces him to leave the room so that she can try to figure out what is going wrong.

As this is going on, the various town residents are discussing the strnage incident from earlier qhen a chef cries out. All of his pastries have turned grey and tasteless. A strange, purple monster floats up into the sky from the shop, having just stolen the Sugar Magic from there. A pink dog-like pixie chases after him but with one punch, he sends her flying straight for the Burton residence, where she flies into the window and crash lands on the counter Iris was using. She ducks for cover before freaking out when the pixie's ears momentarily flash blue, talks, and, begins to float. But admist her panic, she calms down as the pixie complains it's hungry. It asks for some sweets so Iris offers ger the plates of her failed cakes. The pixie agrees and hungrily chows down, calling her "pancakes" delicious. Iris attempts to take the compliment and they exchange names, the pixie introduces heeself as Peck.

With that, Iris resumes working on her cake. Peck is distressed as she watched her feverishly mix the batter and hurriedly stops her, telling her the Sugar Magic will disappear at this rate. Iris seems confused but accepts this and quickly gets it into the oven, and to her delight, this one rises. She happily hops around while holding Peck and cuddles her in thanks, realizing that her problem was simply a case of over-mixing.

As they wait for it to finish baking, Iris explains that her mom is a doctor who works in small villages, so it's been a year since they last saw each other. She wants to make her a delicious cake in thanks of the wonderful shortcake she used to make for her when she was little. Peck assures her that her feelings will reach her mother, and she goes on to repeat the words "Sugar Magic, Sugar Magic, mix it all up!" to ensure of it. Iris joins her, but before she can finish reciting it the phone begins to ring. As she gets up to answer it, Peck happily observes that it's full of Sugar Magic.

Iris is heartbroken upon finding out her mom won't be coming home as planned. Before she left, a patient got really sick, so she had to stay behind to help them get better. She sadly reasons that it can't be helped as the cake finishes baking, but she's too sad to bother with it now.

Just then the strange creature from before -Gummy- blasts the window out of the kitchen and he approaches the cakes to pull out every last bit of Sugar Magic from all of them. The cakes turn grey as Peck reveals the glittery source she sees as the precious energy that fills sweets. Gummy goes on to announce that when he has enough of it he plans on messing up this world, and he inhales it all to transform into a cake-like monster. He prepares to take the last bit from Iris' cake but Peck refuses to let him have it knowing how hard she worked to make it for her mom, and she grabs the trey holding it before evacuating from the Burton home.

As Gummy chases her ans grows even bigger to try grabbing Peck, Iris follows at them and makes a diving grab for her after he swipes at her, sending her falling. To the ground. Distressed as she rises back up, Iris tries to tell Peck that it's not worth protecting. She offers the cake to the monster and asks that he leaves Peck alone is she does, and he agrees. She tells Peck that without her mom there to try it, it doesn't matter. But Peck argues with Iris to try to get her to reconsider, and she starts to weep as she thinks back to the past, when she asked her mom why her cakes are always so good. She told Iris that it was because of her feelings of love and passion for her, that she would bake into one.

Iris realizes that by handing over this cake, she would throwing away her precious feelings of love for her mother. She refuses to hand it over and thanks Peck for helping her to see this, but Gummy refuses to leave just because of that. He prepares to take the cake for himself but suddenly, Iris finds a sparkly barrier surrounding them. Peck reasons that this is the Sugar Magic within the cake, and she must complete it now. Iris is surprised by such a command, but she agrees and starts, only for the cream to come out in a pile, worrying Peck until she tells her that her overwhelming feelings mean more than that. Just then, she sees a flash of a bunny and becomes inspired to decorate the cake so that it looks like one. She asks that her feelings reach her mother, and the Sugar Magic filling it becomes so strong that the cake transforms into a Glitter Charm and summons a Glitter Pact.

Iris transforms into Glitter Whip, much to her shock. Gummy attempts to attack the girls and when Whip goes to dodge it, she finds herself extremely high up in the sky and she starts to panic when falling back down. But with some flexibility and quick feet, she manages to save herself. She also uses her new bunny ears to sense where Gummy is and manages to dodge every attack from him. But she starts wondering how to fight back and the Glitter Pact starts glowing. She opens it up and gently plays with the glittery cream inside with the small whisk-like pen and this causes the surroundings to become pink as she uses the magical cream to beat Gummy up, then repeating Peck's words, she summons a cream shortcake that explodes and reverts him back into his smaller size before throwing him from the area.

As everything reverts to normal, Peck compliments Iris until a strange, decorative box falls to the ground near them. It begins to talk, which panics Iris as Peck recognizes the owner of the voice.

Glitter Force

 * Iris Burton / Glitter Whip

Pixies

 * Peck
 * Gusteau

Villains

 * Gummy

Secondary Characters

 * Holly Marsh
 * Aubery Tate
 * Yvette Coleman
 * Alexandra "Alex" Kent
 * Frederick Burton
 * Dr. Shelly Jane Burton (flashback)
 * Chris Simmons
 * Ryan James Garrett

Transcript
A Sweet Beginning/Transcript

Trivia

 * Iris (Ichika)'s character song is only shown in the original Japanese version.