"This is it," a girl's voice was heard over the view of an in-construction festival. "This is the festival that we are participating in! Are you ready, Kate?" There were two girls walking beside each other: one with long brown hair, the other with blue hair curled into twin hair buns.
Wada Kate, the sister of Wada Donna, was looking at the magnificent view, daydreaming about the big day. She suddenly snapped back to reality after realizing Donna was talking to her. "Don't worry about me! I'm just looking forward to whenever we go up to perform..." She started to look for the location where they will perform. Donna sighed, then followed her.
While roaming around, their brother, Wada Tetsuo, rushed up to them and started tapping Kate's shoulder repeatedly. She quickly noticed and turned around.
"What are you guys doing?" he constantly asked.
"Why don't you stop bugging Kate and go back home?" Donna replied with an angered tone.
"Can you just tell me what is going on then?" Tetsuo, once again, continued on with the same question.
"Fine..." Donna managed to gain confidence to tell her annoying brother about the festival. "There's an annual Taiko Festival going on and it's that time again. Kate and I have been practicing playing the Taiko drums and we managed to pass the tryouts for the festival!"
Tetsuo stood in shock. "So, why didn't you let me audition?!"
Kate managed to step into the conversation and blurted out, "How about you just shut up and stop bothering us?!"
"Now you're taking it too far. Besides, our teacher doesn't like people saying that," Donna reminded Kate. "But truly, Tetsuo, this isn't something you tried out for. Why don't you just go back home? It's only a few blocks away anyway!"
Tetsuo ran off into the distance. The girls watched him as her disappeared, step by step.
(Opening: Prayers to the Pretty Cure...)
(Episode title: Beat the Beat! The Adventure Starts Now!)
There was a few seconds of silence before Kate broke it. "Yes! He's gone now!" she cheered. She received a stare from Donna, who had an angry face. "I mean, well...he's returned home," she restated.
"That's better," Donna replied. She started walking, but bumped into a green-haired girl, who was wearing a school uniform. "Oh! I'm sorry about that, Hana!"
Kate rushed over to the two. "Awesome! Hana's here!" she exclaimed. "How are you doing? Has school been going good for you? What-" she is stopped by Hana getting up and interrupting her. "No need for questions. I'm just here because I heard that you both get to participate in the festival!"
"Right! Kate and I are playing in the festival, and it's out first year," Donna told Hana. "I'm actually a little nervous since I've never done something in front of hundreds, or even thousands, of people!"
Hana smiled at her until Kate let out a cheerful scream, followed by an exclamation. "Wonderful wonderland! I've found something!"
The other two looked at her location; she was near some bushes. Kate rushed to them with amulets in her hands.
"This red one is for my sister, Donna," she handed Donna the red amulet. "And this blue one is for me. I think that should do it!"
Hana stood with a surprised face. "Where'd you find those? And why were they in the bushes so randomly? Who would've even put them there?!"
A brown-haired girl started running from the distance and started shouting to Hana. "What's going on here? I want to join into the conversation!" She stopped once she reached the same area. "Mieko? It's kind of a conversation about the festival," Hana started to explain.
Mieko noticed Hana was wearing her school uniform and not her dance outfit. "Hana... You're still doing the dance routine with me, right?" she asked. Hana closed her eyes and lowered her head a bit. "I'm afraid not," she sobbed. "The judge didn't pass me in auditions."
All the girls stared with sympathetic looks on their faces. "That sucks when that happens, when you can't do something you've always done with a good friend," Donna stated. "But that doesn't mean you have to be separated! Look on the bright side! Maybe Mieko can't see Hana too much after school, but you have each other's phone contacts, right?" The two nodded. "How about you two talk to each other via phone?"
Both of them looked at each other with small smiles, which then became larger smiles. The two laughed in agreement, and thanked Donna before walking off.
In the distance, a shadowed figure was standing, looking at the festival. "Really? They're having fun? And there's a festival? I will obey my master and destroy it!" he said to himself.
(Eyecatch 1: Kate trips over a drumstick while she and Donna are walking. The two laugh together while looking at each other, and the logo appears in the bottom right corner.)
(Eyecatch 2: Donna is writing a letter, and Kate is moving around. She runs into Donna, who then signs the letter with the logo before falling down with Kate.)
"That passed by oddly fast," Kate mentioned about the previous conversations with Hana and Mieko. "Don't talk silly! I was able to tell about the bright side of a situation!" Donna reminded her. Suddenly, Donna felt something in her body, like a surge of power. "Wait a second. The amulets are for the chosen girls to become Pretty Cure?" she said.
"What the what? Stop joking!" Kate told her.
"I'm not! Why not wait a little bit?!" Donna responded.
Kate waited until there was a surge going through her body as well. "You're right," she exclaimed. "But why are we the chosen girls? Why does it have to be us?" She started getting furious and ran off, but bumped into a red-haired boy with a blue outfit. "Sorry about that!" Kate told him.
Donna rushed over to both of them to explain. "What she said. We're both very sorry about that. She's just upset about being chosen as Pretty Cure-" She put her hands to her mouth, now realizing what she said.
"So the Pretty Cure are real..." the boy said to himself. "No matter! I vow to defeat you and help destroy the festival for my master!"
The girls looked at each other. Why would the boy go on about such bad things? Donna managed to speak up. "Who are you, anyway?" she asked.
"Who am I, you ask?" the boy responded. "Evil mecha number one. I am Antimony!"
The girls looked at each other again. "Antimony?" they said in sync. Kate started to lose focus due to such confusion of what was going on. "I don't get this," she mumbled. Donna slapped her hand onto her face before relaxing.
Antimony looked at both of them and shook his head. "This is going to be too easy for me," he remarked.
"Kate! Get into focus!" Donna kept telling her. "We're going to fight and there's no reason we shouldn't!" Kate stumbled after getting up, but she quickly became focused. "Alright!" she exclaimed.
The two put their amulets close to their necks, and shouted, "Pretty Cure! Feel the Don Don Beat!" Donna was engulfed in a red light and Kate was engulfed in a blue light. When the lights disappeared, Donna was now appearing with red hair in pigtails with loops, a red and white outfit with a red bow in the back, red gloves, and white boots with red bows at the top, and Kate was now appearing with blue hair in longer pigtails, a blue and white outfit with a blue bow in the back, blue gloves, and white boots with blue bows at the top.
"The sound of the beating drums! I am Cure Taiko!" Donna, now as Cure Taiko, shouted out before posing.
"The sound of a fun time! I am Cure Matsuri!" Kate, now as Cure Matsuri, shouted out before posing.
"We're beating the beat! Hikari no Pretty Cure!" the Cures posed once more after shouting their group introduction.
The Cures looked at their outfits with shock. "What just happened?" Cure Taiko remarked. Cure Matsuri was acting joyful while looking at her outfit. "This is amazing!"
"Idiots..." Antimony said to himself. "Now let's make this a fair battle, if you don't mind?"
Cure Taiko used the power of her amulet to produce the Cure Drums. "Matsuri!" she told her fellow teammate. "Let the music begin!"
Cure Matsuri was shocked at what Cure Taiko had done, but she used the power of her amulet to produce her Cure Drums. "Let's start!"
The two began to hear music in the background, and decided to play the drums to the beat of the tune. "The power of the drums will defeat you!" they shouted together, but obstacles started getting in their way. This didn't stop them, as they finished the tune before ever getting interrupted.
"Aha! I guess you aren't a match for us, Antimony!" Cure Taiko shouted to him. She looked over at her teammate who looked like as if she had fallen in love. "Matsuri! Again?!"
Cure Matsuri was daydreaming until she realized that Antimony had retreated. "Sorry, sorry, sorry! I think I've fallen in love though..."
The two de-transformed into their normal selves. "Kate!" Donna yelled at her. "You're falling in love with the villain? We're heroes! That's not going to work!" She paused for a second before calming down. "Besides, there are other people at school that you can always fall in love with." Kate had already made progress on the way home without alerting her.
"Huh? Kate! Don't just leave without me!" Donna chased the path Kate had taken.
(Ending: Hikari no Kanata e)