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Episode 11 -	The Lost Baton
	BATON sōshitsu
First aired -	13th December 1996

We join Sammy in the heat of battle against a Love-Love Monster, Chicken Girl, whose main attack is to throw eggs at people. A swift attack by Sammy sends Chicken Girl hurtling skywards, and handful of eggs plummet down in her wake. Not wanting to waste them, Sammy juggles and catches them, but suddenly realises that her baton, which she tossed aside to catch the eggs, is nowhere to be seen!

The baton, which was sent flying across town, finally lands on the head of Konoha Haida, the bossy green-haired girl from Sasami's class. She instantly recognises it and, realising its potential, raises it aloft, declaring that she will use it to take over the world. However, Konoha gets the shock of her life when the baton speaks in response, asking her not to do any such thing. The baton (which sounds exactly like Tsunami) says that it should only be used for peaceful purposes, so Konoha agrees to become a magical girl and fight for justice.

Ramia, watching from Juraihelm, cannot believe her luck. With Pretty Sammy out of the picture, she can cause some real chaos, and dispatches Rumiya to go and give Pixy Misa her orders.

Later that day, Sasami sets out to find her baton. However, she has forgotten that she had planned to meet Misao. Misao arrives at Sasami's house with a home-baked cheesecake just in time to see her leave. Poor Misao thinks that Sasami has rejected her, but just at that moment, Rumiya arrives...

Meanwhile, Konoha strides through the town centre as chaos breaks out around her, from a bank robbery to a fire at the gas station. However, despite the baton's protestations, Konoha considers such trifling matters below a magical girl of her calibre. Eventually, a real disaster looms in the form of a gigantic meteorite on a collision course, and Konoha finally transforms into her new magical girl guise, Funky Connie. Using her baton like a pool cue, she pots the meteorite off course. Alas, her inexperience in all matters magical is evident, as she only manages to make the meteorite land outside the city. However, she seems satisfied enough. She spots her beloved Hiroto in the dumbstruck crowd and accosts him in the hope of gaining some admiration, but Konoha experiences the same effect as Sasami, namely that nobody can see through her magical girl disguise, and he doesn't recognise her. She decides that she needs to become happier if she is to gain Hiroto's love, and drags him off to work on him.

Sasami's search for her baton continues. Having scoured the area where it should have landed and discovered nothing, she hits on a different approach, getting Ryo-Ohki to follow her scent and sniff it out.

Meanwhile, Funky Connie works on building a perfect romantic scenario for Hiroto, using her magic to appropriate a fancy chāteau and land it on the school games court. Hiroto protests, so Connie tries to use her love magic on him, resulting only in Hiroto getting blasted with magical energy. Eventually, she manages to get through to him, and he becomes utterly smitten with Connie.

In the park, Misao sits forlornly on one of the swings, still carrying the cheesecake she wanted to share with Sasami. For once, Rumiya hasn't transformed her immediately, and Misao has given him a slice of the cake to eat.

A little while later, Sasami arrives back home, her plan to have Ryo-Ohki sniff out the baton having failed (he just followed her scent back home again!). Suddenly, a Love-Love Monster — a giant cheesecake on legs — appears, closely followed by Pixy Misa. Misa knows about Sasami's missing baton, and is ashamed that her rival should lose something so important. Misa hands back what appears to be Sasami's baton, but when Sasami tries to transform it turns out to be a fake, and just clads Sasami in a giant foam Pretty Sammy costume! Pixy Misa instructs Cheesecake Girl to attack, and she obliges by unleashing a torrent of cream cheese which carries Sasami and Ryo-Ohki away. Washu passes by on her hovering jetbike and spots Sasami in trouble, so she plucks her clear of the torrent of cheese. Sasami explains that she has lost "something important" (although Ryo-Ohki has to stop her from revealing what), and Washu uses the oh-so-technical method of balancing a pencil on its tip and seeing which way it falls to point her in the right direction.

Sasami rushes towards the school and her missing baton, still in the hands of Funky Connie, while Cheesecake Girl continues to flood the town with cream cheese. Connie, however, is too occupied with Hiroto to notice. It is clear that he is in love with Connie, so she decides it is time to reveal her true identity. She transforms back into Konoha, but finds that Hiroto cannot even remember her! Switching quickly back and forth between her Konoha and Connie forms makes it apparent that Hiroto now only thinks of Funky Connie. Her plan has gone horribly wrong! Konoha is so upset that when the baton asks her to do something about the cream cheese flood she angrily hurls it off into the distance. Against all odds, the baton lands on Sasami. Sasami is just as shocked as Konoha was to discover that the baton can talk, but it explains that it has a built-in intelligence circuit in case it gets lost. With the baton finally back in the right hands, Sasami transforms into Pretty Sammy.

As Pixy Misa gloats over the chaos she and Cheesecake Girl have wrought, Pretty Sammy steps onto the scene, much to Misa's disbelief. Sammy attacks, and Misa orders Cheesecake Girl to turn her cheese cannons on her. Sammy dodges and casts the Pretty Coquettish Bomber, blasting Cheesecake Girl into the stratosphere, but Misa surfs away to safety on the tide of cream cheese.

Walking back home, Ryo-Ohki warns Sasami never to lose her baton again. On the way, Sasami bumps into Misao and with a guilty start realises that she forgot to meet her as she promised. Sasami apologises, and Misao forgives her. She still has her cake to share, and they sit down in the park to eat it. Of course, Sasami and Ryo-Ohki have had enough of cheesecake for one day, but they eat with Misao nonetheless.

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