Winx Club S8 E4

## Plot

Sky texts Bloom, saying that he's at Alfea and has a surprise for her. The other girls seem to know what it is, and stop her from leaving so she won't find out too soon. Aisha hits Musa with her foot when she asks Bloom if she's running to Sky. Okay, that's a little funny. Give me more interactions please! Also, I guess this proves that texting *does* exist in this world, and Bloom could've communicated with Sky that way during season 5. He's running late, so he asked the other girls to buy him some time. He's setting up a picnic, and Tecna wonders how hard it could be. Aisha says that guys have a way of complicating everything. If that's your generalization of men, then you need to act like the queen you are and break up with Nex already. Stella and Tecna will keep Bloom busy while the others find Sky and help him. Kiko and Knut are helping him out, but naturally, they ruin everything, and Musa and Aisha's ideas of musical food and scented candles aren't much better. Flora tells Sky that simple is better sometimes, and he tells her that she was the only one who really helped. Musa and Aisha overhear, but they don't seem to take offense to it. And then Brandon shows up and calls Sky away for a top secret mission. He says that Bloom will understand, but she doesn't, even though she's the one that forgot about him and their other date in the previous episode. Plus, they both know that they have important roles in protecting and defending the universe from harm. *Of course* they can and probably will be called away at a moment's notice. Saving other people is more important than their own personal desires, and heroes like them should already know and accept this, instead of turning back into irrational and selfish teenagers. That night, Twinkly shows up and shows the girls a star map of the entire magic universe. She made it with Dorana's help. She also gave her a special power to help them stay one step ahead of Valtor. Whenever a star is attacked by Staryummies, it will start blinking on the map. They see that Peripla is under attack and head out on their own mission. It's a star ship. It's kind of like a moving lighthouse. It moves from one galaxy to another, lighting the way for spacecraft. Lumens live on Peripla too, and they need to find a way to get onboard without scaring them. Twinkly introduces the Winx as intergalactic pop stars, hence the name of the episode. It was Musa's idea. The crew have never heard of music before. They agree to try it after Twinkly explains it to them, and the captain shows them the core of their star ship. A spaceship approaches them, and it's the specialists' ship, because of course it is. They're on the trail of a ruby thief, and believe that he's in the area somewhere. The guys aren't familiar with this area of space, so they'll have to follow Peripla. Bloom learns that this was Sky's top secret mission, and when he asks her what she's doing there, she tells him that it's "top secret". God, some days I just really hate people. If the thief steals Peripla's ruby, they'll be lost. Bloom assures the captain that they won't let that happen, and the specialists will catch the thief, proving that she was thankfully just teasing and has full confidence in Sky's abilities. I feel like the VA could've conveyed that better. After all, I'm an adult and I was confused. I can only imagine how a child would feel after watching that confusing mess of mixed signals. Why are interpersonal relationships so hard? The girls cheer the crew up with a performance. Obscurum and the Staryummies are in the ventilation system. They'll split up into two teams. One will draw the Winx away while the other absorbs the starlight of the core. They mess up the concert, so the girls head to the bow of the ship. Um, girls? Obscurum has already used this tactic on you before. Not that he needed to this time, since you were so busy with your concert that you probably never would've noticed if something went wrong with the core until it was too late. And that doesn't even matter either, since as long as the core is intact, you can restore it with your Cosmix powers. In World of Winx and earlier seasons, you at least knew how to split up, even if I didn't always like it. They transform, and… they don't say their name when they transform? Finally, after all this time? Oh thank god! Stella stops some Staryummies, and when Tecna wonders why they're there instead of attacking the core, Bloom has the obvious realization that it's a trap. Obscurum has Starchomps take their instruments and reek havoc at the concert, which scares the Lumens, leaving them unable to defend the core. And then the Starchomps fight each other over who gets to eat the starlight. Meanwhile, the guys are chasing another spaceship. Riven hooks it on a tractor beam so it can't shake them, but then whoever is on it lays down mines. Riven drops the tractor beam, and Brandon shoots the mines. They follow the ship through an asteroid field. It comes at them with some kind of smokescreen, and Nex sets their shields at maximum power. When they come out of it, they've lost sight of the ship. I think this does an okay job of establishing the guys' roles on the ship during space combat. Sky gives orders as the captain, Timmy pilots the ship, Brandon handles the turret, Riven deploys the tractor beam, Nex handles the shields, and Helia… alerts them to what's on the radar, I guess? I feel like that could also be Timmy's job too, but whatever. My poor boy is really getting the short end of the stick this season, isn't he? A terrible new haircut with ugly outfits, bad animation for his fight choreography, basically no clearly defined or important role in ship combat, and because writers are stupid, he has more pointless melodrama with Flora later on too. Timmy tells the others that it looks like Peripla has disappeared, as Obscurum orders the Starchomps to stop fighting and has one of them absorb the light from the core, causing the ship to go dark. Also, a spatial irregularity is pulling the guys' ship in. It's a black hole. Before the girls can stop Obscurum, the Staryummies, and the Starchomp from escaping, they get a message from Sky about their predicament. They're forced to let the bad guys get away as they use their Cosmix powers to restore Peripla's light, saving their boyfriends, who have a rough landing on the star ship. Also, their spaceship is called the Owl. The ruby thief also lands on Peripla.