Episode 12 - Hey, Hey☆ You Can Do It, Sports Day!

"**Hey, Hey☆ You Can Do It, Sports Day!**" (으랏차차☆화이팅 체육대회!) is episode twelve of *Shining Star*. It first aired on January 15, 2017 on MBC, and was posted on the YouTube channel on March 12, 2019.

## Synopsis

*Concerned with the idol's health, the next Mission will focus on whipping them into shape!*

## Summary

One morning, Nara dreams of a performance by Friday as Jin and her mother try waking her up. Jin eventually gives up and leaves for school, leaving her mom to yell at her until she finally gets up.

At school, Jackie awaits for any last-second students while counting down as the gate is closing. Nara rushes to try to make it, along with the girls of Macaron, whose elephant bashes the gate down. He stops the girls and forces all four of them to run laps. He complains over their lack of stamina, and Macaron make a break for it as Nara indirectly distracts him, refusing to stay there for their final lap.

At the auditorium, this event seems to have inspired the upcoming Mission, an Idol Physical Test. It's important for idols to keep up their stamina in order to perform, and without it, their skill in other fields won't be put to its best use. The winning Idol will gain the brand new "Love of Butterfly Coordi" from the brand Scarlet Hill; along with a performance.

With that they get to work forcing everyone to run laps while wearing sandbags, with Peach giving up. She then struggles to jump over a hurdle while Hera does it with ease. As everyone struggles to do push-ups, Shirley and Jackie complain over how low everyone's endurance is. Melody retreat to the cafe to have a break, where they enjoy a delicious treat after Hendel chews them out for being on the lowest of the physical ranking. The girls feel depressed as Hendel chews them out for not working out like they should have been, and frequently eating desserts. See-a assures Nara and Yena that she'll come up with something, and the girls ask that they take a break due to how sore they are. Hendel worries over them.

Macaron is currently going through the same thing as they realize they should be working out too. But they don't want to do sit-ups because it could harm their hair, and push-ups will make them look yucky. Vanilla states that this mission might not work for them in that case, but they would like a new wardrobe just like everyone else. Peach suggests that they get a little creative, recalling a sneaky saying from the Candy Kingdom as a dark aura fills the room. They get to work, with Berry removing a spring from the board Hera was using, and putting metal marbles into the sandbags and using a magent to weigh everyone down.

Melody are ready to give up as they struggle to continue with their exercises. Nara asks if they can skip this Mission, but See-a points out that with their success rate up until now, they will still maintain at least 80% of their grade if they give up. The trio unanimously agree to do so as the girls of Macaron observe them. They decide to skip them hearing this, and they head out to mess with the other groups.

Jin arrives later that day with bags of grocery, but to his surprise he finds out they left. He hurriedly locates the trio in one of the dance rooms doing their own thing and quickly chews them out, asking what happened. The girls awkwardly try to tell him of their plans, saying they just wanted to take a break as he reminds them that they only have three days left before the Mission ends. Before he leaves, he suggests that if they are this lazy then they should just give up being idols, then he expresses disappointment in them. The girls feel a heavy remorse until realizing that as Melody, they have always given everything their best try, so they must keep going.

The following day, Nara's mom and Jin are surprised to see she's already left for school. Jackie sleepily arrives to the gate as the trio show up, causing him surprise as well. Jin is very glad the girls took his words to heart, and they get to training. They place little flags as they journey around the course, and happily they notice they have surpassed their previous one after falling down. They move onto push-ups, where Nara notices she did a lot in comparison to before, and Yena managing to use the spring board on a small mat. As this is going on the girls of Macaron watch them with disgust and don't seem to understand how they can manage to do this.

Eventually the sporting event arrives. Everyone starts with push-ups that they must do within one minute. But some of the girls notice someone stuck gum on the mats, making it hard for them to focus on the push-ups. The spring board is still messed up, resulting in Hera face-planting again, along with Lily and Rose barely managing to climb over the large hurdle. Yena hurriedly prepares to take her turn, but she asks that they adjust the height first. Once it's low enough, she manages to vault onto the mat, with the girls of Macaron disappointed as they didn't know this was possible. It didn't really matter that they broke the springs. Everyone runs laps, with the girls of Macaron falling in last place because they were so focused on making things harder for everyone else, they didn't realize this actually helped them; it also left them with no time to practice.

Big Jay and Calliope congratulate Melody, noting that at the very beginning they were doing poorly, but they managed to overcome the difficulties and have won the Mission. He presents them with the brand new coordi and they go out to put on a perfrmance. The girls of Macaron are very disappointed by the turn of events while watching.

Later, Melody approach Jin to ask what he thought of their performance. He apologizes for being so harsh earlier, but they explain how it encouraged them not to give up. He's glad to hear this, suggesting they go out to get some food since everyone worked so hard.

Meanwhile, Macaron came in last so Jackie will be giving them special training in order to help them out. They complain, realizing that taking a shortcut didn't help them at all.