Victory is Ours

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> **NOTE: the plot contains MAJOR spoilers to the episode, so, read it with caution if you've never seen it before.**
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"**Victory is Ours**" is the fifth episode of the first season of *Milky way and The Galaxy Girls: All Stars*. For those who are looking forward to seeing it, you can watch it here.

## Characters

### Important Characters

* Milky Way
* Uranus
* Mercury
* The Sun
* Venus
* The Big Bang

### Side Characters

* Comet X (Debut)
* Ms. Trappist

### Antagonists

* Aries (Antagonist of the episode, debut)
* Zodia (One of the main antagonists of the show, debut)

## Synopsis

A huge basketball match is about to happen in high school, and Mercury is about ready to attend it and become the winner! But will she win between her rivaling opponent, Aries, or will he take the winner's name?

## Plot

The episode starts at Venus, Uranus, Saturn and The Sun at Space Burger (Yes, the same restaurant that appeared in episode 4). Milky way comes into the restaurant to announce what she bought. Because Uranus and Saturn say that she shouldn't bring her things she's holding into Space Burger, Milky Way gets embarrased, and then announces that she bought cheerleading outfits for a basketball match which happens later in the episode. The 4 Galaxy Girls (especially The Sun) get happy that she bought that and head over (with Milky Way) to the gym.

The 5 galaxy girls quickly change up their outfits to their newly bought cheerleader outfits and get to the gym to train their dancing skills. After the performance, Milky Way compliments the other girls that they did well for a first try, and they celebrate as well.

Later, at The Big Bang's house, Milky Way asks her mother if she (Milky Way) can buy the tickets for the Basketball match. Her mother lets her buy the tickets.

After that, we get introduced to a new villian which is shortly after revealed to be named Zodia and we get to see her giving a mission to Aries, one of the Zodiac Gang members. His mission is to beat Mercury in a basketball match and hand over his zodiac shard to her. Aries asks her on why he should hand over his shard and her response is because "Once she collects all of the Zodiac Shards, she will gain her true power, which will help her stand upon The Big Bang's throne and rule the world all by herself" and then threatens him to send him to a deadly quasar if he doesn't return with one, but, she then immiedately says that she was "Just kidding" (Zodia apparently likes dark jokes regarding death).

At school, Ms. Trappist, who used to work at Milky Way's (Now Andromeda's) preschool according to episode 3, starts talking about the basketball match that will start soon. However, she also scolds Aries for sleeping in class and not paying attention.

At the gym, we get to see Comet X being a trainer to Aries and Mercury as they start with a warm-up. She says "*Now that the warm-up is done, **pull out your (basketball) balls**.*", which they do. They pull out Basketball balls. First, they run quickly and then throw the balls to the baskets. They do this as a repeating cycle. in a "later" frame, it says that "*After a long time of training, Mercury and Aries got tired and started sweating. Somehow, Aries tended to overexaggerate by pretending he passed out…*". After that, Comet X hands over water to Aries and Mercury, and then lets them go home.

At home, at night, Mercury is trying to sleep, yet cannot because she has a match ahead, she tries to meditate to get to sleep.

We get to see the grand opening of the basketball match with The Big Bang and especially Comet X cheering for Mercury. Ms. Trappist announces that the basketball game is starting in a very exciting matter. Then, we get to see the Galaxy Girls do a performance. Aries and Mercury come into the stage as the idols of the match and get interviewed by Ms. Trappist. Then, we get to see the duel of the two.

Mercury somehow scores 5 shots in her first throw just because of her speed. After that, Aries somehow scores 10 points in his throw, which is double Mercury's throw. This causes Mercury to almost get enraged by him. Ms. Trappist interrupts her enragement by getting to talk with her and giving her some water to calm her down. Oh, so conveniently, The Big Bang decides to activate her power to Mercury to make her stronger and take the form of a "Super Saiyanin" (Totally not a reference to Dragon Ball). Because of that, she gets to beat Aries by an unclear number of points (likely 15).

Comet X oh, so conveniently notices that Aries is holding his Zodiac Shard (Fully titled as "The Zodiac Shard of Speed and Victory, coming from the constellation of Aries") and somehow gets to jump and grab it from him. Mercury gets back to normal and asks Comet X on what kind of crystal she is holding and she (Comet X) answers that it's a one of the Zodiac Shards. Milky Way congratulates Mercury for winning the match, and the rest of the Galaxy Girls celebrate as well.

Aries gets back to Zodia without his zodiac shard, ending the episode on that note. Since this was Zodia's first time of losing her Zodiac Shard, she was okay with it and eventually states that she'll get another one next time.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode which has a Zodiac Gang member as the antagionist of the episode, that being Aries. This is also the first episode to include the show's second antagonist, Zodia.
* Apparently, during the scene where Comet X said "Now that the warm-up is done, pull out your balls" which is at the beginning of the 7 minute mark, Ruby put a small easter egg that's a message saying "Totally not a dirty-minded scene" following up with a skull emoji. She ***DEFINITELY*** knew what she was doing and what the people who saw this scene in that episode would immiedately start thinking of, and she honestly doesn't blame you.
* Apparently, before the episode's release, and according to the announcement trailer of the fanseries, the episode used to be called "Bowl To The Goal" and was supposed to be about bowling (The episode could have been inspired by one of the episodes from Unofficial Milky Way's take on the fanseries, which was called "Galaxy Gutters" (You can watch it here), but, Ruby didn't approve of the idea that much and went with a better and a slightly simplified one, which caused it to instead be called "Victory Is Ours" and for it to be about basketball instead of bowling.
* In the article itself, the creator (Ruby Choco Cookie) linked Super Saiyanin to the Polish version of the Super Saiyin article (very likely because she is Polish herself). Her coworker, Alena, fixed it up by linking it to the English version of it to prevent confusion regarding the article being linked. Same thing is said for Dragon Ball with it also being linked to the Polish Wikipedia article of it with that also being relinked to the English article of it.

### Additional things from Alena, one of the creator's coworkers

* A thing that really bugs me is that during the basketball match, closer to the twelve minute mark, Mercury almost gets enraged because she gets overthrown by Aries, but, Ms. Trappist stops her by handing over water to her. What if she didn't interrupt Mercury during her enragement? What if Mercury actually got enraged? Closer to the 13 minute mark, The Big Bang oh, so conveniently decides to help out Mercury by giving her the divine power of the Gods (or the power of super speed). Here's another thing, closer to the 14 minute mark, Comet X oh, so conveniently notices that Aries is holding his zodiac shard and somehow jumps out of her seat to snach it. I know, it's to drive the story foward, but, I would be interested in seeing what would happen if The Big Bang and Comet X would have just stayed their seats and didn't do anything notable and if Ms. Trappist did not decide to calm Mercury down.
> The creator's response to this question: "If Mercury actually got enraged and if Ms. Trappist didn't help her, she would have punched Aries so hard that the navy-purple-yellow blood we sometimes see in the show would come out of his forehead. This situation would have caused the basketball match to immiedately end, following up with Aries going to the hospital and with Mercury (likely) being suspended for atleast 5 months for causing physical violence in school (INFRONT OF EVERYONE, TOO!!). Don't worry though, Milky Way won't unfriend her for doing something like this, but would still be mad at her anyways and maybe with also wanting her to apologize for her following actions, despite the fact she knows Aries isn't innocent. And... If it weren't for The Big Bang's and Comet X's extra help, Mercury would have not won the basketball match because of the amount of points Aries scored, which, again, takes the winner's name onto Aries. Because of this, Aries' Zodiac Shard would have been successfully taken to Zodia, granting her more power than she has now (Suprisingly, she is pretty weak for a creepy looking villain)..."
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