Winx Club S5 E9

## Plot

Bloom has been having bad dreams about Daphne. Stella is acting like a brat to the other girls, who call her out on her selfish and childish behavior. Also, I just realized that at least Stella's guardian of Sirenix is voiced by Tara Strong. So that's cool. Stella puts on an impromptu fashion show, but none of the girls like her designs, and she treats Brandon terribly too. She thinks that no one understands her and storms off. Musa and Flora go after her to talk, while Bloom checks in with Tecna and Aisha to see if they've found the gem of empathy. Bloom and Aisha decide to set up a real date between Timmy and Tecna, who have barely talked or seen each other in person since the start of the season. Tecna also claims that she doesn't know what to say around him in person sometimes. These two have been dating for years. But now the writers are treating it as if they just recently met! Somehow, Tecna analyzing the music creates an image of a fortress. She recognizes it as Data Bridge Castle, on her home world of Zenith. She, Aisha, and Bloom head there. Musa and Flora find Stella, who is looking for inspiration. She touches a pin that has an age changer spell on it, which they were learning about in class, and it turns her into a three year old. Now Musa, Flora, and Brandon have to babysit her as the B-plot for the episode. Or, you know, they could find Professor Wizgiz and ask how to change her back. Okay, they did, but offscreen, with only one throwaway mention from Flora. He told them that it would wear off sooner or later. Seriously? There's no spell or potion or something to reverse this immediately? That's so dumb! Also, I have a question for Aisha. Since Tritannus can now sense where you are and what you're doing at all times, why do you keep going on the missions for the gems? Then again, Tritannus somehow found ways to screw things up for the Winx even before he gained that power, and Aisha doesn't know that he has it, so I'm willing to give her a pass. So, Tritannus heads to the Zenith gate and steals the powers of the Zenith gatekeeper, Lithia. Yes, Tecna bonds with her, and yes, it restores her powers. Anyways, he mutates the guards of the castle into mutants, and sends some oil over there to stop the Winx. Speaking of which, they're finally joined by a Specialist: Roy. Uh, why is Aisha so friendly to him? Their first interaction was hostile, and she hasn't spoken to him onscreen since. She smiled at him *once!* That's it! That's the extent of their friendly interactions. But now the show expects us to believe that they're friends? No way. Also, Roy is the flattest character ever. He gets even less development than the other guys. He's just interested in Aisha. And he too has magic powers that allow him to breathe underwater. Okay, then why didn't he accompany them during *all* of their missions? I know that Aisha refused the first time, and just because he was introduced driving the boat doesn't mean that he always does it. After all, Aisha was seen driving it in just the last episode. But if he had helped them, it'd be a great chance for Aisha to warm up to him, and to give him some much needed screen time and development. She could've even opened up to him about Nabu, making it slightly more believable that she'd be able to move on so quickly. Tecna asks her guardian of Sirenix where to find the gem. She tells her to look where the one rules over the many. It's on the throne. Tecna wants to just point and shoot magic at the gem to get it down, but Aisha doesn't think that it'll work. She wants to try clearing some thorny vines away from the bottom of the throne first. When she touches one though, it does something to her and Tecna, who was holding her arm, because she thought that the plants were poisonous. And in a sense, they were. They turn nasty and fight with each other. It quickly dissolves into the two shoving each other. They're attacked by mutants. Bloom breaks the spell under Tecna and Aisha and tells them that the only way to get the gem is to do it together. Their "friendship wave", for lack of a better word, makes the mutants retreat, gets them the gem, and rids the castle of oil. Also, Stella finally changes back. Now they only have to find one more gem.