A Fiery Fight

“A Fiery Fight” (“Pertarungan Hangat”) is the 11th episode of the first season of BoBoiBoy Galaxy and the 11th episode overall in the series.

Summary
BoBoiBoy, Yaya, Ying, and Gopal go to a dangerous planet where their Toughness Test is held. They must defeat Team A and retrieve the Power Sphere hidden there.

Plot
In this episode of BoBoiBoy Galaxy, the story starts with Admiral Tarung granting permission to BoBoiBoy's gang to take the Toughness Test as are aware that failing this test comes with the severe consequence of being expelled from TAPOPS. The test is located at Planet Volcania. The simulation test involves retrieving a Power Sphere placed atop a volcano in a planet surrounded by active and fiery volcanoes as well as flowing molten lava rivers. However, Koko Ci clarifies that it's only a simulation and not real-life danger. Upon hearing this, Gopal is visibly relieved, which earns him a sly grin from Admiral Tarung.

There are two teams, A and B, with Team B being the group led by BoBoiBoy's gang. However, it is discovered that Team A has already arrived on Planet Volcania. Team B is teleported to the planet by Ochobot, and as they explore it, Admiral Tarung sends a robot that resembles a drone to track their progress and evaluate their performance.

As the team takes a look at their new surroundings, BoBoiBoy notices the distant volcano where the Power Sphera is placed. However, the group's journey is fraught with danger as they encounter erupting gas geysers while trying to reach the volcano base and a lava river. Thankfully, Yaya's gravitational powers come in handy as she helps BoBoiBoy and Gopal to cross the river by lifting some rocks. Meanwhile, Fang gets sidetracked on his mission to seek the Power Sphera. Unaware of his disappearance, the team manages to move forward with their journey.

Gopal was about to jump across a dangerous area without knowing that lava was about to erupt under him. Fortunately, BoBoiBoy noticed this and intervened by pushing Gopal to the other side, but BoBoiBoy ended up getting burned in the process. As a result of this accident, BoBoiBoy's Power Band started to malfunction due to coming in contact with the lava. Tarung, who was supervising the tests, revealed that the environment in which the test was taken was real, unlike the usual simulated environment. Tarung also invited the participants to drop out of the test if they find it too dangerous. After admonishing Gopal for wanting to give up, they all realized that Fang was missing.

Tarung explains that Fang is already ahead of them, so they continue on to the volcano’s summit. They find the Power Sphere, but are ambushed by Fang. He reveals that he is in fact, a member of Team A—not Team B—and that A’s goal is to prevent B from retrieving the Power Sphere. Fang introduces his other two members he saw earlier as Sai and Shielda, Sai effortlessly exhibited his extraordinary skills by hurling his shield hat with such precision that it smashed several boulder formations into countless pieces and recalled it like a boomerang.

BoBoiBoy and Gopal are astounded by his abilities, and as a result of their actions, Team A as a whole labels them as weak and vulnerable targets. Yaya and Ying attack Team A in response to Fang's treachery, but Shielda deflects, absorbs, and blocks their blows with her shield. Tarung interrupts Koko Ci's attempt to notify them about Shielda's strength and scolds him for revealing the information. Gopal learns that Shielda's shield is capable of deflecting both verbal and physical threats and discovers that Koko Ci was telling the truth after he tried to throw a rock toward it.

Ying is injured by Sai's shield while distracted when trying to help Gopal. Yaya becomes furious and lifts up all of the nearby rocks to hurl at Sai and Shielda, which they defend against with their shields. Ying convinces BoBoiBoy to leave them and get the Power Sphere as soon as possible to end the test. BoBoiBoy transforms into BoBoiBoy Wind and flies towards the volcano, pursued and attacked by Fang on his Shadow Falcon. Shielda gains some ground on Yaya despite her relentless attacks and manages to knock her out of the air. Sai's shield, fast enough to be unaffected by Ying’s slow-mo field, collides with the ground, creating an explosion that knocks out both girls. Wind and Fang are shocked to see them defeated, the latter requesting that he surrender so that they won’t get hurt anymore. As Fang causes Wind to crash into the volcano floor, Koko Ci implores Tarung to stop the test, but he refuses.

Sai and Shielda show BoBoiBoy that the rest of Team B has been defeated. They decide to finish him too, but Fang insists that what they have done is victory enough, making them mock his sympathy towards the “weak” Earthlings. Urged to prove who are the weaker ones, BoBoiBoy finds the strength to stand and suddenly transforms into BoBoiBoy Fire. He viciously attacks Team A and dodges Sai’s incoming shield. While he’s distracted, Shielda slams him with her shield into a wall as Fang realizes they are going too far and yells for them to stop. However, Fire punches it away and releases a punch that Team A is unable to dodge.

The volcano starts to tremble as the remaining members of Team B get recovered in time to see the battle. Koko Ci understands that the attack by BoBoiBoy Fire had caused the volcano to become unstable. Gopal started pleading with Admiral Tarung to call off the test as the volcano was about to erupt as Yaya and Ying headed to the Power Sphere.

Fire laughs victoriously and asks Team A who the weakling is now. Fang and Shielda yield, but Sai throws his shield at full force towards Fire—who effortlessly dodges it—then diverts its direction to hit him from behind. Amazingly, Fire catches the shield with a single hand, ignites it and hurls it back at Sai. Before it reaches him, a teleportation portal opens and it turns out that Tarung stopped the shield with his teeth. Tarung announces that the test is over, relieving Team A. Fire argues that Team A has gone too far before Tarung and Ochobot help him to calm down to revert back to normal. More rocks fall in the area so Koko Ci calls out to Yaya, Ying and Gopal. Everyone enters the portal and makes it safely to TAPOPS Space Station just as the volcano erupts, sending out a shockwave that disables the camera droid left there.

Team A receives an apology from BoBoiBoy for his inability to maintain self-control. Furthermore, they also acknowledged their mistake and apologize as they went too far. Sai praises BoBoiBoy's exceptional battle skills. They now risk being expelled, according to Tarung, who warns them for failing to find the Power Sphere. Gopal interrupts and displays the Power Sphere they got as a result of Ying's scheme. BoBoiBoy and his friends passed the TAPOPS Toughness Test, Tarung exclaims in amazement and delight as the show comes to an end.

Characters

 * BoBoiBoy
 * BoBoiBoy Wind
 * BoBoiBoy Fire (Debut)
 * Yaya
 * Ying
 * Gopal
 * Fang
 * Koko Ci
 * Tarung
 * Ochobot
 * FireBot (Debut)
 * Sai (Debut)
 * Shielda (Debut)

Differences in the Comic Version

 * to be added

Trivia

 * When Koko Ci points out the members in Team B, he excludes Fang, which is a hint that Fang is in the other team.
 * BoBoiBoy Fire shouldn't technically be a new element as stated by Gopal because BoBoiBoy already unlocked and used this element in BoBoiBoy Season 3 and BoBoiBoy: The Movie. Furthermore, at the beginning of the series, the Space Pirate's readout of BoBoiBoy reveals that he had the potential to have seven different elemental forms.
 * An easy theory is the fact that BoBoiBoy Galaxy being a soft reboot and the elemental powers are to be reintroduced to new audiences who have not seen the original series.
 * An in-universe theory is that Gopal assumed BoBoiBoy Fire was a new element due to the change of clothes and the fact that he was seeing the battle afar. Fang and Yaya look like they recognize BoBoiBoy Fire. It is reasonable for Koko Ci to see BoBoiBoy Fire as a new element as he did not see him in battle during the events of The Movie.
 * Another in-universe theory is that Gopal meant “new” in the sense that it was another power in addition to the basic three which they hadn’t seen in a long time, rather than a power they’d never seen before.
 * Although lava is not technically fire, when BoBoiBoy is burned by the lava eruption, his Power Band glitches and absorbs the fire element.
 * However, since BoBoiBoy’s gang is on an alien planet, the lava there is likely to have the same properties as fire.
 * Near the end of the episode, Gopal has his left arm on his back for a period of time, which shows that he, Yaya and Ying have gotten the Power Sphere.
 * Since the original series, BoBoiBoy's transformation into BoBoiBoy Fire has been speculated to be caused by stress and/or anger. This theory is reinforced in this episode when BoBoiBoy, enraged at Shielda's comment calling him and his friends weak, transforms into BoBoiBoy Fire.
 * Boboiboy triggered his fire element after being exposed to high temperatures especially from that lava geyser, that almost hit his arm. He unlocked it when he lost his temper.
 * This episode gained 1 million views within 10 hours and 2 million views within 24 hours, setting a new record for Monsta’s channel.

Cultural References

 * The scene where BoBoiBoy Fire catches Sai's shield that is thrown towards him and he throws it back to Sai is similar to the scene when Bucky catches Captain America's shield and throws it back to him in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier".