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An unidentified meteorite strikes the surface of Earth. In the center of the crater, a purple meteorite, eerily glowing purple, has strange energy emanating from it.

With the Football Frontier trophy in the air, Endou Mamoru, Raimon's captain holds it high in the air. He, with the rest of his team celebrate their long-earned victory. Shishido, with permission from Endou, holds the trophy and some other members glamour over it. They eventually start fighting over it when Kageno takes the trophy.

As the others are either watching this quarrel or talking about their victory, Endou suggests Gouenji to visit his sister in the hospital, then winks. Endou then extends his hand, thanking him, to which Gouenji shook, thanking him as well.

In this part of the episode, Endou roles as the narrator. Multiple flashbacks are shown, including Raimon's first match against Teikoku Gakuen (where, following Gouenji's first appearance on the field with his Fire Tornado, Endou successfully caught Teikoku's Death Zone with God Hand), Kazemaru's recruitment to the team, the reason why Gouenji vowed to never play soccer again until his little sister woke up, Hibiki Seigou becoming Raimon's new coach, Raimon's tough victory against Teikoku in the Football Frontier, Gouenji's past dilemma with his father, and the final battle against Zeus. At this point, the flashbacks end.

In Raimon's bus, Kazemaru asks Endou why Ichinose and Domon had left all of a sudden, to which Endou replies that they got a call from Nishigaki right after the Zeus match ended, and the two of them went there to tell him about the match. Kazemaru says that he would tell the Athletics club about the match, as well. After some conversing, Natsumi asks what the team's plan is for their next fight, and what would they hope to achieve next now that Raimon was the best in Japan. To this, Kazemaru says he'd want to face the world, to which Endou exclaims that to "work on some hard training and become the best in the world". To this, everyone agrees in exclamation.

At the Inazuma General Hospital, Gouenji arrives at Yuuka's hospital room carrying a single, yellow flower. At his little sister's bedside, he says to Yuuka that he won. As he sets his bag down and begins to put the flower in the vase, which was sitting on a desk, Gouenji hears Yuuka's voice. As he turns around, he finds his sister, lying in the hospital bed with eyes opened. Shocked and glad at the same time, he goes over to the bedside and begins to tear up, repeating what he had said earlier.

The bus nearing Inazuma Town, Endou notices three, unidentified rotating glowing balls falling through the sky in the distance. Once the balls hit whatever was beneath them, a glowing, devastating explosion occurred from that very spot. At this point, everyone in the bus notices this.

Upon arriving at Raimon Junior High, the whole campus is completely destroyed. Endou, panicked, asks the school principal about what had happened. In a devastated voice, the principal says that aliens have attacked Raimon. Furukabu and the Inazuma Eleven lay, defeated on the ground. Batora, one of the members of that team, says that they had fought the aliens in Raimon's place, but they were no match against them. Furukabu says to Hibiki that he volunteered as goalkeeper, but the aliens were too powerful for him.

A rumbling sound is heard and three black soccer balls, glowing deep purple, circle towards the ground, where, on top of the destroyed Raimon symbol, combine and create a sort of vortex, where three figures appear from in a blinding light, standing on top of the wreck which was once Raimon Junior High.Startled and disbelieving, Endou asks the figures if they really were aliens when the light fades out. The one on the further top of the rubble smirks, then says that they "have come from the far planet of Aliea to act as messengers to Earth's people", and that they have decided to display their power in accordance to Earth's system. He states that that system is soccer, saying that it was a method that decided which side was a winner through battle. Following this, he says that if Raimon couldn't defeat them, then Earth would "cease to exist". To this, Endou gets aggravated and challenges them. Someoka steps in to argue that they were not going to fight, to which everyone else on the team agrees with. However, the furthermost "alien" kicks one of the black soccer balls in the direction of Raimon's team. Endou starts to unleash Majin The Hand, but before he knows it, the rest of his teammates are blown back from the force, and he himself is hit by the ball. The ball does not avert its path, as it continues to fly in the direction it was kicked... towards the soccer clubroom. With another ball in hand, the "alien", along with his two other comrades vanish in a purple light.

What was once Raimon's soccer clubroom is now a pile of rubble and broken parts. Both Aki and Natsumi get a phone call, from Ichinose and her father, respectively. In Kidokawa Seishuu, the Mukata twins lay defeated, Nishigaki on a stretcher. Through cellphone, Ichinose tells Aki that the aliens were at Kidokawa, as well. On Natsumi's side, her father informs her that two aliens have just shown up at Kasamino Junior High, saying that the aliens are challenging them to a match.

At Kasamino's school grounds, Kasamino's soccer team forfeit in order to protect their school. However, they didn't know that by forfeiting, their school would be destroyed, which the aliens' captain began to do. Just as he started to kick the ball that was going to destroy Kasamino, the team of Raimon appear saying they want to fight in Kasamino's place. Even if Gouenji, Ichinose, and Domon weren't there, they still began the game without them, leaving Someoka as a 1-top. Right before the match, as Endou introduced his team as Raimon Junior High's soccer club, the aliens' captain called themselves Aliea Gakuen, and his team, Gemini Storm. He then introduced himself as Reize.

At the beginning of the first half, the Raimon team advanced forward on the field, the members of Gemini Storm remaining static. Someoka then uses Dragon Crash, to which Reize easily blocked the shoot with one knee, as if it were a pass. He then made a shot for Raimon's goal. Before Endou was able to perform Majin The Hand, the ball was already in the goal, giving Reize's team the first point. Another of Gemini Storm's members gets through Kazemaru's Shippuu Dash in a flash, leaving behind a strong gust of wind. As Max and Kidou attempt to steal the ball, the member of Gemini Storm passes them easily. Before Raimon knows it, the score is 12-0, with Gemini Storm in the lead. Shishido's leg gets injured, but almost immediately, Gouenji shows up at a convenient time, replacing Shishido's position. With Gouenji back on the team, they are able to use Inazuma Break and the episode ends before they score or not a goal with it.

Tropes used in this episode:

  • Alien Invasion: First episode of an entire arc centered around "aliens" from Aliea Gakuen who attack Japan and destroy schools, among other things.
  • Aliens Speaking English: The aliens introduced in this episode speak flawless Japanese instead of having their own language.
  • Colour Failure: Megane loses his colours when he's insulted for his cowardice he showed in the first match. Complete with being stung by some fake arrows, no less.
  • Continuity Nod: There are many references to previous episodes, including Natsumi's attempts to disband the club at first, the practice match with Teikoku and Kidou being only interested in Gouenji at first and Megane running away from the match. There are also several flashback sequences.
  • Don't Celebrate Just Yet: Raimon's victory proves to be very short-lasting, because they soon have to prevent some school-destroying aliens from destroying the earth.
  • Flashback: Endou has many flashbacks from the previous season near the beginning of the episode, like Raimon's first match against Teikoku and their match against Zeus in the finale, for example.
  • Funny Background Event: Endou tells Gouenji to visit his sister in the hospital, as some boys are fighting over the Football Frontier trophy in the background.
  • Human Aliens: Gemini Storm don't look any different from normal humans.
  • Non-Lethal Warfare: The aliens who attack the earth choose to show their superior power through soccer instead of an actual war. However, the fact that they destroy schools whenever the schools' teams lose and they presumably killed some people doesn't make it any less dangerous.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Megane tries to get credit for his "strategic retreat" during the practice match against Teikoku that brought Gouenji back into soccer, but is insulted for being deserter, which he doesn't like to hear.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: The Football Frontier trophy suddenly disappears while the boys were admiring it, only to reveal that Kageno has stolen it and they only notice after he steals it. The others become angry and the moment they start to fight over the trophy, he's gone.
  • Super Ringer: After Shishido's leg gets injured, Gouenji shows up at a convenient time, replacing his position and trying to use Inazuma Break with Endou and Kidou. But the episode ends on a cliffhanger.
  • Tears of Joy: Gouenji sheds these after he sees that his sister has woken up from her coma.
  • Worthy Opponent: Natsumi mentions that Kidou was only interested in Gouenji as an opponent in the beginning.

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