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* FightingYourFutureSelf: Flash's future self briefly mistakes his past self for a clone of him with a fake Omnitrix, and decides to take him out before he causes any trouble. Luckily though this is defied when Flurry Heart arrives and explains Flash isn't a clone, but him from the past.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Flash's future self uses grown up versions of a few new aliens. One of them, that Flash guesses is named "Gemini", becomes important in the next chapter.

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Flash's future self uses grown up versions of a few new aliens. One of them, that Flash guesses is named "Gemini", becomes important in the next chapter. The other alien, eventually named "Cat-Apult", becomes one of Flash's own new aliens of the season.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Flash's future self uses grown up versions of a few new aliens. One of them, that Flash guesses is named "Gemini", becomes important in the next chapter.


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* NeverGivenAName: Flash's future self stopped naming his alien forms. So when Flash guesses one form's name he is told it doesn't have one.
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* HonoraryUncle: The future versions of Flash and Twilight aren't married, but Flurry Heart still calls Flash "Uncle Flash", showing her respect for him. Flash however, snaps at her not to call him that.

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* HonoraryUncle: The future versions of Flash and Twilight aren't married, but Flurry Heart still still calls Flash "Uncle Flash", showing her respect for him.him and how she sees him as family. Flash however, snaps at her not to call him that.
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* WhatWereYouThinking: Both Future Flash and Twilight give this to Flurry Heart for attempting to use Twilight's time oscillator to change the past. Even though Twilight understands Flurry's desire to save Shining Armor, she knows it's dangerous to mess with time.

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* WhatWereYouThinking: Both Future Flash and Twilight give this to Flurry Heart for attempting to use Twilight's time temporal phase oscillator to change the past. Even though Twilight understands Flurry's desire to save Shining Armor, she knows it's dangerous to mess with time.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: When Flurry Heart first emerges from a portal in the middle of the street in front of Flash, she tells him he's coming with her without explaining anything and refuses to take no as an answer. This comes off as a threat to Flash and he transformers to fight her. Then in the ensuing struggle, Flurry's temporal-phase oscillator is damaged and accidentally sends them both 20 years into the future.
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** Rarity's attempt to become a fashion designer was ruined when another designer stole her line, and after failing to prove the theft and attempting to make a replacement line, she ended up blacklisted from the fashion industry and had to make a living selling textile.

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** Rarity's attempt to become a fashion designer was were ruined when another designer stole her line, and after failing to prove the theft and attempting to make a replacement line, she ended up blacklisted from the fashion industry and had to make a living selling textile.
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* BigNever: Flash's future self gives him one when he tries to ask him about the alien forms he would get.
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* FutureBadass: As with 'Ben 10,000', despite having become bitter, Flash's future self is extremely powerful, having fully mastered the Omnitrix and gained up to 10,000 of its aliens. Flash even witnesses a couple of the aliens he will get.
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* AnArmAndALeg: A criminal Tetramand lost his leg in the Null Void. He blames Flash for putting him in that "hellhole" and wants revenge for it.


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* MistakenIdentity: While Flash is in the future he is constantly mistaken for his future counterpart, with [[EntertaininglyWrong various guesses from different people]] on why he looks younger.
** The criminal Tetramand thinks Flash is his future counterpart due to running into him as [=XLR8=], until Flash turns back to normal in front of him.
** The future Flash briefly mistakes his younger self to be a clone of him with a knockoff Omnitrix and considers taking him out before Flurry Heart arrives and tells him he's not a clone.
** Animac thinks Flash found an alien to make himself look younger due to being insecure about his age.
** The future Twilight asks Flash if he faced a Chronosapien that turned him young, before quickly figuring out what Flurry did.
** Cadance similarly asks Flash what happened to him before realizing her daughter did something.

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* PutOnABus: The opening reveals that with the hybrids taken care of, Azmuth has left Earth.



* PutOnABus: The opening reveals that with the hybrids taken care of, Azmuth has left Earth.



* WholePlotReference: The whole chapter is one to the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' episode "[[Recap/Ben10S3E1BenTenThousand Ben 10,000]]. The only main differences being that Flash's TookALevelInCynic being the result of a personal issue, and the chapter being a two-parter.

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* WhatWereYouThinking: Both Future Flash and Twilight give this to Flurry Heart for attempting to use Twilight's time oscillator to change the past. Even though Twilight understands Flurry's desire to save Shining Armor, she knows it's dangerous to mess with time.
* WholePlotReference: The whole chapter is one to the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' episode "[[Recap/Ben10S3E1BenTenThousand Ben 10,000]].10,000]]". The only main differences being that Flash's TookALevelInCynic being the result of a personal issue, and the chapter being a two-parter.
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* MythologyGag: According to Flurry Heart, Rarity attempted to start her fashion career, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehatten only for another designer to steal her designs, and after failing to prove the theft, attempted to make a new line in time]], which unfortunately ended in failure, her being blacklisted, and relegated to selling textile.

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* MythologyGag: According to Flurry Heart, Rarity attempted to start her fashion career, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehatten [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan only for another designer to steal her designs, and after failing to prove the theft, attempted to make a new line in time]], which unfortunately ended in failure, her being blacklisted, and relegated to selling textile.
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* MythologyGag: According to Flurry Heart, Rarity attempted to start her fashion career, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManhatten only for another designer to steal her designs, and after failing to prove the theft, attempted to make a new line in time]], which unfortunately ended in failure, her being blacklisted, and relegated to selling textile.

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* MythologyGag: According to Flurry Heart, Rarity attempted to start her fashion career, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManhatten [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehatten only for another designer to steal her designs, and after failing to prove the theft, attempted to make a new line in time]], which unfortunately ended in failure, her being blacklisted, and relegated to selling textile.

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* FutureLoser: Apart from Twilight, the other Rainbooms sans Sunset Shimmer didn't have the successful futures they had hoped for:
** Rainbow Dash ended up having a CareerEndingInjury, with her not being able to get back up to the same level afterwards, leading her to becoming a coach instead of a sports star.
** Sweet Apple Acres was destroyed by a lightning storm, and Applejack ended up taking up a job in an apple canning factory. Even though she's good at it, it's not the same for her as she's a farmer.
** Rarity's attempt to become a fashion designer was ruined when another designer stole her line, and after failing to prove the theft and attempting to make a replacement line, she ended up blacklisted from the fashion industry and had to make a living selling textile.
** Fluttershy tried her hand at being a vet, but between the angry customers and having to put several animals down, she was driven to despair, leading her to become a hermit outside the city where she has an animal sanctuary.
** Pinkie Pie may be a subversion seeing as how she owns a bakery, but according to Flurry Heart, she's not a party planner anymore.



* TheMourningAfter: Cadance is still mourning her husband Shining Armor's death 20 years in the future. When Flash and Flurry meet her in the cemetery she is dressed in all black and bringing flowers to his grave. It is also implied that Flash's future self is still mourning his death too, given his new abrasive personality.

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* TheMourningAfter: Cadance is still mourning her husband Shining Armor's death 20 years in the future. When Flash and Flurry meet her in the cemetery she is dressed in all black and bringing flowers to his grave. It is also implied that Flash's future self [[MyGreatestFailure is still mourning his death too, too]], given his new abrasive personality.personality.
* MythologyGag: According to Flurry Heart, Rarity attempted to start her fashion career, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManhatten only for another designer to steal her designs, and after failing to prove the theft, attempted to make a new line in time]], which unfortunately ended in failure, her being blacklisted, and relegated to selling textile.


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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Flurry Heart's goal when she traveled into the past, hoping to not only save her father's life, but also change the future for Flash and the Rainbooms.


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* WholePlotReference: The whole chapter is one to the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' episode "[[Recap/Ben10S3E1BenTenThousand Ben 10,000]]. The only main differences being that Flash's TookALevelInCynic being the result of a personal issue, and the chapter being a two-parter.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Shining Armor's fate is hinted at before the official reveal. Flash's future self states he can get the job done faster than any Plumber agent and makes sure there are no causalities, at Twilight's lab none of the pictures she has like her graduation include Shining, and Flurry doesn't mention him when explaining what happened to Flash's friends.


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* KnightInSourArmor: Flash has become one in the future. He is still a hero and prioritizes saving people, but he has TookALevelInCynic due to Shining's death and has been cutoff from most of his old friends except Twilight and her family.
* TheMourningAfter: Cadance is still mourning her husband Shining Armor's death 20 years in the future. When Flash and Flurry meet her in the cemetery she is dressed in all black and bringing flowers to his grave. It is also implied that Flash's future self is still mourning his death too, given his new abrasive personality.


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* SayMyName: Twilight yells Flurry's name in frustration when she discovers she took her temporal-phase oscillator prototype and pulled Flash's teenage self from the past.
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A month after the battle with Tirek, Flash is confronted by a masked woman that accidentally sends him 20 years into the future. But Flash quickly realizes the future is not as bright as it initially seems, and it all starts on the day he was pulled from.
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* BadFuture: At first the future Flash is pulled to seems great, with technology advanced, humans and aliens living on Earth together, and humanity spreading throughout the universe. But then Flash sees how bitter his future self has become and learns about the terrible things that have happened to his friends, which all started with Shining Armor's death.
* BackFromTheDead: The chapter ends with Animac bringing Vilgax back to life.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The chapter ends with Flash learning that this future is set in motion on his Present day, with Shining Armor's death, and Animac resurrecting Vilgax, who wants revenge on Flash.
* HonoraryUncle: The future versions of Flash and Twilight aren't married, but Flurry Heart still calls Flash "Uncle Flash", showing her respect for him. Flash however, snaps at her not to call him that.
* PutOnABus: The opening reveals that with the hybrids taken care of, Azmuth has left Earth.
* TheReveal:
** The masked woman that appeared at the very end of "Tirek's Rampage" is revealed to be a grown-up Flurry Heart from 20 years in the future.
** It is confirmed that Vilgax survived the events of "Secrets of the Omnitrix". The battle that left him dead in the future [[NoodleIncident is still unknown though]].
* WhamLine: The moment Flurry Heart takes Flash to the cemetery and points him to one specific grave. Flash recognizes the emblem on it before reading it.
-->'''Here Lies Shining Armor'''
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