A day at the beach is interrupted when alien squids attack, abducting several innocent civilians, including Twilight and Rarity. Now, Flash needs to work with Command Master Chief, Petty Officer Ripple, a man with a strong distrust towards all aliens, to save not just his friends but the whole world from these squids.
- Didn't Think This Through: Flash sneaks onto the coastguard boat as Chamalien so he can follow them and help save everyone from the squid aliens, but doesn't stop to think of what could happen if he gets discovered. Ripple is able to tell something isn't right and quickly exposes Chamalien, and even worse, Flash ends up timing out and reverting to normal right in front of him and the rest of the coastguard.
- Freudian Excuse: Ripple explains when he was a kid, one night when he was fishing with his dad at sea something came crashing down from the sky towards them, something that seemed to be following them. It caused their boat to turn over, and while Ripple survived by clinging to some driftwood and floated to shore, his dad went down with the ship. Ripple blamed this event on aliens, knowing nothing human or human-made could move like that, and as such now holds a deep hatred towards all aliens as an adult.
- Green Aesop: Part of the reason the aliens thought that humans couldn't be trusted was because of how they were killing their own planet, using polluting machines and dumping their waste somewhere out of sight just to forget about it, and the few people that do try to fix the planet are overshadowed by something new every time it seems like something will change. Even Flash acknowledges that they aren't wrong about the damage the human race is doing to the Earth.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Ripple activates the DNA bomb against the squids, in part to ensure that Flash won't have their deaths on his conscious, and then sacrifices his own life holding off the leader to ensure that Flash, Twilight, and Rarity can escape the collapsing lair.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The squid aliens planned to use a DNA bomb to wipe out humanity, having abducted several humans to obtain their DNA and ensuring the bomb would wipe out at least 90% of humanity. Their bomb ends up getting used against them when their own DNA is used to replace the human samples, and then detonated to wipe them out like they planned to do to humanity.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The alien squids manage to escape from the beach with the civilians they captured because Ripple and the coastguard were busy fighting Volt-Edge, who was trying to stop the squids, instead of focusing on the actual threat. Sunset calls him out on this when he laments Volt-Edge getting away.
- Shout-Out:
- The squid leader taunting Flash when he threatens to activate the DNA bomb, asking him if he is a "coward or killer" and Flash responding by dropping the device and answering "Coward. Every time." is just like a confrontation between the 9th Doctor and the Daleks in "The Parting of Ways".
- Ripple's final scene, taunting the squid leader "hello beastie" before leaping into its mouth with a knife is a reference to the climactic scene of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest between Captain Jack Sparrow and the Kraken.
- Status Quo Is God: Flash has his secret revealed to an entire coastguard when he reverts back to normal in front of them. But thanks to them suffering from Laser-Guided Amnesia due to being put in the squid's escape pods, as well as Ripple pulling a Heroic Sacrifice, Flash's secret is still safe. Though this is downplayed since Flash gains his second new alien Squidstrictor too.
- Unexpectedly Dark Episode: This chapter deals with an alien species attempting to commit genocide on humans, due to seeing them as dangerous hypocrites killing their own planet, and are wiped out themselves when they refuse to back down. Plus, a human character, Ripple, sacrifices himself to stop them and ensure Flash doesn't need to burden himself with the guilt of wiping them out himself.
- Villain Has a Point: The squid leader refuses to trust humans because it sees the damage that they are doing to their own planet and is incapable of change. Though the squids ultimately need to be stopped to save humanity, Flash sadly admits that they weren't wrong about what the human race is doing to the Earth and thus had good reasons to not want to trust them, and can only hope that one day in the future the human race can change enough so that other aliens won't be afraid to trust them.
