Sophocles leads the Ultra Guardians to the legendary rocket Celeste while the White Gestalt fight off a swarm of nightmares.
This chapter contains examples of:
- Adaptation Distillation: Many gameplay gimmicks in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is trimmed down to make it easier to describe.
- The nightmares were only found in the dungeons but instead they invade Koholint when they get strong enough.
- The boomerang weapon was only obtained after a long Chain of Deals. Marin/Lin just points Tokio to a shrine and gives it to him.
- To access the Windfish Egg, you needed all eight musical instruments. Instead, you can access the egg anytime you want but you need someone to sing the Ballad of the Windfish to open the door.
- Battle Boomerang: Tokio obtains the Gale Boomerang, which allows him to summon tornadoes when thrown.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Combined with Shut Up, Hannibal!, Tokio shouts this to Death Eye when he mocks the boy over how he ran away from his problems.
- Call-Forward: London making a note on Specter's hair and asking where the "blue" came from, is similar to Lexi doing that to Chloe when she gets her Important Haircut after leaving the Dead Carnival Car.
- Chekhov's Gag: London notes how he had to toss his staff to play fetch with a Chain Chomp. He does this with Gladion's Lycanroc during the battle against Death Eye.
- Deconstruction: The cars on the Train will reset whenever new passengers pass by as Amelia stated in the "Hey Ho Whoa Car", but Tarin reveals that the memories of the denizens are not reset. Death Eye is frustrated as this means that he and the nightmares vanish whenever the Windfish awakens and when Koholint returns, they have to start from scratch.
- Die Laughing: Upon knowing he's defeated and Lin is playing the Ballad of the Windfish, Death Eye decides to laugh in White Gestalt's face about how their efforts to stop the Apex will fail.
- Dream Apocalypse: When the Windfish awakens, Koholint and the nightmares vanish but the denizens know that they exist in the Windfish's dreams and are aware of how frightening it is.
- Exact Words: Tarin tells the Gestalt to ask for his daughter's help; he never clarified that his daughter's a seagull.
- Exposition Already Covered: Lusamine gets her mission briefing pre-empted again...when she calls to report Celesteela, the Ultra Guardians are already present and have figured out what to do.
- Finger Gun: Easter does this gesture to Death Eye to channel his lightning.
- Foreshadowing:
- In this chapter and the previous one, London was feeding cookies to the seagulls. One of those seagulls is the true Marin.
- Marin has an odd tic of separating syllables when she speaks. Turns out this is Lin's Verbal Tic.
- Got Volunteered: Played for Laughs. Everyone cheerfully agrees to help Sophocles investigate the strange metal shoot he found, but groan when he reveals a bag of shovels and his intention to dig it up.
- Identical Stranger: Lin looks similar to Marin's human form that Tarin dressed her up as his daughter and let her be on her way.
- In Spite of a Nail: The presence of the Ultra Recon Squad only moves the Celesteela plot up by a day, which Dulse is acutely aware of. While he briefly angsts about how useless he ended up being, Zossie decides to take action and capture that Pokemon for herself in the morning.
- Internal Reveal: Lin reveals to Gladion that the Apex are now aware of his presence and are ready to take him down.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Mascarita Sacrada, who was a prominent wrestler in Lucha Underground Seasons 1 to 3 is dead, caused by London following the orders of the White Rabbit to Shoot the Messenger.
- Laughing Mad: Easter unleashes a wild laugh after Death Eye electrocutes him.
- Lighter and Softer: The tale of The Celestial Starship has its roots in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter; however, its resolution is much happier.
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: Specter's reflection/Easter starts chiding Specter on denying the care he needs.
- Oh, Crap!: London and Mascarita react this way this when they see Death Eye deciding to electrocute Specter and then hear Easter cackle with glee.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Easter just states "Sweet Dreams" before they unleash a lightning bolt to paralyze Death Eye.
- The Reveal:
- The chapter explains just what's going on with Specter — his Split Personality is actually a denizen from the Living Lightning Car that is now fused with him, and the Train can't distinguish between him and the lightning/Easter, hence the static on his hand. Moreover, it's getting to the point that you don't necessarily have to electrocute Specter for Easter to appear.
- Tokio's train number is 152.
- Rule of Symbolism: Tokio's original train number is 32, the Journeys episode where he debuted. His current number is 152, which is Chikorita's National Pokédex number (as he chose a Chikorita as his starter).
- Skyward Scream: Specter does this after London hits him on the head again.Specter: Again and again...and again and again and again I HATE THIS!!!!
- Spirit Advisor: Mascarita Sacrada is one for London, only visible to the wrestler.
- Tanuki: Tarin turns out to be one.
- Tron Lines: Easter starts showing off blue lines on their face when talking to Specter and when they switch out, there are blue lines on the sleeves of their suit.
- The Unreveal: While the group knows where Easter came from, London points out that there's still a lot missing: namely why does a lightning bolt want a name starting with "Earth" and why is it so obsessed with hurting Queens and stealing hearts? Easter briefly states that it's "None of your business".
- Unwanted Assistance: Specter does not want Easter's help. Given how Easter's contributions are actually degrading his sanity, he has a point.
- Villain Has a Point: Death Eye mocks White Gestalt's ideals to stop the Apex, stating that they don't really care for the denizens along the way except as "stepping stones".
- "What Do They Fear?" Episode: The fight with Death Eye highlights the group's issues with its shapeshifting:
- Gladion sees the Mother Beast and is taunted about how his quest will amount to nothing.
- Specter sees a golem that mocks his fear of change.
- Tokio sees a vision of Goh, who accuses him of running away.
- Averted with Easter, who Death Eye can't get a good read on due to their unique ability, and London because he was never scanned.
