History Recap / InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusTheFireflyFunhouseCar

** What are the chances that the restaurant the Red Lotus Trio entered conveniently displayed a portrait of a man who looked like Chloe's father who ''also'' has a thing for demons and nightmarish things?

* MissExposition: Chloe's half of Chapter 5 is about her talking to Lexi and Atticus about the town of Silent Hill and why it will be a perfect place to trap the Apex.
* MythologyGag: The Disco Reapers Car with their giant Choc-Nut bars was visited in ''Court of Cyclamen''.

* RashomonStyle: The scene of Goh telling Chloe to never ask about Ilex Forest again is played out differently; Chloe's version has her calmly asking what went wrong and Goh running away from her. Goh's version has him be more aggressive before Chloe hugs him and promises to keep quiet about Ilex Forest.

** Chapter 5 has him make a remark that his classmates have more time to themselves after he easily helped them with their classwork...completely unaware that his classmates don't have it easy like ''he'' does and perceive this as him insulting their intelligence.

** Chapter 5 has him make a remark that his classmates have more time to themselves after he easily helped them with their classwork...completely unaware that his classmates don't have it easy like ''he'' does and it's perceived as him mocking how stupid they are compared to him.

* RashomonStyle: The scene of Goh telling Chloe to shut her mouth up and never ask her about Ilex Forest again is played out differently. Chloe's side has her calmly asking what went wrong and Goh running away from her. Goh's side has him be more aggressive before Chloe hugs him and vows to shut up about Ilex Forest.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Goh only wanted to give Chloe some peace of mind when he told her he had made a new friend (Ash) and that she didn't have to worry about him anymore. However, Chloe misinterpreted it as him replacing her.

* InstantlyProvenWrong: When discussing the artifacts Olmec keeps in the Hidden Temple Car, Atticus notes that they are named after a famous person (Mary Shelley, Dr. Livingstone) or a location (Alhambra) instead of a deity...only for Lexi to reveal that Olmec has something called a "Broken Trident of Poseidon".

* StateTheSimpleSolution: Goh unknowingly does this to Patricia. If she and the other classmates wanted to be Trainers, they could've asked their parents to sign a form that permits them to leave school to travel. And if not that, he also brings up how he can easily catch Pokemon like it was nothing, meaning that bullying Chloe was completely pointless.

* TheyJustDontGetIt: Like in the main story, Goh is constantly missing the big picture as to why Chloe is upset when he doesn't take promises or his classwork seriously [[{{Hypocrite}} yet expects Chloe to promise to never abandon him and never bring up Ilex Forest.]]
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Discussed. Atticus and Lexi are unable to forgive Amelia and the Apex leaders because what they did was completely unforgivable. They also tell Chloe to forgive Goh because what he did was just the actions of someone who truly doesn't know better.

* AdaptationalExplanation: The first chapter explains why Goh never bothered to tell Chloe about Tokio; he snapped at her and demanded that she promise to never mention Ilex Forest again.

** Chloe's notebook where she makes a log of her Train adventures has a swarm of Vivillon on the cover, foreshadowing her butterfly motif and how Vivillon play an important role in her and Goh's friendship being shattered.

* DramaticIrony: Goh's side of the story is how he is oblivious to everything that had happened at his school while he was gone in Ilex Forest. Particularly that of his classmates being expelled for the bullying they put on Chloe and how his teacher has been fired for the handling of the situation.

** This story retroactively establishes Chloe as one for breaking her promise to never abandon Goh in spite of all her talk of keeping promises. [[HypocrisyNod She ends up acknowledging it in the fourth chapter.]]
** Goh is furious about Chloe never explaining why she doesn't talk about her problems, but a flashback reveals that he told Chloe to shut up when she tried asking about ''his'' problems.

* IgnoranceIsBliss: Goh is always smiling at how ''oblivious'' he is to what happened in Vermillion City while he was gone to Ilex Forest.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Goh only wanted to give Chloe some peace of mind when he told her he had made a new friend (Ash) and that she didn't have to worry about him anymore. However, Chloe misinterpreted as he doesn't care for her.

* ObliviousToHints: Goh never got the hint that his classmates were deliberately getting in the way of Chloe trying to approach him. Or the fact that Chloe would like him to spend more time with her.

* StateTheSimpleSolution: Goh unknowingly does this to Patricia. If she and the other classmates wanted to be Trainers, they could've asked their parents to sign a form that permits them to leave school to travel. And if not that, he also brings up how ''he' can easily catch Pokemon like it was nothing, meaning that bullying Chloe was completely pointless.

* TheyJustDontGetIt: Like in the main story, Goh is constantly missing the big picture as to why Chloe is upset when he doesn't take promises or his classwork seriously [[{{Hypocrite}} yet expects Chloe to accept his promise to never abandon her and to shut up about the Ilex Forest.]]

* YoureInsane: Chloe texts this to Goh when she learns how he jumped onto Lugia even though he promised not to do something reckless.

** What are the chances that the restaurant the Red Lotus Trio entered conveniently had a portrait of a man who looked like Chloe's father who ''also'' has a thing for demons and nightmarish things?

* TheGhost: Tokio gets mentioned in the third chapter, but never seen. Justified since Tokio is back in the Johto region at this point and won't be seen in ''Crocus'' until The Chocolate Car.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Goh only wanted to give Chloe some peace of mind when he told her he had made a new friend and that she didn't have to worry about him anymore. However, Chloe took it the wrong way.
* MeaningfulRename: The Horrorland Car was originally just The Horrors Car before Alec Cerise helped them be a frightful amusement park.

* ObliviousToHints: Goh never got the hint that his classmates were deliberately getting in the way of Chloe trying to approach him.

* OminousFog: The Friendship Asylum Car is covered in fog, and there are reference to the infamous The Fog Car as well.

* AdaptationExpansion: Since Chloe doesn't appear until halfway till ''Crocus'' Act 1, the prequel gives her and Goh more focus about their lives with and without one another.

* {{Flanderization}}: Chloe's issues with Goh are dialed up to eleven in this story, with her being borderline obsessed with him and casually admits to wanting to '''murder''' him for [[{{Yandere}}not giving her his full attention]].

* NotSoDifferentRemark: When Lexi talks about how the Apex hurt innocents, Chloe states that his words can apply to her too, given her jerkass behavior towards those who did want to help her.

* SkewedPriorities: Chloe wants to go home to have dinner with her mom and she needs Goh to finish his homework before she can go? Not a chance. Catching a Sandshrew and watching Ash's Coronation match? Screw homework, those are definitely more important!

* SkewedPriorities: Chloe wants to go home to have dinner with her mom and she needs Goh to finish his homework before she can go? Not a chance. Catching a Sandshrew and watching Ash's Coronation match? Goh's ''definitely'' got to see it, homework be damned!

->''"Speaking of which, it is kinda odd that he hasn't been getting his homework lately...ah well, Goh can just go during the next testing day. [[TemptingFate Not like Miss April is going anywhere.]]"''

* PlotParallel: The book Chloe suggested for Goh to read for his book report was ''Literature/FromTheMixedUpFilesOfMrsBasilEFrankweiler'', which stars a girl who runs away from home and decides to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art because she doesn't feel appreciated by anyone, accurately depicting Chloe's situation of feeling unappreciated by the world around her and entering the Infinity Train.

** Atticus calls the Friendship Asylum Car [[ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth "a serious house on serious Earth"]], the line also a reference to the Philip Larkin poem "Church Going".
* SkewedPriorities: Chloe wants to go home to have dinner with her mom and she needs Goh to finish his homework? Not a chance. Catching a Sandshrew and watching Ash's Coronation match? Goh's ''definitely'' got to see it!

** Atticus calls the Friendship Asylum Car [[ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth "a serious house on serious Earth"]], the line also a reference to the Langston Hughes poem "Church Going".

* TwoDialoguesOneConversation: Goh's side of Chapter 5 has him talk to Patricia and commenting on how school's been pretty hectic. Goh thinks of it as school being same old same old while Patricia is mentioning over how she and everyone else in their class just got expelled and the chaos that came from t.

* TemptingFate: A flashback has Goh dismissing Professor Cerise's concerns that something might be wrong with Chloe. Goh in the present regrets making that assumption.

The Red Lotus Trio -- Chloe Cerise, Atticus, and Lexi -- are currently staying in the Canals of Fondue Car, where Chloe is struggling to type a message about how she feels about Goh and her worrying anxieties about how people back in Vermillion City think of her. Lexi suggests that she should focus on herself and that she needs a confidence boost by performing in ''The Uncle Howdy Show''. Unfortunately, the road to that car isn't easy, as she'll have to brave the horrors of the Friendship Asylum and of Uncle Howdy before she can become the legendary Chloe of the Vermillion.

** The first chapter shows off Chloe's attempts to text Goh, and both times Goh doesn't realize how he came off to her. It also adds a scene of Chloe talking to him about the Lugia incident and how crazy he was for jumping on their back.

** This story gives some insight to Chloe claiming that Goh was popular in their class despite clear evidence stating otherwise; their classmates would deliberately prevent Chloe from trying to talk to him.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Chloe outright fantasizes about murdering her own best friend until she's talked out of it. What is the reason for this violent impulse? Not thanking her for bringing him homework assignments he technically doesn't have to do, and having a person in his life (Ash) who actually likes what he likes and is doing those things with him that Chloe herself doesn't like.

* HatesReading: Downplayed. Goh is fine reading books on Pokemon for research, yet he's not into reading for book reports since the book is only going to be read once and that's it. When Chloe handed him a book for one report, he only read ten pages before deciding to search for an internet summary.

** This story retroactively establishes that for all of Chloe's talk about taking promises so seriously, she broke her promise to never abandon Goh. [[HypocrisyNod She ends up acknowledging it in the fourth chapter.]]

* NoSympathy: Goh once again has no idea how much his actions affected Chloe. She can't go home to eat dinner with her mom until he comes back to finish his homework, which he dismisses as Ash's Coronation battle is more important, and he brushes off her concerns after the Lugia incident by stating his new friend will watch over him from now on.
* ObliviousToHints: Goh didn't get the hint that his classmates were deliberately getting in the way of Chloe trying to approach him.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Goh is given messages from Chloe that she's doing fine, which is more than what he got in ''Blossoming Trail''.

** The first chapter shows off Chloe's attempts to text Goh, and both times Goh doesn't realize how unsympathetic he is with how he shows little to no esteem about her concerns. It also adds a scene of Chloe talking to him about the Lugia incident and how crazy he was for jumping on their back.