Arcanum Archives: Descendant's Shadow
is a Pokémon Journeys: The Series and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet fanfic by Green Phantom Queen and side-story to Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus, detailing the backstory of the alternate Chloe Cerise — aka Colette Cadieux — when she becomes aware of the phenomena of the Rune Masquerade and before she heads off on her mission with her partner, Spencer Thompson, and the Crocus-version of the Pokémon world.
Taking place during the day she and Goh were supposed to take tests, Chloe rushes out when she sees her Yamper outside, leading her to an Eevee. But instead of getting to safety when the strange people in labcoats demand for Eevee to return to them, she crosses paths with a girl in a purple and black dress and ends up tumbling into a strange train (No, not that one) that leads her to meet up with a Galar trainer named Hop, and the soldiers who fight off living computer viruses called Cyber Warriors.
With some encouragement, and nearly getting her memories erased, Chloe decides to take on this challenge of being a Cyber Warrior, all while trying to balance her "normal" life with the adventures that await her on a train that travels the stars.
Chloee, Hop and Alain would later be seen in Infinity Train: Orchid Observer, while this Chloe also makes sporadic appearances in Arcanum Universe: Scarlet Heists. Other secondary characters make appearances in Seeker of Crocus.
This fic provides examples of:
- Adaptation Expansion: The author's intent was to expand on sections of Journeys that the writers didn't pay attention to, particularly in Chloe's growth and the relationships with those around her. More importantly, there is a lot more focus on Chloe learning about what it means to find one's purpose in life.
- Chloe's Yamper only knows Spark in the anime and that's it. A comment from Chloe mentions that she trained Yamper on the side to learn some more moves, like Charge and Thunder Fang, and she later gets to move said moves against Team Rocket.
- The thing with the Rocket Prize Master conveniently breaking down in Episode 49 so Chloe can go man-to-man against Team Rocket's Pelipper was a one-off thing, but the story has Matori note that it shouldn't have done that so easily (due to Chloe using her new telekinetic powers to prevent a ball from dropping) which makes Team Rocket have more of a reason to fight her — that and they also want her Eevee for her Copycat powers.
- There's a Viridian Gym leader to replace Giovanni, although they're not named.
- Goh and Chloe's friendship is barely touched upon in the anime. Here, there's more focus, particularly in Goh feeling jealous of Chloe befriending Hop before Chloe clarifies that they'll always be friends. In the same vein, there's more scenes of Chloe interacting with her family and how they encourage her to find her own path.
- Ash's role in relation to Chloe's growth is massively expanded on. While they did interact in the anime, here Ash willingly takes Chloe to places he's previously been, like Blastoise Island, and freely brings up all of the trainers and adventures he's had in the past to help ease Chloe's nerves.
- Chloe's school life was barely mentioned, with the only thing that was notable was that the student behind her — Mr. "My life is a work in progress" — is named Yeardley. In the fanfic, Chloe gets more time talking with a few students and it's mentioned that her fight with against Team Rocket made her somewhat popular.
- Chloe's Eevee gets more focus for her battling prowess outside "Oh wow, your Eevee has a unique power just for using Copycat!" Team Rocket actually want Chloe's Eevee just as much as they want Ash's Pikachu because of her unique powers, Eevee herself also starts with Iron Tail, and Chloe even rquests that Eevee be taught the Partner Moves from Let's Go, Eevee!
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Chloe and Goh's relationship in the canon anime series are stated to be friends despite not having time to dedicate to this friendship, and main Blossomverse have them as Fair Weather Friends. These two end up having a Friendly Rivalry over catching Pokémon, having catching sprees or willing to offer up a Pokémon to the other.
- Adaptational Badass:
- Chloe's Pokémon are much more badass than in the anime. Yamper knows moves outside of Spark like Charge, Thunderbolt and Thunder Fang whereas Eevee knows Iron Tail from the get-go. They're capable of fighting Team Rocket's Prize Master Pokémon without Ash and Goh having to step in. Eevee also is taught other moves like Facade and Swift.
- Chloe herself is much more assertive once she gains the confidence to stand up for herself.
- Hop in the anime was shown to just only have Wooloo and was instantly curb-stomped by Ash. In this fic, he starts getting more Pokémon and decides to really work on himself.
- Team Rocket's Chewtle has evolved into Drednaw and easily crushes Chloe's Eevee and Squirtle (albeit the two were already tired from fighting off the Prize Master Alakazam and Exploud).
- Non-Pokemon related, but Nathaniel was basically the Muggle Best Friend and Love Interest for Iris, who was a Badass Bystander in a Season 2 two-parter (before the Reset Button was pressed). Due to shenanigans thanks to Praxina he can use dark magic.
- Adaptational Context Change:
- In the original episode 49, the Rocket Prize Master had no explanation as to why it coincidentally jammed when Chloe had to fight on her own while Ash was in a pit and Goh's Pokémon were captured outside an excuse to ensure Chloe fought on her own. In the story, Chloe uses the power of telekinesis from her Cyber Tool to mentally ensure the hatch that would drop a Rocket Ball wouldn't open until Jessie and James gave up and made Pelipper fight instead.
- While there was no reason explained as to why Chloe goes to her father's lab in the anime, and in Blossomverse he usually keeps her away as a haven to escape her bullying issues, in this story Professor Cerise keeps Chloe in the lab for fear of an old family prophecy coming true: namely, if a Cerise is born with flower highlights in their hair, they'll end up with an the anime destiny.
- Chloe going to meet the Eeveelution trainers was more to see them up close and figure out what evolution would fit Eevee. While that's still the same case here, she has another reason to go see them — namely, she wants that to be the topic of a research project which will enroll her into a Pokémon Ranger Academy.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: To make a long trope short, numerous characters from the anime arrive earlier than expected.
- Hop appears in Episode 49 whereas he doesn't debut in Journeys until Episode 115. The same can be said with Alain, since he doesn't get mentioned until the last arc of Journeys.
- Tracey doesn't appear until the final episode of Aim to be a Pokemon Master!, but appears after Episode 49 as well.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In canon, Bray snapped at Cara over who mixed up which fossil parts more out of annoyance at her prattling on. Here, when Chloe suggests that the two can just do a double check, he snaps at her.
- Adaptational Karma: Bray essentially got away with nearly smushing Chloe with a stalagmite and stealing her whipped cream to top the curry without ever apologizing for either of them. In the story, Chloe gets partial revenge by baking apples with melted cheese...and stuffing Tama-basco sauce into the apples specifically for Bray and his Mudsdale while lamenting that that cream could have stopped the spiciness if Bray didn't steal it from her. The Curator also chews him out for how he nearly crushed Chloe with the fallen stalagmite and didn't bother to apologize for that or stealing the whipped cream.
- Alice Allusion: The evens that lead Chloe onto the Data Train tick off many boxes of the story, with the references pointing to the Hallmark version of the film (which coincidentally happens to be the author's favorite adaption) in how Chloe must learn to be brave and face her fears even when everyone accuses her of being a thief.
- Alternate Universe: The story takes place in an alternate Pokémon world that is part of a larger verse called Arcanum.
- Ambiguous Situation: Many situations involving the Cerise family offer this.
- Was Alec Cerise's words of "a Cerise with floral highlights will have an unexpected destiny" meant to be prophetic or used in humor? On one hand, Alec himself was on the Infinity Train for quite some time and he constantly hopes that his descendants don't go through the stuff he's gone through. On the other, he could've been predicting the situation his great-granddaughter found herself in with Arcanum as a whole.
- When Talia sees Daten (who is a Digimon but Chloe and Ryu lie that they're a Ditto with weird transformations), she mentions to keep Ryu's "Digi-Pal" a secret from her husband. Does this entail that she knows about Digimon or not?
- Animated Actors: Ala Wreck-It Ralph, but it turns out video game characters act like this when Chloe gets a talk with her personal idol Kitty-N. Arcade machines act as portals to enter the "home worlds" of video game characters. Spin-offs are considered "branches" of the original game and live in their own world.
- Ascended Extra:
- Hop's appearance in the anime was to be a one-off opponent for Ash and then a cheerleader for his brother (as he debuts in the final arc of Journeys). Here, he's the deuteragonist and Chloe's partner.
- Mika is a girl who appears in a 4koma to promote Pokémon Journeys, whereas here she's a classmate and friend of Chloe.
- Team Rocket's Chewtle — now a Drednaw — is officially one of their Pokémon that's not part of the Rocket Prize Master in comparison to only being used twice in the series.
- Parker is simply known as Chloe's little brother and doesn't have any significance in the anime. He becomes Chloe's Secret-Keeper and confidant in regards to her being a Cyber Warrior.
- Bait-and-Switch: Chapter 14 has Chloe want to confess something to Tommy...she wishes to be friends with him.
- Battle Cry: Brought up in Chapter 12 in which Tommy and Chloe joke that they should shout "Goongala!"/"Goro Goro Sama!"Explanation
- Better as Friends: How Chloe sees her and Tommy, and Tommy reciprocates it.
- Birthmark of Destiny: Cerise explains that his grandfather, Alec Cerise, once said that if a Cerise had flower highlights in their hair, that meant that they had an unexpected destiny ahead of them. Wouldn't you know it, Chloe has those same marks and she ends up becoming a Cyber Warrior with a very rare and powerful Cyber Tool that's usually for more experienced warriors.
- Bland-Name Product: Parker uses a learning website called "Mon Academy", a play on Khan Academy.
- Call-Forward:
- The commissioner reads the diary of Alec Cerise, Chloe's great-grandfather about his trip onto the Infinity Train. Chloe herself won't learn about his exploits until Infinity Train: Orchid Observer
- Chloe sees a video of a man with white hair and an orchid motif for a match for the game Tuner Showdown. This happens to be Orchidea Nuocere, who she will team up with in the future.
- Alain says that he hopes his Chesnaught will be useful in fighting off Leon. Not only will Alain use said Chesnaught against Leon, but he'll lose to Leon.
- Chloe requesting to be a research fellow for her father at the end of Chapter 11. At the end of Journeys, she becomes a research fellow for her father when Ash and Goh depart.
- When Chloe reads Quagsire's Pokedex entry, she hopes that she'll get one or the evolution of Paldean Wooper. Seeker of Crocus reveals that éhe'll eventually have both.
- Canon Foreigner: Every Pokémon Chloe captures is this, since the only mon she ever gets in the anime is Eevee. The same can be said with Goh getting an Onix and Sandslash.
- Capture Balls: Viruses are trapped in devices called Quarantine Units and are depicted as large glass spheres.
- Central Theme: Finding one's purpose one step at a time. Chloe's story in the original anime was all about this, but the story puts a lot more emphasis on her learning this lesson. Everyone tells her that she needs to take it easy and that people don't automatically know who they're going to end up in the future, with Ash and Goh recalling their meeting with Sonia and Professor Cerise bringing up how Laxton left the study of being a Pokémon Professor to become a farmer.
- Chekhov's Skill: When Chloe and Julianna battle, Julianna tells her Fuecoco to use Yawn to put Alcremie to sleep. In the next chapter, Parker remembers Fuecoco's Yawn and has him unleash it on Chryssa and Renji when they freak out on the Ogremon running loose in the Institute.
- Comically Small Bribe: A Running Gag is Chloe trying to bribe others with a small bag of Oran berries with varying results. Juliana questions if she's going to resort to that every single time.
- Continuity Nod:
- When Chloe brings up the trip to Professor Oak's lab, she reminds her father of the time he tried to let Goh choose three Kanto starters.
- When Team Rocket sees Chloe with her Eevee, they rattle the previous three girls — May, Serena, and Lana — they encountered who also had Eevees. Ash also brings up numerous trainers with Eevees who he met on his journey from Mikey and his older brothers to Virgil and his Eevee rescue squad.
- A flashback during the Galar fossil excavation trip reveals that Ash took Chloe and Goh to Blastoise Island.
- Cool Train: ReFusion is a Data Train that traverses a multi-colored galaxy. The cars have a kitchen, sleeping capsules, a vegetable garden, a park, training rooms, an arcade room, a gym, and much more. Chapter 14 reveals there are seven Data Trains in total.
- Crash-Into Hello: Hop's Wooloo almost does this with Chloe, were it not for her unknowingly tapping into the telekinetic powers of the pen she picked up.
- Creator Thumbprint: This is clearly a GPQ fanfic with female focus, music and dance performances, Food Porn with conversations across a table, and Alice allusions.
- Crossover: Chapter 8 has Lolirock having a concert in Vermillion City before it gets interrupted by Praxina.
- Dark Is Not Evil: The Central Theme of the story is that the powers of darkness isn't necessarily malicious but one shouldn't be abusing it for malicious deeds. As Professor Birch states, "The darkness is to be respected, never trusted."
- Double Standard: A unique variation of this trope is brought up in Chapter 8. Everyone notes how it's unfair that Praxina is trying to convert Nathaniel into a clone of her deceased brother, but Chloe also brings up the episode when LoliRock tried to take advantage of an amnesiac Praxina to turn her good and that it was "kinda grey" in that regard, questioning why is it that the good guys converting an amnesiac criminal is good but a bad guy doing that to a normal person is bad.
- Down the Rabbit Hole: Chloe follows a ghostly girl in a black and purple dress into the Data Train, spurring her adventure into becoming braver and finding a Goal in Life.
- Dramatic Irony:
- When Chloe learns of the "Dark Catcher" event from Professor Oak, she brings up that time Ash met up with a kid named Sammy all while completely oblivious to Professor Samuel Oak spitting out his tea. She also hopes to not have nightmares of her dad doing superhero stuff when not at home...unaware that his specialty is entering nightmares.
- Alain hopes that he can use his Chesnaught to defeat Leon. Viewers of Journeys will know that this won't happen.
- Juliana is not a fan of the Pokémon equivalent to Mexican culture, when she snaps at Parker thinking that she's not into salsa before reminding him that she's from Paldea. Her starter is a Fuecoco, whose evolutions have nods to Mexican culture.
- Family Theme Naming: Most of the time, this is used in a snarky sarcastic matter.
- When the hooded figure Shroud saves Lolirock, Chloe, Hop and Alain from Praxina, Alain then questions if their family members have similar names like having an older brother Cloak, a mother named Mantle and a baby sister named Blanket.
- Hamsa snarks about the hypothetical family of Cara Less with names that sound similar to hers: a brother named Wirt Less, a fiance named Harm Less or a son named Fear Less.
- In the Cerise family, barring Chloe and Parker, each member has "Al" in their names: Alec, Albert, Aldrich, Alyssa, and Talia.
- Faux Horrific: Chloe exclaims how Kixx is a monster when she uses the Dream Eaters' Theme as motivation music to run five laps...because Chloe knows the horrible truth about the Dream Eaters so the song is just torture for her.
- Females Are More Innocent: When the Curator reads the riot act for Bray and Cara's actions, Bray points out that Chloe isn't 100% innocent as she did pull a prank of putting Tama-basco sauce in some baked apples she made for him, which the Curator acknowledges and says that Chloe will have to write an apology email for the stunt. He also points out that Cara also is as guilty as Bray because she didn't tell Bray to not steal Chloe's whipped cream that caused Chloe's prank nor did she call Bray out for how he snapped at Chloe trying to help with their fossil parts switcheroo.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Chloe and Juliana butt heads when they first meet, insulting each other through another language, before they end up fighting a Woodmon in the Digital world and end on friendlier terms.
- Food as Bribe:
- Spoofed. Chloe tries to ask Team Rocket's Morpeko to stop fighting by giving them a comically small bag of Oran Berries...after it devoured a concession stand full of sandwiches and smoothies.
- Mika convinces Chloe to have lunch with some classmates after telling her that one named Tommy Flouros has made onigirazu (onigiri sandwiches) and Chloe internally notes that she can't believe Mika would use this.
- Food Porn: A Green Phantom Queen staple. Chapter 12 has a few paragraphs dedicated to Chloe's reactions to when she first took a bite out of a tonkatsu onigirazu.
- Foregone Conclusion:
- This Chloe has to be alive so that she can go team up with Spencer Thompson and later stop Team Rainbow Rocket. Hop and Alain and many characters from the story also make references and appearances in Orchid Observer as well.
- Seeker of Crocus states that this Chloe shall be the one who caught Suicune meaning that even if the events of the Suicune episode stay the same, it'll be considered her Pokémon.
- While there are hints of Chloe crushing on guys (Hop and Tommy), Orchid Observer reveals that they won't matter as she will eventually start realizing she's bisexual with a leaning towards girls (not to mention that the author made clear that Hop wasn't getting in a relationship in the story).
- Good Wears White: Just like in Glitch Techs, the Cyber Warrior Armor is white.
- Green Aesop: Something that's common in Cyber Warriors is that they tend to make products out of waste in order to pass the time or to better their communities, to which Chloe lampshades that they're also eco-warriors. Chloe herself later starts creating programs to tackle food waste, like crayons made of vegetables or suggesting that Team Rocket's Morpeko can devour unsold products at convenient stores.
- Hero of Another Story:
- Apparently, Lolirock has been chasing Praxina across other worlds in the hopes of rescuing Nathaniel from a spell that would've eventually fused him with memories of Mephisto until he became a clone of his and Praxina wants to defeat the supposed "Dark Princess" that could ruin her work — said Dark Princess being Chloe.
- Alain is a Rank 3 Cyber Warrior who has had many adventures, one of them causing him to be derailed from a Data Train.
- Improbable Weapon User:
- Many Cyber Tools are based on regular every-day items. Hop's weapons are based on a pair of chopsticks, Chloe uses a pen, and Achi's Cyber Tool is a sentient bear trap.
- When Chloe meets Daten for the first time, she decides to attack them by using carrots. This actually works because Daten hates carrots.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Before Chloe fights in her Bust A Groove battle, Strike drinks from a soda can.Explanation
- In Spite of a Nail: Goh still gets a Diglett in the Laxton Farm trip, but that's due to Chloe giving up her Diglett so that Goh doesn't leave the trip empty handed.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: The Lolirock concert spoils the ending of Season 2 with Mephisto presumably dead after saving his sister and Talia vowing to get revenge on Iris for his death.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Talia (the Lolirock one) reveals that Doug is covering up Lolirock's adventures across dimensions by updating his Loliblog into the equivalent of "a crossover fanfic".
- Just Friends: Talia tells everyone that she and Kyle are this. The author notes admit that this is how GPQ sees the pairing and Talia will ultimately accept Kyle's decision (after a bit of sobbing on her part).
- Lampshade Hanging: Chapter 14 lampshades the coincidence of Team Rocket being in the general area of Laxton's farm and how they were responsible for the Diglett eating his carrots.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Chapter 8 spoilers the Season 2 Finale of LoliRock by mentioning Mephisto's death and Praxina vowing revenge.
- Lunacy: A recurring motif is the moon. Hop and Chloe have blue moons on the back of their hands, Cyber Tools are made out of Moonlight Iron, and the Arcanum world has a moon or "pseudo-sun" as a light source. Juliana even jokes that if her Coromon became a Lunamon, they'd attract what she calls "Midnight Form Lycanroc-like Digimon".
- Magic Realism: Hop discusses this trope when Professor Oak and Blake talk about the "Darkness Manifestation" story, even bringing up tales like a priest who could float by drinking hot chocolate, another tale a woman whose emotions are transferred into whatever she cooks and a movie about a family who all have amazing abilities
- Moving the Goalposts: Strike does this when he mutters that he's fighting Chloe — as his jammer attack involves riddling his opponent with bullets with a machine gun — and he has a policy of not shooting a child. Chloe remarks he's done this to Shorty, but he retorts that in the 2nd Bust A Groove she's a teenager. When Chloe asks about the first game and his twin pistols, then he says that she was 12, thus a pre-teen.
- Mythology Gag:
- Datchi exclaims that he's gonna help Chloe be the very best Cyber Warrior, like no one ever was.
- In Chapter 11, Chloe mentions a cafe where Pokemon help in cooking, cleaning and serving food.
- Parker apparently uses the Internet to look up videos on Pokémon Learning Center.
- In Chapter 14 Hop references a girl in the Sinnoh region who trades a Haunter holding an Everstone.
- Named by the Adaptation: The two scientists who wanted to capture Eevee are named Spruce (the man with brown hair) and Salix (the woman with yellow hair and Jolteon).
- Only the Chosen May Wield: Some Cyber Tools are picky on who gets to wield them. Notably, Descendant's Shadow will only allow either Chloe or Hop (after he proved willing to stand up to Chloe's defense) to wield it. Anyone else either gets shocked or find it somehow becoming heavy ala Mjolnir. Chloe exploits this trope when she fights Praxina, tossing her weapon into her hands to paralyze her before striking back.
- Pineapple Ruins Pizza: In Chapter 14, Chloe jokes how she and Hop will have pizza while watching Power Rangers so long as it doesn't have Pinap Berries.
- Prequel: Of a sort; this story takes place before this Chloe enters the Crocus-world.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Aside from Gunning, his group all have names based off of gods or mythical heroes: Sai is based off Poseidon, Achi is based on Achilles, Patra is named after Patrocles and Daga is based on the Mesopotamian deity Dagan. Daga's original name also counts as he was originally going to be named after Oscar Isaac who was the titular hero of Moon Knight (2022), the avatar of Khonshu.
- Rule of Seven: There are seven Data Trains who travel around Arcanum: ReFusion, Icewall, StormCrash, Skull Kraken, Code Red, Verdant, and Silver Root.
- Running Gag: In Chapter 12, Chloe has to insist that she's not going on a date with Tommy Floros. It's just martial arts training!
- Shrouded in Myth:
- The Arcanum version of Segata Sanshiro is supposedly this; should you start hearing him state to play the 'Zaga Saturn', then you play it till your fingers break. Otherwise you'll end up exploding. Twice.
- Likewise the Power Rangers are said to also be living legends in the world of Arcanum though there are people who believe they're fairy tales.
- The events of Twitch Plays Pokémon — particularly Red and Crystal — are considered some sort of myth.
- Spoiling Shout-Out: Subverted; when Gunning tells Chloe to not give him spoilers for Power Rangers Beast Morphers (particularly after she gave theories on how Beast Morphers has connections to Power Rangers RPM which ironically is a spoiler in and of itself due to Beast Morphers revealed to be the Stealth Sequel to RPM) she asks if she can give spoilers to Kamen Rider instead and nearly blurts out how both the main Kamen Riders in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight and Kamen Rider Fourze died at the 31st episode of their series before Gunning chases her off.
- The Stations of the Canon: The trip to the Wild Areas for the Galar fossils still plays out the same way despite Chloe's changes in attitude, goals, and overall trajectory: Goh captures Boldore and Cara and Bray gift the fossils to Ash and Goh despite Chloe putting a lot more effort to fight Arctozolt (she has her Squirtle and Eevee tag team with Sunny-day boosted Weather Balls whereas Goh only uses his freshly caught Boldore). However, Hop is able to tell Chloe to look at it in a different way — maybe it didn't go how she wanted it, but she still experienced a lot and that's still something to be proud of on her first official research expedition.
- Take That!:
- When Chloe tells Gunning that she's played a collection of RPGs, the two he asks are whether she's played Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and Paper Mario: Sticker Star, both of them saddled with bad reputations in the RPG communities.
- When Julianna is giving her opinion for the Kanto Gym Leaders, she labels both Brock and Misty as "Overrated", most likely as a potshot at how they are constantly brought back by the anime writers for nostalgia's sake.note
- Kitty-N has nothing good to say about the Dance Summit characters (or as she calls them "Dull Summit"), presumably due to their poor reception in comparison to the original Bust A Groove games.
- Chloe tells Ryu that her mom loves Sly Cooper but also to never mention anything about a Black Tyrant.
- Tempting Fate: Alain hopes his Chesnaught will be good enough to fight Leon. Those who watched the anime will know that no, he won't be.
- The Unreveal: There's a gym leader in Viridian City but neither Juliana nor Chloe say itheir name.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A sole Quagsire is the reason why the Suicune episode gets derailed. Chloe spends more time pulling the poor Quagsire out of the polluted lake and the hunters distract her by targeting the Quagsire when it doesn't realize the situation going on. In an attempt to capture Quagsire to keep it safe, Goh pulls her away and tells her to focus on Suicune. But in the midst of their bickering, Chloe flings her Poké ball towards Suicune. You know how this ends.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: In Chapter 13, upon seeing Wobbuffet block an attack from Ryu's Gabite, Meowth questions why Jessie didn't bother using Wobbuffet when they fought Chloe the first time, since she was still a rookie Trainer who had little knowledge of Pokémon battles. Jessie's only excuse was that she wasn't expecting Chloe to actually fight.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When Chloe has to play through 5 rounds of Bust A Groove 2 in order to fight off Robo-Z (who is currently corrupted by a virus), she meets with Strikenote . He quickly states that he's not willing to shoot a child. Chloe then retorts that one of the characters is a girl named Shorty, to which he replies that she's 13. Then she asks about the previoius game, to which Strike says that makes her 12 — thus a pre-teen. Of course this also is ignoring that Bust A Groove 2 had another child character in Tsutomu (age 11).
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Hop tells Chloe that an hour and a half inside a Data Train is roughly around ten minutes in real life.
- You Do Not Want To Know: When Chloe suggests using Psychic to levitate the Diglett and Dugtrio invading Laxton's carrot crop, Goh tells her that no one wants to know what a Diglett looks like if they're pulled out of the earth. Ash and Ryu also agree to this.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Strike utters this when he sees Chloe, questioning that he's going to have to fire a gun at a child.
