On route to the Windfish Car, the White Gestalt must go through an hour of non-stop shocks and terrors on Shock Street.
This chapter contains examples of:
- Ambiguous Situation: Was the child in the fairy tale actually killed by the tree and the spirits in it? Or was he hallucinating and got tangled up in a noose by mistake?
- Amusement Park of Doom: Shock Street is an amusement park where killer animatronics chase after you and the White Gestalt have to test the rides for an hour before they can leave.
- Breather Episode: Set between the dark and bittersweet 400 Rabbits Car and the slightly melancholic The Windfish Car.
- Cassandra Truth: London shots at Specter that he has a strange unstable Split Personality that has electric powers. Specter doesn't buy it, but more because they were all panicking and didn't have time to think clearly.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: London places his sunglasses over Tokio's eyes so the boy isn't traumatized at seeing Easter being turned on by the electrocution.
- Death of a Child: The opening story has three children hanging on nooses.
- Description Cut: While Gladion complains about how ecstatic Easter's screams were, the POV cuts over to Zossie shrieking with delight over the prospect of spending the day working at a Pokémon Center.
- Double Take: Silvally does one when Gladion orders him to hit Specter with an Electrical Multiattack, glancing over to Specter as if checking to make sure he's okay with it.
- Energy Absorption: It's implied that not only does shocking Specter switch him to Easter, but that Easter absorbs the electrical energy into their attacks.
- The Face: Tokio's status as the White Rabbit means that he is in the know of many cars in alliance with the 400 Rabbits Car so he can use it to bypass the soldiers in the Magic Castle Car.
- Gilligan Cut: Gladion refuses to let Specter — or rather, Easter — go to Shockro's House of Shocks. Cue one showing of Puppy-Dog Eyes later...
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Mr. Wright appears to have gone through this, being a surprisingly cheerful floating torso.
- How We Got Here: The story starts off with the White Gestalt chased by giant praying mantis and Gladion asks why they're even doing this. It then cuts to a scene fifteen minutes prior where the Gestalt have to test out the animatronics in the Shock Street Car for an hour.
- In Media Res: The chapter begins 15 minutes into the 1-hour trial on Shock Street.
- Internal Reveal: Gladion learns of Grace and Simon's names from Cutie.
- Locked into Strangeness: Specter somehow gains electric blue streaks in his hair after London switches his personality back on.
- Loophole Abuse: Despite Tokio's warnings not to attack any cars associated with the White Rabbit, the Apex had no problem assaulting the residents of the Magic Castle; since he wasn't physically there to stop them, they saw no reason to heed his warnings.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The opening story doesn't really reveal whether the boy was killed via supernatural means or he somehow got tangled on a noose and hallucinated it.
- Mythology Gag: Easter mentions how Specter survived six months of electric torture, which is what happened in the Lost Incident. Whereas Yusaku was traumatized, Specter felt like he was being tested with a purpose.
- No-Sell: Against the giant robot, Gladion tries using different memories on Silvally (Water, Fighting and Ground) but to no avail. It takes a super-powered lightning attack from Easter — coming out of a smoking House of Shocks — before it goes down.
- Psycho Electro: Easter is an unstable personality of Specter with electrical powers. Humorously, he's able to surprise Shockro with how he loves being electrocuted.
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: Easter used these — and as a reminder, they're a Split Personality of Specter — in order for the White Gestalt to enter Shockro's House of Shocks. Gladion even lampshades this.Gladion: How does a lightning maniac have convincing puppy dog eyes?
- Rapid-Fire "No!": London shouts this upon seeing Easter wanting to be electrocuted even more.
- Reactive Continuous Scream: After Easter destroys the giant attack robot water tower and said tower dumps Monster Blood all over them, Tokio, Gladion and London start screaming in panic. Easter joins along, but only because they think this is all a shouting contest.
- Rule of Symbolism: London is singing "In the Belly of the Whale" on the trip to the Windfish Car, specifically its bridge. The song is about Jonah who ran away from his journey to teach God's word to Nineveh and ended up stuck the belly of a whale, but God decided to give him a second chance. This is symbolic of the Infinity Train in general: running away from your problems will only get you into more trouble but there is still a chance for you to redeem and have a second chance to be better.
- Rule of Three:
- White Gestalt goes through three cars: Shock Street, Magic Castle and then the ocean that is the Windfish Car.
- In Shock Street Car, the Gestalt has three major trials to go through: the praying mantis/Tunnel of Doom, the House of Shocks, and the giant attack water tower robot.
- Running Gag: London constantly hits Specter across the head whenever Easter takes control.
- Sadistic Choice: Wright's proposal to the White Gestalt was that they could test their various rides to see how effective they were at scaring and shocking passengers... or help with Mr. Toggle's pianos, with the implication that they'd be donating their arms and hands to serve as ivory.note
- Shout-Out:
- The Shock Street Car is based off of the Goosebumps book, A Shocker on Shock Street. Dr. Wright also mentions a Mr. Toggle who is currently needing help with his pianos. There's also a giant water tower/attack robot that is filled with Monster Blood.
- The Magic Castle Car and its ruler Queen Cutie is from It Takes Two (2021).
- The song Paul London sings is "In The Belly of the Whale" which is from Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.
- Easter assumes Tokio, Gladion and London are in a shouting contest and decides to join in.
- When the giant robot water tower arrives, London remarks that he told them that it was really a giant robot that just looked like a water tower. Tokio lampshades that London didn't say that and is questioning if that's just someone quoting lines.
- Split-Personality Switch Trigger: The White Gestalt theorize that being electrocuted helps bring Easter out to play. While it's successful, they immediately regret it.
- Take Our Word for It: We're not explicitly shown what the White Gestalt would have to do if they decided to help Mr. Toggle instead, except for their reactions which are shown to be horrified at giving up their hands and arms as ivory for the piano keys....
- Tap on the Head: London clubs Specter in an attempt to help Easter take over. It doesn't work, and Specter is unamused. He later does it two more times when Easter takes control.
- Tempting Fate: After Gladion gets annoyed with London singing as they sail across the sea, he hopes that their voyage isn't too long. The final line of the chapter has a bolt of lightning strike the boat they're in.
- Too Kinky to Torture:
- Easter gets electrocuted by Mr. Denver/Shockro. They start screaming for their life...before the screams in pure ecstasy, much to everyone else's...shock. Mr. Denver is flabbergasted and can only put in more power until it gets to the point Easter leaves the House of Shocks presumably overloading the machines. They proclaimed that it was the best party they ever had.
- London asks Specter outright if he has some kind of kink for electrical torture (as Easter mentioned that Specter found delight in being electrocuted earlier), much to his horror.
- Too Much Information: Gladion reacts this way after Easter explains that Specter is used to being electrocuted, claiming that it doesn't bother him.
- Twitchy Eye: Gladion's eye twitches during Easter's...reaction to being electrocuted.
- Wham Shot: As the group heads off on a boat to the Windfish Car, Specter's number suddenly starts showing off static.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Ash apparently grabbed the wrong type of uniform for their assignment, and was 'helped' to change for the occasion by two of his classmates.
