The Red Lotus Quarto meet up with Goh at last, while Chloe goes on her Eevee hunt.
Tropes in this car include:
- Adapted Out: Due to the changes of the story, Chloe isn't at school when she finds the Eevee nor is the Eevee from a nearby laboratory.
- Adaptational Badass: Eevee's Copycat move was only used to help knock down Pelipper via Yamper's Spark. Here she helps save Pikachu by copying Metal Claw.
- Armor-Piercing Question: A light one. When Tomie's advice to Goh is to have fun, Amelia is questioning why she would say that about a crazy therapy train. Tomie then asks if Chloe's adventure was angst, to which Amelia answers it wasn't.
- Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Discussed; apparently, the uniform in the malasada shop isn't the best.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: Further emphasized here, as the meek, terrified boy Goh has become is nothing like the haughty runaway Chloe described him as before.
- The Bet: Just as they're blasting off, Team Rocket makes bets on what type of tree they're landing in.
- Big Damn Heroes: Ignis fires some elemental bombs at Ogami, saving Goh.
- Call-Back: The book Chloe reads to her Eevee is the short story anthology Goh bought for her birthday.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Out of all the cars Goh entered, it had to be the one where everyone is praising his best friend, something he didn't want to focus on.
- Continuity Nod:
- Chloe seeing Yamper hurt has her briefly see Atticus, just like how Tulip looked in horror at Atticus being shot by the Conductor.
- Chloe notes that she had to stop a fight against Satou and Zack the last time she was in the Malasada shop.
- Team Rocket makes a few references to the events of The Bridge Bike Gang, with James even lampshading how rarely they get to reference that episode.
- When talking to the Fujihachi adults, Amelia brings up the two instances of the Train picking up people from the inside: Grace when the police officer and her parents were in another room, and Ryan and Min-Gi on a subway.
- Cuteness Proximity: Hazel squees at how Sobble is so cute before hugging him. Serena also reacts this way on seeing Chloe's Eevee.
- Desperately Seeking A Purpose In Life: Goh explains that he couldn't tell Ash that he felt like he had to start over despite everything Ash did to help him regain his original dream. Ash doesn't begrudge him, thankfully.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Deconstructed; Lexi is absolutely furious to see so many cosplayers dressed as him and Chloe and making it seem all the more romantic as it's just a reminder that he can't have that life with Chloe, since he only realized his feelings for her after she had already completed her train trip and returned home.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: Chloe and Yamper are the only ones capable of going against Team Rocket since Pikachu is captured and both Ash and Trip are in a net that jams their Poké balls.
- Dramatic Irony: Goh believes that knowing the identities of White Gestalt outside of Gladion — as they are given nicknames like "The Ghost", "The Mad Hatter" and "The White Rabbit" — isn't going to be beneficial to him in the long run. But those who were reading Knight of the Orange Lily will recall that The White Rabbit is Tokio Chisou, his friend who was searching for Celebi. The next car even confirms it.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: After Ash and Chloe learn that Goh had nearly been killed on his first day on the Train, Chloe is absolutely horrified. Ash attempts to reassure her that Goh is now perfectly safe; after Chloe's adventure, the Apex are no more, and there's no "destiny" awaiting Goh now that the Fog Car has been decommissioned. However, this completely ignores the point that Chloe was currently making- that in the Infinity Train, there's never going to be any shortage of threats to Passengers. And given that Goh met up with a super-powered Serial Killer on his first day on the Train, there's no guarantee that his journey is going to be any less fraught than Chloe's was.
- Exact Words: Talia said no horror at all. The book Chloe has out to read is an anthology but not necessarily horror.
- Expecting Someone Taller: More like Expected Someone Livelier, but this is Lexi's reaction to seeing Goh in person, as he simply doesn't resemble the "living runaway train" Chloe described him as before.
- Fake Memories: Whatever happened in Gladion's story and the White Gestalt; it was bad enough that everyone's memories had to be erased of it so they only remember Gladion as the hero. In fact, Amelia herself is shocked that she completely forgot about the other members.
- Four Is Death: It's in Chapter 4 of the story overall that Satou and Shio get murdered by Ogami.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Atticus notes that even though they've spent hours inside the Malasada shop, there have been no signs of Satou or Shio anywhere. When Chloe brings their names up, Goh looks like he's about to have a panic attack.
- Friendly Enemy: Team Rocket actually seem disappointed when Chloe and Yamper aren't capable of blasting them off, as they consider it a rite of passage.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: Gladion and his White Gestalt group's tale to fight the Apex was never told, or rather it was forgotten by the entire Train as Amelia notes that she shouldn't have forgotten something so crucial.
- Gut Punch: Goh's first day had him learn that the butterfly denizen murdered Satou and Shio under the guise of helping them so they can be reincarnated into passengers and nearly ends with Goh almost losing his life. Moreover, it turns out that Gladion was keeping more secrets about his time on the train than he wanted to...
- Handicapped Badass: Ignis may be blind but his Ice Bomb is what saved Goh from being murdered by Ogami, nor does it hinder his cooking.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Both the Quarto and Goh himself, with the Quarto using minor changes to pass as fellow cosplayers and Goh wearing his uniform and only responding to 'G'.
- In Spite of a Nail: When Kurune asks if Chloe explaining about the Pokémon rule would've changed anything, Amelia replies that it wouldn't have. After all, if Goh had all the time to make a farewell note, he surely had enough time to walk away.Amelia: I think a big part of this was his own decision.
- Logical Weakness: Chloe more than holds her own in a scrappy fight against the Ursaring, and when Team Rocket accidentally sets her off further by insulting her for being "un-Trainer-like", but once Meowth overwhelms her and manages to break apart Valtiel with multiple Fury Swipes, she's defenseless.
- Note to Self: Lexi makes one to remind himself to talk to his father about White Gestalt.
- Not Me This Time: Upon finding a Mad Hatter costume in her son's room, Delia calls the Calla Rehab to question if it has anything to do with Parker...only to find out that the boy is on his best behavior.
- Oh, Crap!: Goh's expression when Chloe brings up Satou and Shio and earlier when he sees Hazel hugging Sobble.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Invoked. The other White Gestalt members didn't want their identities revealed so they went by nicknames: The Ghost, The Mad Hatter, and The White Rabbit.
- Pipe Pain: Chloe uses a rusty pipe she names Valtiel against Team Rocket. Meowth destroys it with a few Fury Swipes.
- Rule of Symbolism:
- Chloe still fights with a pipe instead of the baseball bat she was gifted which is reminiscent of her fights on the Train and how she's still holding onto her past. When Meowth destroys it and Yamper subsequently evolves into Boltund, it symbolizes that she is a different person than the hero of the Infinity Train and beginning her first steps to truly becoming a Pokémon Trainer and reminding her that she's not alone in the struggle.
- The pipe is named Valtiel, named after the servant of "God" who stalks Heather Mason. Like Heather eventually finds herself and sheds off the identity as the one who will bring God to existence, when Meowth destroys it, it subsequently has Yamper evolve to show that there's more to her than what is expected.
- Shrouded in Myth: Many denizens start talking about Chloe's exploits but in a way that's grandiose like how she stared Death in the eye or got so bored of the Dead Carnival Car that she tried to play it again for a different ending.
- Skewed Priorities: After Goh relates the tale of his first day on the Train, Chloe runs off in horror. Both Ash and Goh prioritize going after Chloe to reassure her that Goh's going to be just fine over comforting the kid who was nearly murdered by a Serial Killer.
- Spanner in the Works: Had Sobble not join Goh when he went to Mallow's Magical Malasadas, Goh would've been murdered by Ogami.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Chloe and Atticus remark that Boltund looks like Ugly Irwin.
- Stuff Blowing Up: The malasada shop explodes when Raboot hits an Ember at Ogami's Thudnaga.
- The Reveal: Gladion was hiding a lot about his journey on the Train; he was actually the leader of a group called "White Gestalt" with its only remaining member on the Train being someone named London...as in Paul London from Knight of the Orange Lily. Part two reveals that the other two members — The Ghost and The White Rabbit — are presumably Specter (whom Gladion mentioned in the first chapter) and Tokio.
- Took a Level in Badass:
- Chloe and Yamper take multiple levels here. Chloe stands up against Team Rocket and manages to get a few hits in with her pipe while Yamper is much more proactive in battle and even evolves into Boltund!
- Sobble bravely snipes Ogami's stone butterflies without even crying, effectively saving Goh's life.
- Tragic Keepsake: Goh still has Chloe's flower scrunchie from before she entered the Train. He never gave it back to her because he assumes that Chloe must've thought it was thrown in the trash. He gives it to Hazel as a gift, who puts in on her wrist.
- The Unreveal: Amelia doesn't reveal what she knows about the White Gestalt group.
- Weirdness Magnet: Ash jokes that his life is so unpredictable that he might not even notice a big difference if he did get on the train.
- Wham Episode: Not even the third car of the story and heavy stuff already happens. The small whams include Chloe getting an Eevee and Yamper involves into Boltund. The heavy whams include Ogami murdering Satou and Shio with the idea of helping them become reincarnate into passengers and him nearly getting Goh and the fact that Gladion was keeping plenty of secrets on the Train; one of them being that he leads a group that included Paul London and — for those who read Knight of the Orange Lily — Specter and Tokio.
- Wham Line: Hazel looking up stuff on the Infinet reveals that Gladion was hiding more secrets.Hazel: Look, he was the former leader of a former boy group called 'G-Salt'!
Amelia: Gestalt, you mean. And I don't think that's a boy group...Huh...that's a little weird?
Atticus: What's wrong, Amelia?
Amelia: (rubbing forehead) It’s...nothing. I honestly forgot about those guys up until now. Feels like I shouldn’t have... - Wham Shot: Goh showing a picture of Ogami, whom Chloe remembers from seeing in the Ryokan Car.
- Worth It: Hazel's reaction to hugging Sobble even after he unleashed his Emotion Bomb.
- Your Costume Needs Work: Sashay's advice holds true, and the Red Lotus Quarto slips through the car fairly easily. But Varon easily recognizes them (albeit because he actually has seen them).
