History Fanfic / LatiasJourney

* DoorStopper: 1,186,409 words of text. For comparison, the ''LordOfTheRings'' trilogy is around 525,000.

* AnimalTalk: WordOfGod says "For convenience's sake all Pokéspeak will be written in English. Just pretend the humans can't hear them, though."
** And then subverted when [[TheDitz Chimecho's]] dialogue is translated...identically to his PokemonSpeak.
--->'''Chimecho''': CHIIIIIIIIIIII!

* GoingCosmic: The finale.

* HandWave:
** When readers pointed out that "Phanpy" and "Adan" were spelled wrong, the author responded that he liked his own spellings better.
** When someone pointed out that Ciphers can only have one Shadow Pokemon on their team per trainer, the author said he was just going to ignore it in Jessie's case.

* PokemonSpeak: Averted for everyone except Chimecho. See AnimalTalk.

* AfterTheEnd: ''Several'' times. [[spoiler:When the Mother arrived on Earth, civilization had already been wiped out by a nuclear war. The current Pokemon world takes place after the cataclysmic battle between the Mother and the Beast. The end of the story takes place after the Beast has been destroyed, but took a good chunk of the universe with it.]]

* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: "Piscene" in later chapters.

** Implied to have happened to Shedinja in Chapter 26. He tries to run away from the [[AbhorrentAdmirer wild Misdreavus]], but she manages to catch him, cover him in {{Forceful Kiss}}es, and then drag him off to her "living quarters." All of it was against his will.

* CerebusRollercoaster: The fanfic started out serious, then became humorous around Chapter 11. It then goes back and forth between being serious and humorous depending on the situation. Special note goes to Chapters 43 - 50, which go back and forth between Ash's wacky hijinks at the championships and the serious strikes by the villains.

* TheChosenMany: There's ''twenty-eight'' Chosen Ones.
* ContemplateOurNavels: [[GainaxEnding The entire first epilogue.]] [[spoiler: The second epilogue, written a good deal after the fact when the author had a good deal more experience, tries to blame it all on Mewgle being pretentious.]]

** About 99% of Earth's population are [[spoiler: turned into undead monsters.]]

** Just before the final battle, [[spoiler:Deoxys gathers up all the world leaders in all categories, crams into a giant crystal crusher, and kills them all.]]

* {{Cyberpunk}}: The region of Silica.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Pokemon, being essentially animals, tend to be pretty [[NoSocialSkills direct]] about [[CarnivoreConfusion certain]] [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex things]], and it often weirds out their human trainers and those Pokemon that have spent more time among humans.

* EldritchAbomination: Our line-up of villains are essentially this, all transformed into such monstrosities by Deoxys. The rogues gallery includes [[BigBad Deoxys]] himself, who is the alien personification of ChaoticEvil; [[TheGMIsACheatingBastard Mewgle]], a reality warping KillerGameMaster; [[MasterSwordsman Omega]], the fused form of Giovanni and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Ford]] the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Shining Ranger]]; [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Meowth]] (yes, really!); [[PsychoRangers Alpha Ranger]], Ash's evil, soulless alter ego; [[{{Hellhound}} Cerberus]], the undead fusion of Entei, Suicune, and Raikou; Lugia's corrupted wife and child; Leviathan, an enormous Ghost Pokemon-devouring serpent who is actually [[spoiler: Latias' undead mother]]; and Deoxys' "son" [[spoiler: Dark Latios]].

* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:''The entire cast'' at the end of the last battle.]]

** Pikachu [[HeroesPreferSwords draws his sword]] and [[MomentOfAwesome defeats his opponent in a straight battle]].

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crawdaunt's 'Assumption]],' which he uses to coordinate his extremely dirty fighting in order to defeat an EldritchAbomination.

** Ash's encounters with Mariah Susanson and friends is one big ol' "Take That" against [[MarySue Mary Sues]] in general.
** As is Latias' encounter with the first MarySue early on, who captures ''most of the legendaries in the world''.[[invoked]]

* ThirtySuePileup: In-universe example: Berry Stoo and his friends.

** Even key story arcs like Latias and Rayquaza's questionble ReincarnationRomance are mostly told through exposition, while the more gruesome elements of the story, like the BodyHorror, {[Squick}}, and repeated used of rape are described in excrutiating detail.

* PairTheSpares: Ri2 gleefully sticks characters together throughout the book. During the epilogue, an OverlyLongGag recaps all the pairings he's made. It lasts over two pages and has a RunningGag ''within itself.''

* RetCon: The fic originally ended on a huge cliffhanger [[spoiler:with the majority of the cast dead and ''the entire universe annihilated'', and the remaining people set up for a last stand on a flying island]]. Two years later, Ri2 added a sequel that undid the entire last chunk of the story. A good quarter of the way into the sequel, he added a second epilogue that revealed [[spoiler:the entire ending sequence was just Mewgle screwing with everyone, ''including the two gods duking it out'', in a [[TheStarscream Starscream]] gambit. He gets his ass handed to him by [[CoolShades Squirtle]], who [[DeusExMachina comes out of absolutely nowhere]] and earns everyone's happy ending.]]

* {{Troperiffic}}: By the time the sequel rolls around, Ri2 is a confirmed [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife troper]].

* XMeetsY:
** Franchise/{{Pokemon}}: The ExploitationFilm
** The last arc is ''Pokemon'' meets ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' meets ''Film/EventHorizon''.
** In-universe example. The Battle Palace's rules are amended for the Hoenn League Championships so the roles are reversed. The end result is something like mixed martial arts meets Pokémon battling.
--->'''Ford''': Instead of Pokemon competing against Pokemon, it will be human against ''human'', with their Pokemon giving them commands from the sidelines!

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2053520/1/Latias_Journey/ Latias' Journey]]'' by Creator/{{Ri2}} is a 67 chapter, 1,000,000+ words Franchise/{{Pokemon}} fan fiction.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Tate and Liza do this to Latias. [[spoiler:It is actually a test to see how strong the bonds between Ash and his Pokémon are]].

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously]], the star is [[OlympusMons Latias]]. When the Ghost King destroys her home city of Alto Mare and kills all of her friends after she spurns his advances, she is forced to embark on a long journey that takes her across the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} world. There, she meets up with Ash and the other Chosen. Together, the Chosen are forced to embark on many adventures across the land.

* ReferenceOverdosed: This story has {{Shout Out}}s to everything from [[Franchise/PowerRangers PokeRangers]] to [[CthulhuMythos Tentacthulhu]].

* VirginSacrifice: Team Aqua brings in a naked woman to sacrifice to Kyogre. For Groudon, Team Magma brings in a fat, nerdy, unattractive man who is [[AManIsNotAVirgin far more embarrassed about his status]] than worried about being chucked into a lava pit.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2053520/1/Latias_Journey/ Latias' Journey]]'' by Creator/{{Ri2}} is a 67 chapter, 1,000,000+ words {{Pokemon}} fan fiction.

* XMeetsY: {{Pokemon}}: The ExploitationFilm
** The last arc is ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' meets ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' meets ''Film/EventHorizon''.

-->'''Ford''': Instead of Pokemon competing against Pokemon, it will be human against ''human'', with their Pokemon giving them commands from the sidelines!

* FetishFuel: Jigglypuff's Gigabot CombiningMecha is powered by her bodyguards on treadmills. To motivate them, she gives them all magazines featuring a [[AmazonianBeauty female Machoke supermodel.]][[invoked]]

[[{{ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin}} Obviously]], the star is [[OlympusMons Latias]]. When the Ghost King destroys her home city of Alto Mare and kills all of her friends after she spurns his advances, she is forced to embark on a long journey that takes her across the {{Pokemon}} world. There, she meets up with Ash and the other Chosen. Together, the Chosen are forced to embark on many adventures across the land.

It's [[DoorStopper absurdly long]], surreal and bizarre to extremes, interspersed with plenty of lightheartedness, and plenty of fight sequences. And sometimes it's really, ''really'' [[DarkFic dark]], [[{{Squick}} squicky]], [[LudicrousGibs messy]], and all kinds of disturbing.

!This fanfic provides examples of:

** The last arc is ''{{Pokemon}}'' meets ''GurrenLagann'' meets ''Film/EventHorizon''.

* MindRape: A few times. A most heinous example is by [[spoiler:Latias, in probably the {{Squick}}iest part of the book.]]

** ''Jigglypuff'' and the Pokerockers defeating Team Snagem with Breaking Benjamin's "Blow Me Away."

* ReincarnationRomance: Most notably [[spoiler: Latias and Rayquaza,]] but this is also hinted at for other couples.
* ResetButton: The Unown offer this to the good guys if they can stop the upcoming cataclysm, [[spoiler: though they had no intention of actually following through with it, as they expected the universe to end no matter who won. Fortunately, thanks to Mewgle's botched attempt at a universal takeover, the universe is intact at the end. The local deities at this point basically shrug and implement the ResetButton anyway.]]

** As is Latias' encounter with the first MarySue early on, who captures ''most of the legendaries in the world''.

* TrainingFromHell: Lance and Drake force Ash and Latias to journey through an ice cavern with no winter clothing to toughen them up for the Hoenn League Championships. [[spoiler:A bunch of Glalie nearly kill them.]].

* AscendedGlitch: [[spoiler: Missingno, the glitch-er, Darklord Pokemon]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Full force. Keep in mind what the Unown are offering the good guys if they win is basically a ResetButton. The hope of this may at times be [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy the only reason you can keep bearing to read]].

* {{Gorn}}: The torture and "fatal battle" scenes are ''quite'' gory. Taken UpToEleven in the final arc.

** [[spoiler:Ash, Misty and May during the final story arcs, via EleventhHourSuperpower.]]

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crawdaunt's 'Assumption]],' which is successfully used as a BrownNote to defeat an EldritchAbomination.

* TakeThat: Ash's encounter with Mariah Susanson is one big ol' "Take That" against [[MarySue Mary Sues]] in general.

* ShowDontTell: The natural consequences of the {{Infodump}}s. There's a lot of background information that characters tells us about, but we never see. Some examples include Lady Ho-Oh's StartOfDarkness and Mewtwo's first encounter with Deoxys - thanks to the {{Infodump}}s, they're reduced to OffstageVillainy.

* ContractualImmortality: Jessie and James have a contract with the show's producers which guarantees their survival. [[spoiler:In order to get around it, Deoxys has their souls transferred to his name.]]

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2053520/1/Latias_Journey/ Latias' Journey]]'' by {{Ri2}} is a 67 chapter, 1,000,000+ words {{Pokemon}} fan fiction.

* AccidentalInnuendo: After Crawdaunt blocks Gyarados' Bite attack with Harden, Phanphy shouts that he's the "hardest one of all." The older Pokemon just stare at him awkwardly.

** HilariousInHindsight: Now look at Black City in [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Pokemon Black]]...

** And Delia Ketchum's fiancée at one point is [[spoiler: Mr. Mime. She may or may not be even paired up with him at the end.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Lance and Drake are killed by the Glalie that they sent Ash and Latias to earlier.]]

It's [[DoorStopper absurdly long]], surreal and bizzare to extremes, interspersed with plenty of lightheartedness, and plenty of fight sequences. And sometimes it's really, ''really'' [[DarkFic dark]], [[{{Squick}} squicky]], [[LudicrousGibs messy]], and all kinds of disturbing.

** Most members of [[spoiler: Team Rocket]] get grizzly ends.
** The world leaders in all categories are crammed into a giant crusher.
** [[spoiler: May and her Pokemon.]]

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: [[spoiler: Deoxys announces his horrific plans to the entire world by taking over its television and radio signals.]]

* {{Expy}}: A lot of people, if they don't outright {{Cameo}}.

* FetishFuel: In-universe - there are repeated references to a [[AmazonianBeauty female Machoke supermodel]]
* FromBadToWorse: Goes from Latias trying to hide from the Ghost King's forces to [[spoiler: having to fight armies of the undead, which are controlled by utterly heinous abominations.]]

* HandWave: See FridgeLogic.

** Various inhabitants on [[spoiler: Mewgle's fake version of]] Birth Island, including [[spoiler: "Raiki," Ash and Pikachu's fake father]].
** [[spoiler: Ash, Misty and May during the final story arcs, via EleventhHourSuperpower.]]

The much shorter prequel is [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1969593/1/Your_Secret_Admirer here]]. It has a sequel of similar length called ''FanFic/BraveNewWorld''

** Latias bringing down an EldritchAbomination while singing "[[FinalFantasyX Otherworld]]" -- not the kind of song you'd expect her to be singing.