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** After being shown an alternate reality where he [[ForWantOfANail decided to]] ''[[ForWantOfANail ask]]'' [[ForWantOfANail Chloe why she'd been so distant lately]], Goh is given a chance to take a crack at it himself. And fails. Repeatedly. When he screws up one scenario so badly that she flees, he resorts to Gengar dragging her back while she screams and flails, and then tries convincing Zeno that ''this is better''.

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** After being shown an alternate reality where he [[ForWantOfANail decided to]] ''[[ForWantOfANail ask]]'' [[ForWantOfANail to ''ask'' Chloe why she'd been so distant lately]], lately, Goh is given a chance to take a crack at it himself. And fails. Repeatedly. When he screws up one scenario so badly that she flees, he resorts to Gengar dragging her back while she screams and flails, and then tries convincing Zeno that ''this is better''.
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Basically, we're talking ''Franchise/SilentHill'' but on a train, and with [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins the occasional penguin]].

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Basically, we're talking ''Franchise/SilentHill'' but on a train, and with [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins the occasional penguin]].
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* Once Parker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes what kind of harm he's caused]], [=UnChloe=] tries to push him into [[KillEmAll killing everyone]]. His wish for her to get a taste of her own medicine causes her to burn alive -- but instead of screaming as she's consumed, she merely stands there [[DeathGlare glaring out at everyone]].

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* Once Parker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes what kind of harm he's caused]], [=UnChloe=] tries to push him into [[KillEmAll killing everyone]].everyone. His wish for her to get a taste of her own medicine causes her to burn alive -- but instead of screaming as she's consumed, she merely stands there [[DeathGlare glaring out at everyone]].
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* The sheer scope of AdultFear that is in this story, with the B-plot heavily focused on Chloe's parents and Goh worrying about Chloe's whereabouts, and several characters bringing up the worst-case scenarios in response. Even once they do catch up with the reader and learn about the train, this only serves to make them ''more'' worried about her chances of survival. It's hard to sleep at night when you learn a train with a murderous cult on it kidnapped your daughter and won't let her go until she's learned some random lesson about herself. Even worse is that many of them blame themselves for this predicament: it's one thing of Chloe being taken by the train but even more when you're one of the sole causes for it.

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* The sheer scope of AdultFear fear that is in this story, with the B-plot heavily focused on Chloe's parents and Goh worrying about Chloe's whereabouts, and several characters bringing up the worst-case scenarios in response. Even once they do catch up with the reader and learn about the train, this only serves to make them ''more'' worried about her chances of survival. It's hard to sleep at night when you learn a train with a murderous cult on it kidnapped your daughter and won't let her go until she's learned some random lesson about herself. Even worse is that many of them blame themselves for this predicament: it's one thing of Chloe being taken by the train but even more when you're one of the sole causes for it.



** Amelia gets a dose of AdultFear when she sees a picture of Hazel from "The Debutante Ball Car" with 337 on her hand...and realizes that Hazel was one of her experiments in creating Alrick aka ''a denizen'' and that Grace and Simon will kill her if they realize the truth.

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** Amelia gets a dose of AdultFear when she sees a picture of Hazel from "The Debutante Ball Car" with 337 on her hand...hand... and realizes that Hazel was one of her experiments in creating Alrick aka ''a denizen'' and that Grace and Simon will kill her if they realize the truth.



** The AdultFear situation with Goh goes full circle, as Ms. Roycewood, after getting angry at the reveal Goh destroyed his Mew tracker, reveals herself to be EvilAllAlong before knocking Goh out and taking him elsewhere...

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** The AdultFear situation with Goh goes full circle, as Ms. Roycewood, after getting angry at the reveal Goh destroyed his Mew tracker, reveals herself to be EvilAllAlong before knocking Goh out and taking him elsewhere...
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* Goh's punishment dives into SurrealHorror in the vein of ''Series/WandaVision'', Sion Sono films (''Film/SuicideClub'' and ''Film/StrangeCircus''), and [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt WrestleMania 36's Firefly Funhouse Match]] as he meets his own counterpart [=UnGoh/Zeno=], who attempts to teach him empathy through a series of very brutal performances:

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* Goh's punishment dives into SurrealHorror in the vein of ''Series/WandaVision'', Sion Sono Creator/SionSono films (''Film/SuicideClub'' and ''Film/StrangeCircus''), and [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt WrestleMania 36's Firefly Funhouse Match]] as he meets his own counterpart [=UnGoh/Zeno=], who attempts to teach him empathy through a series of very brutal performances:
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* We finally see Walter and Henry's monster forms, and they are ''horrifying'', with Walter effectively becoming ''Silent Hill in boss form''.

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* We finally see Walter and Henry's monster forms, and they are ''horrifying'', with Walter effectively becoming ''Silent Hill in boss form''. To explain how horrifying it is, it makes ''Grace'' want to run to the hills screaming her head off.

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** To fight off the Lysandre nightmare, Hop ''returns to Delirium'' and is having so much fun ripping the nightmare apart with his tentacles, he almost ''succumbs to it again''.

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** To fight off the Lysandre nightmare, Hop ''returns to Delirium'' and is having so much fun ripping the nightmare apart with his tentacles, tentacles and hearing their screams of agony, he almost ''succumbs to it again''.again'' if Corvisquire didn't evolve into Corviknight to stop him. To make it even more terrifying, Delirium became ''smart'' and pushed Dubwool to the side so it didn't interfere.
-->'''Hop:''' I'm gonna make Alain happy, the ''right kind of happy!'' And nothing and no one is going to stand in my way ever again!
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* We finally see Walter and Henry's monster forms, and they are ''horrifying'', with Walter effectively becoming ''Silent Hill in boss form''.

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* The summary of this being influenced by ''Silent Hill'' wasn't kidding. There's always this dread of something creeping up at you, lingering in the back of your head as you dread what is going to come next. Arc 2, which is '''the''' Silent Hill influenced arc already has a lot of terrors that make you question who is going to leave with their sanity intact.

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* The summary of this being influenced by ''Silent Hill'' wasn't kidding. There's always this dread of something creeping up at you, lingering in the back of your head as you dread what is going to come next. Arc 2, 3, which is '''the''' Silent Hill influenced arc already has a lot of terrors that make you question who is going to leave with their sanity intact.



** Alain's FreakOut when he finally wakes up as he refuses to open his eyes.

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** Alain's FreakOut when he finally wakes up as he refuses to open his eyes.eyes as his apartment turns into ice and he somehow starts creating a Treant version of Professor Sycamore who tempts him to ''give up his soul''...which is currently in the Honor of Kalos medal Hop was given by Alex.


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* Simon's KarmicDeath, while not as bad as being turned into ash by his TraumaButton, is terrifying as he's dragged into the waters of Toluca Lake and drowned despite being transformed into a dragon. And to make it worse, the one who did it is the beast known as The Phantom...the denizen reincarnation of ''Sean'', the Apex kid who drowned in the lake.
* The Phantom is a giant with massive arms that will rip and tear at everything until he gets revenge on Paul. It's only when Grace tells him to stop that he does, else Paul might ''never'' had made it home.
* Whatever Walter transforms into it's more terrifying than Henry that it's described as Grace wishing to just run away screaming in fear.
* Back in the Pokémon world? Ms. Turner is ready ''with a gun'' to shoot Chloe's former classmates if Ash doesn't stop his pursuit to save Goh.

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** To fight off the Lysandre nightmare, Hop ''returns to Delirium'' and is having so much fun ripping the nightmare apart with his tentacles.

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** To fight off the Lysandre nightmare, Hop ''returns to Delirium'' and is having so much fun ripping the nightmare apart with his tentacles.tentacles, he almost ''succumbs to it again''.
** In another display of NothingIsScarier, we only see the bare minimum of what Paul went through to become Despair. And it's apparently so horrible ''Chloe'' winces at it.
** The AdultFear situation with Goh goes full circle, as Ms. Roycewood, after getting angry at the reveal Goh destroyed his Mew tracker, reveals herself to be EvilAllAlong before knocking Goh out and taking him elsewhere...

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* Alain begins having a nightmare thanks to Simon's awakening as Destruction, causing him to affect the apartment around him. An apartment where ''Hazel and Tuba'' are still inside...
* Just imagine yourself in Hazel's shoes for a minute: you hear something happening at night, and one of your caretakers goes outside to see what's going on. Not only do they ''not'' come back, but the apartment you're staying in begins ''contorting and mutating'' for seemingly no reason at all, and the only person with you is a Purple gorilla that, while tough, is way out of her leage in dealing with these abominations.
* We finally discover what it would take for Chloe to become Lady Destiny: all she has to do is accept her destiny as the savior of the Car. In other words, ''what she's been doing all this time''.
* The part ends with Chloe, fully exhausted after her fight with Delirium, being kidnapped by Destruction, who's not only ''just'' transformed into a being who desires to... well, destroy everything, but who has a notable beef with her...

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* ** Alain begins having a nightmare thanks to Simon's awakening as Destruction, causing him to affect the apartment around him. An apartment where ''Hazel and Tuba'' are still inside...
* ** Just imagine yourself in Hazel's shoes for a minute: you hear something happening at night, and one of your caretakers goes outside to see what's going on. Not only do they ''not'' come back, but the apartment you're staying in begins ''contorting and mutating'' for seemingly no reason at all, and the only person with you is a Purple gorilla that, while tough, is way out of her leage in dealing with these abominations.
* ** We finally discover what it would take for Chloe to become Lady Destiny: all she has to do is accept her destiny as the savior of the Car. In other words, ''what she's been doing all this time''.
* ** The part ends with Chloe, fully exhausted after her fight with Delirium, being kidnapped by Destruction, who's not only ''just'' transformed into a being who desires to... well, destroy everything, but who has a notable beef with her...her...
* So what happens if Chloe ''refuses'' to become Lady Destiny. There's always a Plan B in ''Saint Ash''.
** Alain's FreakOut when he finally wakes up as he refuses to open his eyes.
** To fight off the Lysandre nightmare, Hop ''returns to Delirium'' and is having so much fun ripping the nightmare apart with his tentacles.

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* Before the above, Grace walks out her apartment room, alone, with only a knife-albeit a strong one-to fight back with. The first person she comes across is ''Walter''...



** Chloe has to utter Ash's name to get Delirium to snap and he ''does''.

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** Chloe has to utter Ash's name to get Delirium to snap and he ''does''. ''does'': flailing around like an utter madman as soon as he hears the name.
** There's just something ''wrong'' with Hop's ''voice'' coming out of the eldritch horror that is Delirium, especially when he uses it while speaking angrily at Alex.



** We finally discover what it would take for Chloe to become Lady Destiny: all she has to do is accept her destiny as the savior of the Car. In other words, ''what she's been doing all this time''.
** The part ends with Chloe, fully exhausted after her fight with Delirium, being kidnapped by Destruction, who's not only ''just'' transformed into a being who desires to... well, destroy everything, but who has a notable beef with her...

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** * Just imagine yourself in Hazel's shoes for a minute: you hear something happening at night, and one of your caretakers goes outside to see what's going on. Not only do they ''not'' come back, but the apartment you're staying in begins ''contorting and mutating'' for seemingly no reason at all, and the only person with you is a Purple gorilla that, while tough, is way out of her leage in dealing with these abominations.
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We finally discover what it would take for Chloe to become Lady Destiny: all she has to do is accept her destiny as the savior of the Car. In other words, ''what she's been doing all this time''.
** * The part ends with Chloe, fully exhausted after her fight with Delirium, being kidnapped by Destruction, who's not only ''just'' transformed into a being who desires to... well, destroy everything, but who has a notable beef with her...
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* Delirium and The Bogeyman are a terrifying duo: one has tentacles that will lash out at you and the other cannot be killed at all. Not by fire, not by guns, ''nothing'' stops the Bogeyman.
** Chloe has to utter Ash's name to get Delirium to snap and he ''does''.
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** In fact, let's start from there: not only does Simon assume his role as Destruction, proving himself to be BeyondRedemption, but he ''turns into a giant dragon that wants to burn down the world''!
** Grace is hit with the AwfulTruth all at once: The Apex's mission? AllForNothing. The Nulls they killed? At least most of them used to be humans, meaning they're essentially serial killers. Hazel? She's not only a Denizen, but the mark of the Apex means she'll be ''hunted down'' if the ritual comes to fruition. Same goes for all the children of the Apex, who're stuck in a safehouse she can't even open. And to add insult to injury, she has to ask for help from the Red Lotus group, a team that show NoSympathy towards her after everything that's happened. BeingEvilSucks ''so damn hard''...
* Alain begins having a nightmare thanks to Simon's awakening as Destruction, causing him to affect the apartment around him. An apartment where ''Hazel and Tuba'' are still inside...
** We finally discover what it would take for Chloe to become Lady Destiny: all she has to do is accept her destiny as the savior of the Car. In other words, ''what she's been doing all this time''.
** The part ends with Chloe, fully exhausted after her fight with Delirium, being kidnapped by Destruction, who's not only ''just'' transformed into a being who desires to... well, destroy everything, but who has a notable beef with her...
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* Part 4 can be summoned up in one word: '''Destruction'''.

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** The chapter ''starts'' by Chloe and Hop entering a HauntedHouse that ''recounts events from Chloe's past''.
** Sometime after that, not only do we have Henry and Walter sleeping together, but Dream walks up to them and they provide comfort. It's meant to resemble a scene of a child coming to his parents after a bad... well, dream, but the context is just ''so wrong'' that it's impossible not to feel horrified.
** Paul, as Despair, not only finds himself on the ''receiving'' end of an ElectricTorture by Simon, who's left Hazel and Grace alone, but the madman then demands him to tell him everything he knows.
** Amelia and Lexis are investigating the Cage of Flauros, and the former discovers that if the ritual goes as planned, not only will the components turn into monsters, but they'll ''hunt down the Apex'' until there's nothing left, and only then is it all but implied that they'll straight up ''die''. The ritual has to be stopped right here, ''righr now''.
** Back with Chloe and Hop, they go to carousel. It doesn't take long for things to go chillingly wrong as Chloe tries to make Hop come to reason, while he pulls a Parker and tunes out anything that could make him negative or feel wrong. And the carousel gets more messed up as it goes on...
*** And then Chloe has the brilliant idea to call Hop a spoiled brat. The result? '''Delirium is unleashed'''.
** Alex does an Eren Jaeger and stabs himself with his knife in order to become the Boogeyman. This alone would be awesome, but given that this come ''after'' the above moment...

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** The chapter ''starts'' by Chloe and Hop entering a HauntedHouse that ''recounts events from Chloe's past''.
past'' from a woman in a bathtub with slit wrists, a corpse wearing a grey hoodie and even a prison sell with Ponyta toys!
*** Hop notices Chloe's discomfort and changes the corpse on a noose into a corgi piñata to make Chloe happy.
** Sometime after that, not only do we have Henry and Walter sleeping together, but Dream walks is cuddled up to them and they provide comfort. It's meant to resemble a scene of a child coming to his parents after a bad... well, dream, but the context is just ''so wrong'' that it's impossible not to feel horrified.
** Paul, as Despair, not only finds himself on the ''receiving'' end of an ElectricTorture by Simon, who's left Hazel and Grace alone, but the madman then demands him to tell him everything he knows.
knows. And worse is that Walter doesn't care about Paul's situation at all: if Simon attacks, then that makes Simon become Destruction and Paul sinking deeper into Despair
** Amelia and Lexis Lexi are investigating the Cage of Flauros, and the former discovers that if the ritual goes as planned, not only will the components turn into monsters, but they'll ''hunt down the Apex'' until there's nothing left, whether via redemption or death, and only then is it all but implied that they'll straight up ''die''. The ritual has to be stopped right here, ''righr ''right now''.
** Back with Chloe and Hop, they go to the carousel. It doesn't take long for things to go chillingly wrong as Chloe tries to make Hop come to reason, while he pulls a Parker and tunes out anything that could make him negative or feel wrong. And the carousel gets more messed up as it goes on...
*** And then Chloe has the brilliant idea to call Hop a spoiled brat. The result? '''Delirium is unleashed'''.
unleashed''' as he starts surrounding the carousel with smiley-face balloons and traps Chloe in a ring of fire.
** Alex does an Eren Jaeger and stabs himself with his knife in order to become the Boogeyman.Bogeyman. This alone would be awesome, but given that this come ''after'' the above moment...
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** The chapter ''starts'' by Chloe and Hop entering a HauntedHouse that ''recounts events from Chloe's past''.
** Sometime after that, not only do we have Henry and Walter sleeping together, but Dream walks up to them and they provide comfort. It's meant to resemble a scene of a child coming to his parents after a bad... well, dream, but the context is just ''so wrong'' that it's impossible not to feel horrified.
** Paul, as Despair, not only finds himself on the ''receiving'' end of an ElectricTorture by Simon, who's left Hazel and Grace alone, but the madman then demands him to tell him everything he knows.
** Amelia and Lexis are investigating the Cage of Flauros, and the former discovers that if the ritual goes as planned, not only will the components turn into monsters, but they'll ''hunt down the Apex'' until there's nothing left, and only then is it all but implied that they'll straight up ''die''. The ritual has to be stopped right here, ''righr now''.
** Back with Chloe and Hop, they go to carousel. It doesn't take long for things to go chillingly wrong as Chloe tries to make Hop come to reason, while he pulls a Parker and tunes out anything that could make him negative or feel wrong. And the carousel gets more messed up as it goes on...
*** And then Chloe has the brilliant idea to call Hop a spoiled brat. The result? '''Delirium is unleashed'''.
** Alex does an Eren Jaeger and stabs himself with his knife in order to become the Boogeyman. This alone would be awesome, but given that this come ''after'' the above moment...
** The chapter ends by bringing up a chilling question: with the mannerisms displayed by Delirium, is Hop still in control, ''or is Delirium something else entirely''?

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