Akari tries to use Dialga and Palkia to summon the man in Ingo’s memory, and ends up summoning Elesa instead. With the Dynamo Model in Hisui, what will Akari and Ingo’s life be like going forward?
Relevant Tags: Light Angst, Memory Restoration, Reunion, Healing, Pizza, Polyamory, Blankshippers DNI
Relevant Characters: Akari/Hikari, Ingo, Elesa, Emmet, Volo
Relevant Pairings: Romantic: Elesa/Ingo, Elesa/Emmet, Elesa/Skyla (Mentioned); Platonic: Akari & Rei, Akari & Ingo & Elesa, Ingo & Emmet
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Chapter by Chapter and Outlines
Chapter 1: Koraid-ing into Hope. Akari aims for Ingo’s brother and gets his closest friend and girlfriend instead. (2057 words)
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Chapter 2: An Additional Coupling. Ingo deals with flashes of familiarity and awakened memories as Elesa figures out what she is doing in Jubilife. (2240 words)
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Chapter 3: Dealing with their Devils. Two much needed conversations are had. Ingo learns about who he is, and Akari comes up with a better plan. (4632 words)
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Chapter 4: An Excadrill-ating Day. Elesa gets to know her coworkers in Jubilife, and gears up for battle. (3411 words)
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Chapter 5: Class 150 Vulcan Locomotive Vermillion -> Saffron. Ingo boards the train of memories while Elesa and Zisu finish their battle. (3896 words)
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Chapter 6: Chatting over Lunch. With Ingo indisposed, Akari and Elesa take the day off to eat lunch with Irida and catch Elesa up. (3573 words)
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Chapter 7: Like a Big Pecha Pie. Ingo and Elesa celebrate Ingo’s memories with a homemade pizza. (4096 words)
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Chapter 8: I am Emmet. Have You Seen My Wife? Emmet gets some answers from Alola and Kukui is allowed to be badass. (2841 words)
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Chapter 9: All the Time in the World. Life in Jubilife is easy when have family. Akari works on her Pokedex, Elesa gets used to her new jobs, and Ingo enjoys the company of those around him. (4054 words)
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Chapter 10: An Unexpected Disruption. Jubilife needs to expand with all of the incoming immigrants, and Ingo and Akari are the right people for the job! (4848 words) (Major Character Injury)
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Chapter 11: Living on the Honedge. Elesa reacts. To future knowledge, to absurd advice, and to a tumble. (5386 words) (Major Character Injury; Dissociation)
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Chapter 12: For Thou Could Not Recompense. Akari deals with the consequences of her actions, and the others are not helping. (4160 words) (Dissociation and Mental Breakdowns)
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Chapter 13: I am Emmet. Do Not Worry About the Anti-Christ. Emmet and Cynthia have a talk, and Volo tells his story. (3923 words) (Minor depictions of blood)
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Chapter 14: Hello God, it’s Me. What is God to a believer? Is He Hope? Is He Despair? To Akari, He is an insurmountable wall. To Emmet, a challenge to be wrestled into the dirt if He defies him. (6040 words)
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Chapter 15: Slaking Back at Home. While Akari has her coming to Arceus moment, Elesa tries to relax with Ingo. (4024 words)
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Chapter 16: Reunions. Hikari has to quickly figure out how she feels about her aunt, her uncle’s brother, her worst enemy, and some kid. (3447 words)
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Chapter 17: A Two Car Train. Ingo wakes up and reconnects. (4702 words)
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Chapter 18: I am Emmet. Thanks for the Hospitality. Kamado has a talk with the travelers in his village, then Emmet tours Jubilife. (6175 words)
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Chapter 19: Whimsicott-al Adventures. Elesa and Emmet enjoy breakfast, then the gang discovers the world's first escape room. (5450 words)
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Additional Information and Works in Continuity
Electric Trains Timeline (Evolving Post) - Playing with Time means that Time gets a little funky! As such, I decided to do an in-depth look at events, as well as giving some full names and information not planned for side stories.
Railroad Daisies is a side story set 1 year after Ingo disappeared. Emmet decides that it is finally time to hire a new Subway Boss so that he can keep all trains on schedule once more.
Chapter 1: I’m Not Your Boss. Hilda finds her nerves creeping up on her when Emmet calls her to the office. (4096 words)
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Chapter 2: Battle from the Heart. Emmet needs more trainers and Depot Agents, and Hilda needs to learn how to hire. Meanwhile, Rosa tries not to crush when she is caught off guard. (4596 words)
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Dragged from the Whorl is a side story one-shot set in the decade before PLA, and focuses on how Kamado and Zisu met and their working relationship as mentor and student.
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Extra: Hikari Mifune’s Team! Hikari Mifune rose to be the Champion of the Sinnoh Region before falling to Hisui. Here is her team!
Extra: Akari’s Team! Akari may be the Survey Team darling star, but that doesn’t mean she went about it alone!
Influencing Works
The fic is influenced by a short comic from @/fluorescencefuture, which is transcribed into Chapter 1.
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Since I plan for Electric Trains are the Future to cover multiple time periods with small time skips throughout, as well as small one-shots/smaller stories connected to it, I wanted to put a timeline together for it that I will update as the story goes on and more stories are added. Note: There are two time periods in this fic, but they are both tracked here.
Hisuian Era
October 28th, 1868 - Ingo appears in the Alabaster Icelands of Hisui, and becomes a rumored spirit.
November 7th, 1868 - Gaeric sees Ingo atop Avalugg’s Legacy.
November 9th, 1868 - Lady Sneasler arrives at the Pearl Settlement with a bloodied Ingo. Ingo receives medical attention, and after seeing that he is without memories or a home, he is welcomed into the Pearl Clan.
September 30th, 1869 - The Galaxy Expedition Team lands in Prelude Beach, and sets up a base camp in a natural valley. After a few weeks of discussion with Irida and Adaman, Galaxy Commander Denboku Kamado is allowed to settle his people permanently in what becomes Jubilife Village, and given leave to bring more settlers, as long as sovereign lands and treaties with the Clans are respected.
December 19th, 1869 - Shiki, the Warden of Lady Sneasler, passes away at age 87. After a week of mourning, Sneasler chooses Ingo, who Shiki had been helping get used to Clan life, as her new Warden. He is official indicted as Warden on December 29th.
January 13th, 1871 - The Space-Time Rift tears itself open above Mt. Coronet, sending both the Clans and Jubilife into a panic.
September 18th, 1871 - Hikari falls from the sky and takes the name Akari as she joins the Galaxy Expedition Team. The next night, after she is accepted into the Team, Lord Kleavor is sent into a Frenzy.
September 18th, 1871 to January 30th, 1871 - The events of Pokemon Legends Arceus take place. Akari, 15, frees the Nobles of their Frenzy, is banished for a short time, and defeats Volo at the Spear Pillar.
March 18th, 1872 - Akari accidentally summons Elesa into Hisui, and Electric Trains are the Future begins. Akari spends the night talking with Giratina to plan how to fix her mistake, and Elesa and Ingo talk about their shared history.
March 19th, 1872 - Elesa begins work at Edith’s Hair Salon and with the Galaxy Security Corp. Later that day, Warden Ingo collapses due to the strain of his memories returning.
June 24th, 1872 - Warden Ingo’s coat is restored by Elesa.
July 2nd, 1872 - Akari completes the Hisuian Pokedex, evolving her last Pokemon and turning it in to Laventon. That night, she gets a text on her Arc Phone, summoning her to the Temple, and a new page adds itself to the Pokedex.
July 5th, 1872 - While investigating potential locations for a new Galaxy-funded Village, Warden Ingo falls from a cliff face.Â
July 6th, 1872 - Warden Ingo is in critical but non-life threatening condition.
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Modern Sinnoan/Unovan Era
August 18th, 2010 - Ingo and Emmet Grayn, 23, form the Battle Subway in Nimbasa City with the support of Champion Alder and League Official Palmer Walton. Ingo has been Head of the Unovan Transportation Authority for 4 months.
October 17th, 2013 - Alder Begay, 56, steps down as the Unova League Champion after holding the position for 16 years. Iris Grayn, 14, the co-Gym Leader of Opelucid Gym, is appointed to the position of Champion due to her previous win against the League Champion in an exhibition match. Drayden Grayn, 65, returns to being the full-time Gym Leader.
December 23rd, 2016 - Palmer Walton moves to Sinnoh to establish the Battle Tower, as well as to take care of his ailing mother. His family moves with him.
June 8th, 2017 - Elesa Stark, 31, and Skyla Cirrus, 29, are married in a private ceremony in Lentimas with friends and family.
December 25th, 2017 - In a Delibird Day Miracle, Hilbert Blackmore, 19, returns to Unova after interning at the Indigo League with Kukui Mahi’ai, 21. A few weeks after his return, Hilbet challenges the League once more, defeating Iris Grayn, now 18, and taking the spot as Champion. Iris takes control of Opelucid Gym, while Drayden, now 69, retires to administrative work.
February 18th, 2018 - Palmer expands the Battle Tower into a Battle Frontier.
September 13th, 2019Â - Hilda Whitman, 21, is instated as the new Subway Boss full-time, moving from the Afternoon Singles line to running Singles and Super Singles on all operating days. She battles alongside Emmet on the Multi Lines in addition to her Single Lines duties. Rosa Whitaker, 19, is hired as a Depot Agent for the Double Line.
April 14th to June 3rd, 2020 - Team Plasma resurges, attempting to attack the Subway and Pokemon League before they were quickly quashed by N Gropius, Hilbert Blackmore, and Rosa Whitaker.Â
September 21st, 2020 - Grimsley Winstar, 38, resigns from the Unovan Elite Four due to a medicial emergency. After a short search, N Gropius, 28, is hired on to replace him, taking over both the spot and the typing.
February 19th, 2021Â - Elesa Stark, 35, and Emmet Grayn, 34, are married in a small ceremony in Anville Town, with only family and close friends in attendence.
September 18th, 2021Â - Hikari Mifune, 15, disappears from her room. There are no signs of entry or exit, and her Pokemon were still in the house. Investigations are ongoing.
March 18th, 2022Â - Elesa Stark, 36, disappears from the runway of her Gym during a photoshoot. Investigations are ongoing.
May 31st, 2022 - Emmet meets with Professor Burnet Mahi’ai, 27, of Alola to discuss what may have happened to Elesa. Volo, age unknown takes the chance to visit the Ruins of Life with Professor Kukui Mahi’ai.
June 18th, 2022 - Emmet returns to Nimbasa City briefly with Volo and Alolan Champion Elio Nozawa, 12, to check in on the Transport Authority and investigate Ingo’s disappearance.
July 5th, 2022 - Emmet collapses in the Eterna Forest, and is taken to Galactic Urgent Care in Eterna City. He is discharged within hours, but is unconscious through the ordeal.
July 6th, 2022 - Emmet meets with former Sinnoh Champion Cynthia Kurosawa, and makes a plan to find their missing families.
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