History Fanfic / GoingBack

%%* {{Catchphrase}}: "I never miss."

The plot follows the adventures of Joshua, a run-of-the-mill Pokémon trainer from Sinnoh who recently got the Beacon Badge and is on his way to challenge the Elite Four. As per tradition, he has to cross Victory Road before earning the right to fight. Things proceed smoothly, until a Golbat, [[ShownTheirWork known for going after humans]], attacks Joshua and begins to bleed him dry. This culminates in Victory Road caving in, putting Joshua into a coma and in critical condition. It's up to his [[FiveManBand loyal crew of six]] -- [[TheHero Torterra]], [[TheStoic Luxray]], [[TheSmartGuy Golduck]], [[TheBigGuy Lucario]], [[KidAppealCharacter Flareon]] and [[TheLancer Honchkrow]] - to get [[TeamPet Joshua]] back to safety alive.

* FiveManBand:
** Torterra: TheHero.
** Honchkrow: TheLancer.
** Luxray: TheStoic.
** Golduck: TheSmartGuy.
** Lucario: TheBigGuy. Class 2. Technically also Flareon.
** Flareon: KidAppealCharacter. Also TheHeart.
** Joshua: TeamPet. Inverted since he's their master, but he's in no condition to do much of anything for the majority of the story and is totally reliant on his Pokémon.

* BadAssCrew: Everybody gets at least one moment, [[TheUnfavorite except Luxray]]. The author still regrets that.
* BigDamnHeroes
* BloodKnight: Honchkrow.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "I never miss."

* {{Chekhovs Gun}}: Quite a few examples:
** [[spoiler:The Escape Rope that Golduck tries to use at the beginning, but discards.]]
** [[spoiler:The Poké Balls, also]] at the beginning.
** Honchkrow's [[spoiler:Technical Machine in her neck]] is brought up, but never mentioned until the very end, post-final battle pre-prologue.

* {{Determinator}}: The whole team, but special mentions to Joshua and Lucario.

* EscortMission: The theme of the story.

* HighAltitudeBattle: [[spoiler:How Lucario fights the Golbat.]]
* ICanStillFight: Luxray and Lucario, but Honchkrow in particular.
* IDoNotOwn: Averted. The author knew exactly how much legal weight the statement carries [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools thanks to this site]] and doesn't bother to mention it at all.

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: {{Averted}} in Chapter 6.

* StandardStatusEffects: They're all mentioned, but only Poison is used.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* IDoNotOwn: Averted. The author knew exactly how much legal weight the statement carries [[TropesAreNotBad thanks to this site]] and doesn't bother to mention it at all.

The plot follows the adventures of Joshua, a run-of-the-mill Pokémon trainer from Sinnoh who recently got the Beacon Badge and was on his way to challenge the Elite Four. As per tradition, he had to cross Victory Road before earning the right to fight. Things were going smoothly, until a Golbat, [[ShownTheirWork known for going after humans]], attacks Joshua and begins to bleed him dry. This culminates to Victory Road caving in, putting Joshua into a coma and into critical condition, just barely able to walk, if he were awake at all. It's up to his [[FiveManBand loyal crew of six]] -- [[TheHero Torterra]], [[TheStoic Luxray]], [[TheSmartGuy Golduck]], [[TheBigGuy Lucario]], [[KidAppealCharacter Flareon]] and [[TheLancer Honchkrow]] - to get [[TeamPet Joshua]] back to safety alive.

* ItGotWorse: Boy howdy, chapter 8.

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!! This fan-fiction contains examples of:

* DeusExMachina: Brutally subverted. [[spoiler:The Machoke and the Graveler have a very deadly reason for joining the fight at the end.]]

A ''{{Pokemon}}'' fanfiction created by [[Tropers/JackmanB some nobody]] who happens to also be a part of the TV Tropes scene. It was originally meant to be a short writing exercise (as in, only a few pages), but it grew a life of its own and ballooned into a one-hundred-and-fifteen page behemoth. The idea was, if the author could write this story, then he should have the discipline to write his own totally original story as well. From beginning to end, the story took ten months on-and-off to complete.

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The plot follows the adventures of Joshua, a run-of-the-mill Pokémon trainer from Sinnoh who recently got the Beacon Badge and was on his way to challenge the Elite Four. As per tradition, he had to cross Victory Road before earning the right to fight. Things were going smoothly, until a Golbat, [[ShownTheirWork known for going after humans]], attacks Joshua and begins to bleed him dry. This culminates to Victory Road caving in, putting Joshua into a coma and into critical condition, just barely able to walk, if he were awake at all. It's up to his [[FiveManBand loyal crew of six]] -- [[TheHero Torterra]], [[TheStoic Luxray]], [[TheSmartGuy Golduck]], [[TheBigGuy Lucario]], [[TheBumblebee Flareon]] and [[TheLancer Honchkrow]] - to get [[TeamPet Joshua]] back to safety alive.

** Flareon: TheBumblebee. Also TheHeart.

A [[{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]] fanfiction created by [[Tropers/JackmanB some nobody]] who happens to also be a part of the TV Tropes scene. It was originally meant to be a short writing exercise (as in, only a few pages), but it grew a life of its own and ballooned into a 115 page behemoth. The idea was, if the author could write this story, then he should have the discipline to write his own totally original story as well. From beginning to end, the story took 10 months on-and-off to complete.

The plot follows the adventures of Joshua, a run-of-the-mill Pokémon trainer from Sinnoh who recently got the Beacon Badge and was on his way to challenge the Elite Four. As per tradition, he had to cross Victory Road before earning the right to fight. Things were going smoothly, until a Golbat, [[ShownTheirWork known for going after humans]], attacks Joshua and begins to bleed him dry. This culminates to Victory Road caving in, putting Joshua into a coma and into critical condition, just barely able to walk, if he were awake at all. It's up to his [[FiveManBand loyal crew of six]] - [[TheHero Torterra]], [[TheStoic Luxray]], [[TheSmartGuy Golduck]], [[TheBigGuy Lucario]], [[TheBumblebee Flareon]] and [[TheLancer Honchkrow]] - to get [[TeamPet Joshua]] back to safety alive.

Once the author gets some other things accomplished on his to-do list, he promises a sequel and a prequel to Going Back. The story can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4988574/1/Going_Back here.]]

* {{Nakama}}

** The TMs and HMs are given detailed instructions on how they are applied on the Pokémon.

* [[{{ptitlejfyj7p47}} Wasn't That Fun?]]: Torterra gives this reaction after his frantic ride down a waterfall. Later, [[spoiler:Joshua]] says the same thing about the whole adventure.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The final battle, where [[spoiler:Lucario goes up in the air and jumps from Golbat to Golbat while delivering karate kicks, Luxray zaps and chews on assorted bats, Flareon unleashes a lot of fire, Honchkrow dominates the air, Golduck tries to hold on with her powerful psychic attacks, and Torterra unleashes his nuke attack.]]
** [[spoiler:The battle immediately following the "final" battle as well.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Lucario tries to open a twist-top bottle ''clockwise''. He ''does'' eventually get it open, but...
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: A few places, but notably the ending.

* GoddamnBats: The Golbat in chapter 1 [[spoiler:and chapters 7 and 8]]. It ''is'' Pokémon, and they ''are'' in a cave.

* NightmareFuel: Chapter 6 explores what happens when a human takes a medicine meant explicitly for Pokémon.
** The Golbat are portrayed as this to everyone, especially the Pokémon living in Victory Road.

* {{Squick}}: In chapter 4, Golduck is tasked to [[spoiler:"Water Gun" down a thirsty, fevered, and unconscious Joshua's throat, to stop his sickly heaving.]] The entire team is disgusted by the plan, particularly Golduck herself, although they exhausted all their other options. The way it's written makes the reader feel for their squick.

* TearJerker: Has a few instances of this, for an action fanfic.
** [[spoiler:Flareon's emotional breakdown.]]
** [[spoiler:Torterra going blind.]]
** The ending itself.

* PapaWolf: Torterra will get [[UnderStatement cranky]] if you try to hurt Joshua directly.

A Pokémon fanfiction created by [[Tropers/JackmanB some nobody]] who happens to also be a part of the TV Tropes scene. It was originally meant to be a short writing exercise (as in, only a few pages), but it grew a life of its own and ballooned into a 115 page behemoth. The idea was, if the author could write this story, then he should have the discipline to write his own totally original story as well. From beginning to end, the story took 10 months on-and-off to complete.

** It could be argued that the author [[ShowedHisWork did this]] ''too'' rigidly: each of the Pokémon can only use four attacks, which, while loyal to the game's formula, makes for stilted reading.