Pinsir's POV

Johto's shelter came out pretty well. We built a small hut that was right by the beach of the island. I was pretty happy with my team, too. Skarmory was a genius, Magmar is tough, Smeargle knows how to use limited resources to survive, Togetic is super-fast, and Feraligatr does hilarious impressions of everyone he meets.

Magmar shook me awake in the morning.

"Dude, we're gonna be late for da first challenge!"

Ugh.

Part of me dies every time he uses that grammar.

When we got to Battle Zone, the challenge part of the island, Mewtwo is waiting for us. She looked like she thinks she's "too good to be here". She still managed to sound excited when she talked.

"Today we have a team battle challenge. The last team standing wins-" She points to a large basket full of delicious-smelling cupcakes. "these delicious pokepuffs!" I look at my teammates. Yep. We want those.

"However, the first team out will have one pokemon eliminated at tonight's elimination ceremony." Elimination already? It'd better not be me.

We stepped onto the battlefield. It was really just an extremely large boxing rink, but we called it that anyway. Togetic was spitting out her gibberish plans.

"I'll-cover-the-back-wait-no-the-front-I'll-cover-the-front-Skarmory-covers-the-sky-well-not-really-the-sky-but-higher-than-the-rest-of-us-reach-"she said.

Part of me dies every time she doesn't use grammar.

We prepared to battle with no plan whatsoever. Mewtwo started to count down.

"Three… Two…One… Battle!"

I spammed damaging moves to anyone I saw. Toxicroak? Megahorn! Talonflame? Megahorn! Chandelure?

My body froze when I saw him. I remembered his pokedex entry:

It absorbs a spirit, which it then burns. By waving the flames on its arms, it puts its foes into a hypnotic trance.

His arm waved at me and my mind went blank. My team didn't matter. My only purpose was to serve Chandelure's every command.

"Fight them." He said. He pointed at Feraligatr. I turned around and aimed a punch at him. He dodged it.

"We're on the same team!" he said, frustrated. Must…Destroy…Feraligatr…, I thought. After I only hit him twice, he knocked me out. I fell to the ground unconscious