Therein lies the problem, I'm not free to lose, or flat out refuse to battle in the first place, and the only real choice my character has is to blindly accept the orders of a talking lizard. My character would have a lot of reservations, as well as try to establish what's going on with the other humans (who are all underage.) Instead I'd have to fight a random Pokemon, and then immediately go to sleep....after being a 9/11 victim who lost his girlfriend and just got sent to a weird place filled with talking magical animals with a bunch of teens. See where no sane person would willfully go along with this without questions or attempt to make contact with the other humans? And that's something I don't like.
If the GM changes the Chapter intros to not involve so many pre-determined 'choices,' I'd be all in, but I'm certain that won't be the case, seeing as he hasn't even finished his own character's SU and all. <,<