Besides, even though Pokémon obey their trainers loyally, they do have free will and might refuse to attack another human.

Ooh, that's a good point. (Only in the gameverse, though, because in the anime Pikachu seems to have no qualms about blowing Team Rocket up.)

'Destiny, it was destiny that were to meet' makes me laugh quite a lot. I don't know why you would want to make the line a character on whom you had a crush said ten times worse, but a thumbs-up to you.