Never in Your Favor

Season 2, Episode 37
This is the thirty-seventh episode of Total Pokémon Action. The top 24 are put into a simulation based off of The Hunger Games. Also, they're all turned into humans for the episode. Dark Absol is back to sabotage her team. Also making a cameo is Gothitelle to help create the simulation. In the end, everyone is convinced that a castmate has lost it, so they are given the very unfortunate boot.
The castmates, having been turned into humans, are told that their movie of the day is The Hunger Games and their challenge is to survive a hunger games. Unknowing to the cast, Dark Absol is lurking behind them as they learned about the challenge. They are also reintroduced to Gothitelle who is there to help Jellicent with the simulation. She "tests" her powers by psychically relaying a message to Gastrodon and Sudowoodo that Arbok is playing them. This startled and confused them which everyone else shook off. The bloodbath begins. Vespiquen starts off by stabbing Carnivine. Jellicent and Bouffalant have to make a public announcement that nobody was really killed in the making of the episode. Drifblim ran to get the sword that killed Carnivine, but Arbok gets to it first and kills her with it. Gastrodon tried to get away from Houndoom who snaps his neck. Mismagius apologized for killing Milotic, but is surprised by Dewgong stabbing her in the back. Then, Vespiquen's body falls at his feet and Ninetales shows up with two packs. So, they form a partnership. Pachirisu had just killed Leafeon when she tries to leave the cornucopia with Bellossom and Delcatty. However, Persian and Purugly showed up and killed Delcatty with a bow. Girafarig chased Gliscor and stabbed him after he fell on the ground. Floatzel and Porygon-Z had escaped the bloodbath unharmed, but are killed with arrows out of nowhere. They had no idea who did it as it was Dark Absol seeking revenge on Team Darkrai for voting her out. Floatzel is very confused. Shaymin woke up and almost killed Houndoom by throwing an axe at him when he snuck up on her. Then, they're killed by Sudowoodo and Arbok. Sudowoodo expressed that she did it to avenge Gastrodon and started to cry which bothered Arbok considering he didn't really die. Banette, Persian, and Purugly are ambushed by Girafarig and Zoroark. But, they are killed immediately as they were sniffed out in time. Banette is told to keep watch as Persian and Purugly sleep. He agreed, but then is surprised to find Dark Absol. Dark Absol was surprised that he could see her, so they walk off to talk. As the sun rises, Banette runs back to find out Persian and Purugly were killed by Bellossom and Pachirisu. They run for it and Dark Absol stabbed Banette in the back so he wouldn't blow her cover. It's time for the feast. Bellossom and Ninetales are the first to show up, but Dewgong killed Bellossom before it got messy. Pachirisu then killed Ninetales. She left with her bag so she wouldn't have to fight Dewgong. Sudowoodo grabs her bag and is chased away by Dewgong. Arbok came in at the end and grabbed his bag without a problem. Arbok and Pachirisu meet up and hear a cannon. They realize Dewgong killed Sudowoodo when she didn't return and the challenge hadn't ended. The final 3 raced back to the cornucopia and climbed to the top of it. Dewgong swung an axe at Arbok and killed him. Dewgong and Pachirisu were conflicted as they didn't hurt each other. Pachirisu suggested that they eat nightlock berries, but Dewgong knew that they would just both lose. As this went down, Dark Absol snuck up and stabbed Dewgong in the back, killing him and giving the win to Pachirisu and Team Cresselia. Again, everyone is confused about what happened.
The castmates gather and are turned back into pokémon. Jellicent told them that Team Darkrai lost and Persian says that Banette has some explaining to do for leaving him and Purugly to die. All of Team Darkrai was back in their trailer and Banette tried to explain that he saw Absol and didn't leave Persian and Purugly for dead on purpose. Unfortunately, this just made them think he had lost his mind and was making up lies to save himself. He also tried to throw Dewgong under the bus as he died out of nowhere and didn't want to fight Pachirisu. But, his allies came to his defense. However, it still came down to Banette and Dewgong at the awards ceremony with Banette getting the boot. He feels so defeated and whines on the way out about nobody believing him.