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Have posted this story a few times, but whatever.
>be 10 year old me, late 2003
>mum used to force me to let my younger brother have turns on my game
>playing Pokemon Sapphire, trying to catch Rayquaza
>either keep fainting or accidentally killing it
>reset game once again after killing it for what felt like the hundredth time
>black Rayquaza
>literally am in disbelief
>all my emotions
>I can't fuck this up
>carefully plan out attacks, manage to put it to sleep a few times/cut down its health everytime it used rest
>throwing ultra balls like crazy whenever I could
>run out of ultra balls
>throw all my great balls
>still not caught
>throw all my pokeballs and every other ball I had
>nope.jpg
>I... I have to use that ball
>go to throw master ball, it's gone
>stare at game in disbelief
>turn off my gba
>10 year old me couldn't handle the pain, cried for a few minutes
>brother gets home from sports
>"brother, where is my master ball?"
>"I put it in the PC"
Still have never gotten over it. Brother apparently put it there for safe keeping and still does that to this day in his own games.
inb4people claiming fake because of struggle or whatever. I put Rayquaza to sleep and can't remember exactly how many balls I threw, but it was 10 years ago and my memory's shit.
I've never even seen another shiny since that day. ;-;
