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>Spend afternoon grinding in Mt Silver while listening to random youtube videos
>Suddenly shiny Ponyta
>Fuck yeah a shiny!
>Goddammit its a Ponyta
>Should I even bother catching it? It is not like I am going to use it and my Arcanine is almost ready for Red anyway
>Looks kinda washed out, isn't the shiny supposed to have cool blue flames? And shiny Rapidash looks kinda lame iirc too...
>Fuck it. Shiny clause so may as well!
>Successfully catch the Ponyta
>Go back to the video and mindlessly pressing A, completely forgetting about the Ponyta
>Several encounters later
>Too focused on the video to notice Arcanine's only move with PP is Rock Smash
>Wild GOLBAT appeared!
>Wild GOLBAT used Mean Look!
>Wild GOLBAT Used Confuse Ray!
>Forced to watch in horror as the Arcanine I spent hours training is veeery slowly getting killed by a Golbat half his level
>Arcanine struggles himself to death
>Walk of shame back to the pokecenter to release Arcanine
>See the Ponyta in the box
>A shiny is a shiny, may as well use it for the final fight
>Start slowly and carefully training the Ponyta
>PONYTA is evolving!
>Turns into a majestic as fuck unicorn with purple flames, easily one of the coolest shinnies I've ever seen
>Level up Rapidash all the way to lv75 in a daze
Today was a roller coaster of emotions