"Yeah mom, I know not to have anything plugged up!" I yelled out my bedroom door. My mom is absolutely paranoid about electronics and lightning. Something about having it charging and the house being struck and then you get shocked through a keyboard or something and die. Hasn't she ever heard of lightening rods? That's what they do, right?
I settled down against a wall in my room with my trusty 3DS to play a bit of Pokemon Y, quite possibly my favorite Pokemon game to date. (The position would have been sealed if you could have your Pokemon follow you out of their balls...) I'm just about to capture A SHINY Tentacruel, when the charge light decided to change from blue to red. The sudden change in the background of my vision caused me to miscalculate and choose the wrong move to weaken the Tentacruel the appropriate amount, and I ended up killing it.
Staring at my 3DS in absolute rage, I grabbed the charger and plugged it into both the wall and the 3DS of Poorly Timed Light Changes. Deciding that the chance of encountering another Shiny was too slim, even if I did reset to a save, I set off to fail at beating the Elite Four again. (They've beat me 286 times across all games... On the contrary, I've beat them...not once.)
I ran up to the Elite Four castle-thing, armed with my team of previously undefeated Pokemon, and backed up by over 50 revives and 100 max potions. That was the moment that everything went black.