YES or NO

Know how, in the old Pokemon Red, Green and Yellow, after you beat the trainers on Nugget Bridge, a member of Team Rocket asks if you'd like to join them? How many of you actually hoped a YES or NO screen would pop up?

I'm not saying now that you're all grown up if you'd make the choice, no, I am asking if you would have back then. Back when you were barely 10, maybe even younger, when you first started playing. Back when you'd kill to watch Power Rangers, draw on Etch-A-Sketches, etc. Back when you were truly innocent to all of the war that plagues our everyday life, from all of the evil people.

Would you have?

I can sit here and type out creative and horrifying Pokemon pastas, make a stab at the eeriness of Lavender Town or The Ruins of Alph, but if you truly want to see corruption, see true terrifying evil, all you have to do is remember what it was like, when you had beaten down those trainers and you had received that NUGGET. All you have to do is remember how it felt when the Rocket member asked you:

"By the way, how would you like to join TEAM ROCKET?

We're a group of professional criminals specializing in POKEMON!

Want to join?"

Remember how disheartened you felt when the game wouldn't let you choose to be evil? What went on in our unripened psyche to even consider wanting to play the bad guy? Be honest with yourself; did you wait for that YES or NO screen?

Seems we lost our innocence a very, very long time ago.

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Credited to BiteSpider

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