Oh, I gotta say it here once again outside of notes (actually wished I'd have gotten to that much earlier though) but I still really enjoy your fun ideas and way of bringing some of your stories into the fun and fantastic alongside treating characters in such a natural way, or at least it's definitely how I felt when I witnessed Shiny's jolly day in this tale of yours, ~kitutal~.

As said a while back, I think you got a nice way to describe amusing situation changes as well as having a good mix between direct speech and circumstantial prose. It just has a nice flow to it with a good attention to the characters that you write about. When I wrote you I felt very lucky about the kind chance to see some of my ideas replied to by you and given the opportunity to see Shiny having a fun little squeaky adventure here (one of the various that tends to happen when you are a playful and curious Totodile like him, hehe).
Introducing ideas like having the package delivered by a friendly Machamp Postmon (love that idea as it adds familiarity and relatability to the story: who doesn't look forward to get something nice in their mail) and seeing how Shiny behaves with his typical outgoing and optimistic demeanor throughout the shortstory makes you quickly get behind how the lil fella is both in regards of his interests and general traits.

I found it supersweet of you that you went the extramile to make a little extra edit in the later parts of the story to add more to the shuffling between balloons paragraphs and also the drawing in the thumbnail is very cute, too. A funny accident of squished and trapped proportions with Shiny's balloons indeed. 🎈

Some amusing details are of course the connective points regarding remarks that Shiny and also Benny made during this one. Like the parts with the rainy weather alone gave me a smile. I could actually imagine that if Shiny actually would get swepped up in silly situations where he's just floating down a river he'd mostly go over how refreshing the water is and wait it out until he either gets fished out by somebody or arrives ashore to have an interesting voyage home afterwards. He sure is carefree but has a sense for finding lots of fun even when he loses control over things. X3

I still enjoy coming back to this one and keep having images in my mind where Shiny is likely re-inflating the Pokéball and uses it like a hamsterball or lazes around inside like a Pokémon waiting for their trainer to call them outside. While I assume that he found a remote in the meanwhile it sure is great to read your lines of how Shiny's first test with the large toy ended up in him sticking around inside with not really a way to get out at first. Though as we know by now, the little guy doesn't mind to wait or being toonishly flattened until assistance arrives. He's lucky that he can take things easy and finds support in such topsy-turvy moments.

Ah! I thought I had it already faved long ago. Fixed now!
In any way, lovely read still. If you ever want or allow having Shiny in one of your creative and fun stories again (and not mind them sticking to a non-blue bordered format, I'd be happy to see him joining into something from you again later on. You did wonderful. Thank you! Hope you don't mind hearing that again. ^_^