Chapter 6 The Land of Happiness

BEEEP-BEEEP-BEEEP-BEEEP! It was the horrible sound of the hospital. Stephen and Goldeen lay on a bed, while doctors tried to figure out what to do. Squirtle, Aloof, Idea, and the Pokedex waited outside impatiently. The doctor emerged, with an unhappy look on his face.
"I'm sorry to say this, but... I'm afraid that your friend and his Pokémon have gone onto the land of happiness," he said. Aloof burst into tears.

After the burial ceremony, Squirtle sadly continued Stephen's journey with Aloof, the Pokedex, and his Stephen suit. There was an eerie silence among them as they walked. Idea had given Squirtle the badge immediately, as he had felt sorry for them. Aloof wished that she could hear Stephen's weird all-caps voice once again. Squirtle missed Goldeen's mindless blabbering about video games. Squirtle involuntary laughed when thinking this. The thought of video games when you could be reading The Study of Composition and Sculpture in the Current Museum of the Archives Guild of Environmentalists!

Meanwhile, a Human Being Wannabee was digging up a graveyard. It was trying to bury itself for fun. As he piled dirt on himself he thought,
'If I bury myself, I may be able to become human!' However, he felt someone else in the grave with him. It was Stephen. Stephen, who was not dead, but only sleeping, climbed out of the grave, and buried himself in another one.
"IT ARE SURE LESS SQUISHY HERE THEN THAT THERE BEFORE PLACE!"

Squirtle and Aloof walked sadly along their path, heads hanging. On each side of them were grassy plains that stretched to eternity. Suddenly, they fell into a hole.

Prepare for badness!
And a little sadness!
To steal your Pokémon then abuse them so!
With our Cyndaquil here, you should know!
We steal Pokémon at the speed of Winnie the Pooh!
You had better watch out, or we will steal yours too!
Jacqueline!
Jack!
Team Rocket steals Pokémon, and hurts them too!
We don't care if you prosecute or sue!
Cyndaquil!

They saw Team Rocket leaned their heads over the hole.
"Now hand over Goldeen. Or else. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" said Jack.
"Sorry, no can do," said Squirtle sadly. "Pidgeot, pull us out of here." Holding on to Pidgeot, Squirtle and Aloof rose out of the hole. However, a machine grabbed Squirtle and Aloof and started shaking them upside-down. All Squirtle and Aloof's possessions fell into a bag that the machine placed under them.

"Oh well, let's just steal this stuff instead!" said Jacqueline, and she began throwing Pokeballs at everything. They collected the Pokeballs, and got into the machine. The machine put down Squirtle and Aloof, and began to fly away, when it blew up! Squirtle and Aloof ran over to the scene. The machine had blasted off, but the Pokeballs had conveniently fallen out.
"What happened?" asked Aloof. Dunsparce popped out of its Pokeball.
"Dun!" It said. Its Foresight had hit! It had been quite a few paragraphs. Squirtle remembered back to when Dunsparce had used Foresight. Sadly, Squirtle's prediction was true. Stephen wasn't alive. They collected everything, and made their way to Cockamamie City. Squirtle was to battle Impull Siv, leader of the Parishioners Gym.

Goldeen woke up from its nap and flopped around. It flopped out of a hole that a Human Being Wannabee had made, and it figured out that,

"HUMAN-BEING WANNABEE DIG HOLE BEFORES I WER AY-WAKE UP! ME FIND MASTER NOWS!" Goldeen picked the shovel up somehow, even though it had no hands, and dug up the whole graveyard. It found Stephen, and they went to find Squirtle, Aloof, and Dunsparce. If they found them, then they found them, which they did. Aloof was exasperated.
"You must have been so stupid that you couldn't die!"

"WHAT DIE? JUST SLEEP AM!"

"Then you must be too stupid to have a pulse! Or maybe you're just too stupid for the afterlife..."

"WHAT. STOP USE BIG WORDS." Squirtle finally realized just how stupid Stephen really was. He realized that in the beginning he should have found a better trainer like Aloof, but now he was bound to Stephen forever.

They arrived at the Parishioners Gym.
"I ARE GETTING FIFTH BADGE CAUSE I IS WANTING TO!" Stephen walked into the (fortunately open) door of the gym. The battlefield was normal concrete, and the roof looked like it could open.
"BATTLE ME DO YOU!"
"It will be three double-team battles. Best two out of three wins," said the nameless gym leader.
"WHAT ARE THAT BEING?"
"It is a battle in which you use two Pokémon to battle at the same time.
"OK!"
"Let the battle begin then. Gang and Gengey, go!" He released two Gengars.
"BULBASAUR, GOLDEEN I AM CHOSE YOU!" Stephen picked up Squirtle and Goldeen, and threw them at the Gengars. They went through the Gengars.
"Gengars, you know what to do!"
"BULBASAUR, GOLDEEN, DO WHATEVER!" Goldeen went to sleep, and so did Stephen. Squirtle knocked out Goldeen with himself, and then pretended to faint himself. He picked up Goldeen and walked back to the trainer box. Hiding behind a rock, he put on his Stephen suit. Aloof put Goldeen and Stephen in the Pokémon Center so that they wouldn't die again.
"I win the first round. Gengars, return, go other Gengars!" Two more Gengars
appeared on the field.
"Pidgeot and Raticate, go! Pidgeot, fly, and Raticate get on its back!
Flamethrower!"
"Gengars, you know what to do!" Pidgeot flew above Gengar and used
Flamethrower, and Raticate did likewise. One Gengar flew up to Pidgeot and used
Hypnosis. Pidgeot used Mirror Wave, and Hypnosis put Gengar to sleep. The other
Gengar, not noticing his partner was asleep and not Pidgeot and Raticate,
followed the plan and used Dream Eater. He ate his partner's dreams, knocking
one Gengar out. Pidgeot flew as high as the roof could go, then came barreling
down at Gengar. Raticate jumped off, and using Pidgeot's speed, Raticate used
Hyper Fang on Gengar. Pidgeot's sharp beak then pierced Gengar, knocking it out.
"The match is tied!" A ref announced. "One battle left!"
"Pidgeot, Raticate, return! Charizard, Bulbasaur, go! You know what to do!"
(Aloof had given him Charizard.) Bulbasaur jumped on Charizard's back, and they
flew into the air.
"Fearow, Magneton go! You know what to do!" Magneton hovered to the same height
as Charizard and Bulbasaur, and used Thunder.
''Yes!" Squirtle said quietly to himself. The roof opened, and the sky filled
with clouds. Bulbasaur used Sunny Day, and used Solar Beam twice on Magneton
almost knocking it out. Magneton used Explosion, and Fearow used Mirror wave to
block the explosion. Charizard blocked Bulbasaur from the explosion, and
Bulbasaur was not hurt. Fearow flew above Charizard and Bulbasaur, and used Wing
Attack. Bulbasaur used Solar Beam, and Charizard used a Flamethrower to push the
Solar Beam faster. The two attacks hit each other in midair, but the Flame-Solar
Beam-thrower over came the wing attack, and both attacks hit Fearow. The
Flamethrower did even more damage because of Sunny day. Bulbasaur and Charizard
used it again, this time for the knockout. Fearow fell to the ground, X's for
eyes.
"The winner of the match is Stephen!" said the ref. Abra teleported the real
Stephen into the gym. Squirtle took his suit off behind a rock.
"Congratulations, you have won the Specter Badge," said Impull. He gave the
badge to Stephen. Stephen held it up in the air.
"YAH! ME EARN FITH BADGE BY SELF ONLY!" Everyone had a sweatdrop.