Ooo Look At Me I'm A Big Scary Ghost

Haunter sneaking up on Charmander with a frightened Bulbasaur in the background

**Ooo Look At Me I'm A Big Scary Ghost** is the eighth episode in the *Starter Squad* series.

## Plot

The episode begins with Charmander waking up in a berry field, barfing on a Sandshrew near him, who gives him berries to cure Charmander, then Bulbasaur comes by and tells Charmander the berries here are so delicious! Charmander realizes that Squirtle is missing and criticizes himself for losing Squirtle, the Sandshrew comforts Charmander, saying that everyone makes mistakes and says that they can be useful, then the same Pidgeotto who snatch Leader Caterpie and killed the Weedle from the 2 previous episodes comes by and snacks on berries, Charmander sees him and yells at him for leading him and Squirtle to a fake forest king, the Pidgeotto says that he's hilarious, then the Sandshrew tells Charmander about the Pidgeotto and what he does. The Pidgeotto offers Bulbasaur a shoe to eat, Charmander swipes the shoe off of the Pidgeotto's foot and tries to talk back but uses empathy to control himself, he then acts politely about the green worms that usually get hunted for food, the Pidgeotto answer Charmander by saying that Leader Caterpie trained a Nidoran to poison Charmander, after realizing that the Pidgeotto is smart, Charmander makes a truce with the Pidgeotto and asks him where the caterpies are, the Pidgeotto points to the right but Charmander thinks that the Pidgeotto is tricking him again and chooses to go to the left instead, so he and Bulbasaur head off to the left while the Pidgeotto tries to say to Charmander that he is being serious this time, but Charmander refuses to listen to him. Meanwhile, Charmander and Bulbasaur head to a nearby mansion with a Haunter showing up and controls Bulbasaur to get him and Charmander into the mansion, with that working, the duo head in. Charmander and Bulbasaur make their way to the top, discovering graves, dead bodies of them and a Gastly on their way. Charmander and Bulbasaur make it to the next floor, to see another Charmander trying to escape, only for him to be eaten by a giant scary Haunter, Bulbasaur gets so scared he runs downstairs, Charmander finds a rock and throws it at the giant Haunter, with that happening, the giant Haunter turns into the Haunter from earlier, showing that he is actually pretending this whole time, after a talk, Haunter fades away laughing after saying that he is the fear. Charmander calls for Bulbasaur to come back up, only to find that the door is missing, with a mysterious shape in front of him, Charmander gets a bit startled, then the Gastly from earlier pops out and scares Charmander, Haunter gets upset and yells at the Gastly, he tells Charmander that he was setting up tension until the Gastly ruined everything, Charmander says he wants to go up the tower but Haunter tells Charmander that he has to experience the tower, making Charamander attempting to attack Haunter, only for him to disappear. Bulbasaur comes back, telling Charmander if he defeated the monster, then they go back up to the floor they went up earlier, only to find three things in front of them. Bulbasaur starts barfing, causing Charmander to say that Bulbasaur is not Bulbasaur, revealing that Bulbasaur was actually Haunter, he asks Charmander where is Bulbasaur and asks him why the nearby stool is laughing at Charmander, Bulbasaur heads back up and sees the stool laughing, making Bulbasaur a bit better. Bulbasaur then asks Haunter if he has seen Squirtle and gives him three hints: blue, has a shell, talks in a weird way. Charmander tells Bulbasaur that Haunter is not helping, then a fake Squirtle comes out of nowhere, only for it to be set on fire, revealing it was Haunter again. Haunter gets upset again and tells Charmander he is supposed to engage with the fake Squirtle for horroe experience, Charmander tries to pander Haunter by faking being scared, only for the Gastly to scare him again, making Charmander angry. Haunter gets frustrated, telling Charmander he is by far the most tasteless and unpleasant individual he ever had to dissatisfaction of dealing with, Charmander talks back, saying that all he wanted to do is climb the tower and tells him he is the one responsible for all of the interrupting, and says that what he did is not scary because it is not real. Suddenly, MissingNo. appears again, with Hitmonchan still attached to it, Haunter looks at it, admires it and starts saluting about it. Haunter walks too close to MissingNo. unknowingly, causing him to get fused into the glitch along of Hitmonchan, leaving him controlled my MissingNo. instead of himself. Charmander gets angry and wants to fight Haunter now, he charges right towards him, only for a Mewtwo to come out of nowhere, throws Charmander away and starts attacking MissingNo. After MissingNo. is defeating, Mewtwo sees Charmander and punishes him be choking him, he tells Charmander that his actions doomed everyone else, he also says that Charmander is very lucky because Mewtwo doesn't have the necessary time to punish Charmander, if he did, he would make him suffer for getting lots of work by Charmander to do, and also says he enjoys sleeping as well. Bulbasaur asks Mewtwo if he saw Squirtle anywhere, Mewtwo drops Charmander and teleports to duo to Viridian Forest, the spot where Squirtle is, he then goes back and gets the Sandshrew from earlier and demands him to dig, scaring the Sandshrew and making him dig straight down. Finally, he tells Charmander and Bulbasaur that he will be in Cerulan Cave, and leaves on final note if the duo sees anything that doesn't look real, they better not touch it, after that, he teleports away, leaving the duo on their quest to find Squirtle.

## Characters

### Pokemon

* Charmander
* Bulbasaur
* Sandshrew
* Pidgeotto
* Gastly
* Haunter
* Mewtwo

## Trivia

* This is the first (and so far, only) episode to not feature Squirtle.
* Haunter's demon form look similar to the Black Fog, a Pokémon variant exclusive to the manga *The Electric Tale of Pikachu*.
* When reversed, the living tree's speech is "I am not a tree".