Here I was thinking that this was going to be like every other month, releasing at least one song or none at all. But apparently, I was able to make five songs this month. I don’t make sense sometimes. Last month I didn’t upload anything and now I’m here uploading five songs in a single month (but the Nyan Cat remix wasn’t serious does that still count lol). So here they all are in order.

Yeah.

Thank you guys so much! I know it’s a smaller milestone but I’d rather type this than disregard it, you know? Hehe ^w^

Ep 4: Eavesdropping

I’m lost in the forest trying to find Galaxy. Finding her is a chore. You never know where she is. You would think she’s easy to find because she’s purple, but that’s not the case with her. But I’m thinking about something while I’m looking for her. If the machines do explode, how severe would the explosion be? Maybe if there were more than two of the same machine and they were all emitting pulses, it would be bigger. But if it’s only two, it shouldn’t be that big, right?

I see Shadow up ahead. She’s out of breath.

“What happened?” I ask.

“Galaxy is being controlled,” she says.

We’re losing all of our friends, one by one. Earlier, Spider and Wave started being controlled again. We still don’t know who’s doing this or where they are. And since Galaxy’s part of it now, there’s a much bigger chance they’re going to find us now. But then I remember something.

“When you were fighting the Charmeleon, how come you didn’t become controlled too?”

Shadow looks up at me. “I don’t know,” she says. “The mind control spreads through contact, and I know I touched him. Maybe we’re immune somehow?”

But that doesn’t make sense. How would we be immune to something everyone else is affected by? Being totally immune to something isn’t realistic. I look at Shadow. She looks like she’s thought of something.

“What if one person isn’t enough? What if more people need to be around us for us to be affected?”

“I don’t understand it, though,” I say. “Why are we different from everyone else?”

“I don’t know,” she admits. “Remember, I’ve never really been into mind control so I have no idea what’s going on.”

The sun is setting and I’m starting to get scared. The forest is very creepy at night. “Can we get out of here, please?” I ask.

She knew I was scared. She nods and we find our way out of the forest before it gets too dark.

When we get out of the forest, we head to the town. Shadow stops me just before we get there.

“What are you doing?” I ask.

“We don’t know how many people are being controlled.”

“Yeah,” I agree. “But again, there could be almost nobody affected at all. What if we sneak?”

“I guess we could do that,” Shadow says, reluctantly.

We start sneaking, looking in every direction for green eyes. The town is big, so we don’t know if there are a lot of Pokémon or almost none at all. After a while, I realize that this is different from usual. The town has never been like this before. It’s always been crowded and busy with Pokémon going every which way, even at night. But there isn’t anyone in sight.

We get close to the center of town and we hear noise. Not just the fountain, though. There’s a female voice talking. I look around the corner and see a huge mob of Pokémon with green eyes crowding around someone. I can’t see close enough to know who it is. I can only see the tail, but it’s still hard to tell just by that alone. My guess is this is who’s controlling everyone.

“What’s going on?” Shadow peeks behind me, trying to look. “Oh, my goodness,” she gasps. “I didn’t expect there to be this many.”

“Do you know who’s speaking?” I ask.

“I don’t think so. It’s kind of hard to tell when it’s all muffled.”

I sigh quietly. I hide behind the building. Shadow keeps looking. My heart starts pounding, knowing we’re going to get caught if she keeps this up. She stops looking and hides behind the building with me. She’s breathing very fast.

“Shadow, are you ok?”

“No, I’m not,” she says. “I was listening to the voice of whoever was talking and…”

“And what? Do you know who it is?” I’ve never heard this voice before, but there are clear signs Shadow does.

Shadow gulps. She looks like all the life was taken out of her. “Yes, and I don’t like it.”

“Well, who is it?”

To my surprise, she starts crying. I don’t know what to do at this point, so I just let her cry. A few minutes pass and she finishes.

“I’m sorry you had to see me like this, Comet,” she says, her voice breaking. “I’m feeling mixed emotions right now.”

“What are you feeling?”

“I feel happy, sad, and scared all at the same time.”

“Wait, you’re happy? Why?”

“I’m happy she’s alive.”

I don’t know who she’s talking about, but I guess it’s someone very close to her. I think about it for a second, then I realize who she’s talking about.

“Wait, it’s not who I think it is, is it?”

“Yeah, it is,” she says. “It’s my sister.”

I’ve never showed the lyrics to anyone besides the online friend I mentioned in the description (she’s more than a friend, more than a best friend too), but I should probably share them lol. The reason I didn’t want to share them was because I thought they were bad. I’ve never written lyrics for a song in my life. So I never shared them. But now I think is a good time to because I’ve stopped thinking about them. I’ve stopped thinking that they’re bad is what I mean. So here they are. Here’s the lyrics.

Btw if you want to follow along with the song, keep listening to the melody (80s Bitrate Synth is the “lyrics.” It’s the instrument you hear after the opening). Here’s the song: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1166907

It’s dark outside;

I’m in my bed.

I lay awake

With thoughts inside my head.

I close my eyes

And there I see

Your sparkly eyes

Waiting for me.

There’s something that I feel.

Can’t let it go

So what’s the deal?

When I look at you,

I realize that

These feelings are true.

[Chorus]

When I dream of you,

These thoughts make me feel like

I’m just going crazy.

When I dream of you,

Your smiles fill me up with

So much tears of joy.

When I dream of you,

I can see us both looking

Up at the sky.

And when I dream of you,

It makes me want to say

I love you.

[Drop]

Lillies growing

In the field.

I pick one up.

Here’s what I feel.

When I talk to you,

I feel

That loneliness

Just isn’t real.

I can’t explain it all.

Can I trust you

If I fall?

Every day and night,

I see your face

That shines so bright.

I cannot let it go.

Don’t leave me here

All on my own.

All I wish from you

Is for you to say

You love me too.

[Chorus]

When I dream of you,

These thoughts make me feel like

I’m just going crazy.

When I dream of you,

Your smiles fill me up with

So much tears of joy.

When I dream of you,

I can see us both looking

Up at the sky.

And when I dream of you,

It makes me want to say

I love you.

[Buildup and Drop]

It’s light outside.

Get out of bed.

I still have

Those thoughts inside my head.

But still I dream

And while I do,

I want you to know

That I love you.

Ep 3: Build

I drop off the plushy at Zappy’s house. Zappy thanks me by giving me a bear hug.

“I love it!” Zappy says while squeezing it with all her might. “Tell Shadow that her plushy is adorable!”

I give a weak smile, trying to recover from her hug. Her hugs can sometimes take the life out of you. I hover away, looking back to see her with the plushy, now throwing it in the air and catching it with a big grin on her face. I can’t help but keep smiling.

On my way to the beach, I see another green-eyed Pokémon looking at me. It doesn’t come after me though. I keep my distance from it and keep on going.

Shadow is lying down sleeping in the sand. I make some noise in the sand next to her to wake her up. She wakes up and looks at me.

“You’re here,” Shadow says, her voice breaking up.

“Should I let you sleep?” I ask.

“I’m fine,” she replies. “Just taking a nap while you were gone.”

“Zappy told me to tell you that your plushy is adorable.”

Shadow blushes and smiles at me. I smile thinking about Zappy having fun with her plushy. “So what did you want me here for?” I ask.

“We need to put these pieces together.” Shadow lay all the pieces of technology on the ground and we start to put them together.

“Do you not have backup lasers?” I ask.

“I wish,” she says. “I only built one set of lasers before stopping.”

I was surprised when she said she built it. I didn’t know she could build technology like this. “Can you build another set?”

“Maybe. I haven’t built anything in years so I don’t know.”

We finish fixing the contraption. Sadly, I couldn’t really help because I didn’t know what to do so Shadow did most of the work. I feel bad.

“That’s the last piece,” she says. “Maybe I should try and make another set of lasers. That’s the only thing we need left before it actually works. We’ll need to go back to my hideout for that.”

While we were heading back, I was wondering what would happen if two sets of mind control lasers interacted with each other. What I came up with wasn’t pretty. “What would happen if both sets of lasers are on at the same time?” I ask.

“I have no idea,” she admits. “When the lasers initially meet, it sets off a pulse that will cover an entire area, and it will continue to set off pulses until it deactivates. I haven’t thought about two sets of lasers setting off pulses at the same time before. I predict either one of two things might happen: either both sets of lasers fizzle out…” She pauses and frowns. “Or they explode.”

I gulp. She says they could explode but she didn’t say how big the explosion might be. Thoughts of the entire city blowing up fill my mind. I shake my head.

Shadow reads my face. “I wish I didn’t have to say that, but it’s a possibility. Both outcomes will destroy the machines but one result is more dangerous.”

I nod. I understand that they could potentially explode, but I just hope that doesn’t happen. If it’s a big explosion, all Pokémon in the area could be wiped out, including us.

Ghost Control is… uhhh…

Short answer is procrastination. But to be honest with you, ideas don’t come instantly. I’ve been writing a little bit at a time. No, I’m not cancelling it. It will be finished. I still want to get this story done.

Not being motivated to do things is a big problem for me, and it affects me in everything I like to do including writing this story. And when that motivation is lost, it’s hard for me to get it back. This is why I haven’t been writing… or making music a lot like I did last year. I’m just going to go my own pace. I’ve been told not to rush these things, so I won’t. I can assure you that this story is being actively worked on. Don’t worry.

There will be another update on this soon.

If you haven’t read the prequel yet, you can read it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOCzuU96biumJIbi-ZYlhp2CYcFxn3vsNzVGIWdcOpk/edit?usp=sharing

Probably one of my best songs in general so far. I always loved how my Tera remix sounded after finishing it, so I decided to turn it (using most of the same instruments) into an original song. This is the result, and I’m quite proud of it. Hope you like it!

Ep 2: Lasers

I’m right outside of Shadow’s hideout when I start to question if it really is her. Would Shadow do something like this? I don’t know if she can do something that looks this complex. I jump as Shadow opens the door. She’s smiling, but it soon fades as she looks at my face.

“What’s going on?” she asks.

“I think someone is controlling our friends,” I explain.

She looks at me like I’m crazy.

“It’s true!” I say. “It happened with Wave and Spider. They had these green eyes and their faces had no expression at all. They chased me all the way to Zappy’s house!”

“Are you losing sleep or something? I don’t think that’s even possible.“ She looks beside me. “Watch out!”

I turn to my left and see a green-eyed Charmeleon. I jump out of the way as soon as he’s about to attack me. I remember what Spider said earlier. I’m not sure if it actually spreads by contact, but I’m not willing to find that out the hard way. Shadow started attacking them, not wanting them to hurt me. I see his green eyes fading as they turn back to normal.

That made me think. “If you attack the Pokémon that’s being controlled enough, maybe they’ll snap out of it,” I thought.

After Shadow finishes attacking the Charmeleon, she catches her breath. “Ok,” she says. “Maybe you’re not losing sleep after all. Sorry for not believing you.”

“It’s ok,” I laugh. “It wouldn’t seem that believable to me either if I heard it from someone.” I look at the Charmeleon. “You ok?”

The Charmeleon groans. “I’m alright.” He stands up slowly. His legs are shaking.

“Are you sure?” I ask.

“No,” he sighs. “I don’t think I’ll be able to walk.”

I wrap an arm around him to help him walk. He’s able to walk fine with some help. We start to walk toward my house where he can get some rest. My house has been like a haven for many Pokémon. I don’t know why I do it, but when someone isn’t feeling great, I just let them rest up at my house.

“What happened to me?” he asks.

“You were being controlled,” I answer. “I don’t know who’s doing it, but that’s what Shadow and I are figuring out. I’m Comet, by the way.”

“Nice to meet you.” He gives a weak smile.

We reach my house and I open the door. “You can rest up here if you want,” I say. “The guest bedroom’s on the right.”

“Thank you so much,” he says with a sigh of relief. He then makes his way to the bedroom.

Shadow’s still outside when I come back. At this point, I don’t think it’s her, but with what she’s done in the past, you never know.

“So someone’s controlling Pokémon?” she asks.

“Yes,” I say. “That’s why I came over to see if you were the one doing it.”

She nods. “I can see why you would think it’s me. But I can safely say it’s not. I can show you.” She hovers into her hideout and I follow her inside.

“Have you done mind control before?” I ask.

“I’ve dabbled in it before,” she says. “I was never good at it, though.” In the back of one room, she opens a closet. There are several pieces of technology inside it with dust everywhere. “This is my old control tech. It hasn’t been used in years.” She finds more pieces within all the dust, and an old plushy too.

“Do you mind if I see your plushy?” I ask.

“No,” she replies, embarrassed that they were even in there.

Besides the Mimikyu and Raichu plushies she had, she also had an old Pichu plushy. Her sister, Thunder, must’ve had it when she was little. Shadow keeps the Raichu plushie to remember her. Electro told me she died in a battle against a water type, and he was there when it happened.

After digging for a few minutes, she finds all the pieces to her mind control set. “That’s all of them,” she says. She examines each piece but then realizes that two pieces are missing. “Where are the two lasers?”

“What do those do?” I ask.

“Well, they’re supposed to face each other and when you turn them on, you can start to…” she trails off.

I know what she was going to say. Those lasers can control people. “We need to find those lasers,” I say.

“But how?” Shadow asks. “They could be anywhere. And who knows who’s using them?”

I thought about this for a moment and shook my head. “I’m not sure, but I think we’ll find a way.” Then I remember something. “Galaxy can probably help!” I exclaim. “She has super sensitive hearing so she can hear stuff any direction, even below her.”

Shadow nods. “Then let’s go find her.”

“But one more thing,” I say with a big smile.

Shadow looks at me confused.

“Can I keep the plushy?” I know some of the plushies she has are important to her, but if she put this one in a closet and forgot about it, maybe I could take care of it for her.

“Sure, you can have it,” she says. “Maybe give it to Zappy. I heard she loves plushies.”

“Oh, yeah! I’ll definitely give it to her. She’ll love it.” If Zappy only had one weakness, it would be stuffed animals.

We both leave Shadow’s hideout.

“Meet me at the beach after you’re done, ok?” she asks.

“No worries,” I say. “It’ll only take me a few minutes.”

She nods then hovers toward the beach.

Hopefully, it’ll take me a few minutes.

Ep 1: Green Eyes

I rush to Zappy’s house. Yes, we all have houses. Seems a bit weird, doesn’t it? Usually, Pokémon don’t have houses, but sometimes we have to defy the laws. I open the door to see Zappy inside pacing back and forth. She wanted me for some reason, but she didn’t tell me why.

“What’s going on?” I ask.

“I need your help!” she says.

“For what?”

“It’s Spider.”

Spider is Zappy’s boyfriend. He’s a Luxio. He got his name because he could stick to any surface using his claws for a long time. I wish I had claws, but you can’t change what you already have. Unless you can change into a completely different Pokémon. I wonder if you can do that. “What happened to him?” I ask.

“He went out to go somewhere with Wave. He was only supposed to be gone for a little bit, but it’s been about a half hour and he isn’t back yet!”

I never thought Spider would be late for anything. That’s not like him. And since Wave is only with one other person, he’s bound to have gotten lonely real fast. Maybe something did happen to them. “Ok,” I say. “I’ll find them for you.”

“Thanks so much!” A big smile went across Zappy’s face.

I smile as well. Her smiles were always infectious to me. I hover out of the house and went to search for them. To be honest, they could be anywhere. Zappy didn’t even tell me where they last were. I was able to find them near the beach. Their backs are turned away from me.

“Hey, Spider! Hey, Wave!” I say.

They don’t respond. Weird. Usually, Wave is the first one to say anything when he hears someone.

“Spider? Wave? Are you ok?” I slowly creep closer to them.

Spider’s head quickly turns to me. I jump back. It felt like something from a horror movie. I got chills thinking about it. But something seems… off. I tilt my head, confused. His eyes are green. I’ve never seen that before. My eyes turn pink from anger and purple because of stress. But green? My eyes have never turned green. At least, I don’t recall a time when they have. And to add to that, he’s not even talking to me. What is going on?

“Are you ok, Spider?” I repeat. I’m worried for him.

Spider slowly walks up to me. His face is expressionless. Then Wave turns around as well, his eyes are also green. Both their faces have no expression. I back up, not knowing what to do. Then they start running toward me.

Now I’m really scared. I try to outrun them, but they’re catching up to me. I don’t know what it is that made them this fast, but I bet it’s whatever’s going on with them. I turn my head around to see how close they are to me. It’s not long until they reach me. Spider tries to lunge at me, but he misses and lands with a face full of sand. I chuckle at him. I turn my head back and see Zappy’s house ahead and I smile. I know Zappy will help me. I try to open the door. It’s locked. So I try knocking—hard. She answers the door and lets me in.

“What’s going on out there?” Zappy asks.

“Spider and Wave… they’re trying to get me…” I say, out of breath.

“What do you mean?” She looks out the front window to see Spider and Wave outside. They’re still running to the house. “Why are their eyes green?”

“I don’t know,” I say. “I’ve never seen that before.”

Zappy is startled when she hears Spider trying to knock down the door. “Well, we better put something in front of the door so they won’t get in.”

I nod and start to look for something. There’s nothing big enough that will block the door. Nothing that I can carry. I turn around. Zappy is still looking out the window. “Everything ok over there?”

Zappy looks like she might cry her eyes out. But that changes in an instant when Wave breaks the window. Zappy screams. I never heard such a girly scream from Zappy before, but there’s a first time for everything.

Wave climbs through the window and tries to attack Zappy. But when he does, his eyes turn back to normal. He blinks a few times and looks around. “Where am I?” he asks Zappy.

Zappy is too shocked to say anything.

I look outside to see Spider’s eyes back to normal as well. How is this happening?

“I think those green eyes had something to do with it,” Spider says.

“Wait, Spider, how did his eyes become green?” I ask.

“I have no idea. It just seemed to have happened. And I guess it spread to me.”

“How?”

“He did touch me after his eyes turned green and I think mine turned green after that. Maybe it spreads by contact like a virus infection would.”

That would make sense. But I still don’t know how this whole thing happened in the first place. Is someone controlling them? I don’t know if it would be Shadow doing this, but with her, you can’t doubt anything. Plus, she could go back to her evil ways at any minute. Maybe this is her betrayal. But let’s not jump to conclusions right away.

“I have to talk to Shadow about this,” I say to them.

“But Shadow stopped doing evil things months ago!” Zappy protests. “How could it be her?”

“I’m not saying it’s her, but I just want to make sure.” I hover out of the house to find her. I turn around to look at Spider and Wave. “You guys should rest up here for a little bit.”

They nod and try to find the bedroom. I turn to Zappy. “And don’t worry,” I begin. “I’ll replace your window for you.”

Zappy smiles. “Thanks, but I think I got it covered.”

I smile at her and head outside. If this is Shadow’s fault, then she’s been faking being good for the last three months.

Please don’t let it be her that’s causing this.

Yes, I’m making a sequel. I’ve been wanting to do it before I finished Ghost Killer and now work has been started on it. I don’t know how long this one will be, hopefully longer.

Unlike Ghost Killer, this story will be fully told in Comet’s POV. If you haven’t read Ghost Killer yet, Comet is the main character of the story, and she will be the main character of this one as well. So far, only the preview has been made. There will be more information on this soon, but I just wanted to share this with you so you know what’s happening.

I will leave a link to Ghost Killer here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOCzuU96biumJIbi-ZYlhp2CYcFxn3vsNzVGIWdcOpk/edit?usp=sharing