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.