Dun dada dun dadada dun DUNNNNNN…..GUITAR SOLO! Dunno why but the opening to Barracuda song just fits so well with the mission the crew's taking on. Either that or my lack of sleeps kicking in. XD

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"TALK OLLIE TALK!"

"I think I'm deaf in one ear…."

Everyone stood on top of Lookout Ridge, gazing at Pueltown. While Kate took a moment to properly capture shaymin (didn't want those machines to interfere), Luana decided to vent her feelings. Via shouting over the ledge.

"You always did have the stronger voice." Kate sweatdropped.

"Seriously? Warn us before you do that!" Crawford said.

"Heh heh…sorry!" Luana giggled.

"Yay! Yelling is so much fun!" Shaymin said.

"We should give it a shot!" Chia laughed.

"Maybe after the mission you two." Kate told them.

The two of them started walking on ahead. Kate wondered where Keith was, only to see him catch up to her.

"Here." Keith handed her something. "I found some flowers growing and thought you might like one."

It was pretty and vibrant; a strong pink color with a soothing aroma.

"Oh Keith, its beautiful!" Kate smiled. "I love them!"

"Wait a moment….I know these kinds of flowers anywhere! Hold it up for me!" Shaymin requested.

Kate did so. Shaymin turned a gold, sparkly color. Its shape changed to an almost reindeer like pokemon.

"Sky form, woo!" Shaymin cheered, starting to fly around.

"Keith, you gave me gracidea flowers to help shaymin fly! Thank you!" Kate said, tucking the flower in her pocket.

"Er….yeah." Keith responded. "That's why I gave you the flower!"

"Aw! Shaymin's adorable!" Luana squealed.

Everyone continued down the path through Vienforest. Shaymin was having fun flying around, playing with Chia and Wave. Kate felt her spirits soar along with shaymin, seeing how happy everyone was. Though the mood changed once they started hearing the whirring noise.

"That's what the machine sounds like?" Luana moaned, pressing her temples.

"Yeah…and there's more in town." Crawford replied.

"I no like the scary noises." Shaymin pouted. "Hurts my head."

Kate followed the group inside. Sure enough, one strange red machine was set on the corner of a street. And dozens of pokemon were in hypnotized pain, becoming violent.

"Yo Crawford!"

A man walked over to them. Flowery tourist shirt, pink hair, strange tan lines…was he some kind of tourist? Or just eccentric?

"Hey Brook!" Crawford greeted. "Everyone, this is Brook. He's in charge of the Drawbridge up north. We're old friends."

"Somethings wrong with the city. I saw these strange men put these….ah….mailboxes in town." Brook told them. "Now the pokemon are acting up. Are pokemon anti-postal service or something?"

"Worse! They're being hypnotized!" Luana said.

"Well I hope you can stop them then. There are quite a few of them popping up all over the place." Brook sighed.

"Can do." Crawford nodded. "We'll split up to cover more ground."

"Kate!" Kate saw shaymin flying high up. "I see some weird guys carrying another machine across the pier!"

"I'll take the east side." Kate volunteered, knowing the piers would be east.

"I'll cover south side." Keith joined in.

"I call the west side!" Luana chimed.

"I'll cover the west side. Can't have you shopping right now." Crawford snickered. "If any of you finish your area, join up with someone."

"GO RANGERS!"

Everyone split up. Kate followed shaymin on the way to the docks. The noises were giving her a headache but the salty sea air always helped. Kate loved the pier for ocean views, watching ships…though the time for that wasn't now.

"Which way shaymin?" Kate asked.

"That way….wait…" Shaymin looked another way. "Up here! There's a little girl in trouble!"

Kate saw the stairs leading there was blocked by an electric gate. No way to get by without a jolt.

"Let me handle that." Chia stepped up.

She launched a thunderbolt towards the gate. The gate took the hit and blew right up, letting Kate pass by.

"You're amazing, you know that?" Kate high fived the electric pokemon.

"But of course!" Chia smirked. "Let's roll!"

Quick jog up the stairs and Kate found herself in a plaza. A few pokemon (elekid and magby) were circling around a little girl. She looked sort of like…

"Melody?" Kate exclaimed.

"Help!" Melody cried out, shivering. "Someone save me!"

Kate scanned the area for the machine responsible. There it was!...but wait. That one was blue. Walking up to the machine, Kate inspected it with her styler. It needed electric or grass to stop it. Wait…red needed water. So…

"Of course!" Kate snapped her fingers. "Each gigaremo is a different color and stands for typing! Red means fire and the one back in Marine cave could've been eliminated by anything water. A blue represents water so either grass or electric will stop this version of the machine!"

"Then I'll help you on this one!" Shaymin flew down to Kate's level.

Shaymin summoned energy and let loose an seed flare onto the machine. Yes! It worked! The machine exploded and died! Pokemon were free! And so was Melody!

"Thank you so much!" Melody ran over. "Huh? Wait aren't you Issac's friend?"

"Yep! I met you back at the graduation ceremony." Kate said.

"Melody!"

Brook came racing over.

"Brook?" Kate blinked.

"Mr. Brook!" Melody smiled. "Issac's friend saved me! She's so cool! The pachirisu and shaymin are cute too!"

"Someone has good taste." Chia smugly boasted.

"I'll take you home." Brook offered Melody. "it's a bit dangerous to be out right now."

"Ok." Melody agreed. "Bye Issac's friend!"

The pair went off. Back to business. Shaymin led Kate through the harbor, Chia eliminating the blue gigaremos along the way. Pokemon were relieved to be back to normal and scurried away. But how many of the blasted machines were there?

"Damn rangers! They're wrecking our gigaremo units!"

Voices came from the shipping container area. Kate ducked behind a crate to listen, Chia and shaymin too.

"It's because we took so long installing them. Not our fault they're so heavy."

"Four people to carry one? It's freakin insane."

"Hey we got data for the experiment so this isn't a complete loss."

"True, true."

"We'll ditch this backwater place in a few minutes. Can't risk getting caught."

"How about we go for pizza?"

Gigaremo? Experiment? What the heck was going on? Were those men planning something? Time to make an appearance.

"You know, there's a great pizza place downtown. You should go." Kate walked into the open. "Assuming you won't be locked in jail for your little 'experiment'. Care to explain whats going on?"

There were five men, all in strange black & purple leotards surrounding a yellow gigaremo (Kate guessed that was what it was called). They seemed extremely anxious once Kate showed up.

"You vandal!"

"What do you have against the brilliance of a gigaremo?"

"Who are we, you ask? Why we're team Dim Sun!"

"Criminal syndicate dreaming of world domination, here to perform gigaremo experiments all over Pueltown!"

"To see if we can control pokemon like puppets!"

"YOU IDIOTS!" The apparent leader of the group snapped. "You can't tell her anything! Now we'll have to take her out!"

"Sorry admin…."

"I'm game." Kate readied the styler.

"Rattata, swarm!"

"Toxicrogunk, go!"

"You let me take care of the rattata." Shaymin said. "Good luck on the toxicrogunk!"

"Don't you worry." Kate told her.

Shaymin attacked the rat pokemon while Kate charged into a boss battle. It wasn't as hard at the tangrowth, surprisingly. A bit harder to catch when it bounced but Kate easily cornered the pokemon and let Chia handle the electricity. Stunning it made things easier. By the time Kate wrapped things up, shaymin hadn't even broken a sweat as she finished off the remaining rattata.

"Enough!" The admin yelled. "Sound the retreat! Carry the gigaremo unit back to the ship!"

The grunts carried the gigaremo and scurried. Admin ran behind them with Kate chasing.

"You won't get away with this!" Kate called out.

In a surprise attack, the admin grabbed Kate and pushed her into the water. As she struggled to grab onto the pier, Kate heard the sounds of a boat whistle. Something about a super Brook jump too?

"Hey!" A hand pulled her back to land.

"Thanks." Kate gasped, seeing it was Keith.

"We came as fast as we could, hearing about things from Brook." Keith said. "You alright?"

"Battled some goons and learned what those wicked machines are. But I couldn't catch those creeps." Kate sighed.

"Are you kidding? You did great! Learning info for Hastings will make this a success!" Luana squeezed Kate. "I am so proud of you!"

"That info will be lost….ack….if you keep squishing me!" Kate gacked.

"Come on Luanna, better release her." Crawford sweatdropped.

"I wanna play!" Shaymin landed on Luanna's head.

"YOU ARE SO CUTE!" Luana hugged shaymin, releasing Kate from the grasp. "Such a pretty pokemon!"

"Yaaaaay!" Shaymin didn't seem to mind at all.

"Hey where'd Brook go?" Keith looked around.

As if on cue, there was a splash. Brook rose from the ocean, with sandals in his teeth.

"Ptto." Spit the sandals out. "Couldn't catch em. Sorry."

"You tried." Crawford shrugged. "I'm just glad no one got hurt. Apart from Luana's hug-of-death."

"Shall we go home?" Keith said.

"We'll fill in the details through voicemail." Luana agreed, flipping open her styler.

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Keith…we see what you did dere! XD

But mission success! Report back to base people!