Upon arriving to Aqua Resort, Ben and his friends search for Weber to learn more about Articuno, only to discover he chassed after the Pinchers who were in the middle of a scuffle with Suicune. The teams wastes no time as they head out for Canal Ruins.

Three Pinchers on Z.Z. Flyers surrounded a blue Pokemon with a purple back. It stood on the river like it was solid ground. "Show-off, all running on top of the water. But there's nowhere left to run! Prepare yourself!"

"What are you doing?! Stop this instant!" Summer yelled.

As Ben and the others hurried over, the Pinchers turned to face them. "Why are there Rangers here?! This is what those who interfere get!"

A Yanmega and Dodrio came running down the path towards them. Takumi turned to the Yanmega. "Get em, Unimon!"

"Holy Shot!" Takumi's Digimon charged a blue sphere of light in his mouth before firing into the bug type, knocking it backwards.

Summer pressed a button on her Styler and her Partner came out. "It's been a while since we last got in a fight, Staraptor, so be carful. Here goes! Arial Ace!"

Her bird Pokemon charged and rammed its beak into Yamega before flying straight up. "Don't take that lying down!" the Pincher ordered. "Air Slash!"

With the flap of it's wings, Yamega shot blade after blade of wind at Staraptor who dodge the attacks.

Meanwhile Arata took Keramon out of his Digivice and looked at Dodrio. "Hey, Ben. Bird Pokemon are typically weak to electricity, right?"

"That's right."

"In that case…"

DIGIVOLUTION

"Keramon Digivolve to…Wizardmon!"

"Alright." Arata looked at his target. "Let's light em up!"

Wizardmon held up his staff. "Thunder Cloud!" Bright sparks emitted from it and shocked Dodrio.

"Pichu!"

Ben's partner played his ukulele, sending sparks everywhere upon doing so. Both the opposing Pokemon were zapped. Fei snapper her fingers. "Oh, Waspmon."

"Turbo Stinger!" Waspmon shot blue needles that knocked them down. Ben and Summer finished the capture and the Pokemon left.

"Oh no…"

"It looks like we have to retreat for now!" the Pinchers flew away.

"That's the end of that." Wizardmon said. "Now for the mater of-

Suicune roared as it ran off on the water. "Oh, Suicune! Wait!" Summer ran to the edge of the lake.

Arata was barely able to scan it before it was out of sight. "Suicune. Water Type. It is said to be the embodiment of the north winds and can instantly purify murky water. Heh. Our world could use one of those."

"So, the Pinchers really are after Suicune." Takumi said. "We have to stop them."

"Uh, Takumi? What about Weber?" Ami asked.

Ben looked around. "I don't see him anywhere. Let's just worry about the Pinchers for now."

Yuugo nodded. "I agree. One thing at a time."

Everyone hurried on ahead. After using Staraptor, Unimon and Waspmon to cross the river one more time they came across what appeared to be an entrance to underground ruins. "I think they went in there." Takumi said. "Come on." One by one they came inside.

"Huh?" Summer looked around. "Suicune and the Pinchers are gone. I was sure they were headed in this direction…"

"Hey, look!" Ami walked over to the nearby staircase and saw that the area below was submerged in water. "Do you think they went down there?"

The Voice Nav. on Ben's Styler activated. "Picking up a signal resembling a Z.Z. Flyer. It's coming from underground."

"More like underwater." Arata said.

"However, no trace of Suicune has been confirmed."

"A Z.Z. Flyer is down there?" Ami asked. "I guess the only way we can now for sure is by going down there."

Summer stood in front of the stairs. "It looks like it's pretty deep. Maybe it's a lake under the ground."

Nokia raised an eyebrow at her. "Huh?"

"In other words, a subterranean lake."

"Double huh?"

"Well seeing how we don't know what's down there for sure, I think it would be smarter to send a small team down for now." Yuuko suggested.

Summer nodded and put on her Aqua Lung. "Good idea. Ami and I will go check it out. The rest of you please look for Suicune above ground."

"Uh, not all of us have air masks." Ami said. "And what about my Woodmon?"

"I'm made of data, Ami. I don't need oxygen."

"Oh yeah…Hey…Wait a minute…"

Takumi looked at his sister as she pondered. "What's up Ami?"

"Hang on, I want to try something." She slowly walked to the stairs and stepped into the water. She descended them down deeper until she was submerged. She shortly after came out hacking and spitting out water. "Gah! *cough* Okay…Didn't work."

"What didn't?" Takumi asked.

"I thought- She interrupted herself with another gasp. "I thought since I'm a half cyber entity I could breath in the water like a Digimon. But I guess I'm still half human…"

"I take it the answer is no." Arata sighed. "You and your cray ideas."

"Thought it was worth a shot…"

Ben walked over to Ami and put his Aqualung on her. "Here." He pressed a button and air started poring out onto her face. "That should do it."

"Thanks."

Summer's partner stared into the hole uneasily. "That's right, you don't like water, do you, Staraptor?" Summer looked sadly at him.

"Well then, why don't you come and look for Suicune with us?" Ben offered. Staraptor nodded.

"Okay. We'll meet back here later." Takumi said.

"Good luck!" Summer waved the others off as they left.

Ami took out her Digivice. "If it's just going to be the three of us alone, we're gonna have to go all out. Woodmon! Convert back to Palmon so we can put you in Ultimate form!"

"Okay!" The Digimon went back to her base Rookie form.

DIGIVOLUTION

A blue shell formed around Palmon. "Palmon Warp Digivolve to…" Momentary the image of Togamon could be seen in the shell. But when it burst, Palmon was in her Ultimate form. "Lillymon!"

"Okay! We're good to go!"

Once the girls put on their goggles, Ami dove back into the water. Lillymon and Summer followed. Once they were underwater, they were surrounded by underwater ruins. "Amazing…" Lillymon looked around. "So, this must be Canal Ruins. It's like a city underwater."

Ami nodded. "Yeah. It's as if we found Atlantis."

Summer eyed her curiously. "Atlantis?"

"It's a myth in my world. Supposable an ancient city was washed away by the waves and became part of the sea floor. I wonder if this place was a city on land long ago…"

"Good question. But it'll have to wait. We need to find those Z.Z. Flyers fast."

"Right!"

Two Huntail came towards them. "Look out!" Lillymon flew over to them and kicked one into a wall.

"Oh, great." Summer groaned. "The Pokemon here and agitated. That proves those Pinchers were here doing their job. Capture on!"

She shot her Styler at the one Lillymon wasn't fighting. The Huntail angerly chased it, as she drew her Capture line. It got a bite or two in, but the Styler held strong as Summer continued her capture. They it shot whirpools around it, that flung Summer and Ami further away.

It tried to close in on them while they were dazed, but then the other Huntail flew into it. "Hah!" Lillymon smirked. "How do ya like that! Summer, now!"

Straightening herself, Summer drew the last couple of loops around both of them, taming them both at once. "Thanks for the assist." Summer swam over to the Huntail. "It's okay. We don't want to hurt you. But we need to find the bad guys. Have you seen them?"

The Huntail swam downwards. "I think they're trying to tell us to follow them." Ami said. "Come on."

They swam after the Huntail until they stopped near a wall with a thin hole that looked like it was just big enough to fit a person. On the other end, two Pinchers on Z.Z. Flyers with Aqualungs.

"According to the aboveground team, Rangers and those "Cyber Sleuths" our leader told us about have arrived at the ruins. But even if a Ranger or a Sleuth does come diving in the underground lake, if we do this, there's no way they'll get through." One of them threw two orange devices with hooks on each end. They extended into metal poles that became bars, blocking the hole.

"If nothing else, it will buy us some time, won't it, sir?"

"Hey, look at that!" Summer and Ami swam over. "Speak of the Ranger!"

"Doing this was the right move, wasn't it, sir?"

They laughed as their Z.Z. Flyers propelled them deeper inside the ruins. "Darn it!" Ami pulled on the bars. "Now what?"

"Hmm…What we need right now is a Gorebyss. Maybe two. They could cut through these things no problem." Summer replied.

"Then let's find some." Lillymon replied. "What do they look like?"

"Long and pink fish."

"Hey, look!" Ami pointed to two Gorebyss.

"That's convenient. Come on!" They swam towards the Pokemon but as soon as they were spotted they swam away. "After them!"

They kept going as fast as they could, but the Pokemon were far faster. They kept going to the point where they started looping around the room.

"Wait!" After the third loop Summer stopped, as she tired down. "This is getting nowhere…We'll never catch them like this."

"Wait…" Ami looked up and saw part of a broken pillar hanging from the ceiling. "I got an idea! Lillymon, can you break that off?"

"Sure thing! Flower Cannon!" She shot at the ceiling and the pillar came crashing down, blocking off the pathway at the bottom of the room.

"What was that for?" Summer asked.

"You'll see! Come on! Let's get after them!"

The kept swimming and soon saw the Gorebyss again. Upon being seen they swam away, and Summer and Ami kept on them. But shortly after they stopped went hey found the pillar Lillymon broke off blocking their way forward.

Summer came up from behind. "I see! Capture on!" The Gorebyss were too scared to do anything. Summer caught them with little difficulty, and they calmed down before swimming over to her. Summer looked at her friend and petted her new friend Pokemon. "Smart thinking Ami! I guess that's a Cyber Sleuth for ya!"

"Heh, heh."

They then went back to where the Anchor Wires were placed. "Here goes! Clamp!" The two Pokemon pit the wires and they immediately snapped. "Thank you!" Summer waved as the Gorebyss left. "Now let's get after those Pinchers!"

One by one Summer, Ami and Lillymon squeezed into the gap and saw a hole on the floor. Ami swan through. "Come on! They must have gone this way!"

They soon saw the Pinchers again. They were using their Plasma Cannons to blast a hole through the rocky formation big enough for them to go into. "Only a little farther to the Involith Suicune was protecting."

"The fact that Suicune hasn't come back must mean that things are going great with the aboveground team." He then spotted Summer and Ami approaching. "Hey! It's those girls from before! What should we do, sir?"

"Pull yourself together. There's one Ranger and one Sleuth, but there are two of us as well. Let's go!"

Now filled with confidence his colleague turned around to face them. Ami chuckled. "Uh…your "boss" just ran off."

He turned around and saw the other Pincher going deeper in. "Th-that's what you meant, sir?!" His Z.Z. Flyer followed him.

"Come on! We can't let them get away!" Lillymon said.

"I know!" Summer nodded as she grabbed onto a Huntail. "Ami, come on!"

Ami grabbed onto the other Huntail and the Pokemon carried them faster. As they followed they spotted one of the Pinchers fleeing. He glanced back and yelped before he pressed a button on one of his Z.Z. Flyers handles. Small mines came out.

"Hold on tight!" Summer warned. The Huntails carrying them spun away from the attacks while continuing their pursuit.

"No, no, no, no, no!" The Pincher turned around and fired red energy shots franticly while moving backwards.

"Gia Element!" Lillymon threw a green sphere, that pierced through the attack. The Pincher narrowly dodged it and looked behind him to see it blast off a chunk of the rock formation. Just as he looked back at Ami and Summer they were inches away with their angry Huntai glaring at him.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Meanwhile at the bottom of the ruins the other Pincher was in front of a monument with a hole in the center. He held the piece that was missing from it in his hand.

"So, this is the Emblem…" he heard someone approach from behind. "You're too slow, I finished the job myself just now. We lost them, right?"

"Nope."

The Pincher whirled around and saw Ami, Lillymon and Summer right behind him. The Pincher slowly caught up to them with the Huntail gnawing at his shirt. "I'm sorry sir! Forgive me sir!"

"Did they catch up with you?! Well, there's no other option now! Pokemon! Take these kids out!" A Seadra and a Relicanth came out of hiding and rammed into the Huntail, scaring them away.

"Oh, boy! Here comes more trouble!" Lillymon said. "Flower Cannon!" She fired a green blast at the Relicanth that knocked it out instantly. Summer backed away a bit from the Seadra before launching her Styler at it and drawing loops.

The Sedra shot a Bubblebeam at the capture line, breaking it. Then Lilymon charged at I from behind and kicked it in the back. While stunned, Summer finished her capture and the Pokemon left. "Ha! Childs play!" Ami laughed as she and Summer hi fived.

One of the Pinchers trembled. "N-now what do we do, boss?"

The other man sighed. "That's why you're the grunt." A smirk rose to his face. "Ya gotta make sure you have a backup plan."

Ami rolled her eye. "Let me guess, you're gonna try to run away again?"

"Nope. Wrap!"

"What?"

"KYA!"

Ami and Summer looked behind them and saw Lillymon struggling in the grip of a Tentacrul. Despite her flailing it soon got a firm grip on her wrists and ankles with its tentacles.

"Lillymon! EEEK!" The moment she was distracted, another Tentacrul grabbed Ami's hands and feet from behind.

Summer pointed her Styler at Tentacrul. "Capture o-AHH!" Another tentacle grabbed her wrists from behind and pulled them behind her back.

The Pincher laughed. "There! That was my back up plan!"

In time all three girls had their wrists bound together behind their backs and their ankles together. Their midsections were wrapped as swell, making it harder to breath. "Darn it! Let go!" Lillymon yelled, still struggling.

Summer bucked about, but couldn't get lose. "Ngh! What's going on?! I didn't see any Tentacrul or even Tentacool in this area!"

"That's because I brought these guys over from a different area I was in! We're called Pinchers for a reason in case you've forgotten!"

Ami glared at him, but then saw something behind him. "The Monument!" she was alarmed when she saw the hole in it.

The Pincher held up the Emblem and faced his college. "Well, we got what we came for and nabbed some snooping brats! I'd say this mission was a complete success."

"You said it boss! But what will we do with the three of them?"

"Let's get back to the surface and check on the aboveground team. Then we'll figure that out."

The Pinchers then made their way back to the surface. The Tentacrul followed them with their captives struggling the whole way, leading them to tightening their grip.

"Ow, ow, ow! Don't squeeze!" Ami yelped.

Summer shrieked as the grip made it a bit hard to breath. "How could I let this happen? Not only do they have the Emblem, but I let myself get captured again…Ben…I'm sorry…"

Once they came out of the water, the Pinchers removed their air masks and watched the Tentacrul come out, carrying Summer, Ami and Lillymon.

One of the Pincher pulled down, Ami and Summer's Agualungs, leaving them to dangle around their necks and lifted their goggles so they were at their foreheads so he could look at them in the eye. "I heard there were more of you twerps. Where are the others?"

Lillymon stuck her tongue at him. "You're smart, figure it out!"

"Hello?" the other Pincher was speaking into his gauntlet. "Yeah, we got the Emblem. And get this, we also nabbed a Ranger and one of those Cyber sues."

"Sleuths!" Ami yelled.

"Whatever, just put a sock in it! Sorry, sorry not you pal! I was talking to the brat!"

"You think that's sad, on his first day this dope spent nearly fifteen minutes trying to use his Control Gauntlet on a stuffed doll thinking it was a real Pokemon." the Pincher interrogating Summer and Ami whispered.

"Seriously?" Summer chuckled. "That reminds me of a Ranger named Crawford."

The other Pincher didn't notice. "How are things on your end? Wait what?"

The other Pincher turned to him. "What's going on?"

The Pincher turned around. "The others are in trouble! Suicune is getting really angry! And to make maters worse they're also being chased by the other Ranger and his Cyber Sleuths!" he then glanced at Ami. "There, I said it right this time, happy now?"

"Get this squid to stop constricting my breathing so much and I might be." Ami muttered, still trying to squirm out of her Tentacrul's grasp.

"No that's Wrap! Constrict is another move!"

The lead Pincher rolled his eyes. "Tell them to lead them here! I got an idea!"

"Okay. The boss said lure them over here, he has a plan!"

"What are you doing?" Ami asked.

"Oh, not much." The boss grinned. "Just using you kids as hostages."

"What?!"

"Not again! I've got to do something! Wait…" Summer spotted two Lombre cowering in a corner.

As the Pinchers walked outside, Lillymon and Ami continued struggling as they were carried by the Tentacrul. But Summer tried to get a good look at her wrists, behind her back.

"Back to the ruins! Quick!"

Two Pinchers on Z.Z. Flyers were flying as fast as they could go. Suicune was hot on their heels. And behind Suicune was Takumi and Arata on Unimon. Nokia was ridding Garurumon, with Greymon following them, Ben was on Summer's Staraptor, Yuugo was on Guardromon and Fei and Yuuko were on Waspmon.

"Did I hear that right? Back to the ruins?" Takumi asked. "What are they doing?"

"We'll find out when we get there!" Ben said.

Soon the Pinchers landed in front of the entrance to the ruins. The other two stood their waiting with their hostages. "Alright, we're here. Now what?"

"Where's Suicune?" one of them asked. The legendary Pokemon landed in front of them growling. "Okay. And the Ranger and his friends?"

"We won't let you get away, Pinchers!" Ben jumped of off Unimon and landed nearby with Pichu.

"Pichu, Pichu!"

"Don't try anything funny!" the apparent boss smirked as the others landed. He pointed a thumb at the captured, Summer, Ami and Lillymon.

Ben went pale. "Summer!"

Takumi jumped off Unimon. "Ami!"

Summer's Staraptor cried out in distress at the sight of his Ranger in peril.

"I'm sorry, guys, we failed." Ami said in shame. "They got the Emblem…"

"What?!"

"Stay where you are!" The Pincher yelled moment Takumi took a step forward. "Or the princesses over here suffer!" The Tentacrul them squeezed their victims harder, making them scream.

Summer gritted her teeth and looked over her shoulder. To everyone else it looked like she was trying to squirm out of her binds. But in actuality she was only trying to move her right wrist. "Come on…Almost there…"

"You cowards!" Arata yelled. "Put them down this instant!"

"First do something about Suicune and we'll let them go!"

"Now!" On Summer's command the Lombre she saw earlier ran out of the Ruins. "Fury Swipes!"

They slashed their nails at the Tentacrul, holding Lillymon. The Pokemon cried out as it's grip on her weakened. Lillymon immediately noticed and took the chance to kick her legs free from the weakened grip and kick Tentacrul in the face and making it let her arms go.

The Pinchers turned around. "What the-

Lillymon faced the Tentacrul holding Ami. "Flower Cannon!" she shot a green blast at it and knocked it out. Ami dropped to the floor, rubbing her wrists and relishing her freedom. The Lombre attacked the Tentacrul holding Summer, making it let her go. Once they were all free, they ran over to their friends.

"Sis, are you okay?" Takumi asked.

"Yeah." Ami was still rubbing her sore wrists.

"Summer! Are you hurt?" Ben asked.

"I'm fine." Summer turned around to catch her Styler as it flew to her from in the ruins.

"How did you do that?!" One of the Pinchers asked.

"Call it my backup plan, smart guy!" Summer winked. "I'm called a Pokemon Ranger for a reason in case you've forgotten!"

"Yeah! You tell that jerk, girl!" Nokia cheered.

The Pinchers looked at each other. "What should we do? We lost our hostages, Suicune's mad, and the Ranger's are serious!"

"Look for an opportunity and run!"

"If we're going to run, now's the time!" The Pinchers got back on their Z.Z. Flyers and flew off.

"Shaaaooonn! Suicune dashed after them, leaving Takumi and the others in the dust.

"It sure went after those Pinchers with incredible speed." Summer said.

"Yeah, he was on them the whole time." Ben said.

"We gotta go after it!"

"Why?" Fei shrugged. "Let Suicune rip those idiots apart. Saves us the trouble."

"Fei, we can't just leave people to suffer. Even creeps like the Pinchers." Ben objected.

"You Rangers are way too nice. Even to the wrong people. Me? I ain't so soft."

Yuuko nudged her arm. "If Suicune gets to them, you'll miss your chance to get your shots in."

"Let's move people!" Fei ran on ahead.

Summer giggled. "You're quite the motivator, for someone who's normally so quiet Yuuko."

"Yeah, she's the people person of the group." Takumi chuckled. "Anyway, if we're going to have to fight Pinchers and Suicune at the same time, we need some Ultimate fire power."

"I'm with you." Arata said taking out his Digivice. He and Yuuko summoned their Digimon who they Digivolved to their base champion forms ahead of time as Unimon went back to Terriermon.

DIGIVOLUTION

"Terriermon Warp Digivolve to…Rapidmon!"

"Kurasarimon Digivolve to…Infermon!"

"GeoGreymon Digivolve to… RizeGreymon!"

Ben shot his Styler at the ground. "Something tells me we're going to have to fight a legendary with a legendary. But if Raikou misses and hits the lake, Pokemon inside it could be hurt. And it's not safe with all the eternal rain making the whole area damp. Go, Guardian Sign! Entei come forth!"

The fire type legendary appeared in a burst of flame.

"Ben, Entei's a Fire Type." Summer exclaimed.

"I know, but we're out of options. Come on, let's hurry."