After a scuffle with a few Pokemon and a Digimon that lead to Palmon temporarily Digivolving into Togamon, The Cyber Sleuths and Ben returned with the material to fix Pichu's Ukulele. While Booker went to work, they encountered a Pokemon named Celebi, that sent Ben to the past where he met a boy named Ravio. After returning to the preasent day, the party went back to Booker's house, to check on his progress.


Ben and his friends walked inside Booker's house. "Welcome back, Y'all." The shipbuilder waved. "We just finished fixin' the ukulele."

"Pichu!" the yellow Pokemon in the room jumped for joy.

Booker laughed as he walked over to it. "Here ya go, Pichu. Your precious ukulele."

Pichu turned around so the man could secure the instrument to his back. "Pichu! Pichu! Pichu!" the yellow Pokemon bounced all over the room prompting everyone to laugh. As soon as he settled down it played a small melody with his instrument.

"Sounds as good as it looks!" Ami beamed.

"I'm so happy for you, Pichu!" Ralph smiled.

"Hey, Pichu. We fixed it thanks to Ben, Nick, Ami, Takumi, Terriormon and Palmon's hard work. Be sure to thank 'em okay?" Booker said.

The Pokemon stopped playing and turned to his new friends with a smile. "Pichuu!"

"By the by, Ben, about what to do next…You're goin' after those Pinchers, or whatever they are, right?"

"That's the plan." The Ranger replied with a nod.

"And that's what we're doing too." Takumi said.

"It's too bad you were separated from your partner, but there's one Area Ranger on this Island. His name is Rand."

"This whole island is only guarded by one man?" Palmon asked. "He must be busy."

"You should go meet him as soon as possible."

"Sounds like a plan." Ben nodded. "Hopefully he knows a thing or two about repairing Stylers."

Booker's eyes lite up with a thought. "Come to think of it, Rand has a daughter who loves to tinker with machines. Maybe she can fix it."

"How about that? My luck's finally beginning to turn."

"Maybe they've seen Nokia and the others. Where do we find this Rand?" Takumi asked.

"His house is to the east past Lapras Beach and a forest."

"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Terriormon asked. "Let's go!"

"I'm going to." Fei said stepping forward. "I'd like a crack at these goons myself. And we still need to find Yuugo and Yuuko."

"That makes two of us." FanBeemon added, standing next to her.

"Okay. Booker, Nick, Ralph, thank you for everything." Ben smiled.

"See you later!" Nick smiled.

"See you later, everyone!" Ralph waved. Ben and the others walked out the door.

"Pi…Pichu!" the yellow Pokemon ran towards the door, to Nick, Ralph and Booker's surprise.

"What's the matter, Pichu?" the boy asked.

"Looks like Pichu wants to go on an adventure with those youngsters." Booker said, stroking his beard.

"Pichu!" The Pokemon nodded before heading out.

Outside, Ben and the others stepped off the deck. "So first we pass through a beach, huh?" Takumi asked.

"Yup. Who knows, maybe we'll bump into more of your friends." Ben said. "But in the mean time we-

"PICHU!"

Everyone was startled as they saw the ukulele player run down to the deck. It ran a couple of laps around Ben before stopping in front of him. "Huh? Something wrong?" the Ranger asked.

"Hold on there, Ben!" Booker hurried down the steps. "Ben! This just popped into my head, but…Little Ukulele Pichu might be thinkin' that if it works with you, it might be able to save its friends."

"Hey, come to think of it…" Takumi said. "Didn't you mention something about each Ranger having a Partner Pokemon that stays with them? Why not make that, Pichu here?"

Ben looked at the hopeful and exited look on Pichu's face. "Well…I don't see why not."

"So, it's settled." Booker smiled. "Isn't that great, Pichu?"

"Pichu!"

Ben laughed as Pichu jumped onto his shoulder.

"The music Pichu plays mysteriously reaches the hearts of other Pokemon. In other words, it can help you with captures." Booker said.

"Cool! That'll come in handy! I'm counting on ya, partner!" Ben smirked.

"I'll miss you, but it's time to go. Don't cause Ben any trouble now, okay?"

"Pichu!"

"Okay, It's time for you to get goin'. Be sure to find Ukulele Pichu's friends."

"Leave it to us!" Ben smiled before he turned back to his friends. "Come on gang!"

They started their march down the beach. "So, what's having a Partner Pokemon like?" Ami asked.

"I dunno. Never had one to call my own until now. Bet it's like having your Digimon."

"I guess." Takumi said.

Then they heard someone else. "Because I said so. That's why! I'm asking you to have Lapras pull it up."

"Yeah! It can swim, right?"

"What's that about?" Ben asked looking ahead. They saw a little girl with blue hair and a lab coat and a red-haired teen with a pink coat arguing with a girl with a spikey pony tail. In the water near them was a blue Pokemon with a long neck and a grey shell.

"Even Lapras can't go into the depths of the ocean."

Two short creatures stood next to the taller girl. A blue furred one with a horn and an orange one with claws. The girl dropped her angry expression. "Really? Hmmm…that's a problem."

"Nokia?!"

Takumi and Ami ran up to their friend. The girl whirled around at the sight of them. "Takumi! Ami! Oh! Even Fei is here! I was so worried about you guys!"

"Heh. That's my line. I'm glad to see you're safe Nokia!" Takumi smiled.

The creatures turned around next. "Oh, hi guys! It's been a while!" the orange one said.

Terriormon ran up to them. "Agumon! Gabumon! How's it going?"

"Great!" the horned Digimon replied. "We got worried when we found ourselves on this beach, but we ran into Nokia!"

The blue haired girl ran up to Terriermon. "Did you just talk?! Oh wait, are you one of those Digimon, like Nokia's here?"

"Yup!" Nokia nodded. "Takumi, Ami, I bet you're happy to see your little helpers again!"

"You bet!" Takumi nodded. "Investigating hasn't been the same without them."

"I bet! I knew I'd see Agumon and Gabumon again!" Nokia laughed and looked at the one next to Fei. "I don't think I've seen this one before though."

"I'm FanBeemon."

Nokia turned to the blue-haired girl and Nixie. "Oh, right! Let me introduce you two. This is Takumi and his sister Ami! And this is Fei."

"Is this one of your friends?" Ben asked, glancing at Takumi and Ami.

"Yup. Ben, meet Nokia. Nokia, this is Ben." Ami said. "He's what they call a Pokemon Ranger around here!"

"Pokemon Ranger? You mean like Rand?" the girl asked.

"You know Rand?" Ben asked.

"Yup! He and his family took me in after I was left wondering around! And guess what? They already found, Kyoko, Mr. Matayoshi and Makiko!"

"They're here too?!" Takumi asked.

"Hold on a second!" the younger girl said looking at Ben. "You're a Pokemon Ranger?"

"Yup. I was sent from Almia."

"This is the first time I've ever seen another Ranger besides Papa in the Oblivia region."

"His uniform looks different." Agumon noted.

"Wait, are you talking about Rand? Are you his-

The girl interrupted Takumi and had a thought. "Hey! Are you good at swimming? Can you open your eyes under water? Can you deal with things with salt in them?"

"Whoa, whoa! One question at a time!" Ben said nervously. "First Ravio, now this. What's with kids and their curiosity?"

"Can you dive into the ocean with those goggles?"

"Sure. I have my Aqualung with me, so I can breath, down there."

"Wow! Perfect timing!" Nokia smiled. "Then can ya do us a little favor?"

"One of those UFO's fell into the Ocean." The girl said.

"UFO's? The things those Pinchers were ridding?" Fei asked.

"I reeeeally want to examine it. Could you find it and pull it up for me? You have to, 'cause on this island there is a rule that you must grant up to three wishes of any girl who is younger than you. This is the first of those three requests!"

"You could have sounded less pushy. He's not a genie." Ami sighed. "But it would be sweet if we could get our hands on one of those things. Might learn more about the bad guys from it."

"Not only that…" Takumi said. "But won't that thing pollute the water with oil or something?"

Ben's Styler lite up. "Affirmative. There is a danger of an oil leak polluting the water. We should probably investigate the UFO that sank into the ocean."

"Alrighty then." Ben said performing his Ranger Pose. "I'm on it!"

The blue haired girl squealed. "Your Styler can talk?! That's different than Papa's. I'm really fascinated by things like that."

Nokia then turned to the girl with a pony tail. "Nixie, right? Can Ben ride on Lapras?"

"If Lapras doesn't respect you, it won't let you ride, Ranger or not."

"What? Come on!"

"That's not a problem." Ben said stepping forward. He pointed his Styler at it. "Right, Partner?"

"Pichu!" Pichu jumped off of Ben and started to play his ukulele. As music filled the air, Ben whirled the disc around Lapras a few times. Soon its eyes were claim.

"Lapraa!"

"Nice!" Ben said reaching his hand down. Pichu gave him a high five with his little hand.

"Wow! Cute friend you got there!" Nokia smiled. "And it plays music!"

"These Pokemon are full of surprises." Agumon said.

Nixie looked at Ben. "Since Lapras likes you, there's no problem. Lapras knows where the UFO crashed, so it can take you to that area."

"If I'm going under water, I'll have to go alone." Ben said. "You guys wait here."

"Be carful in there." Ami said.

"Okay, thanks for going to salvage the UFO! I'll watch your Pichu for you." The girl said.

Nixie turned to the blue Pokemon. "Thanks, Lapras." Ben jumped onto it's back and it drifted away, further and further from his friend's sight. "I hope he'll be okay." Nixie said. "There's been a rumor about a strange Pokemon in the water lately."

"Strange how?" Ami asked.

Lapras stopped in the middle of the ocean. Ben's Styler booted up. "A metal object has been detected on the seafloor around this area."

"Okay." Ben said, putting on his goggles and hanging his legs over Lapras' shell. "Here we-

"Warning! Unknown Pokemon approaching fast!"

"Huh?"

A blue serpent with a yellow head rose from the water. It loomed down on Ben and Lapras, as it let out a mighty roar. Back on the beach Takumi gapped. "A Seadramon?! What's it doing here!?"

The beast knocked, Ben off of Lapras with its tail and wrapped it around the Pokemon. It let out a screech as its body was trapped. "They need our help!" Ami said. "Takumi, we need to Digivolve Terriormon and Palmon!"

"Ugh, did we not go through this already?! We don't even know how to!"

"And even if we Digivolve, then what?" Palmon asked. "I can't swim in Rookie or Champion form!"

"Me neither!" Terriormon added.

Fei sighed. "For crying out loud." She then stepped towards the ocean.

"Huh? Fei!? What are you doing?!" Nokia asked.

"What's it look like? If you guys are just gonna sit around, arguin' I'm gonna have to take action myself!"

Nixie was skeptical. "Hold on, are you nuts?! You want to fight that thing in the water with your bare hands!?"

"Maybe I do. Got a better idea?"

"Argh…! If only we could become Omnimon!" Gabumon grumbled.

"Yeah! We'd teach that overgrown water snake a lesson!" Agumon added.

"Wait, Fei! I can fly! I'll go!" FanBeemon said.

"Then I'm going with ya." Fei said.

"Guys, think this through!" Takumi said.

"We don't have the time!" FanBeemon retorted.

"Yeah! I'm done waiting around!" Fei growled. Suddenly something glowed in her pocket. "Huh?" She took out her handheld Digivice. It glowed a bright blue. "What's this?"

"Your Digivice is glowing." Nokia said.

Takumi had a thought. "Wait…could it be? Fei! Point it at FanBeemon!"

"Huh? Alright." FanBeemon stared into the light. A text appeared on a screen blue screen in front of Fei.

DIGIVOLUTION

Once Fei touched the screen out of curiosity, and the color of blue shifted to the shade of the light from her Digivice. The screen shined a light over to FanBeemon as a shell formed around her. "FanBeemon Digivolve to…" As the shell burst, she became a giant bee Digimon with red eyes, massive shoulders and a large stinger. "Waspmon!"

Fei looked at it in amazement. "Whoa! How did it do that?!"

"That thing was…FanBeemon?" Ami asked.

"Nice! If you're a Champion level, you should stand a chance against Seadramon!" Takumi smiled.

"Leave it to me!" Waspmon flew over to Seadramon and rammed into its head. The surprised serpent let go of Lapras.

Ben looked up to see the giant wasp. "Whoa! What the heck?!"

"Ben, get Lapras a bit further back! I'll handle this!"

"FanBeemon? Man, and I thought Palmon's evolution was a drastic change." Ben said, swimming to the Pokemon.

"Ice Arrow!" Seadramon fired a freezing blast at Waspmon, who dodged it with ease. She moved in multiple directions at a rapid rate, confusing its opponent.

"Whoa! Not only is she bigger, but she's faster!" the blue-haired girl said. "This is SO cool!"

Waspmon then got behind its opponent. "Turbo Stinger!" She shot blue needle shaped blasts from her stinger. All shots hit Seadramon all over, and soon it exploded in blue shards.

They zipped over the water and flew into Fei's Digivice. "This is what happened to that other Digimon…weird."

"Hey, Takumi…" Ami whispered. "Do you think FanBeemon might be…?"

"Yeah. I was wounding the same thing."

Back in the ocean Ben leaned his legs over Lapras. "Thanks for the help."

"I'll wait up here with Lapras. Bring that UFO up and I'll help carry it to shore." Waspmon said.

"Got it." Ben dove into the water. Once he was under the surface he looked around.

"The detected metal object is at a greater depth."

"Alrighty then." Ben went deeper in. After a few seconds he found a metallic object resting against a rock.

"Confirmed a very large metal object."

"I can see that." Ben said as he swam towards it. But something pushed him back.

"The current is too strong. Proceeding is impossible as is. Find some way to stop the current."

"Stop it how? What kind of- Ben then noticed a tall rocky formation to the left. The bubbly stream came out of it. At the top a he saw a part of the rock that looked ready to come lose. Ben smirked to himself. "That'll work. Now I just need to find a Pokemon for the job…" He looked at the Pokemon around him. He shot his Styler at them, catching a Lovdick, a a Chinchou and a Mantyke. "No. None of these will do." Then his eye caught a peculiar shaped piece of coral. "Ah, ha! Hiding from me, are ya?" He looped the Styler around the Corsola until it showed it's face to him. "Hi there!" Ben waved. "Sorry to disturb you but can you do me a quick favor?"

He guided it to the crumbling wall. "COR!" It charged into the rock, bringing it down in front of the hole with the stream.

"Thanks!" Ben said, waving the Pokemon as it left happily. He swam over to the UFO. A Clamperl and Horsea that were examining it, noticed Ben and swam over to him.

"Voice Nav. How bad is the damage?" Ben asked.

"Unable to detect any seawater pollution as a result of an oil leak. The reason the Pokemon are aggressive seems to be the surprise from when the vehicle fell into the ocean."

Both Pokemon shot bubbles at Ben, knocking him back. "Whoa! Lovdick! Mantyke!" Two of Ben's Pokemon shot watery projectiles back Ben quickly looped his Styler around them repeatedly until they calmed down. "There." Ben sighed as they left. "Now for-

"KING!"

Suddenly an angry Kingdra came up from below, and summoned a whirlwind, knocking the UFO lose, making it sink further before following it. "Oh, come on, I can't catch a break!"

"Kingdra has taken the fallen vehicle somewhere. At this rate there is a real danger that an oil leak will occur."

"Great. I'd better get after that thing before any major damage hits the ocean." Ben hurried after it.

"Kingdra seems to be very agitated. Be carful of it's bubble attacks."

Once Kingdra saw Ben approach from behind, it shot large bubbles from it's mouth. The Ranger swerved left and right, dodging them while continuing to move after it. Panicking, Kingdra shot whirlpools in his direction. The first one, sent Ben back a bit but her regained composure and continued after it. Once Ben caught it, it dropped the UFO and swam away. Ben watched as it sunk into a dark area. "Oh, come ON! Really?!"

"The metal object has been separated from Kingdra and is currently falling toward the ocean floor."

"Swell. Chinchou!"

The Pokemon's antenna lite up, allowing Ben to see as he continued. He kept going down until he saw a red light glowing in the darkness. "There! Is that it?" He swam towards it cautiously. Then the metallic object came into sight. "Finally!" he groaned lifting it up. "Now to get this thing back to-

"Danger! Danger!"

"Ugh, now what!? Pinchers? Another Digimon? Or maybe Kyogre came to spite me this time!"

"The Sharpedo are attacking in order to defend their territory."

Two shark-like Pokemon charged at Ben with their jaws.

"YAGH!"


Back at the beach Takumi paced back and forth. "What is taking him so long?"

"Shouldn't you guys go after him?" Nokia asked.

"Don't look at us! We didn't bring scuba diving gear!" Ami replied.

Just then Ben came up with the UFO. "That took you longer then I thought." Waspmon said.

"Just help me carry this thing."

Once the two of them and Lapras got the shore, Waspmon changed back to FanBeemon. "Wow. That was odd."

"I'll say." Fei nodded. "Looks like my Digivice powered you up."

"What happened to you?" Takumi asked, Ben, who was still a tad pale. "You look like a shark was after you down there."

"Don't even talk about sharks, okay?"

"So, this is the UFO?" Nokia asked. "Kinda looks like scooter."

The blue-haired girl looked at it. "So apparently, this isn't of extraterrestrial origin. Besides if you look here…it says "Z.Z. Flyer 08."

"Z.Z. Flyer? Sounds like a bad song Jikemen came up with." Terriermon shrugged.

"What happened to it, and how did it end up down there?" Agumon asked.

"I'm willing to bet it had something to do with Riakou." Palmon replied.

"Riakou? The legendary Pokemon?" the Nixie asked.

"PICHU!" Everyone turned to see Ben's partner glare at it.

"Pichu? Something wrong buddy?" Ben asked.

Pichu stomped over to the machine and jumped on it angerly. "Yikes. Someone doesn't like these things." Gabumon shuddered.

"Pi! Chu!" the Pokemon growled jumping off of it.

"Thank you for listening to my request, Ranger!" the girl smiled. "Thank you too, Lapras!"

"Lapraa!"

"Hey, Ranger! Even if it was just a request, you did keep the ocean from getting polluted. This is defiantly a Mission Clear, isn't it? So how about doing one of those for me?"

"Oh, boy. Here it comes." Takumi, Ami, and Fei groaned simultaneously.

Ben nodded and performed his Ranger Pose. "Mission Clear!" Pichu strung his ukulele.

"Your Ranger pose is more like a rock star's than my papa's pose. Oh! That reminds me! I still haven't introduced myself, have I? My name's Nema! You're Ben, right? What brings you to the Oblivia Region?"

"I was sent to protect this place from a criminal outfit called the Pokemon Pinchers. I ran into these guys after falling into the ocean."

"Actually, we were on our way to meet Rand." Ami said.

"What? You want to meet my papa? Sheesh! Why didn't you tell me that sooner? I'll take you to my house." Nema said as she turned to walk to the side of the beach. "Oh! That's right! Help me carry the Z.Z. Flyer to my house, okay? That's my second request."

"As you can see, the tide's out right now." Nixie said. "So, you can walk to Nema's house."

"Yup! It's right outside the forest up ahead." Nokia smiled. "Aaaaaaaaalright! Let's go!"

"You'll have to excuse her." Ami smiled as Nokia ran off. "She's always like that."

"Ho boy." Ben sighed walking towards the Z.Z. Flyer.

Takumi then put a hand on his shoulder. "I'll handle it. You look like you've been through enough." He walked over the machine and hulled it up.

Ben smiled. "Thanks."

"Hey, what are friends for?" Takumi grunted as he followed.

Ben thought to himself as he walked with them. "It's kinda cool, working with this many people. Reminds me of missions with Summer…Summer…please be alright wherever you are…"


Summer was still lying down on the cold, hard floor, tied up and blindfolded. She had no idea where she was or how much time had passed since her arrival. She was scared. What will happen to her? What happened to her Staraptor? What about Ben?

She would resume struggling every now and then when she got scared from her thoughts, with the hope of at least loosening the ropes, but the stiff bonds kept her arms and legs restrained. This time she stopped her struggles when she heard footsteps. Someone was coming.

"Hey, our leader says we're running out of room for storing Pokemon, so we're keeping our two hostages in the same place."

"Alright."

The guards opened the door and someone was shoved in. Summer couldn't see her, but it was a girl dresed in black and white. A white cloth was tied over her eyes and her wrists were tied behind her back. The Pinchers forcing her inside tied her legs together in three places as they did Summer's before pushing her over. She yelped as she fell to the ground.

Summer waited for the door to shut and the footsteps to disappear before speaking. "Hello…? Is someone there?" Her new roommate didn't answer at first. "My name is Summer. Summer Minami. I'm a Pokemon Ranger."

"Pokemon…? Those strange creatures I saw?"

"Huh?" Summer was getting gradually more confused. "Who are you?"

The girl was reluctant to answer. But gave one regardless, knowing she'd need this "Pokemon Ranger" to trust her if she were to get her help. "My name is…Yuuko. Yuuko Kamishiro."