With Ukulele Pichu becoming Ben's Partner Pokemon, the team set out find Rand, the Area Ranger of Oblivia. Along the way, they met up with another of Takumi and Ami's lost friends, Nokia, along with her partner Digimon and Rand's daughter Nema. The daughter of Rand requested Ben to retrieve a sunken aircraft that was believed to belong to the mysterious Pokemon Pinchers. With the assistance of Lapras and Fei's Waspmon, the Ranger sucessfuly salvaged the machine and the party is now continuing their course for Rand's home.
Takumi hurried as fast as he could with the Z.Z Flyer to keep up with his friends.
"You sure you don't need help?" Ben asked.
"N-nah, I got it!" the sleuth replied, trying to put on a reassuring smile.
As they approached the steps to leave the beach a boy came running down. "It's a UFO!"
Everyone watched as he ran off. "UFO?" Ami asked. "Another one of these "Z.Z. Flyers?"
"That's most likely the case." Takumi replied.
"If that's true there might be more Pinchers." Ben said. "Let's hurry!" They ran down the path but stopped at a bright flash and a roar. "Hey…That sounded like-
"Look!" Nokia pointed at a Pincher on his Z.Z Flyer as it slowly went down. It crashed with a loud thud and he slowly got off it. A woman on hers flew over to him.
"Oh, man…My whole body's tingling and my Z.Z. Flyer's busted…"
"Are you okay?" the woman asked.
"The moment I thought Raikou was glaring at me, lightning suddenly struck my Z.Z. Flyer."
The woman sighed. "Angering Raikou was a mistake."
"Not the only one you made!" Ben hollered as he hurried over to them.
"You again?!" the woman asked. "You caused us some trouble in Rasp Cavern!"
"I'm still irritated about getting a lightning bolt from Raikou." The man groaned.
"It chassed yer sorry butts all the way out here?" Fei asked.
"Yeah! And I'm gonna take it out on you!" The man pointed his Control Gauntlet at Ben. An Eevee and a Piplup came out of the trees and attacked.
"Capture on!" Ben yelled shooting his Capture Styler at them.
"What's going on?!" Nokia asked.
"Those Pinchers…" Ami said. "They use those Capture Gauntlets to enslave these Pokemon creatures. But Ben's Styler seems to be capable of snapping them out of it."
"Whaaaaat?! They abuse these cute little critters?! They're worse then bad hackers!"
By the time the conversation was finished, Ben had already released the Pincher's Pokemon. "I got hit by lightning and beaten by a Ranger. What a day!"
"Come back tomorrow and maybe a Snorlax will fall on you." Ben joked.
Suddenly everyone heard zapping and banging sounds. "Whoa! Wh-wh-wh-what was that!? Is there a thunderstorm today?!" Nokia asked.
"It's Raikou again…" the female Pincher muttered. "And it sounds really angry!"
"Well, you were the ones who made it angry!" Nema pouted.
"Yeah. It's almost like ya deserve gettin' eaten by that thing." Fei added.
"You…smarty pants! We'll be back." The man growled. He got on his Z.Z. Flyer and they flew off.
"Still, that wasn't just lighting going on back there." Ami said. "I could have sworn I heard an explosion!"
"Me too." Palmon nodded.
"Wait…" Terriormon perked his head up. "Anyone else smell smoke?"
"Uh-oh." Ben said as he ran on ahead with Nema.
"OH NO!" the girl shrieked.
The others hurried after them. Takumi, still carrying the Z.Z. Flyer, took the longest. The others had already gathered in front of a large house up ahead when he caught up. "What's going on?"
"My house is on fire! That explosion was my house!"
Takumi looked over Nema to see a small fire on the wall of the house. "Uh…barley." FanBeemon said. "Frankly with that boom, I'm surprised the damage isn't worse."
"I often cause little fires when my experiments fail, but I can't believe it happened when I wasn't home! I feel a little better because Mam and Papa are out, but…"
Nokia looked around. "Hey…Kyoko and the others aren't here either. Where did they all go?"
Nema ran up to Ben. "Hey, Ranger! This is the last of my three requests!"
"Let me guess, stop the fire?"
"And fast! At this rate, it's going to burn my whole house down!"
"Hey, wait! Maybe my partner's Terrier Tornado can blow it out!" Takumi said.
"It supposedly can do that…" Fei said.
"Great! Terriermon, let's-
"Or more realistically it can fan the flames and spread 'em faster."
Takumi sighed. "Thanks for the unwanted sarcasm Fei."
"Well we gotta do something!" Nokia said.
"I think there were some water Pokemon back there." Ben said. "You guys wait here!"
Everyone watched Ben leave. Then there was awkward silence, as nobody knew what to do or say. Ami cleared her throat. "Sooooooo, aside from this, how's everybody's day so far?"
"Oh, ya know, aside from being stranded in a bizarre world and being surrounded by jerks that pinch these cute Pokemon, fantastic!" Nokia replied.
"That's good! …I think."
Ben soon returned with a Shellos. "Here we go! Water Gun!" The pink Pokemon spat water at the flame and it faded. "Whew! That was close!" Ben said as his friend Pokemon ran off.
"Wait, YOU'RE controlling Pokemon too?!" Nokia asked.
"It's not like that." Takumi said. "Ben's Capture Styler also conveys his feelings to a wild Pokemon, to ask it for help."
"Huh? Oh. I guess that's alright then…Actually…"
"Yes?" Ben asked with a concerned look.
"THAT'S FREAKING AWSOME!" Nokia said with a stoked expression. "Showing love to a Pokemon and making it your friend with your good feelings! That's super amazing!"
"Uh…sure."
"Like I said before." Ami sighed. "Always like this. Don't get too exited, Nokia."
FWOOOM
Suddenly the fire returned. And grew even bigger then before."HUH?! Did my super hot excitement just bring back the fire?!" Nokia asked.
"Wow! You can use fire attacks!" Agumon said as he and Gabumon bounced up and down. "You're amazing Nokia!"
"Why does logic just fly right out the window with this girl around?" Fei asked.
"The fire is too strong! It won't go out!" Nema yelled. "If we don't do anything, my whole house will burn down!"
"This is gonna take more than one Pokemon." Ben said. "Be right back!"
"Wh-what are we supposed to do?!" Nokia asked.
"Just…stay here and make sure it doesn't spread any further!"
"Okay! Sure! Leave it to us!" Nokia said. After a moment of silence, she turned to her friends. "Uh, do any of you actually know what to do if it starts to spread?"
"No." They all reluctantly replied.
"Swell…Oh, wait, duh! You stop, drop and roll!"
"Umm…I'm pretty sure that's if you're on fire." Takumi said.
"Oh…heh, heh. Right."
"Make, way! Coming through!" Ben hollered as he ran up to them with another Shellos and two Buizel. "Let's try this again! Triple Water Gun!" After about ten seconds of spraying, the fire was doused. With their work done the Pokemon left.
Everyone eyed the hole in the wall carefully, waiting for another fire to start. "I think it's safe now." Terriermon said.
"Thank you so much Range…ummmm…Ben!" Nema smiled. "By the way…Would another three requests be okay?"
"Yer jokin' right?" Fei asked.
"This is my first one. I'd like you to carry the Z.Z. Flyer to my room!"
"I got it." Takumi groaned, lifting the object.
"Oh, for the love of…" Fei groaned as he, Ben, Nema, And Nokia all went inside.
"Are all humans like this at that age?" FanBeemon asked.
"No, just the crazy ones. By the, way, Ami, I've got a question for ya."
"What's up?"
"You…No, not just you. You and yer brother are takin' all this rather calmly. Like you've been through it before."
"Uh, is that so?" Ami asked nervously. "Well, we are adapted to bizarre things! We're detectives!"
"Okay, but back at the beach, Takumi identified that Digimon right away. Same with the one in the cave."
"Well…maybe, he's psychic or something! My brother's kinda weird! A-anyway, let's go inside!"
Fei watched Ami run into the house. "Huh. Weirdness must run in the family."
"Oblivia? That's where we are?"
"Yeah." Summer replied. She and Yuuko were still on the floor tied up and blindfolded. "What were you doing here?"
"I…got lost when I was with my friends."
"Friends?"
"Yeah…Brother…Takumi…Ami…Arata…Nokia…Fei…I hope they're all safe."
Summer bit her lip. "I…I know how you feel…I don't know if Ben is even…"
"Your partner, right? You said he fell from the sky?"
"It…it's my fault! He was protecting me!"
"He did so without thinking…that reminds me of my friends. They do that for others…"
"I messed up! And now I…I…"
"I'm telling you, I saw him!" They heard a voice outside the door. The Pinchers were chatting.
"Another Ranger?"
"Yeah! A kid with brown hair and googles!"
Summer's eyes widened under her scarf. "Ben…?"
"He interfered with the mission at Rasp Cavern!"
"Great. Just what we need. More Rangers chasing after us."
Summer couldn't believe it a smile slowly appeared on her face. Yuuko smiled hearing this. "It seems your partner is rather stubborn. That also reminds me of my friends."
Tears of joy slipped from Summer's eyes. He was okay. He was safe. And he's still fighting. The mission wasn't over yet.
Everyone had gathered inside. There was plenty of room for all of them. Nema was just walking into the room. "The fire made a mess of my room, so just put the Z.Z. Flyer there." Takumi, dropped the metal object and sighed in relief. He then walked over to the couch and slumped down in it. "Thank you very much!" The boy just gave a thumbs up.
"So, what now?" Fei asked.
"I'll investigate the Z.Z. Flyer, and if I find anything, I'll tell you right away! That room is my research lab. I might not look like it, but I'm a scientist."
"Yeah, the lab coat and glasses sold it for me."
"No really, this girl is supper smart!" Nokia said. "Half the stuff she says makes my head spin."
"That's not sayin' much."
"Anyway, I'm really glad you guys were with me." Nema said. "There's no way I could have put out a big fire like that by myself. We'll I'll introduce myself once again. I told you before, but my name is Nema. I'm currently developing a new weapon to take out bad guys. Most of my work got burned up in that fire, but it's okay. I can work on it again."
"Oh, right I just remembered." Ami said. "Ben, have her take a look at your Styler."
"Oh, yeah, I've been curious about this for a while. Your Styler is different than Papa's. It talks."
"Yeah, but after I fell into the sea it's been kinda messed up." Ben sighed.
"I'll have a look at the insides, so let me borrow it for a second!"
"Is this the second of your three requests?" Ben grinned, detaching the disk from his wrist.
"Yup!" Nema took the object and skipped over to a desk. "Wow! This is amazing! I've never seen circularity like this! Ooh, it looks like seawater got in through this gap. With a little blast of air and a bit of grease…And finally in this area here…Okay! It's fixed!"
"That was fast." Takumi said.
"See? Told ya she was smart!" Nokia smirked.
Nema took the disk back to Ben. "Try setting it on your arm."
Ben reattached the Styler and it started beeping. "Confirmed rebooting of the Styler Modification module."
"Nice! Thanks, Nema!"
"Not a problem! Still, Papa's pretty late."
"Yeah…And if he's with Kyoko, I'd really like to get her input on what to do." Takumi sighed. "Maybe we should go look for them. Nema, do you know where they might have gone?"
"Probably somewhere around the Wireless Tower on Mt. Latolato."
"The Wireless Tower…" Ami pondered. "While we were on Docle Island with Nick we saw some strange flashing…Maybe they went to investigate. We'd better take a look."
"I'll guide you guys." Nema said.
"Alright guys." Ben said. "Let's move out!"
Nema guided the team through the forest west from her house. They went past a bridge over a stream and then she tuned around to face them. This is the start of the trail that climbs . They ascended a stair-like rock formation.
"So, what's this Wireless Tower do?" Gabumon asked.
"It's super important." Nema replied. "See, it-
"Hold that thought." Ben said with a stern expression.
A lone Pincher with his Ivysaur and Skiploom blocked their path. "Hold on there! From here on, no children are allowed to enter."
"What are you talking about?" Nema asked. "Mt. Latolato's a safe place."
"Not anymore." Ami said stepping in front of her.
"That's right." The Picher said as his Pokemon stepped towards them. "It was, up until a few days ago. Now, all sorts of shady characters are running around there."
"Yeah! Like you!" Fei said as she stepped up.
The man grinned. "Yeah. Like me. Get em!"
Nokia screeched the Pokemon came toward them, prompting Agumon and Gabumon to step in front of her. "You're not laying a finger on Nokia!" the lizard, like Digimon said.
"That's right! We'll protect her to the end!" the horned Digimon replied.
"You guys…"
The Pincher's eyes bugged out. "H-huh?! Talking Pokemon?!"
Suddenly a pink light shinned from Nokia's Digivice. "Whoa! What the…" She slowly took it out.
"That light…Nokia! Use your Digivice! It should let your Digimon Digivolve!" Takumi said.
"Really? Alright then! Let's do this!" Nokia cheered pointing it towards them. The familiar blue screen was displayed in front of her.
DIGIVOLUTION
As soon as she laid her hand on it, the pink light traveled to the screen and then towards Agumon and Gabumon. "Agumon, Digivolve to…!"
"Gabumon, Digivolve to…!"
Everyone protected their eyes. Soon a giant dinosaur, like Digimon, with a shell-like skull, and a blue wold, like Digimon rose up. "Greymon!"
"Garurumon!"
"Wow!" Ben took a step back. "That's…incredible!"
The Pincher stepped back. "Impossible…evolution at this moment?!"
"Aw, yeah! Now you'll see what we're made of!" Nokia cheered. "Go get em!"
"Mega Flame!"
"Fox Fire!"
Greymon shot a large fireball at Ivysaur. Garurumon shot a blast of blue flame at Skiploom. Both Pokemon were flung back from the impact and immediately defeated. The dumbstruck Pincher trembled. "Who'd have thought a bunch of kids could be so tough?!" He then ran off like his life depended on it.
After a victorious roar, Greymon and Garurumon de-digivolved back to their Rookie forms. "Nice job boys!" Nokia smiled. "You two rock!"
"Still…sounds like more of those Pinchers are gathering up there." Takumi said. "What are they up to?"
"I'm starting to get worried about Papa…" Nema muttered.
"Let's press on for now." Ami said.
They continued upward until they reached another bridge. A bigger one overlooking the sea. "Check it out." Nokia smiled. "You don't see a lot of this in Tokyo."
"The view from here is breathtaking, isn't it?" Nema asked. "Oblivia's sea and sky. I love them both."
"Yeah…" Ben nodded with a small smile. "This really is a beautiful region. I have to get rid of the Pinchers infesting it. No mater what."
Terriermon looked to the left. "What's that? Someone's coming here."
A Pincher charged towards them with a Wobbuffet. "You'll never get past this bridge."
"Never say never!" Ben grinned. "Step back, guys, it's my turn! Capture on!"
Somewhere on a large radio tower, two Pinchers were idly talking. "How much longer, does the leader need?"
"Stuff like this takes time. What's your hurry?"
"I heard Raikou was spotted around here."
The other Pincher raised a brow. "Raikou? The legendary Pokemon? Out here?"
"Yeah. I think he was chasing some of our buds."
"Yikes. Well let's hope he stays away from here."
The two men walked away. Shortly after a boy in blue with a hood dropped down, with his mysterious creature. "Heh, heh, heh, heh! Sounds like things are getting interesting around here!" the creature cackled.
"I'll say. Let's see if I can hack into this thing before they mess with it. We might find the others." Three blue screens were displayed in front of the boy and he got to work. "Strange systems this world uses. Let's see…There!"
The Pincher stepped back as his Pokemon ran off. "I'll let you cross the bridge this once. But after you cross, go home, okay?" He then ran off.
"Weirdo." Palmon muttered.
"I wonder what they're planning to do with Mt, Latolato." Nema said.
"It might have something to do with the tower." Ben said.
They hurried up more stone steps. "The tower is just ahead." Nema said.
Takumi got a look ahead. "Hey, look!" Up ahead a man with black hair, in a red and black uniform as well as a lady in a police uniform stood in front of three Pinchers.
"You there! What are you trying to do to the Wireless Tower!" the man yelled.
"No one here is dense enough to answer that just because they're asked!" one of the Pinchers mocked.
"If you don't want to get hurt, I recommend you look the other way." The lone woman of the Pinchers added.
"What was that?" the policewoman asked cracking her knuckles. "Want me to arrest you punks?"
"Hey…" Ami said. "Isn't that-
"Papa!" Nema ran to them.
"Nema, wait!" Ben yelled as he and the others went after her.
"Detective Date! You're here too!" Ami said.
The woman looked behind her. "Huh? What are you kids doing here? This ain't a field trip in case you didn't notice!"
"Nice to see you too." Fei replied with folded arms.
The Pincher's eyes were on Ben. "The Pokemon Ranger's backup has arrived. We'll just have to take them all out at once then!"
"Hey. Mind if we help out?" Ben asked the other Ranger.
The man smiled. "Thanks. Let's show these goons how it's done!" The Pinchers pointed their gauntlets forward and a, Aipom, a Gligar, and a Skunktank all jumped in. "Capture on!"
"Guys, can your Digimon distract the big guy for a bit?" Ben asked, as he brought an Electrike. "Us Rangers will deal with the smaller ones first."
"Leave it to us! Let's go!" Takumi said.
"Pepper Breath!"
"Blue Blaster!" Agumon and Gabumon made the first move. A fireball and a jet of blue flame, smaller then what was used in their Champion forms, fired at the skunk Pokemon, making it flinch. It them charged and batted them aside with its claws. Palmon jumped and wrapped her vine like fingers around it and landed on it's back. It bucked and jumped wildly trying to shake her off.
Meanwhile, the tall Ranger was spinning loops around Gligar, as Ben's Electrike shocked the Aipom. He drew his loops while it was stunned. "There!" he smirked as the smaller ones ran off. "How's it going on your end?"
"Working on it!" Takumi said as Palmon was thrown off Skunktank.
"Skunktank, Poison Gas!" On the woman's orders, it shoot purple clouds at them.
"Terriermon!"
"Terrier Tornado!" The rabbit Digimon, spun rapidly, until to formed a tornado, and shot it straight into the gas and sucked it all up. The tornado turned purple and keep going until it collided into the Pinchers, releasing the stench on them.
"Gah! That stinks!"
"*hack* You just had to use that move, didn't you?!"
The Skunktank just stood there, as it was no longer receiving orders. "Ben, now's your chance!" Terriermon said.
"Here goes!" After a few loops, the two Rangers, calmed down the last Pokemon, and it fled. The Pinchers waved the gas off, just in time to see their last line of defence leave.
"Ugh. Everything was going just fine until these intruders showed up!" The three of them ran towards the tower.
Nema hugged the older ranger. "Papa!"
"Hey, Rand!" Nokia smiled. "Looks like we have pretty good timing, huh?"
"So, this is Rand, huh?" FanBeemon asked.
"Nema! I've told you time and time again not to be so reckless!" Rand scolded.
"But I…I just thought that I would guide the Ranger who wanted to meet you here…"
Rand then glanced at Ben, then back at his daughter. "I-I see…I'm sorry I yelled."
"As much as I hate to ruin family time, those creeps are getting away!" Date yelled.
"Let them go for now, Date! We need a plan." A new voice directed everyone's attention to a shed. An elderly detective and a tall blond woman stood at the entrance.
Takumi recognized them and smiled. "Detective Matayoshi! Kyoko!"
The woman smiled. "Good to see you're both in one piece, my dear Watsons."
"You know these two?" Ben asked.
"Yup." Ami nodded. "Remember how Takumi mentioned that we're a detective's assistants? Well here's that detective! Kyoko Kuremi! And that is her senior, Matayoshi. Oh, and this is Date. A police detective who works for him. She's also Nokia's cousin."
"Hey, how come I was last?"
"Does that matter, Date?" the elderly detective asked. "Well, more importantly, I'm glad to see you're all safe. We meet with Rand here and after he told us of his Pincher problem we agreed on a little alliance. Hmm? I don't see Sanada or the Kamishiro kids around."
Rand looked at the kids. "For now, let's talk inside. If we stay here, they might come back again."
As someone who's first exposure to Digimon was Adventure 1 it was almost torture not writing Greymon and Garurumon's attacks as Nova Blast and Howling Blaster. Guess I'll have to get used to that. On another note, and this is something I should have admittedly brought up sooner, those of you who are disappointed that neither Takumi or Ami have the third starter, rest assured I plan on putting Hagurumon in here eventually.
