While battling the Pokemon Pinchers as they climbed the Wireless Tower, The Pokemon Rangers and Digimon Tamers encounter a mysterious woman with blue eyes leading the opposing forces. Afte the legendary Pokemon Raikou destroyed the antenna, the woman escapes, leaving the heroes to face the rampaging Pokemon. However, just when they were overwhelmed, another of Ami and Takumi's friends from their world, Arata arives.


Arata pulled his hood down as he walked over to his friends. "Well, at least you're all still alive. Good thing you've got a good luck streak to go with your reckless habits."

"A-A-Arata!? When did you get here?!" Nokia asked.

"Oh, I've been hanging around here for a while before you slowpokes arrived."

"You're…Arata Sanada?" Rand asked. "One of those missing kids?"

The teen turned to Ben and Rand. "So, you guys are the Pokemon Rangers I overheard about. Thanks for looking out for my friends here."

"Uh, yeah, no problem but we've got bigger issues right now! Take your friends here and run! Raikou doesn't seem to happy over that pot-shot you took at it!"

The legendary roared in anger.

"What, this thing?" Keramon asked. "We've dealt with scarier things then some sparkling kitty!"

Arata grinned as he pulled his Digivice out of his pocket. "Darn right! Let's rock!" A dark blue light flashed from the gadget and a blue screen appeared in front of Arata.

DIGIVOLUTION

Takumi couldn't hold his surprise. "Wait…is that-?!

Arata pressed the screen with his hand. It turned a darker shade of blue to match his Digivice and shined on his partner. "Keramon Digivolve to…." A blue shell formed around Arata's Digimon. Everyone shielded their eyes as the light intensified. The shell then burst and out came a purple floating Digimon with a red horn, and six thin cords with yellow points on each end. "…Kurisarimon!"

"A-amazing…" Ami said in shock. "He Digivoled his Digimon at will…just like that?"

"So, this is the evolution for Digimon you mentioned." Rand said in amazement. "Digivolution…"

Arata smirked as Raikou let out another roar and shot a sphere of electricity at him and his partner. "Let's go, Kurisarimon!"

"Data Crusher!" Arata's Digimon, brought back it's tentacles and then thrusted them into the oncoming attack. After a brief struggle, he pushed it right back at the Pokemon, zapping it in the face. Riakou, winced before growling in annoyance.

"Whoa. He's tougher than I thought." Arata turned to his friends. "Hey, stop messing around! You guys better hurry and Digivolve your Digimon too!"

"We don't know HOW to!" Takumi replied. "It just…happens! Randomly!"

"What? You haven't figured it out? Well, I guess you've only been here for a while…"

"So, wait, you know how it works?" Palmon asked as Kurisarimon continued to fight off Riakou.

"When I meet Keramon, we started discussing how to Digivolve him again. After all, we need to be prepared. We know nothing of this world. Ami, Takumi, remember when we went back to Under Zero and fought that tough Digimon?"

"Yeah…it was after that when your Digimon Digivolved to Mega." The boy sleuth nodded.

"At first I thought he just absorbed that guys power. But Keramon said he didn't feel that different after the fight. Rather he felt stronger gradually during it. He said it might have had something to do with me. So, I thought about what I was thinking during that battle. Then it hit me."

"What did?"

"I wanted to be stronger. No, not just that. I wanted strength that would let me save my friend, Yuugo, who I failed before. Strength that would let me fight alongside all of you. Strength that would let me atone for my mistakes. I had a theory then. Digimon are affected by the emotions of humans. That's what happened to the Digimon that was with Nishido, remember?"

"Yeah…Something weird like that happened with that guy who hatted cops…That other account thief too."

Fei looked back and forth from Arata and Takumi. "Wait, so you guys HAVE done this stuff before? When?"

"Yeah…can I get back to you on that one Fei?" Takumi sighed.

"Anyway, we did a little practice." Arata continued. "As lame as this may sound…I think my determination made him Digivolve."

"Determination…come to think of it, when Terriermon Digivolved earlier, he was in trouble, and I just thought that I needed to help him."

Ami looked at her partner. "When Palmon Digivolved…I was the one in danger, and she got hurt trying to save me. I just thought about what could have happened to her if I didn't do something."

Fei looked at FanBeemon. "And when this one transformed, all I had on my mind was taking action, and fighting that other Digimon."

"Hey, that's right!" Nokia said slapping her head. "I can't believe I forgot what those cute Digimon told me! My Digimon are held back if my feelings aren't with them!"

Arata nodded. "Exactly. Digimon aren't just programs. They think and feel like we do, just…differently."

Takumi took his Digivice off his head and looked at it. "Determination…" He closed his eyes and held the goggles to his chest. Meanwhile, everyone turned back at the sound of Raikou's roar as it smacked Kurisarimon into the destroyed antenna.

"He's losing ground! We gotta do something quick!" Ben said.

Takumi didn't respond. "I…I want to help my friends…I want to find out what's going on in this world…I want to get to the bottom of this mystery!" Suddenly the Digivice in his hand glowed yellow. Everyone turned to him.

Ami's eyes widened. "T-Takumi! That's just like before! Does this mean…?!"

The sleuth put the goggles over his eyes, and his hand glowed yellow. A screen appeared before him.

DIGIVOLUTION

He slammed his hand into it and the yellow light enveloped Terriermon. "Terriermon Digivolve to…Gargomon!"

Arata smirked as the others were amazed with the appearance of another Champion level. Takumi slid his goggles back up and smiled. "It worked!"

"Told ya!" Arata laughed as Kurisarimon flew over to him. He turned to Raikou, who had electricity crackling around him. "You ready?"

"You know it!" Takumi eagerly replied with Gargomon with him. "Let's do this!"

"Because we gotta!"

Gargomon and Kurisamon nodded as they charged towards Riakou. "Mach Rush!" Gargomon's fist rammed into Riakou's face, knocking it across the floor. It growled as it charged again.

"Destruction Cannon!" Kurisarimon shot a black sphere at, it. It exploded upon contact, stunning it further.

Raikou let out another roar before it dashed around the Digimon in all directions faster than anyone could keep track. Ami was trying to follow its movements but easily lost track. "Oh, no…even if their Digimon are stronger, Raikou is still too fast!"

Gargomon, and Kurisarimon turned around just as it was coming towards them. But suddenly a Porygon2 charged its beak into its side, knocking it over. Ben smirked with a thumb up. "Sorry to interrupt your grand showing, but I wasn't about to let you have all the fun."

Takumi laughed as he returned the gestor before turning to the downed opponent. "Let's wrap this up!"

Gargomon, charged at Raikou as it rammed his fist upward. "Dum Dum Uppercut!"

Raikou was flung into the air and left defenceless. Arata's Digimon flew right above it. "Data Crusher!" Kurisarimons tentacles slammed into it, knocking it back into the ground with a crash. It groaned as it got back up.

"Man, he's tough!" Gargomon groaned.

"Pichu!"

Ben's partner jumped in front of the Digimon combatants and faced Riakou. It started playing its Ukulele and small volts formed around it. The beast's actions ceased as it listened to the tune. Taking this opportunity, Ben spun his Styler around the Pokemon repeatedly until it's face looked more calm. "There! I think that did it!" Ben said. Raikou stood there, staring at Ben. Everyone become nervous about what it was going to do next. It lifted its head and roared. A bright light surrounded, it, blinding everyone.

"He's still raring for a fight, huh?" Arata asked.

Ben outstretched his hand in front of him. "Wait…" He squinted as something appeared above Raikou. Some kind of strange glowing yellow mark of light. "What is that?!"

"What's what?" Takumi asked.

"That figure! Nobody sees that?"

Rand stared the Pokemon but soon covered his eyes. "All I see is some bright light."

Ben's Styler's Voice Nav. activated. "The strange figure has been observed. Please register the figure in the Styler."

Ben looked up at the light, then drew it with his finger on the Styler's screen. As Raikou stared at him Ben slowly walked over. "Hey, what are you doing?!" Arata asked. "Don't get closer to that thing!"

But Ben ignored him and soon stood right in front of Riakou. He smiled as he petted its head. Riakou let out another, softer roar, as if approving before it quietly ran off.

"Welp, he's gone." Gargomon said.

"What was that bright light just now?" Ben asked.

Rand waved his hand in front of him. "Ben? What's wrong? You're just staring off into space. Did you see something in that light?"

"I saw something in the sky. It was like…some kind of…floating figure that appeared in that light." Ben said, showing what he drew.

"What? Hmmm…I didn't see anything."

"Probably just an optical illusion." Arata shrugged.

"Optical illusion? What kind of magic is that?" Agumon asked.

"It's when your eyes play tricks on you."

"Eyes can do magic tricks?" Gabumon asked.

"No, it's-Ugh, never mind."

"At any rate, we successfully calmed down Raikou." Rand said, facing everyone. "And we managed to liberate the Wireless Tower, which was our original goal. We were able to do it because of you kids."

Ben looked at his friends and nodded in agreement. "Yeah. We really couldn't've pulled this one off without you guys. Thanks."

"Ha, ha, ha…It's been so many years since I've been able to say this!" Rand laughed. "Mission Clear!" Everyone watched as Ben and Rand performed their Ranger poses. Pichu played a triumphant tune.

"Hey, uh, not to burst anyone's bubble." Ami said. "But I don't know if we can call this a success. The Pinchers and their leader got away."

"Not to mention, the tower's a complete wreck." Fei added, glancing at the antenna.

Arata walked over to it and pulled out three screens. "Hmm…Yeah, most of it's functions are offline. But maybe I can salvage some of it from here…"

Rand watched as he fiddled around with the screens. "Uh, what's he doing?"

"Arata, is the best hacker I've ever meet." Ami said. "Let's leave this to him."

"I'm sorry, hacker?"

"Don't worry, he's kinda weird, but he's good guy." Takumi smiled. "Although he's still crazy enough to try to sneak into a Pincher infested tower on his own."

"Yeah, I don't the Cyber Sleuths who dove into the Mother Eater a second time for Suedou of all people when all their friends specifically told them not to should be judging me on craziness."

"You know what?" Nokia glared. "I think for once I'm on his side here."

"Hey, Alphamon thought it was a good idea." Takumi replied.

"Alphamon thinks wasabi in coffee is a good idea!"

Ben, Fei and Rand's eyes widened as they looked at Nokia. "I'm sorry, what?"

Arata winced as he continued working while bad memories of a near-death experience rose up. "Here we…what the?"

"What's wrong?" Rand asked.

"The power was cut, but not manually. Looks like it was done by some weird kind of program. Dang it. I don't think I can work around it."

"Anything we can do?" Ami asked.

"Not unless you can somehow jump inside this thing's systems, no."

Jump. The word rang familiarly in Takumi's ears. The he remembered what Yuuko said to Nokia before the experiment. She whispered it, but he was right next to them, so he heard it. "Remember how Takumi and Ami had half cyber bodies? Think of it like sending someone in that state to this new world."

"I'll have someone look at the extent of the damage later. Let's go back first, so nobody worries about us." Rand suggested.

"Wait." Takumi said walking up to the antenna. "Terrier-I mean Gargomon, can you come over here for a second?"

"Um, sure."

"Uh, Takumi? What are you doing?" Ben asked.

"I just want to try something." He extended his hand towards it and focused. "Connect Jump!" Suddenly a blue hole formed in front of him and he and Gargomon were sucked in. Everyone stared in amazement.

"What the-What just happened to him?!" Rand asked, turning to Ben.

"How should I know?!"

"No way…" Ami gaped. "He did it."


Takumi and Gargomon found themselves in area with a blue background and floors that looked like circuit boards. "No way! You got the Connect Jump to work?!" Gargomon asked. "How?!"

"Yuuko was right. I'm in a half cyber body. I guess that means I'm in a coma back at home." Takumi sighed. "Great. Poor mom's gonna freak out." He then glanced at the area. It looked like holes were burned into it. "Wow. Riakou really did a number on this place."

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!"

Both of them looked on ahead at the sound of a scream. "What was that?!"

"Sounds like trouble!" Gargomon said. "We'd better go help!"

Takumi nodded as they ran on ahead. After a minute or two they came across a Tokomon and a little white Digimon with big ears and a red triangle on his head being chased by a Sangloumon.

"What's going on?!" Takumi asked.

The Digimon spotted them and ran over, to hide behind them. Sangloumon, spotted them and growled. "More data! Must…DESTROY!" The Digimon, pounced on top of Takumi, pinning him down.

Gargomon, ran towards him as Sangloupmon looked ready to take a bite out of him. "Takumi!"

"Poison Ivy!" Thorns shot into the enemy Digimon's face, catching it off guard and knocking him off of Takumi. He got up and looked behind him to see Ami and Palmon run towards them.

"Takumi! Are you alright?!"

"Yeah, thanks. But when did you guys get here?"

"Just now. I Connect Jumped just like you." Ami replied before giggling. "Maybe Arata's right about us being crazier than him."

"Heh. Maybe a little."

A roar brought the attention back to Sangloupmon as it roared. "MUST DELETE! MUST DELETE!"

"What's his problem?" Gargomon asked.

Tokomon whimpered next to Takumi. "I don't know! Some weird lady came to the tower! Then this Digimon popped up and started destroying everything!"

"Weird lady? It must be the Pincher's leader from before!" Takumi said. He put on his goggles and looked at it. A screen came up on the lenses. "Sangloupmon. Champion Level Virus Type. A noble bloodsucking hound Digimon that can instiantly move to places by breaking down its data into packets."

"DESTROY! DESTROY!"

"That thing doesn't sound very noble!" Gargomon replied as Takumi and Ami got into fighting stances as Sangloupmon got closer.

"I won't let you do any more damage here! And I'm not leaving everything to Takumi either!" Ami declared. "I'll fight with you this time bro!"

Palmon stood next to Gargomon. "Yeah, even if I can't Digivolve I can still fight!"

Ami's goggles started to glow green. "Huh? This is…" she slid them over here eyes and a blue screen appeared.

DIGIVOLUTION

Takumi looked at it. "This is what happened before! Ami, your determination can make Palmon Digivolve!"

Ami and Palmon smiled at each other "Alright! Let's do this!" Ami yelled pressing the screen.

"Palmon Digivolve to…Togamon!" In a bright light, Palmon went to its own Champion form.

"Now we're talking!" Ami cheered.

Togaman stood next to Gargomon. "Ready?"

The rabbit Digimon pounded his hands together. "Let's get him!"

Sangloumon jumped back into the air. "Sticker Blade!" it spun into the air and small purple slicers came raining down towards them.

"Needle Spray!" Togamon shot a hail of pins, intercepting each of the projectiles.

Once Sangloupmon landed Togamon and Gargomon gathered electricity in their hands. "Ripping Net!" They threw the electricity at Sangloupmon stunning it. Gargomon ran up to it and uppercut the Digimon while firing its cannon. "Dum Dum Uppercut!"

Sangloumon flew into the air and then shattered into blue shards. Said shards flew into Takumi's hand. "Well…that's that." He said as Terriermon and Togamon converted back into Terriermon and Palmon.

Tokomon and his friend shyly walked over to them. "Umm…thank you."

Ami smiled and kneeled down to look at it with a warm smile. "No problem. What brings you here?"

"Calumon and I just want to go home…but we don't know how. So, we just hid in here. Then that Digimon showed up and…and…"

"We know the rest." Ami nodded before looking at the other Digimon. "So, you're…Calumon? I've never seen a Digimon like you before."

The white Digimon nodded. "I'm a one of a kind mon!"

"Aren't you peppy for someone who just looked at death in the eye. For now, let's get back to the others." Takumi suggested.


"So this…"Connect Jump" allows them to literally dive into networks?" Rand asked.

"That's the gist of it." Arata replied. His Digimon was also back to Rookie status. "Never thought I'd see them do it again."

"So, wait a minute." Fei said. "How long has this stuff been going on?"

"Well…"

Suddenly Takumi and Ami came out of the antenna. "There you guys are!" Ben said. "So, what happened?"

"A Digimon was rampaging inside the tower's systems." Ami replied. "We think that woman from before put him in there. Also…"

She brought up a screen and Calumon Tokomon was displayed on it. "Um…hello?" The pink one reluctantly spoke.

"Hiiiiiii!" Calumon waved with a sweet smile.

"Uh…Were one of these the thing that was "rampaging?" Rand asked with a sceptical look.

"No, no, this Tokomon and Calumon were hiding in there. They were attacked by it." Palmon replied.

"Aww, poor little guys. Are either of them hurt?" Nokia asked.

"They're fine, but Tokomon said he lost his friend, Lopmon." Takumi replied.

"What?! We'd better find…wait. Lopmon and Tokomon? Are they…?"

"Calumon?" Agumon asked. "This is the legendary Calumon? I thought he'd be a little bigger…"

"Legendary?" Takumi asked.

"Hang on a second." Arata said bringing his screens back up. "Let me see if…Jackpot! That Digimon was what was did it! The power's back online! For now, at least. Now let's see if I can…there!"

"Huh? What did you do?" Takumi asked.

"I got a network I was working on here back online. Try giving Kyoko a call."

Takumi brought his Digivice to his ear. A monitor displaying Kyoko appeared. There was a lot of static, and they could barley hear her voice. "Oh? You got the Digiline working."

"Kyoko! Well, more accurately Arata got it working."

"It's not perfect." Arata admitted. "And it's probably only working because we're in the tower right now, and who knows how long it'll last?"

Another screen showing Matayoshi appeared. "What's that? Sanada?"

Arata waved. "Hey."

"So, it was you Burkhart saw sneaking around. Jeez, you kids are reckless. Welp, still, it's good to see you're all right."

"Never thought I'd hear the police say that to me." Arata thought to himself.

Another screen showing Date appeared. "What was all that flashing up there? Did something happen?"

"It's a long story." Ben said. "We'll tell you guys when we get back."

"Alright. Then hurry back."

With that they all went offline. "So, the last of your missing friends are Yuuko and Yuugo." Rand said.

"Assuming they even ended up here." Ami replied.

Arata crossed his arms. "They did. Before you guys got here I've been using the tower to scan for Digivice signals. Before the power was cut, I found both theirs. Couldn't get a fix on their location though."

"Try calling them." Fei suggested.

Ami brought her Digivece up. Soon a screen displaying Yuugo appeared. "Ami?"

"Yuugo! You're okay!"

"Yeah. Thank goodness. I couldn't get in touch with anyone. I was getting worried."

"Is Yuuko with you?" Fei asked. "We found everyone else that got sucked into this world."

"No…I tried calling her but no answer."

"Hang on." Nokia got her Digivice out and put it to her ear. "No good. She's not picking up."

Ben sighed as he lowered his Styler. "I can't get in touch with Summer either."

Arata looked back at the damaged tower. "They might be out of range. I only fixed some of the tower's functions. I don't think the signal will go that far. And even then, I only got it working for Digivices, not your world's gadgets. Never seen any of them before."

"Well, let's regroup with the others first." Rand said. "Yuugo, where are you right now?"

"I…don't know. I woke up in front of an old looking gate. It wouldn't open so I started walking around and just came across some kind of village on what appears to be a cliffside when you called. Oh, wait…I see a bridge. A long one. Looks like it stretches out to the island over there."

"Sounds like you're in Tilt Village. That isn't too far from where I live. Stay there. We'll come to you in a bit."

"Um, thanks, but…who are you?"

"This is Rand." Takumi explained. "He and Ben here are Pokemon Rangers."

"Poke…mon? Is that what those creatures I saw were?"

"Yup! Anyway, you just stay put for now, Yuugo!" Nokia smiled. "Oh! And stay away from the UFOs!"

Yuugo gave her a very strange look. "I'm sorry, the what?"

"Long, story, we'll catch up when we see you." Ami said. "Later." She ended the chat.

"Alright!" Nokia cheered. "With your Connection Jump back up and running we got the Cyber Sleuths back in action!"

"Cyber Sleuths?" Ben chuckled.

Takmui nodded. "Yup. That's what Ami and I are. Alright! Let's go!"


FYI the info on Digimon the Digivices give are things I find when looking them up on DigimonWiki. Also Calumon as you could probobly tell is one of the exeptions to my Cyber Slueth Digimon only rule.