After returning back to the base, I then was given the rundown that I had to check on the townsfolk of Ringtown for now until Spenser could give me my next job. I then went out and did as such, seeing that the town was filled with fun faces and that Larry's daughter was happy to see that I'd made friends with both him and Precious. And she also wished that he'd treat her with as much kindness as he did his Tailow, but I smiled at her after.

"Even if he doesn't show it all the time, he still loves you, I can guarantee it," I said with my headband, her nodding at me with a smile.

"I know, I just guess I need to be told that from time to time... but uh, what's up with the look? Is that actually part of you?" she asked, me nodding.

"I was sent from my own house into a hidden basement of Team Rocket, by complete accident, and me and my family got combined with a mythical Pokemon each. I'm mixed with a Magearna, which is why I swiped this translation machine before I escaped the resulting blast with the other Pokemon. The bunny robot maid could barely talk at all, so I need to retrain both of us to speak English," I explained, her smiling and nodding at me as I then spoke with my mouth. "For exam-pall... I wish I c-c... speak norm... but Maggerna barely ayba to," I said, trying to give the hand to Magearna to speak, but she had a worse time talking than I did.

"Sorry... me speak no good," she said from the mind machine after, which Larry's daughter was surprised at, as the voice was not the same as mine.

"Woah... so she's also a second personality in you? Tell her I feel so sorry for her," she said, Magearna smiling after in control.

"It okay... miss Beth tain me talk betteh, learn more abbot life," she smirked before I then came in control again and seeing that Professor Hastings was only then arriving into town, me then going to him with a smile, him then seeing me and gawking.

"EGAD! I... Are you the new ranger that I'd heard of?" he asked, me smiling at him.

"Yes, I am. And you Profess Hasties... ugh! Hastigs... Hastings," I said, trying to say the word correctly because of him being an important character in the series and finally doing so, which he did note.

"I'd heard you were mixed with a Magearna, and I now see that it hurts your speech. I actually met your sister, Grace, during my time in the Hoenn region, and heard you had another sister called Hush," he said, me nodding at that.

"Everyone in family mix with Myth Poke Mon, even parents. Come to Base?" I asked, him nodding as I then escorted him the rest of the way to the Ranger Base, which Spenser then smiled and spoke to him, me overhearing the duo speaking about the Super Styler and how it was going to be the next stage of evolution for the Capture Styler, it being able to capture a Pokemon much easier, but it needing a lot more testing before it would get finished.

"Oh, uh... Beth, could you and Emolga do me a favor and go check on my Fearow?" Spenser asked, me then going up the elevator and going to the far end of the room, seeing that the Fearow was on the ground and looked to be tired and needing some medical attention from another Ranger.

"Is Fearow okay?" I asked, the one checking on him smiling.

"He's going to be okay, but he's feeling very tired after having to carry so much weight. With you being made of metal in some parts, it made the trip harder on him, so he's going to need at most a week's worth of rest," the ranger said, me nodding as I then went ahead and gave the Fearow a pat on the head, him cooing at me as I heard him speak.

"You need to lose weight..." he groaned.

"It's healthy weight for me. But I'll keep in mind that I need to watch what Pokemon were to carry me... and sorry for not mentioning it, but I could've turned my feet into rockets, but I'd forgotten in the excitement," I admitted with my mind reader, the Fearow giving me a glare at that.

"Next time, say something," he spoke with a growl.

"Something," I smirked, which he then actually squawked at, his version of a laugh before then groaning after. "See? Laughter's best medicine," I smirked back before then heading back downstairs, leaving the other rangers to gawk at what was going on.

"Was she... talking to Fearow?" the Dragonite ranger asked in shock. I then appeared on the lower floor and saw that Spenser and Hastings were done talking, the ranger leader smiling at me.

"How was my Fearow doing, Beth?" he asked.

"He needs rest for a week. Me too heavy with metal parts, him got strained," I said, him nodding at me.

"I see. Regardless, I'd like to request that you were to escort Professor Hastings to Fall City? He needs to head back to his lab there in order to finish work on an important project," he said, me nodding at that.

"Aye aye, captain," I smirked in English, me then doing my special Ranger pose, where I did a jump in the air before then opening my arm cannon to reveal that it was where I'd placed my Capture Styler.

"Let's get going. And nice pose," Hastings smirked at me as we then went out of the town and proceeded due north, Emolga hanging out on my shoulder as we then proceeded to get a couple captures in the form of a Mudkip and then a Torchic, which I needed to catch as there were some large haybales in the way.

"Torchic? Can you burn the haybales, but not anything else?" I asked, the little chicken nodding and doing just that, making sure that it was only the haybales that got burnt, making sure the fire was controlled completely. "Thanks, Torchic," I smirked as he then went back home and Hastings smiled at me.

"I do wonder where these haybales came from, though? They weren't here prior," he admitted, me shrugging my shoulders as we kept going down the path, me capturing a few more in the form of a Bulbasaur and a Grooky (weird that Grooky was in this region) before we then reached the next part, it being where a large tree was in the way, which Hastings frowned at.

"Confound it all, a fallen tree! I'm starting to smell something afoot," he frowned.

"We should stick close to each other, then," I said, him nodding as I then captured a Combusken... by simply speaking to her.

"Um, Combusken? Can I request that you burn this fallen tree in our way?" I asked, the Combusken looking at me in confusion, as I was speaking to him in Pokemon language.

"You're... speaking my language?" he asked.

"Yes, I am. Can you burn the fallen tree, please? And maybe tell us if you saw anything fishy lately?" I asked.

"Other than you speaking Pokemon? I saw at least four weirdos drive through here on a truck. They felled this tree and had at least two giant haybales on the truck," he explained, me frowning at that. The Go Rock Quads. He then burned the tree down and only the tree, us then going forward and for Hastings to stay close, as I requested. And during this time, he spoke to me after.

"I must say, I didn't expect that you'd share Grace's powers of being able to speak the language of Pokemon, no offense," he admitted.

"No problems, profess. Be combined with Pokemon makes you understan dem," I said in English as best I could, him smirking and nodding.

"Let's get going to the Krokka Tunnels. But we should be wary of rockfalls," Hastings said, me then releasing the Pokemon that I'd caught in the forest before we then entered the caves, me going forward and into the dimly-lit caves and for Hastings to gawk at what we saw just a bit past the Dugtrio statue.

"Oh my! Is that a Dugtrio?! They are very rare!" he admitted, us then going together, him then gawking at how the Dugtrio retreated underground after he got too close for comfort.

"Sorry Dugtrio... Hasting, apologiss," I said, him frowning.

"Sorry, Dugtrio... I didn't mean to spook you off," he admitted, the triplet mole then appearing a bit behind us and then speaking after.

"You mean it?" they asked, me nodding at them.

"We do. It's just that he was surprised to see you, so he wanted a closer look," I said to them, the Dugtrio speaking after.

"It's okay, just uh, be careful, there's-" the Dugtrio was about to say before we then heard an explosion happen above us! After that, I then rushed Hastings and myself to the right, along with Emolga! If we were even a second slower, each of us would've gotten crushed by the resulting rockfall!

"Yikes! What was that?!" Hastings asked in shock as I looked above us and saw that there was pieces of dynamite still stuck to the ceiling in some parts.

"We were almost killed by someone putting dynamite on the ceiling. And I see three other sticks up there," I said with my thoughts, mainly because my mouth could not say the word dynamite yet.

"I see... let's rush off before the dynamite goes off again," he said, us then going to the right and, after we got past the other sticks, we then gawked at how we were then jumped from the darkness by four different people and at least 10 different goons! And they immediately grabbed onto me and Hastings and held us tight!

"H-HEY! What are you doing?!" he asked in shock as Emolga then went to some of the goons on Hastings and zapped some of them, causing them to get paralyzed! But they still managed to swipe his Super Styler prototype and for the Go Rock Quads to then smirk at us.

"Thanks for the goods, gramps! Let's beat it, guys," Clyde said, them then rushing down the road and for the next bit of dynamite to be set off behind us... but the three squad members that had been zapped were still with us, which I then saw Hastings get off of them and proceed to cuff them after.

"Ugh... they left us behind," the one said, me seeing that, much like in the game, the squad members looked nearly identical, via a strict dress code. The only thing that was different was that their hair colors and facial features were different to each other.

"You're going to come with us for daring to hold us hostage and steal from us. You're going to tell us everything you know," Hastings said, me then leading them out with him, us going out of the tunnels and towards the east, where we saw that the squad had escaped completely and managed to anger a Rhydon, which Hastings gawked at.

"That Rhydon is on a rampage! I've gotta capture it!" I said, me then going in and trying to speak to it in its mind, but Rhydon was too mad.

"I HATE YOU! TAKE THIS!" he shouted, trying to throw a conjured boulder at me, which I dodged and proceeded to capture him the old fashioned way, me managing to do so without any Pokemon assistance, which he managed to calm down afterwards and, immediately, was released.

"That was incredibly weird... when you captured the Rhydon, he just ran off after," Hastings admitted.

"I'm sure we have some interesting questions to ask to a trio of goons, don't we?" I asked with my mind-speaking machine, which the trio then spoke at me after.

"We're not singing, at all," the black-haired girl said, me frowning at her.

"Okay then, you'll get felony arrests and sent to prison for kidnapping and holding a hostage. Oh, and it'll get you three extra years for kidnapping an important man in Professor Hastings. Gee, I wonder what it'd be like, being trapped in prison for 20 or more years?" I asked, the trio then sweating after and for them to then capitulate.

"O-O-Okay, we'll talk! We'll tell you everything," the one member said, me nodding at that as we then went to Fall City and proceeded to give the lowdown to Joel when he appeared and for us to then go inside of the Ranger Base, where we then placed the trio onto a bench and then cuffed them to said bench.

"Alright, before we start, names," I said, them then frowning.

"What does it matter?" asked the blue-haired man of the group.

"I play good and bad cop. Play nice, good cop. No coopate, bad cop," I said, them then frowning.

"I'm Hailey, this is Boris and Tio," said the black hair girl, pointing to the blue-haired man and the green-haired teenager afterwards in order. "So why do you want to know?" she asked.

"Good cop? Or bad cop?" I asked, them frowning at that.

"Fine, we got it... what do you want to know?" Tio asked.

"What does your group want with the Super Styler?" I asked, them frowning at me.

"Our boss of our group, the Go Rock Squad, wants it to put a bad reputation on the Pokemon Rangers. But if we said who the boss was, we'd all be dead meat," Hailey pouted.

"Could you at least tell us who the four were that had the old person hair?" And when I asked that, it actually made the trio chuckle before they then stopped.

"Uh, they're his commanders. The Go Rock Quads... they're quadruplets and they're in charge of carrying out the boss's plans. But it was kinda funny that you say that they had old person hair. Tiffany would hate that the most," Boris smirked.

"Point noted, make fun of Tiffany age," I said, the group of rangers then looking at me with surprise. "Now, since you cooperat, you stay here in base. Only leave if you need bathroom or food, be escort by other rangers," I explained in English, which they then looked at me in confusion.

'What's up with the voice? You don't know how to talk right?" Hailey asked, me then resorting to my mind machine.

"It's because I was mixed with a Magearna in a science experiment gone wrong. Magearna didn't know how to talk good, even with her figurative Pokemon tongue. I'm trying to retrain both of us to speak English better. I used to talk English perfectly, but being mixed with a Magearna made my diction worse and hers slightyly better," I explained as I let Magearna in control and for her to speak to them.

"Be nice to Beth. And we nice to you," she said from the mind as I then went back to the lineup of Rangers and for us to then get some rollcalls.

"Okay, from what we've understood from the interrogation, a group called the Go Rock Squad has stolen the Professor's new Super Styler prototype and they're planning to do misdeeds to paint Pokemon Rangers in a negative light. So, we're going to spread out our Rangers to find out where they might be and to stop any plans they may have. In the meantime, I'll stay here along with the professor to continue interrogating our current prisoners," Joel explained, me then being looked at by Joel. "And as for you, Beth, you will be ranked up to Ranger Rank 2 for not only protecting the professor as best you could, but also for capturing some villains," he said, me smiling at how he gave me a badge to replace my original one.

"But other than that, with the other Fall City rangers being busy trying to find the Go Rock Squad, we'll need to ask you to be in charge of going around Fall City to assist anyone that may be in trouble," Joel said, me nodding at him as the group then finally dispersed afterwards.