Minako was in the Qu village, which looked a bit different now. She was talking to some Qu "So how do like the work done to your house?"

The Qu responded "I so happy! house good as new, better even. I not have cable before."

"Cable? What kind of fix was that? Seems like the whole village got a good deal."

"Yes yes, so nice to fix village so good."

"No problem. Well I have a job to do so if you'll excuse me."

"You excused, I go watch pro wrestling." The Qu went into its house.

"Well everything is back in order here at the Qu village, the Blue Team is still here. Thankfully it seems that Kari is feeling a whole lot better today. What will the Blue Team do? will they wait one more day for Kari to recover completely? Or will they try to take a one day advantage? Let's see."

Kari was in the new Qu clinic, she now had her own room, a fully automated bed, cable TV, her personal bathroom, a separate bed for Gatomon, silk pajamas, a button to call a her own personal Qu nurse. She and Gatomon were watching a pay-per-view movie when there was a knock on her door. "Come in."

The rest of the Blue Team came in. "How I wish my apartment got destroyed during the Ultimate Challenge." Beruche said. She was now wearing Yellow shirt, brown shorts and hiking boots, she gave Mimi her hat because hers was destroyed the day before (Beruche had been using a western get-up for those who had forgotten).

"I know, this place is completely different now, they even went through the trouble of building a hotel. It remembered me of our first night." Mimi said.

"Oh yes, especially the jacuzzi."

"The rotating restaurant on the top floor was a bit much." Ranma said "don't you think?"

"No." Beruche and Mimi said.

Mimi smiled "You know, if we win this I'm going to hire to Ultimate Challenge crew to build me a house. I mean they just built a mini city in a couple of hours."

"I think it took longer to half destroy Lindblum, and that was pretty quick too." Vivi said.

Beruche walked up to Kari. "How are you feeling today?"

Kari smiled "I'm feeling fine thanks, I'm practically cured."

"That's nice to know." Vivi said.

"So what do we do now?" Ranma asked.

"We have to wait another day, that's what we told the Yellow Team."

"Why should we?" Beruche said "We didn't say we would stay still the 48 hours, we only said we needed time for Kari to recover, and she has recovered."

"Yeah, we really should get going." Ranma said.

"Where are we going?" Palmon asked.

"Well the Yellow Team went south, so we have to go back east." Ranma said.

"No, let's go west." Beruche said.

"Are you nuts? We'll get to the edge of the island, if the Yellow Team follow us we'll be cornered easily."

"That's right, IF the Yellow Team goes there. That's why I say we go west. The Yellow Team will no doubt go east, they'll probably think we're not stupid enough to corner ourselves."

"Yeah, but we'll show them, won't we?"

Beruche stared at Ranma "You're not very nice."

"You're not as smart as you think you are."

Suddenly they heard a whistle, they turned around and saw Kari out of bed. "Now don't start that again."

"I agree, we don't want to keep hearing you two." Mimi said.

Suddenly there was another knock on the door. "Who is it?" Kari asked.

"It be Qwolin."

"Come in."

Qwolin went in "This be important, you say you need help from kid with angel?"

"What did you say?" Vivi said "I don't understand."

"I don't get it either." Ranma said.

"Oh, I do" Mimi said "Let me explain. I told Qwolin that we needed Tk's help to open that cave. I said that he had his own digimon, who is Patamon. Patamon digivolves to Angemon and does look like an angel."

"Ahh... I see." Beruche said. "So the kid with an angel is Tk."

"Yeah."

"He be coming this way!" Qwolin said.

"What?" everyone said.

"Angemon!" Palmon said.

"How do you know?" Vivi asked.

"I saw him coming from observatory."

"Let's go!" Ranma said.

"Ahem.." Beruche said "We have to wait for Kari to get dressed.

"Ok" Ranma said. He stood there waiting.

"Um.. Ranma. Please?"

"What? Tell her to hurry up."

"Would you mind?"

"I'm getting impatient here."

"GET OUT OF HERE!!" Beruche yelled.

"What is it? She's just a kid. Besides do you think I find anything special in a woman's body?"

Beruche pushed Ranma out "That doesn't mean she can't have privacy!"

Vivi and Qwolin walked out and suddenly the door was shut behind them.

"Boy, she got upset. Kari herself should have been the one bothered." Vivi said.

"Beruche has an attitude problem." Ranma said "Why are all the women I meet like this!?"

A few minutes later everyone was outside walking towards the observatory.

"Wow!" Kari said "They even built a McDonald's"

Mimi had a sweatdrop "Actually the Ultimate Challenge crew didn't build that one. Those things just pop out of anywhere like weeds."

They arrived at the observatory and everyone looked at a monitor that showed the image of Angemon with Tk in his arms.

"What is he doing here?" Mimi asked.

"If you don't know then obviously we don't know either." Ranma said.

"But he's really not coming here." Beruche said.

"How do you know?" Vivi asked.

"Well, according to these instruments he's heading northwest, he'll pass more or less close to this place but not above it. See Ranma? another reason to go west."

Ranma didn't respond.

"Well, let's get going then!" Mimi said.

Once outside Kari asked "Where is Ponyta?"

"He be in pokemon center." Qwolin said.

"Wait a sec, there weren't any other pokemon around here." Mimi said

"Ponyta get lots of attention then."

Everyone had a large sweatdrop.

The Blue Team was on their way west, Kari was riding on ponyta. Ranma didn't take long to go to his female form since there was a lot of puddles.

"So Ranma, what does the map say about the northwestern point of the island?" Beruche asked.

"Nothing, it doesn't say what it is." Ranma-chan said.

"That's odd." Mimi said "I thought the whole island was explored."

"This so mysterious and wonderful." Palmon said.

"Wonderful?"

"Yes, we'll be the ones to do the exploring."

"Well, I'm just glad to be out of the swamp."

"I agree." Beruche said "All this humidity is just terrible for my skin."

A few minutes later the scenery changed dramatically. The Blue Team was now in an open grassland, with some trees and hills scattered around.

"Now this is nice." Beruche said.

"It's a pretty scenery, what a nice change of pace." Mimi said.

"Yeah, yeah... we have to keep looking for TK." Ranma-chan said.

"Look a patch of flowers!" Kari said. She got off Ponyta and ran towards it. Gatomon was right behind her

"Oh, look how pretty they are" Mimi said as she walked towards the flower patch along with Palmon.

"We don't have time for this!" Ranma-chan insisted.

"Oh come on Ranma! Stop and smell the flowers." Beruche said before giggling. She and Vivi followed the others.

"Why me?"

"Poneee!!"

Kari was picking some flowers. Gatomon was curious "Why are you picking flowers Kari?"

Kari smiled "You'll see."

"These are sure pretty!" Palmon said.

"Yeah, I've never seen these kind of flowers." Mimi said "They smell wonderful too."

Vivi crouched to smell some flowers, but suddenly got startled when he heard a noise behind him "Mew". He turned around but didn't see anything, he dismissed it and continued looking at the flowers.

Beruche went over to Kari, she had placed a flower crown on Gatomon.

"I look silly!" Gatomon said.

"No you don't! You look nice." Kari said.

"Yeah you do" Beruche said, but couldn't help giggling.

"I have something for you too."

"Really?"

"Yes, would you mind coming down please?"

Beruche sat on her knees "This OK?"

"Sure!" Kari then took some flowers and placed them along Beruche's forehead braid. "I'm done."
Beruche took out a mirror from her pocket and looked at herself. "Oh how hippie like!" she then preceded to make a peace sign "Peace and love!"

Kari smiled "Yeah!"

Ranma-chan was getting inpatient "Will all of you stop wasting time!? We have to move on!"

Mimi was ready to leave "OK, OK"

Palmon was carrying a bunch of flowers on her arms.

"I'm ready too!" Vivi said.

"So are we." Beruche said.

"Poneeeee!"

Kari got back on Ponyta and they continued their journey.

Team Rocket wasn't far behind the Blue Team.

James: "I'm so hungry!"

Meowth: "We're always hungry."

Jessie: "And why is that?"

James: "Because we don't have any money!"

Jessie: "And why don't we have money?"

Meowth: "Because the boss hasn't paid us anything."

Jessie: "And why hasn't he paid us anything?"

James: "Global economic crisis?"

Jessie hit James on the head "No stupid! We haven't been paid because we haven't captured any pokemon!"

James: "That was my second guess."

Meowth: "Look! A patch of flowers!"

Jessie & James: "Wow!!"

They ran towards the patch of flowers.

When Jessie arrived she sat on her knees and looked at the pretty flowers. "Aren't these lovely?" but when she turned around she saw James and Meowth eating the flowers. She got up and kick them in the rear end. "What do you think you're doing!?"

James: "Sorry Jessie, it's just that we're so hungry."

Jessie: "How pathetic can you be?"

Meowth: "Wish I had an answer for that."

Suddenly they heard a voice behind them. "Hey you! It's about time you got here!"

They turned around and saw a man in uniform, he had the letters RR on his sleeve.

James: "What is it?"

The man looked at Team Rocket "Um... that's a new style, only one R each. But I don't care much about fashion so OK"

Jessie: "One R each?"

"Come with me, you have a job to do" He walked away.

James: "This guy is confusing us with someone else."

Meowth: "Who cares? He has a job for us, and what comes after a job?"

Jessie & James: "A paycheck!!"

Meowth: "Let's go!"

Team Rocket followed the mysterious man.

As the Blue Team continued their journey they noticed that besides being a beautiful place, the area didn't have anything that stood out, everything was basically the same.

Vivi: "You know, this place is pretty and all. But it's getting a bit boring."

Beruche: "I hate to admit it" Beruche said "but you're right."

Mimi: "And no signs of Angemon or TK."

Palmon: "Maybe they left?"

Ranma-chan: "Considering our luck that's a possibility."

Beruche: "Could you please keep your pessimism to yourself?"

Kari: "I wonder what Tk is doing here."

Palmon: "I see the ocean!"

Gatomon: "And I see a village!"

Everyone saw a rather large village not far away from where they were, it was at the very shore of the island.

Vivi: "Let's go check it out!"

They headed towards the village.

General Magenta showed Team Rocket to his camp. They had some tents up and many soldiers were going around doing their labors. The most noticeable thing was the 3 large robots standing in the middle.

"These are our Magitek Armors, they're probably not as fancy as the ones you've piloted, but we keep them in top shape."

"You want us to pilot these?" James said.

"Of course! Why else would we need you three? But I'm specially confused about the meowth, can he really pilot on of these?"

James said "Well of course no..."

Suddenly Meowth scratched his leg to shut him up, he then continued "It's part of a secret project, by now our researchers know that meowths make better pilots than humans. Doesn't the fact that I talk prove that I'm not an ordinary Meowth?"

"I see, It's reassuring to know we have such a specialized team working for us. Truly the Red Ribbon works with nothing but the best."

"Yeah!" Jessie said "That's us! The best there is!"

James caught on "Yeah, In fact I'm so inspired today that I'm going to ride that thing like I've never rode it before!"

"Very well, now let me brief you in our mission. It's imperative that we take hold of the town of Jayne. The first appearance has been predicted 3 miles off shore from there. We must set up our base there or else we'll have a large problem in our hands."

"Um.. sure." Jessie said "But why don't just you send some troops to take the village by force?"

"We would like to prevent unnecessary violence, that's why you're here. We need you to pilot those Magitek Armors to the village and convince them to surrender without any actual fighting. They should so intimidated that they'll agree. You see it's not a hard job."

"That's it?" James said "Hey even we can't mess this up!"

"What you say?"

Jessie said "He said that even if we TRIED to mess up we couldn't."

"Ah... you'll leave as soon as you're ready."

Meowth got excited "We're ready NOW!!"

A few minutes later Jessie, James and Meowth were all on top of a Magitek Armor. All three units were communicated by radio.

James: "So many buttons, which on do I press?"

Jessie: "Look for one that says 'ON'"

Meowth: "Um... just don't press the red button."

James: "Why not?"

Meowth: "The red button is always bad."

Jessie: "They are all red!"

James: "Houston we have a problem."

Jessie: "Yeah, lame quotes."

Meowth: "Press any button then!"

James picked a button at random, he pushed it and suddenly the Magitek Armor shot a heat ray at a nearby tent, the soldiers in the way were barely able to jump away. After the tent was hit there was nothing but ashes left.
General Magenta yelled "What are you doing!?"

James yelled "Weapon systems in order!" He gave the general a thumbs up "Kudos to your maintenance team!"

The general had a sweatdrop, he yelled "Thanks! I think..."

Jessie: "Hey! I figured out how to get this thing moving. You just move these levers here." Jessie started moving her unit, soon Meowth followed and then James.

James: "Hey! We're moving!"

Meowth: "You know, this is actually easy. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

James: "I think so Meowth, but do you really think Jessie would look good with Sailor Moon's hairstyle?"

Jessie: "Enough with the lame quotes!"

James: "Who am I quoting?"

Jessie: "Never mind! Let's just get going!"

Meowth: "I haven't finished telling you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking that after we complete the mission we can run away with these toys! Imagine how many pokemon we could capture with these babies!"

Jessie: "Oh I like that!"

James: "Let's do it then!"

All three started leaving camp, James started showing off. "Look I can make this thing jump!"

General Magenta looked on as they left. "I knew I should have asked for Eva pilots."

The village was a pretty place, it's style matched its surrounding. The houses were made of wood and were crafted pretty well. There was a lot of people walking around and doing everyday things. Some were working, others chatting among themselves, others doing their chores, and plenty of children playing outside.

"What a nice place." Vivi said.

"Is it just me or does this place look like the village from Beauty and the Beast?" Mimi said.

Suddenly a person yelled "Oh no!!! It's one of those!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction of the Blue Team.

"Boy, we're really famous in this island." Mimi said.

Suddenly the children and women ran away and the men grouped in front of the Blue Team, many of them had shovels, brooms and other objects in their hands, some were lighting torches.

"What is going on?" Kari asked.

Suddenly a large muscular man with black hair, a short beard and dark green eyes stepped up. "Why are you here, are you his servants?"

"Servants?" Ranma-chan asked "What are you talking about?"

"Don't play stupid, you're working for that black mage, aren't you?"

Beruche had a sweatdrop "You mean Vivi? No he's just our friend..."

Suddenly everyone got scared and stepped back, the same man spoke "Then you are evil too, we will protect our town till the end."

Vivi said "No, I'm not evil. I don't want to harm anybody."

Kari jumped off Ponyta "He's telling the truth, Vivi is actually a nice guy!"

Someone in the crowd yelled "Their trying to fool us to put our guard down, we must attack now!" Everyone took the advice and charged at the Blue Team.

"Mimi!" Palmon yelled "Palmon digivolves to... Togemon!"

Everyone stopped at the site of large Digimon.

"More black sorcery, is there no end to your evil."

"We're not evil!!" Mimi said angered "We're just protecting ourselves. We're the Blue Team! From the Ultimate Challenge!!"

"We do not know what you're talking about, you won't fool us."

"These guys are stubborn." Gatomon said.

Vivi then stepped away from his team on towards the crowd. Ranma-chan noticed in time and grabbed him. "What do you think you're doing?"

"I don't want you guys to get hurt because of me, I'll turn myself over to them."

"Vivi!" Beruche said "You can't do that!"

"I'm sure we can reason with them, but not if they are this tense."

"They'll kill you before they give themselves time to think about it!"

"Maybe we should just leave." Kari said.

"Kari is right." Gatomon said "Let's just go, it's not like they can stop us."

Suddenly they heard a voice behind them "Prepare... for... Trouble."

Another voice was heard "And... make... it... double!"

They turned around and saw 3 large robot like tanks.

"What the hell are those?" Ranma-chan said.

"Um... they look like Magitek Armors from Final Fantasy VI" Kari said.

"Kari..." Beruche said "How much time do you spend playing video games?"

"What else can you do when you get sick so often?"

"Um... good point."

Team Rocket continued their motto in a robotic style "To... protect... world... from... devastation!"

"To... unite... people... in... nation!"

"To... denounce... evils... of... truth... and... love!"

"To... extend... reach... to... stars... above!"

"Jeeesieee!"

"Jaaaaames!"

"Team... Rocket... blasts... off... at... speed... of... light!"

"Surrender... now... or... prepare... to... fight!"

"Meowth... that... is... correct!"

Meowth then noticed Gatomon "System mal... functioning... going... back... foooooor...repapapairssssssss..." he then ran away.

Jessie was furious "MEOWTH! WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING!?!?"

Meowth didn't respond.

"What's happening to that cat?"

Mimi sighed "Why are they following us? Aren't they supposed to be Ash's problem?"

Kari said "They must really like Pontya."

"Poneee."

Palmon translated "He says it's nice to be wanted, but not like this."

The crowd got pretty scared "Are they with you! I knew you were going to attack us! We won't give up without a fight."

Gatomon said "No wait! They're not with us!"

Togemon charged against Team Rocket, she hit Jessie's unit but nothing happened.

Jessie laughed "Even you won't stand a chance against us now!"

James was having fun "Chill out!", he fired an Ice beam from his unit and froze Togemon.

Mimi yelled "Togemon!"

Jessie was getting pretty annoyed "First it was lame quotes, now you're making bad puns. Will you stop it!?"

"Gee Jessie, you seem particularly mean today."

Ranma-chan charged at James' unit, but with a quick swipe from the Magitek armor he was thrown back. He landed in front of Beruche.

Beruche looked down at Ranma "Ranma, can I tell you something?"

"What is it?"

"Well, every time you charge at someone you always end up being thrown back."

"Your point being?"

"Well, this is just my common sense speaking, but... you should stop doing that."

Gatomon said "Those guys may be dumb, but those things are powerful! Maybe I should digivolve."

Vivi said "I'll try to free Togemon with a fire spell. Fira...", but before he could cast his spell he was tackle by a villager. In an instant everyone started pilling up on Vivi.

"Vivi!" Kari yelled, she ran to help him but was grabbed by another villager.

"Kari!" Gatomon yelled.

Another one grabbed Mimi. "Don't try anything funny" The villager said.

Beruche and Ranma-chan didn't know what to do.

Jessie and James looked at the events puzzled. "Wait a second, why are they attacking them instead of us?" James said.

"I have no idea." Responded Jessie.

Ranma-chan said "Look, they are not with us. Even if you stop us they won't stop what they're doing!"

Suddenly Jessie got an idea, she turned on a speakerphone on her unit. "That's right! We're not with them, we were sent her by the Red Ribbon to defend you from these guys."

The large muscular man walked up to Jessie's unit "My name is Gustav, and I'm the chief of this village. I thank you for your cooperation."

Mimi was outraged "That's a bold face lie!! They're the evil ones."

Gustav turned to look at them "I don't see them walking around with a black mage, and they stopped your evil pet."

"It's not an evil pet! She's my best friend."

Jessie continued speaking "Now that we've saved you from them, the Red Ribbon just asks a little favor it return."

"What is it?"

"They want to setup a small base of operations here, with your permission of course."

"Well that's a small price to pay for saving our village, we would be honored to let the Red Ribbon place a base here. I'm sure it's only to benefit the whole island."

"Yeah, yeah.. that's right."

Not far away, Tk and Patamon were witnessing the events from behind a house.

"Tk!" Patomon said "We have to help them!"

"We can't interfere Patamon! Remember what they told us!"

"But they are our friends, we can't just leave them."

TK tried not to cry "We have a job to do, and that's to find Mew!"

"TK, that's not like you. That can't be more important than saving them, is it?"

Tk remained silent.

Meanwhile...

Usagi and Ami were sitting in a plain room with only two chairs and table. Usagi had been given a Sunday to eat. "Why didn't you tell me about this Ami? Why am I always left out of everything?"

"I'm sorry Usagi, but I had to keep the secret."

"Why do you need me now anyway?"

"Let me fill you in on the matter first. Have you ever heard of the Red Ribbon army?"

"Um... soldiers with red ribbons?"

"No, some years ago there was this large army that tried to take over the world. They were defeated by a young Goku years ago."

"Goku? You mean he's here?

"He's close, but he's not working with us. Anyway, the Red Ribbon has reappeared in this island, and it's our job to find out what they are up to and stop them."

"Ah... so you need me, the incredible Sailor Moon to bring justice, right?"

"No."

"Aww... why not? I'm a heroine!"

"Yes, and you know I know that. But that's not the case!"

"Then what's the case?"

"A couple of days ago we infiltrated the Red Ribbons headquarters, and I was able to read some information about something called the JENOVA 2 project. Now I couldn't find out much but I saw a list of names in it and one was yours, or to be more precise Sailor Moon."

"Why would I appear in that list?"

"I was hoping your would know, but apparently not. We had gotten word from Matt that Queen Garnet, who also appeared in the list, was being chased by a digimon named Kyougumon. Just today he informed us that Kyougumon had digivolve and the Queen was a part of it."

"What's a Kyougumon?"

"I don't know, but a bet is part of the JENOVA 2 project. My priority is, as it has always been, to protect you. They may need you to fulfill the project, but we won't let you fall into their hands."

"Who are 'we'? Why aren't we working as the sailor senshi on this one?"

"I can't tell you... yet. Please forgive me."

"Um... OK But I want to help."

"Sure, just give us some time."

"OK Ami, I trust you."

Back to the Blue Team...

Ranma-chan, Beruche, Mimi and Kari were placed in a dark room. Togemon was kept frozen and Gatomon was frozen too. Ponyta was locked inside a pokeball. They did not know what they were doing with Vivi.

"It's so dark, I can't see a thing." Ranma-chan said.

"What an awful place." Beruche said.

"What's going to happen to us?" Mimi said.

"What's going to happen to Vivi!?" Kari said.

Ranma-chan said "I'm not going to find out, we have to get out of here, get the others back and leave this town!"

Buruche was not impressed "And how do you plan to do that."

"They didn't think much of me, so they put me in this small room thinking I would not be able to escape. I can break the wall with my fists you know."

Suddenly they heard a voice "You're the one who doesn't think much of the people of this town. Go ahead and try to break the wall if you want."

Beruche asked "Who's there? Your voice sounds familiar."

"Yours too, but I haven't quite placed it yet."

"Um... Luna?"

"Why yes! And you are..."

"It's me! Beruche!"

"Beruche! It's been such a long time, don't tell me you're participating in this challenge?"

"Hey! I was pretty surprised too."

"Buruche?" Mimi asked "Who are you talking too? Is she an old friend?"

"Yeah, her name is Luna. Wait a sec, hey Kari? Can you use your crest of light here?"

Kari said "Um.. I'll try." She concentrated but nothing happen. "I don't think it works that way."

"Um.. what a drag. Let me try something." Beruche concentrated and she managed to create a small sphere of light that floated above her opened palm, the room was clearly lit now. "Well that's better."

Everyone now saw Luna, the black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead.

"AAAAAAAAAAAH! A CAT!!!!" Ranma-chan yelled in fear, she ran to the farthest corner of the room to get away from Luna.

"What's wrong Ranma?" Kari said.

"You're not afraid of cats, are you?" Mimi asked.

"Get her away, I don't want to be near a cat!" Ranma-chan yelled in panic.

"You are afraid!" Beruche said "Wait a second, we've been traveling with Gatomon all this time and you didn't show any fear of her."

"Well Gatomon is not a cat! She's a digimon!"

"It's easy to tell, isn't it." Kari said.

Beruche had a sweatdrop "OK, whatever... it's not like some superior being decided that it wouldn't be practical for you to be afraid of Gatomon. It must be one of those mysteries of the mind things."

"Ahem..." Mimi said "Shouldn't we get back to the matter at hand? Namely our problem."

"Oh yes!" Beruche said "Hey Luna, why are you here?"

Luna blushed "Well the people of this village are highly superstitious, and being a black cat didn't help my popularity in this place."

"But why were you in this village in the first place? Aren't you supposed to be with Usagi?"

"Well, I'm a representative of the challenge. I was waiting for a team to arrive."

"You weren't supposed to tell us."

"I'm not supposed by inside this room either, yet here I am."

"So you have a challenge for us to complete?"

"Well I had, it was full of adventure, mystery and excitement; but now I'll just settle for you getting me out of here, and I mean this village."

"OK, that seems fair."

"Why are you here?"

"Well, we were traveling with little black mage named Vivi. Once we were noticed we were basically branded the physical manifestations of all evil."

"That's pretty harsh, but I guess it's understandable knowing how these people think."

"We need to get out of here and help Vivi!" Kari said "Who knows what they'll do to him."

"Well, if you think about these people you can tell that they'll burn him alive in the presence of everyone in town."

"OH! NO! We have to get out here fast!" Mimi said.

Suddenly they heard "OWW!!" from Ranma-chan. They looked at her and saw her holding her fist. "What's this wall made off anyway?"

Luna said "2 inches of steel. Covered in cement to fool people like you."

"Damn!"

Suddenly Beruche's sphere of light floated up and started moving around.

"Beruche" Ranma-chan said annoyed "This is no time to show off."

Beruche was confused "It's not me!"

"Then what is it."

Suddenly the image of Mew appeared besides the sphere, he was playing with it. In an instant it disappeared along with the sphere, it was dark again.

"That was Mew!" Kari said.

"What's that?" Luna asked.

"A very rare pokemon."

"Well, that's not important now." Beruche said "We have to get out of here, I'll get us out."

"Oh sure!" Ranma-chan said "Feel free to try, like you can do anything."

Beruche walked to the door and knocked, the door slightly opened and let a little light inside. A large man in armor peeked inside "What do you want?"

Beruche gave him a hypnotizing look. "Would you please let us out?"

"OK, go ahead." he opened the door completely.

Everyone had small sweatdrops.

Everyone left the room, as Ranma-chan passed Beruche she said "Sure, do it the easy way."

Beruche smiled.

They found themselves near the beach, the whole town now seemed empty. "I bet they're all in the center of town!" Luna said.

"We have to hurry!" Mimi said

Everyone ran to the center of town. Ranma-chan was keeping her distance from Luna.

Everyone was indeed at the center of town. Vivi was tied to a stake with plenty of firewood around him. Jessie and James were with Gustav, he had just given them the pokeball containing Ponyta.

"Are you sure this is enough?" Gustav asked "We owe you so much."

"No thanks! This just about covers it." Jessie said "Well look at the time, we have to get moving! Come on James!"

James was being admired by some of the local girls "Well yes it was scary, but sometimes I man has to do what a man has to do!"

Jessie said "I said to stop with the lame quotes!! Now let's get out of here."

"But Jessie, what's the hurry?"

Jessie whispered in James ear "The Red Ribbon will be here any minute now and they'll want their Magitek Armors back! Let's get moving, I'm sure we'll meet up with Meowth later, so we can beat him up!"

"Oh.. right!"

Both James and Jessie got on top of the Magitek Armors and were ready to leave.

Gustav attended his people "People of Jayne! We are here to burn this evil Black Mage!"

Everyone cheered.

"Let this show that we won't tolerate the presence of evil in our peaceful town!"

Everyone cheered.

"Let us stand proud and watch as he burns his way to hell!"

Everyone cheered.

"Aaa..aaa...aachooooo!"

Everyone cheered.

"Start the fire!!"

Suddenly they heard a voice "STOP!!! You don't know what you're doing!!"

Everyone turned around and saw Beruche and male Ranma standing besides them, everyone ran away from them.

"You're judging Vivi by his appearance!" Beruche said "If you would give him a chance to express himself you'd learn he's not bad at all."

Vivi was happy "Thanks guys! I know you'd be here for me."

Gustav turned to Jessie and James who were just leaving "Please help us oh saviors! The evil ones are free!!"

"Damn!" Jessie said "We have no time for this!"

"Come on Jessie!" James said "This should be quick."

"Oh all right."

Jessie and James placed their Magitek Armors in front of Ranma and Beruche.

"Let me handle them!" Ranma said.

"Yeah right, just like last time." Beruche said.

"Believe it or not, I learn from my mistakes."

"So do I! I learn from your mistakes too!" Beruche pressed her palms together, she then started moving them apart, making an ice sword between them. Beruche showed Ranma the ice sword. "OK, NOW I'm showing off!"

"An ice sword? Please... ice is fragile. You can't do much with that."

"Oh yeah!? Beruche swung the sword in Jessie's direction. She shot a blue crescent beam, but disappeared the moment it hit Jessie's unit.

"HA! You can't beat us so easily!" Jessie said, but then she felt some funny movement. "What the!?" and suddenly the top half of her unit fell off it's bottom half.

Ranma had dots as eyes, he was amazed. "What the hell!?"

"It's all in the wrist." Beruche giggled "Beat that!"

"Fine, watch this!" Ranma-chan charged at James.

James shot a bolt ray, but Ranma avoided it while still charging. "Tenshin Agiburiken!!" he threw quick punches at James' unit. A second later Ranma was standing a few feet in front of James, his unit was unscratched.

"Hahaha! I laugh at your miserable attempt at attacking me."

Ranma had a sly smiled, he showed James what he was holding in his hands, which was a lot of screws, nuts and bolts.

"Huh?" suddenly James' unit fell in pieces.

"Not bad." Beruche said "Not bad at all."

Jessie and James got out of what was left of their units. "What now Jessie?" James asked.

"What else? We run the hell away!"

"Not so fast!" Ranma said as he charged at them.

"Weezing! Go!" James let out Weezing.

"Weeezing!" Weezing appeared, but Ranma just leaped and used Weezing as a stepping stone. He landed in front of Jessie and took the locked pokeball from her hand.

"This doesn't belong to you." Ranma said.

"Give that back!"

"No way!" Ranma gave a powerful kick that sent them flying away.

"Team Rocket is blasting off again!!"

Ranma grabbed Weezing and threw him in Team Rocket's direction "Don't forget the sludge ball."

"Weeeeeeeezing..."

Everyone was so focused in the battle that they didn't notice Kari,Mimi and Luna getting close to the digimon. Once Beruche saw them in position she made a small ice shard and threw it at Vivi, it hit his binding ropes and set him free. "Vivi! Free the digimon!"

Vivi was a little slow to react but acted in time "Fira!"

The fire attack hit the digimon and freed them from their ice prison.

"Gatomon!" Kari yelled.

"Togemon!" Mimi yelled.

Panic started to overcome the people from village and they were all running away.

Luna said "Let's get out of here!"

Mimi said "You don't have to tell me twice."

The Blue Team started to run out of town.

They had just reached the village's limits when they saw a small army right outside.

"What the!?" Mimi said.

"Who are they?" Beruche said.

"I don't know," Luna said "but I don't think they're here on peace."

The soldiers were able to spot Togemon and immediately started shooting at the Blue Team.

The Blue Team had no choice but to hide behind a house.

"I don't like their attitude!" Beruche said.

A soldier went to talk to General Magenta "General! What should we do? Should we attack head on."

"No, we have to wait for them. Hold your position."

"Yes sir!"

30 minutes had passed and the Blue Team was still hiding. Ranma was taking constant peeks to see what was going on.

"What are they doing?" Vivi asked.

"Still nothing... what are they waiting for?"

"Something is not right." Gatomon said "If we keep waiting they'll overcome us."

Luna approached Ranma "She's right... if..."

"AAHH! I said get away from me!!!" Ranma yelled.

"Fine, but you have to do something."

"But what?" Mimi asked.

General Magenta was finally able to see them arrive, it was the androids #24, #25, #26. "What took you?"

#24 looked angry "Hey man! Listen the Red Ribbon has us working overtime, we weren't supposed to be here. You had the Magitek Armors to to accomplish this.

"Um.. yeah I know, but there was a little accident."

#25 pouted "What incompetence, and they always want us to fix it."

#24 asked "So what's the situation?"

"Well we were about to go into town when all of a sudden one of those large creatures appeared. We need you to get rid of it and all those with it."

#25 said "I'm getting sick of those people, this time I'm going to rip out their intestine and use it as a jump rope!"

"Yeah, you do that. We'll be here with backup if you need it."

#24 laughed "Yeah right, like you could do something. Let's go!"

All 3 androids flew towards Jayne.

The Blue Team was ready to leap into action.

"Ready?" Ranma asked.

Everyone Responded"READY!!"

"Then let's go!" Ranma yelled, but then the androids landed in front of them.

#25 said "Hey! These guys are new! How delightful!"

#24 said "Don't get your hopes up, these look lamer than the others. No saiyans, they have some little black puppet thing, a woman with a weird hairstyle and 2 digimon."

"Who the hell are you?" Ranma asked.

#24 said "We're the ones who are going to give you the beating of your life."

#25 said "And we mean that in the nicest way."

Beruche yelled "You don't scare us!"

#26 extended his arm and opened his hand releasing a wave of energy, everyone was blown back.

"Well maybe a little..."

"Beruche!" Ranma yelled.

"Well that hurt!"

"What are we going to do?" Mimi asked.

"Let's get them!" Togemon yelled.

"Yeah!" Gatomon said "It's 5 against 3, we can take them!"

"Right!!" Everyone yelled.

Ranma, Beruche and Gatomon charged at the androids.

Ranma yelled "Tenshin Agiburiken!!!" throwing lightning fast punches at #24, unfortunately he was blocking them all pretty easy.

"Slow!" Vivi yelled. #24's movements were significaly slowed down. His moves were still pretty fast, but Ranma was now getting plenty of punches in.

Beruche threw an ice beam at #25 but she dodged by taking off.

#25 said "It's a shame you people can't fly like us!" but she couldn't find Beruche on the ground. Suddenly she felt something strike her in the back, she reached her back and pulled out some ice shards slightly covered in blood (or whatever red fluid she has in her body). She turned around and saw Beruche floating in the air.

"Don't take me so lightly." Beruche said.

Gatomon charged at #26, he was ready to strike but Gatomon avoided him and jumped on his shoulder. He turned around and saw her coming with a sliding kick, so he jumped straight up to avoid her. Unfortunately he didn't see Togemon coming, she hit him on the back and sent him crashing into a fountain.

Ranma continued to hit #24 who was moving too slow to defend himself correctly, avoid or counterattack. Ranma finished his series of punches with a roundhouse kick that sent #24 flying back.
#25 was trying to hit Beruche, but she kept disappearing before she could hit her. "Oh... stay still will you!?"

"No" Beruche said.

"You can't avoid me forever!"

"I don't need to."

On the ground Vivi yelled "Thundaga!!"

#25 was hit with a lighting bolt, stunning her for a moment. Beruche took the opportunity and sent a blast of energy straight at #25, knocking her all the way to the ground.

The three androids recovered and regrouped.

#25 was surprised "Hey what gives!?"

#24 said "They got us by surprise, but we won't let that happen again!"

Togemon attacked "Needle Spray!!"

The androids covered themselves and the needles didn't hurt them much. When the uncovered themselves they saw most of the Blue Team in front of them, but they heard a voice coming from behind yelling "Hey! Over here!". They turned around and saw Ranma standing alone.

#24 said "Let's get him first!"

All three androids charged at Ranma.

Ranma moved as fast as he could and barely avoided them by moving left, the androids reacted quickly and moved around him leaving him surrounded.

Vivi yelled "Firaga!!"

The androids received the blast of fire but weren't affected much. Yet it was part's of Ranma's plan, Vivi's attack to the androids heated the air around him and with his cool Chi he had an instant setup ready for his technique.

"Rising Dragon Hurricane!!" Ranma released his energy and formed a tornado around him, sending the 3 androids high into the sky.

Luna was standing next to Kari and Mimi. She was impressed "Wow! You people certainly have worked well in your teamwork! What's your secret? I want to teach the senshi to work like that."

Mimi said "It's a secret method."

Kari said "Yeah, it's so secret even we don't know it."

Luna had a sweatdrop.

The Blue Team regrouped. The 3 android were coming back down, before crashing on the ground the quickly turned and headed towards the Blue Team.

"Here they come!" Beruche said "Vivi!"

Vivi yelled "Stop!"

The androids froze on mid air.

Beruche said "Let's put them in ice Vivi!"

Vivi Responded"OK, Blizzaga!"

With the help of Beruche Vivi was able to trap the 3 androids in a ball of ice.

Togemon ran towards the ball which was already cracking because the androids were trying to brake free. She then threw it diagonally up.

Gatomon leaped to the rooftop of a house and then gave a giant cat like leap into the air, placing herself on the ball's path. Before it hit her she kicked it back towards the ground.

Mimi said "Wow! She's pretty strong for such a little digimon."

Kari said "Size does NOT matter."

Ranma placed himself beneath the ball of ice, he extended his arms up and yelled "Mako Takabisha!" he gathered a large amount of his confident chi and made a large blast which hit the ball full force. The androids were sent flying in smoke, landing almost outside town.

The Blue Team headed towards the androids, but was surprise to be a whole army waiting for them. All the soldiers were pointing their guns at the Blue Team. The androids were hurt but didn't have any trouble moving, and they looked angry. General Magenta said "Give up! Or we'll execute you on the stop."

Ranma yelled "ARGH! I can't believe we let this happen."

#24 yelled "Don't shoot!!! You can't deny us our right to kill them!"

General Magenta yelled "Kill them? You're the ones being beat up!"

#25 yelled "It's just that they don't play fair!!!"

Togemon charged at the androids.

Mimi yelled "Togemon wait!!"

General Magenta yelled "Fire!!"

All the soldiers fired at once.

Everything had become silent, everything had stopped and looked in a shade of blue. Mimi was the only one who could move. At the distance she could see Togemon running towards the androids and the army. She could even see the swarms of bullets floating in the air in front of her. She then heard a voice "Mew..."

Suddenly Mew appeared in front of Mimi. He looked at her with tender eyes, Mimi felt some sort of comfort she wouldn't had been able to describe. Mimi asked "What is going on?"

Mew then disappeared.

Suddenly everything recovered its color and went back into motion, everything but the bullets. The soldiers were all shocked when they saw all the bullets floating in front of Togemon.

Mimi yelled "Togemon!!"

The rest of the Blue Team was also confused.

General Magenta yelled "Fire again!"

Suddenly a voice yelled "Don't you dare!!", everyone looked up and saw Angemon.

TK ran towards the Blue Team "Are you guys OK!?"

Kari said "TK!"

General Magenta yelled "Don't be afraid of the omnipotent looking angel men, just fire at him!!" but all his army ran away in fear. General Magenta ran after them "Get back here!!"

#24 said "We meet again! I'm getting tired of you, and those teams, and every damn person on this freaking island!! I'm going to kill them all!!!"

Angemon said "I can't let you hurt any more people."

The androids charged at Angemon, but TK held his crest in his hand.

"Angemon ultradigivolves to... Magnaangemon!"

The androids didn't stop their attack.

Magnaangemon yelled "Gate of Destiny!!" and opened at gate to another dimension, it started to suck the androids in. The androids tried to free themselves from the grasp of Magnaangemon's attack, and were sucked into the portal which quickly closed afterwards. Magnaangemon then went back to being Patamon.

Ranma was confused, a lot of things had happened in an instant. "Um.. Let's get out of this town first and then someone better explain it to me what just happened." He took one step before something struck the ground in front if him, it was a red rose.

Everyone looked up and saw Tuxedo Meowth standing on the roof of a house "Those who want to destroy the pillar of justice will have to suffer the..."

Suddenly Kari yelled "Tuxedo Meowth! It's over already!"

"Um... you mean there's no danger anymore?"

"Hopefully not!"

"Sorry, I won't be late next time! I promise!" Tuxedo Meowth jumped off the house and disappeared into an ally.

"Somehow I don't feel any safer." Mimi said.

"Can we get going!?" Ranma yelled.

Everyone ran out of town.

About half a mile away from Jayne, everyone stopped and rested. Ranma finally let Ponyta out of the locked pokeball.

"Poneeeee!!"

"Consider yourself lucky." Gatomon said "This is something you would have not enjoyed."

"Pone..."

Ranma: "Now can anyone explain what happened back there?"

Kari: "Tk, I didn't know Angemon could stop bullets like that."

Patamon: "I didn't do it!"

Beruche: "What? Then who did?"

Mimi: "MEW! I saw him!"

TK: "You saw Mew!? Where?"

Mimi: "It was pretty odd, everything stopped for a moment."

Vivi: "I kind of felt that, it's hard to explain."

Mimi: "And then Mew appeared in front of me, he smiled and disappeared. He stopped the bullets."

Palmon: "Remind me to thank him if I ever meet him."

Kari: "Yeah, he saved us all."

Ranma: "Well that answers that, but what about you boy?"

TK: "Well I was here looking for Mew in the first place."

Kari: "Why?"

Patomon: "TK!"

TK: "Sorry... I can't tell you."

Mimi: "With powers like those, I doubt you could catch him."

TK: "Well at least I know he's around here."

Beruche: "Well... um... anyway. Tk, my name is Beruche, could you please come with us?"

TK: "I can't, I'm not supposed to follow you."

Kari: "But we need you! There's this cave in the swamp, its entrance is blocked by an unmovable boulder, and the boulder has the crest of hope on it."

Vivi: "We believe you may be the key to opening it."

Ranma: "How else are we supposed to open it?"

TK: "Um... well I don't know..."

Patamon: "Just a little moment Tk, the swamp is not far from here."

Palmon: "Yeah TK, we won't take long!"

TK: "Alright, but just to go open this cave."

Mimi: "Thank you TK!!"

Beruche: "You know, for the first time I feel really good. I mean we really nailed those androids."

Ranma: "They weren't so tough..."

Luna: "I'm also impressed.."

Ranma: "ACK!!! Get away from me!!"

Luna walked away from Ranma and resumed "I'm impressed, you guys deserve this!" Luna jumped and flipped in the air, and made a badge appear."

Beruche picked up the badge "Alright! Our fourth badge! This means we're halfway to victory."

Ranma: "What makes you think we're so far ahead, another team may have all 8 badges already."

Beruche: "Maybe... but none can win as long as we have their jewels."

Luna: "Now I need to ask a favor."

Beruche: "What is it?"

Luna: "Can I go with you? I don't feel safe anymore..."

Mimi: "I'm OK with it."

Kari: "Me too! I like cats."

Gatomon: "Lucky for me."

Palmon: "Gee... we're sure becoming a big group."

Ranma: "Absolutely not! and I'm the captain so I decide."

Beruche: "Says who? just because you're the captain doesn't mean we have to do whatever you want. I say Luna comes with us."

Ranma: "If she comes with us I'm constantly going to be nervous."

Beruche: "Hehe, I'm going to love having her around."

Vivi: "Hey! The more the merrier, no?"

Ranma: "Ack... why me?"

TK: "You mind if we get going?"

Beruche: "Right, Let's get going."

Ranma: "Hey wait! What about the yellow team? If we go back they'll be waiting for us."

Beruche: "We can't keep TK waiting, we'll just have to risk it."

Mimi: "*sigh* Never a moment when we can be at peace."

Palmon: "Well at least we're not bored."

Ponyta: "Poneee...."

Gatomon: "Ponyta wants to know when we'll find his friends."

Beruche: "Be patient Ponyta, we'll find them sooner or later."

Vivi: "Let's go!"

Kari: "It's dawn! How beautiful!"

Beruche: "Yeah, but that means we won't go far before we have to camp."

Beruche picked up Kari and carried her on her shoulders, Mimi and Palmon rode Ponyta with both legs hanging from the same side, Luna rode on top of Vivi's hat and Ranma led from a safe distance. TK and Patamon followed closely behind.

"TK, what about Mew?" Patamon asked.

"Well I don't think he's going to leave this place, we'll come back as soon as we get this done."

"OK"

Minako saw the Blue Team walk away. "The Blue Team had a very busy day today, but apparently they did everything they wanted to do. The challenge seems to be becoming more intense as the days pass, will this keep going? I mean we're only halfway through it and things are getting pretty wild. How will everything end? Well anyway, tomorrow I will have the exclusive interview with the Blue Team. We'll find out how they feel about the whole ordeal. Until next time! this has been Aino Minako."

Jessie and James were walking along the grassy mountains when suddenly they saw Meowth standing reclining on his Magitek Armor.

"Meowth!" Jessie yelled.

"Jessie!" Meowth Responded

The two ran towards each other.

"I'm so glad to see you guys!" Meowth said as he leaped into Jessie's arms.

Just before grabbing Jessie she hit on the head and knocked him on the ground. "You stupid cat! What the hell are you thinking!? Why do you keep doing this!?"

"Yeah Meowth, we're supposed to be TEAM Rocket!" James said "but you keep abandoning us!"

"Meowth! I'm sorry, I can't help it."

"What is it that you can't help!?" Jessie said.

"Hey! At least I still have a functioning Magitek armor."

Suddenly they heard a noise "Diglet dig diglet dig..." and they noticed a diglet close by.

"What do you think it's doing?" James asked.

Just then they noticed another one, and another, they were surrounded. by diglets.

Meowth was paying attention to what they were trying to say "They're saying this is their territory and that we should get that thing, meaning the Magitek Armor out of here."

"What's the problem?"

"Well they have a lot of tunnels around here and..."

Just then there was some trembling and the Magitek Armor sunk into the ground.

"ACK!!"

Team Rocket went over to look for the Magitek Armor but they only saw a really deep hole in it's place.

"Boy, those diglets sure get far down." James said.

"Guys..." Meowth said "Don't turn around."

Jessie and James did the opposite and turned around, they saw a lot of angry diglets. The diglets gathered and did such a powerful magnitude attack that they sent Team Rocket flying.

"Team Rocket is blasting off again!!"

The Yellow Team
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