Mina was outside town, the rodeo could be seen in the background. "Hello and welcome to the ultimate challenge. Today we're going to have a rodeo! Mimi Tachikawa is going to participate, but apparently she doesn't know anything. How will the Blue Team handle this? Well they better come up with something quick. Let's watch!"

The Blue Team was backstage with the rest of the cowboys and cowgirls.

"I don't want to do this!"

"Will you relax? We'll get through this!" Beruche said.

"But I can't do it!"

"Relax. The first competition won't be too hard. It's the barrel competition, you must go around barrels as fast a possible. But don't worry, Ponyta already knows what to do. All you have to do is hold on."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"Well that doesn't sound so bad."

Everyone smiled.

"I'll be cheering for you Mimi!" Palmon said.

"Poneeee.."

"Thank you Ponyta" Mimi said.

"What about the other events?" Ranma asked.

"We'll think off something." Beruche said.

"Let's go get ready." Vivi said.

Everyone left.

Not far from the blue team was Team Rocket.

"So how are going to still Ponyta again?" James asked.

"Don't you know anything!? We went through the plan at least um.. once."

Jessie said.

"Sorry Jessie, tell me again."

"Um.. you see... you tell him Meowth!"

Meowth scratched Jessie and James' faces "Meowth! You guys never get it! The barrels are controlled with the this remote." He raised it above him. "We'll make them move so that they lead ponyta towards our special exit. We then just push the girl off and take Ponyta!"

"Ahhhhhhh..." said Jessie and James at the same time.

All the Blue Team but Mimi was seating with the rest of the crowd.

Kari: "We got good seats!"

Gatomon: "Yeah.. even I can see without climbing on anything."

Palmon: "When will we get to see Mimi?"

Vivi: "According to this guide. She will be the fifth participant."

Ranma: "While we wait for her to show why don't we think about the next event?"

Beruche: "Um.. that will be tough..."

Kari: "Why?"

Beruche: "It's bull riding, actually is tauros riding."

Ranma: "Why do they use pokemon?"

Beruche: "How should I know?"

Palmon: "Can't we talk to the tauros like we did to Ponyta?"

Kari: "That's not a bad idea. Maybe we can convince him to help us."

Vivi: "But how are we going to find out what tauros Mimi is going to ride?"

Beruche: "That's right. That's not going to be possible."

Ranma: "Then what?"

Kari: "Maybe we can glue Mimi to the tauros."

Beruche: "What do you think this is? A cartoon?"

Kari: "Sorry."

Vivi: "I know, I'll cast my slow spell on the tauros."

Ranma: "Won't that look weird?"

Beruche: "Hey! As long as she wins who cares how it looks?"

Gatomon: "They'll say it's not fair."

Beruche: "It's not Mimi's fault how the tauros decides to act."

A while later Mimi Tachikawa was announced.

"Yeah! Mimi is next!" Palmon cheered.

Ponyta was at the starting point, Mimi was holding tight.

"That doesn't look too graceful." Gatomon said

"Right now I doubt she is concerned about how she looks." Ranma said.

A gun shot was heard and Ponyta took off. He went around the barrels with little trouble and was making excellent time.

Team Rocket was looking at the event from their secret exit.

"Ok Meowth" Jessie said. "Do your stuff."

"Meowth!" Meowth started working the remote control.

The barrels then started to move slightly, the spectators looked at Ponyta so it was hard to notice. Ponyta kept going around them.

After a while Ponyta had exceeded the time needed to win.

"Aww.. Mimi didn't win." Kari said.

"That's odd." Beruche said "It appears they have done more rounds than other participants."

"Yeah." Ranma said "They should have finished a while ago."

Jessie was yelling at Meowth. "What are you waiting for? You're supposed to bring him here!"

"Meowth, give me a second. This isn't easy."

"Guys.." James said.

"Shut up James! Can't you see I'm yelling at Meowth!?"

"Guys..."

"Shut up James! Can't you see I'm trying to control the barrels!?"

"Hey guys.."

"WHAT!?"

"Incoming!!!"

Ponyta was running towards the secret exit, he went went in and knocked TR away. After that he finally stopped and faced them.

"You guys again?" Mimi said "What do you think you're doing?"

Team Rocket stood in front of Ponyta and Mimi.

"Prepare for trouble!" Jessie said.

"And make it double." James said.

"And put whip cream with sprinkles on top while you are at it." Mimi said. "Let's go Ponyta."

"Poneee!"

"Hey! You can't interrupt us while we're doing the motto!" Jessie said.

"Meowth.. she already did."

"Let's get her!" James said. "Go Victreebell!"

Victreebell came out of it's pokeball and proceeded to attempt eating James head.

"Let go of me.."

Mimi had a sweatdrop "Gee.. and to think I had to face Myotismon. Life's been easy for me up till now."

"Grr..you will not make fun of us like this!" Jessie said.

"How should I do it then?"

"Enough! Go Arbok!"

Arbok came out and was ready to attack. "Chaaarbok!"

"Arbok! Poison sting."

"Aaaarr!" Arbok attacked.

Ponyta was hit with Arbok's attack and was stunned, he moved violently and Mimi fell off.

Team Rocket laughed at Mimi.

"A pokemon is different from a digimon you idiot." Jessie said "You actually have to tell them what to do if you want them to defend you."

"Oww... you won't get away from this."

James was now dressed as Myotismon "Uuuuhhh.. I'm the big bad digimon."

"Meowth! It's now our turn to make fun of you."

A voice came from behind "Not so fast!" they turned around and saw the Blue team, Gatomon had said that.

"Meowwwwwwwwwth... I.. I..I... have to go." Meowth quickly left.

"Hey Meowth!" Jessie said "What do you think you're doing!?"

"Well you know what they say Jessie." James said "When you have to go.. You have to GO! Victreebell, Razor Leaf!!"

Victreebell attacked the Blue Team with it's razor leaf.

"That's easy!" Gatomon said. She leaped and slashed the leafs with her claws.

"Then take this!" Jessie said "Arbok.. Wrap!"

Arbok wrapped itself around Gatomon, she couldn't break free.

"Palmon digivolves to... Togemon!"

"Oh no!" James said "It's the giant cactus again!"

Togemon hit the top of Arbok's head sending it to the ground, it let go of Gatomon.

"You guys are annoying!" Ranma said. He rushed at TR to hit them with an uppercut and sent them flying.

"Don't forget your pokemon." Vivi said. "Firaga!"

The fire explosion sent Arbok and Victreebell flying.

As team rocket flew off they yelled "Team Rocket is blasting off again...."

Beruche went to help Mimi. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah.. but they ruined the contest for us..."

Togemon went back to being Palmon, she went to hug Mimi.

Beruche said "Nah.. this is just one event. We just have to win at others."

Suddenly a lot of screaming was heard.

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

Dozens of people ran towards the secret exit and ran past the Blue team.

Ranma grabbed a man and asked what was going on.

"It's Jessie James!"

"Them again!?" Ranma said "I'm getting tired of this."

"Them? Thankfully he's only one."

"You mean THE Jessie James?"

"Yes, but he's able to do things that are not humanly possible! Please let me go."

Ranma let go off the man, he ran away.

"Let's go see." Beruche said. She faced Ponyta "Go back to town."

Ponyta ran towards town.

The Blue Team reentered the rodeo arena. Jessie James was floating above it, he had the Red Ribbon's logo on his hat.

"They never showed him flying on TV." Beruche said.

"What's with you!!" Ranma yelled.

JJ smiled as he floated down. "You have two choices. You come with me or you die right now."

"You're forgetting the third choice. We beat the crap out of you."

Vivi was scared "Could we please not make the man angry?"

JJ laughed "Does are just your words for the second choice."

"Oh yeah!?" Ranma charged at JJ.

"Ranma wait!" Beruche said.

JJ blocked Ranma's punch. Ranma kept throwing punches but JJ blocked them all easily. Ranma was then thrown back.

"Ranma! Are you OK?"

JJ laughed, he then took out his gun. Gatomon leaped at him, but JJ shot a beam of energy that hit her and sent her flying.

"Gatomon!!!" Kari yelled. She ran towards her friend.

Vivi knew he had to do something. "Um..."

JJ pointed the gun at Vivi "You try anything and you'll end up with a hole in your chest."

"Palmon?" Mimi whispered.

"Sorry Mimi, I already digivolved and I'm tired."

JJ shot small energy beams at everyone of the blue team knocking them out, except Kari and Gatomon who were a bit far away. Before Ranma got hit he grabbed a badge and threw it at Kari. "Kari!! Take this!"

Kari caught the badge.

JJ walked towards Kari "They're not dead yet, I'll get a better reward if you're all alive."

Kari stared at JJ "You're not really Jessie James are you?"

"Of course not, I'm an android made to look like him."

Gatomon stood in front of Kari "You hurt her and I swear you'll suffer greatly."

JJ got closer "You can't do anything."

He aimed at Gatomon but suddenly something hit him from above making him drop his gun. They looked down and saw a red rose pinned to the ground.
They looked up, Kari said "It's... it's... it's... a cat in a tuxedo?"

They saw that a cat with a tuxedo was on the bleachers. "It's me! Tuxedo Meowth! I will not allow an evil android to use his evil powers to do evil things to a good girl and her really really cute cat. Come on Gatomon! I believe in you!" He then ran off.

"What was that about?" said JJ.

"I have no idea." Kari said.

JJ and Kari looked at each other for a moment, he then crouched down to get his gun.

"Gatomon!" Kari held the badge and it's glow got brighter, Kari's crest started to glow as well.

"Gatomon ultradigivolves to.... Angewomon!"

JJ picked up his gun but Angewomon kicked it away before he could shoot. She flew to the skies and JJ followed her.

Once they were high enough Angewomon turned around to face JJ.

"You look nice missy, but I have no problem hitting ladies."

"You hurt Kari's friends. You have to pay for your deeds."

JJ charged at Angewomon. She gracefully avoided him, grabbed his arm and threw him down.

JJ was able to regain control, but Angewomon was ready to attack. "Celestial Arrow!"

Angewomon's arrow went right through JJ but he was still functioning. He flew right at her and was able to grab her. She tried to break free but he held tight. He started to fly towards the ground, taking her with him. "I want you to know I have a bomb missy, and it will definitely explode once we hit the ground. I'm going to take you and your friends with me!"

"I don't think so!" she tried to pull herself off until his arm was ripped off.

"Celestial Arrow!". This time the arrow hit the back of his head but did not go through it. It pushed him away and sent him crashing far away from the rodeo grounds. The explosion was huge.

Once Angewomon came back down she turned back to Gatomon. She fell on her back to rest.

Kari ran towards Gatomon. "Are you all right?"

"I'm fine Kari. How is everyone else?"

"Ramna already woke up but his head hurts, we just have to wait for the others."

"OK"

Meanwhile...

A large army was walking through the desert, General Garth was leading them. "I don't care how long it takes men, but we must capture them!" General Garth said.

"Who are we supposed to capture? The Red or the Yellow Team?"

"I don't care what color they are! If you guys want to keep your job you'll capture them."

"Yes sir!"

They were about to reach the forest when they met up with a strange man.
The general spoke with him. "You! What is your name and how come you're silly enough to be in our way?"

"My name is Vegeta. And I'm here to keep things under control. Your presence here makes the challenge more interesting. But we can't have you get more involved than necessary."

The general laughed "Oh.. so you're here to tell us what to do. This is funny, but I don't have time to lose on you. Kill him!"

Vegeta had a big smile.

Back to the Blue team.

About an hour later the whole team had recovered and were back in the saloon.

"My head still hurts." Beruche said.

"Mine too." Mimi said.

"Will you too stop complaining. At least we're OK" Ranma said.

"Thanks to Kari and Gatomon" Vivi said.

"It was nothing." Gatomon said.

"What about the rodeo?" Palmon asked.

"It's postponed, no badge for us." Beruche said.

Ukyo came into the saloon.

"Damn, just when I though my headache was about to disappear."

"I'm sorry you guys. I never though something like this would happen."

"It's not your fault Ukyo" Ranma said.

"Well, the only thing I can do know is to tell you where a guardian is."

"Another guardian?" Vivi said, not too excited.

"Yeah.. just a few miles from here and you'll reach a jungle. I can give you a map to a temple where the guardian is."

"Man... no badge and then another fight with a guardian. This sucks!" Mimi said.

"Hey guys! Don't worry, you forgot we have two jewels? We're in no hurry." Beruche said.

"That attitude is going to make us lose." Ranma said.

"You guys should rest a while before leaving though." Ukyo said "I'll make something for you to eat and then you can be on your way."

"That sounds good." Kari said.

The Blue Team stayed in the saloon a while longer.

Mina was outside the saloon "Well the Blue team seems disappointed, and who wouldn't be after doing all that without getting a badge? Will they go meet the next guardian? Will they be able to beat it? Will Team Rocket keep following them? Will we learn who Tuxedo Meowth is? Actually does anybody NOT know who he is? All this questions will be answered as you keep watching, but not before more arise. Right now it's Sora's turn to tell you what's going with the Yellow Team. Go Sora! oh yeah.. Go Biyomon too!"

Sora was in the town of Highthorn, officer Jenny was right beside her. "Thank you Mina. Right besides me is officer Jenny, she help the Red Team get their first badge. Ms. Jenny, are there any other badge opportunities in Highthorn?"

"Well, there might be. You should know there are plenty of opportunities for those who look."

"Right. By the way, you're not going to arrest me like you did our other host Brock, right?"

"Of course not, I didn't want to do it but I had no choice."

"I understand, it's your job."

Biyomon flew up to Sora "But Sora, you say she was a no good backstabbing corrupt officer."

Ms. Jenny looked at Sora "So you said all those things about me huh?"

"No, Sora said lots more. But she used words she told me never to say."

Sora laughed nervously "Well you kind did put our friend in jail just to save your own skin."

"Well this time there's a real charge against you, and that's offending a police officer."

"But... but..." Sora looked at the camera "While I try to get out of this mess, you go watch the yellow team."

Goku was pigging out at the local restaurant, Freya was window shopping around time, Ryoga was... hopefully still in town. Ash, Pikachu, Izzy and Tentomon we're looking for clues about the location of the third badge.

"Boy, this town sure is classy." Ash said.

"Seems boring to me." Izzy said "Nobody really does anything."

"Well, they seem to like it." Tentomon said.

Suddenly Pikachu smelled something good and ran off in another direction.

"Pikachu!" Ash said "Where do you think you're going?"

"I don't know." Tentomon said "But it sure smells good in that direction."

Everyone followed Pikachu, they came to a cart on the street. The owner was selling roasted nuts. He saw Pikachu and smiled.

"Hey little fellow, want a nut?"

"Pika!"

He gave Pikachu a nut. Ash, Izzy and Tentomon arrived.

"You guys want a free sample too?"

"Can I have one?" Tentomon asked.

The man gave all a nut.

"Hey! These are good." Ash said.

"What kind of nuts are these?" Izzy asked.

"Well they're kupo nuts, really rare around this parts."

"Hey Izzy!" Tentomon said "Didn't that moogle want some of these?"

"Right! So these are kupo nuts."

"Yeah, but hey he wanted plenty," Ash said "and we can't waste time on this, we have to get badges."

"Badges?" The man asked "That means you guys are participating in the challenge. In that case you can have all my nuts if you want."

"Wow! Really?" Tentomon said.

"Pikachu!! Pikapika!!" Pikachu was excited.

Izzy suddenly sat on the ground indian style and put his laptop on his knees, he turned it on a displayed the map.

"What are you doing?" Ash asked.

"Well, we've been walking in a U pattern, if we walk this way we can be back in the jungle without losing much time. There's a city in the way and there should be at least one badge there."

"You mean we should take the kupo nuts to him?"

"Why not? After all, we did blow up his house."

"Guess you're right."

"Isn't it funny?"

"What?"

"Well, we met up with a strange creature in a jungle, it then asks us to get something that is really rare. Then we come here and find a man that has exactly what the moogle asks us to get and is willing to just give it to us. It's like a video game RPG where the heroes' tasks are simple and everything seems to suit their exact needs."

"That's silly Izzy, this is not a video game." Ash faced the man "So how many nuts do you have?"

"About ten times the weight of a moogle named Mukop"

Everyone stood quiet for a while. Izzy was about to say something but Ash interrupted. "Don't you dare say it."

Izzy stood quiet.

Freya was jumping from rooftop to rooftop. From that point off view you could see how small the town really was.

"Well, Goku must be done by now. I should start looking for the others before Ryoga gets lost again."

She then heard a slight noise, it was the voice of someone in a room of the building she was standing on. She figured it was none of her business but then the voice yelled "HOW MUCH DO YOU EXPECT ME TO PAY BEFORE WE GET ANY RESULTS!?"

Freya's curiosity got the best of her and she crouched down to hear better.

"Please Mr. Kuoto. Not so loud." another voice said. Freya recognized it, it was Colonel Legstrong.

"How much more money do you want!? This is getting ridiculous!"

"This is the last time..."

"That's what you said last time! And who is this girl?."

"Watch your mouth gramps." said a girly voice. Freya recognized #25's voice too.

"Mr. Kuoto" said the Colonel "Let me tell you that Dr. Izumi is working non stop. He'll be finished before you know it."

'Izumi...' Freya thought about the name. She had heard it before but couldn't quite remember where.

"If that's so why do you need the money?"

"We've run into some problems, we need to fix certain facilities."

"You screwed up!"

"Do you think an operation like this can go smoothly with so many troublesome people going around?"

"Is that why she's here?"

"Well, yes. She's one of Dr. Izumi's androids."

"Very well." Said Mr. Kuoto "I guess I have no choice, I'm already up to my neck in this."

"You're a wise man." Said the Colonel.

Suddenly Freya felt a hand on her shoulder "Hey Freya! What are you doing here?" It was Ryoga.

"What was that?" said Mr. Kuoto.

Freya grabbed Ryoga's hand and jumped off the building, she then started to run away with him.

"What's going on?" Ryoga asked.

"Just run!" Freya said.

A moment later they heard the sound of a window breaking, #25 flew above them and landed in front of them. "Don't you guys want to play with me?"

"Darn!" Freya said, she took a fighting stance, Ryoga did as well.

#25 launched herself at Ryoga. He was able to block her attack but was thrown back. Freya swung her lance at her, but she avoided it. #25 shot an energy beam but Freya leaped to avoid it. Freya threw her lance at #25 but she was able to catch it before it hit her. Ryoga hit her with a flying kick sending her to the ground.

"Baksai Tenketsu!!" Ryoga buried his fingers on the ground making a small explosion. Rocks came out flying at her and a cloud of dust was raised.

#25 covered herself from the rocks, "Childish tricks like those won't stop me. Huh?" When the dust cleared she saw that they had disappeared. "Oh I hate you!"

The rest of the Yellow Team had gathered in the town's center. They had 5 sacks with them.

"So these are kupo nuts?" Goku asked.

"Yes, and Izzy knows how to go back without losing much time." Ash said.

"It's not that hard to figure." Izzy said.

They suddenly heard Freya shout "Guys, we got to get out of here!"

They turned around and saw Freya and Ryoga running their way. Ash and Izzy grabbed a sack each and Goku grabbed the other 3. They all started running.

"What are we running from?" Ash asked.

"Possibly the Red Ribbon again."

It didn't take them long for the yellow team to leave town. They hid in the woods and rested when they felt they were safe.

"Uff... so what's the problem?" Izzy asked.

"We escaped from #25. The Colonel was in Highthorn." Freya responded.

"What was he doing there?"

"I believe the richest man in town is funding them."

"I wonder what they are up too..."

"ACK!!!" yelled Ash.

Everyone looked at Ash "What is it Ash?" Ryoga asked.

"It's gone! The Ruby is gone!"

Everyone yelled "What!?"

Ash had been hiding the Ruby in a secret pocket in his jacket.

"Could you have dropped it?" Freya asked.

"That's not possible, my pocket has a zipper."

Suddenly they heard a voice "Young people are so distracted."

They looked around and saw a short old woman standing on a rock and holding a stick. She had the Ruby in her hand.

"Hey! It's Cologne!" Ryoga said.

"Ah... the piglet." Cologne said.

"Who is she?" Goku asked.

"She is some old lady from a chinese amazon tribe. She lives in Japan with her grandaugher Shampoo."

"Ranma defeated Shampoo and according to our laws they must get married. I'm helping my granddaughter out."

"This is all very interesting but why did you take our Ruby?" Freya asked.

Cologne laughed "I got a job in this Challenge. I'm a representative and your quest is to take your Ruby from me. If you cannot do in 3 days then I'll give it back, but no badge."

Goku smiled "Getting our Ruby back from some old lady? That's easy!" Goku charged at Cologne.

"Goku! She's not what she seems"

Goku tried to take the Ruby from Cologne's hand, but she quickly pulled her hand away. Goku tried it again with the same results. Goku moved his hands quickly trying to take the Ruby from her hand but she was just as quick.

"Let's help Goku!" Ash said "Pikachu, Thundershock!"

"Pika!!" Pikachu ran to Cologne and tried to use his thundershock on her. She reacted in time and leaped away from Goku. Goku got zapped instead.

"Pika...."

Cologne was still in the air when Freya leaped to get the Ruby. Cologne used her stick to bat her back to the ground. She then disappeared into the woods yelling "You got 3 days!"

"Well, at least she's heading north" Izzy said.

"Lucky us..." said Ryoga sarcastically.

The Yellow team kept moving.

Sora and Biyomon were in the woods, suddenly Cologne arrived and stood on her stick besides Sora. "This is Sora bringing you and interview with Cologne." She faced Cologne "So what do you think of the Yellow Team?"

"That Goku boy is pretty quick. Maybe after this is over I'll take him to my tribe, many girls would like him."

"Do you know that's he's married with two sons?"

"Kids these days are always in a hurry."

"*sweatdrop* Well, he's not really a kid. He's a grown up wished back to being a kid."

"Ah.. Even the great wise men of the Chinese empire could not figure out the secrets to eternal youth and then this boy just happens to stumble upon it. Go figure..."

"Do you think they'll be able to take the Ruby from you."

"I don't know, but I'll certainly won't make it easy from them. This old lady still has many tricks up her sleeve."

Biyomon tried to look up Cologne's sleeve. "Sora? There's nothing there."

"It's a figure of speech Biyo."

"Well, I got to get going before they catch up. See ya!" Cologne left.

"Well, the yellow team has a new challenge ahead of them. Have they left the Red Ribbon behind? All 3 teams are quite close to each other at this moment and they may all start detecting each other any moment now. Let's go with Brock and see what the Red Team is doing. This has been Sora reporting for the Ultimate Challenge."

Brock was sitting on a large boulder, the Red Team could be seen walking in the distance. "Well the Red Team has been in search of the Blue Team for a while now. They seem pretty determined to get their emerald back. Hopefully they won't lose too much time trying to get it back. Let's watch."

"Tai! I'm tired!" Agumon said.

"We can't stop now!" Tai said "I've been getting short beeps out of my digivice. I'm sure they're just outside range."

"I agree with Tai." Trunks said. "If we lose their track we have pretty much lost."

"But we have to be in good condition when we fight them." Mako said.

"If they can see us as we can see them then they won't stop to rest either." Haruka said.

"I hungry." Quina said.

"I was wondering how much time we had before you started with that." Mako said.

"Well.. on second thought. I'm really hungry as well." Tai said.

"Yes! Yes!" Quina said excited "I saw many lizards, almost as good as frogs."

"So to us that means they taste worse than the frogs." Trunks whispered to Mako. She giggled.

Quina went running off in search of lizards, but suddenly she was blown back by some power.

"What the!?" Trunks said going to help Quina.

"I all right, but still hungry."

Then they saw a trio of figures at a distance. They were 3 persons dressed in black suits. One had red hair and his shirt wasn't tucked in, another was a blonde short woman, and the third was a bald black man wearing shades. The one with red hair had a long stick with an electric tip, that's what he used to attack Quina.

"Who are you?" Mako asked.

"Don't you know Mako?" Tai said "It's the men in black!"

The blonde stepped up and said "We are not the men in black! even though we are in black, but we are not THE men in black, even though my partners are men, but not those men, I mean..."

The man with red hair said "Elena?"

"Yeah?"

"Shut up!"

"Yes sir!"

"We are the Turks. My name is Reno and these are my partners, Rude and Elena; and we've been hired by the Red Ribbon"

Everyone took an attack pose.

"Mercenaries?" Huruka asked.

"Haha, heck no. More like hitmen."

"What's the difference?" Tai asked.

"Not much from our point of view." Said Trunks.

"You people are too nervous. We're not here to fight, unless you want too."

"Why are you here then?" asked Mako.

"We're just here to inform you that the Red Ribbon doesn't like your interference, so they are asking you to stop it. If you happen to ignore us, then you'll have trouble." he started leaving, followed by Rude.

Elena said "Oh you'll be in trouble all right! You don't know who you are messing with. We can be your worst nightmare..."

Reno said "Elena! You talk too much."

"Sorry..." she started leaving with her companions.

"What was that about?" said Tai after the Turks had left.

"I don't know." Said Trunks "But they sure are weird."

"Maybe they hungry" Quina said "I get grumpy when too hungry. You not want grumpy Quina so I go look for lizards." Quina left.

"Gee... doesn't anything distract Quina from food?" Mako asked.

"The Red Ribbon army is up to no good." Haruka said.

"Yeah, but what?" Trunks said.

"You guys think too much." Tai said "We are traveling all around this island, we're bound to keep meeting with the Red Ribbon. If they are up to something we'll find out."

"Maybe you're right." Mako said.

"Let's just wait for Quina to get the food."

Quina was looking for food. S/he had gotten a good amount of lizards but felt they weren't enough. After a while she found a large rock with an opening.

"Maybe many lizards hide in there."

Quina went towards the opening and saw a stairway going down. "Intelligent lizards live here." S/he went down the stairs, after a while s/he got to the bottom and saw a door. A voice from behind said "Shit! I forgot to close the door upstairs!"

The door opened and it was a Red Ribbon soldier, he became pale when he saw Quina.

"You not lizard"

The soldier fainted.

Quina walked over the soldier and found itself inside a large laboratory. There were many scientist and few soldiers. Everyone got scared when they saw Quina, the scientist started to run away and the soldiers raised their guns.

"This no good. Night!"

Instantly everyone fell asleep.

Quina's attention went to the object in the center of the room. It was a large egg with a weird color pattern. Quina instantly went to check it out.

"Weird color. Maybe chocobo egg painted for Easter. If it chocobo egg then it delicious." Quina tried to open the egg but it was hard as a rock. S/he even hit it with his/her fork but it just bent. "This no good, egg too hard. I let it hatch an then eat what inside." Quina put the egg beneath his/her clothes. Not only that beneath the egg there was a badge.

"What this doing here? But it make team happy." Quina took the badge and left.

The team was resting, still waiting for Quina.

"How long will Quina take?" Agumon asked.

"Hey, even the lizards seem good at this point! I'm really hungry." Tai said.

"Well, you know how Quina is." Trunks said "S/he can get distracted easily."

Just then Quina arrived with plenty of lizards.

"Finally!" Mako said.

"I got plenty off lizards. But got something else." Quina showed the badge to the rest of the team.

"All right!!!" Tai said.

"Were you find this?" Trunks asked.

"Big lizard nest, but no lizards though."

"That makes 3 badges now!" Agumon said.

"Yeah.. But let's not waste too much time celebrating. Let's eat and keep looking for the Blue Team."

"I cook food, lizards taste well with good strong fire."

"I'll help!" Agumon said.

Meanwhile...

Dr. Izumi was in his lab at Red Ribbon headquarters. He was working on a computer when he got a phone call.

"Dr. Izumi here. What is it?.... What!?... It got stolen?... Don't bother trying to get it back... No, it doesn't matter where it hatches, the result will be the same... It already produced the response we wanted... Very well. Bye" he hung up "May the heavens forgive me..."

Back to the Red Team...

The Red Team had finished eating and were on their way again. Suddenly Tai stopped and yelled "HEY!!"

Everyone gathered around Tai.

"What is it!?" Trunks said "Did your digivice show something!?"

"Yeah!! But I'm not getting a signal. I'm getting TWO!!"

"What!? Where!?" Mako said.

"One is east and the other north."

"Well the Blue Team was heading north, so that must be them. The other must be the Yellow Team." Trunks said.

"Well be better get moving if we want to catch up with the Blue Team." Mako said "Why don't we carry out your plan Trunks?"

"But what if you're wrong" Haruka suddenly said "The Blue Team could have started traveling east just to confuse us."

"They would have had to walk a lot without gaining much distance." Trunks said.

"Well, if they have our emerald then it's probably worth it."

"But can we waste the power of a badge if we're not sure?" Haruka said " If we show up like that to the Yellow Team who knows how they'll react."

"Guess you're right." Trunks said "But it's more probable that the Blue Team is north. So let's at least make pace."

"They're moving northwest!" Tai said. "The others are moving north, if they keep going like they could meet each other."

"Let's hurry before they leave Tai's digivice range." Mako said. "They'll know we're after them."

"Hey let me help!" Agumon said "Agumon digivolves to... Greymon!"

"Hey Greymon, do you think you can carry all five of us?"

"Sure Tai! I'm big and I'm strong!"

"You sure are buddy."

Everyone got on Greymon and he started running towards the team showing north of Tai's digivice.

Brock saw Greymon running in the distance. "He's big! He's strong! Unfortunately he's not fast. That may help the Red Team a little, but the Blue Team will probably make haste as well. Unfortunately for the Blue Team they are about to enter the jungle area of the island. And we all know the hard time the Yellow Team had there. So what about the egg Quina has? What will hatch from there? What are the Turks doing with the Red Ribbon Army? And how come I can't get any girl even though I'm the host of this popular game show? All these questions will be answered as you keep watching, but for now this has been Brock reporting for the Ultimate Challenge! Goodnight!"

(To be continued...)

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