When a bat uses echo location, it always can tell where it is and where it is going. Though it squeaking isn't always the friendliest sound to the ears. What would you do if that noise became more dangerous? Digimon Ghost Game! Night of the Screeching Bat!

Mei had been researching the mist that she had collected from Sunarizamon a week ago. The black like mist was composed of data of dark purple numeral digits. She was not a compute expert like a certain detective Akashiro, but she had a hunch that this was not made from the digital world. A part of her wanted to tell the others. The other part wanted her to keep it a secret till she could learn more about the mist itself. Not even Shiramon knew and she practically trusted Mei with everything.

Sad to see that the feeling was not mutual.

Shiramon was sleeping on the bed with a few of her adopted baby digimon sleeping by her. Jyarimon was snuggled in her arms, Popomon was curled up in her tail, and three others curled up to her chest. Much like a mother dog and her pups.

Mei could only smile at the scene. She decided if she couldn't find something in a few days, she would contact Akashiro for their aid.

They probably tease her for it too. The great information gatherer and blackmailer needed a detective's help? Oh how they never let her live it down. They would have it recorded, playing it on an endless loop for their own trophy.

Mei would do her best to assure that would not happen.

Considering the late hour, Mei decided to call it a night and go to bed. Maybe sleep would help clear her head to get the answers she so desperately seeks.

While she focused on her research project, Ruli and Angoramon would have their own encounter with a problem they were struggling with.

After hanging out with Aoi and Mika at their usual cafe, Ruli spend some time browsing the internet for places to visit. She also kept her eyes on the lookout for any unusual cases which could involve a digimon. Beside her, Angoramon was reading yet another book from the Sun Novelist book series. He quietly enjoyed the book about a knight who leaves their home due to being falsely accused of a crime. He was at the chapter where the corrupted king confess his lie to the knight's brother before imprisoning him for a fabricated crime.

Just as he was at the best part of his book, his ears picked up on a strange noise. A familiar one.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH! STOP!! IT HURTS!! STOP!!"  Ruli held her ears in pain.

"Ruli!!" Angoramon rushed to her side to check to see what was wrong with his dear partner.

However Ruli did not respond. Her face filled with panic. She could see Angoramon lip move, however she could hear no sound come from them. Just silence. She tried to tell him that the noise had hurt her ears. Like she had several megaphones go off in her ears at close range. She could feel her mouth moving, though she could not hear her own voice.  Causing only more worry and panic to drain the color from her face.

"Ruli.....are you okay?" Angoramon mouth moved again

Ruli could not hear a single word. She did know how to read lips a bit, so she could understand that he wanted her to confirm whether or not that she was in good health. All she could response with was a shake for no.

Angoramon frowned at this. His hearing was more keen than the average human. Then why was only Ruli effected by it? Clearly that noise did not effect digimon. Strange. Perhaps Mummymon could check up on her.

Little did he know that this was just the beginning.

The next morning, Angoramon woke up to find Ruli still not able to hear his voice. She looked highly upset by this. What if this was permanent? Would she forever be deaf? No, she must not lose hope. Mummymon would check her and tell her it will all be okay. This is not like her to be all sad and depressed.

The fly to the hospital was a wuiet one. Angoramon was trying to reassure his partner with soothing words. They sadly fell on deaf ears, quite literally too. He held her closer as he quicken his pace to the hospital. He failed to protect her from this and it may have caused her to lose their hearing forever. A nightmare to him especially.

All because of that loudmouth!!

Ruli hated the silence. She could see the people talking down below but could hear nothing. As if she was cursed to spend her entire life in endless silence. However what pained her the most was how worried she was making Angoramon. They were just relaxing yesterday then this happens. She hates to worry him so much like this. She knew how dearly he wanted to protect her, yet she didn't want to give him a heartattack in the process. He was still upset about being possessed by Musyamon blade and nearly hurting her. Not to mention how she was turned into a gecko by Salamandermon. She never blamed him for that one. He can't be with her all the time after all....

She never like being alone. Probably why she was upset whether she was left out of things.

As they arrived at the hospital, they were surprised to see multiple paitents suffering fromthe same exact hearing loss. Doctors looked stumped dince their appeared to be no damage to the ear drums. The paitents should still be able to hear.

Which means that a digimon was at the cause of it. Course....not really a day goes by without a digimon related incident.

Angoramon frowned at this more. The digimon responsible was already a troublemaker in the digital world. Not to mention a real pain in his ears. They crossed a line now. They hurt Ruli.
Ruli and Angoramon found Mummymon in his makeshift office. Aliana, his adopted daughter who was a Carbunmon. The two seem to be discussing about the strange cases as well.

"This is bad. If this keeps up, all the paitents here may sue the hospital. We may be out of a home" Aliana paced around the desk. Worried for both the paitents and their home.

"This is indeed troubling..." Mummymon sighed.

"What do we do?" Aliana asked, clearly wanting to find a swift solution to the problem at hand.

"We need a paitent to examine" Mummymon answered

Aliana looked at him like he had gone crazy. ONLY HUMANS were victims of the strange hearing loss cases. They couldn't just examine one here. The humans would freak out and cause a major panic. Then for sure, they be out of a home.

What were the ods that a human that they knew was a victim of the hearing loss. The chances were slim to none.

"Um...excuse me" Both turned to see Angoramon and Ruli standing in front of the door.

Looks like the odds were in their favor.

Angoramon explained the situation to them as Mummymon proceed to examine Ruli ears. Upon closer inspection, he found traces of a digimon attack being used. One that effects the ears that makes them hear no sound. Only attacks from high pitch frequencies can do that kind of damage.

"Hmmm. How intriguing" Mummymon took a small sample  and studied it closely.

Many digimon can make high pitch soundwaves. Though this data  had similar traces that mimic a bat sense of echo location. There could only be one digimon who  could be the cause of this.

Pipismon. The Night Monitor of the digital world. Why were they suddenly turning humans deaf. Sure they were one of the biggest loud mouths next to Etemon, but they were mostly friendly and peaceful. What could change their behaviour so suddenly? Something in the human world? Something they were exposed to.

"Can Ruli and the others be cured?" Angoramon asked

"Hey do not rush him!!" Aliana chatises.

Like seriously, they were still examining her at the moment. They were not in the most high tech medicinal labs, they would need time. Angoramon worry was natural but he needed to give them time.

"I may be able to make a cure. A ear drop solution should cure them. However it will take time. I suggest you all deal with the true culprit of this matter first" Mummymon began the  process into making the antidote.

He was right. Angoramon knew Pipismon had to be dealt with before anymore victims could be made. Though Hiro and Gammamon went camping for the weekend. Kiyoshiro and Jellymon were in another city to discuss a new system to aid the blind with specially programmed holograms. Mei was an option but Ruli never got her number. It would take too much time to get her and Shiramon, so it just be them.

"You are going in without your friends? That's a rare sight" Aliana teased then got more serious. "Bad move there"
"Why is that?" Angoramon asked. Glaring at her a bit.

Despite her redemption for all the damage she caused during the Sin Arcs, Angoramon never fully trusted Aliana. She caused so much pain. She made Shiramon kill thousand of digimons just to satisfy her own sin code. Even if Malicemon had controlled them both, Aliana still made Shiramon suffer so much torment. He had to lose his wife because of her!! Feel the pain of her struggle to get her memories back after being reborn. Only for her to say sorry and make up like nothing had happened? No. He couldn't let this go so easily! Not yet anyways.

"You can't go alone. Ruli can't cme with you either. She is still recovering. What happens if hearing that sound makes her go permanently deaf? You're willing to risk her gealth and safety that bad?" Despite everything, he had to admit Aliana had a point.

"Let me come with you. I've been needing to get out and test my moves again" Aliana insisted.

"No thank you. Doesn't Mummymon need you here? I can handle this on my own" Angoramon went invisible as he was leaving. He refused to get Aliana help.
Angoramon began his search from the air. Judging how he heard the first sound, he could tell that Pipismon was close by. It seemed to be were that rock band was playing a few nights ago. He learned about it through Gwappamon that a few students had been holding concerts for aspiring musicians that wanted their start at stardom. A few weren't too bad. Not many were good either. From what Gwappamon said, only one band was truly rocking on the stage. They called themselves "The Screeching Banshees" who were of mostly girl preformers and their lead singer was a boy. Coincidencely, after their one preformance is when the hearing loss cases first began.

Could the band have some relationship with Pipismon  latest behavior?

Angoramon thought he should investigate this. Could possibly be his one and only lead so far. ahe flew to the stage as fast as he could.. He had to stop whatever it was that Pipismon was up to.

Then something could be heard. Was that rock music? It sounded very loud. Then more screeching could be heard. It was hurting his ears.

It was Pipismon, singing on the stage. Badly singing!
Even more horrible then Hiro. It was so unbearable. His ears were in so much pain right now.

"Pipismon stop this! Why are you hurting  humans?" Angoramon held his ears while facing Pipismon

"Oh they loved my music?! Yes!!" Pipismon didn't seem to understand that he hurt the humans.

"Music?" Angoramon repeat.

"I am going to be a heavy metal rockstar! Watching these humans has inspired me to be the first digimon rockstar!" He flapped his wings in excite as re recalled the humans performing.

"Your form of music is causing the humans to lose their hearing. Your way of music is harmful to them" Angoramon tried to reason with them.

"YOU'RE JUST A MUSIC HATER!! I'M GONNA SHOW YOU MY MUSIC!! TASTE THE FULL POWER OF MY MUSIC!!!" Pipismon yelled before launching an attack at Angoramon. "Crazy Sonic!!"

A supersonc attack hit him directly in the chest.  It caused his ears to ring in painful vibrations.
Angoramon grunted in pain. He couldn't  use any of his attacks without Ruli. Plus his keen hearing would lead him to have a huge disadvantage with these high frenquecy attacks.

"Heh.....Looks like you do need my help" He looked up to see Aliana in her rookie form as WrathIramon was standing in front of him. "Heya Bunny Bangs"

"Aliana! Why are you doing here?" He struggled to get up.

"What it looks like. I am here to help you" Aliana says bluntly. "How about you let me handle this"

She glances back at Pipismon and the two locked eyes.This would be an interesting battle.

"CRAZY SONIC!" Like before Pipismon lauched an attack at Aliana.

Aliana dodges it swiftly then before Pipismon could react, Aliana was in front of them and smirked.

"CHAOS FLAME!!!" She launched a small black flame from her fingertips, it only touched Pipismon chest.

The moment that flame touched his chest, Pipismon felt a constant burning pain and felt to the floor. Knocking him out.

Angoramon was stunned. "What was that?"

"About 4 percent of my power" Aliana shrugged

Angoramon still feared her. She may be a former Sin Code now and a nurse at the hospital. Though she was still the Sin code that cause so much destruction and pain. The one who nearly killed them all as the main power source for Malicemon. Though he would prefer her be an ally than he could not defeat.

While they were distracted, a purple mist left Pipismon body. Then he woke up with his head in pain. He seemed to not remember anything that happened.

"Look, your type of music is pretty harmful to humans and ears like him" Aliana pointed at Angoramon who looked annoyed by that. Aliana chuckled a bit before finishing. "Though it seems to be safe for digimon like me. Why not start your music career again but as a band for digimon. Not like there are too many music groups for us here mons. If you want my opinion , your music was really rocking in my book"

That surprised Angoramon. He never believed that the former Wrath Sin code would ever give another digimon advice such as this. Maybe she had changed her ways? Perhaps he could give her more of a chance.

"YAY! I really like that idea!!" Pipismon was overjoyed by the idea.

So after resolving the issue, the two returned to the hospital. By this time, Ruli had been given the antidote and recovered her hearing. Angoramon hugged her tightly.

"I like your hugs but this is too tight" She giggled.

Just as the two were ready to leave, Angoramon turned to Aliana.  "Thank you" He just spoke those two words to her.

Aliana eyes widen slightly in surprised but she smiled. "No problem"

In another location, there was a human child floating above the city in a virtual reality field. His hair was black and his eyes were a foggy green. He wore a black wool sweater and long brown pants. On his feet were common black dress shoes. He was completely enveloped in the dark mist with the eerie purple numberal digits. He had been watching the children from his room. He was not pleased

"Don't stop my fun" He muttered before disappearing

The source of the mist? Who is this strange child and how did the mist come in contact with him?

Soon all shall be revealed.

#Inkobter