Two Squads and a DemiVeemon

Two Squads and a DemiVeemon is the second story of the eighth episode of Team Pahkitew: Digimon Adventure. Its sister story is Chaos in Training.
== Summary ==
The gang faces the biggest challenge known to human beings and Digimon: babysitting. As they travel through three zones and try to keep DemiVeemon occupied and out of trouble, Jasmine convinces Sky to ride Dracomon with her saddle.
== Plot ==
The episode begins with Team Pahkitew and their Digimon waking up, happy that they were able to have a sleepover. Sky feels Dorumon's tail accidentally tickling her feet and giggles while waking up. It's also revealed that Scarlett and FanBeemon were studying her REM while she sleeps. Scarlett concludes with telling her that she had slept well and FanBeemon rushes to write in her Digi Diary that Sky has ticklish feet. Jasmine and Guilmon greet Sky and Dorumon with a basket of fruit, but when she seems confident about riding Dracomon, Jasmine tells her that she can't ride Dracomon without a saddle, remembering the time Guilmon crashed into a tree during a ride and landed both of them in the Digital World hospital for a whole week. All the while, Shawn and Shoutmon are situated outside and watch the exchange, seeing that they were chatting about riding each other's Digimon and Shawn decides to ride Shoutmon for a while.
The episode continues just in time for ExVeemon to call everyone over to his house, telling them that the last one there will have to eat a rotten egg, exciting Sugar for "brekky," and Dave corrects her but gives up. Topher repeats Chris's words to his teammates just to try to convince them that it sounds better with his his "youthful inflection."
ExVeemon declares Topher the last one to arrive so he would be the one to eat a rotten egg, but Sugar has already eaten it, which she burps, emanating towards Jasmine but Guilmon blows it away with Pyro Syphere and causes it to land on Dave, who faints due to the rotten smell. After Dave gets back up, Sky asks him if they can ride each other's Digimon for a bit, but Jasmine reminds her to use her saddle on Dracomon so she won't crash.
When Topher continues to make fun of ExVeemon and starts calling him "old," ExVeemon decides to punish Topher by forcing everyone on the team to babysit his daughter, a risk-loving DemiVeemon. ExVeemon explains the task, babysitting the DemiVeemon, to the team. They first must deliver a large payment check to The Leomon Lair, a zone full of friendly but anger-prone Leomon and rattlesnakes, where the rattlesnakes, if provoked, could cause a chain reaction that will result in the Leomon being provoked. The second zone, "The Pasta Blaster," features a blindfolded Ballistamon using his sense of hearing to determine where they are so that he can fire a pasta cannon at them. They must also keep Ballistamon calm and remove his blindfold to deliver a package to him. The third and final zone is The Snow Zone, where they must cross a cold winter terrain to deliver a bowl of chicken noodle soup to the final Digimon on DemiVeemon's list, a sick PaleDramon.
The team starts the task, narrowly making it through the Leomon Lair to deliver the paycheck. Despite Jasmine insisting that Dracomon must be ridden with a saddle, however, Sky rides Dracomon while playing with a bull fighting Leomon.
Meanwhile, Impmon continues to show a strange parenting side whenever DemiVeemon feels worried, using baby-talk to boost her confidence. This noticeably amuses Gumdramon on many occasions, with Impmon dismissing it as an act whenever she catches him. With the other group, Topher accidentally provokes a Leomon with his cell phone while taking pictures.
Scarlett and Jasmine digifuse Guilmon and FanBeemon into WaspGrowlmon to appear entertaining to the Leomon, with Scarlett on Jasmine's shoulders and all three making funny faces, calming him down and making him laugh. DemiVeemon hands the paycheck to the owner of the lair, a SaborLeomon, and he is pleased to have a paycheck for the whole lair to split amongst themselves.
With the paycheck delivered, the team and DemiVeemon proceed to the next zone. Topher receives another text message, so Jasmine tells him to step up his game.
In the "Pasta Blaster" zone, ExVeemon reveals that there are booby-traps spread out on the ground. Topher steps on an air horn and alerts Ballistamon, who blasts Topher and alerts Bearmon. Jasmine orders Sky to untangle Topher, and she, Guilmon, FanBeemon and Scarlett repeat their funny face technique on the Bearmon, making him laugh hysterically and the laughter calms Ballistamon.
Meanwhile, Dave, Dracomon, Sugar, Gumdramon, Max, Impmon and the others also arrive at the second zone, and Sugar celebrates. Shawn interrupts her when he tells her that DemiVeemon is missing. Shoutmon starts laughing, calming Ballistamon further, and tells the others that something is tickling her back. Shawn looks and finds that DemiVeemon is tickling Shoutmon's back. It turns out that DemiVeemon has hitched a ride on Shoutmon's back.
Shoutmon sees DemiVeemon and tickles her back, her laughter fully calming Ballistamon. DemiVeemon then removes Ballistamon's blindfold and hands him the package, earning a big grin from him. Afterwards, the group proceeds to the final zone.
Once Team Pahkitew and DemiVeemon reach the Snow Zone, they must push the cart containing the soup to the sick PaleDramon before they can check him off the list and complete the task. When Topher gets excited about getting signal on his phone, Scarlett threatens him, saying, "If you keep us from completing this task, you'll wish you never met me."
Topher gets the call he's been anticipating, an offer to be a temporary replacement for ExVeemon. Topher cheers excitedly, causing the Snow Agumon near them to throw snowballs at the team and bury them. Luckily, Shoutmon digivolves to OmniShoutmon and the team slides across the snow, using OmniShoutmon as a snowboard. As the team delivers the soup to the sick PaleDramon and celebrate while sliding down the mountain, it is revealed that DemiVeemon was trying to keep tickling Shoutmon while she's OmniShoutmon, but Shoutmon is not very ticklish when she's OmniShoutmon. OmniShoutmon eventually starts laughing when DemiVeemon began to scratch her belly and starts begging her to stop.
== Quotes ==
(We see Team Pahkitew and their Digimon waking up, happy that they were able to have a sleepover. Sky suddenly feels something tickle her feet.)
Sky: (giggles while waking up) Dave, stop tickling my feet!
Dave: I'm not tickling you, Sky.
Sky: Well, if you're not, who is?
(Sky sits up and notices Dorumon.)
Dorumon: Sorry, Sky. I didn't see your feet while moving my tail.
Sky: That's okay, Dorumon.
(Sky pets Dorumon, and the two are suddenly startled by Scarlett and FanBeemon, who were studying their REM sleep all night.)
Scarlett: Your stage two cycles were low frequency.
FanBeemon: Followed by an intense delta, or slow wave.
Scarlett: Overall, you two slept well. (walk away)
FanBeemon: I've gotta tell my diary that Sky has ticklish feet! (flies away)
----Jasmine: No, no, no! You can't ride without a saddle!
----(Sugar is seen eating a rotten egg. She burps in front of Jasmine, but Guilmon blows it away with a Pyro Syphere. It lands on Dave. Dave sniffs then starts to faint.)
----Topher: You cannot beat me, ExVeemon! You're old and ugly! (arrogantly laughs)
ExVeemon: (offended) How dare you call me old and ugly! Just for that, I'm gonna have to punish you! Everybody must babysit my loving daughter DemiVeemon. Now here's the task for babysitting her. First, you must deliver a large payment check to The Leomon Lair, a zone full of friendly but anger-prone Leomon and rattlesnakes, where the rattlesnakes, if provoked, could cause a chain reaction that will result in the Leomon being provoked. The second zone, "The Pasta Blaster," features a blindfolded Ballistamon using his sense of hearing to determine where they are so that he can fire a pasta cannon at them. You must also keep Ballistamon calm and remove his blindfold to deliver a package to him. The third and final zone is The Snow Zone, where you must cross a cold winter terrain to deliver a bowl of chicken noodle soup to the final Digimon on DemiVeemon's list, a sick PaleDramon.
----Jasmine: Sky, no! I told you, Dracomon must only be ridden WITH a saddle!
Sky: Oh, you worry too much, Jasmine. I've been in uglier situations than this.
----Scarlett: Guilmon, Fanbeemon, We need you two to digifuse!
Guilmon and FanBeemon: (in unison) Right! Guilmon and FanBeemon, digifuse to....
(Guilmon and FanBeemon digifuses to WaspGrowlmon.)
WaspGrowlmon: WaspGrowlmon!
Jasmine: Scarlett, get on my shoulder!
Scarlett: Right!
(Scarlett gets on Jasmine's shoulder. Jasmine, Scarlett, and WaspGrowlmon start making funny faces. Leemon starts to calm down and laugh.) 
(DemiVeemon hands the paycheck to the owner of the lair, a SaborLeomon, and he is pleased to have a paycheck for the whole lair to split amongst themselves.)
----ExVeemon: Watch out, everybody. There are booby traps everywhere.
Topher: Traps schmaps. Nothing can stand in the way of the Topher experience. (poses) Ooh. Ahh. (accidentally steps on an airhorn)
ExVeemon: (facepalms) I told you so.
(Ballistamon blasts Topher, thus alerting Bearmon.)
Sky and Jasmine: (in unison) Oh, no.
Jasmine: Sky, untangle Topher! Scarlett, FanBeemon, Guilmon, and I will keep making funny faces at Bearmon!
----Shawn: Uh, Sugar, I hate to interrupt, but... where's Demiveemon?
(Shoutmon then starts to laugh, calming Ballistamon further.)
Dave: (confused) What's so funny?
Shoutmon: (continues laughing) Nothing! Something's tickling my back!
(Shawn looks and finds that DemiVeemon is tickling Shoutmon's back. It turns out that DemiVeemon has hitched a ride on Shoutmon's back.)
(Shoutmon tickles DemiVeemon back.)
Topher: (receives a call from his phone) Hello? (chattering) Yes? (chattering) I'm offered to be a temporary replacement for ExVeemon? (chattering) Really? (chattering) YES!!!
(Snow Agumon get startled by Topher's excitement and starts to throw snowballs at them.)
Jasmine: (angrily) I'm gonna rip you a new--
(The team get covered by giant snowballs.)
Shoutmon: Shoutmon, digivolve to...
(Shoutmon digivolves to OmniShoutmon.)
OmniShoutmon: OmniShoutmon!
(The team slides down using OmniShoutmon as a snowboard.)
Dave: We made it!
Shawn: Here's your soup, PaleDramon.
PaleDramon: Thank you.
----(DemiVeemon is revealed to be tickling OmniShoutmon.)
OmniShoutmon: Nice try, DemiVeemon, but I'm not as ticklish as OmniShoutmon.
(DemiVeemon starts scratching on OmniShoutmon's belly)
OmniShoutmon: (tries not to laugh, but fails) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! NOHOHOHOT MY TUMMY! (falls over) DemiVeemon, stop! PLEHEHEHEHEHEASE!
----Jasmine: Oh, Sky! I made a big mistake!
(Jasmine and Sky proceed to sing the song, What a Big Mistake!)
Jasmine: 🎵Oh, oh, oh my koala! I made a big mistake! My knees are starting to shake! Crikey, this is more than I can take! Oh, what a big mistake! I thought you would need a saddle to ride Dracomon, Sky, but it turns out I was wrong. And I hope things work out well in the end before too long! But, until then, I'm gonna sing this song~! Oh, oh, oh, what a big mistake!🎵
Sky: 🎵So, so, so you've made a mistake. No, no, no, you don't need to shiver and shake! All you need to know, for Pete's sake, is that you can learn...🎵
Jasmine: 🎵I can learn!🎵
Sky and Jasmine: 🎵Yes, you/I can learn from your/my mistakes~!🎵
(The song ends, but Jasmine is a little sad.)
Jasmine: I know I want to learn from my mistake, Sky, but I dunno how to fix this. Dracomon is a good friend of mine, and I should’ve known he can fly without a saddle, but I didn't listen a bit when he tried to tell me the truth. Oh, Sky, how can I ever tell him how sorry I am?
(Dave and Dracomon fly to Sky and Jasmine and land before they bump into them.)
Sky: (notices Dracomon) I think he knows.
(Dracomon allows Dave to dismount him and walks up to Jasmine.)
Dracomon: Relax, Jas. Everyone makes mistakes, even Digimon.
Jasmine: (becomes relieved) Oh, sweet kiwi! Dracomon, can you ever forgive me about earlier.
Dracomon: Of course I forgive you.
Jasmine: Thank you!
Dracomon: Just please remember this; next time you see a Digimon who you think has a fifty percent chance of crashing you during a ride, don't make up your mind until you know the whole story, alright?
Jasmine: I promise. I'll never jump to anymore conclusions as long as I live.
(Jasmine and Dracomon hug.)
Sky, Dave, Dorumon and Guilmon: Aww~!
== Trivia ==
* The plot of the episode is similar to the Pahkitew Island episode, Three Zones and a Baby, but less deadly and fit for an eleven-minute story.
Category: Team Pahkitew: Digimon Adventure Episodes