"Wade said what?" Alicia asks, staring at Heath as they walk side by side through the Vaccine zone, on the look out for trouble, as always.
"Some golden thing, floating around 'em while they were at a water park on earth, but it didn't really do anythin'. Heath shrugs. "They attacked it and it just... disappeared. They searched around but there was nothin' else that they noticed outta the ordinary."
"This Digital World thing is weird enough on its own but now weird creatures keep showing up on earth, and I don't know what to think," Alicia mumbles, clearly thinking of her sister and parents, innocent people who could easily get caught up in the maelstrom should more of these beasts decide to travel to their world.
Heath looks worried too for a moment, but quickly shakes it off, deciding not to dwell on it. "This area's so quiet, I dunno why Luke sent us here," he drawls, walking past her.
"Femous last words," she mumbles, shooting a vague smile at him as she walks faster, passing him easily enough with Palmon by her side. She grins as he sputters and mimics her, utterly butchering her voice due to his thick Southern accent. Before she can respond, however, everything turns dark as something blocks out the sun. The group of Digidestined stop short and look up, agape at what could possibly be causing this but unable to tell because of the blinding light behind the creature, its outline the only thing visible. Palmon's thorny claws dig into Alicia's leg as they wait, watch for something- anything- to happen.
When something does happen, none of them are prepared for the shout that proceeds it. "DRAGON'S ROAR!" Abruptly, the shadow that's blocking the sun disappears, blinding all of them and they look away with varying degrees of winces as their eyes water with the intensity of it. None of them notice as the shadow forms on the ground before them, a tall Digimon with a humanoid body which is covered in white armor. None see as he holds his hands out towards them, palms out. But they all feel the heat, and a rough flash of red through the dizzying colors kaleidoscoping their vision, before everything goes dark.
It's with an intense soreness and painfully gritty eyes that Alicia slowly comes to, her fingers digging through the grass and dirt surrounding her, when she remembers. Glancing around, she's relieved to find that the others are moving as well, Heath scooting towards her with a worried, confused look on his face. Lopmon is hanging limply from his shoulder, looking as weak as Alicia is feeling. "What happened?" she whispers to Heath once he's close enough. "Is everyone ok?"
He nods, leaning over to help her sit up. "Yeah, we all seem to be... I woke up in time to see some armored Digimon delete, I'm guessin' he's who attacked us..." Whatever else he's about to say fails to slip past his toungue as he stares at something, lips parting in shock.
"What is it?" Alicia's just asked, turning to look when her jaw drops as well. A golden sphere, similar to what Heath explained that Wade had witnessed, is floating before her, glowing serenely. They're still staring uncertainly at it when it flies foward and impacts with Palmon, who seems as surprised as the others, but unharmed. Alicia's just reached out for the sphere, curious and wanting to see if it's able to communicate with them, when it disappears, her fingers only inches away from it. "What the-!"
Heath blinks a few times before pulling himself to his feet, holding a hand out to her. "Let's go back to Luke, maybe he'll have an explanation of what just happened."
Alicia takes his hand, nodding in agreement, but she thinks she already knows. Something tells her that little sphere and whatever had brought it their way- and Wade's- wasn't antagonistic... She senses that it had somehow saved them from the Digimon that Heath had seen. Her deduction continues to be a comfort to her when, upon hearing the full story, Luke has no idea of what exactly has been going on lately either.
