"A beach, bro!" Zack exclaims, laughing as they approach the place on the map that they're being led to.

Dolph rolls his eyes and follows Zack into the sand, keeping an eye out. "Yeah, kid, but this isn't like earth. We're not here to tan or stare at hot chicks. We're here to look for whatever's causing our Digivices to go nuts like this." It's true, even more than usual. Their devices keep flashing and vibrating in their hands, all of them jerking when the reactions only grew in intensity the closer to the beach they'd gotten.

"I know that, bro," he huffs, ignoring him as he kicks his shoes off and wriggles his toes in the sun-kissed sand. Patamon flutters down to the ground and starts shifting his paws around in the warmth as well, when- He freezes and stares down in confusion.

"What is it?" Dolph asks, barely noticing the look on Zack's face out of the corner of his eye as he continues to search the surrounding area for whatever their devices are trying to alert them to.

"There's something..." He continues brushing the sand away with his feet, trying to see something when Dolph rolls his eyes. "I'm not kidding, there is!"

"You always do this," he tells him. "You act like you've found some buried treasure in the sand, and then-" His words die away abruptly as sharp weapons shaped almost like knives bursts through the ground, racing towards Zack. "KID!" Dolph dives, only just tackling Zack out of the way in time as the glinting devices embed in the ground. He grunts and buries his face in Zack's neck for a minute before pulling away and sitting up, looking down at his best friend. "Son of a bitch, kid, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I think so," he grunts, wiping some blood off of his arm. "Thanks bro. If you hadn't moved so quickly, I might not have..."

"No problem," Dolph tells him, not wanting to think about the what ifs. He had been there, Zack is fine except for some scrapes up his arm, and that's all that matters. Or at least it would be if not for the Digimon still hiding in the sand, a fresh wave of weapons flashing out towards them. This time Zack moves faster, rolling them over and pressing Dolph's head down to keep him away from the tentacle like things that just miss them.

"I think we're even now, bro," he breathes heavily, peering over his shoulder. "Patamon!"

"On it! Bubble blow!" he cries, attacking the ground with wet bubbles that explodes and soaks the sand while Impmon backs him up, blowing sand away with fireballs. They don't succeed at finding the creature responsible, but their actions do work well enough at holding the evil Digimon at bay and allowing their partners time to regroup.

Zack pulls Dolph to his feet, the two of them gripping their Digivices tightly. "Digivolution time?"

"Yeah," Dolph agrees. "Guys, you know what to do."

"Yessir," Impmon calls back. As the warm light of Digivolution washes over them, Zack and Dolph see it- something purple writhing under the grains of pale yellow. They exchange glances but there's no time to say anything, Wizardmon and Darcmon land side by side but before either could do anything, the painful tentacles return and pierce through Darcmon midsection, leaving him limp at the end of their sharp barbs.

"NO! DARCMON!" Zack yells, running forward to help his partner. Dolph watches on in horror as more tentacles come from the sand and tangle around Zack's body, lifting him up a few feet off of the ground while squeezing tightly. He gasps and chokes, barely able to breathe, and Dolph starts to move, not sure how he'd help but knowing he needs to do something, when...

"ELECTRO SQUALL!" There's an intense lightning bolt, it strikes the ground where the tentacles appear to lead... there's an unGodly squeech and then the tentacles release their quarries, disappearing back into the sand. Zack thankfully had only been a little off of the ground, but he still struggles when he lands, fighting for each breath. But this is only short lived as realization comes across him and he scrambles over the sand, by Darcmon's side when he Dedigivolves to his baby form, a pink creature with no true dicernible features except for a scary amount of sharp looking teeth and soft wispy ears.

He hugs the young digimon close to him and thanks anything and everything he can think of that his partner wasn't deleted and reformatted like Ricardo's all of those months ago when they had little to no clue what they were doing, the consequences. "Thank you for fighting so hard," he tells his partner, lightly kissing the baby Digimon's forehead. "Now what is your name?"

"Tokomon," he intones shyly.

Wizardmon is still on the evil Digimon's track, sending more lightning bolts until finally, thankfully, data streams up from a crater in the sand. "It's all over, Chrysalimon," he declares, readying one more attack. "Accept your fate..." It's clear when it's over, the subtle dark vibe in the area fades away with the digimon's data

Impmon, upon dedigivolving, walks up to Tokomon and pokes him lightly, grinning when the baby creature snaps at him with his impressive teeth. The four of them return to Luke's area, unsurprised to find that they're the first back. Dolph glances at Zack before turning to their guide. "Hey, Luke, we've been wondering... alright if I ask you a question?"

Luke crosses his arms over his chest and raises his eyebrows at them. "What is it?"

"Why did you separate us this time? We've kinda gotten used to working together as a group," Dolph comments. "It makes it easier if we get overwhelmed, to have enough people just in case. But with just two of us, there's always the risk of things going very wrong... so what are we doing?"

Luke smirks. "I suppose it best if I explain once everyone else is back."

Dolph stares at him, glancing over at Zack. "Great," he mumbles.