Zack and Dolph exchange glances as they walk through the virus sector. With everything going on, tensions are at an all-time high. Not that they'd been all that relaxed since being chosen as Digidestined, but still. With Heath being possessed, and Palmon being deleted, the group of them start to rethink the entire splitting up into pairs decision. But there's little that can done about it now. Besides, with Wade's return from filming his movie, things feel a little more promising. If anyone could save Heath, it'd be him, after all.

"Hey, bro," Zack's just said when they hear something in the distance. "What is that?" he demands, cutting himself off. Dolph frowns and looks around, unsure himself, when Zack mumbles, "I swear, it almost sounds like..." He falls silent as a flicker of something appears in the horizon, Zack's jaw dropping. "Oh hell no," he gasps, causing the Digimon and Dolph both to look at where he's gazing in shocked horror.

"Gokimon!" Impmon exclaims as Patamon makes a strangled kind of noise deep in his throat. "Everyone down!" But it's too late, the insect type Digimon are flying through, over them, all around, and Zack is standing very still, pale, while Dolph tries to batter the large winged beasts away.

"They're friggin cockroaches!" Dolph screams, bashing one over the head with his fist and causing it to go loopy as it flies away. "Son of a bitch! What IS this?!" Most Gokimon fly away, leaving the humans and their partners alone, but the one Dolph had just hit makes a sharp u-turn and crashes right into Dolph's back, "Ahhh! What the fu-?!"

Finally Zack moves into action and, once more grateful for his being just a little bit taller than Dolph, grips the Gokimon by his rough shell under his wings. "Hey! Leggo of me!" he screams in a rough voice, thrashing around and clearly trying to prepare an attack against them.

Zack grits his teeth and ignores the wings bashing into his face and upper body. "I hate cockroaches," he mumbles, surprising all of them by pulling out a lighter from his pocket and pressing it against the Digimon's body, releasing him as soon as the flames eat at his body and wings.

Gokimon's screaming in pain when Impmon lunges forward, Patamon behind him. After shooting bubbles at him, Patamon falls back and lets Impmon take over, flames coming from the tips of his fingers and turning the bubbles into flaming balls in the sky which compact with Gokimon's body, making the flames around him burn hotter. This destabilizes his body even further and he quickly deletes.

Dolph blinks, sucking in a deep breath. "Um, thanks, kid." He pauses, thinking hard. "Why are you carrying around a lighter!?"

"I'm a New Yorker, bro. Never know when you're going to need to burn something up." Zack makes a face.

"You little pyro, you," the Showoff smirks. "I guess I can't complain that much after all of this."