"It's all over the news!"
"But how did this happen?"
"They're not supposed to make it into our world!"
"I know, but look!"
"I'm looking, I'm looking!" The conversation that's been on-going for ten minutes is hushed, not that there's anyone around to see them. "How is this possible?" Seth Rollins demands, pacing around the hotel lobby.
"Oh God, oh man, this is bad," Heath Slater hisses out through his nose.
"What the hell are we going to do, bro?" Zack Ryder asks, still staring at the TV wide eyed. Alicia Fox, Dolph Ziggler, Wade Barrett and The Miz are circling him, each frozen as they watch on too. Media is trained on the west coast, watching as a shiny, metallic sea creature writhes around in the ocean, traveling quickly from Florida up towards New England, going at a ridiculous clip that even has the news reporters speechless. WWE live events being held in Boston this week, they're clearly in the line of fire. But also means they could do something to stop it... maybe...
"We're not strong enough to deal with this," Seth mumbles, staring down at his digivice. "We're not... we can't... The media will pick this up if we try anything, our lives will be ruined..."
"What about their lives?" Dolph speaks up, pointing at the screen where wide camera views of a decimated Florida is shown, streets wiped out by floods, houses and businesses damaged by GigaSeadramon's missiles fill the screen, leaving Alicia in tears. "We can't let this stand, Rollins. You may be a bastard, but even you know that! I'm not sure how a digimon ended up on our turf, but we can't let him stay here!"
Seth hisses out a breath and presses a button on his digivice, releasing Betamon. "Can you fight here? Can you digivolve on my planet? I don't know how this works."
"I'm not sure either," his partner says. "But I can try." Seth nods his permission and within a blink of an eye, Seadramon is sprawled out before them, blinking beadily at them. "That answers that," he sighs, wrapping his tail around Seth and lifting him up, plopping him down on his back. "Let's go stop that creature defiling my digivolution line."
Within five minutes, the group is there, the land-based digimon trolling the all but abandoned beach they'd selected, the sea creatures swimming around, waiting and watching for their approaching opponent. Seadramon had evolved further to Megaseadramon, needing that little extra bit of strength, the other digimon morphing into their champion forms to try to back him up. Some flying, some watching from the ground, they think- hope- that they have every avenue covered... when there's a loud roar and a missile flies over the digidestined's heads, impacting with the ground and sending sand and silt all over the place.
"Oh God," Alicia cries out, thrown to her knees by the force of the blast. Kiwimon tries to support her as she gets her bearings once more, looking up in horrified awe of the creature leering down at them, clearly readying another attack when MegaSeadramon lunges forward and bites into his slippery side, pulling him away from the beach and sending him thrashing into the water. They fight, tails and teeth flashing in the blinding sunlight, Seth watching on in horror as his partner struggles to regain the upperhand.
"Come on, MegaSeadramon!" he yells, his voice shaky. "You can do it!" Another missile is thrown in their direction and only the quick thinking of Strikedramon saves them as he shields them with his metallic body, immediately dedigivolving to Monodramon, sprawled out on the ground and struggling to breathe.
MegaSeadramon sends a beam of electricity at GigaSeadramon and barely phases him, his entire stance changing. "I can't do it at this level," the ultimate digimon cries out. "I need to be stronger, but how?"
Seth, gripping his digivice, is wondering the same thing. It had been a struggle just to get him up to MegaSeadramon with the limited power offered around here. Going a level further, when they aren't very knowledgeable of such things... He's not sure it's possible. "I can't... I don't know... how..."
The others are behind him, and he feels their gaze on him, adding to his failure of confidence. "I know, ok?! I'm screwing this all up, I can't do anything- I'm worthless..." He's gritting his teeth against the angry tears filling his eyes and he's just turned at them to scream for them to shut up, take their judgments and see if they can do any better, when he realizes that they're all holding their digivices out, staring at him.
"Take our power," Alicia tells him kindly. "Maybe we can help."
Seth stares at them in disbelief that, after everything, they would be willing to help him. "Rea- really?" he whispers. Nods shakily and holds his digivice out when no one refuses him, closing his eyes as power pours from their digivice to his own, the power making his grip hard to maintain. When he turns towards MegaSeadramon, their eyes lock. "Go, go," he chokes out, watching as his partner glows with an impressive amount of energy.
MegaSeadramon's body fades, drifts, and then reforms into MetalSeadramon, GigaSeadramon throwing his head around dismissively. "You weak fool," he hisses before lunging forward, the two sea creatures snapping and biting at each other. Their bodies writhe around in the water, fighting up into the sky before splashing back down into the sea, drenching all of the digidestined.
MetalSeadramon blasts energy at GigaSeadramon just to arch away as missiles are shot out of his cannon, impacting with the edge of the sea and sending sand and silt all over. "No!" he chokes out, desperate to avoid more trauma to this planet. Lunging forward, he bites as deep into GigaSeadramon's enforced side as he could, wrapping his tail around him and constricting as quickly as he could, trying to tear him apart. He pays for this forced closeness however, as GigaSeadramon blasts him with missiles, his vision wavering as he sinks down below the depths.
"METALSEADRAMON!" Seth cries out from shore, hissing and falling back as GigaSeadramon's gaze falls upon him, upon the others. His grip on his digivice only tightens as the evil digimon leers down at him, the power from the others still thrumming against his hand. "Please, please-" It bursts out suddenly, a pure stream of golden light that bursts through GigaSeadramon, tearing a hole through his serpeant like body before slicing through the water and meeting with MetalSeadramon, re-invigorating him as he shakes off the pain and goes up to the top, finding GigaSeadramon already weakened. Shaking his head, he focuses on GigaSeadramon and shoots off another beam of energy that strikes his wound perfectly, sending data all over as it widens and deepens, draining him of energy as he sits there in the water, dazed.
There's nothing he can do to stop MetalSeadramon's attack and they all watch, holding their breath, as he deletes slowly before their very eyes, a mournful, pained kind of garbling roar coming from him before his mouth disappears as well.
It's over. Seth sinks down to his knees and stares at his hands, the digivice still cradled in his palms, until Betamon joins him, weak but accomplished. "I'm so proud of you," he tells his partner, hugging him.
Betamon beams up at him. "I couldn't have done it without you."
There's still a terrible amount of damage from GigaSeadramon's warpath, and an even larger amount of frightened people surrounding them, media demanding questions, but for now, Seth feels like he can breathe again. We saved earth, he thinks. It's a giddy, sobering thought that re-enforces just how much rides on them every time they battle, either here or in the digiworld. Closing his eyes, he exhales and decides just to enjoy this moment of peace before responsibility once more infringes on everything.
