"Dammit, it's hot," Miz mumbles, adjusting his clothes and trying to stop himself from sweating quite so profusely. "I've never felt it this hot here before."

"Because we're heading towards a volcano," Ziggler grouses, in a mood ever since Zack Ryder had injured himself and been unable to continue on as digidestined. "Of course it's hot."

The two men glower at each other before Mike catches a glimpse of the towering mountain, all of the flame digimon hovering around it watching them impassively. "Whoa," he mumbles, Impmon rushing forward as he feels right at home here. Monodramon doesn't seem as enthused, following the others up as the heat eats at him slowly.

"What's the problem here? It seems peaceful enough," Dolph says until- there's a wall of flame that knocks all of them down and a monster of a digimon appears before them, roaring viciously before sending a rush of fire at them, the digimon doing their best to defend their human partners but also falling vulnerable to the unescapeable heat. "Impmon!" Dolph calls out, relieved when he and Monodramon both recover enough to digivolve, Wizardmon and Strikedramon rushing towards the flame-wrapped creature covered in chains known as Death Meramon.

"Blink Freeze!" Wizardmon yells, issuing wind from his staff and blowing the flames away from the downed digidestined, Strikedramon lunging past him and striking at the tall beast with his extended claw, only just evading some more flames with help from Wizardmon's wind gust. It only serves to annoy him and he throws Strikedramon away before grabbing Wizardmon and burning him ruthlessly, throwing him aside as he dedigivolves back to a limp, choking Impmon.

"Strikedramon!" Mike yells out, eyes a deep blue around his soot-covered face. "Digivolve again!" Strikedramon nods and obligingly digivolves into Cyberdramon, roaring viciously as Death Meramon swipes at him, flames cycling around his fist in a terrifying way. Evading another attack of flames, Cyberdramon lunges back and then forward, swiping at the horrible creature with his claw, trying to delete him automatically. Before he can get close enough, Death Meramon wraps a flamed chain around him and pulls, Cyberdramon's scream chilling to all in the area. It gets worse as more chains appear, red hot and whipping towards the digimon watching from the volcano sides, towards the digidestined.

Mike grips his digivice tighter and yells, "CYBERDRAMON!" as the heat from the chains approach, already singing his skin. Before they reach their targets, there's a flash of light and Death Meramon roars out in pain of his own as the chains shatter into small pieces, hitting the ground and deleting immediately. The evil digimon is next as Justimon stabs his sword straight through him, thrusting up through his upper body and head, deleting him in a brutal display that leaves Mike gasping as he drops to his knees, the chain only a couple of feet away from him when it'd failed.

"Are you alright?" Justimon demands, staring across at all of the downed digidestined.

"I think so," Heath and Dean mumbles as Mike and Dolph exchange glances, Ziggler gripping Impmon tightly.

"Let's get out of here," Dean says once they've checked on the residents of the volcano, content that they're alright.

"Yes, please," Mike exhales, still dazed by what he'd witnessed. His partner's power.