Cass has no interest in walking with the others. They're all grouped around Enzo, casting quick glances at him, and he suspects Big Show has requested they keep an eye on the obnoxious twerp who is absentmindedly stroking Veemon's head. He scoffs and stares down at Hyokomon, who has seemed to have taken his change in demeanor at ease, not bothered either way by his human partner's attitude. Apparently he prefers being separate from the others as well. "Come on," Cass mumbles and they go a different direction than the others. There's a red dot nearby that Cass decides to investigate.

It's not a village, but just a beach. With a bunch of unconscious digimon dotting the land. Cass feels a little bit sick, staring at them all. Wondering if they're dying or just weak. Remembers, sharply, the sensation of having Enzo's life in his hands, threatening Big Show that if he took one step closer, he'd break his neck. He huffs, flexes his fists and looks around for the cause of this devastation. Something flakes down, sticks to his hand. He blinks and stares down at the rust-colored shard before looking up. "Hyokomon, digivolve," he says tensely, even Grademon not enough to make him feel better about this situation.

Rust Tyrannomon is a huge dinosaur with its rust colored gun aimed right at them, his eyes dark and fixed on them as he tracks their movements. Grademon's evolution doesn't seem to bother him. In fact it becomes a moot point when he shoots right at the digimon, knocking him down. Knocking him out like the others. "I sense darkness in you," he tells Cass. "I like it. It smells... delicious..." He lumbers closer and Cass grits his teeth. Enzo had been his light, Enzo had been the insufferable part of him that always wanted to do the right thing. But Cass had grown tired of doing the right thing for such little reward and had cast his former friend aside. He has no regrets, even now.

"We could have fun together," the monstrous digimon says, breath putrid against Cass' skin.

"What do you have in mind?" he asks, his gaze reflecting the darkness in Rust Tyrannomon's gaze.

The digimon laughs in response. Aims his gun at Hyokomon and fires cruelly. "I believe you have a new partner now," he says.

Cass isn't sure it works like that but, as Hyokomon's data washes over him, purifying him of one more connection he had to the world, he finds he doesn't mind.