Carmella flounces, shaking her hair out over her shoulder. James can't keep his eyes off of her as he tags along, trying to keep her happy. Ensure that she never breaks things off with him again. He spots a dip in the ground, gently reaching out and altering her path so she doesn't risk falling and hurting herself, her cool brown eyes resting on him for a moment before she continues on her way. The others are nearby but it's just the two of them, which gives James a deep feeling of unease, but he doesn't say anything, desperately keeping his promise to do things her way from now on.

Nyokimon and Choromon, their partners, are chattering from their shoulders and Carmella pauses now and again to smile at her partner, stars in her eyes whenever she looks down at her. James glances at his once or twice as well, but for the most part, he can't keep his focus from drifting back to Carmella, still confused over her actions on Smackdown, something they haven't really talked about. He still feels like he's dancing on a landmine around her, too scared to step too hard or speak too loudly.

She's leaning down to breathe in some flowers that are unlike anything she's ever seen before on earth when it happens- there's a scramble nearby, disrupting her peace and she looks up to yell at James when she freezes. Gapes at the sight before her of a muscular, nearly naked female digimon gripping a wide eyed, frightened James around the waist, her armored claws and sharp beak of a face hovering way too close to his. "Aren't you a pretty one?" she coos, her nails leaving red marks up and down James' arm. "I could just eat you up." Her smile looks sharkish, James closing his eyes as he whimpers, Choromon all but useless from where he'd been knocked to the ground.

Carmella lunges to her feet and rushes at them. "Hey! Bitch, let go of my man!" James flushes through the fear, but it's not enough to scare the digimon off. In fact, it seems to only make her dig her claws in worse, James' fear growing into pain as blood starts to well up under where she's gripping him. Carmella immediately skids to a stop, unsure what to do as James' whimpers turn into pained groans. She's looking all over when she realizes that something's glowing- in her pocket... Grabbing it, she holds it up and stares at her digivice in confusion, just to realize that her partner is gleaming as well. "Nyokimon...?"

The chain of events that happens then makes Carmella gasp, Nyokimon hopping forward and getting hit with a brilliant flash of light. "Nyokimon warp digivolve to... SunFlowmon!" Face like the flower the creature's named for, her body is green, her tail is thorny, and two leaves sprouting from her back seem to be acting like wings. Carmella's jaw drops in awe and even Kinkakumon seems wary of this, her grip on James slacking a bit as she backs away from the creature. Sunflowmon merely laughs at the reaction her appearance is having, shaking her head and landing with a thud before Kinkakumon. "Let James go," she says, a certain steel in her soft voice. "Right now."

"No! I love him, look at him-" But Kinkakumon's words die away as Sunflowmon lifts her hand, a bright burst of sunshine shooting from her leaves and blinding the clingy digimon, causing her to push James away hard, his body hitting the ground and skidding a few feet away.

"James!" Carmella cries, running to him and supporting his limp form as she watches, wide eyed, this dance between Kinkakumon and Sunflowmon.

"No! Where did he go?!" Kinkakumon cries out as soon as she can see again. "Where-?!" She sees James and Carmella then, trying to rush towards them... just to get met with seeds from Sunflowmon exploding against her side, sending her off-course and into a tree. "No, no-" She's struggling through the pain, data pouring from her wounds, still trying to get to James, her eyes flashing a deep red... when Sunflowmon shoots one final seed at her with enough force that she quiets immediately, in too much pain to even spit out James' name once more.

As soon as she's gone, Sunflowmon dedigivolves to Floramon and calmly walks over, scooping up Choromon on her way to join the others. "Is he ok?" she asks, grazing a vine over James' lifeless face.

"He will be," Carmella says grimly, leaning in and slapping James hard across the face. He jerks awake and looks around, frantic, before she cups his face and kisses him. "You're ok," she mumbles into his mouth, stroking his cheeks as he instinctively kisses her back. "I've got you. She's gone."

He exhales, relaxing in her arms, before pushing himself up to a sitting position, rubbing his face but still having a dazed look about him from the kiss. "Thanks, Princess," he says quietly, trying so desperately not to anger her.

She sighs, gets to her feet and dusts her hands off before reaching out for him. "C'mon, Jimmy. Let's get back to the others."

He nods, gently taking her hand and pulling himself up. As soon as he's upright again, she searches his face and sighs, leaning in to rest her forehead against his for a few moments, digesting that he's ok. That Kinkakumon didn't hurt him seriously. He waits patiently, relieved just to see some sign of the old Carmella lurking under her hardened shell. When she takes his hand and leads him away, he exhales in relief and squeezes her fingers gently.