"No, Carmella," Luke tells her impatiently. "You can't have James on a leash here in the Digiworld. What if a digimon attacked and he needed to move? You could get yourself and him both killed with this kind of foolishness. Uncollar him now."

She snaps her gum angrily before reaching over and unhooking him, watching with a grimace as James gingerly rubs at his throat. "Thanks," he says softly, stepping aside. Careful not to say anything, do anything, that might piss her off all over again.

Seeing that the drama is concluded, the other Smackdown digidestined rejoin them and Nakamura holds up his digivice. "Place near here needs help," he says. "Not a village. Is an island."

"Great," the group mumbles. None of them have digimon capable of swimming long distances with them on their back, but a few of them can fly, so Zack, Carmella and Nakamura all hold their digivices out. Apollomon, Sunflowmon and HippoGriffomon appear a moment later, Apollomon and HippoGriffomon taking on as many of the digidestined as they can while James and Carmella are carried by Sunflowmon.

They all arrive safely, if a bit slowly, and Carmella pats Sunflowmon on the back before turning to look for the cause of the distress call. "Wait," Shinsuke says, accept thick and confused. "This is not the island I saw- the island I... I was intending for us to go to has... disappeared..."

"What does that mean?" Owens demands, throwing his hands up in frustration.

"It may have been destroyed since we left," Nakamura explains faintly, staring at his digivice in the hopes that he's wrong. But, no, as he stares at the map, another strip of land disappears from the blue circle on his digivice. He pales. "Islands are being destroyed. We need to figure this out. Now." Before they can act, however, a shadow falls over the island they're standing on.

"Aw shit," Owens mumbles, all of them looking up at the armored digimon hovering overhead.

"You are strange looking digimon," he says to the humans with a sneer. "Or perhaps you are these fabled digidestined I have heard whispers of?" He scoffs. "You look very unimpressive to me. Either way, it does not matter. Say farewell!"

A flash of light blinds them and then there's a large explosion, leveling everything and leaving it quiet and desolate.