Mastemon sighs. Eyes an Ice Devimon as she shifts anxiously in the ranks. The Digidestined are surrounded, their partners separated from them by a barrier her fellows had painstakingly created. This plan had been carefully put together, the group of them working together to make sure that none of them would survive. One partner had already been claimed, not that Mastemon was exactly thrilled with that because they were all supposed to be exterminated together, but whatever weakens them isn't entirely a bad thing.

He watches as the digimon stir, their human counterparts still down for the count. They hit the barrier, begin to panic. He laughs at them, cruel and mocking. Their cries are muffled, only a whisper against the strength of their will against them. Even so, it's not long before the Digidestined begin to awaken. Find themselves in a circle of the strongest digimon he could locate. Most look on stubbornly, angrily, but some are already shattered- Kevin, without Bearmon, and Shinsuke, jittery and shocked through with electricity. He lifts his hand and peers at them through his fingers, smirking. "So, Digidestined." She laughs, feeling a little like a lawyer or some ridiculous notion like that. "For crimes against our world..." She sighs, already tiring of it. "So." She paces in front of the humans, eyeing them coolly. Kicks at Kevin, watches him twitch, his face grim and pale. Shinsuke grits his teeth in pain when she does the same to him. "My fellow digimon have tried to handle you all separately in the past, but it never worked. So we figured out a way to bring you all here. First a little at a time... then once I was at my proper power level, the rest of you." She stretches her arms out, her power brushing against their flesh. "Now there's nothing you can do about the circumstances you find yourselves to be in."

Shinsuke is still in agony but he locks eyes with her. "You may think so, but... we will find a way." His words in English are stuttery, not very intimidating, but she blinks when he switches to Japanese, flowing much easier, promising to figure out a way to rain down destruction upon all of them at once.

Her lips twitch up into a smirk and she shifts her wings, floating closer to him as she digs her claws into his jaw, hoisting him up away from the others, eyeing him. "I don't know how you plan that," she says mockingly. "But I look forward to your attempts." Tosses him aside and listens with some smugness as he gasps out in pain, Zack Ryder trying to assist him. She's laughing at the feable attempts by their partners to break through the barrier when... there's a rush of wind past her face and a sharp sound of something shattering behind her.

"My lady!" the IceDevimon yells out. "Hawkmon-" But she knows already. Something is lurking in their midst, already deleting one in their ranks. She counts the partner digimon before her and frowns, seeing no change in their numbers.

"Who is it that dares to-" Duskmon is gone next. She glares at thin air, thinking she sees a shimmer of power, and then IceDevimon shatters into nothing before her eyes. She glowers and storms over to the digidestined once more, hoisting Shinsuke up once more as he glares down at her beadily. "It doesn't matter how many of the weaklings I alligned myself with you destroy. As long as I breathe, you will not survive this." She starts to shake him hard, his head lulling from side to side, when something slashes through her, sending her arching forward in agony. "What the-?!" Another slash along her wrist and Shinsuke falls from her grasp once more, Zack scrambling to grab him. "Ravmon," she hisses, gripping at thin air and grimacing as the creature appears, resembling her with one dark wing and one lighter. He's lean and solid, eyes glinting angrily. "If you're here, that means..."

And then she can sense him. Kazuchika Okada. One of the other Japanese Digidestined, strong enough to travel from world to world as he pleases. She huffs and lifts a hand towards him, her power seeping towards him. His teeth flash as he laughs at her, Ravmon countering her attempt and sending more pain stabbing down her spine as he flashes back in behind her. She blinks as more of her fellows shatter into data, none of them sure what to do. She twists, tries to create another gate to take them all away from Ravmon's power, but she's met by a massive tornado that immediately tears her gate to shreds, tattering her wings as she gets tangled up in it for a few moments before breaking free. Before long, the others are destroyed, and it's just her and Okada facing off against each other, the barrier still keeping partners from digidestined.

He seems unfazed, Shinsuke's dark eyes locked on his sure form, and then Ravmon shreds through her with his claw. Mastemon barely flinches, trying to summon more digimon to her to ease her mission, but she freezes, looking down in shock as Ravmon's claws pierce through her wings, leaving her flightless, vulnerable on the floor of the dimension they find themselves in. "If you destroy me, you're all going to be stranded here," she chokes out.

Okada's voice is more brutal than Shinsuke's, his English slow but somewhat more put together than Shinsuke, his tone making it clear that he's cold and disinterested by her claims. "I am not concerned. We found a way in, we will find a way out." He motions to his partner and Ravmon fazes in, thrusting his wing straight through her and shattering her into pure data, which quickly fades away. The world begins to quake at her loss, the barrier disappearing. As Digimon are reunited with Digidestined, Okada moves over to Shinsuke and pulls him to his feet, searching his slack face. "We need to get out of here," he informs him, Shinsuke nodding slowly as he tries to breathe through the pain.

Ravmon lifts his wings, his claws outstretched, and he digs in, exploiting the weakness in the cracks that Mastemon had used to break into this dimension. Soon, they can see a growing slit where the digiworld appears, and he slices his way out, turning to hold the opening open as the others gingerly make their way out to safety. Shinsuke and Okada are the last two to make their way out, eyeing each other before taking that leap together.

Kevin still looks wrecked, watching the others reunite with their partners. He closes his eyes, gripping his digivice hard. "Bearmon," he mumbles, lips trembling as he aches for his friend.

Shinsuke wavers, then squeezes Okada's arm. "Arigato." They speak quietly in Japanese before Okada inclines his head to the others, turning to take his leave back to Japan and his preparations for WK12.

Seth clears his throat anxiously, all of them hurting in different ways. His dark eyes rest on Dean for a moment before he turns towards the others. He knows they should communicate with Luke, but some things are more important right now. "Come on, let's go home. Get some rest. Figure out what we're going to do next later. It's been a long few days." He holds out his digivice and sighs as the others eagerly follow suit, all of them relieved to be getting out of here finally.