Their limited numbers are hurting them more and more as time goes by. Heath grits his teeth and squints up as Moosemon struggles to put enough distance between himself and the WaruSeadramon who's been stalking them for the last few hours long enough to digivolve further. We need Duftmon real bad, Heath thinks, twisting his hands together before glancing at the others.

MegaSeadramon had been caught unaware by WaruSeadramon's whirlpool, knocked out before he could even try to defend himself. Birdramon, Cyberdramon, both had been taken out about as unceremoniously, and now the human digidestined are kneeling by their partners, Drake Maverick and Ariya Daivari unable to help because their partners haven't yet digivolved high enough to be any real benefit.

Heath pinches his nose and, not for the first or last time, misses Alicia and Dean, those of them with really powerful digimon who probably could've kept this from happening, or at least fought back better than he has been able to. He turns in time to see Moosemon get clipped by a bolt of lightning, crumpling his partner. "Moosemon!" he's just yelled out when there's a burst of strength- thrumming from his digivice, through his startled form into Moosemon, pulling him to his feet. He stomps his hooves, shakes his head wildly, and then digivolves with little to no warning. Within seconds, Duftmon stands there and he looks up at the sky, yelling out in a mix of excitement and confusion before using this burst of strength to slash his sword down hard, WaruSeadramon having to sweep his head around to defend himself with his horn, trying to attack back.

Duftmon, however, is too quick and dives away before lunging forward for another attack, firing explosive energy against him, sending him flying backwards in a writhing mass of scales and electric bursts. One more swipe of his sword and WaruSeadramon screams out in agony, data starting to stream from his body. "No! Impossible!" he screams, trying again and again to attack, which only makes the data pour faster from his taxed body. "I cannot lose-!"

It's a courtesy then to delete him, Duftmon slashing him clean through with his sword and sending him shattering into small pieces of data, his screams fading away into the afternoon air. Heath breathes a little easier once he's gone and the two of them go around and check on the other digidestined, relieved to find their partners are all going to be ok with a little rest.

So focused on each other, none of the digidestined see the creature lurking nearby. Ancient Wisemon's yellow eyes flash under his purple, white and green covering as he watches Heath. "Yes, you will do quite nicely, Digidestined," he says simply before disappearing as quietly as he'd appeared,