The Smackdown team had gotten trashed in the Superstar Shakeup, Carmella can't help but think as she looks at their vastly reduced numbers. Her, Shinsuke, Mike, Shane, Rusev, and... a recently recovered Big Cass is all that's left. She staunchly ignores him and adjusts her title belt, biting her lip as she thinks about what this might mean for the few of them. The less of them there are, the harder it is to put up a good fight against the really strong Digimon who torment villages, who threaten the safety of the earth. She sighs and tugs at her ball cap, missing James not for the first time since he'd been fired.

Floramon smiles up at her, trying to cheer her up, but Carmella is so distracted that she barely notices, lost in thought as the six of them wander further into the dense forest surrounding the main island of the digiworld. There are dots all over, cries for help, desperate need for assistance, and she swallows, tracing them with her finger, when she realizes something. It's gotten suspiciously quiet around her. She looks up and gapes as she realizes that the air around her is steep with something suffocating, dark purple, and... Floramon is the only thing protecting her, Carmella realizes, using her petals to whip the cloying pollen away from her.

Not enough to help the others, however, Carmella realizes as she looks around at the rest of the team, all unconscious and barely breathing under the thick cloud. "Oh my God," she breathes out, ducking next to a twitching Nakamura and resting a hand on his cool, clammy skin. "What happened?!"

"Blossomon," Floramon cries out, turning sharply. "I need to digivolve!" Carmella nods, lifting her digivice and watching as her partner wastes no time into growing into Sunflowmon, quickly ripping through the flowers and grass surrounding them before gripping onto a huge, thorny flower and hoisting it up, all but throwing it at Carmella's feet before stomping down on top of it. "You!"

Her exclamation is cut off when Blossomon whips her with vines, Sunflowmon quickly diving aside and sending back her own vines, the two of them exchanging blows with the brutal attacks as Carmella ducks back and watches, wide eyed and a little horrified as blood and nectar drip down from the plant creatures' bodies. Sunflowmon falters when Blossomon tosses bladed petals at her, slicing through her leaves and sensitive skin, leaving her tumbling back to the ground. "YAH!" she cries out, blasting Blossomon with an intense burst of sunshine, sending her tumbling away as she struggles to regain her vision. Taking advantage of her momentary weakness, Sunflowmon blasts highpowered seeds at the other digimon, Carmella cringing as the projectiles tear through the creature, leaving massive holes in her body that steadily leak data, causing her to scream in pain as she flails around, still blind.

More pollen begins to pour from Blossomon, clearly a last ditch effort, but Sunflowmon responds by slamming her thorny tail down upon the digimon's head, shredding her apart even further and speeding along her deletion. Carmella shivers as the pollen eases away and the digimon deletes, her eyes widening as she realizes that the others still aren't moving. She dashes over to kneel down between Shane and Rusev, scoping out Nakamura, Mike and Cass with troubled eyes. "Sunflowmon!" she pleads, watching as her partner floats down among those ill and their partners, tenderly resting a hand on their chest and examining them as best as she can.

"They will be fine," she says after a few moments, smiling at Carmella. "The affects of the pollen is already fading. Just give them a few more moments. No worries."

She's barely finished speaking when Carmella hears a soft groan coming from Shane, Rusev shifting next to her. Her eyes soften. "Thank you, Sunflowmon," she whispers, so relieved to have a partner by her side for troublesome moments like this once more.