Darkness. Pain. Suffering. She gasps for air, trying to find her way out of the torment, but nothing she does succeeds- it overwhelms her, creeps over her body, leaves her vulnerable to the torture. She feels her body, her mind, her soul changing. As evil claims her, warps everything, she can do nothing but scream into the void slowly swiping everything else about her away. "Please... no..."
Her last words, fading away into nothing as an awful growl of a scream erupts from her mouth, leaves everything within hearing range tense, watchful. When it comes, there's nothing anyone can do to save themselves but give into her murderous rampage.
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Cass keeps his head down. Ignores the others, just limps on like nothing else matters to him. He doesn't care to be here, but he'd had no real choice considering. He'd gotten into enough trouble lately, so he squares his shoulders and walks behind the group, not paying attention to their mumbling. Lets each stab of agony up his knee fuel him, keep him moving. Miz's sneer, Shinsuke's blase attitude, Carmella's haughty disinterest, Rusev's smug arrogance at getting into the MITB so easily, he forces it all away and continues walking behind them, determined not to think about how lonely he is. How much he misses... but no. He won't think about that anymore; it doesn't matter.
He breathes in and out, struggling to keep himself together, when Hyokomon lets out a weird, strangled noise. He blinks hard and looks down at his partner, wondering if the bird creature is choking on something, when he realizes the rookie is standing behind him, a frozen, shocked look on his face. "Hyokomon?" he asks, stepping back to grab him and hoist him up, wondering what else could go wrong this day, when...
He feels himself thrown backwards by some sort of impact, blinking in shock when he realizes that Hyokomon had digivolved into Buraimon and tackled him aside- and just in time too, because when he rolls over and looks, there's a massive, cat-type digimon standing between him and the others, massive claws slashing through the air as she roars out, almost sounding like she's in pain. All Cass can do is lay there in Buraimon's arms and watch as Meicrackmon tears and rips at the digimon and digidestined before her, claws shredding and tearing at them. He can see data and blood in the air and it spurs him into action. "Buraimon!"
Buraimon tries. He does. Parries some of the slashes with his sword but then Meicrackmon turns on him, and that's all it takes. A quick slash with her claws and he's down, screaming out in pain as she tears and rips at his prone body.
"BURAIMON!" Cass cries out, realizing that his partner- the only loyal companion he's had since ...- is close to dying. His yell sends Meicrackmon turning towards him, her claws reaching towards him when...
Nakamura stirs, holds his digivice out and yells something out in Japanese, a wide beam of power bursting from it and spiraling around Meicrackmon before sending her running to escape its destructive power.
Once she's gone, Cass collapses back against the grass before forcing himself upright to check on Buraimon, who has dedigivolved, and the others. He clings to Pururumon in shock as he takes in the carnage. Everyone is scratched up and bloodied and... data flows freely through the late afternoon sky, all of their partners deleted where they'd stood when Meicrackmon attacked. "Holy shit."
