Luke doesn't want to do it. But, he thinks, it's necessary. Evens out the numbers, makes it easier for the teams to have each other's backs if something should go seriously wrong. So, new digivices, new tags, new crests. He closes his eyes and focuses on his task, a list of names before him. Swallowing hard, he ghosts a finger down where each name is written. "I'm sorry," he murmurs. "So many of you I would prefer to keep safe from this fate, but... it must be done... We need help badly... Evil is growing..."

He can sense it, the creatures getting defiled by the darkness growing stronger by the day. And there are other problems- the ocean where the deleted data goes, how it is overtaking everything, infecting every body of water, possibly aiding in the overwhelming power of the darkness. Dolph Ziggler had had the right inclination to try to clear the river of it all and his failure to do so had led to his own bitter changes, ones that Luke's been keeping an eye on.

His eyes begin to glow bright white, power trickling down onto the digimetal piecing everything together, the pure power of digicore fueling everything, allowing for more digidestined to be chosen, more crests to be made. Luke shudders as he feels the power flowing around him, over him, out of his fingertips, coating the devices. "Please keep them safe," he whispers as he looks down at the three new sets of items to aid the digidestined. "Please... keep us all safe..."

-x

Elsewhere, trees topple, screams are heard, numerous feet hitting the ground sounds all around, before... falling suspiciously quiet. Prince Mamemon laughs, lifting his gloved hands up and laughing as toxic, purple raindrops fall from the clear sky overheard, poisoning all that it touches. As the world around him rots and dies, he throws his head back and laughs. "Bring me the Digidestined," he says. "Let me ruin them as easily as I do these useless villages." He raises a hand and more rain pours out over the ground until it nearly floods, his laughter sweeping over the land and somehow making the destruction even worse.

"Very soon," MeiCrackmon says, looking around with some smug pleasure as she looks at all of the dead creatures and ruined homes, vegetation, everything. "You are a very welcome addition to the others I have my... group..."

Prince Mamemon only just stops short of his cape getting drenched in the dark water overwhelmed with evil. "I will hold you to that," he says, before finding the biggest peak with the best view and climbs it to see all of the destruction he has caused. A simple, ordinarily laugh turns twisted and eager the longer he stands there, taking in full villages wiped out at his hand. "Congratulations, Prince Mamemon," the voices in his head repeat. "You will make a fun addition to the group."

He can't wait to have more targetts to fight.