"You're back!" is the greeting Alicia Fox is given by one broski, Zack Ryder grinning over at her as she joins them around the digiport, digivice at the ready.
"Yeah, I am," she says, smirking over at him and winking as she flips her hair over her shoulder. "So what are we doing standing around? Waiting for the Digiworld to melt in on itself? Let's go!"
So they go and it's even worse than she remembers- destruction and evil, and so much sadness and death around them. Their current attempt at rescue is a village that's burning into nothingness around them, Darcmon and Kiwimon working together to try to save as many Digimon as they can while Wizardmon, Seadramon and Moosemon work at putting the fire out, but it's an uphill battle, especially with Alicia all but frozen and needing Zack to guide her as she's overwhelmed by all of the stimuli around them. "It's ok," he soothes her when she looks over at him, wide eyed and terrified.
The latest village is almost saved- at least some of the residents surviving the intense flames licking at their homes- when it all starts up again. Fresh flames lick through the already charred walkpaths, taking over whateer hasn't been lost already, deleting more poor Digimon still struggling to salvage something from their old lives. As the flames get closer, Alicia gasps and yells out, "KIWIMON!"
Everything pauses at the sound of her voice and Kiwimon, empowered by her exclamation, glows bright, digivolving further. Once the digivolution process is completed, Lotusmon hovers before them, her eyes closed before she flicks her wings open and stares out at something the others can't quite see. "Marsmon," she says, before flashing forward and aimng her staffs at the creature encircled by flames. "SEVEN'S FANTASIA!"
The aura slams towards him, but he doesn't even flinch. Merely laughs and absorbs it, his flames shooting up even brighter along his arms as he takes in the power and is fueled by it instead of injured. Lotusmon's jaw drops, the fight leaving her as quickly as it'd arrived. He lunges forward and lands by her with one huge leap, flames dancing over her skin as he cups her jaw, staring into her frozen, fearful eyes. "I'm gonna have fun playing with you, digidestined," he declares with a maddening kind of laugh before leaping away, disappearing into the distance with what would seem like only a couple of ordinary leaps at first, physics bending to his will and allowing him to go further, faster.
"Oh my God," Alicia groans, sinking down towards the ground, unaware that her partner is doing much the same a few feet away. Zack kneels down and attempts to comfort Alicia while Darcmon does much the same for Lotusmon, although neither of them know what to do to fix this situation, make any of this better for anyone. Along with the fact that it looks like this coalition of digimon working against them, out for blood, just gained another number on this day...
