There are four remaining. It's almost a comfort, makes the Digidestined think they might actually succeed at this. Meanwhile, Calumon continues to languish in Seth's hands as the others try to figure out how much to handle the rest of the evil digimon before them. Before they can decide, Prince Mamemon steps forward. His smile never fades, making him look quite demented. After the other digimon, this one almost seems like a joke. James can only gape as Carmella saunters forward, her trash talk barely registering with James as he tries to stop her and fails.
"So you're a prince, huh?" she asks, snapping her gum. "Well, I'm the princess o' Staten Island, and I can tell ya, you're nothin' like me."
"Carmella!" James hisses at her but she flaps a hand at him impatiently.
"I got this, Jimmy, just keep standing there lookin' pretty." Everyone double-takes at this but Carmella ignores all of them, her hands on her hips as she stares up at the Digimon, SunFlowmon backing her up as always.
"Should we help?" Seth mumbles to Nakamura, who is watching with a cool kind of stare, waiting for some sign.
Everything is tense, quiet, as SunFlowmon circles the much stronger digimon before her. She's only at the champion level, while this guy is mega level, and Carmella tries not to doubt her decision. "Carmella," James tries again, eager to back Sunflowmon up with at least Garudamon, but Carmella flaps her hands at him again.
"Go for it, SunFlowmon!" she calls out, the frustration on her face easy for all to see. James hates it, hates himself for having to do so, but steps back, allowing her to face this challenge on her own. SunFlowmon, the poor thing, does try, but she barely gets within striking distance and PrinceMamemon takes her down with a headbutt. She lays there, dazed, while Carmella looks on in shock.
Before anyone could panic or James could jump in to help, however, SunFlowmon struggles upright once more and blasts seeds at him, which barely seem to bother him as he stands there and takes it, an odd look on his face as he looks back at Carmella. "You believe you're a princess," he says with a scoff. "I don't think so, darling." As soon as the words leave his mouth, he slaps a hand out and strikes SunFlowmon hard, sending her flying back past where Carmella is standing.
Carmella lets out a weak little scream, scrambling for her partner. Everyone is frozen, watching this, and it ends up being James who moves first, he and Garudamon approaching PrinceMamemon to keep him busy while Carmella tends to SunFlowmon, but PrinceMamemon has lost patience with pretty much everything and holds a hand out, starting to glow purple.
"What's happening?" James asks in awe, his eyes widening as the sky darkens and purple roses begin raining down upon him and Garudamon. "Roses...?" he asks, closing his eyes as the soft petals brush against his skin soothingly.
"Don't let them touch you!" Shinsuke suddenly yells at his friend, struggling to get over to him without being touched by the flood of unnatural roses. "APOLLOMON!" But it's too late. Garudamon, coated in the purple petals, wavers and then dedigivolves back to Choromon, still shivering and unstable. He's not alone either as James collapses to his knees, the roses covering his face, his body, every inch of his skin. "They're poisonous!" Nakamura yells out, and everyone stops short once more, watching on in horror as James passes out face first onto the ground, the poison already working against him.
Carmella gasps, rage overwhelming her as she looks up at the cackling PrinceMamemon, enjoying every second of James and Choromon drowning in these poisonous roses. "DAMN YOU!" she cries out, struggling to her feet and pointing at him. "I won't... I won't let you get away with this!" Suddenly, a crest and tag appear before her and she scoops it out of thin air, gasping as her digivice goes off and SunFlowmon begins to digivolve behind her.
She turns sharply and watching as SunFlowmon grows and changes into Lilamon, the soft pink floral creature not even waiting for the digivolution to fully end before she shoots off her first attack. "BEATY SLAP!" She spins, her arms working up a massive amount of wind that blow away all of the poisonous petals and sends them back towards PrinceMamemon, who pales and immediately waves his arms, making them all disappear before they could harm him too. While Carmella races to check on James, Lilamon makes moves to finish this right here, right now. A knife appears in her hand and she lunges forward, taking PrinceMamemon by surprise and thrusting it up into the most visible part of his body, his face, tearing his smile apart, the blade moving up towards his eyes. The screams issuing from him are horrifying and completely destroyed as data dances over the ground, everyone holding their breath until he deletes. It's abrupt and shocking but soon everyone is circling James' lifeless form, whispering and worrying as she waits and waits, gnawing at his lips as he struggles to recover.
"James, please," she begs him, leaning in to kiss him. "Please wake up..."
The longer he goes without responding to anything Carmella's doing, the more everyone fears for him. There are no easy quick fix and no one is sure what to do. "There has to be something," she thinks, walking back and forth and tugging at what little remains of his hair. "Pleae..."
