After seeing the end of Baron Corbin's role on Raw, Chad Gable feels pretty damn good, especially with the tag belt around his waist. He's hugging Punimon close, talking cheerfully to his partner, when something changes. The air heats up abruptly and the rest of the digidestined all pause, sensing it too. "That's not good," Seth mumbles, shielding his eyes against the late afternoon sun and trying to look around to figure out what's happening.
"MOVE!" Falcomon cries out, startling everyone, but it's too late as flames pour down, lighting the grass around them all on fire, threatening to light anything similarly should it touch. They all back up, but it's not enough as a massive beast comes out of nowhere and starts thrusting a sword made of pure flames at them.
"Oh shit," Impmon hisses. "It's Dorbickmon Darkness Mode!" When everyone looks at him in confusion, he explains, "He's from the Dragon Army."
"There's a Dragon Army?!" Alicia squeeches and they all cringe away from her, just to have to drop bck when fresh flames creep towards them. "Digivolve!"
Everyone goes along with her cry, and soon, MetalSeadramon, Duftmon, Beelzebumon, Seraphimon, Lilimon and Plesiomon line up before the monstrously strong beast before them. He still doesn't seem too concerned, despite the pure level of strength before him, chuckling darkly as he hoists his sword upwards and slams it down, flames pouring from it and cracking the ground, sending the wild heat through it like laval, pouring towards them all. "Move, move!" MetalSeadramon cries, relieved to see that the others all listen to him. None of them really have pure water-based moves, so they do their best by mixing attacks, the different elements from their powers crashing together, growing more and more unstable and more and more powerful with each passing second.
Whey they crash into Dorbickmon Darkness Mode, however, he just throws his head back and laughs, spinning in a sudden circle and shooting fresh flames out at all of them, intense pain coursing through their partners every time one hits. "I can't... no, no," Lilimon chokes out, dedigivolving after she fails at putting out her smoldering leaves.
"Palmon!" Alicia cries out, thwarted when she tries to get to her partner, Zack shaking his head grimly when he grabs her to keep her what they're hoping is a safe distance. Duftmon rushes in, just for Dorbickmon to slash his sword down, cleaving through Duftmon and sending him crashing down, skidding close to Heath.
"DUFTMON! No!" Heath is close enough to collect his unconscious, gravely injured partner, and holds him close. "Nah, nah, it- it'll be alright, little guy, just hang in there- we'll get ya to LUke, he'll fix this," he says, tears dripping down his face as he holds his partner close. "I can't lose ya too..."
Seth grits his teeth, growing more and more angry, and catches Dean's eye. They glare at each other until finally Seth spits out, "We can't carry on like this. For now, at least, we need to work together."
Dean nods. "Plesiomon!"
"MetalSeadramon!"
"GO!"
Plesiomon restrains Dorbickmon by shooting off intense soundwaves at him, which allows MetalSeadramon to get close enough to wrap his lengthy body around him, constricting and choking him out as Beelzebumon and Seraphimon approach, nodding at each other. "EXCALIBUR!" "DARKNESS CLAW!" Moving side by side, the two digimon attack, slashing their claws and sword through Dorbickmon's body, cleaving him right in two as MetalSeadramon moves just in time, Plesiomon's cries fading away once he's deleted and no longer a concern for anyone.
"Good job," Seth calls out, slumping in relief once he realizes it's over, that their partners are, or will be, ok as he watches Alicia finally collect Palmon, burying her face in her side. "Let's go to Luke, get some rest, see if he can do anything for these two," he says, looking from Palmon to Lopmon, Alicia and Heath nodding desperately. "Good job, guys," he says as Zack and Dolph walk up to him, their partners at ease after a successful win.
"Thanks," Zack beams as Dolph smirks, their feud too fresh for him to want to acknowledge anything complimentary Seth may want to say to him.
As the group starts the walk back towards Luke's compound, Dean looks over and Seth catches his eye, just for a moment, before they force each other to face front, focus on the trek before them to get the others the help they need and definitely deserve after the battle they just were in.
