Alicia tries to stay cheerful even as everything falls apart around them. She dances around with Palmon, only half listening as Seth and the others discuss things, trying to get Luke to help them sort things out. "So what can we do?" she wonders, spinning her partner around. "Nothing better to do than entertain ourselves, right?" she giggles, watching as Palmon laughs and gasps, enjoying the wind blowing through her roots.
"Right!"
But there are other things being said, things Palmon and Alicia both know are important, and they try to listen despite not being interested in stopping what they're doing. "What happened to the Smackdown group?" she overhears Seth ask and frowns as her brows furrow.
"I'm overseeing a battle they're currently in, it may have been an ambush," Luke says. "So you guys have to be careful, watch out what's going on. You're being targetted, and now without the portals, there's only so much I can do to keep you all safe."
Seth nods, exhaling briskly. "That we will do," he mumbles, turning to look at the group of them. "Hey, Alicia!"
She comes to a slow stop and puts Palmon down, pressing a soft kiss to her flower petal-covered head before turning to face him. "Yeah?"
"We're leaving to check on things, so are you ready to go?"
She nods. "Yep, good to go." She grips Palmon's paw and leads her over to the others, Seth inclining his head at her as they circle around Seth's digivice to examine the map. "What are we doing?"
"This dot here," Seth says, pointing at the screen, a pulsing red spot not far from where they're standing. "Might be nothing, may be something really bad, but we should check it out anyway." He looks around at the group. "Everyone in?"
The chorus of yesses makes him smile and he nods, turning towards where MegaSeadramon is waiting. "Then let's go do this thing."
What none of them were expecting is, as soon as they stepped into the area near where the warning is, that they'd be met by a dangerous looking mist creeping over the grass and floating ever closer to them, a vicious roar sending the rest of them back in horror. "Hold your breath!" Seth cries out, trying to grip his nose and mouth to keep the poison from entering his lungs.
Alicia fails, though, and she watches through blurry vision as a large creature that resembles an Egyptian Pharoah glowers down at them. She passes out before he can make another move towards them.
