It's a solemn, quiet group that makes their way slowly through the area surrounding the digiport leading away from Luke's compound. Seth and Drake are both mourning the loss of their title belts. Miz is stewing over Ziggler's words about his wife. The only ones happy enough with things are Zack, who'd won a match in his home town in almost record time, and AJ, with his brand new US title over his shoulder.
Seth is midway through yet another sigh when he hears the grass rustling nearby and stops, casting a quick glance around. "Anyone hear that?" he asks, trying once more to spot whatever could be nearby. "I think something's watching us, keep your eyes sharp."
AJ has just turned when he yelps and hops away, gripping his ankle. "Something hit me!" he exclaims, gritting his teeth. "Crap, that hurt!"
Seth quickly glances down and sees a long, blood-streaked wound the width of his ankle. Before he can say anything, Miz drops to the ground, gripping his leg where something is sticking out of it. "Holy shit," he groans. "It feels like..." He shakes his head, dizzy and uncomfortable. "Like an injection... of medicine or something... but really strong, and..." He looks up, struggling for each breath, growing pale before their very eyes. "Guys, I- I think..." Before he can finish his sentence, he falls forward, unconscious.
"MIKE!" Monodramon and Zack both yell, Zack rushing over to check on his friend as Seth grits his teeth and makes his way over to AJ.
"Can you tell which direction it seems to have come from?" he asks quietly and AJ hisses out a breath, pointing to the left. Seth nods quietly and gets up, glancing around. "Betamon, ya wanna...?"
"Yep." They walk in that direction, keeping an eye out, almost holding their breath in anticipation of another strange attack like the others.
Seth spots it first. Turns to idly look at it and shakes his head, almost certain he's seeing things. BUt he can tell by how Betamon is also staring in that direction that he too sees it. "What is that thing?"
"Supplemon," Betamon says softly. "But he's not supposed to be able to... do what he apparently did to AJ and Miz. I don't know what's going on."
Seth tugs lightly at his beard, more concerned with his fellow Digidestined's wellbeing than why some creature has abilities that should be beyond him right now. "Ok, well, I don't know either, but it's not really at the top of things I'm concerned with right now. Do you think we should fight him, or...?"
"We might not have a choice," Betamon says, yelping when Supplemon turns towards them, a dangerous look in his eye. "Shit, Seth, move!" he cries out, diving aside and relieved when Supplemon misses both of them, the ground where they'd been standing turning a strange, dark color before the grass surrounding the spots die away completely. "Holy crap."
"What caused that!?" Seth demands, officially on edge as he leans up and stares on in horror at the dying spots of land close, way too close, to where they'd been standing.
"Supplemon's abilities are he's able to infuse people with vitamins and make them healthier," Betamon explains. "I... I guess if he's contaminated now, he could... overdo it and harm people and, well, vegetation to this extent."
"So when Mike said he thought it was a really strong injection of medicine..."
"He may have meant it felt like he was overdosing," Betamon says in a shushed tone and Seth closes his eyes, growing even more aware of how important it is they finish this quickly.
"You know what to do," he says, holding his device out and watching as MegaSeadramon lfows out before him, roaring sharply as Supplemon watches on blankly.
It's a wild, fast fight, MegaSeadramon's long, slinky body assisting him in avoiding the wild medicinal attacks, but likewise Supplemon's compact body making it easy to avoid the ice and lightning attacks MegaSeadramon regularly blasts at him. Seth watches, gnawing on his lower lip, unable to take another failure, another person he cares about injured this week, when Megaseadramon takes a clean swipe across his underside while trying to rush an attack and crashes into the rocks nearby, laying there limp and motionless. "NO! MEGASEADRAMON!" Seth yells out, but he stops, blinking, as Megaseadramon's tail twitches, fins shifting just enough to catch his eye.
It's when Supplemon lunges for him, trying to infuse him with more medicine, that Megaseadramon catches him point blank, blasting him back with lightning. Supplemon lands hard, barely able to move, and Megaseadramon forces himself upright, hovering over the small creature. "Sorry," he pants. "Originally, your intentions were good. But dark data overwhelmed you, and I cannot allow you to injure innocent people or digimon. YAH!" Another powerful blast of lightning slams out of MegaSeadramon's horn and tears straight through Supplemon, data exploding everywhere as his body immediately shatters to pieces.
Betamon, despite being mostly acting, still feels a little rough, the lingering side affects of the medicine leaving him dizzy and he collapses down, dedigivolving as he drops into Seth's arms. I've got ya," Seth says softly, cradling him close as they walk over to check on the others.
AJ looks fine, and even Mike is slowly regaining his strength, still looking confused and pale, but talkative, moving around. "When you deleted Supplemon, he slowly came to and he's already looking a lot better than he did," Patamon says quietly from his place next to Zack.
Seth nods, relieved. "Thank you." He smiles faintly at Betamon, relieved that this time his efforts weren't in vain.
