Asuka breathes in and out slowly as she waits and watches, trying to figure out their opponent's next move. Lotusmon is standing resolutely, waiting for a hint herself, or some command from Asuka, something. Everything is quiet, only Seth's murmurs to Shinsuke enough to gain Asuka's attention even a little. Voltobautamon simply stands there, looking unimpressed as the digidestined try to recollect themselves, all clustered around Shinsuke's limp form. He laughs mockingly and lifts his hands, more ice forming around them. "This isn't all," he says quietly. "I can take any power I wish."
And suddenly swords are flying out of nowhere and clashing violently with Lotusmon's staffs, pushing her back deeper into the sand. "Asuka!" she cries out, relieved when her partner moves away to a more safe location. "YAH!" She plants her feet, spins her staff up and sends the swords flying back towards Voltobautamon. He sneers, looks like he's about to follow up with another, more brutal attack, but nothing happens- both stand in a strange sort of standstill that Asuka can't make sense of.
"Lotusmon!" she snaps, trying to get her partner back into the fight.
Lotusmon exhales at the sound of her voice and shakes her head, lunging forward. As soon as she's close, she raises her caduceus and calls out, "Serpent Cure!" Blinding white light pours from it, washing over the immediate area, causing many lesser evil creatures scattered around to scream out in pain, the shattering sound of deletion meeting their ears. But Voltobautamon still stands, smirking at them.
"PALAZZI VALZER!" Suddenly numerous swords are coming from every angle, slicing into Lotusmon, and she cries out before moving quickly, diving and gracefully avoiding every other strike. Once the swords dwindle away, she's breathless and trembling.
Asuka calls out to her and she straightens her shoulders, staring angrily at the evil creature before her. "I will defeat you," she says simply. "I will not allow you to survive, not now."
Voltobautamon laughs. Long and loud and vicious. "As if that is up to you whether I survive or not, flower." He lifts his stick thin arms and aims his guns at her. "Quarzione," he says soothingly, as if speaking to a lover, and shoots repeatedly.
Lotusmon gasps and flies forward, clearly desperate to avoid these bullets. "Seven's Fantasia!" she cries out, amazing blasts of color pouring from her staff and dazing the Digidestined scattered around, watching and waiting to help if needed, heeding the silent demand from Asuka to stay back, take care of Shinsuke.
Voltobautamon huffs and avoids it like it's nothing before slamming forward and applying his sword straight to Lotusmon's throat. "You have no hope," he informs her.
Her chin tips down at the weapon so close to draining her data and her lips twist into an angered shape. "I will defeat you," she rebuts, voice steady and certain, as she slams her staff forward, almost amused by the look of disgusted shock on his face. "SERPENT RUIN!"
The darkness from her staff seems to meld with the darkness around them, growing stronger as it overwhelms Voltobautamon's form, leaving him screaming and writhing in agony.
