"God, what happened to him?" Ziggler asks, staring down at Seth's prone body. His body is covered in blood, fresh wounds scattered here and there, and pale scars litter elsewhere as if he'd been here for decades, slowly healing from whatever's been done to him. "This... this makes no sense." Dolph's hand hovers over Seth's pale flesh, almost scared to touch. "Guys? What do we do?"
Shinsuke mumbles in Japanese before turning to look at Owens. "We carry him to portal."
Kevin looks grim. Nods. He doesn't like Seth, but he knows they can't just leave him here. "Yeah. Let's do this."
Shinsuke keeps a protective hold on Betamon as they work together to hoist Seth up off of the table, getting him on Owens' shoulder in a kind of fireman's carry. "Got him?"
"Yes," Owens says. "Come on, let's go."
The group walks in a cluster back to the portal, keeping an eye out for anything- the creature who'd taken Seth and tortured him, or just anyone else. "Seth," Betamon sobs against Shinsuke's shoulder.
"He is going to be fine," Shinsuke says slowly, relieved when the walk to the portal goes generally well, nothing suspicious happening, no one approaching them. "Digivices ready," Shinsuke commands, glancing around and finding all of the digivices already out and ready. "Digiport open!" he declaress once in range.
He holds onto Betamon with one hand, keeping his eyes closed through the rough dimensional travel from one side of the digiworld to the next. He lands steady enough and exhales slowly, glancing around. Luke's zone is just a few feet away and he glances back at Owens and the others before making his way over, Betamon squinting around. "We are here," he tells the digimon. "Everything will be fine."
And he sincerely believes that as Owens lays Seth down on the table Luke indicates, until Tamina speaks up. "Wait, where's Carmella?"
He turns slowly, glancing around. All of the other digidestined are scattered in the doorway, watching on anxiously, but yes. No Carmella. Floramon isn't in sight either. He grits his teeth. "Did anyone see her after we arrived back here?"
He holds his breath as one after another, the digidestined shake their heads slowly, dawning horror crossing their faces as they realize another of their numbers is missing. Perhaps to suffer the same fate as Seth.
