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Sho turned to go back to his room, he was surprised at how tired Marcus seemed to be, maybe he had overestimated him. However, as Sho began to walk to the door two new digimon enter, a pandamon and a lillymon. Sho could tell that they would mean bad news but he knew that they couldn't take down the organisation on their own.

Chris frowned as he looked at the two digimon who were talking about taking, he assumed Marcus, from the place. However, surprisingly Chris moved over like Luca to stand near Marcus. "What makes you think you can take anyone" He said. Chris knew he wouldn't let anyone harm Marcus, unless it was him. He then looked at Marcus "Don't take this the wrong way, if anyone's going to do anything to you it's going to be me, not some irritating arrogant digimon" He said. He then turned back to the digimon, he still wasn't sure if his own digimon would listen to him now.

At the door Sho turned back to face the digimon, it looked like everyone had forgot he was here. It was perfect and also gave Sho the perfect opportunity to prove his power to Marcus if he needed to and also to get the crucial first strike. There was no shame in a sneak attack.

"I would, but..." She said with a chuckle, biting her finger nail, "We didn't come to fight you." One of her hands would materialize three seeds that would then be flung into the air.

Marcus and his two digimon would notice the fairy's movements and abruptly charge at at the duo.

Ocelot would slam a paw into the ground sending a wave of energy through the ground towards the group of humans and digimon. As the wave traveled, massive bamboo pillars would erupt from the ground, turning the inside of the building into a massive bamboo field. The rising bamboo would only engulf the area surrounding Chris and the others, leaving Marcus alone.

Marcus stops and looks back at the field of green trees. He wondered if this was their plan from the beginning, to separate them from the group. "You never did say where you wanted to take me."

"Been feeling like something was growing on the inside of you?" Relaxing his movements, the pandamon would scratch his ear and look back at the tamer. "The being that put it there feels that it's time to take it out. Might you recall a digimon by the name of Lucemon?"

Marcus froze for a moment.

"I thought so. Now unless you want him to come and visit you and your friends... namely that one with the mild tongue, I suggest that you come with us."

"And if they follow?" Marcus would ask with his fists balled up. He would look back at both Hiro and Destino who had both become rather submissive at the sound of that name.

"They won't... they'll be a little busy." Lillymon would chuckle as the seeds hit the ground and then exploded to reveal three fully matured Blossomon, ready to cut down the opposition with deadly thorns and razor sharp leaves.

"Fine... lead the way."

The bamboo that had arisen would not be normal bamboo. It's very constitution would be made of the same substance as the ground it had arisen from. Stone pillars would begin to crack from under the pressure off the LadyDevimon's attack, but not yet give out.

The three Blossomon would cackle like witches as they looked at the on coming attacks. The first would smirk at the fireball coming at it and hold out all four of its vines "SPIRAL FLOWER!". The flowers on the ends of each would begin to spin violently like a fan. When put together, the vines would generate a column of air that would counter the fireball and then continue onward to hit the birdramon from winst the attack at originated from.

The second Blossomon would raise all four vines and slash through the oncoming attack from Garurumon. With the attack gone, the main face would smile and fire a fine mist of yellowish spray, "Pollinosis Shower" This pollen would have a paralyzing effect if it was breathed in by any creature that was not of a plant based family.

The third blossomon would take the rear and move towards the entrance. "Allergy SHOWER!" All four of the smaller flowers would breath a greenish spray into the ground causing stone colored vines to rise and entangle around the entrance. It would then stand in front of the blockade ready to fight.

As the vines grew to cover the entrance/exit, one would barely be able to see Marcus returning Gaomon and Leomon to his digivice and then following the two digimon with his head hanging low. He would look back into the building and mouth out I'm sorry to whomever would be able to see him.

Marcus would hope that those that he had chosen would be strong enough to make it through this ordeal. If not, he had made a grave and selfish mistake in taking away these guys's chance at living a normal life.
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The rise of bamboo would have caught many of the other members off guard. The force from them erupting would knock Kuro and Urik aside and even further from the ground. A single pillar would would have knocked Urik unconscous, blood slowly dripping from under his purple hair. Kuro would be injured, but still conscious.

Reiji has expected an attack and moved away before. "What the hell, we worked our asses off to get them here in the first place!" The angered tamer would unsheath his digivice and upload it with blood red digisoul. "Tsuraimon... DIGIVOLVE!"
The purple digimon would take to the sky and digivolve to Devidramon and roar with anger. Unfortnuately, the amount of pillars would hinder most of its movements because of how big he was. The digimon would growl and release a black flame into the forest, unaware that Luka and Chris were still inside of it.

Luka's body would be rather banged up from having stone pillars rise from all around her. "Dammit... how I could be so blind." She would say, now realizing that it would only have been a matter of time before HE came looking for Marcus. She remembered being told the stories of Marcus's curse and where his power came from... the devil himself had come to collect and they were the ones being collected from. "BlkGabumon... go..." She would say weakly as he released the gabumon from here digivice. She would charge digisoul into it and allow for the digimon to go to it Ultimate form despite the strain it would have on her weakened body. "Chris... you have to save Marcus."

The first blossomon's eyes would widen as the amplified fire attack would come towards it. Responding in the same manner, the plant digimon would spin its flowers around at top speed, sending a column of air at the attack. It would meet head on, but would not be able to stop it, if anything it would increase the head and cause it to spread out like water to a grease fire. Flames from the two attacks would lash out and start to increase the temperature of the building; if these were normal bamboo, they would be incenerated on spot. Unfortunately, some of the flames would still hit the digimon, burning it alive. "FOR THE DARK LORD!!" it would cry out in defeat.

The second blossomon, being more physical that the first would cackle and bring it's arms out with spinning flowers. It would whip the blades out in a means to counter the blows from the Grademon. "Power Cutter!" The two would finally on level... ultimate versus ultimate. "Take this! Pollinosis Shower!" While whipping out with its vines, the main floral bulb would spew the same pollen based attack at the close range Grademon.

Bullets would tear through the bases of the stone pillars, causing them to collapse one another. The scene of them falling would be much like watching dominoes fall on one another. Of course the bullets would continue and it the blossomon, taking out chunks of it's body, but it wouldn't kill it. "Gaia... healing." It's body would start to glow and then heal itself. "That... wasn't very nice!" The blossomon would beam over at the falling pillar of bamboo and chuckle. "TIMBER!!"

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Shadoweregarurumon looks up at the crumbling pillars and grabs Luca. "We move... NOW!!" The beastly digimon would also move to grab chris and weaves through the crumbling pillars. It looks back at the Beelzemon, hoping that it would be able to survive. "Come, reckless digimon!" He cries to the demon.



In the back, Reiji applies more digisoul to make Devidramon digivolve to a much smaller Mephistomon. As the digimon he digivolves, Reiji notices that the pillars are starting to collapse. "s**t s**t s**t!!" He cries as he tosses Urik over his back and then helps Kuro up so that they can escape through the back hall.

Mephistomon throws up a barrier to slow the fall of the pillars coming their way. The goat faced demon looks back at Sho, "Hurry... you must escape with the others!"

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Marcus turns when he hears that the fighting is continuing. He feels the power radiating from his teammates and hates to leave them, but despite of evil he might have been, unlessing lucifer upon mere children of the darksoul was something that he'd never want.

"Your teammates are putting up quite a struggle to save you. Too bad that you want to do this." Pandamon would say emotionlessly as he started to walk.

"If you're lucky, my babies won't eat them alive... hehehe." the lillymon would say with chuckle that sounded like an evil witch from the fairytales that he barely was able to recall. "But... not that it matters to the great Marcus Egos, the boy that made a deal with the devil."

[Marcus, Lillymon, and Pandamon exit to File Mountain]

The power of Phoenixmon's attack quickly engulfed the two plant digimon, turning them into smoldering piles of mulch. With a little bit of life, the two plants would laugh, knowing that they had done their job as distractions.

Being an old building, the walls would easily give way to the might of Beelzemon's bullets, but in doing so, so would the rest of the building. Portions of the ceiling of start to rain down on those still inside as the very building itself was beginning to collapse and become a relative to the rest of the ruined city. If the digimon did not get out in time, they would be crushed as the building began to collapse on itself, pillars and all.

ShadoWeregarurumon would have a rather easy time maneuvering through the drawbacks of Skylar's and company's reckless attacks. He would dash passed the burning Blossomon and make his way towards the created wall. The beast digimon would spin quickly and give a powerful kick, slightly ignoring the thorns on the vines, and burst through it with Chris and Luca with him.

Reiji and Kuro would have already made it out of the building, taking a fire escape passage that led to back of the building. Urik and Sho would also be with them. Being a far enough distance, they would notice smoke coming from the top and hear rocks falling down from with in. "Damn... this all happened way too quickly." He looked back to see Mephistomon was slightly injured from holding up falling debris. "Damn you Chris and your recklessness!" he cursed at the wind.