Poor Alex wasn't sure how to respond to Shane's kindness, so he simply said "Thanks." He wasn't completely comfortable being in a group like this, but he had little choice.  At least they seemed like decent people.<br/><br/>Takeshi frowned, "you're right of course,  there is still hope.  I just gotta keep going and do my best to save her. I'm just glad my other daughter is safe at home with her mother."<br/>"That's right.  And you won't have to save her alone, I can't speak for the others, but Lunamon and I will help you out to the best of our abilities," chimed Meg.  "I'll take first watch. I'm a night owl anyway so it won't bother me much to stay up.  Now why don't we introduce ourselves? We can't rightly call ourselves a group if we don't know each others names, right?"<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Tsubaki meandered over to her sister menacingly.  "It would appear the dark spore I planted in you  has begun to develop, but not nearly fast enough. That's why I came prepared with this."  The girl reached into her blouse and pulled out a jet black seed the size of a cherry.  "Long ago, the digimon emperor used dark rings and spirals to control digimon. When he joined the digidestined, he lost the knowledge of how to make them, and the information was supposedly lost.  When I was infected, I gained the knowledge of how they were created and used. I made improvements to that data.  This right here is the fruit of my labor, so to speak. A dark seed.  You can guess what I'm going to do with it, can't you." By now, she was kneeling over her prone sister and whispering in her ear. Before she could even respond, Tsubaki plunged it into the back of Mitsu's neck.  "Sweet dreams, dear Mitsu."<br/>A sharp red pain engulfed Mitsu as she finally fell into sweet oblivion.<br/>Tsubaki unclipped her sisters digivice and poured some of the infectious dark energy into it, causing Yamimon to scream in pain before she too lost consciousness .  "Open up a digiport for us AV Rosemon. We're taking them back to base."<br/>"roger that."<br/>