At the same time Derek was explaining his cowardice, the Mushroomon hit by Syakomon's pearls went for the counterattack. The plant Digimon threw one of it's bombs and hit the crustacean Digimon's slime-like body.

Rather than fighting back Syakomon once again tried to reason with the attackers."Listen we outnumber you, but if you give up we won't have delete you." The Mushroomon apparently took this warning as a threat as it threw a barrage of exploding mushrooms at Syakomon. "Fungus Cruncher." 

Derek meanwhile decided to calm down the panicky fat girl, both because he knew how she felt and because he wanted to get her on his side. "Look I know you're scared and you're not the only one, but it looks the Digimon have things under control."