Alberto Del Rio's return had been abrupt. To perhaps the rest of the world as much as to himself. Truthfully, indy wrestling is a young man's game. Somewhere between injuring his quad and flying in painfully cramped airplanes to go from indy event to indy event, Alberto had realized he was just too old for this. Though he's proud of the year of work he'd just done, he misses how WWE catered to his needs with better flights, and better hotels, and all around just better money.
So he returns to the company. He tries to make inroads, even starts something up with Zeb Colter- not that he expects it to last for long, but it's something for now. He misses Ricardo, but his former ring announcer is training in India, and he seems happy enough, so Alberto decides not to ruin it for him.
With his return to WWE, he'd also been brought back into the fold as Digidestined... and at a good time as well, since Seth Rollins had injured himself on the first night of the European tour, leaving them short a digidestined. Alberto had thought perhaps he would made leader since he'd been here since the start, but no... Seth gives it to Dean before leaving, and just Alberto's luck, the group has been divided into teams and he's put with Dean.
Alberto and Dean had both been in the semi-finals for the WWE World Championship, but Alberto had lost and Dean had gone on to lose to Roman in the finals. Neither have much to say so they walk on silently, their Digimon peering around but remaining quiet as well. Alberto only remembers Dean from vague interactions here and there from his first run in WWE, but the main thing he remembers is when they'd attacked Ricardo for no good reason. He frowns at the memory before shaking it off and checking his digivice. They're close to the indicated area on the map, which is another relief, because he wants to finish this and go home, see if perhaps he could get ahold of Ricardo. They haven't talked in much too long...
He's just about to take another step when Gabumon cries out, "Alberto!" and tackles him aside, the two of them rolling over in time to see an intense laser beam slice through where Alberto had just been standing.
"Well, wouldcha look at that," Dean says, raising both eyebrows. "See anything, Otamamon?"
"No," he says, but it doesn't matter to Alberto in the slightest.
"Digivolve!" he commands his partner, holding up his long unused digivice. Gabumon eagerly does as he commands, reforming as Garurumon. The wolf Digimon looks around, smelling out the attacker as best as he can. "Anything?"
Garurumon lets out a soft grunt before leaping forward and blasting fire all around, which steadily burns the area around them. From there it's only a waiting game as the creature who had attacked earlier gets smoked out. They hear his coughing first and Alberto narrows his eyes as the digimon appears. He's shaped like a chess piece, with a scepter held in hand. His clothes are purple and black, and his headpiece has a white spike on top. "BISHOP LASER!" he yells out, Alberto flinching as the attack this time ignores him and heads right for Dean.
"Whoa!" he cries out, diving away.
"Garurumon!" Alberto yells out- but there's a sudden, searing pain along his chest and he falls to his knees, shocked by the agony of it all.
"Alberto!" his partner yells out, bounding over and shooting flames back at Bishop Chessmon in an attempt to shield him.
Alberto digs around in the sand and dirt, trying to find a reprieve for the pain he's in. "That's not... the honorable way to fight," he grits out, hands shaking as he struggles to sit up. "Perhaps we should teach you..." There's a joke in here, somewhere, he thinks. If any of his opponents from the last five years would hear him now, they would mock and belittle him. But he has changed, things are different now. He'd returned to Mexico a hero, and had done so many other incredible things... Returning to WWE had diminished that in some people's eyes, he assumes, but it was for his own livelihood, and his family's...
Alberto looks up then, his fingers grazing against something. "Garurumon," he chokes out, gripping the item and prying it from the ground. "Garurumon, NOW!" The flash of light that comes from his digivice and hits the thrumming item in his hand, merges and strikes his partner, causing his body to strip away. Grow. Reform as a larger creature with four legs and two arms, and huge swords sheathed at his sides.
"Garurumon digivolve to... Vajramon," he declares, landing with a heavy thud on the ground before he turns back to Bishop Chessmon. "I am afraid it is all done for you," he says softly, freeing both of his swords. "You will be destroyed now." Bishop Chessmon does try, clearly. But in the end, his laser against Vajramon isn't much to compare by. Vajramon slices the laser in two before running through and stabbing along Bishop Chessmon's body, deleting it immediately.
"That's how it's done," Alberto sighs in relief, hugging his partner as he dedigivolves back to a much more manageable size. "Let's get out of here."
"Yes, let's."
