Tamina wakes up first. Finds all of the Smackdown digidestined scattered around her, limp and bloodied. She blinks and fumbles for her digivice, squinting at her partner. "Digivolve," she commands weakly but the baby creature is unconscious, doesn't even twitch at the command. She tries to inch forward, touch someone but Mirage Gaogamon is right there, aims his weapon at her and shoots off a blast that just misses her hand, leaves a deep scorch mark on the ground before.
"No, no. That nonsense is not allowed," he tells her with a sneer. "You will have to suffer along with the rest of them." He kneels down, digs his fingers into her face and draws her up, scoffing at her. "Humans are such weird, vulnerable creatures. And you are brought here to rescue us?" He rolls his eyes and tosses her aside, brushing his fingers off on the nearest rock formation, as if trying to rid himself of her germs.
She breathes in fearfully as he presses his halberd to her throat, eyeing her closely. "Stop," she mumbles. "You don't have to do this." He tilts his head, examines her, chuckling callously. "Seriously-" He throws his head back for real this time, laughing hard, and she twists away from him. "PUWAMON! NOW!" Her partner's awake, she'd sensed it between one breath and the next- the slow-building bond between them, how Tamina can feel her somewhere deep inside like a piece of her soul that's been missing for too long.
"PUWAMON Digivolve to..." Voice changing, body growing, baby Puwamon, barely a blob, turns into a pink bird with wide green eyes. But she's not done yet. "Piyomon digivolve to... Youkomon!" She's beautiful, Tamina thinks, light purple fur, flames everywhere, intense dark eyes that seem to cut through anything she looks at. And her prowess, right from the start! Enough to send Mirage Gaogamon offbalanced, flames dancing around him with the control of someone who's wielded such power for years, not minutes.
He snorts, spins in a circle and sends the flames away, but more appear, dance around him, charring his armor, leaving him frowning. He points at Tamina. "I will be back. Especialy for you, fiesty one." And sure enough, as soon as he'd appeared, he goes, and she thinks she can breathe a little easier, even now- surrounded by all of her unconscious teammates and their partners.
She walks up to Youkomon and gently touches her muzzle, smiling at her. "Lana would love you," she says quietly, thinking about her colleague now that the danger's past. Now that she can breathe again. Half-turns to look at the others. "Come, little one, we have work to do," she says, sensing more than feeling as Youkomon drops her power, eases back into her Piyomon form.
"Yes, Tamina!" her partner chirps, dilligently following her around to wake the others up, explain what exactly happened. That they're not out of the woods, by no means, but had gotten a small break by Youkomon's digivolution. It's not great news, but it's better than nothing.
