Since losing the Elimination Chamber, neither Miz or Seth are very talkative. In fact, they barely seem with it at all, which TJ figures is to be expected. After all, it's one of the more physical matches WWE's ever done, and both men had taken some brutal hits during it, not to mention the hour+ Seth had wrestled in the gauntlet days before. So this leaves Heath babbling endlessly to his partner and TJ keeping to himself a few feet away.

It's because of this that no one can move fast enough to help him when it happens. TJ barely realizes what's going on at first, blinking slowly as the sky starts to turn this muddy kind of black shade, like he'd put his sunglasses on without realizing it, and then the ground beneath his feet fades away, and- Falcomon squawks anxiously, but before either of them can do anything, a hole opens below TJ and he falls- and falls- and falls, barely enough time to let out a scream before he's gone.

He lands hard on something unforgiving, his entire body spasming in pain as Falcomon drops next to him. They both pant in agony, their bodies straining, when he hears it: A kind of whirring noise. Ignoring the pain stabbing through him, he looks up in time to see a digimon who looks a little like a chess piece staring down at him. "Falcomon," he chokes out, before passing out right then, right there.

"Bishop Chessmon," is the first thing he hears when he struggles back into something resembling consciousness. TJ blinks up at the purple and black creature before him as he slams his scepter into the ground hard enough to shoot sparks up. "You stepped into my territory. That cannot be permitted. Check."

TJ groans. He'd never been good at chess. He struggles waveringly to his feet and looks down to find Falcomon also up, just barely. He holds his digivice out and exhales when Falcomon successfully digivolves to Birdramon. Still not enough strength wise but it's still a comfort to have his partner's larger form by his side. Even so, no matter what they try, how much heat Birdramon throws at Bishop Chessmon, it's not enough. Bishop Chessmon is always one step ahead, able to shoot back anything thrown at him with three times the force. Birdramon, already weak, tires quickly, and eventually drops almost on top of TJ, which is frightening in a number of different ways.

"Birdramon!" he cries out, running to his partner and trying to figure out how to fix this, what to do to get them out of this situation. "Come on, come on-" But there's nothing for it. He can feel Bishop Chessmon right behind him and he cringes, closing his eyes and preparing for death as the tip of the digimon's scepter in the lower part of his spine. He manages to reach out and graze Birdramon's wing one last time before-

There's an explosion of sound, his digivice is going insane in his hand, and- Something white hot and familiar strikes TJ in the chest and he grasps it, feeling it form in his fingers. His crest! It dangles from his fingers as he gapes down at it, recognizing the shape of the design within the tag. "Devotion," he breathes out, feeling oddly choked up all of a sudden.

The power flows through him, into Birdramon, and the next thing he knows, his partner is whole once more, upright, squeeching at Bishop Chessmon as he glows so brightly that even TJ has difficulty looking right at him. "Birdramon digivolve to...!"

Parrotmon is intimidating, TJ thinks, his partner taking the fight away from him so he'll be safe, snagging Bishop Chessmon in his talons like he weighs nothing, depositing him a good mile away. They seem even in power levels now, whatever advantage Bishop Chessmon may have seeming diminished in the strength behind Parrotmon's first time reaching this level. Lightning and lasers explode against each other, Parrotmon tearing and clawing at Bishop Chessmon every chance he gets. TJ grows even more relieved at Parrotmon taking the battle away from him when he rans into Bishop Chessmon with the force of a minor explosion, sending him flying back into a cliff, which crumbles as he slides down it.

He tries to regain himself, even hoists his scepter up and starts scratching the shape of a cross into the sky, preparing some other, dreadful attack, but Parrotmon is right there. Squeeches as he collects more electricity and shoots it at close range right into Bishop Chessmon's chest, burrowing straight through and leaving him struggling against the rocks cascading around his prone body as he looks down at the gaping hole in his body. He tries to finish his attack but Parrotmon strikes again, sending the scepter flying from his numb hands with a well-timed strike from his talons.

With little more than the usual glower on his face, Bishop Chessmon dies quietly right there, his data scattering into the peaceful horizon as TJ hesitantly joins Parrotmon. The partners look at each other, TJ licking his lips. "Now... how do we get out of here?"

In the end, they're met in the middle by Seth, Heath and Miz, their digivices leading them straight to TJ as Parrotmon had navigated through the bumpy terrain TJ's own map on his device had directed him through just to get to this point.

"Hey!" Heath greets him enthusiastically. "Falcomon digivolved again, huh? Awesome! Guess ya found your tag then!"

TJ chuckles as Parrotmon dedigivolves back down to his rookie form and lands calmly on TJ's shoulder. "Yep," he mumbles, reaching up to stroke his partner's feathers as he looks from Seth to Miz to Heath. Nothing much has changed, but Seth claps him on the back, and Mike nods at him, and TJ smirks as he falls in line next to Heath, listening to his inane chattering with a comfortable sense that he's right where he belongs.