Temporarily reinstated, Kevin Owens glares at the group of digidestined scattered around. Shane McMahon isn't far off, walking gingerly, hand pressed against his stomach as he indulges Armadillomon's chatter with a half-hearted chuckle here and there. It's dumb with a capital D, Kevin knows, but he's desperate. He's angry. So he thrusts his digivice out and wills it to do something- help him in some way, send a blast of energy towards Shane and weaken him, leave Daniel all alone for their match, or... something.
But it doesn't respond and he finds himself even more frustrated as he throws his digivice into the distance, Bearmon gaping after it as Kevin storms off in the other direction. "Uhhh," his partner murmurs, shuffling off to get the digivice from where it'd embedded in the rock wall not too far from where Shane had been standing.
Kevin's standing there, his hands dug into his pocket when he hears footsteps behind him. "I'm fine, just leave me alone-" he's mumbling, when he feels something sharp prick against his neck, along his jaw up to his eye. It's then that he realizes the Digimon next to him isn't his partner. No, this creature resembles a lion with a humanoid figure. And a very sharp dagger in the hand outstretched towards him. He swallows hard. "Listen, I didn't know you were there, I'm just gonna back up and-" His words die away as the dagger shifts up his face, leaving behind a short line of blood along his cheek. He pales under the wound and rocks back, not surprised when the weapon follows his movement, threatening to make the wound wider, blood already dripping more insistently into his beard.
He struggles to breathe, not to panic, when there's a yell and Bearmon appears, his weight enough to send Kevin backwards and barrel Mach Leomon in the opposite direction. He twists in time to toss Kevin his digivice but pays for all of this when he releases a choked kind of yell, Kevin watching in terror as something sharp and silver is thrusted through his partner's chest, then is pulled out, data pouring everywhere. "Bearmon!" he yells, taking a few desperate steps forward- just to be stopped by his partner glowing with a bright light, injuries closed and energy a bit more stable as Gryzmon turns to face Mach Leomon- but more stab wounds quickly pepper his vulnerable body and he roars as he fails at even getting an attack off before he's once more close to being defeated. "Please, no," Kevin mumbles, horrified as his partner shimmers before his very eyes. "GRYZMON PLEASE!"
Overwhelmed by the thoughts of his partner getting taken away from him- along with everything else, Kevin tears at his hair, screaming into the blue sky overhead. Something about his rage, his anger, fuels his digivice suddenly, a crest appearing and joining with his digivice before the digivolution sequence is activated. "Gryzmon digivolve to...!" He turns into a tall, humanoid type creature with a wolfish head and blue fur covering his paws and tail. "Mach Gaogomon!"
Mach Leomon's sneer at this is quickly wiped away when he tries to stab this new opponent, just to fail- Mach Gaogomon howls and the sonic waves issued from it are so strong that Mach Leomon is sent flying backwards, roaring in agony as his body impacts with cliffs behind him, going through them before hitting the ground in an ungraceful heap. "GAOGO TORNADO!"
All Kevin can do is watch as his partner circles Mach Leomon, raining punches down upon him rapidly. There's no time for Mach Leomon to respond or even to defend himself, he's just stuck laying there absorbing all of this until finally, Mach Gaogomon hits one too many times and his body shimmers. Shatters into little pieces, which then scatters on the wind.
Kevin exhales shakily, brushing the blood still staining his cheek away, before lunging forward and throwing his arms around Mach Gaogomon, holding him close. "You saved me," he mumbles, relieved when Mach Gaogomon hugs him back with no reluctance. "Thank you."
Mach Gaogomon smiles down at him. "Of course. We're partners, Kevin. And friends. I would never leave you at the mercy of such a heartless creature."
Kevin nods. He knew as much, still sometimes it's nice to hear it.
