"Another week, another change," Max says, sounding bored as he leans against a wall and quirks an eyebrow at Seth. "How many times are you going to do this? Until morale improves?"
Seth exhales loudly, really not sure how Mox handles this guy without completely losing his mind.
"Or until Mox stops almost dying?"
"Shut up, MJF," Seth says, tense.
"No, inquiring minds want to know," Max says, smirking. "Is it all to keep Mox safe?"
Seth rolls his eyes and turns to look at him for the first time since he'd arrived in the Digiworld and found Max leaning against the wall outside of Luke's cavern, waiting for him. "So what if it is?" he asks. "You wouldn't do the same if you were the leader of something like this and Adam Cole kept almost getting himself killed in ridiculous situations?"
Max's eyes darken as he pulls away from the wall and approaches Seth, hands held in fists. "Don't fucking mention him," he says, looking close to swinging.
Seth sneers, raising his eyebrows at him. "Rough subject, huh?"
"Seth," Betamon says reluctantly, looking back and forth between the two of them. "I think-"
Max scoffs, approaching Seth. "Good thing that one of you actually does," he says. "Thinking. I know it's a rarity for you WWE guys-"
Seth lunges forward, grabbing Max by the collar but before he can actually do anything, Luke joins them, a tense look on his face. Seth glances over at him and quickly lets go of Max, gritting his teeth as he walks off to return to the group of digidestined waiting.
Max smirks viciously at Luke as he dusts himself off.
"You're going to get yourself in trouble one of these days," Luke tells him, sighing.
"Isn't that half of the fun?" Max asks him with a smirk.
Luke shakes his head and walks up to the others, Max close behind him. "New mission," he says. "I already put it into the digiport. Any time you're ready, you may go."
"Thank you," Seth says. "We'll go."
Luke looks relieved as the group heads for the digiport, Seth ignoring Max as he walks past him.
"Good luck," he says, mostly talking to the other digidestined who will have to remain wtih them throughout the fight ahead.
The group as a whole look wearily over at him before wandering over to the digiport to get everything moving.
He waits until they're all through the digiport before sinking back against the rock wall behind him, sighing. It's a hard, thankless job, trying to handle these wrestlers, but it's necessary.