[tri OOM] Barry, Cisco, and File Island

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato brings Barry and Cisco out through the same hilltop telephone booth he used to bring Autor through a few weeks back, out onto a cliff with a pretty good view of the island.

The island's central point is a mountain that looks more like a sheer spike of rock, and radiating outwards from it are a lot of very different places: Closest to the mountain, there's a pastel-coloured village of some kind that looks like it might be made of cushions; a tropical jungle with a ruined temple of black and brown stone jutting out of it; and a desert with gear markings carved into the ground and a single, leafy mountain in the centre.

Spreading out further than that, there are forests; some kind of icy tundra; a large town with a glittering white castle; a small village covered by a dark cloud; some kind of factory belching smoke into the air; and a plain covered in railroad tracks and ruined trains. Just down from the cliff, there's a lake with a camp set up next to it.

"All right, File Island," Yamato says, shutting the door. "Oldest part of the Digital World."

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[makes_the_toys]

"I'm studying the digital makeup and biology of Digimon. This device records data and vital information for study."

Cisco turns his equipment around so to show Elecmon the screen which has quite a bit of numbers and figures on it, along with readings along graph lines.

[run_barry]

Barry blinks, cradling the egg in his hands.

"Do what now?" He casts a glance at Yamato, and then starts rubbing the egg.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato lifts an eyebrow, as if to silently suggest to just go along with it.

As Barry rubs the egg, it starts to shake, just slightly, and then begins cracking across the middle.

"Utterly incomprehensible," Elecmon says, flatly. "Sounds like the kind of thing Centalmon would ramble about."

[run_barry]

Barry's eyes widen when the egg starts to move, and his smile grows brighter as it cracks.

"Dude, check it... "

[makes_the_toys]

"It is all pretty technical," Cisco replies, "but I promise it's not going to hurt you."

He's about to ask who Centalmon is when the egg Barry has starts to hatch and Cisco smiles as he watches.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato settles a hand on Barry's shoulder, leaning forward slightly to get a better look at the egg.

It cracks a little bit more, in one long line around the middle, before the top pops off, revealing what appears to be a cloud of smoke and ash, with two glowing yellow eyes peering out from within, and a few flickers of flame near the top.

After a moment's pause, the egg in Barry's hands glows and disassembles itself into cubes of data, flowing away from him and dragging the smoke Digimon with it, before reassembling itself into a crib.

[run_barry]

As the cracks further Barry leans in.

"Hey little guy."

The whole process is amazing, and Barry's smile is full on delight as he watches the egg hatch and the blocks zip away.

"That was awesome."

[makes_the_toys]

The fire and smoke is a touch alarming, but Barry and Yamato seem cool with it, so Cisco doesn't panic. He also doesn't get any closer, but he is smiling when the hatchling is in its crib.

"Aww, Barry, you're a momma," he teases.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Got a smokey little Barry Jr," Yamato adds, wryly.

Elecmon squints at them both. "I have no idea what a 'momma' is."

Yamato leans back a little, folding his arms. "... Actually, I think I might know this guy. Or I knew him before the Reboot. He used to be the guardian of Mount Panorama. Guy was even one of our lieutenants for a little while."

Beat.

"He was made of fire back then."

[run_barry]

Bary just rolls his eyes at the pair of them, amused.

"For the record I would never subject my kid to being 'Barry Jr'."

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco laughs at Barry, then give Yamato a nod.

"Fire, you say? That sounds... fun."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"... Barry Miniature?" Yamato offers.

He gives Cisco a sidelong glance, flashing a momentary grin.

"Don't tell me you're afraid of fire-people as well as bees," he says. "Although, er, one of our other lieutenants was made of snow. They got along fine, just, y'know. At a distance."

[run_barry]

Barry laughs and shakes his head at the both of them.

"Elecmon, just how many eggs and little Digimon are you taking care of here?"

[makes_the_toys]

"I am not afraid of fire," Cisco scoffs. "If anything all the times I've been called a pyromaniac have started to make me wonder."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Guess I know who to blame first when the bar burns down," Yamato says.

Elecmon pauses at the question, thinking about it.

"Tough to say," he says, eventually. "When I woke up after the Reboot, eggs were practically raining from the sky, but most of those have already hatched and gone out into the world. There can't be more than one or two hundred here now."

[makes_the_toys]

"And I'll definitely already have an alibi," Cisco replies over his shoulder as he steps over to one of the cribs and starts taking readings there.

[run_barry]

"And you take care of all of them yourself?" he asks Elecmon, turning his head to look over all of the eggs and those in the cribs around them.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Like I'd believe any alibi you came up with," Yamato replies.

Elecmon gives a quick nod. "Not for long, though. Once they evolve to their Baby II forms, they leave -- some of them go to villages nearby, or Whamon ferries them over to Server. Everyone passes through here, but it ain't like I'm raising them to all the way to Adult."

"Tsunomon's a Baby II right now," Yamato supplies, to give Barry an idea of what they're like when they leave the Village. "So, head-sized balls of fur, in the main."

[makes_the_toys]

"Ha! Good thing you're not the one who needs to believe the story," Cisco replies cheerfully as he looks over his readings and information.

[run_barry]

"Right, okay," he says to the explanations from both Elecmon and Yamato. "It's great of you to be here for them until they get to that stage."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"There's still time for me to become a detective just to spite you, Ramon," Yamato mutters.

Elecmon gives Barry a crooked smile -- as much as a rabbit can smile, at least. "Someone has to. None of them can feed themselves, after all, it'd be chaos if nobody kept an eye on them."

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco just flashes Yamato a cheeky grin, then asks Elecmon, "Any chance you've got some ready to evolve?"

It'd be great to get some readings on a Digimon as it goes through the process.

[run_barry]

"I'm sure everybody appreciates you handling the chaos," Barry says with another smile and a chuckle.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Elecmon gives Cisco a dubious look, then holds up a paw. "Wait here."

He bounds off across the Village, then returns with what looks like a massively oversized sunflower seed with a leaf protruding from the top of its head.

"Here," he says, holding out the seed. "Take some milk, too."

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco grins when Elecmon returns, but that turns to hesitation when the Digimon tells him to take the milk.

"Wait, what?" Awkwardly he reaches out.