[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]

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.

[run_barry]

"It's fine, dude. Just be careful," Barry assures Cisco, flashing an amused smirk at Yamato.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"What, you've never fed a kid before?" Elecmon says, pushing the sunflower seed Digimon at Cisco, followed by a bottle of milk. "Bottle, mouth -- hers, not yours. It's pretty simple."

Yamato chuckles, nudging Cisco's back lightly with his fist. "You must've done this with GP before, right?"

[makes_the_toys]

"No," he replies to both Elecmon and Yamato. "I've held out dead fish and squid and let my porg gobble them down, but he'd probably bite me if I held him and tried it."

GP is quite the voracious chick.

Still, Cisco gives it a go, and when the Digimon starts to drink from the bottle he smiles.

"There you go. It's good, right?"

[run_barry]

"Still gives you more experience at it than me," Barry says to Cisco, watching with a smile on.

"I think she likes you."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I can relate. I'd also bite you if you put your hands anywhere near me," Yamato says, firmly.

He gives the little Digimon a wry look, as Elecmon steps back.

She drinks for about a minute, then suddenly starts to glow -- softly at first, then brighter and brighter, giving off both light and heat.

Her physical form collapses into glowing blocks, revealing what looks to be a rotating, pink, glowing glass sphere, before the blocks reassemble themselves into a head-sized pink blob with eyes, a mouth, and a blue flower growing out the top.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco ignores the hater, focus on the baby.

At first he's startled by the glow, and the heat, but bravely hangs on hoping he's not about to be nuked.

Watching the transformation, he laughs in utter delight when it's complete, holding onto the Digimon in her new form.

"Happy Evo Day, Bluebell." Yes, he just named the event and the Digimon in one. Boom.

[run_barry]

"Bluebell?" Barry repeats, smiling. "It does kind of fit."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's quietly wondering if this is going to end up with this one Digimon starting an individual names craze on File Island.

"She'll be wantin' to go to the Pyokomon village over in the Gear Desert," Elecmon notes. "... Don't worry, I'm not going to throw her out immediately. I'll give her some time to adjust, see if I can't find someone to escort her. Monzaemon, maybe."

[makes_the_toys]

Nothing would make Cisco prouder if it did.

"The desert, huh? Will she need sunscreen? I packed some."

[run_barry]

"I'm sure she'll be okay," Barry assures Cisco with a chuckle even as he casts a glance at Yamato looking for confirmation that she will in fact be alright.