[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]

"AW, Noooooo!" Cisco bemoans, both hands on his wheel and yanking in a tantrum, like that could push the car back up to speed.

"Penmon you suck!" He shouts, just as his power returns and he jumps back up to speed again.

[run_barry]

"I had no idea either of them could drive like this," he says with a chuckle.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's boost fades just in time for him to be driving alongside Cisco, and he throws a quick grin over Cisco's way.

"Havin' trouble, Cisco?"

Which is the exact moment the Penmon leader activates his own boost and speeds past both of them. Yamato's expression turns positively infuriated.


"They are putting in a more impressive showing than the Penmon," Monzaemon agrees. "But I'm not sure if the Penmon are racing, instead of just ... driving in circles."

[makes_the_toys]

"Cheater!" he accuses yet again, pointing a finger at Yamato.

He's grinning as he does it, though. Up until the Penmon goes zooming past them.

"NO! Catch him!"

They cannot lose to Penmon!

[run_barry]

"Yeah, what's up with the Penmon? They're such... angry birds."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

There are two of the blue slow-down items coming up. Penmon zooms past them without picking them up, instead heading for a ramp to jump towards a silver ring.

"You take the left, I'll take the right," Yamato says to Cisco, tone clipped, before swerving towards one of the items. "We'll use them together and stop him in his tracks."


"They pursue the noble cause of uniting the Penmon clans, under an emperor who can sit upon the Winter Throne," Monzaemon says, very somberly. "So that they may be unified when the Muchomon visit this island to shove them and make cruel remarks."

He pauses, then holds out a paw, generating a bubble in which sits a glowing image of a Muchomon.

It looks exactly like a Penmon, except it's orange.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco doesn't hesitate, he follows Yamato's order and peels off for the blue cross.

Picking up the item, Cisco looks over at Yamato, ready on his signal.

[run_barry]

Barry looks at the image, then throws Monzaemon a 'are you for real?' look.

"Huh. Okay, so why are the Muchomon such jerks?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato holds up a hand, watching as the Penmon gains more and more distance on them, waiting for the right moment.

That right moment comes along as the Penmon approaches a few marshmallowy roadblocks. Yamato makes a quick 'three, two, one' gesture, then flicks his hand forward as the signal to attack.

A moment later, he presses the glowing symbol on his dash, and a blue bolt of energy crackles between his car and the Penmon's, slowing it down.


Monzaemon glances at Barry out of the corner of his eye, expression fairly unreadable.

"Well, you see," he says, very seriously, "they are very orange."

[makes_the_toys]

"Suck on this, penguin!" Cisco shouts as he jams down on his button when Yamato gives the go.

As the Penmon's car slows Cisco pushes all the speed out of his, working to close the gap and pull ahead while the Penmon is slowed.

[run_barry]

"But that's-- " stupid, he starts to say, before realizing people don't always need much more than that to be jerks.

He settles for shaking his head in clear disapproval.

"Well hopefully the Penmon get their act together, so they won't have to each face the Muchomon alone."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

The Penmon's sudden drop to quarter speed leaves him without enough speed to dodge through the roadblocks, and he goes bouncing off one before slowing to a complete stop.

Yamato keeps pace with Cisco, keeping alongside him as they zip past the Penmon and turn the second corner. As a ramp leading to a silver booster ring comes into view, situated in the centre of the road and directly between them, he veers towards it.


The Muchomon image floating above Monzaemon's paw seems to become more colourful and saturated, as if to clarify just how incredibly orange the Muchomon are.

"I am sure they will," he says. "And who knows how long it'll be before the Muchomon arrive."

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco cuts in right behind Yamato, trying to avoid being knocked into again and drafting on Yamato as they head for the ramp and ring.

[run_barry]

"Is it even a for sure thing that they are coming?" he asks.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato laughs.

"Clever," he calls back over his shoulder, just before he hits the ring. As he hurtles through the air, he pushes the nose of his car down, forcing it to land a few meters short of where it could have gone, so that he can snatch a power-up off the ground.

He doesn't use it yet, instead swerving for one of the lesser boost rings.


"Of course they're coming," Monzaemon says. "In the Penmon palace, it is written above the throne itself."

He flicks his paw, dismissing the image of the Muchomon and summoning a new bubble of a wall of ice, with writing in the same blocky script that appears on Yamato's digivice on it.

"'Beware, children of DaiPenmon, for the Muchomon come from across the ocean to mock your feathers and criticise your beaks,'" Monzaemon reads.

Situated just above the text, carved into the ice, is, in fact, the symbol of the Crest of Friendship.

[makes_the_toys]

"You know it," Cisco says back. When he hits the ramp he goes for distance, punching it at just the right moment to gain maximum air.

His tires land with a quick squeal, and he takes a turn on two wheels, tearing around the corner then streaking forward, picking up his own boost along the way.

[run_barry]

Barry looks over the image, reading the prophecy and recognizing the Crest.

"Yeah, but who wrote it? And why does it have the Crest of Friendship on there?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's a little ways behind Cisco again, but he doesn't use his boost yet, instead keeping up the pressure from behind, trying to push Cisco into running into some of the roadblocks.

He keeps an eye out for boost rings, though, and when two of the lesser boost rings appear ahead of them, does his best to try to wind around to one of Cisco's sides and nudge him out of the way of them.


Monzaemon hums slightly, dismissing the bubble.

"This language is a ceremonial one that not many Digimon speak," he says, thoughtfully. "And it would be unusual for Bird Digimon to invoke this particular Crest in their own writing, when its associated with Beast Digimon, who would be their natural predators. So, it perhaps stands to reason that the Crest itself left the writing, and marked it with its symbol."

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco does his best to try and shake Yamato, cutting across the street then back again, swerving back and forth without letting up on the gas.

Seeing the rings, he tries to maneuver towards one, only to be nudged by Yamato.

"Oh bring it!" he says, turning his wheel to nudge Yamato right back.

[run_barry]

Barry still doesn't fully understand the whole things with the Crests, and prophecies, or the Penmon, but he's certainly not going to try and unwind it all right now, so he accepts Monzaemon's reasoning.

"Nice of it to give them a warning then, I guess."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato considers using his power-up, but doesn't yet, instead focusing on trying to shove Cisco out of the way of the ring, or at least not be shoved.

As it is, they both collide with the ring and get the boost. Yamato immediately starts veering towards another.


Monzaemon, watching them get close to the third corner and the shortcut directly before it, waves a hand to block off said shortcut with a wall that rises from the ground. He can imagine the chaos that might result from two cars jockeying for it.

"I do hope that when the Muchomon arrive, they don't also say they were guided by prophecy. That could get difficult to untangle."

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco holds off on using his own power-up until after they're through the ring and the burst has faded. Then he shoves down on the button. His intent was to jump ahead and take the shortcut, but when the wall goes up he has to react quick and instead ends up trying to beat Yamato to the next boost.

[run_barry]

"A prophesy telling them to come over here and be jerks? That seems like a waste of whatever the Crests are."

But, at the same time, seems kind of in line with the crazy of the rest of this place.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato keeps holding off on using his own, letting Cisco put some space between them, although he barrels through the same boost ring a few moments later.

Still, Cisco's lead over him is considerable now, as they turn the third corner and the finish line -- along with a few boost rings and at least one silver triple-boost ring further ahead -- comes into view, albeit very distantly.

Although, between them and the finish line there are also quite a few patches of ice, and several squishy, marshmallow-y roadblocks.


"It would be -- rather petty," Monzaemon allows. "Although an argument could be made that that's also true for the Penmon's prophecy."

[makes_the_toys]

Peeling around the corner and coming into the home stretch, takes in what's ahead and quickly plans out his finish.

The triple-boost is a tempting target, but Cisco steers for the smaller boost rings, avoiding a marshmallow roadblock and lining his approach to hit as many of the smaller rings as he can.