[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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[run_barry]

"Yamato... " Barry says in the same tone and at the same time as Sora.

For Jyou's question, Barry directs him to Cisco for an answer.

[makes_the_toys]

"HEY!" Cisco exclaims, wounded.

Throwing Yamato a Look, he shifts attention to answering Jyou.

"Digi-deterrent tech," he answers. "Since you guys are going to be adventuring in the great wilds of the Digital World with a tag-team of puffballs, Yamato asked me to put together some weapons to help keep you guys safe."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I'm kiddin', don't worry," Yamato says, lifting a hand to poke his knuckles against the side of Cisco's face affectionately. "I promise I won't let you get roasted by a dinosaur."

Jyou rubs his chin, thinking. "The Bureau was trying to do something similar, right? Not with, er, a lot of success."

"I've got a lot more faith in these two than I do in the Bureau," Yamato says, shrugging one shoulder. "Both in terms of competency and trustworthiness."

[makes_the_toys]

"You're just saying that so I don't shrink you," Cisco says, turning his cheek with the poking; acting indifferent, but really rather pleased.

[run_barry]

"If anyone can do it it's definitely Cisco," Barry informs the group. It's not a brag, but a statement of full confidence and assurance.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Someone needs to take that shrink gun away from you," Yamato mutters, shaking his head. "Before you become Barry's archnemesis."

Sora inclines her head. "I didn't know exactly who Yamato had commissioned for it, but he'd discussed with me the need for ways to defend ourselves, since there's no reason to believe right now that our Crests will start functioning again," she says, with a quick smile. "I look forward to seeing what you make."

Jyou nods solemnly, adjusting his glasses. "And beating the Bureau at their own game is definitely an added bonus."

As they walk, those dinosaur calls are becoming gradually louder, and a little more audible. Through the trees, there is the distant, rumbling call of:

"Bro, I might be a dinosaur, but you're a ... fine-osaur."

"B-bro ..."

[makes_the_toys]

"Ha! I'd like to see you try. I shrunk it, and now it's stashed away for safe keeping," he says proudly.

The praise and confidence in his abilities has Cisco puffing up a bit with pride.

"It'll be awesome. For sure."

[run_barry]

As they get closer and he starts to hear the chatter, Barry's brow furrows in confusion.

"Are these... bro-dinos?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"So close to making yourself a suit with a cape, calling yourself Lord Dwarfstar, and shrinking Central City," Yamato says, holding up his fingers an inch apart. "So close."

Sora pauses, peering through the undergrowth, before slowly going: "I ... think so?"

"Dibros," Jyou says, gravely.

Through the trees, the second dinosaur seems to return fire with a slightly stammered: "Well, I may be a Digimon, but you're a ... Digi-bro-n. Digi -- Digi-bro-n, it's like ... mon, but it's ... it's bro-n ..."

"I think they seem quite sweet," Sora says, mildly.

[makes_the_toys]

"I would call you crazy, and completely deny that, but... I kind of like how that name sounds. Might lose the Lord, not a fitting enough title, but Dwarfstar, that's kinda tight."

It may even be one he'll put in his back pocket to save for later.

[run_barry]

"Well, hopefully they're nicer than regular dudebros," Barry says, just a slight bit leery.

He... hasn't had the best experiences with the regular testosterone fueled dudebros he's run into.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"This might actually be the first time anyone's ever liked a name that a Takaishi-Ishida has come up with," Jyou says, a little dryly. "We all have fond memories of when Yamato's mother was covering the crime beat and we all had to read about the Shinjuku Sliceguy in the newspapers."

Yamato throws Jyou a quick, slightly wounded glare (because 'Shinjuku Sliceguy' is a great name).

"I'm -- sure they'll be fine. I mean, they're dinosaurs, so unlike a lot of dudebros they don't have anything to prove," Sora says.

[makes_the_toys]

"It's me," Cisco informs Jyou. "We've been hanging out enough that my naming skills have started to rub off on him a little bit."

[run_barry]

Seeing that look Yamato throws Jyou, Barry feels compelled to lean over and confined to his friend, "That is a pretty terrible name."

Trusting Sora, and giving the benefit of the doubt to the dinosaurs, Barry looks up and asks the group.

"Okay, so then how do we do this?"

Given that all the Digimon they've met talk, he's hoping it's just a matter of getting their attention and asking. Nicely, because no need to start anymore feuds like with the Penmon.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It's fine, it tells people everything they need to know," Yamato hisses to Barry. "It's straightforward."

"I think we can just ask them," Sora says. "But we'll see."

A few more steps, and they emerge out into a clearing where two dinosaurs are talking. One is gigantic -- larger than Monzaemon was, even -- and bright red, looking very much like a cartoonishly proportioned T-rex; while the other is smaller, and blue with red stripes, with a mop of reddish hair, and a pendant with an eight-pointed sun on it around its neck.

"Brooo," says the red one.

"Bro-o-o-o," replies the blue one, throwing up its stubby arms.

[makes_the_toys]

He was almost willing to let it go, but since Yamato insists on defending the terrible name, Cisco steps in.

"It makes him sound like a sushi pizza artist," Cisco says, shaking his head and tsking.

[run_barry]

"Just, bad," Barry says, shaking his head and grinning.

When they come into the clearing Barry looks up at the dinosaurs, amazed. This is just like Jurassic Park. Before the storm, when things were going right and no one was being eaten.

Smiling up at the dinos, Barry nudges Yamato. "Get their attention."

Because it's Yamato's world (sort of), so he should be the one to start introductions.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"You two know nothing about naming stuff," Yamato grumbles.

He shakes his head, stepping forward to the front of the group and eyeing up the two dinosaurs.

"Hey! Down here, when you're done making doe eyes at each other," he barks up at them, voice harsh. "Which one of you has the better fire breath?"

The dinosaurs blink down at him, then slowly point at each other.

"Try again," Yamato growls.

Very slowly, the blue dinosaur stops pointing at the red one and points towards himself.

"There you go," Yamato says to the rest of the group. "Attention got, and we know who our test subject is going to be."

[run_barry]

Barry stares at Yamato with a slightly incredulous look as he yells at the dinosaurs. Shaking his head at Yamato, Barry steps forward, looking up and putting on a smile.

"HI! I'm Barry, this is Yamato and his friends," he says in a far more friendly tone than Yamato, gesturing to himself and then everybody else. "We were hoping you could help us out with something."

[makes_the_toys]

Letting Barry do the talking while he continues to calibrate, Cisco chuckles only so loud as Yamato can hear and tsks.

"Rude," he says, amused.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I got their attention, didn't I?" Yamato says to Cisco, albeit loud enough for Barry to hear. "Diplomacy isn't my strong suite."

"B-bro," the blue dinosaur says, flailing his arms a little. "Humans are so much smaller than I thought they were. I thought they were more medium sized." He pauses, and then, in a voice that sounds very much like he wants to cry: "I want to knit them tiny blankets, bro."

"Bro," says the red dinosaur. To Barry: "What's it you need, bro? Something fire related?"

"Something like that," Sora says, a little wryly.

[makes_the_toys]

"What about your whole 'Try not to piss people off, Cisco' thing?" Cisco taunts, imitating Yamato's voice.

[run_barry]

Barry smiles at the dinosaurs reaction, then nods.

"Yeah, if you don't mind. My friend is going to set up an experiment, and just needs you to demonstrate your fire power."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"That was a rule for you, not for me," Yamato says, folding his arms. "Since you were in danger of getting beaten up by a bird half your height."

"Where d'you need me to breathe, bro?" The blue dinosaur says.

"... Just want to say, if we could keep the fire breath in this clearing and away from the flammable looking trees," Jyou says, "that'd be good."

[makes_the_toys]

"Do as I say, not as I do, hmm?" Cisco replies, still with the impersonating Yamato.