[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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[angry_friendship_wolf]

"-- You brought rattlesnake antivenom to a world with neither rattlesnakes nor animals at all," Yamato says, shaking his head.

"Except fish!" Jyou chirps.

"Except fish," Yamato says.

"I think it's better to be over-prepared than under-prepared," Sora says, warmly, patting Cisco on the shoulder. "You never know, there might be a ... Rattlesnakemon. Somewhere."

[makes_the_toys]

"Thank you! That's what I told him about the bearmon!" Cisco exclaims, so glad that at least one person is bright enough to understand.

[run_barry]

Barry throws a shrug, not really sure which side to take in all of this.

"Hey, time will prove someone right, I guess."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"We're not going to meet a Rattlesnakemon. Rattlesnakemon don't exist," Yamato mutters.

The mountain is getting closer now, and so is the small village at its foot: A collection of sandstone domes, each only about waist-height, clustered around a well. It's teeming with Digimon, all of them identical pink blobs with blue flowers sprouting from their tops.

[makes_the_toys]

"If I discover the Digital World's first Rattlesnakemon I totally have rights to name it," Cisco declares.

[run_barry]

Skipping the debate on the existence of Rattlesnakemon, Barry focuses on their surroundings.

As they near the village he grins and lets out an, "Aww, look at all the Pyocomon."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"If you discover the world's first Rattlesnakemon, its name will be Rattlesnakemon. Digimon don't go in for individual names," Yamato says, shaking his head. "Except Bluebell. Who is a special case, I suppose."

Probably. If Yamato comes back and finds that all the Pyokomon have named themselves, he'll revise that assessment.

"Although," Jyou says, thoughtfully. "Meiko named Meicoomon, right? Because Meicoomon was actually -- I guess, like, a Tailmon all along."

"Also a special case."

Sora peers around the village. "Doesn't look like my Pyokomon's here," she says. "I guess she might've headed back to camp or something. We should be able to find someone to trade all this mango? to, though."

[makes_the_toys]

"Special cases, or is your strict system of naming things their own names falling down around your ears?" Cisco counters. "The revolution has begun, man."

[run_barry]

Barry is carefully to watch where he steps, not wanting to squish any Digimon or Godzilla somebody's house.

"We saw one evolve earlier. That's Bluebell, that those two are talking about," Barry says, nodding towards Cisco and Yamato.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It's not my system, asshole, I didn't come up with it, they were doing this before I even came here," Yamato says. "It's their system. Or possibly Gennai's. Or maybe the Crests'. But not ours."

"It'd be cool if they did all have names, though! Slightly more confusing, but that's true in our world, too. It'd be great to just call people 'human,'" Jyou says.

"Tsunomon mentioned something about you going to Primary Village," Sora says to Barry. "It's always a good chance to see Digimon get born and evolve, although Elecmon likes putting people to work when he can."

The Pyokomon carefully mill about their feet, going in and out of the tiny buildings, but don't seem to mind so much having humans around. Sora casts around for someone to trade with, and locates a Pyokomon near the well. She grabs the mango? cans from Jyou's bag and peels off from the group to go and talk to it.

[makes_the_toys]

"So it's supposedly not your system, but you still adhere to it. Or do we have to get back into Boxbot and Man-Man?" Cisco replies, giving Yamato a pointed look.

[run_barry]

"Yeah, he had us do some egg rubbing and bottle feeding," Barry says with a chuckle about Elecmon, watching the Pyokomon go about their business.

"They seem pretty at ease," he notes. "How many people come here?"

He figures it must be either enough for them to be used to it, or few enough for them not to be afraid.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Man-Man and Boxbot are great names, I will fight you on this," Yamato grumbles. "They are straightforward and demonstrative and practical."

Jyou hums a little, glancing around. "This is the best source of clean water on the island, so trade around here is always booming. They must get visitors every day, more or less."

[makes_the_toys]

"Come at me bro," Cisco challenges. "I'll have Barry supersonic punch you in the face."

[run_barry]

Barry nods to Jyou's assessment, it makes sense. Before he can comment, though, his attention is drawn back to Yamato and Cisco.

"I will totally separate you two." And by separate he means depositing each one on opposite ends of the island.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I'll take on Barry any time you like! Just so long as you're prepared to introduce yourself as 'Cisco Man-Man Jerkman Ramon, the Uncoolest Guy Alive' for the next month when he loses."

Although he'd rather not take on Barry with superspeed involved unless he absolutely has to. But he doesn't say that.

"Okay, let's not go issuing challenges just yet," Jyou says, taking Yamato by the shoulders and steering him away from Cisco.

[run_barry]

"HEY," Barry says, wounded.

"I'm not you're muscle, Cisco. And I'm not-- his muscle, Yamato," he says to Cisco, then repeats to Yamato. "Plus, like, c'mon." Barry has superpowers."

Obviously he would win. Or end the fight really quickly in a way that didn't involve punching Yamato in the face at Mach 1.

[makes_the_toys]

"You're so lucky he won't fight you without you going evil," Cisco informs Yamato, shaking his head and still making a show of standing up even as he's glad to have Yamato steered away and takes the opportunity to plant himself on the other side of the group.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato pauses for a moment, then meanders over to Barry and swings an arm around his shoulders.

"I know, I know. Sorry, Barry, didn't mean to drag you into this. Or, well, I did, but I shouldn't have." he says, gently.

A moment later he reaches up to nudge his knuckles against the side of Barry's head lightly, flashing a grin that is very genuine and, as a result, kind of awful and wolfish. "But -- I am putting out an open challenge for a fight sometime. Without superpowers. I kinda want to see what you've learned since you've started superheroing. Take it or leave it, up to you."

[run_barry]

Barry absolutely does not flinch when Yamato swings his arm up.

Okay, maybe a little bit.

But he's smiling when the arm goes around his shoulders, and accepts the apology and the nudge to the temple.

"I'll think about it," he says with a smile in a way that says he's amused, but there's almost no chance.

[makes_the_toys]

"It's a trap!" Cisco announces, more for the sake of dropping that line than believing anything diabolical is being set up.

Of course, should it turn into a trap later Cisco has totally laid the ground work for 'I told you so's' later on.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"That seems unlikely," Yamato says, but he doesn't sound like he really minds at all, and the grin doesn't fade at all. "But, it's not like your general snuggliness was an unknown quantity here, I expected that. And, y'know -- I might not be the nicest guy, but unless I turn evil, there's no way I'd ever want to hurt either of you guys."

Well. Outside of mutually agreed upon friendly competition, but that's an exception to every rule, surely.

He gives Barry another nudge, then pads over to Cisco to knock a shoulder against his. "And you're too snuggly for your own good too, Man-Man. You okay?"

"You're so lucky that none of the people who'd mock you for saying all that are here," Jyou says. "Takeru would have material for weeks."

[run_barry]

"Snuggly? I'm not snuggly I'm... nice," he says after casting about for a better word and basically coming up empty.

He is not snuggly, though.

"I know you wouldn't, though." Which is not a snuggly thing to say at all, it's merely statement of fact!

[makes_the_toys]

"Snuggly?" Cisco says, just as offended as Barry. "I will accept kindly. And even lovable. But snuggly? What am I, a bear?"

He scoffs, but there's a smile in it and a nod.

Yeah, he's fine.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Not a bear. Maybe just a pair of adorably precocious Shiba Inus," Yamato says, wryly.

He pauses, then nods towards the mountain. "C'mon, Mount Panorama has a great view, and I'm pretty sure there's a door up there too."