[tri OOM] Odaibananigans with Barry and Cisco

[angry_friendship_wolf]

When Yamato opens the door to the safehouse and ushers Barry and Cisco through, it's not as busy as it usually is, but there are still a few people milling around the main room of the apartment.

Sora and Jyou are both at the kitchen table, Sora carefully working on a flower arrangement while Jyou reads through a medical textbook and scribbles notes. Nearby, on the couch, with a laptop resting on his knees, is a boy who looks almost identical to Yamato, minus a few years and with much more boyish features.

Yamato carefully shuts the door behind them. "Welcome to Chez Chosen, I guess," he says, crossing to the kitchen table to pick up his digivice and clip it to his belt.

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[makes_the_toys]

"You've got this," Cisco cheers, moving aside and patting Taichi on the back.

"I'm totally here to coach if you need advice and special moves." Cisco is fully prepared to not only root Taichi on, but shout out button combos to get him through the matchup.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato turns a little red at that, ducking his head, but nudges Barry in return.

"I'm taking Yoshimitsu, then," Taichi says, stepping up. "He seems like he'd kill a panda."

"You're really going to help Taichi murder a poor, fuzzy, endangered animal who just wants to eat bamboo?" Yamato asks Cisco. "What did pandas do to you?"

[run_barry]

"Noooo," Barry says, alarmed by the threat upon the cute panda. "What kind of monster hurts a panda?"

Barry goes into the fight ready to do all he can to keep the panda alive, including running few times when that seems like the best option.

[makes_the_toys]

"Good choice," Cisco says with approval.

"I would skin a panda and make fuzzy underwear if it meant Tekken victory!" Cisco retorts at Yamato.

Cisco pauses, then backtracks that a little.

"Okay, maybe I wouldn't go that far. Unless Barry doesn't stop running. Stand still and fight! Accept your extinction, panda!"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Running's a perfectly valid strategy when you're a panda and you're being chased by some kind of evil cyborg ninja," Yamato insists to Cisco, before adding to Taichi, sourly: "I'm going to tell your sister you kill pandas."

Taichi ignores that particular threat, doing his best to chase the panda in question down and whack it with a sword.

[run_barry]

"Running is a valid strategy for other not-pandas, too," Barry points out, urging his panda to run for its life.

For a moment Barry gets stuck trying to escape and in a panic starts button mashing, throwing a flurry of fuzzy-pawed punches and kicks at the cyborg ninja.

[makes_the_toys]

"Your face kills pandas," Cisco counters at Yamato.

Clamping a hand on Taichi's arm, Cisco gives it a shake, excitedly shouting, "Get him! Get him! Get the panda!"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"This is why pandas are nearly extinct. Because of fighting competitions," Yamato says, with the bitterness that idea warrants.

Taichi is mostly button mashing himself, flailing his sword at the panda without much of a plan or coordination.

[run_barry]

"No, no, no-- " Barry says urgently, desperately fighting back and almost squeaking out a victory before a couple of sword swings knock the panda down for good.

"Oh! I was so close," Barry says, grinning. "Few more hits and the panda would have had you."

[makes_the_toys]

"Taichi wins!" Cisco announces in his best fighting game announcer voice. "Victory for Team Cisco."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Good going," Taichi says to Barry, flashing a grin. "I'm, er, pretty sure the sword gave me an unfair advantage. Pandas don't have the thumbs to pick one up, after all."

Yamato claps Barry on the back, adding: "You did better than I did."

[run_barry]

"It was a good game," Barry replies back to Taichi. "I'm happy with how well my panda hung in there, sword or not."

[makes_the_toys]

"Well that's already best two out of three, you guys wanna keep tasting defeat here and go again, or change it up?" Cisco asks, grinning.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Let's change it up," Yamato says. "Any other games you're dying to play?"

[run_barry]

"I think we should get to pick," Barry says. "Since their team chose first."

He looks around then back to Yamato, "What do you think?"

[makes_the_toys]

"Go for it," Cisco says easily. "Taichi and I will take you guys on in whatever."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I'm pretty sure there's a Dance Dance Revolution machine around here, that'd play to our strengths," Yamato says wryly. "Or if we want to be nice and play fair, there's definitely a racing game or two. We'd probably be on an even footing with them for that."

Taichi rolls his eyes. "For a moment, I thought you were going to suggest the flight sims downstairs," he says. "But I can beat you at a racing game or DDR."

[run_barry]

"DDR," Barry elects immediately, "because I've gotta see this."

[makes_the_toys]

"What are you guys serious?" Cisco asks, throwing dubious looks at the pair and then looking over at Taichi.

"Okay, fine, I can bust a move. Let's do this."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Don't worry, I'm quick on my feet," Taichi says to Cisco airily. "I can take Yama in a dance contest. Besides, we're in the lead anyway."

"Not for long," Yamato says, turning to head deeper into the arcade.

[run_barry]

"That's funny, so am I," Barry says over his shoulder to Taichi with a cheeky smile.

[makes_the_toys]

"No cheating," Cisco declares, "Even if I'm now going to have to Cisco a DDR machine when we get back home just to see what happens."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Taichi chuckles. "Yeah, I've heard about how fast you are."

"Hey, Cisco-ing a DDR machine for S.T.A.R. Labs isn't a bad idea," Yamato says thoughtfully. "DDR with a thousand times multiplier on the speed would make for a great training tool."

[run_barry]

Barry laughs in turn before turning his attention to Yamato and Cisco.

"Hey, as long as it turns out more like super-speed Tetris than Girder Max I'm down."

[makes_the_toys]

"Can you imagine how sick it would look next to my treadmill?" Cisco asks with a grin at Yamato.

"My poor robots, so underappreciated and abused," he laments, wiping away an invisible stray tear. "Between you two and Wilford my bots never stood a chance."