[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]

"I see him," Cisco says, swerving out to try and cut Barry off.

"Sweet, I'mma ride a Digimon," he sing-songs.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Your boat's bright red, aniki, there's no way you're going to sneak up on us," Yamato says, taking advantage of Cisco swerving towards Barry to slide off a ramp and towards a speed boost.

"Just depends on which one you'd prefer, a big bird dragon or a narwalrusbear," Taichi says to Cisco.

[run_barry]

"Oh c'mon!" Barry protests when Cisco drives him off course.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco gives a maniacal laugh even as Yamato pulls ahead with his maneuver.

"No offense to Big Bird, but Narwalrusbear sounds way more awesome," he says, lining up to take on several boosters in a row.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Ikkakumon is a cool guy. I like how he's a narwhal but also a walrus," Yamato says sagely.

Yamato and Taichi jostle their boats against each other for a few moments, before Yamato veers off to try to cut Cisco off, aiming to get to at least some of those boosters before him.

[run_barry]

Back on course again, Barry is starting to build up momentum and once again creeps up on the other three.

"Did you know a narwhal's horn is actually a tooth?" Barry says, skimming around a tight corner and edging up a little further.

[makes_the_toys]

"Why be one when you can be both?" Cisco says in agreement to the coolness.

Cut off by Yamato, Cisco shouts, "AH! You! Speed thief!"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Ikkakumon's horn is actually a mithril casing for torpedoes," Taichi says wisely. "He can shoot it and regrow it, like the best narwhals."

Yamato chuckles at Cisco, veering towards a ramp. "Look out, Barry's on our tail again."

[makes_the_toys]

"No way! Cooool," Cisco says when he hears about Ikkakumon's torpedo horn.

"Taichi, you got him?" Cisco asks, checking Barry's progress as he edges closer again.

[run_barry]

"You can't torpedo anything while we're in the city," Barry declares before Cisco's excitement runs too far with the idea.

The end of the race is coming up and Barry decides to go for a risky move, taking a turn as sharply as he can to gain more ground and a boost heading into the final stretch.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Kinda busy trying to overtake Yama," Taichi replies, the nose of his boat knocking against the back of Yamato's as he tries to swerve around him.

"Trying and failing," Yamato says mildly, going for as many boosters as he can to gain speed for this last stretch.

[run_barry]

While Taichi goes after Yamato, Barry tries to use the opportunity to squeak past Yamato on the other side.

Biting his lip, Barry wills his boat to move up faster, excitement growing as the finish line gets ever closer.

[makes_the_toys]

On the far outside of all of them, Cisco hits a speed boost and a ramp, taking to the air and trying to come down ahead.

"Ohhhh, it's gonna be close!" he shouts.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Don't even try it, aniki," Yamato says, veering his boat to try to shove Barry into a spin.

Taichi takes the opportunity to pull up alongside Yamato, searching for one last speed boost to try to get ahead.

[run_barry]

"Ahhh, heyyy!" Barry twists both in his seat and his boat, trying to avoid Yamato's shove and ends up turning his boat in towards Yamato, dangerously close to ramming his stern into Yamato's.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco brings his boat in closer to the pack, snagging a speed boost and coming up alongside Taichi's boat, trying to squeeze him out as everything comes down to the wire.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Cisco whyyy," Taichi whines plaintively as Cisco squeezes him out, forcing him to fall back a little.

Yamato gives a quick growl, just barely avoiding getting knocked off course by Barry's stern, hunching his shoulders in as he focuses on trying to reach the finish line.

[run_barry]

Barry's lost it and goes sailing off course. Yamato avoids him, and Barry just misses Taichi, but his boat broadsides Cisco's and takes both of them out of the running.

"Oh man... " he says with a pout.

[makes_the_toys]

"BARRYYYYY!" Cisco shouts, his cry sounding a whole lot like Captain Kirk's famous, 'KHAAAAAAAAAN!'

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I'll remember your sacrifice, Barry," Taichi says. "We'll build a statue of you. In a speedboat."

He tries to overtake Yamato, and the two jostle for the lead, before Yamato inches over the finish line ahead of him.

Yamato throws up his arms in celebration, throwing a grin in Taichi's direction.

[run_barry]

"Well at least my teammate one," Barry says with a laugh, reaching over to clap Yamato on the shoulder.

[makes_the_toys]

"SABOTEUR!" Cisco declares, pointing at Barry. "Yamato, I had you beat."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato laughs, leaning over to nudge his head against the side of Barry's.

To Cisco, he adds: "Please. You did not have me beat."

"Our team won the moral victory," Taichi says loftily.

[run_barry]

"Dude, come on," Barry says with a laugh towards Cisco. "I was trying to get a win, not knock you out. Besides, these guys both had you beat."

Leaving behind the boats, Barry looks to Yamato and Taichi and asks cheerfully, "Alright, tie breaker is done, what now?"

[makes_the_toys]

"I hate moral victories," Cisco grouses. He gets over it pretty quickly, though, and knocks Taichi in the shoulder.

"You totally almost had him."