[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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[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."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I totally did," Taichi says. Yamato gives a grumbling noise, knocking his head against Taichi's as well.

"If you're hungry, there's a cafe up here," Taichi says to Barry. "They do pizza, we could probably get one big enough for all of us."

"Maybe get an extra one for Barry," Yamato notes.

[run_barry]

"Pizza sounds good," Barry says. He throws a laugh at Yamato and says, "I'm good with just a few slices."

Not that he couldn't eat a whole pizza but, he would be good with a snack and didn't need to hog a whole pie to himself.

[makes_the_toys]

"Yeah, Taichi, unless they make a pizza the size of this island, they don't have one big enough to share with Barry," Cisco jokes.

"Pizza and a Coke does sound good, though. Time to fuel up."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It's important to keep your fuel levels up," Yamato says to Barry, somewhat sternly. "Otherwise you'll end up with a drip in your arm again."

"Alright, well," Taichi laughs, intervening before Yamato can get too mother-hen-y. "You and Cisco go order us as much food as you like, Barry and I will find somewhere to sit."

Yamato grumbles, but heads towards the cafe counter all the same, while Taichi searches out a table by the window.

[run_barry]

"Dude, c'mon," Barry says with a chuckle. "It's not like I've been using my speed. I'm not gonna crash from some walking around and video games."

Amused, but also touched by Yamato's concern, Barry nods to Taichi.

"Yeah, let's find a spot."

He heads off with Taichi, throwing a wave at Cisco and Yamato.

[makes_the_toys]

"Alright, we got the food," Cisco says, leaving Taichi's side for Yamato's and heading for the counter.

"Odaiba is pretty cool, man," Cisco says to Yamato. "Thanks for bringing us to check it out."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Sorry about Yama being a mother hen, but you're probably used to that by now," Taichi says to Barry wryly. "Anyway, view's pretty good from up here. You can see most of the bay -- including the fancy academy Yama's going to, actually."


Yamato gives a quick grin, nudging Cisco's shoulder. "Glad you think so. I haven't brought many people to visit, so this is -- not exactly a first for me, but close."

[run_barry]

Barry laughs and gives an easy shrug to the apology, shaking his head with a smile. "It's alright, he gets it from me, too."

Barry can be just as fussy and he knows it.

Stepping up and looking out, Barry nods a the view.

"Wow, pretty cool." Turning to look at the Academy, Barry takes in the sight. "Neat place."

[makes_the_toys]

"Aww, now I feel special," Cisco says, teasing just a little.

"For real though, that's cool," he says, more sincerely. "Spending time in Milliways, I've still only gotten to visit a few other worlds. And this one probably won't involve a mountain lion attack so, bonus points for Odaiba."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

From this high up, Odaiba's artificiality is obvious: It's all angles and sharp lines, the islands that make it up a mix of rectangles and triangles. And Taichi gestures at a much further off set of buildings on a far more distant artificial island, a cluster of glass and metal, which is presumably the Academy.

"It'd probably be cooler without all the monster attacks," Taichi says. "But then, Yama tells me that supervillains keep popping up in your city, and that's not much better."


Yamato chuckles, shaking his head. "Yeah, no mountain lions here. If you're desperate for predatory animals, though, I can always take you to the old Ishida territory in Shimane. There's bears there." Beat. "And, er, not much else, it's pretty quiet and dead."

[run_barry]

It's different from Central City, that's for sure, but the islands and architecture are fascinating to look at.

"Yeah, I heard the last one was pretty bad," Barry says, glancing over at Taichi.

"I guess we get new metas showing up fairly regularly," he acknowledges. "And unfortunately most of them think the best thing to do with their powers is make trouble but, me and my team handle them pretty well."

[makes_the_toys]

"No thank you," Cisco says, holding up his hands palms out. "I've already had enough bear problems. 'Ishida territory' sounds pretty cool though, what's up with that?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Taichi grimaces. "It was touch and go for a while. The Bad No-Good Chosen gave us a run for our money, and then there was Alphamon, and -- luckily Yama had a succession of crazy plans to keep us in the game, and Koushiro brought in reinforcements."

He flashes a smile at Barry. "It's a shame so many metas decide to turn to crime. Something something corrupting nature of power, I guess."


"You're going to encounter a meta-bear one day, I hope you know that," Yamato says. "And -- yeah, Ishida territory. It expires with my grandmother, we're not really needed now, but we've had a contract to be the local shizoku of that one little mountain village for a few centuries."

[run_barry]

"Yamato is an amazing strategist," Barry replies. "Crazy sometimes, but the dude knows how to handle stuff."

Barry is very impressed and proud of Yamato.

Pulling out his phone, Barry lines up a picture of Odaiba.

"Yeah, but I know there's gotta be others out there. Based on what I've heard, my world could have a lot of heroes in the future."

[makes_the_toys]

"I'm going to hate you so much if that does turn into a thing," Cisco informs Yamato.

Never mind that a meta-bear could be cool.

"Wow, that's pretty sick. Your family must be badasses."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Sometimes I think he's trying to see what the craziest plan I'll agree to is," Taichi says, a little despairingly. "Or just seeing how many people he can give spontaneous heart attacks. There were definitely moments during the war with the Emperor where our generals in the Digital World seemed like they might have acute coronaries, and I'm not completely convinced he wasn't enjoying that."

He leans over to peer at Barry's phone, giving a hum of approval at the photo.

"That'd be pretty cool. And if you're one of the first, you get to teach all the others. Induct them into the ways of heroism and all that stuff, eh?"


"It's going to be a thing," Yamato says firmly. "One day you're going to come in and be like 'bad news, guys, Bearflash is threatening the city. He has the exact same powers as Barry, but also, he's a grizzly bear.'"

He gives a quick chuckle, nudging Cisco. "I wouldn't go that far. It used to be a pretty common set-up for isolated villages."

As they reach the front of the line, Yamato makes a quick order of two pizzas (after pausing for a moment and considering ordering three), plus drinks, handing over a few notes of cash.

[run_barry]

"Well if it gets crazier than the last thing you guys did I might be one of them worried about my ticker," Barry says.

Barry tilts the phone to better share the picture he's just snapped, then tucks it away, smiling at Taichi's suggestion.

"Yeah. I mean, I could try. Right now I'm still learning the whole thing myself."

[makes_the_toys]

"Pfft, like his name wouldn't be Ursaflash," Cisco scoffs.

Standing by while Yamato orders, Cisco thinks about the whole village protection gig and shakes his head.

"Common or not, I'm sure they didn't give the job to just anyone. And you guys kept the gig for hundreds of years, I've been fired from jobs in less than a week."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Taichi laughs, scraping a hand through his hair. "Even by Yama's standards, that was a pretty out there plan. I don't think Gennai even knew we could do that -- which is why it worked, he would've planned for anything else, but still."

He settles into his chair, draping one arm over the back. "I'm not sure the learning curve ever really stops. It's been seven years for me and I still feel like I'm playing catch-up sometimes."


"Ursaflash isn't bad," Yamato admits, turning to head back towards the table. "And -- I guess. It's partly just a case of family name, we were already a shizoku clan when we took the job, but I guess the village was happy enough to keep us around."

[run_barry]

"Considering what was going on, I'm glad he was able to figure something out that worked." Although the cost of doing it still worries Barry.

Barry pulls out a chair and sits, nodding to Taichi.

"It feels like we're making everything up on the fly as we go, which is crazy, but hearing Yamato talk about the stuff you guys have faced and done, it sounds like that's just kind of how it always is." Experienced or not.