[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]

"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.

[makes_the_toys]

"I so want to design his suit, even if there's a good chance Ursaflash will just maul my face off," Cisco says with a grin.

"Well, now you took the whole thing from isolated village to whole dang city and a couple of worlds," Cisco points out as he follows Yamato. "Pretty awesome."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Yeah, I don't think you ever stop making stuff up. There's an infinite number of ways for bad guys to screw things up, so you just have to adapt to stuff as it comes," Taichi says, with a faint laugh.


"Why would he need a suit? He's a bear. He's got fur," Yamato says.

Obviously, Cisco. Bears don't wear clothes, everyone knows that.

"That's one way of looking at it," he allows. As they reach the table, he pulls out a chair, settling into it and peering at Taichi and Barry. "You two getting along? Haven't killed each other with kindness yet?"

[run_barry]

Barry turns his head when he sees Yamato and Cisco approaching and laughs.

"That's right," Barry says to Taichi, "Yamato thinks I'm as bad as you, or the other way around, and hates us both for it."

[makes_the_toys]

"Because he would look awesome, duh!" Cisco replies, dropping into a chair at the table.

Turning to Barry and Taichi, Cisco says, "'Sup, guys? We should be set, Yamato ordered about thirty pizzas."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Oh, he does, does he?" Taichi asks, giving Yamato a sly smile. "I don't think Yama's in any position to complain about other people being soft, fuzzy optimists."

Yamato rolls his eyes, then reaches over to give Cisco a shove. "He's exaggerating, I bought two. Two large ones."

[run_barry]

Barry only grins, clearly amused and enjoying this.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco rocks with the shove, laughing.

"I kid!" Reaching out to shove Yamato back, Cisco notes, "He doesn't seem soft and fuzzy to me."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"See, Cisco has the right idea," Yamato says.

"Please, he's a big puppy," Taichi says. "He just wants warm hugs and to make sure everyone's well-fed and tucked in when they go to sleep."

[run_barry]

"Have you pet his wolf ears? He goes on about them a lot," Barry asks Taichi.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco looks at Taichi and Barry, then leans over towards Yamato and loud-whispers, "Dude, they're both begging you to bite them to prove your fierceness."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"He hasn't let me pet 'em yet. He's shy," Taichi says solemnly. "One day, though."

"They're both begging for a fight," Yamato mutters back to Cisco. "Biting might be involved."

Taichi makes a face. "I don't want to end up with an ear bitten off like Ryusei."

[run_barry]

Barry laughs and finally relents in teasing Yamato.

"It's a great view out there," he says, nodding towards the city. "Taichi showed me your Academy."

[makes_the_toys]

"Dude, you Tyson'd somebody?" Cisco asks, shocked, but clearly in a 'that's awesome' rather than 'ew, gross' kind of way.

Craning his neck so he can look out at the city, Cisco says, "Where? I wanna see."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It was a -- spur of the moment thing," Yamato says, ducking his head. "Since he was trying to kill me at the time."

He eases his chair towards the window a little, pointing to a square island a little ways north-east of Odaiba, with a crowded cluster of buildings on it and what looks like a runway dotted with a few planes stretching down one side.

"Over there, just off the coast of Urayasu."

[run_barry]

"You were fighting for your life," Barry points out, giving Yamato a nod to let him know it's okay.

"When do you start?" he asks about the Academy, looking out towards it again.

[makes_the_toys]

"Were they able to reattach it?" Cisco asks, reaching up to rub his own ear at the thought.

Looking out to where Yamato points, Cisco scans over the city and gives a whistle.

"This place is packed. I see it, though. Looks cool, how long until you get to fly one of those?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I -- actually don't know. Someone could've brought it to the hospital, so maybe," Yamato says to Cisco.

He turns towards the window a little more, tilting his head. "I start in a couple of months. Not long now," he says. "But it'll be more than a year before I fly, and two years before I fly without an instructor sitting in with their own set of controls."

"I'm going to be spending most of that time behind a desk," Taichi grouses.

[run_barry]

"Couple of months, that's cool," Barry comments.

Turning to Yamato, Barry says, "Yeah, but you also get to take in a whole different country. That should be pretty interesting."

[makes_the_toys]

"Well, I guess that's a lesson for all of us. If you don't want to lose an ear, don't try and murder someone." Cisco feels this is a good life lesson.

"Two years, huh? That doesn't seem too long. Then what happens after you learn to fly?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Should be," Taichi chirps. "Last time I was in another country, it was for Chosen business, so this'll be a cool change."

As he talks, someone arrives with, as promised, two large pizzas. Yamato nudges one in Barry's direction.

"After I'm flying on my own, there's another year of training, and then I get transferred to a training squadron for the last year," Yamato says. "After that, transfer to another JASDF squadron. Taichi'll be back in the country by then, too."

[run_barry]

Barry lights up when he sees the pizzas, and gives a thanks to the person who brings them.

"You'll definitely have to do some sightseeing while you're there," Barry says to Taichi.

[makes_the_toys]

"You'll probably be all Top Gun by then," Cisco says, going for a pop culture reference rather than worry about what being in a JASDF squadron could actually mean.

"Do you already have a leather bomber jacket, or should I get you one?"