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[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato and Gabumon were both offered vidscreens of transformations as they settled at the Bar. Each of them has some kind of wolf mech, a keychain ("That's a bad joke," Yamato grumbles), and a few others. Yamato doesn't pick any of them, dismissing the vidscreens after a few moments of thought.

Gabumon does select one, and suddenly in place of a lizard is a young man with black hair, a hat, and angular features similar enough to Yamato's that they could probably pass for cousins or half brothers.

"Don't come complaining to me when you get tired of walking and can't just sit on my shoulders," Yamato murmurs.

Gabumon blinks at him. "But I can just sit on your shoulders."

A momentary scuffle later, Yamato is leaning heavily against the Bar, with the now nearly as tall as he is Gabumon sitting on his shoulders.

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[run_barry]

The approach of the big metal cat can hardly be called stalking, Barry just isn't that stealthy, but there is a certain feline strut to his walk as he comes over; eyeing the pair oddly.

"Hey, Yamato. What's... up?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"You're going to have to tell me who you -- ..." Yamato starts, before Gabumon turns and waves (nearly yanking Yamato off the bar stool in the process).

"Hi, Barry!" Gabumon chirps, apparently unfooled by Barry's current cheetah-ness.

"Barry, why are you a cheetah, unless there are rocket boosters somewhere on that chassis that's literally making yourself slower," Yamato adds.

[run_barry]

"Are you Gabumon?" he asks, eyes widening when he recognizes the voice and wave.

Barry's expression shifts into a frown/pout that doesn't quite convey all of this disappointment his own features would. "It does have rockets, but I'm still faster without them."

It's a huge bummer, really, even if he's still enjoying his time as a robot cheetah.

"I didn't know I'd lose my speed by choosing a different form."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"He's heavy is what he is," Yamato grumbles, while Gabumon gives Barry a sunny smile.

"Being slow can be fun!" Gabumon says, encouragingly if not perhaps a shade unconvincingly. "And you'll be human again in a few days. And you can bite people."

[run_barry]

"Well that kind of makes this make sense," he notes, looking the pair up and down and chuckling.

He appreciates Gabumon's attempt, and gives a smile to show it, but shakes his head. "Haven't met anyone I'd want to bite, but it's alright, I'm still having fun. How come you didn't choose something, Yamato?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"None of them looked like something I'd want to spend two days as," Yamato says, a little gruffly. "I like having opposable thumbs."

"To not bite anyone would be a waste of having teeth like that," Gabumon says, firmly. "If someone cuts ahead of you on your way to the Bar, you can show them how unhappy you are with them!"

It's the perfect plan.

[run_barry]

"I really didn't get this form for the teeth," he replies to Gabumon.

Eying a stool, Barry crouches.

"It's only for two days, don't be so-- " he makes a leap and manages to stick the landing on top of the empty stool; proud for half a heartbeat. Unfortunately furniture made out of building blocks isn't the sturdiest and after a brief moment of precarious wobbling the blocks give way and Barry goes crashing to the ground in a scattering of brightly colored, used to be a bar stool, pieces.

"-- boring." He finishes from the floor.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato and Gabumon fold their arms and tilt their heads at Barry in what would be perfect unison if Yamato wasn't slightly wobbly on account of trying not to accidentally tip Gabumon off his shoulders.

"Truly the speed and grace of a jungle cat," Yamato says, very dryly. "Think two days will be enough time to master jumping?"

[run_barry]

"Funny," Barry grumbles.

As he picks himself up there's a strange whirling sound and the cheetah splits open, robot parts rearranging, and soon Barry is standing in a much more humanoid form.

Kicking aside some of the debris he reaches out and drags another stool closer, sitting down on it triumphantly.

"Cool, right?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Very cool!" Gabumon says.

"Seen cooler, but it's all right," Yamato adds. "And it means you don't have to worry about how you'll pick things up."

[run_barry]

"See, Gabumon gets it," he says.

Turning to the obviously cooler member of the pair Barry says, "I like what you picked, by the way. And I'm glad to see you back in the bar. How are you feeling?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Gabumon's trying to get on your good side," Yamato says, "so that he can convince you to bite someone while he watches and laughs at the mayhem."

"I'm great," Gabumon says, all gormless good cheer, "and it's way less hot here than it is back home, too! How are you feeling?"

[run_barry]

"You know I'm not going to bite anyone, right?" he asks Gabumon, hoping to make the point clear.

He's tempted to order something, then realizes as a robot there's probably nothing he could order.

"I'm doing alright. Is it summer where you guys are from?"

[childofrebellion]

There's a piece that Cassian needs for one of the X-wings near Yamato and he gives a confused whirr at the sight of them, "Beep brip boop?" Why is he on your shoulders?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I'm proving a point," Gabumon says, steadying himself by grabbing Yamato's head. "Besides, he sits on my shoulders at the time."

"Only when you're much bigger than me," Yamato grumbles.

[childofrebellion]

"Brip wrr," What point? Apparently Gabumon can understand him, that's interesting.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"He said I couldn't ride on his shoulders like this. He was wrong."

"Do you actually understand what they're saying, or are you just making things up?" Yamato asks Gabumon. Then, to Cassian: "Hi, I'm Yamato. Is this a Cubefall thing, or ... ?"

[childofrebellion]

Cassian kind of laughs, it sounds like whirring and beeping as their relationship makes him think of Kay, "Blip beep bwee wrr brip." Its for Cubefall. I'm Cassian.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Gabumon translates (complete with deep, growly voice for Cassian). Yamato personally thinks that giving up hands, the ability to easily climb stairs, and the ability to talk to most people sounds like hell, but he's willing to admit to himself that he possibly (maybe) has problems with relinquishing even a tiny bit of control.

"I'm Gabumon!" Gabumon chirps. "Nice to meet you!"

[childofrebellion]

He can fly, talk to ships and he's not hurting, its a fair trade for a few days, "Bleep brip." Good to meet you. What do you normally look like?

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Gabumon reaches down to grab Yamato's wrist, tugging it up and fiddling with the tiny, wristwatch sized computer that Karkat gave him, until a holographic projection of his usual form -- yellow, lizardy, dressed in a wolf's pelt -- appears.

"Like this! Usually."

[childofrebellion]

Cassian comes closer to look and through his database finds an image of himself, its from a Rebel database and he only shows his face,

"Bwee beep boop brip." What species are you? I normally look like this.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I'm a Digimon. A Gabumon-species Digimon, that is," Gabumon says.

Yamato quickly memorises the face he's looking at, then adds: "He's a kind of data creature. A little like an AI, but with a physical form."

[childofrebellion]

"Blip bwee wrrr." Data creature, and you live with a human?

That's odd and kind of intriguing.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"We're partners! In crime. And world-saving," Gabumon says, nodding firmly.