I don't own digimon.
Story 11
Do feed the birds
Bianca was not amused by the situation she found herself in. Why did this have to happen during the one big meeting of the year? The digimon of her fellow employees were already annoying enough - between the biyomon flapping their wings about overhead and the goblimon intent on swinging their clubs about at invisible foes, the odds of actual work being done at this meeting were next to none. Did they really need to be up so close to their human partners? Wasn't their cubicles good enough? At least there they could not be as distracting. Even if it somehow turned out to be the opposite, it was a good starting point towards a solution.
"Are we all ready to begin?" she announced, waiting a couple moments for her co-workers' attention to shift away from their digimon and over to her. Absolutely simple. How this was so hard of a concept to understand, the engineer didn't know. "Good. First order of business is the update on the improved fe-"
Of course, every Biyomon in the room took this as their cue to swoop down and be at eye contact level with her. It was obvious that these feeders were for regular birds, not digimon. Why couldn't they get that into their heads? If they were, the feeder itself would be absolutely massive and require an entirely different kind of birdseed. Birdseed that didn't exist yet. Even if this supposed 'seed' were to exist, that would require a whole different set of processes from the manufacturing of bird feeders and other devices to how exactly the feed would be marketed in the first place. Well beyond Bianca's wheelhouse. If it weren't, they would already be in the process of getting it made.
"For regular birds, not bird digimon." Bianca announced, her statement doing little in the way of the biyomon leaving her alone. If anything, they took this as an excuse to get even closer to the engineer. She hadn't forgotten to get rid of the last birdseed on her, right? She clearly remembered setting the bag down before remembering that she needed to also grab the mockups for the feeders… that she also forgot to bring along with her. Because of course she did. Such a simple, stupid mistake. Bianca knew she was better than this… usually. These last couple of days had been a challenge to hold it all together. With all the arrivals of digimon and what felt like an endless stream of vague and annoying texts trying to tell her something. What that something was? Fuck if she knew. Whatever it was, they didn't respect her privacy one bit. All the attempts to block this mystery person ended up backfiring. Didn't help when the messages got passive aggressive and full of threats. Did the people running this shit have so much time on their hands that they could be cyberbullying a random woman they had no way of actually knowing. The nerve of those fuckers. "I do not have any seed on me. Stopping crowding me like I did. Better yet, don't you all have humans that can feed you. You don't need a handout."
The biyomon shook their heads.
"Since Parrotmon isn't here, you're our boss. We just thought it was a good idea to introduce ourselves." one of the biyomon explained and got a look from Bianca. That was the most ridiculous thing she had heard all day. Better yet, wouldn't their human partners be the ones w-
"Sup." a voice announced and the engineer spun around. Standing before her was a large green parrot thing.
"Alberdo?" one of her co-workers announced and the green parrot thing made his way over. A slap followed, knocking the employee and his chair over to the wall. No worse for the wear, outside of a small headache and a bout of confusion.
"Don't you dare ever compare me to that stupid puppet… Even if he does seem like a nice guy." the parrot thing announced and walked back over to Bianca. Letting out a deep breath, they dug into their feathers. Eventually, a digivice came out. Relatively plain, outside of a couple scratches from possible misuse. Handing it over to Bianca, the engineer couldn't quite make heads or tails on any of this. For the life of her, she couldn't remember having a digimon partner in the first place. She had no reason to not believe Parrotmon, but that didn't change the fact that her frame of reference for any of this. "Uh… sorry about not being there for any hard things you might have faced."
Their words rolled out and Bianca accepted the digivice. Slipping it into her blouse pocket, she reached out for Parrotmon's claw and gave it a squeeze.
"The thought is nice, but this is a big meeting. Could you wait until after to catch up?" Bianca remarked and got a nod from her partner. Parrotmon made their way to the corner. "As I was saying, the update on the improved bird feeders. Has progress been made?"