For Digimon Manga/Game flash bingo 024 - prompt: birds
8. Cloudless
The inevitable life cycle of a Digimon is painful to deal with.
Bit of an understatement, he knows but he cares about his partners and watching them die again and again as a simple issue of programming is at the very least disheartening.
So each baby he gets, he trains and trains. He loves them anew. What choice does he have?But he canno get attached to them. Not in the same way. Respect is about all he can give.
Losing them really does hurt.
Except Peckmon is different. Peckmon is obedient but somehow talkative. He expresses opinions, even about things that they shouldn't know about. Digimon have feelings and hearts, Norn showed him so, she proved it.
However, it's entirely different when the worlds touch and Peckmon expresses.
He flies. He flies expertly in every battle. It hurts more than it should, to think about his Digimon's inevitable demise.
He doesn't want to.
So when his toy is crushed, when he goes to the digital world for the first time, Barbamon doesn't need much to guide him in. Just a promise of his friend being alive and being with Norn.
That's all. That's enough.