_Sally p.o.v_
"So that's a vague description of what's going on," I told Crysta and Mark.
"That's quite the stunt you pulled," Mark said. "If it wasn't so crazy I might just be impressed."
We were all back at Rika's house, and the digimon were playing outside. Only Leomon and Cyberdramon stayed.
"So you guys work with Sally?" Takato asked.
"Yep," Crysta said. "We call ourselves the Tri-Digis. We mainly work on programs for cards and D-Powers."
"How was it that you two used digimon attacks?" Yamaki asked.
"Well, we all once tried to come up with a card program that could be used on other's digimon, but it worked on us instead. I used Gargomon: gargo laser, Mark used Angewomon: celestial arrow, and Sally used her own creation, siren's song."
"Do you all create cards as well?" Cari asked.
"Nope," Mark said. "Sally's our big programmer. I'm the lab rat, and Crysta's mainly the guard dog."
"I never agreed to be called that," Crysta mumbled.
"So we're going to be helping protect the city?" Mark asked.
"Yep. Kari's staying too. We just need to do one thing first." I turned to Kari. "I need you to make your crest glow."
She frowned. "I can't. My crest was destroyed in a fight a long time ago."
"But you still have its power. I just need you to focus on its attribute as hard as you can."
She nodded, and closed her eyes. She folded her hands together, and stood for a moment. Then, a bright pink light shone out from the middle of her. I quickly pulled out my D-Power and held it out to her. It glowed pink as well, then both lights faded.
"Okay, so what did that do?" Takato asked.
"I have a hunch that each gem will have one of the crests on it. Kari's crest is the crest of light. This way I can now use my D-Power to locate the gem."
"What do the crests do?" Rika asked.
Kari pulled out her digivice. It was an odd ameba shape with no card slot. "I have an older Digivice than your versions. Back then, we didn't have cards to use, so we had to find the tags and crests to digivolve our digimon to the ultimate form. This allowed Gotomon to digivolve to Angewomon. As a matter of fact, what do modify cards do?"
"They're cards that have effects on your digimon," Kenta said. He pulled out his cards and showed them to her. "Each card has a different effect on your digimon."
Kari took them and started looking through them. Then she stopped. "This one looks interesting." She pulled out a card I had never seen before. "Which one is this?"
Kenta took it, and frowned. "Where did this come from? I don't remember ever having it." He shrugged, and handed it back to Kari. "How about you keep it? I don't need it."
Kari smiled. "Thanks." She grabbed it with the hand that held her digivice, and it started to glow. She dropped it and took a step back. When the light faded, Kari's digivice had morphed into a D-Power. It was mainly pink with a white ring around the screen and a pink strap. Next to it was a blue card.
She picked it up. "Cool."
"Well, looks like you got some modify cards to get," I said.
"Don't bother," Crysta said. She pulled out her deck, which contained around a hundred cards. That wasn't even her good deck.
"You can have some of mine. I didn't really know how to play the game when I got a digimon, so I went out and bought every card. I have the deck that I use, and then a bunch of other decks. You can look through them and choose the cards you want."
"But I don't know how to play."
"I'll teach you. It'll be fun."
I smiled. "You can't ask for a better teacher than Crysta. She knows every card like she knows her motorcycle."
"Thanks," Kari said, starting to skim through Crysta's deck.
"Well, I just have one more thing I need to know." I turned on Cyberdramon. "Where the heck were you during the fighting?"
"Oh, I had been sent off to-"
"Fifty bucks says you were napping."
He looked down, and I started laughing. "Just make sure you're awake next time." I looked at my D-Power to see where it was getting a reading on the gem. "Aw, yeah. Saddle up, y'all; were heading to the States!"
_Henry p.o.v_
"So how are we getting to America?" I asked Sally.
We were all at the ocean, and she was walking up and down the beach. "Well, if I'm correct, there's supposed to be a land bridge in the digital world around here. Once I find where it is, I can reveal it, and we can cross."
"If you merged the worlds together, shouldn't it be visible?" Takato asked.
"Not necessarily. There can be some odd side effects when digital becomes real." She stopped walking, and faced the ocean. "Found it!" She held out her digivice, and land did appear, but it wasn't a bridge.
"It looks like a boat to me," Terriermon said.
"Well, as long as it moves, who cares?" Sally said. She hopped on. "Let's get going!"
Everyone that was coming climbed on. It was pretty big, so we weren't crammed.
"By Sally!" Crysta cried. "Remember to call using the D-Phone!"
"I will!" Sally held her D-Power out to the ocean. "Destination: America!"
The land boat took off into the sea, and the beach faded into the distance.
I sat down. "So what's the D-Phone?" I asked.
"It's one of our newer creations. We made a card that would add a feature to the D-Power. This one allowed you to call other D-Powers that had the card swiped."
"And it worked?"
She stuck her tongue out at me. "I'm not a complete failure." She pulled out her laptop. "Anyone care for some music?"
We all looked at her quizzically. She rolled her eyes. "I can choose not to make stuff happen. Nothing's going to go wrong." She started up a song. It was a genre of music I never really listened to.
Country.
"Well, I've been watchin' you, girl," She sang, "The way you move got the room on fire. Oh yeah, rock my world. Wanna take you home with me."
She stood up and started to dance. She seemed to be having so much fun, I couldn't help but smile.
"You should never be lonely."
"Lonely," Ryo and Rika sang, looking at each other in surprise. Sally, still singing, smiled, and urged them to continue singing.
"I wanna take you back to my place," they sang. You can do your dance on the kitchen floor."
Sally grabbed my hands and started to dance with me. She then moved to Takato, then Ryo. She was having so much fun. It was infectious. I started to laugh.
Suddenly the music stopped, and Sally started to clap the beat. She pointed at Ryo, indicating for him to take the lead. He smiled.
"Lay your body next to me. All your troubles up and leave. Ease my mind, and set me free. C'mon, c'mon."
Sally and Rika chimed in, singing in harmony with Ryo. She then grabbed Rika's hands and started to dance, but Rika pulled away. Sally shrugged and continued to dance.
When the song finished, we all cheered. Sally was still spinning around. "That was amazing! We should do it again!"
"What song was that?" Jeri asked.
"Wanna Take You Home with Me; by Gloriana," Sally said. She smiled at Riko and Rika. "I can't believe you know it!"
"I can't believe Rika actually sang," Takato said.
She crossed her arms and looked out to sea. "It was just in the moment."
Sally sighed happily and sat down. "This is going to be a fun adventure. I can tell."