_Yamaki p.o.v_

"The fate of the world is at stake," I said, rubbing my forehead, "and you're playing a card game."

Crysta looked up from her hand. "Don't worry. Mark is setting up a digital dome. That will let us know whenever a digimon attacks. Riley and Tally are setting up a satellite radar so we know who is coming in and out of the city." She pulled a card out of her hand. "I digivolve Togemon to Lillymon!" She took the card that had been on the board off and discarded it. Then she laid down a card that featured what looked like a flower fairy. "Now I advance her," she moved the card to the next row, "and attack Gatomon!" She pointed at Kari's single card on the board. "You lose."

"Man," Kari said, "and I had Angewomon ready for action."

"You did pretty good for your first game," Crysta said. She smiled at me. "Now it's your turn."

"Excuse me?"

"You need to learn to play as well. What if you end up with a digimon?"

"That'll never happen."

"Stranger things have happened. Now sit. You can use Kari's deck."

Riley and Tally walked in. "We set up the satellite radar you wanted," Tally said.

Riley smiled. "Why, sir, are you about to play digimon?"

I felt my face burn. Crysta laughed. "Yep. Why don't you two play with him? I'll cream him if he's alone."

They both nodded, and sat down next to me. Crysta pulled the first five cards off her deck. "Take the first five cards." I did so. "Now, when it's your turn, you first take the top two cards of your deck." She did this. "Next, you can put up to two rookie digimon in your digivolve row. I'm playing Lopmon and Terriermon." She did this. "Next is the digivolve phase. You can digivolve up to two digimon, but I can't at the moment. Then you can move two digimon to either row." She moved her cards up. "I conclude my turn."

I drew the top two cards. Riley and Tally looked at my hand. "Do you even have any rookie digimon?" Tally asked.

"I think this one is." She pulled out a lion looking digimon. "Coronamon. Yep, it's a rookie."

"This one is too," Tally said, pointing at a plantlike digimon. "Palmon's a rookie too. You can play both of those."

"Yes, your highnesses," I said. I played both cards in the row nearest to us. "How do we digivolve?" I asked Crysta.

"If you have the next level digimon in your hand, then you can discard the rookie and play that. Or you can use a giga power card."

We all looked at my hand again. Well, I saw two giga power cards, and two monsters that looked a bit like the rookies. "How do we know if it is the next digimon?"

"The rookie card says its true digivolution, plus the higher level cards say what can digivolve into it."

I smiled at my plan.

"Okay, I'm going to play the D-3 Digivice and digivolve Palmon to Lillymon." I showed her the giga power card, then discarded it and Palmon. I then put Lillymon down. "Now I'm going to use Digimon Accelerator to digivolve Coronamon to Apollomon." I did the same thing to Coronamon, replacing him with his mega form.

Crysta looked impressed. "Nice move. Continue."

I eyed her suspiciously. She had a plan. "I now advance them," I moved the cards up.

Sally pulled a card swiftly out of her hand. "I activate Digi-Canceler." She threw a card down onto the board. "I discard three cards," she did so, "and you must discard Apollomon."

I scowled and did so. Before I could react, she threw down a second card. "I activate trapping chip. Your turn is now over."

Riley and Tally looked impressed. "She just destroyed you," Riley noted.

Crysta smiled. "I'm pretty good at this game."

Mark came running in with Kazu and Kenta. "The digital dome is up, and there's some injured digimon trying to make their way this direction."

Crysta dropped her cards and got up. "Let's go." She grabbed her motorcycle helmet and stuck her head outside, where the digimon were playing. "We have some injured digimon. Let's get moving."

I got up along with Riley and Tally. "Are we coming?"

"Yes. I might need you guys."

We all hurried outside, and Crysta hopped on her motorcycle. "Yamaki, you ride with me. Gotomon, you digivolve to Angewomon and carry Kari. Mark, you do what you do. Riley and Tally, do either of you have a car around here?"

"I do," Riley said.

"Good. You take Kazu, Kenta, and their digimon."

Everyone did as they were told. I looked at the motorcycle with uncertainty when I got on. "How old are you?"

"Thirteen."

"And do you have a license?"

"Do you want what you want to hear, or the truth?"

I sighed. "Just go."

She chuckled and grabbed the handle bars. "Hang on." I grabbed her waist right before she peeled away. Man she drove fast. Lucky it was a straight road.

As she drove, she pushed a button on the side of her helmet. "Talk to me, Mark."

"Okay, they should be more or less four miles from you. Take the first right you come to."

She looked sideways and made a sharp turn that almost through me off the motorcycle. "Is this really that urgent?" I yelled.

"Don't know, that's why I'm going so fast." She went back to Mark. "Are the others following?"

"Yes. Angewomon and Kari are right above you. The others are about point three miles behind."

"Good. Next direction."

"Turn left at the light up ahead."

I looked over her shoulder. Luckily, there were no cars out. She made her left turn then applied the brakes. We drifted to a stop, and she quickly got off, took off her helmet, and ran over to the injured digimon.

There was three digimon. I found that I knew what they all where, concidering I just saw their cards about three minutes ago. Coronamon, Palmon, and Lopmon. They were all lying on the ground, looking severly injured. Flying above them where odd white fish looking creatures.

Crysta knelt down next to them. "Are you okay?"

Coronamon lifted his head up. "Must…find…Hypnos."

Riley's car came screeching to a halt and everyone got out. Kari and Angewomon landed as well. Crysta turned to all of us. "Riley, Tally, Yamaki, come over here!"

We all ran over. Crysta turned back to Coronamon. "These are workers of Hypnos: Yamaki, Riley, and Tally."

He looked at the fish things above them. "Please."

They all flew at Crysta and nudged her away. She walked away, and they started circling us and the digimon. They started to spin faster, and one flew out and went right through me. The world became fuzzy, and then I blacked out.

I didn't think I was out that long. I woke up, feeling funny. There seemed to be a bright light radiating from somewhere. I stood up. Crysta was tending to a new digimon. He looked like one of the Egyptian gods. The jackal one.

Mark smiled. "Good, you're awake. I was getting worried."

"Where did that digimon come from?" I asked him.

"Not really sure. After the digignomes flew through all of you, they flew in a circle and he appeared."

"What happened when I blacked out?"

Mark smiled even more. "Look down and you'll find out."

I did so, and I almost blacked out again. My legs were armored, and my feet had claws. I quickly looked at my hands. They were clawed and armored as well. I ran over to Rileys car. My face resembled that of a lions.

"I'm a digimon!" I exclaimed.

"Correct. You aren't Yamaki anymore. Now you are Apollomon. If it makes you feel any better, the same thing happened to Riley and Tally."

I looked over to see two more digimon. One I recognized as the one Crysta and I had used. Lillymon, I believe. The other looked like a purple bunny mechanic.

They both woke up. "What happened?" The bunny asked.

"Simple, Riley. You, Tally, and Yamaki turned into digimon. You are Turuiemon, Tally is Lillymon, and Yamaki is Apollomon."

She looked down at herself, then sighed. "I'm a bunny. Nice."

Tally was examining herself as well. "I look great!" She touched her wings, then gave them a little flap.

"Where are the others?" I asked Mark.

"We sent them to check the roads and such to see if they see anything unusual."

Just as I was about to ask another question, three orbs of light appeared, one in front of me, Tally, and Riley.

I held my hand out, and a black D-Power landed in my hand. The same thing happened to Riley and Tally. Riley's was dark brown while Tally's was hot pink.

"Well that's odd. I've never seen biomerged digimon keep digivices," mark said.

Riley put hers on the back of the bandana which was around her neck. "Well, does this make us tamers?"

"Good question. Don't know yet."

I grabbed my long orange hair and clipped it deep inside it. They all looked at me. "What? I need to put it somewhere."

Tally stuffed hers in her boot. "Well, we do what we must."

Riley walked over to her car. She was just barely tall enough to open the door. She hopped in and came back out with a laptop. "Well, might as well check the satellite radar." She sat down and opened it up. She typed of a bit, then a look of horror crossed her face. "Oh no!"

That's when the others came running over. "You guys! We have a big problem!" Kari yelled.

"What?" Crysta asked, looking up from the digimon.

"The army's here," Kazu said. "They've been ordered to shoot every digimon in sight! We have to go!"