"I... I'm going to need to have a long talk with my dad."

"Before you do, we have a few more things to discuss. Thankfully, this conversation will be on more pleasant subjects than the previous."

"What about?" Takato asked.

"Digivolution." I said. "Specifically, enabling all of you to be able to achieve Ultimate."

Rika straightened up.

"But Guilmon can already do it?" Takato said.

"Indeed he can." I nodded. "Tell me, Takato, do you still have the Blue Card that you used last night?"

He reached into one of his pockets, pulling out several cards, before putting all but one back. The aforementioned Blue Card in question.

He did still have it.

"Good. Keep that card on hand, it has a lot of uses." I leaned back. "Among the most important of which is the ability to channel Calumon's power."

"Wait," Rika cut in. "If that card can channel Calumon's power, then is that card what allows Guilmon to Digivolve into Ultimate?"

"Uh-huh!" Calumon exclaimed.

"Yes." I said. "It is, for that reason, quite important. Do try not to lose it, would you Takato?"

He nodded. "You don't need to tell me that."

"It's not vitally important that you don't lose it, thanks to the nature of Blue Cards, but it will still be a pain."

"The nature of the Blue Cards?" Rika asked.

"The Blue Cards have, like I said, a lot of uses. When one understands how they work, any card can be transformed into a Blue Card." I noted.

"That's... pretty amazing." Henry said.

"Indeed. May I see that card, Takato?"

He held it out, and I took it.

For a moment, I looked at it.

These Cards use emotions and faith to transform ideas into reality.

A counterpart to the DigiGnomes, they serve much the same purpose.

This World allows their existence because of this nature.

This World is quiet forgiving, isn't it?

Oh yes.

"You two, Henry, Rika, will be needing one of these cards fairly soon." I handed it back to Takato.

"Great." Rika said. "How do we get one?"

"A good question." I said. "I, myself, do not know how to make or transform other cards into them."

"That... is remarkably unhelpful." Rika frowned. "How are we going to get for ourselves, then?"

"Do you have an idea?" Henry asked. "Because, a lot of the time, you seem to have ideas."

"Indeed." I nodded. "And I realise that this is going to sound very, very weird, but try wishing for them."

Rika nodded.

Then paused. "Hang on, what?"

"Try wishing for them." I repeated.

"You're joking." She said, confused. "Right?"

"Oh, I'm being fully serious."

They all stared at me.

"You're not joking." Rika realised.

"Like I said, I was being fully serious."

Rika pulled out a card, holding it in the air, a strange, confused smile on her face.

"I wish I had a Blue Card." She said, her voice telling me exactly how incredulous and disbelieving she was.

For a moment, nothing happened.

Rika stopped smiling, beginning to glare at me- before, in a flash of light, the card she had been holding in her hand C̷͠h̸͢a͏̵͘n̴̵ģ̶͡e͟d.

Everybody stared at the Blue Card in her hand.

My vision shifted for a moment, and I saw a tiny connection between this dimension and the Data Dimension that hadn't been there before.

And within; the Heart and Soul belonging to a tiny creature.

A DigiGnome.

"What." Rika uttered.

I stopped looking at it, turning my attention back to Rika.

"Well, I hadn't been entirely certain that would work, but since it did; that's great."

DigiGnomes are still being DigiBros, I see.

"What?" Henry asked. "How is that even-" He shook his head, cutting himself off.

He pulled a card out of his pocket, holding it into the air just like Rika had done. "I wish I had a Blue Card."

I turned my attention back to the DigiGnome, watching as the creature smiled even wider. "I'm helping!"

There was a flash of light, and Henry's card C̷͠h̸͢a͏̵͘n̴̵ģ̶͡e͟d.

"Well that takes care of that problem, I guess."

"That's it?" Rika asked. "To get a Blue Card, all I had to do was wish for it?"

"It does seem kind of unfair." Takato said. "Me and Guilmon had to fight Mihiramon to get one." He wasn't angry about that- if anything, he was amused.

"Very unfair." Guilmon nodded, sagely. He too was amused, though unlike Takato, he couldn't prevent the smile from growing on his face.

He hid it rather well, however, by pressing his head into Takato side, soon beginning to purr when Takato began to scratch him again.

"I wonder what my Ultimate is like?" Terriermon spoke aloud.

"You're not even being remotely subtle about it, Terriermon." Henry sighed.

"Do you think that you'd be up for that, Calumon?" I asked him. "And for Rika and Renamon, too?"

The little white ball of fluff smiled, rapidly nodding.

"If you don't all have something to do later today, you're welcome to find out here, Henry, Terriermon." I paused for a second. "And for that matter, so are you, Rika, Renamon."

"Henry~" Terriermon begged.

"Don't." Henry shifted. "Better to do it now while you're out of danger, than to find out while you're in the middle of combat."

Oh ho~

Terriermon whooped, jumping off the cushions.

"Go a bit further from here." I said. "Most Ultimates are considerably large, and I don't want you crushing anything important."

His wouldn't be, but I had no way of explaining how I knew that.

"Same goes for you, Renamon."

The fox nodded, standing up. Rika followed her in an instant, the both of them beginning to head a little ways away.

"Not going to join them, Guilmon?"

"No." Guilmon smiled, not moving from his spot. "Takato can't give me scratches if I'm too big."

Takato chuckled, bringing his other hand up to scratch behind Guilmon's other ear.

"You're the best, boy." Takato leaned back, a happy smile on his face.

"You too, Takatomon." Guilmon purred.