"Okay, hold on a moment." I said, holding the card in the air. "Where the heck did you get this?"

Henry shrugged. "I swiped a card through my D-Power, it turned into that." He stated.

"Henry should listen to me a lot more often." Terriermon smiled.

"Right."

I stared at the Blue Card in my hand, pondering.

The children already had Blue Cards, so what was the reason for this one?

Was Shibumi simply not aware of that?

It was possible- but unlikely. The DigiGnomes granted them their cards, and they were around Shibumi a lot.

Unless... it hadn't been intended for the children? But if that were the case, why would it transform only when it was swiped through a D-Power?

Bleh. I'll ask him if I ever meet him.

"So, what does it mean?" Rika asked.

"I have no idea." I stated.

Rika sighed.

"So, where did it come from?" Takato asked.

"Shibumi, probably." I answered. "The man created these cards. That one of them just happened to get into your hands and transform when it was swiped through your D-Power implies that he was involved in some way."

"Why?" Henry asked. "We all already have one."

"Once again, I have no idea."

"I wonder if this card is different from the others?" Takato mused.

"Might be." Henry shrugged. "Oh hey! I can get my dad to check."

"Check?" Rika asked.

Henry nodded. "Yeah. When I talked with him, he showed me this card reading thing. He recognized the code on the card, and told me that it was the work of Shibumi, also known as-"

"Gorou Mizuno."

Henry nodded.

"Shibumi wasn't his real name?" Takato asked.

"It was a code name." I noted. "All the Monster Maker's had one. Henry's father, for example, was called 'Tao'."

"What's with all the code names?" Rika asked.

"They were a group of college students during the 80's. Code names were cool during the 80's."

Rika snorted.

"Do you mind if I come with you?" Takato asked.

"No. Mom will be glad to see me with my friends." Henry smile. "What about you, Rika?"

"I'll come." She said. "I want to know if there's a difference too."

Henry nodded, before turning to me, frowning slightly. "You, on the other hand... Well, you're a lot more suspicious than these two."

I waved my hand. "Oh, give me some credit Henry. I am very, very good at stealth and disguise. Your family won't notice a thing." Unless one of them is secretly a ninja. And even then... "Behold." I spread my arms, a cloud of purple smoke temporarily obscuring my form.

I shifted My Darkness around, compressing into a much smaller form- specifically; that of a Shadow Heartless, though only around the size of Calumon. Slightly smaller than that, actually. My eyes ceased glowing, just becoming two blue circles on my face

The smoke cleared, and all three of them stared at where I had been.

"Look down." I said.

All three of them did.

Rika flinched as she laid eyes on my, shuddering.

"What?" Takato asked.

"How is that a disguise?" Henry asked.

"Oh, you'd be surprised." I jumped up at Rika, the girl catching me on instinct alone. I let myself fall limp, acting completely inanimate. "I am now disguised as a doll."

Rika stared at me.

"There is no way this is going to work."

"I can't believe that worked." Rika stated.

"I can." Takato smiled. "I walked through the streets with Guilmon a while ago. Nobody batted an eye."

"What worked?" Janyu asked.

I twitched in Rika's arms, and the girl dropped me to the ground. I stood up, purple smoke pouring out of me as I once again assumed my previous form.

Janyu started, but then shook his head. "Oh." He turned, facing his son. "So, what did you need?"

Henry pulled the Blue Card out of his pocket, and then pulled out the other one. Takato and Rika did likewise, displaying their cards. "We got this card a little while ago." He said, handing it to his father. "And we were wondering if there was any difference between the cards."

Janyu sat down at his desk, reaching into a cabinet and pulling out a small box. "Let's find out, shall we?"

He took the offered card from Henry inserting it into the card reader. He clicked around, before a window showed up on his screen.

0's and 1's began to appear, Janyu scrolling through them quickly. Not quickly enough that I couldn't read them, however.

"What do those numbers mean?" Takato asked.

"It's Binary." I noted, making sure that only they heard me. Janyu twitched slightly -in surprise at my voice-, but nodded.

It had been years since I'd done any form of programming, but that experience was enough to tell me that Shibumi's code was hellaciously complex.

"Doesn't... seem to be anything different." Janyu stated, still staring at the code. He resized the window, shifting it up into the top right corner of his screen.

The Card Reader clicked as it opened up, Janyu taking the Blue Card out and handing it to Henry, before taking the other card and slotting it in.

Another window popped up, and he moved it to the bottom right corner of the screen. He began to scroll through it, though neither of us spotted an immediate difference.

Twice more he did that, taking Takato's and Rika's cards and inserting them when the card reader finished with the previous one.

By the end, we were staring at four windows, each of which displaying 1's and 0's.

"Now, we don't really have time to go over the entire algorithm, but thankfully, we don't have to." Janyu smiled. He clicked on several options, before a few more windows came up, displaying several more lines of Binary.

Another few clicks, and it was promptly translated.

Just... not in the way that I was expecting.

"I tried translating this algorithm before." Janyu leaned back. "The only thing that I get is these symbols. Which doesn't make sense, by the way."

"Why's that?" Rika asked.

"Well, you see, each of those strings of numbers should be translating specifically, but it doesn't. This one here," He pointed. "Should be translating to an 'A', but instead, I get this." He pointed at the other symbol. "It's made my work analysing the code quite a fair bit harder than it really should be."

"It's DigiCode." I noted.

Janyu looked at me, surprised. "You can read it?"

"I can." I nodded. I pointed at the window at the top left. "This part here says 'Users: Rika Nonaka, Renamon; Fifth-level-Form: Taomon'." I pointed at the top right. "This one says 'Users: Henry Wong, Terriermon; Fifth-Level-Form: Rapidmon'." I pointed at bottom right. "Here, it's 'Users: None; Fifth-Level-Form: None'." Finally, I pointed at the bottom left screen. "And last: 'Users: Takato Matsuki, Guilmon; Fifth-Level-Form: WarGrowlmon; Warning: Digi-"

I froze.

That's not good.

"What is it?" Takato asked, concerned and curious all the same.

Warning: Digital Hazard.