This chapter takes place solely in the Adventure DigiDestined's Digital World and is in Mel Motomiya's POV. Enjoy.

Updated 4/9/21

I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON ADVENTURE 02, TAMERS, FRONTIER OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS!

Chapter 4: Communications Disruption

The Adventure DigiDestined Digital World: Location: Gennai's Base

Poor Mel Motomiya was sobbing into Dan Motomiya's chest with Jun holding her arm. The first time she'd heard the horrible scream echo through the large complex, she knew instinctively that it had been Davis. Call it mother's intuition if you want, but it was enough to send her racing for the nearest monitor. By the time she'd navigated the winding hallways to one of the many observation rooms that were filled wall to wall with screens, her eyes zeroed in on a screen that was monitoring her son and what she saw scared her beyond words. She watched the Inoue girl bring Davis over to Joe Kido for examination. Mel saw the unnatural and awkward way Davis held his right arm. That's when she started trembling. She didn't know when the five others that had followed her came in, but she wasn't aware of their presence until Dan's arms wrapped tightly around her. She was vaguely aware of James Kido and his son Jim standing nearby watching Joe examine Davis.

"Yup," Joe's voice sighed through the speakers. "It's dislocated alright."

"Can you relocate it, Joe?" a girl's voice asked. Sora Takenouchi maybe?

Mel clutched tightly at Dan and Jun's hands as she waited with baited breath for the doctor's son's answer.

"Yes," Joe said slowly. "I've done it once before at the clinic I'm interning at, but it'll be painful. It's twisted out of its socket so I'll have to re-twist it and then pop it back in place."

Mel let out a shaky breath barely aware of the number of hands on her person as others tried to console her. Dan's embrace strengthened in his own attempt to quell her fears. The look on Davis' face screamed at her, making her want to wrap him in her arms. He'd only been gone for a little over a day and he was already hurt. The side conversations Davis was having with children that she did and didn't know were lost on her as she watched him try to disguise how much pain he was in while Joe was preparing for what he needed to do to help her son. She wasn't sure how long she remained in that numb and unseeing state, but the next words to register in her mind set every nerve of her being alight and on full alert.

"Alright everyone," Joe's voice called out from the speakers. "Give us space. I'm going to reset his shoulder now."

Mel held her breath as she watched Joe steel himself before twisting Davis' arm back into the right position. She couldn't stop the tears from falling as she watched her son. His second scream shook her to her core. It was louder than the first one and she felt her whole body tremble despite Dan's tight hold on her, sobs racking her body.

"All right, Davis," Joe's voice said soothingly, bringing Mel back out of her sorrow. "The worst is over. Now I'm going to pop your arm back into your shoulder socket. It's going to hurt, but it shouldn't be as painful as the twist. …Ready?"

Davis nodded, sweat dripping down his face, but there was a determined set to his jaw that Mel couldn't help but be proud of. When had her little boy grown up to be such a brave man? She watched apprehensively as Joe grabbed Davis' arm again and pushed up. A sickening snap echoed deafeningly through the speakers and rang in Mel's ears, but this time there was no accompanying scream. Davis moaned quietly instead.

"Good boy," she heard James Kido say proudly. "Couldn't have reset the arm better myself. Davis is going to be just fine, Mrs. Motomiya."

Mel released a relieved breath and leaned heavily against her husband as she allowed her body to cry itself out and Jun to rub her arm in a comforting gesture while shedding tears of her own. They all watched Joe rummage through a bag before pulling out an instant ice pack.

"Thanks," Davis sighed as Joe applied the pack and began making a sling for Davis to rest his arm in.

"He's fine, Mel," Dan whispered. "Joe's done a good job. Dr. Kido said so himself."

"He looks better already," Jun added.

Mel nodded numbly as she watched Davis smile a genuine smile and assure his friends and the other children that he was alright now.

"Now that the crisis appears to be over, could I have you all follow me, please?" a familiar sounding voice asked.

Mel looked up from Dan's embrace and saw one of the many digital men that worked in this place and looked like Gennai. Which one he was Mel hadn't the slightest clue.

"Couldn't you give them a moment, for pity's sake?" James Kido protested. "Their son was just hurt-!"

"And has been taken care of," the digital man stated calmly, gesturing to the screen where Davis was boarding his Digimon partner's back with the help of his friends, TK and Kari.

James Kido pursed his lips together, and looked like he was about to say something further, but Mel spoke up. The good doctor needn't go through so much trouble on her behalf.

"It's alright, Dr. Kido," she said, smiling weakly. "He's right. Davis is safe and on the road to recovery now thanks to your son. Standing here crying over what happened to Davis won't bring him back any sooner."

"Quite right, Miss," the digital man said, bowing. "Now if you'll please follow me…"

James Kido glared at the insensitive hunk of data, but Mel gave him another smile and placed a hand of thanks on his arm. The good doctor sighed and followed her and Dan out of the room.

They started down one of the many long and winding corridors. Mel was sure that if they didn't have a guide, she would have gotten lost. When they reached the end of the corridor they took a lift up three floors and continued down a complex maze of halls before ending up in a pristine meeting room. All of the other parents were there with Gennai and another one of his look-alikes. She was pretty sure that this one was called Harry and had brought the American parents.

"We saw what happened to Davis," Gennai stated sadly, gesturing to the monitor behind him. "How are you holding up?"

Mel smiled weakly while Dan just told everyone that they were fine.

"We saw him save TK," Nancy Takaishi spoke up softly. "He was very brave."

Mel's smile strengthened with pride for her son as she took the seat next to the single mother. Dan sat on her other side. James Kido took up a seat opposite them while Jun and Jim went around the table to occupy two empty seats left for them further down. It was only then that Mel realized that Toshiko Takenouchi had been with them as well. The woman took a seat next to the Kamiyas across from her husband who'd arrived in the Digital World some time after they had.

"So what is this about, Gennai?" Mel heard Mike Inoue demand. "It's been a little over a day and you still haven't told us yet what we can do to bring our children home."

Many others nodded.

Gennai held up his hands in a placating gesture.

"We have been looking into that, Mr. Inoue," said the unknown digital man that had brought Mel and her group to the room. "Gennai had originally intended for you all to come to the Digital World in the hopes that you'd be able to reach out to the DigiDestined of this world through the bond that you all share with your child. Amplified with Azulongmon's powers, the bonds would have been able to serve as a bridge to create a digital portal from this Digital World to wherever it is they are now. …Unfortunately for reasons currently unknown this method is no longer effective as Mr. Ishida helped demonstrate only a few hours ago when we tried to make contact with TK or Matt. At this present point in time we have no way of communicating with your children due to some sort of interference."

Mel felt her heart sink. So there was nothing that they could do after all.

"But surely there must be something else," Masami Izumi cried. "You wouldn't have called us all here just to tell us that!"

"You're right, Mrs. Izumi." Gennai nodded, shooting a glare at the insensitive digital man standing opposite him. "Martin failed to mention that even though we have no present means of communication there still might be hope yet. Izzi has his laptop with him providing us with an opportunity. It's the same laptop that he has used since he first came to the Digital World and that I've tinkered with. I have even synced my systems once or twice with his computer in order to provide him with helpful programs like the Digimon Analyzer. It carries this Digital World's signature within its hard drive-!"

"What?!" the other digital man – Martin – exploded. "You mean to tell me that you shared our technology with a human child?"

"Izzi is a highly capable young man and knows how to use our technology. In fact, I'd dare to say that he knows how to use it better than over half of us residing in this base," Gennai said coolly.

Martin looked enraged.

"He's got a point, Martin," Harry spoke up for the first time. "I've dealt with Izzi once before. Not personally, but I was sent to examine his computer's hard drives back when we were doing the wipes on all events on earth that had concerned Digimon after the Dark Master's defeat. I noticed that his program coding encryptions are a lot stronger than some of the work from our so-called experts. I couldn't get into at least half of his files."

"That good, huh?" Martin frowned, not liking the idea that there was a human out there that was possibly smarter than himself or any of his digital people and therefore capable of hacking into the sensitive information that they protected.

"Moving on," Gennai sighed, pulling up an image on the screen. "What I was trying to say was that we could use Izzi's laptop as the bridge to serve as our link to this other Digital World. When that happens we'll be able to send them help and hopefully bring them home. The only problem is finding a strong enough power source to boost the signal that will establish the link now that we've got this strange communication interference to deal with. In the meantime, Centarumon has been looking into something for me for the last few years that I think will help the DigiDestined."

"What has this… Centarumon? What has he found?" Dan asked.

"Shortly before Tai and the other seven children defeated the Dark Masters, Centarumon and I found a text foretelling of a great evil that had emerged into this world that the original DigiDestined before them had once defeated and that it would soon return. At the time we believed that this evil was Apocalymon, but recently we have begun to have our doubts."

"What kind of doubts?" Toshiko Takenouchi asked.

"…Within the last year alone it has been proven that there are other worlds out there that can end up having a direct effect on our own worlds," Harry took over. "The Dark Ocean and the failed dream world where MaloMyotismon had been regenerating in, are only a couple of the worlds that have ever had a direct link to our worlds at one time or another. We believe that the great evil that had been foretold in that text wasn't describing Apocalymon but another enemy that hasn't actually appeared in this world yet. All we know is that the evil will come from behind a wall of flame in the far reaches of the Digital World like Apocalymon had. Apocalymon was most likely a miserable byproduct of what is to come. That is what Centarumon has been investigating."

"What my colleagues are trying to get at, humans, is that all of the evils that your children have encountered in this world up until now may not have originated from our world, but another Digital World within the Multi-Verse," Martin explained.

"Multi-Verse?" Mel blinked. "I'm afraid I don't understand."

"The Multi-Verse is a collaboration of universes," Gennai explained. "Put even more simply, it is a collection of worlds; planetary, digital, virtual, dream… Every world, dimension and reality is a part of the Multi-Verse. We don't know much about the Multi-Verse itself since we have only recently come to know of its existence through incoming communications sent to us from other Digital Guardians that reside over other disturbed Digital Worlds."

"Does that mean that you've been in communication with the guardians from the other DigiDestined's worlds?" Yoshie Izumi asked.

Martin and Gennai traded nervous glances, but Harry promptly answered.

"We've tried, but communications between worlds have recently gone offline. We believe that it's the same interference that is stopping us from getting in touch with your children. It's as if there has been a universal-wide communications disruption… and I'm afraid that it might not bode well for the DigiDestined. …We don't even have the power to send any of you back to the human world."

There was a great deal of whispering after this.

"So we're stuck here?" Jun gasped from beside Jim Kido.

"So it would seem," Gennai sighed.

Looks like the parents are in a jam. Will they be able to sort our their technical malfunctions? Find out next time on Digimon: Digital Monsters!

I hated having to go back and redo a scene for the 3rd time, but i felt that we needed to see a reaction to Davis' injury from his parents. It also allowed me to introduce the compassionate James Kido (who I am kinda basing off a combination of Dr. Carlisle Cullen from Twilight and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy from Star Trek) and the annoying Martin character I've been working on (who's based off of no one in particular). What did you think of Martin? Quite the jerk isn't he?

I can't help but think of how loaded this chapter is with information, but what i do like about the parents side of things is that we get to delve into and explore the technical aspects of UGotD that can't be explained in the original story line.