Shawn is based on the Animated Lust (rated PG!) forum participant known as Shawn and, as such, is copyright to himself, and used with permission.
The below show and characters are used for fanfiction purposes only, I disclaim all ownership:
Digimon and associated characters and concepts are © Akiyoshi Hongo - Toei Animation; © Bandai
Where Did They Go?
Back in the real world Palmon, panicking, had called out the whole team. Everyone who lived in New York was gathered at Shawn and Mimi's home trying desperately to figure out what had happened, while putting as brave a face as possible on things in order to keep from frightening the triplets.
"They're away helping solve something in the Digiworld," Willis told the children. "They'll be back soon. They would've told you they were leaving but it was an emergency and they didn't have time to stop and explain."
The children, of course, like children everywhere, were far smarter than children are often given credit for – so they knew better. Mom and Dad would never go anywhere without letting them know they were leaving, as well as where they were going and when they expected to be back. And they would never have gone anywhere in the Digiworld without taking Palmon with them. But the triplets could tell the grownups were trying really hard not to worry them, so they, in turn, pretended not to be worried.
Meanwhile, in Tokyo that entire team had assembled and was working on it from their end. So far the only thing that anyone had ascertained was that everyone with a Digimon who had been actively running their computer at the time had the same windows of numbers open up in mid-air which Palmon had observed at Shawn and Mimi's. But Shawn and Mimi were the only people who had a hole open at their feet to swallow them up...