As they sat around the fire, many thoughts went through their heads. The one thought that went through their heads the most was: "I wonder what's going on back home. Is everyone okay?" Everyone was a little homesick but nobody wanted to go back because they knew they had to help this world. Meanwhile…
Back at home, time had moved normally. The eight kids disappearing was a big deal. With current technology, it was hard for a person to go missing. Censor bots were all over Earth and Alero looking for the eight. The parents had contacted each other. The police looked for any relation between the eight, but they could only find one connection between them: none of them had digimon partners.
It had been two weeks and there were no signs of the eight. This case had interested the whole world. For most, they had never heard of someone disappearing. Kids had run away, but they had always been found 24 hours later. Same with kidnappings, which is why kidnappers gave up kidnapping.
The parents had only been able to contact one another through email and phone calls. Finally, Jason's mother, Patricia, and Gre's father, George, met each other. They were both having a hard time; they were worrying about their kids.
They did have a few things in common. For one thing, they were both single parents because Jason's father was killed in a car accident when Jason was 2 and Gre's mother died at childbirth. For another, they were so busy with work that they didn't have time for their kids. Gre's father had flown from California to help Jason's mother in Florida. She was so distraught that she couldn't work. Just about all of the parents were.
The twins' parents were so upset they would only talk to Kyo's parents. Kyo's parents were worried but knew Kyo could take care of himself. Leslie's parents sent out a Russian search team, which got lost in the mountains and they needed another search team for them. Elie's parents were more persistant on trying to find out what happened.
But the parents who took it the worst were Rei's. Her parents couldn't afford to pay for a search team. People had given them money as a donation, but they had to spend it all on bills, because they had no other money.
Meanwhile, Rei was just as worried about her parents as they were worried about her. The others also hoped their families were okay.