Fan:Digimon: Armorization (2022 film)

Digimon: Armorization is a fanon live-action film idea created by CAJH. It is the sequel and spin-off to Digimon: Light and Dark and the third installment of the fanfictional film series idea. The story of the film is inspired by several elements from 1999 Adventure and 2020 Adventure: continuities as well as few recurring elements from Digimon mythologies, with the Armor Evolution from Adventure 02 being the key element of this film. The story of the film starts two years and four months after the events of Light and Dark.

The initial story points and ideas of Digimon: Armorization were released to the Digimon Wiki on May 1, 2021. The ”Digimon 2021 Fan Fiction Film Series Story Idea Group” is also actively recruiting other people to suggest their own ideas or story changes for a potential full script.

Planned intro
Taichi Yagami, Matt Jephson, Will Dunham, Agumon, Gabumon, Lopmon, Patamon and Tailmon are running. Somehow, Taichi and Matt are unable to use their Digivices, making Agumon and Gabumon unable to evolve. They are being chased by a silent human who has golden and blue-violet mask, a blue and golden cape, and blue electrified whip.

Planned story elements

 * Tyler and now studying in the same school with Hikari and her childhood friend Dyson Motomiya. Tyler’s neighbor Milena Iglesias is a student one grade higher in the same school. His other neighbor Jonny Hicks is still in elementary school and has been a long-time friend of Milena.
 * After the first school day, Tyler and Hikari hear news from Connor: Sonya, Mimi, Joe, Will and their Partner Digimon have disappeared five days ago. Taichi, Agumon, Matt and Gabumon disappeared yesterday too. And Huckmon cannot be contacted either.
 * Tyler and Hikari decide to go the Digital World to investigate. Dyson is jealous of the attention Tyler is getting from Hikari and wants to go with them. Milena and Jonny want to go too because they want to know what the Digital World and the Digimon are.
 * Dyson, Milena, and Jonny end up to the Digital World with Tyler and Hikari. While Tyler and Hikari tell the three about the Digital World, and they also tell them about PicoDevimon who has not been seen for over two years.
 * Dyson comes across a brown egg-like artifact with the symbol of Courage. By touching it, he gains his own Digivice and releases a blue Dragon Digimon named Veemon who tells that the artifact is a Digimental.
 * The children meet Patamon and Tailmon who are being chased by a Monochromon. They cannot evolve but Veemon says that the Digimental can provide an alternate evolution method.
 * Dyson uses the Digimental of Courage to Armor Evolve Veemon into Flamedramon who defeats Monochromon, while the light of Dyson’s Digivice destroys a mysterious device hidden inside Monochromon’s body.
 * The data of the Digimental is saved inside Dyson’s Digivice, which shows a map containing eight points, with the point indicating the location of the Digimental of Courage disappearing from it.
 * Patamon and Tailmon explain the existence of the Digimon Emperor, a masked human boy who wishes to take over the Digital World and who has a black Digivice that prevents regular evolution.
 * The Digimon Emperor has already conquered every part of the Digital World, except the WWW Continent.
 * Then, suddenly a distortion appears under them and Dyson and Veemon fall into it. Then, they are being chased by corrupted group of Gazimon, Gotsumon, and one Unimon. Unimon manages to separate Tailmon from her Holy Ring, making her significantly weaker.
 * The map in Dyson’s Digivice appears in Digivices of Tyler and Hikari, who guide Milena and Jonny to the location of two other points. They find the Digimentals of Love and Knowledge which release a red Bird Digimon named Hawkmon and a yellow Mammal Digimon named Armadimon. Milena and Jonny also receive their own Digivices which contain the same map.
 * Milena and Jonny make Hawkmon and Armadimon Armor Evolve to Halsemon and Digmon, and the two are left to handle the operation to save Dyson and Veemon. Halsemon defeats a controlled Kuwagamon while Digmon defeats a controlled Drimogemon.
 * FBI Agent Chris Murdock starts to investigate the disappearances of Taichi, Matt, and the other older Chosen Ones, with the younger Chosen Ones trying to hide the existence of the Digital World from him.
 * The Chosen Ones see a news report about Kenneth ”Ken” Ellsworth, a child prodigy who is gifted in both academics and sports. He even won two science competitions: one for theoretical physics and the other one for digital technology. His soccer team has an exhibition match with Dyson’s team.
 * The match is watched even by the Partner Digimon through Milena’s phone. Ken’s team wins the match, but Dyson manages to make at least one goal for his team at the end. Dyson and Milena were eager to meet their idol, but they do not know that Ken is secretly the Digimon Emperor himself.
 * In the Digital World, the Chosen Ones personally meet the Digimon Emperor, who claims himself as the ”True Chosen One”, and summons a large group of controlled Allomon to overpower Flamedramon, Halsemon and Digmon.
 * Even without the map, Hikari learns that she can sense the Digimentals of Hope and Light which allow Patamon and Tailmon to Armor Evolve to Pegasusmon and Nefertimon who defeat the attackers.
 * Dyson deduces that the Digimon Emperor is Ken Ellsworth himself, while Hikari confirms it with her ”sixth sense”. The Chosen Ones then find out that Ken started to become more intelligent person two years ago, after the death of his older brother Samuel ”Sam” Ellsworth, who was also a prodigy.
 * When they return to the real world, the news report Ken having run away from home, while Agent Murdock, other agents, and police officers talk to Ken’s worried parents.
 * Meanwhile, the Digimon Emperor is planning to use Perfect Level Digimon against his enemies, but the wild Perfect Level Digimon are immune to Control Devices, and when trying evolving Greymon to MetalGreymon, Greymon instead evolves to SkullGreymon.
 * SkullGreymon almost kills a controlled Garurumon and causes a lot of damage. The Digimon Emperor’s eyes start glowing purple and his electrified whip turns red. He uses it to restrain SkullGreymon and degenerate to Agumon. He also figures out why Control Devices cannot control Perfect Level Digimon.
 * PicoDevimon is also revealed to be a test subject too, but he is secretly happy about it.
 * The Chosen Ones start to look at the remaining three markings on the map showing the locations of the remaining Digimentals.
 * By using a three times more powerful version of a Control Device, the Digimon Emperor finally manages to dark evolve Agumon and Gabumon to VirusMetalGreymon and ShadowWereGarurumon.
 * Yanmamon kidnaps Patamon and stales Tyler’s Digivice, so the Digimon Emperor could scan the data of a Holy Digimon. He also plans to use an Advanced Control Device to brainwash Patamon too.
 * Tyler fails to save Patamon, but Dyson who realizes the meaning of a deep bond between a Chosen One and a Partner Digimon, finally uses the Digimental of Friendship to make Veemon Armor Evolve to Lighdramon who saves Patamon and Tyler’s Digivice and defeats a controlled Deltamon. Lighdramon, however, is not powerful enough to defeat VirusMetalGreymon or ShadowWereGarurumon.
 * The Chosen Ones escape to the ruins of a seaside restaurant owned where discover the location of the Digimental of Sincerity and meet Will and Lopmon.
 * Will tells how he has been hiding in the Digital World to keep better eye on the Digimon Emperor and his actions. He has avoided fighting or revealing his Digivice to wait for the right moment, which he believes has now come since Dyson’s team has arrived and met him.
 * The eight Digimental is hidden in the bottom of the ocean, and Lopmon explains how the Digimon Emperor’s base is capable of flying, and currently diving in that same ocean.
 * The Digimon Emperor kidnaps Connor and scans data from Tentomon and Connor’s Digivice to obtain Kabuterimon’s data. He then uses two final components for his plan: data from a Holy Digimon and data from a Dark Digimon.
 * The Digimon Emperor uses data stolen from Tyler’s Digivice and Patamon as the Holy Digimon data, and he decides to use PicoDevimon as the Dark Digimon data. The smiling PicoDevimon talks with Devimon’s voice, warning that the Dark Power should not be underestimated, but Ken ignores his warning.
 * Agent Murdock finds out about the Chosen Ones and makes an unspecified deal with them before allowing them to proceed with their plan to attack the Digimon Emperor’s base next day.
 * The next day, Jonny’s mother is trying to ask her son a favor and insists knowing why Jonny cannot do it. Jonny is in such a hurry and that he ends ups lying to her. Jonny’s grandfather Clifford expresses how Jonny would not have needed to say anything, because lying would be more unacceptable than saying nothing.
 * Milena no longer feels uneasy about being a Chosen One but is still troubled by Ken being an enemy and he starts to feel something towards Will.
 * When they find the Digimon Emperor’s base, they are attacked by VirusMetalGreymon and ShadowWereGarurumon join the fight, who reveal their new forms: Alterous Mode and Sagittarius Mode.
 * Lighdramon, Halsemon, Pegasusmon, and Nefertimon fight against them but are in disadvantage.
 * Milena confesses how disappointed she was when Ken was revealed be a villain, because she usually trusts and likes handsome and friendly guys (like Ken or Will) while disliking ugly or rude guys or Digimon. This activates the Digimental of Sincerity and Armor Evolves degenerated Hawkmon into Shurimon.
 * Jonny finds the Digimental of Reliability but feels unworthy because he lied to his mother and grandfather. Armadimon, however, convinces him that it was only a ”white lie” and that it did not actually hurt anyone. Jonny then activates the Digimental of Reliability and Armor Evolves Armadimon into Submarimon.
 * The Chosen Ones learn to use Slide Armor Evolution to change Digimentals without degenerating their Partner Digimon. By using these tactics, Flamedramon, Lighdramon, Halsemon, Shurimon, Digmon, Submarimon, Pegasusmon, and Nefertimon manage to outmatch their opponents and give the Chosen Ones a chance to destroy the Advanced Control Devices controlling them.
 * Inside the base, Agumon and Gabumon manage to guide the younger Chosen Ones to the laboratory and training hall where Taichi, Matt, Sonya, Connor, Mimi, Joe, Piyomon, Tentomon, Palmon, Gomamon, and Huckmon were being kept in stasis pods. Leomon, Wizardmon, and Centaurmon were imprisoned in dungeons instead. The training hall also included a large tank where the Digimon Emperor’s ”ultimate weapon” was being kept.
 * But just when they manage to free them, the ultimate weapon is revealed to be an artificial Digimon named Chimairamon, which has no Bdvanced Control Devices controlling it and which was designed for bigger plans than the dark evolutions of Agumon and Gabumon.
 * Chimairamon has Kabuterimon’s head, Angemon’s and Airdramon’s wings, Monochromon’s tail, Garurumon’s legs, Greymon’s torso, MetalGreymon’s hair, Kuwagamon’s, SkullGreymon’s and Devimon’s arms. All data was scanned and copied from the living versions of their lower forms, except PicoDevimon’s whose data was used completely.
 * The revelation of Devimon being part of Chimairamon makes Tyler’s post-traumatic stress disorder about Angemon’s near-death come out and completely lash out on the Digimon Emperor.
 * Chimairamon easily winds and forces its opponents to degenerate to their Toddler Level forms: Chibimon, Poromon, Upamon and Tokomon. Nefertimon degenerates to Plottmon.
 * A green Larva Digimon Wormmon introduces himself as Ken’s true Partner Digimon. He met Ken only few days before Sam’s death, but in the Digital World, Ken was attacked by a form of bats who forcefully put a small blue-violet crystal inside his body, slowly causing Ken to become intelligent but also evil.
 * The map of the Digimentals shows a ninth marking, coming from the engine room of the Digimon Emperor’s floating base. It is two Golden Digimentals. The Golden Digimental of Miracles allows Veemon to Armor Evolve to Magnamon and the Digimental of Destiny allows Lopmon to Armor Evolve to Rapidmon. The golden light also restores the full energies of the other Partner Digimon.
 * Huckmon explains that the Crests transformed themselves into Digimentals, a tool for an ancient art of armor evolution to be used since the Dark Power taking over Ken’s Digivice had made traditional evolution unavailable.
 * Devimon’s laugh is heard when Chimairamon starts to disobey the Digimon Emperor, who falls into madness, refusing to listen Wormmon’s warnings or the Chosen Ones. The Digimon Emperor hears another voice laughing inside his head.
 * Through her ”sixth sense”, Hikari can also hear the laugh and senses how there is a being of darkness strengthening Ken’s own negative feelings through the crystal.
 * The being takes control over Ken’s body and reveals itself as Vamdemon, a Dark Digimon who developed a way to survive without a body. Vamdemon was also the ”Him” mentioned two years ago by PicoDevimon, who refers Vamdemon his ”older brother”.
 * Vamdemon and Devimon had been using Ken for two years, since few weeks after Devimon’s earlier defeat, as means to gain new bodies and finally invade the real world. But without complete control, Vamdemon could not use Ken’s hands to craft spells or create new Infection, so he unconsciously taught Ken to combine the Dark Power with technology to create the Control Devices as a replacement.
 * Chimairamon destroys the base and opens a large distortion to the Network and the real world, causing several phenomena based on the ideas Ken presented when winning those science competitions.
 * Every Digimon controlled by Control Devices is shown holographically in the real world, but this time they can cause physical damage, and every single human can see them.
 * Ken’s body and clothes transform into Vamdemon’s true appearance, and he faces the other Partner Digimon in a battle himself, leaving Magnamon and Rapidmon fight Chimairamon alone.
 * Wormmon tries to speak to Ken, whose voice can still be heard from Vamdemon’s mouth. But Ken still wants Chimairamon to crush Magnamon and Rapidmon, and attacks Wormmon.
 * Wormmon then decides that there is only one way to make Ken come to his sense again: he sacrifices all his powers and dies, to allow Magnamon and Rapidmon destroy Chimairamon and expel Vamdemon from Ken’s body.
 * Chimairamon’s destruction kills every controlled Digimon and turns them into Digi-Eggs, while the large distortion to the real world is closing.
 * A blue-violet crystal appears from Chimairamon’s body and even smaller crystal from Ken’s body, and the flock of bats take escape with them to the distortion before it closes.
 * Ken’s body returns to normal and his Digivice is purified of darkness. Saddened by Wormmon’s death, he admits how he had wished for Sam’s death out of jealousy right before it happened. Due to Vamdemon’s manipulation, he escaped his guilt and sadness to the Digital World, hoping to use its powers to over both worlds and fix their imperfections, but ignoring the suffering of innocent humans and Digimon.
 * Dyson says running away from home only made Ken’s parents almost suffer, just like when Sam died. Tyler adds that life is always a wonderful thing, despite traumatic memories.
 * Ken re-remembers all the happy moments with Sam and how he met Wormmon for the first time, few days before Sam’s death, and learns to value those memories despite Sam and Wormmon being gone. This makes Wormmon’s data transform into a Digi-Egg.
 * Huckmon teleports himself to where Unimon died and returns the Holy Ring to Tailmon. The Digimentals transform back into Crests and they return to their respective owners’ Digivices. Dyson, Ken, Milena, and Jonny also receive their real Crests:
 * Dyson has the Crest of Miracles.
 * Ken has the Crest of Kindness.
 * Milena has the Crest of Rise.
 * Jonny has the Crest of Justice.
 * The Chosen Ones return to the real world with Ken who is reunited with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth admit that they unintentionally expected much from their sons, but now they are just happy that their younger son is still alive.
 * Few days later, Leafmon hatches from Wormmon’s Digi-Egg. As part of their deal with Agent Murdock, the new Chosen Ones tell their both him and their parents everything, with Murdock promising to be their trusted ally in the future.
 * Few weeks later, Taichi and others are released from hospital, Leafmon has evolved to Minomon, and Ken declines an invitation from other Chosen Ones to join them, wanting to fix his mistakes by himself.
 * Jonny feels uneasy about forgiving Ken, since he is worried of what the former victims of the Digimon Emperor might think. But Dyson, Will, and Tyler believe that Ken deserves a second chance one day.
 * Dyson, Milena, and Jonny are officially welcomed to the Chosen Ones by the older members, and they start their mission of searching for the two crystals that remain of their enemies, and discover their meaning.
 * Most common themes are:
 * Dyson being jealous of the attention Tyler gets, struggling to understand a bond between a Chosen One and a Partner Digimon, and turning from Ken’s fan into his enemy and then taking his first steps into becoming Ken’s best human friend.
 * Milena struggling to be a capable Chosen One or express her real feelings and trying to deal with the fact that her celebrity crush is a villain and starting a potential love triangle between her, Ken and Will.
 * Jonny struggling between his grandfather’s teachings and loyalty to the other Chosen Ones, and as well as trying to uphold justice, like his deceased father.
 * Tyler being friendly and popular student but carrying a trauma caused by Angemon’s near-death in the past and becoming very angry when he sees the Dark Power being used.
 * Hikari learning to use her ”sixth sense” for light and darkness.
 * Will remaining a silent watcher and ”waiting for the right moment” to rejoin his comrades.
 * Siblinghood is also a side element.
 * Tyler and Hikari being distraught that their respective older brothers’ Partner Digimon are brainwashed by the Digimon Emperor.
 * Dyson not being in good terms with his older sister June, and Milena not being in good terms with her three older siblings.
 * Ken being traumatized by Sam’s death it leading to him becoming the Digimon Emperor.
 * Devimon’s ”older brother” being the one manipulated the Digimon Emperor.
 * Ages of the new members of the Chosen Ones:
 * Dyson is 12 years old.
 * Milena and Ken are 13 years old.
 * Jonny is 10 years old.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance. Bolded characters are fought by the protagonist(s), and italicized characters feature non-explicitly, e.g. voice, silhouette, image.)

Development
CAJH hoped to make a film that would completely focus on Armor Evolution and introduce characters based on Adventure 02. He was also thinking whether the introduce one of its villains in a potential film set between Light and Dark and Armorization. But he then decided to save the appearances of any new evolutions into a film set after Armorization, keep using PicoDevimon as one of the villains alongside a new incarnation of the Digimon Emperor, and introduce Tailmon and Lopmon in Light and Dark at the same time with Patamon, instead of separating the story into too many separate installments. CAJH decided to consider Armorization as ”Chapter Two and Half” instead of ”Chapter Three”, due to the original six Chosen Ones being only supporting characters and them not meant to ”retire” from the main cast this early in the film series.

The storyline of the nine Partner Digimon exhausting their powers and degenerating to their Toddle Level forms also worked well for a storyline to exclude some of the original Chosen Ones for most of the storyline in Armorization. CAJH decided not to make the third film overcrowded and decided that a battle with every single member of the Chosen Ones participating, would be saved for a later film.

Trivia

 * This is the first installment where Huckmon does not narrate the opening scene.
 * The Armor Evolution was chosen to be part of the storyline, because CAJH did not want to introduce the human partners of Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadimon without it and to introduce as many as evolved forms as possible in this film series.
 * Taichi Yagami and the older Chosen One being kidnapped and missing most of the time in this film mirrors that of the disappearance of Davis Motomiya and younger DigiDestined in Digimon Adventure tri..
 * Chris Murdock, an FBI Agent, being part of the story is partially inspired by Kyotaro Yamada from Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna.
 * The Control Devices and Advanced Control Devices, a ”mechanical” imitation of the Infection, act as replacements of Dark Rings and Dark Spirals from 1999 Adventure continuity, and they are more enduring and can only be destroyed by a light of the Digivices.
 * Unlike previous entries of this franchise, the Chosen Ones fight against an invasion rather than cyberterrorism caused by the actions of the Dark Digimon.
 * In this film series, the golden variant Rapidmon is presented as Lopmon’s Armor Evolution form rather than Terriermon’s.
 * While in 1999 Adventure continuity Ken Ichijouji’s corruption was caused by a Dark Spore, this time Ken Ellsworth’s corruption was caused Vamdemon’s soul possessing him, the same thing that was responsible for Yukio Oikawa’s corruption in Digimon Adventure 02. This was done due to CAJH seeing it as an interesting way to being Vamdemon as a villain to this film series.

Follow-up
The fourth installment, a follow-up titled Digimon: World Disaster, focuses on final battle against Devimon and Vamdemon, when both the real world and the Digital World are on stake due to the enemies’ new weapon: Eyesmon.