Fan:Digimon: Fight for Survival (2022 film)

Digimon: Fight for Survival is a fanon live-action film idea created by CAJH. It is the sequel to Digimon: Armorization, the second installment of the Millenniummon Arc, and the fifth installment of the fanfictional multimedia franchise 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. The story of the film starts one year after the events of Armorization.

The initial story idea of Digimon: Fight for Survival with a different title was released to the Digimon Wiki on June 2021. But was later removed to be reworked for a better one, with the first version of the updated story idea released on July 2022. The ”Digimon 2021 Fan Fiction Universe Story Idea Group” is also actively recruiting other people to suggest their own ideas or story changes for a potential full script.

Story
Version 2.0.6. Last updated on November 23, 2022.

Some story elements have not been fully planned, but other contributors are to write their own suggestions in the talk page.

Junior Chosen Children

 * Dyson Motomiya, 14 years old Japanese American boy who is Hikari’s and Tyler’s classmate. Based on Daisuke "Davis" Motomiya. He is the carrier of the Crest of Miracles and one of the secondary carriers of the Crests of Courage and Friendship. He is also partnered with Veemon who can evolve into ExVeemon and learns to super fuse with Stingmon into Paildramon, with help of the Crest of Kindness.
 * Kenneth ”Ken” Ellsworth, a 15 years old progidy who was formerly known as the Digimon Emperor. Based on Ken Ichijouji. He is the carrier of the Crest of Kindness. He is also partnered with Wormmon can evolve into Stingmon and learns to super fuse with ExVeemon into Paildramon, with help of the Crests of Courage, Friendship and Miracles.
 * Milena Iglesias, Tyler’s 15 years old Mexican American neighbor. Based on Miyako "Yolei" Inoue. She is the secondary carrier of the Crests of Love and Sincerity. She is also partnered with Hawkmon who can evolve into Aquilamon and learns to super evolve into Sigurdmon with help of the Crest of Light.
 * Evan Hill, Tyler’s 11 years old neighbor with mature personality despite his young age. Based on Cody "Iori" Hida. He is the secondary carrier of the Crests of Knowledge and Reliability. He is also partnered with Armadimon who can evolve into Ankylomon and learns to super evolve into Shakoukimon with help of the Crest of Hope.
 * Tyler Whitaker, Matt Jephson’s 14 years old brother who lives with his mother Nancy. Based on Takeru "T.K." Takaishi. Carries the Crest of Hope. He is partnered with Patamon who can evolve into Angemon and super evolve into HolyAngemon.
 * Hikari Yagami, Taichi Yagami’s 14 years old sister. Based on Hikari "Kari" Kamiya. Carries the Crest of Light. She is partnered with Tailmon who can super evolve into Angewomon.
 * William ”Will” Dunham, 15 years old boy who lives in Colorado. Based on Willis. He is the carrier of the Crest of Destiny. He is partnered with Lopmon who can evolve into Tueryemon. Will and Lopmon have a much smaller role in this film.

Senior Chosen Children

 * Taichi Yagami, Hikari’s 17 years old brother. Based on Taichi "Tai" Kamiya. Carries the Crest of Courage. He is partnered with Agumon who can evolve into Greymon, super evolve into MetalGreymon, change into Alterous Mode, and mega evolve into WarGreymon, now learning to mega fuse into Omegamon with MetalGarurumon.
 * Matthew ”Matt” Jephson, Tyler’s 17 years old brother who lives with his father Harry. Based on Yamato "Matt" Ishida. Carries the Crest of Friendship. He is partnered with Gabumon who can evolve into Garurumon, super evolve into WereGarurumon, change into Sagittarius Mode, and mega evolve into MetalGarurumon, now learning to mega fuse into Omegamon with WarGreymon.
 * Sonya Tarkovsky, Taichi’s friend and classmate for many years. Based on Sora Takenouchi. Carries the Crest of Love. She is partnered with Piyomon who can evolve into Birdramon and super evolve into Garudamon, now learning to mega evolve into Hououmon.
 * Connor Smith, Taichi’s and Hikari’s 16 years old neighbor who is a computer genius. Based on Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi. Carries the Crest of Knowledge. He is partnered with Tentomon who can evolve into Kabuterimon and super evolve into AtlasKabuterimon, now learning to mega evolve into HeracleKabuterimon.
 * Mimi Thwaites, a rich girl and Connor’s classmate who has returned from London. Based on Mimi Tachikawa. Carries the Crest of Sincerity. She is partnered with Palmon who can evolve into Togemon and super evolve into Lillymon, now learning to mega evolve into Rosemon.
 * Joseph ”Joe” Kent, a 18 years old boy who plans to become a doctor. Based on Joe Kido. Carries the Crest of Reliability. He is partnered with Gomamon who can evolve into Ikkakumon and super evolve into Zudomon, now learning to mega evolve into Vikemon.

Allies

 * Chris Murdock, FBI Agent who is part of a task force that works with the Chosen Children on behalf of the U.S. Government. He greatly trusts in the government but the Chosen Children try to make him question the methods of the grown-ups.
 * Huckmon, the messenger of Kernel, the living core of the Digital World. Based on both Gennai and Adventure tri. incarnation of Huckmon. Alongside giving advice and information to the Chosen Children, he is now in contact with the governments of the world as well, to ensure they will not try to use the knowledge of the Digital World for wrong purposes.
 * Spadamon, Leomon’s former lieutenant and apprentice and the current Digimon resistance leader against the Dark Digimon. She is currently busy protecting innocent Digimon from the Influenced Digimon.

Enemies

 * MoonMillenniummon, dark spirit of Millenniummon who now resides in FAGA. The Disciples of Apocalymon want to resurrect Millenniummon and all the ancient Dark Digimon to fulfill their deceased master’s dying wish to destroy the Digital World.
 * Nowell Sharpe, a misanthropic college graduate who acts as the High Priest of the Disciples and is partnered with Dracmon, the original Disciple, who can mega warp evolve into Piemon with help of Nowell’s inner rage.
 * Vademon, Alien Digimon who desire perfect cosmic emptiness and joined forces with Nowell and Dracmon in hopes of using Millenniummon to achieve that. Their leader receives an ability to mega evolve into Ebemon.
 * Machinedramon, a Machine Digimon who acts as one of the two Enforcers working for Nowell and Dracmon.
 * MetalSeadramon, a Sea Animal Digimon who acts as one of the two Enforcers working for Nowell and Dracmon.
 * Parrotmon, a Digimon who first fights Mimi and Lillymon as himself but is mega evolved into Crossmon by the Disciples with help of 99 Dark Towers.
 * Diablomon, a Digimon created from the remains of the Digimon Emperor’s base and Control Devices and is capable of creating new Virus Digimon without the help of the Core of All Digital Darkness.

Character development

 * Dyson finally becoming Ken’s best human friend and encouraging him to truly forgive himself for everything done by the Digimon Emperor.
 * Ken slowly learning to let go of his guilt and accepting Dyson as his new best human friend.
 * Milena struggling between wanting Ken to join the Chosen Children and being uncomfortable to see the non-Dark Digimon being killed rather than purified.
 * Evan struggling between wanting justice for the frmer victims of the Digimon Emperor and the inability to protect innocent without destroying the non-Dark Digimon enemies.
 * Taichi and Matt arguing about whether they must choose between killing the Influenced Digimon and protecting mankind and the innocent Digimon. And learning to come in terms with each other’s point of view about the situation to harness the power of the light of hope from children around the world to launch Omegamon’s mega fusion.
 * Agent Murdock starting to question his loyalty to the U.S. Government and starting to be more symphatetic towards the Chosen Children for the first time.
 * Relationships where Senior Chosen Children act as mentors to Junior Chosen Children is also explored:
 * Connor and Joe acting as mentors to Evan but struggling due to Connor ending up in situations where even he cannot solve everything and Joe feeling unable to be a realible Chosen Child and a good student at the same time due to failing at MCAT.
 * Sonya and Mimi acting as mentors to Milena but struggling due to Sonya being unable to earn back the trust of amnesiac Piyomon and Mimi’s distraught causing her to make mistakes and worry about being bad influence for Milena.

Plot

 * The intro is set in 1980s. In the Digital World, an unidentified creature hiding behind a gigantic purple hurricane. Only the creature’s legs and cannons are shown. WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon and five other Digimon are seen fighting against it. They are suddenly surrounded by a mysterious light, and the creature is struck by a powerful beam of light, splintering into several Dark Crystals that scatter across the Digital World.


 * The major plot points of the First Act:
 * The Chosen Children have been rebuilding the Digital World after the damages caused by the actions of the Digimon Emperor. They are also trying to destroy the Dark Towers, in hope that MoonMillenniummon, who is still out there somewhere, would lose the last of its influence over the Digital World. The Dark Towers do not prevent regular evolution this time. But one day, new Dark Towers have appeared and Digimon have started disappearing. Will Dunham and Lopmon, who are remotely in contact with the other Chosen Children, are certain that the Digimon Emperor is not behind it this time.
 * A Tortomon attacks other wild Digimon in an area where Dyson and Veemon are rebuilding. But instead of simply causing destruction or fighting the Chosen Children, Tortomon tries to eat wild Digimon and absorb their data. Tyler and Hikari arrive with Angemon and Tailmon, but the Digivices do not cause any purification effect on Tortomon. Hikari senses that something is influencing Tortomon and making it more aggressive, but Tortomon is willingly responding to this influence without any brainwashing. The battle ends when Tortomon is forced to retreat, with an unknown figure and Dracmon watching from far. Meanwhile, the remains of the Digimon Emperor’s base mysteriously rise out of the sea.
 * Back in the real world, Connor analyzed a part of Tortomon’s data and confirms that Tortomon really did attack willingly. He also notices that one Dark Tower that appeared during the night has suddenly disappeared. The Children decide to investigate this further with the help of the Senior Chosen Children, except for Joe, who has been busy and not replied to any of Connor’s messages. He also reveals the news that Mimi is moving from London back to New York.
 * On the day Mimi arrives to New York, the cloaked figure and Dracmon are manipulating three Dark Towers in the Digital World. Meanwhile, the remains of the Digimon Emperor’s base appear in the Network. Control Devices and Infernal Control Devices reactivate and start opening distortions. One distortion brings three Snimon to the John F: Kennedy International Airport. They show similar behavior than Tortomon, but instead of eating Digimon, they eat data and electricity.
 * The Chosen Children are unable to stop their enemies’ behavior. Lots of collateral damage is caused and Piyomon receives a severe wound on her head. Taichi, Dyson and Tyler start thinking that destroying the Snimon might be the only way, but others object, especially Matt, Milena and Evan. That is when Ken Ellsworth appears with Stingmon, Wormmon’s Champion form, who kills one of the Snimon without hesitation, even though a Digimon who dies in the real world cannot reformat into a Digi-Egg by itself. Due to his past actions as the Digimon Emperor, he believes he should be the only Chosen Child to get his hands ”dirty”.
 * ExVeemon, however, helps Stingmon kill the second Snimon. But the third Snimon literally eats the remaining data of the two others and uses the large amount data and electricity it has eaten to super evolve into Sharpmon. Greymon super evolves to MetalGreymon to destroy it.
 * Agent Murdock believes that killing a non-Dark Digimon was a hard decision, but the right thing to do, for the sake of the public safety. Huckmon reveals that this time he agrees with Murdock. Spadamon and the resistance fighters were trying to gather innocent Digimon to safety and fight some of the Influenced Digimon, as referred by Huckmon, therefore being unable to help the Chosen Children. Will and Lopmon had also gone to help the resistance. Matt feels betrayed by Taichi and Huckmon, while Evan feels being betrayed by Dyson and Tyler.
 * The Chosen Children are unable to locate Sharpmon’s floating data. Unknown to them, that data was absorbed by the very same giant crystal MoonMillenniummon currently resides in. The shady young man, referred as the High Priest, communicates with Vademon, a group of Digimon who serve MoonMillenniummon. They speak how they have finally initiated the conflict that will finally bring forth the return of Millenniummon, and how the Core of All Digital Darkness has given them access to spread the conflict into the real world as well. Vademon are accompanied by MetalSeadramon and Mugendramon.


 * The major plot points of the Second Act:
 * The airport incident had started negative online discussions where people are arguing about the activities of the Chosen Children and about erasing the Digimon and the Digital World completely. Some of these discussions had already started when Vamdemon had invaded New York four years ago, but now the situation was far worse.
 * Mimi and Milena are greatly distraught by bad publicity while Sonya is worried about Piyomon who has awoken but has lost her memory and now distrusts Sonya. Joe reveals the reason why he has been busy: he did not pass his MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) and feels like he was over-optimistic about being able to be a Chosen Child and become a medical student at the same time. Joe considers quitting of being a Chosen Child, despite Gomamon’s attempts to convince him not to. Taichi and Matt are not talking to each other, due to having disagreements again.
 * Connor is still not sure what is causing the behavior of Tortomon and the Snimon, but gets a climpse of the reactivated Control Devices in the Network opening a new distortion. Connor realizes that instead of brainwashing Digimon, they are purposely helping the Influenced Digimon appear in the real world, and they are also eating data based on people’s online activity.
 * The next incident happens on the Digital World when Black Ligthnings strike into the ground, raising new Dark Towers, which are then absorbed by a group of SandScorpiomon who become Influenced in the process. First, they hunt innocent Digimon, but soon start attacking each other as well. The remaining one super evolves into SkullScorpiomon. Both the Chosen Children and Ken Ellsworth arrive at the scene, but this time Ken and Stingmon insist facing the enemy alone.
 * Dyson and ExVeemon try to stop Ken and Stingmon by reminding how their opponent is too strong to be defeated by Stingmon alone. Dyson also asks Ken if he learned nothing about worrying his parents when becoming the Digimon Emperor. Ken and Stingmon start thinking about the meaning of the Crest of Kindness. Dyson then starts talking about what he himself has learned from the Crests of Courage, Friendship and Miracles.
 * Ken finally comes to his senses and shows willingness to co-operate with the other Chosen Children and courage to fight for doing right. This causes the Crests of Courage, Friendship, Miracles, and Kindness to appear in both Dyson’s and Ken’s Digivices. But instead of initiating two individual super evolutions on ExVeemon and Stingmon, the two Champion Level Digimon ”super fuse” into Paildramon. Since the purification is not working, Paildramon chooses to destroy SkullScorpiomon.
 * The High Priest arrives with Dracmon, MetalSeadramon and Mugendramon, and they prevent SkullScorpiomon from reformating into a Digi-Egg by sending it to the Dark Towers. The High Priest is revealed to be a human named Nowell Sharpe, and he explains how he and the three Digimon accompanying him are members of the Disciples of Apocalymon.
 * Nowell uses his negative feelings to create a power that mega warp evolves Dracmon into Piemon. Taichi and Matt make Agumon and Gabumon mega evolve all the way into WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon but the two Mega Level Partner Digimon are easily defeated by Piemon. Piemon explains his victory by saying that he is more powerful and experienced fighter than the Partner Digimon even though he now needs Nowell’s anger to use his full powers completely. AtlasKabuterimon, Lillymon, HolyAngemon, Angewomon, Paildramon, Aquilamon and Ankylomon are easily defeated by MetalSeadramon and Mugendramon who are Mega Level Digimon just like Piemon.
 * Huckmon tells the children that Apocalymon was a Dark Digimon who tried achieving the destruction of the Digital World, just like Millenniummon, but he was destroyed by the previous Chosen Children. Huckmon suspects that the Disciples are Apocalymon’s surviving servants who try to honor their deceased master’s wish by resurrecting all ancient evil Digimon, starting from Millenniummon. The Chosen Children realize that the ongoing survival fights on the Digital World and the attacks on the real world are a plan to turn any deceased Digimon or data stolen from the Network to restore Millenniummon’s body. The children are in a stalemate situation. Whether they allow innocent Digimon to be hunted and killed or kill the Digimon who hunt, Millenniummon will get data for its new body anyways.
 * Nowell sacrifices ten Dark Towers to drive a Parrotmon into aggression while the Infernal Control Devices open a distortion for it to attack New York. Mimi and Lillymon try to go stop Parrotmon without waiting for others to join as backup. Milena and Aquilamon also come there, but when Lillymon is about to give the final blow, Nowell drags Parrotmon through a distortion back into the Digital World. The distortions closes and Lillymon’s attack strikes into a building where a dozen of people is hurt even though none of them dies.
 * Even the news reporters are now starting to talk negatively about the Chosen Children. The U.S. Government decides to put the Chosen Children under investigation for the damage Mimi and Lillymon accidentally caused. Murdock is angry at the children for acting rashly, and Connor agress. But Milena defends Mimi and lashes out at Connor for not finding any way for preventing Millenniummon’s resurrection. Matt also accuses Murdock for caring only about ”following the system” rather than ”thinking for himself”. Murdock is silent and tries to pretend that he is still loyal to his government but is secretly upset about Matt’s words.


 * The major plot points of the Third Act:
 * Connor tries to research Nowell’s background but is unable to find any information about his existence. Then, Nowell himself sends an anonymous email, telling to meet in an abandoned orphanage which was destroyed under unknown circumstances. The Junior Chosen Children meet Nowell who reveals that while Ken lost an older brother, he himself lost a younger brother. They lost their very parents very young, and lived in a very abusive orphanage, and never experienced anything positive in their childhood. The younger brother died through unspecified means, and Nowell was unable to ever expose the illegal behavior of the orphanage. He became aware of the existence of the Digital World when Vamdemon invaded New York and hoped that he could learn its secrets to be used to gain his revenge on humanity.
 * He got his chance in his first college year, Nowell had met Dracmon, the original Disciple of Apocalymon, and they were given MoonMillenniummon’s crystal by the Core of All Darkness, after Vamdemon was left to be killed by the Chosen Children for using the crystal only to gain power. Their first action was to attack Nowell’s old orphanage, destroying it and killing its employees. Then, after hearing how Ken had lost his own brother, they chose him to be manipulated to become into the Digimon Emperor and to create a new Chimairamon to be uses as basis for Millenniummon’s new body.
 * After Chimairamon’s destruction, MoonMillenniummon had retreated to FAGA, the largest crystal fragment of Millenniummon’s original body, located in the Moon of the Digital World. The Vademon, a Digimon species who simply desired cosmic emptiness, had discovered FAGA and helped Nowell and Dracmon to formally found the Disciples of Apocalymon as an organization.
 * Together Nowell had trained his powers to evolve Dracmon with power of negativity while the Vademon rebuilt MetalSeadramon and Mugendramon, former servants of the original Apocalymon, to assist them. While Vamdemon and the Digimon Emperor wanted to simply rule over both worlds, Nowell became the High Priest destroy both worlds, believing that the end of the world would not only end his own suffering but to also get revenge by taking lives away from every happily living human and Digimon.
 * The Core of All Digital Darkness itself had raised the Digimon Emperor’s base from the sea while the Disciples had reprogrammed the Control Devices for multiple purposes: to open distortions to the real world, to gather negative online discussion data from the Network, and to create Black Lightnings to grow new Dark Towers to Influence wild Digimon to become hunters and bind them to Millenniummon, so that they become part of Millenniummon if they were to perish. Influencing a Champion Level Digimon required only one Dark Tower to sacrificed while Influencing an Ultimate Level Digimon required ten Dark Towers. Doing the same for a Mega Level Digimon would require 100 Dark Towers.
 * With help of Nowell, Piemon and the Vademon, MoonMillenniummon launches a process that sacrifices all the remaining Dark Towers of the Digital World. It causes the rapid evolutions among every Digimon in the Digital World, including the same Parrotmon Mimi and Lillymon encountered earlier. That Parrotmon immediately mega evolves into Crossmon. The Core of All Digital Darkness strikes a powerful Black Lightning that transforms the Digimon Emperor’s base and all the Control Devices into a living version of Kuramon’s Mega form: Diablomon.
 * Murdock decides that the situation is too dire and, against his superiors’ orders, allows Taichi, Matt, WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon to go to face Diablomon, while Sonya, Connor, Mimi, and Joe (who was encouraged by the Junior Chosen Children to join the fight once again) are forced to face MetalSeadramon, Mugendramon and Crossmon. The Vademon leader arrives at the scene, and with the power given by 100 Dark Towers (including the ones that case the Influence), mega evolves into Ebemon.
 * Piemon easily defeats Paildramon, HolyAngemon and Angewomon, trapping them into a black orb and then destroying the orb without leaving any trace of its prisoners. Milena and Evan are greatly horrified, but Nowell and Piemon just laugh and teleport away through a distortion. Another distortion sends Milena, Evan, Aquilamon and Ankylomon into where Spadamon and her forces are fighting several Digimon influenced by the Dark Towers. Milena and Evan tell them and the Senior Chosen Children about tell them what happened to Dyson, Ken, Tyler, and Hikari. Taichi and Matt hear about this and start feeling sad and angry, but Diablomon is able to create new Kuramon Digi-Egg and rapidly evolve them with help of the negative data stolen from the Network. With help of Piemon, the Virus Digimon overpower WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon.
 * Connor starts feeling desperate too because he still has no idea how to defeat their enemies without being able to stop Millenniummon’s resurrection. He starts to consider himself unworthy of the Crest of Knowledge, but Joe reminds him that no one can solve every problem and that while even if they would not be able to stop Millenniummon’s resurrection, they could still fight and defeat Millenniummon in another battle. Joe reminds himself that while he failed his MCAT once, he can try it again without sacrificing his status as a Chosen Child.
 * Milena is also not very certain about whether they can fight without Dyson, Ken, Tyler, and Hikari. Sonya and Mimi then express their own insecurity about whether they can help other people or not. Piyomon hears those words and starts to trust Sonya, the Crest of Love even heals her amnesia. After Milena, Sonya and Mimi opening to each other, they decide that they must keep fighting, believing that they can correct their past mistakes and show the world their true selves and that they can save the world.
 * The Crests of Knowledge, Reliability and Hope appear in Evan’s Digivice and allows Ankylomon to super evolve into Shakoukimon. It also connects with Connor’s and Joe’s Digivices to mega evolve AtlasKabuterimon and Zudomon into HeracleKabuterimon and Vikemon. On the hand, the Crests of Love, Sincerity and Light appear in Milena’s Digivice and allows Aquilamon to super evolve into Sigurdmon. It also connects with Sonya’s and Mimi’s Digivices to mega evolve Piyomon and Palmon all the way into Hououmon and Rosemon.
 * Connor realizes how Evan and Milena were able to help the Senior Chosen Children activate these four new mega evolutions the same way than Tyler and Hikari were able to help Taichi and Matt activate the mega evolutions of WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon four years ago. Rosemon manages to destroy Crossmon, Vikemon manages to destroy MetalSeadramon, Hououmon manages to destroy Mugendramon, to avenge Piyomon’s earlier amnesia. Ebemon tries to deny the meaning of knowledge and preach for the cosmic emptiness, but Connor denies Ebemon’s word and HeracleKabuterimon manages to destroy Ebemon. Milena tries help an innocent Digimon who is being attacked by an Influenced Blossomon who is suddenly destroyed by Sigurdmon who apologizes and says he had no choice. Shakoukimon is also forced into situation where it must kill an Influenced Anomalocarimon. Milena and Evan are shocked but come in terms with it when Spadamon who assures them that they did it to save lives and when they realize that Dyson, Tyler, and Hikari would have done the same thing.
 * Meanwhile, Taichi’s and Matt’s fighting spirit is crushed even further after their Partner Digimon are knocked out. Nowell and Piemon taunt them from their loss. But they hear about Every child watching from their own computers and smartphones around the world have faith that Dyson, Ken, Tyler and Hikari might still be alive and that Taichi and Matt can win. They also reconcile and come in terms with the way they were forced to handle this conflict. They rediscover their courage and faith, making the Crests of Courage and Friendship appeared in both of their Digivices respectively, and this time collective light of hope from all the children around the world (who can see the battle from their computers) makes WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon ”mega fuse” into Omegamon. Huckmon recognizes him as one of the two Guardian Knights who defeated Millenniummon long ago. Omegamon also regains the memories of its past life.
 * Nowell is enraged for seeing enemies hopeful and tried to attack, but Omegamon, who now declares itself the more powerful and experienced fighter, easily degenerates Piemon back into Dracmon and destroys all lesser Virus Digimon. But it takes a long battle to defeat the original Diablomon. As a Holy Knight Digimon, Omegamon, with help of Hououmon, HeracleKabuterimon, Rosemon and Vikemon, can send a powerful wave that transforms the Influenced Digimon into Digi-Eggs, and releases them from being binded to Millenniummon, therefore preventing them from being absorbed by FAGA.
 * The Chosen Children try to fly to the Moon of the Digital World to try to destroy FAGA, with Omegamon’s force field protecting them from the lack of oxygen. But the Core of All Digital Darkness sends a powerful Black Lightning to reactivate Mugendramon’s remains and make them absorb MetalSeadramon’s, Ebemon’s, and Crossmon’s remains. Mugendramon’s remains fly through a distortion and collides the Moon of the Digital World, which is destroyed by an abnormally powerful explosion.
 * FAGA absorbs the remains of the Moon and the surviving Vademon who willingly accept their own demise and keep chanting Millenniummon’s name. Then, FAGA transforms into a giant crystallic Chimairamon with Mugendramon’s cannons appearing on its back. The crystallic shell starts to crack with Nowell, who is protected from the lack of oxygen by his own dark powers and is carrying the wounded Dracmon, shouting out loud: ”Now rise, Millenniummon!” The crystallic shell then exlodes, unleashing a fully reborn Millenniummon and making purple dimensional cracks appear both worlds.
 * The Chosen Children immediately start the battle against Millenniummon, but the enemy is so powerful that it forces every Partner Digimon, except Omegamon, to degenerate to their Rookie forms. Then, Millenniummon uses its Time Unlimited technique to trap most of the Chosen Children, except Taichi, Matt and Omegamon, into an unspecified dimension.
 * Taichi, Matt and Omegamon see a portal made of blue light and see a glimpse of three Dragon Digimon appear, realizing that Dyson, Ken, Tyler, and Hikari really are alive and back.

Removed story

 * Former fake Chosen Children turned to Tamers existing as another form of humans and Digimon co-operating. Removed from the story due to World Disaster being cancelled.
 * Evan Hill being originally named Jonathan ”Jonny” Hicks.
 * The Disciples of Apocalymon being named as the Cult of the Dark Digital Cosmos instead. And the wild Digimon being tricked into joining it instead of being simply influenced to become violent hunters.

Removed characters

 * Meiko Mochizuki, a 17 years old transfer student from Japan.
 * Meicoomon, Meiko’s partner who becomes an important tool for the Cult of Dark Digital Cosmos.
 * Daigo Nishijima, a Japanese member of the international task force of the United Nations.
 * Professor Mochizuki, Meiko’s who becomes a member of the international task force of the United Nations, alongside Nishijima and Agent Murdock.
 * Julius Oatway, a childhood friend of Evan’s father and resposible for the existence of the fake Chosen Children turned to Tamers (who were also removed).
 * Mephistomon, a member of the Cult of the Dark Digital Cosmos.
 * MarineDevimon, a member of the Cult of the Dark Digital Cosmos.
 * SkullSatamon, a member of the Cult of the Dark Digital Cosmos.

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 wanted either the fourth of the fifth main chapter to bring more Mega forms of the Partner Digimon and to introduce elements that are inspired a both the final arc of the Digimon Adventure 02 and the Millenniummon arc of the 2020 Adventure: continuity, hoping to use them to bring Millenniummon into the film series idea, with Digimon: War for Evolution being the original title of the film idea. 2020 Adventure: storyline of the Digimon of the Eternal Continent battling for survival or evolution was adapted into the story as an aftermath for the destruction caused by the Digimon Emperor and Chimairamon. But after changing it to be even greater focus on the film, CAJH retitled the film idea as Fight for Survival.

Trivia

 * The title Fight for Survival is inspired by 2020 Adventure: storyline of the Digimon of the Eternal Continent battling for survival or evolution.
 * Dark Towers influencing Digimon is inspired by Arukenimon’s powers from Digimon Adventure 02 to turn Dark Towers into Digimon. The rules are also partially influenced by these powers:
 * One Dark Tower must be sacrificed to Influence a Champion Level Digimon.
 * Ten Dark Towers must be sacrificed to either Influence an Ultimate Level Digimon or to both Influence and evolve a Champion Level Digimon into an Ultimate Level Digimon. But only nine Dark Towers need to be sacrificed to evolve an already Influenced Champion Level Digimon into an Ultimate Level Digimon.
 * 100 Dark Towers must be sacrificed to either Influence a Mega Level Digimon or to both Influence and evolve an Ultimate Level Digimon into a Mega Level Digimon. But only 90 Dark Towers need to be sacrificed to evolve an already Influenced Ultimate Level Digimon into a Mega Level Digimon.
 * Unlike BlackWarGreymon in Digimon Adventure 02, the Influenced Mega Level Digimon have no free will, because Millenniummon, the source of the influence is much more powerful Digimon, than Arukenimon, who used the Dark Towers to create BlackWarGreymon, ever was.
 * Nowell Sharpe’s appearance in the film is inspired by many misanthropic characters in real-life Japanese media and partially in real-life Western media as well. Some of them include Takaya Sakaki from Persona 3, Tohru Adachi from Persona 4, Vassago Casals from Sword Art Online, and Alan Jonah from Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
 * Nowell’s first name was inspired the words ”not well” and his last name was inspired by the word ”sharp” used to describe blades.
 * The role of the Vademon is not only inspired by their role in 2020 Adventure: continuity, but also by Melchior Maywin from Tales of Berseria who helped Artorius Collbrande with founding of the Abbey, just like the Vademon helped Nowell and Dracmon with founding of the Disciples of Apocalymon.
 * Piemon, who was the leader of the Dark Masters in 1999 Adventure, was made into a Dark Partner Digimon as Dracmon to make Nowell an evil equivalent to the Chosen Children.
 * MetalSeadramon and Mugendramon were used in the film due to their role in 1999 Adventure as members of the Dark Masters and their role as the final opponents in ”Loss”, the fourth film of Digimon Adventure tri.. And Mugendramon also because of its connection to Millenniummon in Digimon mythology.
 * Sigurdmon, a new Digimon species was designed to be an individual Ultimate form for Hawkmon, and very different from Silphymon, Hawkmon’s shared real-life Perfect Level form born from fusion with Tailmon.
 * Shakoukimon on (Shakkoumon in real-life Digimon media) was turned into individual Ultimate form for Armadimon.
 * Sigurdmon and Shakoukimon are the ones unlocking Piyomon’s, Palmon’s, Tentomon’s and Gomamon’s abilities to mega evolve, because HolyAngemon and Angewomon were responsible for unlocking Agumon’s and Gabumon’s abilities to mega evolve in Worlds Collide.
 * Omegamon was always meant to be fully introduced in this film and Diablomon to be its first major opponent, as inspired by Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!.

Digimon: Dramon’s Roar
The sixth installment, a spin-off animated series titled Digimon: Dramon’s Roar, focuses on a new protagonist meeting Dyson Motomiya, Ken Ellsworth, Tyler Whitaker, and Hikari Yagami trying to solve the mystery of the Hidden Dramon Lands.

Digimon: Millenniummon Descends
The seventh installment, a sequel titled Digimon: Millenniummon Descends, focuses on the Chosen Children taking on the final battle against Millenniummon.