Fan:Digimon Origins No. 3: The Light


 * The correct title of this article is Digimon Origins #3: The Light. The substitution or omission of the # is because of technical restrictions.

Digimon Origins #3: The Light is a fanon anime film idea created by CAJH. It is the sequel to Digimon Origins #1: The Event and Digimon Origins #2: The Avatar, the third prequel film and the eighteenth installment of the fanfictional media franchise idea known as the Digiversum. The story of the film is completely original, following the aftermath of The Avatar and the story of the Digivices and any other devices meant to be used by humans to fight against evil. The film was announced in January 21, 2017 and its synopsis was released in October 28, 2017.

Seven years before the humans first arrived into the Digiversum, first of the children who can potentially form bonds with the Digimon have been found. During the next years, several of these children grow up and become closer to their destiny, but their destined enemies are also about to achieve everything they are destined to achieve before all the battles between them and Tamers finally happen.

Synopsis
(Only the most important details of the plot are written in here, minor details can be imagined by readers themselves. The same thing goes for any possible quotes from the dialogue.)

Prologue: The light of human hearts
Instead of a voice of anyone, the narration is made by floating text. "Formulas, variables and laws of physics maintain certain aspects of reality. Many of these variables are not yet known. There are certain aspects of reality that are not absolute, but are dependent of certain points of view. However, this is even more true in the Digiversum. Human heart believed to be the most powerful tool in that world. Since the Dark Wave has already devastated most of the Digiversum, the power human heart may be needed to restore it. The time for greater connection between humans and the Digimon has finally come."

Hiding in Digimon Academy
In an old laboratory located in Digimon Academy, Gennai and the other Agents managed to complete construction of the Digivice prototype. Now they needed to apply the formula that would allow the device to check a person has potential to act as a Tamer. They have been shown footage of two children who have connection to people aware of the existence of the Digiversum through portals between Digimon Academy and the real world they had managed to activate. One of them was identified as Tadao Deguchi, son of Sadaharu Deguchi from Digicon International Enterprises, and Sven Vestergaard, son of Herman Vestergaard from Denmark. Those two have the greatest potential, but Gennai wants to do even greater scanning. They only began from Tadao and Sven, because of their parents' connection to Digicon. He also had asked his surviving allies on the File Island to keep an eye on certain village inhabited by several In-Training Level Digimon, including a Koromon and Tsunomon who were hatched from the eggs carrying the essence of Omegamon.

After the signals sent by the avatar of Homeostasis and the Seed of Eden, they were aware that other worlds also had something to protect and save them as well. But without the portals working perfectly, they needed to work separately. But they were still not completely safe. They had a confirmation that Abaddomon had survived the Dark Wave. Fortunately, he was not aware of the plan to bring humans to help and save the Digiversum. Gennai couldn't leave from Digimon Academy and reveal that he is still alive. That is why he couldn't warn anyone of its residents about Abaddomon's survival either.

Project Getaway progresses
Ronald Yeoman has now become a board member of the Digicon International Enterprises office in New York. With influence secretly provided by Akihiro Kurata, he convinced the company president Matsumura from Japan to fund his secret project. The project is codenamed Getaway as a mean to travel into cyberspace and find a way to send people explore and colonize it. However, there was one condition: the project would not be revealed to the rest of the board or public unless promising results have been reached. If the project would be leaked to outsiders, Digicon would lose its credibility or people could attempt to steal their ideas and take the credit for themselves.

Yeoman had consulted several theorists about what kinds of equivalents the cyberspace could have for the real universe as well as human environment. He had also used his connections with medical science communities to find out possible similarities between the real-life biology and Digimon data structure. But because the world of the Digimon exists inside computers, Yeoman refuses to believe that these creatures are living beings. He declares the Digimon as mere automatic data structures and imitations of biological life. He also says that the Digital Middle World is nothing more but a human territory existing in a dimension formed inside man-made computers, giving humans complete freedom to do whatever they want with it.

The first Fusion Loader prototype
In the DigiFuse Zones, a small group of Digimon from several different zones had managed to smuggle valuable objects into the Forest Zone, one of the rare free Zones. One of the Digimon who lived in that small community was a young red Digimon named Shoutmon. They were hopeful that they can one day prevent Bagramon and his Bagra Army from gaining the total control of the Zones. But most of the group were unaware that Bagramon knew about the blueprints of the Fusion Loader and was seeking it for his own purpose. Shoutmon was the only one who had a feeling that the Bagra Army was already in the Forest Zone. He checked the entire area every single day. No one believed Shoutmon, because he was young and inexperienced Digimon and because he never found anything. But there was two Digimon had managed to infiltrate into the Forest Zone: SkullKnightmon and Axemon. The two had masqueraded themselves by painting their armors. And no one in the DigiFuse Zones knew that they belonged to the Bagra Army, so no one would recognize them. Shoutmon couldn't find them this time, but swore to guard the area as much as he did this far.

The first Tamer
In Colorado, a 7 years old girl named Alisha Jones was being monitored by Gennai. She had the same kind of potential than Tadao and Sven, despite not sharing strong connection into Digicon. The other Agents were now scanning several young Digimon who would be willing to cooperate with humans and prepare for possible threats that could lead into the freedom of the Seven Great Demon Lords of Deadly Sins. One of them was Budmon, a small Plant Digimon. But because Tadao and Sven had been found first, most of the Agents considered using them as test subjects first. Gennai, however, believed that the power of Omegamon needed to be kept in safe hands for the time being. And they needed to be certain that not even the respective Tamers of Koromon and Tsunomon would know what they will become. The Agents took one of the Digivices and put a specific part of the formula on it. They sent the Digivice and Budmon through a secret portal into the Digital Middle World. Centauromon would find them a safe place until they would be ready. In the Digital Middle World, Centauromon took the Digivice and sent it flying into the air, waiting for either Budmon to meet its potential Tamer or the potential Tamer to come into the Digital Middle World for the first time.

In real world, Alisha Jones is the youngest three sisters. She always felt her sisters get more attention than her. Then, she started to hear a voice. It was Budmon's voice and it came through a laptop of her mother which was forgotten to be switched off. In the Digital Middle World, Budmon had found a television with an antenna but without any cables. She had seen into the real world through it and the Digivice she carried with her started to react. Budmon tried to step through the television screen. After that, the screen disappeared and transformed into one of the roots of Yggdrasill. The portal on the screen of the laptop in the real world disappeared as well after Budmon had come through it.

Learning the portalbending
Budmon crossing over into the real world had not happened without consequences. Abaddomon, who was capable to monitor all portal activity in the Digital Middle World, felt that a Digimon had just gone through a portal into the real world. Abaddomon also felt how a power that can weaken darkness was carried by the Digimon who just went through. He felt himself endangered and decided to act. It was time for him to take a risk and he realized that the real world is the only place where one can travel into any world in the Digiversum, made possible by the avatar of Homeostasis who is currently residing in the real world. That was when Abaddomon finally decided to do a test. He still had the crystalized fragment of Yggdrasill's root and realized that he can use it as a tool once again. Not only he could freely open portals into the real world, he could use the same power open a portal into another world of the Digiversum from the real world instead of the Digital Middle World. But he needed to do that while staying in the Digital Middle World and hope that some of his old allies are still alive.

DORUmon's loss
Three years has passed since Abaddomon started to learn how to bend portals to contact into other worlds of the Digiversum. After the Guardian Knight Alphamon had surrendered its last remaining powers to a Digi-Egg, the egg was found by a group of Digimon. The hatched Digimon has now grown into DORUmon. But one day, he sensed that something was approaching the village. He became very worried when he realized that it was not a Digimon, but still something that comes from the Digital Middle World itself. Then, he encountered a being that looked like a large cricket. And it was not alone. Several others were approaching the village.

The crickets started attacking villagers and biting them. DORUmon tried to attack them, but only more and more kept coming. Then, he found out that the portal of the Yggdrasill's root was opened and the crickets had come through it. DORUmon had no memories of the original Alphamon, so he didn't know who Abaddomon was or that these crickets were his remote puppets, the Alpha Crickets. Abaddomon had sent them to wreak havoc in the Digital Middle World to find any Digimon he considered a threat. The corrupted successor of the original Duftmon had recognized DORUmon and told Abaddomon about it. Duftmon wanted to defeat DORUmon by himself, but Abaddomon didn't want to expose him too soon and hoped that DORUmon could be made less dangerous by even less powerful methods. DORUmon had already suffered a loss when the village was destroyed.

Conquering of the Forest Zone
After conquering few more Zones from the DigiFuse Zones, Bagramon decided that it was finally time to attack the Forest Zone and retrieve the plans of the Fusion Loader. He gave SkullKnightmon and Axemon an order to withdraw and sent someone else to lead the forces of Bagra Army into the Forest Zone. He had captured a Leomon and corrupted it into MadLeomon. MadLeomon was accompanied by Tactimon's lieutenant Dorulumon. Shoutmon was guarding the area, but could not fight MadLeomon, Dorulumon and his forces alone. However, someone needed to hold them off until the others can escape. The group creating the Fusion Loader did not consist of fighters other than Shoutmon. Shoutmon immediately sent a certain type of scream to signal his friends about the enemy.

Shoutmon's in the other parts of the Forest Zones hear the scream and know that they must leave immediately. MadLeomon orders his forces to set fire at every border of the Zone so that no one will escape from there. Dorulumon, however, fears that even neutral Digimon could die in the fire, saying that when he was in the service of Tactimon, he had never been ordered to use such drastic measures. MadLeomon stroke at him and believed that Dorulumon got his position only through flattery and luck. Dorulumon said he once thought that he was once influenced by Bagramon's ideals but not anymore. He freed Shoutmon and the two made their escape. Meanwhile, one of Shoutmon's friends managed to escape before the fire could prevent him from doing so and went with the copy of the plans of the Fusion Loader to help other Digimon to build more of them.

Alisha and Lalamon
During the last three years, Budmon had evolved into Lalamon and Alisha had told about her to her mother. Alisha had started to grow into a diligent and an intelligent student in the elementary school. Thanks to having Lalamon as her friend, Alisha had started to grow as a person and no longer cared about being in her sisters' shadow. Her family didn't even need to buy food for Lalamon at all, since Lalamon got its nutrition by from ground and soil just like plants. After all, Lalamon was a Plant Digimon. But sometimes it was given normal food by Alisha when there was some. Alisha loved Japanese manga and anime and even wished to study Japanese language. She even wished to go visit the country once, but that was something Alisha's mother hoped wouldn't until her daughter would be an adult.

However, none of this had happened without any attention until now. Alisha parents were one day contacted by people who worked for Digicon. These people had heard rumors that a talking being from a world inside computer network was spotted playing with Alisha. The men, however, claimed that they had not arrived to take Lalamon into custody or destroy her. They only wanted to know more about it and protect it from those who do want to hurt her. One of the men introduces himself as Damian Lake. While the other men went to talk with Alisha's parents privately, Lake called from his phone to Rieko Hirasawa who had sent him to Jones residence in the first place.

Wanyamon
Meanwhile, in Denmark, Sven Vestergaard kept up with his studies. He was prematurely allowed to study high school and soon he would do the same with actual medical school studies. He was still being secretly monitored by Gennai and the Agents. The first test with Alisha Jones seemed to be a success, so it was time to try testing another Tamer, one with more complicated potential. In the Digital Middle World, Centauromon had raised a Digimon named Wanyamon. Gennai told Centauromon to send Wanyamon to Sven.

Only few minutes later, in Denmark, Sven heard a noise from his room. Sven heard this and decided to investigate without help from his servants. The noise was left by Wanyamon who after being discovered, spoke for the first time. He apologized for disturbing Sven and politely introduced himself. Wanyamon had forgotten all his memories about Digimon Academy and only remembered how he was sent to make a contact with a human. Sven wanted to know more and asked if the Digital World contains something that humanity has yet to discover. Wanyamon said he can't promise anything but considered it possible. That was when Herman Vestergaard came back home. Wanyamon asked if he should hide, but Sven said that he needed to tell about him to his father. Sven showed Wanyamon to his father. Herman was surprisingly happy about this, claiming that the discovery will save his family. He immediately contacted Yeoman whom he didn't know to already be aware of the existence of the Digiversum. Wanyamon himself only knew that he was meant to stay side by side with Sven, no matter what he would do.

Signals in the Wilds
Since Wanyamon came to be more like a servant than a friend to Sven, Gennai and the Agents started to feel that they needed to find more potential humans and Digimon if others fail to become what they were wished to become. They believed that it would be safer to send the next two into another world of the Digiversum instead of Digital Middle World. After Gennai sent Chibimon and Pukamon away, all their memories about Digimon Academy were wiped out from them before they were sent into the real world. The two were waiting for a sign from a world where their own Digivices. The Digivices were programmed with coordinates into the Digital Wilds, the mostly desolated remains of the Kingdom of DigiElDorado. Finally, a portal opened, calling the into the portal. But when they entered, Chibimon suddenly evolved into Veemon before he was found by HolyAngemon, the former priest of the Holy City. Before hiding the two Digimon to their respective areas, he wiped out their memories about their meeting, hoping that no one would find out that they were part of a plan to have Tamers help not only the Digital Middle World, but the Digital Wilds as well.

But one Digimon had seen this all. It was Phantomon, an ambitious member of the Nightmare Soldiers who was looking for the V-Tag of his family, hoping to take an advantage of the existence of the Digivices. He felt that Veemon would be a worthy opponent for him. A Digimon with a fighting spirit and will to evolve naturally against a will to gain powers by hunting and absorbing the data of the victims. Phantomon is not the only one who realized the effects of portals between more than two worlds. In the Digital Middle World, Abaddomon realized this as well. He recognized that the remaining servants of Yggdrasill attempted to form an alliance with human through their Tamer experiments. Abaddomon finally figured out the last remaining part of his own experiments how to contact the other worlds of the Digiversum through the real world.

The first portal communion
In Bagra Pandæmonium, Bagramon's arm is sensing a portal activity in the Digiversum despite all roots of Yggdrasill in the DigiFuse Zones have been cut off. Then, a holographic figure is about to appear before him. It was Abaddomon who finally learned the full secret behind the bending of portal connections, which Gennai and the other Agents had been secretly using these last years. But he had not yet found out which world of the Digiversum was the source this portalbending. But he had a lead: the first world where the effect arrived from the starting point was always the Digital Middle World.

Bagramon wanted to know if Abaddaomon had managed to locate the Crests of the Seven Great Demon Lords of Deadly Sins. Abaddomon already possessed the Crest of Greed in the Digital Middle World, Cherubimon was currently corrupted by the Crest of Pride in the Spirit Frontier, Kurata possessed the Crest of Sloth in the real world and Bagramon already had the Crests of Lust in the DigiFuse Zones. Bagramon was certain that the Crest of Envy was also somewhere in the DigiFuse Zones, but the locations of the Crests of Wrath and Gluttony were still a mystery. Abaddomon already had a plan to search for them in the Digital Wilds, if any of the Crests would happen to be there. But they were unable to find these Crests safely any longer. Abaddomon told how Gennai was searching for humans to help the Digimon. Bagramon realized that this was the reason why Fusion Loaders were being constructed as well. But if the Bagra Army would get the plans of the Loader, he could design another type of the device that wouldn't require assistance from humans at all.

Abaddomon and Bagramon agreed to uncover the secrets behind Digivices and Fusion Loaders before it would be too late. They would be able to the crystal as well as Bagramon's arm to locate the starting point of the portalbending effect of Gennai and the other Agents and then attack there to destroy any chances of hope. Abaddomon had sensed only four Digimon being sent into the real world, but if the number of potential team-ups between humans and the Digimon would increase too much on these next years, their plans could be thwarted.

Alpha Cricket Invasion
Two more years had passed since the first experiments of choosing Tamers. Gennai had found two more children with potential to be Tamers and was now prepared to send two new Digivices to Agumon and Gabumon who had evolved from Koromon and Tsunomon carrying Omegamon's essence inside. Gennai had also chosen two other residents of the village in the Digital Middle World, Piyomon and Tentomon, seeing them having potential to be Partner Digimon even without him assisting or training them. But there were two wild Digimon Gennai saw potential in as well: DORUmon and a Digi-Egg that belongs to Terriermon-species. Gennai recognized DORUmon as the one who was carrying Alphamon's essence, but saw DORUmon's depressed and pessimistic attitude as a potential problem.

But when Gennai has hidden four of the Digivices within bodies of Agumon, Gabumon, Piyomon and Tentomon in the Digital Middle World, Duftmon was moving the area. He managed to hide his presence from others, but had finished its scanning from the File Island. In his hideout, Abaddomon had analyzed all the directions and they came from the Old Ruins guarded by Centauromon. He then told Duftmon to go keep watch over DORUmon and sent his Alpha Crickets into the Old Ruins to search for Gennai. The Crickets attacked Centauromon who wasn't powerful enough to prevent them from attacking. The Crickets found the portal and immediately attacked into Digimon Academy, which Abaddomon finally recognized as the starting point of the portalbending effects used to send Digivices and the potential Partner Digimon. The Crickets kept damaging the laboratories, killing several Agents but leaving Gennai and Agumon Expert alive. So stop the invasion, they decide close the portal.

Wade meets Zerimon
The Alpha Crickets also noticed the surviving Digi-Egg of Terriermon-species in the forest with a Digivice. They tried to attack it, but the Digivice reacted and the light started torturing the Crickets. The Digivices offered too powerful protection against the unhatched egg, so the Crickets had no chance to destroy it. Then, a small white vortex opened and sent the egg away. The vortex also launched a powerful light that eliminated the Alpha Crickets. Abaddomon's voice told them to forget the Digi-Egg and find DORUmon. Preventing more Tamer partnerships being born was more effective way than killing human partners, since Abaddomon still couldn't physically enter any other world.

In the real world, a boy named Wade Goldblum received the Digi-Egg and it hatched into Zerimon. Wade immediately panicked, but Zerimon immediately took liking him. But knowing that Zerimon was not a normal animal was not the only reason why Wade was afraid. Another reason was that he didn't have any real friends and he was afraid socially communicate with others. However, then the Digivice appeared in his hand. Wade didn't know what it was, and simply put it away. After pondering a while, he finally tried to touch Zerimon.

Two Guardian Knights unite
The Alpha Crickets attacked DORUmon who was being led by a Digivice into an opened portal. There he saw an unknown boy, but the Crickets attacked and took the Digivice away from him. DORUmon tried to fight back, but is too weak, since is a Rookie Level Digimon and doesn't a protection like unhatched Partner Digimon have. The Digivice takes serious damage and eventually dissolves into a light. The portal disappears as well and the bond into boy's potential is severed. DORUmon becomes convinced that whatever the Digivices do will not save the Digiversum. He decides to find his own way, refusing to work with any human or human sympathizing Digimon. However, he decides to absorb the light particles from the remains of his destroyed Digivice. Then, a powerful beam erupts from DORUmon's body. Duftmon sees this and presents himself to DORUmon. Duftmon pretends not knowing that they are carriers of the powers left behind the Guardian Knights. He also pretends to believe that humans and the Digimon should never cooperate and that he would protect DORUmon with his life.

Evolving heroes
In the Digital Wilds, Pukamon had evolved into his Rookie form Gomamon and was now under tutelage of Whamon who had the Deep Savers' V-Tag. Veemon instead was wandering and suddenly found something that was thought to be long lost: Nature Spirits' V-Tag. He felt a sudden power inside him and evolved into Veedramon. He tried to look for a fight and prove himself worthy of staying alive. But he almost immediately degenerated back into Veemon. Veemon didn't give up. He decided to do few practice matches against wild Digimon before leaving into the Colosseum. Phantomon sensed that two of the other V-Tags had been found, but decided not to engage them just yet. He had been draining power from the Dark Craters and started to empower himself for the upcoming battle for the ownership of the Nightmare Soldiers' V-Tag. This empowerment started to make Phantomon evolve into his Mega form: Piemon.

In the Digital Middle World, DORUmon struggles with his newly acquired ability. He suddenly evolves into DORUgamon and starts wo attack the Alpha Crickets. DORUgamon, however, loses control and starts to go rampage. Duftmon tries to calm him down and degenerates into his own unknown Rookie form. DORUgamon starts to degenerate back into DORUmon. After that DORUmon and Duftmon promise to each other they will find a way to save the Digiversum without humans' help.

The future set in stone
The Alpha Crickets were called back into the Dark Pit. Abaddomon was reported that the portal between the Digital Middle World and Digimon Academy can now only be opened from the side of the Digital Middle World. Since Gennai had no way to open the portal from his side again, Abaddomon thought that no more Tamer partnerships between humans and the Digimon could be formed. He even heard that Bagramon had finally managed to get the plans of the Fusion Loader and how SkullKnightmon and Axemon would try to find a way to build their own version of it: the Darkness Loader. But without Abaddomon noticing, Centauromon had helped Gennai to send one last thing into the real world. Two balls of light known as "beacons". They would allow the potential Tamers to befriend with people who have similar potential and unknowingly mark their potential as well.

In Tokyo, Tadao befriended with a computer nerd Keisuke Ishimura and a girl student Nori Fujima. In Chicago, Alisha Jones had befriended with two brothers, Justin and Ted Alder. Sven Vestergaard was about to complete his medical studies, despite his very young age. Yeoman was prepared to hire him to work as his “Program Doctor” on Project Getaway. Wanyamon, who had evolved into Gaomon, stayed on Sven's side. Though he didn't want the Digimon get hurt, he promised to stay on Sven's side no matter what would happen. Damian Lake kept leaking information about Project Getaway to Rieko Hirasawa and Sadaharu Deguchi. The first working portal would be completed in two years. Lake had also sent people from Chicago office to keep watch over Alisha's family. The potential to matching those of Veemon and Gomamon were found from Detroit, Michigan and Okinawa, Japan.

In DIgimon Academy, Gennai had accepted the fact that he can't guide the Tamers himself. Whatever would happen was now up to the Digimon and humans. A small white vortex opened and voice from it said: “As long as the Avatar of Homeostasis and the Seed of Eden remain, the hope is not lost.” Abaddomon couldn't threaten Eden Christensen and Edenmon as long as he can't enter into the real world himself. Gennai, however, was worried that Abadddomon can at least take advantage of the remaining portal connections. The voice, which belonged to Digimon named Huckmon, maintained his faith in future and said that time will come when everyone must accept their fates. He disappears back into the vortex and leaves Gennai to return to his work. He tried to create clones of himself to act as new Agents, but the creation system was secretly infected by one of the Alpha Crickets.

Post-credit scene
At the same time when the first tests of Project Getaway, the network connections are severely disrupted. When Tadao returned from the Digital Middle World back into the real world, the two Digivices carried by Agumon and Gabumon leave their bodies as two beams of light that follow Tadao into the real world.

Trivia

 * The subtitle of the film refers to the light inside human hearts that acts as a power source for the Digivices.
 * The main focuses of this film are explaining why Tadao Deguchi and most of the other first Tamers were chosen, how Abaddomon managed to contact Bagramon for the first time, how DORUmon came to act without a Tamer, how Alisha Jones was first discovered by Digicon, how the Fusion Loaders were created and how the development of the Darkness Loader began.
 * The film acts as the prequel to Digimon, V-Tamer, DigiFuse, Agumon, Terriermon and Digimon: The Gathering.
 * Gennai developing the first Digivices was idealized by the past events shown in Digimon Adventure episode 45.
 * Abaddomon attempting to disrupt his work was inspired by Digimon Adventure episode 45 as well when Piemon (Piedmon in English dub) attacked his laboratory with an army of Guardromon and Mekanorimon.
 * An infection in research machinery caused by an Alpha Cricket is hinted to be the reason why Gennai's first clone became Dark Gennai between the events of The Light and Agumon.
 * The opening scene of Terriermon is described as animated version in this film.
 * The method of how DORUmon learned to evolve was previously mentioned Digimon: The Gathering.
 * The post-credit scene is an animated version of the scene from Digimon depicting how Tadao got his Digivices.
 * This doesn't have any actual battle scenes, but it does include Abaddomon's attempt to destroy Gennai's laboratory to ensure that a plan to recruit will not succeed.
 * Despite the film being a sequel to The Avatar, Eden and Edenmon were merely mentioned in this film.
 * Like its prequels, this film has a post-credit scene rather than a mid-credit scene.

Special chapter
A special chapter was announced in June 24, 2017, and it is planned to be released as the twenty-third installment of the Digiversum, after Olympos XII: Legacy, Digimon: New Information Age, Cyberspace EDEN and Appmon: On & Off. The subtitle was immediately revealed to be The Beginning. It is meant to explain how the DIgiversum came to be what it was before the events of The Event.