Fan:Digimon: Broken Order

Digimon: Broken Order is my vision of what a more complex and mature Digimon season(s) could be. Since I was a kid, I had been thinking about how my dream Digimon season could play out. Over time, I kinda developed it in my head (didn't write down much, had to try and remember a lot of it) and added elements of other seasons and manga.

So, my favorite seasons are Adventure, Tamers, and Savers, so it borrows a lot from it. I also like some aspects of Frontier and Xros Wars (despite not liking the seasons themselves), specially Frontier's Ancient War and Three Archangels, and Xros Wars concept of a fragmented Digital World experiencing war among many factions for power.

Digimon: Broken Order would take place in the late 2010s or the 2020s (post-pandemic), in a world separated from the other ones from the previous series.

Synopsis
Long ago, the Digital World was peaceful and ruled by the Three Archangels in the name of God. However, a civil war in Heaven ended with the fragmentation of the Digital World and the death of the Three Archangels. From the ashes, Yggdrasil rose to power, propping the Four Holy Beasts as its highest-ranking governors and the Royal Knights as its elite generals. Being the main server of the Digital World, Yggdrasil mysteriously developed its own consciousness after the war and declared itself God.

Yggdrasil could not impose its rule over the entirety of the Digital World, however. In the Dark Area, the Seven Demon Lords rule over a legion of dark digimon, many remainders from the War in Heaven. In the continent of Iliad, within an entirely different server beyond Yggdrasil's power, a group of powerful digimon known as the Olympos XII rule as gods over a mostly primal and savage land.

Heaven is closed off, with even the few remaining angel- and holy-type digimon not being able to access anymore. Scattered around the Digital World, the members of the old Heavenly Host are now hunted as prizes by other digimon and the lackeys of the Seven Demon Lords.

Smaller dominions dot around the landscape of the Digital World, such as the Undead Realm, ruled by the ambitious Myotismon.

In the Real World, children from different countries are being thrust into the conflict. Digimon start materializing all over the world, some as refugees, some as savage beasts, and some serving a dark, mysterious purpose. In the middle of all that, an unprecedented phenomenon, a bond between a digimon and a human, start manifesting all around the world. Those Bonded Ones could draw power from the bond with their Chosen, human children and teenagers, in order to digivolve and fight.

In the meantime, the word "digimon" start appearing all over the Internet. Though, it goes ignored by those unaware as just another weird Internet fad. As a mysterious message appears on their digivice, the chosen are presented to Bastion, a pocket cyberspace accessible only to those possessing a digivice and created by the mysterious Zero-One, who claims to be the first chosen. At Bastion, the chosen and their partners all over the world can meet and coordinate to learn about digimon and fight incursion digimon and prevent them from causing havoc.

At Bastion, as American Chrissy Wong, Brazilian Miguel Romani, and Belgian Ibrahim Denayer form a bond that transcends borders, they will fight together in this new world.

Chrissy Wong
She is the leader of the group. A 14 years-old Chinese American girl from New York City who has a lot to prove. She is always wearing her swimmer goggles, to remind herself of the pressure her family puts in her to be a champion. As she involves helself with the Digital World, however, she starts pay less attention to her competitive swimming. Her partner is Ryudamon.

Miguel Romani
He is the heart of the group. A 14 years-old Italian Brazilian boy from São Paulo. A rather timid boy who knows he is different and does not like to fight, he just wants to be himself. However, his partner, Cupimon, may hold the secret to bring peace back to the Digital World.

Ibrahim Denayer
He is both the brains and the brawn of the group. A 15 years-old Afro-Belgian boy from Brussels who just wants to protect those he cares about. His partner is

Storyline
So, it would basically follow a number of arcs:

Real World
First would be in the Real World, similar to the first arcs of Tamers, in which every episode would have one of the three main characters fighting an incursion wherever they are by bringing help in the form of the other two (as they would learn how to use Bastion as a means to quickly travel between places in the real world). Among the savage and the simply confused digimon, they would often fight some that seems to have a common purpose, as they hinder them, a mysterious enemy becomes impatient. The arc would suddenly end with The Siege of Bastion, a great event that leads to the destruction of that safe-space. Being in cyberspace, Bastion is still more easily accessible to the Digital World than the Real World, despite Bastion's defenses. During a large gathering of chosen, Bastion is attacked by a horde of Digimon led by an unknown enemy. In the end, Bastion is destroyed and the chosen who could not escape or dies before it are catapulted into the Digital World.

Most of the first arc of the story would take place during Summer Break, so the main trio would have more freedom with their time, with The Siege of Bastion happening on August 17. While all would participate a lot in July, as Chrissy (USA) has 3 months of Summer Break and Ibrahim (Belgium) have 2 months, they would see more action during August, while Miguel (Brazil), who only has a month, would be limited to out-of-school hours in August.

Stranded
The second arc would be the Stranded Arc, during which our main trio would go around the Digital World trying to find a way home. In the meantime, they learn about the past and the political situation of the Digital World, with enemies often attacking, often trying to recruit them. They would often also find other chosen who are stranded, but would mostly keep their three-member group, with many chosen ending up recruited by one of the many factions fighting for hegemony.

Digital Incursion Experimentation Service
The third arc would be the DIES arc. They would meet humans working for the US Digital Incursion and Exploration Service (DIES), a government agency that had been studying the Digital World even before the incursions and finally found a way to open digital gates. They are told by DIES that the Siege of Bastion was broadcast to the whole world, revealing the existence of digimon, as children started popping out of computers all over the world trying to escape the battle. Initially, the main characters help the DIES agents find the other chosen stranded, as they believe DIES's mission is to bring them back. They soon find, however, that DIES's mission is actually to study the chosen and their bond with digimon in order to replicate it in a controlled manner. They are also there to assess the status of the Digital World and give the US a foothold in it. The trio manages to escape them, but not before they learn that at least five other nations are sending missions to the Digital World.

To be continued
I's still thinking about the next arcs.

Main political player's and their goals
A new conflict for power emerged from the War in Heaven.

Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil's goal is to conquer the entirety of the Digital World and deploy its secret X-Program in order to recreate the Digital World in its image and truly become God. It controls the majority of the Digital World at around 55%, but cannot continue until it controls the rest.

Seven Demon Lords
They are the remnants of the rebellion that led to the War in Heaven. Initially, they seem fragmented. Their leader, Lucemon, is missing, causing a conflict for supremacy among the six remaining. Additionally, each Lord is distracted by their own interests. Leviamon is fighting both Yggdrasil's and Neptunemon's forces for supremacy over the Net Ocean, a medium that not only connects the many areas and servers of the Digital World, but links directly to the Internet and, thus, to the Real World itself.

They want to prevent Yggdrasil from becoming God, as they rather like the godless world they created and fear Yggdrasil will manage to breach into Heaven and take control of its holy power. As of now, the few remaining angel- and holy-type digimon are the only ones that wield holy power, but they are few and weak, and are being actively hunted down. Yggdrasil with access to holy power could effectively become God doom their plans of domination.

Myotismon
Myotismon's domain is kept not only through his own power, but by existing under the nominal suzerainty of the Dark Area and its seven demonic lords. However, Myotismon's real goal is to slowly grow his power just enough to reach its most powerful form and usurp a Demon Lord of its place and, in time, becoming their leader. Being a Mega-equivalent Ultimate-level digimon with vast magical powers, Myotismon rules over a large host of dark digimon, being known throughout the Digital World as the Undead Witch-King of the Night.(This idea was inspired by how powerful a juiced-up MaloMyotismon was, and knowing how ambitious it is, I thought wanting to become a Demon Lord would be an interesting goal)

Olympos XII
The Olympos XII believe that the natural state of the Digital World is its perfect state. As they see themselves as guardians of the natural order, they do not actually interfere much within their own dominion, rather governing the specific aspect of life that was assigned to them (e.g., Neptunemon and the sea) and keeping it balanced.

They do believe that their philosophy extends to the entire Digital World, however, and so they will engage in the war for suppremacy of the Digital World, even if only often offensively. Their main strategy, however, is to let the other hosts destroy themselves and pick up the remainder.

The Real World
Initially, the story would be exposed to government experiences with the Digital World through DIES, the US agency studying the Digital World. We would soon find that other governments with enough resources are secretly creating their own agencies, such as the France and the UK, China, Russia, Japan, India, and Brazil.

Some elements of the Real World had been aware of the Digital World for a time. The United States and Japan understood that something was happening as early as the 1990s, with other governments finding out during the 2000s and 2010s. During this time, those governments created their own Digital Incursion Programs. It would be with the events of the first arc of the main series that the existence of digimon would be made public (similarly to how it happened in Adventure, 02, and Tamers). After the Siege of Bastion, those agencies became public as the main line of defense against digimon incursions, developing technology and even fostering their own human-digimon partnerships to fight.

After the PR disaster that the individual government's incursions into the Digital World would cause, the six programs would unify into a UN-backed, international digital program. The new International Digital Reconnaissance Agency (INDRA) would become the Digital World's main mean of contact with the Real World.

Digivice
D-OS is the digivice from Digimon: Broken Order. It looks like a mix of Last Adventure: Kizuna's Smartphone Digivice and Digimon New Century D-Zero. When the chosen has a smartphone at the time the bond is formed, it is turned into a D-OS.

It retains most smartphone functionalities, but gains a few new ones:


 * DigiComm - a functionality that allows chosen to communicate with each other through holographic video calling, text messaging, etc. It also allowed one to send data to one another. The D-OS will autoatically synchronize with new chosen nearby and add their contact to the DigiComm.
 * Digimon Analyzer -
 * DigiLocator - it allows chosen to locate each other within short distances.
 * Digimon Vitals Viewer - a functionality that shows your partner digimon's vitals.
 * DigiGate Key - initially, the D-OS could only open gates between the Real World and Bastion, a self-contained pocket of cyberspace within the Internet. The gate could be opened from whatever device connected to the Internet and could be used to rapidly through between Real World places through Bastion. It was later upgraded to open gates between the Real World and the Digital World as well.

Digital World
In Digimon: Broken Order, the Digital World is a higher dimension made of pure and immaterial data. It is larger than Humanity's computer Network and encompasses it in its entirety. Relative to the Real World, the Network or Internet is but the first and shallowest level of the Digital World.

The Network, which is the level of the Digital World most directly affected by Humans, is mostly made up of the vastness of the Net Ocean, over which stand a number of continents and small areas. It is also the area in which the veil that separates the Real World and Digital World is at its thinnest.

Being a non-linear dimension, not every area of the Digital World is directly connected to one another. As such, the Digital World is divided into a number of servers, continents, areas, zones, and dimensions.

From the great Holy Tree, Yggdrasil reigns as the god of most of Digital World and is served by the Royal Knights, a group of powerful Warrior Digimon. He is, however, oposed by other forces that rule over other dominions. Those include the Dark Area, under the Seven Demon Lords, and the pristine continent of Iliad, under the Olympos XII. Even within each dominion there is strife, as those are often dotted with smaller dominions such as Myotismon's Undead Realm.

At the deepest level of the Digital World is Heaven or the Kernel, the original home of God. Though many claim to be God or gods of the Digital World, and others are referred to as God or gods, none of them have access to Heaven.

Eons before the series, the Digital World was governed by the Three Archangels in the name of God, who watched all from the deepest layer of the Kernel. However, a civil conflict that became known as War in Heaven would lead to the fragmentation of the Digital World. Many holy digimon would fall to the darkness, many would die, and the survivors would be scattered throughout the Digital World. In their last stand against the darkness, the Three Archangels would sacrifice their own lives to seal the Kernel, preventing the Dark Host from gaining access to and corrupting the source of Holy Light.

In this series, travel between worlds happened by using DigiGates. Originally, DigiGates did not appear randomly, but were opened by powerful digimon to serve their own purposes, the most notable example being Lady Sakuyamon, who smuggled many refugee digimon into the Real World. The US agency DIES would eventually develop a machine that could open DigiGates American monopoly over that technology would give them a great advantage over the others countries' digital programs until the technology is leaked. By the start of the series, Zero-One had invented a pseudo-DigiGate key that every D-OS digivice had and could open a gate to the Bastion, a self-contained pocket of cyberspace within the Network. Eventually, it would be upgraded to open DigiGates to the Digital World itself.

Origins
It would be revealed eventually that Humanity indirectly created the Digital World as it is today. Initially, it was a higher dimension made up of pure non-material information that was tapped into by the first digital computers way back in the 1940s. Over time, as more computers were made, data from the Human world was manifested into the Digital World, giving form to the previously formless mass of higher-dimensional data that encompassed it. Being a higher dimension beyond our own, time in the Digital World would pass way faster than in the Real World, with billions of years of development happening in a matter of decades. It wouldn't be until the first gate was opened, and the first incursion occurred, that time between both worlds would synchronize for the first time.

Some general, underdeveloped ideas

 * Most chosen do not manage to reach beyond a certai level, mostly beyond Champion. Few reach Ultimate and even fewer Mega. Some Armor-type would be repurposed as Champions or Ultimate. Like, there would be a chosen with a Patamon that is a red herring for the audiance to think that he is Seraphimon reincarnated, but he can only digivolve into Pegasusmon (Champion).
 * It would be discovered that Miguel's Cupimon is the reincarnated Seraphimon, one of the Three Archangels. The evolution line would be Poyomon->Puttimon->Cupimon->Angemon->HolyAngemon->Seraphimon. Yeah, I made Cupimon a Rookie instead on In-Training and Puttimon In-Training instead of Baby.
 * I thought about how, at some moment of the war for suppremacy, Yggdrasil would manage to break into Heaven and steal some holy power. By doing so, it would manage to temporarily bestow it to Gallantmon, who would become Gallantmon Crimson Mode, and to Omnimon, who would become Omnimon Merciful Mode, in order to lay waste to the remaining Demon Lord. Eventually, the main trio would manage to lock Heaven again (by using Cupimon's connection to it) and the two holy Royal Knights would come back to normal.
 * DIES eventually reverse-engineers its own digivices and manages to create bonds between its own agents and digimon by pairing them before the digi-egg hatches. It is a revelation to the main characters when they see adults with partner digimon, as they thought only children and teenagers could form such bond.
 * All the above becomes even more relevant when it is discovered that Zero-One, the original chosen, is actually an adult himself. He was the one who created the digivice to channel the emotional energy of a chosen into their digimon in a more controlled way. He also put in it all the functions such as opning portals to Bastion (after studying digimon's Realization/Digitalization process), communicator, locator, and digimon analyzer. He wrote a subroutine into the early Bastion program that would detect whenever a digimon-human bond was created and transform their smartphone into a digivice (or create a new one for them