Fan:Digital Forger (Digimon Mystery)

The Digital Forger is a device that can turn inanimate objects into digimon. Built by Dr. Loboto for an unknown reason, the device was stolen from him by Eyesmon and given to Gideon Gleeful, who has since been using the device to manufacture digimon minions, the most notable being Hookmon, Witchmon and Wizardmon.

Description
The Digital Forger is a handheld device that has a built-in scanner, allowing it to scan objects with the push of a button and create digimon. However, the Digital Forger has caveats regarding how it’s used. Firstly, the device gradually damages itself with each use ever so slightly, suggesting that it was either a prototype or just poorly made on Loboto’s part. Second, not all objects will work. And finally, excessive concentration is needed to make the machine work properly.

Any digimon that are created by this device lack digi-cores, often using the item that they were created with as a substitute. However, because of their lack of digi-cores, they cannot digivolve or de-digivolve. Digimon created by the Digital Forger tend to have unusual attributes not otherwise used by those digimon. The Digital Forger was programmed to create mostly Champion-level digimon. Because Armor-level digimon were not originally meant to be created with this device, they cause damage to it and have the ability to lock people into small pocket dimensions should they draw too close, first by blocking communication with the outside world, then by pulling them into a pocket dimension reminiscent of the world around them.