Fan:Digimon: World Disaster (2021 film)

Digimon: World Disaster is a fanon live-action film idea created by CAJH. It is the sequel to both Digimon: Light and Dark and Digimon: Armorization, and the fourth 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. The story of the film starts ten months after the events of Armorization.

The main story points and ideas of Digimon: World Disaster were released to the Digimon Wiki on May 20, 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
The blue-violet crystals that came from inside bodies of Kenneth ”Ken” Ellsworth and Chimairamon are still on the Network. Chimairamon’s crystal keeps floating but it creates a third crystal where Devimon’s spirit and a small black cube with orange sparks are transferred into. Vamdemon’s crystal, which came from Ken’s body, is starting to send a strange signal. The signal is going to two ways: into an abandoned castle in the Digital World and into an unspecified email address. Meanwhile, Devimon’s crystal ends near a black box which was left behind very long ago. It contains an egg which is infused with another black cube. The egg hatches and reveals a large red eye.

Planned story elements

 * Ten months has passed since the Digimon Emperor and Chimairamon were defeated, the Chosen One have rebuilt most of the destruction caused by the Digimon Emperor’s actions, but the crystals that escaped into the Network have still not been located.
 * Due to Chimeramon’s actions and everyone being able to see the holographic Digimon back then, people around the world are trying to research the phenomenon, form their own conspiracy theories, or prepare for an invasion.
 * Agent Murdock has ensured that the identities of the Chosen Ones remain secret, but the Chosen Ones are afraid of the day when the Digimon finally manage to materialize into the real world.
 * An unidentified person meets up with Matt’s father and Tyler’s mother about some information, but cryptically tells them that something will happen very soon.
 * One day, Vamdemon has finally managed to construct the portal, contacting with Devimon, and starts by sending an Infected Golemon to the real world.
 * Dyson, Jonny, Taichi, Matt and Tyler fight them with help of ExVeemon, Ankylomon, Greymon, Garurumon and Angemon. But the light of the Digivices is unable to purify the Infected Golemon because the new Infection used by Vamdemon is stronger the one Devimon used three years ago. Even Angemon is unable to purify Golemon.
 * Stingmon appears and wounds Golemon. Ken Ellsworth appears and tells the Chosen Ones to use their Digivices now. This time lights succeed in purifying the data and reformat it into a Digi-Egg.
 * Due to his past actions as the Digimon Emperor, he believes only he should be the one to kill Digimon and purify their data before they become Digi-Eggs, not wanting others to ”get their hands dirty”.
 * Taichi, Dyson and Tyler do not like killing brainwashed Digimon but agree that they need to put the safety of the world above everything else. Jonny, is angry and believes that Ken is still evil. Matt is not as distrustful of Ken, but he shares Jonny’s opinion that killing is wrong and that they may not be able to reformat data of every killed Digimon into Digi-Eggs.
 * The discussion about this is causing friction between the Chosen Ones. Agent Murdock sides with Taichi, Dyson, Tyler, and Ken, because he believes public safety should always be put first. Sonya, Mimi, Milena and Hikari side with Matt and Jonny, because they refuse to see death as ”salvation”. Connor, Joe and Will cannot form their own opinions just yet.
 * But before the Chosen Ones can agree about trying to at least keep the battles out of the real world, one skyscraper in New York slowly transforms into data and dissipates like a dying Digimon.
 * Tyler is starting to see nightmares of Angemon’s near-death again and Devimon’s voice. Hikari has started seeing similar nightmares about Tailmon’s corruption as BlackTailmon and Vamdemon’s voice.
 * The mysterious person is seen with information of the Chosen Ones fighting Devimon and Chimairamon. He also visits several unhappy children around New York.
 * Several Infected Thundermon attack New York and there is already a group of children killing the Infected Digimon with their own Partner Digimon in Adult Level forms, including Woodmon, Seadramon, Meramon, Kiwimon, and Waspmon.
 * The Chonen Ones are disturbed that these children are willing to something like this and during the battle, skyscrapers start being ”digitalized” again, and even humans in the process. It does not happen only in New York but around the world as well. Even Taichi and Dyson are horrified and try to find these children.
 * The mysterious person meets the Chosen Ones and introduces himself as Julius Oatway, one of the civilian contacts of Matt’s and Tyler’s parents, Jonny’s father’s childhood friend and Ken’s father’s former colleague.
 * Oatway reveals himself as the one who gave these children their Partner Digimon, only wanting to give them opportunity to reach the Digital World themselves, presenting himself as a well-meaning man who wants every children ”experience adventures”.
 * Taichi and the others think that the new Chosen Ones should be properly trained before participating in any battle and that they feel too careless about collateral damage and casualties and killing their opponents. Oatway, however, reminds that Taichi, Dyson, Tyler and Ken had qualms about killing either.
 * Agent Murdock says that to make any legal movements against Oatway or these children, it would also require the previous Chosen Ones should be registered or exposed to the public. Matt accuses Murdock of caring only about bureaucracy and politics, and not about their Chosen One’s own personal lives.
 * Will feels that every child deserves to have their own Partner Digimon if they are good people. These new Chosen Ones do not feel good people, but Will would rather turn them into good people than take their powers away.
 * To research the new Infection and the digitalization, Connor tries to convince the “new Chosen Ones” to let them borrow their Digivices, but they angrily refuse, and their parents refuse to let any of the Chosen Ones near these children. Hikari’s ”sixth sense” senses more darkness than light inside the children, their Partner Digimon and parents, making her suspect that the children are being used.
 * For several days, the Chosen Ones are without any leads and any action against Oatway or the new children.
 * Ken himself tries to personally talk to Nora Walker, one of these new ”Chosen Ones”, but she accuses Ken of forsaking his power and intelligence for friendships, which Nora considers ”weakness”. She used to be a sickly child until she was given her Digivice, and refuses to return to her old ”lonely and miserable” life.
 * Huckmon, Leomon and Wizardmon come to the real world. Huckmon assures that these new ”Chosen Ones” have not been accepted by the rulers of the Digital World. Leomon and Wizardmon have found the digitalized skyscrapers and humans of New York.
 * Nora Walker has her negative emotions becoming extremely strong. Taichi, Matt, Dyson and Will are trying to follow her and see how she is dragged into a distortion. Ken decides to follow them from distance.
 * Connor uses the locations and his analysis of the digitalization effect to locate Devimon’s hiding place from the Network. He also uses the analysis from the new Infection to locate Vamdemon’s castle.
 * Taichi, Matt, Dyson, Will, and Ken have already found their way to the Digitalized New York. Nora and her parents are brainwashed and their inner darkness is then absorbed by her ”Partner Digimon” who transforms into same Digimon that hatched from the Digi-Egg inside Devimon’s black box: Eyesmon Scatter Mode.
 * Several Eyesmon Scatter Mode fuse into true Eyesmon who sends data from the Digitalized New York to make Devimon super evolve into NeoDevimon once again.
 * Connor, Joe, Tyler, Jonny, and Leomon decide to go NeoDevimon’s location while Sonya, Mimi, Milena, Hikari and Wizardmon decide to infiltrate to Vamdemon’s castle. Huckmon goes after Taichi’s group and Eyesmon.
 * During their mission, the three groups are captured and brought before NeoDevimon and Vamdemon in respective locations.
 * NeoDevimon reveals that every Devimon in existence was once an Angemon, until they were corrupted by Cacodaemomon, the deceased Ancient Demon King of Wrath, Seraphimon’s archenemy. Since Patamon is the only Holy Digimon from Angemon’s evolution tree who has never been corrupted, NeoDevimon now desires to become the New Demon King of Wrath and succeed in Patamon’s corruption.
 * Vamdemon reveals that he is planning to take over the place of Barbamon, the deceased Ancient Demon King of Greed, who to corrupted Vamdemon long ago into who he is now. Vamdemon also reveals that Patamon, Tailmon and Lopmon are reincarnations of three Holy Archangels named Seraphimon, Ophanimon and Cherubimon. Vamdemon is especially afraid of Tailmon because she has been destined to defeat him.
 * Ken is outraged by NeoDevimon’s and Vamdemon’s actions and attacks Eyesmon who easily overpowers Stingmon.
 * In order to succeed in their plans, NeoDevimon and Vamdemon need lots of data from the real world to evolve to the Ultimate Level. That is why they created Eyesmon to digitalize New York and transform into data, which would be a fuel for their ultimate evolution.
 * The Chosen Ones engage in battle, but NeoDevimon, Vamdemon and Eyesmon defeat them and force them to retreat.
 * Jonny finally forgives Ken and even convincing Ken to finally become official member of the Chosen Ones. The two even ask information about Oatway’s past from Ken’s father and Jonny’s grandfather.
 * Jonny’s grandfather Clifford admits that he was strict to both is his son and Oatway out of fear that they would lose their sense of reality in computers and video games.
 * The Chosen Ones, Murdock and Clifford confront Oatway who reveals that ever since Ken’s actions as the Digimon Emperor and had been searching for the crystals to for his research to reach the Digital World. He was anonymously sent crystals and cubes to use them to craft the Fake Digivices for the children, but was unable to develop his own personal Digivice, because he was a ”grown up”.
 * The blue-violet crystals and black cubes are said to be remnants of a power to evolve those who cannot evolve naturally or even with ”natural light” of the human children. Agumon and others feel like they have met this very evil power inside the crystals somewhere before. Huckmon also recognizes the power as something not as old as the Ancient Demon Kings, yet still very dangerous.
 * But before Oatway can reveal more, Vamdemon takes over his body, revealing to have used him as Ken’s replacement for possession. He then uses the power sent by Eyesmon to create his own body and separates himself from Oatway, with Oatway losing most of his life energy in the process.
 * Vamdemon reveals that the existence of the Fake Digivices and Eyesmon was turn the Fake Chosen Ones and their parents angry to their inner darkness could be used to give him and Devimon their bodies and powers back. But he only needs NeoDevimon to destroy the Chosen Ones, after which he would get rid of his ”brother”. NeoDevimon is also planning to get rid of Vamdemon.
 * Eyesmon super evolves into Orochimon who accelerates the Digitalization of New York and starts to digitalize other cities around the world. Orochimon also digitalizes Oatway’s home into the Digital World.
 * The brainwashed Fake Chosen Ones attack the real Chosen Ones with several Eyesmon Scatter Mode, and Treemon, MegaSeadramon, DeathMeramon, Pandamon, and CannonBeemon. They are also joined by several Infected Mamemon, BigMamemon, and MetalMamemon.
 * Connor realizes that while previous Fake Partner Digimon were Eyesmon’s illusions, these new opponents are Infected Digimon that Eyesmon used for creating fakes. The brainwashed Fake Chosen Ones were too full of negativity to see their ”partners” being unknowingly replaced.
 * Milena is trying to avoid fighting the Infected Digimon fighting only the Eyesmon Scatter Mode with help of Aquilamon. Jonny and Ankylomon decide to do the same.
 * Ken is taunted by the Fake Chosen Ones of his past, but Dyson convinces Ken not to feel guilty anymore and focus on becoming the ”kind person” Wormmon always believed in. This gives The Crests of Miracles and Kindness to ”perfect fuse” ExVeemon and Stingmon into Paildramon.
 * Taichi and Tyler determined that they will not fail making sure their opponents will be reformatted into Digi-Eggs. Matt and Hikari make the hard decision to rather share the ”burden” with Taichi and Tyler.
 * When the Infected Digimon threaten to kill innocent digitalized humans, Aquilamon, Ankylomon, and Tailmon are forced to help other Partner Digimon to kill their opponents. Milena and Jonny are horrified, but Tyler and Hikari assure them that they saved people’s lives while doing so.
 * Huckmon wants the Chosen Ones to straightly take the Fake Digivices away from the Fake Chosen Ones, but Will objects and decides to talk to the children about having a Digimon Partner and protecting both the real world and the Digital World.
 * Will gives a long speech, how despite the rulers of the Digital World choosing the Chosen Ones, the Chosen Ones choose how they save the worlds. He urges Nora and the others overcome their insecurities and past problems without the Fake Digivices, urging them to choose their own destiny. This makes real Digivices and Digi-Eggs, but different than the Chosen Ones’, to appear into the children’s hands.
 * Will’s speech gives Tueryemon an ability to super evolve to Andiramon who fights against Orochimon with help of MetalGreymon, WereGarurumon and Paildramon, but Orochimon keeps regrowing its heads.
 * NeoDevimon and Vamdemon appear to the Digitalized New York and start fighting the Partner Digimon themselves. Their powers combined with Orochimon overpower eight Perfect Level Partner Digimon. Angemon and Tailmon want to face NeoDevimon and Vamdemon themselves and even NeoDevimon’s taunts about how three years ago Angemon almost died because of their earlier battle cannot stop them.
 * NeoDevimon almost kills Angemon and Vamdemon almost kills Tailmon until Leomon and Wizardmon sacrifice themselves. Leomon urges Tyler and Patamon never giving up their hope and Wizardmon urges Hikari and Tailmon always keep light inside them despite their past experiences. This makes Angemon and Tailmon super evolve to HolyAngemon and Angewomon.
 * The power of three Holy Digimon in their Perfect Level forms weaken the three evil Digimon and remove the Infection from every Digimon while they still remind that the Chosen Ones should not be afraid to hard methods if it sincerely means protecting others.
 * After fighting for a while, HolyAngemon pierces NeoDevimon’s chest with Excalibur, Angewomon pierces Vamdemon’s chest with Holy Arrow, and Andiramon manages to destroy Orochimon’s real head.
 * The three blue-violet crystals and three small black cubes with orange sparks react to NeoDevimon’s, Vamdemon’s and Orochimon’s deaths. NeoDevimon’s and Vamdemon’s voices are heard calling for the Seals of Wrath and Greed to ”ultimate evolve” them and grant them powers of the Demon Kings.
 * The lightnings from the crystals and cubes strike NeoDevimon’s and Vamdemon’s remains, but the Seals of Wrath and Greed are destroyed, and instead of being resurrected as new incarnations of Cacodaemomon and Barbamon, NeoDevimon and Vamdemon become DanDevimon and VenomVamdemon and lose their intelligence in the process.
 * Orochimon is resurrected without any Seal of the Demon Kings as Nidhoggmon, which communicates with the Chosen Ones by sending a speaking voice into Connor’s tablet computer.
 * DanDevimon and VenomVamdemon are simply walking and spreading dark miasma, and desire more power and more food. But Nidhoggmon is accelerating digitalization of the major cities of the real world.
 * Nidhoggmon reveals how Devimon and Vamdemon did not have enough strong wills to become new Demon Kings and withstand powerful evolutions of Ultimate Level. They were used by the True New Darkness, just like they used Oatway.
 * Within 10 minutes, Nidhoggmon is planning to steal so much data from the Network and digitalized material from the real world and take the digitalized cities, so that he could self-destruct and cause a global cataclysm to the Digital World. And once DanDevimon and VenomVamdemon would die with his self-destruction, the dark miasma inside their bodies would spread and corrupt most of the Digital World.
 * DanDevimon and VenomVamdemon, however, still remember their earlier defeat and attack Taichi, Matt, Tyler and Hikari for a revenge.
 * The Chosen Ones are in disadvantage, for four years ago they defeated the Ultimate Level Algomon only when the spirits of Seraphimon and Ophanimon suddenly appeared from their Digi-Eggs and degenerated Algomon, which was much weaker than Devimon and Vamdemon. Their only hope this time to is to figure out how to ultimate evolve their own Partner Digimon.
 * Connor is shown Milena’s notes of DigiLetters from Vamdemon’s castle and finds a prophecy regarding Devimon, Vamdemon, Angemon and Angewomon. The prophecy also mentions the ”loved ones” and ”the Ultimate Test”.
 * HolyAngemon and Angewomon use ”arrows of love” and shoot them on Taichi’s and Matt’s Digivices, which sends Taichi and Matt into a portal that takes to the Ultimate Test.
 * Taichi’s Ultimate Test is being pulled into an illusion where he sees how people accuse him of not fighting to protect them but also not accusing him of causing collateral damage and casualties as well.
 * Matt’s Ultimate Test is being pulled into an illusion where people are angry at him for letting their friends die but also for killing a brainwashed person who was not acting on his/her own mind.
 * Despite the people and Digimon in their illusions calling them ”murderers”, Taichi and Matt admit that they want to save every innocent civilian or brainwashed Digimon, but not being able to always do it the way they want to. They swear they will only think about people who support their decisions of such matter.
 * After coming out of the Ultimate Test, Taichi and Matt activate the full potential of the Crests of Courage and Friendship, making MetalGreymon Alterous Mode and WereGarurumon Sagittarius Mode ultimate evolve into WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon.
 * WarGreymon and Angewomon face DanDevimon while MetalGarurumon and HolyAngemon face VenomVamdemon. Others fight against Nidhoggmon who starts to cause earthquakes to the Digital World and overheat much of human technology. Even Connor’s tablet computer starts overheating.
 * DanDevimon and VenomVamdemon still survive the attacks, but then the Holy Digimon figure out how to destroy them. Angewomon uses Saint Air to temporarily paralyze them. Andiramon creates small wounds to where their enemies’ weak spots are. And HolyAngemon opens a round portal named Heaven’s Gate. HolyAngemon empowers MetalGarurumon to strike into DanDevimon’s wound while Angewomon empowers WarGreymon to strike into VenomVamdemon’s wound. DanDevimon and VenomVamdemon are destroyed and their data flows into Heaven’s Gate.
 * Nidhoggmon, however, is too large and powerful for even WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon and seven Perfect Level Partner Digimon to destroy. But the Chosen Ones and the children do not give up and they all urge WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, HolyAngemon, Angewomon and Andiramon to do their best.
 * WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon manage to at least wound Nidhoggmon and then everyone’s Digivice starts to glow. A holographic image of Omegamon appears from behind WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon and destroys Nidhoggmon, which causes the digitalized cities to return to normal and stops human technology from overheating.
 * Only the largest crystal, which was inside Chimairamon, remains and it is locked away.
 * The Chosen Ones are happy that Devimon and Vamdemon are finally destroyed, but Huckmon reveals that their job is not over yet. The appearance of black cubes and blue-violet crystals are a sign that some of the older and more powerful enemies of the Digital World are trying to come back.
 * Huckmon, however, is surprised that the brainwashed children gained their own power. He decides to name them Tamers, humans who chose to have their own Partner Digimon rather than being chosen.
 * Oatway is dying, but Huckmon offers him an ability to live as non-embodied digital being, if he agrees join servants the rulers of the Digital World. Oatway agrees, wishing to make amends for his actions while finally experiencing the Digital World himself.
 * The Chosen Ones and Tamers dedicate themselves to repair the damages done to the Digital World and handle their newly appeared public status.
 * The mid-credit scene shows how Chimairamon’s crystal has been stolen by a mysterious figure who also has a larger black cube in his possession. His base of operations has a cosmic-looking symbol.
 * Most common themes are:
 * Taichi struggling to be more courageous than ever before since battles against evil Digimon are also causing collateral damage and human casualties in the real world.
 * Matt struggling to kill innocent Digimon to prevent Vamdemon from controlling them, as such it is in conflict with his understanding of ”saving a friend”.
 * Tyler and Hikari confronting Devimon and Vamdemon, their destined enemies, and reaching out to the powers of ”hope” and ”light” they are meant to represent.
 * Will taking it his personal goal to allow Fake Chosen Ones how they can change their own lives better and helping them to eventually get their real Digivices and Partner Digimon.
 * Dyson learning more about being a Chosen One with help of Taichi, Matt and Will, and becoming the most willing to act against enemy, since he believes that unwillingness to give up is what makes ”miracles” happen.
 * Ken learning to be a proper Chosen One with help of Taichi, Matt, Will and Dyson, trying to make amends with his past as the Digimon Emperor and trying to fully recover his ”kind” personality.
 * Milena learning more about being a Chosen One with help of Sonya, Mimi, and Hikari.
 * Jonny learning more about being a Chosen One with help of Connor, Joe, and Tyler.
 * Agent Murdock struggling to choose between bureaucracy and compassion.

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 planned to have Eyesmon to be the next opponent of the Chosen Ones after Chimairamon and also raise the stakes of the war between the Chosen Ones and the Darkness much higher than during to the battles against the Algomon and Devimon. He also hoped that this film would also make some of the Ultimate Level forms of the Partner Digimon to finally make their debut in this film series. The film was also meant to be Devimon’s and Vamdemon’s final appearance, with the film also setting up the next villains.

Trivia

 * This is the first installment with over ten Chosen Ones appearing in the same film and the first installment with a mid-credit scene.
 * Unlike originally planned, in this installment the existence of the Chosen Ones becomes public knowledge.
 * Julius Oatway, Nora Walker and Clifford Hicks are based on Yukio Oikawa, Noriko Kawada and Chikara Hida.
 * Sonya, Connor, Mimi and Joe had more of mentor-role for Milena and Jonny rather any more significant character development since their Partner Digimon did not unlock any new evolved forms in this film.
 * Veemon, Wormmon, Armadimon and Hawkmon have learned to evolve to ExVeemon, Stingmon, Ankylomon and Aquilamon off-screen. CAJH revealed that this was the plan from the beginning.
 * Omegamon was originally planned to make full appearance in the film, but CAJH decided against making ultimate fusion of Omegamon happen too soon after ultimate evolutions of WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. Omegamon’s appearance was rewritten into a holographic one instead.
 * The crystals and cubes are an open hint of Millenniummon and Apocalymon, but full details of their role in this franchise will be revealed in future installments.

Sequel
The fifth installment, a sequel titled Digimon: War for Evolution, will focus on dealing with the Chosen Ones learning more about ultimate evolution, and preventing their new enemies for bringing back ancient destructive darkness.