Fan:Digimon: Dramon’s Roar (2022 series)

Digimon: Dramon’s Roar is a fanon live-action film idea created by CAJH. It is the spin-off to Digimon: War for Evolution and the sixth 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 is set simultaneously with the third act of War for Evolution but happens in a longer period due to different flow of time.

The main story points and ideas of Digimon: Dramon’s Roar are planned to be released to the Digimon Wiki on September 15, 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
A 14 years old Japanese boy and an 11 years old American boy, later identified as Ryo and Kenneth ”Ken” Ellsworth, are walking on the desert of the Digital World. But they are attacked by Vamdemon’s bats who forcefully put a fragment of the Millennial Crystal inside Ken’s body. They also try to do same thing with Ryo, who takes Ken to the portal, so that Ken could return to the real world. The bats are then carrying another crystal, intending to use it on Ryo, who runs away until he reaches a small blue orb, opening a very special portal for him.

Planned story elements

 * Flashbacks are with Dyson Motomiya touching another blue orb inside the black orb where Piemon has imprisoned them. But this time being shown from Dyson’s point of view. He, Veemon, Ken, Wormmon, Will Dunham, Lopmon, Tyler Whitaker, Patamon, Hikari Yagami, and Tailmon ending up away through a special portal, like the one Ryo walked through four years ago.
 * The five children wake up from different parts of the place they ended up into. They try as hard as they can to open a portal away but are unable to. They also realize that clock passes slower in their phones, meaning that they have ended up in a place with faster flow of time than in the real world.
 * Dyson ends up being chased by a group of both Blue Coredramon and Green Coredramon who are competing for the prey.
 * Veedramon attacks the Coredramon and fights until he has defeated them all. He becomes tired and the Chosen Ones take him to safety.
 * After the Chosen Ones have left, an army of Cyberdramon arrives to retrieve the Coredramon and their data.
 * Veedramon’s attitude reminds them of pretty much of Agumon’s attitude, but he has no human partner or Crest. The Chosen One communicate through their Digivice and explain their story to him, also discussing about Meiko Mochizuki, Meicoomon, Nowell Sharpe, Piemon and the past three wars against the Dark Digimon. But they are still unaware of how Taichi and others are dealing the Cult of the Dark Digital Cosmos.
 * On the next morning, Ken and Wormmon find Dyson, Veemon and Veedramon. They find a large, abandoned factory. In this factory, the Chosen Ones meet another human: Ryo Akiyama, who still looks like 14 years old, even though it has been over three years in real world time since Ken and Wormmon last saw him. And due to slower pace of time in the Hidden Dramon Lands, Ryo has hundreds of years of experience. He is very athletic and intelligent person because of that.
 * Ryo explains how he ended up in the Digital World in his sleep. He was never given a Digivice or even his own Digimon. He just spent most of his time learning about the Digital World and saving several Digimon in trouble, even though he has no Partner Digimon or even a Digivice. But despite his long time, he still has no idea what his role if it is not being a Chosen One or a Tamer.
 * But the Chosen Ones also start wondering why they have never heard about Ryo even from the other Digimon. Ken and Wormmon had never thought about Ryo after separating from him but do not understand how they just forgot about him.
 * After hearing the Chosen Ones’ story, he advises them to travel into a holy place that would reveal the greatest knowledge of the Hidden Dramon Lands. But he warns them that getting there is dangerous because the legions of Cyberdramon had appeared into the Dramon Lands few years ago.
 * Meanwhile, Tyler and Will manage to reach Hikari’s location. During the next night, Hikari’s ”sixth sense” senses something destructive in the ground of the Hidden Dramon Lands. Veedramon and Ryo sense this this too in Dyson’s and Ken’s location. They explain that the ground of the Hidden Dramon Lands has slowly started to act that way ever since the Cyberdramon had appeared.
 * In his fortress, Darkdramon, the mysterious commander of the Cyberdramon, has heard about the Chosen Ones’ arrival and instruct his soldiers to initiate their plan to destroy them.
 * Veedramon hopes to find a way to defeat the Cyberdramon and their commander but seems more intrigued about powerful opponents than saving the Hidden Dramon Lands.
 * In the morning, the Cyberdramon attack the factory, but Veemon and Wormmon are unable to evolve and fight them, forcing Dyson, Ken, Veedramon and Ryo to run away. Ryo reveals a mysterious power that allows him to make Veemon and Wormmon evolve. Ken starts to remember when years ago Ryo helped him make Wormmon evolve in situations where it was normally impossible. Ryo decides to go on his own way, because he still needs to figure out why he was given his mysterious power. Ken would not want to leave him, but Ryo insists that Ken should go with others.
 * During the journey, the Chosen Ones meet the herd of Green Coredramon again. This time they are joined by Groundramon, who is known to have eaten several lesser Dramon-type Digimon. Groundramon is so powerful that Paildramon, Angemon, Tailmon and Tueryemon cannot defeat it by themselves. Angemon, Tailmon and Tueryemon are unable to super evolve to their forms.
 * Veedramon rashly attacks Groundramon even though the opponent is a Perfect Level Digimon. He does not listen the warnings of the Chosen Ones and ends up severely wounded.
 * Veedramon was more interested of fighting strong opponents and becoming stronger. But Lopmon chastises Veedramon from its actions and advises him to start regaining his old memories, implying that Lopmon knows who Veedramon was in his past life.
 * Meanwhile, Ryo encounters several Cyberdramon who are patrolling in the Hidden Dramon Lands and ends up running away from them. One of the Cyberdramon catches him but has doubts about serving Darkdramon. Ryo’s power also reacts very strongly to this Cyberdramon who decides to let Ryo escape.
 * But very soon after the encounter, all the Cyberdramon forget about Ryo’s existence. This means everyone who encounters Ryo forgets his existence after going separate ways from him. The friendly Cyberdramon, however, shows signs of still remembering Ryo. He also shows signs of power that makes the other Cyberdramon starting doubt their loyalty to Darkdramon as well.
 * The Chosen Ones have forgotten Ryo’s existence too. Will and Lopmon somehow still remember that they were advised to go to the holy place, but they do not remember Ryo being the one who gave the advice.
 * Patamon, Tailmon and Lopmon are still unable to evolve when the Chosen Ones approach the territory of the Blue Coredramon and their leader Wingdramon.
 * An earlier encounter with Ryo reveals to have given Veedramon power to super evolve into AeroVeedramon. AeroVeedramon manages to overpower Wingdramon who would rather die than lose its territory, but the area is then attacked by the Cyberdramon. Cyberdramon often attack them with their lances and using electrifying attacks on their victim’s heads. Lopmon senses that the wild behavior of the Coredramon and Wingdramon is caused by mental damage caused by the Cyberdramon.
 * Meanwhile, Ryo sees how the Cyberdramon are also attacking the territory of the Green Coredramon and Groundramon. He hides and finds a cave full of Dracomon hiding. They are the youngest of the herd and the only one have not lost their sanity.
 * AeroVeedramon degenerates back into Veedramon and decides to remain behind, and after two days of journey, the Chosen Ones reach ocean, but then a mysterious light moves, which Lopmon recognizes as the same energy as the orb that took the Chosen Ones to the Hidden Dramon Lands. The light moves ocean water away to reveal a secret underwater path.
 * While being on his own, Veedramon experiences a vision of his past life and realizes how he ended up in the Hidden Dramon Lands. He also partially remembers that two other very special Digi-Eggs that ended up there with him.
 * On the next night, the Chosen Ones make a camp but wake up in the middle of night for a light coming out of somewhere. The light is revealed to be coming an underwater library which turns out to be the holy place the Chosen Ones were looking for. A protective force field opens and allows the Chosen Ones to enter.
 * Inside the library, the Chosen Ones meet an apparition of mysterious non-binary teenager. They introduce themselves as Blair Samson who was couple of months ago in an accident that led their mind being separated from his body and travel into the Digital World where they met a Digimon named Aitamon who claims to have long waited for Blair’s arrival before that.
 * Blair and Aitamon have spent a long time inside the library hoping to learn a way for Blair to return to either gain access to the rest of the Digital World or return to their comatose body in the real world, but all they have managed to find is the full history of the Hidden Dramon Lands. Will and Lopmon show interest on this as well.
 * The Hidden Dramon Lands were separated from the rest of the Eastern Digital World by Qinglongmon, one of the four Sovereign Beasts, and acts as a sanctuary for both Qinglongmon and most of the Dramon-type Digimon species. Aitamon is the only non-Dramon-type inhabitant of the area, as its Digi-Egg had ended up in there very long time ago at the same time with Veedramon’s Digi-Egg and two other Digi-Eggs.
 * Lopmon is starting to remember things from her past again and confirms Aitamon’s story. She realizes that Qinglongmon summoned Dyson, Ken, and Will to the Hidden Dramon Lands and accidentally Tyler and Hikari too. She deems that their mission to save Qinglongmon and destroy Darkdramon before they return to fight against the Cult of the Dark Digital Cosmos.
 * On next day, they will start their long journey to the place where Qinglongmon is kept imprisoned. That place also happens to be where Darkdramon built his fortress. Lopmon guides the others there, but Blair and Aitamon opt to remain in the library.
 * Darkdramon starts to be suspicious of the very Cyberdramon who let Ryo escape and hatches a plan.
 * After a long time of fighting and preventing the enemies from learning the location of the Chosen Ones, Veedramon is wounded once again, since he has not been able to evolve AeroVeedramon for the second time. Ryo finds Veedramon, tending his physical wounds him and restoring his ability to evolve. The two are then discovered by the rebelling group of Cyberdramon who are now subjected to stronger mind-control than the rest of the Cyberdramon.
 * After three days, they finally reach the fortress, and then Darkdramon hacks their Digivices to contact the Chosen Ones. During the discussion, Darkdramon reveals that he was originally an artificial Dramon-type Digimon who destroyed his own creators and joined the Cult of the Dark Digital Cosmos and broken inside the Hidden Dramon Lands not long after Nowell Sharpe became the High Priest. He had also created the Cyberdramon by corrupting Dramon-type Digi-Eggs with a method taught by the Vademon.
 * Ryo and Veedramon are brought into the fortress, with Darkdramon showing special interest in Ryo’s powers and revealing how Millenniummon has shown interest in it as well. Darkdramon also sends his army and the mind-twisted versions of Coredramon, Groundramon, Wingdramon attack Paildramon, HolyAngemon and Angewomon, while the Chosen Ones decide to infiltrate into Darkdramon’s command room.
 * Ryo’s power and the rebelling Cyberdramon’s own power together removes the effect of stronger brainwashing, but the rebelling Cyberdramon dies in the process. Ryo then meets Will and Lopmon and hears Blair’s and Aitamon’s voice, directing them to the location where Qinglongmon is imprisoned.
 * Darkdramon mixes up the powers stolen from Qinglongmon with the power of the shard from the Millennial Crystal to awaken Megidramon, also known as the Red Dragon of the End and the embodiment of the Digital Hazard, the very cause of the recent instability of the Hidden Dramon Lands. Darkdramon’s plan is to use Megidramon and the power of the Digital Hazard to destroy the Hidden Dramon Lands and sacrifice its data for Millenniummon and Apocalymon.
 * Veedramon evolves into AeroVeedramon again and faces Groundramon, Wingdramon and the Coredramon in a rematch. A group of Turqoise Coredramon, evolved from the Dracomon thanks to Ryo’s power, come to his aid.
 * Will, Lopmon and Ryo find Qinglongmon whom they recognize as one of the Four Sovereign Beasts. Qinglongmon gives them one of his DigiCores and tell them to show its light to Dyson, Ken, Tyler, Hikari, Paildramon, HolyAngemon and Angewomon.
 * Qinglongmon’s light forces Dyson and Ken to enter their own Ultimate Test, where Dyson is tested whether a mere optimism and his belief in miracles can solve problems. Ken remembers the day he and Sam got the Digivice and how he had accidentally ended up into the Digital World for the first time. When Ken returned, Sam was angry, because he thought the Digivice was his. It was soon after that when Sam died in accident.
 * Dyson is revealed to have small hesitation inside him despite his optimism and determination, but still refuses to let even smallest amount of doubt prevent him from believing that there is always a way defeat an enemy. AeroVeedramon is somehow able to hear Dyson’s words and becomes inspired by them. to the vision and reminds Ken once again that he is no longer the Digimon Emperor. Ken finally feels genuinely happy and even sees a vision of Sam forgiving him. Dyson’s and Ken’s resolutions together make Paildramon ultimate evolve into Imperialdramon.
 * Tyler and Hikari are also sent into their own Ultimate Test where they are surrounded by people who have lost their hope of light, believing that Tyler’s and Hikari’s own inner hope of light will not help them return to the rest of the Digital World. But they refuse to believe that there they would be the only ones to carry out the hope of light. They hear every other Chosen One’s and Tamer’s light of hope from the real world, the Digital World, and in the Hidden Dramon Lands. Even the other Dramon-type residents of the Hidden Dramon Lands send their hope of light.
 * Just like that same hope of light made WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon master their ability to ultimate fuse into Omegamon during the battle against Armageddomon, those lights of hope, combined with Ryo’s evolutionary powers and Qinglongmon’s light, make HolyAngemon and Angewomon to ultimate evolve into Goddramon and Holydramon.
 * Goddramon and Holydramon fight against Megidramon for a long time. And finally, they send a powerful light that calms down Dukemon’s spirit within Megidramon who is then turned into a Digi-Egg.
 * AeroVeedramon is also affected by the hope of light, Ryo’s powers and Qinglongmon’s light as well, summoning the aura of the UlforceVeedramon who destroys Groundramon and Wingdramon and unifies them back into a single Digi-Egg which belongs to Examon’s reincarnation. The Blue and the Green Coredramon regain their sanity as well, combining back into the Turquoise Coredramon and stopping their attacks.
 * Imperialdramon to destroys Darkdramon. The shard of the Millennial Crystal inside Darkdramon then destroys the Cyberdramon and uses both the data of both Darkdramon and the Cyberdramon to form a powerful energy beam which breaks the barrier protecting the Hidden Dramon Lands and his data is absorbed by Millenniummon.
 * The destruction of the barrier causes the Hidden Dramon Lands’ flow of time to become same as in the rest of the Digital World and to be corrupted by the existence of both Millenniummon and Raguelmon.
 * Qinglongmon tells the Chosen Ones not to worry about him and return to the rest of the Digital World to face Millenniummon. Blair and Aitamon appear and open a portal for Ryo, who feels how his power is fading but also feels how he has a new purpose, promising to tell it when they see each other next time. AeroVeedramon, however, decides to follow Dyson and the others to the outer Digital World.
 * In the mid-credit scene, Ryo wakes up from his bed, without any memory of his experiences in the Digital World. The calendar shows the same year and month as when he ended up into the Digital World for the first time. In the Digital World, the remains of the rebelling Cyberdramon are forming into a new Digi-Egg.
 * Most common themes are:
 * Dyson and Ken becoming even closer friends and Dyson making Ken feels happier after such long time.
 * Will, Tyler and Hikari being the most focused ones to save Qinglongmon and the Hidden Dramon Lands and hoping to learn more about the ancient powers of the Digital World.
 * Veedramon being more interested of fighting and showing same signs of recklessness as Taichi did in his first days as a Chosen Ones but becoming wiser through his experiences with Dyson and Veemon.
 * Ryo not being a Chosen One or even a Tamer but trying figure out he is meant to be instead.
 * Blair studying and exploring lots of different possibilities and learning to see what is the correct one.
 * Ryo was 14 years old and did not age even a bit during his time in the Hidden Dramon Lands but should be 17 years old in the present time of the real world.
 * Blair Samson should be 16 years old in the real world.
 * Darkdramon feeling empty because of being an artificial Digimon and wanting to help the Cult of the Dark Digital Cosmos to be free of living meaningless life and kill everyone else to prevent them from creating more emptiness.

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
After deciding that War for Evolution would separate Dyson Motomiya, Ken Ellsworth and Will Dunham from others, and later Tyler Whitaker and Hikari Yagami, CAJH was inspired to make a spin-off film that would explain where the five lost Chosen Ones were before they returned. The spin-off was also planned to explain how the evolutions of Imperialdramon, Goddramon and Holydramon are unlocked and introduce few more familiar Dramon-types from the Digimon mythology. Veedramon and Ryo Akiyama was also decided to be introduced because Veedramon and Cyberdramon were Dramon-types and there was a plan to make Veedramon into a new ally for the Chosen Ones, and leaves possibilities for RYo returning in the future as well.

Trivia

 * The way Goddramon, and Holydramon destroy Megidramon is inspired by how Angewomon destroyed SkullKnightmon and the Soulmon in Digimon Adventure:.
 * The idea of the Blue Coredramon and the Green Coredramon being mere halves of the Turqoise Coredramon (who were invented just for this film) was inspired by Examon being a fusion of Breakdramon and Slayerdramon in the real-life media.

Follow-up
The seventh installment, a follow-up titled Digimon: Ultimate Holy Battle, will focus on the Chosen Ones taking on the battle against Nowell Sharpe, Piemon, Raguelmon and Millenniummon, which will be the beginning of the Fourth War.