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'''Beware: here be unmarked spoilers for both these games and for the ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' anime series.'''

 

During ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', after WarGreymon defeated Mugendramon he survived long enough to undergo a [[Fusion Dance|Jogress evolution]] with a Chimairamon, giving birth to Millenniumon. With its abnormal strength, it quickly overwhelmed and captured the Chosen Children, and only Agumon escaped carrying Taichi's Digivice. On new years's eve of 1999, he desperately called children around the world for help but only one responded: Ryo Akiyama. Meanwhile, Millenniumon's presence continued to distort the Digital World, and with his power he revived long-deceased enemies of the Chosen to guard his captives.

 

 

Ryo then proceeded to slowly chip away at Millenniumon's follower base, defeating the revived antagonists and freeing all the Chosen but Taichi. He was constantly bombarded by very gruesome threats from each - Etemon expressed a desire to tear Ryo apart, while Vamdemon wanted to decapitate him and present the head to Millenniumon -, a tough order for any eleven-year-old to face. With his forces eroded, the path to Millenniumon's base opened, and Millenniumon himself fell for the first of a ridiculous number of times.

Taichi and Agumon reunited, reminding Ryo that despite all they'd been through together, Agumon was not his partner. After being thanked and farewelled by the Chosen and all the Digimon, Ryo returned to his home in the real world.

 

While visiting his friend Ken Ichijouji<ref>note that this is inconsistent with the anime: Ryo's cameo appearance in the respective film depicted him as watching from a foreign mountain with someone who definitely is not Ken, and it's also inconsistent with how Ken first entered the Digital World and met Wormmon; this is due to the game(from Bandai) and the movie/anime(from Toei) not sharing staff, and no-one bothered to make them consistent</ref>, Ryo witnessed the unfolding battle between WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon and Diablomon, watching as the two Jogress-evolved into Omegamon and killed Diablomon. Shortly thereafter, they were visited by a V-mon<ref>the same one who would later become the partner of Daisuke Motomiya, complete with the exact same D-3 Digivice</ref>, who took them into the Digital World to confront and defeat another Diablomon which was on the loose. Ryo and V-mon killed it easily ([[Degraded Boss|without V-mon needing to evolve]]) at the top of Infinity Mountain, but the Diablomon ruse was a distraction crafted by Millenniumon to draw Ryo back into the Digital World.

 

One year later, Ken returned to the Digital World at the prompting of a mysterious email contact, travelled to the Dark Ocean and bathed his Digivice in its water, transforming it into the black D-3. He then declared himself to be the Digimon Kaiser, the ruler of this world, [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|which is his to do with as he pleases]].

 

Shortly afterward, Ryo visited Ken during the illness caused by the Dark Seed, and was prompted by Ken to try a strange online questionnaire on his computer. After completing it, he was drawn back into the Digital World, this time by one of the four Holy Beasts<ref>the Holy Beast in question is decided by one of the questionnare questions; any of the four could fill this role</ref>.

 

At the end of the Tournament, Ryo was informed that he was the only one not in on the truth of it all: the D-1 Tournament was staged by the four Holy Beasts (none of whom were evil) ''and'' all the Chosen as a training program for Ryo, to prepare him to fight an enemy no-one else could ever hope to defeat, a so-called evil god. Ryo was completely shattered by the revelation that he had been used so callously, but goes along with it since he was too shocked to so much as argue back. After completing one last practice round, he was pressured by the Holy Beasts into challenging this enemy: <nowiki>Moon=Millenniumon</nowiki>.

 

 

Later, Ken laments Ryo's disappearance in a discussion with Gennai, expressing his belief that Ryo is still alive and the two will meet again one day.

 

Ryo was awakened by Monodramon, a small dragon Digimon, in a primitive jungle in the distant past of the Digital World; he found he had amnesia and couldn't remember anything of his past. Monodramon took him to confer with ENIAC, the first electronic computer, the Digital World's first overseer, and the origin of the many different alternate Digital Worlds, able to access them in enclosed timeloops in order to prevent any changes to the timeline.

 

As the struggle against ZeedMillenniumon intensified, both Ryo and ZeedMillenniumon gathered ally Digimon from different timelines. Eventually, Ryo finds out the the other tamers that he had fought with in the D-1 Tournament had also been used by the chosen children, while ZeedMillenniumon managed to create artificial ''humans'', the Dark Tamers and their VR partners, who successfully bring down ENIAC. Only then did the "real" first electronic computer appear: the Atanasoff-Berry computer, which had been working as a shadow to ENIAC in order to support him. However, it could only hold off ZeedMillenniumon for so long, and once again, it's up to Ryo to challenge ZeedMilleniumon.

 

 

==== The consequences of Millenniumon releasing Apocalymon, aka "How Millenniumon Fucked Up The ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' Universe" ====

As shown in his cameo appearance in ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', once defeated at the hands of Ken and Ryo in ''Tag Tamers''. Millenniumon launched Dark Seeds out of his body. Ken was infected by one at the time, saving Ryo from being infected; one year later their influence caused him to become the Digimon Kaiser and proceed to abuse the Digital World, devising and creating the Dark Towers which would later play straight into Archenmon's hands. This culminated in Ken's successful attempts to recreate Chimairamon, intending him to be his perfect partner. Chimairamon, if you'll recall, was one of the base Jogress components of Millenniumon; whether anyone intended this to eventually give rise to another Millenniumon is unknown. The fight against Chimairamon resulted in [[Dead Sidekick|the death of Wormmon]], which prompted Ken to undergo a [[Villainous BSOD]] and eventually a [[Heel Face Turn]].

 

 

By the way? Millenniumon started all of this without ENIAC - '''''an omniscient entity''''' - noticing.

 

 

=== Further reading ===

 

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