Shoemon (Liberator)

Shoemon is the partner Digimon of Arisa Kinosaki in Digimon Liberator.
==Appearance==
==Description==
Attacks
*Wonder Stomp: Shoemon's sole detaches from the rest of its body and leaps up high as part of a two-step attack.
*Petit Needle: Spits a huge number of sewing needles at enemies, stopping them in their tracks by sewing them right up.
==Fiction==
===Digimon Liberator===
Shoemon is one of the many wild Digimon in LACUNA. One day, it is attacked by Frozen Knight and its Bulucomon, with it being chased all the way to the Invasive Forest City within the Emerald Coast. As it runs away, it comes across Shoto Kazama and Arisa Kinosaki — who have just finished duelling each other — and leaps into Arisa's arms. It then watches as Shoto duels and eventually defeats Frozen Knight.
Shoto immediately reminisces over the duel. After doing so, he has an outburst about how ridiculous their situation is — fighting rogue NPCs, meeting wild Digimon, and his deck being changed without his permission. He looks through his new deck, complaining that his Zephagamon has greyed out and is unusable. As Shoto continues to freak out about the situation, Pteromon interjects and tries to cheer him up by telling them that nothing went wrong. This annoys Shoto, since Pteromon was acting like it had known Shoto a long time — with Pteromon confirming it had indeed known him a long time as it spent three months watching from above as Shoto lost countless times to Arisa. As the supposed leader of the Emerald Coast, it watches and looks out for the beginners — which is why it had been watching them, and questions them on the fact they still hang out in the tutorial area despite three months having passed. Pteromon and Arisa poke fun at Shoto for being terrible at duelling, with Shoto eventually yelling at them to stop. 
Arisa theorises on the fact that Pteromon has existed for more than three months and knows so much about duelling, stating that it means there's no way it had been created as part of the game's most recent update. She looks through her deck, noting that it had been modified without her permission to now include Shoemon. She says they won't learn anything by standing around talking about it and decide the group should go find a GM and ask them about the recent goings on. Pteromon has no idea what GM is, so Arisa tells him that Game Masters, GMs, are the ones who run the game with Pteromon refusing this notion as it didn't believe in the fact that humans ran LACUNA. It reluctantly accepts the fact when Shoto points out that humans running a video game makes sense. Arisa is excited to go to City Center Jewel, the City that the GMs work in, with Shoto poking fun and saying she's only excited because she wants to shop there. Arisa confirms this, with Shoto apologizing as she points out she doesn't get to shop there much as she spends most of their gaming time teaching him how to duel. He tells her to buy him something as a reward for winning his first ever duel, and though she at first doesn't want to ends up agreeing to get him said gift. As they travel to the GM's headquarters Shoto realizes it would be a bad idea to travel around with unknown wild Digimon and so instruct their new partners to go hide inside their D-STORAGEs so as to not bring attention to themselves. 
Just as they arrive at their destination, Violet "Vi" Inboots comes up to them and expresses surprise at them being there. Arisa notices she was hanging out with , asking if she had always had it and she had simply never noticed. She introduces them to her new partner, having met Ghostmon recently, with Ghostmon posing for Violet's friends. She asks if they were there to see a GM as well, and tells them that she was there as she wanted to tell the GMs she had found a new Digimon. Arisa begins saying they too had found new Digimon but is interrupted by Shoto before she could complete her sentence with him telling her that if they tell her about their new Digimon she will talk about them for so long hours will pass and they won't be able to go shopping. Arisa realizes he is right and shuts up, with Shoto telling Violet about how they had ran into a bugged NPC and so wanted to tell the GMs about it. Finding the story interesting, Violet begins to talk about how she had heard the same thing from others then starts to talk about Ghostmon. Realizing the hours long conversation was about to happen, Shoto cuts her off and runs away — dragging Arisa with him.
Now at the lobby of the GM's building, they look through the list of GMs and see all but one is busy with other players. They click Cool Boy's chat room, with the duo summoned to his room. After greeting his guest, Cool Boy informs them he is not only a GM — he is the head GM that oversees the others.
Shoto and Arisa tell Cool Boy about what had happened to the them. Cool Boy apologizes for the inconvenience, with Shoto insisting it wasn't that big of a deal. He thanks them for their report, though tells them they were already aware of the issue as other players had told them about rogue NPCs already — this fact shocking Shoto. He also tells them about the issues they were having with wild Digimon, with this causing Shoto to realize that if he tells Cool Boy about theirs it would get their new partners into trouble and so he refrains from bringing them up. Cool Boy assures the duo the staff of the game were doing their best to make sure the players could play safely and that they would eventually put out an update that would fix all the issues. He then asks them to stay away from wild Digimon, warning them to not get involved with them — informing them that the research done by the debugging team alongside user submitted data indicated all the issues stemmed from the wild Digimon. Shoto agrees to stay away from wild Digimon, with Arisa shocked and whispering about how that was impossible as they already hang out with wild Digimon and have them in their decks. Shoto counters this by claiming Pteormon and Shoemon are fine, as they weren't wild anymore due to now being owned by them and as such saw no reason as to why the rouge NPCs would target them. Possibly overhearing their conversation, Cool Boy cuts them off and tells them players shouldn't befriend wild Digimon — warning them that doing so comes with the risk of them losing thier player status. Shoto asks if that means they'd be banned, though Cool Boy tells them he can't tell them any more as it is confidential information. He gives them one last piece of advice, to play the game properly so that they can be safe and to follow the advice he had given him. 
The duo leave his room, with Arisa finally able to breath having been terrified that Cool Boy would figure them out. Shoto however, thought he was the complete opposite and thought he was amazing due to the amount of information he knew. As the duo joke about Arsia's upcoming University entrance exams, the alarms on their D-STORAGEs sound — indicating it was time for them to return to the real world since Arisa had to go to class. Unknown to the duo, Violet had been listening in to their conversation and overheard them saying goodbye to their partner Digimon as they log out. 
The next day, Shoto fees Pteromon from the D-STORAGE — with Pteromon having been trapped inside it the entire night. Finally free, it flies around — yelling about how awful it was to be trapped inside a Digivice. As he watches Pteromon flying around, he warns it about sticking out too much though this becomes moot when Violet walks up to the lively group. Caught red headed with both Pteromon and Shoemon in the open they try to deny having unknown Digimon, with it not working as Violet had already done her research with there being no record of their new partners existence as Digimon species. Finding the newly discovered Digimon cute, she challenges Arisa to a duel telling her that if she wins she has to give Shoemon to her as a reward. During the duel, Shoemon takes over Arisa's second copy of with Arisa digivolving it to . She eventually goes in to win the duel.
Arisa and Shoemon celebrate and hug after after Arisa's win against Violet. Following the celebrations, Violet notices that her new card is greyed out and unable to be used — just like what happened with Shoto's Zephagamon. Arisa suggests talking to the GMs about their greyed out cards, though Pteromon points out that they're supposed to be keeping the wild Digimon and new cards a secret with Shoemon that revealing them now would render the entire duel with Violet pointless as they had duelled to keep her silence. They receive notifications on their D-STORAGEs that maintenance is going to happen in thirty minutes, with Pteromon freaking out at the thought of the duo logging out. Shoto informs them that it's not just them — every single player will have to log out whilst the maintenance happens — and that they will have to remain logged out for 160 hours. Learning this information, Pteromon's heart breaks as it will be trapped inside its card for the entire duration with that being mind numbingly boring for Pteromon — though Shoemon expresses happiness about going as it likes being trapped inside. The four of them then hang out or the remaining time they have left before they have to log out. Unknown to the quartet, they were being watched from the top of a nearby building by 's Tamer.
After maintenance, Shoto and Arisa are summoned by the GMs and as such they force their partners to stay inside their D-STROAGE. This just angers Pteromon, since it had only just gotten free from its trading card and now was trapped inside another device. 
During the meeting, Cool Boy and Yao Qinglan make it known that they know about Pteromon and Shoemon as they had checked the duos duel history and seen what cards they had been using.
Finding it odd that Pteromon and Shoemon had managed to survive for an entire year (wild Digimon can only survive for a few days at most in LACUNA), the GMs tell the duo they want to investigate and ask them to bring Pteromon and Shoemon to them. They agree, and summon their partners. Everyone becomes startled when Yao suddenly screams, with her declaring that their partners are adorable. She nerds out and goes on a monologue about both of them, as she asks them many questions and chases them around trying to hug them. This freaks them both out, with them asking to be saved from her. As she does so, Cool Boy continues the explanation without her. He tells them that Digimon able to survive without cards are valuable, with Shoto assuming that meant the admins would take them away, though Cool Boy alleviates those worries by saying that wont happen. Instead, they ask them to co-operate with them so that they can study their partners. He tells them they had learned a lot because of Bulucomon, and that they now know wild Digimon had been hacking NPCs and taking in their data as that was one way for them to survive in LACUNA. This however, would cause the NPCs to go rogue. He reminds them that interacting with wild Digimon can result in their accounts being deleted, and invites them to join the game's debug team. As Shoto is confused over regular players being invited, Cool Boy points out that as they can delete their accounts at any time, the duo actually have no choice but to accept the job. Yao tells them that Cool Boy had actually been protecting them for a while, and was making compromises to ensure their safety. 
As they're in the middle of accepting the blackmailed deal, they are interrupted by Owen Dreadnought — who had been eavesdropping on the conversation. He expresses annoyance at the duo being amateurs, feeling they would just drag the admins and debug team down. This upsets Pteromon, with appearing and and laughing at Pteromon. They're shocked to see Owen with an unknown Digimon, and realize he is just like them. Elizamon and Pteromon bicker, though Owen tells his partner to cut it out as there was no point getting involved with amateurs. Yao asks Owen why he had shown up, with him stating he had overheard their terrible decision and wasn't happy with it. She insists that they're just trying to protect the duo, but this enrages Owen with him declaring that it'll just lead to the admins suffering from the consequences of allowing them to join. He claims they'll just run away the second trouble comes, this setting off Shoto. He yells back at Owen, saying he is sick of listening to him, and agrees to join the debug team purely to spite Owen. Owen becomes sick of the conversation, not wanting to talk to a terrible card game player, with this giving Cool Boy an idea. He asks Owen if he would approve if Shoto showed he was a good player and tells Yao to duel him so that everyone can see Shoto's skills. Owen tells them to do whatever they want. The agreement then changes and becomes that Shoto and Arisa can join the debugging team by proving he is a good duellist.
==Other forms==
===Pafumon===
Pafumon is Shoemon's Fresh form.
Pafumon is depicted on , with Shoemon taking over a stack that included said card during Arisa Kinosaki's duel with Violet "Vi" Inboots.
===Kyaromon===
Kyaromon is Shoemon's In-Training form.
During Arisa Kinosaki duel against Violet "Vi" Inboots Arisa hatches a second copy of and digivolves it to . Later in the duel, Shoemon takes over this stack.
===ShoeShoemon===
ShoeShoemon is Shoemon's Champion form.Digimon Liberator website: Shoemon
During Arisa Kinosaki's duel against Violet "Vi" Inboots, Shoemon takes over Arisa's second copy of . Arisa moves Shoemon from the Breeding Area to the Battle Area then digivolves Shoemon to . Shoemon's ability lowers the cost of digivolution when digivolving to a Puppet by 1, meaning Arisa only had to pay 1 memory — putting her at 6. She then pays three memory to digivolve ShoeShoemon to .
===Chaperomon===
Chaperomon is Shoemon's Ultimate form.
During Arisa Kinosaki's duel against Violet "Vi" Inboots, Arisa digivolves (who Shoemon had taken over earlier in the duel) to with Chaperomon's On Digivolving effect activating. It lowers one of Violet's Digimon's DP by 3000DP, then lowers it by a further 3000 if she has 3 or more Digimon. As she has 3 Digimon on her field, said further reduction applies and Arisa uses it to lower 's DP from 7000 to 1000. Later in the duel, ACE's when digivolving effect allows Violet to to add an Option Card from the Trash to her hand, then can activate a Three Musketeers Option Card for free. She uses this to activate , which allows her to delete a lv3 Digimon, a lv4 Digimon, and a lv5 Digimon. Arisa has the lv3 and lv5 Chaperomon on her field, who would both simultaneously die via said effect. Arisa however, activates the Decoy effect of Junkmon which allows it to sacrifice itself and prevent a Puppet Digimon from dying via an effect. Junkmon would've died regardless, since it was lv3, and was now targeted twice (taking the lv5 deletion effect in place of Chaperomon, alongside its own lv3 deletion effect). Arisa then digivolves Chaperomon to .
===Cendrillmon===
Cendrillmon is Shoemon's Mega form.
During Arisa Kinosaki's duel against Violet "Vi" Inboots, Arisa digivolves (who Shoemon had taken over earlier in the duel) to . Cendrillmon's On Digivolving effect activates, allowing Arisa to play a Familiar Token. At the end of her turn, she uses Cendrillmon's Overclock ability which allows her to delete a Puppet Type Digimon or Token and then attack without suspending. She deletes the token she just played, which activates the token's On Deletion Effect — allowing her to lower the DP of one of Violet's Digimon by 3000. She lowers 's, who goes from 12000 to 9000. Cendrillmon attacks Violet's security with this also activating Cendrillmon's When Attacking effect which allows her to lower a Digimon's DP by 6000. She lowers ACE's DP, with this lowering BeelStarmon's DP from 5000 to -1000. As BeelStarmon now has negative DP, it is destroyed. This activates BeelStarmon's Overflow ability, lowering Violet's memory by 4 (essentially giving Arisa four memory) putting Arisa onto 3. Violet uses Gundramon's Blocker ability to block Cendrillmon's attack then uses its second effect to trash an Option Card under it to prevent a Three Musketeer Digimon from dying (itself). She trashes , which activates its ability as it had been trashed — giving Violet 1 memory (essentially lowering Arisa's) and moving Arisa to 2 memory. Arisa pays 2 memory, putting her at 0, and uses the Option Card Wonder Stomp. She draws a card, then plays PawnChessmon (White) from her hand. She suspends the Tamer card Arisa Kinosaki to give the newly played PawnChessmon Rush then attacks with it. The security card is MagnaKidmon, and as such PawnChessmon is destroyed as it's weaker. As Cendrillmon hadn't suspended from its earlier attack, it attacks again — with Cendrillmon revealing Violet's final security card as a Gigadramon. Cendrillmon suspends after the attack. Its When Attacking effect also lowers a Digimon's DP by 6000, with Arisa using it to weaken MagnaKidmon. Arisa pays 3 memory, putting Violet at 3, and plays a copy of Junkmon. At the end of her turn, she uses Cendrillmon's overclock ability to delete Junkmon and attack again without suspending (the ability allowing Cendrillmon to attack whilst suspended). As Violet has no security cards left, she loses.
Attacks
*Noble Family Arts
==Notes and references==
Category:Partner Digimon
Category:Characters in Digimon Liberator
Category:Protagonists