Megaman Battle Network – Tournament

Chapter 19 – Queen Me

A/N: Just to remind you battle text is:

Ribitta's commentary

Higsby's commentary

Sarah's commentary

Anything else will be in normal text.

It was the second day of the second week and Lan had seen most of his possible opponents. The truth was now that his biggest worry was Chaud and ProtoMan.

"Hey Lan," yelled a voice from behind as he entered the stadium that day. He turned to see a familiar face running to him.

"Tora!" yelled Lan, "Don't tell me you've entered too."

"Yup," said Tora, "And this time me and KingMan will take it too the final move."

"Good luck anyway," said Lan, "When's your next match?"

"I'm first up today," said Tora.

"Ok then," said Lan, "Hadn't you best get moving?"

"Yeah," said Tora, "I'll see you after I win."

Tora ran off down the corridor as Lan watched, when he thought he was out of hearing Lan broke down laughing.

"You'll need plenty of luck to win today Tora," said Lan, "Trust me on this."

Tora arrived in the stadium and went up to the console where Sarah and Mayl were waiting.

"And Tora has just entered the ring, after the wanderers win last week can he pull one off today against the probably most dangerous opponent in the tournament?"

"Wait a minute," said Tora, "I thought I was facing Roll here?"

"Did the lady say you were facing Roll?"

Tora suddenly grimaced.

"Empress!" he said shocked.

"Yup," said Mayl, "Look out Tora."

"Well Tora looks shocked, can he plan ahead to checkmate Empress?"

Tora looked as though he was rapidly running through battle plans in his head but soon focused again and nodded to Sarah to indicate he was ready.

"Jack In!"

"Jack In, Empress Power Up!"

"Jack In, KingMan Power Up!"

Empress, Sarah and KingMan landed in the cyberspace, Sarah moved back making sure she was out of range of Empress' whip.

"Begin!"

Sarah had planned well because Empress' whip shot through the space where she had been standing on its way to KingMan.

"Knight BattleChip Download!" said Tora.

"Oops, Tora just used an illegal chip!"

The knight turned and slashed at KingMan before vanishing. Unfortunately for Empress it vanished because her whip hit it.

"Think Tora think," said Tora to himself. He pulled some chips out and saw one that could help. It was weak and usually used by Wood Element navis but it was his only hope.

"RoseWhip Chip Download!" said Tora.

A thorny whip appeared in KingMan's hand and he used it to block Empress' whip. The two whips became entangled resulting in a tug of war match. KingMan's size and weight advantage meant he was winning until Empress let go and he fell back.

KingMan rolled on his back trying to get back up, Empress walked over.

"Your stand may give better balance but legs are better for getting up," she said, "Need a hand?"

KingMan just kept rolling trying to get up.

"HeartBreaker!" said Empress unleashing the attack at point blank range and connecting.

"Where are all the kings men when he needs them?"

"The amount of Humpty Dumpty jokes I could do here is limitless!"

"KingMan's one disadvantage is his inability to get up."

Empress just kept on unleashing the HeartBreakers onto KingMan who couldn't defend himself against them.

"Sorry Tora but it has to be done. Activate forced LogOut protocol!"

KingMan was forced out of the system.

"Queen to C4, Checkmate," taunted Empress.

"Well, Empress put it best, she wins the match!"

"And with that final taunt by Empress the match is over."

"I have to admit that there is no better navi for taunting ever, nor a more humilitating defeat."

Tora walked off as Mayl logged Empress out, she followed Tora out and went up to join her friends. Sarah walked off in the opposite direction and went through the passageway where Chaud was.

"I've figured it out," said Chaud as Sarah put her finger on his lips.

"It's Empress," she finished.