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Checkmate

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The planes unleashed a salvo of missiles and cannon pulses into the night air. Zhuqiaomon growled and folded his wings together.

"No, Zhuqiaomon!" Azulongmon twisted around the bird digimon. "We must not harm the humans..."

"They will destroy us!" growled Zhuqiaomon.

"How? Their weapons are powerless," replied Azulongmon. He looked at the planes diving in and out of his view.

Suddenly several large land vehicles rolled into the city below the Harmonious Ones. A loud buzzing filled the air. There was a flash. All four digimon roared in pain as the blast sliced into their digi-matrix.

"Powerless!?" gritted Zhuqiaomon as he squirmed from of Azulongmon. He narrowed his eyes, "I have tolerated these apes too long!"

"Don't!" called Ebonwumon... "They are innocent..."

A second flash ripped through the digimon. This time it was worse than the first. Now the planes started sending concentrated bursts of the flashing weapon at the digimon. Zhuqiaomon growled.

"Phoenix Fire!" roared the bird. The fire ripped out towards the planes.

"No!" Ebonwumon shook the trees on his back, "Black Hail!" black bursts of energy slammed almost into the fire, sweeping it from the battle.

The planes closed in tighter. The soft moonlight revealed the glint of metal and glass as the planes wheeled around the Harmonious Ones. The planes continued their bombardment of the digimon.

"No more!" roared Baihumon. "Iron Claw!" The tiger swiped out with its paw and sliced three of the planes in half. The humans escaped the planes but the aircraft exploded releasing an unexpected brightness in the night sky.

"The attacks from the planes," growled Azulongmon. "Something is wrong...I am feeling weaker...and weaker..."

The flashes flickered across the Harmonious Ones. Azulongmon's head drooped slightly. The right head of Ebonwumon slumped down.

"Phoenix...." Zhuqiaomon started to yawn, "...fire...." The burst of flame washed forward and dissipated to nothing.

"Vajra..." whispered Baihumon weakly. The burst of light faded past the swarm of planes.

The ground blasted with the flash of energy. Azulongmon and Zhuqiaomon dropped from the sky. Baihumon and Ebonwumon landed haphazardly on top of them.

"We have to escape..." whispered the left head of Ebonwumon.

"No, we have to fight on..." groaned Zhuqiaomon. He pushed Ebonwumon off of him.

"We are too weak," growled Baihumon.

"Suck it up mon!" roared Zhuqiaomon. "We have to get these apes out of our air space!"

"Aurora..." Azulongmon took a bit of time to charge up; "Forces!" the twisting neon energy swam up and struck the engines of the planes, forcing the pilots to eject.

"Breath of Wyvern!" a blue phantom in the shape of a giant dragon flexed downwards and slammed the rising gods into the ground.

"What is this treachery!?" roared Baihumon. He lifted his heavy head. The large winged human beast glided down.

"What is this, the pagan gods are now nothing but simple worms!" chuckled the beast. He lifted his hand to reveal a ruby jewel in his palm. "Dragon Roar!" a spiral of fire slapped the gods backwards.

"Leave some for us, Dynasmon!" called a pink armored warrior.

"So they employed the help of digimon," growled Zhuqiaomon. He drew up into the sky. "You will pay for taking their employment! Blazing Helix!" Twisting blast of fire flew at the pink warrior.

"Heh, those who play with fire get burned, my little chickadee!" chuckled the warrior as it lifted its shield. The fire flashed against the shield and dispersed sideways. "Let me show you how it's done! Spiral Masquerade!" The golden ribbons on the back of the pink armor whipped forward and slashed at Zhuqiaomon.

"Carve him up like a Thanksgiving turkey, RhodoKnightmon!" chuckled a blue warrior with magenta wings. Azulongmon at first mistaken it for a discolored Ex Veemon but this was no such thing.

"Alforce Veedramon!" chuckled Dynasmon, "care to have your hand at the barrel shoot then?"

"Why not..." chuckled Alforce Veedramon. He took a deep breath, "Shining V Force!" a blast of blazing white in the shape of a V flashed forward.

"Iron Claw!" Baihumon leapt forward but the blast sliced through the claws trimming them to the paw. The burst then exploded slamming the tiger into the ground.

Azulongmon's eyes glowed angrily. The roaring engines of planes rang in his head. The sight of his peers being slapped around filled his view. The dragon lifted from the ground. His aura flashed a deep magenta.

"Uh, oh I think you angered him, Alforce Veedramon," called RhodoKnightmon.

"You will not continue your actions!" roared the dragon. Even Zhuqiaomon shook in fear at the sound of Azulongmon's anger. One of the digi-cores glowed brightly it departed; soon one digi-core of each of the other Harmonious Ones glowed and was pulled towards Azulongmon's. "We will do what ever is needed to stop you!"

The cores merged. A light blasted forward. The four Harmonious Ones fused together. They glowed; the digi-core glowing a bright gold amongst the white lights of the digivolution.

"Final Crest!" an amethyst streak flashed down from the sky and ran the digi-core through. A crimson cloak swung around, "Rage of Wyvern!" Red and blue blades sliced through the core shredding it to oblivion. A knight was standing behind the blast.

"Good show, Medieval Dukemon!" cheered the three knights.

The four voices of the four Harmonious Ones screeched in agony. The glowing forms of the four Harmonious Ones ripped from the shredded core and exploded. One core from each figure flashed to the four corners of the world. A blue aurora erupted from the east, a green one erupted from the north, a gold one erupted from the west and a red one erupted from the south.

"THE HARMONIOUS ONES!" screamed a woman's voice. The four knights looked up. A woman in her thirties was on one of the hills that surrounded the city. A man was behind her. Another man in his thirties was right behind them. "You monsters..."

A Gatomon was standing behind the woman. Her eyes were furrowed and her paws clenched. The cat looked up at the woman and the woman nodded. "Gatomon digivolve to...Angewomon..." A woman glided upwards on silky white wings. Pink ribbons swept around her arms, torso and legs. A wing bow flicked from her wrist. "Celestial Arrow!" A beam of light was strung on her bow and flew forward. It arced towards Dynasmon.

Dynasmon's hand flashed up. It caught the arrow between its middle fingers. It smiled evilly, "How quaint...yonder savages have tried to pierce our armor with this toy arrow!" the arrow snapped in two and dissolved.

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"This is Captain Carver..." called a voice over Johnny's radio. "Are the new digimon to be considered friendly or enemies?"

"As long as they keep kicking Harmonious tail I say we just let 'em at it," replied some one else.

"That's an affirmative," came a third voice.

It was then that the burst came from the four massive digimon they had been unleashing their payloads on. It was an unearthly radiance. Johnny almost thought it was the heavenly rapture that is until the fourth knight creature sliced through it like a hot knife through butter.

They watched from the air as three people gathered on one of the hills leading into the city. A group of digimon emerged from behind them, two of them angels and the third some large insect beetle thing. A skirmish between the humans with digimon and the knights broke out but the human's digimon were handedly dealt with.

"Ok guys let's head her home," called Johnny's commanding officer. Johnny couldn't wait to get home. His fiancé would be looking forward to seeing him again, and so would his mother. He was going to send them a letter as soon as he got home to try and describe the Digital World to them.

Johnny was turning in towards base as his commanding officer had asked. He could make out the port when suddenly his systems started to overload. The power build up was causing all his gauges to jump to red. The plane wobbled, and in one giant boom, a ball of fire flew up and engulfed Johnny.

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Kari, TK, and Izzy had decided they would follow the planes on Kabuterimon. They left Yolei, grumpily, behind to keep the kids safe. Kabuterimon slowly reached the hills leading into Chuuten City. They could see the battle in the air.

"The Harmonious Ones are losing," said TK quietly.

"It's those flashes of lights," said Kari.

"They must be some electromagnetic pulse weapon..." theorized Izzy quietly, "It would be plausible that they were made with the specification of draining a digimon's energy."

"Then we should..." TK looked up surprised. Three of the planes exploded when Baihumon flicked its claws up. "Umm, never mind..."

"Wait!" Izzy pointed upwards. "Who is that!?"

"I've never seen that digimon before," replied Patamon, who was resting on TK's head. He looked up and saw the white armored digimon release a dragon apparition on the Harmonious Ones. The three humans gasped with their digimon.

"Doesn't look too friendly either," remarked Kabuterimon.

"Bring us down, we're going to help the Harmonious Ones," said Izzy with a tinge of anger in his voice.

The large, helmeted insect dropped down and Kari, TK, and Izzy leapt down. They ran up the hill. As they reached the top, they watched as the four Harmonious Ones fight a losing battle with the new digimon, and then watched as they attempted to fuse together and they watched as the new knight like digimon slashed their exposed digi-core to bits. Kari's eyes were full of tears. A fit of righteous anger flooded her blood.

She looked down at Gatomon and Gatomon looked up at her and they nodded to each other. She watched as Gatomon digivolved into Angewomon and fired her Celestial Arrow attack.

The creature in white armor snapped its hand up and caught the arrow between its two middle fingers. It chuckled. "How quaint...yonder savages have tried to pierce our armor with this toy arrow!"

Kari looked at Izzy, "We need backup..."

"I don't think we can expect any," said TK. He looked down at the city. The digimon were being herded off.

"I'll try Davis and Ken," said Kari.

"I'll tell Yolei to get ready to make a retreat," said TK. They looked to Izzy.

"Oh, I'll try and text message Gennai," Izzy said. He snatched his cell phone. "I guess I'm a little out of practice, it has been twenty some years."

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"Ok, kids, we're going to get going," said Yolei. She ushered the children and their digimon together.

"What about, Papa?" asked Kitai. He looked up at Yolei. Patamon was on his shoulder.

"And, Mom," asked Akeno.

"And my father?" asked Sumi.

"Don't worry, I'm in contact with them," assured Yolei. She looked at the children, all of them were afraid since the aurora filled the sky, and if she was truthful to herself, she was a little worried too. "Look, we're going to go to this cave, it's not far, your moms and dads will be back soon enough they just went to see what happened." She gently herded the children and their digimon into the forest quietly. She wished Ken was here and just slightly that Davis was too...if only to have Imperialdramon on their side...

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"Electro Shocker!" Kabuterimon unleashed a blast of electricity down on the knights.

"Hand of Fate!" Angemon punched his fist forward releasing a beam of luminosity.

The blast of electricity wrapped around RhodoKnightmon but the digimon just laughed haughtily, "My, what a ticklish experience!"

The beam of light struck the armor of Medieval Dukemon. The beam shattered into little back reflections that cut into the ground. The knight laughed. "I would think the noble thing to do would be to strike these weaklings down before they harm themselves."

"They are too strong," said Izzy. He looked at TK and Kari. "They must be Mega digimon; we don't have a chance without Tai and Agumon or Ken and Davis and Wormmon and Veemon. We need to retreat."

"I'm not getting a response from Davis or Ken..." said Kari. She looked at Izzy.

"Gennai hasn't replied," whispered Izzy.

"Yolei has taken the children somewhere safe at least," said TK. He looked down. "I'm going to try and get a hold of Tai."

Kari and Izzy nodded. They looked up; the knights were smirking at them. Kari felt the same feeling she felt when Piedmon had locked away almost all the digi-destined in key chains. A cold shudder ran through her body.

"We can't give up hope," TK placed his hand on her shoulder.

Kari nodded. She looked up. "Watch out!" The pink knight was rushing towards them.

"Heaven's Charm!" a blast of pink shot from the sky as Angewomon dove between Kari and the knight. The pink knight laughed out loud.

"Let me show you how it's done, my pretty!" laughed the knight, "Spiral Masquerade!" Golden Ribbons flew forward slamming Angewomon into the ground. The knight swung its fist and slammed Angewomon away.

"Angel Rod!" Angemon dropped down slamming his rod on the knight's armor. The gold, glowing rod snapped in half.

"Awe, the angel broke his stick," growled the knight and swung its fist again, "Fist of Athena!" a pink burst caught Angemon in the chest. The angel was propelled backwards into the trees.

TK ran forward and grabbed Kari by the waist and ran. "Come on, we're out of here!"

"But Gatomon and Patamon," shouted Kari.

"Don't worry, I got them," called Izzy as he snatched up the two, de-digivolved, digimon.

"Where do you think you're going little man!" laughed the digimon in white armor who flashed in front of Izzy.

"Electro Shocker!" the blast of static energy slammed into the wyvern man, in the flash Izzy made for the woods.

"Fool, do you think such a paltry strike would scratch my armor!?" asked the digimon with white armor. Before Kabuterimon could react the digimon had him by his stinger and was slamming him into the ground.

"Now, you are finished!" roared the knight. "Dragon..."

Kabuterimon frantically slammed his foot in the knight's face and launched off into the air. It wasn't enough though and the knight released a bolt of fire at the large beetle sending Kabuterimon careening into trees.

"What do we do now?" asked RhodoKnightmon.

"You will go forth to the four corners of the Digital World," said a voice. A young boy was standing in the shadows. His eyes shined a deep sapphire. He walked forward slowly. The outlines of shapes around the boy were slightly visible in the forest's shadows. "I have an artifact I wish for you to find. You will search for the Gospel of the Fallen Angel. RhodoKnightmon take the south, Dynasmon, take the East, Medieval Dukemon will go to the West and Alforce Veedramon will search out the North. Search out every temple, cave, shrine or plain hidey hole you find, destroy anyone who attempts to get in your way."

"But the humans!" RhodoKnightmon looked up.

"Are not a threat," said the boy with a smile. "They have grown soft with age, and I will dispatch some lesser digimon to get rid of them...If they become overly persistent; I will finish them off myself."

"Yes, Master," the two knights bowed down and kneeled. The boy lifted his hand and dismissed them.

"Now to claim my throne..." chuckled the boy and he walked back into the forest. He lifted his arms and watched as the sky became peppered with the light of exploding fighter planes and the ground blazed with the twisted remnants of tanks. He heard the confused and anguished pain of some unfortunate survivors, "Fools, they didn't really think I would let them keep their toys did they?"

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AN: Gone, Gone, Gone... The Harmonious Ones are gone, now what will the digi-destined do?

Thanks to the ones that have reviewed. And to those who will ask, yes, Medieval Dukemon struck during the Digivolution process, that is why the core was exposed, that is why they died so easily, he struck them at their most unstable and it shredded them, literally and figuratively!