Hello everyone, here with another update :) Hope this chapter isnt a little confusing during the battle part. I actually planned out the final part of the fight. So it does work... I think XD Anyway, enjoy!
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Digimon Season 2.5 "Adventure 03"
Episode 28: "Checkmate"
.:Infinity Mountain, File Island, Digital World:.
It was early morning in the Digital World and the sun had just started to rise in the clear morning sky. The light soon spread across the face of the island before hitting Infinity Mountain, softly illuminating it.
The sunlight slowly struck Dawn as she slept peacefully at the top of the mountain. As the warmth hit her face, she stirred and opened her eyes. Yawning loudly, she sat up stretching her arms out above her head. "I sure needed that." She said to herself as she lowered her arms. She glanced to her right to see Margaret was still fast asleep beside her, using her hat as a pillow. She also had the Emerald of Light tightly clutched in her hand. Dawn then looked to her left to see Gabumon and SnowAgumon were also still snoozing with the reptile Digimon snoring pretty loudly. The Kamiya girl then sat up straight. "Wait a second…... Where's-"
"And I thought your snoring was bad."
Dawn spun round to see Stacey appear from the pathway that led to the top of the mountain. She casually walked towards Dawn. Her arms were full with different kinds of fruit.
Dawn raised an eyebrow. "Where've you been?"
"I went with Leomon to gather some fruit for breakfast." Stacey replied as she tossed a watermelon at the Kamiya girl, which hit her in the stomach just as she caught it. "He said we should get a good breakfast in us before we leave."
"Uh… t-thanks…" Dawn murmured before looking down at the watermelon in her lap.
Stacey rolled her eyes a little. "Don't worry. It's not poisoned or anything."
Dawn shot a glare at her. "Hey I didn't say it was!"
"Oh and here." Stacey took something out of her backpack, that Dawn had just noticed she hadn't been wearing yesterday, and threw it at her.
Dawn caught it. "Hey my digivice… wait a second, you went home?" she asked looking up at the blonde haired girl.
Stacey nodded. "I asked Leomon to take me to the nearest portal. He waited whilst I went back home to collect your digivices."
"Where's Agumon?"
"He's down at the foot of the mountain with Leomon and Gatomon. Leomon's explaining the emeralds to them. I said we'd be straight down once we've had breakfast."
There was a loud yawn that interrupted the girls' conversation as SnowAgumon sat up rubbing his eyes. "Is it morning already?" his eyes soon lit up when he saw the fruit in Stacey's arms. "Oh boy, food!"
His yawn had also woken up Gabumon and Margaret who sat up. Margaret placed the emerald in her pocket before grabbing her hat and putting it back on her head.
"Where's Leomon?" she asked looking around.
"He's down at the foot of the mountain talking to Agumon and Gatomon." Dawn replied in between munches on her watermelon.
"Gatomon's here?" Margaret smiled standing up.
Stacey nodded as she set all the fruit down on the floor. "Whilst you were sleeping I went home and brought them here, along with your digivice." She explained as she handed the Kimura girl her pink D-Power.
Margaret smiled brightly. "Thank you." She clipped her digivice back on to her yellow belt.
"Oh I almost forgot." Stacey added. "When I went home my father told me the others were stuck here during the night too. They arrived in the wastelands after getting that message from Dawn's D-Terminal. They thought it was a hoax."
Dawn almost choked on her watermelon. "W-what?" she coughed.
"Once they arrived they couldn't find us anywhere and your digivice signals were back home. They thought you had tricked them. They landed six miles away from the nearest portal."
Dawn stood up still holding her half eaten water melon. "Well of course our signals would have been back home because that's where our digivices were! I dropped mine on the beach and Margaret left hers at home."
"They weren't to know that though Dawn." Margaret said as she bent down and picked up an apple. "I can understand how they would have thought it was a prank if we weren't where we said we were. We can explain what happened once we meet up with them."
"We also need to tell them about the Digital Emeralds. I told my father and he's going to tell our parents." Stacey added. "Once we get home we should call a meeting and explain what Leomon told us."
"Hey, I was just about to suggest that." The Kamiya girl piped up.
Stacey snorted a laugh. "Yeah... sure."
.:Wastelands, File Island, Digital World:.
Palmon X was the first to wake up. She sat up and stretched her arms out before ruffling the plant on top of her head. "Hey c'mon wake up everyone. It's morning. Time to head home." She looked around the group to everyone was still asleep, including Dan and Veemon who were meant to be keeping watch for the last three hours.
Palmon X frowned and stood up. She walked over to the goggle boy and his Digimon partner as they lay sprawled out on the ground both snoring and drooling a little. "Hey c'mon you two, wake up!" she shook them both gently but they just shifted and snorted in their sleep, with Dan turning onto his side.
"Just five more minutes Mom…" he murmured before reaching for his blanket to pull over his face, which obviously wasn't there.
Palmon X put her vines on her hips and huffed. "Some watchmen." She sighed before stretching her vines out a little. "Oh well, there's only one way to do this." She smiled to herself. Extending her vines out she wrapped them around Dan and Veemon's left ankles. With one big pull she yanked the two sleeping bodies high up in the air upside down.
Dan and Veemon's eyes both bolted open. "Whoa! W-what the?" The goggle boy looked to see an upside down Palmon X smiling devilishly at them. "Hey!"
"You fell asleep whilst you were supposed to be keeping watch." Palmon X replied before she let go of them causing them to fall to the ground.
"Yah!" the two friends fell to a heap on the ground on top of each other. Dan groaned in agony and pushed himself up off the ground and straightened his goggles. "Urgh… what a wakeup call…." He murmured. "Man you're worse than my Mom." He commented as he stood up.
"Well if you'd stayed awake like you were supposed to I wouldn't have had to wake you."
"Hey I was only resting my eyes. Besides keeping watch is so boring." The goggle boy complained.
"Your eyes were making a quite a bit of noise for someone who was just 'resting them'" Palmon X said with a giggle.
Dan stretched his arms high above his head. "Yeah, yeah. Go wake the others up and tell them we're leaving." He said with a yawn as he walked up the steady slope of the crevice they had been sleeping in. Once he reached the top, he looked around the vast landscape of the wastelands.
It looked very differently and more clear in the daylight compared to the night before. "This area is bigger than I thought." The Motomiya boy muttered to himself. Just then, he spotted something a short distance away. "Aww man, you've gotta be kidding me."
"What's wrong Dan?" Veemon asked as he joined his human partner.
Dan pointed ahead. In the distance about a mile away where the land sloped down, was a large stone castle that was situated in the middle of a large lake. The only access to the castle was a stone bridge that lead straight to the main doors.
At this point the others had now joined him. "Hey guys look at this."
The others looked ahead to where he was pointing. "There was a castle right there and you made us sleep outside on the dirt with the bugs!" Tricia exclaimed in a shriek, looking up at Jonathon.
Jonathon was the last to reach the top. He looked up and saw the castle. Stuttering a little he replied; "I… I didn't know…" Just then, he heard a faint beeping noise coming from his digivice.
"You had the map." Patamon added with a giggle. "Wasn't this marked on it?"
"Nice going genius." Dan remarked sarcastically crossing his arms.
Jonathon didn't respond as he was studying his purple D-Power. On the screen was a faint purple dot that was pulsating.
"Something wrong Jonathon?" Tentomon asked, hovering beside his partner.
"My digivice is reacting to something." He responded before looking up from the screen after studying the co-ordinates. "And it's coming from inside that castle."
.:Primary Village, File Island, Digital World:.
The sounds of giggles and squeals could be heard throughout Primary Village as Elecmon handed out small pieces of food to the bouncing baby Digimon that were surrounding him. "Don't worry there's plenty for everyone." He chuckled as he fed a Conomon who giggled happily.
Other groups of baby Digimon were either sleeping in their cots or playing in the green fields. Elecmon glanced over to the group of Puttimon that were playing on the trampoline. They were squealing as they jumped higher each time. He smiled before he finished feeding the small group around him. He stood up and grabbed his empty basket and was about to turn and walk away when he heard a crying sound nearby.
"Huh?" Elecmon looked up to see a small Botamon springing towards him hysterically. "What's wrong little one?" he asked as the baby Digimon jumped into his arms and whimpered.
Suddenly there was a crashing sound and Elecmon looked up to see Dobermon X and Gazimon X appear from behind a tower of large building blocks. Elecmon gasped and staggered backwards still clutching Botamon. The other babies scurried behind him.
Dobermon x snarled and with a quick swipe of his claw he demolished the building blocks. Gazimon X began digging up the elastic ground and tearing it apart.
Rhinomon X then came into view and rammed into one of the trees. His horn stuck into the trunk and he up-rooted the tree before tossing it aside. Some of the toys that were hanging from the branches fell off and scattered across the ground.
Thundermon X jumped up high onto one of the building blocks and began to throw balls of electric energy that blew holes in the ground and destroyed trees and blocks.
The three Bateman X began ripping the toys apart and tossed them aside after inspecting them.
Elecmon quickly gathered the baby Digimon that were quivering around him. "Quickly this way." He ushered them behind a large pink block before he peered out and watched the X Digimon.
Dobermon X opened up a large toy box and head-butted it over causing its contents to spill out. He growled and smacked a stuffed teddy away. "I don't think we'll find one here. Gennai wouldn't have been stupid enough to hide them in such an obvious place as Primary Village."
"You heard the boss. He told us to search every inch of this island, over and underground." Rhinomon X replied gruffly. "We don't know where that old man Gennai hid them so we have to every place possible."
Elecmon narrowed his eyes as he watched the X Digimon continue to tear apart his village . "What could they possibly be searching for?"
.:Wastelands, File Island, Digital World:.
The DigiDestined had reached the castle and Dan led the group across the stone bridge. Jonathon gazed up at the towering building in front of him. The castle was a square shape with four tall towers at each corner that seemed to resemble rooks from the game chess. Above the timber doors was a single black and white chequered flag that blew slightly in the breeze. Along the stone wall bridge were small stone statues of pawns.
As they finished crossing the bridge, Dan stared up at the double doors. "Are you sure this is where your digivice is leading us to?" he asked, looking back at Jonathon.
The Izumi nodded. "Yes." He replied holding up his D-Power in his right hand. "This could be something important. It could be my crest."
MJ glanced around. "I thought this was just miles of wastelands? Why build a castle all the way out here? If someone lives here they must be very lonely."
"This could have been built years and years ago." Jonathon replied. "The wastelands could have looked very different back then. There could have been small communities living here."
Dan stepped forward and slowly pushed the doors open a jar. "Well it's open." He pushed it further open and he and Veemon stepped inside first, swiftly followed by Jonathon then the rest of the group. Once Fernanda and Armadillomon stepped inside, the two doors suddenly slammed shut causing the kids and Digimon to jump in fright.
Turning around from the door, they were met with a very big and tall room. The only light was the sunlight coming in from the small windows near the top of the four walls. The floor was paved with huge black and white tiles, which Jonathon thought looked like a chess board.
"This place sure is big." Patamon commented as he gazed up at the high ceilings. "Whoever lives here must be really tall."
Jonathon looked slightly to his left. At the edge of the room, up against the wall was a large glass cabinet. Inside a purple light was shimmering. "Hey what's that over there?" he jogged across the room and the signal from his digivice became stronger and louder. Once he reached the cabinet, he pressed both hands up against the glass and peered inside. "My crest!" he gasped with a smile.
Inside the cabinet propped up on a stand was the gold medallion object with the crest of Knowledge engraved in the middle. It began to shine brightly as it reacted with Jonathon's presence.
Tentomon flew up and hovered beside his human partner. "Good job Jonathon. Now I can reach the ultimate level."
"Not so fast Tentomon. First we have to get it out from this cabinet." The Izumi boy replied as he motioned to the large lock on the door. "It's locked."
"Ah that's easy." Dan spoke up from behind him as he and the others walked over. "Veemon here can use his Vee Head-butt attack and smash right through it."
Jonathon raised an eyebrow. "I don't know… this cabinet could be alarmed or something. We don't want to alert whoever it is who lives here to our presence. They might not like it."
"It doesn't look like anyone lives here. This is the only room and it's empty." Veemon replied.
James crossed his arms. "Can we just hurry this up and get outta here? There is a possibility that whoever does live here is out right now and they could come back at any moment. Either way they are not going to like the fact we've broken into their house and destroyed their furniture."
"Good point." the goggle boy replied. "C'mon Veemon, hurry up and break through that glass."
Veemon nodded and lowered his head and prepared to charge forward. "Vee…"
Suddenly, there was a loud thud that made a few of the DigiDestined jump. Veemon paused and remained still, his eyes shifting from left to right. Just then, one by one starting from one end of the room each of the windows suddenly slammed shut gradually blocking out the light.
Palmon X gulped as Tricia grabbed hold of her in fright. "This doesn't look good." she said before the last window shut leaving them in darkness. The only light was the purple glowing of Jonathon's crest. Everything remained quiet for a few seconds before the ground began to rumble underneath their feet.
"Who dares enter our castle?" a voice boomed and echoed across the vast room.
Before any of them could answer, torches began to light up just underneath the blocked out windows. In the same fashion, they lit up one by one around the room. After that, one of the white tiles on the floor slid open and slowly a huge black Digimon that somehow resembled a brick tower emerged from underneath the floor.
The black tile next to him opened up and another Digimon appeared from below, this time resembling a horse carrying a huge dart. Then the one next to him opened revealing another different Digimon. This continued until there were eight large Digimon before the tiles in front of them opened up and eight smaller and all identical Digimon appeared in front of them.
The only female Digimon, QueenChessmon, thrust her queen stick forward pointing it at the Izumi boy. "Get away from there boy! How dare you trespass on our territory!" she demanded. She was almost entirely black apart from her body armour that was pink and gold and her long pink cape. Large silver swords hung down from the armour around her waist.
Jonathon took a small step back. "Ummm excuse me, but I think that crest belongs to me." he said politely pointing against the glass.
"Ridiculous!" QueenChessmon boomed causing a few of the kids to jump. "This medal belongs to the Chessmon army! You will pay dearly for attempting to steal it."
A PawnChessmon took a step forward. "We won this medal after defeating that old man Gennai in a game of chess."
The children and Digimon gasped. "Why would Gennai gamble something like that?" MJ questioned.
"He had no choice." QueenChessmon replied with a spiteful chuckle. "We demanded the medal as a prize if we defeated him. He offered us other things of course but I had my eyes set on this medal."
Dan clenched his fists. "That's not just a medal, it's a crest! And it doesn't belong to you! Gennai was keeping those crests for us so in fact it's you who are the thieves!"
MJ stepped up beside Dan. "If you just let us take the crest we'll leave quietly. We don't mean to cause any trouble."
"We won that medal fair and square." one of the KnightChessmon replied. "Gennai shouldn't have been so foolish to challenge us in the first place."
"He thought he could beat us but he had no idea who he was up against." a PawnChessmon added.
Jonathon stepped forward. "Look you don't realise how important that crest is to us. The Undead King is slowly taking over the Digital World and our crests will help us to defeat him."
"Ah, the Undead King." The timid KingChessmon spoke up from behind the queen. "He warned us some children might come for that medal."
QueenChessmon swung her stick at him. "Be quiet you fool!"
"Wait… you know the Undead King?" Armadillomon questioned, raising an eyebrow.
QueenChessmon chuckled. "He paid us a short visit not so long ago. He admired our medal and congratulated us on defeating Gennai. Something not many can do. The Undead King told us to protect our medal from little thieving children." she snarled at the last part of her sentence.
"So I suggest you leave now otherwise you may not make it out at all." RookChessmon threatened.
Dan clenched his fists. "We're not leaving without that crest! So if you won't hand it over we'll have to take it by force." he whipped his digivice off his belt. "C'mon guys! Digital Ring, Release!"
"VEEMON DIGIVOLVE TO… STRIKEDRAMON!"
The rest of the children got out their D-Powers, with Fernanda and Tricia being a little hesitant at first. "Digital Ring, Release!"
"PATAMON DIGIVOLVE TO… SWANMON!"
"WORMMON DIGIVOLVE TO… KUWAGAMON!"
"PALMON X DIGIVOLVE TO… TOGEMON X!
"ARMADILLOMON DIGIVOLVE TO… ARCHELOMON!"
Jonathon stood and watched as their Digimon charged forward. He was still holding his D-Power and reading the information he had received on the Chessmon Army. "This army is a mix of different levels. The queen and king alone are megas…. In theory we don't stand a chance against them. If Dan didn't rush in there for the fight we could have tried to negotiate with them…."
"Are you not going to let me digivolve Jonathon?"
"Huh?" Jonathon snapped out of his thoughts and looked to see Tentomon still hovering beside him. "Oh yeah… sorry." He held up his digivice. "Although I don't think fighting them is the right thing to do… Digital Ring, Release!"
"TENTOMON DIGIVOLVE TO… FLYBEEMON!"
Strikedramon charged forward and leapt up into the air. "Strike Claw!" a blue flame engulfed his right claw and he slashed right through one of the PawnChessmons into pieces.
Dan pumped his fist up high in the air. "Alright! That was easy!"
But just then, BishopChessmon moved one square diagonally and unleashed his own attack. "Bishop Laser!" he fired a long ray of light from his staff which flawed Strikedramon to the ground.
Swanmon spread his wings wide. "Feather Tornado!" white feathers fell from his wings which then transformed into small wind vortices. The vortices then surrounded two of the PawnChessmons and sent them spiralling up into air before they burst into data.
"The PawnChessmon aren't exactly putting up much of a fight." MJ commented.
Jonathon turned to face her. "What do you expect? They're rookies. It's the others we need to worry about."
RookChessmon charged straight forwards towards Kuwagamon who tried to fly up out of the way. "Rook Gatling!" RookChessmon fired bullets of energy from the gun ports on the end of his arms. They each struck the insectoid Digimon with a powerful blow.
Kuwagamon tried to counter attack but as he dived down, RookChessmon suddenly moved as quick as a flash directly to the left where Togemon X was on the other side of the room. RookChessmon gathered up speed and head-butted the X Digimon sending her crashing into the wall completely dazed and her sombrero hat was blown off.
"Togemon!" Tricia cried out helplessly as she hid half behind Fernanda.
"Poison Stinger!" Flybeemon thrust his tail forward and was about to impale a PawnChessmon when a KnightChessmon moved three squares forward and quickly turned to face Flybeemon before leaping up in the air and landed with an almighty blow that trampled Jonathon's partner.
The kids watched in awe as the Chessmon Army began to overpower their Digimon partners. Whenever they were about to attack one of the Chessmon would quickly move and beat them to it. They were moving in all sorts of different directions. Up, down, left, right and diagonal. After beginning what they thought was a positive start, it was now a one sided fight.
QueenChessmon chuckled to herself as she admired the battle in front of her. She had hardly moved at all since the fight had begun. She was stood in front of the king who timidly watched from behind, clutching his king stick.
Jonathon had his eyes fixed on the king and queen before he observed the rest of the army. He was quickly brought out of his thoughts when Flybeemon crash landed just in front of him in a heap, soon followed by Archelomon who landed on top of him. "What's the secret to their battle strategy?"
"Foolish children." QueenChessmon laughed loudly. "Our attacking techniques and strategies are too smart for your young brains. You should have left when you had the chance."
"He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day!" KingChessmon piped up.
Dan clenched his fists in anger. "We never run away from a fight!"
Jonathon continued to stare at the king. He had been cowardly hiding behind the Queen the entire battle. He then looked at BisopChessmon who charged diagonally across the room and swung his staff at Swanmon and sent the bird Digimon colliding with the ceiling above. Jonathon the turned his attention to KnightChessmon who galloped three paces and then turned to the left and trampled over Strikedramon with his hooves.
Dan growled under his breath as he watched his Digimon partner slowly get to his feet. "That does it!" he proclaimed. "We should have done this at the very beginning…. Strikedramon! Destroy that cabinet!" he shouted. "We're grabbing that crest and hightailing it outta here!"
"Oh no you don't!" QueenChessmon hollered.
Jonathon studied the black and white tiled floor for a few moments before something in his mind suddenly clicked. "That's it!" he exclaimed. He spun round to face the goggle boy. "Wait, don't do it just yet. I have a plan." He smiled as Dan looked at him a little skeptical.
.:Infinity Mountain, File Island, Digital World:.
"Wow, so you can digivolve to the mega level?" Agumon gasped in amazement.
Leomon nodded. "Ever since I got exposed to the original digivices twenty nine years ago I've been able to by-pass the ultimate stage and digivolve to SaberLeomon. Even after almost three decades and when I was destroyed and reborn I'm still able to do it."
"Will you still continue your search for the Undead King's base?" Salamon asked as she sat on top of Agumon's head.
"I doubt it. I soon realised it would have been foolish of me to attempt to breach the base on my own. Even at my mega level the Undead King's army would have been too strong." Leomon replied. He then turned to the left after hearing a stone being kicked behind him. "Ah, here are your human partners now."
"Dawn!" Agumon smiled as Salamon jumped off his head. He ran to his partner and hugged her. "I was so worried about you when I found your digivice on the beach."
"Hey Agumon." Dawn grinned as she returned the hug. "I'm sorry I yelled at you last night. I didn't mean any of it." She said as she patted his head. "Friends forever?"
"You bet." The reptile Digimon replied.
"Now, do you remember what I told you?" Leomon spoke up. The children all nodded and Margaret placed her hand on the small yellow bag that was attached to her belt, which contained the emerald. "Please tell the others and make sure you find the other seven emeralds as fast as you can."
At that moment, there was a faint explosion in the distance.
"What was that?" SnowAgumon asked.
Leomon quickly leapt up onto the mountain side and climbed up high enough to see over the tree tops of the forest. He could see smoke raising off from the tallest brick tower of Primary Village before another explosion was heard and another cloud of smoke rose into the air. "It's coming from Primary Village." He called down to the children.
"Is there trouble?" Stacey asked as Leomon jumped back down.
"It looks so." He replied. "You children go and tell the others about the emeralds. I'll go to Primary Village."
"Nuh uh." Dawn shook her head. "We'll come too. If it's the Undead King you might need our help."
.:Wastelands, File Island, Digital World:.
"Chess…?" Fernanda asked as Jonathon had just finished explaining his plan. "But I've never played chess before in my life."
"This is no time to plays games Jonathon." Dan stated. "You really think playing a stupid board game is going to overpower these guys?"
Jonathon nodded. "Don't you see? It's so obvious I don't know why I never thought of it before. This room is their battlefield. The floor is the chess board and we already know each of the Digimon represent each chess piece. If you watch them closely each of them has their unique moving patterns. Like the rook for example. The rook can only move up, down, left and right in straight lines and if you watch RookChessmon that is exactly what he does. The same for BishopChessmon. He only moves in diagonal ways the same as the bishop piece."
"But even if we did play as chess pieces we're still not smart enough to beat them." James commented.
Kuwagamon tried his Scissor Claw attack but QueenChessmon blocked it with her queen stick before releasing her own attack Heart Breaker.
"There is only one way to win a game of chess." Jonathon continued. "And that is to 'Check Mate' the king."
Archelomon destroyed the last PawnChessmon with his Fin Cutter attack but was then attacked from behind by KnightChessmon.
"Check Mate? What's that?" Tricia asked clueless.
"It's when a player corners the king piece and is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured." Jonathon replied. "All we have to do is Checkmate KingChessmon."
"That's stupid." Dan retorted. "Even if we do "Checkmate" KingChessmon and destroy him we still have QueenChessmon and the others to deal with. And QueenChessmon is one feisty piece of work."
Jonathon sighed. "Dan, when a player checkmates the opposing player it's game over even if the player who was been checkmated still has pieces on the board." He quickly glanced over to see KingChessmon quivering as he watched the battle around him. "I believe KingChessmon is the source of the army's power, especially QueenChessmon. So in theory if we checkmate KingChessmon that should lead to the destruction of QueenChessmon and the rest of the army."
"It's umm… it's worth a shot." Fernanda admitted shyly.
"Jonathon's right." Flybeemon declared as he flew down and landed beside his partner. "Although KingChessmon is a mega level so he won't be brought down that easily."
Jonathon nodded. "That's why as soon as we break through to my crest we need to act quickly." He said. "When Strikedramon breaks that cabinet I want all our Digimon to line up to protect me as I get my crest. Then as soon as Flybeemon has digivolved they need to follow my every move okay?"
The children all nodded. "Okay."
As the battle continued, Jonathon slowly began to make his way across the room towards the glass cabinet making it look as casual as possible. Once he was close enough he signalled to Dan.
"Now Strikedramon!" the goggle boy yelled.
After Strikedramon punched RookChessmon in the stomach, he quickly spun round and fired a burst of blue energy from his fist. It stuck the glass cabinet with full force and it was blown apart with shards of glass flying everywhere. The crest was knocked from its stand and fell to the floor.
"NO!" QueenChessmon shrieked at the sound of the breaking glass.
The DigiDestineds' Digimon retreated back and lined up before taking defensive poses as Jonathon ran as fast as he could. Upon reaching the destroyed cabinet he carefully bent down and picked up his crest, but also cutting his finger on a piece of glass.
"Ah!" he yelped a little pain and sucked his finger as a little blood oozed out.
"Hurry Jonathon!" MJ exclaimed as she motioned to QueenChessmon who was charging towards them.
The Izumi boy quickly recovered and released another ring from his D-Power before slotting it inside his crest. He smiled as it began to glow a bright purple. As did Flybeemon...…
"FLYBEEMON DIGIVOLVE TO… JEWELBEEMON!"
Archelomon and Strikedramon stepped to the side to allow enough room for JewelBeemon to storm through. He was a human like insect Digimon iridescent wings and rainbow-coloured radiance. His body was covered in green armour with yellow and red markings on and he held his spear which was called the Jewel Encrusted Javelin.
With a courageous roar he charged through the air towards QueenChessmon who suddenly came to a halt in surprise. "Spike Buster!" the tip of his spear began to glow and it released a beam of red energy that struck QueenChessmon full on in the chest.
Losing the grip on her queen stick she screeched in shock and was thrown backwards from the force and there was a cracking noise as JewelBeemon had penetrated her armour. She gasped in horror and disgust as she looked down and saw there was a crack across her chest armour. "Why you sneaky little brat." She hissed composing herself and picking up her queen stick.
Jonathon ran down the side of the room at the edge of the chess board. "Okay!" he shouted as he clutched his glowing crest in his hand. "Kuwagamon I want you to move directly down and attack KnightChessmon! Then turn to the right and face KingChessmon!" he commanded.
Kuwagamon flew in a straight line to where KnightChessmon was stood at the edge of the board. "Power Guillotine!" he stretched his pincers wide open before clamping them shut around KnightChessmon's body and slicing straight through destroying him instantly. Kuwagamon then turned to the right and faced KingChessmon who yelped in fear and scurried one square in front so he was out of Kuwagamon's line of fire.
BishopChessmon growled and began to move diagonally across the board towards Kuwagamon.
"Strikedramon move across attack BishopChessmon now!" Jonathon demanded pointing to the middle of the board.
Strikedramon moved directly across into the middle of the board. "Strike Fang!" All the portions of his metal plates began to burn red hot before his whole body was engulfed in flames. He roared as he rammed into BishopChessmon sending him crashing against the wall. Strikedramon then turned and faced KingChessmon with a sly grin on his face. "Hello."
"Yah!" KingChessmon jumped in surprise and began to panic a little. He couldn't move back one square as Kuwagamon was still in his position. Trembling he jumped to the left.
"Stop them you bumbling idiots!" QueenChessmon thundered to her army impatiently. She was about to charge when JewelBeemon diagonally swooped in front of her blocking her path. She snarled. "A lousy ultimate is not going to stop me!" She declared thrusting her queen stick offensively.
JewelBeemon smiled as he too prepared his spear for battle. "I am an expert in hand-to-hand combat." He said before they both began to fight each other, the weapons clashing vigorously.
Jonathon looked over to MJ's partner who was floating beside Strikedramon. "Swanmon! You're the knight piece so I want you to move three squares to your right then one square up!"
Swanmon nodded and did exactly what the Izumi boy had said. Finishing her move she had placed KingChessmon in 'check'.
"Oh no… oh dear…" he murmured repeatedly as he turned in every direction looking for a possible move. He scurried diagonal one square so he was right next to Swanmon, which in chess rules meant he was safe from her attack. "Phew." He sighed relieved.
"Do not worry your highness I will protect you!" RookChessmon proclaimed as he moved up five squares next to his king. He then turned to his left and was about to launch his Rook Gatling attack on Strikedramon who was two squares in front of him.
"Not for long!"
RookChessmon spun round to see Archelomon leap up into the air wielding his metal fins.
"Fin Cutters!" Archelomon sliced through RookChessmon's chest with his left fin before slicing through his waist with his right. He landed in the vacant square. "Check, pal." He announced to the king Digimon.
KingChessmon gulped and slowly staggered backwards diagonally into the last remaining free square…..
"Now JewelBeemon!" Jonathon commanded pointing at the king chess piece.
JewelBeemon quickly thrust his spear upwards breaking through the weak spot on QueenChessmon's armour. He impaled her right side before pulling it out. The queen dropped to her knees in pain and watched as JewelBeemon flew across the full length of the board towards the helpless king. "N-NO!"
As JewelBeemon was almost on top of KingChessmon he raised his spear up high above his head and as he did, KingChessmon's eyes widened with fear. "Check….mate!" the insect Digimon declared before he drove his spear down into the king's body.
The king's cry echoed across the room as his body burst into tiny pieces of data. Once he was destroyed the remaining members of the Chessmon Army began to disintegrate.
"NO!" QueenChessmon cried helplessly as she watched her army disappear. Her body then began to dissolve from the bottom upwards. "Argh you little brats!" she spat angrily as it reached her chest. "You won't hear the last from me….Ahhhhh!" Her head burst into data fragments and she scream slowly faded away.
.:Primary Village, File Island, Digital World:.
Elecmon glared at the X Army as they continued to rip apart his village. They'd had almost destroyed half of it and showed no signs of stopping. The baby Digimon whimpered behind their carer. "That does it." Elecmon muttered. "I've had enough of this." He stepped out from behind his hiding place. "Hey Stop that!" he demanded before he scurried closer.
Rhinomon X slowly turned around after destroying another tree. "Stay out of his Elecmon if you know what's good for you." He threatened.
Elecmon stood up on his two legs. "Whatever it is you are looking for you are not going to find it here. So leave now. You're frightening the babies."
Thundermon X jumped down from one of the building blocks and landed beside Rhinomon X. "How do we know you're not guarding one for Gennai huh?"
"Look I have no idea what it is you want but I can guarantee it's not here!" Elecmon exclaimed.
Dobermon X crept up behind the keeper of the village. "You better watch your tone Elecmon." He breathed down the rookie's neck. "Otherwise you'll find yourself in one of those Digi Eggs fairly soon." He added as he slowly walked around to face Elecmon head on.
Elecmon stood up defensively. "Your threats don't frighten me."
"Oh really?" Dobermon X growled. He raised his paw up high about to strike….
"Fist of the Beast King!" a blast of energy appeared in between two trees and struck Dobermon X on the side of the face. The dog Digimon stumbled to the side with a grunt.
Leomon appeared with the children and their Digimon. "What are you doing here?" he demanded.
"That is none of your business Leomon." Rhinomon X responded gruffly.
Leomon crossed his arms over his chest. "Attacking young defenceless baby Digimon? You and the Undead King are really the lowest of the low."
"We have a job to do and we're going to complete it no matter who or what is in our way." Thundermon X snapped.
Dawn stepped forward with Agumon. "Well if you guys don't leave now we'll just digivolve our partners here and you guys will be pieces of digital data before you even hit the dirt."
Dobermon X growled showing his sharp teeth. He grunted before he backed off. "Let's go." He said to the others. "All of this cuteness is making me sick anyway."
As the X Army left the village Elecmon scurried over to Leomon and the DigiDestined. "Thank goodness you came. They were destroying everything in their path."
"What were they doing here anyway?" Dawn asked.
"I have no idea." Elecmon replied. "I was feeding my babies when all of a sudden they appeared and began to attack the village. It looked like they were searching for something. One of them said they wouldn't think they'd fine 'one' here and then another said they had to search every inch of File Island. What they are searching for I don't know. They even accused me of guarding one for Gennai."
Margaret gasped, clutching her yellow bag with the emerald inside. "You don't think…?"
Leomon sighed. "It's what I feared. Somehow the Undead King has gotten word of the Digital Emeralds and by the looks of things he has sent an army of X Digimon to retrieve them for him."
Dawn clenched her fist. "Well we're just going to have to find the emeralds before they do."
To be continued…