"Buford-3, you can take down that Baljeet!" Phineas shouted. Buford-3 said "finally" and went to the square on which a Baljeet pawn was as well. A few other Buford clones protested as they wanted to be the ones to hit Baljeet as well. "You're going down nerd!" He then went towards Baljeet and before he could punch him, the piece was already discarded from the field. "Hey, what gives?"
"Because we took that pawn - or Baljeet in this case - down, that piece is no longer needed. The pawn is then transported to the side of the field over there." Phineas pointed towards the Baljeet pawn now resting on the side. The Baljeet clone however was nowhere to be seen. "Oh that's right, the clones will fuse back with one of the others.
"Uhm... what if things go wrong and the clone fuses with one of us?" Megan asked with wide eyes.
"That won't happen. Don't worry Megan, we thought things through!" Phineas said excitedly. When Phineas was done talking, Ferb had already suggested a move to one of the Katie-horses.
"Aye-aye!" she said and she was off. Her horse made a few majestic jumps to the designated area and was now only one move away from taking out one of the Adysons, who was playing as a bishop. Isabella admired the horses but knew that being Phineas's queen... was far better than that.
"Okay, Adyson-1, move over to a save spot. Let's see... ah, over there next to Gretchen-2" Phineas said.
"Okay then!" Adyson replied and she was off.
Isabella stared at Phineas again. He was such a good leader and it especially showed in team-based games like this.
"Izzy? Are you okay?" Phineas had noticed her staring.
"What? Oh... yes... yes I'm all fine" Isabella blushed. Phineas smiled at her with yet again that mysterious smile.
"Well don't scare me like that again okay? I might need you one of these moves" Phineas grinned.
"Right..." Isabella said smiling.
Meanwhile, Ferb looked around to see if there were any possible moves available without getting themselves in danger. After a while, he had something. He urged to Megan to begin moving.
"Me? Uh... what way?" Megan asked.
Ferb pointed in a direction and then held out 3 fingers, meaning that she should move 3 paces.
"Oh... right" Megan said and she moved in the given direction. She came standing right next to a Milly-tower. "He's not much of a talker, is he?" she said.
"No, that's just Ferb. He rarely speaks but he's good at so many other stuff" Milly replied.
"Interesting... hey don't give me that look, I don't like-like him after only one afternoon" Megan said upon seeing Milly smiling at her.
"I was just kidding" Milly laughed. "You know, you're nicer than I thought, knowing you're from Samantha's group."
"That's not really nice you know... or is it... well thank you I think" Megan said with a smile. Both laughed when Phineas had already made his move. All eyes moved back to Ferb. He pointed towards one of the Baljeet clones, saying he could take out a Buford pawn.
"Heh heh, you think you can take on me?" the Buford said.
"Bufe, it is chess, of course I can take you on here, I just have to stand on the square" the Baljeet said. This made Buford really mad. Not only did he have the guts to stand up against him yet again, he had also called him ´Bufe´. Baljeet had to get normal again really soon or Buford was going to explode.
By the time the Buford-pawn was gone, Phineas had already thought of a strategy. That way, he could place a check on Ferb and maybe even take out a bishop.
"Izzy, could you move over there?" Phineas said.
Isabella smiled and moved. Ferb suspected him and began thinking what his plan could be. It didn't take him too long to come up with a guess and thus, began a counter-attack already. This would surely place one Holly in danger. Again, both were evenly matched. If things went on like this, there would again be just Phineas and Ferb as the kings left. Even though Phineas knew that was probably how it would end, there was something different this time. The pieces were played by his friends this time. Sacrificing a pawn was a little harder than usual. Giving up on a tower was not one of the things he wanted to do now but more importantly than all that, Isabella was playing as his queen. It was always better for people to take out a queen than to take out a pawn or anything. A queen was the most dangerous piece. Since Isabella had taken this role, he didn't like to see her get knocked off the playing field. He still didn't know why, but he felt that way.
Ferb on the other hand had noticed Phineas's calm way of playing. He was being docile as he did not want any of his friends to get hit. Ferb could relate to that and surely, he was feeling a bit more sympathetic with his pieces than he normally would, but he didn't mind sacrificing a Baljeet pawn since he knew there were still a whole lot of them left. Ferb was a bit stronger at that.
He told a Ginger-tower to go over to a certain spot, which was right next to a Baljeet-pawn. This of course made her blush again. The Baljeet-pawn however did not notice this and just stared down at the square he was standing on.
Buford and Ginger both couldn't take Baljeet's behavior anymore. Both Gingers let out a sigh, sat down on their platforms and began sobbing a bit while all Bufords started screaming like mad.
"I. HAVE. HAD IT!!! Baljeet, you´ve been sulking like this all day, you´ve been standing up to me, you called me BUFE for Biff's sake and I just CAN'T decide what's WRONG with you!"
Everybody gasped and looked at Buford, Baljeet looked up, startled and even Ginger paused her sobbing.
"CAN'T you see that I have feelings too?! I CAN'T be happy without making you get scared of me at least ONCE every day! If that isn't how you can live, then fine, just FINE!"
"Buford I..." Baljeet wanted to say.
"NO, you've had your chance mister! I'm done! Finito!" Buford said.
Megan was a bit scared. She had never seen anyone get this angry before. Not even Samantha could top that.
"Buford... are you okay? Would you rather leave? We can ask somebody else to come." Isabella said with concern.
"No, thank you Isabella but I'm fine. I want to finish this" Buford said. Something was definitely wrong. He had thanked Isabella for showing concern. Not only was thanking something Buford rarely did, the fact that he thanked Isabella, a girl, was even weirder.
Baljeet looked at him in shock. This sure had awoken him. Had he really just made his bully go soft?  When everybody looked at him in shock, Buford told them "Don't worry about me and have fun! I don't want you to have a bad day because of me."

Megan had had a lot of fun so far (well, until Buford started shouting that is). She thought Phineas was cute because he was so cheerful but knew to lay her hands off of him for Isabella's sake. Ferb seemed a bit odd at first but Megan knew he was going to be a life-long friend as well. Buford and Baljeet seemed fun to hang out with, though if this Baljeet wasn't the Baljeet they usually hung out with, she was curious to see the normal Baljeet. Isabella was what amazed her the most. Since Samantha had only told her the negative things about her, she didn't get a really positive image of Isabella. Now that Megan had hung out with her today, things were sure to change in her group. Still, if what Isabella said was true, she started to wonder if Samantha was ever going to forgive her for being here today. It worried her a bit and it kept nagging her every now and then. Still, the shouting of the bully made everybody get out of their thoughts for a bit. Something was definitely wrong. Even Megan knew it and she was the new one here.