As a plasma bomb the size of Marlon Brando hangs over the Japones capital and Geltland Marionettes menace Japones's borders, Otaru springs into action, but Lime, utterly devastated by Emperor Ieyasu's death, refuses to leave his side despite Cherry and Bloodberry's entreaties. The others streak off in the direction of the bomb, but on the way they are stopped by the Geltland Saberdolls, who declare that anyone who defies their lord, Faust, must die. Just as Otaru is about to get severely asswhupped, Lime, who suddenly pulls herself together, saves him, her instinct for protecting Otaru for the moment overwhelming her devotion to her "grandpa", followed by Cherry and Bloodberry. However, even Lime's timely intervention may not be enough to save our heroes - an ominous electrical storm is brewing above their heads, and the Saberdools aren't frightened by total electrocution as long as they take their opponents with them. A bolt leaps out of the clouds - and is mostly absorbed by the bomb. However, Lime and Tiegel are still struck, and the roof of the building that they're on is trashed. When the smoke clears, Tiegel struggles to her feet and moves to finish Lime, but Otaru shields her with his body, despite Lime's entreaties to move so that he won't die. At that moment, Tamasaburo and Baiko appear in the air above them and speak - with the voices of Ieyasu and Hikozaemon, who had their brainwave patterns temporarily transferred into the two guard robots. They tell Otaru and the Marionettes to hasten to the castle - the Saberdolls will be taken care of. As the bomb makes its way to the palace, destroying indiscriminately along the way, Otaru tries to puzzle out Ieyasu's final words to him: that there is something in the courtyard of the palace, and the password for it is "checkmate, fork rook". In the courtyard, Lime recognizes Ieyasu's favorite game: a gigantic shougi (similar to chess) board built vertically into a wall, with long metal tumblers for the pieces that are lifted and slotted into holes in the board. Hanagata appears by Otaru's side and muses that the situation on the shougi board resembles the current state of the city - the king, representing the palace, is under attack by a rook, representing the bomb. The meaning of Ieyasu's words becomes clear: in order to defend the city, its defense must be played out on the shougi board. However, the gigantic metal shafts on which the pieces are mounted each weigh as much as Oprah did in the mid-eighties, and the Marionettes, being injured, are unable to lift them. Just when everything is deemed hopeless, Gen-nai and all Otaru's neighbors, as well as half the town, show up to help. Under Hanagata's direction, the pieces are slotted into the board one by one, as the tumblers enter the board, they turn gears deep in the palace, which cause strange, mind-mangling transformations in the palace's structure. When the last pawn is slotted into the board, the castle's transformation is complete. In a moment that no doubt caused many a viewer to go insane on the spot, we see that the castle has transformed into a big blue-and-black giant robot - JaponesGar! Lime, taking the role of What's-his-face in Giant Robo, orders the robot to shoot its fist at the bomb. It does, and the jetstream sweeps the Saberdolls off the roof where we left them, but it fails to stop the bomb. The bomb fires a bolt at JaponesGar, but does little. JaponesGar fires its other arm, and manages to stop the bomb and stave in its casing. Lime orders JaponesGar to finish the bomb, and it brings out the eyebeams, which cut off the bomb's "ears" and cause the bomb to blow up harmlessly outside Japones - taking out the Geltland Krabbensteif robots which were trying to cross the Japones border to boot. As the denouement of this rather unusual episode unfolds, Lime comments that, surely, Ieyasu was alive again on this day, if only for a moment. Meanwhile, the reconstituted minds of Ieyasu and Hikozaemon note that Cherry and Bloodberry, oddly silent through this whole ordeal, have reached the final stage of their development.
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