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Title: Ultraman Orion Versus Ultraman Kaizer: Legend Battle
Appears:
- Ancient Ultra: Ultraman Kaizer
- Super Ancient Civilization: Mu
- Ancient Mu God: King Kaizer
- Ancient Mu Weapons: Mu Golems
- Pending.
Prologue[]
"We did it..." said the dark skin woman. Her hair was long and straight and she wore garments with opposing colors on each side along with a plethora of jewelry. Beside was an old man in similarly colored clothes. They two stood before a large mound of rock, oddly shaped. "Now the secrets of the light will be ours..." An alarm went of in the stone construct of a building.
"Impossible..." said the old man "We defeated all other enemies..."
"Sir..." said a servant boy who ran up to them "the enemy nations are unleashing all of their monsters...!"
"Then release ours...!"
"But sir, beside the King, the only other one left is..."
"Release it...!"
Chapter 1[]
"Hey dad..." said Haley. She sat next to the bed of an elderly Caucasian man, who was in a hospital bed, sleeping. He was hooked up to several pieces of medical equipment and had an oxygen mask over his face. At the door was Mizuki, in casuals, along with Vincent, who was busy playing a portable gaming system, while headphones were on his ears.
Haley kissed the sleeping old man on his forehead and put some flowers with on the counter top next to him before she left.
"Not to be racist..." said Mizuki "but you look nothing alike..."
"He's my step dad..."
"What happened to your real dad...?"
"He left, he decided being a dad, wasn't the thing for him. My mom met him years later after she had me."
"Yet, you get along so well..."
"Not at first, but..."
"But what...?"
"He promised me, that no matter what, I was his daughter, that was the promise he made to my mom, when they got married..." The began to walk away.
"You don't talk about your parents..."
"My mom...she and my unborn brother died in a kaiju attack, the only reason I survived was because he risk his life to save me, the injuries are why he is still in the hospital..."
"Wow...you don't..."
"I don't hate them..." Mizuki looked at her.
"How can you not...?"
"He taught me, not to hate, to understand first. We don't understand anything do we, why they are here..."
"We do now..."
"That's not what I mean, a good deal of them were already here, just woken up by her, so are they evil, or just being used by her." The ground began to shake and everyone in the hallway leaned against the wall, to avoid falling down. Outside a massive roar could be heard. "No..."
Out of the ground emerged a large kaiju, it had the typical, 'upright dinosaur' build, with hook blades for arms, a shark fin on its back, three large circular orbs for eyes and chest armor. It came up, shaking of dirt as it roared.
<So...this is the 'modern world'...> Said someone speaking a strange language. They watched from a throne room, a large monitor made of a tapestry with moving images, showing what the monster saw <It looks weak, prime for conquering...!>
The monster began to move about, smashing into buildings breathing out flames, it began to march towards the hospital until a figure of light came down hit on top of its head.
<An Ultra...?> Said the figure controlling the monster. Orion's aura faded as he picked up the monster and drove it head first into the ground, seemingly knocking it out. <Capture that Ultra...!> The monster arms began to vibrate, revealing how it tunneled through the ground. Orion nearly fell over, from the shaking as it disappeared underground. Orion looked around, it was quiet now. His eyes flashed as he X-Rayed the surrounding area. That was when he suddenly felt the vibrations from beneath him.
Mizuki, Haley and Vincent, watched in surprise as Orion disappeared into the ground. There was more shaking and then suddenly a red flash of light. Mizuki smirked, for she knew what was coming next. Out of the same hole, that enveloped Orion, the monster was thrown into the air, landing next to it as Orion jumped out in his red form.
The monster roared and swung at him, but Orion blocked it, baring the vibration that had allowed it to mow through dirt and bedrock alike. He then countered with a punch and another, jab after jab like a power, Orion was making use of his new found brawn. Each blow went to its chest armor, but regardless each blow put cracks in its body that cause, what appeared to be...magma, to bleed out. Orion continued on, grabbing its arm and delivering jabs and an uppercut before kicking it away. The monster stumbled back, cracks all over its body.
Orion set himself on fire, before clenching his first and channeling all of his energy into it, he delivered one powerful punch, translating all of the energy into its body. To everyone's surprise, the monster shackled out in the opposite direction, breaking apart into pieces of stone.
<So...> said the figure, a woman with pale skin and long straight red hair. She wore a single dress with one side blue, the other red and a white cape. On her fore head with a gold tiara and her bare arms, sported several bracelets and rings, all made of gold. <This titan is very different from the last one, perhaps more powerful...It must be ours...!>
Chapter 2[]
The figure sank into his chair. He was a handsome young man, with dark skin, golden eyes and black hair in a bowl cut. He wore a red vest over a white shirt and pants. He was in an all-white room, with one side being a window to the open ocean. All about him were several monitors and screens, showing information and video feeds from around the world. His expression was dour as he watched over and over again the battle between Orion and the monster made of stone, in truth bricks, carved into a shape and given life. He was familiar with this kind of monster, although to the rest of the world it was new.
"Why...?" he mused out loud, "why now of all times, after so long...?"
Haley, Mizuki and Vincent were in STAR uniforms now, as personnel and police help quarantine the area. They had men and women in hazmat suits, working to collect the pieces of the monster in boxes. Vincent, worked with the equipement, while Haley made on sight assessments with what gear she had. Mizuki just stood around, annoyed at having nothing to shoot, and therefore nothing to do.
"Well...?" asked Mizuki.
"Well, what...?" asked Haley. She was looking at a sample via a microscope
"Have you figured out what it is...?"
"It is..." said Alex, appearing in his STAR uniform "a golem..." He walked towards the three, raising his hand, to which Vincent casually high-fived him. Haley looked at him.
"A golem...?" she said with skepticism.
"Okay, how about this, a giant statue of a monster, animated by a special artificial protein, giving it the power to move about like a real life form..."
"Golem it is then... I take, your...super..."
"Ultra..."
"Senses, told you this...?"
"I don't just punch stuff you know..." In the crowd that gathered, two of the individuals, men in black suits and shades, looked at Alex, taking note of the bracelet, barely hidden under his sleeve. The two nodded to each other and disappeared into the crowd.
"Indeed..."
"So..." said Mizuki "Who sent them...?" Alex paused and after some thinking shrugged his shoulders. "What, what does that mean...?" said Mizuki upset.
"It means...I don't know, I've seen things similar to this, but this exact protein sequence is unfamiliar to me, though..."
"What...?"
"It...it seems terrestrial..."
"This is true..." said Haley "the materials in this thing are all common Earth Elements..."
"Yeah, but said 'Earth Elements' or much more common than you think..."
"Which doesn't rule out aliens..." said Mizuki.
Chapter 2[]
The two men were in a back alley, talking a device on one of their arms. They were the men in black suits and shades that had eyed Alex's bracelet. They spoke to someone in a language no one on the surface had heard in hundreds of thousands of years.
<You are certain...?> said the voice from the device, a woman's voice. The device was like a square tile with strange markings that glowed, and held by a strap made of leather.
<Yes, your highness, the man wore the same bracelet as the titan. It is quite possible he is the Titan or at the very least is connected to it.>
<Acquire him, without a Titan of their own, these surface people will be easily conquered. See this done, our people's survival depends on our victory!>
<We hear and obey...> the two said together.
Alex was alone, working alone at Geo Base. With a datapad in hand he was looking at the data from the battle, at the EM reading taking from satelite. While he was an Ultra and his senses were more acute than human instruments, he couldn't just recall something he hadn't taken to the time to look at. He suddenly paused.
"Who is there...?" Out of the dark walked a young man, the young man with dark skin and golden eyes. Alex looked at him, really looked at him "You are...human...yet more..."
"I assure you..." the young man replied "I am only human."
"You have a psychic presence, the last time I felt something like this, was with..."
"Dagaryu's, the child from ancient times. Yes, she is fine..."
"I know, I've checked. But you still have not answered my question..."
"My identity is not important..."
"I get a feeling it is..."
"Is that one of your 'powers' sir 'giant of light'..." Alex looked around, he had noticed that cameras were all off.
"No, just intuition...I used to think that I was the oldest sentient thing on this planet, now not so much..."
"You have good intuition then, tell me, what do you think of mankind...?"
"I think that for all their faults, they are well meaning and hopeful..."
"Do their faults not trouble you...?" Alex shook his head.
"I have seen so many species, so many races, everyone's 'worst' is basically the same, I judge them by their best and how they try to achieve it. Why do you ask me this..."
"Mankind's best, is now threatened by its worst, its worst from the ancient past." Alex raised an eyebrow.
"The ancient civilizations still survive..."
"Unfortunately, and they now seek the power of the Titan..."
"This...is unfortunate then, it means, I cannot interfere, not as Ultraman..."
"It may not be so simple, you see, you are not the first Titan, not the first Giant of Light..."
"Not the first...Ultraman to come here...?"
"No..." The stranger turned and walked away.
"Wait...!" said Alex getting up and outstretching his hand, but the young man was suddenly gone in a flash of light. "So...that's what it feels like.
Chapter 3[]
"This is troubling..." said Prime. In their mental realm of golden light, Prime, Tori and Torrent stood as giants in their true form, while a human sized Orion looked up to them.
"Ah, an Ultra is trapped here..." said Orion "has been for possibly thousands of years.
"In the ancient past..." said Torrent "Ultra kind, protected this place, Ultraman, Zoffy, Seven, Jack, Ace, Taro..."
"The Great Ultra Heroes..."
"Yes, each of them rose to become great warriors of Ultra and revered, it was said, this world would make heroes out of us..."
"So why did you stop coming here...?" The three older Ultras were silent. "I checked the records, Earth was deemed unworthy for a hundred years and even after that it was forgotten, why?"
"Kaizer..." said Tori.
"Who...?"
"The last Ultra to visit Earth before you, he was a noble and was sent to Earth to protect it for...political reasons."
"A noble...?"
"In the early days when we first became giants of light..." said Prime "we were ruled by a monarchy, the change to Ultra, brought out the flaws of that system, antiquated ideas that were...relatively harmless when we were flesh but Ultimately..."
"The Red Incident, the even that cost us the Ultra heroes..." said Tori "can be argued to be their fault, because of their policies and means of enforcing said policies."
"...You don't want me to rescue him... do you...?" said Orion
"No, no..." said Prime "We cannot in good conscience just leave him there imprisoned or worse, but...Kaizer is an old Ultra, with ideas long left behind, he may not be...friendly to you..."
"I do not understand..." Orion looked around "I have to go..."
Alex, turned around with a swing of his arm, knocking back the two men. It was the two from earlier that day, the two in black suits and shades, shades even now in the dark of night. They charged him, one threw a punch that Alex caught and locked in his arm pit, before grabbing him by the throat and throwing him into his companion. Alex leaped forward and cartwheeled, grabbing, picking him and then pushing him into the wall, turning and spin kicking the other in the face. He turned back to the other attacker, only to find a gun trained on him.
"Enough..." he said, while wiping his lip "You are coming with us...!"
"'Pray tell, why...?" asked Alex.
"You do not question your superiors!"
"I would not call you that..."
"Then you are ignorant, you will hand over the power of the surface Titan!"
"Titan...? You mean Ultraman..."
"The giant of light, you will hand over your power...!"
"You really don't know anything about we Ultras, do you...?"
"We...?" Alex dove to the side, dodging a bullet as he pulled out his blaster and fired mid-air. He pinned the man in the shoulder of the arm holding the gun. Alex rolled and got to his feet, in time to stop a bullet. It was from the other man and it was deflected by a transparent shield he erected. The man shot and dove out the window, leaving his friend, who Alex noticed was now dead.
Chapter 4[]
"Well..." said Haley. Her men were taking the body out of the room, while also looking for any forensic evidence. "Surface Titan...?"
"Yeah..." Said Alex, he pulled her outside of the room, shutting the door. "From what I'm told, I'm not the first Ultra to come here, there were others, the Great Ultra Heroes..."
"You guys have national heroes...?"
"Why wouldn't we...?"
"Nothing, it's just, you're a race of superheroes, seems rather redundant..."
"Yet, if I called you all monkeys, I would be speciest..." said Alex.
"Sorry..." said Haley putting her hands.
"The last Ultra to come here was named Kaizer, he went KIA, during the cataclysm..."
"The what...?"
"A world war, between the ancient civilizations, resulting in their mutually assured destruction, via their kaiju weapons. Bahamut, Dagaryu, they were left over creations of ancient man."
"So these people..."
"Must be survivors, locked underground for hundreds of thousands of years, now they are trying to take back the surface..."
"And they have an Ultra on their side..."
"No..." said Alex with a sad look "I can help you guys, as Alex, but Ultraman cannot, interfere with this conflict..." Haley raised an eyebrow
"Why not...?"
"This is not an invading alien race, or simply monsters, this is a conflict between two native civilizations. The law that demands I protect this world, forbids me from taking sides."
"Then how are we going to fight them...!?" Alex was taken back.
"Haley...the same way, before I came, besides, this isn't some alien technology, this is your specialty..." Haley had a look of revelation on her face as she ran off.
"We've confirmed it..." said Haley, she and the rest of the team were their meeting room on Zephyr Base. She was holding a presentation, with an image of the attacker's corpse on the monitor. "He is human."
"We've also detected similar bacteria in his weapon, to the ones we found in the monster remains."
"So..." said Mizuki "these people are...?"
"Invaders from down below..." said Alex, he proceeded to explain what he told Haley the night before. Everyone was clearly unnerved by the news, that Ultraman would not be fighting.
"On a positive..." said Haley "We've isolated the bacteria in both weapons..."
"How does that help...?" asked Vincent
"These golem Kaiju, these guns, they use similar bacteria to do things. In the Kaiju, they are coral, repairing damage, they are also being used to generate EM forces, to fire a bullet out of a gun, or to move the components of the kaiju. It means, we can begin, we have already begun, looking for a means of counteracting the basic principles of their technology."
"So you mean..." said Mizuki "that we could soon have a way of defeating their monsters!" Haley nodded. Then, like that, the alarm went of. Vincent went to work and brought up an image on the monitor.
"You'd better work fast.." he said "One of those things has begun to attack a city...!"
"Elite..." said the Commander "Move out...!" They got up, but stopped.
"Incoming signal...!"
"People of the surface...!" said a woman's voice "we are the Mu Empire, rightful rulers of this planet. We demand you hand over the Titan, you refer to as Ultraman, or we will destroy your pitiful civilization...!"
Chapter 5[]
Everyone looked at Alex, and they then looked at the commander.
"Why are you standing around for...?" he shouted "Go...!" The team took their places. Vincent got to work with Haley, while Tachibana, Mizuki and Alex took of. The three made their way to the command carrier , with Alex and Mizuki taking off with the jet squadron.
The creature was just like before, a cyclops like beast, with sickle hands and a beak. The squadron came in and immediately opened fire, shooting ion bursts from their turrets, catching its attention and stopping it from attacking more buildings.
"Alex..." shouted Mizuki "Slider Maneuver!" Alex broke of from the squadron and turned back around towards the monster. He opened fire and continued to dodge the fire balls spat in his direction. The beast raised it arm, ready to smash his plane, when from up above, several plasma warhead missiles rained down on the golem. Chunks were blown off, some of the stone was partially melted, and the two missiles from Alex, knocked it down on its back as he flew by. By then, the others had come down and split apart in a circle. "Vulture Maneuver!" shouted Mizuki. The squadron got into groups of three and continued to fire upon the monster with their laser turrets.
While this was going on, Alex, circled the battlefield, keeping sure that he didn't run into any of the other jets. While he watched as the others continue to hound the monster, unaware that someone had taken aim of his ship. It wasn't a bazooka, it was with what the size of a normal hand gun, even if it did look strange. It fired, straight into the exhaust of one of his engines.
"What...?" said Alex "I'm hit...!" Just like that, the monster got back up and shot a fire ball towards him. With seconds to spare, Alex, ejected from his plane, as it was obliterated, and came floating down via a parachute. The monster took aim, again at Alex, but its attack was cancelled when several planes shot missiles into its eye.
<Well...> said one of their agents, his gun still smoking <now, all we need to do is collect him.>
<Easier said then done...> said the other <that one's vessel is no slouch.>
<We'll see about that...>
Alex landed, immediately taking of his parachute and pulling out his other blaster pistol. He pressed a button and put the two together to form a blaster rifle, of a sniper rifle style. With it he ran of, towards the beast and took aim. Alex's eyes glowed as his eyes became more than organic photon receptors, they became sensors, scanners, he looked at the monster and saw more than what a normal person would, all the while his rifle was charging. Then he found it, it fired his rifle, shooting a blast into the monster's neck and from there it was over. The spot was an overlay of several cracks in its structure, that caused the entirety of its neck and chest covering to fall of, revealing a puss like core, with veins extending into the stone, animating the golem monster. The STAR fighter wasted no time shooting that and like that, the kaiju stop. Several more blasts reduced it to chunks of rubble.
Alex smirked, before pointing his gun in the other direction and firing a shot, in front of the agents.
"Huh..." said the first one, the one who had shot him down "Aren't we a skilled shooter, I take it the Titan's power helped with that..." Alex raised an eyebrow. "Don't try to deny it, we can track him in you, we..."
"You know nothing about my race, do you...?" said Alex
"We, know enough about you surface..."
"No...my race, you think that I'm some weapon of the people up here, I come from another planet. This is not some human host you are talking to, this is me in human form. The people of the surface, are not going to hand me over to you, because, they don't have any authority over me. I protect them, as an upholder of Galactic Law."
"That matters why...?"
"It matters, because now that you know, that, if you attack me, I am within my rights to assist these people in my true form. Well, I'm free to exterminate your civilization and leave the surface untouched, but the end result is the same..."
"You would think that, but you don't know what have down there..."
"I doubt it matter, else, you wouldn't be so interested in me, but speaking of which, you release the other Ultraman you have in your possession..."
"Or else...?"
"I will come down there and free him..." The two stared each other down, until Wave Riders flew overhead.
"We are leaving..." said the older one.
"What...!?"
"His friends will be here soon and we can't just overpower him...We are leaving..."
"She won't be happy..."
"She'll just settle..."
<Madness...!> said the Mu queen <A weapon dares to talk back to its creators...!>
<According to this one...> said an old man <we are not its creators...>
<Nonsense, we have one in storage...!>
<I wonder about that...we have it sealed away in the power of King Kaizer, why would we need to seal away our own?>
<Enough, this thing is ours, that Titan will be our or be destroyed, the Mu will rise again...!>
<Yes, your majesty, but there is another problem...>
<What, now...> A survivor.
Chapter 6[]
"So..." said Mizuki "What other monsters are going to be popping up...?" she sat in the meeting room with her feet up and a smug smirk, until the commander came and knocked her feet of the desk.
"I think you fail to grasp the gravity of the situation..." he said "we are not fighting monsters, we are at war, with another human civilization..."
"The question is..." said Vincent "is where did they come from, how did they survive underground..."
"The Hollow Earth..." said Alex. Everyone looked at him "On many planets, it is not uncommon for pockets of air to survive down below, artificial or naturally forming, the underground, undersea caves, can be a small as a football stadium or connected together, rival a continent. So deep into the Earth, the radiation would be strong, resulting in natural creatures above twenty meters in height..."
"Kaiju..." said Haley "and they only come up because..."
"Sometimes, they were driven out by another beast, in your case, someone called them out. I believe these Mu, in their day found a cave and prepared it as a sort of bunker. Then when the cataclysm occurred..."
"They ran down there and lived there for centuries..." said Vincent.
"No..." said Haley. "Working on her screen..."
"What is it..." said the commander.
"Alex, Orion, I've been analyzing the bacteria from the remains and looked for any similarities, something that could help. I found this..." An image appeared on screen. It showed a tall rock that was rounded of at the top, and shaped oddly. "This is from HATE's files..." A filter came down, showing an X-Ray of the inside..."
"Is that...?" said Mizuki
"Ultraman Kaizer, the last Ultra to come here, before me...where is he...?"
"The facility was attacked, all that's left is a hole..." Alex looked to the side, staring into the distance.
"Alex..." said the commander "We need to talk..." everyone went silent "We can't have you on the team, not at this moment..."
"What...?" said Mizuki. The commander silenced her by simply looking her way. "I recognize that this constitutes a conflict of interests. You have to uphold Galactic Law, but we have to defend ourselves. So starting now, I am putting you on shore leave. When this is over, then you can comeback. Until then, go look for your friend..." Without warning Alex disappeared in a flash of light, it hardly seemed as if he was paying attention.
"Well that was rude..." said Vincent.
The young man, the same one Alex met that night was running, running for his life in the forest, dodging fire from the Underground Agents who were chasing him. The young man ran behind a tree, and was gone.
The young man found himself floating a dark dimension of blue currents of energy flowing all around.
"So..." he said, giving a sigh of relief "You did get my message...Ultraman..." Orion appeared before him at his true giant size.
"Are you human..." he said "yes, yes you are, but different, you are..."
"You've already met someone like me, a survivor of the ancient cataclysm, the girl in Dagaryu."
"Who are you..."
"I am Saul, I am the founder of STAR..."
Chapter 7[]
"Oh..." said Orion "And here I thought STAR's technology was the result of man's advancement..."
"It is, I just helped it along. I managed to amass a fortune, with which I help steer the world away from disaster..."
"You manipulate it..."
"Please, I'm not the Illuminati, or something like that...You are nicer than the last Ultra I met. You are clearly not a nobleman..."
"The nobility, that's an old idea whose time is long since passed. True, we have a 'king' but that position is not hereditary. Now, what do you know of this 'previous' Ultra?" Saul gave a sad look.
"You mean Kaizer, that was his name. He was the last of your kind to visit our world. You would have thought, we humans would've learned from your ancestors, but all we learned to do was war with each other. From the wrecks of fallen invaders, we gained advance technology, tech, we were not ready for. We created our own monsters which eventually lead to the cataclysm. Kaizer tried to stop it, but the Mu, sealed him away, to steal his...the secrets of your kind."
"And with him gone, no one could stop the rampaging monsters..."
"No...Orion, Ultraman, please, help me save Kaizer...!"
The machine was a tank with a massive drill on the front with a red diode tip. There were several of them, all bearing STAR colors and the logo.
"Okay, listen up..." said Haley. "We've found the location of the enemy HQ. This will not be like before, were we are fighting aliens. We suspect civilian targets will be there, so look lively, all weapon are to be set on stun unless aimed at a kaiju, clear..."
"Clear...!" shouted the men. It was just for a second, but Haley could've sworn she say Alex, with a strange dark skinned boy. She dismissed it of course and continued with the operation.
"Huh..." said Saul. Both Saul and Alex were beyond human senses, even if they were in the same room as everyone.
"What...?" replied Alex.
"That girl...she is of the Mu bloodline, she may even be a descendant of mine..."
"Descendant...?"
"Well the march of time is a lonely road you, and I'm much older than I look." Saul said with a smirk.
"I still don't understand the need for stealth if you are indeed STAR's founder..."
"My dear, dear Ultraman, my presence is a secret, the Mu will sense me...eventually but still, I will keep the promise I made, I will save Kaizer."
"Ah..."
The tunnelizers were lined up outside a mountain range, the place calculated to be the best spot to start the journey. Firing oscillating red beams, they drove forward, digging through the Earth at great speeds.
It was about half an hour or so later that they appeared, bursting up from underground, from underneath buildings that had been made of clay bricks.
"Careful..." said Haley "We detect minor levels of radiation...! Keep your suits on at all times..."
Chapter 8[]
"Madness...!" said the Mu Queen looking at at her kingdom below. It was a city, an ancient stye metropolis composed of mainly derelict districts and her palace on the cave wall. Above them were glowing, crystals of an unknown nature, that kept her kingdom illuminated. "This is madness, to think those fools would dare attack us, their betters. Chamberlain...!" in walked a hunched over old man "Prepare the monsters, unleashed all of them, even Kaizer..."
"Which one...?"
"Both of them...!"
"Oh, dad..." mused Haley to herself "I did it, I found your lost kingdom..."
On the side of the palace, statues of monsters stood statues of monsters. They looked basically the same, but some had whips instead of blade arms, and others had pincers. They began to glow, their stones forms partially melting as they came alive and began to march. From the distance, there were the sounds of screaming, the queen had unleashed them, but they marched through the living quarters of her people with no concern.
Before long the battle began, the tanks shot the beams they used to tunnel into the golem kaiju. These attacks did much more damage to them, then before.
"Your highness..." said the chamberlain.
"What is it...?" she said annoyed. She was watching the battle from her lookout.
"The Ultraman, refuses to awaken..."
"What...!?" she shouted finally looking in her direction "What do you mean he won't awaken...!?"
"We gave him the signal, but he will not move..."
"Wow..." said Alex, revealing himself and Saul "You lot know nothing about my kind do you...?"
"Who, your kind...?" said the queen "You're the surface Ultraman, why aren't you fighting...?"
"For my masters? As you see it, I don't work for them, and Galactic Law forbids me from interferring in the quarrels of two native civilizations..."
"Galactic...Law...?"
"The Ultramen, the titans as you call them..." said Saul "Are beings from another world, they do not serve anyone, they exist to uphold Galactic Law and maintain peace and order between the various races of the Universe. Kaizer is not your creation, he is your prisoner and we aim to free him..."
"You..."
"I am a man of Mu, from before the fall, my name is Saul."
"You are a traitor, I am your queen! You will take your Ultraman and..." Alex slapped her across the face
"You are no queen..." he said "You're a spoiled brat, but in charge of a nation. I had wondered why you lot decided to attack now, but now I understand. You are dying out, the radiation down here, while not immediately harmful, has slowly weakened you, combined with a limited gene pool, I'm surprised you lot lived this long."
"Nectar..." said Saul.
"What...?"
"A healing agent from my time, it made us immune to conventional diseases and gave us long life and health. I imagine their stores are running out, and from the look of things, much of our ancient technology has fallen into ruin. I doubt they know how to make more Kaiju, and they have no clue how to free Kaizer. Only you can Ultraman..."
"I gathered as much..."
"No..." said the queen "You will pay for your insolence! My monster..." She turned around only to see them fall. Missiles had exploded over them, causing the kaiju to turn back to stone, crack and fall apart.
"Ah, that's right..." said Alex "Haley was working on reverse engineering the bacteria that animated your statues, I guess she came up with a counter measure." The queen sneered and roared.
"Kaizer, rise King Kaizer, kill this fool from beyond the stars!" Out of the walls of the palace, another golem kaiju smashed out. This one bore a resemblance to lion than to the others. It turned to the queen's lookout and the queen looked back to see that Alex and Saul were gone. "What, were are they, were would they have gone...!"
"Where else...?" said the Chamberlain.
Chapter 9[]
The queen and several guards entered the room where a giant rock stood. It was several stones, stuck together into one massive heap. Before them was Saul and Orion, who turned around after firing beams of energy from his hand.
"You will not steal from me...!" shouted the queen.
"He is not yours..." said Orion
"Fire..." Saul instinctively got behind Orion, who withstood the attacks easily. Orion outstretched his hand, the light he released shattered their guns. Even more vex, the queen pointed her finger at Orion. Without warning a red, clawed hand reach through the walls and grabbed Orion, taking him out. "So, what now traitor...?"
"Now..." said Haley, with several guards "You lot will surrender."
Outside, King Kaizer pulled out his target, only let go when a burst of energy exploded out of his hand, turning into Orion, who in midair landed a kick into the side of his head. The Mu idol went flying into an old building. Looking around Orion noticed that most of the Mu lived in a small shanty town, outside the palace. As Kaizer got up, Orion flew into him, flying and taking him away from the remaining people. The two landed into more abandoned buildings, crushing them, with Kaizer throwing Orion off.
Ultraman landed on his feet and turned around only to receive a scissors kick to the face from King Kaizer. Landing on his back, Orion found the Lion Golem on him trying to chock him. Orion grabbed his arms and with a kick to the backside knocked him off. He got up and turned around, only to see that his opponent was also up as well.
The two charged, with Kaizer moving faster than Orion, the two clashed, locking arms, with Kaizer breaking the arm lock and scratching him several times in the chest. They wore sore blows for Orion, who felt the jolts of pain as the claws ran over his color timer. Orion grabbed at him, only to find Kaizer jaws upon his arm. Orion struggled, then fired a beam from his forehead at his face, only for the beam to zoom towards Kaizer's jewel eyes. Kaizer let go and looked at him, shooting beams from his eyes that knocked Orion back, with his Ultra Armor and Protectors, the bark was worst than the bite.
"Look..." said the queen, now in handcuffs "your pet will soon be vanquished...!"
"Shut it...!" said Saul "Orion is not anyone's pet, and you have yet to see his true power..." As in response to Saul's words, Orion jumped back and raised his bracelet to his chest. It shined a blue light that his Heart Stone absorbed and distributed around his body, turning his body blue and silver.
"What is that supposed to do...?" said the queen skeptical. Kaizer charged Orion, who grabbed his claws, threw them into the air and kicked him in the side. Orion dodged beneath another swipe, and kicked him again. He spun again, dodging Kaizer's other attack, and got on his knees to deliver a double fist slam to the monster's groin. Kaizer stumbled back in pain, keeling over and falling on a building. Getting up, he looked around to see that Orion was gone. From behind Orion kicked in the back, causing him to stumble forward. When Kaizer stopped and turned around, he received a spin kick to the face. He stumbled turning back around and into Orion side kick to his chest. He stumbled backward and Orion grabbed him by the neck and arm and spun around threw him before he could properly react. Kaizer flipped in mid-air and landed on his feet. He landed in a perfect position for Orion to kick in the chin, knocking on his back. He got back up and pushed his claws toward Orion, who side stepped and then elbowed the golem in the stomach and then the face.
The spectators all watched, in amazement and for some shock, as Orion ran circles around Kaizer. He was appearing and disappearing, leaving behind only flashes of white light. By now Orion, was trying to analyze his opponent. This 'King' Kaizer was different, he realized that it was made for fighting Ultras, or at least an Ultra. Hence the beam absorption through the eyes, the speed, the ferocity, the humanoid shape. Orion decided it was time to end it all. He jumped back and raised his hand to the sky as Kaizer charged him. Orion knew, any energy attacks would be absorbed, but this was different. Orion swung and Kaizer fell to the ground and rolled in pain. Orion's newly formed katana had shattered one of his eyes. He got up and jumped back, as the blade faded away and Orion, took on his red form. Orion knew that even if this beast could absorb some of his energy, there was one move he couldn't block, the Dynamite Dash.
But it would have to wait. From out of the palace, came a light, it destroyed the stone that held Ultraman Kaizer, and it flew out, transforming into a red, black and silver Ultra, who landed opposite Orion. Orion noted the K like symbol on its abdomen.
"Ultraman Kaizer..." said Orion.
Chapter 10[]
<Yes...> shouted the queen <Titan Kaizer, destroy that Titan from the surface...!> Kaizer turned back to her and motion some manner of gesture with his arms. While everyone gathered that it was an insult...
"Chaiyo...!" said Kaizer. From the way Orion put his hand over his mouth, it was clear that was the Ultra equivalent of a curse word, he just used. Ultraman Kaizer, put his hands to his crest and fired a beam of flames at King Kaizer, who absorbed it with his one good eye. He motioned to fire it back, only for Orion's flame covered leg to meet the beam as it left the eye, exploding in the golem's face. King Kaizer stumbled back. Now Ultraman Kaizer, leaped into the air with his arm covered in energy, pointing it to the side, he landed and swung, slamming his arm into King Kaizer's chest. The golem's chest shattered and it was sent flying back. Yet it wasn't finished. The beast got up and sprayed out a strange foam, at Ultraman Kaizer, but Orion tackled the other Ultra, taking the attack.
The foam crawl up Orion, turning into rock, he crossed his arms trying to gather energy, but it was too late.
"No...!" shouted Haley.
<Yes, Kaizer, will claim both Titans, and they will...> The stone began to glow as particles gathered towards it, flames covered it, not red flames, but blue flames. These blue flames swirled around, until the stone exploded revealing Orion in his blue form to the shock of the red Ultra. <Impossible....!> shouted the queen.
<You've been down here...> said Saul <for nearly three hundred thousand years, in that time, you have not advance, you've devolved at the most. You don't remember how the golems were created, you didn't even remember that Kaizer was your prisoner, not your servant. The Ultras, in the land blessed by light, have grown and evolved.>
Orion's Heart Stone shined, waving his hand about, he gathered the light into a sphere, which, in a pushing motion, firing a beam at Kaizer. Kaizer blocked it, but the beam seemed to have done nothing, and the golem walked forward, it began to crack. The cancer like growth in its exposed check, and the veins around it, glowed for a second and faded away, leaving the de-animated stone to crumble and fall. Orion turned to Kaizer, who looked at him from head to toe.
"What manner of Ultra are you...?" asked Kaizer "I had thought it was merely a blue Ultra out here, then I felt thought the weakling had died and a red brother had come to save him..."
"Weakling...? Just because someone doesn't have a natural advantage, doesn't mean the are weak, blue Ultras have their strengths, even if they are not physical..."
"Strength...? That tribe of clerks...!?" Kaizer laughed "So, are we going to lay waste to these vermin...!?"
"Vermin...?"
"They held me prisoner, a known Space Ranger, by Galactic Law...!"
"You've been held for over several hundred thousand years, immediately afterwards the word was struck by the cataclysm. All of the civilizations of the time were wiped out by their Kaiju Weapons. This is all that remains of that time, a dying shadow of its former self. The stature of limitations had run out and this is not the same civilization as above, which so far has obeyed Galactic Law. You are going to go home for debriefing..." Kaizer punched him in the face.
"You do not order me about peasant!" Orion noticed the dark lines under Kaizer's eyes.
"Peasant, you speak of an old and long since forgotten idea. The nobility has been disbanded Kaizer, you have no ranking over me!"
"I have the ranking of strength...! These Earthlings will all pay for my insult, you can help me or get out of my way...!"
"I see, they weren't lying when they said I wouldn't like you..." Orion took a fighting stance. Kaizer roared as his eyes flashed red and charged forward, giving an inside kick. Orion blocked it, and was sent stumbling back. Orion ducked under another kick, but was sent stumbling back by a kick to the chest. "What is wrong with you, look around Mu is just a shadow of its former self, the people of Earth's surface an entirely know civilization. What kind of Ultraman are you!"
"Ultraman...?"
"Aye, it's what all of Space Patrol call themselves, the men who took up the vow of Ultra."
"No doubt, after that peasant, Ultraman..."
"That 'peasant' is one of the Great Ultra heroes, who saved the Land of Giants, from the mess you nobles helped create..." Kaizer roared. He charged, he swung at Orion who side stepped. Orion punched him in the face, only to receive a back hand. Orion blocked with both arms and jumped back before taking a fighting stance. Orion raised his arms and changed back to his normal form, which only seemed to anger Kaizer more. Orion charged his energy, summoning his energy hair. Kaizer, while not knowing what Orion's lines were, recognized what they were doing and what they were going to do. Kaizer opened his fists to his side, fiery energy covered him. Both Ultras fired an L style beam, Orion's was blue, while Kaizer's was crimson. The beams clashed, but Orion suddenly found him beam being overpowered. The beam struck Orion, in the chest and sent him flying into the palace. Orion went limp and seemed to sit there as all the lights on his body went out.
Kaizer roared in victory, but it wasn't like a civil being. It sounded almost like a kaiju, like a beast. With no opposition, he began to fire spheres of energy from his fists, but eventually he noticed, that the vast majority of the city was derelict, empty. Roaring for revenge, he flew upwards, burrowing through the ceiling and allowing water to gush down in the cavern.
<Kaizer...!> shouted Saul.
Chapter 11[]
<So, who are you...> asked the young boy. He wore a long red and black shirt, had tan skin and sat on a boulder by the beach. In the sea were ship, gallyons with propeller engines on the side and battle cannons. Beside him was a man, a tall muscular man with tan skin, straight black hair covering the side of his face. He wore dark born robes with a large belt, and a sleeveless leather jacket. Around his neck was an amulet which resembled the face of an Ultra. On his left wrist was a gold band, a bracelet, that seemed to serve no purpose.
<I am...> said the young man <...Kaizer.>
<Sure...> Kaizer said with a laugh <I am a hero, after all...>
Present day...
Orion lay defeated, seemingly sitting within the castle walls. Haley was busy trying to radio STAR HQ about the coming threat, while Saul looked at Orion.
<You...!> shouted the queen <Where is he going...?>
<To avenge your ancestor's actions upon the world above...Orion, you need to get up...!>
"Orion, Orion, Orion...!" Orion's eyes turned on as he found himself in a prismatic golden space before King.
"King, I..."
"You lost, against Kaizer, which was simply sad and pathetic. In either form and at full power, you should be able to defeat him..."
"Aren't you...?"
"Going to give you a pep talk, words of encouragement? No, this is not a challenge beyond you. Kaizer's maximum load is 200,000 tons, that is beneath your power in ALL of your forms. The issue is not Kaizer, it is you...!"
"I..."
"You are disappointed, in us, in the Ultras? Fine so be it, but I never imagined that you would be a disappointment."
"But Kaizer is..."
"He is not an ancient, not one of the Super Ancients, he is a noble. The thing about being an Ultra, is that we cannot hide our hearts. As pompous as he is, Kaizer had always wanted to be a hero, but his pride has driven him over the edge. You've seen it in his eyes..."
"His black markings..."
"Iron Skin training, to improve his endurance and durability. Orion, the nobles decided that Ultras should be judged by their markings, that the color of their skin decided their worth. They were so arrogant, so sure of themselves and their ideals that they could see how backward that was, that we as a society, a species had moved beyond that ages ago. Now, they decided to bring it back, why, because they were scared, unsure of our then new forms and where to go. They decided to let logic, and then their arrogance to decide their future and it blinded them to what they had become. Many of Kaizer's nobles turned dark and returned to us, causing an Ultra Civil war..."
"So much for Ultraman..."
"He is not an Ultraman, we Ultras are a species, a state of being, one you have joined, but Ultraman, it is an oath, a promise to the universe around you and your own heart to uphold certain beliefs. As he an Ultra is not an Ultraman, so too can a human be an Ultraman, if he so chooses to uphold the tenets of the vow of Ultra. The name Ultraman, can be insulted, dragged through the mud, by pretenders and imitations, but until we, you who made that oath, abandon it, it cannot be destroyed. But Orion, your fear of fighting him, your refusal to use your power to stop him, you are failing that name..."
Orion awoke, getting up he looked around and saw the rising water levels. Thinking fast, he took on his all blue form and raised his hand to the sky shinning a blue light.
All the inhabitants of the city, STAR personnel and Orion, found themselves on the surface. Orion had erected a pocket dimension, grabbing everyone and using it as a makeshift teleporter. The queen and many of the citizens of Mu, found themselves hiding themselves with rags and whatever and whoever they could find, from the sun's harsh rays. Many ran to the shadow of Orion, having not noticed that he had taken a fighting stance.
<This...?> said the queen <This is the world of our ancestors...? What we tried to conquer...?>
<You have been gone for a long time...> said Saul <Once your skin was as dark as mine, for you loved to play in the sun, but you've hidden in your cave for too long, too long.>
<Take us back...!>
<To what, a watery grave Orion, saved us, all of us...>
<He, unleashed...> The ground rumbled and out of the ground rose Kaizer, who greeted my the lunging punch of Orion, to his face.
Chapter 12[]
Kaizer stumbled back.
"You...!? HOW!?"
"Blue Ultras, naturally have better mental abilities and better reflexes, so it's easier to heal in this form, than my other two..."
"As if that compares to the power of a red Ultra...!" Kaizer charged forward and swung an arm coated in energy. However, he hit thin air. Orion and turned, bent backwards and punched him directly in his color timer. The closest thing a human would ever experience, is if they were a man, and someone landed a kick...between their legs. Kaizer had blacked out when Orion stood up and pushed him back. He stumbled fell and began to roll about in pain. "You wretch...!" the dark circles around his eyes began to darken and spread "Who do you think you are!?"
"I am Orion, Ezekial, Riviera, Miliardo, Krushkrenda, last son and noble of the planet known as the Kingdom of Warriors..."
"A pretender, a fake a Ultra...!"
"The only 'real' Ultras were the ancients, all others inherited their form and power, brat."
"You DARE...!?" Kaizer launched several spheres of energy via punching motions, which Orion swatted away to the side and blocked with a shield. It was at this moment that Kaizer noticed the humans behind Orion, humans that had no realized it wasn't safe to be behind him and were making a run for it. Kaizer fired a sphere at them, but Orion fired a light bullet from his forehead, at the sphere and in between Kaizer's eyes, blinding him for but a second. A second was all Orion needed to lunge upon him, grabbing Kaizer and taking him down into a roll. However, Orion soon found himself with his arm locked and Kazier's legs across his neck. Orion struggled, feeling the grip getting tighter, his clenched his fists and brought his free fist to his captured fist. When the knuckles touched, sparks flew from Orion, electrocuting Kaizer and sending the two giants flying in opposite directions.
The two got up, but Orion noticed the Wave Riders flying towards them, which began to fire upon Kaizer. Orion got in the way, blocking with his body and an energy shield, a shield condensed into a sphere and threw into Kaizer's face after ducking under a swipe.
Kaizer stumbled back, as Orion signaled to the fighters to stop.
"Why...?" asked Kaizer "Why are you protecting me...?"
"I am protecting them. Times have changed Kaizer, whether we like or not. My people are all dead, I cannot change that, the Land of Giants has changed, you cannot change that...!"
"I can change it back...!" shouted Kaizer, who fired a beam from his forehead. Orion crossed his arms, but was sent skidding back, leaving two trenches in the ground. In the meanwhile Kaizer flew up high into the sky, into space. Orion flew after him, only to find him waiting, his arms crossed and a prismatic aura around him. Kaizer touched his bracelet, which formed a ring of golden light, twirling about, it formed a golden travel sphere, that took of. Orion would've gone after him, but his Ultra Eyes, saw what no human pair would have. He saw the asteroid that Kaizer had pulled with intense mental might, towards the Earth, it was big enough to cause an extinction event, several miles across.
Orion returned to his normal form, and charged, his energy hair grew large. In an L shaped arm position, he fired his beam, striking the asteroid, until all of it glowed blue, until all of it turned into blue explosions and particles. Orion had fired a full power shot of his beam, he had thought to reduce it in size that the fragments burned up in the atmosphere, but it was only now that he realized how much more energy he now had at his disposal. When he first came to Earth, he would never have dreamed he could have done that.
He suddenly remembered about his enemy, his opponent, and then remembered his words, remembered his words. Orion touched his forehead with his middle and index finger, generating a golden sphere at their tips. Pointing forward he wrote out his name in the language of the Ultras. These characters then collapsed into a sphere and sped off. In the mean time Orion, put his hands to his chest, but stopped for a moment...
Chapter 13[]
Kaizer flew through space at high speeds, making his way towards his home world, the Land of Giants. His golden travel sphere, created by his bracelet was the fastest means of travel known to Ultras...of his time. As he flew, a sphere of light flew past him, which he recognized to be an condensed Ultra Sign, on its way home.
"Impossible..." he thought to himself "That fake Ultra couldn't have stopped that asteroid..." His travel sphere flew into the next system before entering the Nebula M78, and immediately crashed into two red spheres. The spheres cracked open to reveal Kaizer, Prime and Torrent.
"Who are you two...!?" Kaizer shouted.
"I am Ultraman Torrent, step father of Ultraman Orion, who you attacked on Earth...!" Torrent summoned his Trident, but was held back by Prime's arm.
"Then you are a traitor for harboring that vermin among our kind...!"
"Enough...!" said Prime "I am Ultraman Prime, Supreme Commander of the Space Patrol. I have received operative Orion's report. Despite his explanations to you, you have attacked the Earth Starlings, proceeded in an unprovoked attack on another Space Ranger and now you return to us with the dark taint about you..."
"Dark taint...? This is..."
"I am aware of Iron Skin training, but like many of the former nobles, you also show signs of 'going dark', of becoming a giant of darkness. That is unacceptable... In the name of my father, King and the sanctity of the Land of Giants, you shall not enter our hallowed home..."
"You speak of 'sanctity', while letting a fake Ultra..."
"The power of Ultra does not belong to us alone, only the Ancient Ultras could claim to own it, for they were their power. Orion has the same biology of any Ultra, regardless of where he came from. You racist ideas are no longer welcomed here...!"
"What has become of you nobles, who is King now...!?"
"Ultraman..."
"Ultraman, who, why this stupid title...?"
"Those who enter the Space Patrol, take the title 'Ultraman', for they are men and women who have taken the Vow of Ultra, the vow first taken by the Great Ultra Heroes, who died for peace in the Universe and the salvation of our world from the problem you nobles started."
"We, started...?" said Kaizer.
"In hindsight, it is understood that the Red Incident was only possible thanks to the actions of your peers. This is part of the reason why nobles no longer exist..."
"Who...is your father...?"
"Ultraman, the first to bear that name..." Kaizer roared.
"That peasant, if I am the last of the nobles then the title of 'King' is MINE...! I AM KING KAIZER, ABOVE AND BEYOND ANY ULTRAMAN...!" Kazier was caught of guard when the first collided with his face. He tumbled through space and into an asteroid, creating a crater and causing it begin to drift towards the sun. The other Ultras landed beside him as he stood up, including the one who punched him. Kaizer looked in shock as Orion stood before him.
"Impossible, how did you get here so fast...?" said Kaizer.
"I flew, seriously, you've been asleep for a while...your golden travel sphere, is actually not much faster than modern spheres and we don't need tech to do that."
"The asteroid...?"
"Blew it, reduced it to atoms..." Kaizer roared and was about to charge. "Hold, someone would have words with you..."
Chapter 14[]
Orion crossed his arms, upon swinging them open his eyes glowed, creating a hologram of Saul.
"Kaizer..." said the hologram "I know you probably don't remember me, but I am Saul, the little boy your first met when you came to our world. I know you're angry and upset, but please here me out. Since your imprisonment I have worked hard to free you from your unjust treatment. However the Mu retreated underground and hid themselves with you. I have spent the the next several hundred thousands years looking for a way to free you. Thanks to Orion, I was finally able to do that. I know you are upset, however, the people who hurt you are long gone. What few Mu remain are shadows of their former selves. The people of the surface world are different, bearing no relation to us, they have honored and respected the Ultras who visited. Mankind has changed, I just you understand that and let go of your rage..."
"Fool, why should I care about the pleading of a mere man..." said Kaizer, now very much a Dark Ultra "I am an Ultraman...!"
"Hardly..." said Orion, cancelling the hologram. "You shame the name and form of Ultra, Kaizer and you have no business, no place among the Land of Giants, not anymore. You are no Ultraman, you are... Dark Kaizer..." Kaizer roared.
"I will crush you alien, and restore the purity of the Land of Giant's light. After dealing with that pretender to the throne, I will see your precious world burn for its crimes..."
"So be it, Prime..." Prime outstretched his hand, letting out a golden beam of light that reduced Kaizer's bracelet to dust.
"As Supreme Commander..." said Prime "I hereby cast you out of the Space Patrol, Kaizer for the sin of consciously turning to the Dark Side. Ultraman Prime, I charge you with cleansing this stain of our history and protecting both the world under your charge and the honor of the Ultras...!" Kaizer roared again.
"Who do you think you are, I am a noble...!" Orion's Chakra Beam, struck him in the face, causing him to stumble back.
"You have nothing to hide behind...!" said Orion "You are no longer a Space Ranger, the nobility has long since been dethroned! It's your ego and I'm going to pound it out of your head until you learned your lesson..."
"You dare speak to me alien...!?"
"Indeed, you are not something, worthy of my respect..." Kaizer roared as the two charged each other, Orion taking on his red form. The two clashed, locking arms, and kicking up dirt, both trying to overpower the other, until Orion, released his tension and flew forward, kneeing him in the gut. Kaizer stumbled back and keeled over, only to receive a kick to the face. He flew and landed on his stomach.
Acknowledging his senses, Kaizer rolled to the side dodging Orion's knee drop. The two got up and faced each other again, ready for the other's attack. Kaizer fired an energy bullet, which hit Orion's flame covered palm. Orion put his glowing hands to the side and cupped them in front of him, firing an orange and yellow beam of electricity, a gravity beam. Kaizer countered by putting his fists to his hips, the mark on his abs, glowed and the light form a wall of energy in front of him. The beam struck the wall, but instead of being stopped, it was pushed back into Kaizer, who had to brace himself. The wall shrank, to a portion of its size and Kaizer titled back his head and threw it forward, firing a beam from his head that struck Orion in the shoulder, sending him spinning in the air.
Orion rolled and got up to see Kaizer flying at him, as the locked arms, Orion fell back, and kicked Kaizer in the stomach, flipping him over and sending him flying into a cliff face. Before he could get up, Kaizer was grabbed by Orion's whose flame hair was present, and thrown into space. Orion covered his body in flame and flew up after him and past him. His flames converged around his fists and his Heart Stone shined. He put his fists together before his chest, where the flame and the light merged into a powerful beam. Kaizer again conjured the light wall from his mark, but it was instead slammed into him and he flew down into the asteroid where a large burst of light took place. Orion landed as the dust settled and Kaizer stood up, the brunt of the blast was taken by his shield. He looked at Orion who turned around and faced him, turning back into his normal form. Kaizer growled at Orion took a fighting stance.
Kaizer charged and swung at Orion who grabbed his arm and ducked under it, then countered with a kick to the back followed by a throw. As Kaizer got up, he was hit in the back by a specium ray from Orion that sent him skidding forward.
Chapter 15[]
"How..." said Kaizer "how could I loose to a mongrel, an alien at that. I am a noble, I am..."
"You think being a noble is special..." said Orion "on my homeworld I was nobility, it didn't stop my childhood from being wretched. You look at how people have started and forget, that is just the 'start' the end, the middle, that is choice. Blue Ultras can be just as strong as your typical red Ultra, I've seen a red Ultra, a military Ultra faster than most blue Ultras, it was all training. Most Ultras, civilians, their powers are not that much different from each other; no training. So explain to me, really explain to my, your obsession with what color people are." Kaizer was silent and then roared, and fired a beam from his forehead. Orion blocked with a glowing hand, as Kaizer charged at him.
Haley stood over her dad, wearing her uniform. He was asleep and leaned over and kissed him over his head.
"Hey..." he said waking up with a smile. Haley looked back at him with tears "What's wrong..."
"I...I..."
"You will survive. I raised better than that..."
"But you're dying...!"
"Yes, we all have to go, come on think about it, if I was immortal, would all the time we spent together have meant anything..."
"But..."
"Listen, listen, everyone's life has their good things and bad things. Yeah, sometimes, too many times, the good things, don't seem to make up for the bad things, but they don't have to ruin the good things. When we let the bad things rule us, drive us, control us...when we get so worked up on the bad things, when we should be striving towards the good things..."
"You are dying, and I'm, I'm going to be alone...!" Haley kept crying until her father wiped her tears and raised her head.
"Listen, being alone, more often than naught, is a choice, I've seen your friends and I know you can find someone to make you happy. But you can also make others happy. Be a light, heck you are a light, aren't you. Do you do what you do for vengeance, to get back at the bad things in your life? Well you've already lost. I know you, I know you do good things, you are a good thing in the lives of others. When we forget that, when we forget why we do and why we should be a good thing for others... it is never pretty, even for ourselves...I will be gone, you will be gone, the only thing we are taking with us are our name and bonds forged with them. As I was your light, I leave it to you to be someone else's"
"That doesn't help, I'm still..."
"Crying? I know, those tears are going to be there, inside or out, but it's what comes after that matter. You will stop crying and if not you will learn to live with the tears. They are not the end of you, they don't have to be..."
Orion scissored kick Kaizer in the face, causing him to stumble away. He turned and charged and the two punched at each other with charged fists. Orion planted his fist in Kaizer's face, sending out a pulse of energy, while he dodged Kaizer's attack. Kaizer stumbled back, leaving himself open to a kick to the stomach that sent him flying into space.
"No, you are not stronger than me, I am..." shouted Kaizer
"A spoiled brat with too much power. Do you even remember why the Ultras first became guardians of law and order for the cosmos? It wasn't to conquer, it wasn't to stroke their own egos, they found themselves with power and sought to use it correctly. You want to wipe out an entire planet of innocents, for a grievance from before their history! You shame the name and form of Ultra...!"
"Silence...!" Orion raised his hands, as his energy hair appeared. Gathering particles and energy into himself he fired an L style beam as Kaizer fired his own L style beam. The two beams clashed, Orion's blue beam versus Kaizer's now purple tinted ray, exploding in a massive explosion forming a sphere of energy as the two energies collided.
When the energies subsided, Orion's Heart Stone shined a bright light around him, that Orion gathered with his waving arms. Kaizer erected his shield as Orion put the energy into his clapped hands. As his left slid back to his right arm, he fired a beam of oscillating energy. To Kaizer's surprise, it phased through his wall and struck him in the chest.
As Kaizer regained control of his body, he looked to see Orion in his now blue form.
"Hah...!' he shouted "Your mixed form and even your mixed form couldn't stop me and my Iron skin, what makes you think this weak form can do anything to me...!" Orion gathered energy to his side in cupped hands, gathering particles and forming a sphere of swirling energy. Kaizer, in his bigotry based arrogance, flew towards Orion at high speed, holding a fist. He was just in front of Orion when the younger Ultra released his beam. Instead of a harsh beam, like he expected, Kaizer was met with a soft ray of energy. Yet, as the light hit him and passed through him, he found himself weakening. The energy around his fist was gone and now his strength was fading. His color timer turned red and began to flash until he fell unconscious.
Chapter 16: The End[]
"Did you...?" asked Torrent, using his bracelet's Card System to capture the dark Ultra.
"No..." replied Orion, returning to his normal form "I simply stripped him of all his internal energy, he's in a coma right now."
"Well done..." said Prime "Father will deal with this one personally..." Orion bowed.
"Yes, now I must get back to my charge..."
Saul stood outside of Geo Base, inside he could still hear the shouting of the Mu queen. They were busy trying to find somewhere to place them. He stood outside and waited somehow knowing.
Eventually the queen came outside, she was wearing a grey uniform, like the others, with an umbrella to keep back the sun.
<You think your titan can defeat ours...?>
<How many times must I explain to you? The 'titans' are a race onto themselves, no one controls them.> Almost as if in response Orion appeared before at human size. <Did it go...?> Orion shook his head.
<Kaizer was defeated, he is currently held imprisoned by King himself>
<King...?> said the Queen.
<The King of we Ultras, granted the position is mostly ceremonial, our King is still one worthy of respect.> The queen simply sneered. <What of your people...?> Orion asked Saul
<We will find a nice spot to inhabit, maybe that place were Bahamut was found, I suspect the natives are descendants of Mu who survived the Cataclysm. At the very least, we look similar enough, our tech level's are also similar after all of this. I on the other hand will be retutning to my private island to continue helping STAR...>
<Even though...>
<Kaizer failed to life up to the legend of the Ultras, but you Orion, thank you for saving a young boy's dream...> Orion watched as Haley walked towards him.
"I take it...the Earth is safe...?" Orion noted the sadness in her eyes.
"Yes...anything I can do to help...?"
"I'm fine..."
"No you are not..."
"...Actually..."
Orion was at his true giant size, out in space, looking at an alien star. In his hand was a sphere holding Haley and her wheel chair bound father, who held each other close as they looked upon the alien sun.