This fanfic is a battle sequence I have created in 2008, a reimagined version of the battle between Ultraman Tiga and his first enemies in Episode 1 of the series. This battle sequence was originally intended to be part of a greater fanfic under planning and construction: Project Ultraman Tiga: The Animated Trilogy, a fan-fictional, non-canon remake of the extremely popular Ultraman Tiga series into a trilogy of anime films with slightly different storylines. If I manage to start and finish the fanfics, this fanfic would be part of the first film Ultraman Tiga: Resurrection. The other entries will be called Ultraman Tiga: Guardian of Earth, and Ultraman Tiga: Doomsday respectively.
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I do not own ULTRAMAN or any of the franchise's related characters.
Neither do I own any MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM mobile suit concepts; they belong to Sunrise Inc.
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As the two Super Ancient titans crushed the statues to pieces, Daigo, overcome with rage, yelled in a great fit of anguish into his pickup, and yanked his mobile suit around to face the two monsters. With a series of hisses and metallic clunks Daigo's GUTS Wing transformed in mid-air into its high-speed jet mode. Electronic crosshairs on the display before him lined up according to the computer and sensor readouts, locking onto various points on both Golza and Melba's colossal frames.
Ignoring his teammates' pleas for him not to do anything reckless, Daigo depressed the fire control. With several whooshes, a quartet of heat-seeking missiles streaked from the GUTS Wing, which raced side-by-side towards the monsters, before striking their armoured hides, exploding in great showers of sparks and flames. Unfazed, the two monsters drew their attention to Daigo's mobile suit as it flew past them. Golza's swipe was too slow to catch the nimble, speedy craft, but Melba, with an ear-splitting screech, fired a great stream of flame from its gaping beak. Daigo tried his best to evade the stream of raw energy, but the flames nicked his mobile suit's thrusters, and burst into flames, sending shocks throughout the mobile suit as the systems began to fail.
''DAIGO!!!'' screamed Rena in shock.
The GUTS Wing began to plummet, trailing smoke. As the mobile suit rapidly lost altitude, Daigo struggled with the controls in a frantic attempt to keep his machine under control. Flames began to leap about his cockpit, as the heat grew unbearable. A chill of fear swept over him as he found it an increasingly agonising difficulty to even breathe. As he choked on the smoke filling his cockpit and his lungs, Daigo was about to finally give in to the emptiness consuming his sense of self…
…when he was suddenly struck by a huge surge of energy that sent shocks throughout his body a final time. This time, however, the source wasn't from the craft. Daigo's eyes widened in amazement as he briefly saw himself enveloped in a brilliant nimbus of light that appeared out of nowhere.
So this is how it feels to die, thought Daigo, his final thoughts before everything whited out.
As Daigo's teammates looked on, the plummeting GUTS Wing met the ground; a terrific explosion blossomed from the craft's impact, scorching the forest and setting the trees ablaze. No one noticed a glittering sphere of light streak away like lightning from the doomed mobile suit and strike the remaining giant statue, knocked to the ground by Golza before Daigo's futile assault to distract its attention.
As both monsters roared in triumph, the stone surface of that statue suddenly began to emanate with an ethereal blue-white glow.
Golza noticed the third statue it had been distracted from shattering suddenly blazing with that glow. Immediately returning its focus on it, Golza lifted its clawed saurian foot and prepared to finish what it started. But before it could slam its giant clawed foot into the statue's head, the stone arms of the statue suddenly rose from the ground and into the air, stopping the monster's foot in a defensive cross of the arms. Curious to what was happening this time, Golza peered downwards into the statue, which was beginning to undergo a second, even more stunning change. The small protrusion on its chest that was stone mere seconds ago was now a shiny silver steel with a brilliant blue light shining in its centre. Energy flowed like water from that light over the statue's body, transforming whatever stone surface it touched into smooth metallic chrome overlapped with stripes of ruby red and lavender. As the energy washed over the statue's head, its oval-shaped eyes burst into light.
The GUTS team, frozen by what they had just witnessed, were gazing at the conflagration consuming the forest, the fallen mobile suit and probably the broken body of their beloved comrade. The very thought that Daigo was probably gone forever rendered them speechless and dumbstruck, when Golza's roar of surprise jolted them from what seemed to be Daigo's flaming altar. As they noticed the commotion stirring between the two Super-Ancients, the team was stunned even more to witness Golza, whose massive form weighed well over half a million tons, fly backwards and high in the air, before crashing into the side of the mountain by some unknown force; Melba began to screech fearfully for the first time. What was going on?
''Look!'' gasped Horii, diverting his teammates' attention to where the statues lay. They were astonished beyond description to witness a silver giant – a being with red and lavender stripes, glowing eyes and a blue gem burning with a dazzling brightness on its chest, surrounded by a gold and steel strip of armour that ran from his chest, over his torso and to its back - rise from the debris of his fallen brothers – an actual, living, giant being, resurrected from lifeless stone.
The giant assumed a very humanlike-fighting stance, with both feet planted firmly on the ground; one palm thrust before his chest and the other hand a fist guarding his side. As Golza regained its bearings, both Super Ancients roared in defiance, and they began to circle the newcomer warily, threatening it with their raised claws, growls and twisting tails.
Golza was the first to strike. With thundering footfalls it charged towards the silver giant, claws outstretched, ready to drive them into the giant's flesh. However, the silver giant leapt high into the air and slammed the knife edge of its right palm onto Golza's heavily armoured head, firing off a bright flash of light as it struck. Amazingly, the blow forced the mighty and seemingly unstoppable Golza onto its knees for the first time since it awakened weeks ago, kicking up dust and soil into the air as it went down. In another smooth, fluid motion, the silver giant twirled round, gaining momentum, and struck his palm's edge right into Golza's abdomen, sending Golza off its feet in another flash of light. Golza tried to regain its balance as its feet met the ground, but was too slow for the giant, who grabbed it by the arms and swiftly kneed it with another earth-shattering blow. Melba, entering the fray to help its ally, tried to attack, but before it come even come close, the silver giant forced Golza's head downwards and sent a powerful kick into Melba, sending it tumbling backwards with almighty force.
As the three titans battled, Horii began analysing the newcomer with the GUTS Wing II's in-built analysis package, sending terabytes of data back to the Citagon, from spectral analysis to energy waves the battle was firing off. The others – Rena, Munakata and Shinjoh, in their mobile suits; Yazumi and Captain Iruma, back in the command centre – watched the battle, awed by the silver giant's superhuman power and combat ability. They could tell that this giant was very much unlike the other two Super-Ancients, but rather, something almost human, and clearly far more formidable and intelligent.
The giant had just managed to force Melba backwards when it noticed Golza's armoured head accumulating purple bolts of electricity. Before Golza discharged its head laser, the giant jammed the opening on Golza's head, somehow disrupting Golza's use of that terrible weapon. This, however, gave the clumsy Golza a chance to grab the giant's wrists; with brute force it forced the giant's hands away from it, and both struggled hand-to-hand, with Golza having the upper hand. Taking its cue, Melba's gigantic wings spread and caught the wind, and as it took to the air its claws raked across the silver giant's back sending the silver giant flying.
As it spilled onto the earth, Golza fired its laser; the silver giant recovered quickly and flipped aside with impressive speed and agility. Melba, however, managed to intercept the giant as it got back onto its knees. Grabbing it between its great swordlike forelegs, Melba struggled with the silver giant as it tried to fend off its stone-shattering beak, but this proved to be the giant's undoing as Melba dragged the giant right in the path of another of Golza's laser blasts; the purple beam struck the giant's back, sending shocks of pain down its spine. Disoriented and in pain, the giant roared in agony, falling to its knees, before being flung aside like a rag doll by a blow to his head. The giant landed in a mess on the ground with an echoing crash.
As the silver giant painfully got onto one knee, Golza and Melba seemingly began to taunt it with their incensed roars and screeches. Seated within the remaining GUTS Wing I and II mobile suits, the GUTS team began to worry that the silver giant, powerful as he seemed to be, may not be able to win this battle.
''Should we help the giant?'' asked Shinjoh.
''I'm not sure…we don't even know if he's our friend or enemy,'' Munakata replied.
As the monsters began to roar again, the diamond on the giant's forehead suddenly lit up with a bright flash of crimson light. With intense concentration, the giant crossed his fists before the glowing crystal, and as the giant rose to its full height, it swept its arms aside, and its physique underwent an appalling change: crimson colours suddenly fell like a waterfall from its neck down over all of the giant's lavender stripes, allowing it to attain a fully red and silver form. Attaining a fighting stance as well, with both hands furled into fists, the giant faced off once more against the two Super Ancients.
With the giant's new form, the tables began to turn on the monsters.
Both Golza and Melba fired their strongest, most intensive energy attacks, intent on destroying the giant, who had began to charge once more, albeit with a slower gait. Simply raising its hands, Golza's purple laser and Melba's flamethrower met with the giant, only to glance off the giant's hands harmlessly, leaving no sign of damage on the giant. As both monsters intensified their assault, the giant just held on a little longer, until both lost their steam. Taking its chance, the giant slammed right into Golza, knocking it off its feet and onto the ground several miles away in a massive display of strength no one had seen before. The GUTS team, awed by the giant's sudden magnification of power, gasped once again to see the giant send Melba flying with a single punch.
As Melba crashlanded, the giant, not allowing Golza to recover, threw its arms around Golza in a deadly embrace. Summoning all of its strength, the giant channelled its efforts into squeezing Golza, driving its own entwined hands deep into Golza's back. Like a garrotte, the giant's hold buried into Golza, which screamed and thrashed about wildly, its sheer mass surprisingly unable to break this physical restraint. Its eyes bulged from their sockets as the giant's grip tightened to crush its backbone. With a sickening and ominously loud series of cracks, Golza's spine quickly gave way. Golza's tail continued to twitch in spasms of agony, its claws flailing wildly, until Golza finally stilled. As the giant released its grip, Melba's massive wings unfolded once more, catching the wind and allowing it to take to the skies, just as Golza collapsed to the ground – deadweight.
The giant tried to attack Melba with a side kick, but Melba was too fast for the giant. Circling the giant from the sky like some giant, terrible eagle, Melba sent down another flamethrower, which caught the giant by its shoulder. Lurching forward by the force of the blast, yet seemingly unhurt, the giant regained its own bearings just as it noticed Golza frantically digging into the earth with its claws, more than eager to flee. In a vain attempt to catch it, the giant tried to stop Golza, but another of Melba's flamethrowers caught it, which threw it off-balance this time. Unable to get to Golza in time, the giant could only watch as Golza's tail whipped out of sight from the humongous hole it had tunnelled into the ground.
And all of a sudden, the blue light on its chest began to blink with a red light and a pair of clear, high notes, as if a piano was playing the two notes over and over again within the giant's chest gem. The giant looked down onto that light, and to it, the light seemed to carry a clear and imminent warning that no one other than itself seemed to understand.
Looking skywards, the giant's forehead suddenly glowed with another flash of light. This time, the diamond shone with a lavender light. Repeating the motion to switch its forms, the giant transformed again – this time, all of its red stripes turned lavender.
As the GUTS team watched, the giant assumed a new, third fighting stance, this time with its palms and fingers straightened. Facing Melba, which had begun to dive straight for the giant, the giant swiftly lurched forward with a significantly magnified speed, as if about to spring, and in the next second, the giant was gone in a lavender-silver blur as it took to the air as well, the ground exploding violently into clouds of dust and earth. A thousand times faster than anything the GUTS team had ever flown, the giant rocketed skywards, straight for the diving dragon Super-Ancient. Deftly avoiding Melba's flamethrowers with speeds so great that it became a blur, the giant closed in, and at the last possible moment, it stuck out its leg, colliding into Melba's head with a powerful flying kick, whose impact sent out a resonating sonic boom heard for miles around. Sent spinning out of control towards the ground, Melba plummeted, screeching in pain, just as the giant itself halted in mid-air, twisting its speedy lavender-silver form around to survey the damage, before starting its own rapid descent back to earth.
Melba, knocked out of the sky by the giant's attack of extreme speed, crashlanded in a great blast of flying rock and stone, leaving its own crater in the earth. The giant itself landed a distance away, and faced the fallen Melba one final time. Its fighting stance did not last long this time; the giant swept its arms across its chest, and in a blinding flash of light, multiple bolts of lightning suddenly streaked from all sides and into the giant's torso. Swiftly sweeping its palms above its head, the giant gathered an incredibly dense cloud of lightning between its hands, which the giant then swiftly brought down towards its side before thrusting its right hand outwards, as if throwing a ninja's kunai. The energy exploded, and in a spit second, reformed into a blade of blazing light, which struck Melba squarely in the chest, slamming Melba to the ground. In a giant cloud of crackling electricity and a shower of sparks, Melba shrieked one final time, before it blew into thousands of bits, the most shocking act the GUTS team had ever witnessed prior to the giant's appearance.
Watching the giant actually destroy something so big, unearthly and terrible, while their own weapons, the finest of their kind, had failed to even land a single scratch, left the GUTS team and TPC admirals watching the battle speechless. No one in known history had ever lived to witness such great power. No Hollywood moviemaker could even have created such a powerful being – not even the mighty Superman, a giant Megazord or any other fictional superhero the world had ever created, seen in comics or watched on TV. To those who had witnessed the giant's rise to power, the Tiga warrior, as it was later came to be called, seemed like a god…
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Here is a preview of the first entry of the Ultraman Tiga Animated Trilogy.
The year is 2035 AD. A catastrophe of unparalleled scale and magnitude has begun to overwhelm the world as monstrous, never seen before creatures of gigantic size and devastating power called Super Ancients begin to awaken from their deep slumber. Leaving livid remains of destruction and death across the globe, the situation was only brought under an unsteady control when the surviving nations, remnants of what was left of the UN, created the Terrestrial Peace Consortium, a special UN agency made up of the world's finest scientists and military brass dedicated to the protection of our world. Assigned to combat the Super Ancients was their exclusive monster hunting force: the Global Unlimited Task Squad, a team armed with the finest weapons and technology.
When a meteorite from deep space delivers a metallic orb to Earth, a cryptic message within the artefact, carrying a dire warning, sends the GUTS team on a race against time to find humanity's only hope – a Pyramid of Light, where mighty guardians from Earth's ancient past lie in deep slumber – before two of the most formidable Super Ancients yet – Golza and Melba – get there first. At the guardians' resting place, hidden from prying eyes of mankind for over a millennia, GUTS find a trinity of fifty-meter –tall giant statues…
…before Golza and Melba arrive, destroying the pyramid and proceeding to smash the statues. As GUTS bravely counterattack, GUTS rookie Daigo Madoka encounters certain death in his valiant self-sacrifice to save the statues, only to be transformed into light…a light that reawakens the Giant of Light, and beginning Daigo's destiny as the saviour of Mankind. As an ancient evil awakens from its own slumber, threatening to cast eternal night and ruin upon the world, Daigo must find the courage to weld the Spark Lens and fight as Ultraman Tiga; the fate of the world rests in his hands.
ULTRAMAN TIGA 1.0: RESSURECTION