Hey guys! Sorry for missing last week! This week was graduation week (yeah, I'm now offically a high school graduate), so it was too stressful for me to get this done in time with all the preparation before hand. Anyway, I hope this chapter (and the big chapter for next week I know at least one person is dieing for) makes up for it! Enjoy!

Ultrawoman Corona, Episode 19, The Accursed Crystal;

Appearance of Mineral Super Beast Diadoras;

Tokyo National History Museum, 1 am

A security guard walked through the halls of the massive museum, doing his rounds. "Why did I take night duty at a museum? Probably the spookiest job possible in the whole world," he muttered, backing into a stuffed saber tooth tiger and jumping when he turned to see it. "You're not so scary," he said, calming down. He then walked into another wing, a gigantic diamond in the middle of the room, about three feet tall and 5 feet wide. The guard whistled impressed as he looked it over. "So that's the diamond they retrieved from Akuma Island…it is enormous," he said, looking it over, then to a ancient tablet at the bottom, confused due to it being ancient writing. "I wonder what this means…" he said, looking closer, but then realizing he needed to move on and walked off.

A few minutes later, the huge diamond began to glow red and crystals throughout the room broke out of their cases and flew into it.

Neo Ultra Garrison HQ, 7 am;

Kira was with Kat in one of the rooms of the base, candles burning and both meditating quietly. Kira, somewhat bored, finally spoke up. "Kat, what's this for again?"

"Well remember how anger awakened your Power Form?" asked Kat.

"Well Torrent Form, but yeah."

Kat smiled. "Speed and…Torrent Forms are opposite, so maybe while anger was needed to awaken Torrent Form, calm and peace will be needed to awaken your Speed form."

Kira thought it out, it did seem pretty logical. "Yeah, plausible," she said. "I guess this could come in handy after all, no offense," she said, her and Kat returning to meditation.

However, before the two girls could get into their meditation, the alarm went off. Kira sighed. "Why is it every time we get into something, a monster or alien attacks?"

Tokyo National History Museum, 8 am;

The room were the diamond once stood was ruined, cases busted open, a huge gash torn in the roof above where the diamond had been leading to a huge hole in the wall. Yuki blinked. "Alright…so where'd the diamond go? It was all over the news…"

"I think whoever took the rest of the jewels too it," said Eiji.

"Maybe, or the diamond WAS the thief," said Kat. "Weirder things have happened."

Eiji growled annoyed. "Why does that have to be right?" he asked aloud, examining the area.

Kira was also looking around. "Looks like all the glass was taken to. Anything even vaguely resembling crystal was."

Garret examined the place the diamond was. "This tablet was with it," he said. "Maybe it'll hold some clues," he said, looking threw a laptop he'd brought with him.

"Ok brain, what's your opinion?" asked Yuki, curious.

Garret found a match. "It matches the same type of writing found with the capsule containing Aboras and Banila."

Yuki scratched his head. "Who were they?"

Eiji face palmed. "You worked with a kaiju news network and you can't remember kaiju names? They were a pair of devil beasts unleashed during Ultraman's time. They were imprisoned by an ancient civilization and accidentally set free by scientists and lightning. In the end, Aboras killed Banila and then Ultraman destroyed Aboras, but Aboras' hide was so thick it took three Specium Rays to the same spot in a row to get the job done."

Yuki blinked. "Wow…"

Garret nodded. "The writing found with it warned just what was in the two containers hidden with it, but it was found out too late."

"Wait, so whose bright idea was it to move an artifact from the same civilization that the last artifact from them released two giant devil beasts?" asked Kira.

Kat chuckled. "The same government that thought it was a good idea to transport the still living Gomora to be put on display in Japan?"

Kira nodded. "Valid point."

"I'll head back to the base to analyze the tablet," said Garret.

"And the rest of us should look around for this monster," said Eiji. "Or diamond…or…whatever!"

Tokyo, 9 am;

Kira, Eiji, Yuki, and Kat looked through the ruins of a jewelry store, same condition as the museum. "Same as before, all the jewels, glass, and crystals of any kind are gone," said Eiji.

"This is the fourth jewelry store that's been robbed," said Kira.

"And I can sense the same signature from the museum at each one," said Kat. "This is defiantly a kaiju."

"But that crystal was ancient. If its from the same civilization as Aboras and Banila it must have been at least 300 million years old," said Eiji. "How can no one have known this thing was really a monster until now?"

"It was probably dormant until those idiots decided to move it away from the island," said Kira. "Then when they moved it to an area surrounded by all sorts of jewels, which I guess it eats, so it woke up. Or the natives knew how to keep it dormant."

"So in other words, scientists, other than Garret, once again showed their stupidity," said Yuki. "And ignorance of local legends. Odds are the natives told them something like 'that diamond is cursed! Don't take it!'"

Kat took out a report on the diamond and read it. "Actually, yes, something like that did happen."

Yuki nodded. "See! Scientists never listen to local legends! You'd think after so many monster attacks being caused by that kind of thing they'd listen!"

Kira sighed. "Yes, you'd think, now let's think for ourselves and find the pattern here."

Kat nodded. She took out a GPS type device and punched in the locations of the museum and the four stores. "According to this, its heading northwest, there are jewelry stores in other directions from the museum, but its heading northwest for whatever reason."

Eiji suddenly gasped. "Guys, a new diamond mine was opened northwest of Tokyo…that must be where its heading."

Kira blinked. "That'd be an all you can eat buffet for this thing!"

"I don't think there's any question where its heading now, let's just get there before it does," said Kat, running towards the ships.

Diamond Mine, Midday;

The group stood at the entrance to the diamond mine, waiting for their enemy to appear. "We've been here for hours!" yelled Yuki, frustrated.

"Yes, but while we've been here, the creature has been eating up jewelry shops along the path we predicted, the owners said its moving underground and uses some sort of energy field to draw the crystals underground to it, along with the glass," said Kat.

"So what's to stop it from digging right under us?" asked Eiji.

"The type of rock the mine is built into, I can't remember the name but it was so hard they're using energy drills to bore into it, which should tell you how many diamonds are in there for them to go to those measures," said Kat. "This thing is not digging through this on its own," she explained, her communicator. "Hello?"

Neo Ultra Garrison HQ, 12:07 pm;

"Yes, its Garret, I've deciphered the writing," said Garret. "Its troubling but sheds some light on not only this creature but Aboras and Banila as well," he explained. "I'll read it to you. 'The object descended from the stars, an accursed jewel eating stone that consumed the most precious of crystals. Eventually, it ate so much it became a giant beast, equal in size to those terrible devils Aboras and Banila that plagued us, and turned his attention to our destruction. We dubbed it Diadoras and now we had not the two monsters we began with but three. But luck favored us in this matter, Diadoras, Aboras, and Banila fought a terrible battle against each other. In the end, all three were exhausted from their war, enough so that we could contain the two devil beasts in capsules and Diadoras returned to its original form, a simply crystal, which we contained in this cave, far from any other mineral it was able to merge with its form, hopefully never to rise again."

Diamond Mine, 12:10 pm;

"So you're saying if this Diadoras absorbs enough material, he'll transform into a kaiju?" asked Kat.

"That's exactly what I'm saying, you cannot allow Diadoras to get into that diamond mine," reported Garret over the communicator.

"Understood," said Kat. "We'll do our best," she said, hanging up.

"Great, not only is Diadoras a woman's worst nightmare, he's also a space monster," said Yuki. "Now what?"

Kat was about to say something, when she sensed something. "We fight, Diadoras has arrived!" she said, sensing the space monster.

The group turned as a dust cloud appeared, moving across the ground towards them. The group opened fire on it, causing an explosion to rip out of the ground, crystals and glass raining down on the ground, the diamond that was Diadoras landing among it, seemingly inactive. "I think we got it!" said Eiji.

Kira was about to agree, but saw the jewel light up. "No, I think this is just starting!"

Diadoras floated into the air, his shattered collection doing the same and spinning around him, forming into a body. What resulted was what appeared to be a small theropod dinosaur skeleton, only much bulkier and with longer arms. The bones were composed of solid crystal, spikes jutting out from the beginning of the joints, which were diamonds. His hands were a single diamond with four crystal fingers levitating around it, his feet similar but only having two claws per foot. The spine, tail, and pelvis were all composed of strings of diamond while the true body of Diadoras floated in the ribcage, protected by the surrounding crystal. A red orb of light appeared in the eyes of the dinosaur skull-like head, which had diamonds for teeth and a long crystal nasal horn. Diadoras roared, sounding like a hollow, echoing screech.

"Fire!" ordered Kira, the group opening fire on the monster.

Diadoras used his long tail to block the lasers, causing them to refract inside the diamonds composing it and flying back out, straight back at the group, forcing them to dodge in every direction. Diadoras collected light energy in his horn and fired a rainbow-colored energy beam from it, blowing up rocks the group were trying to hide behind and forcing them to take cover behind harder objects.

Kat growled. "Ok, now what do we do? Lasers are useless!"

"Use explosives!" said Kira, looking to Eiji, who pulled out a high tech granade and throwing it at Diadoras. The bomb exploded, blowing the kaiju to pieces. "Yeah!" he yelled, excited but only to lose the excitement when Diadoras simply reformed himself. "Dang it! Can nothing stop this thing?"

"Aim for the true crystal! We've got to destroy that!" said Yuki, taking aim and shooting Diadoras' true body, only for it to be refracted back at him, forcing him to dodge. "Ok, lasers don't work but it looks like his body absorbed most of the impact from the bomb…"

Diadoras was fed up with these games but saw these humans wouldn't get out of his way. He absorbed light into his true crystal, which began to spin rapidly before diving into the ground like a drill, abandoning its body. "Um…where did he go?" asked Kira.

"I don't know, but he shouldn't be able to dig into the mine…unless…" said Kat, realizing something.

"Unless what?" asked Eiji as the Earth suddenly began to shake.

"Unless he used the light he absorbed to make himself into an energy drill!"

Suddenly, a massive version of Diadoras burst out of the side of the mountain, his true form now encased in a huge diamond for further protection and his 'bones' now much thicker and more durable, due to being made of pure diamond this time. Diadoras roared in fury and tore his way all the way free, burying the ships in rock as he cast his gaze on the city of Tokyo in the distance and beginning to stomp his way towards it.

"Now what?" asked Eiji, firing on Diadoras, but his entire body was basically one huge diamond and refract it back at him, forcing him to dodge but getting his pants lit on fire by the explosion. He quickly extinguished himself. "Dang it!"

"Well that didn't work…and just our luck, the ships got buried in the rockslide!" said Kat.

"Wait, what about those laser drills you mentioned," said Yuki. "Think their beam may be able to burn threw diamond?"

Kat shrugged. "I don't know, diamond is one of the hardest minerals on the planet, but its worth a shot at least."

Kira nodded. "Ok, try that, I'll go try to get his attention so he doesn't trash Tokyo," she said, running after the space monster as the group ran to get the laser drills in working order. Once out of sight, she pulled out the Ultra Bracelet. "Corona!" she yelled, transforming into her Ultra form and charging Diadoras, grabbing is arm and chopping him several times, only to be bashed off.

Diadoras turned towards her with a screeched in rage, slashing at her with his diamond claws. She tried to block with her braces but the slashes even left deep scratches in them. She kicked him in the chest, managing to barely stagger him back. She slashed at him with the Frost Saber, but his diamond body, enhanced by his own powers, were too hard and it bounced off, allowing him to bash her to the ground with his tail and then blast her backwards with his beam.

"Dang it! Even Corona is having trouble with him!" said Kat, hopping into one of the energy drills, which resembled a normal industrial drilling machine, only in place of a drill was series of laser emitters with a crystal in the center to focus them. She fired the laser drill into Diadoras' upper back, managing to do enough damage to actually distract him, though not enough to matter.

Diadoras looked at Kat, allowing Corona to get up and turn into Torrent form and punch him repeatedly in the back, but not even that managed to do any damage. He turned, smacking her in the head and sending her crashing through some mining equipment. He then stomped on her chest repeatedly, until Corona managed to get her hands under his foot and push back, managing to drive him off her. She then fired the Glacial Shot into his chest, only for it to be refracted back by his crystal body, forcing her to roll out of the way as it froze where she'd just been standing. As she got back to her feet, he struck her in the chest with his horn beam, driving her to the ground. Before she got back to her feet fully, he drove his claw into her back, causing her to scream in pain and bleed light. He tore the claws out and kicked her over, her timer beginning to blink. He slashed her head repeatedly, tearing gashes in her metal skin which bled light before the Neo Ultra Garrison fired into his back again, distracting him and turning his attention towards them.

"Well I think we found out this guys weakness, he's got a short attention span!" yelled Yuki, now manning an energy drill as well and backing up as he fired at the juggernaut stopping towards them.

Kat concentrated. "Corona, sometimes a rapid barrage of well placed weaker hits can cause more damage than a single powerful one," she told him telepathically to Corona.

Corona managed to stand up and turned into her pseudo Speed Form, still purple and blue, and charged forwards, rapidly throwing punches and kicks into Diadoras' back, aiming at the same place, but not fast enough to do damage before she was bashed away. She retreated out of reach, managing to use her energy to seal her back wound but was forced to concentrate on dodging the dangerous blows from Diadoras. Luckily, the Neo Ultra Garrison distracted the titan with their lasers, his short attention span causing him to concentrate on the aggressive opponent.

Corona knew the only way this tactic would work is if she could take a true Speed Form and remembered the meditation earlier. She stood in place, concentrating deeply, clearing her mind. As she did so, and calmed her mind, the purple areas of her body began to steam, floating off in trails of energy into the sky. Finally, she slammed her fists together, causing the entire purple covering to transform into a thick purple vapor that swirled around her before vanishing, revealing a solid blue coloration in place of the purple and blue from before, her body slimmer and more streamlined, including her head fins, her beam lamp blue as well.

Corona suddenly dashed forwards at blinding speed, delivering an onslaught of punches and kicks to his back, with such speed the sure momentum of the assault staggering him forwards and actually cracking the point of impact. "She did it! She got a Speed Form!" yelled Kat, excited that her advice had actually worked.

"I don't get it, why did a bunch of weaker strikes do more damage than one super strong one?" asked Yuki, confused.

"Simple, each strike causes vibrations and wears down the point of impact. While it can bounce back from one strong hit, it doesn't get the chance from a barrage of smaller ones."

Corona ducked a swing from Diadoras and sent a barrage of punches into the center of his chest, dodging more blows but returning to her blows before the effects of the first hit had recoiled. Finally, the ribcage cracked and finally shattered, exposing the crystal 'heart' of Diadoras. Corona quickly took out his knee with several quick kicks and jumped up on his shoulders as he stood up, bent over. She then flipped forwards, hooking her legs around his arms and doing a front flip power bomb-type move, slamming him hard into the ground. She flipped back and as he stood up, she held her hands to her chest then quickly trust them overhead, charging up a large sphere of icy energy. She threw it straight into Diadoras chest, a sudden explosion of bluish energy flash freezing Diadoras into an icy statue. She then stomped her foot, the vibrations causing Diadoras to shatter and explode into snow and ice, leaving his tiny, compared to her, true self laying on the ground. Corona picked it up and crushed it in her hand, dropping the shattered remains to the ground. She looked up slowly and shouted "Shuwatch!", taking off into the sky.

Neo Ultra Garrison HQ, 7 pm;

The group were all eating their dinner, except for Garret, who was missing. Rimu Eleking sat at an outlet, also 'eating' his meal. Yuki looked at the tiny kaiju. "I'm still getting used to seeing that," he said, getting a screech out of it. "What? I'm not used to having a pet kaiju!"

Kira chuckled. She looked to Kat and smiled, nodding. Kat replied in kind, both knowing it was Kat's idea that won the day in truth. "So, where's Garret?"

"He's examining the remains of Diadoras' true crystal," explained Anne. "He thinks it may reveal where it cam from."

Garret ran in. "Guys! You won't believe what I found out!"

Yuki jumped in surprise. "Your inside voice?"

Garret sighed. "This is more important. That crystal's structure is not from Earth."

"Duh! The tablet said that," said Eiji.

"But what's important is where it has been found before."

Kira got a chill, knowing this probably wasn't good. "Where?"

Garret looked serious. "In the inorganic components of Yapool's Chouju, that's the only place its ever been found. Not in meteors, not in alien robots, only in those monsters."

Kat blinked. "Wait, so Diadoras was a Chouju from over 300 million years ago?" she asked. "I don't even know if Lunatynx was that old, and he made the moon a barren wasteland."

Garret nodded. "This could mean that Yapool has been attacking Earth for much longer than anyone thought…well at least he's dead now."

Kira shivered at the thought. "But if he survived for over 300 million years…then maybe not…"

Next Time on Ultrawoman Corona, Episode 20, Soldier for Hire, Guts Seijin Part 1;

The evil Beta Seijin finally makes his presence felt and hires outside help, a female Guts Seijin mercenary and her enforcer, the hulking Grendel, to destroy Corona. The duo of monsters launch and attack on the city, but don't want to just defeat Corona outright, instead they set up a pitched battle in the middle of Tokyo. Can Corona overcome an alien whose species made themselves known for defeating Ultras?