Location, The Land of Light: Time, 12:00 o'clock noon.
For the citizens of M78, it seemed to be a perfectly beautiful day. Ultramen and women walked the streets without a single care or fear of anything. Children laughed and played, being unaware of the danger that would soon be upon them. But, they were soon to learn.
A couple of young male Ultra rookies walked down the peaceful street, while having a casual conversation."So, Seti, what are you doing tonight?," said, one rookie to the other.
"Oh, I've got a date with one of the new female medics" after a brief pause,….,"How about you?"
"I'm putting in some extra hours at the space garrison. I probably won't get off, until at least ten. You know I've been trying to get that promotion, so I figure every little bit helps." The other nods in response.
The two continued to walk for another several seconds, until one of them suddenly stops and looks around suspiciously. "Is something wrong, Jay?" the one named Seti asked, stopping also.
Jay, took a couple seconds before responding, "I don't know, I just have this strange feeling all of a sudden…, like, were being watched, or something."
Seti, looked around oddly for a moment, before suddenly sensing the same thing. They both turned their gazes up to the sky, which at first glance seemed normal, but after a moment they both felt something wasn't right about it. Like there was something there that they couldn't see. After staring at it intently, they could just barely make out these transparent shapes moving invisibly through the clouds. Then after a moment everything seemed to freeze, and this faint humming sound seemed to come out of nowhere. It then caught the attention of a young woman with a child who were passing by, and noticed the two young ultras looking up at the sky.
"What's that?," she asked curiously, looking up also, while squeezing her child's hand tighter.
Then all of a sudden the humming stopped, and an energizing sound of something loading filled the sky, just before a flashing ball of blinding light appeared out of nowhere, and shot a powerful beam, which closely resembled purple lightning, right in the center of the city, in the middle of the street. Screams of panic and shock filled the air. Then before anyone knew what was happening, another powerful beam fired right into the side of a large skyscraper, causing half the building to tumble down into the town below. People frantically ran for their lives as pieces of debris fell into the streets. Many people ran into opposite directions, and out of confusion even accidently trampled each other. Some ultras, out of panic, blindly shot beams into the sky, since they had no idea where the enemy was.
Out of all the confusion and chaos, a young girl ultra child wondered into the middle of the damaged street, as numerous ultras ran passed trying to get to safety, not even noticing the girl. The small girl, no older than seven, stood looking around frantically for her mother, who she was separated from. Being so filled with fear, she didn't even take notice of a blast from above that was being prepared to fire right where she was. She just stood, calling for her mother, "Mommy! Mommy, where are you?!" she sounded on the verge of tears.
A woman from the crowd turned to the sound of the calls, and screamed in horror to see her daughter right in the line of fire. "Juanita!" she shouted as she tried to fight her way through all the terrified ultras.
Just as the shot was fired right where the helpless little girl stood, a strong force swooped in, grabbing the girl and flew her out of the way, just as the powerful blast penetrated the ground. The little girl, dumbfounded at what just happened, looked up to find herself in the arms of a well built Ultraman, with the colors of red, blue, and gray covering his body, along with two objects on his head, which she recognized as eye sluggers. Which, could only mean…
"Are you, okay?" he asked quickly, placing her back down on her feet.
"I-I th-think so," she stuttered, still not being able to process what just happened. "Who are you?"
"I'm Zero, Ultraman Zero. But, enough about me! Let's go find your parents," just as he said that he turned to see a woman frantically running up to them, kneeling down and pulling the girl into a tight hug. Figuring she was obviously the mother, Zero took the chance to take off and find a way to stop whatever this new threat was. He heard the girl's mother shout a brief "Thank you " to him, just as he took off.
Zero flies up until he's clear of the city and looks around expectantly. All is suddenly quiet and the sky is as clear as ever. As Zero looks from side to side, he quietly mummers to himself, "Where are you?" After another moment of silence and still nothing, Zero clenches his fists and shouts in frustration, "Show yourself!" Still nothing. Zero, now becoming infuriated continues, "Stop hiding like a coward, and show yourself!"
Only then did he finally get a response, as a purple ball of lightning appeared out of nothing and shot directly at him. Zero, who was hoping that he would provoke this type of reaction, immediately created a shield, blocking the blast. Then without a moment to spare, Zero quickly brought his arms into an L shape and shot a beam at approximately the same location where the last one came from, successfully hitting the invisible craft. As the beam made impact the craft seemed to be shaken and for a split second became vaguely visible, but then no sooner as it was seen it was gone again. Then Zero being pleased with himself, and just before shooting the Emuriam ray, said to himself, "There you are." He then shot his emuriam ray from the beam lamp on his forehead, directly hitting the object once again. The transparent form of the craft flickered back and forth.
On board the ship:
"General, sir! Our left tunic power engine has been greatly damaged!"
"Impressive," the general said, as he sat in his chair on the bridge, where he was able to witness everything.
"But, sir, with the loss of power we won't be able to maintain our camouflage system," the ships commander interjected.
"Very well. If, this arrogant subspecies wants us to reveal ourselves…then so be it. Order all ships to shut down cloaking devises! I want these repulsive beings to see the bread who's going to dominate them!"
Inside space headquarters:
"What's going on out there?!" Ultrafather demanded, as he and ultramother approached the rest of the ultra brothers.
"Sir, we're being attacked!" Mebius blurted out before anyone else could say anything.
"What?! By who?!" Ultrafather immediately inquired.
"Sir, some unknown force is randomly firing electrical blasts on the city," Ultraman responded.
Ultramother gasped, as ultrafathers facial expression hardened at the information.
"The city is in a state of panic, sir!" Zoffy added stepping forward. "We must take immediate action, before the city is turned into a complete disaster area!"
"What do you suggest we do?!" Jake asked.
"Have you sent anyone out yet, to locate the source of the problem?"
"Yes," seven answered, "I gave my son Zero that task, but he hasn't reported back to us yet."
Zero was planning his next attack, when a booming voice stopped him from doing so. He couldn't pin point exactly where it was coming from, but he assumed it was proceeding from the partly invisible space ship. At first to him it sounded like foreign jiberish, but soon translated itself into Japanese.
"Inferior life form, you have trespassed on our land, threatened our people, and provoked us to war! Now, you, and your people will suffer the consequences!"
"Not if I can help it," Zero declared just as he was about to fire another beam at the enemy, but abruptly stopped, when the ship finally came into clear view.
The whole atmosphere then gave off loud humming sounds from all directions. Zero gasped as one by one, alien ships were becoming visible and appearing out of nowhere. They kept coming, until the whole sky seemed to blanketed with ships and blocked out almost all light. Zero looked on, speechless and in utter shock at the incredibly massive army.
Zero's sense of reality finally returned, when he heard a shot being fired from behind. He instinctively turned, to see the shot coming right at him. He avoided it, but then several more were blasted from the side with one hitting him directly in the chest. He gasped at the pain, but then gave a yell in anger as he shot a wide beam at the craft, blowing up half of it. He then quickly grabbed his eye sluggers and threw them in opposite directions, with both doing even amounts of damage to several crafts. Once they flew back to him at blinding speed, he slammed them on to his chest, parallel to each other, and threw his arms back, while shouting " Zero twin shoot!" He then shot the very powerful beam into the enemy ships while turning, destroying multiple ships at a time. But, even with Zeros powerful attacks the number of enemy ships just seemed to keep multiplying. It wasn't long before various ships shot at Ultra from all directions, therefore giving him nowhere to go and hitting him from all sides.
"Ultrafather, have you received any news on Master Taro, or Ace, since their odd disappearance the other day? ," Mebius randomly asked, but quickly regretted it, as Ultrafather almost seemed to flinch at the question. He hesitated before answering,
"No…no, there's been nothing," he spoke solemnly. Ultramother then placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, but he didn't acknowledge it. Right now it was his duty to protect the planet, and as hard as it was, he had to force himself to concentrate on nothing else, until the threat was completely resolved.
Just then Ultraman walked over to an opening in the building looked out. He immediately did a double take at what he saw and some of the others noticed this.
"What's , wrong, brother?," Mebius was the first to inquire.
Without taking his eyes off the scene, he seriously said, "Your all going to want to take a look at this."
They all approached the opening and gaped at what they saw. Every single inch of the sky was occupied by dark monstrous looking ships. Each one was covered in blood red colored markings, which resembled some form of writing. Each of them were carrying leasers, one on each side and a larger one on the bottom. They also had spikes going all the way down the centers of the tops, and along the sides, which were probably meant to make them look more intimidating to the enemy. Which were the Ultras.
Just as Ultrafather was about to give the order to attack, he refrained when something came hurling through the sky and crashed right into the side of the space garrison. Along with such force that it went right through the steel wall and smashed right into the other side of the room where they were, though they were all clear from the impact. It was so fast; however, that they couldn't even see what it was as it embedded in the corner of the large hall with a section of the ceiling collapsing on top of it.
Ultraseven, Ultraman and Zoffy rushed over to the area of the crash and quickly began clearing away the heavy debris that covered whatever was there. After a minute, they all lifted up the last piece of ceiling that laid over it, and then Seven gasped at what they saw.
"Zero!"
Author Note: I hope none of you think it's that awkward that I suddenly added Zero to the stories cast. I know this story is suppose to revolve mostly around Taro, but I really like Zero too, so I decided to throw him in at the last minute. Sorry that Taro isn't in this chapter, he'll be in the next one though. PLEASE REVIEW!(Even if, you think it stinks) But, if you do, please be gentle about it.