AN: Hello and welcome to the beginning of a new story. This is my first Ultraman story and I'm really excited about it, there's several inspirations for this, several seasons of Ultraman and one other thing. This idea came from my thought of what if the royal knights from Digimon were a group of Ultra's similar to the Ultra brothers and after that the story began. Besides a few names this is a completely original story. So I hope everyone enjoys and let's get started!

Ultraman Gallant

Chapter 1: The Knight of Loyalty

Land of Light

The land of light, home of the beings that earthlings known as Ultra's. Countless of the residents of the land of light have visited earth and some of the first to visit have become known as the Ultra Brothers, the greatest heroes of the land of light. However, this story isn't about them, or any of those famous warriors known as Ultraman. For you see there exists a group, a group so secret that not even famous heroes like Ultraman Zero or Orb know of them.

This group is a group of knights under the command of Ultraman King, one of the oldest and strongest Ultra's. These 12 knights are tasked by Ultraman King to deal with threats before the Inter Galactic Defense Force would be needed to step in and because of who they serve they have become known as the Royal Knights. But as time went on these knights so separated from their people and the rest of the galaxy would slowly fall out of touch with the universe.

That is until an evil Ultra sealed by the Royal Knights founders, Ultraman Paladin, broke free. This is where our story begins, with the sadistic and genocidal Ultraman Ranbu escaping his prison deep within the Land of Light.

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He fell to the ground, utterly exhausted. His comrades scattered around him all unconscious as explosions went off everywhere. He tried summoning his weapons, but he had no energy left as his color timer blinked rapidly. Fire and brimstone filled his body as all he saw in front of him was a figure in darkness.

He cursed as the figure began to laugh, "Omega, I thought you were supposed to have inherited his light?"Ultraman Omega glared at his enemy, "Curse you Ranbu, when his majesty arrives."The dark Ultra laughed maniacally, "That old man can do nothing now, I'm free once again and in the mood to destroy a planet or two."Omega tried to get up but his body refused to cooperate, "You won't win, there's two more of us you haven't defeated."

Ranbu began to create a small ball of darkness from his hand, Omega prepared for the end of the Land of Light but it never came. Ranbu roared in laughter, "You know I wanted to destroy all of his legacy, so that means I'll have to defeat those two others you mentioned. But I do want to have some fun until I do, I know I'll go to that planet that those Ultra Brothers became attached to, Earth."

He began to fly off as Omega struggled to inch towards him, he felt his consciousness slipping as a shadow began to fly towards him and he heard his name being called as his wounds finally caused him to pass out.

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Planet Earth(Year 2020)

The streets of Tokyo, Japan, ever bustling full of people who all have their own stories waiting to be told. It was peaceful and the sun was shining as people walked on, enjoying the quiet Sunday afternoon. That was until a scream was heard and a being wearing a red and black jumpsuit began running through the streets, bumping into people and knocking them over seemingly as a distraction for something. People looked at the being confused until they heard a scream from behind it, "Stop that thing!"

Running after it was a young woman, wearing a black jacket and black pants, both with gold highlights. She had it zipped open revealing a gold shirt underneath and on the back of the jacket were the initials JSDF. She had what appeared to be a blaster strapped to her side and wore her hair in a ponytail though she had some hair brushed to the side of her face. As the being ran, she stopped briefly before talking into an earpiece, "This is Aikawa, I've spotted the Alien Shadow and am pursuing but I could use backup."

A female voice came from the otherside of the line, "I'll see what I can do but for now continue pursuit." The woman sighed and continued to run after the being, pursuing him for several more blocks and struggling to avoid the people that it was throwing in her path in an effort to lose her. As it continued to run, it was suddenly hit by a black and gold car, sending it barreling into a wall. As it tried to stand up dazed, the woman arrived and pointed her blaster at it, "Alien Shadow, you're under arrest for attempted terrorism and being on earth illegally."

As she began to restrain it the car door opened and a young man with short black hair that was spiked up at the front stepped out of the car. He wore a similar uniform to hers but had a golden jacket with a spiked collar underneath his black one. He smiled at her as she finished the alien, "I see you got this under control Reika, sorry I was late, I was busy with something important." The woman, now identified as Reika rolled her eyes, "Tsubasa you nearly ran me over dumbass, this is why I don't let you drive ever."

Tsubasa shrugged, "It got the job done didn't it? Now let's get this guy back to base and maybe we can go out to dinner to celebrate finishing this case."Reika forced the restrained alien into the back seat as she frowned, "Not in a million years, now get in the car before I shoot you."

She slammed the door and walked up to him, snatching the keys from his hands, "And I'm driving this time."Tsubasa chuckled softly, "Can't blame a guy for trying?" They both got in the black car and drove off, leaving no witnesses behind save for a young man with brown hair who merely looked at the scene in curiosity.

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JSDF Headquarters

The Japanese Special Defense Force, an organization created in the 1970's after aliens began to emerge on Planet Earth. Each country has their own defense force with Japan having several locations in its various cities. This particular one was located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, its base a seemingly normal building. Leading this particular team is Captain Mitsuo Kakuhiro, a man who'd been involved with the force since the 2000's. Under him are ace shot and field agent Reika Aikawa, main pilot of their VTOL nicknamed the firehawk, Tsubasa Ide and main operator and scientist Asuna Nago.

Together they protect Tokyo from various alien threats and take in those aliens on earth illegally. That is to say though that there certainly aren't some, internal conflicts. Located on the top floor of the base, Reika stormed into headquarters annoyed, finding her middle aged captain there she glared at him, "Captain why did you send Tsubasa to help me? We both know the only thing he can drive correctly is the firehawk."Tsubasa sitting down in the chair smiled at her, "Well thanks for the compliment wild cat." Asuna from her computer frowned at him, "I don't think she was complimenting you."

Tsubasa smiled and leaned back in his chair, "I take what I can get."Captain Kakuhiro chuckled at the small argument, "Sorry Reika, I was taking an important call, you and I both know I can't always go out to help you in the field." Reika frowned, "Then we need to recruit someone who can have my back, I'd prefer to not get nearly run over again." Captain Kakuhiro was a man in his mid 30's, he wore yellow glasses and had short black hair that was swept to the side, he wore the standard uniform of the JSDF with a button up shirt and tie underneath.

He made a face at her request, "You and I both know joining the JSDF isn't as simple as going to recruit someone, a person needs to have certain qualities, sadly qualities that seem to be quite rare nowadays."Asuna adjusted her ear piece, "I'd be willing to go out with you Reika but I think you and I both know my talents are better suited here." Reika looked at the young woman, she was younger than Tsubasa and herself, with a small blush on her face and neatly combed medium length black hair, she, like Reika had a more simple gold shirt under her uniform and she wore a headset. Reika frowned, "I feel like you'd get me killed quicker than the idiot would."

Asuna smiled at her, "I'll take that as a complement."Captain Kakuhiro clapped to get their attention, "Alright Reika is the alien shadow taken care of?" Reika nodded, "He's on his way to the main prison and eventually off of earth sir."Kakuhiro nodded, "Understood then everyone is dismissed for the night, make sure to come back bright and early for patrol in the morning." The other three stood up and nodded, "Yes Sir!" Reika walked out of the room quickly, not wishing to deal with any of Tsubasa's flirting.

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The next day, all was calm in Shinjuku, the JSDF was running it's normal patrol. Reika sat in the team's car and sighed from boredom, "Tsubasa, do you see anything from the sky?"Tsubasa who was in the firehawk laughed as he flew over the city, "Everything is pretty quiet up here princess, why are you itching for some action?" Reika frowned, "No I just have a bad feeling." Meanwhile in the headquarters Asuna laughed, "You have a bad feeling every time a day is too peaceful Reika, I think you just want some excitement in your life."Captain Kakuhiro shook his head, "Now now, never dismiss someone's gut feeling, if Reika thinks something is wrong then we should trust that instinct."

Tsubasa smirked as he continued to fly around, "Well I was hoping to go on a date tonight so I hope she's wrong."Asuna scoffed, "Can you focus on your job please, and not what dumb girl agreed to date you."Captain Kakuhiro let out a small chuckle causing Tsubasa to groan, "Oh come on Captain don't laugh at that."Even Reika began to laugh at the joke, the conversation about her bad feeling fading as they settled back into their patrol. Meanwhile across the city stood a tower under construction, a man concealed in the shadows stood on the top floor, watching the city.

He gazed down at the people walking, content with their daily lives and frowned, "It's so peaceful, I hate it."He took out a black card with what seemed to be a monster's head on it. He smiled as the card glowed faintly, "People's lives need a little excitement in them, wouldn't you agree Gomora?"The card glowed brighter as he threw it out into the city, "Let's make them dance shall we?"He began to walk away as the city began to shake, a purple light began to emanate from where the card had landed.

Back with Reika she was nearly half asleep when the ground began to rumble, stirring her awake. She ran out of the vehicle as she put a hand to her ear, "Captain do you feel that?"Captain Kakuhiro looked at the large map located in the headquarters and frowned, "There's what seems to be a large pool of energy forming at the center of this earthquake, Tsubasa fly over there and check it out."Tsubasa hit a few buttons on the firehawk and nodded, "Yes sir, flying over now."As he flew over the swirling energy his eyes widened in horror, "Uh Captain we could have a problem."Captain Kakuhiro remained stone faced, "What is it?"

Tsubasa flew closer to the event, "Something is coming out of the energy, something big."Just as he said that a clawed hand emerged from the energy and tried to grab the aircraft, resulting in it needing to take evasive maneuvers. The people below began to stop and look on in horror as the great Kaiju, Gomora emerged from the energy, it's eyes glowing purple as it roared. Captain Kakuhiro stayed calm as he began to relay orders, "Asuna contact the military, we're gonna need ground assistance, Reika get downtown and help with evacuations but don't do anything stupid.

Tsubasa wait for it to attack and keep it's attention but do not fully engage until I give the word."His three subordinates nodded, "Yes sir."Captain Kakuhiro sighed, he was unsure on how they would defeat something like this, it would certainly take a miracle.

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Captain Kakuhiro slammed down the phone causing Asuna to jump, "Everything ok Captain?" Kakuhiro shook his head, "That was the higher ups on the phone, they said by the time the military could get the monster could destroy half of Tokyo." Asuna frowned, "So what do we do?"Kakuhiro shook his head unsure, "Reika how's the evacuation going?"Reika meanwhile in the middle of guiding people towards evacuating responded, "It's not going fast enough, that thing is gonna get bored by Tsubasa's flying routine eventually and people aren't getting out of here fast enough."

The Captain nodded, "Asuna stay here, let me know if anything comes up, I'm going to go help with evacuation."Asuna nodded, "Yes sir."As the Captain walked out he began to relay orders again, "Tsubasa as soon as I give the word you're to begin firing everything you have at the monster, Reika I'm on my way to help but try to speed things up as much as you can."He got an answer from both of them, "Yes sir"Kakuhiro frowned, he could only hope that they would somehow win the day without losing half of Tokyo.

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Reika sighed as she escorted an elderly woman into a vehicle, "Almost done with this area, hopefully the captain arrives soon."As she went back to her vehicle to move to the next area, she saw out of the corner of her eye someone sitting at a table. Figuring that this person may have needed help she began to walk up to them, as she got closer she saw it was a young man probably about her age. He had wild dark brown hair and red eyes that seemed to have been lit up with happiness.

He seemingly sat at the chair without a care in the world and Reika then realized the idiot was drawing. A monster was attacking the city and he was so close to it that it crushed him at a moments notice, and the guy was drawing. She walked up and began to yell at him, "Are you insane?"The man turned around and looked at her. "Excuse me?"Reika glared at him, "Excuse me? No excuse you, do you see what's going on right now? And you want to draw some crappy drawings? Are you an idiot or just insane?"

The man looked around and saw Gomora swatting at the firehawk flying around it, roaring as it did so. The man just shrugged, "Oh that, I didn't notice it."Reika face palmed and shook her head, "I don't have time for this right now, come on let's go I'm getting you out of here."The man cocked his head to the side confused, "Are you the defense force on this planet?"

Reika turned around to look at him in both confusement and annoyance, "This planet? I'm with the JSDF yes but we defend Japan, not the entire earth. Who the hell are you?" The man got up seemingly forgetting his drawing, "Uhhhhh you can call me... Takato, yea Takato is my name."Reika rolled her eyes, "Alright well Takato, I'm evacuating everyone in this area, that includes idiots like you." Takato nodded, "Ok sure but I have to ask, do you have any idea why Gomora is here?"

Reika looked at him like he had three heads, "Gomora? You mean that monster?"Takato nodded, "Yeah, they aren't exactly native to big cities." As Reika was about to answer she heard a scream coming from her communicator, "Reika if you're still down there you need to go now, this thing stopped caring about me and the firehawk and noticed something on the ground."

Tsubasa's warning began to fizzle out as Gomora grew closer to them. It stopped suddenly and its mouth began to glow. Takato's eyes widened, "Run!"Reika didn't need to be told twice as the two began to run, Gomora unleashed super oscillatory wave on them, it hitting the ground and creating a small shockwave, the last thing Reika remembered was Takato diving forward in order to protect her as the shockwave hit them and everything went black.

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Land of Light

He was late, he was late to the battle and now he was hoping that he wouldn't find his comrades dead from their battle. He had been on patrol when he heard the news, Ultraman Ranbu had escaped his prison and now the royal knights were trying to subdue him. As he arrived at the battle, he found his worst fears confirmed, the other royal knights scattered around the fiery battlefield, defeated and their color timers blinking rapidly. He saw his master and flew down next to him, "Master Omega!"

He picked up his body and tried to shake him awake, but he failed to respond. If only he hadn't been late, he could've helped, he could've saved his comrades. He heard the faint sound of someone landing behind him and heard a booming voice, "So Ranbu has finally escaped."He turned around and bowed before the one who had landed, "Your majesty, we've failed you." Ultraman King shook his head at the young Ultra, "Rise young knight of loyalty, you didn't fail me, I just did not expect Ranbu would grow in power while imprisoned."

He rose and looked at Ultraman King, "Your majesty what do we do? The others are injured and in no shape to fight."The king nodded, "Ranbu is most likely heading for earth, at least as far as I can tell, which means you need to go there to find him." He took a step back and began to shake his head, "Me? I can't do that. I'm not strong enough to fight him."

The King nodded and waved his hands, the 10 unconscious Ultra's began to glow, "Your comrades powers will be with you and when your other fellow knight arrives I'll send him to earth after you." The 10 lights turned into cards and King shot them forward, going into the young Ultra's arm and creating what seemed to be a brace-like device, "Now go knight of loyalty and make the Royal Knight's proud."

The young ultra looked down at his fallen member and nodded, still a bit reluctant, "Yes your majesty."With a mighty leap he flew off, still unsure of himself but he wasn't going to say no to his king. He had a mission now, find Ultraman Ranbu and protect earth.

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Tokyo, Japan

Red eyes opened and Takato looked around to find himself under some rubble, the shockwave must've knocked him out but thankfully he managed to survive. He looked up to see Gomora now swatting at the same black, gold and red aircraft it was before. But now the aircraft was firing at it, causing the monster to grow angry. He looked down, the black haired human who'd been yelling at him, she managed to survive too.

Unfortunately, she wasn't like him, and she would be unconscious for more time. Deciding he at least owed it to her to get her out of the area he placed his arms underneath her legs and head and picked her up bridal style. He wasn't sure where he'd take her but he just knew he needed to get her out of the area. As he walked with her, he saw an older man with glasses running up to him shouting at him, "Reika!"He stopped walking and looked at the man, "Do you know her?"

He nodded, "I'm her captain at the JSDF, what happened?"Takato frowned, "She was trying to get me out of the area when Gomora attacked us, thankfully we only got hit by a shockwave." The man nodded, "Give her to me, who are you?"Takato handed her over to him, "No time for introductions, now if you'll excuse me there's something I need to do." Before the captain could question it Takato ran off towards the battle.

As soon as he was far enough away, he took out a white card with a triangular symbol out of his pocket and held it forward, a red portal opened up and jumped through. Within a red room Takato held up his arm revealing a brace on his arm. He held up the card up to a triangle located on it, "Royal Card Set!"The brace lit up and the triangle glowed white, "Royal Card Accepted!" Takato threw the card up which began to form into a white portal above him. He put a hand on the brace and spoke, "Knight of Loyalty: Justice like Lightning!"He whipped his hand away from the brace causing it to glow brighter and raised it above his head, "GALLANT!" The portal enveloped him as a voice yelled, "ULTRAMAN GALLANT: LIGHTNING JUSTICE!"

A white portal the white portal began to swirl with red and gold as a silver being with red armor and gold trimming appeared from it, rising from the portal. Meanwhile Tsubasa continued to attack Gomora, angry over his teammates possible death and looked to see a golden light appearing from the ground, catching the attention of both him and Gomora. From it appeared a silver alien, with red and gold shoulder, knee and foot armor, and red slugger's that went from its forehead to its head. It had chest armor that made it look like a knight's armor and a triangle on the center of his chest that glowed black, it had large yellow eyes and a black mouth and neck.

It turned towards Gomora and pointed at it, "I am the knight of loyalty, sworn to protect the galaxy and its inhabitants, Ultraman Gallant!"Tsubasa watched as Gomora roared at the new alien and the alien making a fighting stance, he needed to attack one of them and at the moment he needed to take out whichever one looked like the bigger threat.

Deciding he'd deal with the consequences later he turned the controls of the firehawk towards the new alien, beginning to fire lasers at it. The alien was seemingly hit by the lasers and Tsubasa sighed in relief as it was engulfed in smoke, hoping it was defeated. The smoke cleared and Tsubasa paused in disbelief a shield was now on the alien's wrist and it had blocked all it's shots. As he was about to hit the button to launch the firehawk's missile he heard a rather angry voice, "Stop it you fool!"

Tsubasa stopped with his finger on the button, "Captain?"Captain Kakuhiro stood in the command center looking at the scene playing in front of him, "Don't you know who that is? It's Ultraman."Tsubasa paused for a minute, "You mean the guy who appeared 15 years ago?" Captain Kakuhiro nodded, "He looks different but there's no mistake, that one's on our side."Tsubasa frowned, "Got it don't attack him, did you find Reika? Is she ok?"Captain Kakuhiro smiled, "She's getting medical attention now, come back to base for now and let Ultraman handle things."

Tsubasa didn't like retreating, but he listened to his commanding officer and turned away from the battle, leaving Gallant and Gomora to face off. Gomora roared once more and fired his Super Oscillatory Wave at Gallant who blocked it with his shield and though he was pushed back he began to run at Gomora. Summoning a lance in his hand, he attacked, slashing at Gomora in several places, his attacks precise and dignified.

Gomora spun around trying to hit him with his tail, which was once again blocked by the shield. Suddenly the center of Gallant's chest began to beep and flash red. Sighing Gallant unsummoned his weapons, "I need to end this now."He began to rotate his arms, gathering the light around him and made an L shape with them, "JUSTIUM DRAGOON!" A white and crimson beam appeared from his arms and hit Gomora, sending the Kaiju back and ultimately destroying it in a fiery blaze.

Gallant wasn't waiting around for the firehawk to come back, made a pose and took flight, flying away with the cry of "SCHWATCH" He flew off into the horizon, leaving people to wonder if the earth had a new protector.

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Takato stumbled out of an alleyway, feeling a bit tired from his fight with Gomora, "Hopefully all my fights won't involve the humans attacking me."As he began to walk away from the scene a voice called out to him, "Hey you." Takato turned around to see the same older man who he'd met earlier, "Oh you're the man from earlier."The man nodded,"Reika told me your name was Takato. You saved her life Takato."

Takato shrugged, "It was nothing, she only got hurt because I was too busy to realize Gomora was attacking."The man smiled, "My name is Mitsuo Kakuhiro, and I wanted to offer you a job with the Japanese Special Defense Force." Takato pointed at himself, "Me? Are you sure? I'm nothing special."Kakuhiro smiled, "I've seen enough to know you'd be a good fit for the team, besides something tells me you have nowhere else to be." Takato nodded, "As a matter of fact I don't."Kakuhiro chuckled, "So what do you say?" The brown haired young "man" began to think for a second, remembering back to the stories of other Ultra's coming to earth.

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The Next Day

Reika sat in the chair in the command center and rolled her shoulders. She'd been lucky to have only an arm in a sling and the doctors kept telling her she could've died. She groaned as her other two teammates sat in their chairs equally as bored, "Where's the Captain? I want to go on patrol."Asuna smiled at her, "You're in no condition to go on patrol, besides he said he had an announcement." Suddenly the door opened and strolled in Captain Kakuhiro, "Good morning everyone."Tsubasa looked at the Captain, "So Captain I heard you had an announcement."

The Captain nodded, "I did, Reika remember how you said you needed someone else in the field with you?"Reika nodded, "Yeah so?" Captain Kakuhiro smiled, "Well I'd like to introduce you all to our new member."Through the door walked Takato, now clad in the signature JSDF uniform with a gold shirt underneath, "Everyone meet our new teammate, Takato Shinkishi." And so the JSDF gains a new member, Takato Shinkishi. The young man new to not just Japan but the rest of the world, for in reality he is Ultraman Gallant, the new protector of the earth!

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Next Time on Ultraman Gallant

Captain Kakuhiro is speaking to Reika

"Reika you're going to be showing Takato the ropes"

Reika is yelling at Takato

"How do you intend to protect Japan if you have no strength"

Finally a new form for Gallant now wielding a giant axe

"ULTRAMAN GALLANT: MEDIEVAL JUSTICE"

THE END!