Here's chapter 3 everyone, if you all read the title for the third chapter, then that's right this is a canon episode, which means Luster will fight some the monsters in the show. Curious on how it'll go? Well find out now. Because it's gonna be interesting.
Also super stocked because Ultraman Luster came out throw month! Boat loads of new Kaiju, and who knows I might just use some of them.
I've been watching it and I'm super pleased with the series so far, and man I just feel so good, that I wanted to update Ultraman Luster.
Chapter 3
Neighbors in Disguise
A groan was heard grabbing Kaiden's attention as he looks to his cousin who was absorbing what was just told to her. At first, she looked like she waved it off like he was kidding. However, Kaiden confirmed that he wasn't, and she down right nearly lost her footing and almost fainted. Luckily though she didn't but just needed time to settle down.
"So, you're really telling the truth... your Ultraman Luster?"
"Well...yeah." Kaiden shrugged.
Jeanne rubbed her temples. "I...I don't get it. that's just nuts man. There's no way. That can't be right. Something's wrong here. You can't be him."
"Well, those giant monsters say otherwise." The teen sighs. "And I'm honestly just as shocked as you are."
"But how the heck does this even work?" Jeanne questioned as she sat down next to him. "Luster appeared nineteen years ago, and your seventeen right now. I've known you-we've known each other since we were just kids. I don't understand this at well."
"Well, neither do I..." Jeanne said feeling not so sure herself. "We were both raised on Earth our whole lives."
"That's what's bothering me. The aliens, the Kaiju, Luster. I need answers for all of these." He stated. "Like why are they here? Why now?"
"Good question..." Now seeing this as an opportunity Jeanne started throw her cousin some questions.
"By the way, if your Luster then how did you fight like that? I've never seen you do that before." Hearing this made a good point. Kaiden was never really a guy who liked fighting at all. It just wasn't his thing. Between him and her, she was more experienced than he was. Her three black belts were more than enough evidence to back that up. " I don't know..." Kaiden went into thought confusing her cousin.
"You don't know?"
" Jeanne...I can't explain it..." Kaiden glanced down to his hands. "It was almost like a part of me already knew how to. Everything just seemed like it was natural, my instincts were through the roof. "
"That don't really make much sense
" What is that anyways?
"I don't know...
"Remember that crystal necklace I had?"
"Yeah...Well this came out of it.
" So you insert this in here
" Basically...
" Jeanne...I've been keeping something else from you to. "
" What? "
" I've been...having these dreams."
"Dreams?" She naturally grew curious. "What kind of dreams?"
"It's kind of hard to describe it...But I sound crazy just for even saying it..."
"Kaiden? What is it?"
"You see, ever since school started back up two months ago. I've been having these dreams where I fought kaiju, but they were the same ones Luster fought against...Jeane, I think I've been seeing Luster's memories."
"What?" Now this got her attention even more. "Did...Did anything stick out?"
"Well, there were two dreams that really did. One of them being where I...I saw him fight something. Didn't get a clear look at what it was, and then I heard a baby crying. After that, the memory stopped."
"Huh...Weird...And the second?"
"The second involved not only Luster but three other Ultramen."
"Three?" Jeanne was intrigued to heart his. "Aside from Luster, you're saying you saw three other giants?"
"Yeah."
"Did you see them in any of your other dreams to?"
"No. The dream from yesterday was the first time I saw them...The second time I did was when I first transformed and fought that monster."
He glanced down at the device he was holding. "Also...I think one those giants gave Luster his power."
"Hmm? How do you know?"
"Because, before I transformed, I saw one of them fighting, like a small fragment of a memory. And apparently, his name was, Ultraman Emiror."
"Ultraman...Emiror?" Jeanne got into thinking. "I don't think there's ever been anything like Luster confirmed before? I mean, he's the only one we ever saw and the only one that's ever been documented..." She takes a pause and rushes over to her laptop and brings it back over to the couch and started typing down it's name. When she did, there were no results.
"Yeah, see? Nothing. If there was, there would be. Bottom line Kaiden is that those other three are a complete mystery."
"Obviously..." He looks down to the device and crystal hanging from his neck. "Whatever is happening to me, these just might have that answer."
Op. Digimon Rearise "The Future is Now/Time Leap"
As the opening starts at a fast pace, we see the silhouettes of three different giants passing. Afterwords, we see a fourth and final silhouette of a giant standing in front of the massive crystal just as the title Ultraman Luster appears.
Yume wa sameta. Machi ga mieta
At the beginning we see Kaiden emerging out of the door with his cousin Jeanne coming right up from behind him, surprising the teen a whole bunch making her laugh at his reaction as a crystal shard was seen flying past them.
Ashibaya ni kumo ga sora wo nagareta
We now see Iliana standing in the middle of a park watching children play, reminiscing the times she'd play with her father as a ghostly image of her Corus armor being seen.
"Yume janai sa" Kikoeta ki ga shita
Next we see Lance running alongside the road vaguely remembering his father as a ghostly apparition of his armor, the Magnus is seen.
Genjitsu wa sukoshi kawari hajimeteita
Now we see Octus in his human disguise as Newton observing the people around him before taking on his adult disguise just as it briefly glitches revealing his true form for a split second.
Monokuromu no e ni himeta iro ga
A flash of darkness is seen showing the ruined planet of Galaluna showing Modula and his vast armory of Mutraddi under his control before we see a dark cloaked figure and a pair of glowing yellowish green eyes above the said figure.
Kioku wo taguru ito ni naru Daijoubu, mada susumeru yo tte
We see the three off-worlders forming into Titan and from nearby we see Kaiden running forward bringing out the Esper-Grazer inserting a the Luster input into the top of the device before holding it out coating him in light.
Tsubasa wo hirogeta
For a brief moment we once again see the silhouettes of the three giants from the start just as the light died down and Luster in his Brilliant type form was seen running alongside Titan going into battle against a whole horde of Mutradii and kaiju and fires off his a series of energy attacks taking out a few of them.
Mirai wo saa mi ni ikou, Kako mo kaeteku mirai wo
After kicking away a Hellberus Luster changes colors going red into his Might Type form creating two energy blades from his wrist running by a Kelbim and Gue Basser causing them to explode while Titan creates a bow and fires off an arrow hitting a Birdon before it countered the punch of a Red King with a punch of it's own.
Itsuka kitto wakaru nda, Sono mirai wa ima nan da
Next we see Luster changing his colors into a blueish green color, shifting into his Indigenous Type form and teleported creating a swirl of energy right between his hands to blast away a bunch of Muttradi with ease while Titan leapt up into the air throwing down a spear that impaled Galactron Mk2 causing it to explode before it's seen standing back to back with Luster back in his Brilliant Type form.
Hikari wo sagashi ni yukou Kage wo utsushidasu hikari wo
We now change to show Solomon and a masked woman standing in front of their G3 logo followed by General Steel and his troops seen saluting.
Itsuka kimi ga nagashita, Ano namida ga ima boku wo tsukiugokasu yo
Suddenly we see the masked woman without her mask reaching her hand out to a figure who had his body coated in light that quickly dissipates now revealing her and Kaiden standing across from one another as the same crystal flying over them along with Luster's upper body seen above them both.
Chorus(Oh, Oh, Oh.)
We quickly see Ilana and her Corus armor, followed by Lance and his Magnus Armor followed by Octus and his human disguises.
Chorus(Oh, Oh, Oh.)
Next we see supporting characters like, Jeanne, Solomon and the Mysterious Masked woman
Chorus(Oh, Oh, Oh.)
Afterwards we see Kaiden walking and as he did then we see each the three giant silhouettes appear one at a time right next to Luster's many forms, Brilliant, Might & Indigenous.
Sono egao ga ima boku wo tsukiugokasu yo
As the song finally ends we see the group composed of Kaiden, Jeanne, Iliana, Lance & Octus all gathered around holding a crystal in the middle glancing up at the skies just as we see the necklace holding the crystal dangle down.
Opening done.
A couple of days go by and since today was Saturday school was out for the weekend and this gave the two cousins enough time to dabble into whatever they wanted to do. Kaiden heard from Jeanne that she was gonna try to do some cooking and he be her taste tester. Even though it started out a bit rocky at first, she's actually getting much better with each attempt.
Now speaking of Kaiden he was in his room doing a bit of sketching. As for what he was drawing, it was Luster, and three other giants he saw. Even though he only seen them not to long ago, the teen had a good memory of what they looked like.
He managed to get in every single detail he had on them. Ultraman Emiror being one of them. Emiror gave off the vibe of a hero, someone who'd be able to reassure others even at the cost of his own life.
As for the other two, he didn't know what their names were, but the way they spoke. They each had a personality of their own. Kaiden still recalled hearing their voices. From the red and orange giant, he got the vibe of a warrior, confident and brave. Someone who would inspire others to fight even if the times were dire.
Now for the last of the giants, the one that was greenish blue, and had the horns. Kaiden felt a lot of wisdom from the way it spoke, much like a powerful and wise sage that was full of advice and had a purpose to guide others who are lost and confused.
Strange and how farfetched this all sounded, but it was the only way Kaiden could describe them.
"Whoa...cous...these are really good." He looked over and saw Jeanne looking down at his drawings with fascination showing in her eyes. "Are...these the other giants you saw?"
"Yeah..." He points to the first of the three. "That's Ultraman Emiror."
"What about these two?"
"I don't know..." Kaiden picked up the device looking at it. "Maybe...there just waiting for the right time."
"Right time?" Jeanne raised an eyebrow at this but shrugged her shoulders. "Well never mind any of that, come on!" Jeanne dragged Kaiden out of his room much to his confusion. She ended up bringing him to the window that showed the house next door.
"What are we even doing?" He questioned still lost of where she was going at with this.
"Look there." She pointed to a car that was parked in the driveway. Immediately he understood where she was going at with this giving an 'oooh' look with her nodding. "I noticed people have been scouting the Conner's old place. They moved away five years ago remember?"
"Oh yeah, they were really nice. Ms. Conner made some really good pastries."
"And don't forget, Mr. Conner did great barbeques. That guy could whip up better burgers then we get from anywhere else."
"Didn't he share some of his recipes with you though?"
"Not all of them."
"At least you got some and didn't come up empty." Kaiden noted making her smirk in response playfully punching his shoulder.
"True."
"Who do you think is gonna live there?"
"Judging from the car, I'm guessing a family, probably at least four or five." Jeanne guessed shrugging her shoulders.
"Could also be three."
"That's also another good guess. Hey, you know what, why don't we make them something as a way of saying welcome to the neighborhood?" Jeanne suggested. "You know, be the good neighbors. Find out if there nice, or crappy and we'll like them or not."
Kaiden snorted a chuckle. "Ok. Sure, I'll help. But nothing spicy."
"Deal." They rushed to the kitchen.
Meanwhile inside of the house next door unknowingly to the two cousins it turned out that the people scouting their neighbor's old home were their new friends at school.
Octus had taken another form, as a very large man in his late forties that didn't have a full set of hair, including a mustache. His clothing was an orange tall neck shirt that was underneath a light Men's Corduroy Sports Coat with Leather Elbow Patches. Gray pants and shoes matching in color.
The 'father' walked over to a wall feeling it with his hand.
"I think this is the one." The real estate agent said. "It had everything you're looking for."
"We appreciate, your help." The disguised robot said to the guy who sighed a bit.
"Well, it wasn't easy finding a place with your 'unique' specifications. " He began to list the details while Octus proceeded to walk around the wall. " A balcony with an enchanting view of the villagers. Three-hundred-and-sixty-degree unobstructed vantage points from every corner of the house. And electrical capacity exceeding five thousand amps. "
Octus poked his head over the wall correcting him. "Five thousand twenty-one amps to be exact." He said before continuing what he was doing and stuck his hand through the wall making it phase through causing glowing blue wires to be seen around the area which luckily the relator didn't see.
In fact he walked into the living room where Lance was at staring through the front window. "Right, well as you can see, the neighborhood is very safe." He said before he got shushed because Lance was watching the outside and what was going on. From dogs barking at each other before sniffing their behinds, a kid kicking a ball in the road with a car stopping.
"Ok." The real-estate agent said before he went to use the lower floors bathroom. As he did a bang was heard outside making Lance turn to see a kid crying on the street because he fell off his bike. Before getting picked up by his father. Seeing this seemed to bring up bitter memories for the teen as he glanced away from the window going into thought.
Up at the balcony Ilana was smiling watching the people go about their daily lives and for a brief moment she saw her home world, Galaluna.
Back inside Octus was standing in front of the bathroom just as a flush was heard. As the real-estate agent exited out he got spooked by the large man's sudden appearance.
"What were you doing in there?"
"Excuse me?" He was inquired being sure he that right followed by Ilana walking over to him with a bright smile.
"Thank you so much for your kindness in showing us this wonderful home. I'm sure it's held many cherished memories for those who've lived in it. I think it's defiantly the place for us."
"Agreed. It meets all our needs. " Octus commented while Lance gave his short answer. "It'll do for now."
"Oook." He was really weirded out by this family now. he reached into his bag looking for something. " I guess the next step is to apply for the home loan. "
Octus glanced over his shoulder and put his hand behind his back. "There's no need." He said before a big stack of hundred-dollar bills appeared printing out from his back. While normally this would be considered counterfeiting, this was real and authentic so they wouldn't have to worry about anything. He brings his hands out and presents the money to relator who was still looking through his bag. "We will be paying in cash."
"Great. Fine." Despite being a bit annoyed they didn't do the loan but no less took the money." Everyone pays for their houses in cash, sure." After putting the money in his bag he reaches into the bag one more time and walks by Ilana giving her the keys. "Here are the keys, and I'll send somebody else over for the paperwork." The realtor said before leaving closing the door behind him.
"We have a house!" Ilana said in an excited tone feeling very happy to know that they had a place to call home while they were on Earth. While she was ecstatic, Lance not so much he was still focused on their mission.
"Octus, get the computer grid and monitoring system running. " He walked past the frowning princess taking charge. "I'll secure the perimeter. Princess, you just stay here out of the way. "
"I will not." She objected in annoyance. "Our home needs furnishing. We need to create a home like appearance to blend into this society."
Lance walks up to her. "The Mutraddi have taken over our planet. They're maybe more creatures, and on top of that this planet has monsters of its own. We have to get this place ready for any kind of attack."
"Sure." She got where he was coming from. "But don't you think it'd be strange to start digging trenches around the house? Isn't the whole idea of us being here is to hide by blending into normal Earth life? And the more normal we appear the harder it'll be for anyone to find us."
" Your father entrusted me with your safety. That is the first priority." Lance said in a firm tone holding up one finger to make his point.
"But that doesn't mean-"
"Oh yeah? " Lance cut her off. "Then what about what happened two days ago? You could've gotten yourself killed."
"I know that! However, I'm still here, Ultraman Luster stopped that monster."
"I agree." Octus said walking up them. "Keeping you out of harm's way is our mission. And after that last incident we can't afford to take any more risks. Even if this planet has a protector we don't know if we can trust him yet." Ilana frowned at this and suddenly the doorbell rang and since they never heard of this sound, they got all defensive.
"Were under attack!" Lance cried out as he and Octus put their backs up against Ilana squishing her. Both glanced around wondering what and where the noise was coming from. "What is that?"
"Uknown."
"What is wrong with you?" Ilana strained as she finally pushed the two off of her. "We are not under attack!"
"Jeanne, will you stop ringing the doorbell like that?" A familiar voice spoke up and immediately Ilana immediately perked up knowing who it was.
"What? I'm just being sure that they can hear us." Another familiar voice exclaimed.
"Guys relax, were fine." Ilana walks over to the door ignoring Lance's protest answering the door and when it opened both Kaiden and Jeanne who were holding a small tray of food covered in tinfoil were both surprised. "Jeanne, Kaiden!"
Kaiden's cousin gasped happily. "Whaaat!? No way! Ilana!? You're our neighbor!? Get out of here." Jeanne exclaimed happily hugging her before gripping her shoulders. "When I said we could possibly be neighbors I was just kidding. But wow, talk about luck!"
"Yeah, I know." The blonde said happily and glanced over to Kaiden who smiled back glad to know someone they knew lived close by.
But at the same time, another thing was eating away at him. It was what they said at school right when the fire monster appeared, along with the robot, that was dubbed as Titan. Coincide, maybe, but Kaiden had common sense. He knew something was going on.
While doing so, he noticed he was getting stared at by the older man in the house. Figuring he'd make a good first impression he went to greet him clearing his throat. "Um...well it's nice to meet you Mr. Lunis. Welcome to the neighborhood."
"Yes, thank you." He shook Kaiden's hand and for a brief moment he fidgeted. "My son and daughter have been telling about how you helped them feel welcome at their school. Very much appreciated."
"No, problem sir." Kaiden replied.
While Ilana was delighted that there new friends, they made on Earth were going to be living right next door, Lance on the other hand wasn't. "Don't you two have any other place to be at?" He questioned in annoyance earning a glare from Ilana.
"Excuse me?" Jeanne asked being sure if she was hearing this right.
The doorbell rang again making them all turn see the silhouette of another person. "Yoo-hoo!"
"Crap..." Jeanne muttered underneath her breath.
Someone opened the door peaking inside. " Anyone home?" The one who entered was a woman in her fifties. She had short brown hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a blue buttoned dress with a pink shirt underneath along with light tan womans pants. She instantly got excited.
"Oh my gosh. Get a load of you, guys. Welcome to the neighborhood, neighbors." She enters inside to greet them. "I'm Barb, but you can call me Barbra." Barb cackled at her own joke lightly elbowing Mr. Lunis a couple of times before rubbing his chest humming with interest.
Ilana stepped forward to meet her new neighbor. "Greetings."
"Well so nice to meet you." Barb said before her eyes landed on Lance. Ilana introduced him to her.
"This is Lance."
"Boyfriend?" Barb questioned earning a snicker from Kaiden seeing his surprised face.
"Brother." Ilana clarified.
"Boo!" She playfully said before her eyes returned back to other oldest person in the room. Ilana did the same for him.
"And this is..." The princess stuttered for a moment having a hard time to say what to call the robot in one of his human forms. "Uh..."
"Thier father." He answered before getting a hug on one of his arms. "Mmm, yeah~ I'll just call you daddy." She said in a flirtatious tone.
She then noticed Kaiden and Jeanne. "Oh, Kaiden, Jeanne. I see you both beat me to the punch of greeting our new neighbors."
"Hey, Barb and for the record. We already met them at school." Kaiden said.
"Ah, ok. That makes more sense." Barb then walked off with their 'father'. "So is there a Mrs.?"
"A Mrs. Lunis? No."
Jeanne cringed from seeing this and leaned over to Kaiden. "Ugh, it's just like the time when the last ones came here to."
"Yeah, only difference is that there's no wife to glare at her." He whispered back getting a chuckle from his cousin getting the joke.
Jeanne grabbed them by their shoulders and spoke up. "Just a warning for you guys, while she is nice. Barb can be a bit well..."
"Nosy? " Kaiden found the word she was using to describe her to be wrong.
"Yeah, that. But other then that, she's really nice. "
" See Lance? This is the perfect example of what I was trying to say before. We need to be normal, like her."
"She's normal?" Lance questioned Ilana to see if she still had her head on right. "All this proves I need to put a locking system on the door."
"Pfft." Jeanne held her best not to laugh. "Good luck with that."
"Jeanne, be nice please." Kaiden said as they overheard Barb talking with Mr. Lunis.
"This would be a terrific place for the couch." She said standing in front of the large front window and leaned over to the large man near her. "Maybe even a love seat~"
Ilana walked over to her to interact more with another one of her new neighbors. "I think that's a great idea."
"You know, there's a great furniture place at the mall. You know which one I'm talking about right Jeanne?"
"Oh yeah. I know what you're talking about. The one down at Briar, Mall Omega. "
"Um what's a mall?"
Jeanne raised an eyebrow at this while Barb explained. "The shopping mall, on Briar." Upon hearing this Barb gasped a little." Don't tell me you've never been a to a mall!" She looked to Octus. "What have you been doing with this poor girl? Honey, the mall is where we ladies go to just be. There's all sorts of shops and samples, if you hurry you can catch the next bus."
"That'd actually be a good idea. That furniture store has a lot to choose from. If your gonna make this place home, it'll help out a lot." Jeanne chimed in.
"There's no need for her to leave the house." Lance said in a firm tone much to Ilana's annoyance. "We have everything we need right here."
"Uh, ok." Jeanne spoke up. "Serious guy. There's plenty of flaws to that. Number 1, you haven't even set up shop in your new home. Number 2, how you even expect to say you got everything you need? You don't have food, you don't have a kitchen to cook. You don't even have the basic essentials. That's just stupid."
"Where do I catch the bus?" Ilana asked Barb.
"Just outside on the corner."
"You're not going out on your own! It could be dangerous! "
Hearing this Jeanne smirked gaining an idea putting both hands on Kaiden's shoulders. "That's ok. If your that concerned, Kaiden will go with her."
"Wait, what?" He just realized what was happening.
"Absolutely not!" Lance objected.
"Oh relax. It ain't like Kaiden is gonna do anything. He wouldn't even hurt a kitten. Plus he knows the place well, right?"
"I do, but I don't go visit every shop like you do."
"And that's perfectly fine." She nudged him towards her. Even though he got pushed onto the spot thanks to his annoying yet loving cousin, Kaiden didn't really have any else better to do. So he figured why not? "It won't hurt won't it?"
"Ok, sure. Come on..." Kaiden motioned for Ilana to follow him in which she did. Lance's instincts kicked in and he tried to go after her only for Jeanne to block him.
"Sheesh take it easy, they'll be fine."
"Out of my way..." Before he could try to push her out of the way Jeanne easily caught his hand and tightly gripped it. Even though he didn't want to admit it nor show it, but Lance was really surprised by this.
Even more so, when she made a serious face that could match his own. "Look here tough guy. I don't know where you're from and I don't care. But I'm just gonna say this. Don't, try to push me again."
"Then get out of my way."
"What's the magic word?"
"Please...get out of way."
"Alright then." She moved out the way and let Lance run out the door.
"He's a bit uh...unusual." Barb noted.
"Teenagers?" MR. Lunis shrugged in response.
"Um...I'm like right here?" Jeanne commented in annoyance. "You know that right? Adults are no different or better."
Outside we see Kaiden and Ilana step into the bus. After paying for the transport both of them took a seat right next to one another. While she was glancing around, she decided to try and talk to him.
"Thanks for coming with me Kaiden. I really appreciate it."
"Yeah, no problem...So you've never been to a mall before huh?"
"N-No, not really also this is my first bus ride."
"Well, there's two things you can scratch off your list then." They felt the bus stop waiting for the traffic light to turn green. While doing so, Ilana looked over her shoulder listening in on people talking about the robot that appeared along with Ultraman Luster's return.
Nearby a tv was on
"In other news, clean-up has officially started from the massive destruction left from the two battles that have occurred from the last two and a half weeks." Multiple clips are seen showing the robot fighting against Jingoku while there were a few clips showing Luster fighting against Hidoi.
"The current estimation in damages is thirty billion dollars in damage and has left local citizens both relieved and shaken. Meanwhile local authorities are looking for any information leading to the identity of the Titan as well as information on investigation on Ultraman Luster's identity starting up again after seventeen long years."
"Titan?" Ilana turned over to the one accompanying her. "Kaiden what's a Titan?"
Kaiden hummed in thought. "Hm, if memory serves right, Titans are deities in mythology. But that's all I really know."
"Interesting." Hearing this she got into a bit of thinking as they got onto the bridge that was constructed in the crater where Jigoku unleashed its explosive attack. All around them were construction cranes.
"With a little bit of time, this crater will be filled small apartment complexes. Even if things seem difficult, life always goes on. But that's just how humanity works." Kaiden noted as they passed by a couple of tanks.
Ilana smiled hearing this. "Resilience and the will to continue pushing on forward. I can always respect that. Do you mind if you can tell me more on what you about Ultraman Luster?"
"I don't see why not." Kaiden shrugged. "From what I was told, some years ago, Earth was full of many kaiju."
"Kaiju? What does that word mean?"
"It means giant beast. Naturally, people were afraid, with each kaiju emerging, big battles were waged. By the time when jets, tanks and missiles took them down. Thousands of lives were lost. We mourned our dead memorialized the event and moved on. Only for another Kaiju to appear, then another, and another, and another. The earth was full of them. Then one day, a giant of light came."
"Ultraman Luster."
"Yep, word is while he might've fought monsters, there were a lot of witnesses saying he fought aliens that tried to invade Earth too."
This caught Ilana's attention. "So, this isn't even close to the first time this world has been invaded...I see." She then realized the few mistakes she was making after seeing Kaiden raise an eyebrow. "Oh, I mean my sympathies." The blonde groaned a bit. "N-Never mind. I...just don't really pay much attention to history much..." She was now hoping that he'd buy it. But little did she know, he knew and played along.
"That's alright, sometimes were more focused on things going on in front of us now rather than focus on what happened back then."
Ilana nodded her head in agreement and noticed Kaiden looking out the window. "Something wrong?"
"Either, I'm going crazy, or I'm seeing your brother running across the roof tops." It turned out he was, and Ilana was annoyed by this.
"I'm sure, it's just you." Ilana said as they suddenly heard a thud from up above. She ignored it and kept trying to talk. "So, aside from Jeanne do you have any other family?"
"Oh, I got a few relatives living over see's, but around here it's just my mother and our grandpa." As she was going to reply out of nowhere Lance jumped inside going through the window taking a seat right next to Kaiden taking him by surprise. "Whoa!"
He smirked knowing he finally caught with her. However, it disappeared upon Ilana seeing him, frowning in disapproval. "Um..." He tried to talk. "So, the mall is...over there?"
"Yyyeah..." Kaiden said in a sheepish tone feeling the tension between his new friends.
Meanwhile on Planet Galaluna we see Modula watching over a platoon of marching Mutraddi.
Uknown to the invaders, a small force of resistance soldiers got into position. Two of them, the captain and lieutenant got behind some walls. They lowered down their voices. "Is it really him?"
The captain carefully looked for a quick peak. "Yeah, it's him alright." He turns over to his squad. "This is our best chance to get back Galaluna. For the king. For the princess." All of them accepted whatever would happen. It was there home, and they would die for their freedom. Peeking through the wall, the captain issued the order.
"Now!" The mutraddi soldiers heard them but were blasted away, the squad charged going in gun'z blazing with another solider throwing in grenade getting rid of the other mutraddi soldiers. With not one left, they went for the prize who remained unfazed.
"Destroy the betrayer!" One soldier cried out pointing to Modula who in one jump leapt from his spot getting right in front of the soldier gripping his neck and threw him to a wall. The others open fired, but with inhuman speed Modula took them all down in mere seconds.
The captain was shocked by this, but it didn't sway his will and aimed his weapon. Modula swiftly grabbed it and punched the barrels smashing the weapons barrels into pieces before grabbing the captain's throat.
"Traitor..." Even though he knew what was gonna happen, he didn't show no fear. "You think you won? You'll never crush our spirit...we'll fight to the last man and crush you."
Modula smirked and hummed in amusement. "Someday, maybe..." A sickening crunch was heard, meaning he snapped the captains neck letting the brave soldiers body fall to the ground. "But not today."
"Sire!" He turned around to see a humanoid frog come over rushing to him kneeling down. "There's urgent news! The creature you sent to Earth, has been defeated. The princess, still lives and her galalunian signal has been lost." Modula hummed hearing this news and fearfully the frog got onto both knees putting his head down to the ground.
"It is this kind of news that can inspire rebellion. The very reason, she must be destroyed." He started stroking the edges of his beard in thought. "These mindless Mutraddi are worthless...Perhaps we need to send something with a little more....intelligence." He smirked knowing exactly what would fit for this. "Yes..." The eyeball on his hat started to glow green radiating energy.
"Come fourth my pet...I summon thee..." Right then a single robotic foot stepped into view. Modula looked up at the monster he had summoned with a smile. "Find the princess and destroy her. Once and for all."
Back on Earth the duo or in this case now made of a trio had just arrived at the biggest mall in Sherman. Mall Omega. They'd just exited off the bus.
"Well, here we are." Kaiden said motioning the massive mall in front of them. It's entrance tall and massive, with well over dozens of windows covering the structure's front, connected with another large part of concrete. "Mall Omega."
"Wow..." To say that Ilana was totally into this place was understatement from her reaction.
Lance on the other hand wasn't too thrilled as he looked around, glancing at soldiers, including a tank rolled by behind them shaking the ground. "It's not, safe here."
"I get what you mean, but the only reason there this tense is because of what happened not too long ago." Kaiden said. "There hasn't been any Kaiju activity for years, there getting back into the flow of things."
They start walking forward. "Depending on where you live and in the most random places now, anywhere is dangerous. All the more reason got to keep on our toes."
"Kaiden actually has some good points Lance. But come on, relax, it'll be fine." Ilana reassured her 'brother'.
When they entered into the building Ilana was in awe. The mall itself was stylized like a tower and on each level that was accessible by escalator there were a number of stores. Some were well known brands and others were local businesses. All in all, this place was very massive and actually impressive.
"Barb was right, this place is amazing. You ever come by here often Kaiden?"
"Sometimes, but not really a big fan of big crowds..." Kaiden answered glancing around. "On each floor, there's always a big shop. Ok, let's see..." He started glancing around and spotted their destination. "Ah there's the furniture store. Right up along there."
"Good eye..." Ilana nodded as they made their way to the escalator. As they were walking, Lance ducked avoiding a drone that someone was flying. While he wasn't looking, a merchant of most likely Russian origin approached Ilana with a bottle of lotion.
"Hey lady? You like lotion? Very best quality, what kind do you well?" He asked giving a small squirt and Lance's protective instincts into gear. From the side Kaiden noticed this.
"Hey whoa! Stop!" Before Lance could do anything Kaiden much to his surprise and the other two caught his arm. Stopping him from pushing the merchant away. "What the heck are you doing!?"
"He's trying to hurt her with his death spray!" Lance tried to get out of his hold, but was taken by surprise, the same for Kaiden. He didn't know he was this strong, up till now.
"No, he's not you idiot! He's just trying to sell his merchandise." Kaiden let go of Lance pushing him away and walked up the merchant. "I'm sorry about that, he's new, this is his sister. You know how some people get right?"
"Yeah, I guess so. Sorry about that, no harm intended." The guy said continuing to go back to his business.
"Lance, you need to calm down." Ilana said disapproving of what he tried to do and was thankful that Kaiden managed to stop him. "All he was trying to sell was a bottle of scented cream. He was just doing his job."
"So am I." Lance said in a firm tone making his 'sister' sigh.
"Attacking merchants isn't protecting me. Lance, just take it easy." She said before her two companions went up the escalator.
Uknown to them a mall cop watched this all transpire and radioed over to his colleagues. "All officers keep your eyes out for possible trouble."
As the trio entered the store, Kaiden looked over to Lance. "Please don't go punching every single person that looks at you in the wrong way please?"
"What he said." Ilana agreed. "Try not to attack anyone in there alright?"
He didn't reply and followed them as they entered the furniture store. Thanks to the immense size, there were all kinds of furniture. Ranging from mostly indoor items, there were pieces of decor all over the place, such as cabinets, couches everything that you'd imagine would fit into a home.
The first task was finding pieces of furniture for the living room. So, they all stopped by where the couches were all at.
"Which couch do you think would look good in our living area?" Ilana inquired making Kaiden hum in thought thinking over what was there. Lance on the other hand spotted something that seemed to grab his attention.
"That looks good." He motioned to a small black charcoal grill.
"You do know that's for outdoor use, right?" Kaiden inquired. "Plus, your house already has a stove and oven for cooking."
"He's actually right. Here, try this one..." Ilana sits down on a white couch that was right behind her sinking into it.
"Um, no thanks." Lance declined.
Ilana insisted patting her hand next to an empty spot. "It's your home too, and it's really, swooshy! Kaiden, give it a try."
He shrugged in response taking a seat right next to her before sinking into it sighing in content. "Oh, wow...this is nice. I think you both got yourselves a winner right here. Lance, just sit down on this thing..."
Lance did as was asked before sinking into the comfort of the couch itself.
The three of them then began to look through the selections of rooms that were available for Ilana's new room. "How's this?" Kaiden asked as they were in western themed room filled with cactus's. Ilana sat down but instantly shot back up feeling one of the prickly plants touch her.
"How's this?" They were now in a modern plain looking room. Next they were in a room designed for little kids. "Nope on this one..." The next one was very 'artistic' with a waterbed. "Definitely not."
They then found a room that was more to Ilana's liking. Something that had the feeling like you were somewhere else that included a small decorative fake fire place.
"How about this one?"
"This...is perfect." Ilana was absolutely enjoying the feeling she was getting from this room and out of the corner of her eye she noticed a small snow globe. Inside of it was a medieval castle. Picking it up, she stared down at it.
While to Kaiden she seemed to like it, but actually it brought back memories of when she was younger first seeing the palace grounds arriving with her father. Feeling those rush of memories made Ilana sit on the edge of the bed staring down sadly at the snow globe. "I miss home..."
"Um..." Lance wasn't to sure on what to say. "Maybe we should go..."
"Go!?" Ilana was furious with what he said. "Is that all you have to say? Don't you have any feelings? Don't you miss home too!? What's wrong with you?" She placed the snow globe back down onto the desk and marched straight out.
Lance glanced over to the snow globe that was placed and noticed Kaiden staring at him. "What? You going to add anything else?"
"No, I'm just curious is all."
Hearing this eased him down a bit as they slowly made their way out. "For the record, I do miss our home, but...I just don't have as much to miss."
"You know, if I might speak..." Kaiden spoke up grabbing Lances attention. "I don't know you both personally, but I can see that you're both adjusting. It's always hard to leave everything you know behind, but whenever one door closes another will open in response to that. Showing new possibilities, just take it from me, home isn't always a place, it's a feeling. Although you might feel uncertain, and might not have much family, there's other good people that fill in those spots. Not enough to replace, but enough to the point where you can treat them like family of your own."
Family...that was a word that Lance was hardly familiar with anymore. Not since 'that happened' he hadn't been keen on getting close to anyone else again. But at the same time Kaidens words seemed to make a small dent to Lance knowing he had made a good point. "I'll keep that in mind..."
Back at the house Octus opened up a door and knowing he was fully alone; he dropped his human disguise walking to the middle of the room. Once there he reached into his side opening one hand to let what appeared to be a electronic bubble made out of energy emerge floating out into place.
With a single hand motion wires began to expand from the bubble growing more smaller ones linking them up like plants. He did the same to the other side. When that was done he had them all expand out filling the entire room with his equipment.
From behind he heard the knob of the door open making the robot turn around panicking a bit before putting on his adult disguise just in the nick of time.
"I brought cookies~" Barb sang as she opened up the door soon marveling at the hovering bubbles in the room. "Wow...how did you manage to get this set up so fast?" She gasped in excitement looking at one of the bubbles. "Is this one of those Japanese dealies? I saw one of these on Good Morning Today." Barb stuck her hand inside of the bubble making it vibrate and do a series of motions getting a couple of laughs. "Oh~ Ah, it tingles!"
To try and avoid further suspicion Octus rushed up from behind Barb pulling her hand out of the bubble as he didn't want to risk any side effects from his equipment. Naturally this got a surprised gasp from the woman who gave him a flirtatious look. "Oh my~"
"Barb, how about we take those cookies down into the kitchen?" Mr. Lunis suggested.
"Mmm, oh I see afraid I'm gonna get crumbs on your man stuff." She said as the two left the room unaware that one of the bubbles had a monitor. One that watched rift gate activity for whenever a Mutraddi creature was sent to Earth.
It just so happened, that indeed something was on it's way.
Outside of Earth's atmosphere, the rift gate opened and something glowing green came shooting out of it like a meteor.
It's landing projection was at Egypt. At night we could see a man riding a camel, both he and his steed stopped seeing the green flash across the sky. After that, a massive explosion erupted a few feet away from the great pyramids themselves.
The crater was filled with smoke and dust, emerging from it was a metal foot the same one from Galaluna. Belonging to that very same creature, and from the smoke you could see five sets of glowing orange eyes piercing through.
Before long the creature had already made its way to the capital city of Cairo. People screamed in fear of the robotic monstrosity before them.
It was a giant mechanical, armless biped reptilian comprised of some unknown metal. Its five heads sit atop lightly armored, serpentine necks and are vaguely canine in anatomy. While most of the creature's body is black, there exists a softer, crimson material beneath, most visible in the necks and interior of the mouths.
(Cybernetic Beast: Metal Hydra.)
Making itself known the beast roared out it's five heads in unison.
Immediately its scanners turned on, trying to lock onto its target's signal. One way or another it was going to find the princess, even if it had to demolish the rest of the planet with it.
Back at the mall Kaiden was washing his hands in the bathroom and while doing so he was going over some thoughts in his head.
"Go!? Is that all you have to say? Don't you have any feelings? Don't you miss home too!? What's wrong with you?" Those words that Ilana said to Lance.
"I just don't have much to miss..." Including what Lance had said. All of those words, he could feel all the emotions behind them.
Ilana he could tell was taking it really hard, Lance on the other hand, mixed feelings. Kaiden knew that when someone talks like that, much less about there own home that there's always a reason and a story behind it. The teen wasn't so stupid not to know and put things together, he knew they weren't from Earth given the circumstances and very now possibly he could be from somewhere else to.
'Even though there not from this world, there all trying to fit in. I guess that's just one thing we do have in common.'
Kaiden thought back upon seeing Luster for the first time including the three other giants of light.
'Just in one whole moment everything in my changed. I haven't had any of dreams since I first transformed...Now I'm instantly the planets protector, but...I made that choice the moment I chose to accept this power. There's got to be more to it, like why did Luster even come to this world? What's the story with Emiror and the other two? I got questions to ask, but none that can answer them...'
As Kaiden was about to approach them but paused seeing a bunch of mall guards approach them. "There they are." The guard from earlier exclaimed pointing at the siblings. He then marched up to them and gripped Ilana by the wrist.
"We want to talk with you! Come with us." Seeing this Lance's bodyguard mode kicked in. "I know that there were three of you, where is the other one?"
"Let go of her!" Lance exclaimed as he knocked the guard onto the floor.
Seeing this one of the guards brought out a stun baton. "Freeze on the ground now!" They started to get surrounded and just before Kaiden was gonna intervene trying to say something, he noticed that Lance was reaching for something onto his wrist. Ilana noticed it as well.
"Lance no! Not here!" He didn't listen and turned on his armor, right where people were all around! Naturally everyone was surprised by this, and the guards all fell back most likely going to grab some more 'heavy backup.'
Uknown to them at the other part of the world, the Metal Hydra stopped its rampage looking in another direction.
On the radar, it had just detected Lance's Magnus armor getting activated and instantly its target's location was locked. Not to long after, the mechanical beast jumped up into the air activating its rocket thrusters going up into the air leaving the people of the city stunned.
Back at the house Octus continued to keep Barb occupied as he listened to her talking while eating cookies.
"I am telling you the place was nothing but wires and remotes, you have done a gorgeous job here. My ex-husband was an electronic hound too." As he was going to eat a cookie, Octus froze as he heard the monitor go off detecting Mutraddi activity. Barb noticed this and waved a hand in front of his face trying to snap him out of it.
"Are you ok?"
"The truth is I need plant several dampening markers in the yard for our home security system. And I must achieve this right away."
"Well alright then, let's do it." Barb said much to Mr. Lunis's confusion as she took him by the window peering through to her house. Specifically, her front garden. "I'll help you; I know my way around yard work. I planted tomatoes last spring and every one of those suckers is still thriving today."
He glanced over to her in surprise, figuring that indeed that the help could be useful. "We must get to work at once."
Back at the mall the guards at the mall did indeed call in for help. Specifically, the national guard that was stationed all over the place. It looked like all of the soldiers deployed were now inside of the mall motioning for everyone to leave.
They were all coming straight towards where Lance was at. While this was all going on Kaiden decided it was best not to stick around and made a break for it just as the soldiers got onto their position.
"Open fire!" A soldier yelled out lighting them up and quickly Ilana got behind one of Lance's legs for cover. Kaiden wanted to help but knew as of right now he'd only get in the way.
'Sorry guys...' Kaiden said to himself mentally and made a run for it outside. He figured that maybe if they switched off their armor maybe he could find them before losing them. Inside he could hear the sounds of gunfire, and a series of crashing. However, what caught his attention was the fact that something big was flying right towards the building. Kaiden looked up and his eyes widened in shock upon seeing the Metal Hydra.
Easily this thing had to been bigger than the fire beast, judging by its intimidating look, he knew this was probably going to be tough. So, without wasting any time he reached for his transformation device. Of course, when he did, there was nothing much to his confusion.
"Wait...where is...?" He then recalled what had happened earlier that day. First the kitchen and then going over to greet his new neighbors. He left it at his own home! "Oh crap..." Plus the timing could not have been any worse.
From behind he saw the two emerge out of the wall of the building, and right then it took a few seconds for them to realize that they were in trouble. Big trouble, the Metal Hydra had found its target. Both armored teens flew off and the mechanical monstrosity went after them.
Quickly seeing this, Kaiden got his phone and made a call all while looking for something to ride on.
Back over at Kaiden's home Jeanne just picked up the phone turning down some loud pop music in the process.
"Hello?"
"Jeanne, we trouble! Big trouble!"
"Oh, ok, how bad?"
"Like bad-bad! Another monster just showed up!"
"Uh-oh..." Her eyes went wide as dinner plates hearing that news. "Alright, alright I hear you, what's the problem?"
"Ok, um...Um..." Kaiden just realized he didn't know what the device was called so he came up with a name on the spot. "Um, you remember the Soul Convertor?"
"The what?" She glanced at the phone in confusion. "Also, what kind of name is that?"
"The gizmo I use to transform! I don't have it!"
"What!?" Jeanne snapped over the phone causing Kaiden to flinch putting his ear away from the phone. "Why don't you have it with you!?"
"I forgot about it!"
On the other end of the line at their home Jeanne facepalmed groaning loudly. "Oh, come on Kaiden really!? Not a smart move!"
"Just find it fast! I'm on my way there!"
"No, no! You just get to at a certain spot!" Jeanne asked as she slipped on a gray sweat shirt. "Where are you anyways?"
"I just left the mall and making my way past that taco place right now!"
"Yeah, I know where that is, meet me by the old game shop!"
"Got it!" Kaiden hung up.
Immediately she scrambled around before pausing and noticed the device was laying there on the counter. She shook her head in disappointment. "Come on...He is lucky I put up with him." She muttered before rushing out the door slamming it behind her, getting onto her bike and peddled like there was no tomorrow.
All while at the same time Lance and Ilana were fleeing away from Metal Hydra. The beast's middle head roared out while another lashed out towards them. The two avoided and opened fired upon the monster. However, their weapons were doing absolutely nothing to it at all.
The duo could only just fly around it avoiding the incoming lashing heads.
"How did it find us!?" Lance questioned as they continued flying away from it.
"I don't know! But our weapons have no effect!" Ilana said as the Metal Hydra roared going after them relentlessly. Turning around, Lance fired off a series of high-powered missiles from his shoulders. Each one hitting the mechanical reptile creating massive explosions making the creature stumble back. Evidently this was enough to stun it.
"We need to get to Octus and form our robot immediately!" Lance said taking the opportunity as the two flew to the house quickly as possible.
By the said house Barb was still helping Mr. Lunis plant their dampening markers.
"The key is to make sure ya dig deep enough." Barb said as she was doing just that easily setting them up into the ground without even breaking a sweat.
"You're quite efficient Barb." Mr. Lunis said as she was dusting off her hands.
"You better watch it big boy. Flattery will get you everywhere." She said to him and for a brief moment Octus paused from the distance while zooming in. He saw Lance and Ilana with their armors activated and in the city the Metal Hydra was still sluggish. He knew that there no time for setting up the security for the house.
This threat was here and they had to face it. So using his strength he 'helped' Barb get onto her feet who was naturally startled. "Oh my!"
"Thanks for your help." Mr. Lunis said earning a playful pouty look from his neighbor.
"Well, aren't we in a hurry all of the sudden?" Barb asked while making her way to her house. "Gah, alright." She was giggling and laughing like a school girl. "The game must be on." Barb entered her home talking about a multi layered guacamole or something. Good timing too, because the two galalunians just landed in front of him.
"What are you doing with your armor on? That creature is tracking your signal and your leading it to the house."
"See what you've done Lance?" Ilana questioned in annoyance while he leaned down to her.
"You're the one who wanted 'furniture shopping'! And you!" He pointed at Octus. "You could've let us know that creature was coming!"
"Don't blame him!" Ilana quickly defended their ally while scolding her bodyguard. "That creature wouldn't have known to come to the mall if you hadn't ignited your armor!"
Lance knew she was right and turned around in shame. "I was doing my duty...I was protecting you, and I'm not taking any chances. You're too important."
"I know..." Ilana understood where he was coming from. "But so are these people..." She said referring to the gathering mass that was looking at the armored teens in awe.
But soon enough, the awe was replaced with fear because the Metal Hydra caught up with them. They all screamed as they ran for cover, knowing no one else was around, Octus dropped his adult human form.
"Engage-"
"Titan." Ilana said earning a confused look from Lance.
"Titan?"
"That's what the Earth People call us." She clarified.
"I like it." Octus agreed with the name for their combined form. "Engage Symbiotic Titan."
(Insert transformation sequence.)
With the giant robot formed, the trio prepared for the incoming who made it's towards them extending one of it's heads forward firing a laser. In response the titan put both hands together and spread them out creating an energy barrier that blocked the attack.
Titan went on the initiative bashing one head away before one of them grabbed the robot by the arm. Quickly Titan raised up the arm and punched one of the heads away only for it clamp down on the other free arm as the mech was dragged to their opponent.
Quickly thinking, Titan kicked Metal Hydra underneath its stomach. This evidently got a reaction out of the robotic reptilian who used the two heads it had latched onto its target throwing Titan aside into the air going over a whole bunch of houses.
Naturally people were scrambling to get out of the way while the Titan was doing its best to stop itself from falling. A good thing too, because if they hadn't stopped to do some quick thinking, they would've flattened some of the homes.
One of the accidents would've involved a little kid who was playing in his families swimming pool before he stopped. The poor boy turned around and had himself a little accident out of fear.
From behind Metal Hydra was going right towards them and in the process, homes were getting flattened.
"No! No! No more!" Lance cried out as Titan quickly got up from its spot running towards the mechanical beast using its built power to fly away from the neighborhood changing the battle ground to somewhere else.
As the fight went on Kaiden was relentlessly running like crazy through the sidewalk. While doing so, he spotted Jeanne up ahead he waved over to her skidding her bike to a halt.
"You got it!?" He asked as they both stopped while she shoved the Soul Converter up to him.
"Yeah, here! Do your thing!"
Not wasting anymore time Kaiden rushed to an alley way making sure no one else was around. Once the coast was clear Kaiden pressed the back top of the device. Immediately he dispersed into energy particles.
Inside of his inner light he proceeded to take out Lusters Memory Key and inserted it into the top of the Soul Converter.
Ultra-Soul
Ultraman Luster
Holding out the device, he pressed onto the arrow pads making the screen flash on skimming through images of other humanoid giants until he stopped at purple giant raising who was in a fighting stance. Pressing the big round button, the screen beeped.
Ultraman Emiror!
Spirit Surge! Brilliance!
Kaiden proceeded hold the Soul Converter over to the middle of his chest. "Let your spirit radiate brilliantly! Luster!" Without hesitation he hoisted it high into the air as he could and just like that he was enveloped in energy.
Ultraman Luster Brilliant Type!
(Insert Rise)
From a bright white light followed by a multicolored crystal that shatters revealing the Ultra emerge giving out a battle cry with both arms out going forward.
At the same time over at the forest edge we see Titan coming in for a landing successfully bringing Metal Hydra to a different area to fight.
However, the mech wasn't able to get the chance because its opponent lashed one of its heads out ensnaring Titans head with its jaws. Two of the other heads also lashed out gripping Titan by its arms holding it down.
"There's a volatile energy signature coming from inside the creature." Octus informed the two. "But it's skin too thick to penetrate."
"That's it!" Lance had gained an idea. "Disengage our link!"
"Oh no!" Ilana immediately objected. "You are not going inside it!"
"Wait...I'm detecting another energy source incoming."
"What?" Lance questioned in confusion.
"I think its-" A cry was heard followed by Metal Hydra getting knocked off of Titan. They all looked and saw the very protector of Earth itself gripping Metal Hydra by the tail, lifting it up before tossing the mechanical monster aside.
Ilana didn't even need to confirm it as she was now smiling. "Ultraman Luster!"
Luster gave off a cry getting into a battle stance while Metal Hydra roared in response getting back up on its feet.
Even though this being, wasn't it's target, the cybernetic monster was going to eliminate this obstacle to obey its masters will.
The five heads all began to charge up for energy blasts. Seeing this Luster remained still and crossed out his arms, the crystals on his shoulders glowing creating a shield that blocked the incoming projectiles. However what Luster didn't anticipate was that Metal Hydra raised up its bladed tail and fired off another energy beam equaling up to six. The force of the combined attacks was pushing Luster back until the shield broke sending him flying.
Metal Hydra proceeded forward before using its thrusters to tackle Luster using two of its heads to grab the giant's arms. The middle and biggest head tried to latch onto his neck, but Luster wasn't allowing it to. Suddenly the crystals on his body glinted.
Then from all around his body Luster emitted energy in all directions. This was Luster's Shine Burst. The attack was more than enough to force Metal Hydra to let go of its opponent. Luster proceeded to throw a right hook into its chest following it with a kick.
As Metal Hydra stumbled back it turned around swinging its bladed tail. Luster jumped up flying into the air, when he got airborne Metal Hydra began to open fire with its lasers. Each one missing their mark as Luster managed to either dodge or block out each incoming projectile.
The robotic reptile used its jet thrusters to fly up after Luster continuing to fire off its lasers. Each one Luster avoided before cupping one hand to his side, and using the other to toss a Hand Slash towards Metal Hydra which exploded on impact. Although it didn't do much damage it was making more of a dent compared to the attacks of the Magnus, Corus and even Titan's attacks.
Metal Hydra roared out in pain and started to get more aggressive rapidly firing off more lasers at Luster.
From the side Titan watched as Luster raised up his arms and literally began to cartwheel himself over to Metal Hydra becoming coated in energy increasing speeds avoiding incoming lasers at the same time.
Luster passed by Metal Hydra setting off a series of sparks on its body sending a few pieces of metal flying off the beast. As Luster stopped getting back onto his feet, Metal Hydra charged at him engaging its jet thrusters tackling the ultra who stood his ground trying to stop it, leaving skid marks through the ground.
The beast even latched two of its heads onto his shoulders making the giant cry out in pain feeling the steel jaws embed into him. While this was going on and Luster continued to be pushed back, an energy sphere formed around Lusters right leg swinging it upwards right into the cybernetic monster's chest who howled out in pain as it swung all of its heads sideways slamming the ultra-away skidding across the ground.
Luster was quick to catch his foot and ran up to the Metal Hydra grabbing its tail Luster and hopped onto its back bringing both hands together slamming them down onto its back making a burst of energy spark off as he started to repeatedly punch into the cybernetic beast who proceeded to jump into the air activating its thrusters to knock the giant of light off of it.
While on the ground Metal Hydra launched itself towards Luster trying to pounce onto him. He rolled out of the way but couldn't escape one of the heads chomping down on his left ankle. Luster cried out in pain, suddenly the crystals on his shoulders glowed and two small energy orbs were fired at blank range. This resulted in the head latched onto Luster getting blasted off flying through the air a couple of miles before landing in another part of the forest.
All the other remaining heads of course felt this, each roared out in pain, as the neck of where the missing head was flailing around before going limp. Luster got back up into his feet seizing the chance.
Stretching out both of his arms out behind him. All the crystals on his body minus the ones on his head began to glow, getting brighter within passing seconds as the ultra-slowly brought them forward which intensified the glow emitting from the crystals. Within mere moments he brought his arms up high which caused the crystals to stop glowing and quickly he put both his arms together shaping them into an 'L' formation'. His Radiance Surge went blasting towards his foe.
When the multicolored energy beam made contact with Metal Hydra, its metal body cracked even more before piercing through its body.
The robotic Muttradi's core was hit as well exploding. As for Metal Hydra it's heads, necklines and body began to inflate before gradually erupting into a series of explosions before it became a much larger one.
When the explosion cleared, we see that the explosion had cleared out a huge part of the forest. From the tree's, everything aside from the creeks and river remained. As for what was left of the enemy, just simply it's two legs.
Luster gazed around the area looking at the destruction that was made. From the side Titan finally walked up to Luster but stopped because he was holding out both arms creating a small energy cube glowing bright purple.
"What's he doing?" Lance questioned in confusion.
"That cube he's created; I'm detecting a large amount of energy." Octus noted as they watched Luster clap his hands smashing the cube into pieces.
Slowly he held them out and from his large hand's particles dispersed over the ruined area. When they did, plant life began to grow, the once barren area was now full of plant life once again, only this time it was filled with not only trees and grass but an entire field of flowers as well.
"He restored the area that was decimated..." Ilana was in complete awe of what she witnessed as was Lance. Not only was he able to defeat monsters but was able to do this? Just what was this giant of light truly capable of?
"Indeed, now all the plant life that was extinguished from the explosion has been returned to its original state. As well as including other types of vegetation to help fill in what was lost." Octus confirmed as they all watched Luster look over to them. Eyes were locked and Luster nodded his head before looking up.
"Shuurwatch!" He jumped into the air and darting up to the sky dispersing into energy particles leaving a stream of light disappearing. Titan kept its gaze on where Luster had disappeared. The question of who the giant of light was but didn't know that he much closer than they realized.
Later on that night we see the neighbors eating at Kaiden and Jeanne's place where the Lunis's were being served dinner.
"These enchiladas aren't half bad." Lance commented.
"Thank you very much." Jeanne said pleased to know that she did good, and people were satisfied with the end result.
Mr. Lunis checked the time on his watch. "I believe it is time for us to go." He said standing up. "We very much appreciate the hospitality you provided for us and look forward to more possible future get togethers."
"Indeed..." Ilana felt the same way shaking Jeanes hands. "Your cooking is amazing."
"Ah, shucks." Jeanne replied blushing a bit waving her off. "You're too kind. Kaiden, grab the plates."
"Alright." He started doing just that. "We'll see you all at school tomorrow."
"Yes, will do." Ilana nodded back as she, Lance and Mr. Lunis made their way to the door. "Good night you two."
"Night!" Both of their neighbors replied cleaning up their table.
"Nice to have company huh?" Jeanne commented getting a hum of agreement from Kaiden. Right now probably they'd be talking, but considering all the action that happened today, they thought it'd be better to talk about it later.
At the same time the trio entered their home. "That dinner was wonderful." Ilana exclaimed as the door was closed behind them.
"It was, those things that they made weren't half bad either." Lance admitted as he headed up the stairs. "Alright, I'm going to bed."
The two other residents watched him walk up the stairs. "I've never met anyone quite like him before." Ilana commented glancing over to Octus.
"He is rather, intense." The robot in disguise admitted.
"Why do you think, my father choose somebody so...strange?"
"Maybe your father sees something in him, that none of us do." Octus pointed out. "But you should turn in for the night too."
"You're right good night Octus."
"Good night, Ilana." The robot greeted both of them headed up the stairs she went to her room while Octus went into his room.
When Ilana entered the room she gasped a little in surprise. The reason being was because on the floor was the same snow globe that she saw at the mall. Picking it up she smiled looking to the door. "Good night, Lance." She then looked over to the window. "And thank you, Ultraman Luster."
Meanwhile back at the mall we see guard in the monitoring room rewinding and playing the footage showing Lance equipping his armor. Once thing was for certain they'd never seen anything like this before. Some wondered what others would pay for this footage, but little did they know others had their eyes on them.
From behind someone entered the room, or rather in this case two people. Solomon approached placing a hand on the guards shoulder catching the guard by surprise.
"W-Who are you?"
"We're going to need all of these tapes." Solomon said keeping his gaze locked onto the screens showing the teen equip his armor.
"What? Are you kidding this is-"
"It'd be best if you cooperated." Celestine said to the guard.
"Who are you?"
"Correction, you are not in a position to say anything. And no, this isn't a request." Celestine added in a firm tone and by now the presence and intimidation of both heads of G3 made the guard comply beginning to download the data needed. When it was done, he passed it to her. "Thank you for your cooperation." The two of them proceeded to leave the monitoring room.
"Have you already begun work on the social media sights?" Solomon questioned.
"Yes, we've already started." Celestine replied. "The research team has already recovered the missing piece of the monster and have begun analysis on the area. No signs of radiation, instead just a higher count of vegetation that's not normal to the area."
"This is the second monster that's appeared on Earth. Titan is the cause of it."
"That maybe so, however we do not know the reason for it." Celestine pointed out. "Should we even consider treating whoever they are as possible threats?"
"The possibility of that still remains." Solomon said firmly. "Until we know what we are dealing with, we must keep close observations on them." He stopped turning to the masked woman. "The same goes for him."
"..." She didn't say anything.
"This is for the best Celestine, you know that."
"I know..." She continued walking forward along with him. "It doesn't mean I have to like it either. I'm aware of what's at stake."
To be continued
!Preview!
Kaiden: Metal Hydra's appearance has awakened Demaaga.
Multiple sides try to track the kaiju as it begins to feast on radiation.
Even though, I still don't understand this power I have to fight, and hopefully with my new friends they'll help. Along with a warriors bravery.
Next on Ultraman Luster.
"The Warriors Calling"
I know we can do this!
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Ultraman Luster and Titans first battle together!
The spirit of bravery, Nidas shares his strength with Luster!
Now replying back to reviewers
kamenrider13489: Nope, I have no interest in those. Sorry, and I just recently updated Ultraman Kiba actually. As for the other three, progress
And also hope to see other alien enemies coming to earth to attack hear and mega enemies. and other Ultramans aswell. my favourite is Dyna, cosmos, Tiga Orb Geed Trigger and Decker. and the anime
MWSeraph: Indeed so! I'm super stocked that I finally get to work on this series after so long! Hope you liked this chapter as well.
Toa Solaric: Happy that your liking it so far.
54godamora: Yep, as for the design of Hidoi I actually got from a bakugan. I loved the way it looked and thought 'wow, that'd actually make a great Ultra kaiju' and that's how it came to be. As for that inspiration I'd say yeah most likely.
Marbled Gold: Happy to hear that my friend. As for more Oc Kaiju's you can bet that there'll be more!
Also, a little announcement as well. In the future there might be three new stories added, maybe, maybe. Keyword: Maybe. We'll have to see.
First two are crossovers,
1. Panty, Stocking and Garterbelt with an Oc Ghost Rider. (definitely)
2. Monster Musume Collection of one shots. Short, not a whole bunch though. (Maybe, possibly.)
3. Witch Blade (2006) with an Oc Kamen Rider (Maybe, I don't know)