Ultraman Tiga Chapter 11

Foe from the Fog

Intro Theme: Take me higher

Cory and Twilight laid on their backs in the summers heat, both enjoying the weather. From the ground they watched RainbowDash bust a few new stunts that Cory brainstormed for her that morning. AppleJack was supposed to be there to watch, but apparently had family in town, a cousin by the name of Babseed. Cory thought the name sounded questionable, but didn't want to offend AppleJack. RainbowDash spiraled down towards them, pulling herself back up inches before she made contact with the ground, doing a few loops and then zoomed through a couple of clouds. She felt alive.

"So, Cory, do you have any plans later tonight?" Twilight asked.

"Ha, not really, why, got anything planned? What is it, more notes on me?" He asked.

"Oh no, I was just hoping we could-" She was cut off by RainbowDash just zooming by inches above their heads. Twilight was about to shout before she heard Cory's laughter, "Ha, that's Dash for yah, tryin to get a rise out of you even while she's doing her stunts".

When RainbowDash was done, she laid down on the grass next on the Opposite side of Cory, "Shew, got any more ideas?" she asked.

"Nahh, not really. Great stuff up there Rainbow!" Twilight nodded in agreement.

Rainbow kicked into ego mode as she put on her sunglasses, "Thanks! I'd like to see Ultraman top that"

Cory rolled his eyes, "It sure would be somethin" he said chuckling.

Slowly a fog crept it out of nowhere, much to their surprise. It was extremely thick to the point where they could not see their hoof (But in Cory's case, hand) if they extended it. "Hey! Whats the big idea!? The weather team wasn't supposed to make any fog!?" RainbowDash angrily shouted. Even for Fog, it wasn't natural for a fog this thick to suddenly appear like that, and all of them were confused.

Twilight felt around, "Rainbow? Cory? Where are you!?" she then froze stiff as she heard a high pitched roar. They all stood in their tracks, "Twilight!? Cory!? Where'd you guys go!?" shouted RainbowDash.

The three of them blindly wandered through the insanely thick fog, That was when Twilight bumped against what she presumed to be a tree. As she looked up, she saw to glowing yellow eyes staring down at her. It was the none other than the Fog monster, Sadora. Sadora let out a shriek of hunger as his clawed hand extended down to capture the Purple Unicorn. Before he could grasp her, he felt an arm put him in a headlock. He cried out in surprise as he felt the crushing strength around his neck, making him shriek in pain and anger.

Twilight slowly opened her eyes, and through the fog saw the Multicolored Giant restraining the Kaiju in a powerful headlock. Twilight nodded to him as a thank you, and immediately ran off. She bumped into something else, this time it was RainbowDash. "Ey, watch where you, Oh it's you Twilight."

"Rainbow!" cried Twilight, "Wait, wheres Cory?"

Tiga grabbed hold of Sadora's arm, kneeing its elbow a couple of times before twisting the limb behind the monsters back, invoking a cry of pain as the bone cracked. Tiga then took hold of Sadora, flipping the beast over his shoulder, the ground shaking as the monster made contact with the ground. Tiga went into battle pose before he began charging up his Zepellion ray, but felt a sharp pain graze his shoulder. He stumbled back, gripping his wounded area as Sadoras's good arm retracted to its normal length. Tiga fired a blast of blue energy from his hand that struck Sadora. Sadora bellowed as he walked deep into the fog.

Ultraman looked around slowly, expecting the beast to attack at any moment. Twilight and RainbowDash held each other shaking, expecting it to attack as well. After a minute, he crossed his arms across his chest, his color timer glowing with bright light. His body glowed, radiating light brighter than the sun itself. The fog disintegrated, revealing the sunny field they laid in just minutes before. And to their confusion, Sadora was nowhere in sight. Ultraman was gone as well, having reverted back to Cory as soon as the last bits of fog disappeared. He met up with the two of his friends, both were happy to see he was unharmed.

"You two alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, were fine. Wait, whats that on our shoulder?" Twilight asked him, moving closer to inspect it.

Cory noticed the gash in his shoulder, covering it with her hand "It's nothing, must have gotten it when I tripped over in the fog."

Twilight looked around, "Do you think we've seen the last of that thing?"

Cory shrugged, "I doubt it, if its still alive I'm sure that it'll be back. In the meantime let's get back to Ponyville."

Later that night, Twilight flipped through her book on Ancient Monsters, turning page after page desperate to find as much information as she could, "Aha! Fog Monster, Sadora. Sadora is a type of ancient predator that is able to produce a fog to trap and ambush prey. Its arms are able to extend several times its normal length to snare unfortunate animals. Its diet consists mainly of, Ponies" she gulped. "Well, I'd hate to be one of you guys" Spike joked.

"This is serious Spike!" she snapped, "If this thing ever discovers PonyVille or Canterlot, were all doomed!"

"So? Ultraman will be there if worse comes to worst" he rolled his eyes.

Twilight returned back to her studies, eager to find more information. This carried on until the early hours of the morning where she finally fell asleep. As soon as she drifted off Pinkie Pie seemingly popped out of nowhere, "Hey Twilight! What yah doin?"

"Ahhh! Pinkie! What are you doing here!?" Shouted Twilight.

"Oh, I'm sorry, didn't mean to wake you up! I was wondering if you wanted to go with us all to go get a few milkshakes?"

Twilight was weary, but agreed to go. They all stood there on the streets on the Harvest day parade, The Main Six watched he floats go by as Cory sat down on a Bench. Due to his badly wounded Shoulder he couldn't stand for more than 10 minutes. He looked at the awkwardly shaped floats, at home he would've made insults out loud, but he was surrounded by ponies that still didn't exactly trust him, so he kept insults to himself.

Pinkie Pie passed by on hers, "Hey Cory! Wanna have a ride?"

"I'm good Pinkie," he replied.

When the festival was over, They all sat down for their Lunch.

"My, the floats this year were wonderful! Certainly one of the best I've ever seen!"

RainbowDash rolled her eyes, "Ehhh, they weren't that great. Ey, wonder what happened to the one AJ's cousin was driving."

"I thought that they were Lovely" Fluttershy added.

Rarity nodded, "I for one agree with Fluttershy and, Oh dear, where is all this Fog coming from?"

Twilight, Rainbow and Cory glanced at each other, all three of them knowing what was happening. Soon the whole town became engulfed in the thick mist, no pony could see beyond reaching distance. "Nobody move!" Shouted RainbowDash, "Quickly, put your hooves in the middle of the table, are we all here?" she asked shakingly.

Fluttershy was shaking, "Um, RainbowDash, is there something wrong?"

After she said that, a strange roar rained throughout PonyVille, one that was all too familiar with the three. Ponies screamed as clawed hands tore through the mist, attempting to grab them and pull them in. "Quickly! Run!" cried RainbowDash.

The town was in chaos as Poinies Blindly fled in panic, with Sadora looking down upon them with sick glee, this hunt was going to be far too easy. As they all ran, Cory pulled out his Spark lens, running behind a building he managed to find through the fog. Igniting the switch, he transformed into the invincible warrior, Ultraman Tiga.

As Sadora snagged a pony and was ready to devour his prey, his wrists was suddenly struck by a knife hand, making his claw open and release the Petrified Mare. Ultraman caught the falling Pony, placing her on the street for her to run off. She looked up and gave him a thankful smile, receiving a nod in return. Ultraman turned his attention back once more to Sadora, round two had begun.

Sadora shrieked in both surprise and rage, how dare this being interrupt his meal once more? He brought down his claw to bash the hero, only to have it blocked at the limb being kneed at the elbow once more. Tiga punched the beast in the stomach, both knocking the wind out of Sadora and making him stumble back. As the fog cleared, Ponyvilles citizens beheld the scene of their protector fighting off the Fog monster.

"Ultraman Tiga! He's here! He's here!" Pinkie cheered.

Twilight looked on to the hero as he pummeled Sadora, "I knew he'd be here" she said to herself.

Sadora charged at Tiga, swinging his arms in a fit of rage. Right when his enemy was in reaching distance, he felt the heel of Ultraman make contact with his head, knocking Sadora to the ground where Tiga continued to lay down a brutal beating, punch after punch to Sadora's face. Luckily for Saodra, he managed to swipe if claw against Tiga's head, the force was enough to get the hero off of him.

Ultraman went into his battle pose as Sadora got back up. Sadora roared in mockingly as fog steamed from his pores. Soon the area around his body was engulfed in thick fog, leaving Ultraman unable to see him. Ultraman dashed into the fog, looking around for his foe, but then felt its claws lash at his back, with another coming from the front. Ultraman fell to his knees from the beating, looking around for the cowardly monster.

From the outside, Twilight and her friends looked at the Abyss of fog, hoping that their hero was obtaining the upper hand.

"Will he be alright" Rarity asked.

"He'll be fine, He's Ultraman, remember?" AppleJack said, hoping what she said was the case.

Tiga barely dodged another incoming tendril, but the second struck him right him the back. He realized what Sadora had planned. It was all an Ambush, he used the fog to trick Tiga into fighting him there, how could he have not realized that? Regardless, he had no time for thinking. He then saw another claw come right at him through the fog, just inches away from his chest. He aced fast and grabbed hold of it, twisting it in which way directions, snapping the bones within. Sadora retracted his broken limb, pulling in Ultraman and grabbing hold of the hero's neck in the process. His eyes glowed a light red, with ungodly hate radiating from them. Ultraman grabbed hold of the claw, prying it from his throat before kicking the Kaiju away from him.

Tiga jumped into the air, landing outside, awaiting Sadora to follow. His color timer was beginning to flash red, signifying his depleting energy. He switched to his Speed Mode just in time to grab hold of Sadora's extended arm, using every bit of his strength to pull his foe from the mist. Sadora roared as he was yanked from his fog, but he would not go down that easily yet, he quickly retracted his arm before shooting it forth once more, knocking Tiga clean onto his back. Sadora roared as he stomped towards the downed hero. Tiga quickly recovered, Jumping back up, gathering energy for his Zepellion Ray. Sadora roared in fear, immediately producing fog, but it was too late.

Tiga fired the charged energies at Sadora, the beam lanced through Sadora's thick skin and channeling the laser throughout his body. When the agonizing onslaught was over, Sadora fell to his side, his body exploding upon impact. His fog dissipating along with his death.

AppleJack tossed her Stetson to the sky, "Yeeeehaww! Go get em Ultraman! Wooohoo!"

The others cheered as Twilight looked up at their protector. "If only Cory was here" she thought.

However, not far from where the Ultra stood, a dark colored Mare looked at the hero. Her eyes glowed with hate from the warrior of light beating one of her prized monsters. "Ultraman..Tiga…So, the legend lives again, to stand against my plans.. Hmm, I'll send you to hell with the rest of this Animal foddler, mark my word.." with that, the mysterious Mare vanished into the shadows.

Later that night, Cory went to stay at Twilights house once again. The two always had a fun time, whether they joked about a book they'd find, of the two of them and Spike would play sharades. Bu tonight, things took a different turn. Spike had fallen asleep early from all the running in the fog. Twilight and Cory walked over to see the young dragon fast asleep in his bed. Twilight lowered her head to the little dragon "GoodNight Spike" she whispered, pulling his blanket onto him. She turned to face Cory who stood at the doorway. "Think he'll be ok?" He asked the young Mare.

She nodded as the two walked off down the night time streets of PonyVille. Cory looked at her, "So, where we goin again?" he asked.

"You'll see, just come with me" she said, brushing up against him.

He followed her till they came to a ledge that over looked a valley, the exact one where the festival was held a week ago. He stars were well The two of them sat down next to each other, taking in the wonderful view. "Wow, its, beautiful Twilight" he said, gazing into the abyss of stars. Unlike where he lived, the sky was covered with stars, even when there was a full moon, which was different than it was back at home.

Twilight laid her head on his shoulder and sighed, "It is, isn't it."

Cory looked at her, "So, is it true that Pinkie has a thing for me?"

Twilight rolled her eyes, "She did not too long ago, but her attention span is just as bad as how long she crushes on some pony."

"Heh, typical Pinkie" he chuckled.

"Hey, that's my line!" she joked.

"Was, your line" he poked her nose smiling.

Twilight rolled her eyes and giggled. For an hour they just laid there in the grass, taking in the view of all he constellations. O his surprise, they were identical to the ones back at home. "There's Orion's belt" he said, pointing straight ahead of him. Instead of him getting a response, he felt her shivering right next to him.

"You ok?" he asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"Yeah, just a little cold." She replied, still shaking. She felt his muscular arm pull her closer. She blushed as red as he apples on AppleJacks flank, and laid her head under his chin. For hours they laid there, watching the stars shine bright, and the bright moon luminating the sky.

Chapter 11, End

Ending theme: Brave Love Tiga

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