Rematch

Intro Theme: Take me Higher

Tiga placed him hands on the glass as his color timer began to flash rapidly. The chamber next to him began to fill with a dark fog, completely blocking the Ultras view of the Ponies inside. When it cleared, the once lively and colorful Mares he knew were nothing more than just Jade statues, their faces were contorted in sadness and fear. From within, the conscious of the human with Tiga awoke, and Tiga clenched his fists in rage. Hipporit laughed with glee as he felt that his victory was at hand, "Now, its your turn, Ultraman."

This bastard, how dare he do this to them. Even when they were jade, he could see and remember their warm, heart touching smiles. The happy faces they'd wear on a daily basis, the ones who gave him their love in a world he was a complete stranger to, and was not welcome in. From within, Tiga could feel his heart beat getting deeper as he remembered their colorful memories, and this fueled his desire to fight, even if it would cost him his life. As the fog began to form inside the chamber, Tiga crossed his forearms on his chest; the gold and silver armor began to glow with blue energy. Soon, the whole glass chamber began to glow with bright light, making Hipporit stumble back," What, what is this? H-how?" for the first time in his life, Hipporit actually felt fear. The fog was evaporated as the glass around Tiga shattered into millions of shards. Hipporit yelled in anger, "I-Impossible! No being can break those chambers!"

Tiga moved him arms away from his chest to reveal the glowing armor. With a "HA!" the energy in the shape of the emblem on Tigas chest struck Hipporit, the impact of the attack knocked him off his balance. The emblem mark glowed with light as the attack burned Hipporit's chest, making him shriek in agony, "H-h-how mortifying, Agghh!" he slowly fell onto his back, but he exploded into thousands of burnt chunks of flesh before he could even land on his back. Tiga/Cory nodded, satisfied with his victory. Then he turned to see the small jade statues. He felt his heart ache as he looked at the little statues before him, "No"

Tiga's breathes grew shallower as he knelt down to the little statues, he didn't care how fast his color timer blinked, it was no longer Ultraman's conscious that was in charge of his actions. He caressed the head of the small figures before him, feeling somewhat helpless as to what he could do to help them. He could use his light cleanse, but it would use up what was left of his energy. But if it was for the ones he wished to protect, it was more than worth it. As his hand began to glow yellow, he held it above them as light particles slowly rained down from his hand. After a few moments, the small ponies bright colors began to return to their fur coats and their manes hung freely once again. They woke up from their comas, drowsily looking around them. Their eyes brightened as they saw their hero knelt down before them, "Tiga, you, you saved us… I knew you could do it.." Twilight managed to say, rubbing her eyes as if she had a speck of dirt in them. The others were perking up to their typical bright selves, smiling up at their protector. If Tiga did not leave soon, he would revert back to the human that controlled his very actions and conscious. Tiga nodded to them as he stood back up, jumping into the sky as he took off towards the sun, leaving a trail of light particles behind him.

Climbing down from the side of a small hill was Cory, his shirt was torn up in a few places and his pants were not in the best shape either. As he was about to greet his friends, RainbowDash tackled him, "You!" she spat venomously, "While we were getting killed back here, where were you!? We almost got killed because YOU decided to just go ahead and run off and, hey let me go!" she yelled as Twilight removed her from Cory with her magic. As he stood back up Twilight stood in front of him, "Leave him alone! That guy must have caught him while he was walking through here like he did us."

Twilight turned to face him and gasped, "Your bleeding!"

Cory placed his hand over the large gash on his temple, "Its fine Twilight, can we just get back? My backs killing me…"

Twilight embraced him in a tight hug, "Of course" she said, nuzzling his chest.

Later that night, three Stallions sat inside of a small log cabin while they played cards, "Hey Silverbolt, got any kings?"

"Nope, go fish" replied the pony. The gray one groaned in annoyance as he pulled out a card from the deck, a smile spread across his face as he laid down his whole hand, "Hahaha! I win again!"

The others banged on the table in anger and laid down their cards, "I fold" they said almost in unison.

"Ah come on!" said the gray one, "You guys always give up whenever I start to win a good card game."

"That's the thing." Said the other, kicking an empty bucket away from him, "You always win. None of us ever even get a chance to beat yah."

"Ever consider the possibility that you're all just a bunch of mediocres?" he teased.

"How do we know you're not cheating" said the one named SilverBolt.

"Me? Cheat? Ha! Your just sore because I beat you"

"How about I-"

The oldest one tilted his straw hat up, "Hey now! Why don't you guys just relax, alright? It's too late for that kinda stuff."

That night the three of them sat back, each one enjoying a tall glass of fermented Cider. While they sat down enjoying their alcoholic beverage, the pitcher began to wobble on the table, and soon enough the whole cabin began to shake. The Pitcher of Cider spilled over as pictures and paintings began to fall off the walls, and the lights flickered on and off.

"Its an earthquake, Agghh!" yelled the eldest one, rushing to look out the window. The nearby volcanic mountain was erupting, bits of molten roack and ash flying in all directions. The others gathered around the window to witness the event, and that was when something else grabbed their attention. Raising its head from the top of the inferno of Magma and smoke was some type of monster, bellowing into the night sky.

"Its, it's a monster!" said the youngest, his whole body quivering.

"Le, Let's get out of here!" the three of them darted away from what used to be their home, leaving it behind in that volcanic region. The Kaiju let out one final roar before he dived back into the Molten Abyss, gaining more and more power from it by the minute. Soon he would return to finish what he started, what him and his ally Melba started. But more importantly to avenge his ally that was killed at the hands of the warrior of light almost a year ago. Just the thought of the being made his anger grow unfathomably, but soon, soon his long sought for revenge would be taken.

The next morning, Ponies from all around Equestria flocked to sight of the once thought dormant Volcano's eruption. At a safe distance from the volcanic mountain, Ponies took pictures and looked at the smoke that billowed out from its peak. Rainbow Dash yawned as she laid on her back, kicking away a small stone

RainbowDash sighed in disappointment, "Really? This is what I got up at seven AM for? A bunch of boring flowing lava? I came here to see a Volcano blow its lid! Not, this!"

AppleJack rolled her eyes at the Cyan Pegasus, "Fer real Rainbow? I think this is all mighty interestin."

As Twilight took notes on the activity of the large mountain, she heard a familiar voice call her name from behind. She whipped her head around to see her brother Shining Armor, along with members of the Royal Guard, "Shining Armor!" she said happily, galloping towards him and wrapping her fore legs around him, "What're you doing here?"

As they broke away, shining armor looked towards the erupting volcano, "Apparently three Ponies claimed that they saw a monster last night as the Volcano erupted, they were a bit tipsy apparently, but Celestia made us come out here and keep everything in check. Hey, speakin of which, I got something to show you."

Twilight and the others followed her brother to where most of the Guard members stood, "We've finally been able to master an old weapon spell, it's said to be the most potent weapon a royal guard pony can have. We plan on using it on monsters, which means that Tiga's gonna be out of a job pretty soon."

Cory rolled his eyes at the comment, "Yeah, and maybe Celestia will raise the moon."

The ground beneath them began to shake as the Volcano began to erupt violently once again. Ponies scattered in all directions in a fit of panic, some fell into the earth as fissures began to form in the ground. As the ground continued to shake, Pegasus's of the Royal guard swooped down and took Earth Ponies and Unicorns to more stable ground. As they did so, an even large fissure formed in the ground as trees and soil spilled into the gaping crack. Then, to the horror of the Ponies, an Earth shaking roar ripped through the air, it was one that Twilight, Rainbow, AppleJack and Cory knew all to well.

Rising up from the earth was the ancient monster, Golza, but he wasn't the one Twilight and her friends knew. He looked more terrifying, with a darker body color, and red markings that formed on his chest. His roar was also deeper, and more terrifying than it was before. He was no longer Golza, but the now God-Like Fire Golza.

AppleJack looked at the beast in disbelief, "Is, is that who ah think it is?"

"Its, its Golza!" stuttered Twilight.

Shining Armor tugged at his sister Mane, "Twilight, come on! You gotta get away from here! Trust me, the Royal Guard and I will take care of him!"

As the four of them were moved to safer ground, Shining Armor joined his Guard members, "Is everyone ready!?" he shouted. He received grunts of approval from the other soldiers. Golza continued to walk towards them, his blood shot eyes scanned the insignificant creatures before him. He thought he'd just simply trample them and be on his way, but that was when he felt a High power laser blast strike him in the chest, soon he felt all sorts of beams striking his body.

"Keep firing!" commanded shining Armor, his horn glowing with furious energy as he unleashed another torrent on the Kaiju. After a few more moments of brutal laser fire, the smoke got too thick for them to see the creature. They waited almost a minute before the smoke cleared enough to see Golza. His body was unharmed. He roared mockingly at the fear stricken soldiers before him.

Shining Armor looked at the beast in horror, "I, I don't believe it, how did those not, at least hurt it?" Golza released another bellow as he continued to stomp forward, before destroying the being who shamed him, these little soldiers would die along with him. From his side, a bright light glowed behind a grove of trees. Rising to about Golzas size was a none other than Ultraman Tiga.

Ultraman immediately leapt into the air, landing a drop kick to the head of his old adversary. To his horror, Golza barely flinched from the attack, and as soon as Ultraman regained his stance, he felt the full might of Golzas tail crashing into his side, knocking him a good distance away.

Tiga went into his battle pose, leaping towards Golza and landing a powerful chop to his cranium, but Golza easily shook off the attack, swatting away the warrior of light with his large fist, the he upper cutted the hero when he was in range. Tiga spun his body around and used his kinetic energy to kick Golza in his chest, and delivered a roundhouse to the side of the Kaiju, both attacks doing little to almost nothing to him. Tiga speed punched the monsters chest, but then had his hand caught right in Golza's stone crushing grip, pushing the Ultra right onto his back.

Tiga rolled away from his adversary, "This thing must have a weak spot." As he thought, the middle of Golzas forehead began to glow with orange energy, firing a concentrated laser right at the Ultra. Tiga used his light barrier to block it, but the beam was too much for him, and the barrier shattered as Tiga was struck in his chest. Spark erupted from the impacted area on Tiga.

RainbowDash flew closer to the two battling giants, "Come on Tiga, you can do it!"

Golza fired a barrage of his beam at Tiga, causing a series of explosions around the warrior as he used his fore arms to protect himself. After few more seconds of this harsh barrage, Golza paused his attack, trying to peer through the thick smoke he stirred up. As he roared towards in victory, Tiga slowly rose from the smoke; his body was now Crimson and silver as he switched to his Power Mode.

"Now that's more like it!" cheered AppleJack.

"What do you mean?" asked Shining Armor, taking in the image of the red giant.

"His red form makes him stronger, if I'm correct," said Twilight.

Rainbow cracked her neck, "Oh yeah, he's totally in for it now."

Golza was first to attack, swinging his hand at Tiga that was quickly blocked by Ultraman's fore arm, the other hand immediately plummeted into his lower chest cavity, knocking the wind from his massive lungs. Golza roared in anger as he spun around, intending to bash his tail into Tiga. Ultraman quickly caught hold of the appendage, using all of his strength to swing Golza around like a rag doll. Golza roared in anger as Tiga released him, sending him crashing back into the ground, which caused Golza to be knocked of his balance for the time being, but then felt Tiga grab hold of his head, pulling him back up to his feet. Ultramans's hand glowed red as he punched Golza in his chest, sending sparks flying off the area as Golza screeched in pain and anger.

Golza regained his stance just in time for Tiga to kick him back with the heel of his foot, sending a jolt of agony throughout his body. Tiga grabbed hold of Golza's arm as he twisted it over his shoulder, feeling the mighty bones within the limb shatter and splinter as Golza let out a throat shredding high pitched roar. His eyes widened from the unbearable pain. Right when the thought it couldn't get any worse, Tiga threw him over his shoulder, making the splintered bones pierce his armor like hide. The sight was enough to even make the Royal Guard cringe at the sight.

As Golza desperately tried to recover from the sudden shock, Ultraman gathered energy for his Delacium light stream. With a "HA" Tiga tossed the sphere of UV rays at his old foe, but the sphere was, absorbed. To the surprise and horror of Tiga and the watching ponies, Golza slowly absorbed the attack through the armor on his chest. Golza roared mockingly as he slowly walked towards him, his forehead glowing with orange energy once again.

Golza began to make his way towards Tiga, roaring mockingly as Tiga backed away. Though his Light Stream failed to have any effect, he was not about to give up. He never would. Thrusting his fists down, he gathered even more energy into his color timer, this time transferring the energy into his hands. When the Kaiju came close enough, Tiga landed a charged punch into Golzas chest, knocking the monster back as sparks sprayed from the wound on his armor. As soon as he could re-stand, Tiga back kicked him in the stomach with enough force that he was lifted off his feet.

Landing on the ground, Tiga waited for him to stand up, crushing Golza's shoulder with an axe kick and a few punches to his chest that sent jolt after jolt of blunt pain through Golza. Tiga grabbed hold of his old foe, using every ounce of strength he had to toss the beast away from him, that way he could switch back into his Omni form, and immediately he began charging up his Zepellion Ray. When Golza was in full stance, Tiga fired the ray at his shoulder, that way he would not be able to absorb his weapon. The beam struck Golza square in his pectoral and arm, lancing through the armor and frying the flesh from beneath. It was only a few agonizing moments before Golza keeled over, turning into nothing more than bits of burnt flesh and armor that was sent flying every direction.

"Holy Crap..." said Shining Armor, amazed at the display of Tiga's sheer power.

As the smoke cleared, Tiga stood there proudly, the blue light on his chest was now flashing dark red. Looking towards the sky, he took off towards the sun, knowing Equestria no longer had to worry about the ancient monster.

Twilight smiled up towards the departing warrior, turning around as she heard a familiar voice call her name. Cory wiped the sweat from his brow as he rejoined them, receiving a tight hug from Twilight as she sighed in relief, "Where did you go?"

Rainbow Dash flew over and landed on his left side, "Yeah! You just missed out on an awesome fight!"

"Don't worry," he laughed, "I saw most of it. Tiga couldn't have done it without the encouragement of you guys."

"You talk like you know him partner." AppleJack chuckled, patting him on the back.

The sun began to set behind the mountains as Twilight, Applejack, and Cory made their ways back home. It was more certainly more than just a small trip for the three of them. And Cory, couldn't have agreed more.

Later that night, the moon shined brightly through the window of Twilights bedroom, spilling out onto the floor. Twilight slept with Cory on the floor mattress with her foreleg and head resting on his chest. She breathed contently as she opened her eyes to look up to him, a smile spread across her face as she whispered "Cory, are you still awake?" being careful to not wake up Spike.

"Well of course, madam toss and turn" he chuckled, "You alright?"

"I can't sleep; do you want to, go hang around the library?"

"Sure, but not for too long" he said, poking her nose as he smiled.

The two of them quietly walked down the stairs where the open room of the library was. Twilight slowly walked over to her record player, and played one of her favorite slow violin songs. She turned towards Cory, the human stood there with a smile on his face. The two of them came close together, with Twilight standing up on her hind legs as she hooked her fore legs on his shoulders. The human in return placed his hands on her waist, giving her a warm smile as he supported her delicate back. The Mare before him stared into his eyes as she began to slowly dance with him, her cheeks slightly blushed as she looked up towards Cory, and she was greeted by those brown eyes once again. It had taken some time for her to get used to dancing on her hind legs, but for Cory, she'd try anything. Her violet eyes looked into his as she stepped closer towards him, leaving her just a few inches away from being as tall as he was.

Cory could see that her eyes were watering, "You ok?" he asked, a bit over a worried tone was in his voice.

Twilight blinked, causing a tear to roll down her face, "I'm, I'm alright. Just a little, happy I should say."

He wiped the tears from her eyes, "You and me both."

"I'm glad"

Twilight's eyes wavered as joy and happiness filled her chest to the point where it felt like her heart would explode. She had no idea how long they danced together in that empty spot, nor did either of them care. And while they danced, not a single word was spoken. What could have been said was readable on each others faces. They were also the only company they had, and wanted at that point of time.

Ending Theme: Brave Love Tiga

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