Chapter 3

Behemoth of the Mountain

Intro music: Take me higher

Ultraman being awakened and the defeat of the monsters was not only heard of in Canterlot and Ponyville, but all over Equestria. News about the new hero swept across the land, and was in nearly every conversation between ponies. It was the begining of a new and fascinating, but terror filled era.

Cory awoke to the sound of Pinkie Pie bouncing up and down next to his bed cheering "Wake up CorCor! I've got breakfast all ready down stairs!" "Ahh, sounds great" Cory said as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. Pinkie looked at him with her big blue eyes, "Oh your gonna love it! I hardly ever have company over for breakfast! Well actually I've never even had company for breakfast! I've been so excited I forgot to breath, hold on" Pinkie took a deep breathe and held it for awhile before exhaling, "Better?" Cory asked "Much, welp, see yah yah downstairs! Its almost done!" and with that the Pink Pony hopped down the stairs.

Cory just couldn't help but laugh, after he got done sponge bathing, he came down to the kitchen where The party pony was just filling the glasses with milk. The table was covered with apples, strudels, cupcakes, and two apple pies. Now, Cory was extremely fond of pastries and what not, but this was beyond his liking.

"Your up!" Pinkie said joyfully as she walked up behind him and pushed him towards the table, "Well, dig in!" No sooner had she said that her face as immediately plunged into her apple pie, devouring it in seconds as Cory took his third bite out of his. "Um, Pinkie, don't yah think you should calm down a little?" Pinkie most likely didn't hear him. He didn't mind, he went back to eating his pie. When they were done and Pinkie ate all the leftovers,it was time to get their day going.

"I still just can't stop thinking about that giant from 2 days ago, no wait, I mean Ultraman! That was his name right?"

Cory nodded his head and smiled a little, "Yep, thats it. Ultraman Tiga."

"Oh, ok! Ultraman Tiga!" Pinkie said as she gave a small hop.

Suddenly, Mrs. and Mr. Cake slammed open the door, they both seemed stressed and in a hurry, "Pinkie Pie!" They both shouted.

"Oh, hi Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Whats up?" Mr. cake came nearly eye to eye with Pinkie, " Apparently we just got an order from a family in canterlot who are celebrating their childs 5th birthday, and its not often that we get such requests from, Royaaltyyyy" Mr. Cake passed out on the floor. Mrs. Cake payed him little attention, "We need your help to help us with this order, it needs to be done within 2 hours!" Mrs. Cake said desperately.

"Oh, well um, me and Cory were gonna go to the market and get some baking supplies, help Twilight organize her library, then go with Rarity to find some more diamonds to help her with the dress she's making."

You go Pinkie, I'll help Twilight and rarity out. The cakes sound like they desperately need you."

"You sure? Well i mean i could Toooootally do all before sun down, but-"

"Its fine, I can do it. No prob" Cory said while patting her on the back.

"Oh, ok, thanks! Not only are you the best baker buddy, but the best helper buddy!"

"Pinkiee!" Mr. Cake said as he groggily got up, "Were runnin outta timeee...!"

Pinkie turned to Cory, "See yah later!" and with that the cakes pulled her away and sped off.

Cory walked to Twilights house and found her reading a new book, "Hey Twilight, what yah readin?" Twilight looked up from her book, "Oh, hey Cory, wheres Pinkie?"

"Apparently she had to help the Cakes with an order, Heh, did they sound stressed" Cory laughed.

"I'm sure they did. Hey, come take a look at this book, its very interesting!" Cory walked over to the purple unicorn and took a look, there he saw a giant humanoid figure holding a sphere between his hands. "Is that, Ultraman?" he asked

"I guess so said Twilight, look, its got alot of illustartions on him, but not a whole lot of information."

Cory raised an eyebrow "Which means?"

"Which means ponies know almost next to nothing about him, I guess he's been turned to stone for so long no ones been able to document any information about him. But the next time I see him, I'll be sure too" The unicorn announced proudly.

"Heheh, good, we need all the info we can get." he then looked around the library, "All the info we can get."

"Well, I guess these studies can wait for later, lets get organizing." Twilight glanced around the room, "Spiike! You said you'd help me and Cory out today, where are you?"

"Coming!" yelled her little protege, and after a hour of cleaning and reorganizing, the three were finally done. Cory realized he was almost late to help rarity, "Hey twilight, I really gotta go. Catch up with you guys later, see yah!"

"Bye Cory!" replied both Twilight and Spike.

When he arrived at the Boutique and entered through the door, he didn't see Rarity anywhere. But he did see the adorable Sweetie Belle, who barely came above his knee. "Sweetie belle, is Rarity gone?"

Sweetie Belle shook her head, "She's been up in her room testing different fabrics, she's been workin all day.."

Cory gave the little filly a confused look, "Aren't you gonna help her?"

"Are you kidding? Rarity never lets me even touch the sewing machine, let alone her good fabric."

Couldn't help but laugh a little, "Well thats Rarity, yesterday when I had a few blue berries in my hand she nearly had a heart attack" and both Cory and Sweetie belle laughed.

"Cory? Is that you darling? Oh thank goodness!" And Cory saw the white Unicorn trot down the steps to meet him, "I was worried that you two wouldn't show up and-, wait, you don't have any berries on you, do you?"

Cory turned his pockets inside out for Rarity to inspect, nope, no berries. "Terribly sorry, I'm just so stressed by this dress and I need it to be perfect." "I understand, pressure never helps much sometimes" said Cory.

Soon, Rarity and Cory were off walking through the area of where Rarity and Spike usually harvest diamonds for rarity's projects. "Alright, may we begin?"

"Yes we may," said Cory as he twirled the shovel in one hand.

Rarity's horn began to glow, leading her towards a patch or diamonds, "Over here Cory!" she shouted.

Cory instantly dug up the patch of diamonds, after several more dig ups, the wagon was about full. All that shoveling and mulching he did at home sure helped. "Thank you ever so much Cory, you've done me a great deal of help, much appreciated"

Cory was wiping his hands clean of dirt, "It was nothing really, just helping a friend".

Suddenly, rarity's horn began to glow once more, "Oh, I guess there's more over here. Over by the base of that mountain."

Cory walked over to the mountain and began digging. He had to hack away at stone with the tip of the shovel, but then he felt even more resistance, suddenly, the ground began to quake, and the whole side of the mountain began to crack. Cory ran back to Rarity who was still inspecting for more gems, "Run Rarity!"

Rarity turned around to look, and she immediately took off running with Cory, but then they heard a peculiar roar, the sound of a large monster. Rising from the side of the mountain was the monster Gakuma, whose bellows could be heard throughout all the valley. He looked around, and noticed the human and the pony standing underneath a low lying mountain ledge. Gakuma was extremely territorial, and did not even allow the smallest of creatures in his territory, and crawled out from where he rested.

Cory took one look at Rarity and said, "Lets run! Come on!" he darted away from their hiding place, but noticed rarity ddin't budge, too frightened to even move. If he ran back to get her, then the both of them would surely be killed. Then he got the craziest idea, he began picking up stones and with all his might, began chucking them at the monster.

"Heyyy! Over here! Come on you bastard! Come and get me!" The angered monster then charged at Cory, intending on crushing him to pieces, Cory then ran as fast as he could, and hid inside what used to be a bear den. Pulling out the spark lens from his pocket, he remembered the giants words, "Use this, when you cannot protect precious lives on your own."

"Don't let me down," Cory said to the relic, and with that he raised the spark lens in the air pressing the switch. The emblem on the relic unfolded, and Cory was enveloped by light, finally invoking the Tiga warrior within him.

Doing a flip in the air, Tiga landed in front of the him, then grasping the horns on its head. Using all his strength Tiga raised Gakuma off his front legs, uppercutting the beast before kicking it in its softer underbelly. Gakuma roared in pain and anger as he fell to his back, angered and shocked by what had just happened. Tiga would not allow him to regain its footing, pinning the monster down with his knee on Gakuma's neck, Tiga delivered a series of punches and knife hands to the Gakuma, causing him to shriek in pain.

Rarity watched in amazement at the battle before her, never had she seen the fight this close before. Tiga's fist charged full of destructive energies, but before he could do so much as punch Gakuma, his front claws elongated, and lashed the warrior of light across his chest, knocking him onto his back. As Gakuma got to his feet, his horns pointed forwards, and his talons elongated, now he was truly ready to fight. Roaring, the beast charged at Tiga, his horn stabbing into the hero's armor like skin. Tiga fell back, clenching is injury, struggling to stand up.

Gakuma saw his chance, and fired his blue stone ray, striking Tiga's leg, creating a stone coating around it, then at the hero of lights other lig, and then his mid section. Tiga could not move, he was stuck firmly to the ground, and with the blue light on his chest started flashing red, he knew was running out of time and energy. He had to do something, and fast. Making the gem on his forehead flash red, the hero thrusted his fists downward, and the shock wave of power surging through his body shattered off all the stone, his colors turning to Red and Silver. Gakuma roared in surprise, no being has ever gotten out of that attack.Regardless of his adversaries new form, he charged at Tiga, intending to gore the hero with his horns.

Tiga, now in his Power mode stood there, awaiting the attack, and right before Gakuma's horns could touch him, he grabbed one of them before chopping both of them off with his hand, making Gakuma shriek in pain. Grabbing the stumps Gakuma had left of where his horns were, Tiga lifted up the monsters head, upper cutting Gakuma in his stomach.

Gakuma tried to lash Tiga with his claws, but the hero grabbed the talons on his right front leg, crushing and splintering them off, and with that, tossed the broken beast over his shoulder. Gakuma desperately tried to get to his feet, but to no avail, he had lost even the strength to even do so much as stand. He had lost, and he knew it.

Tiga needed to end it, and fast. Thrusting his fists down again, he gathered UV Rays from the sun into a ball of red destructive energy between his hands, before throwing it at Gakuma, blowing the stone monster to pieces.

Rarity slowly crawled from her hiding place where she watched the battle, and looked up at the giant in pure awe. Ultraman looked back at the small pony. She couldn't believe what she had just saw, the sheer might, the power... Rarity felt that she was looking into the eyes of a god, one who's power radiated off his body. Ultraman gave her a slight nod before flying away.

Rarity stood there, watching as the hero soon became merely a speck in the sky.

"Rarity!" She heard Cory call, "Are you ok?" Rarity turned to see Cory walking towards her. She was relieved to see he was ok, "Yes I'm quite alright, how did you escape from the-"

Cory cut her off there, "That thing about killed me, but then Ultraman came out of nowhere and saved me."

Cory looked at the white mare, she was still shaken up from the event, "He's quite the fighter, right?"

Rarity only nodded, "Well," Rarity said, "At least were both in one piece."

"Couldn't agree with you more Rarity. Now lets go, you've got yourself a dress to make".

And with that, the two of them took a long trip back to Ponyville in the sunset. They had been away much longer than they thought, and it was a busy day for the both of them, especially for Cory.

Chapter 3, End

Ending theme: Brave Love Tiga

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