Chapter 6

First contact

Intro theme: Take me Higher

It was another sunny day, the air had a gentle breeze, everypony seemed to be out enjoying the beautiful sunlight. It was days like this when Cory would play football with Spike and RainbowDash, in their usual large flat open field. The other ponies were usually too slow, or had no interest in playing with them, so it was a pass time sport for the three of them.

"Hey Spike, catch!" yelled Cory.

Before the purple dragon could jump to catch the ball, RainbowDash swooped down, stealing the pass and speeding towards her goal.

"Yah gotta be faster than that Spike, Football isn't about catching, it's about speed,"

As soon as she finished her sentence, Cory tackled her, stealing the football. "And where I come from, tackling!" and with thta, he sprinted full speed to the opposite side of the field.

RainbowDash flew infront of him in the blink of an eye, "Oh no you don't!" she said.

He kept running, blind siding her, and quickening his pace. "Touchdown!"

Him and Spike high fived as Rainbow got back to her hooves, "Heh, nice game, next time I won't go as easy" giving cory a smile and a wink.

"Sounds like a plan"

However, their game was interrupted from Derpy Hooves flying in, " Oh hey, uh, RainbowDash, the Pegasus's wanted me to get you for something, um, something important"

Ugh, Derpy, do I seriously have to? Whats going wrong now? It's the third time this week those feather brains needed help!"

As if not hearing Rainbow, she clumsily flapped over and landed next to Cory, "Ooohhhh, Footballl, can I play? Me and my uhh, daddy always used to playy this"

Cory scratched his head, "Um, yeah, course you can." How could he say no, aside from the mane six, the crusaders, and a few other ponies, Derpy was one of the few that accepted Cory. It was a fact that most of them in town were still quite suspicious and afraid of him, and he knew it. There was even a pony at the market that forbid-ed him from coming near his stand, in fear that he would "Scare away his customers".

Derpy clapped her hooves, "Yaayyy, thanks Cory!"

"So um, you and RainbowDash are on a team, and me and Spike will go against you guys."

Derpy flew back into the air, "Ohhhhh, now i remember why I came here! RainbowDash, there's this really weird um, cloud thingy near Ponyville. We don't think its a storm one, no pony has been making anymore storm ones, I think"

RainbowDash rolled her eyes, "Ugh, so the cloudsdale factory is acting up again? Man, when will they get their stuff sorted out? Sorry guys, gotta fly, I'll catch you guys later!"

At this point Cory and Spike were just passing the ball back and forth, "Alright Dash, see yah" Spike said as he received a pass.

As RainbowDash and Derpy took off, it wasn't long before they saw what seemed to be a thunder head, but it was, smaller. Barely the size of a cumulus cloud. Next to that, it was to low to the ground.

"So this is the cloud?" asked RainbowDash

Derpy scratched her head, "Yeah, I think so."

Dash was confused, "This doesn't really look like a normal thundercloud, they make these things into much smaller pieces"

Dash slowly flapped over to get a closer look, but not to close to where a stray lighting bolt may strike her. She flew a bit closer to investigate, but when she did, a large, gnarled face of a monster peered out of the cloud, releasing a distinct and terrifying roar, it's bright yellow glowing eyes fixed on RainbowDash.

"Ahh! Derpy, lets get outta here!"

The blue Pegasus screamed, nearly losing her stability in the air. She sped away from the cloud as fast as she could, not once looking back, with Derpy surprisingly keeping up pretty well.

"Twilight, I better go tell Twilight!" she thought to herself.

Derpy went her separate way, and soon Dash she arrived at the Library, breaking through the door, there she saw Spike and Twilight sitting down for lunch. Twilight used to her magic to set down her sandwhich, " Um, RainbowDash, you ok?"

The shaken up Pegasus could hardly speak, "Twilight! Twilight you gotta listen to me! That dark cloud, its, there's, there's a monster in it! That cloud is a monster!"

Twilight looked at her frightened friend, "A monster?" for a moment Twilight thought to herself, "What did this monster look like"

"It had teeth the size of a pony, and two big yellow eyes!"

Twilight thought for a minute, RainbowDash usually never flies away from a "monster", whatever it was, it had to have been huge. "Hm, lets go check it out, Spike, have you seen Cory?"

"Yeah, but I think he's back at Pinkie's helping her bake muffins for later" Spike's eyes lit up, "Wait, if theres a monster the, Twilight! Can i come and help!?"

The purple Unicorn rolled her eyes, "Spike, your just coming in hopes that Ultraman will show up so you can watch the fight"

"And your point is?"

"Fine, you can come."

"Awesome!"

Twilight levitated a book over to her, looking through a page "Luckily for me, I've been practicing a spell that gives me the ability to possibly talk to these monsters, Hopefully it works, now lets go!"

Soon after gathering their recruits, they all me at the town square, even The Crusaders came to help them.

"So, why were we all called here again?" Asked Sweetie Belle.

"Cause we need all the help we an get to convince that monster up there to go away, and leave peacefully. I've worked on a spell that could give me the ability to communicate with it."

Fluttershy quivered, "Um, why do we have to do all of these, doesn't the Princess know that I'm afraid of monsters?"

Pinkie Pie jumped infront of the cowering pegasus, "Come on Fluttershy! Remember that little song I sang to you guys when we all first met? Do you? No? OK!"

Before she could sing the first word, AppleJack covered her mouth, preventing her, "Look Fluttershy, we all know your scared, but yah gotta bear with us with this, yah hear?"

Fluttershy only whimpered, and but before Twilight could continue, they heard the screams of ponies from the other side of town.

Twilight lead them to where the screaming was coming from, "Come on everypony, lets go, and quick!"

Coming down from the black mist was a large beast that resembled a bipedal Manta Ray, it's eyes were a glowing dark yellow, saliva dripping from his mouth. It has been a long trip for his species, drifting on the solar winds, looking for a suitable planet with a sustainable food supply, even if it was temporary. Gazoto had no home, he was a nomadic predator, as well as the strongest of his species. While up in the atmosphere of this planet, he devoured the weather Gazoto's, making him grow monstrous, and powerful, but now they were all gone, and he needed to feed his young from within him.

He smelled food, and lumbered towards the town, his eyes fixing on the small ponies that fled from him. Saliva dripped from his mouth as he stared at them hungrily, noticing one trip not to far from him, and he quickly caught up to it, before bending down and devouring the unfortunate pony. Of course, this small pony would not do the trick, he would need a whole village of these delectable creatures to satisfy his hunger. Releasing a blood chilling screech, he made his way into the village, houses and shops crumbling under his feet.

When the group caught sight of the creature, they saw the stomach turning display, Rarity stumbled back behind the group, her body trembling, "Now just how in all of Equestria are we gonna be able to handle that!?"

Twilight bit her lip, ideas going in and out of her head, "Spread out everypony! I've got an idea! I'll try and communicate with it while you guys try to lead it away from the town, Applejack, try to lasso the monster, or distract it!"

When every pony went they're own way, Twilight ran a little closer to the Gazoto, who was still chewing yet another pony. "Please work," she said as her horn glowed purple.

"Monster, who ever you are, can you hear me?" She said.

Suddenly Gazoto stopped what he was doing, looking around to see who had spoken to him.

"I think its working" thought Twilight, "Down here, please, who are you, why have you come here?"

Gazoto caught sight of her, releasing a few squawks in reply to her. In her head, Twilight could hear the monster speak,

"Gazoto, like it here."

"Yes! It's working!" thought Twilight, "Gazoto, is that your name?" she asked.

"Gazoto, come to eat"

Twilight thought of other questions, "Gazoto, could you please, um, stop attacking my friends?"

"Friends....?"

"Yes, the ponies are my friends, you and me are also friends."

"Friends, are a treat" said Gazoto.

This response sent chills down her spine, "Um, What was that?"

"Friends are good for Gazoto to eat" the monster began to salivate at the thought of more food.

"This isn't going anywhere," Twilight thought to herself. She heard heavy foot steps , looking up, she saw Gazoto approaching her, "My friend" he said.

Twilight was frozen in fear, not able to move, only managing to choke in a scream. Gazoto was about to bend over and gorge on the purple Unicorn, when suddenly a barrage of cakes hit him. Squawking in surprise and confusion, he turned to his right to the Sweetie Belle, AppleBllom, Scootaloo and Spike catapulting pastries to distract him.

"Run Twilight, go now while you still can!" shouted Spike. Twilight broke from her trance, and galloped as fast as she could from the vile monster. Gazoto saw this, and began walking after his meal, he was not gonna let his new "friend" get away from him. Suddenly, a rope suddenly made its way around on of his flipper like arms, tightening around it. AppleJack lassoed another rope around the same arm, tying them to a tree. Gazoto yanked his arm back, uprooting the branch and biting off the ropes from his arm. he was starting to grow annoyed by this.

Cory was helping other Ponies evacuate, directing them to the outskirts of town, and assisting elderly ponies,young fillies and colts that were lost find their parents. But he thought to himself, "I can't help by doing this, I need to transform"

He found an alley free of ponies, pulling out his Spark Lens. Raising it into the air, he pressed the relic's switch, activating the transformation, becoming the warrior of light, Ultraman Tiga.

Jumping into the air, Tiga landed infront of the startled space monster. Tiga deleivered a side kick to Gazoto's chest, making him stumble back. Roaring is surprise, he quickly felt a front kick as well as a roundhouse to his side, this time angering him and fueling his desire to fight. On all the planets Gazoto has been on, never has he feltt and endured such forse from any being.

"Look" shouted Spike, the three crusaders looking to where he was pointing, "It's Ultraman Tiga!" the three of them shouted.

Pinkie pie joined in, "Ultraman Tiga whoopee!"

Tiga jumped at Gazoto, grabbing hold of his head, landing a few chops before tossing Gazoto away from him. Despite this, Gazoto was quick to get back to his feet. Despite this, Tiga grabbed hold of one of his arms, tossing Gazoto over his shoulder. Ultraman was easily winning. Leaping on top of the beast, Tiga brought down a couple of powerful chops with his hand, each one making Gazoto cry out in pain, but one of his flailing arms made contact his Ultraman's head, kocking him off of him.

Ultraman quickly got back up, as did Gazoto. Ultraman spun Three hundred sixty degrees, landing a spinning hook kick to Gazoto's chest, causing him to double over, his face instantly making contact with Ultraman's knee. knocking out a few of his teeth.

When he looked back up, Ultraman's hand glowed with purple energy. Punching Gazoto with that hand, the energies surged throughout the monster's body, nearly frying the inside of him, the force was enough to knock Gazoto clean off his feet. With his eyes going dark, Gazoto was dead, at least he appeared to be. Tiga turned around, but before he could take off, Gazoto's eyes glowed yellow, and he immediately stood up. Tiga turned around to see Gazoto right behind him, but before he could react, the beast locked his mouth onto Tiga's arm, his teeth piercing his armor like skin.

Ultraman yelped in pain as the teeth shredded his flesh, but the more he tried to pull away, the worse the wound got.The mane six watched in disbelief as their hero bled light from his arm. However, Ultraman knew that if he didn't resist, he'd surely lose his entire arm. His hand cackling with energy, he landed another punch to Gazoto's face, blasting out one of the gnarled monster's eyes. Gazoto reared back, blood pouring from his wounded socket, as Tiga fell to one knee, holding his wounded arm. He glanced behind him to see bolts of energy surge through Gazoto, and some sort sort of blue energy collecting in his throat. A plasma ball made its way to Ultraman, but he swiftly dodged it despite his injury, and switched to his speed mode. He jumped into the air, flying towards the sun, with Gazoto giving chase, and with his injury, Ultraman was losing speed and energy.

Scootaloo was growing sick with worry, " Oh no, that things gaining on him!"

Spike clenched his fists, "He can't fly with that injury, it's a no win situation!"

Twilight bit her lip, "Come on, Ultraman..."

Gazoto released one more plasma ball, with Ultraman barely dodging it. Another one zoomed by his head, barely missing him. If one of those struck him and he fell to the ground, he'd be done for, but he couldn't give up just yet. The closer he got to the sun, the more his wound healed. Another ball grazed Tiga's shoulder, making him yelp in surprise, he looped around, this time flying Gazoto head on. His fist glowed with energy once more, and at the speed of sound, Tiga's hand made contact with Gazoto, knocking him from the air and sending the gnarled beast plummeting into the ground below.

Tiga landed shortly after, going into a battle pose as he awaited the creature to stand up once more. As gazoto groggily got back up, his body charged up with energy once more. Knowing what would happen next, Ultraman gathered light energy into his fore arms, before tossing the radiated bolts at lightning speed, striking Gazoto square in the chest. Roaring in agony, Gazoto fell to his back, exploding into thousands of pieces.

Everypony cheered, turning to face the crowd of ponies, Tiga gave them a thumbs up before taking off into the sunset. Cory soon ran up to meet his friends once more.

Pinkie Pie jumped up and down cheering, "Yippee whoohoo! He did it! He did it! He won!"

AppleJack peddled her front hooves in the air, "Yeeehaw! Now that there was some good fightin!"

Fluttershy looked up and smiled with the rest of her friends, she too was equally happy.

"Hey, what are those?" Asked Sweetie Belle and AppleBloom.

From the crater of where Gazoto was killed, small stingray like creatures fluttered up into the skies.

"I dunno, the look like..." Twilight couldn't for the life of her make out what they were, Nopony or Cory could. But they knew that the threat was over for now. Or was it? Couldn't there be more Gazoto's? This question did not pass through any of their heads. But, their town, part of it was in ruins, either crushed or burned from the plasma balls.

Rarity looked on, "But, what about the city? That monster almost destroyed a fourth of it.."

Cory patted the back of her neck, "Don't worry, we'll all work together to fix it, every last bit of it."

Pinkie did a few small hops,"Cupcake party at Sugarcube corner! Lets go everypony!"

That idea sounded like a good one to almost everypony, and the mane six and the Crusaders, as well as Cory and Spike, went to have their small celebration.

Chapter 6, End

Ending theme: Brave Love Tiga

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