Ultraman Tiga Chapter 7

Poultry from Hell

Intro Theme: Take me Higher

It was evening, Celestia watched as her sun set below the Horizon, soon her sister would awaken and take care of the night. She has had a long day. Since the arrival of Golza and melba, she would watch over her land constantly, and her sister would do the same for the night. For some reason, this was her favorite part of the day, to just see everything slowly rest for the night. She cared for all her subjects, and wished them all a peaceful rest for the night. As she turned to walk back into her room, she could've swore she saw a bright flash streak across the sky behind her. She told herself it was just a shooting star, but when she turned around to look, she saw a ball of glowing light energy slowly float down to the balcony. Her eyes squinted from how bright the light was, but when the light took on the form of a humanoid figure, her horn glowed with energy, was ready to defend herself.

She heard a mans voice say, "Do not be alarmed" the figure extended out a hand, to the Princess, as if trying to convince her that he was not here to fight. Regardless, Celestia would not let her guard down.

Celestia horn flared with energy "Who are you, and, what do you want?"

The light from the figure faded, revealing a red and silver being, several bumps ran down his chest , one row on each Pectoral. He was similar to Tiga, but different in a lot if ways.

" I come from a star you may call Nebula M78, a distant land. I was observing your civilization, and I grew curious about you beings. I am here to simply observe you, and, I have come for an even greater purpose."

Celestia still tensed up, "And that would be?" She thought to herself, Who was this man? Or, being.

Zoffy looked towards the stars, "I feel that there are far greater powers out there, some more than your hero hero can handle on his own." He turned to face Celestia, "I need to unite with you, in order for me to be active on your planet. That way in times of your hero's need, we may fight together as one. But do not worry. I will do nothing to control your thoughts, emotions, anything."

Celestia thought about it for a moment, she sensed truth from this mysterious being."Very well, we may unite, as one. Just as long as you keep your promise."

The being outstretched a silver hand to the Princess, in it, was a round Scarlet bracelet, "Let me see your hoof" said the Silver man.

"Celestia lifted her from right leg off the ground, enough for him to place the bracelet on her ankle. When he was finished, Celestia looked at the metallic band, taking in every detail. "What is this?" She asked.

"Use it, when Tiga cannot fight on his own." He turned around , looking up to the sky.

"Wait!" Celestia shouted, "What's your name?"

The Silver man glanced back at the White Pony, "Commander, Commander Zoffy."

"Zoffy..." The princess said to herself.

"And yours?" He asked her back.

"You may call me Celestia, Princess Celestia."

"Princess Celestia, I'll be sure to remember that" And with that, he morphed back into a ball of light, flying away towards the stars above.

Celestia watched as the light faded into the night sky, still wondering who and what this man truly was.

Luna walked onto the Balcony, " Sister, your still awake? You must rest, as it is I who will watch over the night"

"Celestia nodded to her sister, and walked back into the castle to her bedroom. There she placed the braclet on her nightstand, and rifted off into a deep sleep.

Back in Ponyville at Sugarcube corner, Cory layed sleeping in his bedroom with Pinkie Pie. Since his room was in repair from what occurred when both him and Spike tried a science experiment, he slept in her room.

While he slept, Pinkie pie came up to his right side, whispring into his ear, "Pssst, Cory, Psssst!"

Cory opened his eyes slowly, "What Pinkie? I'm tryin to sleep, I got a big day with helping Fluttershy tomorrow.."

"Ok, I guess you don't wanna help me make night cakes!"

Cory snapped awake, "Night cakes?"

"Yep, with extra cream filling!"

Cory sat up in bed, "So um, about them cakes?"

The two of them went to the kitchen and began preparing their midnight snack. Out of all the things Cory and Pinkie would bake, Night cakes were Cory's favorite.

Pinkie tossed Cory a pair of oven mits, "Hey Cory, catch!"

Cory caught them, and removed the tray of mint chocolate eclair like pastries from the oven, while he sat them on the stove top to let them cool, Pinkie Pie took in a deep whiff, "Mmmm, your the best baking buddy ever! I mean no offense but how can you cook so well since your a guy, well I mean most stallions around here can barely bake so I was just wondering and-"

Cory cut her off there, "Me and my mom always used to bake... Well, my, Birth mother...." he hung his head low. Memories of him and his family flashed through his head at that moment, he didn't even realize he had tears streaming down his face.

Pinkie Pies ears flopped down, "Awww, don't be sad" she gave Cory a tight hug, "Come on, lets have some cakes"

Far in the volcanic mountains of Equestria, a large resting ground for dragons slept. Remains of ponies and griffons, and other prey animals scattered the area. Every dragon was sleeping, all except for a group of young teenage dragons, who were playing hacky sack with a large diamond. However, when the large brown one tried to knock it to the next person, he swallowed it accidentally.

The red one shook his head slowly, "Nice goin! Now what're we gonna do!?"

The purple scaled one stood up, "I know, how about we tell some creepy stories?"

The red one thought for a bit, "Ehh, sure why not.. Not like we got anything better to do anyways."

The purple one started off with the story of the great dragon hunter, one who would hunt dragons, and use their scales as his body armor. Every dragon shivered, all except for the red one.

"Really guys? It's not that scarey. I've got an even better one. Ready for this?"

His peers leaned forwards to hear his tale, "I'm gonna tell you about the legend of the monster, Birdon..."

Every Dragon gasped, "Is th-that the monster that used t-to eat, D-D-Dragons?" quivered the blonde haired one.

"Legend has it, that he'd eat an entire adult dragon in one meal, the, it would munch on the younger ones, just for a snack!"

The fat brown one burped flames from his nervousness, and the whole group laughed.

The Volcano that was near them suddenly started to tremble, slowly hot magma began to flow from the top, before spewing out on it, Awakening the sleeping dragons. Through the rumble and the cracking sound of fissures forming, there was a loud, ear splitting cry. Rising from the top of the volcano was the volcano bird, Birdon. flapping his wings, he flew away from the erupting volcano, but with his heat resistant skin covered in lava. An Alpha male Dragon saw the great bird approaching him, breathing flames, warning the creature to stay away. Birdon payed it no attention, and landed in front of the giant reptile, releasing another high pitched screech. This time the dragon breathed a full stream of flames at Birdon, but the Avian beasts skin resisted the attack, and the bird monster released his own stream of flames.

The dragon howled in agony as his skin bubbled and blistered, these flames were hotter that lava, more than the dragon's scales could take, but it didn't end there. When the Dragon attempted to get back up, but felt a large sharp object stab into his back. Collapsing to the ground, he turned to see Birdon burrowing his beak deeper into the dragon's flesh, deeper and deeper.

Birdon held the dragon in place, and began injecting his extremely potent venom, it slowly flowed into the dragon's blood stream before reaching his heart. Slowly he closed his eyes, his heart rate stopping. Pulling his beak out of the corpse, Birdon shrieked to the stars above, challenging any dragon foolish enough to battle him.

The group of teenage Dragons scattered from Birdon as he dug his beak back into the dragon, pulling out strips of flesh, completely swallowing them whole. blood dripped down his beak, and he felt the flesh sizzle in his magma filled stomach. When he was finished with his meal, there was nothing but a shredded bloody corpse of what used to be a large, crimson dragon. Birdon turned away from his leftovers, flapping his arms he flew away from the mountains in the early morning light.

Back near the village of Ponyville, Cory and Fluttershy were busy tending to Applejack's dog Winona. She got into a porcupine the night before, and her muzzle was covered in quils.

Fluttershy petted the dog at Cory expertly worked the pliers around one of the quils, before managing to yank it out, causing the herding dog to yelp in pain.

"Shhhh, it's OK Winona, it's gonna be alright, me and Cory are gonna get you all nice and healed in no time.." Fluttershy softly said to the dog.

Cory patted Winona' head before pulling out another one of the the quils. After a few more quils, Winona's face was clear of Quils, but her snout was bleeding. Fluttershy quickly bandaged her snout, and Cory lifted her off the table and say her on the couch, pulling a blanket over the exhausted dog.

"Thank you so much for helping me Cory, Its always nice to have a helping hand to take care of the animals. I don't think I would've been able to do it on my own".

"Ey, no problem. between you and me, it's better than helping Twilight with sorting the library."

Fluttershy giggled softly, "Oh, trust me, I understand"

"Hey, I'm gettin kinda hungry, how does lunch sound? It's on me".

"That sounds wonderful, but you really don't have buy me anything, I'm quite fine I mean I-"

"Fluttershy come on, anything for helping me with that cramp I got from lifting AppleJacks apple crates"

"Oh well, if you insist then, that's fine".

As the two walked towards town, Twilight was seen running full speed towards them, "Fluttershy, Cory! Good thing I found you guys, I got a note from Princess Celestia about a monster that's appeared in the valley near the volcanic mountains, we gotta hurry!"

"Oh my, another monster? Oh um I dunno Twilight I've got a lot of baby animals to take care of at my house, um I'll see you later..!"

Twilight ran behind her and pushed her forward, "Fluttershy come on! We need all the help we can get!"

Cory got an idea, "Fluttershy, you know those animals you love? They'll all be killed if you don't help us! Do you want that to happen? Think about Hummingway, Angel, all of them!".

Fluttershy's face went from almost crying, to utter seriousness, "Lets go guys, we got a monster to take care of!"

Soon they all met up outside of Ponyville, "Alright" said Twilight, "Does everypony have their weapons?"

AppleJack lassoed an Apple off a nearby tree, "Got mine"

Pinkie hopped in joy when she unclothed her weapon of choice, "Got my party cannon!"

RainbowDash rolled her eyes, "Pinkie, firing cakes at a monster isn't gonna do anything!"

Pinkie giggled, "Just sit back and let Aunt Pinkie show you!"

She aimed her cannon at a nearby boulder, before lighting the fuse. "You might wanna cover your ears guys!"

The cannon fired what seemed to be a strudel, but as soon as it splattered against the rock, the whole boulder exploded into thousands of pieces.

Everyone's jaw dropped, what the hell just happened?

"Dynamite cakes!" Pinkie giddily announced.

Twilight shook her head, getting her back into focus, "Well, seems we got that weapon, anyone else?"

"I've got a few storm cloud waiting for me not far from here, and man they're just burstin with lightning." quick as lightning, she dashed over the horizon, and came back with black cloud. She tested it on a large tree, and the cloud a good kick, invoking a powerful lightning bolt to vaporize a tree. "How's that?" she asked.

"And I've got some magic spells, these give me the ability to fire high power energy blasts from my horn, I think were ready!" Little did they know they had all the protection they needed.

As they walked though the mountain scape, the sounds of Birdon's roars echoed through the walls of the valley. "Um, is it to late to go back now?" Fluttershy's wimpiness got the best of her once again. AppleJack tried to comfort the frightened pony, "No Fluttershy, we came this far, and there ain't no way were gonna go back now. We gotta do what we came here for".

Moments later, they saw Birdon making his way through the valley where they were walking, despite how strangely goofy looking the monster was, it also seemed fairly powerful. Birdon did not notice the small ponies, which gave them the advantage to attack.

Twilight turned towards her friends, "RainbowDash, you go get those clouds, Pinkie, quickly use your cannon! Applejack, you rope it and hold him in place while they attack it, Everypony else, spread out!"

"Right!" they said in unison.

While everypony else went their way to help on another, and Cory went with Pinkie to help her with the cannon. He reached into his pocket to look at his spark lens, he knew that while he had it, nothing could overcome them. "Hey Pinkie, wait up!"

When the two of them got into position, they watched as AppleJack lassoed Birdon around his beak, quickly tying the other end to a tree. Quick as lightning, he roped another around the plume on top of his head, then another on his beak as well. Birdon shrieked as he struggled through his bindings, but he quickly snapped off the ropes, leaving AppleJack with no other way to fight him.

Cory turned to face Pinkie pie, "Well, looks like it's us now pinkie, You got the ammo?"

"Sure do! One Mint cake ready to go!" she stuffed the pastry into the cannon as Cory lit the fuse, he positioned it to where it faced Birdon, and let it fire. The cake zoomed through the air, exploding as soon as it make contact with Birdon's skin. Shrieking in surprise, Birdon stumbled a bit from the shock of the explosion. He was then suddenly hit by a Violet blast of energy, which singed the downy feathers on his neck. Twilight was firing blasts of energy from her horn at the beast while Cory and Pinkie Pie let loose cake after cake on Birdon. Soon RainbowDash joined the fray, kicking the cloud that released bolt after lightning bolt.

The Lightning made Birdon shriek in pain as it shocked his body, now he was getting tired of this. He looked up to the clouds, And shot forth a powerful breath of flames, evaporating the storm clouds from the air. The heat forced RainbowDash to retreat, she joined Twilight who was desperately firing energy at Birdon.

Birdon then focused on Cory and Pinkie Pie, and fired another stream of flames at them, which ignited all the explosives inside the cakes. Cory and Pinkie Pie ran as fast as they could from their cannon, but the explosion from the dynamite sent them flying a few feet forward, both of them landing with a thud. Cory groggily got up, "Pinkie, Pinkie Pie where are you?" He called, he then saw her on the ground unconscious.

"Oh no, Pinkie!" He ran to rescue his friend, hoping she was still alive. He picked up her body, and ran away from the scene, he ran till he came to an area of thick shrubbery where he laid down her body. Standing back up, he removed the Spark lens from his pocket, and ignited the switch, becoming the warrior of light, Ultraman Tiga.

Tiga landed in front of Birdon, going into his battle pose and ready to fight. Birdon shrieked in surprise, but immediately perceived this being to be a threat. Tiga and both Birdon charged at each other, but before they could collide, Tiga swiftly grabbed hold of one of Birdon's wings, and did a flip over Birdon's head, twisting the limb before landing a powerful kick to the back of Birdon's head. Birdon roared in pain as his wing popped and fractured from the attack, but he shrugged off the pain, and turned to see Ultraman coming in for another attack. Birdon attempted to fly, but Tiga grabbed hold of one of his legs, and brought the Avian beast back down to the ground.

Applejack came back with a badly bruised Pinkie Pie, but she seemed to be alright, at least her consciousness was back.

Rarity hugged her "Oh Pinkie pie darling, we were worried sick about you!"

"I'm ok I guess, but, wheres Cory? He was just back there with me!

Birdon swatted Tiga away from him, his claws scraping across Tiga's face and knocking the hero onto his side. Birdon came in to stab the hero with his beak, but Ultraman kicked at Birdon, making him fall to his back. Ultraman got up, as well as Birdon, but before Ultraman could lay a hand on him, a stream of concentrated flames poured from Birdon, the heat was too much for even Tiga to handle, and his armor like skin smoked and sizzled from the heat, making Ultraman fall to his knees.

Birdon marched forward, and raked his claws across Ultraman's face again, and before Ultraman could retaliate, he buried his beak into Tiga's side, making the hero yelp in pain. Birdon pumped his venom into Ultraman, the potent substance was enough to make Ultraman's color timer blink.

Twilight and her friends looked on in disbelief, was Tiga, losing? "Ultraman! Hang in there partner!" cried AppleJack.

"Don't give up! Just please, please hang in there!" shouted RainbowDash.

Birdon walked towards the hero with sadistic intention, venom dripped from his beak as his blood shot eyes observed the slowly dieing Ultra. Ultraman crawled away from Birdon, but turned around, and fired a bolt of blue energy from his hand, striking Birdon in his chest, but it was easily shaken off. Birdon came in for another jab, and sunk his beak deep into Ultraman's chest, injecting more venom.

Tears poured down Twilight's face, "Tiga, No!!"

Ultraman laid there motionless, his light was still blinking, but his eyes grew dim. Birdon stood over the dieing warrior, roaring into the skies, proud of his new victory.

Rarity trembled slightly, "I, can't believe it. Ultraman, he's... Is he?"

"No, h-he can't be, ah know he can't, " Applejack was holding back tears, this was too much to handle, for all of them.

Far away in the royal castle, Celestia sat there, watching the battle with her own eyes, even she was just as shocked to see the outcome. She opened her eyes, and looked down at the Scarlet bracelet, and remembered Zoffy's words, "Use this, when Tiga cannot fight on his own." she walked out onto her balcony, and raised her front leg towards the sun, and then bracelet gave off a blinding flash, becoming the the powerful Ultraman, Commander Zoffy.

Birdon was coming in for one last stab, which would surely be the end of Tiga. RainbowDash's nostrils flared, her face contorted with rage, "Hey! You get away from him!" but before she could go, she felt AppleJack tug at her tail, "It's no use Sugar cube, if Ultraman couldn't handle that thing, I don't think ya'll would able to handle it either!"

Twilight cutted in between the two, "But we gotta do something, we can't just let that thing finish him, if he's gone, all of Equestria is doomed!"

Pinkie pie pointed to the sky, "Look, over there! I see something!" Everypony looked in the direction which she pointed, and saw what appeared to be Ultraman Tiga at first, "Ultraman Tiga?" asked Fluttershy.

Rarity squinted, "No dear, this one seems different!"

Fluttershy gulped, "What if it's another monster?"

Twilight looked on at this new being, "He doesn't really look like a monster...."

Zoffy delivered a powerful drop kick to the giant bird in the chest, knocking the avian beast clean off his feet and making Birdon cry in both anger and surprise. Zoffy turned to face the ponies, who were just as surprised as Birdon to see another giant of light.

"So, do yah think he's on our side now?" asked AppleJack.

Twilight didn't take her eye off the giant, "I sure hope so."

Zoffy turned to see Birdon getting back up, and with that Zoffy jumped into the air, doing a flip and landing another kick on Birdon's skull, dazing him. Grabbing hold of one of Birdon's plooms, he uppercut-ted the great bird in the throat, before delivering a powerful strike with his knee to Birdon. Using all his strength, Zoffy lifted Birdon off his feet, and tossed the gnarled bird over his shoulder.

RainbowDash was getting an adrenaline rush just by watching the battle, "Wow, I think this guys even stronger than Tiga! But I'm still cooler, 20% cooler".

Rarity bit her lip, "I just hope he can keep it up".

Birdon charge at Zoffy, shrieking in rage, but the bracelet on Zoffy's wrist emitted a bright flash, stunning Birdon completely. From his hand, Zoffy fired his Z-ray, electrocuting Birdon from the inside out. Smoke poured from Birdon's nostrils, as he slowly fell onto his chest. He wasn't dead, just down for the count.

The ponies cheered on this mysterious new Ultraman, they knew what his true intentions were now.

Zoffy jumped into the air, flying to the dieing Ultraman Tiga. He stopped over him, and began to spin around rapidly, encasing him in a red orb of light energy. Ultraman Tiga rose up from the ground slowly into the ball of crimson energy, for some reason this scared the Mane six.

Pinkie stumbled back, "What, whats he doing to Tiga?"

Fluttershy quivered behind them all, Don't tell me he's only here to get rid of both of them so that way he can get rid of us...!"

Inside the Sphere of light, Zoffy appeared next to the body of Tiga, "Ultraman Tiga, I give you, life once more", laying a hand on Tiga's color timer, energy surged down Zoffy's hand into him, making Ultraman's dimming eyes to become lit once more with his color timer turning blue.

"Ultraman Tiga, your energy is restored, and now you have new power. Take this, to battle the monster, it will help you succeed against him", the bracelet that was on Zoffy's hand clasped around Tiga's wrist. It glowed as it adjusted to the size of his wrist, Zoffy nodded to Ultraman "Now go, you must save you, Equestria, and this earth".

Ultraman Tiga rose to his feet from the floor of the sphere, he spoke in Cory's voice "Who, who are you?"

"My name is Zoffy, But who I am does not matter now, you have lives to save. Do you understand?"

Tiga nodded in agreement to this "Zoffy".

"I must go, Ultraman Tiga, Good Luck."

And the next thing Ultraman knew, he was out in the open where he battled Birdon, just in time to see Birdon regaining his senses from the powerful attack he faced earlier. He looked over at the familiar Ultra, and Shrieked in rage, this time he will be sure to finish him, for good.

Pinkie Pie noticed the revived warrior, "Look, Ultraman Tiga's back!"

The others were confused as to where the other Ultra being had went, but at least they knew that their true hero was there to fight for them. They cheered as they saw him run t

As Birdon ran towards Tiga, his glands producing vast amounts of venom. But before he could do anything, Ultraman took the bracelet off his wrist, and tossed it at his enemy which wrapped around Birdon's beak, sealing it shut. Unable to inject venom or breath fire, he was virtually powerless. Ultraman took advantage of this and laid a swift kick to Birdon as well as a few chops to the neck and head, followed by a powerful punch to Birdon's chest.

When Tiga leaped at Birdon for another barrage of physical attacks, Birdon stirred up more dust in front of the Ultra with his wings, clouding Tiga's vision. Ultraman wouldn't let this get him down again, he jumped into the air, getting out of the cloud of dust, just in time to miss a swat to the face from Birdon's claws. Tiga beckoned for the bracelet back, and it slid right right off Birdon's beak and back to his wrist. Birdon immediately released a strong blast of flames, but Tiga had already began flying back towards the mountains where the dreaded beast came from. Birdon would not allow his sworn enemy to escape, not after all the pain and rage he had given him, he immediately took flight after Ultraman.

Tiga turned around to see Birdon flying after him at full speed, all was going exactly to plan. Up ahead he could see the active volcano from which he Birdon had risen from, it was not time to finish the plan. Pressing one of the four knobs on the bracelet, Tiga created a illusion of himself that flew into the volcano. The confused and mistaken monster followed the illusion back into the volcano, while on the outside the real Ultraman released his Zepellion ray into the volcano, creating a large explosion that engulfed the fire bird, destroying him once and for all.

Ultraman nodded in satisfaction with his new victory. Looking up, he flew higher into the sky above, he had had a long day of fighting, and this one sure took the cake of an intense battle.

In the distance, the Mane six walked back home to Ponyville, but bumped into Cory on the way. "There you guys are! I was worried that thing got you guys!"

Pinkie Pie hugged her friend, all the others joined in as well, "CorCor! There you are! Where you been all this time!?"

"Birdon chased me away from here, and I got stranded all the way over here, sorry to make you guys worry"

Rarity dusted the dirt off of Cory's shirt lightly with her hoof "It's quite fine dear, next time just try to stay near us?"

Cory rolled his eyes, "Come on Rarity, I'm alot closer to you guys than you think when all this happens".

AppleJack cut in, "Who cares bout where we are, as long as ya'll are safe an sound, everythins just fine".

Twilight nodded her head, "She's right, now lets go home now, I'm famished".

Later that night in Canterlot, Celestia conversed with Zoffy again, they both stood there, looking over the Balcony over Celestia's kingdom, occasionally looking at each other while they talked. They told each other more about one another, such as Zoffy telling Celestia about his past battles, his home world, and much more. Each one Celestia listened to in amazement, a whole planet, full of beings like him. And to her Excitement, he was the most experienced fighter.

"What a beautiful kingdom you have. This whole planet is like non other I've been too." Zoffy turned to Celestia, "I can see why your hero wishes to protect it."

Celestia nodded at him, "He fights not only for the earth, but for all of us ponies."

"Beings worth saving." Said Zoffy.

Things got quiet between the two as they looked over the kingdom. The sun barely peaked over the horizon, soon it would be Luna's job to rule for the night.

"How long will we remain united?" Celestia asked.

"You and me will remain as one until this threat is over, that way in Tiga's time of need, you and me can fight to save him, and your kingdom. And more importantly, these ponies, your subjects. But in all honesty, you can become your own being at any time, just ask."

" I understand, Commander".

"Please, just call me Zoffy".

Celestia giggled, "Very well then, Zoffy"

"I must go now, but remember, use the bracelet in your own or Ultraman's time of need."

Celestia nodded to Zoffy, smiling she said "I shall surely remember that".

And with that, Zoffy took to the stars above, soon becoming a speck in the sky above. Luna who had heard the last bit of the conversation while passing by, walked out onto the balcony with her sister, "Sister, who were you talking too?"

Celestia kept looking up at the stars, smiling. "Come my sister, I got a story your never gonna believe..."

Chapter 7, End

Ending theme: Zoffy theme song

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