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ACT 1: Visitor[]
“......so that is the fate of the universe, isn’t it?”
Hajime Yamaoka muttered while walking on a forest path near the research facility. Since yesterday’s experiment, Yamaoka was clearly upset as his previously calm attitude turned completely confused. To that extent, the words of the 10 year old boy Kaimoto were shocking to him, no, to humanity. The scene in the laboratory yesterday is clearly revived in Yamaoka’s mind.
Within a military facility lies a special room at the deepest part of the basement. A confidential experimental area known only to some selected people. It’s a laboratory they had, called as Section Zero/セクション・ゼロ.
A giant aquarium that emits pale light. Numerous amorphous life forms floated in the filled cultivated water. They looked like jellyfishes. That’s how they appeared on Earth ----- the Visitors’ form.
Two years ago. 1989. NASA observed a supernova explosion in the M80 globular Scorpio cluster/M80さそり座球状星団. At the same time, a mysterious luminous body crashed in the American desert. The US military rushed to the scene to discover and capture multiple unstable energy life forms. This is mankind’s first contact with other celestial life forms. The US government took “them” to a secret military base in Colorado where “they” were confined in a special space and attempted to establish contact after considering “them” having intelligence. However, conversing with languages failed. Since “they” cannot materialize in the global environment, they use telepathic communication. The FBI and the CIA have recruited many people secretly to military research facilities. They usually summoned humans with psychic powers. Of course, there are many impostors but after rigorous testing, the real psychic user had been sorted and one of the most talented boys was found. He sensed the Visitor's consciousness and succeeded in communicating it in words. It was the 10 year old Japanese boy, Hayato Kaimoto.
“Now, let us begin” Yamaoka spoke gently to the young Kaimoto as many military officials and researchers watched. He sat in front of a giant aquarium where visitors floated and wore a headgear with countless cords.
“Kaimoto-kun, concentrate your consciousness and convey their words.”Yamaoka urged again, and the boy quietly closed his eyes and began to speak. The message from the Visitors.
A communication experiment conducted over a week. The resulting content was surprising and horrible.
Their home planet was prospered by highly developed scientific power. One day they were struck by a disaster. A mysterious blue luminous body flew, and ferocious Beasts occurred. The beast grew at a terrible rate and destroyed their planet. However, a red luminous body came there, and a giant of light appeared. All the Beasts had been destroyed and turned into dormant energy substances. Their planet was spared from destruction. But anxiety and fear never disappeared from them, and they created a giant with their own science. At the same time, the Beasts were revived. The giant named Zagi fought in a fierce battle. And something unexpected happened.
Zagi turned berserk, and instead proliferated the destroyed Beasts. Once the Beasts became stronger, so as Zagi. An anomaly occurred in the self-evolution program. Should the opposing Beast’s evolution increase, his evolution will be inconsistent. Eventually their planet became overpopulated with Beasts and they made their final decision. They blew up their mother planet with their own hands.
At the same time, they escaped into space as photonic information substances/光量子情報体. And after a long wandering, they reached this earth.
But there was a big miscalculation. The Beasts, which were supposedly destroyed with the planet also became optical information substance/光情報体 and flew to Earth with them. It’s by the will of the terrifying Destruction God, Dark Zagi.
“History is certainly repeated. As an unchangeable fate. When Zagi revives --- the earth will be destroyed”
“You’re lying!...... That can’t be true. THAT CAN’T BE!!”
Yamaoka involuntarily screamed as he stopped on the forest road. It’s just like in the lab yesterday….. Yamaoka denied the emotions arising in himself. His emotion was intensely fearful.
“The Earth will be destroyed? I can’t believe it. Unbelievable. Absolutely, unbelievable” Those words suddenly echoed in Yamaoka’s ear as he muttered many times to remind himself.
“......Are you really …...that scared?”
“Who?” Yamaoka frantically looked around. But there is no other person in the dimly lit forest. Perhaps it's just his mind. As Yamaoka grasped his breath in relief, the voice echoed again. “BE AFRAID………….. BE……...AFRAID”
“Who’s there?” But there’s no hallucination. The voice is directly echoing into his head. Yamaoka stood out in this unacceptable situation. The next moment, Yamaoka's eyes were opened to the fear that he had never experienced before.
The light--------, the pale blue light wrapped around his body as Yamaoka fell.
“UGAAAAAA!!!!!” The evil will swallow Yamaoka’s spirit as he screamed and suffered.
The dusky terrifying, dark (Zagi)’s waves are.
ACT 2: Abyss[]
AD 2004. Shinjuku, Japan
".....Where......am I?" A lone man awaken in the darkness.
Its cold. The intense cold shook the man's body. "What is this place?" The man's consciousness asked the same question again. However, there is only a deep darkness around him, and the man cannot understand his situation.
....... Don't panic. Just remember slowly and slowly. The man made an effort to sharpen his consciousness, which was slightly foggy. And he remembered something in the darkness.
Light..... that's it. I saw a light...... a pale blue light.
The situation at the time was revived in that man's mind. Its a small space. Surrounded by countless instruments, the man stared at the darkness of the abyss. That's it. It was at the bottom of the sea. It was a seabed with a depth of 500 meters that he had dived a lot of times. That man was in the cockpit of DSRV (小型深海作業艇/Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle), listening to the quiet sonar sound.
Looking at the underwater radar image, the man is convinced. He was closing on his target. He should have been able to find it soon.
According to Command Cave's explanation, it was a meteorite-like object. However, some suspicious points were confirmed at the time of the fall, and it was necessary to collect detailed data.
The man was confident and proud of his work. That's why he never thought of quitting the dangerous mission of deep-sea research. But now, the man's heart was shaking. There was a clear hesitation.
A woman he met at Yokosuka base six months ago by chance. A researcher at the Bioterror Counter Science and Tactics , newly established in the Ground Self-Defense Force.
Sara Mizuhara. That woman seemed cold at first glance, but she had a really kind heart.
She also had a strong will, which is the opposite of her delicate body. After having conversations with her several times, the man realized that he was attracted to her. When she confessed her feelings on several dates, the man was delighted from the bottom of his heart when he learned that she had the same feelings. And soon he decided to get married. Then, a week later, he handed her a ring and proposed.
Gobo. The man's consciousness was suddenly disturbed.
What was that shock just now? What's with the suddenly appearing pale blue light from the inside just now!?
GAAN! A violent shock struck the inside of the vehicle just now.
The next moment, the DSRV on which the man was riding was wrecked and a large amount of seawater flowed in.
In an instant, terrifying water pressure tried to crush the man. His consciousness faded. But at the same time, a blue light wrapped the man and swallowed it into a dazzling flash of light.
"Be careful, Takafumi. Let's go see the dress together next week." Today, the man remembered what she said before going on a mission. Surrounded by the smiles of chilling colleagues, they will have a wedding ceremony in the church and build a happy family.
A dream that he couldn't imagine a while ago. The man didn't even think there was anything more important than his mission until he met her.
".......... I have to go home ........... Sara is waiting. I have to go back to her soon."
Recalling everything, the man tried to stand up in the dark. And he felt it. To the strange smell that drifts between the surroundings.
It's a stinking smell.
------ It smelled like blood.
Splash. The man's foot stepped on a slimy puddle. And the man realized that it was a large blood clot. It was the blood of the humans he killed.
........... What happened to me?
Why am I here?
It was an underground space in Shinjuku. After losing the battle with the silver giant, he hid within the abyss to heal the wounds on his body.
Who........am I?
What.......am.......I.
......Please tell me.......Sa........ra.
Takafumi Udo's consciousness sank into the deep abyss again and never revived.
ACT 3: Resurrection[]
2009, TLT North America Headquarters
It's been five years since then.
In the research facility. Sara muttered, facing the computer in an inorganic room and looking at the data from the last five years.
Too many things have happened since that day. Surprise, sadness, anger, and ...
Every fragment of her memory reminiscent of Sara's mind squeezed her chest with her fresh sensations.
Underground space in Shinjuku. At that time, she reunited with her lover, who had become completely transformed. Sara had to defeat the man she mutually loved and vowed to marry with her own hands.
Reality is too terrible. The ending was too sad. At the mercy of her cursed fate, Sara succeeded in eradicating the monster The One with a man named Shunichi Maki. With courage, Sara fought through only the precious memories that remained in her heart.
But that wasn't the end of everything. Rather, it was just the beginning.
A month after the fierce battle between Next and The One took place in Shinjuku, when the silver giant began to be called Ultraman among the people, Sara was informed of the progress of a top secret plan.
Everything was brought about by intelligent lifeforms recovered by the US military 20 years prior. They said they warned with weak telepathy that a terrifying monster called Space Beast would appear on Earth.
The following year, an incident occurred in Colorado, USA, where cows and horses in farms died one after another. As the Visitors warned, Space Beasts started to appear on Earth.
After learning of the incident, the US government blockade the entire area to kill the recently developed miniscule Beast "Zero" and collect their cells. Thorough information manipulation by the military was carried out. They tampered with the memories of all witnesses.
This is because the memory of the Beast will be carved into the people to create new generations of Beasts. The fear emotions emitted by intellectual life known as humans would promote the activation of Beast Factors/ビースト因子 that continuously fall from space.
In other words, the Space Beasts are Photon Factors/光量子因子 that came flying as a mass of information that eventually materialized by possessing life forms on Earth. The scary thing is that Beasts don't belong to any ecosystem, they just exist to prey on and destroy other life. Literally, it is a "alien beast"/異生獣.
The Visitors prophesied. If fear spreads to people, the number of Beasts will explode and will bring the world to destruction. The US government took this unprecedented situation seriously and secretly established TLT/ティルト as an anti-Beast organization. With the cooperation of the United Nations, they set up its branches all over the world.
And in particular, the most important point indicated in the Visitor's prophecies was designated as dangerous area. It's Japan.
In 2004, a huge Beast Energy/ビーストエネルギー came flying from space. It materializes and causes enormous damage throughout Japan.
And the memory of that horror will prompt the resurrection of a huge disaster ---- Zagi. If Zagi revives, the Earth will follow the same fate as the Visitors' planet. That is, the time of the end will come.
And 2004. Space Beast The One, appeared in Japan as predicted. It was defeated by the power of the silver giant who appeared to chase it. However, the memories left in the people call for a new destruction. To prevent that, TLT used the Visitor's Over Technology. That is, the Sea of Oblivion ----- Lethe's activation.
A huge flash of light wrapped the world at the same time, and the memories of Ultraman and The One disappeared from people.
And five years have passed.
After the Shinjuku incident, TLT steadily promoted research on Space Beasts, whose appearances were limited to a certain area in Japan due to the Potential Barrier/ポテンシャルバリア of the Visitors.
In order to avoid the upcoming destruction, they rushed to develop an antibody that radically eliminates the Beast Factor. Sara has also become a member of the research team and has been working hard to this day. She assumed it as a compensation for the victimized loved one.
In the days of devoting herself to research, there was one suspicion in Sara's mind that could not be erased. It was after the death of The One, the existence of light within Maki's body had disappeared.
Five years have passed since the incident. At TLT, the idea that Ultraman disappeared with The One was predominant.
But has the light gone? Sara had a reason not to think so. That's because when she saw the shattered and scattered light of The One in Shinjuku, she felt like she heard Udo Takafumi's voice in her mind.
--- Sara. Thank you.
A word of gratitude that is too painful for Sara. But Sarah was also listening to another word at that time.
--- The Light is a bond. It'll be inherited by someone and shines again.
Maki must have heard the same words when seperating with Ultraman's light.
"The light is a bond ..." When Sara muttered in the lab, the information she had was brought to her.
It is said that a vibration wave different from that of Beast was confirmed in the isolated area of Japan. And it is said that a young man named Komon, who was present at the scene, witnessed a silver giant.
".....Ultraman. That must be Ultraman."
Sara knew. The last word that her lover left was true.
The silver meteor that was once engraved in people's memory is now resurrected....