Ultraman: Invincible from Saving Tiga

On the ravaged port ground, five enormous stone statues lay silently.

Ultraman, Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Jack, Ultraman Ace, and Ultraman Seven.

They maintained their final fighting stance, yet had lost all life force, like ancient ruins forgotten in time, filled with sorrow and deathly silence.

"Seiji!"

"Township!"

"Regiment! Advance!"

Yuko Minami, Akiko Sakata, and Annu let out heart-wrenching screams. They desperately tried to rush over, but were held back tightly by the people beside them.

Takayama Gamu and Asuka Shin stood frozen in place, watching those legendary heroes turn into cold stones. An unprecedented sense of powerlessness gripped their hearts.

"How could this be... Ultra Warriors, how could this happen..."

Risa Nanase turned her head and saw the little girl in the white dress and red shoes, who was now squatting on the ground in pain, her body appearing and disappearing as if she might vanish at any moment.

"Are you alright?" She rushed over to try and comfort her.

Earth Consciousness struggled to raise her head, her once clear eyes now filled with despair and pain.

"I'm dying."

Her voice was as weak as a candle flickering in the wind, "This universe is doomed."

Risa Nanase wanted to say something more, but she shook her head helplessly and looked up at the sky shrouded in endless darkness.

"The sun has gone out."

"Darkness...darkness..."

Just when everyone was plunged into utter despair, a figure burst out from the terrifying black mist with a loud bang, landing heavily on the port's ground, and returned with Mebius's statue.

It's Nexus.

He showed up.

But this time, it didn't elicit any cheers.

Everyone could clearly see that the giant, which should have been shining brightly, was now covered with hideous cracks, its energy core in its chest was lifeless, and its eyes were like dusty glass, devoid of all luster.

He was exhausted.

So exhausted that it felt like I would collapse completely at any moment.

How to do?

Even the last Ultraman has turned into this. What should we do?

Lin Yu knelt on one knee, panting heavily. He carefully placed the Mebius statue he was carrying next to his other companions.

Then, he slowly stood up.

He showed his back to the people behind him, a world filled with despair and fear.

Alone, he faced the ever-approaching, endless darkness, and within that darkness, thousands upon thousands of cold, crimson eyes that lit up once more.

He is the last line of defense in this world.

It is also a defense line that is about to break.

Is he going to be all alone again, fighting against the whole world?

Lin Yu chuckled self-deprecatingly. His dull, gray eyes reflected the endless darkness before him, which was constantly writhing and seemed to be swallowing the entire world whole.

He tried to connect with the earth beneath his feet again, hoping to draw upon the familiar and powerful Renlong energy to restore his strength.

However, this time, the earth was deathly silent.

No response.

He turned his head and glanced out of the corner of his eye at the little girl in the crowd in the distance, wearing a white dress and red shoes, whose body had become translucent, as if she might disappear into the wind at any moment.

Earth's consciousness is also nearing its limit.

Yes, even the sun has been extinguished. As a life-bearing planet that relies on the sun for survival, how long can it last?

Are we nearing our limit?

Lin Yu asked himself this question.

No, I've already reached my limit.

"Lin Yu."

Just then, Noah's ancient and calm voice rang out from the depths of his almost shattered consciousness.

"If you continue fighting, you will die soon."

Lin Yu's mind went blank for a moment, and he asked in return, "Then what will happen to you?"

Noah remained silent for a moment.

His power was far from being able to face this desperate situation alone. This was a cosmic-level threat that only he could face at his peak. If Lin Yu's will and life were to be completely consumed here, then he...

"I'll fall with you." Noah's voice was calm, yet it contained an undeniable determination.

"Is that so?"

Lin Yu suddenly smiled, a smile that conveyed the relief of having shed all burdens.

He raised his head and glanced at the thousands of crimson eyes that lit up in the darkness. Then, under Noah's astonished gaze, he voluntarily deactivated Nexus's transformation.

The massive red and black body dissipated into countless particles of light, and Lin Yu's figure reappeared on the cold ground of the port.

He staggered and nearly fell, his face as pale as a sheet of paper.

"I won't let you die," he whispered to the empty space beside him, as if fulfilling an ancient promise. "We made a promise, didn't we?"

After saying that, he ignored Noah's reaction and slowly took out another item from his pocket.

Unlike Daigo's pure gold one, the one in Lin Yu's hand was a deep silver-blue, as if it contained stars and the sea.

This is his own magic light stick.

With his back to the crowd that had fallen into deathly silence and despair, he turned around and faced the boundless darkness alone.

He could feel the gazes behind him, but there was no hope, no light in those gazes.

Only numbness, fear, and utter despair.

Yes, the Ultramen have been defeated and turned into cold stone statues. Even Nexus, the last one, has deactivated his transformation and looks like he could collapse at any moment.

Their hopes were extinguished along with the light.

No one in this world knows Ultraman Tiga.

This black fog cut off all information; only the survivors in this port knew the truth of this world-ending event.

There was no light, no hope, nothing at all.

But...

Lin Yu slowly closed his eyes.

Even so, I will fight!

Because behind me are the lights of thousands of homes!

He took a deep breath, suddenly opened his eyes, and raised the magic wand in his hand high.

"This might be the last time I transform."

he said softly.

Then, with all his might, he uttered the words he most wanted to shout out at that moment.

"Tiga—!!!"

Chapter 214 Ultraman Tiga!!

In the crowd, Takayama Gamu stared intently at Lin Yu's back and the silver-blue magic wand in his hand.

His head felt like it was about to split open; amidst the excruciating pain, countless chaotic images flooded his mind like a tidal wave.

That's a memory from another world.

A man who looked exactly like him and was also named Takayama Gamu was standing in front of a huge system host called "Skynet".

Standing opposite him was Lin Yu.

"Cross-dimensional information transmission, quantum entanglement communication... Your ideas are very bold, I dream of them." Lin Yu said with a smile in the picture.

"and this."

Another scene flashed by; another version of myself in my dream handed Lin Yu a red sphere. "The Red Sphere of Desire," it said, "can turn intense desires into reality. We can already achieve that. Let it absorb the desires of people all over the world; I think that's definitely more powerful than one person's desire."

The image finally freezes.

It was after a battle that Lin Yu from another world and Wo Meng from another world stood side by side.

"Lin Yusang, thank you."

"You're welcome. We're comrades, aren't we?"

Comrades...

That's it!

I dreamt of Gaoshan, and he remembered everything!

Those incredible dreams he had weren't dreams at all.

It's another version of myself from a parallel world who transmitted my memories through some kind of quantum entanglement that transcends time and space!

In that other world, I had already fought alongside Lin Yusang.

There was no beam of light piercing the sky, and no awe-inspiring background music.

Only a glimmer of silver-blue light, like a stubborn star, flashed and disappeared in the endless darkness.

The light enveloped Lin Yu's body, absorbing all his exhaustion, pain, and willpower.

The next second, a giant, 49 meters tall, with a silver head, a body interwoven with red and purple, and a faint light shimmering on its chest, appeared on the port.

Lin Yu, or rather, Ultraman Tiga, opened his eyes.

"hold head high--!"

As if they had encountered their mortal enemy, thousands upon thousands of resentful Gatanothors simultaneously unleashed earth-shattering roars from within the dark mist.

That roar was filled with endless anger and hatred.

Tiga slowly lowered his center of gravity, assuming the most classic fighting stance.

Then, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shattered, and his entire body transformed into a streak of red and purple light, once again charging headlong into the darkness that represented ultimate despair.

"There is still a way!"

Just as Tiga's figure disappeared into the black mist, Takayama Gamu suddenly woke up and rushed to Nanase Risa's side.

"I'm Yume-kun, do you know me?" Nanase Risa looked at him, somewhat surprised.

“Risa, listen to me, we haven’t lost hope yet,” Takayama Gamu said rapidly. “We must try, if we can do it!”

He took out a uniquely shaped quantum entanglement communication device that he had once designed from his pocket.

"Although these black mists can disrupt all electronic devices, they cannot block quantum-level communication. By using the Skynet system to bypass them, we can forcibly activate global communication devices and allow us to communicate with the whole world!"

He looked at the equally dim red sphere in Nanase Risa's hand.

"Let the whole world know what's happening here, otherwise everything will really be over."

Risa Nanase held the red ball, her expression complex.

Takayama Gamu grabbed her hand and said with utmost seriousness, "I haven't transformed yet, so I should still be considered a pure human and qualified to use it, right?"

Risa Nanase nodded sadly: "But the darkness is too powerful. It's not the despair of one planet, it's the accumulated resentment of thousands upon thousands of destroyed civilizations!"

"But we humans."

Takayama Gamu said, enunciating each word clearly, "What I'm worst at is giving up!"

He held the red ball to his chest and made a wish.