//------------------------------// // Episode 18: The Mysterious Dinosaur Base // Story: Ultraman Scorn Season 1 // by SuperSamYoshi //------------------------------// Let's get out of here guys! She's mad! And stay away, you jerks! Are you ok? I-I think so. Hey, I won't hurt you, I want to be your friend. My... My friend? Yeah! You're in my class right? Come on, I'll introduce you to my friends. One peaceful night, the crescent moon shone high in the sky, reflecting off Manesota Lake. Near the lake, a mansion stood overlooking the lake. Inside the mansion, animals of all sorts, alive and stuffed, were trapped in an underground lab belonging to a mad scientist. A couple of lizards struggled to climb out the bowl of water they lay in. The Scientist noticed them after place the large beaker on the side as he got them some food. “What’s wrong? You seem blue,” he remarked, as he dropped bit of food for them, “animals should move around, scramble about, and have the cunning to steal their own food.” The lizards ate the food that was giving to them, making the scientist smile. “Good. That’s the spirit.” He then notice that one of them didn’t want to eat, “What’s wrong? Aren’t you hungry?” he dropped a little bit of food for it, but it still didn’t want to eat, “Ah. My cooking tastes bad, doesn’t it? You’re quite the gourmet. Now, Next is Jirahs.” The Scientist then grabbed a basket and left his underground lab, before getting on a boat, and rowing out onto the lake outside his mansion. He called out Jirahs’ name, causing bubbles to erupt from the surface of the lake. Whatever was under the water, started to swim near to the Scientist on the boat. “There, There. You’re the smartest one of them all,” the Scientist remarked, “Eat up, Jirahs. Because of your leftovers, the fish have flourished and more people with have come to catch them. But, Jirahs, don’t forget, you must sleep during the day.” The next day, the sun shone high in the sky signalling a beautiful day ahead. Manesota Lake is a quiet and peaceful lake deep in the mountains. Normally no one would come here, but… “I’m catching so much it’s scary!” cried one fisherman, “There aren’t enough fishing rods in the world!” “Maybe we should scatter some poison and get them all at once!” shouted another, as he threw his line into the lake again. News of the strange fish increase was sent to Canterlot Attack Squad Service, and they began an investigation for strange phenomena in the lake. Commander Celestia sent Sunrise Storm, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack to investigate. The three of them took off in the Pegasus, and flew to Manesota Lake. Which wasn’t too far to the base anyway. When they arrived and flew over the lake, the Scientist spotted them from his underground lab. The Pegasus circled the lake as Sunrise radioed in to HQ. “We’re arrived at the target, Manesota Lake,” he reported, “We’re about the release the Hippocampus. Hippocampus, AJ, come in.” “This is the Hippocampus,” Applejack replied, “I’m ready to go, Partner.” “Rogar,” Sunrise said before turning to Flash, “Landing. Vertical descent.” “Vertical descent,” Rainbow repeated as she pulled some levers causing the Pegasus to descent to the water surface. Once at a good level, Rainbow pulled a lever and the Hippocampus shot off the Pegasus and landed in the water. Once under the waves, Applejack started to pilot the Hippocampus around the lake. Applejack thought it would be best to message HQ. “This is Applejack in the Hippocampus. Commander, Come in,” she called out. “This is Celestia,” she replied. “I’m about to begin the underwater investigation of Manesota Lake,” Applejack reported, “Is everything ready at Headquarters?” “We’re ready,” Lyra told Celestia after flipping a few switches. “Okay, we’re ready to go,” Celestia called out to Applejack, “start with a sonar scan.” “Rogar,” Applejack replied, as she turned on the sonar and started to look around the lake. Everyone waited for something, but Applejack couldn’t pick anything up on the sonar. “Ok, switch to underwater camera next,” Commander Celestia ordered. “Rogar,” Applejack replied, as she turned off the sonar and activated the underwater camera. She scanned the lights around, looking for anything out of the ordinary. The group back at the base watched on a screen, as Applejack looked around. From behind some rocks, a tail slithered away out of view just as the lights of the Hippocampus turned its direction. Commander Celestia turned off the screen. “Okay. Nothing seems out of the ordinary,” she stated, “We can probably call off the Manesota Lake investigation.” “Roger,” Applejack replied. “We’ll head right back to HQ then,” Sunrise spoke up. “Hold on. Don’t be so rigid,” Vice-Commander Luna stated, “You’ve gone all the way to a place with fresh air. There aren't any cases at the moment, so relax and spend the night there.” “It’s a special leave,” Celestia smiled. “Thank you very much,” Sunrise responded. “Yahoo!” shouted Rainbow as she shook Sunrise’s hand aggressively. Given special leave by Commanders Celestia and Luna, the three members relaxed at the hotel near Manesota Lake. Applejack had a nice shower, Sunrise sat down and did some paperwork, and Rainbow sat in the dining area outside and enjoyed a hearty lunch. Meanwhile, Reporter Penelope, also known as Photo Finish, and camerawomen Violet Blurr and Pixel Pizzaz from the Canterlot Photography Club and secretly members of CASS, headed to the home of Professor Vegeto, the ‘Monster Professor’. Professor Vegeto stared daggers at them as he answered the door and saw them waiting for him, making both girls feel uncomfortable. “Um, we’re from the Canterlot Photography Club, here to ask you about dinosaurs,” Photo Finish told him, this caused Vegeto to get suspicious of them, “Um, the news is from London, but apparently a dinosaur is still alive in Loch Ness in Scotland. We’re doing a special in an upcoming issue and we wanted to talk about it to you.” Vegeto just stared at them and waited for her to finish, before saying, “Come in,” in a creaky sound voice. The girls thanked him and started to enter the house. “Excuse us,” Violet Burr called out as she pulled out a camera, but Vegeto saw this and grabbed her arm, before slowly shaking his head with a stern expression. Vegeto took the three reporters to his secret cave, showing them his drawings of dinosaurs scattered across the walls. “These are Dinosaurs that lived in Loch Ness 100,007,000 years ago,” he told them before listing the dinosaurs on his walls. “This is a Diplodocus. Its neck is 20 meters long. The King of the Dinosaurs, the Ceratosaurus. It is a Terrifying Carnivore. The Stegosaurus. This one is also violent. The Triceratops. Its three horns are its weapons. The Ichthyosaurus. It can’t go on land. So it hatches its eggs inside its stomach. There is also the Pteradactylus, the Eryops, the Dimorphodon and other monsters. But the one recently seen in Loch Ness, is probably the Diplodocus.” Violet Blurr was a bit of a smoker, so when she pulled out a cigarette, and flicked her lighter on, Vegeto snapped his head around to face her. “Professor, do you know Professor Animo, who disappeared 15 years ago on an expedition to Loch Ness?” Photo Finish asked. “I do. After all, like myself, he was a man obsessed with dinosaurs,” Vegeto replied, “Yes, that was 15 years ago. During the expedition to Loch Ness. When the Loch Ness Exploration team’s investigation was discontinued, only Professor Animo was against the decision. He went out deep into Loch Ness and hasn’t been seen since. But if he fell in and was eaten by the Diplodocus of Loch Ness, I’m sure that’s what Animo would have wanted. May I borrow your lighter?” “Go ahead,” Violet Blurr said as she gave it to him, and he pulled out his own cigar. Vegeto was about to pocket it when Violet called out to him, “hey that’s my lighter.” Annoyed, Vegeto pulled it apart, and tossed it back to Violet, before saying, “Now leave.” Meanwhile, down by Manesota Lake, as Rainbow Dash and Photo Finish fished, a geyser of water erupted from the surface of the lake, this caught Photo Finish and Rainbow’s attention. They watched as the water geyser calmed down and stopped. “Did you see that?” Photo Finish asked. “I did. I’m certain,” Rainbow replied, “I should make a call.” “Wait,” Photo Finish told her. Rainbow was confused until Photo Finish pointed out to the lake, “Look!” On the lake, they could see Professor Vegeto rowing a boat in the darkness back to shore. “Shall we go?” “Huh?” Rainbow was confused again. “We should follow that man!” Photo Finish shouted. “O-Okay!” Rainbow cried as the two followed Professor Vegeto from a safe distance away. Rainbow told Photo Finish to stop as she pulled out her trouser leg and took off a CASS patch before sticking on a tree, “Right let’s go.” The two of them soon came to a cave system, with sharp crystals sticking out the ceiling. The cave was rather narrow and dark, so Rainbow pulled out a flashlight and led the way with Photo Finish close behind her. The duo soon came to a dead end, but it seemed like the wall was a secret door that was unlocked. Rainbow slowly pushed open the door and entered a room, the lab of Professor Vegeto. Rainbow shone her flashlight around, examining everything in the room. From the stuffed reptiles to the dinosaur drawings on the walls. “This is the Monster Professor’s Laboratory,” Photo Finish remarked. “What?!” Rainbow questioned as she panned her flashlight around some more across the walls and passed the mad expression of Professor Vegeto. Photo Finish screamed as Vegeto switched on the lights, revealing he had a gun in hand. Rainbow and Photo Finish got out the way, and Vegeto shut the door with his foot as he pointed the gun at the. “You saw,” he said, “now that you know my secret, I can’t let you leave.” “What are you going to do?!” Rainbow questioned. Suddenly, Rainbow’s radio turned on and Sunrise’s voice came through. “This is Sunrise,” he called out, “Rainbow, how long are you going to be night fishing? Come back now!” Rainbow wanted to say something but Vegeto held his gun up at her. “Hey, Rainbow? What’s wrong?! Rainbow! Can you hear me?!” Sunrise’s voice called again. Rainbow couldn’t say or do anything as Vegeto grabbed her radio and stomped a foot on top of it, breaking it. Back at the hotel, Sunrise and Applejack tried to get into contact with Rainbow and were concerned and worried when she didn’t answer. “Rainbow! What's wrong?!” Sunrise called into his radio. “Hey, Rainbow!” Applejack tried as well. But Rainbow was helpless as she and Photo Finish were held at gunpoint. Vegeto moved to the Ichthyosaurus and tore off its eye to reveal a button. He pressed it and the mouth of the Ceratosaurus opened revealing a window behind the mouth. Vegeto walked over to the window still pointing his gun at Rainbow and Photo Finish. “Jirahs! Jirahs!” Vegeto shouted, “come out and show your face!” The geyser of water erupted from the lake again but this time a head also rose up from the surface, the head roared as more of the monster rose up, a neck frill, its upper torso and arms, a row of dorsal plates ran down its back. From what Rainbow and Photo Finish could see, the monster strongly resembled Godzilla just with a frill on its neck. This was the Frilled Monster Jirahs. “It took me 15 years to finally raise Jirahs,” Vegeto stated, the sound of insanity in his voice, “Jirahs is more important than life itself. I even took DNA from Godzilla himself to get Jirahs like this. It took me 15 years. 15 years. I did it. I raised Jirahs.” Jirahs roared again as it dove back under the lake’s surface. Having learned that Rainbow Dash and Photo Finish had gone missing, Sunset, Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rarity rushed to the mysterious Manesota Lake. Meanwhile, Sunrise and Applejack, along with Pixel Pizzaz and Violet Blurr were already beginning their search for the two. Back with Rainbow and Photo Finish, they were still trapped in Professor Negeto’s lab, Rainbow was trying to fix her radio while Photo Finish tried to open the door. “It’s no good,” Rainbow told her, “stop that.” Photo Finish sighed as she lent on the door, “Can you fix it?” she asked. “I see what I can do, I’m not as techy as Twilight or Microchips,” Rainbow remarked, “Can I borrow your hairpin?” Photo Finish took her hairpin out as she walked over to Rainbow. “Here,” she said, giving it to her. “If I can just fix this…” Rainbow stated as she started to fix her radio with Photo Finish’s hairpin. Back outside, two men in a boat were throwing poison in the lake to cause the fish to flow to the surface. The water bubbled and fizzed as the two waited for the fish to appear. Sure enough the fish rose to the surface dead, the two men cheered. “They’re coming up!” shouted one of the men, “Hooray! We did it!” “We did it!” yelled the other, “They’re floating!” “It worked!” the first man declared as he shook hands with his mate. Suddenly, both of them heard a roar coming from behind them, as Jirahs started to resurface. The two men jumped out their boat in fright and started to swim back to the shore pleading for help. Sunrise, Applejack, Violet Blurr and Pixel Pizzaz were driving nearby, when they saw Jirahs emerge from the lake. Even the remaining girls in the Griffin saw Jirahs rise from the water. “Girls!” Pinkie called getting the girls' attention, they all looked out to see Jirahs wandering around the lake, roaring out in fury. “Sunset, take us down immediately,” Twilight told her. “Right,” Sunset replied as she landed the Griffin. At the same time, Professor Vegeto was running through the forest that led to his lab, but he wasn’t running to his lab, he was running to where the Griffin was landing. Sunset, Twilight and co, met up with Sunrise and Applejack, as AJ started to fire her Beta Rifle at Jirahs, causing the monster to roar in pain when Applejack shot his frill. Vegeto soon arrived and tried to stop Applejack from firing her Beta Rifle. “Stop! I won’t let you hurt my Jirahs!” he shouted as he pushed Applejack back. “What, What are you doing?!” Applejack declared, as she tried to wrestle her Beta Rifle away from him. “‘My?’” Sunset questioned. “That’s right,” Professor Negeto replied as he stopped wrestling Applejack and stared at the girls and Sunrise, “I made it with my own hands. Isn’t it magnificent? Look at those glistening eyes. Look at that furious mouth. Jirahs is a work of art that I created. You can’t do as you please!” “He’s mad,” Sunrise remarked to Rarity who nodded in reply. “Professor, your idea of dinosaurs is wrong!” Sunset told him. “What?!” Professor Negeto shouted crossly. “Can’t you study them scientifically like Professor Animo?” Twilight asked. Negeto cackled evilly as he slit his neck causing Rarity to scream in horror, and pulled off the mask that he had been wearing the whole time. Revealing that he was Professor Animo, showing off his sickly green skin. “Professor Animo?!” Twilight shouted in disbelief “You’re the Professor Animo that went missing in Loch Ness 15 years ago!” “Jirahs!” roared Animo as he turned and ran towards his creation, “Rampage! Rampage, Jirahs! Show them your strength!” But as Jirahs rampaged onto shore, Animo made a massive mistake, he had gotten in Jirahs’ path, and got trampled by the Godzilla lookalike. Sunset and everyone gasped at this, now with Animo out of the picture, Jirahs was now out of control as it waived onto land. Back in the lab, Photo Finish looked out the window in horror as Jirahs was making its way toward the house. “Oh No! Jirahs is coming this way!” She shouted. “Okay it’s fixed!”Rainbow declared, happy with herself for fixing her radio pin, she switched it on and called out into it, “This is Rainbow! This is Rainbow!” “Where are you?” called Sunset back. “I’m locked in the Monster Professor’s lab!” Rainbow replied, “Photo Finish is here with me as well!” “Jirahs is coming this way!” Photo Finish shouted, “Please hurry and save us!” There’s a secret tunnel in the grove!” Rainbow told her, “I’ve left an emblem as a marker!” “Roger,” Sunset replied, “Applejack, try to hold it back with your Beta Rifle.” “On it Sunset!” Applejack responded. “Everyone let’s go!” Sunset ordered, as she and the rest ran off to the secret tunnel. Jirahs spotted them but Applejack got its attention when she fired another bolt of energy at the Frilled monster. Applejack managed to damage it in the frill again and on its shoulder, causing sparks to fly and Jirahs to roar out in pain. Soon Sunset and the others found the emblem that Rainbow had left on the tree. “That way!” she shouted as they ran into the tunnel. All except Sunrise, as he pulled out his Ultra Coins and dipped away. Jirahs was soon coming onto shore in front of Animo’s mansion. “Sunset, My Beta Rifle is out of Energy!” Applejack shouted into her radio, “Hurry and rescue those two!” Sunrise watched from afar, clutching his Ultraman and Gaia coins. Sunset and the rest ran through the tunnel until they reached the door to the lab. The door was locked with a padlock, but Sunset pulled out her Alpha Pistol and shot the lock off, unlocking the door and bursting it open. “Now! Quickly!” Sunset shouted to Photo Finish and Rainbow as they followed out the lab, “Hurry.” They were just about to exit the tunnel, when Jirahs grabbed the house’s roof and caused dirt to fall into the tunnel and Fluttershy to panic. Sunrise entered the starry nexus and pulled out his Ultra coins of Ultraman and Gaia. “Lend me your power, Ultraman!” {ULTRAMAN} “Lend me the will of the earth, Gaia!” {ULTRAMAN GAIA} “I shall bring peace and harmony to the universe!!” {RISE ULTRAMAN SCORN SPECIUM PHOTON!} Jirahs shook the house trying to get the humans out, it was about to punch through the roof, when Ultraman Scorn grabbed its arm. Jirahs turned to see Scorn staring at it, Scorn let go and the two giants stepped back. Jirahs roared in Scorn’s face, causing him to way a hand in front of his face due to Jirahs’ breath smelling of fish. Jirahs roared again, as Scorn taunted it to bring it on, Scorn was distracting the Frilled monster while his human allies escaped the tunnel and were a safe distance away. As the two giants prepared to fight, Jirahs demonstrated it might by grabbing a rock and throwing it into the air and blasting it with its electric heat ray. Ultraman Scorn did the same, but he grabbed two rocks and destroyed both of them with his Nihonium Beam. This annoyed Jirahs as it stomped towards Scorn, as it came closer, Scorn grabbed his head and forced it back. Jirahs stumbled backwards and roared in annoyance again, Scorn smacked his chest, and taunted Jirahs to come at him again. Jirahs did so, but scorn just caught its head again and pushed it back again, this time causing Jirahs to fall backwards over its own feet onto the ground. Jirahs struggled to get back up, causing Scorn to laugh for the first time. Now frustrated, Jirahs fired a blast of its Electric Heat Ray at Scorn, who jumped out of the way in time and instead destroyed some trees behind where the Ultra once stood. Jirahs tried again, but Scorn jumped again as well, Jirahs tried a third time, Scorn merely dodged it in time once again. Jirahs was not happy by missing, as Scorn ran forward, grabbed Jirahs by the frill and completely ripped it off its neck. Jirahs felt where its frill once was and roared in panic, feeling only a bloody wound. Scorn held the frill up like a red cloth in a bullfighting arena. He even fought like it was a bullfighting arena, taunting Jirahs with its frill which caused the now frilless monster to charge towards him, and he dodged it just in time. Scorn did this a few times, as if he was simply playing with Jirahs, until Jirahs tripped and tumbled to the ground. Jirahs stood back up and spat out some tree it caught in its mouth, Ultraman Scorn dropped the frill to the ground as the two started to circle each other, waiting for the other to make the next move. Scorn suddenly jumped forward and started to wrestle Jirahs before throwing Jirahs to the ground near judo-style and ponsing on it. The Ultra and monster started to tussle on the ground, at the same time, Scorn's Color Timer began to blink when Jirahs threw him off. Ultraman Scorn and Jirahs stared at each other before they charged at each other, as they did, Scorn’s Gauntlet Stones turned purple as he jabbed Jirahs with an Ultra Poison Chop. Everything went quiet, for a second, as both giant and monster stood staring each other down. When suddenly Jirahs started to bleed from the mouth, before slowly collapsing to the ground, dead. Ultraman Scorn relaxed his fight posture, and looked down on Jirahs’ lifeless body. Jirahs wasn’t just a dinosaur, it was a creature that had been mutated by a mad scientist with the poisonous cells of Godzilla and had lived a painful life away from its true home in Loch Ness. Instead of destroying Jirahs' body with another Nihonium Beam, Scorn gave respect to the monster by placing its frill back on its neck before brushing his hands across its face and closing its eyes. Ultraman Scorn looked down at Jirahs one last time before looking to the sky and flying off to recharge. “I can’t believe he tried raising a dinosaur,” Photo Finish remarked, “what a terrible Professor.” “The monster Professor wasn’t satisfied with just raising snakes and crows,” Rainbow stated. “He really was obsessed with dinosaurs,” Applejack commented. But Professor Animo wasn’t done just yet, barely alive and slowly dying after getting stepped on by Jirahs, Animo crawled over to his creation. Crying out its name with pain in his voice, as he soon crawled to Jirahs’ side, and died along with his creation. That night, Commander Celestia ordered Jirahs' body to be carried to a deserted area, where it was to be cremated and could finally rest in peace. Heya everyone, I'm Sonata Dusk, an alien Siren, and I'm here for this instalment of Wondercolt Monster Library. Today we're here to bring you this episode's topic, Jirahs. Jirahs, Alternative Name, Jirass, the Frilled Monster or the Ruffed Dinosaur. He stands at 45 meters tall and weighs at 20,000 tons. his home world is Planet Earth. Jirahs is actually a redesigned Godzilla suit. Unlike Gomess, Jirahs was created simply by combining the head of the DaisensoGoji suit (from the movie Invasion of Astro-Monster,) with the body of the MosuGoji suit (from Mothra vs. Godzilla) with some yellow paint sprayed on parts of his body and a yellow frill around the neck. To further demonstrate the similarities between Jirahs and Godzilla, Jirahs possesses a modified but still recognizable Godzilla roar, as well as his Electric Ray attack bearing a very close resemblance to Godzilla's own signature Atomic Breath. Also adding to Jirahs' close relationship with Godzilla, the portrayal of Jirahs was done by suit actor Haruo Nakajima, who is famous for portraying Godzilla in the first twelve Godzilla films. The reason behind Jirahs' creation was because at the time of Ultraman's production, Tsuburaya actually intended for a different design for the monster for Ultraman to fight, but due to the minimal budget at the time (which is seen between episodes 8 through 19) and a very short schedule, Eiji Tsuburaya had negotiated with Toho Co. Ltd to have the Godzilla suit loaned to Tsuburaya Productions, which had been left in Toho's warehouse now that Toho, at the time was moving on to use a new suit for Son of Godzilla. The conditions for using the suit however was that it'd be in good condition once filming was complete. It can also be said that Jirahs' creation and appearance is to pay homage to the creation of Godzilla himself as Eiji Tsuburaya made his career famous in handling the special effects for Toho Co. Ltd, and for creating many of Godzilla's enemies and allies. And is technically the only official time that Ultraman and Godzilla have fought each other. But not counting this story as I fought Godzilla on Monster Island in an earlier episode. Oh dear, it seems like we're out of time. join us for the next instalment of Wondercolt Monster Library in the next episode. We hope we'll see you then. Goodbye everyone. See ya! Now I wonder if I could get myself and Episode for myself? Don't Spoiler the future of this series!