Chapter 151: Earth: When Will There Ever Be a Peaceful Day?
Jojo did not dwell on the matter too much. Seeing this, he stepped aside to clear the area.
"The two of you should just treat this as a friendly sparring match."
As he spoke, a thought occurred to him. He deactivated his transformation, turning into a beam of light that descended upon a relatively secluded spot, mimicking human form.
Using telepathy, he communicated with the two of them: 'Put on a convincing act of mutual hostility, otherwise the Radical Destruction Bringer might see through the ruse.'
If he maintained his Ultraman form, anything he did would look suspicious. Such a trap would be too obvious, and the Radical Destruction Bringer probably wouldn't fall for it.
Gaia and Agul both turned their heads to glance at Jojo.
The Ultraman nodded in acknowledgment.
Standing facing each other, Agul raised his arm and curled his fingers at Gaia.
"Gamu, don't say I didn't give you a handicap. All of this is just to trick the enemy."
As Agul spoke, he wore an expression of utmost arrogance, seeming thoroughly confident.
Gaia assumed a fighting stance. "You're getting cocky too early! It's still undecided who wins and who loses!"
"Besides, according to the setting on that disc, Fujimiya, you're just a secondary Ultraman!"
Just thinking about this made Gamu want to laugh; he had long since grown tired of Fujimiya's posturing.
His words nearly caused Agul's composure to crack—that disc was absolute dark history for him.
Condensing optical energy in his hands, Agul threw his hands up and fired several slicing light blades!
The light blades exploded on the ground with a deafening roar, kicking up a thick cloud of dust.
Taking advantage of the smoke to obscure their vision, Agul leaped forward and closed in on Gaia!
He unleashed a flurry of flying kicks toward Gaia's chest!
Gaia executed an Ultraman roll to dodge, and taking advantage of Agul landing, he unleashed several red slicing light blades!
However, Agul suddenly sprang upward, completely ignoring the incoming light blades!
The slicing light blades struck his chest, producing nothing more than a puff of white smoke.
At that moment, Agul tackled Gaia to the ground, wrapped his arms around his neck, and slammed him down hard. The entire Ultraman Gaia was crashed into the earth.
With a thunderous crash, dust and debris flew into the air.
Agul quickly stood up, and looking at the rolling Gaia, he let out a cold laugh. "See? Agul has defeated Gaia."
This remark caused Gaia to slam his fist hard against the ground. *Oh, so that's how you want to play it!*
"Gai-a!"
With an Ultraman battle cry, Gaia suddenly surged toward Agul, spinning his body into a flying headbutt!
With a dull thud, the entire Ultraman Agul was sent flying backward by the impact.
The moment the two Ultramans collided, their energy fluctuations formed a straight line, shooting out toward the upper atmosphere of Mars and creating a vortex in space.
Agul had suffered a setback and naturally refused to let it go at that, immediately engaging Gaia in battle once again.
However, both of them remained very restrained, well aware of their primary objective this time.
They refrained from using avatars to assist in combat, relying purely on hand-to-hand combat techniques, ray abilities, and Ripple attacks.
Unfortunately, the two Ultras were evenly matched. Unless Gaia activated his Supreme Version, they were locked in a stalemate.
Even with Ripple combat techniques, they had both been taught by the same mentor, making it impossible for either to break the other's defenses.
Jojo gazed up into the high altitude. Although they were currently on Mars, the battle between Gaia and Agul was still gradually tearing open a wormhole.
The vortex outside Mars was growing larger and larger!
Such massive activity was immediately detected as abnormal by XIG.
"Commander, there are abnormal spatial fluctuations in the outer space of Mars!" Tatsuko analyzed the various data and reported the situation, saying, "It looks somewhat similar to a wormhole response, but it hasn't fully opened yet."
Chiba's expression turned solemn upon hearing this, and his gaze instinctively shifted toward Ishimuro.
"Could it be that the three Ultramans went to Mars because they want to open the wormhole?!"
Just what had Jojo and the others mastered, that they were actually taking the initiative to open a wormhole this time?
Tsutsumi inquired upon seeing this, "Shall we dispatch the aerial forces?"
Clearly, he was proposing that all three teams be sent out to provide backup.
Ishimuro looked at the image on the main screen, his expression severe. "This is likely a battle we cannot interfere with."
"If we rush in recklessly, we might end up holding the Ultramans back instead."
After a moment of thought, Ishimuro added, "Order the aerial forces to stand by and be ready to deploy at any moment!"
Since neither Jojo nor Gamu had any intention of notifying XIG, they should avoid getting involved for the time being; otherwise, they might end up making things worse with well-intentioned meddling.
However, this did not mean that XIG would just stand by and do nothing.
If any accidents befell the three Ultramans, they would provide support immediately, even if it meant marching to their deaths.
Following Ishimuro's instructions,
Lightning Team, Coolong Team, and Falcon Team all prepared themselves fully, waiting only for the command to deploy instantly.
Meanwhile, on Mars.
The spatial vortex spun faster and larger, and the Radical Destruction Bringer had now noticed the events unfolding on Mars.
Yet, it was clearly still hesitating.
Krisis, the internal traitor, was gone, and now the two Ultramans on Earth had actually started fighting each other.
Such a good thing existed?
Upon discovering this, the Radical Destruction Bringer's first reaction was disbelief, yet the reality was laid bare right before its eyes.
No one knew what the Radical Destruction Bringer truly was.
The only certain thing was that this entity was likely an entire faction.
Unwilling to tolerate the development of planet Earth, the Radical Destruction Bringer sought to destroy it in advance.
Because once Earth flourished and humanity entered the interstellar era, the one facing misfortune would be the Radical Destruction Bringer itself.
Gaia Earth was simply too formidable.
It possessed the power to nurture Ultramans, along with countless genius scientists.
Such growth resembled the Land of Light in its earliest days.
Who knew when human genius scientists might invent an artificial sun?
In the Ultraman universe, artificial suns were related to Plasma Energy.
When humans were irradiated by plasma energy, they would evolve one hundred percent.
The reason so many people died in the Land of Light back then was because aliens interfered; if they had evolved slowly, perhaps no one would have died at all.
Just think about it: with the noble morality of the Land of Light, they would never manufacture a sun capable of scorching people to death.
Gaia Earth had been targeted by the Radical Destruction Bringer from a very early time.
When Gamu first met Gaia using the Photon Accelerator, Gaia was still grinding monsters in some spatial pocket.
In the outer space of Mars, the spatial vortex gradually expanded, and two streams of photonic energy continuously erupted.
Every time Agul and Gaia exchanged a heavy blow, their battle burst forth with photonic energy, shooting out in a straight line to leave Mars and enter the vortex.
However, likely due to the Ripple energy, the two Ultramans fought for a long time without their chest color timers turning red.
Mainly, they were both holding back; this wasn't a genuine fight to the death.
Observing this situation, Jojo felt that continuing to fight like this wouldn't work, so he offered a telepathic reminder.
'The two of you need to hit harder! Fighting like this won't kill an Ultraman!'
Gaia: "..."
Agul: "..."
Listen to what you're saying! It's as if you're not the one taking the beating!
Why don't you come and try?!
The two Ultras dared not voice these words aloud, because if they really swapped places with him, they might end up enduring pure suffering.
Agul and Gaia exchanged glances and shared an Ultraman nod.