Chapter 404: 399 Villain: Our Only Way Out Is to Surrender!

After borrowing the Defense Force's manpower and resources to complete the Prometheus, the Monelans tore off their disguise.

"Commander, the Prometheus has launched on its own!"

"What's going on!" Commander Nishijo gasped.

In his plan, the Defense Force would only launch a full-scale counterattack once the TPC had been severely weakened in battle against monsters or aliens.

Defense Force operators: "It's completely out of our control!"

Commander Nishijo: "How could this happen? Where's Dr. Kisaragi?"

"I'm here." A blue flash appeared behind him—Dr. Kisaragi Rui stood there with a sinister expression: "The plan has officially begun. It's time for you humans to realize just how powerless you are."

Commander Nishijo: "What? You're human too!"

Dr. Kisaragi Rui: "We Monelans are merely using this vessel called Kisaragi Rui to communicate with you."

"You humans have no right to speak as equals with us. Without the Ultras protecting you, you are nothing."

"The only behavior permitted to you is to feel despair in the fear brought by our new toy. She has already returned it to you."

With that, Dr. Kisaragi Rui's body collapsed like a puppet with cut strings; the Monelans' mental control ended as the Prometheus ascended.

But no one cared about the unconscious female scientist—every high-ranking Defense Force officer stared fixedly at the monitor screen as the steel giant slowly vanished.

Watching the Prometheus, once the Defense Force's last hope, slip from their grasp, the officers' hearts bled—some even fainted.

"What is this? What is this? How could this happen!"

They'd been tricked by aliens!

Fortunately, this thing didn't launch indiscriminate attacks like Galatron—otherwise they'd have suffered another devastating loss.

Commander Nishijo, face ashen, slammed his fist onto the control panel and growled:

"Seal all news. No one outside must learn we were manipulated by aliens!"

"Raise the security level of Mechanical Seven to maximum. This must never happen again!"

Celebro-possessed Aihara Ryu: "..."

The previous tree-chopper's descendants now bake in the sun—these alien bastards are truly infuriating!

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Why didn't the Monelans destroy the arms factories?

Because there was no need. Over these days, they had thoroughly assessed the Defense Force's capabilities and deemed them non-threatening—no need to make a big show and expose themselves.

In the original series, the Monelans were extremely arrogant; after Dyna fled, they directly possessed Dr. Kisaragi Rui to appear at a TPC meeting and publicly announce their invasion plan—starting at noon tomorrow in Region K3, they would erase humanity. If you have the guts, come stop us.

But in this world teeming with Ultras, they had to tone it down—and dared not attempt any "invasion Yugao " anymore.

They revised their plan: to launch a surprise attack and catch humanity off guard.

First, seize control of the Prometheus to attack human cities, drawing TPC's main forces away to contain the threat.

Then, while TPC was distracted, they would pilot their Seed Ship to directly destroy TPC's oceanic base—the one closely tied to the Ultras—crippling Earth's defenses, leaving humanity with only one option: surrender.

This was their feint-and-strike strategy!

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"Shhh!"

The Monelans piloted the Prometheus to Osaka's skies, shed its Weizhuang mode, and revealed its massive form.

"What is that!" people cried in shock.

The Prometheus adjusted its cannons and unleashed a barrage upon the city below.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Glass shattered along the entire commercial street; concrete structures twisted and collapsed like melting chocolate; the city was instantly engulfed in artillery fire!

"Run! Run!" A businessman in a suit dragged his colleague's hand and sprinted—but suddenly stopped at a corner, looking around bewildered: "Wait… why are we running?"

"Because there's a… " His colleague pointed upward, but before he finished, he froze: "A… what was up there?"

At the intersection, the traffic officer mechanically waved his baton to clear civilians, yet had completely forgotten the meaning of traffic signals.

The ambulance driver suddenly forgot how to drive; the vehicle slammed straight into a wall. Deep underground.

Three bizarre creatures with cat tails stared wide-eyed, stunned by the explosions.

These were the Cosmic Cat Monsters from Ultramax's Episode 16, "Who Am I?"

They induce amnesia—even Ultraman Max falls victim, forgetting how to fire his beams, and spends most of the episode acting absurdly comical.

The people on the surface had such poor memories precisely because of these creatures' influence.

The next moment, disturbed by the Prometheus's bombardment, they surged rapidly toward the surface.

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"That's the Prometheus from Ultraman Dyna's movie, 'Star Warriors'!" Qi Ming, watching the footage from Osaka, instantly recognized the enemy's origin.

Damn it, where did this thing even come from?

In the original, it was a super-machine spanning the entire movie—how did it appear here with zero buildup, like a minor monster from a regular episode?

At this moment, the Defense Force launched fighter jets in a furious assault against the massive Prometheus.

Dozens of air-to-air missiles screamed through the sky, only to be blocked by a sudden circular defense barrier that unfolded a hundred meters from the warship.

The next instant, the massive Prometheus transformed—shifting from a colossal airborne vessel into a robot.

The Computer Demon 【Daisfaza】 appeared!

"That's—!" Gagura immediately recalled the deranged version of Agamis 【Terafiza】 he'd seen on Gargon Planet—these two robots looked nearly identical!

The next moment, Daisfaza raised its left-hand rotating laser gun, locked onto the fighter jets overhead, and opened fire.

A dense barrage instantly shredded two fighters caught in the open into burning wreckage; other jets, even as they desperately evaded, were struck by debris, their tail fins damaged, spiraling downward trailing black smoke.

In an instant, eight F-15 fighters were destroyed!

Kishida: "That robot is incredibly strong!"

Qi Ming nodded. Daisfaza was indeed powerful—it was the machine that once overwhelmed Dyna with no chance to fight back.

"But when Dyna mustered courage for his second battle, he still crushed it with his Strong Type. No real problem."

Thinking this, Qi Ming left the base and headed for the battlefield.

"We're moving out too—we must stop this thing!" said Shirogane, staring at the city on screen, now a ruined wasteland.

This time, he decided to go himself.

Shirogane, Kishida, Yamana, and Gagura boarded the Hibari II; Megumi Nishijo boarded the Hibari I; all units deployed.

Yamana walked through the hangar, glancing around: "Huh? Where's Qi Ming?"

Shirogane replied: "Qi Ming has his own mission. We must work twice as hard!"

Soon, Hibari I and Hibari II arrived over Osaka. The Monelans hidden inside the Seed Ship felt reassured.

The plan succeeded—the TPC's elite forces had indeed been drawn here.

Now the TPC headquarters is vulnerable. Next, we can take advantage of this…

Take advantage of this…

What were we supposed to do again?

The Monelans inside the Seed Ship suddenly experienced a mental blackout.

Affected by the Cosmic Cat Monsters underground, their memories were also impaired.

After straining to piece together fragmented memories, the Monelans declared:

"I remember now—TPC with its elite forces is amazing. Our only way out is to surrender!"

"Since TPC headquarters is now empty, we must take this opportunity… to go surrender to their base!"

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