Episode 27: Miracle! Father of Ultra
(featuring Inferno Alien Hipporit)
Alien Hipporit demands that TAC surrender and that humans become their slaves. The Captain refuses. On their way back to HQ they are accosted by some foolish humans who think TAC should stop fighting the alien. The Captain makes a speech about fighting for the souls of humanty. Later at TAC HQ, the team discuses the possiblity that their Cell Desruption system failed because the monster they used it on was not the real thing. They also discuss the possability that the aliens are not actually 200 meters as creatures that big would have to come from a planet with less gravity than on Earth and therfore they could not live on Earth so they must be making themselves appear much larger than they really are. Mikawa is placing flowers at the table, believing Hokuto, Seiji and Minami, Yuko were killed when their TAC Space crashed but Captain Ryu asks her to remove the flowes because he has a feeling they are still alive somewhere. Captain Ryu says he is going for a walk. He goes to see the young woman and boy who's father was killed by the real Alien Hipporti while TAC was deceived by the illusion. He apologises. Then explains to the boy why the cannot stop fighting to safe the Earth. He promises to avenge their dad. The girl gives the captain her father's "good luck charm" which he did not have with him when he died. The Captain has a miniature Cell Disruption missile made, to fit a gun. Yamanaka the team's sharpshooter naturally think he should be the one to us it but the captain thinks its too dangerous so he's going to use it on the alien (I belief he thinks its a suicide mission), He wants Yamanaka to lead a mission agains the fake alien so the real alien wont expect the sneak attack from the captain. Kaji (who apparently believes the TAC team will all die taking on Alien Happorit) wants to go on the mission because "I cannot be the only one to survive". While the others carry out their distraction on the fake alien in the city the captain on the way to the valley in TAC Panther gets his vehicle stuck in the mud. So he walks. The Captain's attack on the real alien succedes in breaking its control of the illusion but does not kill the real alien. As the alien is about to crush the captain with a boulder the others arive in their jets and attack the real alien. Another TAC Falcon and TAC Space are lost in the attack but the crews eject safely. On the ground the regroup but Alien Hipporit surrouneds them in a circle of flame. Kaji's belief that TAC will be wiped out is about to come to pass. When suddenly a green sphere appears. When it hits the ground near Alien Hipporiti an explosion knocks the monster to the ground. Out of the smoke appears Father of Ultra, as the narrator explains his identity and that he spent so much of his energy flying to Earth that he doesn't have enough energly left to defeat Alien Hipporit. He does put out the fires saving TAC and is able to restore Ultraman Ace by ripping off his color timer and tossing it to Ace. As he does so the Father of Ultra collapses, his eyes go dim. Apparently the younger Ace doesn't require as much energy to function. As Ace battles with Alien Hipporit. TAC including the scientist all fire their guns aiming at the monster's head. A blast of the Metalium Beam explodes the alien. Ace is able to revive the 4 other Ultra Brothers and together the five fly the fallen Father of Ultra home. (Don't worry you cannot keep a Showa Ultraman dead Father of Ultra will appear again alive and well in episode 38 without explination. Mother of Ultra, his wife who goes around raising Ultras from the dead hadn't been introduced yet, thats in the next series.) As the rest of TAC are about to return to HQ, the missing Hokuto and Minami appear out of nowhere. The captain returns the "good luck charm". A new star appears in the night sky. Hokuto says it the Father of Ultra's star. And when the boy, Hiroshi ask where his father's star is, Hokuto says they are the same. >Preview of next episode<. "See you next week".
