Across the multiverse, things had shaken up quite a bit.
After Ultraman's betrayal during the battle with Destoroyah, the multiversal council had been stripped of their crowns and left to sort out how they'd continue their duties in protecting the network without the enhanced power the crowns gave them.
Gamera and Zone Fighter eventually pieced together that Ultraman was truly Ultraman Dark in disguise, leading them to believe that their original ally was either dead or imprisoned somewhere.
Zone figured out how to access the network and the two of them confronted Ultra Dark in their grand annex. Their crowns reignited and they attacked the dark impostor of their old friend.
The fight was short lived, as Zetton emerged and nearly killed the both of them while his army of Ultra Dark's watched from above, a crown floating above each of their heads.
Zone tried to portal both himself and Gamera out of the annex but a strange magenta portal collapsed beneath the turtle and pulled him into a nightmarish landscape of flesh and sinew.
Gamera fell once more through a magenta portal and landed in a city where an old enemy of his, Zigra, was laying waste unopposed. He'd killed this universe's Gamera, running free without issue.
The turtle let out a mighty roar that shook the ground, his crown pulsating as he charged Zigra. The battle was over in a matter of minutes. Zigra was no match for the crown imbued Gamera.
But how did Gamera even get here? What had brought him across the multiverse in such a vile, terrifying way?
Biollante's world tree remains had shrunk smaller over the years that she'd been dead. Soon, she was almost a manageable height, rather than completely cutting through the clouds.
Her core never stopped glowing, even if the mushrooms were gone. It would thrum with an otherworldly sound, pulsating occasionally.
Scientists postulated that this was some form of life that had stowed itself away from the top end of the plant, which did give cause for alarm. If whatever was alive within the core was hostile like the Matango had been, the damages would be incalculable.
Junior visited the trunk one day, pressing his snout against one of the thin golden membranes to get a smell of what could possibly be inside.
Golden dust spun around him, but unlike the first time when this dust manifested and harmed so many people, this time it was merely glittering light.
Junior watched as the dust swirled around him, almost as if it was a caress from a long lost family member, before the dust flew into the sky.
Shortly after, the thrumming ended and the lights inside the core flickered out.
Lore:
Gabara had thrived all throughout his lifespan before and after the worst threats that the planet had faced.
Then, she re-emerged. Megaguirus had gone dormant for quite some time after her defeat against Godzilla and Anguirus so many years prior. Her temperament was far more docile than before, however. Rather than sending her new children out of the hive to devour mankind, she tracked down and ate the leftover problematic monsters.
Gabara had hidden himself away in the woods further outside of the city he'd been manifested inside of, but soon he was snatched up by Megaguirus. Her massive form blotted out the sun, then the clouds of her offspring did the same.
She tore him apart and held him up so her children could swarm around his body and pick away until nothing remained of his body.
