Connection of Light

**Connection of Light** (光を繋ぐもの, *Hikari o Tsunagu Mono*) is the first episode of *Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga*.

## Synopsis

Young Kengo Manaka lives on Mars. As he lives out his peaceful, day-to-day life, the monster Golba suddenly appears, throwing the town into chaos! Meanwhile, Kengo has a fateful meeting with a giant stone statue sleeping deep beneath the ground on Mars. When Kengo becomes one with an Ultra-Ancient light, his destiny is forcefully thrown into motion!

## Plot

A female giant destroys several nearby asteroids out of rage after escaping her petrified form.

Kengo Manaka awakens from yet another similar dream of him facing a woman dressed in white and the image of a dark giant. Both Kengo and his mother, Reina, are workers of Sizuma Foundation, but each had different professions, the former being a botanist and the latter being a researcher in the Martian ruins after discovering it in 20 years prior. Seeing his plants wilting due to high concentration of metal in Martian soil, Kengo trails his mother and Sizuma Foundation chairman Mitsukuni Shizuma to the underground ruins. Reina and her team discovered that the ruins is actually a reverse pyramid and found a giant sword that is similar in composition and age (30 million years) to another ruins that Mitsukuni discovered on Earth. The giant sword reacted within Kengo's presence and a monster appeared nearby the Martian colony.

As Kengo is about to be crushed by a falling rubble, he is mysteriously protected by an energy shield. The monster on the other hand bury its own way in to bypass the colony's defenses and making its way to the pyramid. Mitsukuni recognized the monster to be a Golza/Melba hybrid and fires a bullet of Gomoras attack to force it into retreating for a while. At the shelter, Kengo has a brief encounter with the woman in white from his dream and explains his dream to Mitsukuni about wanting to raise the R'lyeh flower he had been researching in hopes of cheering up people at the times of hardship. Giving Kengo his set of GUTS Sparklence and GUTS Buckle, Mitsukuni recounted a certain hero in his past and that achieving one's dream is their own answer. The alien woman then sent her monster, Golba, into another rampage against the ruins.

Taking the gun and leaving his flower to his mother's care, Kengo rushes into the ruins and falls into a portal that leads him to a statue. The figure in question resembles the dark giant Kengo had always dream of, but he quickly sees the former to be a different person. Kengo later discover the female giant trying to destroy the giant statue, but Kengo's persistence, even after Yuzare fail to protect him, causes the statue to unleash a backlash and deliver its power into a key. As Kengo loads it in and activates the GUTS Sparklence, he merges with the statue as it materializes as Ultraman Trigger to face Golba.

The female giant joins the fight with Golba and already has Trigger beaten, but Kengo's memory of the sword statue has him summoning the weapon to his aid as its original form, Circle Arms. After turning the tides of the battle, Trigger unleashes his finishing move, but Golba quickly shields its master and gets blown into pieces, leaving the former exhausted and the latter escaped. Mitsukuni and Reina realizes that Kengo is Trigger, thus the latter gave him the permission to have her son inducted into GUTS-Select.