Before Zoffy tried to contact Zero, Ultraseven was fighting a fleet of unidentified aliens in a passage through the Multiverse.
The aliens he was fighting were ones Ultraseven knew very well.
"You again, Ultraseven!"
"You're trying to ruin our plans again!"
Ultraseven drew his Head Blade and replied coldly, "Whether as a member of the Space Garrison or a Stellar Observer, I will not allow you to invade Earth."
"You did the same thing six thousand years ago!"
Ultraseven fired his Emerium Beam at the fleet. A dark figure leaped from one of the warships, intercepted the beam, and charged toward him. The instant the beam pierced the alien's body, he opened a portal and took both himself and Ultraseven through it.
"I can't kill you, but I can at least stop you!"
No one noticed the battle taking place in space.
Shinji, Asuka, and Misato were sitting around watching the evening news, bored.
NERV had officially adopted Zero's own name, "Ultraman Zero," as the giant's name. The official explanation was that it meant Giant Number Zero.
"That explanation makes me sound like Unidentified Life Form Number Zero from Kuuga..." Zero was getting a little too caught up in it.
Now that Yui Ikari trusted Zero completely, she felt there was no need to keep concealing the truth about Ultraman. She therefore had Gendo Ikari order the intelligence bureau to secretly send information to the television stations.
"That boy might have to fight in the city someday. Rather than keep hiding it until then, we should tell everyone now."
As expected, the television reports caused a tremendous stir.
This was the first time a real alien had appeared in this world.
A crowd of self-proclaimed alien experts immediately sprang up, receiving invitations to appear on various television stations and gaining