Episode 12: The Red Flower of a Vicious Cactus
(featuring Cactus Terrible-Monster Sabotendar)

Cactus Terrible-Monster Sabotendar

A cactus Terrible-Monster attacks. Military jets attack it but are destroyed. Ultraman Ace appears. TAC covers Ace by shooting at the monster. When Ace is about to finish off the Terrible-Monster the monster disappears in a cloud of smoke and Ace flies away. Unnoticed a tiny green cactus walks away. Hokuto's wounded wrist is being wrapped by Minami,who comments that the Terribe-Monster was like both a plant and an animal, she compares it to a a cactus and a hedgehog. Yapool wants to the monster to be given more energy so it can become bigger and defeat Ultraman Ace. The narrator ask the audience if they know what the monster's enegy source is. The cactus puts itself in a pot belonging to a cacti salesman. They boy's soon see a month land on the cactus' red flower and get eaten. Fascinated the boy asks his father for this cactus the father wants him to buy it, he pays his dad 50 yen, Dan wants 200 but setttles for 50. The boy feeds the cactus bugs and shows it off to his friends. Since his name is Saburo he decides this rare cactus which he discovered shoulld be called "Saburotus" and he labels it as such. That night the cactus sprays acid to melt a hole in the schools chickekn coop when a man hearing that something is distrubing the chickens he is killed and eaten by the cactus, leaving only his clothes to be found in the morning. The chickens are also missing. Of course Saburo doesn't want to believe his cactus did it and neither does a police detective who has his own absurd theory that the man ripped off his clothes than ran off naked carrying the stolen chickens. Hokuto goes to consult an expert on cacti and finds that police detective there. The expert cannot discount the possability of a carnivorous cactus since there are other carnivorous plants. Hokuto goes to see Saburo, who hides the cactus then lies to Hokuto's face about throwing it away. If a child asks "do you think I'm lying' your answer should be "yes" because they are. Meanwhile, the police have analyzed. a spine found at the scene, its from a hedgehog. The detective still don't believe its a Terrible-Monster. TAC goes on night patrol certain that sooner or later the Terrible-Monster will reappear. At their home, Saburo's father is eating skewe chicken and watching television. The cactus easts his last skewed chicken but of course Saburo gets the blame. The cactus runs away, Saburo tries to run after it. He meets Hokuto and Minam on patrol in TAC Panther and tells them the cactus ran down the road. A drunk man and his drunk girlfriend try to run over the cactus, it eats them. Yamanaka wants to shoot the cactus, but Hokuto says that's dangerous, because one time a space insect shot with a laser turninto a giant, he suggests taking into space and blowing it up. The captain decides that is the safest thing. They took the entire car with the cactus inside into space and blew the car up with a missle. Yapool laughs saying the foolish humans gave it the burst of energy it needed The Terrible Monster returns to Earth. Kaji has developed a bomb he thinks will vaporize the water in the cactus monster. Hokuto volunteers to brave the monsters spine missiles and takes off in a TAC Arrow. He drops a bunch of capsules which release a red gas. TAC on the ground shoot at the Terrible-Monster waiting for the gas to take effect. The Arrow is shot down, Hokuto ejects, the Ultra Rings flash, Minami jumps into the air to meet him. This time the Terrible-Monster is stronger than Ultraman Ace and attempts to eat him. But Ace cuts off its tongue than splits the monster into four parts killing it. Later, Saburo cons several other children into buying Terrible-Monster cactus for 50 yen each. But his father is mad claiming one of those was worth 3.000 yen by itself. >Preview of next episode: the Five Ultra Brothers fall into a trap!<. "See you next week".

Terrible-Monster Sabotendar is the first Terrible-Monster created by Yapool by combining two Earth life forms, a cactus and a hedgehog, rather than one space monster and one Earth creature.

Back to previous episode Return to main page Forward to next episode