Fly to the Sinister Monster Island!! Part 2 (魔の怪獣島へ飛べ!! 後編, Ma no Kaijū Shima e Tobe!! Kōhen) is the eighteenth episode of Ultraman 80.
Synopsis[]
Takeshi and the UGM officers try to track down a mysterious woman who seems to be able to control monsters. Is she friend or foe?
Summary[]
Lovrus and Daron have double-teamed Ultraman 80 in battle and the ultra has been ensnared by Daron, so that Lovrus can stab him with his claw. Luckily just as the monster goes in to attack, 80 manages to duck out the way and Daron winds up taking the attack instead. This provokes Daron into attacking Lovrus instead and the aquatic monster bludgeons the once-human monster. 80, now free to attack, strikes Daron with the Ultra Ray Lance technique, killing the monster and saving Lovrus from its attack. 80 goes to comfort the monster, but the stress of resisting the cave's control causes Lovrus to wander away in pain, and 80, having spent his 3 minutes in earth's atmosphere, must retreat to recover his energy.
As Yamato reunites with Harada and Tajima, the trio resume discussing how Ito could've become Lovrus while going off to inform Oyama. Unable to counteract the fog that's hypnotizing people due to its outer space nature, Oyama orders UGM to evacuate the people and seal off the cave's entrance with a powerful explosive that UGM brought with them for the mission. As UGM prepares to follow through with their new mission, they discover that the woman has destroyed their gas masks and has taken off with the explosive and they are quickly in pursuit of her. The woman then runs into the fog, and with Harada and Tajima unable to follow after her due to the fog nearby, Yamato (after being forced to knock out Harada) goes it alone and confronts the woman himself in the fog. (Being an ultra, he was unaffected by the fog's hypnotic properties.)
The woman, named Sawako Hoshi, explains to Yamato that she is an alien herself. 20 years ago her spaceship was attacked by a monster, the same monster that was controlling Lovrus and Daron. Since then, she was raised on Shiokaze Island by an earth couple. Sometime later, the monster had landed on Shiokaze Island as well and had been draining people of their blood to give it energy. Sawako also reveals that she was Ito's fiancée, and that Ito himself had been mutated into Lovrus by the same monster that attacked her. (During the events of Part 1, Ito has reunited with Sawako, but was drawn into the monster's fog and was struck by a ray from the monster, transforming him into Lovrus.) To Yamato's horror, Sawako reveals that the only way to revert Ito back into a human is to kill him as Lovrus. Unwilling to let the monster get away with transforming her former husband-to-be and for enslaving the people of the island, Sawako disregards Yamato's concerns for her safety and resumes stealing the explosive from UGM to kill the monster herself.
Confronting the cave where the monster is feeding, Sawako enters it with the explosive and it detonates, causing a cave-in. The explosion however enrages the monster, and finally it reveals itself: Gymaira. Gymaira attacks the tourists (whom have been awoken from their trance), but the monster is lead away by Yamato. UGM's HQ and the UN gets wind of Gymaira's appearance and their deploy as well to battle the monster. Gymaira however brushes off the efforts of the UN and continues to pursue Yamato. Finally, Yamato transforms into Ultraman 80 and the ultra battles the monster himself. Gymaira's physical strength however was more that enough for it to overpower 80 in battle, and it seizes him with its tentacles (revealed to be the monster's tongue) and it electrocutes 80 with it. Suddenly, Lovrus returns (having recovered from its previous fight) and notices that 80's in trouble. Lovrus attacked its former master, but despite Lovrus's heroic efforts, it only provokes Gymaira into attacking him instead. The sadistic monster bombarded Lovrus with its hypnotic gas and its tail before stabbing him with its horn and charging his innards. Gymaira's dirty deed was done, and Lovrus turned back into Ito. Having witnessed what had happened, 80 uses the last of his available strength, and the ultra obliterates Gymaira with his Moonsault Kick.
Despite 80's victory over Gymaira, all is not well... Ito is dead, having been murdered by Gymaira's attack. Sawako, upset that she couldn't save her husband-to-be, decides to give Ito one last gift: Her own life. Using her alien nature, Sawako transferred her life force into Ito's body, reviving Ito but killing Sawako in the process. UGM is elated that Ito is alive again, but before returning home, Ito and Yamato have a moment of silence for Sawako's sacrifice, and Ito gives her a brief eulogy.