A Chilling Tale
I never expected my final moments to unfold the way they did. I was supposed to destroy the compound and kill thousands. But thanks to the interference of that radioactive monster and a certain vigilante, my plans, like everything else in my life, went up in smoke. Everything had been going according to plan, but then I was attacked by a radioactive beast whose powers ate through my suit in a matter of seconds, crippling me. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I should probably explain who I was.
My name is...was...Victor Fries. I was a brilliant scientist and worked for a laboratory that allowed me to study and research all different forms of science. I was a molecular biologist, meaning that I studied the body on a molecular level. As a child, I was fascinated with preserving life by freezing it and seeing if the life could be restored later, using advanced means. My parents, horrified by what I did, sent me to a school for...special children. There I met probably the only other human who cared for me. A woman named Nora. She loved me for all of my qualities and I, over time, came to love her. My life was perfect. I had my work, my love, my life.
Then it all went wrong. Nora contracted a disease--an incurable disease--that nearly stripped her of her life and left her in a near-death state. There was no cure and she had no time. In a desperate act, I froze Nora in hopes of being able to buy her time and find a cure for her myself. But I was a cursed man. My research was shut down and I myself was fired. When I tried to break back into the place where I had set all my equipment, something went terribly wrong. One of my machines had been sabotaged and I was consumed in liquid nitrogen. I should have died, but the fates decided to continue to hate me. Instead of dying, I was reborn as a man who could not live above sub-zero temperatures and was forced to build myself a suit to survive. The suit sustained me, but I had no job and no way to pay for the supplies to cure my Nora. I was left with only one option.
Crime.
Using my knowledge, I constructed a vast array of ice-based weapons that I used to assist me in my criminal activities. No guard could stand in my way and the suit protected me from most weapons and attacks. Even in the criminal underworld, I was not one to be messed with, for those who bothered me were often never heard from again. But then there was the one man who chose to interfere, the one who could stop me.
Batman.
I know not who this vigilante is, but he was my fiercest foe back when I lived. His skills in martial arts and stealth were beyond any that I had seen, and his gadgets rivaled even my own. But what made him so dangerous was that he was smart, smarter than even me to a degree. No matter what I did or how many times I tried to kill him, he always came out on top. For years, he and I battled and I got no closer to curing Nora than I did when I started. But one day, fate decided that it was done watching me suffer and decided to be rid of me. So one day, in another battle with the Batman, a massive explosion claimed my body. Everyone thought that I had died. Even I hoped that I finally had. But fate is cruel. I survived, only as a head, and was locked in cold storage for many years. Ironic.
Ba-bump.
Then I awoke years later to find that my world has completely changed. Well, I did not wake up, I was awoken. Apparently, some of the future scientists had use of me. They said that they could change me back into a normal man and try to give me my old life back. It didn't matter to me, I was essentially dead. So I allowed them to go ahead with their plans and they actually managed to reconstruct my body. I was...happy...for the first time in so long. With the savings that I had stored up in the years past, I tried to help the world, tried to make it into the world a better place.
But the humans are all the same; they only care for themselves and for nothing else. I was used as a pawn in a part of a businessman's larger game, and when I had fulfilled my role, he and his underlings sought to eliminate me. But I always had a backup plan. With a suit that I had saved in storage, I took my revenge upon him and sought to destroy the cursed city. But Batman stopped me once again. Even in the future, he continued to hunt me, continued to get in my way. As he and I battled, a beast made of radiation appeared and attacked me as well, its powers tore through my suit like it was paper. Beaten and dying, I had nothing left to live for and without the suit's power to keep me alive, I was ready for death. But once again Batman stopped me, stopped me from letting all those innocents die. He always did try to see me as more than a machine. He convinced me to use the last of my strength to freeze the compound I was in, stopping it from exploding and killing all in the vicinity. With my one act of goodness done, I threw up a wall between us and waited. Waited for the sweet release of death.
Ba-bump.
But as I felt the flames consume me in what I believed was the cleansing of my actions, I realized that I did not feel the pain of the flames burning or the force of the explosion ripping me apart. I felt my body being turned inside out as my molecules seemed to be scattered into the winds before coming together. I could hear my heartbeat as well (which should not be working), and what sounded like birds chirping. I...am alive?
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The first thing that ran through Mr. Freeze's mind when he regained his senses, was that he was still alive and that he had a heartbeat, which was odd, considering his heart should not be working after the experiment failed on him. He slowly opened his eyes, the color red being the first thing to greet him as he looked through his filtered goggles. The glass that covered his head was intact, which was another odd occurrence since in the battle with the radioactive monster it had been cracked. While he lay on his back, he realized that he was staring at a blue sky with clouds floating gently along. He could assume that he was no longer in Gotham. Was he...beyond? Deciding to look around more, Mr. Freeze sat up and started to look around, his face never changing expression despite what he saw. He was sitting in a field covered in flowers, which seemed to stretch for miles. He looked down at himself to see that his armor was now in perfect condition, despite all the damage he had taken during the battle.
"How odd," he muttered to himself in a metallic voice as he stood up, feeling no pain course through his body, despite the fact that he had almost died in the fight. What did interest him though was that his armor, while in perfect condition, was running low on the energy needed to sustain him and the suit's temperature. "Strange, the reading during the battle showed that my power was still at fifty percent. The levels should not have dropped below the ten percent range unless the power was sucked out of the suit directly."
Despite the low levels, Freeze didn't care in the least that he might die again. If he had survived the explosion, then he would simply have to wait a little longer until he finally died again. But as he stood in place looking at the scenery around him without interest, he felt something that seemed to be tugging at the back of his mind, almost like...something was calling to him. Freeze turned his head slightly to see what looked like a tower far off in the distance, which either meant civilization or some form of shelter. But he had no desire to go; he was fine with waiting for death right here. But the energy pulled even harder on his mind, and he found that he could not ignore the tower in the distance. It was almost like fate was calling out to him, telling him to go towards that tower.
"Very well fate, you have thrown so many surprises at me that I am almost curious to see what you have in store for me this time," Freeze said to himself with a hint of a smile. He may have wanted to die, but he had learned long ago that fate would not let him do so until it had grown bored of him. So if he did what it wanted, then it would be only a matter of time until it grew tired of him and sought out someone else to mess with. So he decided to see what this tower in the distance was, and what this source of power he felt was as well. As he walked through the fields towards the tower, he pressed a button on his wrist panel and opened up his chest plate, frowning to himself when he saw the destroyed circuitry inside and the crystals that he used to power it were mostly ash.
'I shall need to acquire a new power source soon if I wish to remain alive,' he thought as he walked, closing it back up while starting to test the rest of his suit's functions to see how much of it was operational. While doing this, he realized that there was more to the suit than he remembered.
"How odd, I had forgotten that this version my suit came with sound waves," Freeze muttered to himself, deciding that he should test all of the functions on his suit to make sure they were working. First up were the sensors. The red goggles flicked to a bluish color as he went into heat-seeking mode, looking around as he did so to spot a number of organisms that had wandered close to him. The biggest was a bear that growled at him as he walked towards it. The creature roared at the sight of him and charged.
"Perfect. I needed something to test my freeze ray on," he said with no emotion as he pointed his arm at the bear. He closed his fist and fired a beam of sheer ice towards the charging beast, the ice connecting with its stomach and quickly consumed it. All the other animals that had been around watched with terror as the bear quickly turned into a popsicle and froze in its tracks. "It seems to be working fine. Now how about the sound waves?" Freeze pressed another button on his wrist that sent out sound waves that were specifically designed to shatter ice outside of his suit. A small smile formed on his lips as he watched the bear splinter into a thousand pieces, some of which slid to his feet. "It works fine."
He continued his walk towards the tower, noticing as he got closer that it looked less like a tower and more like a spear of...crystal? No...It wasn't just the spear. As he walked over a small hill, he noticed that the spear stood in the center of a city, a city that also seemed to be made of crystal. He engaged the zoom on his goggles and confirmed his suspicions. The entire city was made of crystal as well as the spear. It was almost like...an empire made of crystal?
He also picked up some sort of energy reading coming from the center of the city, the same energy that had been calling to him earlier. If that was where the energy was, then it was where he needed to go. Freeze started to walk down the hill towards the city, wondering what he should do if the humans tried to stop or arrest him. He didn't care about what they did, so long as they didn't interfere with him getting that energy source, as he had stolen plenty in the past to keep himself alive and this was no different. But he had to think of something just in case they were foolish enough to try and fight him. It didn't take long for him to figure out a solution.
He would simply freeze them all.
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"Woo, did you feel that chill?" Shining Armor asked Cadence as he brought a blanket over to the crystal queen, who shivered despite the sun resting upon her back. Cadence rested on a small couch in front of a fire, eyes barely open but still smiling when her husband approached. The captain of the guard draped the blanket over her shoulders before pulling her into a hug. "Hey, you're going to get better soon. Don't worry about it."
"I hope so," she muttered weakly as she sat up and rested her head on Shining's shoulder. "But I fear for the worse sometimes. By the way, did that chill feel...odd to you at all?"
"No, just felt like the cold that we normally get this time of year," Shining replied. Cadence shrugged it off and went back to resting her head, figuring that all was alright.
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Instafav! Haven't gotten around to finishing the green lantern story yet (it's sitting comfortably in my read later list though, near the top), but this should be exceptional.
Cool story (pun intended)
Woo second comment ;
*Ahem
I thought you might go for the Arkham version of Mr Freeze as you use the Arkham Batman in your other stories. I'm not complaining though, I loved the BTAS Mr Freeze and the Batman Beyond episode was one of my favourites.
This cool story is freezing me with excitement.
Another Batman related tale from everyone's favorite author. Gives me something to look forward to.
I'm just glad that you didn't use this version of Mr. Freeze:
This seems like it has potential. I think I'll keep my eye on this little "Diamond in the Rough".
Okay now that I have actually read the chapter, there's a couple silly things near the end.
We know it's an empire, but honestly, what exactly about a bunch of small houses and a tower in the middle looks so much like an empire to an outsider? I don't think the word empire would ever come to anyone's mind when looking at the Crystal Empire unless they have been told the name specifically.
Again, we know it ain't gonna be humans, so this seems as a set-up for a big surprise for Freeze, but we shouldn't be told this to know that he expects humans and not something entirely different. Logically he probably would have called the hypothetical natives simply people in his mind.
Other than that, seems as intriguing as I expected!
4693688
I know. Older story and I've always seen Freeze as someone who's mind defaults to more...human ideals then say magic or aliens. Despite him living in a world of them.
Mr. Freeze, his back story always makes me pity him.
Ah. Mr. Freeze. One of the best DC villians of all time :-) This is a good start. I look forward to seeing this develop. A like, favourite and follow from me :-)
Hmm, done with proper characterization of Frieze, this could be quite interesting.
Of course, there must be a reason he's in Equestria.
I am rather unforgiving of lazy crossovers that throw another character into a world 'just because.'
The 'why' of such a complex and precise event is very important to internal plausibility.
4693584 He'll live on through the chapter titles.
4693584 4693507 4693481 These puns seem to follow Fries where ever he goes. Even Equestria. I can already tell they'll be columns of them.
4693936 You have predicted the future sir, maybe they saw Batman and Robin.
There are only two Batman Villain I like more than any other villains. Mister Freeze and the Joker (Him, for obvious reasons. mmh Joker as a villain Protagonist in a MLP:FiM? I might actually go that route for my Batman fic. I've just got to Finish my Superman verses Darkseid FIc [which is the setup fic for my DC pony universe] and My pony!Flash fic)
Since The BM:TAS version is also my favorite version of Bats, you went with my favorite version of freeze as well. Insta Fav'd
The most powerful force in the multiverse threw him in Equestria : The Plot.
Also, crystal ponies are freezable but not shatterable, isn't it?
You beautiful person! I've been waiting for a Mr. Freeze crossover.
4693956 Noo! Windbuck deleted the comment, now it will curse me forever!
4694262 It'll be fine.
"I was reborn as a man who could not live under sub-zero temperatures"
That should be over instead of under.
As for the rest of the story, I'm looking forward to it. Will he lean towards apathy, being reasonable, curiosity, or anger; this is the mystery: though anger seems to be the least likely.
After reading your green lantern and now this, I'm thinking about checking out your others.
Is this a shitty humanized?
You know, to capture the mood.
Awesome!!!! I can't wait to see how things go, but I can totally see Fluttershy and Cadence reminding Victor of Nora. But Freeze has always been my most sympathetic Batman villain since his goal is to revive his wife.
You know, just because it would be amusing to see his reaction, I have to wonder if this crosses over with It Runs In The Family and For Her Mistakes just so we could see Scootaloo tell her dad that one of his villains is in Equestria only to have Bruce say he just put Mr. Freeze in Arkham. Probably not going to happen, but as I said it would be amusing and a way to make sure Victor had access to some tech to keep his suit repaired.
as soon i've heard there was a mr.freeze story i thought it was the freeze from the arkham game series, but this one is good as well.
4694339 wait... he has a green lantern one!?
I MUST READ IT! 
4693584 HEY
! Arnald made a good Fries
Now, if you'll excuse I'm needing to read this
Edit: So Victor was brought to this tima and space to save Caddie for the time being and other stuff to be found out later? Cool. BAD PUN, BAD PUN!
I think you've done the impossible Onomonopia. As far as I know, as of today, all of you stories have been featured. Normally, that just means you a good writer. However, What make this and impossible feat is the fact that all of your Stories are crossovers with comics and in one case a video game.
And all of them are not shared universes like Avenging-Hobbits' (Marvel) or Iowaforevers' (DC) Crossover Universes'. This feat proves your are a great writer.
4694671
This got featured? Yay!
4694677
It's in the feature box right now.
4694520 I'd give it fifty/fifty chance of happening, but definitely not until the story where all the different champions come together to fight... something.
4693911 Well, it's almost certainly the Silver Mare from his other fics, but being that it's taking an oddly long time to actually get much information on her, you could consider it a crappy explanation if you want.
4694410 How... How does humanized even enter your mind after reading the first chapter? And how does shitty enter your mind also?
4694739 Cadance and Shining Armor sequence mentioned shoulders. That terminology is solely for bipedal creatures. If this isn't 'humanized' then Cadance would be leaning on Shining Armor's 'withers'. Humanized stories: Stories where the Equestrian cast is human by birth, (think Equestria Girls), are generally shitty. It's sort of a cop-out. It's also a crossover...a DC crossover. I haven't seen a single good one of those on this site for all of the three years I've been here. Not that I had to answer you.
4694886 I'm sure the author simply got his terminiology wrong. He has never written a humanized story before, and I really doubt this is an exception. Additionally, the summary of the story refers to "talking magical ponies". In regards to the crossover part, that is what this author is known for. He has written several DC crossovers, one Marvel crossover, and one Bioshock crossover.
4694928
They're not humanized. The pony skeletal structure has always been weird and I always assumed that they had something close to shoulders, as indicated by the way they can move their limbs. If I'm wrong, well it's an old story and not something that'll come up too often. But i'll change it.
4694936 Find a proofer perhaps? And an editor. They'll help you catch these atrocities, (exaggerating), before they can occur.
4694972
I still think their skeletons are weird. Problem changed though.
4694981 What. No. What? What do skeletons have to do with proofreaders and editors?
4694981 Actually. They do have shoulders. So the scene is correct in that reguard.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Points_of_a_horse.jpg
4695000
Aren't the shoulders what you meant by atrocity?
4695002
Hah! Thank you good sir. Changing it back!
4695005 Sort of. Yeah, I generally meant errors that would either confuse or alienate your audience.
4695002 You don't have anyone to hug, do you?
4695018
Okay. I'll have to contact my proofreader then if they're that many errors.
4695049 Hmn. Maybe...around 30 at most. General stuff, not counting characterization and styling flaws. I don't really feel the ice-cold aura of Mister Freeze.
Batman Beyond Mr. Freeze, eh? Now this'll be cool...
Oh, man. Fluttershy is gonna give him hell if she ever finds out about that bear...
4695018 What does 'not having anyone to hug' have to do with anything (I do have some one to hug FYI)? I saw you comment saying Shoulders mean the ponies are humanized, I looked up horse anatomy to see if you were right or wrong. You got proved wrong, but I didn't single you out for it. I simple posted that so the Author didn't have to change the scene because of a simple misunderstanding.
I doubt you knew horse/pony anatomy (I don't either, but I do like learning new things). Now you know shoulders aren't exclusive to humans, so next time, you won't make the mistake of Assuming the human tag means the ponies are human. Good day sir (Stopping this before this becomes an argument. Not trying be mean or anything, just don't want to be banned over something as stupid as pony biology which as nothing to due with this story outside of one scene).
reading the description i heard the Freeze once known and Kang in my head.
4695071
Da fuck is a proofer? Maybe you need a proofreader
4695113 It's not because of that. Of course ponies have shoulders, it's just in the wrong location for the actions described in the Cadance/Shining scene. If Cadance had lain her head on Shining's shoulder as a horse, it'd be the human equivalent of laying your head in someone's lap or hip. There's nothing against you, it's that I've wasted a couple hours on the equivalent of a single awkward description. You pull up this overly serious graph of horse parts when it wasn't necessary.
...I don't even know why I'm answering you, it's pretty clear that I've wasted three hours on comments for a style of story that I don't even like.
4695149 It's shorthand for proofreader. If you don't know that, I suggest looking up online abbreviations.