My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic: Season III

by DakariKingMykan


Episode 18: Everybody Freeze

EPISODE EIGHTEEN

Harkin had been standing in the exact same place; near the summit of Fire Mountain, which was a dormant volcano in the Dragon’s Land. It hardly ever erupted due to their already being so many lava pits and gas-pockets around, so not too much pressure could get through.

He had been standing in a wide open flat area ever since he had given his challenge to Lightning, and had hardly moved so much as an inch. He just stood there looking straight ahead with his arms folded, and whenever he felt the need to sleep, he would close his eyes and actually sleep on his feet.

He stood where he was, stirring in his sleep and having dreams about past fights he had had. Then he opened his eyes in a shocking gasp, and then went right back to being calm and quiet. “I suppose one week is just too long to wait for the battle of your life.” he said.




While far away in New Ponyville, Spike stirred in his sleep and opened his eyes. “Huh? Where am I? This isn’t the library.” he asked himself quietly so as not to wake anyone. “Oh, that’s right; I live with Rarity now.”

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His basket downstairs in the living room next to the sofa, rather than upstairs in Rarity’s bedroom, as she preferred to get her beauty sleep alone, but Spike just couldn’t help but quietly crawl up the stairs, and peek through Rarity’s door which was open, and watch her sleep. He didn’t even mind that she was snoring softly, she still looked pretty.

“Thanks, Rarity.” he said in his thought “You gave me a home, and I want to help pay you back for it.”




Meanwhile, Frost-Eye was busy conjuring up a super-evil spell guaranteed to bring United Equestria to its knees, and locate that traitor, Harkin and steal the incomplete Crystal Heart he had. He presented his idea to Sombra. “Very interesting, Frost-Eye…” he hissed “I can see, for once, you are certainly the least bit intelligent.”

“Aw, it’s great to hear you say that.” Frost-eye said bowing “I do have just one concern though…”

“Speak!”

“Well, you know these creeps, they always seem to have some kind of backup plan-- whenever things get too out of hand, they just up and evacuate the whole planet.”

“He has a point, sire.” said Melantha “We cannot allow them to try that same stunt this time.”

“And so we shall not.” agreed Sombra, and he agreed to help cast a spell to prevent the evacuation of the planet. However, it would mean that Frost-Eye, after he left and set his plan in motion, would not be able to return to the ship.

“Don’t worry. I can handle this.” Frost-Eye gloated “There’s no guesswork about it this time. They’ll all be begging for mercy before you can say Freeze.”

The next morning, Rarity was mumbling in her sleep, and she sniffed the air. “Ah, the delicate aroma of smoke…” She bolted upright, “Smoke? Smoke?!” and she stumbled out of bed, all tangled in the covers and rolled down the stairs landing with a thud at the bottom.

“Morning, Rarity.” Spike said. Rarity lifted her sleep-mask to see Spike in the kitchen wearing a chef’s hat and apron. “Thought I’d start off today by making you breakfast.”

“Oh… I see…”

Spike only burned the bacon by accident, but he did manage to make a lovely breakfast of sausage, eggs, and pancakes with apple and orange slices. It did look really beautiful. “Why… thank you, Spike…I, uh…”

“Is something wrong?”

Rarity sweated nervously. “Uh… Oh, no, no, no… it looks very lovely; it’s just… well… Today is Thursday; I always have oatmeal as according to my food-schedule.”

“Food… schedule?”

Rarity walked over to the wall and pulled open a rolled-up chart, showing him a complete and total schematic of her diet, and how she preferred her foods. “One can only maintain one’s beautiful complexion if one has such a healthy nutrition.”

Spike was never told of this, and he began to feel a little down, but Rarity still thanked him wholeheartedly for trying to be nice and thinking about her, but ultimately Spike ended up eating his big prepared meal all alone.

He had only been living with Rarity for a few days, and already things weren’t exactly what he had expected. Rarity had a whole bunch of rules and regulations and schedules she expected him to comply to. Some of which she had completely neglected to inform him of.

Apart from her sleeping in her room alone, and the newly revealed food-schedule, Spike had to get used to a whole lot of other things…

-Don’t bother Opal
-No Snacking in-between meals.
-Be at the dinner table on time
-Don’t sit on the furniture after it had just been cleaned.
-Don’t walk on the carpets after they had just been cleaned
-Bedtime was much earlier for Spike than Twilight ever gave him.

…And above all, Rarity’s strictest, most top-of-the-line rule to follow: No entering the house or the shop unless you were completely and totally spotless.

After Spike had finished his breakfast, he let out a huge belch. “Excuse me.”

“Spike!” snapped Rarity “Oh, how dreadfully rude!” 

“What? I said excuse me…” but he caught “Wait! Don’t tell me; I can’t burp either? Come on, even Twilight let out a few once in a while.”

Rarity didn’t bother to argue, but insisted if he had to make naughty sounds, he do them silently, especially seeing as how she had work to do that day in her sewing room. She left Spike all alone, and he sighed softly. “Spike, come quickly!” Rarity called out to him.

“Don’t worry, I’m coming!” cried Spike, and he dashed out to the living room to see that Rarity wasn’t in any trouble, but in fact standing by his unmade basket hinting the mess that it was in. Spike usually liked to make his bed after he had eaten and freshened up, but Rarity was tapping her foot and staring down at him. Spike sighed “Okay.”

After that, he did the breakfast dishes and made sure everything was spotless just as Rarity preferred, but after that he just paced around the house feeling bored. It wasn’t like living in the library where he usually just went through a book, or helped Twilight with her spells, but Rarity didn’t have many books except ones about fashion, and rich attire, or just magazines from beauty salons and fabric catalogues. Stuff he really wasn’t all that into, seeing as all he usually wore was his little suit.

He thought maybe of helping Rarity with her work, maybe that way he could help pay her back for putting him up. So he walked upstairs, but the door was shut tight and he couldn’t reach the knob-- Rarity hadn’t fitted any small doors for him to walk through yet-- So he knocked, and Rarity answered “Yes, Spike?”

Spike felt a little nervous, but asked if she needed any help. “Oh, darling… that’s so sweet of you to offer, but I can assure you I can manage just fine alone.” and she just shut the door on him, and she sighed softly in relief. She really didn’t want him helping her. Poor little Spike sighed sadly and thought he’d go take a walk.




Meanwhile, Frost-Eye had gone back to the Ice Cavern on Mount-UE in the, Frozen North. Within the cave, he placed a special super-powered ice-crystal on a pedestal in the center of the chamber. The crystal began to emit a beam of magic and the entire cavern began to glow a bright shade of icy-blue, and the magical beam shot straight up into the skies through the mountain, right at the sun.

“Everybody Freeze…!” He laughed softly but wickedly. 



Spike went to the Cake’s café, but he didn’t bother take a table nor did he buy anything as he had no money. Though 15, and considered a teenager in normal years, he was too small to get a normal paying job which required him to be taller or stronger, and even though he was an official member of Starfleet his pay wasn’t due to arrive for another month. It was Twilight who always paid for his food and allowance. All he could was sit under the shade under a tree feeling bored and lonely, and snacking on dandelions, which he did not find too satisfying or tasteful.

Lightning, Starla, and Krysta saw him and approached him “What’s the matter Spike?” asked Krysta. “Why aren’t you eating at a table?” added Starla.

Spike told them about his situation with Rarity. “Surprise-Surprise, the move-in isn’t going well.” Lightning said.

“That’s putting it lightly.” Spike said “I thought living with Rarity would be fun, but it’s all “No” this and “Don’t do” that.”

Applejack came along pushing her applecart. “Eeyup, that’s Rarity for ya.” she said “All neat-freak and tidy, but she really does care for ya, Spike.”

“She’s right…” said Starla “She was willing to give you a home. I don’t think she wants to boss you around. She’s just not used to the changes either.”

“We all have to adjust, Spike.” Lightning said “I’m sure you and Rarity can get along just fine.” Spike smiled, but Applejack secretly had a feeling she knew what way this was going to end up going.

She was right too. Things did change, from bad to worse! Spike went back to Rarity’s and decided, maybe to do some of the extra housework to keep the place even more spotless, to please Rarity while she was still working.

All, the rest of the day he swept, dusted, polished, and even did the laundry to perfection, and even gave Opal a good brushing, which she actually didn’t seem to mind, and actually showed happiness and enjoyment for the first time. “There ya go, Opal. Wait ‘till Rarity sees you.”

Opal yawned and stretched out, and showed appreciation by purring against Spike, even though he was a little musty from all the cleaning he had been doing. Then he proceeded to quickly clean himself up in the bathtub, but forgot to clean out the tub itself and the giant ring he left in it. He came out of the bathroom drying himself off and feeling clean as a whistle. “Man, Rarity’s just going to scream when she finds out what I’ve been doing.”

That’s when he heard her scream downstairs, and he rushed down and casually walked in. “Spike!” she snapped “Whatever has happened to this place? Why, everything seems so, so…” 

“Spotless?” Spike answered with high hopes and sparkles in his eyes. “So… did I do a good enough job?”

Rarity stuttered and stammered in shock at how clean everything was. To her everything was all too clean, and she went around practically complaining. “The furniture has been moved around, and that lemony fresh sent is just screaming for bugs and mice to come crawling in.”

Opal and Spike gazed at each other in confusion. “I thought it was sweet smells that did that?”

Then Rarity saw her cat was only semi brushed but still had a few specks of dirt on her-- the result of her rubbing up against Spike when he was musty-- but the fact that she had been brushed incorrectly to her own standards. Then she quickly raced up the stairs to the bathroom to get a better brush and she saw the ring in the tub. “And what is the meaning of this?!” she scolded.

As much as Spike realized his mistake there in forgetting to clean out the tub, he was starting to lose his cool. “You don’t have to yell at me, you know.”

Rarity twitched and struggled to keep her anger toned down, and maintained her calm demeanor. “I suppose it’s all right…” she said “After all… children will be children.” but finally, she had pushed him over the edge. True he was still a very young dragon, but he could hardly be called much of a child anymore at age 15. He could even turn into an adult.

As if that weren’t bad enough, as they passed the door to her sewing room, which was wide open, he could see the new set of dresses she had been making, but the gems studded round their necks caught his eye. “Hey!” he cried as he dashed right in. “Spike!” snapped Rarity as she dashed in after them

“Rarity, where did you get those gems?”

Rarity showed him they were in a jar that she had found that was just sitting outside in the sunlight; much to Spike’s horror. Those gems were his personal, private collection, of all the gems he had left that Twilight had giving to him; his only keepsake of her he had left. He had polished them and left them out in the sunlight in their jar to dry. Rarity didn’t know of this, and would have apologized, but Spike, he felt so incredibly mad, that he just kicked a ball of yarn on the floor by his foot, when set off and chain of crazy motions of things falling over and breaking off, eventually turning the room into a big mess and ruining Rarity’s work.

The yarn ball stopped by Rarity’s feet, 

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…and her entre face turned a steaming angry red, and she pushed Spike out of the room, and hung a “No Spike” sign on it. This was the last straw. As much as Spike had feelings for Rarity, he couldn’t take any more of this, and was out the door in an instant with all his things in his wagon.

Rarity cleaned up her room, and deep down she did feel a bit regretful, but nevertheless, she stuck to her guns and insisted that if Spike intended to act like a spoiled child then he had be treated like one.

Later that day, she had finally finished cleaning up her room, and managed to save her work. “Finally… perhaps I can get some real work done now.” she said to herself. She also noted how quiet it had been all afternoon. “I wonder…” and she couldn’t help but peek around the house to make sure than nothing was out of place. Even Opal seemed fine, being her usual grumpy self again. “Aw… that’s mommy’s wittle kitty.” Rarity cooed “Who’s a good girl?”

Opal just rolled her eyes not seeming to care.

“Spike…?” Rarity called “Spike…? Where are you? Come out.” That’s when she finally noticed that all his things were gone, and in their place was a small note.

Rarity…

Sorry, I’m such a bother to you. I still think of you as a friend, and well-- you get the idea, but I won’t bug you anymore.

Love: Spike

Rarity gasped and she dashed to the door. “Spike!” she called “SPIKE!!”

In almost no time, Rarity had gone running to her friends, and they organized a search party right away. They searched all over the area near her shop figuring Spike couldn’t have gotten really far with all that stuff he had, and when the others questioned Rarity as to why he left, they were not surprised when she had told them of their little quarrel. 

“Eeyup, I knew this would happen.” Applejack said. “Once again, Rarity, ya make a mess a’ things because of you’re only thinkin’ about yourself.”

“I beg your pardon?” snapped Rarity, but the others agreed with Applejack. “Rarity, you’ve been too hard on Spike.” said Lightning. “It’s bad enough he’s not used to living in a new place, but don’t you think you could at least tone your rules down?”

Rarity felt almost insulted to be told such a thing. “Why… I… I make good rules. Reasonable demands that I simply wish to be met.”

“Mhm!” the others all remarked sarcastically. They decided to just ignore her complaining, but it was getting late… very late. “Is it getting chilly, or is it just me?” asked Starla.

“No. I feel it too.” said Lightning.

“I gotta be gettin’ home.” said Applejack. “If there’s gonna be some sorta night chill, I wanna make sure the animals are tucked in nice and snug.”

“Applejack is right.” Lightning said “It’s been a long day for all of us. I’ll send the night patrols out to continue to search.”

“What? Are you all just quitting?!” snapped Rarity.

“No, Rarity, but you know just as well that we can’t just search and search all night long.” said Starla.

“We’re just as worried about Spike, but we’ll have a better chance in the morning.” said Krysta, and besides if he’s got all his stuff with him, he’s bound to be fine, and if he runs into enemy-danger, he has his powers.”

“But it’s just that… I’m really worried about him.”

“Well, it is kinda your fault he’s run out on ya.” said Applejack. “Ya only got yourself to blame.”

Before Rarity could protest, the others reminded her that although she was kind enough to give him a home with her, she hadn’t made things exactly comforting to live with. “But I…”

“No buts, Rarity.” said Lightning “We’re all going home and we’ll continue this in the morning. That is an order. Good night.” and he and Starla walked off holding hands, with Krysta fluttering behind them.

“No, wait…!” cried Rarity, but they were already out of sight. “Just give it a rest, Rarity. Spike’ll be just fine. Sweet dreams” said Applejack, then she headed off leaving Rarity by herself, still unconvinced about her flaws.



Very early the next morning, Lightning was sleeping peacefully in his bed, and Krysta slept in her tiny bed on his nightstand, but Twink’s little bed was empty. The tiny little fairy hovered swiftly around his mother and Lightning shouting “Mother…! Admiral… Wake up! Wake up!”

Lightning and Krysta struggled awake. “Twink… What are you doing?” his mother groaned. Lightning checked his clock “It’s only four in the morning. It’s not even dawn yet. Let us get some sleep!” he groaned.

“But Admiral… it’s snowing outside!”

Krysta and Lightning bolted upright and headed for the window, and sure enough, “Galloping galaxies!” it really was snowing, in the middle of late spring and very close to summer! “I’ve got to be dreaming!” cried Krysta.

It was no dream as the sun rose a few hours later, and children were out playing in the snow, while the adults were working hard to plow it all away, but the snow seemed to be falling hard, and the temperature seemed to be dropping. 

Lightning quickly wrote a letter to the queen and Grand Ruler, and they responded saying they were just as baffled and reported the snowfall was all over the entire planet, even in the warmest of areas where it never snowed even in winter, and they were going to look into it and wanted him and all his friends to investigate for any clues.



Soon Lightning and friends met up at the Cake’s café, which was bustling busily with ponies demanding hot coffee, tea and cocoa, so they met upstairs in Pinkie Pie’s bedroom to talk. 

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash headed off to New Cloudsdale to seek help from the weather ponies.

Pinkie gazed out the window at all the ponies and children having fun in the snow and wished she could join them, but she was on official business now, and even she was as baffled as everyone. “How can it be snowing at this time of year?” she asked.

Rhymey looked at the thermometer.

“Hmm, it’s dropped down a little more.
It’s even colder now than it was before.”

“My poor garden was all frosted this morning.” cried Buddy Rose “All that work lost in one night.”

Suddenly, everyone could hear screaming from outside and all the ponies were running for their homes, and the alarms sounded. “What’s going on?” asked Lightning. Krysta could see a swarm of shadowbolts, light blue in color, stampeding through town. “Let’s move!” shouted Lightning, and everyone transformed and turning up the heating units of their suits. Then they hurried outside and scanned the shadowbolts with their visors. Their body temperatures were very low, obviously making them immune to the cold. “Go!” shouted Lightning, and everyone jumped into a battle.

The snow and ice didn’t seem to stop them that much as they were trained to fight well on any terrain, but these new shadow-bolts with their ice protection seemed stronger than ever, and had more brawn in their punches. “LEAF SWARM” shouted Buddy Rose, but his leaves did little to no damage at all. Rhymey tried his “DRILL QUILL” but the snow and winds froze them all up causing them to fall miserably to the ground.

Luckily, Dyno and Myte had their fire-powers. “BOOM-BOOM FIRE” and Artie used his “PAINT BOMB” followed by Starla’s “PULSAR LASER”

All those hot attacks blasted the frost-shadows hard, and they melted away along with a good portion of the snow and ice too, but it was still snowing harder than ever and the ground was white again in no time, and it was getting even colder, almost too cold for anyone to be outside, and worse… the frost-shadows were reforming again. “They’re everywhere!” cried Krysta.

“Right you are!” called a voice. Everyone looked up on a rooftop and could see Frost-Eye standing and looking down at them, laughing. “You’re behind all this!” growled Lightning.

“Right again.” hissed Frost-Eye “It’s been quite a while since I saw you and your Princess, Twilight Sparkle.” He chuckled and enjoyed mocking them, but the others were starting to lose their cool, especially Lightning.

“Oh, but wait, Twilight’s not here anymore.” and he faked and mockingly cried. “Aw… isn’t that sad. Oh! Hey, I know what happened. I saw the whole thing. Some strange hooded-pony destroyed her!”

Lightning felt his body temperature rise in anger.

“You know, now that she’s gone, there’s no way I can lose.” He pointed up at the sky and explained how the freeze up was caused. “It’s very simple; I’ve deflected the sun’s rays. This entire planet is freezing and getting colder by the minute.”

“Why you crazy fiend!” shouted Rarity “Everyone will just freeze to death!”




All over the planet, even in the southern areas, were covered in snow and ice, and the temperature was dropping rapidly. Everyone was starting to feel the cold, even from inside their homes.

In the New Crystal Empire, it was much colder, as it was closer to the Frozen North. All the ponies had gone into their homes and built fires and turned on heaters, and even bundled up. So did Cadance and Shining Armor, but Robot Fratello kept warning them about the temperature every so often “Outside temperature: Minus fifty degrees Fahrenheit, and falling. Inside temperature: Minus ten degrees Fahrenheit and dropping rapidly.”

“Did you say, dropping?” asked Shining Armor.

“Rapidly” replied Fratello.

Cadance shivered “This is unbelievable. We can’t stay like this forever. Turn up the heat!”

“Negative. All heart sources are now at maximum power. Supplies are draining. In precisely one hour, twenty-five minutes, and fourteen point five seconds, all life forms on this planet shall fall to certain ailment, followed by suspension in animation… ultimately leading to…”

“Will you just cut to the chase already?!” growled Shining Armor.

“…Everyone shall freeze to an instant death!”

Cadance and her husband gawked at one another with the deepest of concern.




Even in New Canterlot, things weren’t going well. Everyone was wearing their parkas, and extra blankets. Poor little Castor and Leilani were cold and crying, even though wrapped in five blankets each. Philomena, Celestia’s pet phoenix came along and wrapped the children in her nice warm wings.

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash reported to the palace. “It’s getting colder, girls!” said Grand Ruler said “Is there anything else you and the Pegasi can do about the heat?”

“We’re fighting a losing battle, your majesty.” Rainbow regretted to say. “Every time we try, the snow just gets stronger, and it gets colder.” added Fluttershy.

“And how!” said Goldwin “I don’t think I can take much more of this.” Of course it was suggested many times by others that he could just take off his mask and turn back into a statue. Then he wouldn’t be cold, but Goldwin didn’t feel it was right to just leave all his friends to freeze. “I’m just not doing it! I’m going to stay right here and help out as best I can.”

Celestia and Luna came back from their flight, trying to use their magic on the sun, but nothing was working. “My magic isn’t functioning correctly.” said Celestia “It’s as though the sun’s rays aren’t reaching the planet anymore.” 

“It seems as if nothing can stop this freeze-up.” said Luna “We may very well have to evacuate the planet.”

Her brother-in-law agreed it was the only logical answer. “Prepare for evacuation.”

Just then, the Captain Shaina came in with distressing news. “What?!” snapped Celestia.

“I’m afraid so…” said the Shaina “The space-warp portals, they aren’t working.” She demonstrated by running against a patrol, only to be deflected right off of it. This was all thanks to Sombra’s spell, as long as Frost-Eye’s freeze-up remained in-effect, they couldn’t get out into space.




“Stop this freeze-up right now, Frost-Eye!” Lightning demanded.

“Not, until you surrender.”

“We’ll never surrender!” shouted Starla.

“Too bad, it really makes no difference either way; I’ll get what I want this time; watching all of you freeze for locking me up in the Ice Cavern. Now, I get to make the frozen, never-ending winter world I always wanted, and I’ll be back for the Crystal Heart after you all turn into ice-statues.” and he flew off.

“The Ice Cavern…” Lightning murmured “That’s it! That must be where the source of the spell is.”

“We have to break it from there.” said Dyno “Well, let’s hurry!” cried Myte, but Lightning had ordered the teams split up. Starla, Artie, and the twins were to stay behind, since they could use fire and heat source attacks. The frost-shadows didn’t stand a chance, and it would also help to stall the freeze up a little. “The rest of you, come with me to Mount-UE.”

Everyone agreed, and Krysta agreed to warp them all to the mountain as Sombra’s spell didn’t affect translocation warping, but she decided to remain behind as Twink was really getting cold and needed his mother. “Good luck but for goodness sakes, be careful!”

Starla pecked Lightning for good luck, and then the teams broke up as Krysta warped Lightning and his group away to the Frozen North, and left the others to face the frost-shadows while the freeze up continued to grow more and more severe.




As was expected, it was much colder in the Frozen North than anywhere else, and the blizzards were more savage than ever. The team, after landing near the summit of Mount-UE, felt frost-bitten even with their suit-heat at full power, and visibility was practically zero in all that fog. Their visors got all chilled up. “Switch to Clear-Vu mode!” shouted Lightning, and with Clear-Vu engaged they could see through the blinding storm, but poor Rarity had never felt so cold in her life. Her mane and tail were rock solid with icicles at the ends. “Why?!” she complained “Why did I ever agree to this?! I wish Spike was here to give us some fire.”

“Speak for yourself!” cried Pinkie, who had the same condition “I love snow, but this is too much!”

“Never mind that now. Look up there.” said Buddy Rose. Everyone could see way up at the top of the mountain where the Ice Cavern was, a big beam of light giving off powerful energy waves to their scanners.

“Let’s get to the top,
We’ve no time to stop!” said Rhymey.

“Don’t have to tell me twice.” said Applejack.

As they slowly walked further up the slope leading to the Ice Cavern, it grew colder and colder that everyone started to stuttered and chatter as they spoke. “K-K-Keep… going!” cried Lightning “We’re almost… there!”

The winds were picking up and blew Pinkie off her feet, and she would have slid down the mountainside if Buddy Rose hadn’t snagged her by the leg with his whip. “At least I… c-c-can still use… my whip in this… weather!” he shivered.

They all managed to make it into the cavern and out of the blizzard and winds, but it hardly had gotten any less chilly, but their visors became clearer now that they were out of the snow. “Look!” cried Buddy Rose, and everyone could see the magic crystal on the pillar in the center of the cave. “Th-Th-That must be it!” cried Applejack. “We have to… have to… de-de-destroy it!” added Lightning.

Rarity dashed forth, unable to bear another instant of the impending cold, her horn glowed ready to blast it, when suddenly, “FROZEN WINDS” she was frozen solid in ice. “Uh-uh-uh… mustn’t touch.” gloated Frost-Eye. The others growled as he hopped down from the ceiling. “You didn’t honestly think I’d leave my chamber unguarded, did you? What’s the matter, too cold to think straight?”

The others, shivering badly, glared at him furiously which helped a little, and they realized they were going to have to make a fight out of this. “GO!” shouted Lightning, and the others charged at Frost-Eye, but the chills not only gave them a disadvantage, but Frost-Eye had the greatest edge he could get with cold like this.

Buddy Rose tried to rush him, but his body was numb from the chill and it felt hard to run and focus. Frost-Eye simply leapt out of the way causing Buddy Rose to slip on the icy floors and crash into the frigid wall.

Rhymey tried to battle him with his sword, but Frost-Eye knocked it out of his hand and gave him a taste of his “ICY BARRAGE” Rhymey braced himself as the many icicles bombarded him and knocked him away.

Applejack tried her lasso, but it was all frozen-up and stuck together already and useless, and she got punched. Pinkie Pie kicked hard right into Frost-Eye’s fist. CLANG!! It was like slamming into solid steel. “YEOW! Ooh! Ouch!” she yelped as she hopped up and down on her one good foot.

Frost-Eye laughed and turned to face Lightning. “Face it, punk! My power is more than tenfold in this freeze, while you and your wimp team can barely stand. Lightning, still leapt into battle, and as he was stronger than his teammates, he was able to fair a little better, and managed to successful rush him, tackling him to the ground, but Frost-Eye kicked him off hard, but Lightning wasn’t down yet. “I’m…. not… giving up!” he growled, but Frost-Eye begged to differ and bashed him hard, throwing him against the wall and freezing his arms and legs to it. “C-C-Cold…! S-S-S-So cold!” he cried, and felt so numb he could hardly move.

All around the cavern the ponies were slowing down worse and worse as the temperature dropped, and they couldn’t begin to imagine how everyone else was feeling.




Cadance, Shining Armor, and Robot Fratello couldn’t’ stand it much longer. The inside of the palace was so cold, the floors were slippery, icicles were everywhere, and the furniture was all frosted. There were no more blankets; no more logs for the fires and Fratello couldn’t stand it much more.

“Outside temperature: Minus 100 degrees below Fahrenheit and still dropping! Danger! Extreme danger…!”

“Tell us s-s-s-something… we d-d-d-on’t know!” cried Shining Armor

Fratello regretted to inform them that he and his internal circuitry was not built to take on such extremely low temperatures, and this was evident by the sudden sparking and jolting of electricity emitting from his body. “No!” cried Cadance as she watched to her horrors as her beautiful robot, the only somewhat resemblance of her dear brother she had left, had fallen to pieces. “Fratello!” she cried. Her tears turned to icicles instantly.

Fratello beeped and jolted as he muttered his last words “Goodbye… Princess…!” and his voice completely faded out, and the last of his systems shorted out as well. Cadance either fainted from extreme heartache, or overcome by the freezing. “C-C-Cadance!” cried Shining Armor “No! I c-c-can’t… lose you… too!”



While in New Canterlot, all hope was rapidly faded. Even Philomena was so cold now; her wings had icicles on them. Fluttershy and Rainbow were huddled close, but still shivering even under five whole blankets. “W-w-we’re… d-d-doomed!” cried Fluttershy.

“D-D-Don’t… say that Flut-t-t-tershy!” groaned Rainbow.

“Rainbow’s right!” said Grand Ruler “While there’s still time there’s hope!”

Celestia shivered almost uncontrollably. “S-S-S-S-Soooo… Coooold…!”



As the freeze continued, Lightning began to lose strength as the cold started to get to him, and his body felt numb, but he kept on going and punched Frost-Eye hard in the face, and at the same time Frost-Eye kicked him in the stomach. The two skidded back hard.

Lightning struggled to his feet, and Frost-Eye was laughing. “A-hundred years and finally… after all the time I spent locked up in here; vengeance will be mine!” He gazed at the crystal and his spell-beam. “It shouldn’t take too much longer now before you all turn into frozen ice-pops!”

The rest of the team, except for Rarity stood by Lightning’s side, barely able to keep their stance. “We… won’t give up, until it’s really over!” growled Buddy Rose.

“Yes, sir!” added Applejack “We’re not beat yet.”

“No way!” growled Pinkie.

“That’s what I say!” rhymed Rhymey.

Frost-Eye only laughed and mocked at their futile attempts even more, and prepared to freeze them all right on the spot and be done with them once and for all, when suddenly “DRAGON FLAME” he was attacked from behind by none other than the Dragon-Knight. “Spike!” the others cried, even Rarity was glad to see him, though she couldn’t express it.

“Good thing I’m a dragon… I had my fire-powers to keep me warm.” he said, much to Frost-Eye’s chagrin. “No! The heat won’t save you this time!” he roared and he drew in a huge breath and fired his “FROZEN-WINDS” while Spike countered with his “DRAGON FLAME-WHEEL!” rolling right through the icy winds, and colliding into Frost-Eye, and knocking him back hard into a wall.

“Way to go, Spike!” cried Applejack. 

“WHOOPEE!” shouted Pinkie.

Spike nodded at everyone, and then he dashed in Frost-Eye’s direction. “Ha! That won’t work a second time! I’m ready for you!” he growled. “It’s really not you I’m aiming for.” said Spike and at the last second he leapt up high over Frost-Eye and pulled out his sword aiming to slice the spell-crystal. “No!!” shouted Frost-Eye and he still managed to leap over and bashed Spike out of the way. “SPIKE!” cried Rarity with her teeth clenched in the ice.

Frost-Eye laughed hard and gloated and mocked at Spike how that was such a poor attempt, when Spike suddenly shouted. “NOW, LIGHTNING…!”

“What?!”, Frost-Eye turned just in time to see Lightning blast the crystal, shattering it, and breaking the spell. “NO!!” shouted Frost-Eye.



Back in New Ponyville, the Frost-Shadows began to retreat so suddenly. “Look!” cried Starla “Where are they going?”

Artie checked a thermometer on the wall “Whoa, do you see what I see?”



In New Canterlot, it had stopped snowing, and the winds died down. Goldwin looked at the thermometer. “Look, the temperature-- it’s rising!”

The others all gazed at each other, gleaming wonderfully. “Lightning’s done it! He’s done it!” cried Rainbow.

As the temperature rose, the skies began to clear. The snow began to melt, and the frost-shadows began to explode in puffy snow poofs.



Spike breathed a little fire on the ice, thawing Rarity out. “Spike, but I…”

“It’s okay, Rarity…” he said “I don’t care how mad we get, I’d never leave my friends in danger.”

“I don’t believe this!” shouted Frost-Eye. “Next time, you punks won’t be so lucky.”

“There’s not going to be a next time, Frost-Eye.” Lightning said “This is the end of the line for you.”

Frost-Eye tried to retreat, but soon found that Sombra’s spell hadn’t been completely dissolved yet, and he couldn’t warp back to the ship. He was vastly outnumbered, and his powers were getting weaker with the spell gone. He cowardly backed away from the angry fighters knowing her wouldn’t stand a chance against them all. “What are you going to do? You wouldn’t do me in would you?” but judging by the looks on their faces, they seemed to have every intention too. “We’re not as cold as you are.” said Applejack.

“We have something better for you.” Buddy Rose said.

Frost-Eye soon found himself back against the wall, the same one he had been sealed in before, and Lightning stepped forth, and reminded him of all the horrid things he did with his bad behavior and his sick, twisted idea for freezing weather, and nearly killing everyone. “You were sealed in here for a reason. Now, you’re going back until you learn some manners and respect.” His eyes glowed brightly with a small amount of the uniforce, and he fired it right at Frost-Eye and the wall.

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Frost-Eye screamed and roared as the entire cavern began to collapse all around them. “Let’s run!” cried Pinkie and they all dashed out of the cavern, leaving Frost-Eye to be helplessly sealed away again, and the entire cavern collapsed and sealed itself up under the snow and ice.

“Lightning, how did you do that?” asked Spike.

Lightning explained he heard tales from Queen Celestia of how she sealed Frost-Eye away the first time, by forcing a magic spell to use as the seal. Since the uniforce was stronger than almost all things, and with the cavern now sealed away under the mountain… Frost-Eye wasn’t likely to come out of there for a really long time. Hopefully, he would learn some sense.



Sombra’s seal around the planet had gone, and the weather was back to normal again. Nice and warm just like spring. 

As for Rarity and Spike, they met outside of Carousel Boutique. “Spike, I want to apologize. I suppose I have gotten… a bit… carried away with my rules.”

“And I’m sorry too…” Spike said “I guess we both have to learn to adjust and learn to be better roommates. I know Twilight would want it. So, we okay?”

His answer was a great big kiss on the cheek, and he smiled, but then walked off to get his stuff from inside the garden shed where he had been hiding all the time, much to Rarity’s shock. 



Cadance was joyful the freezing was gone, but her heart ached and her tears wouldn’t stop falling over the loss of Robot-Fratello. She and Shining Armor were no scientists, but they could tell by the sight of the mess that Fratello was beyond repair.

Poor Cadance was so devastated she couldn’t bring herself to even cry. “I have lost so much that I held dear!” she said as she gazed down at the mess on the floor and held the robot’s head to her chest. 

Her husband embraced her and held her tightly. A single tear fell from her eye and splashed on the head of the robot, and at once, it began to glow, and so did the rest of the pieces. Then, right before their eyes the robots seemed to reconstruct itself, and instead of its regular robotic-voice, it spoke like Cadance’s real brother. “Cadance, Shining Armor… I have returned again!”

Her brother’s spirit had magically possessed the body of the robot, using what was left of the magic Twilight used that hadn’t completely disappeared, and Cadance’s love and cries actually called out to him and gave him the power to do all that he just did. “Fratello…” Cadance peeped, and she fainted into her husband’s arms.

It had really been a frightening and tough day for everyone.



All except Harkin-- He had survived the freeze as he was standing on a volcano and had his Red-Rays to keep him warm. “The time is coming.” he hissed “The grandest battle of my life. I am waiting for you, Lightning.”


(Promo)

In our next episode; Lightning is preparing for his big battle with Harkin, a fight that will no doubt determine his fate, and the fate of the entire planet. Meanwhile, Celestia is preparing to do battle with Raven, to avenge Twilight’s death and put a stop to all her terrorizing, much to the protest of many but to the actual approval of some.

How will everyone react to Celestia’s decision, and is she and Lightning really prepared for these great battles that await them?

Don’t miss the next exciting episode of “Starfleet Magic”

(Next Episode: “This is War: Part 1”)