As I continued on down the hallway and passed by more frozen corpses, I began to feel just how cold the environment was. Thank goodness my suit protects me from quite a bit. As I was walking past another frozen door, I heard scuffling from behind it. Now curiosity may have killed the cat, but caution kept the klipspringer alive. I examined the door and noticed that it could be easily opened. I open the door slightly and peeked inside.
The whole room was frozen over and I felt a sharp breeze blow past me. I recognised the room almost immediately, it was Crimson Cold's office. I leaned more into the room, now being able to see nearly the full office. There was a pillar of ice in the middle of the room, reaching from the floor to the roof. I slowly trotted towards the desk and as I got closer I noticed that the ice pillar went through the roof... Like the ice was blasted through it.
I searched the whole room, but to no avail. Everything was frozen and the cold was starting to seep into my suit. I quickly left the room and continued down the hall. Eventually I came across a flight of stairs leading up. I steadily climbed up the steps, making sure not to slip. After some time I reached the second floor, which had another hallway to go down. I began my trek with a sharp breathe and trotting forward.
After passing by two doors, a door to my left began to open. I spun around and saw a... Ice hand wrap around the door frame. The next thing I knew the creature who the hand belonged to came out of the room. It looked like some sort of ice golem, baring a sharp set of teeth at me. It was about the size of the door it came through, meaning it was a fair bit taller than me.
I crouched down, ready to leap out of the way or fire a beam. The golem raised a claw then swung it down at me. I jumped back but I hit something, the thing that I jumped into wrapped it's arms around me and began squeezing. I pointed my horn at where I assumed the golem's head was, then fired a heat beam straight through it. The entire golem melted into a puddle instantly, dropping me to the floor. I landed on my feet and immediately jumped to the right, avoiding the claw of the first golem.
I ran and slid under the golem, then stood up and bucked it in the leg. The leg shattered and the entire golem came crumbling down as a pile of ice shards. I scanned over the hallway, making sure that there was not going to be anymore surprises. Once I figured I was safe I let out a sigh. I decided to investigate the room that the first ice golem came out of, but it was just an interrogation room.
I went back into the hall with a new line of thought in my mind; where the hell did the ice golems come from? I pondered that as I continued down the hall. 'They must have come from the same thing as whatever... Or whoever made the blizzard.' I thought as I checked another unfrozen room.
Suddenly I heard a scream from the end of the hall; it sounded like a male. 'Of course it's at the end of the hall. How original. I mused sarcastically as I galloped through the hall. I got to the final door and kicked it down. I was ready to start fighting, but then I processed what was in the room.
In the middle of the room was Crimson Cold, seemingly being infested by a aura of cold wind... At least that's what it looked like. Four more ice golems formed out of the ice and two charged at me. I ducked under them, letting them run out of the room. I then closed the door, locking them out. Another one breathed in the cold air, then blew it out at me. I jumped to the side, feeling the cold air slightly breeze past me. I looked back at where I was only to see a frozen block of ice. Yeah, dodging was a good call.
I ran to the other side of the room as I turned on my communicator. "Weathermare, do you read me!?" I called as I avoided the ice block that one of the golems tried to throw at me.
I ducked down, narrowly sliding under a falling icicle. "I hear ya." Weathermare responded. I heard some rustling in the background, but I paid it no mind. "What's going on?" She asked.
I leapt onto one of the last two golems and pushed it face first into the ground, shattering it. I landed with a huff, then I dodged the claw of the last one as I said. "Just taking care of some ice golems! I also found the source of the blizzard." I ran up to the golem, then turned and bucked my hind legs straight through it's chest. It fell into a puddle form right after that. "At least I think I did." I admitted with a sigh, finally able to get a breather. "How 'bout you?"
"I fought off some ice wolves, then found some survivors. I'm gonna head out of the building now. Think you can handle things in here?" She asked.
"Probably. Still, you should come back as soon as you can." I answered honestly.
"Got it." Then silence. I trotted over next to Crimson. He was shaking violently and seemed to be mumbling something. I reached my hoof out to touch him, but when I did I felt a sharp chill run through me. I flinched back, then checked over myself to make sure I was not effected.
Suddenly Crimson's eyes shot open, then he skittered to the back of the room. I slowly and cautiously approached him as he stared at me like a deer caught in headlights. "Crimson?" I tested. "Are you okay?" I asked as softly as I could. He looked terrified. I tried taking another step forward, but I quickly realized I was now frozen to the floor.
"I-i don't k-know what's going on!" Crimson panicked. As he said that the ice began climbing up my body. That's when I realized what was going on. Crimson was somehow controlling the weather, though obviously not intentionally.
"Crimson, I need you to calm down." I said cautiously.
"B-b-but i don't-.... Why is this happening?!" He screamed.
"I don't know, bu-"
"A-am I c-c-causing this?" He said, eyes now wide. "I-i-i didn't mean too, I-i don't-... How did-..." The more he freaked out the more the ice crept up my body. I now only had my head not concealed in ice. He realized this too and thus freaked out even more, this time making all of the ice in the room expand. In fact now it was even snowing.
I could hardly breath, and I would have been completely sealed up if Alloy didn't come crashing through the door. It startled Crimson to the point where all the ice in the room suddenly melted. Though now Crimson began panicking again because of what the situation looked like, then, just like that, he turned into a gust of visible cold wind and flew around Alloy and out the door.
I took in several deep breathes so I could breath normally again, then turned to Alloy. "What took you so long?" I asked with a chuckle and a cough interrupting said chuckle.
"I was dealing with a gang that resided out of town. I would have been here sooner, but the leader just didn't stay down." Alloy responded.
"Ah, got it." I nodded in understanding. "And thanks for the save, but Crimson ran away." I sighed depressingly.
Alloy nodded a confirmation. "I'll keep an eye out for him, for now we have a-"
Suddenly Weathermare flew into the room. "Guess what. The blizzard stopped on it's own." She announced. Judging by how neither Alloy nor Weathermare were confused as to who the other was, I assumed they met each other outside.
Both Alloy and I stared at Weathermare in shock. "Well that's... Good." I said, rather dumbfounded.
Afterwards we cleared out the rest of the building, then went our separate ways. I gave Alloy a communicator, which she somehow fazed through her armour. Oh yeah, I found out Alloy's a female when she used the communicator. She didn't seem to care that much. Weathermare told me that she'll keep her communicator on whenever she's in the field. After they both left to do their own things, I left Fillydelphia and headed home. To be honest I was pretty upset about the whole situation. Crimson was now missing with new powers that he somehow got and can't control, and most of the FPD was in shambles... I wished I could've done more.
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