//------------------------------// // A Holiday Wrap-Up // Story: A Freezing Holiday // by TheClownPrinceofCrime //------------------------------// Mr. Freeze sat on the throne as he gazed on all the glorious work he performed throughout the Crystal Empire. He grabbed several crystals and froze them into ice, nailing each of them across the ceiling. Then he unsheathed the ice sword and gazed upon it again. “The more I think about it, the more grateful I am for the Batman in creating me in the first place. Little did he know a legend would be reborn as The King of Ice!” Suddenly, a giant snowplower crashed through the wall. The Mane Six, Spike, and the Royal Couple jumped off the plower before it turned back into Discord. They all glared at their cold enemy while getting into battle stances. “You’re under hot water, Snow Boy! Time to bring this to a swift end!” Discord shouted, pouring hot water on the frozen floor through his eyes. “You never cease in bringing chilly receptions, donkey. Allow me to chill you out,” said Freeze, aiming his sword. The ponies and little dragon jumped out of the way of the ice blasts. Discord however managed to deflect the blasts by snapping his fingers to turn them into random elements. He turned the first blast into butterflies; then he turned the second blast into chocolate pudding; then he turned the third blast into penguins. Rainbow dodged two of Freeze’s blasts effortlessly until the cold temperature settled in. She started to shiver again before her wings slightly froze up. She stumbled across the floor, but she suffered no injuries. “Oh, come on, really?! Why now?!” Applejack jumped over every ice blast sent in her way. She grabbed her lasso with her mouth and threw it around Freeze, tying him up. Then Fluttershy took the sword from him and threw it to Discord. “No!” Freeze cried out. He angrily snapped the lasso into frozen little bits and froze Applejack’s and Fluttershy’s hooves. But before he could run for the sword, Twilight and Rarity zapped him with their combined magic. He flew in the air until he crashed against the wall. “Looks like it’s game over for you, Frosty! We have the upper hand!” Discord boasted. “Not...for long,” Freeze groaned, getting back up. He sprouted icicles from his arms and aimed them at his foes. Twilight, Rarity, Shining Armor, and Cadence activated magical shields and deflected the icicles. On the other hand, Pinkie Pie bounced up and down without getting impaled by the icicles. Giggling to herself, she took out her party bazooka and aimed at the astonished Freeze. “SURPRISE ATTACK!!” she yelled. She shot at the villain with bomb-sized cupcakes; they all exploded with icing and sprinkles the moment they struck him. “Take that, you walking freezer!” she taunted. Suddenly, Freeze froze up the icing, smashed it to pieces, and then froze Pinkie Pie entirely. “Your demise may warm even my heart,” he growled. After he activated his heat rod, Shining and Cadence jumped in front of him and aimed their ignited horns at him. “Step away from the pony!” Shining demanded, glaring. Before he could engage the Royal Couple, he noticed Discord and Spike were trying to break the ice sword by either blowing fire at it or smashing it with a large mallet. The sword was only slowly melting away as it had very sturdy ice material. Seeing this made Freeze worried. Thus, he pushed back the Royal Couple and generated a massive ice wall between himself and the other ponies. “Discord, Spike, behind you!” Cadence warned. However, their reaction was too late as Freeze swatted them away and retook his prized possession. “You fools are only delaying the inevitable! You have lost, and I have triumphed!” Freeze gloated. Unfortunately for him, the Chaos Diamond was already taken off which caused the sword to disintegrate. “No... no! How...did you—?” “The Chaos Diamond responds to anything that is chaotic. Duh! In case you haven’t noticed, I am the Lord of Chaos. For you, you’re just a petty thief with no sense of morality. How boring and uninteresting, really.” Seething with rage, Freeze took off to the skies with his cryogenesis and grabbed hold of the other Chaos Diamond. “At least I’ll destroy you insufferable pests with my ace in the hole!” He directed the diamond’s attack on Discord and Spike, creating a snow tornado in the process. “Spike, be careful!” Twilight called out. “You too, Discord! It’s r-r-really freezing in here!” Fluttershy added, shivering. “Please take out that cold ruffian, Spikey-Wikey! I can’t endure this ferocious weather any longer!” Rarity complained. “Hang on, Rarity! We got this!” Spike assured. Discord and Spike swam around the tornado without losing sight of Freeze. As he was thinking, the draconequus got an idea. Snapping his fingers, a fire tornado appeared out of nowhere and collided with the snow tornado. The fire tornado prevailed and boosted both creatures up in the skies to meet Freeze. “Now we both have the high ground... or should I say... the high air,” Discord bragged, wearing sunglasses with an air horn blowing behind him. As Freeze was levitating in the air thanks to the magic of the Chaos Diamond, he blasted more ice toward his opponents. However, Discord blocked them with his honeybun shield. Then Spike swooped down and tried to grab the diamond. Refusing to yield, Freeze and Spike struggled in a tug-of-war. “Give it up, lizard! You...can’t...win!” Freeze taunted. “Oh yes, we...are!” Spike retorted, breathing fire at him. Freeze groaned in pain from the flames, forcing him to lose his grasp on the diamond. He plummeted down to the ground while screaming. “It’s all yours!” Spike said, tossing it back to Discord. The draconequus laid his paw on the diamond, generating a wave of warmth throughout Equestria. All the ice melted from the landscape and from the Crystal Empire. Everypony was unfrozen, the winter clouds vanished, and the clear night sky was revealed alongside the shining moon and stars. Freeze laid on the ground unconscious while his icy cover had already melted from the fire. Discord and Spike safely landed on the ground and looked down on Freeze. “Think we should lock him up in Tartarus?” Spike suggested. “Tempting, but no. Obviously, he’s a criminal from his own world, so sending him back to his dimension to face justice is the smarter way to handle this,” replied Discord. He grabbed all two of the Chaos Diamonds, imprinted a few snowflakes on top of them, and then dropped the diamonds on Freeze’s body. At that moment, a bright light shined around him and teleported him and the diamonds out of Equestria. Meanwhile, Batman searched across Gotham City with no luck whatsoever. Even police cars were everywhere on almost every street in search for the missing villain. Batman drove his batmobile in the middle of the night. “Still no sign of Freeze. He is nowhere in the city at all. That diamond must have taken him to a place outside of Gotham but where exactly?” Batman wondered. Suddenly, Freeze teleported just above his vehicle and roughly landed on the roof. The two diamonds rolled off him and landed on the hood, catching Batman’s attention. He exited the batmobile and saw Freeze weakened and groaning in pain. Seeing this made Batman slightly smirk. “Looks like the search party’s over.” He cuffed Freeze’s hands and took the diamonds off the hood. A few days later, the sun was setting and all Ponyville had already prepared themselves for Hearth’s Warming Eve. Every family sat together with gladness, every friend sang with their friends, and every foal was happy beside their parents. The Mane Six, Spike, Discord, and the Crystal Family sat together having pudding. Pinkie, of course, also ate snow cakes alongside the pudding. “This week was pretty rough for all of us, but I’m glad we made it out alive. Thanks to both Spike and Discord, we can celebrate Hearth’s Warming Eve!” Twilight said, smiling. “Indeed. It was quite a brave act you did in stopping that ruffian, Spike,” cooed Rarity, kissing Spike on the cheek. “It was nothing, really. Just did what I had to do,” replied Spike, blushing. “Frankly, I regret not reserving at least one of those diamonds for Fluttershy. If only it wasn’t used as a plot device...” Discord sighed. “It’s okay, Discord. The one thing I value more is our friendship,” Fluttershy comforted. Smiling, both the pegasus and Discord hugged tightly. “I’m still shaken...(sniff)...at the fact that guy was from another dimension. I mean, the odds of meeting human creatures every now and then is a little...(sniff)...scary to think about now,” Shining stated, wearing a blanket around him. “I’m sure there are beings out there who aren’t like him,” Cadence said, feeding Flurry Heart with pudding. “Besides, if there are villains like him who exist in his world, then there has to be heroes there too.” “If that’s the case, then that would be so awesome!” Rainbow squealed. “Ah don’t think we will see any creature from his world visiting ours any time soon,” Applejack doubted. “Unless some crazy crossover fanatic makes us visit their world instead...” Pinkie uttered, drowning herself with pudding. Twilight ignited the holiday lights in the room and laid out all the presents for everyone. “Happy Hearth’s Warming, everypony!” “Happy Hearth’s Warming!” they all replied. THE END