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// Prologue: Frozen in Time 
// Story: Captain Equestria: The First Avenger 
// by Plumage 
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The pegasus flew down onto the ice. It was cold against his hooves. He already wanted to go back to Cloudsdale.
"This better be good," he growled to the Eskipony unicorn beside him.
"Wait until you see what we found. It must have been an old crashed airplane." The unicorn smiled. Glancing at his notes the pegasus saw his name was Ice Pick.
"We'll see about that, Ice Pick."
Ice Pick trotted down to a hole drilled in the ice. "Right down here, sir." He indicated to the hole.
The pegasus nodded at Ice Pick and fell gracefully into the hole, snapping his wings out at the last second so that he didn't splat.
It really was a plane. It looked from about Hooftler. "When is it estimated this plane crashed?" he asked.
"Late 1940's," replied Ice Pick from behind him.
He nodded. Walking to the back of the plane, he saw a circular object covered in snow. He brushed some of it off and gasped.
"Ice Pick?"
"Yes, sir?"
"I think you better come take a look at this."
He heard hoofsteps and another gasp. Ice Pick was behind him.
The pegasus brushed the rest of he snow off the object just to be sure.
Yes.
It was a circular shield, with three stripes going all the way around the shield leading to a small circle in the middle. The outmost one was yellow, the one in the middle dark blue and the one nearest the middle circle was white. The circle itself was black, with a white crescent on one side and a blue crescent on the other. In-between them was a sun and a crescent moon. There were scorch marks on the shield where bullets had been shot at it.
"Captain Equestria," Ice Pick whispered.