I take the first step in the room, it freezing cold just like I predicted. Everypony stiffs up in the cold. “S-s-spike c-c-can you so kindly to bring the t-torch here”? Rarity requests. Everyone huddles near the torch except me; the cold can’t penetrate this burning feeling in my head. We walk through the dark corridor only for it to be colder. This burning feeling my head only burns hotter the colder it gets.
“What’s that?” Pinkie Pie asks. I can see what she’s talking about there’s something way ahead of us, frozen in ice… like I expected. I fly to the figure as fast as I can, Rainbow Dash joins me. We both stop in front of it, frozen stiff. It’s him, the one that’s been calling to me in my visions, he needs my help. I can’t see through the ice to get a color or a cutie mark, the ice is too opaque.
“I-is that a-a… pony?” Rainbow Dash says under her shivering breath. I don’t respond, I just stare at it, for a long time. Next to the stallion was a chest. The wood was on the chest was rotting and the iron hinges are well rusted enough to break. I slowly open the chest to reveal some kind of article of clothing; it’s softer than silk and blacker than anything I’ve ever seen. It’s in perfect condition unlike its container.
“Rainbow Dash, can you hold on to this?” She takes the clothing from my hooves and keeps it firmly gripped in her wings, examining it. Eventually everyone else catches up, huddling near Spike’s torch, staring at the frozen pony in confusion. “Get ready every pony” I warn them. “I’m going to try to teleport us out of here with this thing.” I put hoof on the stallion’s body and summon up all the magic in me to get 5 ponies, a baby dragon, and a frozen stallion out from thousands of feet underground. The ground beneath me starts to tremble, my horn is overloading with energy, and then I release the spell.
Thank Celestia it worked, we’re all in the grass plains outside of Ponyville. Fluttershy starts kissing the ground, “thank goodness we’re out of that terrible room!” I try to let go of the stallion only to find my hoof is stuck to the freezing ice. I pulled harder and managed to get it off with my skin intact. After we all regain ourselves we surround the frozen stallion.
“I’m sorry to bring you here in such short notice for this. And I’m also sorry for not being open about this.” I tell everyone, who is just confused and dumbfounded. Applejack looks at me,
“NOW will ya tell us what’s goin on? Who or what in the name of Celestia is this??” I pause, collecting my thoughts to formulate this whole situation.
“About a month ago, a month after the incident with Sunset Shimmer, I had a vision in my sleep. I was in the room we were just in a second ago, and the pony was calling for me, for me to free him. The night after that I had another vision of a silhouette resembling Princess Celestia crying in front of the horse head carving in the library. Also the Elements of Harmony were connected to it as well. And by judging on the bad condition of the chest holding the clothing, despite the fact it was near freezing ice that he’s been under the library for a very long time.” Everyone was silent, taking time to collect and process all this information. Finally Rainbow Dash spoke up,
“so what you’re telling us is that all this time, you were living on top of a secret bunker which only Princess Celestia knows about that contains an ancient frozen pony and his hideous black cape thing?”
I sheepishly grin, “Yup”. “…That… is… AWESOME! Let’s get him out of there and see what he knows about old Equestria!” Rainbow Dash gets ready to charge at the ice stallion. Suddenly Rarity blocks her and yells,
“Wait! You have to be delicate when thawing someone out, you might shatter him into a million pieces or cause too much trauma killing him before he wakes up.”
Suddenly Pinkie Pie bursts in with her party cannon, pointing at him at close range, “NONSENSE!” she fires the cannon, but the confetti and streamers don’t as much tilt the stallion, however Pinkie Pie felt the recoil, sending her into Fluttershy. You know, when I think about it, what kind of pony can live frozen for thousands of years? Eventually your life will fade away when you’re frozen; then again I could feel a faint life force resonating. What is he? I have so many questions to ask him. I tried a heat spell to melt him out of there, but to no avail.
“Alright ponies”, I yell out, “our plan is to break this pony out of his frozen prison!”
Rarity gave me the stink eye, “that ice is harder than diamonds and colder than the ride to the Crystal Empire, what do you suggest?” I give Rarity a grin,
“what do you think, The Elements of Harmony!” Rarity’s eye twitched a bit,
“… I knew that…” We all get ready to prepare the attack and I cast the spell. When the light flashes were clear, I see the results… it worked! The pony is out of the ice unharmed and unconscious. He’s… different from ordinary stallions. His fur is black, he has royal swirl pattern across his legs, neck, and forehead, a dark red. His mane is short and luscious black and red. But the most defining feature was his bat wings and tall horn. A male alicorn? How is that even possible? His vitals are weak, but he can wake up if given good treatment.
“Rainbow Dash! Rush him over to the hospital as fast as you can! Give me the clothes and we’ll meet with you there!”
Rainbow Dash picks up his front hooves and gives me the clothing; “got it!” she bolts toward the hospital with the unconscious alicorn in her hooves.
“Come on girls, let’s get the hospital!” We all gallop to Rainbow Dash’s cloud trail, it takes us 2 hours to get make it. Spike returns home to try to seal up the bunker again. Turns out Rainbow Dash made it to the hospital in 1 minute. Rainbow was waiting for us in the lobby, worried, and then she sees us,
“Guys”!
“How is our newest discovery doing Rainbow Dash?” I ask her.
“The nurses got him in a steaming hot room to regulate his body temperature and some other stuff. The nurse told me to wait for them to be done until further notice.” Alright then, we’ll wait for the nurse. All of us sit down, except for Pinkie Pie, who’s bothering the attendant.
“So… that stallion wasn’t normal by first sight.” Applejack says. Fluttershy follows that up,
“I know what you mean, and I’ve never seen such a dark and colorless pony like that before… it’s pretty… scary…!”
“You should never judge a book by its cover Fluttershy. No matters how hideously black its coat and fashion sense is” says Rarity, looking at the cloak on her back.
“What I want to know is why he’s an alicorn.” Pinkie joined in,
“Same here! Aren’t you supposed to be a mare to become an alicorn?” I felt the need to correct her,
“That’s not supposedly true Pinkie; any pony can be an alicorn, like me! I don’t have royal blood, but I have you guys for teaching me friendship that made me an alicorn.” We all talk about the mysterious stallion for a good 1 hour or so until the nurse called us up for the analysis and results.
“Well this pony is indeed not normal. His skin took some force to pierce through, and his internal body temperature is surprisingly low, about 10 degrees Celsius. His vitals are strong despite the body temperature. We had to lower the heat by a lot, any higher he would have a massive fever. When we budged open his mouth for a respirator, he had fangs, as if the black and red colors weren't creepy enough. Right now he’s sleeping; you can visit him if you want. We all go to visit him; I go in by myself while the others look through the observation window. It’s moderately warm in here, but our mystery pony is cold. Suddenly, his eyes slowly open… his red, exquisite eyes… everyone else rushes in, their eyes widen as his rise…