Crest of Imagination
Chapter 6: Frozen Breach!
The very next day, after a rather peaceful morning and afternoon. The group of friends were having a nice break after another training session, they went to go sight seeing. The decided to have a trip to the grand capital of Canterlot. Twilight Sparkle and her friends happily paid for the human children and went along with them. The train pumping steam as it started choo chooing through its tracks.
The children watched in fascination as the environment sped by, but yet was still clearly visible. Having never been on a train before, they were easily entertained by the 'new' method of transportation.
"This is much more cozy than a plane!" Madison commented happily, bouncing up and down the booths.
"You said it Madison!" Ryan agreed whole hearteningly, "A lot of room to move around too! I always hated staying still in a seat for hours on end!"
"Yeah- huh? Hey Ryan, is the castle in the distance suppose to look like that?" Madison questioned, pointing toward Canterlot.
Ryan was confused, and he looked toward the direction his friend was pointing at, "Uh, Twilight! You better come see! Everyone come see this!" He shouted throughout the trolley.
His friends and the Mane Six came over and looked right out the window, their eyes widening with shock and surprise, a few gasps heard from the ponies as they noticed a very different appearance of Canterlot.
The entire city, and castle, was covered in ice.
"This is bad, this is bad!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Um, look." Fluttershy said, pointing up at the air.
The high pitch noise of a screeching bird caused the humans and ponies within the train to cover their ears, they looked up to see a large blue bird souring overhead. Quickly, they went to the other side of the train to see what it was doing. It appeared to follow the train with a bit of caution, but as they approached the frozen land that was now Canterlot. The bird screeched again, and a bright blue of energy formed within its beak.
"I recognize that Pokémon! It's Articuno!" Madison shouted, "It's a legendary ice- Uh oh..."
Articuno blasted its move toward the ground, the beam shaped like three bolts of lighting intertwining with each other. But instead of electricity, the ground becoming a field of ice as the beam closed in at the train.
"Brace yourselves!" Daniel shouted.
The train could not stop itself, the tracks in front of it becoming tracks of ice instead of iron. The moment the train slid into the ice, the machine lost its balance, starting to skid along the now icy fields before tilting over on its side. The humans and ponies within crashing into the fortunately soft booths instead of the windows as the tilted over train continued to slide harshly before crashing into the icy domain of Articuno's Canterlot.
Madison groaned as she got up, her vision a little blurry from hitting the side of the train. She looked up toward a cracked mirror to see Articuno flying by and away, she climbed up some of the booths, using some of her friends as a boost to get up. She grabbed a broken bulb, and threw it at the broken window. It broke apart, thankfully not falling on her or her friends. Madison went up through it, and stood on the outside side of the train.
Articuno's form was small now from how far it flew, but it looked like it at entered the frozen castle. She glanced around her surroundings, it appeared that the train had crashed right at above the Canterlot docking. Convenient, but lucky she assumed.
"Is everypony alright?" Madison heard the voice of Applejack speak from back within the train.
Madison peeked back into the train, "I'm okay Applejack! I'm right outside!"
She saw everyone getting back up, and disentangling themselves from each other. She put her hand down, to reach for somebody who needed help getting out. Ryan obliged, grabbing her hand and Madison pulled him up enough for him to get out by his own.
"Thanks Madison, whoa, it's like a city made of ice!" Ryan exclaimed as he saw his new surroundings.
As Madison helped everyone and pony out of the train, the ones who could fly got out by themselves. Daniel then went ghost, and used both his flight and intangibility to help the rest of them out of the train.
Madison watched as the blue-white rings formed around Daniel again, and he changed back to his human form. Everyone now stood on the crashed train's side as they observed their situation.
"What the hay was that!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
"A Pokémon with the ability to control ice," Madison answered, "It's a Legendary too, they're like, really powerful!"
Guilmon commented, "And I thought digimon with ice abilities were a bothersome."
Twilight scanned the frozen castle, "The Princesses must still be in there," she looked toward the pathway which was block by a giant wall of ice. "Blocked, we will have to find another way in."
Madison pulled out her Pokeball, "Not exactly! Charmander, I choose you!" She exclaimed, throwing the pokeball into the air which released the fire-type Pokémon. The orange flame-tailed lizard greeting them with a simple, "Charmander!"
The nine year old girl caught her pokeball, then pointed to the wall of ice, "Charmander, use flamethrower to open the pathway!"
Charmander nodded, opening its mouth toward the wall, "Chaaaar!" It shouted as a breath of red hot fire burst outward and impacted the wall of ice, melting it within seconds of time before charmander stopped its assault."
Guilmon was impressed, "Whoa, when did you learn that!" He yelled.
Madison replied, "Charmander and I practiced it yesterday when we were alone, I'm so proud of him!"
Alyssa then said, "Keep charmander out then, Guilmon's Pyro Sphere is a bit too explosive. It might shatter the ice and hurt us rather than only melt."
Pinkie Pie ice skated forward, "Let's go, I got a couple jokes up my hooves for that blue birdie!" She said, giggling all the way, "Weee!"
"How did she get the ice skates?" Daniel questioned.
"It's just Pinkie," all the ponies replied to him.
Trekking through the frozen city, they noticed many ponies were frozen solid. Like it all happened without warning, really, they were still doing what they did everyday when they were suddenly frozen by the breach. Glancing back out, past the ice tundra created by Articuno, the ice seemed to start expanding.
"Look at the bright side, the ice is well-made for a rampaging bird." Rarity commented, "Just look on how well it goes along the buildings."
Fluttershy didn't share the same compliments, "Oh, the poor ponies. Why does such a beautiful animal cause such devastation."
Daniel saw something that made him chuckle loudly, Fluttershy thought it negative.
"How could you laugh at their misery." Fluttershy said.
Daniel raised his hands in the air, "No, no, I'm not laughing at your fellow ponies," he said, before pointing up toward the roof of a building. "I'm laughing at a frozen box ghost."
The group looked up to see a fat human-like ghost wearing worker clothes waving his hands high in the air as he screamed in what they assumed to be in a threatening matter. Only, he was now frozen solid in that position.
"Probably screaming 'Beware! I am the box ghost' at that moment when he got stuck in the freezer." Daniel said, replicating the box ghost's voice for his quote.
Twilight had other things on her mind, "I don't understand, why is this breach taking so long to fix itself? We shouldn't be having this serious of a breach yet. Something is going on."
"Grrrr." Guilmon started growling, and Alyssa instantly knew.
"There's a digimon here!" Alyssa said, looking around for the familiar pillar of fog that usually coincides with it. But she saw nothing nearby, "Where's the digital field?"
Guilmon replied to his partner, "The digimon, it has enough power and intelligence to leave its field, that's why the field isn't here."
"Great, more problems. Why can't they come in single file line?" Daniel questioned no one in particular.
"Cause that would be too easy!" Ryan said with a chuckle.
"Meant it sarcastically, Ryan." Daniel replied.
"Hold on a second sugarcube," Applejack interrupted, talking to Alyssa's direction, "You telling me there is also this, digimon, in Canterlot?"
"So, just means for bad guys for us to beat!" Rainbow Dash said, bumping her front hooves together.
Madison corrected her, "Actually, Articuno is a girl."
Guilmon added on, "Digimon don't have genders, we come from eggs created in the Primary Village."
"Uh, everypony, we're getting off track here!" Pinkie Pie stated.
"Pinkie's right, let's keep moving dears." Rarity agreed.
Having stopped chatting in order to proceed further, the group of heroes made it past the downtown district and upper district, arriving at the entrance of the castle in which Madison's Pokémon melted the ice blocking the grand door from opening up. After opening and entering the doorway, revealing the large room. They noticed a being in the shadows on the ceiling.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" A sinister voice said, before the shadow figure dropped to the ground and revealed itself.
"It's a white colored devimon!" Alyssa yelled with worry.
"That's not just a white colored one," Guilmon started, "That is Icedevimon!"
Icedevimon was a humanoid inspired by the devils of the Christian religion, he was pretty much a white bat-like creature with a satanic grin and personality to match! Be careful, for he is a champion level, with the skills Frost Claw and Zero Freeze that will send you to the ice age in pieces!
"Are you the one who did this!" Rainbow Dash yelled.
Icedevimon stretched his hands, as if displaying the area, "Of course, but the Pokémon did help. Very intriguing she is, but if not for me keeping her breach open, well, she would have returned quite some time ago."
That caught their attention, this digimon knew of breaches.
"How do you know about the breaches!" Twilight exclaimed to him.
The fallen angel digimon raised his hands, "Oh, I guess my mouth slipped. Well, that's not for me to really answer. Because I'm just here to kill the Digidestined," he suddenly spread his arms around, his claws revealing themselves and mouth opening to show his fangs. "Prepare to be deleted, Digidestined and friends!"
"Dude, you need to chill." Daniel said.
Pinkie Pie laughed, "Oh I love puns..." She said.
"Zero Freeze!" Icedevimon shouted as he fired a hand-sized blue beam toward them.
"Charmander, flamethrower!" Madison shouted.
"Chaar!" Charmander roared as a line of flame burst outward.
"Pyro Sphere!" Guilmon shouted as he released his own ball of fire forth.
The two fire-based attacks collided with Icedevimon's Zero Freeze, meeting in the center with a loud implosion. The smoke took away full visibility of their surroundings, but once it cleared, Icedevimon was gone.
"Quick, he must have reached the top!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
"Stop!" Ryan shouted.
Everyone and Everypony stopped suddenly, they looked at Ryan in confusion.
Alyssa asked, "What's the matter?"
"We need to slow down, I mean, I know this is exciting and all but... Maybe we should think about this?" Ryan said with wisdom.
Pinkie Pie agreed, she agreed! "Ryan is right! Plus, the story needs a slower pace anyhow!"
Shaking off Pinkie Pie's unusual comments, Applejack said, "I agree, we can't just rush in there. This Icedevimon could be dangerous."
Twilight rubbed a hoof on her chin, "Mmh, we know that the Pokémon is on the top. And that it's breach is somehow kept open by Icedevimon."
"Not to mention that Icedevimon knew about the breaches in the first place, doesn't that strike as odd?" Rarity said, "That barbarian is using it too keep that beautiful creature from going home, perhaps we can find a way to close the breach manually?" She questioned.
The group hmm'ed in unison as they thought as various ways to block up the breach manually so that Articuno could return to its original realm. These thoughts ranged from shooting a giant cake at it, to using a complex spell array. Alyssa Jarnagin spoke up first.
"My digivice might be able too, but I'm not one-hundred percent sure," the eleven year old said, revealing the digivice in her palm. "All I know truly know is that it can destroy black gears, besides helping Guilmon digivolve that is," she explained.
"Black gears?" Fluttershy said, "Those sound horrible."
"Don't worry about them, they're long gone." Alyssa said, "Used to make digimon evil, causing them to be aggressive," She stated.
Twilight's head shot up, "Say that again? The last part." Twilight asked.
"They used to make digimon be aggressive?" Alyssa answered with a confused expression.
"That's the part, can your digivice dispel the influence on Articuno's mind?" Twilight questioned, "The influence that causes him to act so aggressively towards everything?" She questioned further.
The eleven year old Digidestined scratched her head in thought, "Maybe, but I'm unsure," she replied.
Daniel lifted his hand up, "Hey, if Alyssa's digivice does not work. I believe I can overshadow the Pokémon and help it fight off the influence enough to stop its rampage." He said. "But that's a risk chance, I don't necessary have full control of my power all the time yet."
Applejack nodded, "Now all that's left is to get close to the bird."
Rainbow Dash laughed, before bumping her hooves together, "Leave that to me, I'll lure that frozen icicle down towards us while you prepare to do... Whatever needs to be done!" She said with confidence booming in her voice.
Madison smiled, "Yay, we have a plan! Let's go!" The nine year old cheered, turning to face the direction where they had to go. "Uh, which way again?"
Twilight pointed her hoof at a set frozen over staircases before walking that way, "This way everypony."
Ryan instantly covered Pinkie Pie's mouth, "Please stop talking like your breaking some sort of wall Pinkie, I don't know if everyone can see us on TV!"
"Oh don't worry Ryan," Pinkie Pie said after he uncovered her mouth, "We're not in the show," she reassured.
"Okay, thanks." Ryan said.
"I am curious on what's on the next chapter through." Pinkie Pie stated absently.
Ugh... She really needs to stop breaking my fourth wall.
"Once you give me more screen time in your other stories."
"Pinkie!" The eight year old Ryan shouted a bit away.
"Coming!"