//------------------------------// // - Chapter 4 - Uncovering the Relics - Part 1 // Story: Relics of a Wounded Soul // by Coat Rack //------------------------------// My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic :Relics of a Wounded Soul: My Little Pony OC story [Sad] [OC] [Grimdark] Chapter 4: Uncovering the Relics Part 1 ______________________________________________________________________________ “Cousin Fwosty, I have something I would wike to give you.” “Aw, Crystal. You shouldn’t have.” “But how could I not give such a gweat foalsitter a gift for doing such a good job?” “Frosty, are you home?” “Oh, Freezor! I forgot that you were coming over today, I would like you to meet my cousin, Christina Clear.” ______________________________________________________________________________ “Excuse me sir... do I happen to know you by any chance?” A voice asked from behind the group. Freezor turned around to see who was asking him, he was met by a blue pegasus mare with a yellow mane. “I... Don’t think so, unless...” Studying the look more closely made his one good eye open wide. “You couldn’t be...!” “Freezor? Y’all know each other?” Applejack wondered aloud. “I don’t recall seeing her at yer welcoming party.” “Oh, well, I wasn’t feeling up to a party that night, and just went to bed,” the blue mare explained. “And his name is Freezor? That makes it much more likely.” “Christina Clear, it’s been ages since I last saw you!” Freezor exclaimed, his eye going a bright green color. “I haven’t seen you since the last time Frosty foalsat you!” “Wow, I must know you from a while back... I haven’t been called Christina since I was six. and... who’s Frosty? It... sounds familiar...” ‘Christina’ replied “That backstabber doesn’t matter anymore, I am just shocked to see you again” “Oh, well... alright. To avoid confusion, though... everypony in town knows me as ‘Crystal’.” “Well, it seems you two need to catch up a bit.” Rarity said while getting up from the table. “We best leave you two, since we have some things to take care of ourselves.” The three crusaders quickly jumped up after hearing this, quickly grabbing their saddle bags. “CUITIE MARK CRUSADERS ASTROPHYSICISTS, YAY!” Once Rarity and Applejack left with the crusaders, Freezor decided to try to catch up on what has happen since the time they last saw each other. “So, I see you have turned into a fine young mare after all these years.” “Oh, well... thank you Freezor. I’ll be honest here, I’m not entirely sure why I remember you, or from where. Things from before I moved from Cloudsdale are a bit fuzzy anymore.” “Well, let’s just say you borrowed some bits from a friend of mine at the Cloudy Domain. Of course it’s been about, 16 years, 8 months, 1 day, 12 hours,and 42 minutes since then.” Freezor gave off a small chuckle. “I am shocked I can still remember when that happened...” “Heck of a pocket watch you got there.” Crystal quipped, giggling. “It’s not that simple, Crystal. I bet you can point out more than one thing that has changed since the last time we met.” “Like the robot parts in general? Pretty sure I’d remember all that.” “Correct, this isn’t for show. It’s how I am, let’s just say I had a “accident” on the job thanks to your foalsitter and her friend.” “Oh, that just sounds awful... are you okay with talking about it?” “I’d rather not, at least not out in the open.” His eye turned red for a moment as he continued. “You may never know who’s listening.” “Alright then, we can hide out somewhere if you’d be more comfortable th-- Oh there I go falling into my job again.” Crystal half-offered, laughing slightly at herself. “Oh, you have a job now? What are you, a medium or something?” At that Crystal looked back to her crystal ball cutie mark and began laughing once more. “Oh no, I’m a psychiatrist. Destiny just felt like getting in on an in-joke my friends had going around, I guess.” “Ha, I could say the same about me too.” Freezor looked to his two ice cubes cutie mark. “I guess it knew I would have been a cool guy or something.” “Hehe, maybe... So, you said my old foalsitter made you like this?” “...Yes, why do you ask?” “Like I said, I don’t remember much from before leaving Cloudsdale, I was hoping maybe... you could tell me about her?” “I would never talk about that foal again, not even her friend.” He quickly gave a death glare to Crystal, his eyes now a crimson red color. “It would be best if you forgot they existed too.” “...Um, okay. Sorry. I didn’t realize that was a sore subject...” Crystal apologized, blinking as her eyes shifted from a deep blue to a bright turquoise. “There’s no reason to be so... upset.” “Oh please, EVERYPONY says that. Nopony has any respect for my thoughts, and it seems you don’t either.” “I’m not trying to make you mad Freezor... please just calm down, forget I asked.” “Listen here filly, I don’t take kindly to ponies who use me. And I know when ponies try, you are just wanting to sap me into getting me to go to your office for a pointless session where you will just get some bits from me, and give me NOTHING!” Quickly slamming a hoof on the table, Freezor stood up while the liquid in the tubes on his head began to bubble. In addition to the obvious physical changes... his aura is getting more and more erratic... He could snap any second, best diffuse the situation fast. Crystal thought, watching as Freezor approached his breaking point. “I... I wasn’t Freezor, I swear... you don’t have to say anything you don’t want to. Just please calm down so we can talk...” “There you go again! ‘Just calm down so we can talk’, You just want to talk about my past so you can nail me with a bill for some ‘help’!” A faint humming sound began to emerge from Freezor’s body. “Well you know what, I COULD CARE LESS! Maybe I should show you what it’s like to have your limbs frozen off!” “I... I can see you’re in a lot of rage right now... I’ll-I’ll just leave.” Crystal said, backing away as her eyes turned back to their normal blue. "Oh no, if you want to talk, then I'll let you talk." Freezor said in a faked calm voice. “Just let me show you something I can do first.” “Um...o-okay?” Crystal answered as she was still slowly backing away. ______________________________________________________________________________ Across the street, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash were just exiting a shop. “I told you they wouldn’t sell you more wood after seeing what happened the last time you tried that stunt.” “Oh come on Twilight, you know it can’t be that bad right?” Rainbow Dash asked, nudging her friend. “After all, you agreed to look over the plans for it this time.” “More liked you forced me...” “Either way Dash, this is not something you should be trying. Just think of all the ponies you could hurt by doing this!” “Oh come on Twilight, when was the last time something dangerous happen he-” Rainbow Dash was quickly cut off by a scream and a loud blast sound. “What in Equestria was that!” The two quickly turned their head to the direction the sound came from, a group of ponies ran by screaming as the saw Freezor standing next to another pony. But the thing that caught their eye was the large icicle that had made a circle around the pony.  “This is bad, REALLY bad!” Twilight exclaimed as she made her way over to the two ponies. “We better see what’s going on, come one Rainbow Dash!” “Way ahead of you Twi!” A rainbow blue quickly passed Twilight as an strange humming sound could be heard. ______________________________________________________________________________ “See Christina, after my ‘accident’ I had some slight adjustments added to make up for what I lost. And to make sure nopony would use me again.” Freezor said while walking up to Crystal Clear with his eye glowing red, as a humming sound could be heard again. “Now then, I would show you mercy, but my current state in life has left me cold to any pleas of mercy you can cry.” Quivering in place where she was, Crystal muttered only one sentence, knowing if she tried to fly away, Freezor would likely just shoot her out of the sky. “I... didn’t mean to make you so upset...” “You keep saying that same lie, when will you learn I won’t fall for such a blatant tri-” Freezor was quickly interrupted by somepony slamming into him from the side, leaving a rainbow trail in their wake. “Alright mister, I warned you when you messed with Pinkie Pie. But now you are REALLY going to get it!” Rainbow Dash screamed at the downed cyborg. “I should have sent you packing at the party like I was going to do, you jerk!” “Oh you little foal, I told you that I could take you down last time!” Quickly knocking Rainbow Dash off, Freezor stood up again. “Now I’ll show yo-” *BONK!* Freezor quickly fell to the ground as a rock floated above his head, Twilight quickly ran up to the rest with her horn glowing. “Rainbow Dash, what were you thinking trying to take him on alone!” “What, and let him kill this pony? Like I would let that happen!” getting up off the ground she turned to Crystal Clear. “Are you okay, anything broken?” “N-no... just a little shaken. I have no idea what set him off...” “Hm, this is the second time I’ve seen him act like this... What were you two doing before he attacked you?” Twilight asked puzzled as she cast a sleeping spell on Freezor. “This should keep him out for a while so we can talk.” “Well... we were just talking about the past... when we apparently knew each other.” Crystal replied, climbing out of the ice barricade and then sitting at a table. “Hm... talking about the past, I wonder...” Twilight suddenly had a thought. “Do we have any place we can go that isn’t out in the open? I think I have an idea!” “Well... isn’t your library closed today, Twilight?” “Well, sorta. I never really close it as much as I prefer to not let pone in when I re-organize the books.” “Anyway... that would do, wouldn’t it?” “It has to be better than being out in the open where everypony is staring at us, let’s go!” Rainbow Dash said as she tried to pick up the downed cyborg, only to find out that he wasn’t as light as she thought he would have been. “Urk, a little help would be nice?” “Oh, sure... thanks for saving me, Rainbow Dash.” Crystal said as she helped the prismatic pegasus lift the robo-pony. ______________________________________________________________________________ After taking Freezor to the library Twilight got some tea and sat down with the others to compare clues on what had happen, hopefully she was right about her idea she had. “So let me get this straight, you two were talking about the past, since you were friends, and you happened to hit a sour note?” “Well... this was 16 years ago... I was just a filly at the time... it sounded more like he knew one of my foalsitters. But yes, something about that set him off.” “Well... I would like you to know this isn’t the first time he attacked a pony, he attacked a friend of mine just last night at his welcome party.” Twilight stated while she stirred her tea. “And when I talked with him, it seemed to have a connection to his past as well. Almost as if he is wishing to hide something, or is holding a strong grudge.” “It still doesn’t give him the right to go around taking his anger out on ponies!” Rainbow Dash said, glaring at the sleeping cyborg. “I am about ready to go drag him out to the Everfree Forest and be done with him!” “Well... whatever it is... I know one more thing... the foalsitter he knew... is the most likely object to his aggression.” Crystal put forth, finally calmed down enough to remember more details of the conversation and think clearly. “Everything went downhill as soon as I asked more about her...” “Hm, I think it’s time we got some real answers. He seemed to leave a lot of empty holes in his answer to my question, and I didn’t want to push the issue in fear he would flip out again. But it seems that only worsened it.” Twilight walked over to a door and opened it showing a staircase leading downwards. “I don’t normally let others see this area, but you may hold a piece to this puzzle. Rainbow Dash, bring him down will you?” “Sure thing, care to give me a hoof C?” Rainbow Dash asked as she grabbed hold of Freezor and began to drag him to the door. “No problem, RD.” Crystal confirmed, grabbing Freezor’s other side and pushing. Now downstairs, Twilight hooked Freezor up to a machine that connected to another machine with a monitor and printer. Carefully making sure the straps were on tight she started up the machine. “Okay, I am going to wake him up. When he is awake I’ll be asking him some questions, this machine will tell us if he is lying, telling the truth, or is half-lying.” “Um... I’ll just go over here where he can’t see me... just in case.” Crystal said as she started up towards the door. “Don’t worry, I’ll make sure nothing will happen. Besides he’s strapped down, he can’t hurt you!” Rainbow Dash said as she flew up to her. “Besides, I heard you were a good physician.” “...psychiatrist...” “Same thing, you help ponies with stuff.” “Physicians help with the body... psychiatry is about the mind... but I’m worried he might just get angry again and shoot ice at us...” “Don’t worry, I can just put him to sleep again if he tries.” Twilight said as her horn started to glow. “Now I am going to undo the spell, so get ready.” “Alright... if you say so...” Crystal said as she reluctantly fluttered back down to the same level as Twilight. A purple beam hit Freezor’s head, causing him to stir a bit and his eye to open up. “Hrmm, what happen. Did anypony see who was pulling that wagon...?” “Freezor, we need to talk.” Twilight stated in a serious tone while staring at him. “I thought you were cool after the last talk we had, but your actions today have proven otherwise.” “Hrmp, you are on her side now?” Freezor asked, noticing Crystal Clear in the side of the room, trying to hide behind Rainbow Dash. “You know, I can bring up your past too, ‘Christina’.” “Y-you can?” Crystal asked. “Oh sure I can, why don’t you tell these nice ponies what happened to your mother?” Freezor asked, a twisted grin forming on his face. As soon as Freezor said this, Crystal’s eyes welled up in tears, and she had to force herself not to break down crying at the only real memory she had of her time in Cloudsdale. “I’d... r-rather not...” “So then why do you three try to force me to talk about MY past, if she can move on with her life, why can’t I?” “Because she got over hers I assume, but you haven’t.” Twilight quickly got in front of Crystal Clear. “Now stop trying to get out of this, we just want to know what is going on with your half-truths you told me.” “You couldn’t tell if I was lying or telling the truth if you wanted to, in this low down town of yours.” Freezor said chuckling, only to be cut off with a loud buzzing sound. “What in Equestria was that?!” “That, would be a lie detector!” Twilight said while she levitated a clipboard and quill over. “Now, what were you saying about how we ‘couldn’t tell if you were telling the truth or not’?” “...If I tell you the truth will you leave. Me. Alone?” Freezor asked, his eye a purple shade. “We will, as long as you don’t hurt anypony else.” Twilight said with a smile on her face. “Yeah, I don’t want to rough you up again.” Rainbow Dash said as she eyed him from the side of the room. “Oh you little...” “That’s enough!” Twilight called out, tapping her hoof on the floor. “Now then, how about you explain what it was about Crystal’s foalsitter that you hate so much?” “She caused the accident that left me like this, as I have said before.” A short buzz sound was heard. “BLAST IT, turn that thing off!” “Half-truth there Mr. Relic, what is it really?” Twilight asked, writing down what he said on a paper. “If you want to know more, then I would have to start a bit farther back.” Freezor sighed, this time a slight ding was heard. “Back from when I started my job at the Weather Factory...”