This is not how Victor wanted the day to go. First the ponies tried to force him to love them and forget his love for Nora with a spell (even though there was nothing that he would love more than her), which would have been bad enough except that now he was fighting some sort of freak dinosaur that was tearing up the town. It had already frozen Luna in stone with its glare, which meant that neither he nor the ponies could look it in the face while fighting it. Which was terrible, because that's where it's most lethal weapons were located.

"It's a dinosaur! A cold blooded creature and yet you're having trouble with it?!" Twilight screamed at him from behind an overturned statue, Freeze and Twilight taking cover behind it when they found out the dino could breathe fire. "Come on, this has to be the perfect opponent for you!"

"If your tiny brain moved any slower, you'd be going backwards!" Freeze yelled at her as another torrent of fire blazed over their heads. "Ice does not work well with fire, which just happens to be what the monster is breathing! Now be quiet and give me a moment to think!" Cadence had been moved to the side by Pinkie and Rarity while Rainbow tried to take down the creature's legs, only to find out that the scales were practically impenetrable.

"Why can't there ever be something simple to fight!?" Rainbow Dash asked as she flew away from the flames that tried to consume her, giving Freeze the opening he had been waiting for. He shot out from behind his cover and fired his ice rays into the creatures side, watching as ice began to form ups its side, slowing it. His victory was short lived, as apparently the creature had fire running through its veins since the ice melted within seconds. The dinosaur turned its head towards Freeze and unleashed its fire upon him and Freeze barely managed to erect a wall of ice to protect himself.

"This is not going well," he muttered to himself as the ice shattered and sent him skidding across the ground, causing him to begin to worry as he saw more cracks forming on his helmet. 'I have not had proper time to repair my suit and this battle is not helping things any. I should leave and-' His thoughts were interrupted as Twilight began to fire magic at the creature, giving her a chance to rush over to Freeze and help him up.

"You should not have bothered," he said to her as she tried to get him away from the creature, but having some trouble due to how much he weighed. "I can handle myself."

"Yeah right," she said to him as she looked up at the dinosaur, watching as Rainbow got swatted away by its tail. "I have to try and bring it down. I can beat it." She said as she fired her strongest spell at the monster, only to watch in horror as the spell did little to it. Had Freeze not pulled her out of the way, the creature would have eaten her whole.

"Are you so certain that your magic will prevail?" he taunted out as he fought back to his feet. The T-Rex began to sniff the air and its head turned towards where Cadence was hiding, the creature letting out a roar as it began to charge towards her. Sensing his chance, Freeze flash froze the ground under the creature’s feet and sent it sliding past the princess and into the side of the crystal palace, where it slid to the ground in a dazed state. "This creature is not like the last one Sombra sent. That one was simply under his control, but this one only has our destruction in mind. We must bring it down."

"I don't know if we can" Twilight muttered, but Freeze did not have such reservations as he began to try to freeze the dinosaur to the side of the palace, only to growl in frustration as the creature broke through the ice with fire.

"Twilight, I cannot stop this creature unless you find a way to shut down its fire breath. Can you manage it or will you need my help?" he asked her in a slightly mocking tone, but he knew that the insult would only get her to perform better. Just as he predicted, Twilight took offense to his lack of faith in her skills and she flew at the dino, blocking it's fire with a shield.

"That's better," he muttered as he went to fire ice right into the side of the creatures head, but in his moment of certain victory was when the dinosaur broke off its attack on Twilight and rushed for him. He barely had enough time to curse before a massive leg slammed into his face and sent him sprawling, his head cracking the back of his helmet before all he saw was darkness.

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Freeze's eyes opened and he found himself back in the dark room where he had fought the Batman, wondering why he was back here until it had crossed his mind that he was unconscious again. He was immediately on guard for the bat and his vigilance paid off when he heard the sound of someone landing behind him. He spun around while preparing to fire, but he stopped when he saw which bat he was now facing. This one had a full black suit with a red bat in the center.

"The new Batman," Freeze muttered aloud, not lowering his arm but he didn't fire. He knew little about this Batman, but he had tried to save Freeze's life back when he fought the radioactive monster. "What do you want?"

"Freeze...you can't keep living like this," Batman said to him as he took a step forward, but Freeze rose his other arm and Batman stopped walking towards him. "All this pain, all this destruction. I know you're better than this Victor, I know you're better than this. Where is the man who wanted to donate the money he had saved up to those in need? Where is the man who wanted to help others in memory of his wife?"

"He is dead. He was killed when those he tried to help stabbed him in the back," Freeze said coldly as his ray started up. "And the pain will not end, not until I finally have what I want."

"And what about the ponies?" Batman asked as he began to walk again towards Victor, not stopping despite the threat Freeze made with his ray. "Are you going to sacrifice them to achieve your goals? Can you really just step on the innocent, even if it is for your wife? Is this what she would have wanted you to be? She's gone Freeze; you just haven't accepted that fact yet."

"NO! SHE CAN STILL BE SAVED!" Freeze roared as he fired his freeze ray at the Batman, freezing him where he stood. Freeze then stomped up to him and put a hand around Batman's neck, slowly squeezing it. "I can save her and I WILL save her! Even if those ponies have to die! I will be with her again!" But to Freeze's surprise, Batman simply shook his head at Freeze with a sad look.

"I know you're better than that Freeze...I know that you are a good man Victor," Batman said sadly. "You may not be able to save your wife, but there is still so much you can offer these ponies, so much they can learn from you. Help them, just as your wife would want you to. She died happy, but you never got your chance at happiness. But you can now, if you try."

"And why should I?" he asked Batman as he removed his hand from his throat. "No one every helped me! And those that did stabbed me in the back! I had to take everything for her, even when I knew I would be tearing other lives apart. They have shown that they hate me. They will not help me, so why should I help them? Only Nora deserves my help!" Batman broke through the ice as Victor said this, walking over to him and placing a hand on his shoulder.

"I know why you're making the cure, despite knowing that she's gone," Batman said in a sympathetic voice as he looked into Victor's eyes. "Because you live for her. For so long everything you have done, be it robbing banks to freezing an exploding building to trying to start a new charity, has been for her. But without her..."

"I am nothing. I was nothing when she found me and with her...gone...I am less than that," Victor choked out. "I...do not know who I am without her, what I should do. If I should be alive. Who am I without Nora?" He looked up at Batman as he said this, but the dark knight was no longer in front of him. Freeze began to look around for him before he heard his voice echo out of the darkness.

"You were given another chance at life Victor. The ponies can help you, if you let them try." Freeze's vision began to blur as he heard those words and the room faded to darkness, but Batman's words still echoed in his mind everything vanished. When Freeze opened his eyes again, he found himself being tended to by Fluttershy. He didn't ask her when she had gotten there; for he was too busy surveying the situation. All of the Elements were down (Luna still encased in stone) and Cadence and Shining were putting up one last stand against the dinosaur, whose fire was very close to consuming them. Shining was bleeding and hurt while Cadence looked like she was about to collapse. Freeze only watched for a moment before he got back up and fired a beam of ice into the dinosaur’s eye, causing it to roar with pain as it looked towards him.

"It is time you went back on ice," he said in a cold tone as he began to walk towards it, ignoring the fact that his helmet would probably shatter if he was hit hard one more time. The creature let out a roar and charged towards him, but Freeze placed both hands on the ground and fire the ice rays, allowing the ice to push him into the air over the creature. He landed on its nose and narrowed his eyes before he brought his fist back and drove it into the creature’s eye. The dinosaur howled while shaking it's head, throwing Freeze off of it and to the ground, where it growled before glaring down at him.

"And now you have sealed your fate," he muttered as he created a giant wall of ice in front of him, so that when the T-Rex glared at him it was glaring at its own reflection. It only did so for a moment, but a moment was enough to turn the creature into a giant stone dino. Freeze looked up at the motionless creature before letting out a sigh, picking himself off the ground and walking over to the princess.

"You saved us. Again," Cadence said with confusion in her voice as she looked at the battered and damaged Freeze, remembering how barely an hour ago he wanted to kill her. "Why? I don' get it. How can you be so angry and violent one moment and go to saving us the next?" Freeze was about to answer when the dinosaur began to fall over, heading for the three of them.

"MOVE!" Freeze yelled as he pushed the two ponies out of the way before the stone statue collapsed upon him, crushing him beneath it. The statue shattered apart and a blast of magic went off, changing those who had been turned to stone back to normal. Fluttershy and Luna looked around for a moment before they saw the pile of stone, wondering how that had happened. The Fluttershy saw the icy hand that was beneath the stone.

"VICTOR!" she yelled as she rushed over to him, seeing upon her arrival that he was buried beneath the rocks. She began to move as many of the stones as she could and after the other ponies got up, and she explained what must have happened, they helped to dig him out. After a few minutes they had managed to drag him out from under the stone, Fluttershy letting out a sigh of relief when she saw that the armor had protected him, as only his helmet was broken. "Freeze, are you alright?" she asked him. He picked his head up to look at her, but she saw to her horror that he was struggling for air and looked like he was dying.

"Cold...cold..." was all he said to her before he collapsed again, leaving the ponies around him confused as to what he had meant.

"I didn't think he could get cold," Rainbow Dash said. "Y'know, since he uses ice."

"Maybe he was trying to give us a name?" Luna suggested. "He is Mr. Freeze, so maybe he was talking of somepony named Cold?" The ponies continued to speculate until Fluttershy remembered what he had told her back in the palace.

"We need to take him somewhere completely cold, now!" she said to them in a serious tone. The others looked at her in confusion but her voice and face showed that she was not messing around. So the dragged his body back inside of the crystal palace, looking for a room that was freezing.

Author's Notes:

I believe it was a meteor actually.