He Who Commands Ice, Snow And Blizzards

    It has been a week since Keiji had his dream with his former life and former lover visiting him. Ever since then, his attitude and personality has changed. Could it be because he has a real purpose now?Be that the reason or not, he has taken up to training himself more. Booth mind and body. He can’t always rely on Frost Prime. Luckily the orbiter which Ordis has stationed rotating around this planet, provided him with a simple retractable staff out of the foundry that he was able to use as a training weapon. Today however, an event that was to happen would call upon his abilities. Not only that, but bring him closer to his friends more than ever

    Keiji wakes up to find the then sun...and the moon apparently were both out. He blinks a few times and rubs his eyes to makes sure that he wasn’t just still half asleep. But nope, the sun and moon still stayed together in the sky. He gets up and walks over to a window and looks outside of it. What he saw certainly surprised him. Black spiked plants growing all over the place.

    “What in the void…?”

    He quickly picks his retracted staff up off the table and heads outside, seeing the plants attacking anything and anypony. He knew that Celestia didn’t want him to use Frost. But his was an emergency. And if he was going to make any progress with these being. He needed to act. A dark icy grey light appeared around him and soon, Frost Prime stood in his place.

    “Ordis, send the ship! We got some weeds to burn…”

    “Ah, Operator! Good to hear from you again! Sending the ship your way.”

    Soon enough, the sound of his ship hovering overhead was heard. He wall runs up a building and leaps up inside of his ship, the vessel taking of towards the forest after Keiji had ordered it to do so.

    “It seems that the strange vegetation is coming from within the Everfree. Ordis, scan for bio-signatures that match for the pony folk here.”

    “Scanning…”

    A few moments go by.

    “Operator, I have found a group of six bio-signatures. She I deliver you to them?”

    “Yes,and quick, Ordis. I have a bad feeling about this.”

--Inside The Everfree--

    Twilight and the others walk through the forest, ever on guard of what could be lurking there. So enough though, they hear something roaring overhead, which puts them in a slight panic. But after hearing it, Twilight blinks.

    “Wait a minute...I know that sound…”

    Sure enough her gaze focused on the ship that was now hovering overhead. And out dropped Keiji, landing in front of them and rising from his descent. He was fully loaded. Carrying his Akstilleto Prime, Soma Prime and Serro. Twilight remembered seeing him emerge from Frost, so she immediately ran up to him and hugged him tightly. Though it wasn’t like hugging Keiji. Frost Prime was made up metal and very cold. Which made her jump back after hugging him. Though Keiji stood there with his arms crossed.

    “You didn’t bother to come and get me? I would have came with you all if you’d asked.”

    Fluttershy comes up to him, her face hidden behind her mane a bit.

    “We...wanted to. But we thought that..well…”

    “You thought that I wouldn’t care enough to help?”

    Fluttershy shyly nods and hides more. Keiji simply shakes his head.

    “Ladies...I am trying my best to become more friendly towards you all. But if you don’t reach out and give me that opportunity. How will that happen?”

    “I know Keiji, and it makes me..no us very happy. I am not sure what made you act this way. But whatever happened , happened for a reason.”

    Rarity walks up to Keiji and examines his frame closely, she runs her fingers along it’s smooth metal exterior and blinks a few time.

    “Darling...how are you able to move this thing with such grace?”

    Keiji could only think of one explanation.

    “Well, I am not sure what. But there IS something inside the frame that I can take control of. Normally it was a transference signal that was linked with a machine called the ‘simatic link’. But after I gained all my memories back. It’s like I can become one with the frame. Like a possession or take over.”

    Twilight’s scientific side was starting to get the best of her. She wanted to know more about this ‘warframe’. And it was driving her crazy that she didn’t know. But that would have to wait. Dash and Pinkie came up next to him and smiled up at him.

    “It’s pretty cool of you to had came and found us. I got more respect you ya, Keiji.”

    She said after punching him in his arm, though the metallic ‘thunk’ and the redness of her hand indicates that she was hurt more then he was. She did her best to hide the pain, which only made Keiji laugh a little. Pinkie wrapped herself around him despite his sub-zero temperature  and hugged him while she slowly turned blue.

    “I-i-i always kn-n-new you were a s-s-sweetheart!”

    “Alright ladies, enough. We need to get and get to the root of this problem...no pun intended.”

    They all giggle anyways. They begin their journey through the Everfree, Keiji taking point with his some prime ready to be fired at a moment’s notice. They all stared curiously at the rifle he held. They have never seen anything like it, and of course, Twilight was the first to ask.

    “Keiji, what kind of weapon is that? It looks like it would be ineffective up close.”

    “That is because it isn’t for close combat, Twilight. It stops the enemy dead in it’s track from a distance.”

    He looks around in the trees, seeing some kind of wild fruit that was hanging from a branch. He lifts his rifle up and squeezes the trigger, the sound and muzzle flash of the gun frightening the mares. They watch the fruit just explode into pieces and fall to the ground...whatever is left of it anyways. Normally, a some prime rifle would be hard to control and fire accurately. But because of the mods he had put on it, it was steady and the fire rate was increased. Twilight was impressed at it power, but of course Fluttershy seemed to shy away from the weapon. Even though she knows he has used it many times.

    “My goodness...that is truly a weapon of speed and power. And I must say I love the design of it. So sleek and shiney.”

    Said Rarity as she admired the gun, she looked down at his thighs to see that the akstilleto was similar in design, just a smaller and more compact version. They soon get to a river and look for a way to cross it. They were about to leap across a few rocks, only to see Keiji provide a way himself. He slams his hand down on the ground and forms a wide icy bridge for them to cross. Of course Keiji just skates across it like a professional, he has made alternate paths like this before. The other follow him.

    “Wow...it must be nice to have the power to control ice right at your fingertips.”

    Twilight said as she and the others walked across. Keiji chuckled lightly and nodded to her.

    “It’s odd, I am not sure what is in the air here in your world, but it replenishes my energy source overtime steadily. So I have nearly infinite use of Frost’s abilities. But I must still be careful when I use them. If I use them too much in a short time, my energy will be on empty until it builds back up.”

    Keiji continues to explain how his frame works to the group. Twilight was cursing herself that she hadn’t brought a pen and notepad with her. They all came to an opening, Keiji stopped and puts a hand out in front of the group. He heard movement and it was close.

    “Stay close to me. Dont not move.”

    Keiji pushed his hands out quickly as a large icy dome formed around the group, just in time to. That movement was the black plants  that were waiting in silence to attack them. Though once they entered Keiji’s snowglobe, they instantly shriveled and withered. They may be deadly plants, but they are still plants, and can’t survive the cold. Once they all drop dead he lowers the dome and looks to Twilight.

    “Are we headed the right way so far?”

    “I think so, the density of the strange plants is becoming higher and higher.”

    Eventually, they get to a cliffside and just on the other side sat the tree of Harmony.

    “How are we supposed to get there?!”

    Dash asked.

    Keiji and the others look to find Pinkie falling down the stairs, tumbling and rolling. Oddly enough when she lands she doesn’t appear to be hurt.

    “Take the stairs, silly~!”

    She shouted from below with a wide grin. They walk down the stairs and in front of the tree. Keiji  looked at it and saw some strange liquid dripping from it. His mind immediately went to his memory of the infested missions he ran back in his world.

    “It appears to be...dying.”

    Keiji said as he approached it carefully, placing his gun onto his back and pulls out his Serro, the weapon retracting and the electrical current starts to surge through it. As he gets closer, one of the plants quickly make their way towards Keiji. He smacks the tendril out of the air and shoves the sparking end of his weapon down on it until it starts to burn.

    “Stupid weeds…”

    He said as he examined the tree closely/he noticed that there were six slots in the tree, he remembe4r5s seeing those exact shapes somewhere just recently, but where...where? He turns to look at them and immediately is drawn to their necklaces.

    “Twilight, does your crown that you wear and the necklaces they wear hold any significance?”

    “I never told you about them? They are the elements of Harmony. We use them to battle the evils of this world with their powerful magic. Why do you ask?”

    “Because, look closely at the slots in the tree here. It seems like they stones you possess there belong inside those very slots. Perhaps they are needed to revive this tree?”

    Twilight nodded in agreement.

    “I was just thinking the same thing actually. You are quite observant, Keiji. I am impressed.”

    Twilight said with a flirty smile and bat of her lashes. Though Applejack seemed a little reluctant on giving up the elements.

    “Twi...the elements, they are what keep us connected…”

    “You are right Applejack, these elements did bring us together, but what will hold us together is our friendship, that will never be taken away. And we will always have Keiji here with us to. If it hadn’t been for him, I fear our journey would have been a bit harder than it was.”

    Keiji turned his head away from Twilight, luckily they couldn’t see the blush that was forming across his face.

    “I was simply doing what I felt would help. Not that big of a deal.”

    Twilight takes all the stones out of the necklaces of her friends and her crown. Levitating them over to herself and rises in the air with her wings. She begins to levitate them over to the slots, another tendril making it’s way over to her to stop her, but Keiji leaps into the air and swats it away with his Serro, pinning that one down until it stops moving.

    “Touchy feely bastards aren’t they?”

    Once the stones were in the sockets, the tree began to glow. Keiji leaped back from it and shielded his eyes  as a large burst of magic filled the entire area and when all the way to Ponyville, destroying every intruding black plant until there was no more, eventually destroying the one that held both Celestia and Luna in them.

    “Whoa...trippy rainbow magic.”

    Keiji said as he placed his serro back onto his back when it collapsed into it’s sheathed form. Celestia and Luna smiled at the group. Twilight runs over to them and embraces her former mentor

    “We know it was hard for you to give up the elements, and it took great courage to relinquish them.”

    Celestia said as her and Twilight embraced. Keiji on the other hand stood back to let them all have their moment.

    “Ordis, the mission was a success. I am ready for pickup.”

    “Understood Operator. I will be their in five minutes tops.”

    After he was done speaking with Ordis, he sees the group standing around a lock box that has six keyholes.

    “Six locks, six keys.”

    Luna said as she observed the box.

    “I do not know where they are, but I have a feeling it is a mystery you will not be solving on your own.”

    Her attention turns to see Keiji standing away from the group.

    “And you. I asked you to not use this thing you call a ‘warframe’...though, I am happy that you did.’

    She said with a smile as she walked up to Keiji.

    “You selflessly helped Twilight even though this wasn’t your issue. Thank you very much Keiji. My sister and I owe you a great debt.”

    “You owe me nothing Princess. My attitude towards you and the rest of your kind has changed. I am no longer hanging onto the past. I am moving forward so that I can get stronger and protect the ponies I have come to call friends.”

    “And for that, I am proud of you, Keiji. You have made such progress since you have came. You may not be an element bearer. But I believe these six have grown to love you very much.”

    Keiji suddenly felt many arms wrap around him in a group hug, though all of them getting cold from the contact of his frame, but they didn’t care. Keiji looks away for a moment, seeing Void Walker off in the distance with a smile and a nod before he vanishes into thin air.

I am proud of you as well Keiji. Keep up the good work.