A necessary evil

A slight hot sensation ran across the frost demon's body, his mind regaining consciousness as the familiar feeling of air greeted him.

Slowly opening his eyes, Frieza lifted a hand to cover his eyes until they adjusted to the sun's light, meanwhile mentally going through the events that led him to where he was in that moment. To do so, Frieza sat up and did his best to look at the surroundings.

It was a primitive looking wooden room, not a hospital considering the lack of medical equipment, which all things considered, should be even more primitive to what he was used to. This had to be a house.

Secondly, he was on a bed almost of his size, but small enough that monkeys like Goku would have both of their feet in the air. It was, all things considered, an amusing fit for him. The plain blanket covered half his body, leading him to believe the citizens of said planet were not looking for a fight, which for Frieza was a shame... At least until he decided to start one with them.

Moving away from his predicament, the frost demon made an effort to recall the events that lead him to lay on a primitive bed. Then it came back to him.

Frieza remembered the small purple alicorn, the slaughter of both Sombra and Chrysalis and further torture of the centaur... Then came said "Rainbow power". The frost demon recalled this Twilight telling him about the magic and what it did, but she never mentioned killing intentions.

Either the little cockroach had tried to deceive him, or it had been a side effect of his own nature. Considering where he was in that moment, Frieza inclined to the later.

With things more clear about his current position, the frost demon pushed the plain white blanket aside and stood up. As far as his knowledge went, he was quite far away from his usual center of operation and considering the monkey hadn't tried to contact him, Frieza wondered if it was due to something on the planet that was blocking the connection.

In truth, it wouldn't be a problem for him to just fly off the planet and back to regroup his army, but he was quite curious about Equis, especially since Beerus had forbid them to destroy it. Maybe staying for a few days would clarify things up, as well as provide him with some entertainment. Maybe he could take it as a much deserved vacation before going back.

All things considered, letting know Goku of his predicament wasn't exactly important, at least he was now free of eternal torture and eager to resume his evil ways while keeping himself in check for the time being, so no destroying the equines for fun... No, not yet... He thought.

Smiling at this, Frieza walked over to the wooden door and opened it, stepping outside the room, only to find a stair case that led down to what seemed a living room, way too rustic for his taste. To his right, he noticed several pictures, a few with the same equines he saw the day before and others with only one of them. He figured it was the house of the yellow pegasus alongside the god of chaos, so now he knew who had admitted him at home.

As he made it to the bottom floor, Frieza ignored the several animals that ran away from him, as he was busy trying to sense any kind of ki signatures nearby. After a few seconds, the frost demon figured there wasn't anyone important around.

It was a good time to step outside and explore the place before he could meet either Twilight or any of the equines he had seen.

"Throw that and I will rip your limbs, then hang what is left of you at the entrance of this house."

The frost demon suddenly said, scaring a tiny rabbit who had a carrot on his paw. The animal let go of it and went running away with a terrified look while screaming angry gibberish. Frieza let out a satisfied chuckle before opening the door and stepping outside.

Trees, trees everywhere and peaceful green grass all around him. Disgusting! He thought, walking a few feet away from the cottage and passing through a small gray bridge. Still, there was something familiar about the sight, the patterns of the vegetation around him, ringed a bell to the frost demon.

With an amused expression, Frieza recognized the place as the exact same forest he had landed a day before, only this time it looked as if nothing had happened. He wondered if it was because of said "Rainbow power".

He preferred the charred look, though.

Switching his attention, Frieza felt numerous low level ki signatures not far from his position and towards what seemed a town. He was about to sense elsewhere when the familiar signature of Twilight assaulted him. At least now he knew where to go and began lazily walking towards Ponyville.

As he made his way, Frieza noticed a rather curious thing about the place he was traversing, something that actually managed to catch his interest. How was it possible? He wasn't exactly sure, but the fact was that he sensed it.

The forest itself was afraid.

Humming loudly in interest, the frost demon placed both hands behind his back, observing the area and noticing numerous eyes lurking in the shadows, most of which were soon to leave, almost as if his mere presence was toxic to them.

Not that he minded such actions, although he did regret none of the animals in the forest would provide him with fun. In truth, he wasn't exactly satisfied after having defeated Sombra, especially Tirek and if it was up to him, he would have let the centaur heal so Frieza could torture him again with much more time to spend. Regardless, the equine Twilight seemed interesting enough, at least to keep him entertained for some time.

Minutes passed in silence as he made his peaceful way across the terrified forest, that continued its unnatural moanings until he saw a clearing.

Shifting his attention once more, Frieza soon noticed he was at the entrance of the forest and in front of the place's town, then felt numerous ki signatures gathered around, perhaps in a post battle meeting. Sadly, he was about to crash the gathering.

Raising to the air, Frieza made his way towards what appeared to be a town hall, as primitive looking as the rest of the edifices on the planet. Around it where what he assumed the entire town population, gathered around the building. In front of the commotion where the three mix race equines as well as other five, minus the blue unicorn and the lilac one from the same species. Frieza decided to get closer.

"Through dark and fear Equestria has traveled, always managing to find light amongst the darkest tunnels, even when the worst evils have come to destroy what we have and who we are!" On top of the podium, Celestia took charge addressing the last problem with the triad.

Although the only lives lost belonged to those of Sombra and Chrysalis, the battle that had ensued a couple days before, had made an indelible mark on everypony in Equestria. It had destroyed homes, lives and scarred many and although it was over and everything returned to peace, the aftermath was still felt.

Celestia could see it in the downed expressions of her subjects and the nervous quick glances others made around them. Even the major had decided to skip the meeting, in favour of resting after such dark days. Then there was Frieza as she recalled Tirek calling him.

Nopony knew about him, aside from the several Changelings that had left the place shortly after the frost demon arrived to their last stand. Still, even if he had saved them, his actions had been brutal enough to be kept quiet to the population until Celestia decided what to do with him... if she could even do something.

There were a lot of unknowns. Would he be kind to them? Would he try to destroy them? She didn't know, but was at least certain that the existence of Frieza would have to remain a secret for the time being. As the sun princess passed her sight through the crowd of ponies, she let out a sigh. It was going to be a long day, sadly, Celestia never noticed a white figure placing itself behind a tree, smiling as he waited in silence.

"Regardless, even if every member of the triad was a monster, their deaths are felt, for Equestria is not a violent place nor a barbaric nation!" Continued Celestia, doing her best to leave any detail in regards to Frieza, a secret. "And while the efforts of the Elements have finished the attack, we will still mourn the lives of these living beings."

Loud clapping ended Celestia's speech, who held a satisfied smile. She had disposed of the bodies, sent them to a crematorium, before being prepared to be locked inside a secret chamber in the castle. At least Tirek had survived, even if his body was heavily scarred. That fact made Celestia shudder at the thought of Frieza, making her attention to falter momentarily. The cheer lasted for a few seconds, before dying down.

Then another set of claps echoed across the area.

An all too familiar chuckle assaulted the ears of Twilight, who as well as the other princesses and the elements, moved their attention to a sole smiling frost demon. Frieza's presence caused the collective gasp of everypony present, who remained locked in place, visibly shaken and at the brink of panic. Then to further fuel that fear, Frieza levitated from the ground and began floating towards the podium.

Everypony stood in awe, watching at the frost demon who was flying without wings and who looked far too alien to be from Equestria.

The smiling demon landed in front of Celestia, stopping his claps as he smiled at the princess. "Quite the lovely speech."

Twilight looked at her former mentor, clearly taken aback and with a loss of words. Luckily, the sun princess had enough experience to avoid awkward introductions and did her best to let out a genuine smile.

"Frieza, it is good to see you up." She said. "I was quite eager to greet you, but as you can see, we were about the close the meeting and pay respects to the lives we lost." She finished, slightly stuttering on her words as she silently hoped this would not call the ire of the frost demon.

A few seconds passed, with Frieza silently staring at the now nervous sun princess, then as if her pleads had been heard, the frost demon let out a chuckle, nodding afterwards.

"Pardon my intrusion and please, proceed with your meeting."

Celestia let out a mental sigh, silently releasing the breath she was holding as her smile grew wider. "My thanks." She said, bowing slightly with her head.

With that, Frieza placed himself alongside Twilight, giving the young alicorn a small bow. "Princess." He greeted.

Twilight remained silent for a couple seconds, blank staring at the emperor of evil while a drop of sweat ran down her forehead. The young princess thought she was ready to face the frost demon, but watching him that close caused a chill go down her spine. It didn't help that her friends were visibly shaking, staring attentively at the emperor of evil who was currently waiting for Twilight to say something. After several moments, the young princess gulped, doing her best to maintain composure enough to let out a thin grin. "Good to see you awake, Frieza."

On her part, Celestia's facade had fallen, her expression was visibly nervous in the eyes of ponies who were now starting to panic. Her plan had fallen apart, courtesy of the emperor of evil who had decided to crash her meeting.

With a long, tired sigh, Celestia figured it was just life forcing her to do the inevitable, so maybe it was a good thing he had arrived so she could clarify things up. With this in mind, the sun princess lifted her head, letting out a couple deep breaths before regaining composure.

"Citizens of Ponyville!" She began, giving a step up front and ignoring the sudden muttering in the crowd. "Yesterday during our confrontation and regardless of the Element's prowess, our victory was not assured!" Continued Celestia. "Our combined power proved to be futile against the triad, drowning our hopes that we would not see a happy Equestria once more! But as its darkness grew, somepony, somewhere heard our pleadings and sent us a protector!"

Frieza let out a chuckle at this, finding amusement in the sudden ass licking from the supposed powerful royalty. He was going to target her first once his vacation ended to show her how much of a "protector" he was. Until then, the frost demon would keep quiet and play her game.

Suddenly, Celestia motioned with her hoof towards the emperor of evil. "The name of this protector is Frieza and he was the one who ended the triad!" Gasps assaulted the place, making the frost demon's smile go wider while he stared with an eerie look towards the shocked crowd. He found amusing that every single one of them averted their gaze once they made contact with his.

They were pretty easy to fright, something Frieza was going to exploit every time he could while he remained in the interesting planet that for some reason reminded him of Goku.

"Please, I ask that you accept him as part of our community, for if it wasn't for him, Faust knows how many years of darkness would have fallen on Equestria."

As the expressions of the crowd went from panic to shock, confusion and finally small acceptance, Frieza ignored the sudden claps of the equines, thinking that all things considered, Celestia was good with speeches. Regardless of the sudden warming up, the sun princess saw several ponies still tense and with a slight sense of dread still on their faces.It was a good thing Frieza had been acting up rather friendly, as it helped to calm nerves.

It wasn't long before the meeting came to an end, with everypony going back to their daily responsibilities, while casting quick wary glances towards the frost demon. On their part, everypony on the podium began to descend, with the Elements walking close by Frieza, who was following Celestia.

The emperor of evil had to admit he was rather curious about the entire group, in the end, it wasn't always he took the time to catalogue every living being in every planet he sold. It was quite a good change of pace for the time being. Still, he found it quite funny how the rest of the group casted him wary looks.

He also noticed the dead silence amongst them and he knew why exactly that was. Frieza could recall many animals giving him the same look of fear and uncertainty, which only made the inevitable slaughter all the more satisfying. On their part, the Elements found it hard to keep their stares on the frost demon, something inside the yelling at them to run and never look back, an aura of dread that made their heart pound faster. This sensation caused the group to share quick looks between them, looking for affirmation and knowledge that they would stick together.

Once everypony was gone, the sun princess turned around and gave Frieza the warmest of smiles she could create, but secretly nervous about the interaction. "I am deeply sorry about this, Frieza, but at least now we have a chance to meet each other accordingly." She said, extending her hoof towards the frost demon. "I am princess Celestia, co-princess of Equestria."

"Co-princess?" Asked Frieza, raising an eyebrow in amusement as he took hold of her hoof for a few seconds.

Celestia took notice of this and let out a chuckle, feeling her heart going slower in relaxation. Maybe there was a chance Tirek was wrong "Indeed, I share a co-rule with my sister, Luna." She explained, motioning towards the blue alicorn.

Cocking his head to the side, Frieza asked. "And about the dear princess Twilight?" There was a hint of a playful mock on his tone that calmed Celestia's nerves further.

"Me and my sister rule over Equestria, but our domain is divided." She explained. "My former student watches over Ponyville as princess of friendship and shares an equal co-rule."

Frieza placed a hand under his chin. "Quite the amusing and tangled way of ruling." He said, doing his best to let the 'princess of friendship' part slide as much as he could, without having to think back at Goku.

Celestia chuckled once more. "I know, but we are an easy going race and it helps that we are all basically family." A knowing look appeared on her face. "And according to what dear princess Twilight told me, you are no stranger to kingdoms, lord Frieza."

The frost demon let out a chuckle. "It is a little too late for me to be addressed as lord, princes Celestia." He said. "I lost my empire a while ago."

The sun princess' smile fell a little as an apologetic look appeared on her face. "My apologies, Frieza."

Surprisingly enough, the frost demon remained cheerful. "No need for that! Loosing my empire helped me see things clearer and my ambitions have gone bigger." Finished the emperor of evil, regardless of his intentions of regrouping his lost followers.

Celestia, on her part, gave Frieza a playful grin. "Care to tell what those ambitions are, Frieza? Remember, sharing is caring!"

Suddenly, an unsettling smile appeared on the frost demon's features. "Why should I reveal my best cards so early, princess Celestia?" The sun princess didn't know what it was that made Frieza's grin so terrifying, almost as if there was a monster hiding behind the friendly looks, matching the initial description Twilight gave. However, he had been very easy going so far and Celestia was not going to let that go to waste.

Letting it slip, the sun princes continued. "I'm sure it will be a surprise we will all remember."

"If I want, remember it, you will." Thought the frost demon.

As an eerie grin appeared on Frieza's futures, Celestia and the rest present took the opportunity to oberve him and the rather curious fact about his position of power. Yet there was something that peeked Celestia's curiosity in regards to the emperor of evil's physique.

"If you don't mind me asking, Frieza." Began the sun princess, gaining the aforementioned emperor's attention. "How old are you."

He stared blankly at her, most specifically her question, which was something he normally didn't feel comfortable sharing. Regardless, In the end, what would those equines do with the information? His smile reapearing, Frieza motioned with a hand towards himself. "I'm around seventy years old, your highness."

Celestia hummed loudly at that, rubbing her chin in deep thought. "Curious, you look rather young."

The frost demon chuckled. "That is because my species age slowly, Celestia." At this, the sun princess cocked her head to the side, a clear sign that she wanted to know more and an expression shared by the rest of the group, especially Twilight who had her eyes glued on him. "What is the usual max mortality age of your subjects?"

"Around a hundred years, why?"

Frieza smiled. "Because compared to them, I would be around twenty four years old."

Celestia hummed loudly. "That is actually quite fascinating." She said, rubbing her chin with a curious expression. With that out of the way and noticing the lack of response from emperor of evil, Celestia decided to continue. "Frieza, these are the Elements of Harmony, the main force of Equestria." She said, motioning with her hoof towards the group behind him.

Frieza turned around, looking at the ponies watching him back in silence and wariness. "Forgive my rudeness, but the main force of Equestria was not doing so well with those insects."

After those words left his mouth, he noticed some of their faces go down, with the exception of the white one who was looking at him with an almost lustful glare, while, interestingly enough, the Rainbow one had a frown on her face. He had hit a string, but the frost demon could notice she was restraining out of fear.

He decided to deepen the wound on the stroke ego of the one that looked too cocky for his taste. "If anything, it was dear Twilight who put up more of a fight against them." The mentioned alicorn lowered her head as a red coloration appeared on her face.

"Don't worry about it, Frieza." Behind him, Celestia said. "And while I understand what you are saying, the Elements had fought against Tirek and his allies for five days before your arrival."

"Have they now?" Asked the frost demon, faking amusement.

On her part, the princess was unaware of Frieza's experience with faking emotions and actually smiled in response to his 'amusement'. "Indeed," she said, "if it weren't for them, Equestria would have been lost in the first two days."

"Then I guess the incompetent ones are Equestria's two royalties.". He silently scoffed. Frieza was not one to let incompetence pass and had the royal wastes been on his army, they would have already perished.

With a chuckle, Frieza got closer to the group, who in return gave a step back, minus Twilight. "What are your names, 'heroes of Equestria'?" The sarcasm wasn't lost and while Celestia may have considered it friendly playfulness, the rainbow maned one was almost fuming in anger. The frost demon gave her a knowing smile, almost as if he wanted her to say something.

Surprisingly enough, she restrained herself once more.

After several seconds of silence, the plain, orange pony with the funny hat gave a step up front. It seemed Frieza's calm exchange had eased the groups' nerves, who had been on edge the entire time.

"Well, Ah' don't think we ever thanked you, Frieza sir'!" She said, putting her hat over her chest as a way of greeting the frost demon. "Ah' am Applejack, co-owner of sweet apple acres!"

Frieza gave her a small nod. "Charmed." He said, his fake friendliness and interest managing to gain the trust of the pony.

After that small showcase, the rest seemed to warm up and the next of one to approach him, with curious eagerness, was the one with eerily similar colors to the frost demon.

"Greetings Frieza, I am Rarity and I must say, I love your perfect structure and beautiful body colors." She said in a manner that made Frieza give a small step back. Rarity, however, got even closer, placing her hoof atop his chest. "How do you manage to have your skin so smooth and clean, while keeping such strong and well structured muscles?"

If Frieza had actually put an effort, he would have seen small drops of saliva dropping down her mouth. The frost demon gave another step back, a vein pupping on his head as Rarity gave yet another step up front.

He opened his mouth, but no words came out. Noticing this predicament, another pony decided to step in.
"I think you should give Frieza a little space, Rarity." A yellow pegasus said, placing a hoof over her friend's should, causing the white unicorn to snap out of her trance.

Rarity looked behind her, a sheepish smile and red cheeks appearing on her face as she gently went back to the group. Before doing so, however, Rarity looked back at the frost demon and winked at him, causing Frieza to gulp.

Letting that slip, he lowered his gaze by not too much and recognized the pegasus in front of him. Letting an chuckle slip, Frieza gave her a small bow. "I don't believe I thanked you for your hospitality and recent quick save miss..."

"Fluttershy, my name is Fluttershy." She replied, giving the frost demon a smile. "And it was no problem, after all, you did save us."

Frieza mentally chuckled Enjoy that luxury while it lasts..

With one final smile, she went back to the group and in its place a pink blur made past her and towards the frost demon. Instinctively and faster than said pink thing, Frieza lifted his arm, taking hold of the incoming blur by the tail, only to reveal a disgustingly pink monstrosity from the depths of Hell.

His disgust was evident on his face, while taking hold of the equine as if she was made of something vomit-enducing like justice. The pony didn't even notice it.

"WOW! YOU'RE FAST!!" She said cheerfully, causing Frieza to let go of her, but strangely enough, she remained in the air. This managed to perplex Frieza who saw she wasn't exactly using her ki.

"I'm Pinkie Pie and it'ssoawesomemeetinganalienthatwasjustrevivedandistotallynotgoingtodestroyus!!" She finished, the perplexed look on Frieza not leaving his face as he was once more on a loss for words.

His left eye twitched standing silently and thinking back about the pests that bothered him back in hell. This equine was so similar to them, he wondered if they haven't purposefully sent her there to torture him. He was so caught up in the moment that he almost never noticed the mare was still speaking.

"... and there'll be games and music and games and punch and dances and cake and everypony in Ponyville!" She finished, a huge smile plastered on hi face, but that wasn't the thing that caught the frost demon's attention, but rather that he was unconsciously lifting his finger to strike.

However, Celestia who was oblivious of Freiza's intentions, mistook his silence and expression as ones anypony else would have in his position after meeting the party pony. It was this that's unknowingly prevented Frieza from simply lashing out and destroy the planet.

"Pinkie always gets that response from new ponies." She said, chuckling and managing to get the frost demon to lower his hand. It was a miracle no pony noticed that. "But she has good intentions, regardless and way too much time to even prepare you a party."

"A party?" Frieza asked, letting go of Pinkie as he titled his head to the side. His lying abilities once more proved to be efficient in that moment as he let go of his anger and did his best to let out a grin as well as a chuckle. "I have to admit, you had me quite surprised there, miss Pie." He said, noticing the party pony's smile widening.

He knew he was so going to regret it as soon as he thought of his next words. "And I would gladly accept this party from you."

"Yes!" Pinkie yelled, jumping off the ground and into the air, her cheerfulness managing to make Frieza's left eye twitch once more. "You're gonna love it mister frost demon!"

While the rest of the group was taken aback by the way Pinkie had called him, one thing they had in common with the aforementioned frost demon was the surprise about how good that title actually fit Frieza.

Letting the thought slip, he pondered about the party. He did have his fare share of them while dealing with other intergalactic governments and even recalled one with a certain gem, who at the end of the event, he had personally killed most of her soldiers in a dance of fun.

"Frost demon, uh?" Somepony had said.

Turning around, he noticed the owner of the voice being none other than Celestia's sister, Luna. A playful but threatening smile appeared on his features as he looked up at the equine. "Do you find that amusing, princess Luna?"

Regardless of his friendly grin, Luna's smile disappeared from her face as she felt a creeping feeling as soon as she saw Frieza's expression. Unknowingly shaking her head, she forced a chuckle.

"Indeed, I would say it was quite a fit." She managed to finish her sentence getting a chuckle from Frieza.

Suddenly, somepony scoffed and while this certain mare did everything in her power to make it as quiet as possible, Frieza had a huge listening edge due to his species. He instantly gazed at the one pegasus he was waiting to speak and noticed her sudden little jump, which let him know a certain feeling he was familiar with.

Fear.

"I don't believe I've heard your name." He stated, staring directly at the blue pegasus' eyes as she did all in her power to gaze back, only to fail miserably. Her fear grew bigger when her friends, suddenly made way for her, huge smiles on their faces.

"Come on, Dash!" Applejack exclaimed, placing a hoof over her shoulder. "Frieza here ain't gonna bite you!"

"At least not yet." The frost demon replied, doing his best to let those words seem like just a friendly game, which he succeeded once he noticed the group giggling at his dark sense of humor.

Managing to let out a few chuckles herself, Rainbow began walking. Deep in her mind, she was sure Frieza wasn't being playful when he said those words.

A few seconds felt like hours as she stood in front of him, his height barely higher than hers. It actually surprised her how such a small guy could incite so much fear in her.

Frieza was getting desperate as he waited for the moronic mare to speak. Any other time he would have simply ripped the head of the little pathetic cockroach, but in that time he decided to give the mare a slight push.

He had noticed her physique, the muscles on her wings and daredevil look. Something came to his mind.

"You look like a fast flier." He finally said.

Suddenly that statement managed to awake the brave Rainbow, whose fear had been replaced by an enormous ego. Frieza noticed this and could only laugh at how easy this one pony would be to manipulate should the need arise. True, he had been doing that since he appeared on the planet, but the blue equine seemed to arrive at a whole another level of sheer stupidity, plus, there was something else he needed to confirm.

The blue pegasus shot up in the air and puffed her chest, almost as if she wanted to show muscles. "Ha! Even aliens notice my awesomeness!" She said, a clear smile on her face. "Yeah, I'm Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria!"

His theory was confirmed. She was nothing more than one of those 'show off' buffoons, all bark and no bite and the type of beings that usually fell the hardest. Frieza just enjoyed torturing those types of morons.

"How did you notice it, uh?" She asked, posing in front of Frieza. "Was it my frame? My sheer coolness? My awesome hair? Or maybe this pair of wings?"

"How fast are you?" Frieza asked, not really bothering to answer her asinine questions, this however did not seem to bother her either.

"If you must know I'm so fast I can even make a sonic rainboom!"

The frost demon arched an eyebrow at this. The sheer amount of power to do something like that would have to be quite strong, then maybe Rainbow had something going for her...

She suddenly kissed her own muscles.

Yup, she was still stupid and annoying.

Deciding he was done with her, Frieza looked past the Rainbow maned pegasus and placed a hand under his chin. "I recall there being more of you if I'm not mistaken."

This time, Twilight decided it was time to make some presence. Approaching with a smile, Frieza greeted her with one of his own. Out of all, she seemed to be the less annoying one and actually looked quite smart.

"You are not mistaken, Frieza." She said. "Indeed, their names were Trixie and Starlight Glimmer, but unfortunately they couldn't come."

"Would it be a bother to know why, princess?"

She giggled at his politeness, mentally being surprised about such a powerful and barbaric creature could be so smooth in his mannerisms. "Please, Frieza, just call me Twilight and no, it's not a bother at all." She replied. "The attack led by lord Tirek was..." She paused, her smile falling. "Most of Ponyville was destroyed and the whole thing kind of tired Starlight, considering..."

She faltered again. Frieza just stared in silence, faking a gentle gaze.

"Look, those were dark days and it took a lot out of her."

Placing a hand under his chin. "Then I guess we shouldn't bother her, considering your friend Starlight is resting at the moment."

Twilight smiled back. "It's quite alright, Frieza." She said. "Starlight is back at my castle and I'm sure she will be good in no time."

"Which reminds me." Princess Celestia exclaimed, catching the attention of the frost demon. "I am sorry if this sounds rude, Frieza but how exactly did you come here and what are your plans?"

Curiously, Twilight noticed a warmer Celestia as she asked those questions, when normally there would be a certain edge to those words. Maybe Frieza wasn't some pony to be worried about.

On his part, the frost demon let out a chuckle, his gaze looking up at Celestia. "I understand your concerns, princess Celestia." He said, preparing himself and mentally shortening his tale as to not make it overly long. "Before hand I would like to apologize for my bluntness." He explained, noticing the princess shaking her head in a way to tell him not to worry, then Frieza began. "Just one day ago our universe was about to be erased by Zeno-sama."

Her heart and Luna's stopped right then and there. To the rest of the group watching, they found it surprising how pale they had gotten upon hearing those words, especially Celestia who was already white.

On her end, Twilight thought about the name Zeno, wondering if it was the cause of the reaction. For Celestia, time had stopped, a fear creeping up on her as she had never felt in her life before, a fear not even the likes of her worst foes could bring in her.

She knew who Zeno was.

Many ponies called to Faust on their pleadings, but she knew the truth about god and it was Zeno. The words Frieza spoke could may very well been nothing but a tale, but she could feel the frost demon wasn't lying.

"What happened?" Was all she could blurt out, her words causing the rest of the group to worry, as they had never seen Celestia as she was in that moment, all sweaty and wary.

"We won the tournament of power."

Her heart sunk further further. Discord was telling the truth, they did hold a tournament to decide the fate of the universes and the one that would be saved.

She remembered when Discord first came with the news, she could remember his paws shaking and his trembling voice when he told her about it. At the moment, she had thought it was but an excuse to leave the battle against Tirek, Sombra and Chrysalis, which led them to think Discord had been defeated.

She could also recall the team of their universe, as well as another entity she knew all too well.

Beerus, the god of destruction.

When they were fillies, Beerus was they type of god their parents told them not to cross nor anger.
Going back to the present, she turned to look at Luna, her expression gone in shock. Celestia couldn't believe how close they were from being all erased, which brought her to another topic.

Frieza didn't save them once... But twice and that second time as unknowingly as it may seem to some, held a lot of weight considering a whole universe was a stake. Suddenly a new type of expression appeared on her features: admiration, respect and gratefulness she had not felt in such a long time.

On her end, Twilight could see her former mentor approaching Frieza beyond what some would assume to be their comfort zone and most importantly, she could see the expression from which she saw the frost demon.

"Frieza, I take it you participated in the tournament?" She asked.

He smirked. "I was the last to stand alongside 17 and Goku." She had also heard those names from Discord, but she let it slid. Right then she focused on the frost demon.

Then she said it.

"Frieza, thank you."

In a surprising twist, Celestia warped her wings around the frost demon, who had an actually look of surprise on his face, which intensified once Luna joined in. He was on a complete loss for words in the extremely awkward moment that he silently wished would end. His eyes went wide and multiple red veins appeared on them, rage slowly building up. The group was surprised, they had never ever seen neither Celestia nor Luna like this, certainly not in regards to complete strangers.

This tournament of power, this Zeno could hold more impact than she had originally though and decided to investigate further in the matter.

Finally after a few seconds of torment ended, Celestia and Luna let go, letting an awestruck Frieza in complete silence. For Celestia and Luna, suddenly the importance of Frieza increased, as well as the events that transpired just one day ago. Tirek was right, the frost demon was strong and while she initially placed him just barely on top of the centaur, this recent moment made her realize just how much beyond Frieza actually was in comparison to anypony on the planet.

It was called the tournament of power for a reason and considering Beerus had chosen him and not them...
The rest of the group just stared in silence, which caught the attention of the Celestia and Luna.

"Princess?" Finally asked Twilight.

Almost immediately forgetting about Frieza, Celestia fazed a certain shy, ignoring her former student's question. "Fluttershy." She called her out, the meek mare looking at her. "He never abandoned us, Discord never lied you you." There was a collective head cocking as the group stared at the sun princess in full confusion.

Luna stepped in. "There are things beyond our existence, things that out weight even our own problems." Looking at her sister, before releasing a sigh. "Discord's actions were justifiable." She explained, getting a strange look from the group. "As dark and evil as our last days have been, there are things in the universe that overshadows our own and Discord was called forth to presence said events."

"You mean this tournament of power?" Asked Twilight.

Celestia shook her head. "Indeed, Twilight." She said, before looking back at a still absent minded Frieza, who looked like he had seen a ghost on the horizon. Smiling, she gazed back at her former student. "I believe that is a tale for another day, for now..."

Grunting in disappointment, Twilight looked at the ground.

Meanwhile Celestia approached Frieza. "I believe we still don't know how you came to be in this place and what your plans are."

He didn't answer, his eyes locked still on the horizon as a vein popped on his head. Unknowing to Celestia, Frieza had his fists clenched and she would have seen this action, if not for the sudden low earthquake that took everypony by surprise.

A new thing the frost demon had learned that day, he hated hugs.

"Frieza?" Celestia asked, a worried tone as she ignored the still going quake.

On his mind, he could hear her tiny voice, making his eye twitch and it took all of his will not to lash out and murder everyone. His body shook for a few moments, before he finally let out a deep breath, the earth no longer shaking after it. Then he used even more of his own will to fake a grin.

"My apologies princess, I was caught up on my thoughts." He said and regardless of how much he tried, his words still came strained and with a hint of violence to them, which caused Celestia to take notice.

On her mind however, she figured Frieza simply had a reaction to his personal space being invaded. Celestia understood that, she figured not everypony reacted the same way to hugs.

Her ears lowering a bit, she gave the frost demon an apologetic look. "I am deeply sorry for my actions, Frieza, we did not mean to make you feel uncomfortable."

His smile was gone and he simply gave her one silent nod.

After a few seconds of awkward silence, he finally decided to speak. "Think none of it for now and I believe we still had a matter at hand to discuss."

Her smile returning, Celestia gave a vigorous nod. "I believe that is is the case."

"Very well then." He said, placing a hand under his chin. "To make this tale short, after we won the tournament, I was brought back to life as a gift, but it seemed something happened in the process and I ended up in your planet." He explained. "As for my plans, I don't really have anything in mind, only to wait a couple days before I go back home." As he finished explaining, Frieza turned to look at the equines who had their eyes wide open.

"You died?" Rainbow asked.

He figured the next thing that would come would be several questions on the matter, especially considering the look Twilight in particular was giving him. He decided to stop that from happening.

"I know you may have questions about the event, but I would prefer that to remain with me for now." Everypony grunted in disappointment. "You all know the important part and I'm more preoccupied on what to do with my time here." I could just have fun conquering their world but... No, not now, I will leave that for later. He mentally thought, cackling at the thought.

"Then I guess it's time you decide where to stay Frieza." Celestia said, shaking any thoughts about the frost demon's resurrection.

"I quite agree, your highness, although I would prefer not bother any of you with any unwanted company."
The sun princess was about to intervene, but to her surprise her former pupil stepped in, letting out a chuckle. "You are way too kind Frieza and nod, you are not bothering anypony." She said. "In fact, I was about to propose for you to come with me to the castle until everything is settled."

"Not a bad idea, Twilight." Said Celestia, making the young alicorn to blush. On his part, Frieza gave it some thought. On one hand he would have a... Somewhat enjoyable company at the cost of the rest of the ponies and on the other, he would have to endure lots of hugs from...

Nope! He wasn't going to risk it and like that he chose the obvious answer.

Giving out a chuckle, Frieza stepped up front. "I would very much like to avoid another hugging session." He said, doing his best to let his words sound half joking-half serious, which made the two princesses to give the frost demon a sheepish smile. Frieza continued. "Besides, you seem like quite the interesting mare, dear Twilight." The alicorn's blush intensified.

"Then I guess its settled then?" Asked Celestia, smiling at the frost demon.

"It appears so."

And with that, the rest of the day went, a choice taken as they all walked towards the castle. Once there, Celestia would start her tale about Zeno and the tournament, but in that moment, they had decided to let it go.
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A couple hours had passed since the royal sisters left her castle and Twilight was left to wander alone inside her home. Starlight and Spike had gone to sleep, while Frieza was given a room after which the young princess believed he was already in dream land.

To say things had goten very interesting for her, was an understatement. The tournament of power, the Zenos, the angels, gods of destruction, this Goku and 17 and a whole new set of edifferent universes. In truth, Twilight knew the universe was ful of life, with things they would never even grasp the surface of and in that moment, a visitor from the stars with such knowledge, was something Twilight found interest in.

It surprised her that Celestia and Luna had such information, yet not know about Frieza, something the sun princess had clarified. Apparently Beerus himself had come to their planet one time, for what reasons? The royal sisters decided to remain silent about the topic. It also seemed that the god of chaos didn't find it in his necessities to talk about the frost demon, which added yet another mystery.

All in all, the fact that Frieza was in her castle and residing with them for the time being, opened up a new set of possibilities for the young princess.

Letting the thoughts slide for a few moments, Twilight reached the entrance of her cutie map room, pushing the door aside to enter the place. She needed a place to think and a way to analyze the frost demon in regards to a very specific topic and what better place than a friendship analyzer.

Walking towards her seat, Twilight's mind went back to Frieza, thinking about what she had seen about him and trying to make sense of who he was. She couldn't be more grateful for what he had done, but she, as well as the rest of the group, had noticed something deeply wrong with their alien guest.

Twilight didn't know whether it was his mannerism, his eerie looks or just a simple aura he let out unknowingly, but the young princess was rather afraid of Frieza. Maybe it was just in her head and he was just a kind young guy with an unfortunate unsettling personality.

Then it happened.

Just as she sat on her place, the cutie map sprung to life, something the young princess was well accostumed by then, but not to was happening in front of her eyes. Moving her body away, Twilight's eyes wide opened, her mouth going agape and her chest began to pound faster at the sight.

There, in front of her, the holografic map of Equestria and beyond, began to violently blink as if it had static. Loud noises emanated from it, curiously resembling screams of agony and not long after, purple sparkles surrounded the image.

The room became illuminated by the same color, while violent thunder began straking against numerous parts of the ground as if the image was trying to stabilize itself, fighting against something that didn't let it work properly. Soon enough, the purple energy began to calm itself, soon forming an unstable dot that moved from the ceiling and towards a very specific location, which it seemed to be signaling.

Twilight narrowed her eyes at this, moving her body closer to where the strange purple dot was pointing at and then her eyes went wide.

It was her castle and more specifically, the very same place Frieza was currently resting at.