The word of the library attack had quickly spread throughout Equestria, now there was widespread panic right into Ponyville all the way to the Crystal Empire where Nathan's sisters ruled. But the nightmare was only beginning, Nathan, Spike, and the guards had been victims of the attack, but Nate was the only one who appeared to be badly injured, his left hind leg was fractured, and his right side had been burned from the explosion. Therefore, seeking serious medical attention, Spike and the guards quickly got him to Canterlot Hospital for treatment, now they were faced with problems bigger than before, they had no idea who this creature that attacked them was, and if he was hired by someone to kill them or to kill them in revenge for something.

Either way, Nathan was going to find out one way or another, and thanks to the surveillance cameras that somehow were not affected by the explosion, he could manage to record the creature and see if he could get a matching identity. And that is exactly what had happened, once the research and photos came back, Luster Dawn and Thunder Clash managed to arrange all the research and information about the creature and readied it for Nate. Anyway, here he was lying in a hospital bed with a cast around his left hind leg attached to string and connected to a monitoring system that measured his blood pressure and pulse rate at every second, also in the room with him were Apple Tart and Lone Star who were now 4 years old, they sat in a chair and read a children's novel Kyle gave to them for Hearth's Warming.

To his side was a small table containing hospital food and on his bed stacked a bunch of magazines, this was never appealing to him. Reason being, he had not been in a hospital since he was shot by Tirek and when he was a child (human), he went to the hospital for falling through a window. He really preferred being at the one he went to when he was a kid, but since he was a pony now, he adjusted to going around with pony ways of life and just read the magazines. He was reading one of them when Luster Dawn came into the room, which was being patrolled by guards, with the folder containing the research and information about the creature that attacked them last night, Zodi and Spike followed into the room behind her, Spike stood by the outside guard.

"Here you go Captain, your files you requested." she said levitating two folders to him. Nathan was not hesitant enough to open them both and revealing easy information about the creature. The front papers in them showed pictures of the creature taken for mugshots from a prison headquartered in Abyssinia where Capper lived, Nate first read the top of the sheet from how it was shown:

THE BLIZZARD PRINCE

PLACE OF BIRTH: THE FROZEN NORTH

FAMILY: THE STORM KING - FATHER (DECEASED)

WANTED FOR: MURDER, TERRORISM, ROBBERY, ASSAULT ON ROYALTY, MAGIC FORGING

WARNING: THE BLIZZARD PRINCE EXPOSES AN ICY COLD BLAST FROM HIS ARMS THAT WILL FREEZE UP ON HORNS AND DESTROY MAGIC, STAY AWAY FROM HIM IF YOU ARE A UNICORN!

"Oh man, this is even worse than Tirek!" he thought as he closed the folder.

Zodiac and Spike smiled to see him recovering.

"We risk life and limb to save a free world from utter destruction and what do you get out of it; chocolate cake, and a butt load of pointless magazines." Zodi said referring to all the paparazzi that the caretakers and nurses aided to him.

Nathan gave a single chuckle, "Ya' know it's got its perks, but the sponge baths ain't all that bad."

"Dad!" exclaimed Apple Tart.

"Ah'm sorry sweetheart."

"Dad?" asked Spike, confused as to how the twins had grown up so fast.

"Apple Tart, Lone Star, Ah' wanna introduce y'all to a couple of mah' best, y'all were just babies when they saw ya', go on and say 'hello'."

The twins got up from the chair they were sitting on and walked up to Spike and Zodiac.

"Spike and Zodiac right?" asked Lone Star.

"Sergeant Zodiac, kid." Zodiac corrected.

"Our Dad said, he bucked asses for you all once." said Apple Tart.

"Young filly, watch your mouth." Nathan said as he gave a funny expression, Luster Dawn doing the same.

"Your Dad's on heavy pain medications." Spike said as Nathan gave another chuckle, "I can understand that his history is a little hazy."

"We doubt that." said Lone Star.

"All right y'all, that's enough, Ah' want y'all to go get somethin' to eat with Luster while me and the guys have a talk, ya' hear me?"

"Come on you two, let's go get a snack." Luster Dawn said, once the twins had left with their foalsitter, Spike and Zodiac then entered the room all the way.

"So, who's the creature responsible for what happened last night?" asked Spike.

"Y'all remember the Storm King? The one who turned Celestia, Luna, and mah' mother into stone? The one who stole all the magic and imprisoned everypony at the Festival of Friendship? Well, this is his big bad son, take a look at this." Nathan said as he gave Spike and Zodiac the folder, Spike opened it while Zodi read it with him.

"The Blizzard Prince." Zodi said reading the name out loud.

"Special forces assassin wanted out of Abyssinia for, at least, three counts of murder, assaultin' royalty to their king and queen, and six counts of terrorism on governmental property. Accordin' to reason, this monster is blamin' us for puttin' his Dad in that stone, and he'll stop at nothin' to see to it that his revenge gets accomplished without any interference."

"What is he going to unleash?" asked Spike.

"Well, from what Ah've found in the research info, The Blizzard Prince has sleeved fur arms containin' a special custom formed ice and snow power that can easily freeze a pony in just two seconds. However, this power he conjurers ain't no ordinary power, his icy power is a threat to our magic and even our lives."

"How so?" asked a guard.

"Thunder Clash did a different form of research from his body and told me this a few hours earlier. If a unicorn or alicorn comes face to face with him, he will freeze their whole body in a block of ice, but this ice and snow that he shoots contains a neurotoxin formin' a ball of tiny insect like bacteria that forms on the horn. When the bacteria forms fully, it uses mandibles to chew itself into the horn and floats inside the body until it finds the unicorn's magic source."

Spike, Zodiac, and the guards gasped in shock at this.

"Once it finds the magic, it sprays a complex enzyme venom onto it dissolvin' the magic out until the horn goes numb and wobbly. Makin' the pony completely weak and then, once they are out of the ice, the unicorn is killed!"

Now it was really a shocker, this creature had to be defeated one way or another, they had to get to him before he got to them!

"What are we gonna do?" asked Zodi.

"Ah'll tell ya' what we're gonna do, we're gonna protect Equestria at all costs, we cannot let this monster destroy our magic!"

"Guards!"

"Yes captain?"

"Ah' need y'all to go throughout Equestria and issue lock downs, show the ponies pictures of this creature and warn them of what he does."

"Yes sir!"

"Sergeant!"

"Yes sir?"

"Go to the Crystal Empire and have mah' sisters issue protection orders on the ponies there, and have them form a shield around the Crystal Heart!"

"Yes sir!"

"Spike!"

"Yes?"

"Notify the Grand Duchess to have Aunt Twilight come back here ASAP, we're gonna need her help with this!"

"Yes sir."

"And when we find that son of a bitch, let's make one promise...."

"What's that?" asked Zodi.

"Do not miss!"

Author's Note

Wow, now it's serious!