It was a few months after Shocks funeral, Chris was in the castle garden during a formal party, staring at his pony sized glass empty of the sweet wine he had earlier. After the battle of Aquastria more skirmishes between the ponies and the gryphons were popping up near the equestrian-gryphon borders with smaller raids moving inland towards Canterlot. Chris was deployed 20 times during those few months, the battles raging for days as the human was close to the point of exhaustion. His modern tech helped give the ponies an advantage but the numbers game still went for the enemy, casualties for the stallions were kept to a minimum but using everything he had was exhausting.

There were a few ponies up on stage singing for entertainment as everypony else was mingling and trying to get a chance to meet with the princess. After 10 minutes of nopony going up to sing the next song, Chris sets down his glass and says, "Fuck it might as well, been wanting to sing this one for a while now."

He walks up to the main stage and hops over the few steps as reaches down to grab the mic, something he introduced to the ponies which they invested in alot. He releases the musicians from their spots as he uses Celestias magic to create copies of himself, only four as they each grab instruments from special cases, one being an electronic pad he created with help from star swirl.

"Ok everypony, I probably haven't done this in a while so i might be a little rusty. I want to dedicate this song to my very special princess. Someone I hold very close to me, that mare I will die to protect. Luna... this is for you."

The song starts out with soft beats and a melody, then the guitars come in as Chris starts to sing,

"I pack my bags and say goodbye to my wife, for what seems like the millionth time.
They said it gets easier but they lied.."

He goes down and approaches Luna as she stares at him tears in her eyes as he looks at her and caresses her face and mane,

"She looks at me and says 'Really baby, I will be just fine.'
But then she looks away so I don't have to see her cry, and that is when I ask myself..."

Luna turns away as she didn't want Chris to see the tears fall from her eyes as she started to cry into his hand.

"How am I supposed to be everything they expect me to be when I feel so alone, cause I left my heart at home.
She needs me, but i know they need me too. So God give me the strength to do what you created me to do. "

Chris poured out his emotions into the song, his eyes closed as he held the microphone close as the drums played with energy the entire crowd can see, the energy manifested into a bright colorful aura as it blanketed the garden. Celestia felt strangely at peace with this aura in the air, its energy intensified as Chris continued to sing,

"Really im so thankful for the places i've been, the people i meet and the things i've seen. But when shes not here it doesn't feel like im living my dream. I know they say that no one is perfect but I swear she's perfect for me, and that makes it so much harder to leave."

He hugs Luna tightly as she nuzzles her love, sharing a moment together helped push back the growing darkness in her mind which is exactly what Chris wanted.

-

4 months later

Chris now sported decently long hair, kept in a slick well maintained manner as he grew a beard, well trimmed. Now toned from continuous training and exercise, he walked down to the training room, where anything from swords, shields and anything used for combat is stored. He walks over and picks up a punching bag, or as the stallions called it, "Bucking" bags. He hooks one up to a chain from a ceiling as he wraps cloth around his hands to give some sort of protection. He starts throwing jabs and hooks into it, lightly at first but then starts to bring in more force and intensity.

The thoughts of the previous battle and losing one of his stallions pushed him to hit harder, his grunts growing louder as his power grew stronger in his punches. The final memory of Shock dying in his arms broke Chris as he yells with rage and punches the bag with such force, the sand spilled as the bag broke free and flew a couple feet and slid before hitting a wall and stopping.

Chris was panting and took deep breathes as he looks down and away from the destroyed punching bag before he walks over to pick up another, hooking it to the ceiling chain and starts to throw punches again.

"We had a feeling you would be here." a soft yet firm voice broke the atmosphere as Chris stopped and holds the bag before looking towards the pony that spoke, his beloved Princess Luna.

"Well... I need something to keep me occupied.. otherwise you'd find me in the bar, getting shit-faced drunk." He responded as he began to throw hooks and jabs into the punching bag. Luna watched Chris as his muscles rippled with the force of his fists meeting a solid heavy object.

"Love... Shock wouldn't want you to dwell on his death like this." She said as her wings wrapped around his body, he sighed as he turns to kneel and hug his princess.

"Its not easy." He says sadly, he then gets up and starts to head out, noticing it is late in the evening, his entry time was 4 pm, it was now 7:45 pm.

He takes a drink of water before heading to the shower room to clean himself and change into his normal work robes, primarily his assassin creed style robs of white and red. He approaches the main entrance as the Royal Security stallions stand at attention for their Supreme Commander.

"Take it easy guys, you're doing fine." He smiles as he pats both of them, they stand tall with pride after receiving approval. He sings a little tune to himself as he enters the castle, not even a few steps in he hears the gallop of a stallion in full sprint heading towards him.

"COMMANDER! COMMANDER!" the Security stallion, Rook, stopped and bowed low, all the while panting as Chris gets on one knee and puts a hand on his mane.

"Hey take it easy Rook, whats going on, and whats the rush?" He asked as the stallion was panting heavily.

"War... room... news... gryphons." He says in between breathes as Chris looks up with a grim expression, and one with growing rage as he breaks into a sprint towards the war room, which was a little ways away. When he finally reached it, he bursts open the door as the Security Ponies looked surprised but quickly got out of his way as he goes over to the map of Equestria and sees a zone in red.

"Show me whats going on." He ordered as the ponies were intimidated by Chris and his sudden entrance.

"GET ME THE MOTHER FUCKING VIEW ON THIS PLACE NOW!" He roars as one pony suddenly used his magic out of fear to show what was happening, a large village of ponies was being attacked, he was watching a large group of twenty ponies, stallions mares and fillies being herded toward the village square as they were then torn to shreds and massacred, limbs, heads and body were eviscerated by the claws and beaks of the gryphons.

Chris hands balled into fists as the rage slowly built inside him, he watched as more were being chained up and being put in wagons as prisoners. Many escaped as he watched a mare give a report on what was happening to the refugees.

"These gryphons are heavily armed and on a mission, a mission proving fatal for anypony that stands in their way. With no means of defense and no international pressure, there is little hope for these refugees. Here a mare begging for news of her husband, as he has been kidnapped by the enemy army, either forced to slavery or death.."

Chris watches as his knuckles turned white from gripping the table extremely tight as he sees a small foal crying with her older sister, a fillie, no older than 2, on her back.

"These two are left as orphans, only asking 'where are our mother and father'.There is little hope for these refugees, refugees who can only wonder who, if anyone, will help?"

"RYYYAAAAH!!!!" Chris screams out as he throws his dagger at the table, interrupting the spell as he leaves, grabbing his dagger from the table before exiting the room.

-

He walks to the blacksmiths shop, Iron Hooves, who was asleep as Chris grabs a pail of fresh water and throws it on him, startling him and making him fall over.

"Wake the fuck up! Start the fires and get me some titanium right now!" He ordered as the pony bows and quickly runs to fetch the materials.

Over the course of the next month, Chris was at work at the forge, making a new set of armor inspired by his favorite off world characters. The heat from the hot fires made Chris sweat constantly, making him drink water every so often. His face showed no signs of the heat effects as he keeps slamming the hammer down on the white hot metal. The loud clangs of hammer striking metal can be heard as Celestia and Luna watch from the distance.

He moved from station to station, simmering the metals in water to cool it to repeat the process, using a crude welding torch to cut some metal into different pieces. The refined products were laid out on the table, fully painted while the ones that were being worked on were still kept near the fires. He utilized the unicorns magic to infuse nitinol, or nickel titanium into the armor as another unicorn, Raritys ancestor he can assume was working on his undersuit, enchanted with protective material to cushion him from falls and such if anything of that nature should emerge.

He gathers the alchemist and scientist ponies to create modern electrical wiring to integrate into the armor to support the rockets and repulsors he will be adding. The final part was soon to be completed as he combined magic and science to create a one of kind HUD system as his helmet was solid titanium with padding and two normal sized slits for the eyes, and a normal line where the top part of the helmet would meet the bottom.

It took about a few days to trial test the new armor, after fixing kinks and bugs for the flight and magic portion, everything was finally ready to go.
He steps into the middle of a staged pad onto a set of the armored boots, the legs and thighs start floating in as magic sparks the adjoining seams to seal it tight, he raises his arms as the gloves and gauntlet come over and cover his hands and forearms, every other piece such as the back, chest, arms and groin, finally get magically sealed in and fused together, he finally gets handed his helmet by Luna, she kisses it and enchants it with good luck as he smiles and kisses her deeply, he then puts the helmet on his head as it closes and hides his face with a loud clank, the eye slits glowing red in an armor of shiny black with metallic grey as he spreads open his armors wings, the thrusters for the boots and repulsors fire up as well as the wings, resembling metallic feathered wings. He launches upwards and at a high speed towards the sky before arcing and heading towards the location of the fight.

-

The terrified screams of ponies filled the air as they were galloping away from a huge crowd of gryphons, mares were heard screaming in fear as doors to homes were kicked in and blood was spilled by gryphon blades and claws. A stallion with his mare and two fillies were cornered into an alley, no way out as two gryphons approached them from the outside, the gryphons smiled as another gryphon watched the shadows of the ponies getting torn to pieces, the legs and body ripped from every which way.

Ponies that were trying to run were getting struck by arrows from the gryphons in the sky as they laughed at the massacre. A stallion with his family tries to lead them to a wagon to stay with them, stallions were being lined up against a wall and some sitting as they were awaiting their execution.
The fillies trip causing the whole family to stumble, he struggles to pick them up as the commander for the raid, Sharp Eyes witnessed the mess.

"What the hell is this? Get rid of this dog!" He rips the stallion away from his family and kicks him multiple times.

"You are all incompetent!" He screeches as the large gryphon walks away, a gryphon soldier raises his sword as he orders the stallion to bow his head, the colt screams for his father as the gryphon continues to scream the command. Suddenly a loud boom is heard as a metallic winged figure drops from the sky and lands, one knee on the ground and wings outstretched. He gets up and the wings fold back as he stands just as tall as the gryphon.

The gryphon swings his sword but it shatters against the titanium armor from the suit, Chris immediately slammed the gryphon with an uppercut, smashing his beak clean into his skull as the gryphon slammed against a two story house. He quickly turns and raises his hands as it powers up and shoots a beam that blasts one gryphon against a wall. He fires a another beam as it kills another gryphon trying to flee, he then turns to face the rest but sees they took the ponies as hostage. He lowers his hands and moved his fingers to power them down, he targets each of the gryphons about 8 in total, as the gryphons were still yelling at Chris to surrender, his shoulders opened to show two slim boxes and both fired ballistic rounds that killed the hostiles without harming a single pony.

The stallion and his family were reunited, everyone crying and hugging each other as the colt watched Chris walk away over to a house. Sharp Eye turned away from the scene, afraid and not knowing what to do, suddenly a metal hand bursts through the wall and rips him through, he lands in the middle of the ponies as he was disoriented. Chris activates his thrusters and looks down at them seeing his job was done.

"He's all yours." He then flies away as Sharp Eye was surrounded by the stallions before being kicked and stomped on.

He flies in his arc path away from the area, locating more Gryphon Army movements, but before he can target them, a large rod knocked him out of the sky, falling at a rapid speed and hitting the ground kicking up a large dust cloud. His hands slowly coming out of the crater as his face plate and chest armor was scratched with a deep gash, non penetrable but a noticeable gash. He sees a gryphon heavy ballista ready to fire again, he sees them launch it, he side steps and holds out his arm to launch a small rocket at them. It attaches to their base as he turns around and lets the artillery crew get engulfed in a large explosion as he approaches the gryphon encampment, the bird brains firing their crossbows and the infantry charging at him.

He raises his wings and flies into the air, his targeting picks out a large flammable depot as he powers up his repulsors and fires, the beams cause the whole encampment to disappear in a large ball of fire as the gryphons in that radius were killed instantly. He turns to fly away and return home as another gryphon army watched from afar, wondering what new advancements did the human bring to Equestrias ponies.

Back in Equestria, 2300 hours

Chris approaches Canterlot at a high speed, his wings outstretched and making tiny movements to correct the entire armor frame. He banks to the right to make a slow approach as he gently glides down and raises his flaps to brake. He finally makes touchdown, his wings folding onto his back as he walks around the castle grounds. He approaches a nearby guard as the guard stands at attention, "Hey at ease, listen can you signal for the unicorn mages to have themselves meet me in the castle garden to help me with my armor?"

The guard nods and runs off to gather the mages, Chris takes the stallions post and keeps watch as he waits for about ten minutes before the unicorns arrive.

"My lord." They all bow in unison as Chris nods and waves his hands, "You don't need to do that around me, lets get this thing off so we can all go to bed."

They all nod in agreement as they use their spells to disassemble the armor and take it off Chris, the arms, chest, back, forearms, torso, thighs and calves, feet and finally the head. The armor is stowed away in specially marked boxes, which Chris handles them since he can't trust anyone with his special tech.

"Alright get some sleep everypony..." He dismisses everyone as he gets a drink and hands a small glass to the guard stallion who called in the mages.

"You have a good night brother.." Chris says as the guard finishes his drink and returns the gesture, "Good night Chris."

He sluggishly walks down the hallways to find a stairwell, he then walks all the way up till he reaches his room, upon entering his room he sees a form in his bed, he can probably take a guess as to who it is. He takes off all his clothes as he looks at this watch and it says 00:20.

"Mother of fuck its late." He yawns as he finally gets down to this skivvys and gets into bed. He puts an arm around the beautiful dark mare as she moves back to cuddle against her mate as they both sleep till the next day.

Author's Note

Well after watching iron man videos and such i decided to make this an iron man influence chapter.

Some of the videos that got my influence.

Sorry about the wait...