Iron Man in Equestria

"It's over, Titanium," Celestia said, sternly. "Surrender yourself…now."

Titanium stood face to face with his superior, his ruler and only she stood in the way of his target, Iron Man.

"Princess Celestia," he gasped, his horn glowing with rage. "Step aside…now. This doesn't concern you."

But, Celestia was not going to budge in the slightest.

"It does concern me, Titanium. Why are you resorting to such tactics? Why can't you accept the fact that you…?"

"Because my family and I are suffering ever since my business failed," he interrupted, stopping Celestia from walking any further towards him. "Have you ever failed before, Princess? Tell me!"

"I have failed many times, but I learn from them," said Celestia, her voice calm despite the situation she found herself in. "And what's more…I don't take my anger out on others whether they be pony or not."

From inside his armor, Tony saw that Titanium was using his magic on a small knife in his side pocket and it was apparent that it was going to be meant for whoever stood in his way.

"I respect you, Titanium for all the advanced work you contribute to the benefit of Equestria," said Celestia. "But, I don't respect the fact that you are using revenge against Tony Stark. If you surrender now, I promise you that you will get the help you need."

"I know what you are planning," hissed Titanium, slowly pulling the knife out of his holster. "You want me to just learn the magic of friendship when all I ever wanted was to be successful. Not everypony came be redeemed, Princess and not everypony can just say that Friendship is Magic. In my business, I had friends, but they all left me when I lost everything."

As Titanium pleaded his case, Twilight slowly opened her eyes and weakly rose to her feet, seeing her mentor standing up to the demented unicorn pony inventor.

"Celestia…" Twilight gasped, suddenly seeing the knife slowly be pulled from his holster. "Look…"

"He's trying to pull something at her," Tony thought to himself.

"We'll help you," pleaded Celestia, trying to extend a hoof out to him. "Surrender yourself and your robots now and we'll help you get a second chance."

But Titanium wasn't buying it and took the knife out of his holster causing Tony to jump into action in an effort to protect Celestia. However, rather than strike a blow on Celestia, Titanium turned the weapon…on himself.

"NO!" Celestia screamed as Titanium placed the knife into his chest, his eyes rolling back and collapsing to the ground.

"You son of a bitch," Tony whispered, pushing Celestia away with his locked onto the dead body of Titanium. "You good for nothing son of a bitch. Taking the cowards way out."

"What…what happened?" Twilight asked groggily rising to her feet still feel pained from her injuries. "What did he do?"

"He killed himself in front of us," replied Celestia, solemnly looking down at the dead Titanium. "When I tried to help him."

"He was too far gone, Princess," sighed Tony, removing his Iron Man helmet. "In a way, I can sympathize with him because I know what it is like to lose something you work for. Well, might as well notify any family…if he's got any."

…

Meanwhile, with Titanium's suicide, his robots suddenly began to lose power and immediately began to shut down and fall over much to the surprise of Princess Luna, Julia, Starlight and the shield agents.

"What in…?" Julia cried surprised at all of the robots shutting down in front of them. "What's going on?"

"Rhody?" Jim heard Tony say into the radio of his War Machine armor. "Got some news for you: Titanium's dead."

"What? What did you say, Tony?"

"Titanium's killed himself, right in front of me and the Princesses. Regroup on my position. Tony out."

Heeding Tony's call, Jim flew back towards Tony's location with most of the group following suit while Starlight and Spike stayed behind with the sheltered guests and Lyra and Bon-Bon gone to notify Webo of Titanium's suicide. Upon regrouping with Tony, Jim and the others simply joined him, Celestia and Twilight in staying with the body.

"Lord on high, deliver us," Julia whispered as she did a sign of the cross upon seeing the dead body of Titanium.

"So that is the one they call Titanium," remarked Jim. "The pony behind those robots. And someone who couldn't take rejection very well."

"He still wouldn't have been a good team player, Jim," sighed Tony. "The drive and the passion were both there, but not the willingness to work with someone else. If you're going to work in any business, you have to be flexible and he wasn't."

At that moment, a group of guardsponies came forward and carefully lifted Titanium's body onto a stretcher before covering it up with a tarp.

"Body on its way, Nick," Jim said into his cell phone. "Have the medical examiner on standby. Thanks."

"You know," remarked Luna. "I'm even beginning to wonder if this only the beginning."

This caused Celestia to glance at her younger sister with a confused and a surprised glance on her face.

"What do you mean, Luna?"

"I mean that this might be just another one of the consequences of the Storm King's invasion," answered the Princess of the Night. "Ponies and other creatures becoming mad because they couldn't deal with the invasion's aftermath as much as some other ponies would. I feel that this might be the start of another war on Equestria, but without any weapons of any kind."

"Or maybe," guessed Tony, scratching the back of his head in confusion. "That the monkey dude's invasion on you guys might have been part of an even bigger threat that threatens both of our respective races. If this is of any indication…"

However, he was soon interrupted by Julia, placing her hand on his head.

"Whatever it is," she reassured him. "We'll get through it together."

…

A few days later, Stark Enterprises' Equestrian division had its grand opening, but there was no time for celebrating in any way. The events with Titanium was just another repercussion of the Storm King's invasion and there was much more work to be done.

Work on both a professional and on a personal level.

"Hey Tony," said Julia as she came into his office. "Ready to head down to the train station? Their train is just about ready to pull in."

Finishing whatever he was doing, Tony followed Julia out of the building and walked down to the train station where a train pulled into the station and out stepped three more humans.

"Hey mom," said a 15 year old girl wih strawberry blonde hair like Julia as she walked up to Julia and hugged her.

"Good to see you, Rachel," remarked Julia warmly as Tony looked at the other teenager standing next to a woman in her 30's.

"Mr. Stark," said Peter Parker.

"Hey Pete," replied Tony. "Welcome to Equestria. Got a lot to do, so shall we?"

Looking back towards his guardian, Peter followed Tony out of the station and just like that, everyone, both Pony and Human, knew that a new war was about to begin in Equestria.