The name's Tony Sparkle Stark

'Zap!

"Ah!"

I jolt awake as what feels like a bolt of electricity shoots through my body.

"Wow, it actually worked" I mutter as I start standing up from the floor.

Time to get the day started then.

"Alright! Time to wake up girls!" I exclaim as I start clapping my hands.

Both mares just groan.

"C'mon! Rise and shine! We gotta go!"

"Stark, can this not wait? what is all of this about?" Trixie said a bit groggily as she stood up from the bed she was sleeping in.

"W- what is happening?" Amira mumbled as she also stood up.

"I think we're getting swatted, anyway, we gotta go, we're going south remember?"

Trixie glances over to the window.

"But, stark, it is still night out, and, what does swatted even mean?"

"It means there gonna try to capture us, and we can't let that happen, now, up and at em!" I say as I walk over to where I left my briefcase armor.

"Capture us? Master Stark, do you know who?" Amira asks.

"Yeah, some, princess Luna or something, I think she sent some guards over here" I reply.

"Princess Luna? Why does she want to capture you?" Trixie asked.

"I don't fuckin know, I must've done something though" I reply as I grab the briefcase.

"Alright, you guys get ready, I'm gonna put this on" I say as I head outside of the room"

One mark five suit up later, I head back inside of the room, to find both mares dressed in the suits i gave them.

Nice.

"We are ready, master stark"

"Great, Trixie, quick question, do you know how to fight?"

"Well, no"

"really?"

"Trixie has not needed to learn anything combat wise"

"Oh, well, I guess I'll teach you when we get the chance, for now, just grab one of the gauntlets from the bag and put them on" I start saying.

"Amira, you grab the other one"

"Yes, master"

"Wait, gauntlet? Of your creation stark?"

"Yeah"

"Ah, excellent!" Trixie says as she digs through the duffel bag and takes out one of the gauntlets.

As the two mares each put on one of the mark one gauntlets, I zip close the bag and sling it over my shoulder.

"You girls ready?" I ask, to wich they nod.

"Great, then let's head out!" I say as we leave the room.

"Trixie is certain she can see the outskirts of the city" she said as she pointed in front of her.

"Alright" I say as we continue walking.

But as we're walking, my hud display finds several unidentified things hovering near us in the air.

"Hold on..." I say as I raise one of my arms up to the air.

Both mares looks at me.

"Sir stark, what is it?" Trixie asks.

"I think there's something up there" I say as I shoot a repulsor blast to one of the things.

"Ah! Dammit!" I heard someone scream as they fell to the ground.

"Yep! Knew it! Alright girls, prepare for a fight, the fuzz is here!" I scream, to wich amira takes out her sword and trixie enters her best possible fighting stance and lights her horn.

Just then, a group of some rather interesting looking guards entered our view.

Even though it was dark, I at least was still able to see them.

They were all pegasi, they wore dark colored armor, and their wings...

I swear to god those are bat wings or some shit, pegasi don't have those right?

I lifted my hand up to one of them and shoot him with a repulsor blast, Wich he dodged, quickly drawing his sword and slashing my armored chest, making me stumble back.

Oh damn, looks like these guys ain't playing.

I shoot him again, but he dodged and slashed the hand I used to shoot him, disabling it.

Dam these slow repulsors of the older marks!

I'm pretty sure I saw some chunks of armor fly off my hand.

"Jeez, the hell is that blade made of?" I ask as I dodge a stab attack.

The guard doesn't answer, he just continues to attack me.

Dark and serious huh? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, if his armor's color scheme is anything to go by.

The guard brings his sword down onto me again, but I dodge and punch him in his head, knocking him back.

Before he can do anything, I blast him on the chest, knocking him onto the ground.

I turn to check how the girls are doing.

Surprisingly, they seem to be holding their own quite well.

Currently, the two of them were fighting one of those guards, as amira slashed him, and trixie restricted movement of multiple of his limbs with her magic.

"Doing good girls! Wait, weren't ther-" I begin to say, but get interrupted by a dagger slashing hard at my mask, and a kick to my chest, making me trip onto the ground.

Yep, there was another guard.

I try to get up, but get interrupted by the guard chopping my neck with his sword, causing sparks to fly of my armor.

Thank God I have this armor, and also, weren't they supposed to be capturing me?!

I see the guard raise his sword again, but I shoot him with the palm that still works before he can do anything.

The guard falls back, giving me enough time to push myself back up and kick him in the head, knocking him out.

I look around, and see all of the guards on the ground, most likely knocked out.

Well, another successful fight with iron man armor!

"Ha! Did you see that stark? The great and powerful Trixie knows how to fight!" She says triumphantly, as she pumps her armored hand into the air.

"I guess so, as I said, I'll teach you some things I know when we get the chance, but for now, let's get out of here shall we?" I say as I head the direction we were walking to.

"Very well" both mares say as they start following me.

As it turned out, the badlands were just more desert.

Great.

"I see your armor was damaged master Stark" Amira says as we walk through what looks like endless desert.

"Huh? Oh, yeah I guess it did" I say as I look myself over.

My armor was damaged, it kind of looked how it did after the first whiplash fight.

"Will you be able to fix it?" Trixie asked.

"I don't know, probably not, but don't worry about it, I'll figure it out" I try saying reassuringly.

In reality, I actually don't know what I'm gonna do, since it turns out this weird ass world seems to be more dangerous than I thought, and now with my mark five damaged...

No, it'll be fine! Probably.

"Well, I think we've walked enough, we should probably get some sleep right?" I ask as I sling the bag of my shoulder and drop it into the ground.

"We probably should" Amira replied as she starts taking her gauntlet off.

"Alright, Trixie, how do you feel about sleeping on the ground?" I ask her, to wich she sighs.

"It won't be the first time trixie has to" she says as she starts to sit down and take off her own gauntlet.

"Welp, good night girls, or, morning? I think the suns rising soon" I say as I lay down.

"Good night Stark" both mares say as I close my eyes and drift to sleep.

I slowly start waking up, to the distinct feeling of the sun on my bare face.

Wait what?

I sit up, and see that I'm no longer wearing the mark five armor, I'm just wearing my business suit.

Where the hell is it?!

I look to my right, and only see Amira and Trixie sleeping as best they could on the sand.

I turn to my left, and am greeted by desert.

And two bracelets on the ground next to me.

"Huh?" I ask myself as I grab them.

Wait a minute...

"Oh!" I exclaim, probably waking up the two mares, but I don't really pay attention to that as I place the one of the bracelets on my wrist.

These are the mark seven bracelets from avengers! So I'm getting the mark seven?

Let's go.

I go to place the other bracelet on my other wrist, but see that I'm already wearing the glove watch.

I take it off, and replace it with the bracelet.

"W- what? Is it morning?" Trixie asked as she sits up.

Whoops, guess I woke them up after all.

"Hey trixie, yeah, it's morning. Can you wake up amira? It's time to head out"

"Sure" she says as i start standing up.

After the two mares fully woke up, we started walking deeper into the badlands.

There, is something out here right? I didn't get duped by cadence right?

"Stark, where is your armor?" Trixie asks, interrupting my thoughts.

"I was wondering the same, where is your briefcase?" Amira added in.

"I, got rid of it" I say.

Now that I'm actually thinking about it, where did the mark five go? It just disappeared.

"What? But, how will be able to channel your magic?" Trixie asked.

"As I said, don't worry about it, I made a new mark! The mark three" I say, to wich both mares stare at me with a surprised look on their faces.

"What? When?" Trixie asked.

"Uh, today?"

They just stare at me blankly.

"Here, check it out" I say as I show them my bracelets.

"What are those?" Amira asks.

"There my mark three bracelets, I uh, made them back home, and they should summon my suit over to fly over here when I need it.

"Oh"

"Also, trixie, put this on" I say as I hand her the glove watch.

"What is this?"

"I teach you all about it at a later time, for now, just put it on"

"Alright then" Trixie says as she tries putting it on.

"Here, I'll help you" I say as I help her put the watch on.

"Ok, I'm starting to think that there's maybe nothing out here" I say as I sweat my ass off.

We've been walking aimlessly for god knows how long, and there has been nothing but desert!

This desert is definitely worse than saddle Arabia, I feel like I'm about to pass out from this damn heat.

"Master, do you think the pony princess lied to you?" Amira asks.

"Probably" i respond as we continue walking.

"Wait, Trixie sees something!" She says, making us turn to where she's facing.

And there, in the distance, was the weirdest looking... Town? I have ever seen.

"What is that place?" Asked Trixie.

"Don't know, place looks crazy though" I say.

"Should we head over there?" Amira asks.

"I mean, why not? We might as well see if there's water or someplace to rest or something" I say as we start heading over to the strange looking town.

*/---*/

Princess Luna read the report the thestral squad that was sent to apprehend Stark sent her.

They failed, but they were at least able to gain more information about him.

Mainly, that he had magically capabilities, but no horn.

He had a suit of armor that seemed to channel his magic, wich were mostly combat spells.

And, he was traveling with two mares, and heading south, beyond the badlands.

She didn't know why he was heading out there.

"Unless..." She said to herself.

"No, no pony should know of them, right?"

Even if he did, why would he seek them out?

...

Before Luna could continue her thoughts, she was interrupted by a knock on her rooms door.

"Who is it?" Luna asked.

"It is me sister" Celestia responded.

"Oh, you may enter" Luna said as celestia opened the door.

"Did thou need something dear sister?" Luna asked as she stood up from her desk.

"Actually, I do, have you by any chance heard of an individual named Stark?"

"Y-yes, he was the one that attacked the Saddle Arabian royal palace, was he not?"

"Yes, well, I was wondering if you could perhaps seek him out? Maybe in his dreams? He is claiming some, interesting things, and I would just like to know why, but I don't know of his whereabouts"

"Oh? What is he saying?"

"He claims to be twilight sparkles cousin"

"Your prized pupil?" Luna asks, to wich her sister nods.

"Well, I have actually visited his dreams once before, i had sent a team of my lunar guards to capture him, and I was going to lock him in his dream" Luna says, making celestias eyes widen a bit.

"I thought you said-" Celestia began to say, but was interrupted by Luna.

"Yes, i know, I said I wouldn't do that anymore, but, I just did not know what he was capable of"

"Well, if you captured him, where is he?"

"No, the capture failed, as he was able to wake himself up from his dream and fight off my guards"

"What? How was he able to do that?"

"He gave himself an electrical shock, with, I think it was an electric heart, as he called it"

"Electric heart?"

"I do not know, don't ask"

"Well, as I said, he claims to be twilights cousin, but apparently, he has no idea what she looks like, or where she is, as he met her in ponyville, but did not stay"

"Well, he's currently heading south, beyond the badlands"

"Yes, he thinks twilight is there"

"Oh, that's why he's headed there?"

"It would seem so"

"Hm, what should we do if, no, when he comes back and seeks out twilight?"

"Hopefully, he would be captured before he can interact with her"