'Guess I'll just wing it' I think to myself as I place the mark one boots and helmet inside of the duffel bag.

"Alright Amira, before you put on the gauntlets, I'll give you some new clothes for you to change into" I say as I rummage through the bag.

"I don't think we have time to look for a clothing store master Stark"

"It's fine, you'll wear this" I say as I take out one of the business suits out of the bag and hand it to her"

Now that I'm actually looking at these clothes, I'm pretty sure there the suit Tony Stark wore In iron man one.

"Oh, um, very well then" Amira says as she grabs the clothing articles.

"Ok, I'll turn around so you can change, then you'll do the same for me aight?" I say as I grab a second suit and pants.

"Ok" Amira says as I turn around.

These suits are the only clean and new clothes I got, hopefully the one I gave Amira fits her.

...

"I am done, master Stark" Says Amira after a short moment.

"How is it? Did it fit you?" I ask as I turn around to face her.

"It did" Amira responds as she tries to put on her tie.

It certainly did, and yes, I was right, these clothes are the ones Tony wore in the first iron man movie.

Black pants and jacket suit, with a white button shirt and tie underneath.

"Great, now turn around so I can change myself"

"Ok" says Amira as she continued to struggle with her tie.

After Amira turned around, I quickly got rid of the clothes I was currently wearing, throwing them onto the duffel bag and started to put on my own suit.

...

After a bit, I finished dressing by tying my tie, rather quickly I might add, didn't even know I could tie ties, and buttoning my suit jacket.

"Ok, I'm done as well, now, try to put this on" I tell Amira as I hand her one of the gauntlets.

Amira however, seems to still be struggling with the tie, can't really blame her.

"I apologize master, but-" Amira started to say, but I cut her off.

"Don't worry about it, here, hold this" I say as I give her the gauntlet and start working on her tie.

"So, master, what will you tell the king once we meet him?" Asked Amira as I finished with her tie, and straightened it.

"I'll tell him to get rid of slavery, and have former slaves be treated like normal citizens" I say as I take a step back from her, bending over and place the rest of the mark one armor, except for the other unfinished gauntlet, inside of the duffel bag.

"And if he refuses?" Amira asks me as I zip close the bag.

"Then I'll probably just blast him" I say as I sling the bag over my shoulder, grab the second gauntlet and stand up.

"Now, let's get these gauntlets on you so we can go" I say as I take a step towards Amira.

For the next few moments, I help Amira put on both gauntlets, and thankfully, both seen to fit her, albeit a tad loose.

It's a good thing the straps are adjustable.

"How do they feel?" I ask as we finish getting the gauntlets onto her arms.

"They feel alright" Amira replies as she moves her hands around.

"Great, now c'mon, grab your sword and let's go" I say as I bend down and grab the briefcase"

"So, you asked about the plan right?" I ask as we begin sprinting towards the palace.

"Yes"

"Well, I don't have one, but don't worry, we'll just improvise as we go!" I scream as we now begin to run.

"Master, Is that really a good idea?!" Amira yells from behind me.

"Who knows!" I scream as we continue running.

The city was definitely In a bit of chaos at the moment, I could see multiple guards seemingly looking for us, but because the public was in a bit of a panic, probably from the restaurant incident, we weren't spotted as we ran through the crowd.

As I saw the palace getting nearer and nearer, I looked down towards the briefcase I was holding.

Man, I can't wait to wear this thing.

...

Hold on, now that I'm actually thinking about it, I haven't actually thought about the potential consequences this entire fiasco could potentially bring me.

If I fail, then I would most likely be executed, simple as that.

But if I succeed, then word about me will definitely spread, I mean, the kingdom I want to get to, Equestria, apparently has good relations with Saddle Arabia, and if I successfully coup this king, then Equestria will know about me, and probably put me on a red list.

It'll definitely make finding Twilight harder.

...

Eh, who cares, I've got fuckin iron man armor and I'm gonna go bonkers with it!

"Master.." I hear Amira say in a somewhat hushed tone, which brings me back to reality.

As I look around us, I see we've actually made to the entrance, or at least, one of the entrances to the palace, and we're getting approached by a group of four guards.

"Oh, sup fellas?" I say as I gently place the briefcase on the ground, prepared to begin the suit up sequence.

"By the order of the king, surrender now!" One of the guards yells at us as they slowly got closer.

"na" I say as I sling the duffel bag off me, twirl around and throw it at the guards, hoping it would distract them for a few moments.

And it did, because I actually hit one of the guards on the helmet, disorienting him just enough for his comrades to turn to face him with worry, which was all the time I needed.

I press the activation button on the briefcase with my foot, and watch as the briefcase opens up and reveals all of the wiring and metal inside it.

And the slots to place my hands in.

'Just like the dam movie...' I think to myself as I insert my hands into the slots, tighten, then bring the entire thing up to my chest.

'Hell yeah' I think to myself as I spread my arms and feel the suit fully assemble itself around my body.

And apparently, I didn't even need to throw the bag as a distraction, since the guards and Amira just stood there slack jawed as they watched the suit take shape.

During this entire time, I've had a shit eating grin on my face, and it only grows as the suit finishes the sequence with the face plate, and a hud appears on my vision, with it already targeting the guards as threats.

Well, let's see what this suit can do.

The guards seem to finally snap out of their trance after i extend my arm and shoot one of them with a repulsor blast, sending him flying backwards.

I can already tell this suit is stronger.

The guards rush me, and I take one of them down with another blast, but can't stop the other two from slashing me with their blades.

'Clang! Clang!

...

Which did absolutely jack shit.

"W-what!?" One of the guards says, but before he can do anything, I punch him in the gut, then send a repulsor blast to his chest, taking him out.

I turn to my right to face the last guard, who looks terrified let me tell ya, and raise my arm, shooting him with a blast.

"That should take care of them" I say as I lower my arm and turn around to face Amira.

"We should go, there's bound to be more and we need to get to the throne room" I say, my voice sounding a bit more robotic because of the mask.

"Yes, master Stark" Amira says as she begins waking inside of the palace.

"So this is your mark two? It certainly is more powerful" Amira says as we head deeper into the palace.

Several guards confronted us of course, but a simple repulsor blast took care of them.

I'm really op...

"Yep, and you know, if I can, I plan on making more" I say as I blast another guard who had tried rushing me.

Even though I have absolutely no idea how the hell to make more suits, I'm just saying this in the case more just magically appear.

Hopefully.

"You know Amira, I thought we were gonna have more of a challenge, I certainly thought raiding a place would have been harder" I say as another guard tried stabbing me with his sword.

I instinctively dodge, even though the blade was probably not even gonna do anything, then blast him in the chest, sending him to a wall.

"Well, Saddle Arabia doesn't have much magic compared to other places, especially Equestria" Amira starts saying as we continue walking.

"If Equestria sees you as a threat, then the danger and difficulty of your journey would certainly increase" Amira finishes as she places an armored hand on her chin.

"Makes sense" I say as I start looking around, this palace was certainly... Boring? Is that the word? I just feel like it's trying too hard to be fancy, like, cool it down with the jewelry man, dam.

I look behind me, and see that my repulsor blasts have damaged most of the interior of this place, leaving scorch marks pretty much everywhere.

And also a bunch of guard bodies.

I'm still wondering if my blasts are enough to kill them, I'll need to check at a later time.

...

Wait, magic? The hell is That supposed to mean!?

"It looks like we are here" Amira says, before I try end deduce what she meant by magic.

I look forward, and see three more guards standing in front of a large set of doors, seemingly guarding them.

They didn't look very confident, hell I think I even see one shaking.

"Alright guys, am I gonna have to blast ya? Or are you surrendering?" I ask as I lift up my right arm, pointing my open palm at them.

They look like they don't want to fight, but they don't back down, and slowly raise their swords up.

"W-we will never surrender to you, whoever you are!" Says one of the guards as he rushed forward, and tried slicing me down.

Of course, I dodged, and of course, I blasted, sending the guard backwards with a scorch mark on his shoulder and chest.

Even though it might be getting repetitive, I don't mind, Im literally iron man! Besides, if this is the best Saddle Arabia's got, then I shouldn't be too worried if Equestria deems me an enemy.

Right?

*/---*/

"W-we will never surrender to you, whoever you are!" I hear one of the kings guards tell Stark from where I'm standing in the throne room.

I guess I should have known Stark would've been bad news, if he attacking the palace and the magical blasts are anything to go by.

But, I can't help but feel he has an ulterior motive for all of this, I mean, the prince's prize slave escaped, then comes back with a seemingly powerful unicorn who attacks the palace?

It can't be a coincidence.

...

After a few more magical blasts, someone tries to open the door, but fails.

"It's locked? No surprise there I guess" I hear a voice, who I presume to be Stark say as he seemingly tries to open the door.

He certainly sounds a bit strange.

"Princess Cadence, are you sure this is a good idea?" Asked a voice next to me, I turned to my left to see it was one of the four royal Equestrian guards that were part of my escort, being two pegasi, and two unicorns.

The one who just asked me the question was a unicorn, and was currently channeling a stun spell through his horn.

"Not entirely, but I need to find out as much as I can about him, we don't know if he'll pose a threat to Equestria" I say.

If he does, then that would most likely be the first thing I'll tell auntie when I return, heck, for all I know, the Elements of Harmony will be needed to defeat Stark.

"It's fine, I'll just kick it open" I hear Stark say from the other side of the door, as he starts kicking the door.

"Do you have your stun spells ready?" I ask, a bit nervously.

"Yes, your highness, when are we to use them?"

"If Stark were to attack us" I say.

There was certainly something to be nervous about, and that was probably Stark's magic, I can feel his magic, and even though it's not the strongest I've ever felt, it must be something if he's effortlessly taking out the kings guard.

And speaking of said king, he was sitting in his throne, visibly worried.

The king, had a dark brown coat, with grey mane, tail and beard.

his son was standing next to the throne, looking frustrated as he crossed his arms.

The prince, had a lighter shade of brown as his coat, and yellow mane and tail.

He was wearing his battle armor, though, I don't think he'll be able to much against an experienced unicorn, which is what Stark seems to be.

'Hopefully he doesn't make things worse' I think to myself as another kick rings out through the throne room.

The kings son was certainly a character, he actually reminded me of my cousin, Blueblood.

My thoughts are cut short however, as the throne room doors burst open, and two individuals walk in.

I immediately took note That the first individual, who I assumed to be Stark, did not have a horn.

So how can he cast magic?

The next thing I noticed about Stark was that he was wearing a red and silver suit of armor that completely covered his entire body, leaving no skin exposed.

It probably gets really uncomfortable in there..

Before I can examine Stark more however, I am drawn to the second individual, the mare, Amira, if I am correct.

She, for some reason, was wearing a suit, one that would be pretty common somewhere like Manehattan, but not here.

Odd.

And surprisingly enough, she was also wearing armor, but only on her arms, the armor looking more like Stark's than any guard's.

Maybe Stark had extra?

"Yooo what is up guys!" Stark yells, bringing me back from my thoughts.

"Alright, where he at? Where the king at huh? I wanna talk to him" Stark says as he looked around the room.

"Ah, there you a-..." Stark began to say as he walked toward the throne, but stopped when he spotted me.

"Who the hell are you? Hey Amira, does the king have a daughter?

"No, master Stark" Replied Amira.

"Ok, so... Who are you?"

I was a bit surprised by this, almost every pony, even those from other kingdom's knew about me, after all, it wasn't every day a pony ascended to alicornhood.

"I am princess Mi Amore Cadenza, but I prefer Cadence"

"Princess? Of what?" Asked Stark.

My confusion only grew.

"Of Equestria" I reply.

...

"Oh, the pony kingdom?" Stark asks.

"Yes"

...

"Great! I've actually got some questions bout that place, so if you can sit tight while I do ma business that be great" Stark says as he turns toward the throne once again.

That was certainly odd.

"Alright! You two! I've come to make a request!" Stark exclaimed, spreading his arms wide, almost like he was acting in a play.

The king and prince, for their part, had stayed silent during Stark's entrance.

"And that is?" The king asked, a bit hesitantly.

"Don't worry, it's a pretty simple one, all I ask is that Saddle Arabia gets rid of it's slavery, and treats slaves as regular citizens" Stark says.

So there was another reason, it seems Stark did not know about Saddle Arabia's practices, otherwise he would have probably already have done this.

But, if he is against slavery, why does Amira call him master?

"What!?" Both the king and prince scream at the same time.

"Geez, you're acting like that would be a bad thing to do." Stark says as he crossed his arms.

"Because it would be! You do not understand, slaves are not worthy of living or being treated equally amongst the superior of us!" Exclaimed the prince.

...

"Not even trying to be subtle, dam" Stark says as he lowers his arms.

"Oh well" He says as he raises one of his arms, with his palm pointing at the prince.

And said palm was beginning to glow brighter.

Before I could even attempt to diffuse the situation, Stark sent a bright beam of light at the prince, hitting him on his chest, sending him flying backwards.

And, as expected, my guards engaged Stark.

'Just what I didn't want to happen ' I think to myself as my four guards approach him.

*/---*/

"Oh well" I say as I raise my right arm and prepare to blast the prince.

I blast him, and, as expected, his ass goes flying.

I smirk to myself as I see the king's eyes widen in horror as I move my palm towards him.

But before I can do anything...

'Bam!

Something bright hits my right shoulder, making me take a step back.

The hell was that?

I turn around towards the direction of whatever hit me, and see the four guards that were with Cadence, the pony princess, they were approaching me, seemingly ready to fight.

And now that I'm actually getting a close look at these pony's...

What?

Two of these guards, have wings, which, I'm pretty dam sure pony's don't usually have.

The two other guards, have horns, so there unicorns? Man what the hell, I thought this place couldn't get any weirder.

And Cadence, had a horn and wings!?

Maybe it comes with being a princess? Who knows.

All I know, is that these four guys are approaching me, and I need to deal with them.

I point my palm towards one of the unicorn guards, and shoot a blast, but, surprisingly, he jumps sideways, dodging it.

Looks like the Equestrians are somewhat competent.

No matter.

I notice that one of the... Pegasi, if I'm correct, was dive bombing me, with his sword ready to strike.

I try to raise my arm, but suddenly can't move it as a weird white glow surrounds it.

The hell?

I look forward, just before the pegasus landed his sword at me, and see that the horn of one the unicorn guards was glowing the same color.

Was he doing this?

'Clang!!

My attention is brought back to the pegasus, who had just struck me with his sword at my arm, which, as usual, didn't do anything, except create some sparks.

All four guards just stare at me dumbfounded.

I use this distraction to struggle harder with the weird glow that took my arm hostage, which after a bit, I break free from, which causes the guard who's horn was also glowing to grab his head and weeze, seemingly in pain.

Weird.

I raise both of my hands and blast the pegasus in front of me, sending him towards a wall.

I also blast the guard who had seemingly immobilized my arm, sending him backwards too.

I turn around, and the first thing I see upon doing so is something bright hit me In the face, making me stumble backwards.

Before I can blast the guards, the other pegasus rushes me, with the intent of tackling.

I try to raise my right arm to shoot him, but again, a white glow surrounds it, and I struggle to move it, which gives the guard rushing towards me enough time to reach me.

The pegasus tackles me, sending the both of us to the ground.

Before he can do anything however, I headbutt him, then punch him in the jaw with my left hand, knocking him out and sending him to the ground next to me.

I sit up, still not being able to move my right arm, so I start lifting my left.

But as I am doing that, I notice out of the corner of my eye that Amira was slowly approaching the guard, who had his eyes closed, seemingly in concentration as his horn glowed.

I continued to struggle with my right arm as Amira got closer to the guard.

Eventually, she reached him, pulled her arm back, and punched him in the gut, causing the guard to fall to his knees and gasp for air.

It seemed that even Amira herself was surprised at the strength of her punch, as she looks at her armored hand.

"Yeah, pretty cool right?" I say as I stand up.

"H-how did I do that? Im not this strong, and even if I was, I'm still relatively weak from my time as a slave, why was my attack so effective?" Amira asks as she walks towards me.

"It's because of the armor, even if your weak, the armor itself is pretty strong" I start saying.

"Now, where was I? Oh yeah the king" I say as I turn to face the throne.

Which was now empty.

...

Cadence was still there though.

"Damnit! Dude must have booked it while I fought with the guards" I say as I start waking towards the princess.

"It's fine master Stark, you at least sent the message, and a pretty loud one at that" Amira says as she starts walking behind me.

"Yeah" I say as I walk up to Cadence.

"So, why didn't you leave?" I ask as my mask lifts up.

*/---*/

"So, why didn't you leave?" Stark asked me as his mask lifted of his face on its own.

His face was certainly, peculiar...

But In all seriousness? I was pretty certain he wouldn't do anything to me, he didn't come to overthrow, he wanted to get rid of slavery, and, if his confusion about who I was was saying anything, he didn't seem like he would deliberately cause Equestria any trouble.

And even though he did beat down my guards, well, they did attack him first...

"Well, you said you had questions for me" I say.

"Oh yeah, thanks for actually staying then" Stark started to say.

"Well then! First question, Equestrian is ruled by a princess Celestia right?"

"Yes"

"And princess Celestia has a student called Twilight Sparkle right?"

"..Yes"

"Perfect, well, if you can tell me where to find her that be great"

"...Find who?"

"Twilight Sparkle"

...

I think I'm gonna retract my previous thoughts.

Why was Stark looking for Twilight specifically?

"You're looking for Twilight?" I ask.

"Yeah"

"May I ask why?"

"Master Stark is Twilight Sparkles cousin" Amira speaks up from behind Stark.

...

...

"What?" I ask, utterly confused.

There was no feasible way Stark could be related to Twilight, so why was he claiming to be her cousin?

"Yeah, so, can you tell us where Equestria is? Cuz I actually don't know where it's at" Stark says.

He definitely has an ulterior motive to find Twilight, and I can't let him find her, at least not till I have informed the princess's back in Canterlot.

I could buy them some time to prepare for him.

"Yes, go south and you'll eventually reach Equestria" I lie.

From what I know, there shouldn't be anything down south, except the badlands.

Hopefully it will take him a while to figure that out.

"South? Aight, well, no use in staying here, c'mon Amira, guess were going south. Stark says as he takes a step back.

"Very well Master Stark"

"Oh, and Cadence" Stark begins to say, catching my attention.

"If you see Twilight, and I'm not there by that point, tell her Cousin Stark is looking for her" Stark finishes as his mask closes over his face again and starts heading for the exit.

I just stand there in silence as I watch Stark and Amira leave the throne room.

...

"It's been a long day" I say as I head towards my guest room.

Author's Note

Anotha chapter.

Couldn't add some images I wanted to. Bummer.