//------------------------------// // Intro // Story: Iron Heart: Age of Iron // by Adamverse //------------------------------// Hello, darling; my name is Rarity, and I’m… Well, you get to know me soon; this is how I became the hero I always wanted to be. Even if it meant I had to do some strange things to accomplish it. Such as; fly in a metal suit, fight some bad guys, save my little sister. Maybe even fall in love. We’ll see… Two days after Adam and Fluttershy’s wedding On the coast of Canterlot City, on the beach that friends and family would often come to for days out; stood a girl, a girl encased in a purple and gold suit. She looked down at her armour, admiring the fine work her friend did in building it; but she had to hurry, she had a date. “Come on Rarity, it’s only dinner.” The armoured girl muttered to herself. Rarity then activated the suit, Twilight told her as it was still a prototype, she had to run through all the systems before she could take off. “Okay, here we go.” The suit began running the diagnostics, parts of the armour began shifting; the shoulder plates lifted up and down, a small gun emplacement opened up but then closed again, and the jet boosters in the left opened and closed to see if they were working. Inside the helmet, Rarity’s face was surrounded by holo-charts and system readings; a virtual environment for her to keep an eye on her suits power and systems. “Suit diagnostics computer; prep the cutlery, its dinner time darling.” Once it was ready, Rarity activated the suits thrusters and propulsion system; the flames began to escape from the boots, lifting the suit and its pilot into the air. She then leaned forward, also activating the jets boosters in her hands; and enough momentum was built up, she shot off like a rocket. Rarity cried out in joy, the suit flew through the air like a plane, but as calmly as a bird; she enjoyed just flying in circles over the beach. Wanting more of a challenge, she decided to fly through the city; Rarity avoided the buildings and kept at easy pace. Using the lenses in her helmet, she could see things from a distance; such things as people walking their dogs on the street, a runner going home after an evening jog, even a little kid enjoying an ice cream their mom had just bought for them. After flying around a tall tower, Rarity wanted even more of a challenge; adding more power to the thrusters, she began to rocket up into the air. Using the computer in her suit, she research something; the highest a plane has ever gone is eighty-five thousand feet, she wanted to go higher. So she added more power and went even faster; higher and higher she got, until this happened. Inside her helmet, a red light began flashing on one of the holo-screens, indicating she was going too high; right up until the suit was starting to freeze up. Ice was forming on the outer shell, and the systems were starting to shut down; as the glowing blue eyes began flashing, Rarity knew she was in trouble. The suddenly, the thrusters gave; all power was gone. With nothing holding her up, Rarity began to fall back to Earth; she screamed like crazy when this happened, she began her dissent back to the surface. She tried screaming at the suit to get it to work, “Activate back up thrusters!” but nothing happened. “All power to main flight control!” Still nothing happened; the ground was getting closer. “Come on, we have to break the ice.” Rarity pulled a little panel off her knee joints, there was something inside; it was a small switch, she twisted the switch just in the nick of time. This opened up all the panels on her suit, breaking the ice off her armour; once the cold was gone, the suit reactivated and so did the thrusters. Just before Rarity hit the street, her suit flew her up into the air again; she once again cheered like crazy when this happened, “Woohoo!” she cheered. Rarity decided that was enough fun for tonight, it was time for her date; she put the coordinates of the location into her suit and flew there straight away. The location was of course, Fancy Pant’s off-shore island house. The armoured-hero landed her suit outside the front door, once she was on the ground safely, Rarity pushed a button on her arm controller. The iron suit began to fold away, it was getting smaller and smaller until all that was left was a small back piece; Rarity took the piece off her back and put it in the hand bag. Now that she was out of the armour, the dress she was wearing was beautiful… Rarity rang the doorbell of the large house and waited for it to be answered. The door opened on its own, Rarity knew she was expected, so she entered the house and made herself at home. “Fancy Pants.” Rarity called out, looking for her date; she then heard his voice coming from upstairs. He replied, “Just coming down now, my dear.” When he walked into the room, he was holding something in his hands; he took that something over to one of the boxes that was piled up in the corner, there were quite a few boxes there. Rarity walked over to see what it was, it was a revolver gun and it’s bullets, in a small display case; Fancy Pants opened the box and place the gun inside. “My father always told me to stick to your guns; we did it his way for too long, now it’s time to let the past go.” After saying that, he closed the lid of the box. The fancy man then turned to his date, and noticed the stunning dress she was wearing; he said, “My word, you look wonderful, Rarity.” She replied, “Thank you, Fancy’.” She noticed the well-tailored suit he was wearing as well, “You look rather handsome yourself.” Fancy Pants guided her to the stairs, “Let’s take this to the balcony, we can just catch the sunset.” He explained. Rarity took his arm and they both walked up the stairs, they spoke as they walked. “Tonight is a special night.” Rarity said. “As of today, your company no longer makes or sells weapons of mass destruction.” “Correct, my dear. Which means there just a few loose ends that need tying up.” Fancy Pants explained. When the two of them reached the balcony, Rarity noticed the table with plates and candles; she asked, “A candle lit dinner?” she walked over to admire the table, but she noticed something was missing. “Where’s the cutlery?” Fancy’ replied, “I thought we’d use our hands.” He picked up a camera that was on the table and aimed it at Rarity standing by the sunset, she did a cute pose for him before he took the picture. “No very formal.” Rarity said back, but still smiling at his charm. He walked over to the table and took the cover off one of the plates, there was no food there, just a remote. And suddenly, something flew over them; Rarity turned her head to see what is was, she noticed three drones flying around the air. She asked, “Drones?” “Mark 4 combat drones.” Fancy Pants replied. “I thought you didn’t make those anymore.” Fancy Pants took the remote and explained, “I don’t, but I thought they deserved a proper send off.” She gestured to the remote, “The self-destruct button.” Rarity said to him, “If you’re going to blow stuff up, do it away from the breakable material.” Fancy Pants then programmed the drones to fly up high into the air, he then pushed the button and the two them watched the drones explode into particles. Once the little air show was done, Rarity turned to the second plate, “And what’s this?” “Desert.” He replied. “Something sweet?” “Bittersweet.” Fancy Pants took the cover of and showed her, it was a round device with a large power button in the middle. He picked up the device and pushed the power button, it then started to hover in the air; once it got high enough, it projected something underneath it. It was a red hologram of a man, or was it a cat? “Hey boss.” The hologram said. Fancy Pants replied, “Hello Capper.” Rarity looked at the hologram, it was cross between a man and a cat, wearing only a long red coat. Capper looked around, he looked up and saw the remaining particles of the combat drones; he surprised as to why they were blown up. “So, not a fan of my combat drones; you know the military put in a huge order for them and…” “I cancelled that order.” Fancy’ cut him off. Capper replied, “What? Why?” The hologram took a second to think about it, then the answer came to him. “You’re shutting me down.” The fancy man explained, “Think of this as an early retirement; you’ve earned it. It’s just… building weapons presented an image; for a while it was a good image…” Capper held up his hand to stop him, “And now you want to change that image.” The cat hologram walked away from the table, followed by the drone above his head. Fancy Pants was about to go after him, but Rarity stopped him. “Let me talk to him.” She said. Rarity walked over to Capper, when the cat saw her approaching, he said to her, “You know, he spoke very highly of you when we worked together; I was almost jealous he got hang out with you and I didn’t. But of course he’s something that I’m not.” The fashion girl asked, “What’s that?” “Isn’t it obvious; he’s real, I’m not.” “Don’t talk like that, you’re real; and you’re just as important as anyone.” Hearing those words made Capper feel a little better, he turned back to Fancy Pants and was ready for this; he made a little joke to ease himself ,”So where am I going, the trophy case or the trash.” Fancy Pants shook his head and said, “Don’t be like that, I’ll keep you around; suspended animation, with full internet access.” “Then let’s get cracking.” Capper rubbed his hands together and turned to Rarity, “Would you care to do the honours?” Rarity nodded, Capper disappeared before the little drone flew down to Rarity’s hands; once the device was in her palm, she pushed the power button to shut it down. She handed the device to Fancy Pant and he took the device to a box on the side, he placed Capper into the box and closed the lid. “He was good at what he did.” Rarity said. Fancy’ replied, “Yes, but what he did wasn’t good.” He turned back to her and explained, “The world doesn’t need another smart bomb or tank missile. Right now, the world needs hope; and I’m going to use all my resources to give it hope.” Once the goodbye ceremony was done, it was time the two of them had a proper dinner; they both went back inside and enjoyed their meal together. But Rarity kept this feeling about her, this wasn’t the last they going to see of Capper.