//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: My Little Avengers: Equestria's Mightiest Heroes // by Starkvenger //------------------------------// ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Prologue ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ It was a normal day in New York. Tony was relaxing on the couch, clicking through channels on the TV. He sighed, boredom getting the best of him. "Pepper? You around?" he called. No answer. Tony groaned and stood up, popping his back in the process. "Sir, there is a call for you on line one," Jarvis told him. "Who is it?" Tony asked, cracking his knuckles. "Director Nicholas Fury," Jarvis replied. Tony groaned again and walked over to the big glass window leading to his balcony. "Tell him I'm unavailable," Tony said, hoping it would work. He stared out the window at the busy city, it being almost like a jungle. "He is insisting that you answer him, or he will be forced to come here himself," Jarvis replied. "Ugh...Fine, pull him up. Let’s see what he wants." Tony said impatiently. His clear window suddenly turned into a large monitor with Fury's image on it. "Stark. We need you to come to the helicarrier. There’s been a disturbance in Asgard, and we need your help." Fury boomed. Tony frowned. "Loki is up to something, but SHIELD needs help figuring it out. I've already called Captain America, Thor, and Dr. Banner; they’re all on their way.” Tony perked up at the mention of his friends' names. "Yeah, fine whatever. Do I need my suit?" he asked. Fury nodded and the call ended. Tony sighed as he stared out the window one last time. "Pepper! I'm going out!" he yelled. "Jarvis, get my suit ready," he then commanded. Tony then walked out onto the balcony, as the automatic machine hummed and began assembling the metal armor on Tony. Once his suit was on, he put on his helmet. "Battery power?" he asked. "100%, sir," Jarvis replied. "Good." said Tony as he activated the flight boosters in his hands and feet, propelling him off the balcony and into the air. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Steve Rogers~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Steve sat in the back of the van, thinking. He already had his suit on, just in case there was trouble. "What could Loki be up to..." he said to himself as he felt the bumps of the road beneath him. "How much further?" he asked the driver, one of Shield's agents. "Almost there, Mr. Rogers," he replied, his voice low and masculine. Steve sighed and leaned back, staring at the ceiling. After a few minutes, the van stopped, and the driver got out. "Hey, don't leave me in here!" Steve said, slightly annoyed. The back of the van opened, revealing Agent Coulson. "He wasn't leaving you. I just wanted to greet you myself," he said. Steve smiled and hopped out, grabbing his shield from under his seat. "So, anyone showed up yet?" he asked. Coulson nodded. "Hawkeye and Black Widow are always here, but the rest are on their way." he told him as they walked. "And Stark?" he asked. Coulson chuckled as they walked inside the base. "He's coming though he's not too excited about it," he replied. Steve nodded. "Sounds about right," he said. Coulson gave him an amused look. Steve sat down in one of the chairs set around the circular table, looking around. "Where's Dr. Banner?" he asked. "On his way. Hopefully." Fury replied, already sitting down in the chair at the end of the table. ~ ~ ~ ~ Bruce Banner ~ ~ ~ ~ Bruce paced back and forth across the floor. After the whole Loki debacle, he had retreated back to his home in Cambodia. "Why would he do this to me. He knows I hate the other guy, hate letting him out, but yet he still sends me a summoning. Why, Fury, why?" he grumbled. Bruce's phone buzzed on the table, the picture showing the director's face. Bruce groaned and answered the phone. "Banner, are you coming or not? This is important." Fury said, his voice cold and commanding. Bruce rolled his eyes. As much as he didn't want to go, he knew that his team may need him. "Alright. Send me a jet and I'll be on my way," he said with slight annoyance in his voice. "Already waiting outside." Fury replied, smugness in his voice. Bruce scowled and hung up, shoving the phone in his pocket. Bruce then grabbed his hulk-out bag and walked outside, where, a helicopter was indeed waiting for him. "Alright, let’s do this, boys." he said, tossing the bag into the helicopter and climbing in. ~ ~ ~ ~ Thor ~ ~ ~ ~ Thor was visiting Jane in New Mexico when he got a call from Fury on his phone. He answered it and talked with his loud voice. "Greetings, Fury. What do I owe the pleasure of this verbal communication?" he asked, Jane helping him with the phone. "Thor, we need you to come in. Come to the Helicarrier in New York. It's important." Fury replied. Thor's smile faded. "But, Lady Jane and I were about to go to the theater." he argued. "Thor, we could use some magical expertise on this one," Nick said, his voice as cold as ever. Thor looked to Jane and she smiled at him and seeing how his phone was on speaker, she had heard everything. "Go, I can wait. Your team needs you," she said. Thor smiled at her, bringing her into a kiss before putting away his phone. "I will return, Lady Jane," He said as he whipped his hammer around, taking off into the air. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Soon, Tony landed on the Helicarrier, his boots shutting off. He walked inside, pulling his helmet off along the way. Tony made his way to the conference room and walked in to find Steve, along with Clint, Natasha, and Fury sitting around a table. "Wassup, my teammates?" he asked with a smirk. The trio stared at him with annoyed looks to which his smirk only grew. He then took his seat. Tony propped his feet up on the table, and after getting a glare from Fury, unwillingly took them off. Soon Bruce walked in, hulk-out bag in hand, and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Hey everyone," he said, moving around the table to sit in a chair between Tony and Steve. Thor arrived along with his iconic flash of lightning and thunder. The god walked in, smiling. "Hello, friends. I was told there is a magical situation?" he asked, taking his seat. Fury nodded and stood. A hologram appeared, projecting a wormhole somewhere in Manhattan. "This is the source of the recent energy fluxes. That is a wormhole. We need you guys to close it." he said, closing the hologram. Bruce and tony seemed to be lost in thought, giving each other glances like they had a psychic connection or something. The team was silent for a few moments before alarms began to sound. "RED ALERT. RED ALERT. THE WORMHOLE IS GROWING. I REPEAT. THE WORMHOLE IS GROWING. AVENGERS TO THE MAIN ROOM, I REPEAT. AVENGERS TO THE MAIN ROOM." Coulson's voice sounded through the intercom. "Let's go, guys," Steve said, grabbing his shield and running out of the conference room, the team close on his heels. The team ran down the halls to the main room, where lights flashed red and big images of the wormhole were displayed on monitors throughout the room. "We gotta get down there," Clint said, determination is written on his face. "Yea." Tony agreed as they ran to the hangar. Once the team had gotten to the hangar, Steve, along with Natasha and Clint, climbed onto hover bikes. Tony turned on his suit and put his helmet on, and Bruce held on to Thor. The doors opened and the team took off, answering the cry for help. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Tony sped through the air, thrusters at maximum. They soon arrived at the wormhole and were mesmerized by the look of it. It looked exactly like the wormhole the Chitari had come out of, but with the absence of aliens. "How do we close it?" Tony yelled, staring at the portal. There was silence throughout the comms as the avengers stared at the large portal swallowing New York. Suddenly, there was a flash from the portal, and things began getting sucked in. Cars flew through the air, disappearing into the wormhole. "We gotta get out of here!" Bruce yelled, having yet to hulk out. There was agreed silence between the group. "Guys! I'm Stuck!" Tony yelled, repulsors firing at full blast away from the portal. Yet the billionaire was still being forced into it. "TONY!!" the avengers yelled in unison, jumping into action. Steve, Natasha, and Clint rode up to him on their bikes, trying their best to get away from the portal with Tony hanging on. There was a roar, and Hulk jumped onto the bikes, trying to force them to the ground. What happened, though, was the engines shut off. Thor stared as his friends began moving faster into the portal. The god swung his hammer around, taking off into the air. He flew towards his friends, grabbing them in his arms. "I have you, my friends!" he said, struggling himself with the gravity of the wormhole. Thor soon couldn't find the strength to push against the portal's massive gravity. He lost his grip on his hammer and slammed into his friends. The avengers slipped into the portal with a mixture of screams and yells. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Equestria ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ When Tony woke up, he was lying on the ground, with what felt like tons on top of him. He opened his eyes to find colorful bodies on top of him. His vision was blurred so he couldn't tell who or what they were, so he just lay there. The billionaire looked around and could barely make out the landscape around him. There was a magnificently blue sky above him, and there seemed to be trees around him, with little red spots....Apple trees! He must've been in an apple orchard. Tony groaned as he looked around, his vision beginning to clear. He looked to see what was on top of him, and he found that they were colorful horses. "What the hell..." he said weakly, blinking to make sure he saw this right. "Where am I?" he asked, trying to sit up. The billionaire heard a groan and looked to the pile of horses above him, and began to wonder why he wasn't being crushed. Even weirder, the horses seemed almost familiar. "Did I hurt anyone..." he heard someone say, knowing instantly it was Bruce. Tony smiled and looked around, trying to find the scientist. "No Bruce, but I'm kinda stuck under a bunch of lumps. Can you help me out?" he asked, trying to squeeze out from under the pile. Bruce groaned. "Yea. Just let me try to find my bearings." the scientist replied. Tony then saw a light purple horse with brown hair towards the top move, and it lifted it's head up. Tony tilted his head in confusion, but then the horse turned its head. "Tony? Where are you?" it asked. Tony nearly flipped out, completely startled by the fact that one, the horse could talk, two, it knew his name, and three, it sounded like- "NO," Tony said, staring at the horse. It was strangely cartoonish for a horse and the fact that it talked really freaked the genius out. The purple horse looked down at him with a shocked expression on its face. "Did you just talk?" it asked as if trying to stay calm. Tony nodded his head, not wanting to believe if it was true. One way to find out. " "B-Bruce?" he asked, making the horse gasp and fall backward, off of the pile and onto the grass with a thud. The pony- as Tony began to call them, walked around the pile, poking it's head out from around the bodies. "How do you know my name?" the scientist asked. Tony swallowed hard, giving him a confused look. "Bruce. Look at yourself. You’re a horse. Well, pony." he replied. The scientist looked at his hands- or, hooves, and gasped. "WHAT!!?!?" he yelled, instantly falling on his butt and beginning to do his iconic breathing exercises. Tony stared at him, then realized something. If Bruce was like that, did that mean- Tony looked down to his hands, hoping and praying, but realized they too were hooves. Red hooves. "I'm one too. I'M A FREAKING HORSE. GOD DAMNIT BRUCE LOOK AT ME!!!" he yelled, mainly because of the shock. Bruce walked over to him and examined his face. "T-Tony?" he asked, confusion apparent on his face. Tony nodded, his eyes wide. He held out his hooves, and bruce grabbed them- don't ask how because Tony had no clue, but somehow the scientist did and pulled him out from under the pile. Tony breathed a sigh of relief. "We gotta find a mirror. Like, now Bruce." Tony said, desperate to see what he looked like. "There's a puddle over there," Bruce said, pointing towards a tree. Tony trotted over to the puddle and looked at his reflection. He was a red pony with his iconic black goatee still intact, and his hair was the same if only a little longer. Tony then looked to his chest, and the arc reactor showed through a gray shirt he had on, and feathery red wings stuck out of it. "Bruce! Bruce look! I got wings!" he said happily, flapping them. He hovered for a moment, then dropped to the ground. Bruce chuckled. "Yea, yea. Well, you'll need them without your suit," he said. Tony frowned. He looked around, and his suit was indeed gone. He sighed. "Well. That sucks," he said. Then, there was a groan from the pile of ponies. "Sounds like Steve is waking up. Wait ‘til he gets a load of himself. And us." Tony joked as he and Bruce walked over to their friends. To Be Continued?