This story is a sequel to The First Wonderbolt
In light of Rainbow's disappearance, Equestria was seen as weak. Rarity, tasked with creating a new defence, is ambushed and taken hostage after a show of her craft, and must now figure out just who is friend and who is foe.
With everything she holds dear on the line, which life will she choose? Her friends? Or her family?
Or maybe both?
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Oh Director Fury, it doesn't matter if you are a gender-swapped pony or not, you are still one manipulative and stone-cold bastard! How I've missed you helping from the shadows! Never change!
Just gonna throw this idea out there: The Justin Hammer equivalent for Rarity should be Suri Polomare.
Pony Nick (Nicole?) Fury. Huh.
Is this one going to have a prequel interlude like "The Frozen Wonder" or are you just going to jump into it?
Wow, you are really going all out on being faithful to the cinematic universe. I like.
Why‽ Just Why‽ Why do you tease us so‽
Just kidding. I can understand why you might want to focus on your earlier projects until they're complete. While both It's all a Little Strange and First Wonderbolt might be "longer" in terms of in-universe time, this one has the potential to be just as long in terms of word-count if you take it certain ways.
Add in the fact that her nerves still hadn’t quite left her after her show, she needed something more.
Though cameras of sorts had existed much longer before-hoof, she had funded and helped commercialize it's viability and remarkably innovative new features.
“Peace! My friends and I are all about peace. It’s why I do what I do. Don’t let anypony tell you otherwise.”
Turning around, she found herself in front of an envoy, complete with guards and an actual car.
“My ancestor believed in an Equestria that didn’t… that didn’t need to fight to solve wars, and yet, with how she helped shape Equestria during the Crystal War, we were able to have nearly a thousand years of peace.
Unless normal ponies live a Veeeeery long time (something both the Rainbow Dash and Starlight stories imply to not be the case), then I doubt only three generations have passed since the Crystal War. Heck even if Granny Smith has over a century behind her I doubt she's more than two, and she's practically ancient by normal standards.
Already, Rarity could see the wind shifting away towards her and towards the military crowd.
With a raggedy inhale, she sat up and swung her legs to her left to face the fireplace. Nearly falling off from the sudden rush to her head, she blinked and leaned onto the nearby table with the box for stability.
She then trotted over to the fireplace. As the zebra mare began poking at a pan that was sizzling over the flames, Rarity shakily turned the broken mirror in her hoof and reflected the image of her chest.
“That thing in your body? That is an electromana-attractor, attached to a mana-battery… and it’s the one thing that’s keeping that shrapnel from entering your heart.”
Since the shrapnel is made of Crystal, which generally speaking are magnetically inert as far as the large naturally forming crystals that Rarity is known for specializing with go, I figure unless it has some Highly unusual magnetic properties then the shrapnel in her chest is probably more magically active than magnetically, so something to draw on the magic in the crystals would probably be more effective than a plain-Jane electromagnet, and would fit better with the lore you seem to be setting up.
Rarity could feel her breath become just that much more labored at the thought before she felt a chill go down her spine.
The attractor was covered, but she could still feel it within her bosom.
I wouldn’t have been able to stand much less give a lecture on mana-batteries and integrated arcane technology at such a young age and with such intense jitters.”
You know, I just thought of something: In both this story and The First Wonderbolt, you could substitute my suggestions to switch "Archaic" to "Arcane " with "Thaumatic" instead. "Thaumaturgy" is commonly used in media when the author(s) want the characters with the ability to use Magic to take a more studied, scientific approach to magic.
In summary, the above sentence would become:
I wouldn’t have been able to stand much less give a lecture on mana-batteries and integrated thaumatic technology at such a young age and with such intense jitters.”
the stallion said, and an arms-bearing griffon to his right offered a picture.
In her mind, Rarity was thinking her options through, but she knew there was only one way to go about this.
Again with the conjunctions...
Even if she did believe it, she would still find out in the end that it was all for naught.
Rarity war is a fact of life. While Equestria seeks peace not all their neighbors do. YOu need weapons like the Mareicho so you can have your fashion business.
while I do liek this series I just imagine Rainbow more sutied to Iron Mare due to personality.
I love how your ponified Captain America , Dr Strange & Iron Man.
I'm waiting for you find away to ponify HULK, & other Marvel Heroes.
I still love this, and I hope that you have some sort of character development for Rarity, but I can't help feel that Rarity's attitude in the beginning here kinda negates about half of the growth Stark showed in the movie. It took being attacked with his own missiles and seeing war in person that drove him to his "violent pacifism" kind of mentality.
Now, I could see Rarity going from complete pacifist to the violent pacifist part, but still.
What I had expected was a Rarity pressured by the threat of war and fully endorsing alternate options, no matter how unsavory. She knows the numbers on how destructive her weapons are, but she is not a mare that is used to war, and certainly doesn't have any experience in it. She doesn't know what those numbers mean.
In addition, she could even have been a Rarity proud and a bit boastful of her work - something she is known to do when stressed, and Rainbow's disappearance would have triggered that.
I'm sure you can do a good job with this, but I had fun coming up with my own. And despite what others may have commented, I really do think that Rarity out of all of them is most suited to be Iron Man/Mare. Maybe Twilight, but it would require a lot more shuffling around of canon.
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I just realised you've ponified 2/3 thirds of the Avengers. You have ponified
Now all you have to is ponify Thor & the Hulk. I look forward to yh our masterful doing