As I walked into Celestia’s room for the first time I wondered what I would be doing here. “Hello?” A girl said as I wondered who this was.

“Hello?” I said, confused as I thought it was just going to be Celestia and me.

“I’m Pepper Potts.” She said as I could not believe the coincidence. “You okay?” She asked.

“Yeah I’m fine just wondering what your doing here?” I asked.

“I was asked to come here by Celestia. What about you? I’m pretty sure you don’t go to this school.” Pepper said.

She was right, my parents tried to get me into this school but due to the fact this was a school focused on magic I was rejected for my lack of talent.”Yeah I was asked to come here after I broke into the Starswirl section of the library.”

“So not to sound rude but are you a homeless kid that Celestia has take a shine to?” Pepper asked.

“No I have a home I’m the youngest of the Sparkle line” I said proudly.

“Sparkle as In Twilight Sparkle?” She asked.

“Yes...nobody ever mentions our older brother Shining” I said.

“I’ve never heard of a Shining Sparkle” she said.

“That's because his last name isn’t Sparkle but Armor.”

“You’re related to Shining Armor?” She said getting uncomfortably close to me.

“Yes?” I said.

“Oh man he’s the only one in the royal guard to master level 7 barrier spells that can hold the entire city!” She said with excitement as Celestia came in.

“Hello Ark, Pepper.” She greeted us as a few guards brought us books.

“Umm not to be rude but why is Pepper here?” I asked.

“I thought you would be lonely here so I asked somebody to come and keep you company.” She said as I went to a nearby table and started to pull my notebook out and started drawing.

“What are you drawing?” Pepper asked as I looked at her.

“Its designs for a suit of armor.” I said.

“Thats neat, why does the armor have an energy source? Is it magic?” She asks.

“No it’s not magic it's science.” I corrected her.

“What's the difference?” She asked as I simply got up and moved to another table. “What?” She said as I ignored her. “Oh come on” she said as I went back to designing my Ark trooper armor.

A few years passed as I went to Celestia’s little learning thing with Pepper, it wasn’t all bad as I got to know Pepper some more even though she was kind of thick headed sometimes. “Hey Tony.” Pepper said.

“Oh, hey Pepper.” I said as I walked onto the campus of Celestia’s school.

“So what are you planning for today?” Pepper asked.

“Well I was going to ask Celestia for some parts to start building something.” I said.

“What are you going to build?” she asked.

“Something.” I said coyly.

“Come on tell me.” She asked.

“Nope.” I said sticking my tongue out. “Sorry I don’t want to spoil it.” I said.

“Aw come on.” She whined.

“Let's change the topic.” I said. “My birthday is in a week, you want to come?” I asked.

“Sure I’ll come.” She said as we made it to the hall where Celestia should be. “Twilight?” I asked seeing my sister there. “Where is Celestia?” I asked.

“She had other things to do so she asked me to watch over you.” Twilight said.

“OMC! You’re Twilight Sparkle, I’ve heard so much about you!” Pepper said before she started asking question after question about what she did as the Priceses personal student, what was her days like...stuff like that, this when on for hours and I couldn't get any work done. So when I finally got tired of it I just straight up left.

“Hey Ark where are you going?” Twilight asked. “Celestia told me to keep an eye on you.” She said.

“Out.” I said as I walked out of the classroom and into the streets.

“TONY WAIT!” Pepper called out as I stopped.

“What is it Pepper?” I asked.

“I’m sorry I hogged all the time by asking your sister a ton of questions.” Pepper said as I sighed.

“You want to go to a place I go to be alone?” I asked as she lighted up.

“Sure.”

“This isn’t what I was expecting.” She said looking at the abandoned warehouse before hugging me. “So when do we start making out?” She asked.

“What!” I said surprised “That’s not what I invited you here for.” I said blushing. “I mean if you want...”

She cut me off. “Relax I was joking.” She said as I rubbed the back of my head.

“Right, anyway can you keep a secret?” I asked

“Are we getting into crime? Because if so then no.” She said

“Don't worry I bought this building with my birthday money last year... it was cheap.” I said.

“What about the structural weaknesses?” Pepper asked.

“Actually this building is in great shape the reason it was cheap because a cult of the moon owned it and nobody wanted it.” I said.

“Well that unsettling.” She said.

“Yeah I know, anyway here’s what I wanted to show you.” I said, opening a secret door to a hidden lab.

“Is this hidden lab what you wanted to show me because it's awesome.” Pepper said as I got to a blanket covering something.

“This is what i wanted to show you.” I said unveiling the mark 1 Ark trooper armor.

“Wow..is that the armor you were designing?” She asked.

“Yep.” I said “It’s incomplete but I wanted to show it to you.” I said.

“Why?” She asked.

“To show that I trust you.” I said. “Plus I need your help to finish it.” I said showing a monitor. “My brother is out of town and I need somebody to help bring the scraps.” I said sheepishly.

“Only if you give me a cut.” She said as we shook hands. The next hour was bringing scarps from the nearby junkyard and from the electronic store. “You know if you told me that my day was going to end with me digging through the trash to make a few hundred bits I wouldn’t have believed you.” she said as we returned to the secret base.

“I know the feeling.” I said.

“You do?” She asked.

“It's a long story anyway I need to take apart these electronics.” I said as I ripped a toaster open. “Besides I’m not working on the armor today, I’m working on an Ark reactor.” I explained.

“A what?” she asked.

Hours passed as I finished the Ark reactor I was building I turned it on to see if it would work. “Jarvis are you online?” I asked.

“Umm Tony who are you talking too?” Pepper asked

“JARVIS is online.” A voice said startling Pepper

“AH! who’s there?” Pepper said startled.

“Hello I am Jarvis” Jarvis said.

“Jarvis is a A.I or artificial Intelligence that I built.” I said.

“Like a golem?” Pepper asked,

“Actually he’s built to help manage my lab I said as we left the secret lab/armory. Can you keep this a secret I don’t want my folks to freak out?” I asked.

“As long as you make me something my lips are sealed.”

“Sure thing.” I said.

A week passed as I brought Pepper back to my house to meet my parents. “Mom, Dad this is my friend Pepper Potts.” I said as they smiled and greeted her.

“Nice to meet our son’s girlfriend.” Dad said as we both our faces went red.

“She/he’s not my boyfriend/girlfriend were just friends.” We both said as Dad just laughed.

“That's how it was when I met your mother Ark.” Dad said as I just facepalmed.

“Come on Tony.” Pepper said as Mom stopped her.

“Pepper why are you calling him by his middle name?” Mom asked

“He said he likes it when people call him Tony.” Pepper said as Mom looked at me.

“We’ll have to discuss this whole ‘Tony’ business Ark.” Mom said as we all entered the house.

“Happy birthday Ark.” Spike said as I saw the gifts on the table.

“I guess put your gift on the table.” I told Pepper as she put the gift on the table.

Twilight came into the house carrying a book sized gift before hugging me. “Happy birthday little brother.” Twilight said.

“Thanks sis.” I said as mom grabbed my shoulder.

“I think it's time to head to the restaurant.” Mom said as we all headed out.

After dinner we returned home to find Celestia waiting at the door. “Oh hello Celestia.” Mom said greeting the princess.

“Hello Twilight Velvet, Night light, Ark, Captain Armor , my personal student and Pepper.” Celestia greeted everybody. “I’ve come with a gift for Ark.” She said handing me an envelope.

I looked at the envelope and wondered what it could be “Thank you.” I said as mom unlocked the door.

“Would you like to come in Princess?” Mom asked.

“I would love to but I have business to attend too.” She said as she made her leave.

“Well it was nice of her to drop this of personally.” Dad said as we all entered the house and waited for the cake to be ready.

As soon as it was ready the lights went off and everybody started singing. “Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Ark. Happy birthday to you.”

“Aw thanks guys.” I said as we started to eat the cake and after the cake was done mom brought me a gift.

“Here you go Ark.” Mom said handing me the gift.

“Thanks mom.” I said opening the gift it was a book on the theory of alchemy. “Thanks Twilight” I said hugging my sister.

“Your welcome Ark.” She said hugging back.

The night went on with gifts from my family and pepper, Spike got me a comic book, Shining got me some dumbbells to help with my exercise, mom got me a picture of some chairs though she corrected me saying they were for my warehouse where me and Pepper hung out, dad got me a carpet to place there as well  and finally Pepper got me a new notebook, which was good because I was running out of room in my old one. “I guess all that's left is the gift from Celestia brought.” I said as I opened the envelope as I read the letter I couldn't help but smile and jump. “YES!” I shouted as they all looked at me.

“What?” Pepper asked

“Celestia’s council approved my designs for remaking the guard armor and this is a blank check to make that design a reality.” I said happy.

“Congratulations son.” Mom and Dad said as Twilight hugged me.

“I’m sure you’ll do great Ark.” Twilight said as rushed off to cash in the check and get supplies. This was going to be a good year for me.