"HRAAAAAAAAGH!" Iron Man proved just a moment too slow, as the Titania clad in demon armor unleashed a blitzkrieg of fast strikes from her club, ripping and tearing through the Cold Iron Armor with each strike. "FALL!" Erza shrieked out, as if she was possessed by a terrible monster. "FALL, STARK! FAAAAAAAALL!" Erza swung at the armor's chest with one final blow, shattering the Avenger's armor into several pieces, leaving him with nothing but an ordinary, albeit expensive, business suit to defend himself with.

"AAAAAAUUUUUUGHHH!" Tony screamed out as he flew through the air. The force of the swing caused him to slam into a nearby wall with a sickening thud, before collapsing on the ground in a heap.

Erza hefted her club onto her shoulders, staring down the now-helpless Iron Man coldly. "Let this be a lesson to you. You can't match me in the world of armored combat."

To Erza's surprise, Tony actually began chuckling. "I gotta admit, you're pretty good, Red Sonja. You managed to bust three of my suits, even." Gripping his shoulder in pain. "You got willpower enough to power a Green Lantern ring." He smirked, sending the demonic warrior a cocky look. "But I think you'll find our will equal to yours."

"Our?" Erza asked in confusion.

K-CHK!

On instinct, Erza quickly turned around, holding up her weapon to block. She did so just in time, as a massive explosion impacted against her, sending her flying several feet away. "UNGH!" Her armor and weapon managed to stand up to the blast well, and Erza got back to her feet quickly. "Who did-?!" Erza's voice trailed off mid-sentence as she realized what had just attacked her.

Iron Men. Multiple of them. Red, gold, and silver surrounded her on all sides. Each and every one of them had their palms at the ready, awaiting orders to fire. "What... is this?!" Erza yelled out in horror. "There's more than one of him?!"

"Not exactly. Jarvis is controlling these babies for me." Stark bragged as he stepped forward amidst the crowd of AI-controlled superweapons. He was clad in a massive metal goliath of a suit. Far clunkier than the armors he was wielding before, this was the Mark I, Tony's first armor. Despite its ancient look in comparison to the other suits, its death-dealing potential was clear. "You've had your fun, Erza." Tony's voice echoed like the knell of a funeral bell, sending a chill up Erza's spine. If she looked close, she could see the determined gaze he held.

"My turn."

The armors charged straight for Erza. Moving fast, she swung her kanabō upwards, sending one careening into the air, before she leaped up after it, driving the spiked tip of the club into its back. Swinging her weapon like a golf club, she smashed the suit into another armor into the ground. However, several armors quickly flew behind her, blasting her with their Repulsors, sending her sprawling forward into an barrage of gunfire from a black and grey suit. "GAH!" She quickly raised her weapon to block the shots, before smashing it to pieces with a single swing, which left her wide open to a powerful punch to the jaw from a red and silver suit.

Unfortunately for Erza, the sheer amount of armors that surrounded her at all times proved to be too much, and slowly but surely, parts of the Purgatory Armor began to break off and fracture, weakening the Titania with every strike. Eventually, she was left on her knees, breathing heavily as she raised her head in defiance towards the Iron Man.

"Aw, don't give me that look," Tony replied back sarcastically as the Iron Legion hovered around him menacingly. "Not like I wanted to keep this going. ...okay, maybe I did."

"Screw... you..." Erza shot back.

"Just remember," the Iron Man shot back. "You brought things to this level."

CH-CHK!

The sound of metal morphing filled the air, and soon enough, almost every single Iron Man armor raised an arm, transmuting an utterly massive laser cannon onto themselves. Silently, they aimed directly to the now heavily-wounded Titania, intent on blasting her off of the face of the earth. "HERE'S MY SUNDAY BEST!" Tony yelled out, before the area was suddenly filled with bright blue light.

THOOOM!

The blasts all impacted the area where Erza stood at once, reducing the spot where she stood to absolute ash. The Avenger grinned under his helmet as he lowered his repulsors. "Alright, I think we're done here," he remarked, casually raising a hand to call off his armors.

"Not yet, Stark..."

SHINK!

Suddenly, dozens of swords flew out from the smoke where Erza once stood, impaling several of the suits and sending them all slumping over uselessly. Tony himself was just barely able to avoid a handful of blades that homed in on his own location. "Shit!" Raising his hands up, he unleashed the Mark I's flamethrowers, melting them into slag.
A great wind kicked up, dispersing the cloud of smoke and ash. In a completely opposite turn from the Purgatory armor, she had shed her demonic side, and was instead in the form of her Heaven's Wheel Armor. Large metal wings extended from her back, and an elegant flowing skirt hung around her waist. Her chest and stomach had little protection, but several swords hovered around her in their stead. Erza raised a single sword, pointing it at her adversary. "No matter how hard you try, Stark, I'll keep coming back stronger than ever."


Tony, despite himself, couldn't help but chuckle at the sight as he lowered the flamethrowers. "You just don't know when to quit, do you?"

Erza readied her blades, aiming them all towards Tony and his army of suits as she flashed him a smile. "My friends are even more stubborn than I am. I'd like to think I learned from the best."

Despite himself, the Iron Man couldn't help but grin at that. "Yeah?" He snapped his fingers, and several of the suits readied at attention. "You haven't met the Avengers."

Iron Man leaped forward, his army of armors charging in beside him, unleashing a salvo of Repulsor blasts towards Erza. The Titania responded in kind, summoning her nigh-infinite expanse of blades to engage with the Iron Legion. A glass-domed armor charged in, unleashing a salvo of miniature torpedoes against the blades which was quickly sliced to pieces by the telekinetic swords, before the Hydro Armor ended up taking a sword to the face that shattered its helmet into pieces. The silver and blue Stealth Armor attempted to avenge its fallen brethren, only for it to turn into a metal pincushion as multiple flying swords impaled it from all angles.

THUD... THUD...

The earth itself shook as a larger, rounded version of the Hulkbuster lumbered forward, punching down in an attempt to crush Erza into a paste. "Hyah!" Quickly, Erza flew back, before commanding several more blades to attack the metal goliath. Unsurprisingly, the armor proved more durable than its kin, and the swords broke against its carapace as it marched forward, grabbing Erza and squeezing tightly. Unlike the last time this happened, Erza managed to keep a cool head, staring up at the armor defiantly. "That trick's not going to work twice, Stark!" Thinking fast, Erza quickly morphed out of her Heaven's Wheel Armor, changing into the taller furred Giant Armor, armed with the massive De-Malevo Lance. Erza grit her teeth as she reared back her arm. With her enhanced strength, she broke out of the Hulkbuster Argonaut's grip with ease, before running the suit through with one strike of her spear, before lifting it into the air and splitting it in half vertically.

Tony, for his part, was faring just as well. While the smaller size of the blades and their larger numbers made it a pain to dodge, thanks to his analytical mind and backup from Jarvis. As he raised another flamethrower to melt down a platoon of swords, with his free hand, he raised his hand to his head, activating an earpiece. "Talk to me, Jarvis!"

"Sir, it appears that the armada of blades is continuously spawning. Judging from the energy signatures coming off of them, they appear to be tied into your foe's magical energy output."

"So we have to take out the problem at the root, huh?" Tony quipped, before letting out an annoyed sigh as he used his off hand to melt away another salvo of blades. "Great, we're right back where we started!"

"I'm not so sure about that, sir," Jarvis replied. "Take a look at the 'root' in question."

Now clad in her fish-like Sea Empress Armor, Erza was now blasting away at the suits of armor with torrents of water, blasting them away with each swing of her Crystal Sword. "Hah... hah..." While she had already torn through dozens of the Iron Legion, it was clear from her heaving breaths and the sweat running down her face in rivers that the battle mage was slowly but surely tiring out.

At this, Iron Man slowly began to smile. "She's all tuckered out, eh? Fine then." Raising up his wrist, Tony shifted some parts of the Mark I to reveal a small wristwatch on his arm. Casually, he began to press several small buttons on the device. "I can understand when you need to take a break, Erza. Lucky for you, I'll just send in one last armor to finish the job!"

"Are you sure that's wise, sir? Bringing in the Model 57 could lead to leveling this entire city."

"We already went this far, Jarvis," Tony replied in an eerie calm. "We have to end this now, or even more destruction's gonna happen later. I'd rather have to risk tearing everything apart now rather than end up wasting more time creating even more damage later."

As Erza cut down a strange star-patterened armor, she let out a deep breath as she looked around the surrounding area. Only less than a dozen left to go, alongside their master. Erza grit her teeth as she held up her shining blue sword, ready for anything. "Alright!" she barked out, pointing her sword towards the remaining Iron Man armors. "Who's the next one among you that will fall by my blade?!"

THOOM! THOOM! THOOM!

Multiple heavy footsteps, far more impactful than the ones of the Hulkbuster, shook the entire city. No, a more accurate description would that the entire continent of Fiore was shaking as something absolutely enormous entered the fray. Erza turned around, her face pale as a sheet, concerned as to what she had just called upon herself. When she saw what exactly Iron Man had summoned to the battlefield, her jaw all but fell off of her body at the sight. "What in the world...?!"

The monstrosity was over twenty stories tall, colored in the shame red, gold, and silver as the rest of the Iron Man armors. A massive version of Iron Man's helmet peered out from a helm akin to a lion or tiger in shape. The beast flexed all five of its metal digits, each the size of a bus, as it peered down at Erza as if she was little more than an ant to be crushed underfoot.

"Ya like what you see?" Tony teased as he leaned back against a nearby collapsed building, smirking arrogantly. "Say hello to the Model 3FB." The titan of a mech reared back a gigantic fist, before throwing out a punch strong enough to bring all of Magnolia to its knees. "But you can call it..."



The Model 3FB's haymaker impacted the ground like a nuclear bomb, just barely missing its target as Erza leaped away. However, the impact of the blow was an entirely different matter as the resulting shockwave of the punch ended up creating a sonic boom that shattered all glass in a ten mile radius and sent Erza flying across the battlefield like a human hockey puck. "Ugh!" The Titania managed to recover quickly, switching out her Crystal Sword for one made of pure water. "Take this!" with a swing of her saber, Erza launched a wave of water in an attempt to knock over the metal Goliath, only for the attack to do nothing but slightly dampen the armor. In response, the 3FB raised a massive foot, intent on crushing Erza flat. The Titania's eyes widened and she just barely avoided being crushed as she dove to the side. "Crap!" Unfortunately for her, she had the misfortune of leaping straight into a significantly smaller, but still painful, metal boot. "Agh!"

Tony grinned as he cracked his 'knuckles', raising his fists in preparation to take out his opponent, surrounded by a black armor with glowing white lines, a black and gold armor with red lights, and a pure white armor that looked like it was carved out from solid ice. "Aw, c'mon, didja forget about little old us?" All four suits raised their palms, charging up their Repulsors. "I'm almost hurt." At Tony's last word, a salvo of blue and red blasts erupted from their hands, forcing Erza to raise her arms in an attempt to block out the salvo.

"Talk all you want, Stark!" Erza shot back, her armor morphing into a sarashi with flame-pattered pants and her hair tied back into a long ponytail. Now clad in her Clear Heart Clothing, Erza leveled two katanas, one burning with the flames of a dragon, the other frozen over with the ice of hell itself. "Your armors may be numerous, but they're not limitless!" Rushing forward with the Fire Dragon's Flames and the Ice Devil's Cold Air, she began slashing at the various armors in front of her. While the Mark I and Models 39 and 49 were quickly able to avoid being torn to shreds, the Ice Armor wasn't so lucky, and in a single slash from the flaming blade, it melted into nothing but a puddle.

"Geez, why did I even bother bringing back that old hunk of junk?" Tony muttered under his breath. Raising his arms, he once again unleashed a torrent of flames from his wrists, only for Erza to slice upwards, creating a wall of ice to block off the stream of fire.

Using the ice wall as a distraction, Erza leaped upwards, before layering her blades over one another in a cross-shaped pattern. "Natsu... Gray... lend me your strength!" Kicking off the air itself, Erza rushed forward, swinging her blades. "FIRE AND ICE SWORD!"

Tony's eyes widened in shock at the sight. "Shit, that's gonna hurt!" Thinking fast, he grabbed the nearby Model 39, before holding it in front of him like a humanless human shield. In one clean blow, Erza had cleanly diced the armor in four equal pieces, the suit thankfully doing its job of protecting its creator. However, the blistering heat and the freezing cold still forced a shiver to run up Tony's spine as he leaped out of the way of another slash. "Damnit, I knew I shouldn't have used the Mark I..." Raising a hand in the air, he signaled towards the Model 49, which nodded in response.

Erza raised her twin blades, prepared for Stark's counterattack as she surveyed the battlefield. Seeing something out of the corner of her eye, she quickly dove forward, just barely avoiding a punch from the Model 3FB that sent her flying upwards. "You just don't know when to quit, do you?!" Erza shouted out, before stabbing into its arm with Ice Devil's Cold Air. A sheet of ice ran up the mecha's arm, freezing it in place. The Titania grinned at the sight, raising the Fire Dragon's Flames in the air. "Let's see how well you function when missing your left arm!"

"I don't think so, madam."

"Huh-UNGH!" The momentary distraction the voice provided was just enough time for the Model 49 Armor to swoop in and tackle Erza, forcing her to drop her swords. "Wh-what?! What is the meaning of this?!"

"Apologize for the roughness, my lady, but I'm afraid I cannot let you win this fight," Jarvis replied from within the black and gold armor. Quickly, the suit raised its arms, locking Erza in place. "Now if you would please stay still..."

The ground shook once more as the titan that was the Fin Fang Foombuster lumbered forth, before raising a massive foot with the intent to squish Erza underneath like a panini. The Titania's eyes widened in shock at the sight. Fueled by adrenaline and panic, she managed to break free from Jarvis's hold, before leaping away as the giant foot fell to the earth.

CRUNCH!

The Model 49 was crushed completely under the giant metal foot of the Fin Fang Foombuster, while Erza managed to dodge and roll away at exactly the last moment, the shockwave from the stomp propelling her shoulder-first into a nearby wall. "Ugh!" Erza looked up at the mechanical Goliath in annoyance as she held her aching arm. "I can't keep fighting like this. Even when I dodge its strikes, I'm assaulted by a sneak attack by one of the other armors. I have to get rid of them all at once..." Suddenly, an idea came to mind for the battle mage, and she couldn't help but grin. "Fine then, Stark. If you want to play rough... far be it from me to deny you your desires." Crossing her arms over her body, Erza discarded her Clear Heart Clothing for a different type of armor. This was less of an 'armor' and more of a light blue bikini with gold trim that left little to the imagination. Her hair was now pulled into twin pigtails that extended from the top of her head and golden chains criss-crossed across the entire ensemble. This was one of Erza's most dangerous armors, the Celestial Armor. Erza closed her eyes as she turned her head up to the heavens for guidance. "If no force on Earthland will show you humility... allow me to introduce you to the power of the gods that courses through my armor!" Focusing her remaining magical energy, Erza placed both hands on top of each other, the top hand spreading out the index and middle fingers. Her fingertips began to glow a bright yellow color and the ground began to rumble underneath her feet. "Let the Seven Stars lay their righteous judgement upon your sins!"

Seven Magic Seals began forming across the ground, spanning the entire town in the shape of the Big Dipper, alongside all of the surrounding area. The very air itself began to pulse with raw energy as the sky above turned dark, the same seven seals glowing bright in the clouds above. All the remaining armors, alongside their master, looked up worriedly. "Jarvis?" Tony whispered, half to his butler, half to himself. "What are we dealing with here?"

"Sir, I hate to inform you," Jarvis replied, his mechanical monotone almost sounding worried. "But this attack of hers... it's channeling the power of the stars themselves."

"What?!" Iron Man began looking around, desperate to find something around the battlefield that he could use to create a barrier. "Has she lost her mind?! That's going to kill her along with me!"

"At this point, sir, I don't believe she cares anymore. Like you told me before, we've already taken the fight this far."

"Damnit... damnit!" Tony began wracking his head, desperate to find a solution, only to come up short every time. "Jarvis, talk to me. Do we have any suits that can summon force fields, redirect the energy, anything?!"

"Unfortunately, sir, all I can recommend for you... is to brace for impact."

Erza took in a deep breath, the lights above intensifying with each passing moment. All around her, the remaining Iron Man suits began buzzing around like wasps that had their hive disturbed, each sharing the same dread and panic their master held of the potential destruction wrought by this assault.

"GRAND..."

The Fin Fang Foom Buster, on the other hand, was wholly unaffected by the threatening symbols that shone in the air. Rearing back an arm, it readied to squish Erza underneath its palm like a gnat. Just before the blow could land, the Titania's eyes shot open, with the shine from the seven seals glowing at their brightest.

"CHARIOT!"

KRACKATHOOM!

From the heavens above, seven pillars of divine light shot down, impacting against Magnolia Town with the force of the stars themselves. Everything, from the armors, to the buildings, to Tony and Erza themselves, were consumed by the divine shower of energy, leaving nothing behind as the force of the heavens laid bare their judgement upon the earth. In the end, all that was left of the small harbor town was nothing but rubble, dust, and sand.

In the midst of all this destruction, Erza stood, holding her chest in pain as she began breathing heavily. "Finally..." she gasped out as she surveyed the now empty horizon. "It's finally over..."

"Not on your life, lady!" a voice cried out from the smoke and ash.

Erza's eyes widened in shock at the familiar sound. "No..." Turning her head around, she couldn't believe the sight she saw in front of her. "It can't be!"

Standing before her and surrounding on all sides were Iron Man armors, even more than the ones that came before them. Each and every one of them looked completely pristine and intact, even those Erza knew she had torn to shreds earlier. And standing at the front of the pack? "Oh, it can," Stark laughed out as he raised his suit's arms, the Iron Legion mimicking his movements as they began to charge up their Repulsors.

"How is this possible?!" The Titania asked herself as she took a step back. But unfortunately for her, there was no place to retreat. With how she was surrounded on all sides, there was no avenue for escape. "How can there be so many of them? I destroyed them all, didn't I?!" Suddenly, a thought came to her. "Perhaps I did..." Slowly, Erza closed her left eye. As if by magic, the armors that surrounded her began to fade away into nothing. She allowed herself a small smirk. "One thing you should know about me, Stark..." In an instant, she turned around, and sent out a Heaven's Wheel blade behind her.

SCHLICK!

"AAARRRGH!" Tony's left arm hit the ground with a thud, having been severed completely from his shoulder. Desperately, Tony grabbed at his now-bleeding stump in pain. "How in the-?!"

SHUNK!

Another sword flew out, impaling Tony straight in his stomach and pinning him to a large piece of rubble that had somehow survived the cosmic bombardment. Pieces of the Mark I armor fell off of his body bit by bit, with only the chestpiece, a leg, and part of his helmet remaining on his person.

"Illusions don't work on me," Erza finished as she glided over to him. Grabbing another sword from her endless arsenal, she pointed it at Stark's throat. "I didn't wish for things to escalate to this level, but you left me no other choice. Do you have any final words?"

Breathing raggedly, Tony coughed up a small wad of blood. "You..."

"I what, Stark?" Erza asked.

Looking up and staring Erza straight in the face, Stark shakily raised up his right hand, smiling that same cocky grin. On his wrist was a small bracelet that quickly formed a red and gold gauntlet. Outstretching an arm, he aimed it at Erza's face.

"You got the wrong arm."

KRACKOOOOOOM!

Erza felt the full force of a Repulsor beam impact against her face, absolutely incinerating her Celestial Armor into nothing. "AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!" This attack's raw power far exceeded anything Tony had shown. Erza could do nothing but scream in pain as the raw power of the attack hit her full-force.

Tony got to his feet as the red and gold coloration began covering his entire form bit by bit. "You talked a pretty big game about the power of the gods being held within your armors. Well, let me drill something into that pretty little red head of yours, Erza. I've met gods, and to be honest, I wasn't that impressed. Hell, some friends of mine have even gone so far as to accuse me of 'playing God'." The nanites reached his other shoulder, and rapidly, they formed an entirely new arm that Tony clenched into a fist. "What a joke." Iron Man looked up, his eyes glowing a menacing yellow as more and more of the nannies began to engulf him. "I'm the most intelligent, capable person on the planet. I'm not playing God. All this time..." His body was more angular, sharper, more precise. On one arm, a large beam cannon had formed, pulsing with energy. The other was charging up a Repulsor blast in his palm. This was Stark's endgame. This was the Model Prime.

"I've been playing human."

Erza placed a shaking palm on the ground, hacking up blood with each movement. "Such selfish arrogance..." She spat angrily. "You think yourself above the law? Above humanity? You're nothing but a lowly, childish brat. All you do is think about yourself, and don't care who you hurt." Erza weakly looked up and stared at Iron Man hatefully. "Me? I'm different."

"I bear the mark of Fairy Tail proudly on my body..."

"They have given me a home..."

"A family..."

"Something to fight for..."

Erza snapped her head up to Iron Man. "If I can't bring in this bounty... then what kind of ungrateful fool does that make me?" Her entire body began to glow with powerful magic. "You?" Erza found the strength to get to her feet, ready to continue despite the odds. "I refuse to die here and let my friends mourn me, Stark!" A new armor, more powerful than anything she had shown before began to form. The style of dress, the gilded plating, the speak she held, all of it screamed 'deity.' This was her final armor. The Nagakami Armor. "Remember this, Iron Man..." Erza said as she shakily stood to her full height.

"I AM ERZA SCARLET OF THE FAIRY TAIL GUILD! AND I WON'T STOP UNTIL I DEFEAT YOU!"