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Author's Note: Crossover of Marvel Zombies (with some changes not canon to the comics) and the Walking Dead (the TV show, not the comics) Tony Stark is a walker, but has his mind intact due to his extremis, but he has to eat to keep lucid.

Summary: Tony Stark is bitten, but remains self aware with his mind and memories intact. Believing he has a cure, Dr. Doom captures Pepper to use as a bargaining chip for it. She gladly leads him to their Miami safe home where Tony is, only to get the shock of their life when they see him as a living walker. They eventually meet up with Rick Grimes' group.

The Walking Iron Man

Prologue

Tony wakes up with a groan as he slowly gets up from the ground. Everything is fuzzy as he tries to make sense of where he is, but the only thing on his mind was to eat. The smell of fresh meat and pulsating blood attracted him to the end of the room, so he followed it. The closer he got, the hungrier he felt and at last he reached the food. He bit down into the flesh with the hot blood filling his mouth. After he had his fill, things began to clear and to his horror, he realized what he had done and screamed. The others looked at him, but went back to eating.

Two weeks later...

Pepper called Tony again, but he was dodging her calls this time. But before that, he gave her an excuse to not be disturbed while working on a very important experiment. She sighed as she got the same voice mail she heard many times now.

"Still not answering?" Rhodey asked as he walked in.

"Yeah. I know he's busy, but it's been two weeks now!" Pepper exclaimed.

"Hey, you know how he gets when he's doing one of his projects." Rhodey assured her.

"I know, but the last time I talked to him, he sounded different, like something was off. Plus have you seen the news lately about the virus?" Pepper stated worriedly.

"Yes, and we're even aware of what the news isn't telling us." Rhodey said.

Pepper looked stunned and asked, "What aren't they telling us? Isn't this just a flu epidemic!?"

Rhodey sighed and answered, "I'm not supposed to tell you this because it's classified, but since you are on SHIELD's index, I guess you have the right to know. You might want to sit down first."

SHIELD Headquarters...

"Maria, what have you got?" Nick Fury asked.

"It's getting much worse! All the cities are getting overrun with them! New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta..."

"OK I get the idea. How are the Avengers doing?" Nick Fury asked.

"They're doing the best they can, but more just seem to keep showing up! There's also reports of civilians being gunned down."

"Dead or alive?"

"Both!"

"Has anyone figured out where this virus started or who's behind it?" Nick Fury asked.

"We still don't know. AIM doesn't seem to be behind it, though it's possible that Hydra could be."

"We can't afford to speculate, right now our concern is to figure out what causes the people to turn into the living dead."

"Our top scientists are working around the clock."

"Which scientists?"

"Eric Selvig, Jane Foster, Jemma Simmons, Reed Richards, Hank Pym." Maria names off.

"What about Bruce Banner or Tony Stark?" Nick asked.

"Bruce is in South Korea with Helen Cho. He was there to join her for a conference, but got stuck there when the outbreak began. But they too are working on figuring out this virus. It's seems to be worldwide."

"And Tony?"

"We don't know where he is. Pepper has been trying to reach him, but she says he's working on an experiment."

"He may be trying to figure this out as well. It's possible he could be stuck where he's at. Dispatch any available agents to his homes in New York and Malibu. And if they find him, tell them to stay there and guard him. I don't want him going anywhere!"

But Nick didn't know about Tony's new Miami home that he had just purchased as a getaway place from SHIELD, the Avengers, and the media. Clint Barton's farm did give him the idea to have a safehouse, but he didn't want SHIELD to know about it.

However, there was one person that found out about Tony's safehouse, and that was Dr. Doom. His people of Latveria were coming down with a sickness he had never seen before. But he too had no idea what was causing it. His spies did very well and reported that Tony may have found a cure since he had been bitten, but was walking and talking OK. But whatever it was, he had to get his hands on it if he wanted to save his country.

"I will get this cure, whatever it takes! And I've got just the way to do it." Doom said out loud as he looked at a picture of Pepper Potts on the cover of People magazine's 'Most beautiful People' issue.

Awhile back in Kings County Georgia...

Rick Grimes was in the hospital due to getting shot during a stand off. He thought there were only two men, but he never saw the third man. One minute he saw his friend and partner Shane bringing the flowers in what looked like his grandmother's vase, and the next minute, Shane was gone. He asked out loud if he was in the bathroom, but the flowers were already next to his bed and...dead? He must have been out longer than he thought.

"What's going on here" he thought as he got up and found the hospital a mess, then coming to a chained up door that read up and down from left to right "Don't open, dead inside" and yet there were many hands sticking out of it as they tried to break free.

He was lucky that Morgan and his son Duane found him and took him in. So many questions ran through his mind that he didn't know where to start. Morgan filled him in. But then another question came to mind, where were the Avengers and were they doing anything about this? Duane filled him in on those details the best he could. He said they were trying, but even they were no match for the walkers since some of them got turned.

What they didn't know was that SHIELD captured the turned Avengers to keep the remaining civilians safe and to conduct studies and experiments in finding a possible cure.

Author's note: Let me know what you guys think of this crossover. Though I didn't really read Marvel Zombies, but I looked it up and got how they acted when turned. I am watching the Walking Dead and still catching up. I hope I can make this work.